air force two

Another five minute stop on the Air Force One channel does not really influence any of the previous viewing. It was about to though. Watching anymore and the reaction would have been very, very non existent.

The short background is I should not have been watching television at all, but I slipped up and some morning shows were on and then I remembered the Starz free preview weekend. Yep, I just had to remember that. This was a Friday or Saturday morning. I had successfully been off movies for more than a month and off television for ... five days. No more TV I said! That's where I sit, that's where I don't move, that's where I ate the last three donuts the week prior.

The on-screen display gave me a timeline of how many minutes remained. Something like 20. Possibly one of the first lines of dialogue I remember hearing was, "I now hold hostage President of United States."

(I am finding a few days removed to impact my chronology - to the story - recollections.)

I know what occurred. They were equal parts laughing at the suggestive camera shots because the audience is already in on it that Gibbs (pulled from recent memory, surely not 10 years ago) is a traitor and sobbing between scenes at the White House with the Vice President, the music during the Russian prison release, the patriotism of the jets and the First Kid's kiss. And equal parts laughing at my sobbing for these final 15 minutes in an empty house that would provide an easy walk-out to spit and get some air when it was finally over.

The the most fundamental answer I could give to, "What is it you like about movies?" is, "A moving camera." But it was just about everything else besides a moving camera (though there was a spinning one at the very end which was hypnotic). Really, just that it was the last 20 minutes, that I hadn't seen the movie in years, that I could go without seeing it again, that I knew it had to be made in the 90s, not at all that one location is supposed to be Ramstein Air Force Base, that the story meant something to the story, that his wife and daughter were in the plane, that I could live with missiles firing and lose-in-the-end villains when something happens like the daughter strapped to the paratrooper hangs on the line and yells, "Bye Dad!"