James Cameron's blockbuster about a robot sent to Earth is one we can watch over and over, which is why it's a great airplane movie. You don't have to be fully awake to enjoy the story. 22 of 25 ...

Still haunted by that fateful wartime incident and the nearly catastrophic events of Airplane ... an unforeseen malfunction forces Ted to take over the controls of the shuttle.

An curved arrow pointing right. NBA legend and "Mycroft Holmes" author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks about why the movie "Airplane" is still so popular today, and a crazy thing that happened to him ...

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Drowning his sorrows after that botched mission during World War II, Ted Striker, a traumatized ex-fighter-pilot with a neurotic fear of flying, still has not gotten over his old flame ...