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* 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.
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* {{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).
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
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* {{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).
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* UnfortunateImplication: It's actually even worse than the broken aesop referenced above, because while alcohol certainly[[spoiler: destroyed [[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.]]
* UnfortunateImplication: It's actually even worse than the broken aesop referenced above, because while alcohol certainly
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** Even Denzel Washington himself said shortly after the film's release that the storytelling is too nice to him.
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* TearJerker: All over the place, such as in "Cellmates" and "Premium Cargo."
** "Polaris" (Vol.3, Pg. 182) GOOD GOD POLARIS.
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* TearJerker: All over the place, such as in "Cellmates" and "Premium Cargo."
** "Polaris" (Vol.3, Pg. 182) GOOD GOD POLARIS.
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* 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.
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* JustHereForGodzilla: The plane crash is a real knockout sequence which can make the film subsequently turning into an {{Anvilicious}} anti-drug PSA quite a letdown.
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* JustHereForGodzilla: The plane crash is a real knockout sequence which can make the film subsequently turning into an {{Anvilicious}} anti-drug PSA quite a letdown.
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* 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.
** 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.
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** Alcohol will destroy your life. [[spoiler:Cocaine can counteract it though.]]
** Drugs and booze turns you into Chuck Yaeger. God gives you cancer, destroys your life and marriage, and [[spoiler: puts you in jail for five years.]]
** Alcohol will destroy your life. [[spoiler:Cocaine can counteract it though.]]
** Drugs and booze turns you into Chuck Yaeger. God gives you cancer, destroys your life and marriage, and [[spoiler: puts you in jail for five years.]]
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Harling Mays is only in about three scenes (as Whip's friend, enabler, and drug dealer), but boy does he steal the show. They even play "SympathyForTheDevil" every time he makes an appearance.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Harling Mays is only in about three scenes (as Whip's friend, enabler, and drug dealer), but boy does he steal the show. They even play "SympathyForTheDevil" plays every time he makes an appearance.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Harling Mays is only in about three scenes, scenes (as Whip's friend, enabler, and drug dealer), but boy does he steal the show.show. They even play "SympathyForTheDevil" every time he makes an appearance.
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Actually, the physics were extremely well done; planes CAN fly inverted, and trimming for nose-down would keep it in the air even if the elevators were jammed downward. For a short time...
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: If anything, rolling the plane upside down would cause it to crash more quickly (the wings would be exerting a downward force).
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: If anything, rolling the plane upside down would cause it to crash more quickly (the "lift" would be pushing the plane downward).
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: If anything, rolling the plane upside down would cause it to crash more quickly (the "lift" would be pushing the plane downward).
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* BrokenAesop: Alcohol will destroy your life [[spoiler:cocaine can counteract it though.]]
** Drugs and booze turns you into ChuckYaeger. God gives you cancer, destroys your life and marriage, and [[spoiler: puts you in jail for five years.]]
* BrokenAesop: Alcohol will destroy your life [[spoiler:cocaine can counteract it though.]]
** Drugs and booze turns you into ChuckYaeger. God gives you cancer, destroys your life and marriage, and [[spoiler: puts you in jail for five years.]]
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* 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]]]].
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** Drugs and booze turns you into ChuckYaeger. God gives you cancer, destroys your life and marriage, and [[spoiler: puts you in jail for five years.]]
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* 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.]]
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* WinBACKTheCrowd: Was one for Robert Zemeckis to show he could still direct compelling live-action, after his experiments with motion-capture had been getting increasingly worse received.
* WinBACKTheCrowd: Was one for Robert Zemeckis to show he could still direct compelling live-action, after his experiments with motion-capture had been getting increasingly worse received.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Harling Mays is only in about three scenes, but boy does he steal the show.
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* OneSceneWonder: The cancer patient from Utah that Whitaker and Nicole meet in the hospital stairwell.
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* OneSceneWonder: The cancer patient from Utah that Whitaker and Nicole meet in the hospital stairwell.
* OneSceneWonder: The cancer patient from Utah that Whitaker and Nicole meet in the hospital stairwell.
