Before watching the movie:
I almost certainly wouldn’t have known about this movie if it wasn’t for Airplane!, which is nominally a parody of the sequel Airport ’77 (but supposedly more directly riffing on the plot of Zero Hour). What I never understood is how movies about airplane disasters get titled after the airport, so I don’t know if I really know what I’m in for (Airplane but without the farce) or not.
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Before watching the movie:
I didn’t mean to put two westerns back to back, but I couldn’t finish a month of musicals without Paint Your Wagon and I didn’t realize this was a short month.
I know precious little about this movie other than that it has Western movie stars not known for singing bafflingly cast in a musical. And I also know about the Simpsons taking the mickey out of it, but it’s so ridiculous that it has to be completely unrelated to the actual movie, no matter how ridiculous the movie itself is.
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