"If little girls had Brains!" - How autocorrect is ruining inflight entertainment

On a recent United flight they played a Sandra Bullock Movie called The Heat.

There is a scene in this movie where the cop character played by Melissa McCarthy, is searching for the police chief's "balls". She is searching everywhere in the office and even annoucnes to the rest of the police force "has anyone seen the captains balls? they are small, tiny, the size of ball bearings? no.. they are the size of little girl balls, IF little girls do have balls!"

Or at least that is what I remember seeing in the trailer!

For some strange reason, United decides to play this movie in a flight that does not have personal TV screens. Why they would do that is beyond me as it is an R rated movie that is not appropriate for kids staring at the big screens, given all the language in the movie.

For a worse reason, they decide to "autocorrect" the dialogues in the movie.

I am not sure if this was United's doing or Fox pictures doing, but it was a bad call. They replaced words like shit with stuff, other four letter expletives with kids choice of abuses and the worst choice was to replace "balls" with "brains"! 

There I was half asleep, trying to fight my stomach convulsions trying to divert myself, put on headphones to see what the movie was about and the first dialogue I hear ? 

"they are the size of little girl brains.. if little girls had brains!" and it just pissed me off. Was thinking "why won't little girls have brains! My girls are smart. How insulting is that for any little girl who happens to be on this plane? what are they thinking?!" and then it came to me that the original script was not this. 

United seriously needs to rethink its movie choices and they need to stop this autochange feature. Given the new dialogue was in Melissa McCarthy's voice, I am surprised she would do a voiceover for a dialogue that needlessly ridicules girls!

Goooooooooo "ARGO"

Watched ARGO last night after the kids went to bed. 

In case you have not seen it.. go see it. Ben Affleck does an outstanding job of directing this edge of the seat suspense movie, if you can call it that because you know what is going to happen in the end but he still made you come to the edge of the seat and wish you had not drunk that extra bottle of water before coming to the movie theater!

A few things that stood in my mind other than all those facts already mentioned in the reviews?

The background score for one. There are two places in the movie where the song just starts off in the background and just soars. The Knopfler guitar solo from "Sultans of Swing" and Zeppelin's "When the Levee breaks, there is no place left to go".. they were brilliantly placed. Brought you back memories of early eighties, and the words made a few connections in the brain which fit the situation.

The second thing was the look and feel of the movie. They had taken great pains to bring a late seventies feel to the movie, right from the lighting to the clothes to the landmarks. Truly amazing!

Ben Affleck truly shines as a director. Eagerly awaiting his next directorial effort!

A new found respect for Christian Bale

One of the perks of being married to an IBM'er in Silicon Valley is the twice a year or so special screening of blockbuster movies for employees and family.

San got us tickets to watch The Dark Knight Rises for a 9:30-Noon special screeing.

We stood in line from 8 to get nice seats and am still replaying some stuff from the movie in my head as this post is being typed.

What a movie! Beats every other movie that we have watched in the last two years hands down.

Christian Bale actually gives this character life. Saw that most reviews say he could have done better. His performance was as good as if not better than all the other heavyweights who make you feel something deep down in your bones. Seriously, it takes a lot of talent to hold your own with Oldman, Freeman and Caine.

Bale pulled it off in style.

We did not feel the time go by.True entertainment!

Hats off to Nolan.