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Comment on Pushing Tin by Graham Kent

Graham Kent — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:28:02 +0000

If your a pilot like me and enjoy a good plane flick, this is not the movie for you. Besides Cate Blanchette being a hotty there is nothing to this movie. Not only is there very little quality aviation related material, it glorifies controllers as hip, hard drinking, cool guys. Give me a break.
Rating: 1 / 5

Comment on Pushing Tin by Michael D. Donovan

Michael D. Donovan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:06:38 +0000

This movie is predicated on the premise that Air Traffic Control is an interesting job. About halfway through, the filmakers abandon the exitement of the control room for a plot about adultery and revenge. The characters are really uninteresting. John Cusack should be embarrassed for hamming it up as this guy who thinks he is macho because he’s an Air Traffic Controler. Or is he an Air Traffic Controller because he thinks he is macho? Australian actress Kate Blanchette, whose best known role before doing this movie was Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth,” here plays Cusack’s wife as a stereotypically dull middle-class American who doesn’t really do that much. Her talent is completely wasted here. The main interest for this movie is that Billy-Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie seem to have first met while making it, resulting in there breif, yet highly publicized marriage.

Somebody else who reviewed this for Amazon says this movie is a comedy. While I admit there is some comic relief, it never occurred to me, while watching, that it was ever meant to be one.
Rating: 1 / 5

Comment on Pushing Tin by L. Mark

L. Mark — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:40:00 +0000

This film is set in a bizarre fantasy world which vaguely resembles Earth. Supposedly mature adults with extremely important job responsibilities behave like emotional retards and/or felons. The characters are, barely, two-dimensional. The ending sequence, where Cusack’s character blackmails a pilot into summoning a passenger to the cockpit of a commercial jetliner, is perhaps the stupidest scene I have ever witnessed in a major motion picture. God-awful stuff. Avoid, avoid, avoid!
Rating: 1 / 5

Comment on Pushing Tin by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:25:14 +0000

1 1/2 stars.

I am a huge John Cusack fan and really had high expectations of this movie, but was extremely disappointed. This movie is a drama with no significant humor – those people who found it funny can probably start gigling by flipping through a blank notepad.

The main problem with this movie is that the central topic – being an air traffic controller – is simply not interesting to most people (apologies to the genuine controllers out there who do a great and valuable job). Arranging planes in three dimensions at an airport is just boring to watch and there is no sense of urgency or suspense to this movie at all. Watching the computer screens was like playing the world’s most boring game for the orignal Atari. The dialogue between Cusack, Thornton and the pilots was supposed to be fast and witty, but came across being extremely forced.

The so-called rivalry between Cusack and Thornton was equally forced. Rivalries work between cowboys or soldiers looking for the most glory and the attention of beautiful women, between stockbrokers seeking the most money or thrills, between politicians seeking power, and between athletes seeking the scoring title or new records. A rivalry between two air traffic controllers is neither viable nor compelling and is about as interesting as a 21 meal a week diet of plain oatmeal.

I am not faulting the actors for this movie; by and large, they all did a decent job with what they had and are very talented thespians. The writing for this movie was simply bad, making the characters have either dull conversations or unrealistic ones. Thornton had nothing to work with to apply his great dramatic acting abilities and Cusack was similarly left out in the cold with regard to comedy.

From the first five minutes of this movie, I wanted to shut it off, and that feeling grew stronger every minute until it ended. For me, the best part of this movie was the previews. Do yourself a favor and skip this dud.
Rating: 1 / 5

Comment on Pushing Tin by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:51:20 +0000

This was clearly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I could not conceive of who would have read the script and agreed to take part in this debacle. A serious waste of celluloid. Is risking people’s lives so that you can appear cool to your alcoholic, philandering, uncaring co-workers meant to be funny? A better night would be spent listening to traffic reports–it would be as funny and entertaining.
Rating: 1 / 5

Comment on The Bone Collector by Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:40:23 +0000

The bone collector is a really good detective flic. The only problem was that I knew who the killer was when I saw the trailer. “some you loose, some you win, the game’s over”

I knew the actor’s voice, I knew who the killer was. End of story. Other than that, it’s a good movie.
Rating: 3 / 5

Comment on The Bone Collector by Ivan K. Williams

Ivan K. Williams — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:23:57 +0000

I received my purchase quickly and in good condition. It was cheaper than buying it at a store and I had very little waiting time.
Rating: 4 / 5

Comment on The Bone Collector by S. Brown

S. Brown — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:54:17 +0000

I must be missing something. It is supposed to be a who-dunnit but it turns out to be who-cares…the main story is a subplot. The real story is the developing relationship between the main two characters….and I’m sorry, but I never saw it happen.
Rating: 2 / 5

Comment on The Bone Collector by Wigglepuppy

Wigglepuppy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:28:06 +0000

Come on, people, if you are thinking of renting this, you DESERVE to sit through it. Denzel Washington couldn’t act his way of a bad actors convention, and Angelina Jolie has got to be the most disturbing-looking woman on the face of the planet. Give this one a wide berth.
Rating: 1 / 5

Comment on The Bone Collector by Dave Young

Dave Young — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:01:10 +0000

Denzel Washington has that kind of screen appearance that makes me want to smell my own armpit. This movie was really, really, really, really boring. I was so bored that I took a jar of Cheez Whiz and poured it into my belly button and stuck one of those miniature Mexican flags that some restaurants put in their margaritas. Then I declared myself the Emperor of Mount Mexico until the Cheez Whiz started running down my stomach in sort of a lava flow way. This made some of the time pass quicker while watching this dreadful film, but mostly I just wanted to go to a turtle party.
Rating: 2 / 5