All this talk about the strange disappearance of Malaysia Airlines airplane reminded me of two, not very famous, but in my opinion very interesting movies about airplane accidents:
Mystery movies about airplane accidents
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Khalsa
Padawan Learner
I never saw the movie, but the Langoliers story was interesting, and very creepy. Which is to be expected, since it's by Stephen King and all. Definitely a High Strangeness type of story.
I feel I should mention the show Lost (minor Spoilers ahead). It's about a plane that crashes on a mysterious island due to an EMP-like event. Many of the passengers survive and try to eke out a living there, Lord of the Flies style. They also have to defend themselves against a group of people called the "Others", descendants of a research group that arrived on the island before the plane crash. This group, the "Dharma Initiative" is very much like the group described in the Ong's Hat material, IMO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
I feel I should mention the show Lost (minor Spoilers ahead). It's about a plane that crashes on a mysterious island due to an EMP-like event. Many of the passengers survive and try to eke out a living there, Lord of the Flies style. They also have to defend themselves against a group of people called the "Others", descendants of a research group that arrived on the island before the plane crash. This group, the "Dharma Initiative" is very much like the group described in the Ong's Hat material, IMO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
Persej said:
Spoil alert:
This is the part, at the beginning of the movie, where the "writer"gives a sort of theory about what maybe happened at the airplane. His theory, that is a conspiracy theory, as you will see, have sense... ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojj7E7w3-U
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Recently was released a movie starring Liam Neeson about a plane hijacked by the terrorists ,the movie it's called Non-Stop,interesting it may be nothing but,taking in consideration the disappearance of the flight 370 i thought interesting that it came out recently,for sure it's nothing,but anyway what a good coincidence.
Corvus
Dagobah Resident
I watched Langoliers some months ago around New Year and came across it by coincidence but remembered through it that I watched it once as a kid. Maybe the good movie that fits this category is also The Mist from 2007 about dimensional portal gone wrong through military experiments.
edgitarra
Jedi Council Member
Corvinus said:
Even "The Thirteenth Floor "(1999) is a good movie or especially the some episodes from the Twilight Zone like:
Season 1:
- Ep. 11, "And When the Sky Was Opened"
Three U.S. astronauts blast off from Earth on an initial test flight in an experimental rocket-ship, but during the flight into space the ship disappears from radar, then reappears. On return, the rocket-ship is hangared and put under a tarp, pending an investigation. One crewman is hospitalized for a leg broken on landing, and is visited by the other two. Next the pair go for a drink, and then one crewman phones his parents from a bar phone-booth - but they say they have no son! The astronaut immediately disappears, and no one in the bar remembers him, except the other astronaut in the bar, the Captain.
- Ep. 18 "The Last Flight"
A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air force base in France 42 years in the future.
- Ep. 20 "Elegy" - This one I thought was very creepy and weird
Three astronauts touch down on an asteroid, where they discover a world of people that appear to be frozen in time. Confused, they theorize as to why everyone is motionless, until a man springs to life and explains.
Corvus
Dagobah Resident
I like weird, where s the fun if everything stays the same always, and weird is description for something unknown or different based on someone s perceptions of normal which depends largely on influence of enviroment, but enviroment also depends on them in a way. I like when someone s mouth end up to the floor because in a way it shatters their preconcieved ideas and prejudices, it openes you in a way, and I always laugh inside when I see people s reactions, it is funny in a way. Maybe people would learn more from that weirdeness if not taking it through prejudices, fear and repulsiveness. The purpose of work is to become as much as "weird" for world and to see world as "weird" place. In the end everything has purpose and is up to everyone to find it.
edgitarra
Jedi Council Member
Corvinus said:
I agree with you and your internal judgement. It gives me the impression that my categorization of this episode made you angry a little bit. This was not meant to describe how the purpose of the Work is. What would you do if you would be immobilized like those characters in the episode? Wouldn't it be subjectively creepy for you not to be able to move, to act, just wander in an eternal dream, which is exactly what we do while being asleep in a world where we could be able to do? And if I would say what is one of the factors of the Work, I would name it in the Orthodox way and like Gurdjieff said: "Death to the World" or to sacrifice one's sleep in exchange of a Real World. Rather being dead for the world and see the world as it is. The world nowadays is not weird. It is just asleep. And it is how the balance works.
