Name a movie you'd rather not watch on an airplane flight.

[Deja Q]

More importantly, is there a comedy movie that comes even remotely close to being as funny as "Airplane!"?

[Dr. Strange]

1. Spinal Tap

Maybe Army of Darkness.


Edited to add: these are the answers to your "more importantly" question.

[begin_within]

2. Snakes on a Plane?

[SteppingRazor]

3. Alive

Airport would also be one to avoid.

[Deja Q]

8. Even the one featuring Kid Dynomite, Jimmie JJ Walker?

http://www.agonybooth.com/airport_79
http://www.agonybooth.com/airport_79/default.asp?Page=3




(oh dear, who looks more embarrassed?)

[MrCoffee]

4. United 93

[QMPMom]

10. I agree: United 93. The whole time I was flying to Indiana and

back this summer, on United, I was constantly replaying that movie in my head and wondering how the hell they ran up that aisle with the beverage cart because the darn aisle was so narrow.

Put that together with the Homeland Security Terror Threat being upped to the ORANGE!!!!! level (yes, I yelled it) and announcing it every five minutes in the airports, I was a wreck by the time my flights ended.

[SacredCow]

5. well...

rather not watch: United 93

funny as airplane: I dunno. It's high on my list.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Bicentennial Man.

Tried to ignore it on a flight once.

Millenium, if you want "scary airplane movies".

[Parche]

7. Movie

HypnoToad Does Dallas :bounce: :bounce: :hi:

[YDogg]

9. Poseidon Adventure. Towering Inferno. Behind the Green Door.

[NewJeffCT]

25. why the last one, may i ask?

i know it's a famous porn movie

[YDogg]

29. When I'm flying, going down makes me nervous.

:shrug:

[Liberal Dose]

39. OMG

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Jade Fox]

11. Fearless

It contains the most terrifying plane crash scene I can remember. Interesting movie, though.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Another vote for "Fearless"

:scared:

I'm glad I saw it when I knew that I didn't have any more plane trips scheduled for several months.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

34. "Fearless" was an amazing movie...

one of my favorites.

"Fearless" and "Alive" have two of the most realistic crash sequences I have ever seen.

[BurtWorm]

38. My choice too.

:patriot:

[SPKrazy]

12. deep throat

:P

[Bjornsdotter]

13. Titanic

...I just don't ever want to see it.

Cheers

[XNASA]

32. Good thing I checked first before I posted because....

You took the words out of my mouth.

[cloudbase]

14. Howard the Duck

I had to fly out to Singapore to catch a ship back in '86 or '87 and that was the movie on the flight from Chicago to Tokyo. Had to suffer through it again on the flight from Tokyo to Singapore. Yecch.

[UncleSepp]

15. Waterworld.

Can you imagine the wait for the bathroom?

[Art_from_Ark]

20. They actually did play that on a flight I took once took

from Seattle to Memphis.

[recoveringdittohed]

16. No Highway In the Sky

Would rather not be mentally fatigued thinking about metal fatigue while flying. But it is a really good old Jimmy Stewart movie.

[JVS]

17. Divine Secrets of the Fried Green Travelling Pants and Louise

[UncleSepp]

22. I think I saw that on the Oxylifetimemark channel.

[JVS]

23. I hate that channel

[LadyAziz]

18. Snakes on a Plane

OMG, the movie is terrifying. :scared:

[Initech]

19. Figth Club

If only for one of the first scenes where Edward Norton says "Every time the plane banked too sharply on takeoff, I prayed for a crash or a mid air collision." And then it happens. :wow:

And no there isn't a funnier movie than Airplane.

[jmowreader]

21. Alive! is real high on that list for me

Plane crashes in Andes. Survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive. Good stuff.

[Pendrench]

24. White Nights....especially if you're flying over Russia. n/t

[Eurobabe]

26. United 93, Hero, anything about Hijacks

[Radio_Lady]

27. Superman Returns. Watched it last weekend with our six-year-old grandson.

He kept assuring me -- "I'm not scared, Grandma, really. I've been on airplanes before and they don't explode THAT often!" But we both agreed it wouldn't be shown on any flights we take "unless it's on a laptop."

Boy, that kid is fearless and smart.

[CTyankee]

28. "Flight Plan" with Jodie Foster

I saw that a bit before I took a transatlantic trip which was about the same as in the movie. Not a good idea.

Flying all night in those huge planes is to me a strange experience. I was not particularly concerned about terrorism since I was on Alitalia and I figured that the terrorists didn't have a beef with the Italian government. It was just strange to me tho. All night on a behemoth over the ocean...

