We’ve come a long way from those movie serial days when people had to wait for their weekly installment of some masked vigilante fighting some other masked vigilante. Oh, wait, that’s just television now? Incredible.
Flying largely seems to be a man’s world, and as such, it is riddled with grandiose assumptions and macho tropes about what it is and means to be a pilot.
Welcome to Hollywood Myths, Cracked — our new series where we look at some of the blatant lies the Movie Illuminati keeps spreading through their films about cute little clownfish and murderous giant dino sharks.