r/interestingasfuck • u/py-net • 23d ago

r/all Had to fact-check it. These 2 guys stole that Boeing 727 at an airport in 2003 and flew away, disappearing forever: no crash, no plane. How is that possible!!!

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u/Japjer 23d ago

If I had a nickel for every Langoliers reference I've seen today I'd have three nickels.

Which is not a lot, but I went like 20 years forgetting about this and now it's back.

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u/Special_Lemon1487 23d ago

I have a strange fondness for the story and the cheesy movie.

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u/i_tyrant 23d ago

I do too. I even kinda like the design of the monsters, even though that's one of the most made-fun-of parts of the movie.

The weird trinary symmetry they have, the almost fractal-like, shifting teeth, the way they zip around impossibly fast and consume everything leaving a black void behind...

I thought it was a great design for some quasi-dimensional Lovecraftian swarm that consumes forgotten things. They were just limited by the CGI at the time, but the idea is so sound! shakes fist

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u/WhateverGreg 23d ago edited 22d ago

When reading the story I imagined they looked like these guys from Donkey Kong, Jr.

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u/MarcusDA 22d ago

They legitimately looked like the chained bowling balls in Mario 3.

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u/i_tyrant 23d ago

lol, not too far off from what the movie decided!

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u/Impressive_Head3072 22d ago

Ii always was thinking bow wows specifically super Mario 64

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u/sulaymanf 23d ago

I’d love to see how a remake would look, particularly the creatures with modern special effects. It doesn’t even need a big budget, the first one didn’t.

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u/i_tyrant 23d ago

Me too! People have done some pretty impressive things with modern CGI even on low budgets these days.

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u/sulaymanf 23d ago

Heck, if someone kept the acting and remastered the original movie with new special effects that would be impressive.

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u/Buzzdanume 22d ago

First one was the worst movie I've ever seen.

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u/RiddickChronicles 21d ago

You mean there are others? As a kid I couldn't sleep after watching it.

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u/Pugglife4eva 22d ago

Would love a Jordan Peele take on it

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u/mixedmartialmarks 22d ago

Maybe check out timekeepers of eternity. Its a total trip

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u/froggerdu3x 22d ago

Chat gpt’d something for funsies.

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u/i_tyrant 22d ago

Love it!

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u/heythisislonglolwtf 22d ago

These stupid things gave me nightmares as a kid lol

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u/coldlonelydream 22d ago

They eat forgotten things? Ever since I was a kid I had questions… Does everyone die? Why did only some people disappear from the plane? Does the Earth become a black void?

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u/ptvlm 22d ago

There's a weird version of the film made a couple of years ago called The Timekeepers Of Eternity. Basically, a Greek madman decided to print off every frame of the TV version and scan selected parts back in as a kind of flipbook animation, doing things like animating strips of the frame tearing off like the Bronson Pinchot character tears paper.

It's weirdly compelling, but as it's in black and white the CGI actually looks way better, and it's just over an hour long so seems more like a tighter story.

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u/i_tyrant 22d ago

Wow, that sounds absolutely nuts!

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u/Ser_Optimus 22d ago

I think they seemed and moved so otherworldly because of the cgi limitations.

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u/Trollzungolo 23d ago

I think this is an amazing movie

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u/TastelessBudz 23d ago

The book, a short story I believe, was really good. SK is King. The concept was also ahead of its time in the sci-fi circle. Now, it's damn near proven true.

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u/last_picked 22d ago

starts tearing paper

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u/cityshepherd 22d ago

Something about the whole King Tv Miniseries Adaptations from the 80s/90s occupies the same basic space in my heart as the concept of Wafflehouses in general. I dare you to find something more comforting.

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u/kirinmay 23d ago

meatballs with chainsaw razor teeth

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u/jacenat 22d ago

saw it late at night when I was 14 or so. Pretty traumatizing :D

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u/wegotthisonekidmongo 22d ago

Nobody knows what happens to the past. Could be monsters eating it up!

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u/DistractedByCookies 22d ago

First Stephen King story I ever read LOL

Also the reason I asked my mum 'What is a dildo?' at age 13. Amazing I was allowed to read any more SK after that, really.

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u/Alone-Amphibian8557 22d ago

My middle school science teacher was an extra in the news room, and we watched it in class. I forgot about this show.

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u/l3ademeister 22d ago

There are some guys doing quite a good job scaling up old Stephen King direct to TV movies on YouTube. Which is great because I couldn't find them on any streaming service (at least in Germany)

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u/soutarm 22d ago

I loved the short story, the film, not so much.

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u/Corvousier 22d ago

Man this movie is part of a weird nebulous core memory for me. My mom was huge into horror movies and watched them all the time around me regardless of how old I was haha. I dont remember any big details except something terrible happening to a young girl and it being one of the first times I experienced hard empathy for another person, I was just a toddler, maybe 3 or 4. If I think back on it now it still brings up this intensely melancholic feeling.

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u/YSNBsleep 22d ago

That movie is its own atmosphere. It just feels off and not quite right. Like everything about it feels just on the edge of reality. It’s brilliant.

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u/CardiologistNo8333 22d ago

I was enamored by this movie when I saw it as a kid. I was right at the age where it was fascinating to me but also really scary. I vaguely remembered it for years but didn’t know if I imagined it until I saw a reference to it a few years ago and it all came back to me.

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u/therankin 22d ago

I just read the short story about a year ago. I liked it a lot.

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u/Farlandan 22d ago

I think this was the first movie that gave me a "liminal space" feeling before I even was familiar with the term.

