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Sully (Patreon)

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OddThomas

Flight with Denzel is even better imo. For more Laura Linney: The Mothman Prophecies & Congo.

Brant

Check out Season 2 of the HBO series The Rehearsal for a deeper dive into this story

Simon

Wake me up! Wake me up inside!

JayF

Simone, my cat likes to eat cables too. For the sake of the channel and your sanity try plastic wire loom tubing. Will you be cursing my name as you try to get the wires inside them? Yes. Will they absolutely keep your cat from chewing the wires? Yes. Link for what I'm talking about - https://www.amazon.com/Alex-Tech-25ft-Tubing-Conduit/dp/B07TDGMDW4/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=38ID08OPSGH8F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9AN5l2iTGgTbnWgiWlv_veUYeqAOV-VvgTDBSsbxN7QiD2Vwy1QNYmRn8uHS36RMxPcrHPnuabchOqXrosmhe3yM6MzcQ8ISEiXYmZbWcZMgI4jV-jm2B6YaiylMz4oUEVttR9ytowmAGXWyFFXNWYnPfzq_Z2_4BMB64NY58vBJsL64OGDuRY9h52itYUjxXd34apn82bwB4XkMpzkPmUDD8uI_Alkx7KiyI2CDAOQ.CX-GuQ3gmHIi-FTVr3RrH8jwLEcF9tnNwhKN-8nKRJQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=plastic%2Bwire%2Bcover%2Btubing&qid=1777119147&sprefix=plastic%2Bwire%2Bcover%2Btubing%2Caps%2C202&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1

Vidstige

Damn, I thought it was Sunday today, so I was waiting for Twins. =P Oh well, something to look forward to tomorrow then I guess. =P

Jedi Lounger

Simone I empathize with you on multiple levels. I also care for many cats. Last September I was caring for three total. One indoor cat who I adopted in 2022. And two outdoor colony cats who are partially feral. One morning in late September I was feeding the outdoor cats when a little black kitten showed up on my porch. He was eating the outdoor cats food. After he finished I opened the storm door and he just walked into my apartment. I took him to my vet, he was 4 to 6 months old. His name is now Panther, full name Panther Blackthorne: Agent of Chaos. He has several other names. The Black Demon. The Black Tornado. If he is awake, he is a perpetual motion machine of constant destruction that I do my best to mitigate but I usually just have to tolerate. On the other hand I have laughed and had more fun in the last six months than I had in the previous six years. It was a rough six years with lots of loss and pain in my family. Everything that happened out in the world did not help.

Mastervodo

OH Awesome! We all know how much Simone LOVES airplane crash movies! No wonder this won a poll!

Jim

OddThomas

As I understand it, the reality was Sully was immediately found in the right and the whole NTSB going after him was just a movie thing to increase tension.

OddThomas

A film Simone would LOVE: Knowing with Nicolas Cage (iykyk)

MR

As a teenager I had my teeth done under sedation, in hindsight not really full anasthesia. It was terrible. I was only kinda half-asleep the whole time, I felt all the drilling but couldn't move or do anything about it, and was left groggy and nauseous for the next day and a half. With that in mind I wasn't looking forward to a surgery I had recently. Anyhow I got on the operating table, they hooked me up with all the stuff, and while when I tried to complain about why isn't this oxygen mask wasn't giving me enough oxygen.... I woke up in the observation room. Feeling completely fine, just like after having a good sleep, zero nausea, just a bit of prickling where the surgery was. In a hour I was moved to the recovery room to chill on a fancy hospital recliner, drink coffee and eat snacks. Don't remember anything at all from the surgery, just a complete one-way time travel. In short modern anaesthesia (propofol) is great. 10/10 would have surgery again.

Jedi Lounger

Side Note. Memorial Day in the USA is coming up in about one month from now, May 25th. If you guys want to do a Tom Hanks movie that would be relevant to release on YouTube, Greyhound (2020) would be a good one.

ChiefKC

Try having nine cats Simone. Several of them like to chew on cables and yes I've had to repair several of them, other simply had to be thrown away. You can get some cable covers that will stop them from chewing on the cables. And you did the right thing sending your partner off to do something he wants to do. My wife loves that the two of us have interests/activities separate from one another. We feel it has made our relationship that much stronger.

