History YMMV / Flight

!![[ComicBook/{{Flight}} Comic book]]:
* TearJerker: All over the place, such as in "Cellmates" and "Premium Cargo."
** "Polaris" (Vol.3, Pg. 182) GOOD GOD POLARIS.

* {{Narm}}: "PRAISE Jesus."

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The movie ends [[spoiler:in a prison yard, with the sound of a commercial jet flying low overhead.]]
** The large amount of Christian symbology sprinkled throughout the movie -- the plane even clips the steeple off a church during its crash landing, and the congregation is the first on the scene of the crash.

!![[Film/{{Flight}} The film]]

!![[ComicBook/{{Flight}} The comic]]

!![[VideoGame/{{Flight}} The video game]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: It's totally okay for airlines to scapegoat an alcoholic, drug-addled pilot ([[spoiler:or a drunk, drug-addled flight attendant]]) to divert public scrutiny from faulty equipment on one of their planes.

* DesignatedHero: Subverted, and then played straight with Whip. At first it seems like he shouldn't be punished for what happened to the plane, given that he managed to save all but six people. Whip even vows to stop drinking after the crash. But then he goes OffTheWagon, to the point where [[WhatTheHellHero everyone (even Nicole) tells him drinking is ruining his life]] and you ''want'' him to go to prison. [[spoiler:And he does, after finally confessing that he's an alcoholic and subsequently [[TookALevelInKindness Taking A Level In Kindness]]]].
** Even Creator/DenzelWashington himself said shortly after the film's release that the storytelling is too nice to him.

** Even Denzel Washington himself said shortly after the film's release that the storytelling is too nice to him.

** "Polaris" (Vol.3, Pg. 182) GOOD GOD POLARIS.

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The opening scene with Denzel Washington snorting coke with a nude and very attractive flight stewardess, then walking out of his hotel room in full flight uniform to Feeling Alright by Joe Cocker doesn't really help the anti-drug message of hte movie.

* DesignatedHero: Subverted, and then played straight with Whip. At first it seems like he shouldn't be punished for what happened to the plane, given that he managed to save all but six people. Whip even vows to stop drinking after the crash. But then he goes OffTheWagon, to the point where [[WhatTheHellHero everyone (even Nicole) tells him drinking is ruining his life]] and you ''want'' him to go the prison. [[spoiler:And he does, after finally confessing that he's an alcoholic and subsequently [[TookALevelInKindness Taking A Level In Kindness]]]].

* NightmareFuel: The main theme of the film, airline pilots abuse of substances, is scarily TruthInTelevision as the number of alcoholic pilots and pilots which fly inebriated is staggeringly high. A few years back British Airways introduced breathalyzer tests after the management found out that a majority of their pilots had at one point or another piloted their aircraft while under the effects of alcohol and that a very big number of them were functional alcoholics. It's the only airline that went public with this problem but all airlines have to deal with it. It's a [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/729144/British-pilots-to-face-breathalyser.html public secret]] in the industry that a lot of airline pilots tend to deal with the pressure of being responsible for that many lives through alcohol.

** The large amount of Christian symbology sprinkled throughout the movie - the plane even clips the steeple off a church during its crash landing, and the congregation is the first on the scene of the crash.

* WinBACKTheCrowd: Was one for Creator/RobertZemeckis to show he could still direct compelling live-action, after his experiments with motion-capture had been getting increasingly poorly received.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Alcohol is bad. Don't drink and drive. Or fly a plane in this case.

* OneSceneWonder: The cancer patient from Utah that Whitaker and Nicole meet in the hospital stairwell.

* UnfortunateImplication: It's actually even worse than the broken aesop referenced above, because while alcohol certainly [[spoiler:destroyed Whip's life, it also strongly suggests that it helped him fly the plane better, and if Whip were not drunk and high at the time of the emergency, he would not have thought of doing something as "out of the box" as flying the plane upside down, which is what enabled him to save the lives of 96 of the passengers.]]

* NightmareFuel: The main theme of the film, airline pilots abuse of substances, is scarily TruthInTelevision as the number of alcoholic pilots and pilots which fly inebriated is staggeringly high. A few years back British Airways introduced breathalyzer tests after the management found out that a majority of their pilots had at one point or another piloted their aircraft while under the effects of alcohol and that a very big number of them were functional alcoholics. It's the only airline that went public with this problem but all airlines have to deal with it. It's a [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/729144/British-pilots-to-face-breathalyser.html public secret]] in the industry that a lot of airline pilots tend to deal with the pressure of being responsible for that many lives trough alcohol.

* {{Squick}}: The sound of the unconscious flight attendant's ankle breaking as it's caught in the overhead compartment while the plane goes upside down. It makes one passenger puke (or that could've just been from the whole experience, but either way, it was totally enough to make you react.)