Documentary warning in Canada
This coming Sunday, the canadian BRAVO channel will be holding a 6 hour long
marathon of airline documentaries. (times Eastern). 21:00 Airplane! 23:00 Airplane II: the sequel 01:00 Airport '77: the submersible 747 All predate 9-11, at a time when flying was pleasant and interesting and one didn't have to worry about being sent to prison for carrying a rubber chicken. |
Documentary warning in Canada
But, then again, even back in the 50's when Airplane is fictionally
located they did have suicide bombers. Just for insurance and not political. FFM nobody wrote: This coming Sunday, the canadian BRAVO channel will be holding a 6 hour long marathon of airline documentaries. (times Eastern). 21:00 Airplane! 23:00 Airplane II: the sequel 01:00 Airport '77: the submersible 747 All predate 9-11, at a time when flying was pleasant and interesting and one didn't have to worry about being sent to prison for carrying a rubber chicken. |
Documentary warning in Canada
Notable quotes from the documentary at:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/quotes Note, that Otto is considered a star. His biography is at: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1290293/ he lives in Jerry Zucker's garage. Interestingly, the version aired by Bravo appears to be the uncensored one. During one scene, there a a naked lady parading around. In another scene, when the plane has begun to dive, there is a "different" no-smoking sign that appears. It si split in two, with the traditional no smoking sign applying to rows 1 to 13, and there is no sex allowed for rows behind that. (the icon shows two people on each other in horizontal position). BREAKING NEWS: the two females in a cat fight at that disco bar are actually males. That removes a lot of value to the documentary. Interestingly, that version shows a hindu pouring gasoline from a tank onto himself and just about to light himself up as the flight attendant asks Stryker of he could fly the plane. The hindu is relieved he won't have to burn himself up, but he explodes nevertheless. hadn't seen that scene before. They did thankfully have the full scene of the FA re-inflating Otto, including them going at it forcefully enough to give the plane a certain "bounce"... My my, there is a scene where some old guy offers whysky to an old lady. Old lady refuses "Certaintly not", but then she goes on sniffing cocaine :-) Oh, and they really did show the **** hitting the fan. And just before landing, McCroskey sayd "looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue" and then proceeds to sniff glue. Makes one realise just how much had been removed from the network TV version that had been aired before. |
Documentary warning in Canada
They did seem to cut the "Hi Jack" scene though. I am very disapointed.
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