{"id":573898054,"date":"2025-06-17T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898054"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:50:59","slug":"big-ol-jet-airliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/06\/17\/big-ol-jet-airliner\/","title":{"rendered":"Big ol&#8217; jet airliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, that&#8217;s me. I&#8217;m sitting over a wing. The better to ensure there are no monsters out there. You might be asking yourself how I got here &#8212; by car. You might be asking yourself why I am referring to &#8220;Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,&#8221; which turns 62 years old this fall &#8212; it is still terrifying, but for different reasons. But the questions you should be asking: Where are you going? And: &#8220;What did you watch along the way?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june25\/june27.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you a day or two to figure out the answer to the first question. And I&#8217;ll give you a very small and indirect hint with the answers to the second question. <\/p>\n<p>First, I watched &#8220;Captain America: Brave New World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It could have been better, but they were working from a thin comic book concept here. Anthony Mackie deserves better. And how Harrison Ford got involved will remain a mystery. Indeed, it is the copy book of MCU movies. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Euu4pQKk1mw?si=crkWS6hCNjFWT49Y&amp;start=296\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, in other words, a good airplane movie. Passed the time. Filed it away. Pleased I didn&#8217;t spend time that could have been better spent doing or watching anything else. <\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to our second film of the flight. And, again, Honest Trailer nails it. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifUhK4z10O4?si=qH_uA8b_OZjjwUuy&amp;start=173\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are pumpkins in North Africa, expressions some 1700 years before the technology that prompted them was invented and a newspaper in ancient Rome, where no history is observed. <\/p>\n<p>Look, there are several reasons one makes a movie. Fan service, the box office, high art, or marketing overreach. Others are misguided movie execs, to right a wrong or wrong a right. One of those reasons is &#8220;to give Ridley Scott something to do,&#8221; and this film is that. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the plane has safely landed. And if you&#8217;re plotting runtime to try to determine where I am, or otherwise trying to glean some information from the photo above, let me tell you I also watched the first episode of 1923 to complete the flight. We have arrived at our lodgings. Now we fight off the temptation to sleep &#8212; didn&#8217;t do that on the plane, as usual &#8212; so that we may laughingly ward off jet lag. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow: more hints. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, that&#8217;s me. I&#8217;m sitting over a wing. The better to ensure there are no monsters out there. You might be asking yourself how I got here &#8212; by car. You might be asking yourself why I am referring to &#8220;Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,&#8221; which turns 62 years old this fall &#8212; it is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-movies","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573898054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898059,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898054\/revisions\/573898059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}