Flightplan

[polkablues]

Just a fair warning (and I feel awfully creepy having this discussion), her scene in "AVLE" is (if I'm remembering correctly) just underwear and possibly rearal (opposite of frontal) nudity.

[NEON MERCURY]

Just a fair warning (and I feel awfully creepy having this discussion), her scene in "AVLE" is (if I'm remembering correctly) just underwear and possibly rearal (opposite of frontal) nudity.

so all i see is spine?  i guess i will have to watch nell.

[Pozer]

dude, watch Silence of the Lambs, she takes a full on cum shot to the face (no swallow though).

[Gamblour.]

Brilliant.

In Contact, see her half sorta naked in bed with McConaughey.

[ShanghaiOrange]

http://www.robbscelebs.co.uk/oops_menu_jodie_foster.htm

Do it.

[NEON MERCURY]

http://www.robbscelebs.co.uk/oops_menu_jodie_foster.htm

Do it.

 thanks man!  you saved me some serious money from having to go to blockbuster and rent the stuff.  

[MacGuffin]

Attendants object to 'Flightplan'
Flight attendant groups call for a boycott of the Jodie Foster thriller.
Source: Los Angeles Times  
 
They may have put up with being depicted as featherheaded flirts or even carry-on counting fascists, but flight attendants draw the line at the way they come across in Jodie Foster's new hit movie.

Three flight attendant groups are calling for a boycott of "Flightplan," which debuted at No. 1 last weekend, claiming that the depictions of a flight attendant and air marshal are outrageous and disrespectful.
 
In the thriller, Foster's character, Kyle Pratt, awakens mid-flight to find her 6-year-old daughter missing. A search is launched, an announcement is made, but the girl does not turn up. As Kyle becomes increasingly upset, the plane's crew begins to suspect that Kyle is unbalanced, which seems to be confirmed by the fact that no one saw the girl board. According to one attendant, the girl is not on the passenger list.

But —spoiler alert — that attendant turns out to be part of a nefarious plot concocted by the federal air marshal who is "handling" the incident.

"With security concerns what they are, it is not a good time to release a film with a terrorist in the position of flight attendant," said Corey Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the Assn. of Flight Attendants. "There has to be a layer of trust between the passengers and the crew, to ensure good communication during times of emergency, and a film like this undermines that trust."

The groups calling for the boycott — the AFA, the Assn. of Professional Flight Attendants and Southwest Airlines flight attendants represented by the Transport Workers Union Local 556 — represent more than 80,000 flight attendants at 23 American-based airlines.

According to a statement, the groups were also troubled by the depiction of the non-villianous flight attendants, who were "rude, unhelpful and uncaring."

Early in the film, flight attendants are seen rolling their eyes over a family with boisterous children, with one telling another something like: "It's OK to hate the passengers."

Foster took the role, she said in a recent interview, in part, because she liked how the script showed "how unhelpful people can be," especially in situations in which a mother is upset.

But at a certain point in the film's narrative, when even Kyle begins to doubt whether her daughter has boarded, the crew's concern is appropriately with other passengers — one attendant is seen calming tensions between American and Arab passengers.

According to Caldwell, all of this is overshadowed by the fact that one of the flight attendants turns out to be a terrorist.

Flight attendants, she said, are used to getting bad play in films — from the oversexed "Coffee, Tea or Me" ideal to grim-faced matrons who view the passengers as unruly children.

"We have faced misconceptions for 75 years," Caldwell said. "We could get over the rudeness, but the evilness, to be the villain, that is not acceptable."

A Disney spokesman said the studio is sorry that flight attendants are unhappy.

"There was absolutely no intention on the part of the studio or filmmakers to create anything but a great action thriller," the spokesman said. "We are confident the public will be able to discern the difference between fiction and the incredible job real-life flight attendants do on a daily basis."

[Gamblour.]

Whoever objected to this movie had a stupid basis. Logically, I mean.

This movie was very mediocre, but got the job done. It's completely improbable, and very ridiculous. The mustached, fat all-American man on the plane was hilariously racist, he wanted the Arabs to be accused and caught of something, no matter what. It was interesting, because I'd just seen 12 Angry Men earlier in the day. Nice juxtaposition. And I love Peter Sarsgaard, even in crap like this.

SPOILERS for those who even give a shit:

I think it's interesting how it takes the "she imagined it" twist, which is beyond trite by now, and tries to reassert that she's telling the truth. It's actually that much MORE implausible by double backing.

[MacGuffin]

Like Red Eye, this is another case where the actors, mainly Foster, elevates the material. For the first two acts, this was a very tense psychological thriller borrowing a lot from Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, but it takes a hard, right bank into another genre and crash lands.


*SPOILERS*


If it had stayed its course, it might have maintained the level of suspense, but once all her thoughts and reasons are explained and countered, there's no where else for the story to go; you start not believing the lead character and wonder what is going on. And what is revealed is incredibly implausible. I can believe changing the manifest and the calls to the hospital, etc., but how could Sarsgaard's character account for no one on the plane not seeing the little girl; not a passenger, not the flight attendants that weren't on the take? And how would he know Foster's character would be the first one on the plane with no one around to see them? The ending feels like the screenplay was written into a corner, and an idea came up on the spot to patch up and 'save' the interesting concept.

[Reinhold]

please do not see this movie. i like peter sarsgaard so i kept watching it... but i'll never get those hours of my life back and all i can do is hope that nobody else will waste some of theirs. what total shit.

this had nothing on the lady vanishes, and wouldn't even if they were released the same weekend.

and she was hotter in taxi driver.

[Pozer]

flightwho?