What a difference a few years make...

Watched most of Executive Decision last night. Kurt Russell movie. My dad had it on while I was replacing my mom's hard drive & transferring stuff from the old to the new, etc. Basic idea: 747 gets hijacked by Algerian militants, ostensibly with the goal of forcing a particular prisoner to be released, but really with the goal of ramming the plane and the bomb secretly brought aboard into DC. Various things happen in the movie, including Oliver Platt putting the straw his techie character constantly chews on to very good use (must remember that, my own chewing habit could come in handy someday), but a number of things kept pestering me.

( I dunno, maybe you don't wanna be spoiled or something. So I'm putting it back here. Also some Sept. 11 content. )

Which is not to say that it wasn't a fun movie. I rather enjoyed it, especially Oliver Platt and John Leguizamo. True, I could have done without the gazillion commercials, but still... I did not mind watching it precisely because it had so little bearing on the way things would be if it happened today.

Also because Steven Segal's part in this movie was apparently so small that I saw him for less than three minutes. He must've gotten killed while I was out of the room. Sorry, Steven fans, I'm just not very big on his stuff.