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Sully

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On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career. From TMDB

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  • Monster-Bulge @monster-bulge.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2025

    I just got a random memory explosion from the distant past when a friend gave me a lot of grief for mentioning that I thought Jake Sully as a Navi in the first Avatar movie was hot, and his entire argument against it was that he was blue and has a tail. HOH BOY, if only he could see what I do now!

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2025

    Part of the reason Nicolas Winding Refn couldn’t explain it was being fucked up on cold medicine but I also believe art can be transcendent and sometimes you can just say stuff and it makes all the sense in the world and you like a movie for having a song about Sully being a hero it plays 30 times

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  • Comedy Bang! Bang! World! @cbbworld.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    Actor, writer and director Anna Konkle is here to talk about her role in the movie “Untitled Home Invasion Romance,” as well as her upcoming memoir “The Sane One.” Then, James Cameron and Jake Sully deliver beefing news about the “Avatar” franchise! Plus somatic therapist Leaf Clover!!

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  • Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    I’m thinking about the first Avatar film (the blue people films) which…I don’t care what anyone says…I love. That moment when Jake Sully runs in his Avatar body made me cry when I first saw it. But, um, I’m thinking about the ending. How he abandons his human body. I get it, but I also hate it.

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  • Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2025

    I keep thinking of the first James Cameron Avatar movie where one of the Na'vi says to Jake Sully, "You should go away." I feel that so much. I think if I ever met Trump, that's what I'd blurt out.

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  • Anthony (game script enthusiast) @proant.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2025

    Mike Wazowski putting together Boo’s door splinter by splinter so Sully can see her again, is one of the most top tier friend moves in any movie

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  • Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    I'm so excited for the next avatar movie where Jake Sully goes up against... Miles Quarich, a man he's already defeated twice and killed once. I hope he's up to the challenge.

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  • Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    Talking to @airshipchronos.bsky.social about FIRE AND ASH and I realized that the arc of this movie should have been Sully and Col. Quaritch leading dueling diplomatic missions to try and bring the Fire Na'vi in on their side of the war, and being forced to interact under truce for the first time.

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  • Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2026

    i tried to watch the Sully movie about the Miracle on the Hudson and I couldn't do it because of the fake NTSB/FAA conflict stuff. IRL, the NTSB was immediately shaking Sully's and his copilot's hands like "jesus christ, you saved it"

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  • HK @hkesvani.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    The Charli xcx movie should have been set in the Avatar universe where Sully and the other Naavi had to fight a new species who are all the Brat green colour

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  • James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2025

    Apparently the film contains 42 uninterrupted minutes of Jake Sully trying and failing to start a fire with flint. Every time a family member tries to help him, he says “Shut up-shut up-shut up, I know how to do this.”

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  • Cool Jim the Vampire @lechased.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    The important thing about the movie Sully is it showcases that even when you pull off a legitimate miracle the insurance company is going to try to ratfuck you.

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  • Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    Short Film Trailer: CROWDED RIVER. Directed by Andrew M. Sully www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mAg... A writer accepts a last-minute dog-sitting stay in a secluded riverside home — the perfect hideout to finish her book, or so she thinks. Submit to the Horror Festival filmfreeway.com/horrorunderg...

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  • Beca Dreadful 🖤🌙 @becadreads.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2025

    My non-spoiler thoughts about Avatar: Fire and Ash (from a non cinefile) - Loved it. Watching it back to back with the 2nd movie makes the emotions and decisions in movie 3 make more sense. - I kept forgetting Jake Sully is a human man at heart. Humans are stupid. STUPID.

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  • Alex Kramer @shamshandwich.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    Go see it in theaters this weekend! If it makes enough money, Disney said I can put blue wieners in the next one! Like Jake Sully says: "Hi, I'm Jake Sully from the blue alien movie."

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  • Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    Sully being captured and escaping should have been the *climax* of the movie, instead of MOBY DICK 2: EVEN WHALER, because that would have let us actually explore the human settlement and perspective from the inside for the first time, and give us a final battle totally different from the last one.

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  • Ryan ARM @ryanarmoberly.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    The impression I get from the new War of the Worlds film (I haven’t seen it yet) is that one scene in Monsters Inc. where Sully is reacting to what he thinks is Boo being turned into a cube; that but like extended to a full length movie.

