A Conversation for Talking Point: Funniest Films

Airplane!

Post 1

Cupid Stunt

This is my personal favourite film.

All together now...

"Don't call me Shirley!"


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Post 2

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

smiley - laugh

Oh yeah, I saw this at the cinema, my dad took me because it was an A (For you youngsters that was the old rating system, these days it's classed as a PG) and he wanted to see it too


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Post 3

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

George the autopilot made me laugh, when the stewardess was blowing him back up after he deflated

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit drinking"


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Post 4

Al Johnston

"I've got a question."

"What is it?"

"It's an interrogative statement used to determine knowledge, but that's not important right now..."

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Post 5

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

I have got to find this on DVD

The Jive talking translator, The Guitar playing nun, the sick kid, ahhhhhhhh so many cliches, didn't think too much of the second one tho


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Post 6

Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.)

"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"


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Post 7

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

"I like my coffee like my men...............Black"


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Post 8

Only living boy in New Cross - The Good, The Bad and the Average

What kind of plane is it?

A big pretty one.





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Post 9

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

"Passangers face certain death"

"Airline Incompetance"

"There's a sale at Penny's"


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Post 10

Only living boy in New Cross - The Good, The Bad and the Average

Nervous?

Yes.

First time?

No. I've been nervous lots of times.


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Post 11

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

"Can you go to the cockpit"

"What's that"

"It's the room at the front of the plane behind the curtain, but that's not important right now"


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Post 12

Al Johnston

Virgin or HMV usually have it going cheap.

The second one had its moments; not least:

"The computer's gone mad and taken over the ship, we're a million miles off-course, out of control and on a collision course with the Sun"

"Are you telling us everything?"

"No, we're also out of coffee."

*Mass panic erupts in the cabin*

smiley - devilsmiley - pirate


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Post 13

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

I hired it from Blockbuster, it's been ages since I've seen it, I'd forgotten about the tribute to Jaws at the beginning


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Post 14

Only living boy in New Cross - The Good, The Bad and the Average

It's a very important film in popular cinema history...

Its easy to forget it was the first of the 'silly' films - without it there'd be no Austin powers, Dodgeball, something about mary, meet the fockers ect..

If you into it you should check out The Kentucky Fried Movie - Abrahams and Zuckers earlier sketch-based film.



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Post 15

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

Was that Richard Prior and Gene whatsisname

True, my ex was a big fan of Blazing Saddles, I couldn't see the funny side of it but I did like Robin Hood Men in Tights and Spaceballs

"I'm different from all other Robin Hood's I can speak with an English accent"



"He's a major asshole"

"Yes sir Major Phillip assole"

"And his cousin"

"He's an asshole too sir"

"How many assholes we got on this ship"

[All crew] "Yo"

"I knew it I'm surronded by assholes"


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Post 16

Cupid Stunt

What films did Jerry Zucker do between Airplane! and Rat Race? I've heard his mother, Charlotte Zucker, features in a lot of them, but I've only really watched those two carefully.


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Post 17

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

Both the Zucker's were in Airplane they're hte bloke who's guiding the plane with the lollypop things and the bloke who asks him directions


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Post 18

Cupid Stunt

And their mother is the make up lady.

Looking at imdb (which I don't know why I didn't do in the first place) confirms it - she did indeed have cameos in most of their films.


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