You Ain't Nothin' But a Waitress in the Sky

Flight attendant groups are calling for a boycott of the Jodie Foster hit Flightplan, saying the movie casts stewardspeople in an "outrageous and disrespectful" light. Funny, I thought if there was any professional group slimed by association with Panic Room in the Sky it would have been screenwriters….

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[drf]

oooooh.

here comes a regular with today's song title... ha ha 🙂

okay, now that the Replacements reference is out of the way...

and cue Dennis Miller's early 1990s rant on flight attendants: "you're a waitress in a bad restaurant at 35,000!"

flight attendants can take their place in the line of "professions that people who get their rocks off on whining and feeling dumped on and then whine and complain about that".

can we wrap some stewardesses in cling wrap? and we could send captain kirk to go after the cling-ons??????

[ed]

Jeez, what about us poor moviegoers? We're slimed every time crap like this gets greenlighted. I am Officially Offended too.

[Yet Another Matt]

Oh goddamit, now I have to see the movie. I didn't care to before but I try to make it a point to patronize anything that whiners want boycotted. So now I feel forced to go see Flightplan. Damn those flight attendants for driving me to this! Damn them, I say! 😉

[David]

I guess there really is a hypersensitive association for every conceivable group of people these days. Can anybody be portrayed as asshole without some larger group feeling smeared?

[scape]

Coming soon - Flightplan II: An intense courtroom drama that pits noble flight attendants against sexist media moguls in the legal battle to get the term boycott changed to personcott. Starring Angelina Jolie, Sean Hayes and Meridith Baxter-Birney as "The Judge"

[Russ D]

I always thought "waitress in the sky" was a nicer job title than "flight attendant", which sounds much too similar to "toilet attendant".

[Austin Powers]

Send in the sexy stews! Yeah, baby!

[Timothy]

I prefer to think of them as "those talentless bimbos who keep hitting my elbow with the drink cart eventhough my elbow is not in the aisle".

[KipEsquire]

stewardspeople?

[B]

My my Matt. What a bitchy comment. You big flame you.
It was a good movie though, film school grad comments notwithstanding.

[Nicetas Choniates]

Gee. Should I feel offended by every movie or TV show that portrays lawyers as pushy, obnoxious, inhuman, dishonest, etc?

Hey..we lawyers have endured this abuse for centuries! We even had to endure Ally McBeal! And now we have Meridith Baxter-Birney as "The Judge"???

I refuse to take it anymore! BOYCOTT NOW!

[panurge]

Of course, this is just another pathetic Hollywood rip-off disguised as something "new." FLIGHTPLAN, in terms of plot, seems to be little more than a remake of Otto Preminger's BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, except that it is set on a airplane.

[independent worm]

Can anybody be portrayed as asshole without some larger group feeling smeared?

Nope.

[smacky]

Can anybody be portrayed as asshole without some larger group feeling smeared?

Nope.

Is there some official "Law" entailing what was just said above? If not, can we call it "smacky's law"? Officially?

[independent worm]

Whatever happened to "coffee tea or me" anyway? Alas I'm too young to have enjoyed those days. I only ever get these
Kurt-Warner's-wife lookalikes. Do they just go out of their way to find women you'd never, ever, ever want to get it on with?

[Warren]

Anybody else remembers the days when the stewardess' would "really move our tail for you".

[Bramblyspam]

Can anybody be portrayed as asshole without some larger group feeling smeared?

Space aliens should still be a pretty safe target.

[Johnny Clarke]

Hate to break it to the flight attendants, but airline travel is now no different than taking the bus (well, in bus stations you get groped by winos instead of the TSA, but otherwise...) and nobody gives Greyhound employees any respect, so just deal with it. Hell, I finally managed to fly first class a few months back and short of the larger seats it wasn't any better'n coach.

[Scenescent]

In the long view, it's just an appetizer for Snakes on a Plane anyway.

[mk]

Whenever someone says "Coffee, tea or me?" to me, I always respond with "Coffee, thanks".

[poco]

"Air hostess", a l'anglaise.

[Keetor of Zaton]

Can anybody be portrayed as asshole without some larger group feeling smeared?

Space aliens should still be a pretty safe target.

Hey!

[Jennifer]

Damn you to hell, Matt Welch. My company's going out to see the movie tomorrow (we did a tiny bit of work on it), and you link to an article with a spoiler in it!

[Matt Welch]

Jennifer -- The article *says* "spolier alert" ...

I hope your company did technical things; it *was* certainly nice to look at....

[Jeff P.]

By going to the movies, you are officially giving the studios the unlimited right to feed you shit and expect you to like it.
It's printed right on the back of the ticket.

ALso, is there a single profession that hasn't been offended by a portrayal in a movie?

As a broadcaster, I am fully aware that everyone in jy line of work is a soulless bastard. I get upset when we're portrayed as nice people.

[Jennifer]

Matt, the words "spoiler alert" need to be more than one-thirty-second of an inch away from the actual spoiler to actually be effective, don't you think?

(don't read the following sentence) If you read these words you will die.

See? If that were true every damned one of you would be dead now.

[Larry A]

Can anybody be portrayed as asshole without some larger group feeling smeared?

Sure. We cowboys just smile and turn the insult into a Country-western song.

"Mama, don't let yer babies grow up to be cowboys."

[Herman]

Whatever happened to "coffee tea or me" anyway?
Back when I used to fly a lot six, seven years ago, I generally found that European and Asian airlines still put a premium on eye candy flight attendants.

[cgee]

Seriously, folks:

Snakes. On a plane.

The must-see movie of 2006!

[Jim Walsh]

Can anybody be portrayed as asshole without some larger group feeling smeared?

Take the advice of Gallagher: make fun of stupid people. Who the hell is going to complain?

[rob]

I think Snakes On A Plane is actually a USA made-for-TV movie. But it does list Samuel L. Jackson... Heh!

[belle waring]

come to asia, people, and fly the friendly skies, for real. Singapore airlines is staffed entirely by friendly, helpful, unusually attractive people in cute uniforms. as you move up in the classes the stewardesses get even hotter; I see the first class crews in the airport a lot and daaaaaamn.

[David T]

Unfortunately the demise of TWA put an end to all the good "Would you care for some of our TWA coffee?" jokes...

[d chalmers]

So David, see you when tea is ready, then?

(...see what I did there?...)