Dec 02 2007
Movies on a plane
Not to be confused with Snakes on a Plane(”I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!”), but in general, there is a very weird “something’s off” thing going on while viewing movies on a plane. While I was returning from a business trip in California yesterday, the movie Arctic Tale was playing and it made me think of a story my sister told me. When she was travelling quite a bit for work she viewed a hilarious movie on a plane, it was so funny that she told everybody she knew how good it was, including her family members.  Guess what the movie was?
That’s right, Big Mamma’s House. After much feedback from her friends and family, my sister realized that this movie was not the genius piece of work she originally took it for. This was the first tangible observation of what I refer to as the Plane Movie Space-Time Continuum. This theory posits that any piece of drivel that is shown on a plane, to its very captive audience, will automatically be perceived more positively by an order of magnitude. In other words, really shitty movies are tolerable or even good when you watch it on a plane. In my own experience Miss Congeniality, Arctic Tale, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Wedding Date, Dance With Me, and many other pieces of shit were actually enjoyed by myself on planes (full disclosure, I may have been wasted for some trans-Atlantic flights but whatever).
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Miss Congeniality? It must have been the gamma rays.
Either that or all the gin-and-tonics… either way it was a shitty movie.
ugh. the legend of douchebagger vance was so awful i wanted to gouge out my eyes. i saw it in the dollar theatre, because we had seen everything else, and even my flask full of good times couldnt make that movie salvagable.
In all my years traveling, I’ve only seen one movie that not even a plane could make better…”Little Nicky.” It was just awful from beginning to end, even during flight.
And come to think of it, only one movie I’ve seen didn’t completely suck afterward either. And that was Billy Elliott.
Otherwise, I fully agree with this.