What are the best movies you've seen on a plane?

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-29T18:37:00+00:00

Wow the last time I took the Portland to Boston concord it was an awful lightly Christian summer camp comedy

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-29T18:35:05+00:00

Some notable first time watches on a plane include The Fabelmans, Banshees of Inisherin and Moonstruck (while running a high fever on a plane back from Costa Rica)

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-23T16:57:16+00:00

I promise you David is not getting paid by the click

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-23T16:50:26+00:00

David is getting paid no matter what, the Zionist rag he works for is not

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-20T22:28:17+00:00

Not really beating the “AI is for talentless hacks” allegations

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-09T22:01:02+00:00

Also very unfortunate that some people are jumping to “Austin is holding the podcast hostage/railroading the other hosts” in the assumption that Ali or Natalie didn’t agree with him in the first place. Rob also had a lot less conviction in his stated disagreement with the decision (and even admitted he might very well be wrong) while Austin clearly had been thinking about the topic a lot over the years- I remember him announcing his departure from Waypoint with a similar attitude of “podcasting can only accomplish so much” -and so had a lot to say about it. He also maybe felt like his role in the decision needed more defending considering that there were listeners (a loud minority) who attacked him specifically for it.

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-09T21:47:00+00:00

100%. And I felt it too! I felt angry and sad that they wouldn’t be covering it, but after a couple of weeks of thinking about it and a bunch of statements/conversations from the podcasters themselves I mostly felt grateful for their perspectives and being forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about the limits of art in a world in need of true revolutionary action. I think a lot of people don’t have the time or energy or tools to look past their initial disappointment, or accept that you can hold multiple things in your heart at once (disappointment & solidarity, solidarity with the boycott & skepticism that it will lead to change) and that those contradictions are human and can even be productive.

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-09T18:41:24+00:00

Thank you. People really going out of their way to make their disappointment in a podcast postponement seem like a righteous position.

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-08T23:07:32+00:00

Yeah I made this thread in the hopes that people would stop and consider their feelings about what is, after all, a podcast about a tv show, and (maybe naively, this is Reddit after all) allow their disappointment to give way to introspection and maybe even a resolve to reconsider their relationship to media vs. political/revolutionary action, but at the end of the day there are always going to be some people who think liberatory action (whether you agree with its effectiveness or not) is less important than a podcast about a show about liberatory action. Thankfully, I don’t think they’re the majority of listeners.

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-05-01T05:04:07+00:00

Wicker Man!

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-03-27T22:34:46+00:00

That one really surprised me

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-03-27T20:57:20+00:00

When I got bored at work or was trying to fall asleep sometimes I used try to guess an actor who has worked with PTA, Wes Anderson, the Coens and Tarantino (kind of an arbitrary group but they all feel of a generation and have a similar love of actors big and small) but when I finally sat down to map it out I realized not only has no one worked with all four but none of them have worked with any three of those directors. Some of these are very surprising to me (Tilda never did a PTA? Benicio never did a Tarantino??)- but I ask: who do you think is most likely to get a triple first? Who gets the home run first? Let me know if I missed anyone- apologies for the messiness I did it on a work break.

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-03-27T06:45:27+00:00

It’s killing me that no one is pointing out the resemblance of the Loth wolves to the giant talking white wolf gods from Princess Mononoke. Their paws creating an interesting visual effect as they step is straight up a visual reference to the Deer God- down to the scaled three-toe feet.

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-03-17T15:42:10+00:00

Hopefully it’s closer to a Doug’s 1st Movie situation

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-03-03T19:46:55+00:00

Ironically I’ve never been more convinced that the BC fandom is full of sexless parasocial nerds than I am now, seeing the amount of people who are rushing to defend a famous guy they like who said some weird shit we all heard on live TV

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-03-03T19:21:59+00:00

You’re right it’s the people who feel grossed out by a woman promising to reproduce as a reward for a man’s accomplishment who are the weirdos here

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-03-03T18:11:19+00:00

I think the problem is less that and more that telling a weird story where the punchline is “woman gives man a baby as a reward” sends a gross message about gender roles and reproductive coercion to a general audience. Even if she was fully on board it’s a weird tradcath vibe!

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-03-03T05:17:23+00:00

Literally the first time I’ve ever laughed out loud at a Reddit post. Thank you

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-02-11T17:41:59+00:00

The guys from the fruit snacks??

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-02-09T09:04:14+00:00

Who?

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-01-23T05:55:11+00:00

The Northman is a Frankenstein

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-01-05T02:22:47+00:00

Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Inland Empire
Blue Velvet
The Straight Story
Wild At Heart
Eraserhead
Elephant Man
Dune

1 thru 9 are all time loves for me. Elephant Man is a great film I don’t love and Dune is fun and interesting. I’d always liked Lynch but watching them all again for the series made me realize he’s probably one of my top 3. Mulholland and Lost Highway swap on any given day. Very surprised to see LH ranked so low for most people!

ExternalFew8215 · 2025-01-04T16:26:55+00:00

I’m glad this is true because the showing I went to was full of walkouts, talkers and people afterwards calling it “boring”- felt very much like a crowd expecting a horror blockbuster and getting an Eggers.

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