worst aviation movies??

[Dash8]

ok everyone, we got the bad atc flick, what's some of the cock suckinist (sorry couldn't resist) aviation movies out there?

i'm thinking

turbulence (any of them *shudder*)

executive decision (come on, a dozen guys in a 117?)

iron eagle (mostly the sequels)

top gun (i know, i'll prolly get lynched for this, but...i just can NOT watch this thing anymore)

 

[jergar999]

I don't know the name of it, but there was a Lifetime original movie that had a 10-12 year old girl landing a light jet and the folks in the tower were commenting on how if she didn't pull the levers in the proper order everyone on board would surely die.

 

[bigD]

The Langoliers was pretty bad.

Air America was funny to me, but the two guys I know that actually flew for Air America absolutely hated it. Also, John Deakin from Avweb, who apparently flew for Air America as well - hated it too.

 

[navigator72]

bad movies

"Cloud Dancer" with David Carradine. a 1970's flick where Dave flies a Pitts Special in the aerobatic world championships. Some of the flying sequences are cool but the acting sucks.

"Air America" is an entertaining movie.

the 2nd and 3rd Iron Eagles are pretty bad, Heck the 1st one is pretty bad too

"Executive Decision" is one of the worst flicks.

The movie "Always" has some great flying scenes but it's a chick flick.

The made for tv movie where they have to load the nosewheel compartment of a jumbo jet full of water to bring the nose down is my all time worst flying movie.

 

[A1FlyBoy]

One of the worst movies aired on TV a few months back.. I was so bad I don't remember the title, but

Haley Berry, as the fight attendant, was talked down by ATC... she was VERY HIGH, VERY FAST, and OVER the airport, yet without an ounce of flight experience managed to land a 747 and stop with runway to spare.....

ugh...

 

[EagleRJ]

, but there was a Lifetime original movie...

Ahh, Lifetime- the home of homemade airline disaster movies, along with all the other female-oriented drivel.

If an aviation-themed movie stars Connie Selleca, I know not to start watching.

 

[GogglesPisano]

Even better ...

Connie Seleca flying Sallie Field to rescue her kidnapped baby girl from Saudi Arabia.

"Not Without my Baby in my Boeing." A Liftime Original Movie

 

[chperplt]

How about the one where the airplane had a mid-air on take-off and wouldn't stop climbing.. They had to get a tanker filled with water above them drop a line into the cockpit window so they could fill the forward cargo bay with water and get the nose down..

 

[JimNtexas]

How about the one where the airplane had a mid-air on take-off and wouldn't stop climbing.. They had to get a tanker filled with water above them drop a line into the cockpit window so they could fill the forward cargo bay with water and get the nose down..

That would be Final Descent , which was indeed the worst aviation movie of all time.

Here is what happens:

Captain Robert Urich takes off with a female FO who embodies all the very worst sterotypes about women pilots. N9478C, a bugsmasher, overruns them and collides with the tail causing "jammed flippers".

The airliner begins climbing to the moon. Capt Urich decides this would be a good moment to go back into the cabin and have heart to heart chats with the passengers, while his FO is crying and squeezing the frozen yoke as hard as she can.

He then strolls back up to the cockpit, calls his friend at the local national guard base on the radio. He arranges for his friend to get into a Cobra attack helicopter and take off to intercept him.

The friend overtakes the airliner in the Cobra and then shoots up the "flippers" with the Cobra's M60 in an attempt to free the jammed flippers.

After that doesn't work, they get hold of a KC-135 that just happens to carrying a load of water and do the aforementioned water ballast transfer.

It's much more irrational and impossible than mere words could ever convey.

 

[mar]

Passenger 58

"He's got a bad seat and a bad attitude."

From the actual trailer...

 

[91100 100 set]

I don't know about you folks, but whenever I have to an ILS to something close to minimums, I always worry that some renegade terrorist group has "moved" the ILS glideslope ala "Die Hard 2", making us instantly, without a doubt, crash about 2 miles short.