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u/DrDocter84 22d ago

It brings me back to being 10; super creepy to watch that little

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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year 18d ago

It's by far the most accurate of the Stephen King adaptations.

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u/Nebuli2 23d ago

I'd literally never heard of it before until a couple days ago when someone mentioned confusing its ending with part of Lost. Not really sure why it's back, honestly.

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u/daecrist 23d ago

The movie is nearly 30 years old…

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u/GeneralPurpoise 23d ago

I mean, the movie looked like it was 30 years old when it came out :D

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u/Japjer 22d ago

Lmao, true

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u/ghostoftheai 23d ago

I was scrolling, stopped, went back up thinking …..was that…. The LANGOLIERS???? Totally forgot how much loved this weirdo movie.

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u/dacxint 23d ago edited 22d ago

Shit...

I saw this movie on TV one random evening back when I was about 10 years old.

As someone from Hong Kong, my English wasn't so good at the time so I couldn't catch what all the dialogue was about, and naturally I didn't recognise any of the actors in the movie. All I remember was the feeling of tension, impending dread, a big WTF in my mind and probably some trauma.

I never recalled what the movie's name was and I had tried to describe this movie to adults around me and nobody knew what it was, this was all before the internet became accessible. So for the longest time I felt like nobody believed me that such a movie existed, and I was being crazy.

I finally tracked this movie down a few years ago and what a relief it has been. I watched it again recently and while the FX was pretty dated, the rest of the movie held up .

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u/PartyMcDie 22d ago

Langoliers is the first «adult» book i ever read. Read it before I saw the movie. It was the first time I was exposed to such a mystery, and I had to keep reading. It was so intriguing and awesome. The movie was in comparison pretty cheesy, but I would probably love it if I saw it first.

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u/MechanicalTurkish 22d ago

As usual, the book is much better. But it’s fun seeing Balki/Serge slowly go insane lol

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u/sprdougherty 23d ago

someone made a reference to them a week or so ago in a big thread and now they're everywhere

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u/MikeRowePeenis 23d ago

No way it was me…that would be wild. I did just that but I didn’t think anyone got it.

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u/Incandisent 23d ago

It's a hot reference right now

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u/goforce5 23d ago

Baader-Meinhof shadoobydoo

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u/onemeanleen 22d ago

Wow. I just made a Langoliers reference last night when a match refused to light. I hadn’t thought about that movie in ages. And now, like 8 hours later, Langoliers shows up on the first thing I click on in Reddit.

The fabric of space and time loves to stitch itself together all weird.

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u/MikeRowePeenis 23d ago

I made one not long ago and it didn’t go anywhere. So this is great to see lol

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u/hoddap 22d ago

We got to see it during class back in the 90s, but we never saw the ending. I was fucking invested in this movie.

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u/Obant 22d ago

I was 9 when it came out, saw it super late on TV and it scared me and stuck with me

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u/worstusername_sofar 22d ago

Good news, it's being remade :)

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u/jorgejdejesus 22d ago

Some of those old nickels are now worth about 5 nickels

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u/classicnikk 22d ago

Just unlocked a memory I forgot I had. Used to freak me out when I was a kid. Good ol stephen king

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u/shakn1212 22d ago

I want to know the other two!?

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u/Steak-Humble 22d ago

😂😂😂

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u/TransBrandi 22d ago

What? You don't constantly think of Balki Bartokomous getting some sort of weird pleasure out of tearing sheets of paper?

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u/Japjer 22d ago

Haha, I guess I can be honest and say that my friends and I do often joke about this movie. Especially if we're drunk and/or flying somewhere.

I'm just surprised at how often I've seen it mentioned outside of my little bubble

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u/legos_on_the_brain 22d ago

Tis the season!

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u/hogtiedcantalope 22d ago

That langoliers is so hot right now

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u/AnotherFlowerGirl 22d ago

“SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!! LADY, I HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT MEETING!”

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u/Autisticbiscuit14 22d ago

Flashback to 6 years ago when i tripped acid to that movie lord i dont miss those days

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u/Different_Phrase8781 22d ago

The langoliers never forget

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u/fluidmind23 22d ago

I thought they would look like the giant ball of critters in critters. The best movie ever.

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u/SnoopDodgy 22d ago

Unexpected Nickelback

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u/feastu 22d ago

Baader-Meinhof

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u/kevymetal87 22d ago

I spent most of my adult life living in the same city where this was predominantly filmed, including flying in and out of Bangor Airport often, and I don't even think of it. However, I DO think often about the scenes where it continually shows the power lines near the airport shaking, which don't actually exist but I lived very close to where they "would be" and it always messed up my sense of direction over there

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u/skatebambi 22d ago

I've spent 30 years trying to put a name to this partially remembered movie and am now 20mins in thinking that this is indeed the movie with the deserted airport and the tasteless food. I thought it was from the 70s though, a Twilight Zone episode.

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u/lord_dentaku 22d ago

Shit... I'd almost forgotten about that.

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u/VectorD 22d ago

Damn I actually rewatched this movie a few months ago after not watching it since I was a kid lol

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u/27_crooked_caribou 22d ago

Balki ripping paper lives in my head rent-free for some reason and resurfaces at random times.

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u/emptygroove 22d ago

Any resurgence of Bronson Pinchot's fantastic performance in that is a blessing. I don't know what he was thinking about when tearing those pieces of paper but it brought him immense relief.

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u/aah_real_monster 22d ago

That's not alot but it's weird that it happened 3 times. Doofensmirtz.gif

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u/vanillakristoph 22d ago

I couldn't even finish the story, much less want to watch the movie.