Boy: "Can I ask you a question?"
Ted: "What is it?"
Boy: "It's an interrogative form of sentence, used to test knowledge. But that's not important right now."
The phenomenal success of Airplane! (re-titled Flying High! in Australia) was the outcome of the sheer comedic brilliance of the talented "ZAZ" trio (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker). A spoof of the o... read more
Description:Years have passed since Ted Striker heroically saved many lives by avoiding a plane crash. Working as a test pilot for a new Lunar Shuttle, he gets innocently sent into a mental ward after a crash of the badly constructed, computer-navigated spaceship. When he hears that the exactly same type of shuttle is scheduled for a moon flight Years have passed since Ted Striker heroically saved many lives by avoiding a plane crash. Working as a test pilot for a new Lunar Shuttle, he gets innocently sent into a mental ward after a crash of the badly constructed, computer-navigated spaceship. When he hears that the exactly same type of shuttle is scheduled for a moon flight soon, he breaks out to hinder the launch. Aboard, Ted finds his ex-ex Elaine Dickinson working as stewardess again and her fiancé Simon, a member of the committee that wants the Mayflower I to be launched. In flight, the ship's computer ROK 9000 takes control, killing the crew. Ted and Elaine manage to switch it off, and now it is up to Ted again to save the passengers' lives - if there only wouldn't be these flashbacks to the war and these people who know Ted and have no faith in his abilities at all.... (more)(less)
"Airport Body Scanners
The film presents a world in which full-body scanners are ubiquitous in airports, giving airport security a naked video of whoever passes through the scanner, much to their delight. Naturally, the personnel in the film ensure to pick out the most attractive women to walk through the scanner, making for a briefly hilarious moment in this otherwise underwhelming flick.
And in the last few years, similar scanners have been implemented in airports the world over; though the"
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Watched September 30th - Amazon Streaming -Rewatch
"I don't know how to say this, but maybe in this mixed up, topsy turvy world of ours they should take all the quote sane people off the streets and lock them up and let all the psychopaths out of the asylums to run the world - no, I guess on second thought that's a bad idea."
- Elaine Dickinson
Closing out the month as usual with a movie from 1982 - this time Airplane II: The Sequel - It has always suffered in comparison to the original Airp"
"Why's it so good? Zucker Abrahams Zucker were not on board for this one - Ken Finkleman, a Canadian writer who also penned Grease 2 that year, somehow bagged the gig - but this is underrated. It suffers in comparison to the original, sure, but given that Airplane! may be the funniest film ever, that's understandable. Still, this maintains the frenzied gag rate of its predecessor, as Ted Styker (Robert Hays) and Elaine (Julie Hagerty) find themselves aboard the first commercial space shuttle flig"
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