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[apocalypsos]

I'm watching Home Alone right now, and I swear, the only reason I'm watching this is for the scene where the mother is at the one airport where she meets John Candy and his polka band, and she's yelling at the ticket agent, and she says, "I have been awake for almost 60 hours. I'm tired and I'm dirty. I have been from Chicago to Paris to Dallas to... where the hell am I?" To which the ticket agent dryly points out, "Scranton."

That airport? Frickin' huge compared to the one in Scranton. The airport at Avoca is like a 7-11 with a slightly larger parking lot.

Although the fact that there might be a polka band milling around waiting for a plane is sadly not that much of a stretch.

Comments

[overloved.livejournal.com]

Were they really at the airport? I'd always assumed airports in movies are fake.

Of course, compared to Hartsfeild/Jackson Int'l, every airport looks like a 7-11 to me.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

They had to have been at a totally fake airport anyway, but they didn't even bother to check whether it was even remotely realistic. The one in the movie is practically O'Hare compared to the real one.

[overloved.livejournal.com]

I figure as much. Everytime I fly, I'm always appalled by how small airports actually are. I don't need huge, I just feel like there should be more than a newstand and a hot dog cart at my gate. Also, more than 1 security scanner per terminal would be nice.