And people thought Lincoln was Oscar bait...So this is a fairly straightforward morality play about a pilot (Denzel Washington) who saves a planeload of people from certain death but must face his rampant drug and alcohol problems in the ensuing investigation. Aside from the spectacular crash sequence and Nadine Velasquez's boobs, pretty boring.
So we're going to skip right past all of that nonsense and talk about John Goodman. He is easily the most watchable character in the whole movie as Denzel's drug dealer. Between this and Argo, I'm kind of surprised he hasn't been talked about more. Of course, it's not like he's some obscure dude that no one's ever heard of but he's been out of the serious limelight since The Big Lebowski. He's done a lot of voice and TV work in the intervening time but it's really nice to see him owning the silver screen again.
I had President's Day off so you get a bonus post! yay!
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