Some Guy Some Where

George - if you want to test the cruelty of your patrons, throw Free Solo in a poll. A great documentary that's probably as triggering for height phobias as anything you will find.

Connor Jarry

You should do Richard jewell it’s a really good real life event movie also

Cc Decc

Flight was fiction. Well, some bios are partly fiction too. But in general you can always make a more dramatic fictional thing than real life thing. And give your actor all kinds of vices and stuff to make him more 'interesting', But part of the fascination with Sully is that a real human being really did this and all those real human beings on the plane owe their lives to him.

Ian Hunt

Captain Phillips is another water based Tom Hanks drama that is worth a watch

AVATAR-X

The Core (2003) - For more Aaron Eckhart, in a disaster flick

Cc Decc

Hadn't heard the shoulder details before, but I wonder if its the same thing that limited my tennis "career" (as with my other sports, this is small/mid college athlete "career", not anything more). I used to have a big serve, still do very occasionally. But the reason its very occasional now is I basically blew my shoulder out working on a new serve one summer. Thought I'd torn my rotator cuff, went in for MRIs and the whole bit, but turned out to be a tendon problem, in my case exasperated by bone spurs in my shoulders from heavy lifting. Tendons rubbed across the spurs and once fired up (as, for instance, launching a series of big serves), it created one of the worst "achey" pains I have experienced. And I have experienced some. Deep throbby ache that would just go on and on for half an hour at least, accompanied by weakness and the inability to raise the arm above shoulder height. Was only minimally responsive to icing. And if it makes Simone feel any better, that was in my early 20s. And no, I never had surgery either.

OddThomas

Just to repeat Deepwater Horizon and Only The Brave are top tier true story movies

R_Van_S

This movie came out just as I was starting my pilot career (and I live in NYC) and for months afterward I'd be so unconsciously tense during take off and climb out that I actually got called out for deteriorating performance. I had to teach myself to consciously "untense" myself which is, you know, like an oxymoron. And to answer Simone's question, I don't think we get complacent but it can become "routine" which is why we have frequent recurring training in the simulators. They throw everything they possibly can at us in there to drill certain responses into muscle memory so that it almost feels like acting on instinct when you're responding to some unusual situation even though it's a highly technical and trained response.

Young Blood Priest

@Cc Decc Everything you said is true but Flight is still a great drama I think S/G would love.

REDR58

Flight was indeed fiction, but has none of the NTSB as the bad guy.

Steve

Could be fun. I also really liked Miru which is a wild climbing story as well.

Young Blood Priest

Airport was an air disaster franchise from the 70s Simone and George might like, too.

REDR58

A good fictional movie about heights is “The Walk” from 2015 directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Dioskur

I said so several times, Free Solo is great

Lloyd Franklin (edited)

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2026-09-13 17:00 I miss my cat so much, she died in on the 10th November last year. She was 18 years old and I had her since the day she was born.
2026-04-25 15:08

Mastervodo

I don't think the movie said this - but the birds that hit the plane? CANADA Geese!

jmundt33a

You missed “I am the keeper of the mail,” but this was great.

Tay Schumaker

This is fun at all but ultimately pretty silly. They couldn't make a whole movie out of the few minutes the crash took, so they fabricated some controversy. I am pretty sure Sully was universally hailed by everyone, including the NTSB, as a hero who unequicocably did the right thing. Either way, it's a fun watch

Athenor

I remember when this happened and there were immediate stories calling sully a hero ,then the next few days they backtracked and said he might be partly at fault, then weeks later calling him a hero again, glad Clint eastwood cleared the record up

Jose Robles

About the way the board was played out on the movie vs reality I think , the person the bald guy is based on was a little upset that was show like that because that not how the investigation was done , this was a long time ago so maybe I’m recalling it wrong

Jose Robles

Not sure if you already watch The Flight with Denzel Washington, I think it came out on the same dates of this one, pretty good too, but not based on a real event.

Monica Alarcon

Recommended watches after this movie. How about some early Hanks? Splash and Bachelor Party...

Young Blood Priest

The NTSB was not the bad guy in Flight but there was a bad guy.

