Flight Plan

stevepaa · 09-29-2005, 08:57 PM

Well, my wife and I went to see Flight Plan with Jodie Foster.

Suspenseful thriller with nary a dull moment. My wife's feet were moving most of the time.

Don't read below if you don't want to see information that may affect your viewing.

The bad:
The set designer must have been the same guy who did the subs in Hunt for Red October. He has no clue what the innards of either look like.
1) Avionics is a joke. Yeah, Four tall racks of blinking lights in a room the size of my front room.
2) RCA plugs are used for electrical connections with a patch panel right from Ma Bell.
3) The radome is empty
4) The cargo hold has way too much extra room. And is well lit.
5) Ten lbs of C4 would have blown the plane apart. All we get here is flash and flame from the Hollywood pyrotechnics.
6) The premise that a power plant engineer, say a guy from PW jet engines, would know the innards of a 747 is far fetched.
7) Putting access panels in toilets so she can climb above all the pax areas.
8) As if there could be a crawl space above pax area.
9) Looks awfully like steel I beam girders in this plane.

The action:
How could anyone get on a plane, move ten rows back after takeoff, and no one see the child? The suggestion that a FA could alter the pax manifest is unbelievable.

I'm sure we could expand this list 5 fold.

ronin · 09-29-2005, 09:00 PM

the good?

singpilot · 09-29-2005, 09:04 PM

Jody Foster.

Neilk · 09-29-2005, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by stevepaa

The bad:
1) Avionics is a joke. Yeah, Four tall racks of blinking lights in a room the size of my front room.
2) RCA plugs are used for electrical connections with a patch panel right from Ma Bell.
3) The radome is empty
4) The cargo hold has way too much extra room. And is well lit.
5) Ten lbs of C4 would have blown the plane apart. All we get here is flash and flame from the Hollywood pyrotechnics.
6) The premise that a power plant engineer, say a guy from PW jet engines, would know the innards of a 747 is far fetched.
7) Putting access panels in toilets so she can climb above all the pax areas.
8) As if there could be a crawl space above pax area.
9) Looks awfully like steel I beam girders in this plane.

What do you expect? Them dumb Europeans at Airbus don't know how to build a plane! And regarding all those I beams, why do you think Airbus is having weight problems with the A380?

Just kidding. I'd like to try the A380 once, preferably in first or business class.

Hugh R · 09-29-2005, 09:43 PM

The set was pretty frigging amazing though. The entire inside of the plane is one giant set over 200 feet long, with several levels. I enjoyed working on it.

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

The flight attendants unions are boycotting the movie

Tishabet · 09-30-2005, 04:48 AM

It was fairly good....I'd give it a B minus. It was one of those films where your opinion of it dwindles after you leave the tehater. Still, much better than most of the reviews led me to believe.

ronin · 09-30-2005, 07:14 AM

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Originally posted by singpilot
Jody Foster.

setting our sights a little low, are we?

stevepaa · 09-30-2005, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by red-beard
The flight attendants unions are boycotting the movie

I have no clue why. My wife was a FA and she saw nothing to be concerned about.

They are acting like book burners. "It's filth, No I haven't read it."

Just gives the movie free publicity.

Hugh R · 09-30-2005, 05:04 PM

Here's a pic of the exterior of the plane set, over 200 feet long.

1973911s · 09-30-2005, 06:47 PM

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Originally posted by Hugh R

Here's a pic of the exterior of the plane set, over 200 feet long.

Huge

You have a really cool job! Let me know if I can help and sneak on a set someday.

Michael

pwd72s · 10-01-2005, 08:18 AM

Looks like a laundromat...

1973911s · 04-30-2007, 03:35 PM

I saw this movie this weekend, pretty good.

on-ramp · 04-30-2007, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by stevepaa
Well, my wife and I went to see Flight Plan with Jodie Foster.

Suspenseful thriller with nary a dull moment. My wife's feet were moving most of the time.

Don't read below if you don't want to see information that may affect your viewing.

The bad:
The set designer must have been the same guy who did the subs in Hunt for Red October. He has no clue what the innards of either look like.
1) Avionics is a joke. Yeah, Four tall racks of blinking lights in a room the size of my front room.
2) RCA plugs are used for electrical connections with a patch panel right from Ma Bell.
3) The radome is empty
4) The cargo hold has way too much extra room. And is well lit.
5) Ten lbs of C4 would have blown the plane apart. All we get here is flash and flame from the Hollywood pyrotechnics.
6) The premise that a power plant engineer, say a guy from PW jet engines, would know the innards of a 747 is far fetched.
7) Putting access panels in toilets so she can climb above all the pax areas.
8) As if there could be a crawl space above pax area.
9) Looks awfully like steel I beam girders in this plane.

The action:
How could anyone get on a plane, move ten rows back after takeoff, and no one see the child? The suggestion that a FA could alter the pax manifest is unbelievable.

I'm sure we could expand this list 5 fold.

ummm.. it's called a movie.

Dantilla · 04-30-2007, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by stevepaa
1) Avionics is a joke. Yeah, Four tall racks of blinking lights in a room the size of my front room.

I haven't seen the movie, but I have been in the avionics room of a 747. It IS a room. Probably the thing that suprised me the most when I got to tour the guts of a 747 was the space available for avionics.