Amelia Trailer Takes To The Skies Hilary Swank as the legendary aviator Source: Yahoo! Movies
You wait years for a biopic about a celebrated-but-doomed 1930s icon and along come two at the same time. Like John Dillinger, Amelia Earhart was fêted for her exploits by an enthralled public and met an untimely end in her thirties, but the comparisons end there, as the new trailer for Amelia shows.
Earhart (Hilary Swank) was an aviation pioneer who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1934. Three years later she made an inspirational but ultimately tragic attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a Lockheed Electra, disappearing somewhere over the Pacific.
Like Michael Mann in Public Enemies, Indian-born director Mira Nair has the job of conjuring tension from a story that harbours few surprises. Still, with a pedigree cast that includes double Oscar winner Swank (boasting Earhart's clipped Kansas tones), Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Richard Gere, this could prove on the more interesting indies of the, er, tail-end of the year. Especially if you like planes.
i'm not a fan of ole hilary. i might've actually been interested had it been amy adams (who is the best thing in night at the museum 2 as amelia earhart) cos she's spunky and delicious. that is all. ... Read More
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It all looks very pretty and I'm sure the performances will be good but I'm finding it extremely hard to get excited about this...plus, y'know, she dies. And they don't even find the body so surely it's not even gonna have a proper ending...is it just going to fade to black or what? Meh.
he didn't die, she was abducted by aliens. It was all explained in Star Trek Voyager.
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It all looks very pretty and I'm sure the performances will be good but I'm finding it extremely hard to get excited about this...plus, y'know, she dies. And they don't even find the body so surely it's not even gonna have a proper ending...is it just going to fade to black or what? Meh. ... Read More