Vengeance

So sorry! My Leo went on Nov 19th last year. I had him since a baby too, he was 16 years old. 😭😭

John Suire

Not saying you SHOULD have surgery, but I’ve had a few and going under is the best sleep you can have - dreamless, quiet magic (though I’m an insomniac, so take that for what it’s worth). Also, if you do go under, definitely bring someone you wouldn’t mind hearing craziness or secrets - for whatever reason, when people wake up from anesthesia, they sometimes start saying all kinds of embarrasing craziness. I still shudder at some of the stuff I told my parents on waking up (which I also completely don’t remember…

Jacob

Some of the best and most experienced pilots have been killed due to simple complacency in missing simple flight check items. Dale Snodgrass is an example.

Kieran Hawk

Greyhound is great. Counterpoint to Das Boot.

beeEbee16

A reaction to both movies would be amazing!

Christian Da Silva

Patriots Day and Deep Water Horizon are two movies based on real events that you need to watch after this one. Also, I'm counting the minutes until tomorrow's Twins...

zona999

I LOVE Michael! Loved seeing him frolicking behind you and sleeping in his bed. Please put cat tree behind you-if you can- so we can see him in your new location.

zona999

Or even better, "Touching The Void". It's SO good!

hackbyte

Yes indeed, iirc the NTSB was actually not really happy with their depiction in the movie... But, it makes it a good story ... as long as we know the truth ... it might be okay. ;)

hackbyte

Yeah, it made for a good story for a movie .... smthing needed to keep us on over the time. ;)

Honky Tonk Badong Badong

Airline disaster stories with a happy ending are really rare, so I highly recommend the "Mayday: Air Disaster" episode "Falling From The Sky," about British Airways Flight 009. It's a truly amazing story, that even has some Twilight Zone elements to it.

VariantsWatchMovies

I used to half pay attention to the preflight instructions. A passenger from this flight spoke at a conference I attended. After hearing him speak, I now listen and I know where all the exits are.

Reed James

NTSB is the government, not the airline. NTSB just wants to know what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Gayle ED

Deepwater Horizon is fantastic movie, I agree

hackbyte

Just by the way... here is the original ATC Audio Recording from the day and the time Cactus 1549 had to land in the Hudson: https://youtu.be/76oiugLMaRk -- US Airways Flight 1549 - ATC Recording [MULTIPLE BIRD STRIKES LEADING TO CONTROLLED DITCHING] NTSB had all those informations and in reality they were way less hostile towards the captain and the first officer... It just made for a better story to put them into the bad actor role. ;)

Thomas88

George, you said "brace fore Impact" is nothing you want to hear Stewardess Doreen said after the movie was released (meaning) "We trained for every scenario and If you ever hear ´brace for impact´ you know, this only means WE WILL DIE and yet, our training kicked in and despite knowing, that we will die, we did our job. We did what was asked and did our job until the end" 3 Fun facts. 1. This landing was only the FOURTH time in aviation history that someone survived a water landing and it was the FIRST time, everyone survived. 2. The ferry captain, who responds to the crash, was really THE ferry captain. He wasa technical dviser on this film and was asked, to play himself. 3. the first officer said, he would have done it in July. ironicly, warmer water changes its densety, so doing it on warmer water, would have like caused a catastrophic event.

djKENTO

"pretty recent event" my guy that was 17 years ago. This movie was a decade ago.

dys

The manufactured drama of the investigation is a little annoying, but the movie is worth it for the very accurate (based on the cockpit and ATC recordings) scene of the landing itself.

NullPointerException

I actively hate this movie because of how it depicted the NTSB. In reality, the agency wasn't nearly as hostile, if that's even a word you can use to describe their (mandatory) investigation. I have no issues with movies making small changes to create a more engaging story, however : - The NTSB's hostility essentially makes up this entire movie. Like, the movie would last 15 mins at best if they didn't make their desire to "throw Sully under the bus" the focus point of the movie. That's not a small change, that's the entire story being rewritten. - This is a "true story" movie, and has been marketed and presented as such. The characters in the movie are, as far as unknowing audiences are concerned, real people recounting real events. Imagine what a person leaving the movie theaters thought of the NTSB - and the people that work there - after this film. It's insane to me that you can make that much stuff up and present it as a true story. The scenes in the cockpit were cool, though.

sarCC

If you're looking for a great film based on a true event(that's not entirely fabricated), you really gotta watch All The President's Men. It's a seminal 70s paranoid thriller about one of the most significant and impactful scandals in American history. It's the movie Spotlight and The Post were trying to be like. Also, it stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.

