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Am I the only one that noticed


Hank flew a plane from Chicago to Indiana. Really? Where in Indiana would it be worth flying from Chicago?

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When he got there he rented an SUV that was big enough to carry a family of five, yet he only planed on staying a couple nights. In the time it would take to drive or get a ride to one of the Chicago airports, fly to a small Indiana airport and rent a car to drive to the remote town*, he could have driven over half way there. He could not have saved more that two hours by flying.

Judging by his fancy house in the beginning of the movie, he had money to burn, and that's just what he did with it.

*A remote town in Indiana is doubly remote.
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In America ppl have big cars even if they dont really need it.

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Chicago to Indianapolis isn't really that expensive. A four hour drive compared to a 40 minute flight is a no brainer for a successful attorney whose mom just died. I've seen flights as low as 45 one way--rare but it happens.

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It may take the airplane 40 minutes to fly from one runway to the other, but then there is the time spent driving to the airport, parking, ticketing, etc., in Chicago, then getting baggage and a rental car, and driving to remote Indiana. It might save a couple hours.

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It was implied they were somewhere along the Wabash River. It would be possible to fly to Lafayette, Terre Haute, Vincennes, or Evansville from Chicago. Only Lafayette can be driven to directly on I65. The others would require using 4-lane divided highways. The farther south one needed to go then the more sense it would make to fly, especially for such a narcissistic lawyer.

Enter "Chicago, IL to Evansville, IN" into Google maps and you'll see what I mean: Driving - 5h23m; Flying - 1h20m.



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Am I the only one who noticed that you have Dennis Miller's tagline backwards?
If I recall the line is:
"but that's just my opinion--I could be wrong"

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I-65 between Chicago & Indianapolis is the most boring stretch of highway I've ever driven. Although it's only a few hours chronologically, it seems like YEARS.

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Luckily I've made that hop f4om chicago to Evansville (The little airport he flies into) It is an 8 hr drive compared to 55 minute flight. I imagine the fictional town where the bulk of the movie takes place is less than an hr. from Evansville. Let's remember hank is a lawyer and can afford to fly first class plus he's successful so he probably has a busy scedule. It would make alot more sense for him to fly since he was only planning on a spending a day or 2 initially. Just my opinion.

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i stand corrrcted 6hrs strsight driving. Hope he didnt need to stop.

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He would fly to the nearest airport, and rent a car for the rest of the way.

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AM I THE ONLY ONE

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Hank flew a plane from Chicago to Indiana. Really? Where in Indiana would it be worth flying from Chicago?


"Am I the only one that noticed" <- this old troll.


People can fly where they want and when they want. You're pointless comments are absurd.



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It was the same point made by the New York Times Reviewer

"He drives only as far as the airport, however. Even though his Rockwellesque hometown is in Indiana, just one state over, Hank decides to fly rather than drive. Presumably to save time โ€” something this long, baggy, meandering film, directed by David Dobkin from a screenplay by Nick Schenk and Bill Dubuque, otherwise has very little interest in doing."

So that makes three of us who consider it a point worthy of comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/movies/the-judge-stars-robert-downey-jr-and-robert-duvall.html?rref=collection%2Fcollection%2Fmovie-guide&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest-stories&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

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