i’ve traveled a bit these last few weeks and when i’m flying i usually stream movies i’ve downloaded to my wifi hard drive on to my ipad, but i could not get them to connect this time for some reason, so i was relegated to the choices offered by delta on their in flight seatback screen.
so i took the opportunity to watch zone of interest, oppenheimer, chinatown, and cool hand luke- all movies i’d never seen. all great, and i probably enjoyed the two older classics the most.
zone of interest i’ll probably want to watch again as there was a lot of flight announcement pauses/distractions and i probably couldn’t appreciate the sound as much with the plane noise seeping in. but what a dichotomy.
ideally i would have seen oppenheimer on a big screen but since this movie was really carried by the story and acting i don’t think i would feel any stronger about it if i had. just great all around.
chinatown was amazing, i’m a sucker for noir. so was cool hand luke, even my partner got sucked into that one- she picked up on the religious themes almost right away. i’m glad i finally crossed these off my ‘want to watch’ list.