While we’re all enjoying our time together, here is a shot of the upside-down ships I was telling you about.
Could it have been Failure to Launch with Sarah Jessica Parker? I saw that on a similar flight a few weeks ago. It was decent, but forgettable.
Oooohhhhh, Navy Seals
Nope, but that was one of the films offered.
Had. To. Be.
Snakes On A Plane!
See, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. They could, uh, rebrand this film as, say, Out Of The Nest, get a couple of replacement stars–maybe with Josh Hartnett and Claire Danes–to redub the voices, a little bit of CGI, and voila, the first rom-com hit of the 2007 movie season. You’d leave the theater saying to yourself, “Well, that was decent, but forgettable,” and waking away with this strange feeling of deva vu.
Don’t you mean The Recruit?
Stranger
I’ll keep it off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.
Stranger
Having recently suffered movie-amnesia myself, I saw a preview that looked just like my wife’s kind of movie. So I turn to her saying “Hey honey, you should go see that”.
“We did.” she said. Huh. Waddaya know, I dimly remember being in the movie now thinking what a bland forgettable film…
I give to you: Friends with Money
Was that it?
Are you sure it wasn’t Return of the Secaucus Seven instead?
Stranger
Nope, no motherfucking snakes.
You do me a favor, I do you a favor. Criss cross. No one suspects a thing.
It wasn’t a movie! It was a mind control experiment. How many times since the flight have you soiled your nickers? Barked like a sea otter? Stuck your finger in an empty light socket?
Diabolical …
Did it involve a bus? Perhaps, a bus that couldn’t slow down?
Yeah, that one who’s always standing on his hind legs and walking.
Accepted?
Beerfest?
Clerks II?
Click?
How To Eat Fried Worms?
John Tucker Must Die?
Little Man?
Little Miss Sunshine?
Material Girls?
My Super Ex-Girlfriend?
Nacho Libre?
Scoop?
Talladega Nights?
The Devil Wears Prada?
You, Me, and Dupree?
Zoom?
Anything ringing a bell?
OK, she says it was a lot like a comedy but it wasn’t actually funny – no actual laughter provocation or anything like that. Just a sense that comedy was being attempted in some way. Now, have Adam Sandler, Pauly Shore or Rob Schneider put out any of the things they call comedies in the right time frame?
Napoleon Dynamite?
You know, many of the films being named are ones that were released in the past two months. As I understand it, a film shown on an airplane is one released to the theaters about six months ago. So maybe we should only name films released early this year.
Nacho Libre was like that and is in about the right time frame.
Did anyone in the movie suggest nuking it from orbit?
(because as you know, that’s the only way to be sure)
Stick it? (gymnastics related)
Pride and Prejudice?
American Dreamz? (making fun of American Idol)
The Lake House? (Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock)
The Breakup? (Jennifer Aniston and that guy)
These are all coming out in DVD in the next couple of months, so the timing should be about right.