This Netflix film Carry-On is about a terrorist plot set in an airport on Christmas eve. Such a great setting for a movie can't believe no one thought of this before
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WAY better than a terrorist plot in a high rise on Xmas eve. (Due Hard) Or Santa literally taking out terrorist kidnappers in a rich family’s estate. (Violent Night) Or that creepy French film about a home invasion on Xmas eve. (Inside) Do go on…
You spoiler i hoping it was about the fight for the rights ofcarry on luggage. Or an animated film about what happens to luggage once it's alone in the plane.
I think it will struggle to beat Carry On Up the Khyber, or Carry On Screaming… to name but two. Also Carry On Cleo……..”Infamy, Infamy, they’ve all got it in for me” 🤪
Perhaps the fourth one down the line can have a "clearly too old for this shit", bald main character drive around with a younger sidekick who can't do anything other than use a computer.
This is one of the reasons why I canceled Netflix. They don't do original. They look at what sold well and thought, "you know let's do that with a twist." Turns out the movies usually suck.
IMO I did not find Netflix good. It was not original, nor inventive. They did not take chances with cutting plots. They rely too much on what has sold in the past and then rehashed with a twist. Once they forced us to upgrade I cut it out. Now they are begging me to come back with constant emails.
Oddly I do find Amazon Prime Video as quite original and inventive. Not everything is good, but there is quite a bit that is quite good. For example seasons 1 to 3 of the Supes was quite good. The Rings of Power is excellent. Fallout is good, but not my style.
Reminds me of a recent South Korean movie about an airplane where both pilots fall ill and are unable to fly and a passenger who quit his successful flying career over a devastating incident needs to get over his trauma and save the day.
By the early 90s they'd done ever variant. Die Hard on a boat. Die Hard on a train, Die Hard in a Balloon. Then one day someone pitched a movie to one of the studios:
"IT'S DIE HARD - IN A BUILDING".
That was when the genre died out.
Second entertainment I have watched this week, Black Dove, where half the premise relies on no one being on the streets of London or in baggage area of LAX.
Hopefully they didn't think to do anything original like have the success of the hyper-meticulously-planned caper be foiled by the villain improperly measuring his luggage.
The premise is obviously the same as Die Hard 2 but the terrorist's scheme is different and new, so I'm not going to hate on it. Not nearly as good as Die Hard 2 but still enjoyable.
We should get a new "an Everyman defeats terrorists on Christmas" movie every couple of years.
I just watched the trailer after hearing about it here on Bluesky. Love the cast, but the premise is old, tired, predictable and frankly that is of films don't interest me anymore. I'd rather watch a documentary about the history of carbon, which I am on the Curiosity sreaming app.
You'd think this would be boring but it's amazingly fascinating. It's basically about ALL THINGS THAT EXIST. AND so far, no mention of any creator or deities. You know just the wonder of the universe through science.
And at the holidays too! When hundreds of thousands of people are going to be traveling in airports. Yeah, let's scare the crap out of everybody right before we get on the plane.
With a title like Carry-on, it needs to be travel related, so maybe Carry-on but it's a bus that will explode if its speed drops too much. It could be called "The bus that couldn't slow down: A Carry-On movie"
Perhaps the 3rd movie could be terrorists on a cruise ship.
Maybe with an off duty cop, who has experienced terrorists like this before? … All snark aside, I did think it was an enjoyable, surprisingly tense little romp. And there’s a car chase /crash scene which I was literally agape at.
Can't they come up with new plot lines. This ol' chestnut has been done to death. Let me guess the protagonist's wife have child were murdered yadda yadda. Yawn
"Carry On Overhead Compartment", with Sid James as Captain Sid , Barbara Windsor as Ditzy Titsy, Kenneth Williams Sir Quentin, Kenneth Connor as First Officer Acrophobic, Peter Butterworth as the Sutlan of Ohmy, and Bernard Breslaw as Screamin' Abdab.
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…or maybe it is…
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https://twitter.com/yenomjim/status/1733342725129277582
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_(franchise)
"Oooooh Yippykiyay Motherf***ing Matron"
Barbara Windsor takes off... Her top! Hya hya hya hya hya.
Anyway, this is the movie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Declaration_(film)
"IT'S DIE HARD - IN A BUILDING".
That was when the genre died out.
🤔
Sent it to Cleveland. It exploded and everyone thought it just thee Browns collapsing.
We should get a new "an Everyman defeats terrorists on Christmas" movie every couple of years.
Also, I did not know that John Hughes wrote home alone until just now. That's cool
And the director's name is Chris Columbus? His parents have to have been giant assholes. Who does that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Bedelia
Thank you for sharing
https://youtu.be/jGKi4nL7vks
And don’t call me Shirley.
Do you know when the hijacked TWA flight was being made to land in Beirut because that’s what the hijackers wanted,
Tower said no you can’t land here
AND TURNED OFF THE FUCKING RUNWAY LIGHTS
Great captain went ahead anyway. They turned the lights back on at the last second
Watch Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography on Curiosity Stream https://curiosity.tv/52zla1v
Keep calm.
Plus Jason Bateman—-I mean 😍
People keep banging on about this movie, Carry On - It’s Set In An Airport & On A Plane but a title like that isn’t very saucy, is it?
I mean, Carry On Nurse had a bit of sex appeal. What’s sexy about carry on luggage?
maybe a third one in new york
Perhaps the 3rd movie could be terrorists on a cruise ship.
Carry-On 3: As You Were
I was thinking it was a reboot of the British “Carry On” movies
It's just how you imagine it.
Crazy...