Air Force One

Before heading to the cookouts, my girlfriend and I laid in bed this morning and watched Air Force One on a laptop. The acting and dialogue are terrible, for the most part. (Watch Gary Oldman, as the head hijacker, try to keep a straight face while mourning “Mother Russia.”) But the scenario itself is irresistible: Harrison Ford as the President, belonging to no specific political party, but still single-handedly saving a plane full of hostages, and the free world? Say what you will about Crystal Skull, but a decade ago the man was definitely not too old for this shit. Audrey, who just got off a ten month stint in the press room at the Hillary Clinton campaign, was quite taken with Glenn Close as the tough, steadfast VP. Sometimes the people we cast to play our elected officials in the movies can be enough to make us proud to... [read full story]