list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Flight of the Phoenix on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Flight_of_the_Phoenix/230247/default.aspx Title: Flight of the Phoenix
Year: 2004
Director: John Moore
Plot: Based on a novel by Elleston Trevor, director John Moore's The Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring film icon James Stewart. The story revolves around the plight of Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid), a pilot whose C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers could not withstand the violent winds of a desert sandstorm. Stranded in the harsh terrain of Mongolia's Gobi Desert (a departure from the original, in which the plane crashed in the Sahara), Frank and his navigator face an equal challenge in maintaining order among the survivors. The group of oilmen had planned on an uneventful trip to shut off a group of rigs falling below their productivity expectations -- not fending for their very lives. Before long, some men are revealed as cowards, while others exhibit a surprising show of strength, all the while hoping that the wreckage of the original plane can be salvaged before a Lord of the Flies situation occurs. Miranda Otto is featured in a supporting role, as well as Giovanni Ribisi and Tyrese Gibson. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:02:50 GMTFlight of the Phoenix2004John MooreBased on a novel by <a href="/players/P___237195/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Elleston Trevor</a>, director John Moore's <a href=/films/11942/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>The Flight of the Phoenix</a> is a remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring film icon <a href="/players/P____68236/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>James Stewart</a>. The story revolves around the plight of Captain Frank Towns (<a href="/players/P____58161/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dennis Quaid</a>), a pilot whose C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers could not withstand the violent winds of a desert sandstorm. Stranded in the harsh terrain of Mongolia's Gobi Desert (a departure from the original, in which the plane crashed in the Sahara), Frank and his navigator face an equal challenge in maintaining order among the survivors. The group of oilmen had planned on an uneventful trip to shut off a group of rigs falling below their productivity expectations -- not fending for their very lives. Before long, some men are revealed as cowards, while others exhibit a surprising show of strength, all the while hoping that the wreckage of the original plane can be salvaged before a Lord of the Flies situation occurs. <a href="/players/P____54440/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Miranda Otto</a> is featured in a supporting role, as well as <a href="/players/P___216061/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Giovanni Ribisi</a> and <a href="/players/P___290116/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Tyrese Gibson</a>. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide2Slightly Tagged (1-5)3142http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t89125hnr8k.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Flight_of_the_Phoenix/230247/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/B_Movies/Re_Double_features/588/27934/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Post Date: 4/28/2008 10:02:50 PM
Body: [quote user="SkyPilot"][quote user="mercurial"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I've only been to a few double features in my day, but they have all been bad. I took my wife to see The Flight Of The Phoenix & Grudge And I recall when I was a teenager sitting through Undersiege 2 and Lawnmower Man 2 [/quote] Ewww. Just Ewww. I don't know how you could sit through those double features. [/quote] I didn't know there was a Lawnmower Man 2! That one coupled with Undersiege 2 would probably beat the S.W.A.T. and Bad Boys 2 pairing I saw. leeroy711, was it hard to sit through those, or did you still have fun? What made my experience fun with S.W.A.T./ Bad Boys 2 was being with friends, and being able to be a loud idiot without disturbing anyone. That said, who thinks they could have fun during this fictional WORST DOUBLE FEATURE EVER: The Paul Hogan Double Feature, Crocodile Dundee II and Lightning Jack. Cuba Gooding Jr. is mute, get it!? The idea of a Kathleen Turner double feature kind of makes me want to die. How about Undercover Blues and Serial Mom.[/quote] Yeah, I still had a good time. Watching bad movies with friends is often more fun than watching good movies. I've found that there are some movies that I used to think that I loved until I attempted to watch them by myself. I tried watching So I Married An Axe Murderer by myself recently and it just wasn't the same.