[leftofthedial]

31. The English Patient

although that also applies off an airplane

[texas1928]

33. The Langoliers

[Liberal Dose]

37. I still don't get that one. It was one of the stories written before King got sober, wasn't it. n/t

:hi:

[texas1928]

40. I never read the book...

But I never really understood the "Langoliers" They took for ever to get there and then the monsters once they made it to the airport moved at like 100 feet a second, so what took them so long. It was a wierd story.

[meegbear]

35. Passengers Bravely Take Down Plane Showing Big Momma's House 2

WASHINGTON, DC—The Federal Aviation Administration announced today that United Airlines Flight 43, which crashed outside Parkersburg, WV last Thursday, was in fact brought down by passengers who voluntarily sacrificed their lives in order to prevent the screening of the in-flight movie selection, Big Momma's House 2.

All 105 people onboard died in the crash.

"As we examine the passengers' cell-phone calls and flight recordings, we get a sense of the incredible courage displayed by these ordinary men and women," said FAA Administrator Marion Blakey at a press conference Monday, during which excerpts from the recordings were played. "They acted in the only way they could to stop this unspeakable horror starring Martin Lawrence as an FBI agent who goes undercover as a nanny for a sexy murder suspect."

"These people are true American heroes," Blakey added.

Flight 43 left New York's LaGuardia Airport on schedule last Thursday at 10:17 a.m. en route to Los Angeles with no indication of any suspiciously bad entertainment activity aboard. Black-box evidence indicates that, 40 minutes after takeoff, the crew walked through the cabin and asked passengers to close their window screens. The audio recording goes eerily quiet after a flight attendant can be heard announcing that Big Momma's House 2 would be shown.

"It will be days, months perhaps, before we have a complete picture of exactly what happened," said FAA crash investigator Matthew Roberts, whose team was given the unpleasant job of analyzing Flight 43's last moments. "But we know that the passengers somehow assembled toward the rear of the cabin without attracting attention to themselves—which couldn't have been easy, considering the tense silence that typically accompanies a Big Momma's House film—and decided that they would rather die than let anyone do this to them."

Around 11:00, business-class passenger Charles Rice left an emotional message on the cell-phone voicemail of his fiancée, Kathi Kearney.

"Honey, it's me," Rice said in one of the excerpts. "I… God. Listen, they've darkened the cabin, and they've started showing Big Momma's House 2. The second one, I mean, and it… it's pretty bad. This might not go well, honey. A bunch of us are going to try to stop them. I have to go, we're going to go now. God, I am so sorry. You know I love you."

Although Roberts said they may never determine who acted first or how the passengers organized their resistance to the brutally awful comedy, it is believed that all onboard were united in their need to stop the movie from being shown. In an amazing coincidence, at least one other person aboard Flight 43 had actually survived a screening of the original Big Momma's House on an international flight in 2001, which may have given them impetus to act.

"It seems clear that, from the opening moments of the film, they knew exactly how it had to end—either 99 minutes later as Martin Lawrence's excruciating mugging brought it all to a heinous conclusion, or with the deaths of everyone aboard," Roberts said. "We can only hope that we would act with the same bravery and conscientiousness if presented with the same situation."

Cabin recordings seem to indicate that a refreshment cart was used to charge the attendant station at the front of the aircraft at a decisive moment in the film in which a sexy potential villain asks Lawrence's character for help removing her bra. Much of the recording is incoherent, but Blakey played a 15-second segment in which some of the flight attendants can be heard exhorting passengers to remain seated while others seemed to be voicing second thoughts.

"Clearly, the passengers were facing well-trained hard-liners intent on doing as much damage as they could," said Blakey, gesturing to the charred, partially melted Big Momma's House 2 DVD case found in the wreckage as evidence. "When they found the hospitality station locked down and secured as per airline policy, the only choice they had left was to infiltrate the cockpit."

One last garbled transmission was made from Flight 43 just before it disappeared from air-traffic control's monitors. Though the FAA has not released it publicly, Blakey confirmed that the passengers can be clearly heard reciting the Lord's Prayer over the scream of the engines and the high falsetto shriek of a female-impersonating Martin Lawrence.

Plans are already underway to honor the victims by presenting them with the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, a $4 million memorial in the West Virginia field where Flight 43 crashed, and a proposed Spring 2007 release of Flight 43, a big-budget action comedy-drama starring Chris Tucker as Martin Lawrence.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48747

[Liberal Dose]

36. There are two movies funnier than AIRPLANE

1. Slapshot
2. Caddyshack

I rest my case. :7

[grace0418]

41. The one with Tom Hanks where his plane goes down. I can't remember the title.

He's a FedEx guy an the only survivor of a plane crash. I thought the plane crash scene was extremely terrifying. And then when he finally gets rescued and his whole life has moved on without him. That would be so hard.

[grace0418]

43. Cast Away.

Just found it.

[EstimatedProphet]

42. Mulholland Drive

I'd rather never watch that.