Inflight Entertainment

You gotta love SIA's Krisworld entertainment system. Movies on demand? YES PLEASE!

Watched "Without a Paddle" and "New Police Story"... all I could fit in considering I had to eat, and deal with interruptions and occasional software freezes (very annoying).

WaP was a nice comedy dealing with bits of mateship and a carpe diem theme. 3 mates go off on a journey to find some guy's treasure (cash) which was actually a childhood dream of theirs. In a way, it was the legacy of their 4th friend, who passed away. Hijinks along the way, like with "H&K goto White Castle", and they get to a point where they finally realise that this "treasure" is life itself. BLablabla yadadada (get John or Brandon to do some deep philosophical and literary analysis of the movie)

"New Police Story" is another action slapstick comedy with Jackie Chan. I'm not too sure if it can have comedy as part of its genre as it is quite dark. Basically, Chan's elite squad gets slaughtered by a bunch of rich kids who have nothing good to do in life, and also inspired by violent videogames (who woulda thought?). This humiliates Chan, who goes into semi retirement. Some random guy poses as a cop to get Chan back onto the case, and REVENGE, and blablabla. What I like about Asian movies is that there's heaps of morals and stuff. There's the comradeship and loyalty- Chan sticking with his squad despite their being near dead, and even hauling them out of the building on a trolley when the building is about to explode. Kind of like the "leave no man behind" mentality of the Rangers in "Black Hawk Down". Then there's the one good deed deserves another, give and you will receive crap. You'll see right at the end what I mean. In fact, this is a deeper Chan movie than most. Probably because it wasn't directed by him.