A Few Words About A few words about…™ Airplane (Paramount Presents) – in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Osato]

“Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone s**t again.”

 

[B-ROLL]

“Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone s**t again.”

Good Times !

 

[Christian D66]

Airplane! and The Naked Gun were the pinnacle of these movies. But Leslie Nielsen started to think of himself as a comedian after that and "played funny" more and more as he continued to make comedies, rather than his dead serious approach that made these two films so much funnier.

So true. Compare the TV POLICE SQUAD! to the film version -- he plays it dead straight in the series. In the films they make him more self-aware, less funny.

 

[Tino]

Your 4K TV will do an upconvert on the 2K blu ray that will be as good as the online digital 4K version (that itself is just an upconvert).
i would only look towards the digital 4K version if it had an HDR/DV pass that was noteworthy.

Not true.

Edit: Never mind. I see your incorrect statement has been addressed.

 

[Garysb]

So the Paramount Presents disc is different from the 40th Anniversary steelbook that Amazon shows as being released July 21, 2020?

See on Amazon

 

[Reed Grele]

So the Paramount Presents disc is different from the 40th Anniversary steelbook that Amazon shows as being released July 21, 2020?

See on Amazon

Appears to be the same transfer. But in a steelbook.

 

[Britton]

Appears to be the same transfer. But in a steelbook.

I do wonder if the digital code redeems in 4K.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

I haven't watched Airplane (or, as we know it, Flying HIgh) for years. The humour is very poor taste indeed. Deliciously so. Can't wait to revisit it.

 

[TonyD]

I haven't watched Airplane (or, as we know it, Flying HIgh) for years. The humour is very poor taste indeed. Deliciously so. Can't wait to revisit it.

Flying High?

 

[DaveF]

Inexplicable political posts deleted.

 

[titch]

Flying High?

It might surprise you to learn that movies sometimes get different titles for their overseas theatrical run. Of course, the real fun starts when films are given local language titles, which don't resemble the original at all. In Norway, we used to have extremely ridiculous Norwegian movie titles, which were so bad, they were even better than the original. Airplane! = Help, We're Flying! Obviously, this was a sure-fire recipe for success, because just about every US comedy in the '80's had "Help", in front of it. This Is Spinal Tap = Help, We're In The Pop Business! National Lampoon's Vacation = Help, We Have To Go On Holiday (no exclamation mark). "Help" was comedies, but "Operation" was used for thrillers: Die Hard = Operation Skyscraper. No one knew how to sell Steven Spielberg's 1941 anywhere and neither did they in Norway. 1941 = Excuse Me, Where Is Hollywood? And because Norwegians were really clueless in the old days: You Only Live Twice = James Bond In Japan. Yeah - that's sounds exciting, honey Sadly, Norwegian film distributors realised in about 2014 that most of the population now can understand English, so they no longer release English-titled films with a Norwegian translation. That's a real shame. I wonder what they would have translated Tenet with? Operation End Of The World?

 

[TonyD]

I’m aware of that happening. Never heard about Airplane being calling Flying high.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

I’m aware of that happening. Never heard about Airplane being calling Flying high.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

It might surprise you to learn that movies sometimes get different titles for their overseas theatrical run.

We had a short-lived TV series in the US called "Flying High" in the late 70s.

Kinda makes you wonder if ZAZ wanted to call the movie "Flying High" but couldn't due to that conflict/confusion...

 

[AnthonyClarke]

Maybe 'Flying High' was Australia-only. Anyway, it's how we know it here. And, as Colin suggests, it is the perfect title.....

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Maybe 'Flying High' was Australia-only.

"TV Tropes" says "Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and the Philippines"

 

[ChrisOC]

Airplane! and The Naked Gun were the pinnacle of these movies. But Leslie Nielsen started to think of himself as a comedian after that and "played funny" more and more as he continued to make comedies, rather than his dead serious approach that made these two films so much funnier.

Excellent observation. There are a few cases in which "playing funny" works, but comedy is best when it's played straight. That's why Airplane! works so well, and why so many spoofs don't.

 

[Worth]

We had a short-lived TV series in the US called "Flying High" in the late 70s...

I watched that when I was a kid - I don't think I've thought about it for 40 years.

 

[Big Gay Andy]

I remember a '70s British sitcom called From A Bird's-Eye View about a group of airline stewardesses that was shown on TV here. Does anyone else remember it?

 

[Colin Jacobson]

I watched that when I was a kid - I don't think I've thought about it for 40 years.

"Flying High" is still what I think of when someone mentions Connie Sellecca!