The Reel Rejects - AIRPLANE! (1980) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:22 Sierra, let's get moving. Citizens of the Reject Nation, Aaron and I are about to embark on a classic journey with a classic flight with a classic comedy, Airplane. Any film that has an exclamation point in its title has me excited. Are you excited? I'm super excited to get on this plane. All I know is it has a twisted airplane on the cover, so who knows what's going to happen. Let's check out airplane. Three, two, one. James Hong. Ha-ha. It was. Yes.

Starting point is 00:01:56 Great call. I recognize that, man. Still a legend. Still a legend. Recognize that face anywhere. You haven't seen everything all at once. He's grading it plus many other things. Yeah, no, he's got some of the most credits of anyone is like, I think he's like 151 credits or something insane.

Starting point is 00:02:09 Really? Like James Hong is like one of the most prolific. God dang. He's a treasure. If you are listening to this on Spotify or iTunes, we just watched Airplane and had a hell of an experience. That was a PG film. That was a PG film. What was the, like, iconically, what was the first PG-13 film?

Starting point is 00:02:27 It's like, it's like a big deal that it was the first PG-13. It's like a main blockbuster. But it came after this, and I think this is a great example of why came after this. I think this mile per minute humor is a delightful. What a different take. We don't get, they say all the time, I think it's the most trite thing, but they say, they don't make them like this anymore. But with airplane, they don't make them like this anymore.

Starting point is 00:02:51 My cheeks hurt. I laughed a lot. I was a little worried. Sometimes humor doesn't hold up or like it's a piece of the time. I'm sure there was so much more that we didn't understand. There were references we could acknowledge that we didn't understand. But I'm sure there was even more. So at the time, I can't imagine how funny this was.

Starting point is 00:03:07 But now it's so funny. What do you think, man? Yeah, I thought it was really funny. I had a really good time watching it. And I think just to go off of what you were saying, the fact that, you know, comedy is a very subjective experience. So the fact that we were able to laugh so often and this movie came out 44 years ago, Jesus Christ, and it still holds up. It's just a testament to the fact that, you know, comedy is, if when done right, is

Starting point is 00:03:30 something that is timeless. Yeah. And watching it, the things that made it the best for me was that, that classic thing of comedies being in threes or the literal nature of how they would tell a joke. And, you know, even some stuff like some of the more edgy jokes, you know, I feel like, I still, I personally find like dark humor funny But obviously we don't see it as much And at least not in the same way

Starting point is 00:03:58 Or Irish comedies, man You got a much more Irish comedies I really do I really do But they don't do it as much In like more mainstream movies So I think the fact that this movie Was just fearless

Starting point is 00:04:07 And all the different types of humor That it had made it that much more enjoyable Not everything landed Maybe because of like where we are culturally and combination of just Being later He's still in the car! Well I'll give him another 20 minutes

Starting point is 00:04:21 But that's it I didn't even know they did post credit scenes I did in 1980 no wow that's great so I think that might be the earliest post credit scene I've ever seen that is the first post credit scene maybe it's sort of it airplane making history that was uh yeah

Starting point is 00:04:35 I agree with what you're saying about like the different types of comedy I think that allowed for like a scatter shot approach where like oh that's not as funny to me but this next joke is or like this one didn't work but this one did and I mean it was joke a second like that was so high volume but like most of it worked um it really was

Starting point is 00:04:52 it felt like a comedy room, it felt like a stand-up thing where like, let's try this, let's try this. And something felt like genuinely like an animated movie. Like that horse bit felt like a cartoon. And like most of it worked. I was really impressed. Yeah, yeah. I was really impressed with that, but also the actors we had on display.

Starting point is 00:05:10 And I think what makes jokes funny is the seriousness in which the characters take it. You know, because obviously we know it's in a comedy, but the more the stakes are real for the characters, the funnier it is. The melodramatic was funny. The two leads were great. The two leads were like straight to everyone else's slapstick. Exactly. And Leslie Nielsen was straight.

Starting point is 00:05:28 So the three leads, all straight delivering like the jokes, but they were all no slapstick really for them. It was dialogue-driven or melodrama-driven. It is for some reason playing Lord of the Rings next. What correlation is there possibly between? All right. Is this the extended edition or is this the original? Dude, I haven't seen the extended additional Lord of the Rings since theaters.

