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You'll be the first to admit you're a total movie snob. It's a rare breed that chooses to hang out at a museum and discuss aviation films rather than watch the Seahawks playoff game.

What's tougher to admit, though, is the fact that your girlfriend is so not one of those people. Maybe you should have screened her better before you went and got all emotionally attached and sentimental.

You don't care. You're headed to the Museum of Flight to catch aviation movie expert and author Mark Carlson and his 2:30 p.m. presentation based upon his book, Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies, 1912-2012 ... during the Seahawks game. Carlson's decades-long devotion to aviation movies has given him access and insights into the people who lived the world of airplanes and the movies. There's no way you're going to miss his discussion of Hollywood special effects from the earliest aerial photography to today's digital realm.

Today is a big test in your relationship. It just might be time to fly the coop.

FLYING ON FILM, 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11, Museum of Flight, 9404 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle, $11-$19 museum admission, 206.764.5720