Hey Man! I m so deeply impressed by your vids week by week. It seems we re about the same age an movies were very special to is. Your Alien vids were some kind of groundbreaking.One of the reasons why i was so much into scifi was "The black Hole" by Disney. This was the movie which started it all and i m sure you know well about this flick. Would like to see your impression about this.
The Black Hole is slated for some time around December, and we are already gathering interviews about that film. Our slate to getting there so you can see how far away it will be is Halloween 1978, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Predator 2 then Jaws 2 or Black Hole depending on which one has the most research done when Predator 2 is complete. So, it is not far off. Thanks for your kind words and we hope to hear from you continually in the future.
I appreciate you sharing a little of your childhood and it’s great you were able to find some laughs. My childhood was tough also and between these films, Weird Al and sitcoms, it wasn’t all bad. In fact, this film was a big part of developing my sense of humor and it holds a special place in my heart either Top Secret! in a close second.
As a graduate student almost 20 years ago, I was required to take a course titled Ethics and Multiculturalism. As required reading for the course, there was a chapter in one of the books we were assigned that was titled, “Lesbians and Barroom Brawls”. When reading the chapter title, I couldn’t help but think of the scene in Airplane where the two Girl Scouts get into a fist fight in a bar over a game of cards and throw each other around the room. I couldn’t stop laughing for several minutes.
It's been so long since I've seen this movie and I was relatively young too so it's great to see how smart these jokes were. While some, especially modern audiences see this they could see it as crass, but there is so much to this. Hotshots captured what this film achieved years before. It's a long time since I've seen Top Secret too, the underwater barfight randomly popped up for me as a clip. With that you have to appreciate every element, to do that scene would have been hard work, time-consuming and costly... yet it was worth it. I've watched others explore some of what you've done here. Once again you've put in the effort to get fresh stories, while parts of what I've seen from others is still necessary context for your video. Some people do have hard lives or bad experiences, certain events in life or film will remind them of this. Sometimes it can be hard but often it allows you to process these events. I love the Animated show Archer, and there was a joke about Cancer, I found it funny at the time and I found it even funnier after I'd had cancer myself. I was very fortunate in my surgery, treatment, recovery and the support I got. I cannot imagine living my life as a victim and choosing to be offended. When people say 'I am offended' it a programmed response because they can rarely iterate why they are actually offended at something that it not directly aimed at them. For example, me and a friend from work recently saw Deadpool 3 at the cinema and both really loved it. We knew what the tone of the movie was going to be but we spoke afterwards and she thought it was a little gory and I thought there were a few too many sexual innuendoes. We both thought both elements could have been dialled down to about 80% of what it was, but neither wanted it to be removed.
Yes, people take things way too personally today and I think a big part of that is tribalism that the media sponsors and too many people thinking everything is about them. I don't go a video without someone being bothered by something and they just have to comment. Most of the time it's just so petty it shows they lack the manners to refrain from their outbursts. Calming oneself, being tolerant and looking at the many angles is the key I think and clearly your Deadpool 3 reflections show you have that as well and I think there is a huge population in the country that think the same way. The offended stuff I brush off and I have faith that those who champion such things will mature, and things will get better for our country especially with social politics and thin-skinned people. We will see, until then we still have stuff like Airplane! to remind us of how tolerant our society was in the 80's in regard to media.
I give you credit for not only acknowledging other channels who analyzed Zero Hour and Airplane but choosing not to cross analyze Zero Hour and Airplane by simply copying other channels. I thought that was cool. I did analyze Airplane by comparing side by side to Zero Hour as a remake on the film podcast Close Watch . I also examined it as a genre parody.
Airplane was a hybrid film: Part Remake, Part Genre parody. This is what most people dont know about this film. This is in my view why Airplane was so successful. It's two films in one really. Whats important for people to grasp is that most of the cast- Leslie Nielson, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and others-were standard dramatic Film and TV actors and were not I repeat Not giving comedic performances here in Airplane. They were giving conventional dramatic performances. They are funny because of the script's inherent satiric parodic contextualization.
I never noticed the baby being thrown in the air made me lol. It adds to the madness of the scene even if a tad morbid. Airplane 1 & 2 are comedy classics..
This was such a funny movie! I have always had it on my phone along with my other favorite movies. I do amit that I liked the sequel a bit more when I was younger but my favorite as an adult is the first by far. Great video
I heard Peter Graves wasnt really comfortable with Airplane. Considering some of his lines, I can see why I wasn't aware that Stack said the whole guest actor thing to Robert Hays. A kind gesture on Stack's part.
The horse joke I think it always confusing to people, but I think it was a play on "The Godfather" where the Hollywood producer wakes up in bed with the decapitated head of his prized racehorse. It was probablyl funnier back in 1980 since that scene was much more famous at the time.
Met Robert Hays at a convention. Really nice guy!
Another excellent video my friend!
Enjoyed
Fantastic review! Pure comedy classic. I'm gonna watch it now.
*_Surely there must be a Part 3_* ??? 😏😉😆✌️
Been waiting for this, thanks!
Love these
Love you for being here.
Hey Man! I m so deeply impressed by your vids week by week. It seems we re about the same age an movies were very special to is. Your Alien vids were some kind of groundbreaking.One of the reasons why i was so much into scifi was "The black Hole" by Disney. This was the movie which started it all and i m sure you know well about this flick. Would like to see your impression about this.
The Black Hole is slated for some time around December, and we are already gathering interviews about that film. Our slate to getting there so you can see how far away it will be is Halloween 1978, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Predator 2 then Jaws 2 or Black Hole depending on which one has the most research done when Predator 2 is complete. So, it is not far off. Thanks for your kind words and we hope to hear from you continually in the future.
