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2ndaryprotocol · 1 year
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The slapstick spectacular ‘Airplane II: The Sequel’ soared into theaters this day 40 years ago. 🌘👨‍🚀💣
“𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚖 𝙸 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚊 𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚕? 𝙾𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎? 𝙰𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛?”
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vampirecorleone · 1 year
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365 Movies Challenge #315; Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) dir. Ken Finkleman: “Dr. Stone, would you give the court your impression of Mr. Striker?“ | “I'm sorry, I don't do impressions... my training is in psychiatry.“
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Near Future NASA  on film part 1: Space Shuttles, Next Generation Shuttles, and Shuttle-adjacent
1. Moonraker’s passenger shuttle 2. Heavy Metal’s personal shuttle 3. Airplane II: The Sequel’s passenger shuttle 4. Lifeforce’s Churchill Shuttle 5. Armageddon’s Freedom and Independence shuttles 6. Deep Impact’s Messiah shuttle and interplanetary booster 7. Species II’s Excursion shuttle and interplanetary booster 8. Mission to Mars’ Mars II interplanetary craft
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Oh, cut the bleeding heart sthtuff, will ya? We've all got our sthwitches, lights, and knobs to deal with, sthtinker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't sthtand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't sthomebody pull the plug!
Daffy Duck to Pepe le Pew
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Happy birthday Lloyd Bridges! (1913 - 1998) Here's some Airplane! art to celebrate!
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vintagegeekculture · 1 year
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RIP John Jakes, Pulp and Fantasy Author
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A man who’s career began in pulp scifi, then was one of the greatest group of fantasy fans turned authors, and who finally ended it as one of the most commercially successful “men’s adventure” paperback novels of the 1970s, John Jakes died at 90 last week. What a life! He started his career in scifi pulp of the 1950s, switching to sword and sorcery action in the 60s, and finally, ending the 70s as one of the top selling authors of the decade. In one guy’s life, you can see the ebb and flow of trends in men’s adventure fiction over the decades.
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Let’s start the John Jakes story at the end, and then work our way back. Does this book series above look familiar to you at all? 
If you have grandparents and they live in America, I 100% guarantee the Kent Family Chronicles (also called the Bicentennial Series) are in your Mee Maw and Pep Pep’s house right now. You probably handled them while visiting their house and went through their bookshelves as a child, right next to their Reader’s Digest condensed books, Tai-Pan and Shogun by James Clavell, copies of the endless sequels to Lonesome Dove, and old TV Guides they still have for some reason next to the backgammon set. If your grandparents are no longer with us, you probably found this series when selling their possessions after death. That’s because these things sold in the millions, back when the surest way to make money in writing was to write melodramatic, intergenerational family sagas of grandiose sweep set around historical events. Weighty family sagas, ones critics call bloated and self important instead of “epic,” were a major part of 70s fiction as they were four quadrant hits: men liked them for war, action, and history (every guy at some point must choose between being a civil war guy, or World War II guy) and ladies loved them for their romance and melodramatic love triangles (after all, the Ur-example of this kind of book is Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind). This was the kind of thing turned into TV event miniseries, and ably lampooned in the hilarious “Spoils of Babylon” series with Kristen Wiig and Toby McGwire, which, decades after the fact, did to this genre what Airplane! did for the formerly prolific airport disaster movie: it torpedoed it forever by making it impossible to take seriously.
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This genre eventually went away because men stopped being reliable book buyers and book readers in the 1990s (or at least, were no longer marketed to as an audience), Lonesome Dove’s insane popularity was the last gasp of this audience. I’ve said this before, but men and boys no longer reading is the single most under remarked on social problem we have. “YA books” now basically mean “Girl Books.” 
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John Jakes did not suddenly come out of nowhere to write smash hit bestsellers set around a family during the American Revolution. He came from one of the weirdest places imaginable: a crony of L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter in fantasy and weird tales fanzines like Amra, he was one of the original “Gang of Eight,” people drawn from fantasy and horror fandom to become pro-writers now that fantasy fiction had a home at Ballantine Publishing, just before the rise of Lord of the Rings and the paperback pulp boom, which is an incredible case of being in the right place at the right time. There, John Jakes, a fanzine contributor and ERB fan, wrote “Brak the Barbarian,” which is amazing as L. Sprague de Camp and Ballantine hadn’t even reprinted the Conan stories yet and Conan was as well known as Jirel of Joiry or Jules de Grandin. Only superfans of pulp knew who that guy was at all, there was no audience for it. He wrote Brak the Barbarian as a superfan, and was lucky the paperback market found him. 
