Re: So about those drunk pilots on \"LAX\"
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Don't take the show too seriously and you may enjoy it.
It's melodrama after all!
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I was perusing a movie nitpick website the other day and there was this one knob that was nitpicking the technical accuracy the movie "Airplane". Here are some highlights:
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When Striker is fighting with the control yoke, it moves around WAY too much to be connected to anything. The base of an airplane's control yoke does not move at all, only the yoke itself.
That is supposed to happen because it is funny. You know that this was supposed to be a comedy don't you.
In the scene where Roger, Victor and Oveur are talking before takeoff and the window washer guy(Jimmy"dynomite!" Walker) is doing the windows, he opens the 'hood' on the frond the front and then after struggling to close it, it pops open and knocks him off. However, large jet planes do not have front hoods because the engines are located under the wings, not in front, as in an automobile.
Um, do you live in a state where you can't understand parody? Do you believe that an inflatable co-pilot exists under the seat of airliners, or that a plane with no landing gear could drag itself off the runway and into the air again? Did you believe that Ted Stryker was really stresssed by the way the sweat just poured off his face? Look at the movie again. If the airplane hood was the only thing you noticed wrong, get your head examined.
The entire movie is a spoof. They made a comparison to an airplane's preparation to that of a car, where an attendant might wash the windsheild and check the oil before you leave. They're not seriously suggesting this happens to actual planes before takeoff. This is one movie you can't take literally. Do you really think nuns sing Respect?
I highly doubt jet planes have inflatable dolls as autopilots. I don't think a plane that was taking off down a runway would go slow enough for a girl to run alongside it. Air traffic controllers don't do laundry in the tower. Do you see where I'm going with all of this? Listen carefully, THIS IS A PARODY! IT'S A COMEDY! HA HA, FUNNY, LAUGH, NOT REAL, EXAGGERATION! I don't know how else to say it. Do you have a sense of humor?! I can't stand stupid people.
The noise used for the passenger jet is the thrum of propeller-driven engines, not the high-pitched whine of jet engines.
as I told the Nitpicker who pointed out that airplanes do not have hoods like cars, this movie is a parody. The purpose of such movies is usually to make the audience laugh. Thus the presence of the joke that is obvious to everyone else: the blatant use of the wrong sound effect for the engines of the plane. I and everyone else I saw the movie with laughed at not only this, but hundreds of absurdities in this great movie.
