Started off with Joker. Good movie...but did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Two of the others were Saving Mr. Banks & ZombieLand: Double Tap. The latter was funnier than the original...especially
bringing Homer Simpson & A Xmas Story from 1983 in & a novel way to use
an eye scanner.
I'm curious where you thought Joker didn't measure up?
I just had a long flight and watched the classic film Breakfast at Tiffany's...the blatant anti-Asian racism caught me off guard! But I do have a crush on Audrey Hepburn, now.
I just had a long flight and watched the classic film Breakfast at Tiffany's...the blatant anti-Asian racism caught me off guard! But I do have a crush on Audrey Hepburn, now.
Funny story about Breakfast at Tiffany's: About 2003, I was working at a big chip company where we had annual ski trips to Mammoth Mountain, California (a nice perk at the time). It was suggested that we bring movies of our choice (VHS tapes) for entertainment during the long bus ride from Irvine. My wife brought Breakfast at Tiffany's (I hadn't seen
it since childhood) and put it in in the player for the full bus-load to see/hear on multiple monitors during the ride. After about 30 minutes,
we had to pull the tape out as nobody was laughing: the employees/riders on the bus was made up of about 90% asians...
It was 2005 and I was a paratrooper in the US Army and we were on a chartered flight heading on an overseas deployment. This was back when
we had several screens throughout the plane all playing the same video. Well, for some reason they said they would put on an "adult themed"
film, to which everyone was cheering. They put on a film called "Unfaithful" about a woman cheating on her husband. Yeah, it's steamy,
but the last thing you want to show a huge group of men that will be
away from their wives for a year or so is a movie about a wife that cheats. Naturally we were all pretty upset but tried acting macho to
cover for it :P
On my flight to Afghanistan in 2010 we watched, "The Men Who Stare
at Goats." I just kind of thought it was stupid. But what made it
really excruciating was that this was on a broke-ass old DC-10; the charter was run by "World International Airlines" which gives new
meaning to "lowest bidder." The seats had ashtrays, and when the
movie came on they actually lowered a movie screen; we had those old air-tube headphones and you couldn't hear jack. A hundred and fifty Marines with nothing to do and a movie no one could see or hear....
It was always as awesome as the flight home, when the plane broke
down and we were stuck in the terminal in Leipzig for two days. Or
how we landed in Baltimore and got to run to the food court in cammies only to have to go back through security to get our next leg flight
back to the west coast (we were out of Pendleton). "Is that a knife?"
"No dude, it's a gerber." "But it has a knife blade?" "Uh...yeah?"
"Then you can't take it on the plane...." "I've got a rifle in the overhead and a nine mil under my seat...are you serious?"
Ugh, sounds miserable. But at least Pendleton was waiting for you! I can think of far worse places to call home at the end of a deployment.
Spent much of the day watching a couple of BBC shows...along with several movies.
Started off with Joker. Good movie...but did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Two of the others were Saving Mr. Banks & ZombieLand: Double Tap. The latter was funnier than the original...especially bringing Homer Simpson & A Xmas Story from 1983 in & a novel way to use an eye scanner.
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Holy hell. That must have been awkward. And not in any sort of attempt to one-up, but I have a pretty ridiculous life experience this reminds me of.
It was 2005 and I was a paratrooper in the US Army and we were on a chartered flight heading on an overseas deployment. This was back when we had several screens throughout the plane all playing the same video. Well, for some
reason they said they would put on an "adult themed" film, to which everyone was cheering. They put on a film called "Unfaithful" about a woman cheating on her husband. Yeah, it's steamy, but the last thing you want to show a huge group of men that will be away from their wives for a year or so is a movie about a wife that cheats. Naturally we were all pretty upset but tried acting macho to cover for it :P
Ha! Hopefully art was not mimicking reality there. Glad you made it back safely.
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ryan wrote to Digital Man <=-
chartered flight heading on an overseas deployment. This was back when
we had several screens throughout the plane all playing the same video. Well, for some reason they said they would put on an "adult themed"
film, to which everyone was cheering. They put on a film called "Unfaithful" about a woman cheating on her husband. Yeah, it's steamy,
but the last thing you want to show a huge group of men that will be
away from their wives for a year or so is a movie about a wife that cheats. Naturally we were all pretty upset but tried acting macho to
cover for it :P
Phoobar wrote to All <=-
Spent much of the day watching a couple of BBC shows...along with
several movies.
Started off with Joker. Good movie...but did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Two of the others were Saving Mr. Banks & ZombieLand: Double Tap. The latter was funnier than the original...especially
bringing Homer Simpson & A Xmas Story from 1983 in & a novel way to use
an eye scanner.
Haven't seen Joker yet but heard it's pretty good!
I've been watching the MCU movies... :-)
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