Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks
is Airplane Movies
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Well I hope you're not afraid of flying, because the flying is the least of your problems on these flights.
Red Eye (2005)
Nice little thriller. When I first saw this I had no idea what a "red eye flight" was. Is it an American term or a term only frequent flyers would be familiar with?
Con Air (1997)
Yep it's a prison airplane, which sounds like a really bad idea and in this movie it really was. Nicholas Cage has been doing a lot of bad bad and bad cheesy movies lately but at least this one he was in, way back in 1997, was cheesy fun.
Red Eye (2005)
Nice little thriller. When I first saw this I had no idea what a "red eye flight" was. Is it an American term or a term only frequent flyers would be familiar with?
Con Air (1997)
Yep it's a prison airplane, which sounds like a really bad idea and in this movie it really was. Nicholas Cage has been doing a lot of bad bad and bad cheesy movies lately but at least this one he was in, way back in 1997, was cheesy fun.
Non-Stop (2014)
This movie feels very similar to Flightplan; both has someone working in the aircraft/airline industry getting used and made to look crazy as part of a sinister plot for money. But I prefer Non-Stop because it's a better mystery and more action packed.
This movie feels very similar to Flightplan; both has someone working in the aircraft/airline industry getting used and made to look crazy as part of a sinister plot for money. But I prefer Non-Stop because it's a better mystery and more action packed.
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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?
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We match up with one...I haven't seen the others.
ReplyDeleteI have to say...this was a hard week for me, but I'm happy with my choices ;-D
I really enjoyed Red Eye. Very nice little thriller, as you said. I'm not sure if the term "red eye" is American, but I've always known it to reference late-night flights and I'm no frequent flyer. Con Air is 100% cheesy fun. Not a big fan of Non-Stop. It felt like a bunch of implausibilities and missed opportunities all rolled into a not very exciting package.
ReplyDeleteHaha, yeah I say little because Red Eye feels very compact, its only 80+ mins so it doesn't meander and I think it benefits from it.
DeleteI haven't seen Red Eye, but liked Con Air and Non-Stop, I found both to be mindlessly fun.
ReplyDeleteI agree they are :)
DeleteI loved Red Eye. I also chose it. It's been awhile since I've seen Con Air and I never saw Nonstop.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize Red Eye wasn't a hugely known term lol.
Red Eye was much better than I expected it to be. A zippy little B thriller with good acting, especially for the genre. Both Con Air and Non-Stop are ridiculous in the extreme but that kind of goes with the territory with regard to these sort of films.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have much expectation for Red Eye either, I suppose mostly because I had no idea what it was about.
DeleteI loved Red Eye, and Non-Stop was fine. I also chose them. I haven't seen Con Air, but I think I'll give it a try.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen Red-Eye and it sounds like it's a good movie. I have seen Con-Air-It is , well, a Nicholas Cage movie:) I have not seen Non-Stop either and it sounds like a lot of fun too
ReplyDeleteAw I liked Con Air - mostly for the ridiculousness of it all and Steve Buscemi. I'm a bit stumped about what 'red-eye' means too.
ReplyDeleteI like Con Air too, it was mindless popcorn fun and the kind of movie that is fun to watch with friends.
DeleteI have since googled 'red eye' and it seems it's a North American term, so I guess if you are not from that part of the world or a frequent flyer, it's not a term you would encounter.