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The tireless work John Jakes, Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, and the Gang of Eight did in preserving fantasy novelists of the pulp age into the 50s-60s is one of the great historic feats of preservation and keeping fandom flames alive. It’s no exaggeration to say that you know who Conan the Barbarian and HP Lovecraft are right now because of them, fans who kept the flame alive tirelessly and thanklessly in the ultra-rational 50s that had no place for dark horrific fantasy. 
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Like his friend in fantasy and pulp fandom, L. Sprague de Camp, John Jakes started as a scifi guy in the endless scifi pulp magazines of the 1950s. Unlike his friend de Camp or Hugh B. Cave, who were full of humor, characterization, and satire, Jakes was often pessimistic, dour, and downbeat, and he disliked to laugh.  
It’s shocking to lose someone with a connection to, in one lifetime, the first great group of fantasy fandom, 50s scifi pulp, and 70s men’s adventure. John Jakes’ life spanned all of them. 
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Is It Really That Bad?
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Grease is a delightfully corny musical filled with 50s nostalgia (mostly the good kind) and helped shoot the careers of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John to new heights. There’s a little bit of values dissonance here and there, but considering when it was made and what decade it was about, it could honestly be a lot worse. It’s easily one of the most fun and enjoyable musicals ever made, and it should come as no surprise the Library of Congress deemed this film significant enough to add to the National Film Registry. Is it any surprise a film like this had a sequel?
Well, yeah, kind of. Paramount didn’t think the movie was going to be much more than a modest one-off hit when it came out despite the 50s nostalgia of the time, mainly due to the spectacular failure of Columbia’s musical adaptation of Lost Horizon being such a spectacular bomb. Why risk making musicals when it seems they’re on the way out, right? But then Grease unexpectedly became one of the biggest films of 1978, and the execs got little dollar signs in their eyes. Sequel time, baby!
One problem, though: None of the original cast was available. Or, I should say, none of the original cast you’d give a fuck about was available. Travolta and Newton-John were already off to bigger and better things, which is a shame since they were both interested before it took them forever to get a script. Only Didi Conn (Frenchy) and Eddie “Mandark” Deezen (Eugene) were coming back. And, look, I love Dexter’s Lab but that wasn’t going to be made for like twenty years or something, so Eddie wasn’t Travolta-levels of star power. Still, Paramount was dead set on turning Grease into a massive franchise. We’re talking spin-offs, sequels, a TV series, the works!
But then the screenwriter for the original died, and the original director went off to make The Blue Lagoon. Of course, they found great backups! The screenwriter is a Canadian comedian who wrote Airplane II (the less funny one) and the director was the choreographer of the original stage and film versions of Grease! How reassuring! And then basically all of the actors they actually wanted in this didn’t end up getting in. For the male lead they wanted Timothy Hutton, but when that didn’t work out they tested Andy Gibb… who failed. They then went with an unknown, Maxwell Caulfield, and casting an unknown is always a gamble. For the leading lady, Pat Benatar and Debbie Harry were considered before they ended up going with an unknown by the name of Michelle Pfeiffer. And guess what! Those two ended up hating each other.
Oh yeah and the final draft of the script was only finished midway through production, without Frenchy in it despite her actress being there, so they just tossed the scenes they’d filmed into the movie anyway.
The end result was savaged by critics and did not really make enough to warrant the massive franchise Paramount was hoping for. The careers of most of the actors involved were damaged pretty bad, especially Caulfield, though Pfeiffer managed to et out mostly unscathed. Overall, the film was just a mess that these days is relegated to lists of the worst sequels ever. Hell, unless you read lists like that you might be unaware this film even exists, because it’s relatively obscure.
Still, it does have its fans, including Andrew Garfield of all people. It’s something of a cult classic in some circles, so surely there’s something of value to be found here, right? Is Grease 2 really that bad?
THE GOOD
Michelle Pfeiffer is pretty in this.
