Thanks Lainey for giving me the blog today – to look back at movie Flying High (released 35 years ago). It’s a sharply perceptive parody of the big-budget disaster films that dominated Hollywood during the 1970s.
Wednesday Conditions: Soft overnight drizzle; nil carparks even at 5.45 a.m; surfboat on the water at 5.48, ocean flat calm clear and utterly perfect!
David Zucker explained that “the trick was to cast actors like Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, and Lloyd Bridges. These were people who, up to that time, had never done comedy. We thought they were much funnier than the comedians of that time were.”
Flying High‘s reputation has grown substantially. In a 2007 UK survey, it was judged the second greatest comedy film of all time, after Life of Brian.
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The pneumatic autopilot was memorable. Elaine had to re-inflate it, after it went down on the pilot.
Ted Stryker reminisced about his failed mission, which led to his quitting life as a pilot.
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SUCKED IN: Even on a quiet, damp morning … yet another newbie rolls up. Hello Jonathan …
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Temp Dude
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The Thomas menfolk … bright and early
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BACK TO REALITY
Jeletubbies Matt, Richard and Max
All manner of jellyfish were on the move yesterday morning …
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Melbourne Cup – The Race That Stops Jeff Swimming
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This is Nathan Perry‘s latest surfboat (Nil logos yet). It took a couple of weeks to build. He’s thinking of naming it after his mum …
BREAKING NEWS: Storchy swallowed a fly at 5.39 a.m, Roger forgot his swimmers. Reg did too. You read it here first. Matt to Guy: “I’d never forget my swimmers.”
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Ian passes wind, instantly knocking out entire boot camp
STATS
Swimmers: 60
Jimbles: A couple
Newbies: One
Temp: 20.2º
15 comments
JK
04/11/2015 at 8:41 am
I wished I’d given up asking you to blog ! Nice one Roger
roger
04/11/2015 at 8:52 am
Thanks JK … thanks to all who help so much with photo set-ups.
Wasn’t it a lovely early morning on beachfront 🙂
Kerry
04/11/2015 at 9:55 am
Bahahahaha!!! Bloody loved that movie .. Blog even better …. !!!!
Movie Fan
04/11/2015 at 10:40 am
JOEY HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GROWN MAN NAKED!!
The Submarine
04/11/2015 at 10:57 am
Hilarious Roger, my favourite is The Bishop as the auto pilot … welcome back
Shelley K
04/11/2015 at 11:11 am
Worth waiting for…totally
Bill McCaffeine
04/11/2015 at 11:32 am
Class !
Rusty
04/11/2015 at 1:28 pm
Fantastic blog Roger. Lots of time put into it. And I enjoyed being distracted by it and reading it at work when I should have been doing something else entirely! Love Airplane.
Peter Anthony
04/11/2015 at 1:58 pm
Great job, Roger…Over.
roger
04/11/2015 at 2:04 pm
Thank you Clarence. Where’s Victor?
John.St
04/11/2015 at 2:18 pm
Agree,
Hillarious!
Thank you Roger.
Shelly
04/11/2015 at 2:33 pm
Roger dodger:
We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger.
What’s our vector, Victor ?
wow ! what a lot of work/plagiarism !!
love it Roger dodger..
Love you all
Shirley
xoxoxo
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DWSS
04/11/2015 at 4:17 pm
Great work Roger
Lips
04/11/2015 at 4:53 pm
7:47am submission. That’s a record!
Love your work Roger.
LSA aka HKTQ
04/11/2015 at 10:05 pm
Thx Roger….great scoop and great to see you back blogging! xx Catch up soon over coffee:)