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WSo8M: (4) Airplane! v. (13) Midnight Run

(4) Airplane!

23 votes

(13) Midnight Run

8 votes

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 17 2008 08:31 AM

Lincoln Hawk Conference, Nakatomi Plaza Regionals: (4) Airplane! (13) Midnight Run

AG/DC Oct 17 2008 08:40 AM

Yaphet Kotto is the under-appreciated element of Midnight Run --- putting on his tough face and doing double takes every time DeNiro zings him. Midnight Run for me, but it doesn't seem to have much of a prayer.

sharpie Oct 17 2008 08:42 AM

Watched both of them again within the last couple of years. Midnight Run is still funny, Airplane not.

soupcan Oct 17 2008 08:42 AM

Close as close can be but I had to make a choice. "No, thank you, I take it black, like my men"

AG/DC Oct 17 2008 08:45 AM

sharpie wrote: Watched both of them again within the last couple of years. Midnight Run is still funny, Airplane not. Zackly. I think Airplane! is one of those things that folks can hang onto because it helps define their zany self image. Review it and you realize, uh, actually, I've moved on.

Fman99 Oct 17 2008 08:52 AM

Give Charles Grodin credit for popularizing the thong and showing everyone his big hiney. Kudos to you and your jungle booty! Having said that, Airplane! baby!. Another slam dunk.

HahnSolo Oct 17 2008 08:54 AM

I forgot about Midnight Run so much that I thought this was the movie with Jon Voigt and Eric Roberts on the train. (Alas, that was Runaway Train). Airplane! for me. And yes, I do like gladiator movies.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 17 2008 08:57 AM

Me too! I thought it was about a kid getting jailed in Turkey for smuggling drugs. I forgot all about the DeNiro-Grodin buddy movie. I really liked it and it doesn't deserve to have been forgotten.

Vic Sage Oct 17 2008 09:02 AM

AIRPLANE!, despite its towering place in our collective unconscious, started a terrible sub-genre and wasn't particularly good even in its day. Now, it is almost unwatchable. MIDNIGHT RUN is a good, above-average action comedy. I don't think its anything that special, but it's certainly a better movie than AIRPLANE.

MFS62 Oct 17 2008 09:08 AM

Roger, Roger. Its Airplane for me. Later

themetfairy Oct 17 2008 10:54 AM

Airplane! is one of my all time favorites, and it still holds up 28 years later. A comedy classikc!

dgwphotography Oct 17 2008 11:48 AM

To me, Airplane doesn't hold up well at all. Midnight Run it is

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 17 2008 12:02 PM

Wait. Was it Grodin or Kozlowski who popularized the thong and showed us their big heiney? Look at us with our, "Airplane wasn't funny after all" snootiness. You guys need to be beaten like that like hysterical woman on the plane. I'll be the big brother with a wrench.

AG/DC Oct 17 2008 12:12 PM

Rent it. Your wife will blush at the datedness and find something else to occupy herself --- insisting that she's still watching with you but totally faking it as she does the sudoku on her lap You --- you'll be looking for an extra beer just to get through it, lying to her and yourself that the next scene makes the last one worth it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 17 2008 12:19 PM

Yeah I forgot. Modern times demand comedy loaded with irony and cynicism and edgyness or I'll risk having to kill myself.

bmfc1 Oct 17 2008 12:20 PM

Every year, during one of the holidays, we visit our friends and every year, someone asks our hostess how she likes her coffee and every year, she says "Black. Like my men." It's a tradition. I recently bought the "Don't Call Me Shirley!" "Special Edition" of Airplane! with new commentary from the cast. The movie is still hilarious and easily got my vote. Midnight Run is very good, but not as good as Airplane! (David Zucker's crossing over to the dark side is very depressing.)

seawolf17 Oct 17 2008 12:24 PM

Airplane! is one of the ten best movies in the history of cinema.

soupcan Oct 17 2008 01:01 PM

bmfc1 wrote: Every year, during one of the holidays, we visit our friends and every year, someone asks our hostess how she likes her coffee and every year, she says "Black. Like my men." It's a tradition. Every single time I order coffee somewhere and someone asks how I like it (which isn't nearly as often as you might think since most coffee places have milk & sugar on the side now) I answer 'strong & black, like my men'. You see I'm a heterosexual white guy so, you know, its funny. The joke's old and more times than not, I'm the only one who laughs but laugh I do. One time, I was out for breakfast with my little brother - who is cuter and much more charming than me - and the waitress poses the question. I responded with my standard line and got a rolling eyes smirk. Little bro then hits her with "...and I'd like mine weak & bitter like my women." She thought he was just the cat's pajamas. Little bastard.

Elster88 Oct 17 2008 09:29 PM

Airplane should've battled Ferris for the title of most overrated movie of the eighties.

TheOldMole Oct 18 2008 04:17 PM

Midnight Run? What is it?

AG/DC Oct 18 2008 06:04 PM

It's comedy. It's action. It's comaction.

dgwphotography Oct 18 2008 07:37 PM

TheOldMole wrote: Midnight Run? What is it? It's a small little movie that De Niro did with Charles Grodin, but that isn't important right now...

themetfairy Oct 18 2008 09:08 PM

Iubitul wrote: Midnight Run? What is it? It's a small little movie that De Niro did with Charles Grodin, but that isn't important right now... Aha! Airplane! must be holding up well if you're still spewing dialogue inspired by the film :)

dgwphotography Oct 19 2008 05:54 AM

themetfairy wrote: Midnight Run? What is it? It's a small little movie that De Niro did with Charles Grodin, but that isn't important right now... Aha! Airplane! must be holding up well if you're still spewing dialogue inspired by the film :) Just because I provided the pinch line to what I perceived to be an obvious set up doesn't mean the movie holds up well...

themetfairy Oct 19 2008 07:01 AM

Sure it does. As far as I can tell, there are only three or four jokes in the movie that the current generation won't get (e.g., the Maxwell House Coffee commercial send-up). Most of the humor is still fresh, even 28 years later.

bmfc1 Oct 19 2008 08:38 AM

"Sure it does." TMF: I wish you said "Surely it does."

themetfairy Oct 19 2008 09:04 AM

Don't call me Shirley!

metirish Oct 19 2008 09:18 AM

Charles Grodin , Mets fan and friend of Bobby Valentine not getting a lot of respect.

seawolf17 Oct 19 2008 10:42 AM

metirish wrote: Charles Grodin , Mets fan and friend of Bobby Valentine not getting a lot of respect. Maybe he should have been in Airplane!, then.

AG/DC Oct 19 2008 11:51 AM

Because it's repeated doesn't make it fresh. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32364

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 20 2008 08:46 AM

23-8 Airplane! wins