#hot shots part deux

[admiraltusktooth69]

Incorrect Vox Machina #48 Archie: You don’t understand. I can’t walk... Archie: They’ve tied my shoelaces together. Percy: A knot. Percy: Bastards!

[retrokid616]

drip check on chetney like

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[madman731]

More DVD rewatches!

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[finitevariety]

I could have fixed her

[meggie-stardust]

Look, I love how horny people are in the comments for this pic, but I saw it and immediately recognized that this is a still from Hot Shots Part Deux. I love tumblr.

[soupy-sez]

HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX (1993) dir. Jim Abrahams

[admiraltusktooth69]

Incorrect Vox Machina #14 Zahra: Oh, Vex’ahlia, how could you have been so blind? Zahra: You always too wrapped up in being Miss Perfect College to notice me. Zahra: Why should you concern yourself with the feelings of one insignificant roommate? Zahra: One fabulous day, one incredible experience. Vex: I had no idea it meant so much to you. Zahra: I remember that day as if it were yesterday. Zahra: The exhilaration of experimenting, sharing something so new, so dangerous, so intimate. Pike: Go on. Vex: And I’ll never forget the look on your face. Vex: The way the sweat glistened on your hard body. Vex: Then you tied my ankles. Tighter. Tighter. Vex: But it just wasn’t right. It wasn’t natural. Vex: Bungee-jumping is just too dangerous a sport. Pike: Bungee-jumping? That’s it?

[elfoscuro]

Duel of the Fates

Alec Guinness vs David Prowse in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) by George Lucas

Bill Pullman vs Rick Moranis in Spaceballs (1987) by Mel Brooks

Lloyd Bridges vs Jerry Haleva in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) by Jim Abrahams

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Sabin "McBain" Figaro

I realized something recently about this artwork of Sabin by Yoshitaka Amano.

(Weirdly, there don't seem to be any high-resolution scans of this artwork, at least not that I could find.)

This artwork was the first time I saw Sabin, way way waaaaaaay back in the issue of Nintendo Power (👴) that featured FF6.

All this time, I had thought that this artwork was of Sabin climbing up a mountain. But a few weeks ago, I looked at this artwork again and Sabin is 100% NOT climbing up a mountain. In fact, I don't know how I could have thought otherwise for so many years!

Nothing about the terrain looks natural. Everything appears to be metallic, smooth, and industrial-looking. There are even plumes of dark smoke in the background. How or why I thought he was scaling a mountain is beyond me.

Given the world of FF6 - and given the unnatural appearance of his environment - I'd guess that he's in or near Vector. The other industrial areas of the world, such as Figaro and Narshe, are not portrayed with such grimness.

Interestingly, Amano's portrayal of Sabin varies; I feel like he's either depicted as a lithe, semi-brooding naturalist, or as a hyper-masculine, Rambo-esque drill sergeant.

I suppose in a way, both of those are aspects to Sabin's personality, but the Sabin in my headcanon leans more towards the former.

(I'll also note that Rambo-Sabin appears to have a receding hairline and seems to be shouldering a gun, and one of those feels extremely uncharacteristic for him.)

I wonder why Amano depicts Sabin in such differing forms. Certainly his portrayal of FF6 characters went through a series of prototypes (hello peppermint Interceptor), so was Rambo Sabin an earlier prototype or a later one?

Anyway, it blows my mind that I had mistaken the context of the first artwork of Sabin I'd ever seen. Even though that artwork portrays Sabin Schwarzenegger using his macho strength to climb... I dunno, a tank or something?... I still think of Sabin as being less militaristic and more agrestalistic.

And if he HAS to be compared to a hardcore army veteran action hero, it should only be Topper Harley.

[thedailyque]

Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

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Evewy time I give an order, it gets scwewed up! Pwan a weception, wong hors d'oeuvres. Appoint an ambassador, he weaves the countwy.

President Elmer Fudd

[greensparty]

Remembering Jim Abrahams 1944-2024

Sad news today that Jim Abrahams, one-third of the comedy genius that is Zucker-Abraham-Zucker, has died at 80. The WI native joined his lifelong friends David and Jerry Zucker to become some of the funniest comedy writers, directors and producers in my lifetime.

Abrahams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker

Taking the wild edgy comedy of their Kentucky Fried Theater, they made the low-budget 1977 comedy The Kentucky Fried Movie with director John Landis. The entire movie was comedy sketches that were definitely not ready for primetime. I first saw it as a little kid and so much of the humor went over my head - but boy was it funny! When I met John Landis at the 2002 F4, he signed by DVD. Then in 1980, they directed and wrote the disaster movie parody Airplane!. It is a full-on parody of 70′s disaster movies. It is laugh-out-loud funny start to finish! I watched it so many times while I was growing up and laughed harder each time. It is considered by many to be the funniest movie ever made, and I wouldn’t argue with that. 

Then in 1982, they did the short-lived TV copy parody Police Squad!. Poking fun at the conventions of TV cop shows, came naturally to them. Abrahams directed an episode in addition to writing and producing. In 1984's Top Secret! ZAZ had a rock star played by Val Kilmer and dropped him into a World War II movie, spoofing both war movies and Elvis movies. For the big screener version of Police Squad, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, David Zucker directed and ZAZ wrote and produced. I recently picked this up on DVD and it is still super funny! They returned for sequels The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, both of which have some LOL moments.

a young Winona Ryder directed by Abrahams

In addition to his work with ZAZ, Abrahams also directed a number of movies on his own including Big Business, the highly underrated Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, and the Top Gun spoofs Hot Shots! and Hot Shots! Part Deux.

In addition to his filmmaking, last year ZAZ released the oral history book Surely You Can't Be Serious? The True Story of Airplane!, which I named the Best Book of 2023.

When they write the Book of Comedy, ZAZ will definitely be getting an entire chapter thanks to their laugh-a-minute approach!

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.