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.
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.
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.
I got The Pink Panther off Netflix, and it was untolerable in ten minutes. I stopped. Wow, those accents and characters were not believable.
It could have been worse. It could have been Leonard pt 6
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.
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.
Hey, they can have motherfuckin’ snakes on a plane, Jack, so don’t give me no shit about a bus. Shit.