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Things I learned from Lifetime’s Non-Stop (Major Spoilers!)


Don’t read this if you want to watch the film. And, I actually thought for one of those moments when there’s nothing better on tv and you want to laugh, be entertained in a really odd way, this film works.

1. There’s a crazy British kid screaming at the professor guy you work for at a major party, and you then don’t recognize him on the plane. (See #5 for how this gets weirder).
2. There are only two flight attendants on a massive jet. And, one happens to be a moderately attractive dude who is a trust-fund baby who sculpts, but decided to be a flight attendant to show his family he can get a “real” job.
3. If the mean, quasi-drunk other flight attendant tells you to sit down and wait for the beverage cart service, go find another unattended station and help yourself to a Disani water bottle.
4. If you have anti-anxiety medication, sleeping medication, it’s a good idea to top them all off with additional extra-potent sleephead medication (‘cause it’s stronger when it’s made in Europe), and top it off with a whisky chaser.
5. Make out with the same British kid (see #1) who screamed at the professor ‘cause you are drugged out of your mind and “in the mood” and then he’s stupid enough to give you a huge hickey, but he supposedly doesn’t exist on the plane at all.
6. Whoever trained this chick (the heroine) in self-defense needs to set up a self-defense chain across the country. I’d sign up. She manages to take down every one of the bad guys singlehandedly.
7. In case you are carrying a top-secret manuscript (see Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden), make sure you a) only have the copy and it's in an unattended overhead compartment and b) don't back it up anywhere. And, be sure you are unaware that the gift (the locket) the professor gives you at the party where the Brit kid made the crazy scene, has the document on it in the top secret thumb drive inside the locket.
8. Wear the highest possible heels that you can barely walk in so that the knife-wielding Brit kid can trip on one of them, as you already tripped on them running away from him and slipped out of one of them, so he stabs himself.
9. Make sure you get bumped multiple times and get to take a nearly empty flight in first-class(and, what airline in today’s world flies that empty) so when you are running away from the angry drunk flight attendant there’s always an empty seat to sit in.

I could make it to number 10, but I want to read some more cray cray observations on the film

I actually recommend this film as it has to be seen to be believed. And, I didn’t even give away the TWIST!

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Brilliant!! I laughed again at every absurd moment you described.

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To be fair the guy who made the scene at the party was a completely different actor (half amerindian to boot) than the one on the plane. But it makes one wonder what kind of organization would have just young good looking and charming guys who are just so deeply entrenched in old ideology.

"what is your major malfunction numbnuts?!!"

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"what is your major malfunction numbnuts?!!"


That is my major malfunction--my nuts are numb

If a person with multiple personality s threatens to commit suicide, is that a hostage situation

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10. When you sit next to a fat man who wants to talk to you and you say you just want to sleep, he says he won't let anyone disturb you and then he won't shut the *beep* up.
11. If someone tells you they are a federal agent (or whatever he was), don't ask for ID
12. If you tell the same agent that someone stole your luggage, he'll say he is not authorized to search the plane and that you should go up and down the aisle and see if anyone makes eye contact with you, sounds like a safe plan to me
13. If a stewardess is being watched for previous violations and might get fired for the next complaint, she is going to drink and be even more rude.
14 Airlines carry passengers for routine maintenance flights.
15 Airlines only carry 19 passengers on a plane that holds 200 or more



If a person with multiple personality s threatens to commit suicide, is that a hostage situation

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To be fair, some of these criticisms seem to have missed the point that this was not a scheduled flight, but a special one going to Europe for maintenance, hence the small number of passengers and cabin crew.

Also the "federal agent" said he was from Interpol and displayed a badge.

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16. School buses in Zurich look remarkably like American school buses, despite the fact that European vehicles are styled differently and generally smaller.

17. Drunk stewardesses can take your iPhone from you and throw it into the abyss of the overhead compartment, from which it will never be seen again.

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18. always take the bottle of scotch.



The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.-James Madison

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