HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoWhat parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?message-squaremessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down12
arrow-up1105arrow-down1message-squareWhat parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square106fedilink
minus-squareThe Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·15 hours agoAirplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don’t know about the existence of the latter
minus-squareMoobythegoldensock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 hours agoIt’s such a close parody that they actually secured the rights to remake it. Much of the dialogue is exactly the same.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours agoShit, I’m going to have to watch the original.
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up17·15 hours agoit also spawned the whole genre and although Leslie Nielsen made lots of movies before this, his legacy is this as well as the other parody movies
Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don’t know about the existence of the latter
TIL Airplane! is a parody.
It’s such a close parody that they actually secured the rights to remake it. Much of the dialogue is exactly the same.
Shit, I’m going to have to watch the original.
it also spawned the whole genre and although Leslie Nielsen made lots of movies before this, his legacy is this as well as the other parody movies