Aviation movies

Flight of The Intruder and Air America are two good ones I think...

They need a modern Top Gun/Flight of the Intruder type movie (I don't think Behind Enemy Lines counts because most of the movie doesn't involve the Hornet)
 
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Dude, Top Gun rocks. The plane/carrier portions of the movie more than make up for any part that may be cosidered sub-par. Having served on a carrier I have an even better appreciation for the fligth portions of the movie.

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I already said that it was the shots of the planes in action that made this movie watchable. However these shots would still be good if they were in a documentary. For me, the movie itself is the story and the characters that are contained within, not the filler shots of some excellent flying skills and machines. The story and the characters are crap, thus this movie is crap. Just my $0.02.
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I am quite aware that it is a movie, but the acting is poor. The story is lame. And the whole production is subpar. This makes it a bad movie. If the production was better, maybe I'd feel different. For instance, Speed was unbelievable in certain parts, but it was still watchable. Most of the Airports didn't even have this quality. Anyway, if you liked it...good for you. It's just a movie. You like it. You hate it. Eck...in the bigger picture it really is a trivial matter.
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Oh, some more great movies that haven't been mentioned yet...'The Dambusters', 'Memphis Belle', and '633 Squadron'.
Dambusters and Memphis Belle were really cool. 633 Squadron was ok.
 
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Pearl Harbor (2001)- terrible movie, absolutely terrible. It had the worst most far-fetched inconsistent plot even being loosely based on history.

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You mean the Japanese DIDN'T bomb Pearl Harbour?
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If you mean the whole Alec Baldwin Jimmy Doolittle and training P40 pilots to fly B25s off a carrier that quickly, yeah that's enough to make a WWII buff cry.

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Dambusters and Memphis Belle were really cool. 633 Squadron was ok.

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Memphis Belle is a great movie, and would have been better if it hadn't been called "Memphis Belle." In the history of the Belle, that movie is more inacurate than even Pear Harbour. None of the characters REMOTELY resembled their real life counterparts and the mission the Belle went on for #25 was a milk run (as most of the 25th missions were), not some shoot 'em up over Berlin. If it had been called something like "Buster's Bombers" or something not associated with a real crew and airplane, I'd have no problem with it. Now, if you're talking the ORIGINAL Memphis Belle documentary, THAT is pretty cool. It was shot actually IN the Belle on actual missions over France and Germany by William Wilder, who went on to win an academy award for The Best Years of Our Lives, another good movie about WWII vets trying to cope with life at home after the war.
 
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Iron Eagle is my most favorite aviation movie.

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That's got to be even cheesier ! Aren't they Air Force pilots?
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kidding, really I am kidding. I don't want to be kicked out of JC Air America
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I grabbed a few DVDs to take to Texas with me. Sadly, Iron Eagle was one of them.....
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Geez, I've got a copy of that on Beta back in Tulare.
 
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Memphis Belle is a great movie, and would have been better if it hadn't been called "Memphis Belle." In the history of the Belle, that movie is more inacurate than even Pear Harbour.

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Yah, I remember hearing or reading somewhere that Memphis Belle (the movie, not the documentary) was an amalgamation of a lot of different stories from the bomber crews throughout the war and not based on the exact history of the Memphis Belle. As an extra note- I got to see the Sally B flying during an airshow in Duxford, England in 1992 when I was a kid. I bring this up because she had Sally B on one side of her nose and Memphis Belle on her other side. It was pretty cool. By the way those B-17s are a lot smaller in real life than they look in the movie.

As for the documentary, I never have seen it but would definitely like to. I wouldn't even know where to look for it. Can you buy it or rent it?
 
I think Top Gun is an absolutely great movie.
It doesn't get any better than that, definately 1 of my top 10.
 
'Battle of Britain' was absolutely perfect.
"Bumps-a-daisy.... it's enough to make you weep."

'Dark Blue World' was really good too. Cheesy love-triangle subplot, but the areial sequences were without peer the best I've ever seen.

Tom Cruise is supposedly coming out with a new BOB-esqe flick called 'The Few' but I've yet to hear anything about it.

And I've decided the next time Newark Ground advises me that I have another one hour ground stop my reply will be, "Well, looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue."
 
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How can you hate on Top Gun? Its cheesy, but a classic! You don't get the urge to fly something fast after watching it?

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Yah, I do want to fly something fast after watching it (preferably Concorde). However, apart from the tremendous shots of the jets- this is the only positive aspect of the movie, everything else makes me cringe. An awful, awful film.

And as for Airport et al.- I stand by my original statment. Garbage. Pulling a 747 up out of the water with ballons after having been under the water for however long it was (Airport 77)...I mean come on!!!! The first one was the only bearable one and it was subpar at best. How they ever managed to milk it to four movies is beyond me.

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It must be Canadian thing to hate because you're honestly the first person I've heard not like Top Gun.
 
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It must be Canadian thing to hate because you're honestly the first person I've heard not like Top Gun.

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In that case, it must be an American thing to like it!
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Before this thread I never would have imagined the passion that a movie like Top Gun can invoke!!!
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In that case, it must be an American thing to like it!

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In a way it is. Its an 80's flick. We were still technically in the Cold War Era. No?

Iron Eagle came out the same year as Top Gun and a bunch of pro-American movies to boost American patriotism. From IMDB.com :

Riding on the back of this film's success, the US Navy set up recruiting booths in the major cinemas to try and catch some of the adrenaline charged guys leaving the screenings. They had the highest applications rate for years as a result.

On the other hand; If you're Russian, wouldn't you feel patriotic watching the Hunt For The Red October? Or want the Akulla sub to blow up the Alabama in Crimson Tide?

I think I dig Iron Eagle a lot, because all the planes used were that of the IAF, and those pilots are bad ass. Those guys in my opinion are the "best of the best"...Sorry MikeD
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Thats my .02
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Iron Eagle is my most favorite aviation movie.

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Haha...as I was reading through the posts I was starting to wonder if anyone else remember the whole Iron Eagle series (I know it got really bad)
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Let me see........
Zuyenko: Do you have one of those macho call signs, like "Stud" or "Ace?"
Cooper: Cobra. My callsign's Cobra.
Zuyenko: Ah, the big-headed snake. It suits you.

Didn't the guy strap a tape deck to his leg??
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Two different Iron Eagles...


Remember how Chappy fixed the "mixture problem" with a lil wrenchwork and some gum to seal to nose cowling?
 
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As an extra note- I got to see the Sally B flying during an airshow in Duxford, England in 1992 when I was a kid. I bring this up because she had Sally B on one side of her nose and Memphis Belle on her other side. It was pretty cool. By the way those B-17s are a lot smaller in real life than they look in the movie.


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They do look bigger on film. I got to see the replica Belle fly at the Tico Airshow last year (I've got video but it's a friggin' HUGE file), and I've got pics of me and my dad in front of the real Belle as well as popped in to look at how the restoration is going. A group in Memphis, TN is attempting to restore her to flying condition. Talk about a huge undetaking...

Here ya go for the documentary: Amazon.com

Oddly enough, I also found a copy (not the 60th anniversary edition) in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart!
 
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And one more thing. 'Turbulence' with Ray Liotta and the chick from 'Dumb and Dumber' was garbage too.

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I thought it was a pretty good movie. Ray Liotta played a really good psycho in that movie. And the chick (Lauren Holly) doesn't look to bad either as a flight attendant in the movie. That was probably the only reason why I watched it anyway.

I also thought Top Gun was a really good movie. Even though it was made in 1986, to this day, I still watch it.

Let's not even mention the movie Frequent Flyer.
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