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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: ughwhy on July 19, 2008, 10:04:09 PM
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I have a hard time ignoring movies being played on tiny monitors embedded in a plane ceiling, so I've had the pleasure of seeing some real stinkers. I thought for sure I could remember a ton but all I can currently come up with is:
- Sliding Doors
- Failure to Launch
- Snow Dogs
- Enchanted
- The one time I took a JetBlue flight, I watched most of a Top Chef marathon. That was actually wonderful.
- August Rush
Also I saw Babe 2: Pig in the City and Sweet Home Alabama on a Shortline bus. And I think I saw Armageddon on a Greyhound. Ha. Ha. Seriously though. What have you suffered through?
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what's the christmas one with tim allen? yeah.
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what's the christmas one with tim allen? yeah.
Christmas with the Kranks?
Or the Santa Clause(s).
As for me, I somehow managed to catch 'Chain Reaction' with Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman and Rachel Weisz, like, three times, on planes, back in the day.
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As a kid, I once flew to Africa. It took four flights to get there and back, and on all four they showed Coming To America.
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I wonder if hollywood has a quota of "airline-friendly" films to make per year. Probably not, but amusing to consider.
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what's the christmas one with tim allen? yeah.
Christmas with the Kranks?
that's the one.
i also paid to watch miracle on a red eye flight when i had morning sickness so badly that i was worried that if i didn't have something to focus on, i'd hurl into the lap of the dude next to me.
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I posit that Welcome to Mooseport is the worst in-flight movie ever, because I lived through it. Snow Dogs would be pretty horrible too though.
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I was once on a flight that was too short for a full length movie so they decided to put on two episodes of Frasier followed by the Munsters. My headphones stayed firmly lodged in my walkman.
I've also been on a bus between Boston and Maine where they put in the 2nd disc of the Field of Dreams deluxe edition which had stuff like "The Diamond in the Husks": A tour of the field of dreams field.
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Also I saw Babe 2: Pig in the City and Sweet Home Alabama on a Shortline bus. And I think I saw Armageddon on a Greyhound. Ha. Ha. Seriously though. What have you suffered through?
I don't care for your tone regarding Babe: Pig in the City. That is a fantastic movie.
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Elf
Freaky Friday
Something with that drunk Australian (not the anti-semitic one) where he's knocking around in a boat for two hours
Evan Almighty (second worst movie I have ever seen)
can't remember the other ones right now...
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I cried at the end of Elf on a flight back from Slovenia. That's not the most embarrassing thing, though: I rented Freaky Friday.
Also, Miami Vice.
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Also I saw Babe 2: Pig in the City and Sweet Home Alabama on a Shortline bus. And I think I saw Armageddon on a Greyhound. Ha. Ha. Seriously though. What have you suffered through?
I don't care for your tone regarding Babe: Pig in the City. That is a fantastic movie.
For reals.
Confidential to ughwhy: kf's partner was inspired to become a vegetarian b/c of that movie.
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Also I saw Babe 2: Pig in the City and Sweet Home Alabama on a Shortline bus. And I think I saw Armageddon on a Greyhound. Ha. Ha. Seriously though. What have you suffered through?
I don't care for your tone regarding Babe: Pig in the City. That is a fantastic movie.
No doubt it just didn't translate on a pink-tinted five-inch screen.
And yeah, "Snow Dogs" was pretty deadly. That was on a flight returning from Spain, an Iberia flight that had been booked almost entirely by United, so there were a lot of ugly Americans. I was flying alone and sitting amongst a high school group from rural Pennsylvania. One of the flight attendants haaaaaaaaaated this group. When we landed, one of the girls pulled out her iPod before we reached the gate and the attendant started yelling at her, first in English and then in Spanish. The gist of her yelling was, "THIS IS A SPANISH AIRLINE AND WE HAVE MANNERS!!!!"
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The dreadful:
Starsky and Hutch
Backdraft
The not-so-dreadful:
Get Shorty
My Cousin Vinny
There's been tons of others, but those are the only four I remember watching.
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The dreadful:
Starsky and Hutch
Backdraft
The not-so-dreadful:
Get Shorty
My Cousin Vinny
There's been tons of others, but those are the only four I remember watching.
I love Get Shorty.
Anyway, my best in-flight movie experience was on my flight to Mexico where they were showing Man on Fire. For those unfamiliar with the movie, it's set in Mexico and it's about a group of criminals that kidnap children. Just imagine looking around at a plane full of (mostly American) parents with their kids on a flight to Mexico watching a movie all about the massive number of kids being kidnapped in Mexico. Someone put a lot of thought into that movie choice.
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Up at the Villa
Jingle All the Way
Keeping the Faith
Garfield (no headphones)
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One time I got Shakespeare in Love, which was ok. The most recent ones: Jumper and Mad Money (no headphones).
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I saw the first "Pirates of the Carribbean" on a plane and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Johnny Depp's hambone performance was big enough to punch through the tiny screen and the crappy sound on the headphones.
I think I saw a Will Ferrell movie on a plane that had some sporadic amusing moments ... the one where he's a hapless dad who becomes a soccer coach. Something like that. Coaching a kid's soccer team. What was that called? When did it come out? Did I actually see it on a plane? It all seems like a dream now ...
