Perhaps to give you something to think about during the hours you will spend at the airport if you’re flying for the holidays, USA Today has published a dubious list of “Great Airport Moments in Film” – from Casablanca to [sic] Trains, Planes and Automobiles. (Attention fact-checking department – it’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
“Who can think of business travel and Thanksgiving week without recalling the 1987 comedy cult classic movie Trains, Planes and Automobiles? Steve Martin and John Candy — Neal Page and Del Griffith in the movie — play road warriors struggling to get home for Turkey Day against a long list of obstacles, including storms, overbooked hotels, a train derailment and a car fire.
One unforgettable scene is Martin’s obscenity-laced tirade at the rental car counter at Lambert-St. Louis airport after the clerk had sent him to a distant parking lot to find his car not there.”
Please note the absence of the deeply emo ending of Garden State, and the entirety of The Terminal. Undeservedly missing is the compelling central scene of 12 Monkeys in which a rogue scientist uses an airport as ground zero of his plot to spread a lethal virus. To keep you feeling safe as you while away the hours in line for security, they’ve opted to end the list with another Bruce Willis vehicle, Die Hard 2, where terrorists seize an airport control tower threatening to crash planes, and eventually get their own escape jet blown up right there on the tarmac. Yay!
