Open Thread Tuesday

I first saw Airplane! some time in the 90s when it aired on ABC (back when the networks actually aired movies in primetime). I had already seen most of Airplane II on HBO and I thought it was funny (gotta love Shatner). I thought Airplane! was just as funny though in subsequent years I've realized just how much funnier it is. Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker were firing on all cylinders. I highly recommend the DVD audio commentary where you'll learn everything you've ever wanted to know about the making of this film.

I think the scene I laughed at the hardest was when Johnny (the late Stephen Stucker, a veteran of the ZAZ's Kentucky Fried Theater company) asks Captain Oveur's wife, "Where did you get that dress? It's awful! And the shoes and that coat, JEEZ!!!" I also love Leslie Nielsen's "Ah yes, I had lasagna" when told they had steak or fish. And Robert Stack beating up all the donation guys in the airport. And Stack's rambling at the end, "You ever been kicked… in the head… with an iron boot? Of course you don't. No one does, that never happens. Sorry Ted, that's a dumb question, skip that."

I'm surprised the film got away with a PG rating. I know PG-13 didn't exist but between the brief topless shot (which is very funny) and the old lady snorting a line of coke, it would probably be R-rated today (sometimes it seems the standards have gone both ways).

I recently watched all four Airport films and Zero Hour! which is where most of the Airplane! gags come from. There are shots in this film which duplicate Zero Hour! down to the blocking and camera angles (the ZAZ team bought the rights to Zero Hour! so Airplane! is basically a remake). And as for the Airport films, the first one I thought was great; the second one (with Karen Black as the stewardess who lands the plane and Helen Reddy as the singing nun) is where things turn to parody. But still very entertaining!

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Here is something that should put people on NOTICE that this administration definitely does not have our best intrerests at heart.

This is the funniest movie ever made (no, not Some Like It Hot, the one the AFI declared the funniest). It passes the crucial test: Does it still make you laugh out loud years later after repeated viewings? Do you still go around quoting lines from it? Well, surely, Airplane passes both tests. And if you haven't said the punch line in your head already, you don't know this movie.

“I picked a bad time to quit sniffing glue.”

Surely, you can't be serious.

Wasn't it part of tenth grade lit class where the teacher tells us something about how there are on 32 or 64 different plots? It is a lot easier to poach on something already done than create something fresh. Some re-makes are not even identified as such. Equally disturbing is the constant poaching from old television shows and action hero comics. As I write this, I'm thinking to myself "movies are a mess these days."

I am serious and don't call me Shirley

I saw that too! The movie is kind of sappy, but it's one of Cruise's best.

You'd never get a movie like this made again, simply because one scene would be considered hideously offensive.

"Oh, stewardess? I speak jive."

And Leon's getting LLLLAAAAAARGERRRRRR……….

I saw an interview years ago with the Zucker brothers and one of them said he was amazed at all the serious acting careers they trashed with that movie. Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen…..none of them could get any serious roles after they got a hold of them….

Hahaha! One of my favorite lines in that movie!

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yeah, a youth coming of age football, it did have Craig T. Nelson ( a non-liberal.) I probably should have made this comment on the other Tom Cruise thread. It was nothing great with some cliche's, but overall pretty good for what it was. Cruise was too young to have gone wacko at that point.

Ohh, I was just reading that, it's still there..go to front page of drudge.

Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow!

They were brilliant, when Jabbar grabs the kid and gives him an earful about dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the court I lost it.

"I just wanted to wish you good luck. We're all counting on you." I constantly interrupt a co-worker with that just as he's about to tow an aircraft.

I always use that line with friends, too. Another one is "altogether" as in "It's an entirely different kind of flying." Whenever someone I know says "It's a totally different xyz…" I add an "altogether" at the end of it.

I always use that line with friends, too. Another one is "altogether" as in "It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether." Whenever someone I know says, "It's a totally different xyz…" I add an "altogether" at the end of it.

