In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “One of the best movies of 2016.”
“Everything is unprecedented until it happens for the first time.”
Heroics are what movies are made for. Sure, there’s drama and pathos and catharsis and comedy and a million other things that movies are made for. But big screens, surround sound, movie star charisma and stunning visuals all get the chance to show off and really go for broke when a movie is built around a hero doing something extraordinary.
On the one hand, it was only a matter of time until a movie was made about the real life heroic daring do of pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger. Almost just as inevitable was the fact that he would be played the ultimate everyman, Tom Hanks. With so much seeming so obvious about this movie, the one thing that had me optimistically unsure of what to expect was its director. How would the stripped back, no nonsense story telling and film making of Clint Eastwood translate the possible inspirational schmaltz of a movie like Sully? (more…)
Bored and Dangerous 