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The beginning of this movie...


with the opening crawl copied this off of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. I guess Lucas got even when he had Return of the Jedi copy the opening crawl then off this movie

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It’s called a parody.

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Thanks for clarifying

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Simon : Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet your captain, Captain Oveur.

Capt. Oveur : Gentlemen, welcome aboard.

Simon : Captain, your navigator, Mr. Unger, and your first officer, Mr. Dunn.

Capt. Oveur : Unger.

Unger : Oveur.

Dunn : Oveur.

Capt. Oveur : Dunn. Gentlemen, let's get to work.

Simon : Unger, didn't you serve under Oveur in the Air Force?

Unger : Not directly. Technically, Dunn was under Oveur and I was under Dunn.

Dunn : Yep.

Simon : So, Dunn, you were under Oveur and over Unger.

Unger : Yep.

Capt. Oveur : That's right. Dunn was over Unger and I was over Dunn.

Unger : So, you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur, even though I was under Dunn.

Capt. Oveur : Dunn was over Unger, and I was over Dunn.

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No it didn’t. This movie did not spoof nor rip off Star Wars. The opening was a reference to Jaws.

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There were no sharks in this movie

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Ummm were we watching the same movie? The very first scene we literally see sharks swimming through the clouds.

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I don't recall seeing any sharks

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Then you weren’t paying attention.

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I was probably staring at my phone. I do that a lot during movies

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Makes sense.

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It was just confirmed the sharks in the clouds was in the original movie and not this one. You should pay better attention when watching movies

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I believe it was the first Airplane movie that had the Jaws plane.

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This is correct.

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