Kameron Webb

Kinda inspired by that Alaskan air flight tho.

Ketzalborne

More proof that Tom Hanks is one of the greatest! 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

akaTheBAY-AY-RON

You two seeing this movie makes me really hope you watch Hot Rod someday. The two movies are NOTHING alike. And the only reason I connect the two is because of this film's title "Sully" and I can't really explain why that is, those who have seen Hot Rod might know why. And it's such a small and stupid thing too LOL. But the movie around that one stupid thing is hilaious, I swear XD

photos_by_geoff

**Warning of detailed personal account with a car accident I witnessed.** Probably often missed observation that George mentioned, but one that I have experienced, is about how some people just go into a calm state of mind when tragedy happens in front of them or when they are a part of it. I myself, a few weeks before 9/11, in August 2001, witnessed a car accident where all 3 occupants of the main vehicle were thrown from the vehicle. I was the 2nd person to the lady who was face first on the highway and there was a frantic lady trying to convince me that we should be moving the body so nobody ran over her there in the center of the 3 freeway lanes. I had to tell her to look back at the traffic that was mostly stopped and unfortunately some of them were driving thru the scene and not stopping, but at least they were all going so slow that you could see their expressions and hear the crunching of the car pieces as they creeped past. She was so hysterical though. And of course she was who the news interviewed later. I then knew that I needed to take her pulse and not move her still, mostly because of the trail of blood that went about 30 feet from the spot where she impacted face first, i could tell that she would be gone. Surprisingly though she still had a pulse but it was super fast. Understandable considering what she had just been thru. I then went over to the side of the freeway where the car had come to rest after being stopped by an overpass support. The car and the freeway hillside both were on fire and someone yelled that there was someone near the car in the dirt. The car had super tinted windows, so I had to get up close to the burning car and look inside to see if anyone was still inside. Thru the flames and all the broken windows, all I saw was fire and so I backed away. Someone else yelled that there was someone about 50 yards away by the semi-truck that had run over the hood of the car when the car was thrust underneath it after bouncing off a wall that it skidded into while trying to pass a car using the shoulder to the right hand side, while traveling at about 120mph. We then had to all back away from the burning car and after about 4 minutes it burst into a fireball, like a mushroom explosion. Thats what really caused the hillside to rapidly be consumed by more fire. Anyways, I had to convince an off-duty nurse to write a statement, because he said he really didn't think he saw much. After the firefighters finished putting out the hillside fire, which took 4 firetrucks, I believe I remember that right, I got to thank the first responders and they stopped me and thanked me for being so calm and for getting a number of witnesses to fill out statements and for helping them direct traffic while they fought the fire and for stopping a media guy from trying to film the lady on the freeway. I didnt remember doing some of it and I didn't even have an emotional reaction until the next day. That was when I had to go back to my 2nd job as a parking enforcement officer at the hospital where all 3 occupants of the vehicle were taken to. And where I found out that the lady had died almost immediately. I stayed calm up until then. Adrenaline and calmness just happens to take over some people in the face of tragedy. Can I stand blood at all? Nope! But in those moments, I just had some sort of switch that flipped and I didn't even notice what I was witnessing, as far as the gruesome parts. So honestly, while I was surprised that not one person was depicted as freaking out, I can totally relate to that silence and calmness coming over your body.

