Posted on 08/17/2016 9:06:23 PM PDT by sparklite2
Set aside some time for this. There were a LOT of jokes.
(Excerpt) Read more at bullshit.ist ...
If you want to see the movie that inspired Airplane!, watch Zero Hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour!
When I watched “Lost in Space” when I was a kid, I always thought Dr. Smith was some kind of child molester. Maybe it was the lilt to his voice or something, but as a kid, that was how he hit me.
And I always thought the robot knew it when nobody else seemed to pick up on it, except for Maj. Don West, who SEEMED to know at some unconscious level.
DR. SMITH: “Will, come over here behind this rock!”
ROBOT: “DANGER! Will Robinson, DANGER!”
It was just the way that whole dynamic came across to me...I wonder if it was done intentionally that way? Maybe it was just me...
She is scarred for life!
I saw this movie in Hungary. English with Hungarian subtitles. It didn’t work. I was rolling on the floor laughing and everybody was looking at me like I had three eyes on my head.
All this way and no one has mentioned:
“Ok, give me Hamm, hold the Mayo.”
Side by side highlight comparison of Airplane versus Zero Hour, the parody film was based on.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs
Someone needs to do the same type thread on Blazing Saddles!
Besides the jokes, look carefully for “hidden” sight gags. For example, there’s a shot of Lloyd Bridges leaning over his desk, grimly smoking a cigarette, while behind him hangs a picture of ... Lloyd Bridges leaning over his desk, grimly smoking a cigarette.
There are dozens of those if you watch carefully (and repeatedly).
Wasn’t that Airplane 2?
Pale shadow of the original but underrated and very funny.
cheers
Jim
That would have been great!
That was brilliant and well done. Thanks for posting it.
Every time I saw him I thought of The Swamp Fox. Hard to get past childhood memories.
Or “Drinking Problem “
One of my desert island discs!
I love the reference near the beginning where, I think, Mickey Rooney refers to Ethel Merman as an old bag (where they’re arguing about the financial split) and Jonathan Winters says something like “we all agree about that..”
Criterion Collection has a great Blu-ray of it.
cheers
Jim
Kicks the bucket!
Looks like I picked the wrong week ta quit sniffin glue!
That’s an easy answer: No.
LOL
I didn’t know that...I always assumed it was “Airport”...
Now I am goingo to have to check it out...:)
There was another movie, made in the 1950s, I think starring Dana Andrews, called Zero Hour, with the same plot line and some of the dialog almost word for word of Airplane. However, this was not a comedy, it was a serious movie. But even though this was a serious movie, when you hear the same dialog from the movie Airplane except it’s said in seriousness, it makes this serious movie funny.
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