Mark Wahlberg was asked to wear a prosthetic cock in Boogie Nights because P. T. Anderson wanted “something within reason.”
I think there’s very little chance he acquired self-awareness in the last couple of days.
Mark Wahlberg could reverse time by pumping impossible amounts of testosterone from his testicles into his pectoral muscles, and save the 9/11 tragedy, before it ever happened. But now that he’s gotten over the guilt of not boarding and saving Flight 11, he’s ok with just letting it go.
Well, you know, if Doris Day, Karen Black and Laverne DiFazio can land a plane, I fail to see why Marky Mark can’t, too.
I don’t accept the apologies. He didn’t just have a slip-of-the-tongue out-of-context comment, he said it with clear intent.
I he is so brave as to fight terrorists in a flying airplane, he should be able to say “fuck all of you, I said it and I’ll say it again, bitches!!!”
Loathe as I am to correct our oracle of all things cinematic, Karen Black didn’t land the plane. She did keep it from crashing until Charlton Heston showed up and squinted hard enough to force the plane onto the ground.
Doris Day is only 14.009% testicles.
Sadly, Karen Black did not know how to inflate the Automatic Pilot.
Doris, Morris, Otis… I never can keep that family straight.
Heck, if Dean Martin can fly a plane, then anyone must be able to.
And then he goes on record talking about how he COULD have kicked their asses, but he is leading a pure life, and didn’t want trouble.
**Mark Wahlberg **could not pour piss out of Chuck Norris’ boot even if the instructions were written on the heel! 
But seriously, before 911 the way to survive a hijacking was to stay quiet and let the bad guys state their demands to the authorities. They want money or they want political prisoners freed, or the have other demands. Time spent negotiating usually wore them down until at least most of the hostages get released safely.
911 changed that thinking. Only the passengers on Flight 93 had the time to realize that this was a new ball game. The hijackers were using the actual aircraft as a missile and they had no hope of negotiations succeeding. The passengers on the first 3 planes were following the most survivable strategy known, at the time.
Marky Mark was just being a poor Monday morning quarterback. The problem is that when you are famous, stupid shit you say goes viral really fast and you look and sound like an idiot.
Which in this case appears to be the correct diagnosis.
Man, when I heard he said something controversial about 9/11, I assumed it would be some anti-Muslim thing. I think what he said was stupid, but not offensive.
It’s a shame to hear about all his past issues too. I loved him in I Heart Huckabees.
Marky Mark can kill a man 37 different ways using nothing but a pair of Calvin Klein briefs.
But he still couldn’t make The Happening any better.
What makes you say that? Even in the quote you provided, he said
What you didn’t quote:
There’s certainly some level of remorse there. Maybe he didn’t give full restitution for past bad acts, and he acknowledges that, but that’s different from feeling no remorse.
Seems to me Wahlberg is guilty of running his mouth without engaging his brain. And sure, getting into fights at a football game is pretty assholish, but no more so than the rest of the assholes getting into a fight at a football game.
Probably.
Their first try in the simulator was without any help. Their second try was with the flight controller directing them. IIRC Adam failed both times, but came a lot closer the second time. Jamie succeeded the second time. Mostly because Jamie is a lot more controlled and focused than Adam.
Who knew Damon Lindelof was so funny?
Still too much experience for a meaningful experiment - should have used Jamie, Grant & Kary for the second try. “What you remember doing wot failed utterly” is still more experience that a scrub in the cockpit would have, yes ?
I still really ache to try it firsthand. Anybody have a line with some well-to-do airline who wouldn’t mind lending the odd 747 for Science! ?
Who survived to tell that story?
“Hey, donkey. What’s goin’ on? You’re a donkey, I like that. You eat apples, right? I produce Entourage. Okay, talk to you later, donkey. Now I’m gonna talk to a chicken!”
By flight controller, do you mean air traffic controller or pilot or something else? Because an air traffic controller is not a pilot, and that’s the person you’d be talking to from the cockpit.
It really doesn’t sound like much of an experiment, but even in those extremely easy conditions a 50% failure rate the second time of trying is really not evidence that anyone can safely land a plane. It’s pretty good evidence of the opposite.