The first ever Korean ski jumping national team is rapidly put together to help the nation compete for the Winter Oympic hosting bid. With the recruited members having no ski jumping experience at all, they embark on tough training to become true ski jumpers.I can't imagine it'll be as absurd as Cool Runnings, but a girl can hope, right? Oh, and cross your fingers for me that the flight doesn't get stuck with Juno on repeat, which happened when I flew to Tokyo last spring.
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I don't have much to add to Graeme Wood's account of how Afriqiyah Airways (centered in Lybia) censored Tropic Thunder, but I highly recommend it. It's a fairly hilarious look at a business gingerly negotiating its engagement with Western culture on the raunchier end. I'm flying to Phnom Penh by way of Seoul on Thursday (details on how you'll be taken care of in my absence to come), and it looks like Korean Air has a pretty good selection of movies on the longer leg of my trip. If they do anything funny to Julie & Julia, In The Loop, (500) Days of Summer, Up, Public Enemies, or District 9 (which I'm looking forward to watching again), I promise I'll let you know. And I'm definitely going to have to check out "Take Off," which has the following description: