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The hit comedy movie 'Airplane!' is 40 years old. It shows its age, but it's still relevant (back in theaters Aug 30)
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| July 21, 2020
| By Bryan Reesman
Posted on 08/20/2020 1:10:03 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: scottinoc
Which is how 99% of all NBA players play today.
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:22:58 PM PDT
by
LukeL
To: OttawaFreeper
That got the biggest cheer in the theater, back in the 70s when I watched it. Perfect first date. Good times, good times. Now I’d kill for disco over the Cardi B garbage these days.
To: shelterguy
Leslie Nielson was awesome in that movie. I remember when he was in black and white movies as the straight guy, then he appears in this movie.
“A hospital! what is it?...A building with doctors and patients but that’s not important now”
To: LukeL
Directed & Written by:
Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:25:37 PM PDT
by
newfreep
(What is the significance of)
To: 11th_VA
They need replace the captain with Joe “Plugs” Biden.
Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:26:10 PM PDT
by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
To: newfreep
I think the Zucker brothers were in the opening scene directing the 747 that crashed into the terminal. Kind of like Hitchcock cameos.
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:28:22 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
To: newfreep
Shirley he knows Abdul-Alcindor is a bigtime racist
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:28:37 PM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
(See St George's Rap Sheet . . . TAG PedoJoe with "DEFUND the POLICE")
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
“At least I have a husband”. Made the stewardess cry.
To: dfwgator
Talk about a dated reference....
That’s Howard Jarvis, the mastermind behind California’s Proposition 13. Something of a celebrity at the time, does 1 person in 50 who watches that film now have any clue who he is?
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:31:09 PM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: All
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:31:15 PM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Become a monthly donor and stamp out FReepathons.)
To: 11th_VA
Johnny : Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:31:34 PM PDT
by
Patriot_MP
(Of the Troops, For the Troops - US of A Always. Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: 11th_VA
Very funny but I didn’t like the shot at Ronald Reagan. But very funny movie
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:31:49 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
To: Texas resident
"When can we land this plane?"
"I can't tell ..."
"You can tell me, I'm a doctor"
"Not for another two hours"
"You can't tell for another two hours?"
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:32:09 PM PDT
by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: Texas resident
What really made the movie a classic was the insistence by the Zucker bros and Abrahams the dialogue be delivered straight in total seriousness.
They were getting a LOT of pressure from the studio to do it as a “normal” comedy but they stuck to their guns and the rest is history.
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:33:08 PM PDT
by
newfreep
(What is the significance of)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Jarvis was the first populist hero. The reason my aged father can still live in his home in Cali.
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:35:11 PM PDT
by
donaldo
To: 11th_VA
Will the pre-movie highlights include a lecture on the “outdated and offensive jokes” in order to prep any snowflakes who may get triggered?
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:35:26 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(==)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:35:50 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
I liked that Lorna Patterson was in this movie, as she was one of my TV crushes back when she was on Private Benjamin, lol.
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posted on
08/20/2020 1:37:41 PM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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