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Flight Attendants Say Boycott 'Flightplan'
AP ^ | September 28, 2005 | ALEX VEIGA

Posted on 09/28/2005 7:11:48 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Three groups representing flight attendants are calling for a boycott of the box-office hit "Flightplan."

In the Jodie Foster thriller about a mother looking for her missing daughter aboard a plane, a flight attendant colludes with an air marshal as part of a plot to extort a ransom from the airline.

Other flight attendants are shown treating passengers rudely and being unsympathetic to Foster's character, whom they think might be delusional.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: flightattendants; flightplan; foster; hollyweird; hollywood; hollywoodsucks; movies
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Hollywood's making more friends.
1 posted on 09/28/2005 7:11:49 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
With over 24 million in the first week, this boycott idea is sure working...

not

2 posted on 09/28/2005 7:13:10 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

A rude flight attendant?!! Who could have thought of such a thing?!!


3 posted on 09/28/2005 7:14:05 PM PDT by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

You couldn't pay me to see this shat.


4 posted on 09/28/2005 7:16:29 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Nachum

Boycotts always sound good on paper, but their true efficacy always falls short. Some actually seem to get a lot of support, but almost always this support is from people who wouldn't have bought the product/service anyways.


5 posted on 09/28/2005 7:22:47 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

You ain't nothin' but a Waitress in the Sky


6 posted on 09/28/2005 7:24:16 PM PDT by SoDak
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I don't plan on seeing the movie, but that's only because I think Jodie Foster can't act her way out of a wet paper bag, not because of any union boycott.


7 posted on 09/28/2005 7:27:04 PM PDT by BostonianRightist (I looted New Orleans and all I got was 40 of these lousy taglines.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Losers hate being shown for what they are.


8 posted on 09/28/2005 7:27:51 PM PDT by D.P.Roberts
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Ha Ha....

Its Hollywood....

Gay Stars, Gay Sky Fairies

Wheres the Beef?


9 posted on 09/28/2005 7:28:49 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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"A rude flight attendant?!! Who could have thought of such a thing?!!"

Really. Rude....or gay. Who'd'a thunk.

10 posted on 09/28/2005 7:29:46 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Give me a break. Are all professions supposed to be protected classes in fiction? All those 'The Butler Did It' locked room mysteries should have had the Domestic Servant industry up in arms as well.
11 posted on 09/28/2005 7:29:57 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Did they boycott Airplane! also?


12 posted on 09/28/2005 7:31:20 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BostonianRightist

'Fake' Bells go off when I see her on the screen. The harder she tries the worse she is and she clearly tries very hard. Peaked at 12 in Taxi Driver.


13 posted on 09/28/2005 7:31:32 PM PDT by Borges
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You ain't nothin' but a Waitress in the Sky

Tell that to the "waitresses" that helped evacuate the plane that crashed in Toronto last month without one fatality.

14 posted on 09/28/2005 7:31:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: BurbankKarl

The Internet has made it easier for any and all groups of people to organize quicker. Just more media noise. I remember Foster has been in trouble with Homosexual Groups in the past because of the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs.


15 posted on 09/28/2005 7:33:19 PM PDT by Borges
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To: dfwgator

The fine ladies down at the Waffle House get people out virtually every day without any fatalities.


16 posted on 09/28/2005 7:36:55 PM PDT by SoDak
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

There are so few films out there worth seeing (stuff that I might like) that I was looking forward to seeing this when it comes out on 'on demand'. Looked exciting and with a mystery to it.

The actions of the flight attendants in the movie won't influence me as to my opinions of them. My reactions to, or my feelings of them, come from real life situations --- not from a fictional movie. I can separate the two.


17 posted on 09/28/2005 7:37:47 PM PDT by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

As a mother, I can't watch movies that harm/scare children. There's enough of that crap in the news.


18 posted on 09/28/2005 7:38:21 PM PDT by CO Gal (Liberals, like puppies, are cute to look at, but shouldn't vote...)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
A couple of weeks ago I actually saw the first young, pretty, charming flight attendant I had seen on a major US airline in years.

Problem was - she was almost completely insane, and treated the passengers like her kindergarten class. ;)

19 posted on 09/28/2005 7:40:20 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Speaking several languages is an asset; keeping your mouth shut in one is priceless.)
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To: Nachum

Could kill it at the Oscars, though.


20 posted on 09/28/2005 7:40:20 PM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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