REDR58

Fans of “Northern Exposure” should recognize the late Valerie Mahaffey who played Eve on that show. She is the first person we see interviewed on TV and is flying with her disabled mother. Laura Linney, the fake wife of Jim Carrey from "The Truman Show” plays Sully’s wife, Lorrie. Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III sees an F-4 Phantom II displayed on the Intrepid Museum. That spawns a memory of his time flying F-4D Phantom II jets. During the flashback/memory of him flying the jets in the US Air Force in the mid-1970s, we see a pair of F-4E jets (specifically, "QF-4E" converted target jets that can still be flown by human pilots) flying towards the airbase, a slightly different version of the F-4D jets Sullenberger flew. The F-4E has an internal 20mm cannon under its nose where the F-4D lacks such a weapon. The former USS Intrepid Aircraft carrier also appeared in “I Am Legend” when Will Smith hits golf balls off the top of a USAF SR-71 also displayed on the carrier. The bartender was played by Michael Rapaport who is Knight Titus in Fallout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18SwhZeV95I He is also in the excellent “Cop Land” (1997) with Sylvester Stallone, as well as dozens of other movies. George, excluding incidents where everyone on an aircraft dies (such as the intentional crashes), 95% of commercial aircraft crashes are survivable: "The average survival rate is 86.3%, casualty rate 20.1% and RSF 0.16. Survival rate increases to 95.6% when accidents with a 100% fatal rate are excluded." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925753517310287 36°F is 2.2°C. Quite cold.

R_Van_S

Oh for sure, I didn't mean to imply that we can't get complacent or that some of us don't indeed become complacent, but I'd say at least that we're encouraged to be very vigilant for it given how quickly routine can become complacency.

Nesbit

I listened to the flight instructions because most of my flights were in the 80s and there wasn't anything else to do.

Jan Birgersson

Game of Thrones! so you guys may have talked about this before but i have not seen any comments, since there are no reaction to Game of Thrones i suppose you've already watched it before the channel, but i would not mind seeing you do a rewatch, does anyone agree?

Cc Decc

Yeah, so overtly hostile NTSB aside -- and btw, it was exaggerated, but there was a real NTSB investigation asking those exact questions, I just think they twisted the tone -- I have multiple points of interest for this event and movie. First, I lived on the Hudson at that point in time, in fact you can see my old building in several of the shots of the crash landing. My balcony would have been looking right at the crash site. But I wasn't home at the time, so I didn't see it. I have, however, ridden that exact same ferry that performed the rescue. But I was there on 9/11. My apartment intentionally faced the Towers. They were gorgeous at night with twilight behind and the setting sun still reflecting off the top of them. Didn't see the planes hit -- was in the shower. Came out and first noticed the huge crowds on the boardwalk down beneath me. Saw them go down, and breathed the smoke for 6 months. The thing I've never forgotten were the thousands of handprinted "Have You Seen Me?" flyers that plastered every square inch of the bottom of the building for months. Long after thee was no more hope, still nobody dared take them down. They were a living memorial. Still surreal. George was right to mention what a low flying plane at the level of the skyscrapers would have meant to people who had lived through that. And the other thing was after the crash...aside from my personal fear of drowning, I'm also a big guy and used to occasionally get asked to sit next to those over the wing doors. They like to have people there that can both open them, and keep anybody else from opening them in the air in a panic. I always accepted when asked just because it gave me an open seat with leg room. But that scene made me think "no pressure -- freezing water is rushing in (that time of year you would only have minutes, everybody is panicking, you've got to actually live up to that stationing, get the door open, get out, help everybody else get out, not freeze, not drown...". One of those "would I have been up to it?" scenes.

Allison Brommer

You should watch Captain Phillips. Another amazing true story staring Tom Hanks.

R. Chang

Sully himself was critical of how the NTSB was portrayed in this movie. The way they go after Sully in the movie is entirely fictional. While they did investigate to see if the plane could have made it back to an airport, there was never any real question as to whether what Sully did was inappropriate.

Brien

Neither of you noticed Laura Linney..Do you know what that means? It's time to watch some Ozark! Hehe :-)

Vengeance

Another Aaron Eckhart move you should check out is ‘Thank You For Smoking’ Hilarious dark comedy/satire with a loaded cast.

Paulo Souza

NTSB is not a corporation, it's a US government institution responsible to investigate air incidents. They are doing their job for the better of aviation, that includes sometimes being insensitive.

Christian Da Silva

I haven't read the other comments but I'm guessing many may have already suggested the movie "Flight" with Denzel Washington. It's similar to this one, but for all the wrong reasons.

blerbaberpaterb

.....i know what you mean but lets be honest lol government institutes in the US have basically been corporations for decades now....

Dan

I'm cringing from Simone's description of her electrical repair but I assume it's on the DC side and not the mains side of eg a charger with an IEC cable, and so probably won't burn down her house. A wireless charger might be a better option, combined with protection for the cable to it with something like a flexible shower hose, boxing in, etc.