]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:02:50 GMTleeroy711B Movies4/28/2008 10:02:50 PM[quote user="SkyPilot"][quote user="mercurial"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I've only been to a few double features in my day, but they have all been bad. I took my wife to see The Flight Of The Phoenix &amp; Grudge And I recall when I was a teenager sitting through Undersiege 2 and Lawnmower Man 2 [/quote] Ewww. Just Ewww. I don't know how you could sit through those double features. [/quote] I didn't know there was a Lawnmower Man 2! That one coupled with Undersiege 2 would probably beat the S.W.A.T. and Bad Boys 2 pairing I saw. leeroy711, was it hard to sit through those, or did you still have fun? What made my experience fun with S.W.A.T./ Bad Boys 2 was being with friends, and being able to be a loud idiot without disturbing anyone. That said, who thinks they could have fun during this fictional WORST DOUBLE FEATURE EVER: The Paul Hogan Double Feature, Crocodile Dundee II and Lightning Jack. Cuba Gooding Jr. is mute, get it!? The idea of a Kathleen Turner double feature kind of makes me want to die. How about Undercover Blues and Serial Mom.[/quote] Yeah, I still had a good time. Watching bad movies with friends is often more fun than watching good movies. I've found that there are some movies that I used to think that I loved until I attempted to watch them by myself. I tried watching So I Married An Axe Murderer by myself recently and it just wasn't the same. http://www.spout.com/groups/B_Movies/Re_Double_features/588/27878/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: SkyPilot
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Post Date: 4/27/2008 1:38:06 PM
Body: [quote user="mercurial"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I've only been to a few double features in my day, but they have all been bad. I took my wife to see The Flight Of The Phoenix & Grudge And I recall when I was a teenager sitting through Undersiege 2 and Lawnmower Man 2 [/quote] Ewww. Just Ewww. I don't know how you could sit through those double features. [/quote] I didn't know there was a Lawnmower Man 2! That one coupled with Undersiege 2 would probably beat the S.W.A.T. and Bad Boys 2 pairing I saw. leeroy711, was it hard to sit through those, or did you still have fun? What made my experience fun with S.W.A.T./ Bad Boys 2 was being with friends, and being able to be a loud idiot without disturbing anyone. That said, who thinks they could have fun during this fictional WORST DOUBLE FEATURE EVER: The Paul Hogan Double Feature, Crocodile Dundee II and Lightning Jack. Cuba Gooding Jr. is mute, get it!? The idea of a Kathleen Turner double feature kind of makes me want to die. How about Undercover Blues and Serial Mom.
]]>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:38:06 GMTSkyPilotB Movies4/27/2008 1:38:06 PM[quote user="mercurial"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I've only been to a few double features in my day, but they have all been bad. I took my wife to see The Flight Of The Phoenix &amp; Grudge And I recall when I was a teenager sitting through Undersiege 2 and Lawnmower Man 2 [/quote] Ewww. Just Ewww. I don't know how you could sit through those double features. [/quote] I didn't know there was a Lawnmower Man 2! That one coupled with Undersiege 2 would probably beat the S.W.A.T. and Bad Boys 2 pairing I saw. leeroy711, was it hard to sit through those, or did you still have fun? What made my experience fun with S.W.A.T./ Bad Boys 2 was being with friends, and being able to be a loud idiot without disturbing anyone. That said, who thinks they could have fun during this fictional WORST DOUBLE FEATURE EVER: The Paul Hogan Double Feature, Crocodile Dundee II and Lightning Jack. Cuba Gooding Jr. is mute, get it!? The idea of a Kathleen Turner double feature kind of makes me want to die. How about Undercover Blues and Serial Mom. http://www.spout.com/groups/B_Movies/Re_Double_features/588/27863/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mercurial
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Post Date: 4/26/2008 5:58:51 PM
Body: [quote user="leeroy711"] I've only been to a few double features in my day, but they have all been bad. I took my wife to see The Flight Of The Phoenix & Grudge And I recall when I was a teenager sitting through Undersiege 2 and Lawnmower Man 2 [/quote] Ewww. Just Ewww. I don't know how you could sit through those double features.