I played football in Northeast Ohio, so that film really resonated with me.

Also, a guy I worked with grew up close to where the pic was shot, and was allowed to see some of the filming. He said Tom Cruise could legitimately play football.

I always had a little more respect for him after I heard that.

"6-2 stack monster — 6-2 stack monster!"

cut me some slack Jack!

Indeed, the best part of the humor was in how straight the lines were played. Oh, and they did nab George Kennedy for the Naked Gun films.

or getting one's nutz ripped off by a lhaplander, now that's a way to go.

The tower? Rapunzel! Rapunzel!

Some of us talked about this in another open thread last week. Let's say some rich center/right-leaning folks get together and start up a movie studio somewhere in the east… money, facilities, tech people, etc. And let's say they're able to find distribution (theatrical, home video, TV, foreign, etc.)

My question is this: what's to stop center/right-Hollywood from lurching left at some point in the future? There will still be spoiled brat stars, regardless of political affiliations. There will still be Access Hollywood, The Insider, and all those other POS programs that they routinely make fun of on The Soup. There will still be gossip columns and Perez Hilton (ugh) and egotistical filmmakers.

So what's to stop all this from happening again? And it doesn't even have to do with politics; it also has to do with material and money and execs who know a good idea when they see it.

Good morning all.

I'm rather new here, but does this site have server problems regularly? Yesterday afternoon and this morning I'm having a hell of a time posting and thumbs up/down. It keeps telling me I'm not logged in (I am!) and has logged me out several times.

Love the site and the give and take!

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"You take a chance getting up in the morning, walking across the street or sticking your face in a fan…"

Yep…..always wanted to be her. She wore an apron AND pearls. She was a true domestic goddess

It's Enrico Palatzo!

My favorite lines:

Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

Here is a video of a regular person (not a pundit) going on CNN to talk about the Townhall meeting in Tampa.
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Enlightening. Amusing. They just do not get real people.

Sorry link is weird. I am not sure what to cut out. It gets you there though.

I just heard on Rush
Socialist is the new N word
/spit

someone who obviously thinks he can get lightning to strike in the same place twice.

Personally, I don't think allowing the feds to use cookies, as long as they are upfront and explain how citizens can clear them out when done, is a big issue. It's the same technology that automatically logs me into Amazon.com.

How ever, it is interesting that the MSM is reporting it. I thought nothing less than orgasmatic stories were allowed.

I was throwing Police Squad lines out at Leslie Nielsen in the club like this. he cuffed me behind the head and promised to hire me as his understudy when my hair turned gray. It has been 10 years and I'm still waiting!

I find it telling that the host is trying to argue this woman's points before "the other side" even chimes in.

Did they question motives and tactics when war protesters were obstructing traffic or attacking recruitment centers?

mmm nature fried community organizer… could be the new sensation at the state fairs.

MY question is will Holder step in like he did for the thugs at the Philly voting station.

In normal times, I wouldn't even bother asking that question, but these United States are under new management.

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I think this is it.

Friendly reminder to all true Americans, its your duty to find at least one fishy thing about the health care discussion today, and notify the White House on it!

flag@whitehouse.gov

I'm reading through the constitution: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitut...

And I don't see the word health care listed even once. I do find this how ever,

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Which makes it pretty clear, the federal government is forbidden from doing anything that its not specifically authorized.

Very fishy.

Correction: It doesn't work any more. I've lost several comments totally.

What made them cast Barbara Billingsley in that role? That was inspired.

Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

An entertaining evening that must have been *grins*

You know that guy with the disabled son who got upset at the townhall? He has been getting threats delivered to his house in the middle of the night.

Yeah, he is the thug. God help the brave folks willing to speak out at those townhalls. I do not think I would give my name. Does a sane person invite violence to their family?

You know, I can see you in a carney role

That's pretty much the gist of it.

<Insert legitimate point here> – "It's because he's black!" (standard liberal response)

Thanks Joe. Yep. That's it.

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