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...No. Really. That’s it.
THE BAD
This film’s biggest problem is just how overexaggerated everyone’s performances are. Like all of the dance numbers feature every single character mugging the camera and just making the most absurd faces and movements, like this is a live action cartoon. And look, I love goofy, campy silliness, but there’s a fine line between corny and trying way too hard and this is firmly in the latter camp. Every single number is just ruined by this insufferable desire to be silly.
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The other biggest problem is the songs. All of them suck. All of them are also about sex, and that doubly sucks. None of the lyrics are very clever, but all of them are fucking stupid. This might just be one of the horniest movies ever made, and I mean that as an insult. I’ve watched pornos less obsessed with sex than this film. This is all the more jarring because the first film was just filled to the brim with fun and memorable songs, but here? They’re all forgettable crap with no clear identity.
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Maxwell Caulfield is a terrible leading man, and I say this as someone who has a hard time believing John Travolta is a leading man. At least with Travolta he does exude a sort of movie star quality; Caulfield just feels to me like a cardboard cutout of a person, or an even more wooden Anakin Skywalker than what we got in Attack of the Clones. Caulfield is just an absolute void of charisma, and it’s no wonder Pfeiffer thought he was a stuck up little shit.
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IS IT REALLY THAT BAD?
Uh, yeah. It’s fucking bad.
I really wanted to enjoy this. I really did. I love stupid, campy, silly musicals! This should have been perfect for me! And yet it was one of the most tedious, miserable viewing experiences I’ve ever had. I didn’t laugh. I didn’t smile. I was not once charmed or amused by anything I saw onscreen. As a matter of fact, there were times where I just wanted to turn it off because it was just such a slog. The extended cut of Dawn of Justice is a more well-paced and riveting film.
Look, if you like this movie, more power to you. Lord knows there’s plenty of trashy films I absolutely love that many people wouldn’t agree with. But in my opinion, Grease 2 just doesn’t work, and the reason why is because it’s Grease 2. If this film was just its own thing and not trying to coast on the fame of its superior predecessor, maybe I’d be a little more forgiving. But that’s not the world we live in. We live in a world where this film with tenuous connections to the original is allowed to call itself a sequel.
I’m gonna say that score is a little too nice, and this movie deserves something more like a 2. It’s not the worst thing ever and it’s sure to appeal to some folks, but boy is this just plain not a good film in my eyes. It really just feels like it's trying way too hard to be the original, and it's failing miserably at it at every single turn. It is one of the worst movies I've ever watched, but at least it's a bad movie where I can almost see the appeal. It just doesn't appeal to me.
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zippocreed501 · 1 year
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FROM THE B-MOVIE BADLANDS...
...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes
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SF parodies (70's and 80's)
Oooh er! That's no space station!
Flesh Gordon (1974) Dark Star (1974) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Galaxina (1980) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) Morons from Outer Space (1985) Spaceballs (1987)
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usafphantom2 · 2 years
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'Top Gun: Maverick' studio paid the U.S. Navy more than $11,000 per hour on tours in the Super Hornets
But the Navy did not let Tom Cruise pilot the fighters during filming.
Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/27/22 - 11:46 PM in Military
The U.S. Navy lent the F/A-18E/F Super Hornets fighters for the new movie "Top Gun: Maverick" that officially premiered in theaters today. But Paramount studio paid $11,374 per hour to use the advanced combat planes — and Cruise was unable to touch the controls.
The star of Top Gun, famous for performing her own stunts and dangerous scenes in her films, insisted that all the actors who portray pilots in the long-back-awaited film "Top Gun: Maverick" fly in one of the fighters built by Boeing so that they could understand what it's like to be a pilot operating under the tension of immense gravitational forces. Cruise, 59, also flew in a jet to the original "Top Gun", a great success in 1986.
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Cruise ended up doing more than a dozen missions for the new film, but a Pentagon regulation prohibits non-military people from controlling a Department of Defense asset other than small weapons in training scenarios, according to Glen Roberts, head of the Pentagon entertainment media office. Instead, the actors flew after pilots in the F/A-18F after completing the necessary training on how to eject from the plane in case of emergency and how to survive at sea.
