Clint Eastwood directed a “true story” movie starring noted dog abortionist Tom Hanks based on the guy who landed a plane in the Hudson River when it hit some birds (not that impressive imo).
Unfortunately the crash landing itself lasted like two minutes real time and everything before that was a normal flight, so how do you stretch that to 90 mins??
Eastwood wholesale invents a whole plot after the crash about a government agency investigating the crash and pretends the pilot played by Hanks is at risk of being blamed for it. It's the only stakes at play because we all know the plane will land safely and at that point in the movie it already had.
I mean there was a real inquest into the crash but the pilot was never at any time going to be blamed for the crash, he was already a hero. It was basically just a formality.
Eastwood also casts the lady who played the Breaking Bad wife to play the main government instigator who tries to blame Hanks and is pure fiction. Character is basically rage bait to make wingcucks screech about how you can't even be a hero anymore without big government sucking the c*m from your balls in a bad way
This is the second in my series of 150 posts about Eastwood being an awful director
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It's very common in movies based on real life to just make up an imaginary conflict because people getting along with each other isn't interesting. For example, in Glory most of the racist stuff that happens to them is completely made up. On Apollo 13 there wasn't any tension between the astronauts and if you listen to the recordings of them they were pretty chill even just after the explosion. I haven't watched First Man but apparently they make Neil Armstrong into a sad, brooding loner because he was too perfect irl.
Yeah, I'm sure you could pull it off. What's so hard about ditching an airliner in water?
The only landings I can think of off the top of my head that were more impressive is one that ditched in a river in Indonesia and the time when that one-eyed Salvadoran guy landed on a levee outside New Orleans. If you try to ditch and don't do it right, part of the plane is going to hit the water first and cause it to, well...
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That wasn't the pilot's fault. R-slurred
didn't understand how planes worked, forced him to burn off all his fuel, and then when he tried to ditch they started fighting him in the cockpit.
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