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The scalper doesn't make any sense


So, tickets are four hundred dollars ($400).

But then he starts listing all the different KINDS of tickets he has, first class, coach, etc.

Now, why doesn't he price the different tickets differently? He doesn't even tell what ticket he sold Striker! What kind of sense does this make?

Are ALL tickets the same price?

So he has first class and coach tickets, as if they're just different flavors of ice cream - but those tickets in airlines have a HUGE difference in qualiry, legroom, seat size, and services.

Why would anyone choose coach ticket, if they can buy first class ticket for the same price? So why is he listing 'coach' as if it's something someone might select over a first class ticket - AT THE SAME PRICE?!

Makes no sense.. he should've priced them differently, or NOT listed them like ice cream flavors. You can't have it both ways and make sense at the same time. What kind of stupid scalper is this??

I would understand if he said something like "first class tickets, 600 dollars, coach tickets, 400 dollars", etc. But no, he just lists them like there's a great variety of differently-flavored, but equal goods, and in the end, Striker doesn't choose ANYTHING, and he doesn't even tell WHAT ticket he sold him!

WHAT kind of sense does this make??!

Also, airline allowing scalping in the immediate vicinity is just not good business, why would they allow that? And how would the scalper KNOW they will allow that, why risk it that way instead of doing the normal thing and having a little subtlety about it and avoiding doing it RIGHT NEXT to the counter?

And now for the disclaimer for the anal-retentive morons:

Yes, I know it's a movie, I know it's a comedy, I can accept time travel, space travel, lunar travel, and crazy and wild things. But these mundane things must make sense or it's just not funny, otherwise, it's just a free-for-all, anything goes-kind of situation, and where's the humor in that? You might as well have talking bananas in the movie, it doesn't mean it's funny.

Humor has to be GROUNDED IN REALITY for it to be funny, when you suddenly flip the script.

Also, the things don't quite sync, like the 'oil change for the patient' - you can clearly see the lips don't match the location of the tube, etc. The 'dings' in the monitor for the naked boobies also do not match the movements of the clothed women, killing the immersion. More care should've been taken to make sure everything syncs properly.

The first movie did everything perfectly, this movie is surprisingly sloppy and nonsensical (in a bad way).

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Yes. It's absurd. But its supposed to be.

Can't believe someone would put so much thought into something that is clearly meant to make no sense. The absurdity of these movies is part of their appeal. Many, many things about them make no sense.

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The joke is that there is a scalper for tickets to the first lunar shuttle, the things you are complaining about are needless details that do not add anything to the joke.

The first movie did everything perfectly, this movie is surprisingly sloppy and nonsensical (in a bad way).

Yes, but you know what they say about many sequels: "It was just the same film done worse". So Airplane II: The Sequel ran with that.

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