Re: Airplane! : MONTHLY MOVIE MARATHON
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Also the key thing people never understand - in their time, these things were new. You cannot possibly recapture even a piece of that when you see it later. And it's not because the movie sucks - it's because the movie is so friggin' great that it spawned 10 billion imitators so that you got completely submerged in its energy and originality and took it for granted before you even saw it. There is NOTHING you cuold see at that point that wouuld make you appreciate it for how great it was when it came out.
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Aye. I often thought Mel Brooks must have wept when he saw it.
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