Wow

Yes the plane crash scene flashback at the end was amazing! The haunting music, the images of the plane being torn apart and Bridges character being "saved" was terrific! The ending made my body shake. This is a great over looked movie.

Watch Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Year of Living Dangerously. They're awesome.

hoochiscrazy, what you wrote are my exact feelings about this movie when I first saw it. I don't really cry at the movies but this one has made me cry so much that I was like, "ok, what's going on here?" It's amazing how a movie can make one feel this way. This is almost like a revelation. An absolutely refreshing experience. Strangely, makes you feel sad and happy at the same time. Fearless has occupied the number one spot of my faves list since then. And it will always stay there. I have also been a huge Weir fan ever since.

It is an amazing movie. Peter Weir has long been one of my favorite directors, and I think this is one of his best. Bridges gives an amazing performance. He should have been nominated for an Oscar along with Rosie Perez, who was also amazing.

I think the part of the movie that gets me is when he leaves the crash site and goes to a hotel. He showers, then carefully examines his body, like a man seeing himself for the first time, which essentially he was. Then the elation he feels when he drives from Bakersfield to LA to see his old girlfriend. He switches the radio station off the coverage of the crash and finds some lively Spanish music. I love when he rolls down the window and sticks his head out, revelling in the wind in his face. It's such an great expression of embracing life. Then he parks in the middle of nowhere and sits on the ground against his car, pondering the quiet and immensity of the desert. Weir and Bridges are able to express so much in these scenes.

I know "Schindler's List" won Best Picture that year, but I honestly think this is a better movie.

"Push the button, Max!"

the only reason i watched this movie was jeff bridges. i'd never even heard of it! but i have to say, it is a great movie! even rosie perez made me feel her pain. i felt so sad for the mom who went to the survivors meeting asking about her son. that was when the 1st tears came. but i have to say the scene that actually showed the plane crash! i've never been on a plane & now i absolutely know for sure that i never will! man that was so realistic. but the ending touched me the most. after being so heroic before & after the crash, but being left numb to life. it took something seemingly ordinary (allergic reaction) to eating a strawberry to make him grasp at life & appreciate it. when his wife was calling his name & he came back & yelled: "i'm alive!" that was the moment i let loose as he hugged her & they cried together. wow.

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