Airplane! (1980) (Remastered) (Paramount Presents #7)

[Akijama]

https://www.amazon.com/Airplane-Blu-...BCE5F653FDBB0E

[Monterey Jack]

Hopefully this time, we can access the extra features from a separate menu.

[bsend]

This was bound to be released by Paramount as part of this line. Happy to see this line rolling.

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Hopefully this time, we can access the extra features from a separate menu.

What happened with the previous release?

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by bsend

What happened with the previous release?

All of the extras couldn't be accessed unless you watched the movie. Whenever an extra bit came up, the movie would stop, it'd cut to the deleted scene or interview soundbite or whatever, and the movie would continue. Maddening.

[bsend]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

All of the extras couldn't be accessed unless you watched the movie. Whenever an extra bit came up, the movie would stop, it'd cut to the deleted scene or interview soundbite or whatever, and the movie would continue. Maddening.

That's a silly design decision.

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Hopefully this time, we can access the extra features from a separate menu.

You won't have that problem with this release...it drops all of the old extras except for the audio commentary track:


This review at DVD Talk timed all of the old extras and said it came out to 71 minutes total:

Long Haul Version (71 min.; SD): Okay, I might've screwed up keeping tabs on all this stuff at some point, but if my math is right, the Long Haul Version of Airplane! branches off to sixty different interviews, behind-the-scenes photos, and deleted scenes, clocking in at 71 minutes in all. Well, 71 minutes and 3 seconds, but who's counting? It's a little bit of a drag that you can't access any of this material without watching the movie again, and mashing the 'Okay!' button on the remote every minute or so kinda kills the movie's momentum, but...whatever. There's a whole lotta stuff here, although you could probably have guessed that from the just-about-feature-length runtime. Props! Casting! Leslie Nielsen's fart machine! Jive! A former president of Paramount on his hands and knees making fake poop! Peter Graves' very first scene in the movie having him ask a 12 year old boy if he'd ever seen a naked man before! A tiny stewardess-type struggling to drag all seven feet and two inches of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar down a fake airplane aisle! A singing not-a-nun auditioning for the movie in the back of Jerry Zucker's Volvo! The guys who did the disco choreography in Saturday Night Fever giving "Stayin' Alive" another shot in this movie too! There are way too many highlights to list, unless you want to trudge through sixty different bullet points, but another favorite is being able to see clips comparing 1957's Zero Hour to Airplane! so you can see just how close a remake this is in a lot of ways. There are three very short deleted scenes scattered around in here too, although like ZAZ say, nothing they cut out is any good: a water cooler gag, more with the way-too-adult kids, and a hijack"hi, Jack!" pun. Pretty much all of these clips run a minute or two a pop.

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/52551/airplane/

[steve_dave]

Good news: The Long-Haul Version is not on this release for those that hated it.

Bad news: The Long-Haul Version contained deleted scenes, storyboards, and (at the time) new interviews with the cast including Leslie Nielsen, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Barbara Billingsley, Al White, Norman Gibbs, and more.

[milo bloom]

Wish they could just dump that extra stuff on there, even if it's just SD. They could make a really nice special edition of this if they tried.

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by milo bloom

Wish they could just dump that extra stuff on there, even if it's just SD. They could make a really nice special edition of this if they tried.

The interviews are in HD as they were part of the “Long-Haul” presentation. It would have been nice to have that 71 minutes of extras in an archival section.

But then Paramount dropped the extras from Beverly Hills Cop II & III along with the just released Paramount Presents first wave.

[D00mM4r1n3]

If these are from 4K transfers I don't understand why they're not being released in 4K, I'll hold out rather than double dip.

[HotTastyChili]

I'd rather have Top Secret on Blu-ray finally, but I'm down with a remastered Airplane.

[Guydowood]

Shirley you can't be serious?

[gpn]

[hanshotfirst1138]

A Blu-ray? It’s a spinning disc that plays movies in high def. But that’s not important now.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

All of the extras couldn't be accessed unless you watched the movie. Whenever an extra bit came up, the movie would stop, it'd cut to the deleted scene or interview soundbite or whatever, and the movie would continue. Maddening.

These branching extras are more a holdover from the early Blu-ray era. Beauty and the Beast, Minority Report, Source Code, Prometheus, Bambi, Moulin Rouge, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and quite a few others used this technique.

Personally I’ll just get the old version to have those extras.

It’s nice to have a substantial new extra with the Q&A, but if you don’t care for what will presumably be a higher quality version, it’s available on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myZL...ature=youtu.be

Oh and cool to see isolated scores outside of Twilight Time and Indicator.

[DanTheMan]

Oh boy. Another announcement, another double dip for me.

[silverlakephil]

Me too. I never get tired of watching this.

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by silverlakephil

Me too. I never get tired of watching this.

Do you like movies about gladiators?

[silverlakephil]

Joey, Have you ever seen a grown man naked ?

[meremortal]

Definitely a wasted opportunity to not go 4k, but I'll keep an eye on it if it's a considerable improvement over the previous blu. It looked like the Beverly Hills Cop trilogy had mixed opinions.