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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: QUAID,DENNIS
EAN: 0024543174530
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 01, 2005
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 20149
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 2004
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Description:
An action-adventure in which a group of air crash survivors - cast-offs from society who will never be missed - are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no hope of rescue. As they attempt to build a new plane from the wreckage of the old one, in hopes of flying back to civilization, they experience a rebirth of their own.
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As superfluous remakes go, Flight of the Phoenix could've been better, and could've been worse. It's a passable popcorn adventure, especially for those unfamiliar with the 1965 original, which starred James Stewart, made headlines for the crash-landing death of stunt-pilot Paul Mantz, and now stands as a minor classic of its era. This flashy remake stars Dennis Quaid in Stewart's role, adds a woman to the list of plane-crash survivors, and showcases Giovanni Ribisi, who gives a cleverly eccentric performance as the model-airplane designer who proposes to rebuild a crashed cargo plane into a single-engine escape from certain death in the remote Gobi desert. Both films are essentially identical, but this remake is somehow less believable (due to shortcuts in a haphazardly written screenplay) and much more spectacular, owing to the advantage of impressive special effects. Otherwise it's a routine dose of survivalist entertainment from the director of Behind Enemy Lines, never convincing enough to be genuinely compelling, but certainly never boring. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - Flight of the Phoenix - Blu-ray Info
Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-2 BD-25
Running time: 1:52:57
Movie size: 20,95 GB
Disc size: 22,52 GB
Average video bit rate: 18.06 Mbps
Number of chapters: 36
Subtitles: English / English SDH / Spanish / French
DTS-HD Master Audio English 4099 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 4099kbps (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
#Audio commentary with director John Moore, producers John Davis and Wyck Godfrey and production designer Patrick Lumb
Rating:  - Rip off of a great movie
I won't give this one a long review. It doesn't deserve one. It is a rip-off of the great Jimmy Stewart-Hardy Kruger movie of the same name. This film doesn't even start to compare. Worse, in a time of a war against fundamentalist terrorism, this film tries to be politically correct...politically correct, that is, if you are a Hollywood Loonie Tunes.
Rather than the North Africa and torture by Arabic bandits this film is placed in northern Asia and the assault is by a large band of Mongol banditos which Quaid, I think it is, manages to shoot to pieces with one of those pistols that never need to be reloaded. In way of criticism, there are still Arab marauders in the deserts of North Africa. Mongol bandits are, however, an anachronism having disappeared rather thoroughly with the Communist regimes of the last 65 years or more.
The only good part of the film is that in which a Mongol raider has been wounded and taken prisoner. This represents a significant drain on limited resources. The computer nerd, I think from Long Beach, California, proves himself to be not quite such a nerd by shooting him dead while the other wrecked passengers are wringing their hands. Problem solved.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Rating:  - Get The Original
Who needs character development when you can have special effects. Besides, character development takes time and requires a little attention span. I suspect the director plays a lot of computer games and is heavily influenced by such great works as Grand Theft Auto.
Rating: - RISING FROM THE ORIGINAL'S ASHES
Hollywood is far from done using the long dead bodies of old movies to recreate them into something original and different yet using the same story as before. The remake fever is upon them! In an effort to draw back movie goers who are flocking from theaters, Hollywood regurgitates movies they hope people will at least remember the title of. It works some times, and other not. This one does.
Dennis Quaid highlights the cast as a rough and ready pilot who works for hire. On a routine flight taking the crew and executives from an oil drilling that didn't offer what was expected, they encounter a freak sandstorm. Doing his best to avoid the storm at all costs, luck doesn't ride with the group. Major damage happens and the plane crashes in the middle of the desert.
At first the group hopes for the best, salvaging what they can and making the best of their situation. But knowing that the antenna was the first thing to be damaged and with no distress call making its way, they come to realize that their chances of being rescued are slim. One by one the effects of the heart and fear work at each member that has survived.
But one select (Giovanni Ribisi) member feels that there is a chance if only everyone else will listen to him. Explaining that he has worked on designing planes, he sees hope in the wreckage of the cargo plane, a way to give it new life and to fly them home to safety. His biggest detractor is the pilot himself, Quaid.
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Rating: - Flight of the Phoenix
This is the WORST remake of any movie I've seen in my life. The original movie had SUPERIOR actors and paid close attention to ALL details pertaining to what life would really be like if this indeed happened. This remake includes wimps,stupidity and a list of ridiculous ideas and total ignorance of what it would be like trapped in a desert in conditions that are beyond most imaginations. I'm going to burn this DVD in my outdoor firepit first chance I get. You really need to see the original to understand just how bad todays movies are!!!
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