I loved “Airplane” when it was first released. I laughed and laughed and probably saw it several times.
A few years ago, I discovered Julie had never seen “Airplane” and then sat down to watch it with her. We were both bored and gave up after about 20 minutes. But that was long enough for us to watch the “Saturday Night Fever” parody scene, and we both decided we’d like to watch “Saturday Night Fever” again.
And man — I think I have said this here before — but “Saturday Night Fever” blew me away that time. In my mind, I had previously conflated the movie with the cheesy disco comedies that came out in its wake. But “Saturday Night Fever” was brilliant and dark. One of my top 10 movies for sure.