There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

Amy Hempel
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The people who are bashing this movie for doing this are clearly not the target audience. If you don't like someone flying around in a plane, do not go to the movie theater to see the movie. You will not like it, and it is insulting to your intelligence.

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