Plane Food
May 28th 2008 22:27
Well… it’s been quite some time since the last time, but as to what amount of time that is, only time will tell. In fact I don’t know and shan’t know, but this is immaterial. I’ve been on the road for a few weeks, it scooping me up in to its talons and away from a cinema screen, dropping me into the nest of an airplane seat in front of a tiny 3-inch screen on which to feed. (Road = bird? airplane seat = nest? 3-inch screen = a worm?).
Apart from sitting frozen in a variety of sharp angles I did in fact watch some films, most of which have fallen by the wayside (jetlag). One that stuck was ‘The Savages’ starring Philip Seymour Hoffman (Camilla Parker Bowles) and a woman whose name is… Laura Linney. I enjoyed the film quite a bit and I suppose it dealt with the difficult subject of Alzheimer’s and the responsibility of ailing parents etc. in a gentle and funny way. However, as with all ‘plane movies’ it feels almost like I never watched it all, maybe it’s a side effect of the food or perhaps it's a deep vein thrombosis in my head but usually I remember very little of any film I happen to see on the plane. One notable exception from this trip was waking from a nightmare to be confronted by an even worse ill, as my eyes slowly focused on the image of Tom Hanks AND Julia Roberts… in the same film! What compounded matters was my proximity to the screen which only served to distort Julia Robert’s already disfigured features, it didn’t do anything for Tom Hanks’ acting either. A short time later, the cold sweat having dried I discovered that the name of the film was ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’, ‘ The horror!’
Another of these 'plane films' that I saw on my trip was ‘Dan in Real Life’, unfortunately I can’t seem to forget that one either. Pretty shit, all ends up. Insipid, predictable, full of dreadful writing, I’m not sure what Steve Carell was doing, but I’m sure he can do it better. The film had all the edge of a bouncy castle (Manning, B. 1978)
Ok,
I go.
Apart from sitting frozen in a variety of sharp angles I did in fact watch some films, most of which have fallen by the wayside (jetlag). One that stuck was ‘The Savages’ starring Philip Seymour Hoffman (Camilla Parker Bowles) and a woman whose name is… Laura Linney. I enjoyed the film quite a bit and I suppose it dealt with the difficult subject of Alzheimer’s and the responsibility of ailing parents etc. in a gentle and funny way. However, as with all ‘plane movies’ it feels almost like I never watched it all, maybe it’s a side effect of the food or perhaps it's a deep vein thrombosis in my head but usually I remember very little of any film I happen to see on the plane. One notable exception from this trip was waking from a nightmare to be confronted by an even worse ill, as my eyes slowly focused on the image of Tom Hanks AND Julia Roberts… in the same film! What compounded matters was my proximity to the screen which only served to distort Julia Robert’s already disfigured features, it didn’t do anything for Tom Hanks’ acting either. A short time later, the cold sweat having dried I discovered that the name of the film was ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’, ‘ The horror!’
Another of these 'plane films' that I saw on my trip was ‘Dan in Real Life’, unfortunately I can’t seem to forget that one either. Pretty shit, all ends up. Insipid, predictable, full of dreadful writing, I’m not sure what Steve Carell was doing, but I’m sure he can do it better. The film had all the edge of a bouncy castle (Manning, B. 1978)
Ok,
I go.
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