John Miller

The unsung heroes in this movie are the ferry boats. They didn't hesitate to turn their boats around and head for the plane. Think about that. You don't know what's going on, or if the plane might explode. And they just headed there to save people. They weren't trained rescue personnel, like the police. They were just regular people.

REDR58

They have seen the series, but didn’t watch it on here. They watched the first season of "House of the Dragon” but I don’t think they have talked about “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," which seems to be getting good reviews.

Jonathan Eaton

For more Aaron Eckhart I suggest Thank You For Smoking (2005) Comedy

James O'Sullivan

Came to the comments to say the same thing. One scene in particular is one of the best pieces of acting I've ever seen.

Matt88g

Captain Sully and Tom Hanks did press together for this movie, Sully seems to be pretty happy with the film and in general a very humble man

Yvonne Sabel

Movie is good but a bit overdramatised with the investigation bit. Especially the bit with them having not listened to the cockpit voice recorder at any time before the hearing. They listened to that tape hundred of times before even the first initial findings report was made. Air Crash Investigation is not something that happened many times before so they don't make such stupid unfounded assumptions and mistakes without any evidence.

EMB

If you like Tom Hanks, NYC, and people being good to people you should look up BOATLIFT. It's a short documentary narrated by Hanks about the efforts of New Yorkers to evacuate Manhattan immediately after the 9/11 attacks. I don't know where it was officially released, but here it is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/18lsxFcDrjo?si=AVBxQ5FVL6MMftz8 (I edited the link to be the video from the production companies channel, instead of a reupload) I know it's not exactly in your wheelhouse, but I would totally watch a short reaction to it. It's about 12 minutes long. The music is a little heavy handed, but it's a great story.

Maria Forsström

Simone re the cat problem; there are special cord protectors you can wrap around cables specifically made with catowners in mind. I know you can find those on amazon for example. It is like a mesh tube thing. Also there are short phone charger cords so you don't have to buy a long one and shorten it youself :)

Eversharpe

George?! I'm pretty confident that the passengers did not turn to cannibalism to survive landing on the Hudson river! Oh no New York City is a short boat ride away, time to eat the chubby guy from first class, he'll be nice and tender.

Nikodevious

If you ever find yourself in Charlotte North Carolina, I recommend visiting the Sullenberger Aviation Museum. The Airbus A320 was recovered from the Hudson River, and is on display there!

Kieran Hawk

The real miracle (and no disrespect to the crew, they all did an exemplary job) was that the Airbus stayed in one piece. Airliners typically break up when ditching. Each fuselage section sinking quickly, drowning all but a lucky few. This one somehow found the tenacity to hold together and become a boat for long enough.

Sporty Taco

With my previous job I flew about 8-10 times a month for almost 8 years. Out of all of those flights, I only had one close call. It was a flight from Daytona to Atlanta. We were delayed because the light that confirmed the front landing gear was locked in place wouldn't illuminate. They changed the bulb and nothing. Had a tech drive over from Orlando and he got it working. When we were about to land in Atlanta, the pilot announced the issue had resurfaced and that there was a plane next to us that was checking to see if the gear was extended (it was). The flight attendants told everyone to review the safety cards. We spent about 30 minutes circling the airport to burn off extra fuel. ATC had the plane land on the furthest runway from the terminal. We were told to brace for impact. It was surreal to see all of the emergency vehicles lining the runway as we safely touched down and taxied to the terminal.

Jpsynergy

I really enjoyed this. Knew it would destroy Simone because well it's Tom Hanks. He gets me too when he has that real sad face.

Happy Hanukkah

Even Yet More Further Tales of the City 5 Part 2, the Sequel.

Happy Hanukkah

"This is where we watch movies and television and make stupid puns, all the time!" Don't you dare sully this movie with your puns!

Philipp Roensch

Yeah, the NTSB's hard assing is overblown in this one. Let's hope pilot and air traffic controller shortages get equal scrutiny, shall we? Well presented and solid 90 minutes though. The romantic background piano was just utterly distracting to me.

Michael Kemmet

Can't agree more. I share the hate for this movie for those exact reasons. I may watch the reaction just because I like Simone & George, but I usually just watch the scenes of the actual landing and the personal stuff with Sully. I always skip the other 85% of the film for the sake of my blood pressure. This movie actually changed my view of Clint Eastwood(and not for the better).

