I was just watching that myself. The moment I really broke up was when they had the first cutaway to the ground crew at (Calgary?) airport, and the people there looked just like the Airplane cast.
It's really amazing how Airplane was able to take a competent melodrama and eviscerate it so that it's not possible to watch it without the memories of Airplane overwhelming it. It's a good disproof for folks who say that some follow-on project (a remake, say) can't hurt the original because that's still there. The new project can obliterate the old even if it's still available.
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Date: 2010-03-06 07:09 am (UTC)I was just watching that myself. The moment I really broke up was when they had the first cutaway to the ground crew at (Calgary?) airport, and the people there looked just like the Airplane cast.
It's really amazing how Airplane was able to take a competent melodrama and eviscerate it so that it's not possible to watch it without the memories of Airplane overwhelming it. It's a good disproof for folks who say that some follow-on project (a remake, say) can't hurt the original because that's still there. The new project can obliterate the old even if it's still available.