I'd go with Option B. I'll make a slightly less sweeping wild guess: the producers of the Ebert show show are struggling with ways to syndicate it now that Siskel is dead and Ebert is sick, and since airlines seem ready to bundle any old crap into their in-flight content (why is there so much light jazz on just about every airline?) I guess they decided that was a good idea. I don't know if I'm like most viewers, but I tend to read reviews after watching a movie to see what other people thought of it. Maybe the movie review would have worked better as a kind of conversation starter after the film.

Hardly. The sheer quantity of shitty movies on the market certainly warrants the degree of negative criticism most films receive. I mean, come on, did you really need a critic to warn you about "Man of the Year?" Airplane movies are a poor example (last flight I had the unusual privilege of seeing two good movies, "The Queen" and some Spanish drama), but I think harsh criticism is a necessary step in setting a higher standard for the film industry. Given, not every movie can be excellent, but still, even movies that received rave reviews (e.g. Babel) are often thoroughly mediocre. If anything, we're not critical enough.

(hehe, told you ages ago you'd be better having two different blogs but you guys mocked my suggestion. guess it missed one crucial element.)

I have to give this review of a review a thumbs up, but sadly the thing seems to be just filler.

hey marxy i think your new ep is really awesome i listen to it all the time. (couldn't find your email address so leaving message in comments)

everyone just thinks they are a critic, and that their opinions are worth something. credibility is solely based on the height of ones soap box. wait, im off topic.

you should fly american airlines. not only cause its got an awesome name. but because its cheap, and has personally "tv"s..

The only thing I get out of movie reels is a sense of cultural displacement nowadays. Seeing as I rarely get a chance to see movies outside of my 3LDK environs here in Tokyo, I look forward to the a transpacific flight and it's four-six hours of average movies that haven't even hit a first run in Japan.

After spending a year in Osaka in 2000, a time when keeping in touch with American culture was a lot more difficult than it is now (and it was far from my mind anyway), the flight home on United was a surreal experience. I found myself laughing my ass off at Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers just because I hadn't been exposed to those corny jokes for so long. I don't know why I'm mentioning this, but the comments reminded me of that experience.

Who doesn't crack up a bit at Monterey Jack's trademark "ch-ch-ch-cheeEEEeese!"

Presumably the idea is to help you decide whether you want to spend the next couple hours watching the movie or doing something else, like typing on a laptop or reading a book or destroying some vertebrae in an attempt to sleep or staring at the folded tray in front of you and contemplating Nietzsche and the stabbing of the kid who's kicking your seat to the beat of the Avril Lavigne emanating from their headphones. And trevor, JetBlue>American.

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