Michael Kemmet

It can also be a lot of fun going under. ;) I was in a situation about 25 years ago where I was going into surgery every other day for about a week or two(my mind is understandably fuzzy about all the details). During one of the surgeries(they were debridements), the anesthesiologist must have got distracted by a question or something and there was a short pause between the application of some of the drugs. Let me tell you, that was the best high of my life(not that I've had many that weren't directly because of medical events). My best guess after research is that the first drug was fentanyl and the second was propofol. Normally the propofol to put me under would be administered so quickly that I never fully felt the fentanyl. But that day there was enough of a pause that I had a chance to fly high for a bit. :D Since then, I've understood why people could easily get addicted to it.

Michael Kemmet

Clint Eastwood did nothing of the sort. Just because some of the media jumped to conclusions for the sake of clicks and views doesn't mean professionals like the real NTSB did. Eastwood was a hack for manufacturing a fiction just for the sake of creating weak-ass drama for a story that could have stood on its own.

Chrissonator

What made this an even more traumatic event is that seeing a plane flying low through Manhattan made everyone flashback to 9/11 in an instant, that's why people in office buildings were staring in shock.

Chrissonator

Just watched that movie again the other day myself, very good movie. :D

Michael Kemmet

The drama stuff in the film about the NTSB is garbage, and all the real people involved from Sully on down have said so. Eastwood was a hack for manufacturing fake drama for a story that didn't need it. The National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB) is an independent agency within the US federal government tasked with investigating accidents and giving recommendations based on their findings. They're one of the better and most impartial groups within the govt. They're professionals doing a tough job. The Canadian equivalent is the Transportation Safety Board(TSB). and are equally good to the best of my knowledge While the NTSB investigates and makes recommendations, they have almost no power to implement those recommendations. In the US, that is handled by the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA). The FAA is most definitely NOT an independent agency. They're a political body that often gets its strings pulled by the airlines and aircraft manufacturers. Probably the most well-known example of the way this process plays out goes back to 9/11. For many, many years(decades, really), the NTSB recommended cockpit doors that would be locked before takeoff and could resist any reasonable attempts for passengers to break in. I think they were recommending that since the very first hijacking of a US flight back in the 60s or 70s. Over and over the NTSB would recommend it, and over and over that recommendation would be ignored by the FAA. Why? Because the airlines and the aircraft builders didn't want to pay for it, and they got their lobbyists to put pressure on the politicians that ran the FAA. So instead of maybe a thousand dollars per airplane for sturdy, locking cockpit doors, we got two Towers down, a burning Pentagon, and a hole in the ground in Pennsylvania with 40 more dead innocents. There are thousands of other examples, but that one's the most obvious and compelling. The collision over the Potomac River last year between an airliner and a military helicopter is a second example. The loss of two young Air Canada pilots just last month will probably be another case of lives that would have been saved if the FAA had mandated NTSB recommendations instead of ignoring/delaying them because of outside pressures. It obviously bothers me a lot, even if I have absolutely nothing to do with the industry and rarely fly(I don't hate flying, I just enjoy driving more).

Juley

It’s a great movie! I 2nd the recomendation!

Juley

Deep Water Horizon is great!

gfixler

To Simone's point about pilot complacency, yes, anyone can get complacent, which is why they do everything by checklists. They live and die, literally, by checklists. Everything has procedures in booklets in the cockpit. Left engine goes out? Look that up, and follow the procedures. They do memorize things that must be done in emergency situations, where there wouldn't be time to pull out a physical checklist and read through it—because in emergencies, you just gotta do what you gotta do—but after the emergency part is done, they still take out the checklist for whatever they just dealt with, for all the less-immediate stuff, and follow that, item by item. I've heard many pilots over the years talk about how you should never memorize your checklists. I've even heard one say that memorizing your checklists (like pre-flight checks, etc.) is asking to have an accident at some point. Our brains are fallible. The checklist isn't. It's been codified over time by countless pilots who've come before, into the best plan of action. So, you never memorize it, you always take out the physical copy, and you go through it every time, like your life depends on it, because it does. This way, you never have a dumb moment where you absent-mindedly forgot to check the flaps, or oil pressure, or whatever.