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I was once on a flight that was too short for a full length movie so they decided to put on two episodes of Frasier followed by the Munsters. My headphones stayed firmly lodged in my walkman.
I'm always on short flights so I'm used to Continental's in-flight TV programming. Some days are better than others. So far, nothing that has been shown has gotten me to stop listening to my music, but bereft of my iPod, I could see myself plugging in for the occasional Simpsons or King of Queens.
Less tolerable are the interstitial music review segments, in which I'm offered Continental's take on the new Radiohead album.
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Less tolerable are the interstitial music review segments, in which I'm offered Continental's take on the new Radiohead album.
"Interstitial"? What're you, Jesse Thorn?
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The first time I took one of those cheap Chinatown busses between New York and DC -- about 6 or 7 years ago, I was one of the only non-Asian -- the in-bus movie was a karate-type bloodbath where they showed several limbs being cut off and one simulated rape. I couldn't look away.
This was before those busses figured out white people wanted to watch movies like:
- Sliding Doors
- Failure to Launch
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- Bend it Like Beckam
- Shreck 2
- 13 going on 30*
- The Family Stone
- School of Rock (overnight flight -- no headphones)
I enjoyed all of these movies. Get me in captivity and I'm a perfect audience for sub-par movies.
*loved this one. LOVED IT. Wanna fight about it??
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I once cried on a plane watching "The Great Debaters." Without headphones. And I'm not kidding.
What is wrong with me?
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Forrest, your "Coming to America" experience had me chortling out loud at work.
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Both "Babe" films are classic.
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The first time I took one of those cheap Chinatown busses between New York and DC -- about 6 or 7 years ago, I was one of the only non-Asian -- the in-bus movie was a karate-type bloodbath where they showed several limbs being cut off and one simulated rape. I couldn't look away.
This was before those busses figured out white people wanted to watch movies like:
- Sliding Doors
- Failure to Launch
I had a similar experience. At one point, one guy killed another guy by winging a quarter at his head and embedding it into his forhead.
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- 13 going on 30*
*loved this one. LOVED IT. Wanna fight about it??
My god yes, yes I do. But I used up all my 13 going on 30 fightin energy on IMDB already.
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I saw parts of the beloved Steve Martin/Queen Latifah vehicle Bringing Down The House without headphones while on a plane.
In one part, Queen Latifah and this other lady got into a fight in a locker room, and it appeared that Queen Latifah picked the other lady up and impaled her on a coat hook sticking out of the wall, which seemed like a really odd direction for the movie to take at that point. But, I dunno, maybe it made sense with the dialogue and all.
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I saw parts of the beloved Steve Martin/Queen Latifah vehicle Bringing Down The House without headphones while on a plane.
In one part, Queen Latifah and this other lady got into a fight in a locker room, and it appeared that Queen Latifah picked the other lady up and impaled her on a coat hook sticking out of the wall, which seemed like a really odd direction for the movie to take at that point. But, I dunno, maybe it made sense with the dialogue and all.
The motivation was never made clear, but Latifah mentions later in the movie that she had the body fed to Eugene Levy's pigs.
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I forgot "In Her Shoes"
Yeesh! Just watched it silently.
And that one with Baked Ziti Jones and the handsome man from ER where they're trying to get a divorce.
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I had a similar experience. At one point, one guy killed another guy by winging a quarter at his head and embedding it into his forhead.
Wait, on the bus or in the movie?
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I had a similar experience. At one point, one guy killed another guy by winging a quarter at his head and embedding it into his forhead.
Wait, on the bus or in the movie?
Hahaha.
Actually it was on the bus.
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On the most recent flight I was on, the movie was The Bucket List. I didn't really watch or listen, but every time I glanced up I was reminded of the guy on a flight months earlier (before the movie came out) watching a pirated version on his laptop at like 8 AM and telling everyone around him how awesome it was.
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I watched this Bucket list 4 times over 24 hours of flight time.
When the guys bloody catheter started spraying about I wanted to open the airlock door.
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Was there actually a bloody catheter spraying scene? I might have to rent it now.
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I don't care for your tone regarding ...
I love it, jbissell. I think your response is a template we should all use to express our disapproval of others' posts.
Some of the movies listed above seem not all that bad to me. Christmas With the Kranks, The Santa Clause, etc. just have to be terrible (I've never seen them, but somehow, I just know.) But Sliding Doors? School of Rock? Not great, but I've watched them and enjoyed them a little bit. But if I was on a flight and these movies were shown, I'd do a little dance, because those movies seem actually better than the typical awful fare. I couldn't promise that I would watch them, since I usually can't be bothered to put down whatever book I'm reading at the time.
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Was there actually a bloody catheter spraying scene? I might have to rent it now.
There was indeed!
I made the mistake of watching that movie with my parents. I was just kind of scoffing at it while they were crying (because of "how much it hits home"). Talk about uncomfortable. Yeesh.
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United/Jet Blue shows television shows i guess. i watched Two and a half men? everyone at work brags about it. i think im missing something. and some other AWFUL show...
*googling*
oh yeah, thisL http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/
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United/Jet Blue shows television shows i guess. i watched Two and a half men? everyone at work brags about it. i think im missing something. and some other AWFUL show...
*googling*
oh yeah, thisL http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/
Do they brag about all the Emmy nominations Two and a Half Men gets?