 

[VNugget]

I remember one where the pilots ate the bad fish, and the FA and some little girl were left in charge of the jet. The plane was on autpilot, and every time the plane was near the vicinity of an airport, it would try to land. It was landing at some strip that was too short, so they had to stop the jet from doing that by getting a janitor to trash the ILS electronics. In response, the plane executes a missed approach and merrily continues on its way to the next airport.

Now, with my couple of hours in the old Skyhawk I'm no expert on A/P modes and coupled approaches, but...

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The F-117 with the squad of commandos in the back and a docking arm on top made me wanna cry too...

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That's right... Ice... man... I am dangerous...

 

[VNugget]

Oh no no no no no.. this one tops them ALL!

I forgot the title, but it came out 2 or 3 years ago... in a post-apocalyptic Earth where the survivors lived like cavemen in the shadows and were constantly hiding from their alien overlords, the former rose up against the latter by discovering some Harrier simulators, teaching themselves to fly, and then taking a squad of derilict Harriers into battle against the aliens.

 

[Kingairrick]

Not the worst but...

FIREFOX

Clint Eastwood steals a Russian fighter in between psychotic episodes. Lands it on an ice flow to re-fuel. The plane is some sort of fly-by-thought deal, and he must "think in Russian" to make it work.

To make it worse, there are no chicks at all in the whole movie.

 

[CCDiscoB]

Iron Eagle

Hands down it's Iron Eagle.

The AF passed on Top Gun and Iron Eagle. Two big mistakes. They should have kept Top Gun rather than let the Navy have it, and then came Iron Eagle. Kids busting into secure areas, telling obese sergeants to take a break while they access secret computers, and a kid flies the F-16. Had the AF decided to "sponsor" the movie, it wouldn't have come out looking so bad. Excuse me whilst I hurl (again).

I'd like to see anybody try half the stunts those kids got away with. They'd get shot.

 

[crash-proof]

Space Camp

Ok, not an actual "aircraft" movie but there was one in the mid 80s I believe, based on a bunch of kids who go to Space Camp (I think that's what the movie was called) in cape canaveral who somehow end up manning the space shuttle and saving the world. Uh-huh.

Couldn't forgot the moment when one of the kid's dad drops him off, landing his Stearman next to the parking lot. Yeah that's gonna happen.

 

[crash-proof]

Oh yeah, another forgetable 80s flick with Mathew Broderick, where a bunch of monkeys take off in a Skymaster from opa locka and crash land in the everglades. Project "X", me thinks.

Questions:
Why does a DC-3 in movies sound like a Cessna 172?
Or a JetRanger sound like a Huey?
Or a 747 sound like a Cessna?
Or whenever a plane dives, they all sound like Stuka divebombers???

 

[JuJu]

Worst aviation movie

What was that Nicholas Cage movie where he was the helicopter pilot in South America? Firehawks or something like that? I don't remember much about it except that it suuccckkkeeedd.

Also, while Pearl Harbor had some cool scenes in it, the whole pilot can't read, pilot goes to Eagle squadron, fighter pilot goes to Pearl Harbor, fighter pilot goes to B25's was a bit much.

Executive Decision for all the afore mentioned reasons, plus have you ever thought about a 747 taking off from Greece, flying to the US, leaving enough time for a morning black tie cocktail party to be interrupted, a commando squad assembled, flown out from their base, onto another aircraft (even forgetting the whole F117 concept for the moment), rendezvous with the incoming jet, transfer (oh and the whole "wind shear" diving episode) and still have oodles of time to run around in the ceiling of the 747, fight bad guys, etc. Hoever, the movie did redeem itself by killing off Steven Seagall.

 

[mizzouguy]

I vote for Fandango with Kevin Costner. The flying was cool but the movie was really stupid

 

[labbats]

Trapped with Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron. Every time her husband killed the engine in their single piston float plane, he had to point it straight at the ground for some reason. Was a good movie, but after the third time he killed the engine (so that someone he was talking to on the phone wouldn't know he was in an airplane, nevermind wind noise) and acted like it had the Vglide of a rock, I got upset.