hackbyte

A little Sully follow up: https://youtu.be/1VcyNs0Yr8o Flight 1549 Interview with Charles Gibson: NY Waterway Captain and Crew Interviewed! Incl meeting sully. ;) by NY Waterways, 13 years ago. ;)

hackbyte

Oh my gosh .. i totally did not know this one... thank you!!! ;)

hackbyte

I can completely understand that you dislike or even hate this movie because of this one particular change and overpresentation.. Just let me tell you .... you got heard ... movie nerds liking sully and aviation nerds are pretty sure to know about this particular fact.. ;)

hackbyte

I'm not from NYC, not even from the US .. but (hamburg, northern) germany....... And i remember very vividly the images i saw on tv that day........ Yes, even for a gen x germany very remote from 9/11, hearing that someone landed in the hudson and saved everyone was a very special moment.

hackbyte

I'm a layman .. totally not a pilot.... but i know some funny thing one (yt) pilot told me one time. Getting the plane down and be able to walk away from it on your feet, is a good landing. Getting it down and be able to get it into the air again afterwards, is a _great_ landing. I totally like that approach. ;)

hackbyte

Well .... let's say, airbus did their fscking job ok .. or maybe even pretty well ..... But, let's not forget, that exactly _is_ their job..... Bring everone safely down, as long as you have a good captain at the yoke/stick ;)

Angela D. Mitchell

I had just moved away from NYC when this happened. My best friend had a view of the plane for several days where it was tied to the riverbank after the crash! You could look straight down her Manhattan street and see the tail. Anyway... The core conflict in this movie is unfortunately BS. And it bothers me so much more than plenty of other factually inaccurate adaptations because it is deliberately telling us a baldfaced lie as the entire point of the plot, for dramatic reasons. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was never adversarial to Sully and his copilot, much less openly rude, nor did they act like prosecutors in the situation. They were instead kind and supportive through the entire (routine) post-crash investigation. Official simulations actually vindicated Sullenberger’s decision to land in the Hudson fairly quickly. So that aspect of the movie is a completely invented and fictional depiction of the post-crash situation and is so unnecessary -- and, I feel, genuinely unfair to the NTSB people involved. But the crash sequence itself, and the nice attention to the passengers so we know them as people, is terrifically done, however. Hanks and Eckhart do a nice job, as does Eastwood favorite Laura Linney, and it's nice to see so many talented character actors -- Chris Bauer, Valerie Mahaffey, Holt McCallany (so good on Mindhunter), Mike O'Malley, Anna Gunn, Molly Hagan, Jamey Sheridan, Jeff Kober (from Buffy but also so good on "China Beach" years ago), etc. Eckhart is such a good actor, so it's a shame that he's had some alcohol/substance issues (and behavior issues) that affected his career as a leading man. The core reality of the event is amazing -- as Simone says, "humans helping humans." Everyone coming together. The credits with the real people are so lovely. But the movie still pisses me off.

Angela D. Mitchell

I don't blame the NTSB at all for being unhappy. This whole movie made millions believe a complete lie that the NTSB was adversarial to Sully. It's really ugly to realize and I wish the dramatization had gone a different way.

Angela D. Mitchell

Yeah, this bothers me so much. The fictionalization of the conflict is so cruel to the real life people involved, and such a cheap way to do it.

Angela D. Mitchell

Yeah, I kind of hate this movie too, for the same reasons. The movie's complete fictionalization feels like Eastwood taking cheap shots at real people who didn't remotely deserve it. The NTSB actively supported Sully, for goodness' sake. Grr.

Angela D. Mitchell

Well said. I feel the same. I hate what Eastwood chose to do here.

R. Chang

Eastwood is a great filmmaker, but he has a pretty strong anti-government streak and it shows sometimes.

Kieran

The Outpost (2019) as well

mhan00

This was a good movie, but my issue with it is that it kind of digs at our regulatory institutions by depicting the NTSB as adversarial and actively trying to pin the blame on the pilot. Flight is only as safe as it is due to agencies like the NTSB working with airlines and airplane manufacturers and pilots to come up with procedures and redundancies to make catastrophic incidents as rare as possible. As others have noted, Sully himself was critical of the NTSB's depiction in this movie.