Starting point is 00:05:48 I have not seen those movies in 20 years. They play them in theaters. the extended ones? I don't remember if they played them or if I was working in a movie theater and played them myself. But I've seen them. But that was when like

Starting point is 00:05:58 either I saw them in theaters or I brought my DVD when it first came out but I literally have not seen them since then and I think I'm due for a rewatch because I've been thinking about it lately I just haven't seen Lord of the Rings in 20 years.

Starting point is 00:06:08 It's been a long time for me too. So like maybe that's an audience let us know. Let us know since airplane is so related why didn't it just start playing that? Fills over the rings. I'll be down. But man that was a,

Starting point is 00:06:18 I need to look up Jonathan Banks oh please. Because he, I think, is the same Jonathan Banks. I did not recognize him if it is. Airplane. Yeah, everyone was great. You know what I missed? Leslie Nielsen, because I remember vaguely watching the naked gun movies in my youth.

Starting point is 00:06:35 But him being so serious, the level of comedy that comes from that was just unmatched. From him as an individual, not all the gags from the other characters or bits. But I just think he is so funny. He's like his serious delivery, his unbroken eye contact. It's just so goddamn funny And it makes me want to go back And watch those other naked gun movies Which funny enough I don't really remember

Starting point is 00:06:56 What happened to those I know I've seen them I think I've seen the third one Because I thought the title was funny The third one Because the title was funny So I think I rented it Like back when you rented movies

Starting point is 00:07:05 By the cover I think I rented it At like a Hollywood video In like 97 So you don't remember it Okay So that would be probably The next logical watch for us

Starting point is 00:07:14 If you guys liked this And want us We could do naked gun Through three Yeah Because, like, I definitely don't remember three. Dude, Jonathan Banks was the guy. No way.

Starting point is 00:07:24 You can see it in his profile. Wow. That, like, close up while the guy was doing laundry. That was Jonathan Breaking Bad Banks. He's been around. I mean, I knew he was in Gremlins. He's in Gremlins? Also, never seen Gremlins.

Starting point is 00:07:37 Dude. Never seen Gremlins. He is so good in Gremlin. Holy crap. Yeah, this is like one of those casts. Let's see if we can. It's one of those casts. One of those casts.

Starting point is 00:07:47 Wow. He's like the cop. Ah, man. goes the other side of the law. It breaks bad after. No, no, don't tell me. Okay, okay. I thought you're giving me a grimlin spoiler.

Starting point is 00:07:55 I'm saying I was making a facetious reference to time passing. But this movie had so much mile per minute comedy. Most of it worked. It had such original different formatting for the bevy of comedy. It had a great cast. Clearly, we're looking at people going like, oh my God, they're still working today 44 years later.

Starting point is 00:08:12 And overall, like the timelessness you were talking to, I do think is rare because even comedies from like the 2000s. I don't generally watch. again and sometimes already watch me like oh I like that then but it was reliant on the time right um this I mean I a great example is uh what's the not the scary most superhero movie watched superhero movie recently on the channel uh with Andrew and like it wasn't that funny and this was and there's similar goals like superhero movie was like mile per minute joke reference reference reference but it wasn't as quality of writing and like this should arguably be more

Starting point is 00:08:45 distant from my exposure I wasn't even alive for another eight years much less cognizant of the times and what it's referencing. So the fact that this was this funny is really impressive as far as, like, it being timeless, the comedy writing being so punchy, it working today. That's more impressive to me than anything. Yeah, I think watching movies like that, then me and, uh, me and Tara watch, you, me and Irene and we didn't really like that one that much. Me and I mean myself and Irene.

Starting point is 00:09:06 Yeah, that's what I meant. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, I mean myself and Irene. And I feel like movies of the 2000s eras are very much like of their time. Like you had to be there to find those things funny, especially like the spoof movies as well. Spoof movies, I would say especially. I think there are like, I mean, I still love without a paddle and rat race and Austin Powers and there were some that were like, yeah, yeah, but overall, like I don't find myself rewatching them except for the ones I loved. Like movies I liked into 2000s, I don't rewatch.

Starting point is 00:09:31 The ones I love, I don't even know if I can separate myself from loving them. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like, so those comedies I love. So they might even be funny to someone else now, but I love them too much to know. But it's interesting because I guess you can consider this a spoof movie to some degree. This 100%. Yeah, but I think, I don't know, maybe there's like a delineation between like the term.

Starting point is 00:09:48 2000 spoof movies, which are referencing other properties where this is just making jokes that are funny that are universal. And I'm sure there's a few jokes in there that were references. They're the Saturday Night Live joke. There were, but like it doesn't rely on them as the only sense of humor. Exactly. So I think that's the difference is if you're going to make something this slapstick, it needs to be more universal. Yeah. And most of it works.

