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This is a tremendously fun movie, particularly if you're not the sort that needs gunfire and explosions to keep you awake. It's exceedingly complex and full of plot holes, but so slick you don't really care. It also has a handful of really artful shots and one brilliant use of superimposition that I know I'll always think of when walking into a casino. I think "13" will be one of the big hits of the summer, at least in the "Non-pyrotechnic Bloodless" division.
Every admirer of Juliet should buy, borrow or steal a copy of "The Politician's Wife," a three-part BBC series from the middle 90s. Just trust me on this.
What a pompous, treacherous, hypocritical bastard.
Good riddance.
She smells of LOON!
My 13 year old daughter and I wouldn't agree. It's fairly wonderful until halfway through, then it turns into yet another Hansel & Gretel-type situation. We had really hoped for something unique, but it's really just another nicely-exectuted rerun of a story you've seen a thousand times before.
This whole flying-is-easy-till-you have-a-crisis line is garbage thinking based on a total misunderstanding of what is involved in becoming and performing as a safe and effective aviator. Flight safety is NEVER easy, no matter how many computers are engaged in assisting the pilots. Flight safety is the culmination of everything the pilots have learned and experienced since the moment they first began training - and there is more to study, understand and practice today than at any time in aviation history.
Why is it that the unquestionable success of the aviation community in making flight safer than ever is met with constant, moronic claims that it's all just no big deal because technology has made piloting something a Walmart door greeter could do? That's like claiming that everybody who buys a current PC can replace Quincy Jones because now they have a music package that even a child can learn to use.
No point in paying more than $20K year for that, is there?