PATREON EXCLUSIVE UNCUT REACTION - Airplane! (1980) - 90-Minute Classics
Added 2023-01-09 13:25:49 +0000 UTCHere is our full uncut reaction to Airplane! (1980)
This was a very close runner-up in our last poll, so we decided it got enough votes to justify being our next entry in 90-Minute Classics!
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This film is just masterpiece. The love theme, alone, is the most perfect cliché of itself! It's fabulous.
Jovet
2024-01-11 21:12:27 +0000 UTCI saw this in Richmond, Va. with my dad. When I was growing up, he and HIS dad used the phrase "Sh--'s gonna hit the fan" often. When we saw THAT gag in this movie, he just leaned back in his chair and, with his head shaking back and forth, said "Now I've seen it all." LOL! That kind of humor is mine as well, and for those reasons, THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE. Guys, some day, go back and watch the entire end-credit sequence, and carefully READ them..... you will find more literal humor there as well .... including something VERY funny in the final paragraph, just before the POST-CREDIT scene with the taxi. They didn't stop with the movie itself, as the after-film credits reveal!
Rhett Coates
2023-07-29 23:43:15 +0000 UTCOh, you also asked about 2 floor aircraft. The only one I've flown in was a 747, but there is at least one other type out there.
Brina Blue
2023-02-02 06:04:52 +0000 UTCI was 16 when this one came out, and it was especially funny to people that had lived through the 70s, because I had been been dragged to one Airplort disaster movie after another by my parents when I was a kid! They were huge All-Star big budget events. They all started with the over dramatic music like in the beginning and a broken romance similar to Ted and Elaine, then there would be other plot points like bombs or hijackings. This made Airplane! extra funny to us at the time! Yuban coffee already has been mentioned, but another small bit was TV commercials for a microwave called the Amana Radar Range. When they said, "check the radar range" in the movie, the joke was laugh out loud funny.
Brina Blue
2023-02-02 05:48:30 +0000 UTCI was 10 years old when this came out and rented it so many times in my teens on VHS. I hadn’t watched it in so long and so few movies make you laugh out loud so many times. It is relentless with the gags and ages so well.
AzoriusMage
2023-01-15 19:31:57 +0000 UTCLee Bryant plays the wife who thinks aloud "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home," a parody of a real Yuban Coffee commercial that was popular at the time. In an interview with AV Club, Bryant recounted having auditioned for the part in Airplane! without Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker ever knowing that she was the same woman from the real commercial. It was never brought up by anyone.
Pondo
2023-01-11 16:49:38 +0000 UTCMy favorite gag is when the reporter says "ok boys, lets get some pictures". I don't think they could bring a movie like this back because someone will find it offensive. The girl saying she takes her coffee black like her men has gone down in pop culture history, she'd never make it to screen today.
Ken R
2023-01-11 01:27:53 +0000 UTCFootage of the plane from this movie is reused as the plane Steve Martin and John Candy fly on in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles".
Joe Concepts
2023-01-10 16:43:52 +0000 UTCThere are actually a few gags in the credits themselves and something that maybe very few people catch... when they show the plane from the outside, the sound effect is of a prop plane and not a jet.
Nerd's Gold
2023-01-10 04:43:26 +0000 UTCI hadn't seen this for a while, but I have seen it like 3 or 4 times too. I noticed another stupid thing about it for the first time. The 747 jet airplane sound when it is flying is the sounds from prop propeller plane like from WW2. Once I heard that I could not "not" hear it again and it cracked me up.
Prof Moff
2023-01-09 21:23:37 +0000 UTCI've watch a few reactions to this movie, and almost no one catches the final scene after the credits. Of course, until 1977 most films had the credits at the beginning, so post-credit scenes wouldn't apply. "Star Wars" was not the first film to have its credits at the end, but it popularized the trend. The Marvel movies popularized the post-credit scene, but there were other examples before Marvel, such as this movie, "The Muppet Movie" and "Ferris Beuller's Day Off".
David Felgate
2023-01-09 19:46:46 +0000 UTCSome of the gags in this movie get missed today because most reactors aren't old enough to get all of the references. For example, the woman who thought to herself "He never asks for a second cup of coffee at home" is played by an actress who said that same line in a series of coffee commercials that were well-known when this movie came out. Also, the woman who could speak jive was played by Barbara Billingsly, who would have been recognized at the time as June Cleaver, the mother on the popular late 50s / early 60s TV series "Leave It to Beaver". June Cleaver is the last person anyone would have expected to speak jive, which was part of the joke. There were also a couple of references to Ronald Reagan, who was just finishing his first term as president in 1980 and running for re-election. The scene with Ted and Elaine on the beach with the waves washing over them was a parody of a classic scene from the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity". Finally, you need to keep in mind when watching this movie that members of the Hare Krishna sect were notorious in the 1970s for their aggressive panhandling in airports, and that in 1980 disco had just worn out its welcome and had been supplanted by punk and new wave music, and was therefor ripe for mockery.
David Felgate
2023-01-09 19:22:32 +0000 UTCIf you like this type of comedy, you should check out Police Squad, the TV series that really started the Naked Gun movie series and Leslie Nielen's career. There are only about 6-8 episodes, and it was a 1/2 hour TV show, so each episode is short. The same guys that made Airplane! made Police Squad.
Collin Freeman
2023-01-09 16:49:54 +0000 UTCAirplane! is actually a remake of Zero Hour!. Some of the actual scenes and dialogue in ZH are in Airplane, though Airplane goes further with them. The Zuckers bought the rights to ZH just so they wouldn't run into any copyright issues with it. The main character is also named Ted Stryker, most everyone does get food poisoning, and yes, ZH takes itself much more seriously. ZH even has a famous athlete as the pilot, not the co-pilot like Kareem. This one is Elroy "Crazylegs" HIrsch, who back in the 40s was a college football star in Wisconsin and Michigan, and also had a successful NFL career with the LA Rams. He is in both the College Football and NFL Hall of Fame. As to some of the other actors in Airplane, the pilot was played by Peter Graves, who was in lots of B-type movies in the 40s and 50s (including a few skewered by Mystery Science Theater 3000) but is probably best known for the TV series "Mission Impossible", the basis for the movie series. He was also the brother of James Arness, best known as Matt Dillon in the long-running TV series "Gunsmoke". Lloyd Bridges (Looks like I picked the wrong week to ...) was a very successful actor and was in several movies including the classic "High Noon", as well as having a very successful TV series in the 50s called "Sea Hunt". He was also the father of actors Beau and Jeff Bridges. Robert Stack (Unsolved Mysteries guy), was an Academy Award nominated supporting actor (in 1956 for Written on the Wind) and starred as Elliot Ness in the 1959-1963 TV series "The Untouchables" which was the basis for the Kevin Costner movie. You can find several videos on YouTube comparing Zero Hour and Airplane scene by scene.
KatWithAttitude
2023-01-09 16:36:24 +0000 UTCGlad you chose to react to this film. One of my favorite comedies of all time. If you want to do a follow-up, you might try watching Zero Hour! from 1957 (also Paramount) with Dana Andrews. It is especially fun to watch after seeing this film as Zero Hour! is serious, not played for laughs, but you can't help but make the comparison and laugh along the way (like Mystery Science Theater 3000).
Collin Freeman
2023-01-09 15:19:02 +0000 UTC
