worst aviation movies??

[91100 100 set]

This was actually a pretty cool movie, pretty cool scenery, a good plot, just enough bloodspray, and a little bit of flying, but there is one part that kinda cracks me up. In the movie "The Edge" (the one with Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins and the huge freaking, man-eating bear in Alaska), there is one part where they are all flying around in this big single on floats (Beaver, Otter, or something like that that), and someone mentions "birdstrike". Alec Baldwin goes, "Birdstrike, what is that?!" And of course, they end up taking a few geese through the windshield and going into some lake.

"Birdstrike, what is that"!

 

[countbat]

If we as professionals see so many mistakes in aviation movies and accept other professional field movies which are criticized as well by their own professionals, it leads us to the conclusion that Hollywood sucks. Which it does because we should accept Hollywood only as entertainment and not as our source of education, culture, information, etc. . Movies are not made for professionals but for pop corn funs.
Anyone have seen www.405themovie.com? Nice effects.

 

[crash-proof]

If we as professionals see so many mistakes in aviation movies and accept other professional field movies which are criticized as well by their own professionals, it leads us to the conclusion that Hollywood sucks. Which it does because we should accept Hollywood only as entertainment and not as our source of education, culture, information, etc. . Movies are not made for professionals but for pop corn funs.
Anyone have seen www.405themovie.com? Nice effects.

Of course no one is watching these flicks for documentary purposes. Of course it's strictly entertainment. But do you think Joe Schmoe is going to question the events taking place onscreen? For the nonflying public, who would question the chain of events in Die Hard II? (ILS reading, for example) It leaves a lasting impression, no doubt, and definately the wrong impression.

 

[Slye]

I remember a clip from a movie where a pilot tells his passenger that he got his private license in two weeks because he needed it for his job. The passenger then turns the mags off and either breaks the keys off in the ignition or throws them out the window (I forget which) and they crash. Anyone know what movie this is?

 

[LearLove]

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.

Yep, the old "jammed flippers", I hate it when that happens. That will get you every time.

 

[JJJ]

I have the radios, memory items for jammed flippers.

Another bad movie: Active Stealth.

 

[Ace757]

I like AIR EROTICA on Paper View. Cause we all know that flight Attendants come up to the COCKpit, for some extra attention.

 

[urflyingme?!]

anyone seen bikini-air on skinimax?

 

[JB74]

Saw bikini air last weekend. Pretty funny sh!t.

 

[Kingairrick]

How about any movie where they show a LR23 in flight, and cut to the inside of a BBJ...

 

[Dash8]

anyone seen bikini-air on skinimax?

bikini air? *perk*

 

[Ace757]

bikini air is goos, but doesnt beat Air Erotica

 

[smooshfacekitty]

Anyone remember Airport, Airport '75 and I think there was even a thrid one called Airport 1980?

In the original, A mad man brings a bomb in a suitcase on the plane and detonates it in the forward lavoratory (B707). They have to land in really bad weather in Chicago or something - bottom line they land OK and live - too bad

Airport '75 was a 747 that had a mid-air with a Cessna. The Cessna hits the 74 on the front FO's side. Captain/FO and Engineer all killed. Stewardess has to fly plane until the military sends a F-16 or something and somehow they manage to get a military person on board through the gaping hole in the side of the plane. Milatary boy saves the day.

The last Airport, I think a terrorist takes over, they run out of fuel (I think it was a 76 or Airbus of some type). Pilot is forced to land in the ocean. The plane sinks about 300 feet below the water and somehow the plane doesn't fill up with water right away and the last hour of the movie is in the plane at the bottom of the ocean slowly taking on water. Of course coast card shows up, uses air bags to lift the plane and everyone is saved.

 

[NuGuy]

Hi all,

Actually, the original Airport was surprisingly accurate for an aviation flick. Filmed on location in MSP, if I recall, at the old Braniff gates. Lots of airport employees were extras.

More so than the story, the view of airline travel/society back in the 60s is pretty cool. A pleasant trip in the way-back machine.

Imagine helpful, knowledgeble and polite employees and well dressed passengers, rather than passengers dressed in short shorts and flip flops, while their unattended kids grind cheerios into the carpet.

Besides, Dean Martin was a scream as the sterotypical cheating d&%k of an airline pilot. Jackie Bissett is a hottie in any decade. Burt Lancaster's straight faced delivery of camp dialog should be required viewing for any acting class.

I agree that Airport 75, 77 and 79 are pure drek. I want work for the airline where I can go from mechanic to Concorde captain in 10 years.

Best,
Nu

 

[labbats]

Speaking of good aviation references in movies, I laugh every time I see So I Married an Axe Murderer, and Stephen Wright is flying. "I've never flown at night before...."

 

[enigma]

. Jackie Bissett is a hottie in any decade.

Do you remember "The Deep"?

WOW

enigma

 

[bramafear]

Hotties?

How about the co-pilot in AIRPLANE !

 

[EagleRJ]

Re: Hotties?

How about the co-pilot in AIRPLANE !

Who? Kareem Abdul-Jabaar?

Stay away from me!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Which was the one about the terrorists who steal a stealth fighter (F-117) from inside a flying C-5...and our hero has to stop them in another '117? Was that Active Stealth?

All I remember is the baddies sneaking into the C-5 through the refueling probe of a KC-10. (Where the hell was the technical advisor?)

 

[Dash8]

Which was the one about the terrorists who steal a stealth fighter (F-117) from inside a flying C-5...and our hero has to stop them in another '117? Was that Active Stealth?

All I remember is the baddies sneaking into the C-5 through the refueling probe of a KC-10. (Where the hell was the technical advisor?)

maybe they were all related to that toomey guy on x-files who ate livers and could squeeze through small holes, dam, he was a creepy character