IM DYING LAUGHING!.. AIRPLANE! (1980) Movie Reaction *FIRST TIME WATCHING* 

About five years before the movie, there was an actual food poisoning outbreak onboard a plane from contaminated omelets at breakfast. Nearly 200 people got sick. By luck, the pilots hadn’t eaten the omelets. Because their biological clocks were still on Alaska time, the pilots had ordered steak dinners instead and were able to make an emergency landing. After the incident, recommendations were made that pilots and passengers be served different meals during flights.

Yes, and if you didn't ignore them, they would keep following you and talking to you, trying to get you to join their cult. People learned quickly it was NOT worth humoring them or taking the flower.

Yes, the "translator" was Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver, the mother in the early tv series Leave it to Beaver. Hollywood at the time portrayed the ideal American (white) family leaving in suburbia, father works, mother's whole attention is keeping the house clean and having meals on time, the kids get into just a hint of trouble. Leave it to Beaver was at the top of the list that pushed this over-simplified and mostly false narrative as to who "we" were as a nation. People of color almost never appeared in these tv shows, not even in the stereotypical and offensive roles as they did in other shows. (In a Dick Van Dyck tv show at the same time, he is panicking over thinking he brought home the wrong newborn from the hospital, the two last names being similar. The joke at the end was that the other couple show up at the door and they, being black, clearly meant the right babies got to the right homes. All the couple did was ring the doorbell, walk in and say a few lines in greeting. THIS was so controversial at the time, it took a big fight with the network. And it also got the longest audience laugh - and cheering -when it happened.) June Cleaver was held up as the worse example of this by later women trying to break out of these restrictions. Her character was totally unflappable, and to the annoyance of feminists, did all the housework dressed up, always cheerful, wearing an iconic string of pearls. In retrospect, the actress herself probably didn't buy into this simplistic idea, either. The tv show was two decades earlier and she had changed so much, it took me many times seeing this movie to realize who she was. Knowing this now, I don't think the directors could have found a better person to "flip the script."

I had seen airplane many times before plus I had seen some of the airport disaster movies from the 70s. I had always thought that airplane was based on those 70s disaster movies. I am a fan of old movies from the 40s and 50s and one day I was watching zero hour. At the time I had no idea what that movie was about. As I was watching it, I soon realized that it was the basis of airplane and not the 70s airport movies. It was a pleasant surprise.

I am old enough to get a lot of the jokes although there are some I didn’t get until someone pointed it out. I am old enough to remember that coffee commercial😂

Just be sure not to talk smack about his defense. 😄

Don’t worry, we can make fun of LeBron James instead.

The part was originally going to be played by Pete Rose but the studio scheduled filming in August so they got Abdul-Jabbar to replace him. They offered him $30,000 to play the part but he wanted $35,000 because that was how much an oriental rug he wanted for his house cost. The producers thought he was just giving them a creative way of getting an extra 5G out of them so they gave him the $35,000. A couple of weeks after filming ended they saw a picture of Kareem in Sports Illustrated next to a brand new oriental rug he had just bought.

shes gonna be in the next one

I was once working at Busch Stadium and did that to a guy that was bugging me for an extra giveaway. My coworkers thought it was funny.

You can’t show the movie for long periods of time because I don’t own it and therefore RU-vid will block it. And if you go see other people reactions to it they do they same thing because they don’t own the footage of the movie

@@DrumAndDrumber thanks abraham