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Saturday, January 21, 2006
My journey to Disney World
For the first time in my life I flew business class. I boarded the Virgin Atlantic 747, showed the nice lady my boarding pass and she said "Please make your way upstairs, sir". Cool! Upstairs! Sir!
Upstairs is a set of about 30 seats, laid out in two rows of two. They're very comfortable, have loads of leg room, recline quite a lot, and have a little row of cubby boxes between them and the window, so you can keep your stuff close to hand. This was wonderful. But what was even better was that there were only 10 of us up here! Ah, the luxury.
So I settled in and watched 4 movies:
Wedding Crashers. This was absolutely hilarious, so good I watched bits of it again during the flight. Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken and a surprise guest (I won't spoil it, it's very funny) - it could only have been better if it had Bill Murray and Chevy Chase. Highly recommended, 10/10 .
Flight Plan. A weird film, and not in a good way. It doesn't really make any sense, the genre keeps shifting, and it's ultimately silly. Which is a shame because Jody Foster's cool. 3/10.
Sky High. Could have been really good: it's a bit like The Incredibles, but not a cartoon. There are some fun things in it (like the bad guy being called Warren Peace) but it's clear the producers consider it a kid's film: the plot is very naff, and the ending - perlease! 4/10.
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Pretty much as good as movies like this get. However, I'd been in my seat for 7 hours by now, had just watched 3 movies back to back, and couldn't keep my eyes open, so I missed most of it. But what I saw was brilliant! 9/10.
So, I arrived in Orlando refreshed and movied-out. I breezed through customs, picked up my bag, got on the courtesy coach (everyone has to say nice things to each other) to Coronado Springs resort (near Disney's Animal Kingdom), checked in, and I'd arrived.
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