Current Ramblings
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Last night I watched "Airport 1975" on AMC. I don't know why it was on AMC, except that they seem to have an extremely broad definition of "Classics". It was a silly, contrived, misogynist movie, and I only started watching it because it has a lot of shots of Dulles at the opening, and I really like Dulles. Sadly, only the first five minutes or so take place there, and the rest of the movie doesn't have that "Dude, they still HAVE those chairs!" charm. It does, however, have pilot/stewardess banter that would get people immediately fired today, the most pathetic heroine I've seen in my life (Wah, I don't WANNA fly the plane anymore, wah, it's too scary!), Charlton Heston playing Charlton Heston, and Eric Estrada playing Eric Estrada. Not to "spoil" the movie for anybody, but I was bummed they killed off Eric Estrada. "Airplane!" really did not have to work hard to spoof this shit. There was even a little kid who needed to get hooked back up to her dialysis machine. And some nuns. And one of the nuns sang.
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