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Roberts said that the Navy allowed the production to use airplanes, aircraft carriers and military bases, although he said that the real Top Gun pilots are not the arrogant rule benders portrayed in the film, people who "would never exist in naval aviation". Instead, they are studious aerial nerds who work for hours in the classroom and participate in intense training flights at Fallon Naval Air Station in Nevada, the site of the real Top Gun school.
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A film "does not have to be a love letter to the military" to win the Pentagon's cooperation, Roberts said. But "you need to defend the integrity of the military". Filmmakers need to have funding and distribution for their project and be willing to submit their script for military review. Although the Pentagon may request changes, Roberts said he was not aware of any in "Top Gun: Maverick".
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Paramount Pictures said in the film's production notes that Cruise created his own demanding flight training program for the film's young actors, so that they could withstand the nausea-inducing rigors of air maneuvers and play their roles with "real Navy pilots taking them to the ride of their lives".
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The film was officially released today in theaters, after delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. The scenes were filmed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in August 2018 during a training exercise involving the service's F-35C Lightning II fighter, Roberts said. The production also filmed at Lemoore Naval Air Station in Central California.
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The Super Hornet, a jet known as "Rhino", receives the best revenue in the film compared to the most advanced F-35C built by Lockheed Martin, because that's what the film's script required, Roberts said. He also noted that the F-35 is a single-seat plane, so the actors could not fly on them.
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The filmmakers reimburse the Pentagon for any aircraft, unless they are already being used in a previously scheduled training exercise or the flight can be counted towards the pilot's necessary time at the controls. In 2018, when much of the filming of "Top Gun: Maverick" was carried out, the current flight time rate of the jets was $11,374.
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Top Gun: Maverick is the sequel to Top Gun: Indomitable Aces (1986). In the plot, Cruise's character is called to be the mentor of a new generation of Navy pilots, including Rooster (Teller), son of Goose (Anthony Edwards), Maverick's companion killed in the original film. The film also features Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly and Val Kilmer in the cast.
Source: Fortune
Tags: Military AviationF/A-18E/F Super HornetTop Gun: MaverickUSN - United States Navy/U.S. NAVY
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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in a specialized aviation magazine in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation
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70s80sandbeyond · 11 months
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Julie Hagerty and Chad Everett in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
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Release: April 13, 2010
Lyrics:
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shootin' stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shootin' stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
Yeah, I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this
'Cause after all the partyin' and smashin' and crashin'
And all the glitz and glam and the fashion
And all the pandemonium and all the madness
There comes a time where you fade to the blackness
And when you're starin' at the phone in your lap
And you hopin' but them people never call you back
But that's just how the story unfolds
You get another hand soon after you fold
And when your plans unravel in the sand
What would you wish for, if you had one chance?
So airplane, airplane sorry I'm late
I'm on my way so don't close that gate
If I don't make that, then I'll switch my flight
And I'll be right back at it by the end of the night
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shootin' stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shootin' stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
Yeah, yeah, somebody take me back to the days
Before this was a job, before I got paid
Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank
Yeah, back when I was tryna get a tip at Subway
And back then I was rappin' for the hell of it
But nowadays we rappin' to stay relevant
I'm guessin' that if we can make some wishes out of airplanes
Then maybe, oh maybe, I'll go back to the days
Before the politics that we call the rap game
And back when ain't nobody listened to my mixtape
And back before when I tried to cover up my slang
But this is for Decatur, what's up Bobby Ray?
So can I get a wish to end the politics?
And get back to the music that started this shit
So here I stand and then again I say
I'm hoping we can make some wishes out of airplanes
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shootin' stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shootin' stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
Songwriter:
I could really use a wish right now
I, I, I could really use a wish right now
Like, like, like shootin' stars
I, I, I could, I could really use a wish right now
A wish, a wish right now
Alexander Junior Grant / Bobby Ray Simmons / Christine Dominguez / Jeremy Dussolliet / Justin Franks / Timothy Sommers
SongFacts:
"Airplanes" is a song by American rapper B.o.B featuring American singer Hayley Williams of Paramore. The song was released in April 2010, as the third single from his debut studio album, B.o.B Presents: 'The Adventures of Bobby Ray'. B.o.B co-wrote the song alongside Kinetics & One Love, Alex da Kid, DJ Frank E, and Christine Dominguez. DJ Frank E also co-produced the song with Alex da Kid, Emily Boyle, and Sage Levy. The song was released to iTunes on April 13, 2010, and then to urban radio on April 27, 2010.