I appreciate you sharing a little of your childhood and it’s great you were able to find some laughs. My childhood was tough also and between these films, Weird Al and sitcoms, it wasn’t all bad. In fact, this film was a big part of developing my sense of humor and it holds a special place in my heart either Top Secret! in a close second.
Love Weird Al's UHF, I think we will cover that one someday.
Ultra Magnus is indeed a nice guy.
Open! dam it open!
As a graduate student almost 20 years ago, I was required to take a course titled Ethics and Multiculturalism. As required reading for the course, there was a chapter in one of the books we were assigned that was titled, “Lesbians and Barroom Brawls”. When reading the chapter title, I couldn’t help but think of the scene in Airplane where the two Girl Scouts get into a fist fight in a bar over a game of cards and throw each other around the room. I couldn’t stop laughing for several minutes.
Let er rip...
We love ya Leslie!
It's been so long since I've seen this movie and I was relatively young too so it's great to see how smart these jokes were. While some, especially modern audiences see this they could see it as crass, but there is so much to this. Hotshots captured what this film achieved years before. It's a long time since I've seen Top Secret too, the underwater barfight randomly popped up for me as a clip. With that you have to appreciate every element, to do that scene would have been hard work, time-consuming and costly... yet it was worth it. I've watched others explore some of what you've done here. Once again you've put in the effort to get fresh stories, while parts of what I've seen from others is still necessary context for your video.
Some people do have hard lives or bad experiences, certain events in life or film will remind them of this. Sometimes it can be hard but often it allows you to process these events. I love the Animated show Archer, and there was a joke about Cancer, I found it funny at the time and I found it even funnier after I'd had cancer myself. I was very fortunate in my surgery, treatment, recovery and the support I got. I cannot imagine living my life as a victim and choosing to be offended. When people say 'I am offended' it a programmed response because they can rarely iterate why they are actually offended at something that it not directly aimed at them.
For example, me and a friend from work recently saw Deadpool 3 at the cinema and both really loved it. We knew what the tone of the movie was going to be but we spoke afterwards and she thought it was a little gory and I thought there were a few too many sexual innuendoes. We both thought both elements could have been dialled down to about 80% of what it was, but neither wanted it to be removed.
Yes, people take things way too personally today and I think a big part of that is tribalism that the media sponsors and too many people thinking everything is about them. I don't go a video without someone being bothered by something and they just have to comment. Most of the time it's just so petty it shows they lack the manners to refrain from their outbursts.
Calming oneself, being tolerant and looking at the many angles is the key I think and clearly your Deadpool 3 reflections show you have that as well and I think there is a huge population in the country that think the same way. The offended stuff I brush off and I have faith that those who champion such things will mature, and things will get better for our country especially with social politics and thin-skinned people. We will see, until then we still have stuff like Airplane! to remind us of how tolerant our society was in the 80's in regard to media.
"He might do a Godfather 3 someday."
And that, as we all know, worked out so well for him.
I give you credit for not only acknowledging other channels who analyzed Zero Hour and Airplane but choosing not to cross analyze Zero Hour and Airplane by simply copying other channels. I thought that was cool.
I did analyze Airplane by comparing side by side to Zero Hour as a remake on the film podcast Close Watch . I also examined it as a genre parody.
Yeah, those channels did a lot of work, and it would be kind of lame to take that away from them. Glad to hear from you writer as always.
Sorry to hear that you had the upbringing you suffered, but you have to look at the upside - it gave you a love of classic movies!
Speaking of The Godfather, I always thought the horse in bed was a riff on the "Offer he can't refuse."
I'm sure it definitely was.
Airplane was a hybrid film: Part Remake, Part Genre parody.
This is what most people dont know about this film.
This is in my view why Airplane was so successful. It's two films in one really.
Whats important for people to grasp is that most of the cast- Leslie Nielson, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and others-were standard dramatic Film and TV actors and were not I repeat Not giving comedic performances here in
Airplane. They were giving conventional dramatic performances. They are funny because of the script's inherent satiric parodic contextualization.
I never noticed the baby being thrown in the air made me lol. It adds to the madness of the scene even if a tad morbid. Airplane 1 & 2 are comedy classics..
This was such a funny movie! I have always had it on my phone along with my other favorite movies. I do amit that I liked the sequel a bit more when I was younger but my favorite as an adult is the first by far. Great video
John Carpenter! I can already envisage your presentation of Big Trouble will be a kickass video.
Brilliant! Thank you. I want one of those fart machines Leslie Neilson was peddling on set!
I heard Peter Graves wasnt really comfortable with Airplane. Considering some of his lines, I can see why
I wasn't aware that Stack said the whole guest actor thing to Robert Hays. A kind gesture on Stack's part.
1:10 I always wondered if the Zuckers wrote the jive talkin’. Thanks 👍
How did I miss the ice-cream mic! Thought I'd noticed all the jokes!🤣
The horse joke I think it always confusing to people, but I think it was a play on "The Godfather" where the Hollywood producer wakes up in bed with the decapitated head of his prized racehorse. It was probablyl funnier back in 1980 since that scene was much more famous at the time.
I always thought it was a play on the term “hung like a horse”. Of course he was cause he was an actual horse! XD
Like this comment if you’ve ever been in a Turkish prison.
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"Where did you get that dress?" - I don't know, it looked like a nice styling down the front to me (wink wink).
Julie apologizes too much.
No mention of Johnathan Banks being in the movie???
That is a pretty bad dress ngl...