Last night I talked some friends into seeing "Flight Plan." One of them wanted to see a foreign film, but I was in a mood to see Mindless American Entertainment (M.A.E.). To make a long story short, there were some pretty large holes in the storyline. I guess it's hard to write a screenplay about a child getting lost in an airplane. The part where nobody remembers her getting on the plane is a little bit of a stretch and Peter Sarsgaard is just a little too soft to really be a scary villain (Gary Oldman rocks in this dept.). But I STILL LIKED IT!

However, my friends were another story. I suppose I've reached a point in my maturation as an American Media Consumer where my expectations are so low that feasibility is no longer a requirement for my enjoyment of entertainment. I don't expect movies and TV shows to make sense. "Friends" live in a New York City where there are no black, hispanic, non-white people (not that I liked this show). If that's OK, then surely an entire flight crew can forget one extra child on a plane...am I making a point? I'm pretty sure I am.

Just for today, I can suspend my disbelief for M.A.E., even if others can not.