This is a 45-minute short puffed up to double the length with dream sequences, pointless side-stories, and the entire crash replayed twice.
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How you worked the brady bunch into this is mind blowing. It was a good movie but nothing more than that. Dont make it out to be more than it is. People act like they put this film out and said it was the second coming of christ. Its just a film people. Nothing more.
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Agreed, it was very repeetitve and melodramatic (which Eastwood's movies tend to be so not surprising). It should either have been half as long, or focused on a linear plot line following the crash, and on Sully's personal sruggle rather than so much exagerated NTSB business.
Agree with you and OP. Too much filler.
And they just *had* to have a villain, so the NTSB is made out to look like it deliberately cheated to get their simulator results.
Now, IF the story was the insurance company paying off someone in the NTSB to fabricate the results so they could avoid payout (or as much payout), then maybe I'd accept it for the sake of some plot.
But this, this was just a travesty.
You could say most of the same about Titanic
shareYes, it took a lot to stretch a 35 minute incident (from takeoff roll to the last passenger being picked up out of the water) into a 1 hour 40 minute movie and milk it for all the drama and conflict. But then again, Clint Eastwood had plenty of practice starring in and directing Heartbreak Ridge (which, despite its title coming from a Korean War battle, was about the invasion of Grenada in 1983), often referred to as the only war movie that was longer than the war it depicted.
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