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What is it about watching films on planes? What is it in the altitudes that makes you think that the worst of films are the best of films?
For example, my best mate watched Big Fish on a flight, cried, and called it a powerful film about the difficulty that men have in showing love to their fathers or sons.
I watched Pitch Black 2 three times! And stand by my review that it was a fantastically crafted and brilliantly atmospheric sci-fi movie on a par with the Dune novels.
I doubt either of us will watch the films at 0 feet.
So, TMO, any examples of shite that you loved up up and away?
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When I went to New York last month with Virgin Atlantic, they have these console things with miniscreens on the back of the seat in front, and you basically have movies/TV/games/tour guides etc etc on demand.
I watched Stranger Than Fiction and a couple of episodes of Blackadder, kicked everyone else's collective asses on the General Knowledge quiz (some randoms identified on the screen by seat number) on the way out, then watched half of Casino Royale on the way back (tried to sleep thereafter).
It was well cool.
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Flying to Cuba for our honeymoon, we were subjected to Charlie's Angels Full Throttle, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Calendar Girls - screened three times each.
We were on that flight for eight hours - they could have shown us most of the plays from Shakespeare's War of the Roses cycle, ffs. Not everyone would have liked it but, you know, not everyone 'likes' Charlie's fucking Angels.
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Nobody with a mental age greater than 10 'likes' Charlie's Angels. I think it's like the oxygen masks thing. In the event of a catastrauphic problem with the plane, rather than panic and chaos, you calmly accept, even welcome, your own death.
Casino Royale is good up until about 3/5s of the way through, then it all gets a bit crappy.
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I don't recall ever seeing a decent film on a plane. On the way to and from Canada, and on an internal flight I was subjected to The Devil Wears Prada and The Da Vinci Code- which I would have had to pay for the privelege of watching, as I was flying pleb class.
Flights are what Lee Child and detective novels were invented for.
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A friend of mine gave the bloke next to her - a stranger - a blow job on a plane, under a blanket. Right discreet.
There had better be some decent films on the flight to LA, or there'll be hell to pay. And by 'decent', I mean with a plot and visuals that aren't rendered impossible to follow by being on a match-box sized screen on the back of a seat occupied by an epileptic AHDD sufferer.
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You know how it is... travelling alone... you get chatting, the wine's flowing, the film's boring. One thing leads to another...
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She was certainly going through a sluttish phase, it's true. Though you can't say I didn't try to educate her. When she was leaving the office to go on a first date she asked for a last-minute piece of advice. "Never do it doggy-style on the first date," I said. And she didn't. Wise words.
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quote: A friend of mine gave the bloke next to her - a stranger - a blow job on a plane, under a blanket. Right discreet.
What do you do afterwards in that kind of situation? Make polite conversation for the rest of the flight...hold hands? Could be awkward. Pretend to be asleep I guess?
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Go and sit somewhere else and cry with disgust.
I'm not sure what she did. Maybe it was timed so that it was just over as the plane pulled up to the terminal, and she could leap up and get her bag from the overhead locker. Shall I ask her?
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maybe she pretended like it was an accident like whoops I dropped my thing there, on the floor I better just, oh dear! oh now, how did that happen I'm so sorry let mef phmm mpph mmpphhhh pmmhh
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It might not be entirely appropriate. I haven't actually seen her for about two years, so as an opening conversational gambit, 'my internet friends want to know what you did after giving that bloke a blow-job on the plane' is quite, er, daring.
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The thing is, would you believe someone if they told you they'd received such attention during a flight?
Clearly, we're all believing the girl- why would she lie?
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I remember a friend telling me he was at a party and his mate had got off with an especially pretty girl and they were sat next to him snogging while he was feeling very sorry for himself. But then she reached over, stuck her hand down his trousers and started wanking him off. Which was a lovely thing to do.
I guess some girls just have an admirable desire to perform acts of great kindness.
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Does it make any better to know that she had been talking to him for most of the flight, before making a lunge fly-wards?
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