Instead of
The Oscars, I'm watching
Executive Decision (1995?), a marvelous nail-biter of a thriller, starring Kurt Russell and Halle Berry, about a group of Arab terrorists who hijack a jumbo jet, and rather than making demands, plan on exploding its huge payload of a nerve gas bomb in D.C., which will then kill off the entire Eastern seaboard. The movie was almost prophetic -- pre-911, the assumption was always that hijackers wanted something, rather than wholesale carnage.
In the past, I always found the movie rip-roaring entertainment, but now I find myself emotionally involved in it to a degree that would, absent 911, border on the pathological.
Yeah the hookup with the jumbo scene is well done.