The thread for reviewing things we have watched on airplanes

Haven't flown in > 5 years but these have stuck with me:

Spice World - There was a scene with a bus and they had a pregnant friend? I don't know who the friend was.

Where the Heart Is - Must have seen this shit a few times because Johannesburg to Amsterdam is LONG. Movie did not warm my heart.

The Banger Sisters - I think I missed the point of this movie but I also fell asleep a few times. Did not keep my attention.

Circus - This disturbed the hell out of me and did not make the flight any more pleasant. Gritty, I recall.

The Third Man - damn, that was good! Probably would've taken me years to get around to renting this, but saw it on an Air Canada flight recently. Fantastic music and lighting, even on crappy headphones and little tiny airplane screen.
Rush Hour 3 - had never seen the rest of the franchise. People like this stuff? That Chris Tucker guy yells a lot. I can't believe I watched the whole thing.
The Office - US version - a bunch of episodes. Really pretty good. I hadn't expected it to be as good as this.

Spice World - There was a scene with a bus and they had a pregnant friend? I don't know who the friend was.

Their friend was Tosh out of Torchwood!

last plane journeys I was on (Gatwick to Tampa and back again about this time last year) I watched Stranger Than Fiction (not too bad, perfect plane fodder), Deja Vu (boring, fell asleep before the end), Dreamgirls (quite good, still fell asleep before the end), an episode of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares where he was bitching on some expats in Spain, and bits of Happy Feet (total rubbish).

Other films I can remember watching on planes were A Beautiful Mind (fell asleep), Down With Love (quite enjoyed it at the time, except they cut off the end since we arrived ahead of schedule and obviously I didn't enjoy it that much because I've never sought out the ending), Taxi (Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon tootling around New York with some foxy bankrobbers including Giselle Bundchen, stupidly entertaining no-brain plane fodder when there's nothing else on, would never watch again). and the first Pirates of the Caribbean film which I had studiously avoided and absolutely loved.

On a UK-US flight saw The Invasion and The Bourne Supremacy. When I looked up the movies at home I was surprised to find that the latter was critically liked and the first hated. True, The Invasion didn't make much sense if you thought hard about the plot, but the scenes with Nicole Kidman pretending to be a pod on the subway just _felt_ scary and right, and a horror movie with even one truly scary and right-feeling scene is pretty much a success. As for Bourne, the action scenes were impossible to follow and Bourne himself, who I think is supposed to be the hero, comes off as a psycho who's only really happy when he's throttling someone.

The all-time champion of "movies I never, ever would have watched, but which I saw on the plane, and was actually pretty great" is Malibu's Most Wanted (Jamie Kennedy as a wealthy white would-be rapper -- much more interesting than this makes it sound.) I think Hoodwinked (Rashomon-style CGI fairy-tale takeoff) is second in this category, but it's not close.

<b>Big Fish</b> - did not buy a headset, looked like it sucked
<b>Radio</b> - did not buy a headset, looked like it sucked
<b>License to Wed</b> - did not buy a headset, looked like it really sucked super hard
<b>Nancy Drew</b> - for children for God's sake
<b>Breach</b> - bought a headset, sucked

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Fever Pitch, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, was very enjoyable. It's the type of romantic comedy (see also Notting Hill in which the two people ending up together is not fate colliding but instead one of them deciding whether they can bear to live with a crazy person.

A Beautiful Mind and The Shipping News failed to engage me for even a minute, except for some nice color schemes.

Mad Money I only saw the last thirty seconds, which consisted of Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes throwing money up in the air with forced glee.

Standout memories from several cross-Pacific flights in recent years:

Attempted to watch Ocean's 12 a record four or five times, not once making it all the way through without falling asleep.

Took the headphones off about 10 minutes into Catwoman, but this did not prevent it from being annoyingly awful (having mostly to do with the sight of the Big Fat Greek Wedding chick).

An odd Indian movie that tried to be an earnest indie film for about half an hour before slipping into Bollywood-style song and dance. Don't remember the name.

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Pay it Forward - GAH MAKE IT STOP. This was on one of those flights where there's one screen at the front of the plane, so it was hard to avoid watching.
Crank - mesmerizingly stupid.
Black Snake Moan - also kinda stupid but fun to watch.
Breakfast of Champions - Fine, except for Rooney, obviously. Lame ending but whatever.
Children of Men - probably the best movie I've seen on a plane.

Wait, did I really write Breakfast of Champions? at Tiffany's, sorry. I've never seen Breakfast of Champions.

Oh yeah, you know what was so bad I couldn't force myself to sit through it, even on the plane? K-PAX.

Continental Airlines Safety Video - the CEO of Continental is ugly. The male flight attendant who blows into the safety vest looks like a poor, but somehow more noble, version of Charlie Sheen. Put on your mask before putting on your child's mask. B+

The Last Mimzy. I had such high hopes for this. It beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but only barely.

The blond guy in the suit does not look like he would actually be traveling with the child whom he helps with the mask. If anything he looks like he'd gladly use the child as a flotation device. Poor casting.

Transformers A giant robot peed on John Turturro.
No Reservations Pretty much sealed my decision to never date Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The Astronaut Farmer A farmed named Farmer builds his own Mercury program. This should have been better.
The Office (US) I no longer work in an office and I no longer feel the humor and pathos this is supposed to convey. But if I did, this would have been pretty good.
Lars and the Real Girl Meh.
The Longest Yard Not all that recent, but notable for being watched at 3am while running a really high fever. Freaked me the fuck out, and left me with an unreasonable fear of Adam Sandler.

correction from above: I mistakenly said Adam Sandler was in Fever Pitch when in fact it was Jimmy Fallon.

The Office (US) I no longer work in an office and I no longer feel the humor and pathos this is supposed to convey. But if I did, this would have been pretty good.

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Mark of Zorro - lol so corny, there are gags where the horse's eyes bug out
Shadows on the Sun - Wonder Boys meets shitty rom-com-drama set in Italy with Harvey Keitel
Hollywood Ending - couldn't last through 15 minutes of this

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Boy was this tedious, helped me sleep.