Posts Tagged ‘Airplane’
Movie of the Year: 1982 – State of the Franchise
Movie of the Year: 1982 State of the Franchise Let’s check in on the state of the franchise in 1982! Film franchises weren’t as big in 1982 as they are now, but they did exist. By 1982 we were already pretty deep into Friday the 13th, Halloween, and the Rocky franchises. Heck, the Greaseaverse was nearly launched in…
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AVATAR VS. SPIDER-MAN 3 Nobody wins in this fight, let’s just make that clear. This is more to determine which overly effects driven, poorly written film works better than the other. First we have Avatar, the long awaited special effects bukkake that James Cameron spewed all over our faces in 2009. Then we have a…
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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN META MOVIES 10. AIRPLANE Aside from being perhaps the best comedy of all time, Airplane! is a “meta” masterpiece. A nun, reading an actual ‘Boys Life’ magazine is followed by a boy reading a fictional ‘Nuns Life’ magazine. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a basketball player in real life, plays the co-pilot, who…
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