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Posted on 05/11/2025 3:48:15 PM PDT by DallasBiff
In a lengthy essay published in the New York Post, we learn that filmmaker David Zucker was recently asked an inane question at an anniversary screening of his 1980 film “Airplane!”
“Could you make ‘Airplane!’ today?” an audience member asked.
Zucker’s response was, “Of course, we could. Just without the jokes.”
Really? Is there a big market right now for films spoofing the genre of airplane-based disaster flicks from the 1970s?
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Airplane has to be one of the funniest movies ever, still have a VHS tape of it.
Humor should be abolished.
The thing is, the more they enforce these rules, the more people will find it funny.
Barbara Billingsley speaking jive was the best part, no way could they make that scene today.
The Why is because liberalism is inherently terrible.
Either that, or Big Brother should set aside an hour each day where we must laugh. At approved jokes only, of course.
Put this guy in charge:
It was especially funny because everyone thought of her as June Cleaver. The Beav’s Mom talking jive! Barbara Billingsly was a very talented lady.
True.
We can all think of scenes from other movies which would be permitted nowadays.
For example, in Crocodile Dundee, they made fun of a man dressed as a woman, apparently “transgender”. Dundee did a physical check on the guy, and determined that the “woman” was really a man. No way, with the way these “trans” are supposed to be so special, would that scene be permitted in a movie today. No way anyone in liberal Hollywood would permit such a scene nowadays.
Just waiting, to see if “objectionable” scenes from older movies, will be censored on streaming services, so that the allegedly “offensive” scenes are deleted.
What a loser author.
s.b. scenes from other movies which would NOT be permitted nowadays.
Precious snowflakes believe reality is fantasy and fantasy is reality, therefore male/female are not immutable biological characteristics, men who “identify” as women ARE women, two men can have a baby, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, 2+2=5, etc.
JFTR, “Zero Hour”, whose script the movie in question used, was released in 1957.
Well, it does have a lot of pedophilia jokes.
> Just waiting, to see if “objectionable” scenes from older movies, will be censored on streaming services, so that the allegedly “offensive” scenes are deleted. <
Bill Shatner recently complained that his Star Trek opening “… to boldly go where no man has gone before!” is being censored. Evidently some services are electronically altering the word “man” to “one”.
Side note: In Star Trek the Next Generation, Picard says “one” from the get-go. So I guess that’s safe from censorship, at least for now.
In 1971s Terror In The Sky, an airline crew is incapacitated by food poisoning and they must find a passenger, Doug McClure, who has flying experience to land. Airplane is an almost exact copy of the storyline but it is drama, not a comedy.
Idiots like this are why we can’t even watch Benny Hill on TV anymore.
Bill Shatner recently complained that his Star Trek opening “… to boldly go where no man has gone before!”
Sulu has gone where many men have gone before.
Doug McClure, who has flying experience to land. Airplane is an almost exact copy of the storyline but it is drama, not a comedy.
Troy’s brother?
The new version would be TSA, the script writes itself.
Just by going by stories on FR you could have a series of trauma inducing episodes that would convince sane people that air travel = insanity.
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