they needed to move back to the Empire State Building anyway
There must have been some form of airport security then. Otherwise that scene with the women going through the security scanner and guards being able to see them naked wouldn’t have made any sense. Of course that actually is happening in our post-911 world 
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The plot of Escape from New York has bizarre overtones now. Terrorists deliberately crash a hijacked plane into Manhattan, after which a glider lands on the top of the World Trade Centre?!
And I realize it wasn’t a big budget masterpiece, but I always thought that the shot of the glider falling off the WTC was about as shitty a special effect as I’d seen.
The joke is that she’s on a Japanese airline, the implication being that enough Japanese people wander around carrying katanas that the airlines needed to adress katana-storage.
Also, expressionism? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Spoons was referring to AirPORT, from 1970. The scene you’re referring to was in AirPLANE 2, from 1982.
As far as Airport, though, was that not the one with the stowaway? One of the Airports had a stowaway. Not happening today, all right.
Wasn’t airport security originally implemented after D.B. Cooper?
Dunno about that, but after him they redesigned the aircraft doors so you couldn’t open them while the plane was in flight.
Frankly, any film with a madman bent on global domination that I’ve seen post 9/11 falls flat, IMHO.
[grizzled drill sergeant] “Boys, we didn’t start this war, but by God we’re going to end it.”
Yep, the first one was the one with the stowaway, played by Helen Hayes, IIRC. Her act was choose a confusing and busy time at the gate, then claiming to the gate agent that her son or daughter was on the plane and forgotten something (a wallet, for example), and could she just run down to the plane and give it to him or her? Mostly, they’d say “OK,” without looking up from whatever was keeping them busy. She’d get on the plane and find an empty seat.
Definitely no way she could do that today. Between check-ins requiring ID, security checkpoints that only ticketed passengers can pass, and showing ID before getting on the plane, she’s never make it that way any more.
don’t be to sure about that
The Parrallax View. I came in here to mention that myself.
Another one though is House of Games, an otherwise excellent movie but for a finale in (minor spoilers) two characters stroll into an airports’ luggage handling center (where checked luggage is brought to be loaded onto planes). One character even whips out a gun & kills the other one, then casually saunters away.
Even for the year it was released, 1987, that was a highly improbable occurance though. Unchaperoned civilians simply strolling into a room where they have access to the belongings of every passenger on every flight in that airport? Even if they could simply walk into a high security area, there would at least have been a security camera taking pictures of the murderer getting away.
Not surprising to anyone who’s a Dave Barry fan.
I was really disapointed by that, since there was a huge marketing blitz that ended up completely wasted, and I think it may have ruined Barry’s chances to do more screenwriting.
Barry didn’t write the screenplay for the movie.
Any sort of movie like Executive Decision or The Rock where it is so hard to decide whether to sacrifice the lives of a handful of innocent hostages or suffer the consequences of a generalized terroristic threat.