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"The flight of the Phoenix" (remake)

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While this one is not as good as the original It is a passable entertainment. This time Dennis Quaid is the pilot and the desert is the Gobi and there's a woman in the cast. Otherwise it follows the plot of the oringinal fairly closely. A Hitler-Youth-looking model airplane designner convinces Quaid and crew to build a new plane out of the wrickage after the first one crashes in a gigantic sandstorm.. The DTS surround is particularly effective in these storm sequences and at one point my room was shaking. Worth eatching on a rainy afternoon, implausable but fun.

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Passable but not nearly as good as the original....... - danj 00:05:21 07/16/06 (0)
The new film has superior SFX but is otherwise completely inferior to the original. The original is a very tight entertaining film that happens to contain, arguably, the second finest performance of the last half of Jimmy Stewart's career. The finest being, IMHO, his turn in John Ford's classic "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."
I really loved Stewart's performance in "The Cheyenne Social Club." It was a fine film, too, and well worth watching, but not of the same calibre of the aforementioned Stewart vehicles.
What did you think of the soundtrack? -t - Bruce Kendall 09:59:19 07/12/06 (3)
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- Re: What did you think of the soundtrack? -t - rico 11:40:41 07/12/06 (2)
  I commented on it.
  - The music, not the storm sequences. -t - Bruce Kendall 11:58:12 07/12/06 (1)
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    - Re: The music, not the storm sequences. -t - rico 06:58:07 07/13/06 (0)
      I did like the music, both the rock sounding numbers and the more traditional symphonic parts. I then listened to some of the commentary and the director confirmed that the two sound guys pushed the limit of the low end, reaching 34 hz in some cases. In DTS this is a sub-woofer blower.

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