SydKat

It was okay but I'd say save your money and wait for it to come out on Netflix or Redbox. It was well done considering everyone knows the story. Some parts overly technical, but accurate. I thought it was funny also how every home scene had the stereotype of the worried pilot wife in the kitchen. And apparently she calls her husband Sully? Okay. They also seem to try VERY hard to portray the crew as heroes, even glancing over the fact that they lost both engines yet continued straight ahead for 35 seconds instead of immediately turning back to an airport, and suggest they would have made it, but then ignore this fact. I thought the interplay between the pilots, union reps, management, and government officials was pretty good, having been a union rep for many years and attended many meetings where not everyone has a glass of water. All in all worth seeing.

knewyork

It's worth the money. As far as poor Skiles goes, there were just shots of him standing around while the plane was evacuating, and he was basically the sidekick with jokes. Kind of disappointing but it's what I expected. I mean, the movie is named after just one guy.

SydKat

The biggest "ya okay" moment was Sully entering the cabin during the evacuation (swimming upstream the people), and handing a lady her coat out of the overhead saying "better take this ma'am, it's cold out there". Ya okay. I bet there has never been that orderly of an evacuation. Good thing that hero pilot personally directed it instead of the FAs.

WHACKMASTER

I figured. It's embarrassing how ignored he was during all of it. I ran into him in ATL one time. Pretty soft-spoken.....

Sliceback

Cable channel had a show about US 1549 last week. Interviewed people in the cabin. Front of the aircraft was calm and dry. Aft was chaos and wet. Two different worlds. Lady with the baby was hysterical. A passenger went back to help her "even though my brain was saying 'get out!' "

ShyGuy

Very accurate scene for the one part involving Spirit Airlines. Well played.

The Juice

Glass houses man, Virgin is now below Spirit for on-time performance for the recent report, according to the DOT, and Virgin is usually in the bottom 3 for cancelations, according to the DOT.

ShyGuy

Who cares? The director chose Spirit and it was funny.

It's a movie and it was pretty well done overall.

trescommas

We saw it last night, fairly well done I thought. Few of the standard aviation goofs, but not many. Thought the word for word CVR scene was pretty powerful.

Was he grilled and second-guessed like that when it happened, or was that all dramatic license?

Name User

According to the NTSB they were given a lot of softball questions in real life. The movie had to have a villain though.

Our training dept said the FAA wanted to violate Sully for saying 'nice day' at the end of the runway prior to t/o. There has been a pretty big push to clean up our act and literally say nothing except pertinent stuff because of it I've noticed.