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The Airplane Scene??? (Spoiler)


Question on the scene where they faked an air flight. I've seen that exact thing in something else. Where the passengers are tricked into thinking they are really in the air, when actually they never left the ground. An old movie or TV episode? I know I've seen it, but can't put my finger on it.
Any help...Thanks.

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Perhaps an adult movie? Triple X rating? That's all that came up when I looked it up.

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LoL. Definitely not a porn flick.

I remember the passengers were to beleve they were travelling in a storm. To simulate thunder there were huge curtains of sheet metal being banged on with baseball bats.



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Not to forget ascension where they fell on similar mattresses. That was fake space though.

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I recognize it, but can't place it either.


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It's not my job to tell you what you want. It's my job to tell the truth.

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There was an episode of Leverage about the Spruce Goose where they trick the mark into thinking he's flying an airplane when really they never left the ground. I'm sure there are many other examples in movie and tv. It's not exactly an original idea

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Quite right, people here cannot pinpoint exactly where similar scenes had appeared because the idea was not new and in fact varieties of the same idea (the villain being duped into believing that he had made a journey somewhere while in fact he hadn't) had been used many times before in movies and TV. I am pretty sure, for example, that this trick had been used sometime by the team in the old Mission Impossible TV series.

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I do recall one later MI TV episode where Phelps and Nimoy's character have to trick an old Nazi into revealing his secrets by getting him onto a fake submarine and then the entire crew (but not the Nazi) get out right before the East German Stasi show up. Of course it's easier to have a fake sub because you have no windows.

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Never watched Leverage. Thanks though.

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Scene was very similar to a scene from 1980 South African comedy classic "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1984 USA release).

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No. I never saw it. Funny though, I was just reading about that movie a few days ago.
Thanks.

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That's what I was thinking, The Gods Must Be Crazy.

'....and stay out of my bathroom.'

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An old mission impossible episode I think.

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Ascension (TV Mini-Series: SyFy Network ... 3 episodes aired Dec 15-17 2014)

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Hmmm...I saw Ascension. I don't remember what it was about. Were they banging on sheet metal to make thunder sounds?
Thanks.

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Hmmm...I saw Ascension. I don't remember what it was about. Were they banging on sheet metal to make thunder sounds?
Thanks.

No. It was a supposed to be a generation/ark spaceship that launched in the 1960's to a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. But like the airplane scene, it was ultimately revealed the ship never left Earth. And the "simulated gravity" was explained as the ship's engines constantly creating 1G of thrust.

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The movie has a plot hole?!?
EVERY FRIGGIN' MOVIE HAS A FRIGGIN' PLOT HOLE!!!!!

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Yeah, I remenmber that now. There was a hatch at the bottom of a swimming pool, and a library full of tapes about old history.

Thanks, but that's not it.

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I don't know about any movie but there are films on youtube about friends pranking someone who thinks he is going to bungee jump and then lands on a mattress or then falls into water. Which is funny too :D.

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Breaking The Magician Code maybe?

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