It's hard to imagine movies made by Clint Eastwood being taken as something other than "serious" or sometimes depressing, but the Academy Award winning actor and director has proven to be quite versatile when he makes his choices in making a film that has a certain theme or gravitas to it. His recent string of movies have been biopics that have concentrated on certain figures and incidents, with J. Edgar and American Sniper getting mixed to positive responses from critics and viewers alike. This year, Eastwood treads that same territory by adapting the story of "US Airways Flight 1549" - an airbus piloted by Captain Chesley Sullenberger with a crew of 155 passengers that was victim to a bird strike that forced the plane to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River. That 2009 incident came to be known as the "Miracle in the Hudson" - where Captain Sullenberger was hailed a hero for making the call and averting possible catastrophe and death if he chose otherwise.
