While flight is statistically very safe , many films dramatize worst - case scenarios . The new film , ` ` ! , '' starring Denzel Washington , is probably not a film to watch on a plane . ` ` Airplane ! '' turns the conventions of an in - flight nightmare upside down , using them as weapons .
While flying is statistically very safe , many films dramatize worst-case scenarios . The new film , `` Flight , '' starring Denzel Washington , is probably not a film to watch on a plane . `` Airplane ! '' turns the conventions of an in-flight nightmare upside down , playing them as comedy .