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  • Festival Reviews .org @festivalreviews.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    The Dark History of Tasmania and the Real Tasmanian Devil www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBsl... Legendary Australian documentary filmmaker Andrew M. Sully chats with Matthew Toffolo about making a film in the island of TASMANIA and the iconic animal “The Tasmanian Devil”. #wildsound #tasmania

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  • The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2026

    Looking forward to the heartwarming Disney film “A coyote named Sully.”

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  • Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.comBluesky · Nov 14, 2025

    This afternoon I was like “hey the guy in Avatar is also named Sully, I bet he’d like to watch it.” And to my credit he did sit there and watch the entire movie.

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2024

    Aaron Rodgers looks like the stickup guy in a movie who’d go “jeez Sully maybe we better get outta here” when the bartender asks if they know whose money they’re stealing

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  • Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    I watched the new Avatar movie and Jake Sully barely made out with Colonel Quadrich at all in this one, what a ripoff.

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  • Ryan Hartman @ryanhartman.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    Update: they put me on a new flight with United, but didn't transfer the credit, so I had a paper reservation that wasn't real. Made it to United, they told me I'm not allowed on, flight left without me. I'm now stranded in LAX like Tom Hanks in that movie. Sully?

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  • barleybap but she's dressed as a skeleton @barleybap.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    TIL I learned this was the film debut for Sully from Commando, who John Matrix lied about killing last.

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  • Jason Gore @jasongore.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    Theatre in Crete still celebrating the film, Sully.

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  • Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.comBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    In happier news, Sully had an amazing time at Top Gun movie night. He would happily watch the airplanes and then trot over to ask for a bit of our Pizza Hut. He got the exact perfect middle school sleepover experience.

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  • TCM Party @tcmparty.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

    Sully Boyar (the bank manager) was also in the great 70s film CAR WASH (1976) #TCMParty #DogDayAfternoon ^JW

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  • The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2025

    It’s a subversion of the chosen one narrative of the first film. Being Toruk Major doesn’t mean Jake Sully saves everyone and it doesn’t make him an amazing dad. The son he molded in his image does for it, and the one he resents for growing up differently has to save him.

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  • Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2024

    Last night, as part of "Bleak Week" at the Paris Theater, I went with my family to see The Panic In Needle Park. I have watched that film for 40 years, because my great-uncle Sully Boyar played the "Doctor", but this was my first time seeing it a big screen. It is a devastating film.

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  • Goobert Goobertson @goobertgoo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2026

    And that student? She went on to become Sully. Not sure why they cast Tom Hanks for the movie but still

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  • Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    Re: the film vs the novel: the movie cuts out a significant book subplot about Sully being in a years-long affair with a married woman, but that continues in the sequel novels. And Richard Russo writes Sully and the local cop in later books with Newman and Philip Seymour Hoffman clearly in mind.

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  • (AVATAR SPOILERS) @7he0th3r.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    Your reminder Fike actually called Jake 'meals on wheels' in the first movie- #MilesQuaritch #JakeSully #Quarjake #Fike POV: Miles Quaritch seeing Jake Sully...

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  • Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

    It even took Chuck 67 drawings to get one of Marc Anthony’s facial expressions correct. Overall, the short is funny and sweet. It inspired the trash compactor scene from the 2001 film “Monsters, Inc.” as Sully thinks Boo is being crushed into a cube.

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  • Zeb Palmer @zebpalmer.comBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    One other note about the NTSB investigation into the UPS crash If you've seen the movie "Sully" it's worth pointing out that the NTSB portrayal in sully was horribly inaccurate & a disservice to the process. Everything else in the movie was pretty accurate but the whole NTSB scene was pure drama

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  • P E N N Y @pennyclark.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    Plane Crash in a Movie: Sully (2016) #FilmSky #JulyMovieChallenge #Day17

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  • Englebert the Third @englebert3rd.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2024

    Bruce Campbell should've been Sully in the Uncharted movie.

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  • Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2024

    What would you include? SULLY would be a good one - not just Sully himself, the whole film is full of people doing what they are supposed to do at the time they are supposed to do it, from air traffic controllers to ferry operators.

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  • AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    Cried my eyes out watching a film (Clint Eastwood’s “Sully” with an expectedly convincing Tom Hanks), but watched with only mild emotional involvement how a neighbour(whom I know and am on talking terms with) was taken away by an ambulance in what clearly was an emergency. Human nature is…weird?

