Today I am leving for Festival de Cannes since I am getting on a flight from Canada to London England, then London to Nice France, I thought I might want to bring some movies to play in my laptop during the flight.
Then while talking to a friend who is terrified of flying, I started thinking maybe I should be totally inappropriate and bring only movies that deal with Airline disasters. And this got me thinking.
While not an airline film, I did watch this a week before my trip and now with my over reactive imagination, I will just assume that every person near the airport is going to try and con me.
Fortunately I am not a pretty girl who runs awkwardly. But just to be safe, I left my bedazzled demin jacket at home so I don’t become a target.
Airplane, and Airplane 2
Great spoof that deals with a crisis on an airplane. Surely there is hope for these doomed passengers? Of course there is, and stop calling my Shirley.
Snakes on a Plane
The movie is half as long if you remove all the cursing, but this mother fucker is rediculous enough to be a must have for flying.
Die Hard 2
Not my favourite of the Die Hard series, but if you are going to Die Harder, you are going to have to do it on a plane.
Air Force One
I won’t be flying with the President, but still some great suspenseful action on a plane.
Lost
Yeah, this would be appropriate.
Alive
And just incase we do go down, its good to know the etiquette of survival.
Final Destination
It just starts with a vision that dodges a freak plane disaster. This works.
The icing on the cake would be if I get seated next to someone who has a fear of flying. I wonder what the in flight movie will be?
What would you watch on a long flight?
When i took a flight from Atlanta to Fargo. They played the movie Red Eye with rachel McAdams. Now that was a movie not for flying. A lot of people complain during the flight.
you forgot POSTAL: the movie :D
Reminds me of the Simpson’s episode when Marge had a fear of flying and Homer suggested movies to conquer her fears
Tom Hanks plays a foriner that has to stay at an airport terminal for sometime. His country is in a war with itself and he can’t leave the terminal, also he gets a job at the construction site in the terminal under the table. Can’t remember the movies name.
Saving Private Ryan? :}
Twilight Zone: “Theres something on the wing of this plane”
Lithgow or Shatner:(take your pick) both are awesome.
One word…”ALIVE”
I saw Castaway for the first time on a plane when I was 7 and I was the only one awake on the plane. I was traumatized. Who does that??
How about Rain Man? It has that small scene at the airport where Dustin Hoffman is talking to Tom Cruise about airline accident statistics when he is trying to get a plane from Ohio to California.
Interesting fact, they actually do play Rain Man on big-name flights, it’s just that they always censor the small part mentioned above. And, the statistic that Hoffman mentions about Quantas never having a jet airline accident, as of 2011, is still true.
Con Air of course and also Flightplan if your travelling with family
Flightplan, Top Gun and Pushing Tin.
CASTAWAY is another good inappropriate flick to watch while flying.
EXECUTIVE DECISION is another one.
Also SUPERMAN RETURNS, which the only exciting scene in it has Supes saving the crashing passenger plane and landing it in the middle of a baseball field.
But the most inappropriate movie to watch while flying IMO is UNITED 93!
My exact thought was United 93.