]]>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:58:51 GMTmercurialB Movies4/26/2008 5:58:51 PM[quote user="leeroy711"] I've only been to a few double features in my day, but they have all been bad. I took my wife to see The Flight Of The Phoenix &amp; Grudge And I recall when I was a teenager sitting through Undersiege 2 and Lawnmower Man 2 [/quote] Ewww. Just Ewww. I don't know how you could sit through those double features. http://www.spout.com/groups/B_Movies/Re_Double_features/588/27861/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Post Date: 4/26/2008 5:48:20 PM
Body: I've only been to a few double features in my day, but they have all been bad. I took my wife to see The Flight Of The Phoenix & Grudge And I recall when I was a teenager sitting through Undersiege 2 and Lawnmower Man 2
]]>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:48:20 GMTleeroy711B Movies4/26/2008 5:48:20 PMI've only been to a few double features in my day, but they have all been bad. I took my wife to see The Flight Of The Phoenix &amp; Grudge And I recall when I was a teenager sitting through Undersiege 2 and Lawnmower Man 2 http://www.spout.com/blogs/moviebabe/archive/2007/7/12/13794.aspx Post By: MovieBabe
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Post Date: 7/12/2007 11:40:00 PM
Body: By Tricia Olszewski If you don’t want to know the outcome of Flight of the Phoenix, you of course should avoid the 1965 will-they-make-it-out-of-the-desert? drama starring Jimmy Stewart. And you should also, er, avoid reading the title. John Moore’s remake of The Flight of the Phoenix may not measure up to its predecessor with all that movie’s fancy “acting,” and really, the virtually point-by-point reimagining by scripters Scott Frank and—Ed Burns?!—didn’t take much imagination at all. But anyone going into this action-adventure with fresh eyes—and low expectations—could do a lot worse. Yes, there are bad lines (“I think a bee stung your big dumbass head!”), highly convenient plot turns (evil nomads who wait until the most dramatic moment to attack), and one cheesy musical interlude (to “Hey Ya!”—hiphop that even the white people can enjoy!). We know that the majority of the passengers took that doomed flight out of Mongolia because their oil rig was shut down, but the movie seems less concerned about who they are than the fact that each adds diversity: The modern cast now includes a woman (Lord of the Rings’ Miranda Otto), two black men (Tyrese Gibson and Kirk Jones, aka Sticky Fingaz), a Mexican (Jacob Vargas), a vaguely Middle Eastern man (Kevork Malikyan), and a handful of white dudes (most notably Dennis Quaid as the cocky pilot and a bleach-blond Giovanni Ribisi as the flight’s Poindexter/Nazi). But the scene that takes the plane bouncing through a black-orange sandstorm before it crashes is spectacular, and the continued setbacks the gang faces while stranded in the middle of nowhere are Saturday-matinee suspenseful. And though Ribisi may be the only actor here who doesn’t phone it in, no worries: His adenoidal, Hannibal-on-helium performance as the creepily needy brains behind the group’s Hail Mary shot at survival would make the 1965 Flight crew proud.
]]>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:40:00 GMTMovieBabeMovieBabe Blog7/12/2007 11:40:00 PM By Tricia Olszewski If you don&rsquo;t want to know the outcome of Flight of the Phoenix, you of course should avoid the 1965 will-they-make-it-out-of-the-desert? drama starring Jimmy Stewart. And you should also, er, avoid reading the title. John Moore&rsquo;s remake of The Flight of the Phoenix may not measure up to its predecessor with all that movie&rsquo;s fancy &ldquo;acting,&rdquo; and really, the virtually point-by-point reimagining by scripters Scott Frank and&mdash;Ed Burns?!&mdash;didn&rsquo;t take much imagination at all. But anyone going into this action-adventure with fresh eyes&mdash;and low expectations&mdash;could do a lot worse. Yes, there are bad lines (&ldquo;I think a bee stung your big dumbass head!&rdquo;), highly convenient plot turns (evil nomads who wait until the most dramatic moment to attack), and one cheesy musical interlude (to &ldquo;Hey Ya!&rdquo;&mdash;hiphop that even the white people can enjoy!). We know that the majority of the passengers took that doomed flight out of Mongolia because their oil rig was shut down, but the movie seems less concerned about who they are than the fact that each adds diversity: The modern cast now includes a woman (Lord of the Rings&rsquo; Miranda Otto), two black men (Tyrese Gibson and Kirk Jones, aka Sticky Fingaz), a Mexican (Jacob Vargas), a vaguely Middle Eastern man (Kevork Malikyan), and a handful of white dudes (most notably Dennis Quaid as the cocky pilot and a bleach-blond Giovanni Ribisi as the flight&rsquo;s Poindexter/Nazi). But the scene that takes the plane bouncing through a black-orange sandstorm before it crashes is spectacular, and the continued setbacks the gang faces while stranded in the middle of nowhere are Saturday-matinee suspenseful. And though Ribisi may be the only actor here who doesn&rsquo;t phone it in, no worries: His adenoidal, Hannibal-on-helium performance as the creepily needy brains behind the group&rsquo;s Hail Mary shot at survival would make the 1965 Flight crew proud. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/desert/MemberTagFilms.aspxdesert
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