The Flight of the Phoenix
Friday night I saw “Flight of the Phoenix”. I am not referring to the original version from 1965. For some reason I cannot determine, Hollywood remade the movie. For reasons I don’t wish to divulge, I then saw the movie. I guess the there are no more good ideas left so we have to simply recycle the old ones. I don’t think it was an awful movie, but there really was nothing that makes me say, “you have to go see it” either. It’s a movie, it’s better than some TV shows, but not all. The seatss in the theater were comfortable and the ambience was suitably dark. Maybe if you see it as a matinee it won’t disappoint as much. I do want to see the original version again. I remembered it as being better story wise, but less sophisticated cinematography/special effects wise.