Starting point is 00:10:08 Yeah. And this, I would say the last movie him and I watch were the Beetlejuice. And that movie was great. Oh, man. I think the funniest, ooh, this could be in contiguous. attention with the funniest movie I've watched in this channel, which is Blues Brothers. I thought Blue's just was really funny, but Blue's Brothers had me dying. Watch that with John.

Starting point is 00:10:24 You guys can find it somewhere in a link somewhere. I've never seen Blue's brothers. Oh, dude, you'd love it. It's so good. It's awesome. You should definitely watch it. But I think the thing that Beetlejuice, Blues Brothers, an airplane will have in common is the more simplistic, the plot, the more room for craziness, the more room for expansive imagination you

Starting point is 00:10:45 can put within the simplicity of your plot. because it's like okay people go on plane plane has accident needs to be landed that's it but all the things that happens in between those things madness insanity and how they how they execute it and i think watching that unfold over the hour and a half and with the different ways they play with the tropes of that only enhance the experience coupled with the fact that they're just a volume of jokes so you're just having a wide splatter so it's it's more likely the the odds of those jokes landing are higher also i will say i think we we live in a time where you know certain things are humor's changed like widely whether it's like more absurdist or more you know dry or whatnot or maybe just

Starting point is 00:11:37 it's regional because you said like irish humor has been very dark yeah yeah irishore is pretty dark like have you ever seen any martin macdonal movies like uh in bruges banshees vena sharon Three billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri. I've seen Bench of Inershuring. Okay, so that's Martin McDonald. So that's an Irish playwright turned a screenwriter, and that's like that kind of humor. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 00:11:57 So it's tinged with dark. In Bruges is my favorite comedy of all time, and it's very Irish. It's literally about two hitmen that a hit goes wrong, and they're supposed to hide out in Bruges. And in Bruges is this, like, picturesque place, but they're so bored. Like, they're losing their mind bored,

Starting point is 00:12:12 but it's a hitman comedy. And it's so good. And the reason they're, stuck there is so dark and the whole basis for the film is impossibly dark but the movie has this upliftingness because you're comparing your darkness to theirs and I think that's why I like Irish humor. Interesting

Starting point is 00:12:26 okay I would love to watch that. Dude and banshee's been a chair and it got like a best picture nom two years ago. I remember that. Yeah I saw that one in theaters I'm pretty sure. Yeah and I mean that movie's about like a friendship ending and like that movie's so dark there's just stuck in the dower void of like this island where they're like what do we what do we do here? Yeah I don't I won't spoil the what happens to that and that one for the people but

Starting point is 00:12:44 I think that it was that was definitely great, but what was I saying about the darkness of the comedy? Oh, oh yes. The fact that it's, it does play on, you know, kind of like some taboo or darker jokes or like, or scaremotypes, but I feel like

Starting point is 00:13:00 it doesn't, it doesn't, you say racist? I said three seasons. Usually I sneeze and two, so I said three seasons, but I love that you're like, racist. I love that the timing of you making a point. I was like, three seasons, couldn't even be heard as racist? Three steeses.

Starting point is 00:13:20 So you were going to talk about racism. I was going to talk about racism. Oh, man. That's right, America. I'm allergic to racism. Oh, sorry, we're going to say. He's a man of the people. I was going to say, cast a

Starting point is 00:13:35 wide net in its humor of whether it was like racial humor or if it was like sexes, stereotypes or whatnot. I think that because it had a wider net of things that it was making fun of

Starting point is 00:13:51 it makes easier to laugh at it. Granted, I don't think all of the jokes landed. Some of the jokes let me go but I feel like it it succeeded in the fact that it was trying to poke fun at everybody. There were two interesting, and I completely agree to think that's important. If you're going to take jabs, you should take as unilateral, you know, as many pocket

Starting point is 00:14:07 jabs as you can. And I think as long as it's in positive humor for the most part it was. And that was an interesting moment. Like the the two bits that we both didn't find funny at first like there was obviously the the jive talk bit didn't work for me until the white woman was kind of like with the joke

Starting point is 00:14:26 that landed for whatever reason differently because it didn't feel it didn't feel like it was jabbing at anyone it felt like it was making fun of the situation so I thought that was funny but there was a funny moment where you and I misread you and I read a thing differently and if it was what you thought it was I wouldn't have found it funny but the movie hadn't been malicious yet

Starting point is 00:14:45 In my opinion, so when the autopilot was like groping her, I thought that was as far as it was going to go. You thought it was going to get darker. And I could tell when I was laughing me, you were like, whoa, blah, and I was like, I hope the movie is as light as I think it is. And it was a really funny moment because like, we're watching this live. You guys are going to see our reaction. Yeah. But if it got darker, I would have been like, oh, God. But I trusted that the movie hadn't done that yet.

