The Delta in flight selection is surprisingly good! (And better if you bring along some quality headphones.) On my flight last week I finally saw Alex Cox's REPO MAN! That is not one I expected to see amongst the in-flight offerings.
An in flight movie no doubt most folks would say it was a mistake for me to watch on that tiny screen and lousy audio was . . . Mad Max: Fury Road. Crazy stunning despite the miserable viewing conditions. But then I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise, not my usual kind of film. So maybe for some people the inflight film might turn out to be an introduction to something quite new to their usual film experience - just because they were strapped in place and had nothing better to do for hours.
I spent so much time on planes when I was back in tech, so I got a good look at years and years (16 in fact) of movies showing on planes. I rarely watch anything I haven't already seen. The Blues Brothers is a fave to watch. Of new movies I hadn't seen, I watched SING STREET and BLINDED BY THE LIGHT on planes. And I guess they removed that ban of movies with plane explosions, because I watched DIE HARD 2 on a plane once. My friend's Mom, a former flight attendant, once told me they showed THE CRYING GAME on her flight. It was edited to hell!
I pretended CAT PERSON didn't exist, so I didn't review it. Plus, I had an excuse: I was at NYFF covering Bradley Cooper's nose and way-too-tall Elvis. THE ROYAL HOTEL sounds more up my alley, so I'll take your advice on it.
When volunteering to help high school students in West Virginia to "write" essays about themselves, the mantra that was drummed into us was to instruct: "show, don't tell."
Fair Play is an obvious off-shoot of the show, Succession. A competition between a bunch of men and one woman. They compete to see who can be most vulgar, the biggest asshole, who can wield the most power and who can say the word “fuck” the most. Sadly, this a fact of streaming life. Writers jam their elbows into your ribs and say, “we can say fuck on TV, so we’re gonna say it hundreds of times.”
Wish I didn’t see Succession. Wish I didn’t see Fair Play. We don’t need more assholes. There are enough politicians in the news.
The Delta in flight selection is surprisingly good! (And better if you bring along some quality headphones.) On my flight last week I finally saw Alex Cox's REPO MAN! That is not one I expected to see amongst the in-flight offerings.
An in flight movie no doubt most folks would say it was a mistake for me to watch on that tiny screen and lousy audio was . . . Mad Max: Fury Road. Crazy stunning despite the miserable viewing conditions. But then I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise, not my usual kind of film. So maybe for some people the inflight film might turn out to be an introduction to something quite new to their usual film experience - just because they were strapped in place and had nothing better to do for hours.
True confession time - I've only seen Titanic while flying. Once.
I spent so much time on planes when I was back in tech, so I got a good look at years and years (16 in fact) of movies showing on planes. I rarely watch anything I haven't already seen. The Blues Brothers is a fave to watch. Of new movies I hadn't seen, I watched SING STREET and BLINDED BY THE LIGHT on planes. And I guess they removed that ban of movies with plane explosions, because I watched DIE HARD 2 on a plane once. My friend's Mom, a former flight attendant, once told me they showed THE CRYING GAME on her flight. It was edited to hell!
I pretended CAT PERSON didn't exist, so I didn't review it. Plus, I had an excuse: I was at NYFF covering Bradley Cooper's nose and way-too-tall Elvis. THE ROYAL HOTEL sounds more up my alley, so I'll take your advice on it.
When volunteering to help high school students in West Virginia to "write" essays about themselves, the mantra that was drummed into us was to instruct: "show, don't tell."
Fair Play is an obvious off-shoot of the show, Succession. A competition between a bunch of men and one woman. They compete to see who can be most vulgar, the biggest asshole, who can wield the most power and who can say the word “fuck” the most. Sadly, this a fact of streaming life. Writers jam their elbows into your ribs and say, “we can say fuck on TV, so we’re gonna say it hundreds of times.”
Wish I didn’t see Succession. Wish I didn’t see Fair Play. We don’t need more assholes. There are enough politicians in the news.