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CBS's Mayday, done on the cheap, is full of holes
By Diane Werts
Newsday
Posted October 1 2005
"Maybe the problem with CBS's new Sunday popcorn movie Mayday isn't that it could be better. It actually could be worse. Then this would be deliriously mockable trash instead of an occasionally gripping but mostly frustratingly loony piece of hooey.
Back the tone takes us, to the 1970s heyday of Airport, The Poseidon Adventure (being remade by NBC for November sweeps) and other big-ticket disaster flicks, filled with character cliches, stunted dialogue and elaborate special effects. CBS's tiny-ticket production certainly manages the first two. Critics' preview tapes did not include finished effects, but let's just say we don't expect big-time pyrotechnics. The fanciest shot in the version we saw was a 360-degree circling of star Aidan Quinn as his vexing teen son bids him goodbye in an airport concourse.
Since Quinn isn't all that interesting, even if his kid is giving him fits, the movie then starts hopping all over to introduce its other participants. (Describing them as "characters" might imply they embody actual life.) Included are the plucky flight attendant (Kelly Hu), the "I should retire and play golf" pilot (Michael Murphy), the family flying to Japan with their two golden retrievers in the cargo hold, and some people somehow involved in some sort of restaurant. Since they're not intriguing either, we meet the air-traffic control folks and a Navy team readying some unrelated missile test.
Uh-oh. Can you say "intersection"?
Authors Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block could, and their novel of the same name became a best seller. But turning it into a quick-and-easy TV movie doesn't just illustrate the implausibilities, it amplifies them. Everything gets delivered in shorthand in order to cram in all the disaster exposition.
Cinematic visualization exposes way too much wackiness. A "supersonic" jetliner gets hit broadside by a missile at 65,000 feet and the plane keeps flying with a teensy hole? People cling at length to other almost-sucked-out people under that kind of pressure? Quinn's "weekend pilot" takes time from trying to fly the crippled plane to discuss his parenting woes with cockpit partner Hu? Say what?
The last two-thirds of Mayday perk up a bit in concentrating on the nail-biting exercise of Quinn's "insane gamble to try to land that plane." The quote comes from Gail O'Grady as an insurance executive for the airline, who insists "there is no upside" to Quinn's succeeding, at least when it comes to their "liability situation." She and other "suits" conspire the way nasty bureaucratic villains do, which is mirrored by the Navy honchos (Dean Cain and Charles S. Dutton) debating how to cover up their own classified "oops."
All this corporate demonizing might feel emotionally satisfying in our little-guy-gets-screwed era, but sense it doesn't necessarily make. Characters come and go at random, sometimes being abandoned midfilm. Topping it all is an absurd ending.
Just so you don't have to watch, I'll tell you. The golden retrievers come out fine."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/feature...,0,3734785.story?coll=sfla-features-headlines
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As yet another nail in the coffin interring liberal left wing artistic influence in films and television, aside from the 25 examples just tonight on cable television promoting gay and lesbian rights, single moms, bisexuals, long suffering humanists and ecologists, I thought I would offer a review of “Mayday”, but find the above review, in milder terms, offers the same opinion. At least I am not totally alone.
Mayday is the typical anti American, anti Business, anti Corporate left wing propaganda offering by Hollywood liberal screen writers and producers.
First off, the Military tries to cover up and accidental missile strike on a commercial airliner. Bad Military.
Second, The Corporate giant airline industry tries to cover up the ‘potential’ loss of a plane to cut losses to the company.
Thirdly, the dastardly Insurance company, chooses the ‘financial’ best option without regard to human life.
Of course, only the courage, bravery and ethical behavior of the common man, (proletariat) saves the day.
Such bullshit.
Left Wing Liberals should be embarrassed, but they will not, and the onslaught will continue even though we now know and point out your nasty little habits of biting the hand that feeds you.
Left wing intellectuals suck, big time. Hello Monica….
