As a rule, AirLine Pilots love war movies and the American Heroes Channel (formerly known as the Military Channel). Whether former Military, or a life long civilian, they all spend hours upon hours watching documentaries about Hitler's Henchmen or WWII movies.... over and over and OVER again. It doesn't matter how many times you walk into the room and scream "Spoiler Alert: Allies win! Nazis are bad!" Still they watch.
So imagine my surprise when I walked in the house after cutting down a dozen trees, mowing an acre of grass, and weeding several planting beds, to find PilotHusband watching "The Bridges of Madison County". Had he suddenly gone soft? Had he found a new appreciation for chick flicks? No. He thought it was a World War II movie! Like "A Bridge Too Far", "Bridge at Remagen", and "Bridge Over the River Kwai".... it had the word bridge in the title. It starred Clint Eastwood (like "Where Eagles Dare"). It starred Meryl Streep (like "Sophie's Choice"). The poor guy kept waiting for Tiger tanks and Nazis to begin their assault. By the time he realized it was a romance, it was too late. He was already an hour into the film and had left the remote in the kitchen on his last beer run.
So imagine my surprise when I walked in the house after cutting down a dozen trees, mowing an acre of grass, and weeding several planting beds, to find PilotHusband watching "The Bridges of Madison County". Had he suddenly gone soft? Had he found a new appreciation for chick flicks? No. He thought it was a World War II movie! Like "A Bridge Too Far", "Bridge at Remagen", and "Bridge Over the River Kwai".... it had the word bridge in the title. It starred Clint Eastwood (like "Where Eagles Dare"). It starred Meryl Streep (like "Sophie's Choice"). The poor guy kept waiting for Tiger tanks and Nazis to begin their assault. By the time he realized it was a romance, it was too late. He was already an hour into the film and had left the remote in the kitchen on his last beer run.
This gave me a great idea. Hey Hollywood! (and by Hollywood, I mean the film industry, not the former Top Gun Instructor, Mother D Pilot). If you want to increase ticket sales to your next Romantic Comedy, try putting words like invasion, Normandy, Panzer, Blitzkrieg, assault, paratrooper, commando, and especially bridge, in the title. Just a thought.
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