David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021

Re:David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021 by mewpmewp2 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:27AM (#28916001)

I don't think they are lazy. It's a lot of funny, original, creative and clever writing and delivery, it's very different from anything else, so I can't call that lazy. And I find it funny even without nostalgia since I wasn't born at the time. All of the humour being so unexpected is what does for me and much of it is hard to catch or understand during your first try, which also makes it intellectual challenge to try and understand everything.

I don't even think they are "stupid" jokes.

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Re:David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021 by ryan_lane on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:47AM (#28916093)

The actors are good. Their delivery and timing is good, and that saves some of the jokes. You can deliver a lazy joke well and get a laugh, it doesn't mean it isn't lazy.

When was the first time you watched this movie? Was it as an adult? Recently? If you watched it when you were young, and you're not young anymore, that's nostalgia. It has nothing to do with when the movie was produced.

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Re:David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021 by willis936 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @07:12AM (#28916873)

I watched it recently with my SO and saw it when I was young and they had not seen it before. We both laughed our heads off.

And we both recognize humor at the expense of the other, but that simply isn't what 90% of the humor in Airplane! is. Compared to what came later in the 80s and 90s it was quite self-aware.

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Re:David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021 by mewpmewp2 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:33PM (#28920925)

I may have seen it as a child, but I watched it recently and I don't think I had enough recollection of it to have any nostalgia at all.

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