# Oh, The Bad Movies I Have Seen (On Airplanes) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601 "2006-07-22T15:46:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601/21 "2006-07-23T01:44:32Z")
On one painfully long and excruciating flight (Osaka to Minneapolis), I had to sit through, in succession, _My Favorite Martian_, _You’ve Got Mail_, and _Meet Joe Black_, the last of which having been so butchered in editing that the director had his name removed from the airplane version. The only thing that I gathered from watching the movie that hadn’t been obvious from the trailers was that Brad Pitt’s character likes peanut butter. It was probably the movie I was most tempted to walk out on, but most of the people on the flight were asleep and wouldn’t appreciate the rapid decompression as much as I would. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601/22 "2006-07-23T01:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=cuauhtemoc] I saw _Guarding Tess_ on a plane once. I think they were giving the headphones away at the time, I don’t think I would’ve paid to see this movie. If you don’t remember it, it starred Nicholas Cage as a secret service agent assigned to protect a widowed ex-first-lady played by Shirley MacLaine until she died. [/QUOTE] I mean he was assigned to guard the widowed ex-first-lady until she died, not that Shirley MacLaine died. I’m pretty sure she’s still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Carlyjay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Carlyjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carlyjay)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601/23 "2006-07-23T02:04:11Z")
I peed a little reading this. Good one, **Rickjay**. As far as bad movies on planes, I was afflicted with “Yours, Mine and Ours” last time I was on a plane, and it was incredibly bad. I mean just unbelievably bad. But not as bad as “The Haunted Mansion”, which changed my mind about Eddie Murphy forever when I saw it on the previous flight. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601/24 "2006-07-23T02:55:59Z")
I got The Pink Panther off Netflix, and it was untolerable in ten minutes. I stopped. Wow, those accents and characters were not believable. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601/25 "2006-07-23T04:28:56Z")
[QUOTE=Caparazon] Are you ready for this one? Don’t say yes if you don’t mean it. Ok, I warned you: It’s a movie starring that black actor who was famous in the 70s/80s. The plot: He is killed by a crazy taxi driver and, as a ghost, try to help his family.- I won’t look it up in the IMDB and if you want to remain sane, neither will you.- The worst thing is that I watched it this year in a bus trip from Punta del Este to Buenos Aires. THE WORST BUS RIDE OF MY LIFE.- I could probably write an horror novel with it. The opening chapter would be the passengers first reaction to that horrible film. That book would be better than Dracula.- [/QUOTE] It could have been worse. It could have been [Leonard pt 6](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093405/) ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601/26 "2006-07-23T07:22:32Z")
On my first trip to Louisiana, I had the pleasure of watching \*_Water Boy_ on the plane. If you have ever seen this movie, imagine what an image this conjured in the mind of an impressionable teenager on her first trip to the deep south. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601/27 "2006-07-23T07:47:23Z")
I remember seeing _Tomorrow Never Dies_ on a flight. In case you haven’t seen it, the opening scene is at a black-market arms bazaar where James Bond escapes by: [ul] [li]punching a guy in the rear pilot’s seat of a jet, knocking him out[/li][li]hosing down the place with the plane’s machine guns while taxiing to the runway[/li][li]getting shot at by another plane[/li][li]midway through the dogfight, the pilot Bond smacked wakes up and starts choking Bond[/li][li]Bond fires the guy’s ejection seat into the other plane and flies away while the other guy goes down in a fireball.[/ul][/li] In the screening, it went “Bond gets in plane”- \> “Plane takes off”- \> opening credits. I don’t know why I’m so irritated by this, but perhaps it was because the rationale was that it couldn’t be shown because it showed violence against airplanes. Hint: 747 != Mig. More importantly, we are not shooting at James Bond. No one on the plane is worried, or will become worried, that a man will be fired into the underside of a plane and we will crash into a mountainside while we are 20,000 feet above the ocean because we are not _shooting at superspies from the jumbo jet_. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601/28 "2006-07-23T08:55:37Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] They had _MI3_ on a bus? [/QUOTE] Hey, they can have motherfuckin’ snakes on a _plane_, Jack, so don’t give me no shit about a bus. Shit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-bad-movies-i-have-seen-on-airplanes/365601.md?page=1)