View from the Top (2003)

I saw this on TV and had to immediately write a review because of how appalled I am. I don't want to exaggerate, so I can't say this is the worst movie ever. I haven't seen every movie to know.I can't say this is the worst movie I've ever seen. I don't remember them all, and I haven't been keeping track.All I can say is: I don't remember any movie worse than "View from the Top" (2003).I don't understand how the story is so bad.I don't understand how the the writing is so bad.I understand why the acting is so bad. They were doomed by the production they were in.Credit for the musical montage in Paris. That was the one segment of the movie where I wasn't laughing from amazement or crying from torture.Do movies get worse than this?

Plot-less. Would have been better as just straight up pornography. Just get them people to f*cking, cut out the middle man. A movie made of ghosts, one haunting after the next and all that is gained is a numb spiritual emptiness. Gwyneth Paltrow is a pretty lady, I understand, but does she really need a whole movie to herself? What story is she gonna tell me? A pretty lady struggles, a pretty lady perseveres, a pretty lady achieves? Is that really a story? If there is a love story in this, you know it's gonna work out well in the end? Don't you know that? Please tell me you know that. If this movie was a forest, I would burn it down, down to the ground.

I don't know how on why this script got produced, but something nefarious or untoward had to be involved. Somebody had to get paid off, sucked off or drugged up because this screenplay is painfully obvious and even more painfully incompetent. While watching it, it felt like the story had started out as a spectacularly lame attempt at drama but after writer Eric Wald got rejected for the 538th time, he went back and tried to retrofit it as a comedy. That's a bad idea to begin with and it's made so much worse by Wald's near total lack of any sense of humor. There are only three overtly comedic characters in this whole thing. One is supposed to be funny because he's gay, one is supposed to be funny because she's a thieving skank and the other is supposed to be funny because he's cross-eyed. Such low-quality laughs can be acceptable, but not when they're in desperately short supply. For every 10 funny seconds here, there's at least 10 completely unfunny minutes.Donna (Gwyneth Paltrow) is a small town girl with sort-of big time dreams. She wants to be a flight attendant, which is only a lofty goal if you grow up in a corrugated aluminum trailer with an ex-showgirl mom and a succession of loser stepdads. She starts out at a bargain basement airline that flies drunks and gamblers around Nevada, eventually making her way to the much more prestigious Royalty Airlines. But even though she's the best student in Royalty's flight attendant training school, when she graduates she's assigned to a commercial express flight out of Cleveland. Along the way Donna meets a boyfriend (Mark Ruffalo) and her idol, world famous flight attendant and author Sally Westin (Candice Bergen).You can probably guess what happens but just in case some unborn fetuses are reading this, Donna gets an opportunity to work the international flights to Paris and have the adventurous life of which she always dreamed. She can't really have that life and a boyfriend in Cleveland, so she has to choose. Unsurprisingly, she chooses one and then later on changes her mind and chooses the other. I think you know which is which.It's not like View From The Top is badly made. The cast gives it the old college try, the director does what he can and the basic plot unfolds in a blunt yet logical fashion. There are just so many long stretches where there's nothing vaguely resembling a joke or even a humorous situation. If a comedy is genuinely funny, it can be outright terrible in a lot of other ways. This movie isn't actually that terrible, but it's barely funny at all.Only watch this thing if you're going to be breathing laughing gas for the next 90 minutes.

I completely agree with the thumbs up! I have recommended this film to my mom and aunt. I happened to catch it late at night as I had not heard of the film before but liked the stars and am thrilled I saw it. My Mother worked for Pan American Airlines for 37 years. Back in the day when travel was a pleasure. This film reminds me of the day when it truly was a pleasure to travel and something to be excited about. Especially seeing what being a flight attendant meant. When working for an airline meant something to be proud of and appreciate. Something I am sorry to say no longer exists and it is truly become just another JOB.