Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on September 12, 2006 at 16:15:11

In Reply to: Re: :Red Eye" posted by rico on September 9, 2006 at 08:31:39:

Hmm. Guess I'll have to disagree with you on this one. While I would not recommend either, Red Eye seemed too contrived to me. And much too predictable. The scene in which McAdams is driving along, and using her cell phone to call her father, and guess what, the cell phone's battery is low, and the call does not connect - presumably, because the battery is low, because, well, that is what the screen showed. Apparently, that cell phone, like a runner heading for the finish line, reached deep into its cell phone heart and found something extra, and found the power for her to make the call. The cell phone dying is a plot device, predictable. But then so is the phone regenerating itself. Although McAdams is developing a decent body of work, under the radar of most.

Flightplan, while itself somewhat contrived, at least has the cojones to take place almost entirely on a plane, which I think forces the filmmakers to be a little more creative, which forced our heroine to be more creative. While we know she is going to ultimately walk off the plane with her daughter, the journey was more unpredictable to me, whereas in Red Eye, I knew daddy would be saved, but I also knew what was going to happen each step of the way. And seeing different parts of the plane that we do not see often was cool.