P.S. I don't want to be rude, I somehow know that your response was here for me only, not for the "straw people" who could learn more from that weirdness. Check the straw man fallacy when you have your opinions in a discussion with someone. Again, I am sorry if this seemed rude to you or if I am mistaken.
Corvus
Dagobah Resident
No, I did not get angry, frankly it was quite opposite in a way, do not know why would I got angry for that, I know it was not meant for work, I just made some analogy. Everybody works in a way even when they do not.
Nothing really I could do in that scenario. Maybe that would be the purpose.
Maybe some need a good night of sleep to function properly in the morning of next day. Why we are not able to do if we can?
Maybe I did not express myself correctly, but I meant weird as you say dead for the world and seeing the world as weird when seeing it as it is.
I was reffering to majority of people s reactions and was also thinking about mutual interactions between people when one is acting weird, you can in that way test the people s openes and prejudices in a way.
It is ok, it s a matter of personal choice in the end how somene views things.
If we talk about TV series, another interesting episode about airplane accident is episode 17 of the 4th season of X-Files:
Tempus Fugit - Max Fenig is traveling on an airplane. He watches another man on the plane who seems to be following him. The man heads to the plane's bathroom, where he assembles a zip gun. However, when he comes back out, the airplane begins shaking and a bright light flashes outside, showing that the plane is encountering a UFO.
This one is talking about alien abduction scenario.
Tempus Fugit - Max Fenig is traveling on an airplane. He watches another man on the plane who seems to be following him. The man heads to the plane's bathroom, where he assembles a zip gun. However, when he comes back out, the airplane begins shaking and a bright light flashes outside, showing that the plane is encountering a UFO.
This one is talking about alien abduction scenario.
Persej said:
I read up a bit more online about the Tempus Fujit episode (I have seen it before but it's been awhile) and found it interesting that Tempus Fugit in Latin means "time flees" or "time flies."
There was also the X-Files episode, Piper Maru (episode 15 of season 3) that is somewhat related in regards to a plane crash and surrounding high strangeness.
From Wikipedia:
"Piper Maru, a French salvage vessel, is exploring the Pacific Ocean. Gauthier, a member of the ship's crew, dives down into the sea and finds a sunken fighter plane from World War II. He is shocked to find a man alive in the plane's cockpit, with what looks like black oil in his eyes."
This is an episode (if has not been mentioned already on another thread ), of the Twilight Zone. It was one i never forgot as youth when it was first aired back 1961. And thought, could it really happen? 
It's not a movie, but a popular TV series that captivated the American television audiences in it's prime time spot.
Twilight Zone Flight 33
Season 2-Episode 54-Written by Rod Serling
Original air date February 24, 1961
1 (1959–1960) Friday at 10:00 pm E.T.
2 (1960–1961)
3 (1961–1962)
4 (1963) Thursday at 9:00 pm E.T.
5 (1963–1964) Friday at 9:30 pm E.T.
_www.answers.com/topic/the-twilight-zone-1959-tv-series
Flight 33
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RuIrMADj9U
Plot
It's not a movie, but a popular TV series that captivated the American television audiences in it's prime time spot.
Twilight Zone Flight 33
Season 2-Episode 54-Written by Rod Serling
Original air date February 24, 1961
1 (1959–1960) Friday at 10:00 pm E.T.
2 (1960–1961)
3 (1961–1962)
4 (1963) Thursday at 9:00 pm E.T.
5 (1963–1964) Friday at 9:30 pm E.T.
_www.answers.com/topic/the-twilight-zone-1959-tv-series
Flight 33
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RuIrMADj9U
Plot
_en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_of_Flight_33
