Movies on planes/busrides

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What appalling celluloid nonsense have you suffered because of long haul journeys? Any good uns?

My Best Friend's Wedding - so bored, took off earphones. Speed 2 - crikey it's bad. You've Got M@il -- which I ended up enjoying (HA!). McHale's Navy - Bruce Campbell, but it WAS KEEPING ME AWAKE, so rubbish by default. Best film I saw was some Bollywood/Terminator/Assassin thing on an Air India flight. Most pointless was Face/Off (a film i really enjoyed in cinema) on tiny back-of-seat screen.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Bus journey in Mexico - a somewhat surreal place to catch wikky wikky Wild Wild West. Coach down to St Tropez we were lulled to sleep by Star Trek the Motion Picture (geography teacher was a big Trekkie it transpired). Best film I've seen on a plane was probably low key action comedy Where The Money Is with Linda Fiorentino and Paul Newman - worst film Where The Heart Is (NAthalie Portman gives birth in a Wal-mart) on the same flight.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Not to forget most recently The Majestic dubbed into Japanese or French with English subtitles!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst film I've ever seen on a coach: 'Boys in Blue' w/ Cannon & Ball.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:45 (twenty-three years ago)

On a school trip to Spain in the 3rd year we took a coach all the way and got to watch Flash Gordon about 97 times. Marvellous stuff. During the flight to Colombo I was so bored I had to watch something but also kept falling asleep so didn't want to watch anything I actually wanted to see properly so I ended up watching the Princess Diaries, Crazy / Beautiful (is that what it's called? With Kirsten Dunst?) and Moulin Rouge. Total rub. Oh and that one with Catherine Zeta Jones, Julia Roberts & John Cusack which I have forgotten the name of. Also total rub.

― Emma, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm Canadian...long bus rides are as common as denominators.

Worst ever: See recent posting re Joe Dirt
Slept right through American Pie, for which I am thankful for
Meet the Parents was not as bad as I had expected it to be
Titanic - for starters, it's three hours long & has Celine singing the whole way through and gets worse from there

Recent transatlantic flights featured Snow Falling on Ceders (yawn) & Kate and Leopold (I opted to watch the far more interesting flight path display).

― Miss Laura, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never been on a plane long enough to watch a film.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

in the old days you only got to see A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS or THE ITALIAN JOB. this was the law. both are beyond rub

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Lord of the rings, mind you it did help me sleep. I regret to say that National lampoons vegas vacation was bloody awful as well.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

On a flight from Paris to New York a little over ten years ago, a French film whose title I have forgotten (although I remember that the title is an untranslatable French pun -- proof that I am insane), about a boy of around 11 whose mother has died of a heart attack and who conspires with his little friends to keep this fact secret from the authorities. I think that it was supposed to be a heart-warming bittersweet comedy, but succeeded only in creeping the hell out of me, especially the English soundtrack, which was overdubbed by a group of scarily deadpan kids with fierce Canadian accents.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst film would have to be a toss up between "The Basket" (a heartwarming family film about the origins of basketball in the 19th century, with orphaned moppets and such) and that horrid Sean Connery/Catherine Zeta Jones flick that I cannot recall the name of.

I don't think I have ever seen a good movie on a plane, come to think of it.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The last time that I caught a plane you had the option of watching the rub film (Fite Club - I started watching but was too tired to see past the first 20 mins, also You've Got Mail I think! When did you fly Alang? Ha ha Air Alang I'll be quiet now) OR!!! Playing a NES Mario game!!

Jump Mario, jump!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never been on a plane. I did show off and watch a Pokemon 2000 DVD on my PowerBook on a train once though. It wasn't rub.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Joe Dirt is the best/worst movie ever!

Figure that one out!

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Joe Dirt cannot be redeemed. It was a fetid bucket of puke of a movie. And Kid Rock was in it!

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"And"="Hold on, "?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i know there are many who will refer me to the Onion article about the gen-x guy who wakes up one day and realizes that he can't like things ironically, but i enjoyed Joe Dirt because it was so bad. of course, i watched it of my own volition (ie i was not trapped in a moving vehicle with it)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

and come on, Christopher Walken as school janitor? COMIC GENUISZ!!

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

There's good bad and bad bad. Joe Dirt seeps under your fingernails and can never be removed where Vampire on Bikini Beach achieves a beautiful transcendence.

Most of the time I go the flight path option on planes, far more fun. On the way over to the UK in 2000, I was stuck with two unavoidable films, though I chose not to listen to the soundtrack and see what the results were. The first I can't remember the title of, but it was about some crew of post-Dawson's Creek teeners somewhere in the Midwest or South or something who accidentally burned down this one bar or something and spent the summer rebuilding it and learning about love and life and loss because the cute blonde had cancer or something and she died and there was a weepy but inspirational funeral and doubtless the end credits had something like Lifehouse or the New Radicals playing over it. ARGH.

The second film was The Hurricane, in which Denzel Washington plays an actor trying to get an Oscar, the heroes are earnest Canadian law students and the bad guys are carved out of lard and then dipped in oil. I mentioned this to Pete the day after I arrived and learned of his fondness for Denzel, specifically his fondness to see him humiliated in everything he does.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"in which Denzel Washington plays an actor trying to get an Oscar"
That's my favourite post ever, that is. I'm going to steal it if you don't mind.

― Andrew Thames, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Please do.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Whenever I fly anywhere, there seems to be a film starring Whoopi Goldberg on offer = I don't watch them.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Center Stage, a movie about ballet students with eating disorders. Best line: "Mother, you had the heart but never had the feet. I have the feet but don't have the heart."

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Centerstage is one of the greatest films ever!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I only remember the horrible ones, they always seem to star Meg Ryan and they're just as bad with the sound off. All those crazy, hectic cell phone coversations in "Hanging Up". that lame LA Waspy neurosis, BARF. The Ephron sisters must die. And the way Meg's fingers do that little dance across the keyboard when she's typing an IM to Tom Hanks in "You've Got Mail, ending each message with a little pensive look before she stabs the enter button really theatrically-every fucking message she sent--oh, it was just awful.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

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