"Airplanes" peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the United States, the song topped the charts in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Canada and the Republic of Ireland. "Airplanes, Part II", the sequel to the song, features new verses from B.o.B, and a verse from fellow American rapper Eminem, while Williams's vocals remained identical to the original. This collaboration led to a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
"Airplanes" was composed by B.o.B, Jeremy "Kinetics" Dussolliet, Tim "One Love" Sommers, DJ Frank E, Alex "da Kid" Grant, and Christine Dominguez. B.o.B wrote his rap verses, while Kinetics & One Love and Christine Dominguez wrote the chorus sung by Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams, and DJ Frank E & Alex da Kid co-produced the music. The original version had verses written by Lupe Fiasco. Later, the song was given to B.o.B by his label.
Williams' part in the song was explained by herself and B.o.B in different interviews to MTV. Williams said Paramore was on tour when she was given the song and she "liked the part too much" and accepted to appear on it. B.o.B said he has "always been a Hayley fan" and he did not expect a collaboration between them too soon. The duo did not get in the studio together to record the song, they were not together to shoot the music video, and had never even met each other in person, according to Williams. The only time that B.o.B and Williams were able to meet was when they performed "Airplanes" live for the first time together during the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. The second time the song was performed together live was during Vanderbilt University's Fall 2010 "Commodore Quake" concert in Nashville. During B.o.B.'s performance, Williams came out as a special guest to perform the song.
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starryeyes2000 · 2 years
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The Box
I Am Not Sick Sequel
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Pairing: Christopher Pike x Reader
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1.5k
Summary: Captain Pike has a cold. And he's grumpy. Or is more going on? And there is a fire on board. Cameos from various Enterprise and Discovery characters.
Excerpt: Noticing the box on the low coffee table I lean forward. Before I can vocalize the obvious question Chris explains with a shrug, “I promised you could look through it. You’ve been remarkably patient, for you, not pressing for the chance sooner.” His hand gestures in permission. “Go ahead.”
My glass is deposited on the table and the lid is off the box before his sentence ends. I carefully set aside the books I’ve already seen and the meticulously built model airplane.
“I have a real one of those at home,” he remarks. “It saw action during World War II. My grandfather and I restored it. I’ll take you flying next leave.”
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Whats your favorite James O. Incandenza movie?
Hmm. I haven't watched a lot of James O. Incandenza movies, but:
I've seen two -- The Fly (1986) and Airplane II: The Sequel -- which were both about people who wanted to become giant alien lizards so they could eat all the food in the universe and maybe gain superpowers and so on. So I guess I liked that trope a lot more than I expected to. Plus they're both, like, pretty bad and kind of bad in opposite ways -- the first one is bad because there are too many shots that just say "big", "lizard", etc., while the second one is bad because all the shots are completely silent, or else too fast to follow, and there's no sense of motion except to convey the idea that a human would have trouble following these guys on a bike. I think I prefer the first to the second as a movie, although I've liked Airplane II a lot more since watching that, especially since the original Fly wasn't a very good movie, either.)
The Superbowl Sunday and the Big Lebowski, which are both good as far as movies involving bowling (?) go, and not just good as far as bowling movies go but good period-typical ones.
The Nutty Professor, which was bad when I was a kid but is still good as a comedy about "weird" professors. (There is a lot of really weird stuff going on in it, e.g. "fraudulent" chiropractors -- it's probably the original movie they had in mind when they named that "Hollywood chiropractors" thing)
I haven't seen Jupiter Ascending, except the trailer, and so far it looks bad, and I'm not sure if I like that it was bad. But maybe if I had actually watched it I would like it.
I don't think I can think of any more. This is not a particularly well-chosen sample.
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Julie Hagerty Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
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graminhani · 2 months
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Airplane II – The Sequel (USA, 1982): 🍿 [2020]
Um “avião espacial” indo para a Lua é sequestrado pelo computador de bordo. Ele mata toda a tripulação e muda o curso da nave para o Sol. Felizmente Ted Striker está a bordo. Legal que espaço ou atmosfera da Terra, é tudo a mesma coisa!
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