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  • Marielle & Chip @cmariellec.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2025

    #AugustMovieChallenge 8/5 Air Traffic Controller in a film 2016 Sully youtu.be/Lp8DdZwZjqA

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  • Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2023

    What if Sully turned into a movie about the Tenerife disaster during the takeoff scene? What if Sully did the Tenerife disaster

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  • Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    Great! Now can please inform Mike and Sully I will not be watching that fucking movie if they use AI to make it? 😀

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  • Soizic🪷🧘‍♀️🎶🩰⛵️ @soizicnc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    #HolidayMovieTVChallenge #JanuaryMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 13. A plane crash in water in a movie 📽 Sully

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  • Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    I spent a long time on flights today so two lukewarm movie takes: 1. Sully - not sure how this became a feature film. 2. Priest - cool steampunk vampire dystopia. Bettany is a strong lead. Kinda sad it didn't get the very obviously intended sequel

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    MONSTERS, INC. (2001) A standalone story that sets up the premise of the film and our heroes, Mike and Sully, with a whole load of fun thrown in. 24/33

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  • Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    Btw I will be writing a post about Avatar, USAID, and Gaza and how I personally am not Jake Sully, but Norm. Remember Norm? Also I think the Avatar series is probably the best film project of the 21st century other than Lord of the Rings. Mad Max in 3rd.

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  • Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2024

    look if anyone wants to make a film of BAD KARMA, Pace would be the perfect Sully and Lyonne would be an amazing Cheryl

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  • Lebby @lebby.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2026

    I’m in my mid 40s and now I’m confused. Are we “letting it go” like dropping it, as we’ve seen Sully wisely suggest using a Disney .gif - I forget the movie, Elsa maybe? OR are we at our ripe old ages prohibited from saying Let’s Fucking Go! (LFG!) bc the youths find it cringe when an old says it?

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  • Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    Our Uncharted series, El Goddamn Dorado, comes to an end with an episode from @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social about the Uncharted movie, which gives you Tom Holland as Drake, Mark Wahlberg as Sully, and green screen for everything else. www.patreon.com/bulletpoints...

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  • Xamuelmon 🖤 🔜 New Anthrodam @samueldeangeles.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    You know, just rewatched this movie yesterday! Sully really gonna miss Boo… he really does boxd.it/fSGKpV

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  • Doe @doefulwoeful.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2026

    Every single time I watch an Avatar movie it makes me want to strangle Jake Sully with my bare hands

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  • Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2026

    #America250 through WB-MGM-HB. 212/365 The “Miracle on the Hudson” brought to life in the 2016 Clint Eastwood directed film, “Sully” (2016). Tom Hanks portrays Chesley Sullenberger and his heroic water landing saving all 155 passengers and crew.

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  • Calendula @calen-dula.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2026

    #maymoviechallenge #moviesky Day 21: Someone flies an airplane in a movie Sully (2016) #filmsky

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  • YfirheimArt @yfirheimart.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2026

    #TavQOTD I've already made this joke, but #Molvayas is Elsa for sure. (From the first film. I haven't seen the sequel.) #Verdigris would probably be Sully from Monsters Inc.

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  • Nathan Vokal @nadescape.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    Not casting Bruce Campbell as Sully in the Uncharted movie was a real missed opportunity.

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  • Raine @raineofauroria.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    The most unrealistic part about Monsters University isn't all the portal doors or the monsters or retcons from Monsters Inc It's the fact that this USA-style college movie didn't have Mike and Sully go through some stupid dangerous humiliating hazing ritual to get into their frat

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  • RobotoftheSea @robotofthesea.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    I'd watch that version of Sully" Sullenberger movie

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  • 🔞🎃Senor🎃🔞 @senorincognito69.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    Sully, a fascinating film about something happening in which the interesting part is that nothing happened

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  • Myke @myke2112.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    Avatar I know we watched this back in 2009 but can’t remember what it’s all about in all honesty before we watch the next two in the film series I soon realised Jake Sully is an irritating Twat, otherwise it’s okay so far #JustWatching #Avatar

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  • The Birthday Fairy Project @thebirthdayfairy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    Alex “Sully” Sullivan should be 41 today. He died on his birthday in the 2012 Aurora, Colorado movie theater mass shooting. youtube.com/shorts/wdVOI...

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  • Melissa Jo @melissajd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    #JanuaryMovieChallenge #FilmSky 📽️ A plane crash in water in a movie. Sully (2016)

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