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BronsonLee discovers cinematic greatness: Airplane
- Thread starter PhoncipleBone
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Airplane is great.
Perhaps you should also recommend him my personal favorite by the Zucker Bros, Top Secret!
Perhaps you should also recommend him my personal favorite by the Zucker Bros, Top Secret!
Airplane is still my fav comedy. My gf hadn't seen it or heard of it so I made her watch it like a month ago. I don't think it was as transformative an experience for her though.
I don't really care for Top Secret however
I don't really care for Top Secret however
Airplane also has the honor of straight up murdering the air disaster genre. It's just not possible to make one of those without people thinking about Airplane anymore.
Only things we get now are action movies set on a plane or other comedies. See Snakes on a Plane for an example, but the old thriller of will they make it down safely? Dead. Gone. Brutally slain by Airplane.
And I'm not entirely sure if anyone mourns their loss.
Only things we get now are action movies set on a plane or other comedies. See Snakes on a Plane for an example, but the old thriller of will they make it down safely? Dead. Gone. Brutally slain by Airplane.
And I'm not entirely sure if anyone mourns their loss.
Airplane is a classic.
I also identify with BronsonLee there are loads of movies that I am constantly told to watch but never have. I still haven't seen the original Ghostbusters movie for example. I also watched the prequels before I ever saw the original SW trilogy.
I also identify with BronsonLee there are loads of movies that I am constantly told to watch but never have. I still haven't seen the original Ghostbusters movie for example. I also watched the prequels before I ever saw the original SW trilogy.
I just watched the Naked Gun movies for the first time earlier today because of the mentions in this thread. I don't know if I can think of many other trilogies that hold up quite so well. Thanks to everyone who mentioned it.
It's a good thing ERA doesn't know how much I hate their guts.
I watched this a few years back with my parents guiding me through some of the more timely gags and deliveries. I had seen Naked Gun films when I was in my teens, and now I immediately understood where the template of these comedy films truly started to blossom.
I watched this a few years back with my parents guiding me through some of the more timely gags and deliveries. I had seen Naked Gun films when I was in my teens, and now I immediately understood where the template of these comedy films truly started to blossom.
Airplane!, Naked Gun, Top Secret, Blazing Saddles...all amazing. Then spoof movies turned into this shit;
...and I weep.
I love Airplane!, and all the quotes and clips in this thread have made me want to watch it for the billionth time.
...and I weep.
I love Airplane!, and all the quotes and clips in this thread have made me want to watch it for the billionth time.
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You are too old to learn new things, even if we did learn ya Airplane.
I watched it for the first time a couple months ago. It had a few good jokes, but I thought that for the most part, it was really stupid and not funny.
Airplane! is the Citizen Kane of comedy films.
Top Secret! however arguably aged better.
Yeah, Holy Grail no longer works, since it depended on the context of releasing in an Age where movies were never truly meta. However, now that YouTube has made that kinda comedy the standard, Holy Grail just seems pedestrian and untalented.
Top Secret! however arguably aged better.
Yeah, Holy Grail no longer works, since it depended on the context of releasing in an Age where movies were never truly meta. However, now that YouTube has made that kinda comedy the standard, Holy Grail just seems pedestrian and untalented.
I don't have a problem with it being old or not meta. I just don't find British "comedy" to be funny.
What the what?
Fucking double what what?
I need to take a walk and think about where this world has gone wrong. Terribly wrong.
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raiders isn't even the best indy movie, that goes to last crusade instead
i side with bronson i guess
i side with bronson i guess
heroman is the one guy in wrestleera who has worse taste than me, and that's saying something
Well if you can watch Airplane then you're ready for Spaceballs, and the most quotable comedy scene in the last 40 years
"When Will Then Be Now?"
"When Will Then Be Now?"
Looking at this thread, I gotta wonder, has Bronson seen any of the Original Star Wars Trillogy? I'd urge him to watch all 3 if he hasn't. I kinda wonder if his favorite is/would of the Original Trilogy be The Empire Strikes Back.
EDIT: BTW, What just happened? heard Bronson yell "AAAAAARGH, MY BONES!" just a second ago.
EDIT: BTW, What just happened? heard Bronson yell "AAAAAARGH, MY BONES!" just a second ago.
Problem is, how would he understand the jokes and the point of the movie if he hasn't seen any of the Star Wars Original Trilogy? But.... If he did, I'd advise him to watch Spaceballs as well.
Have you seen any post prequel trilogy Star Wars films? Also I was born in '85 and have never seen a minute of any Star Trek film excluding the first J.J. film. I know one is about Kahn and his wrath, one has San Francisco in it and one has whales. I'm not opposed to seeing them but also have never had strong enough interest to seek any of them out.
I don't know about you but in middle school I read enough of The Hobbit to know that world just wasn't for me. It didn't matter how large and impressive the CG armies were as I had zero interest in seeing any LOTR or Hobbit movie.
Good man!
Also, as someone who likes Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade I can only imagine what someone who disliked Raiders would think of Temple of Doom & Crystal Skull, which are both absolutely abysmal films.
I love Spaceballs, but Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are better.
So when does brosonlee watch BRIGSBY BEAR?
Seriously, you should BronsonLee
Got released as a Sony Classic right out of the gate
Seriously, you should BronsonLee
Got released as a Sony Classic right out of the gate
this I think I agree with
there are probably less than 10 good jokes in that whole movie
Spaceballs is one of those movies that feels like its unfortunately sabotaging itself, best evidenced by the "combing the desert" scene. Airplane would have let that be a five second gag, not a twenty second one
It feels oddly like a mess opportunity and the start of a lot of good jokes, but then just halfassing the whole movie