• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Airplane! is also a parody of one particular movie that is mostly forgotten now, Zero Hour, and spoofs a then popular subgenre of airplane catastrophe movies.

    Walk Hard in particular is very much in the ZAZ vein.

    • EvilBit@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Fun fact: Zero Hour is so unintentionally funny they lifted a lot of it verbatim and Airplane! is technically a remake. They had to buy the rights.