Amicus…
CBS's Mayday, done on the cheap, is full of holes
By Diane Werts
Newsday
Posted October 1 2005
"Maybe the problem with CBS's new Sunday popcorn movie Mayday isn't that it could be better. It actually could be worse. Then this would be deliriously mockable trash instead of an occasionally gripping but mostly frustratingly loony piece of hooey.
Back the tone takes us, to the 1970s heyday of Airport, The Poseidon Adventure (being remade by NBC for November sweeps) and other big-ticket disaster flicks, filled with character cliches, stunted dialogue and elaborate special effects. CBS's tiny-ticket production certainly manages the first two. Critics' preview tapes did not include finished effects, but let's just say we don't expect big-time pyrotechnics. The fanciest shot in the version we saw was a 360-degree circling of star Aidan Quinn as his vexing teen son bids him goodbye in an airport concourse.
Since Quinn isn't all that interesting, even if his kid is giving him fits, the movie then starts hopping all over to introduce its other participants. (Describing them as "characters" might imply they embody actual life.) Included are the plucky flight attendant (Kelly Hu), the "I should retire and play golf" pilot (Michael Murphy), the family flying to Japan with their two golden retrievers in the cargo hold, and some people somehow involved in some sort of restaurant. Since they're not intriguing either, we meet the air-traffic control folks and a Navy team readying some unrelated missile test.
Uh-oh. Can you say "intersection"?
Authors Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block could, and their novel of the same name became a best seller. But turning it into a quick-and-easy TV movie doesn't just illustrate the implausibilities, it amplifies them. Everything gets delivered in shorthand in order to cram in all the disaster exposition.
Cinematic visualization exposes way too much wackiness. A "supersonic" jetliner gets hit broadside by a missile at 65,000 feet and the plane keeps flying with a teensy hole? People cling at length to other almost-sucked-out people under that kind of pressure? Quinn's "weekend pilot" takes time from trying to fly the crippled plane to discuss his parenting woes with cockpit partner Hu? Say what?
The last two-thirds of Mayday perk up a bit in concentrating on the nail-biting exercise of Quinn's "insane gamble to try to land that plane." The quote comes from Gail O'Grady as an insurance executive for the airline, who insists "there is no upside" to Quinn's succeeding, at least when it comes to their "liability situation." She and other "suits" conspire the way nasty bureaucratic villains do, which is mirrored by the Navy honchos (Dean Cain and Charles S. Dutton) debating how to cover up their own classified "oops."
All this corporate demonizing might feel emotionally satisfying in our little-guy-gets-screwed era, but sense it doesn't necessarily make. Characters come and go at random, sometimes being abandoned midfilm. Topping it all is an absurd ending.
Just so you don't have to watch, I'll tell you. The golden retrievers come out fine."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/feature...,0,3734785.story?coll=sfla-features-headlines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As yet another nail in the coffin interring liberal left wing artistic influence in films and television, aside from the 25 examples just tonight on cable television promoting gay and lesbian rights, single moms, bisexuals, long suffering humanists and ecologists, I thought I would offer a review of “Mayday”, but find the above review, in milder terms, offers the same opinion. At least I am not totally alone.
Mayday is the typical anti American, anti Business, anti Corporate left wing propaganda offering by Hollywood liberal screen writers and producers.
First off, the Military tries to cover up and accidental missile strike on a commercial airliner. Bad Military.
Second, The Corporate giant airline industry tries to cover up the ‘potential’ loss of a plane to cut losses to the company.
Thirdly, the dastardly Insurance company, chooses the ‘financial’ best option without regard to human life.
Of course, only the courage, bravery and ethical behavior of the common man, (proletariat) saves the day.
Such bullshit.
Left Wing Liberals should be embarrassed, but they will not, and the onslaught will continue even though we now know and point out your nasty little habits of biting the hand that feeds you.
Left wing intellectuals suck, big time. Hello Monica….
Amicus…
