I know an almost 4 year old article, but it was also the height of lib cancel culture that has failed miserably.
Airplane has to be one of the funniest movies ever, still have a VHS tape of it.
To: DallasBiff
Humor should be abolished.
To: DallasBiff
The thing is, the more they enforce these rules, the more people will find it funny.
To: DallasBiff
Barbara Billingsley speaking jive was the best part, no way could they make that scene today.
To: DallasBiff
The Why is because liberalism is inherently terrible.
5 posted on
05/11/2025 3:57:46 PM PDT by
Jonty30
(If the life of a fish is as valuable as a human, why can't humans eat fish when fish eat fish?.)
To: DallasBiff
To: DallasBiff
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.
11 posted on
05/11/2025 4:05:12 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
JFTR, “Zero Hour”, whose script the movie in question used, was released in 1957.
12 posted on
05/11/2025 4:07:07 PM PDT by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: All
13 posted on
05/11/2025 4:11:03 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
To: DallasBiff
Well, it does have a lot of pedophilia jokes.
14 posted on
05/11/2025 4:15:34 PM PDT by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
To: DallasBiff
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.
16 posted on
05/11/2025 4:36:56 PM PDT by
utahb52
To: DallasBiff
Idiots like this are why we can’t even watch Benny Hill on TV anymore.
17 posted on
05/11/2025 4:38:13 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DallasBiff
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.
20 posted on
05/11/2025 4:40:31 PM PDT by
9422WMR
To: DallasBiff
There’s only one way to find out if a movie like that could be made today. The problem is finding another Mel Brooks or Zucker Brothers to make it.
26 posted on
05/11/2025 5:39:53 PM PDT by
Bernard
(Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
To: DallasBiff
Really? Is there a big market right now for films spoofing the genre of airplane-based disaster flicks from the 1970s?
Pretty sure there's a big market right now for films which are actually funny. Pretty sure there's an even bigger market for films which are even watchable. Nearly all of the garbage nominated for the Oscars this year was far worse than Airplane! Not anywhere near as funny, either, though what laughs there were in this year's Oscar nominees was entirely unintentional.
To: DallasBiff
Try making Blazing Saddles...
34 posted on
05/12/2025 10:11:58 AM PDT by
packrat35
(Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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