so im watching the airplane from 1984 and this movie in my opinion is just bad... i haven't smiled even once yet and the movie is coming to an end already... what is this? these jokes are just bad and that is a huge understatement... these jokes feel so juvenile they can't even be called jokes... do you like the airplane? if yes why?
shareNever seen it but I can imagine its like when I watched Monty Python. Its from a different time, jokes were different then. Different things were funny.
shareWatched it for 2 minutes,then I got bored
shareAre you sure it's from 1984?
shareIf you are talking about the Leslie Nielsen movie, that was made in 1980. There is no such movie called Airplane from 1984. To answer your question, people like it because the jokes are very frequent, which keeps the audience from getting bored. Obviously not for you though.
Tell me, do you find The Big Bang Theory funny?
It was funny the first time I saw it in 1980 when it came out.
On repeat viewings it wasn't so funny.
I found Airplane 2 so boring and unfunny in 1982 I walked out, along with the 3 or 4 friends with me.
Its a movie of its time. What you have to remember is it was one of the first proper parody movies (not like that crap Epic Movie or Disaster Movie), and a good deal of the jokes were original when the movie was released but have been copied by others since, making Airplane! seem not so fresh.
Also quite a lot of the jokes were cultural to the time, if you didnt know that the black pilot was Kareem Abdul Jabbar a then world famous basketball player (father to Paula Abdul), some of the jokes centered around him will be meaningless.
For instance, theres a joke in Airplane 2 where Ted Striker escapes the mental hospital and he runs past some guy singing the theme to Love Boat because he's mistaken the searchlight for a stage spotlight, seems random, but they actually went to the trouble to actually get the guy who sang the theme tune in the TV series just for that 10 second joke.
Not funny to many today, would have been more culturally funny back in the early 80's.
And yes, there is a story, its based on an old movie called Zero Hour which was played straight but had ridiculous dialogue which Airplane! riffed off.
Back when it was released, Airplane! was a damn funny movie, but I can see how some of the jokes wouldnt work today.
But a lot of them still do.
... the black pilot was Kareem Abdul Jabbar a then world famous basketball player [b](father to Paula Abdul)[b] ...
Yeah, always believed that, got it wrong!
God only knows where I got that information from, so consider my wrists slapped lol
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Well, norbit? First, let me welcome you to MovieChat!
Your first post, and instead of posting on the individual board where you could have found the correct year for a film you may or may not be familiar with, leaves me leary! I keep trying to find "Aitplane" from 1984. It dosen't exist.
What's up? Can't come here to discuss any films you do like? Have you ever seen a film?