Starting point is 00:15:08 Yeah. The movie hadn't gotten malicious yet. The closest it got was like, you know, when I was like, I don't know about this kind of subtitled comedy. but then that woman joke there was enough levity so blissfully the dark air it got it was like oh but they're not going this far and I think that's also important not only do you need to punch you the lattery

Starting point is 00:15:24 you also need to make sure that it's not like so dark that you have the fear of the jokes that you've made earlier feeling malicious yeah and also if you're gonna make a dark joke if you are gonna take that route I feel like taking it to its like highest absurdity brings it right background to being funny like the woman hanging herself is dark as hell

Starting point is 00:15:43 but that's not at anyone's expense. It's just funny. Yeah, but also I think when they're like they're shaking the girl and like they were smack in her and then you saw like a line of people with the weapons.

Starting point is 00:15:53 It wasn't funny until the fifth slap and the weapons. Exactly. Yeah, you got to know where to go. So like darkness needs to be just absurdists where it can't be that like it's obviously a joke or stuff like the woman hanging herself

Starting point is 00:16:04 is not like that doesn't cost you anything. Yeah. But yeah, overall I mean, the rules of comedy and watching movies. But it's funny how there is an important line and it is tricky with watching stuff from 1980 and it is There's always going to be people in the comments.

Starting point is 00:16:16 Like, they don't make these like they used to and they should. There are jokes that shouldn't be made anymore. This one had less of those than I feared. I genuinely always worry when I watch something pre- yesterday. But that is going to do it for our experience of airplane. Let us know in the comments below what you thought of our journey. This is probably like, I'm really curious that this edit goes because usually there's gaps when we're not talking. But we were laughing throughout.

Starting point is 00:16:39 So this might be, you know, 82 minutes of the 89-minute movie. There's maybe like three scenes we weren't talking. gets crazy. Yeah. And that's also a testament to how good it was. So if you want us to watch a naked gun or anything else in this vein, let us know in the comments below. If you enjoyed this experience, let's talk about it down below. Leave a like. Hit that subscription bell if you haven't yet. Much

Starting point is 00:16:56 love, Reject Nation. We'll see you soon. Bye-bye. Tyler Hay. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. If there's anyone I would take a plane to right now in this moment, it would be to your house. Oh, just land right on top

Starting point is 00:17:12 of it. I would land not only on top of it. of it. I'd land in it. In the house. I would destroy your property. The plane is coming inside the house. Crash the entire thing. I think you live in an apartment. So we're taking out everyone. Crash through the unit and all the surrounding units. Imagine the insurance money you can get from that, dude. This is a favor we're doing. You'd be able to finally move out of that apartment. You'd have no choice. It wouldn't even be there anymore. And then where can you move that money too you can use it to pack your shit up

Starting point is 00:17:47 move to California absolutely my god you probably injured from the flight then you get disability dude you get that settlement money from the airline get your whole life set up you never have to do anything again it would be the best thing that ever

Starting point is 00:18:04 happened to you no more working just living that is my ultimate I dream of these things you can come to L.A. and live with us I would love for you to live with us. I let you live in our pool that we don't own yet, but we would use your money that you get. The pool.

Starting point is 00:18:20 To build the pool. Because you could use it too. We could build you a house underneath the pool. A subterranean pool boy house. And then you would rise from the water every day to get in here. And all you were well to wear while you live here is a speedo. We want to see

Starting point is 00:18:36 it all. We want to see it all. There's a little bit of mystery, but we want to see it all. I make them edible speedos. Edible, yeah. Fruit by the speedo, definitely. Oh, my God. Fruit leather speedo, absolutely. Tyler, there's so much.

Starting point is 00:18:50 Pull on the edge and smack it on his buns. If you can think it, you can make it. If you could, if you can think it. I really believe that we can do this. We got it, Tyler. In fact, the plans are already in the works. Just get ready. If you hear the sound of a jet engine, just be ready to move.

Starting point is 00:19:05 I love you, Tyler.

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The Reel Rejects - AIRPLANE! (1980) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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