The Worst Aviation Movie of All Time

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:35:43 GMT, "Tom Conner"
wrote:

I have forgotten the name, but there was a movie with Steven Segal about a
high-jacked airliner. His commando team was in another plane that flew

Command Decision (I think)

underneath the high-jacked plane and they managed to attach a tube between
the two planes. Then the commandos went through the tube into the other
plane. Compared to what comes next, that part is plausible. Once the
commandos are on the plane they go into this attic type area above all the
seats and use it to traverse the plane. Sort of like a baggage compartment
on top of the plane, but without the baggage. Even though I love science
fiction, even I couldn't suspend belief and accept the plane in this movie.

Another one had Nicolas Cage as a prisoner being transported on a plane.
The plane was basically a flying prison with steel floors, stairs, etc. It
must have had atomic engines to power that thing off the ground.

Con Air.

Of the two I found Con Air to be ... well...more interesting. It may
be more slapstick mayhem, and a bit unbelieveable, but done better
than Command Decision.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

In article ,
vincent p. norris wrote:

Midway *does* have good music...another John Williams score.

I guess I never noticed that! I'll try to pay closer attention next
time I watch. (And I will watch; I love looking at those old
airplanes, even if they're the wrong ones.)

One of the characteristics of a good movie score is that you
don't notice it.

--
Bob Noel
(gave up looking for a particular sig the lawyer will hate)

Midway *does* have good music...another John Williams score.

I guess I never noticed that! I'll try to pay closer attention next
time I watch. (And I will watch; I love looking at those old
airplanes, even if they're the wrong ones.)

vince norris

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Those Magnificent Men in their
Flying Machines." Am I alone in remembering it as awful?

Anyone ever watched "Wings"? I never saw the movie myself, but my
mother had a novelization of the movie (Yes, they did that even back
in the silent days.) that I read several times when I was a kid. (The
plot of "Flyboys" included a few elements of "Wings.")

Mom had a copy of Anne Lindbergh's "North to the Orient," too. I've
always thought of her as timid, but, hmmm.

Don

Don Tuite wrote in
:

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Those Magnificent Men in their
Flying Machines." Am I alone in remembering it as awful?

I thought it was funny, particularly Benny Hill and the Fire Brigade.
I certainly didn't consider it as a historical piece.

--

Don Tuite wrote:
I don't think anyone has mentioned "Those Magnificent Men in their
Flying Machines." Am I alone in remembering it as awful?

It wasn't terribly funny, but I wouldn't classify it as particularly
horrible either. I enjoyed it for the great shots of flying replicas - but
I'm sure you're not alone either!

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...

Wasn't the superstructure resting on the bottom, anyway?


Yes, but I do not recall that being stated in the film.

Recently, Dallas posted:

On 28 Mar 2007 06:37:31 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote:

John Wayne. Having seen all of his aviation flicks now, it's
easy to see where John Wayne got his reputation for being
one-dimensional.


Perhaps the third worst movie would be the 1954 soap opera in the
sky, The High and the Mighty.

The high point of the movie would be John Wayne bitch slapping Robert
Stack in the cockpit. (Two thumbs up)

I use that scene as a reference to CRM... YMMV. ;-)

Neil

Mom had a copy of Anne Lindbergh's "North to the Orient," too. I've
always thought of her as timid, but, hmmm.

When one reads what Anne Morrow Lindbergh flew, and what she
accomplished in her life, "timid" is not a word that comes to mind.

See: http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/history/amlbio.html
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Those Magnificent Men in their
Flying Machines." Am I alone in remembering it as awful?

Anyone ever watched "Wings"? I never saw the movie myself, but my
mother had a novelization of the movie (Yes, they did that even back
in the silent days.) that I read several times when I was a kid. (The
plot of "Flyboys" included a few elements of "Wings.")

Mom had a copy of Anne Lindbergh's "North to the Orient," too. I've
always thought of her as timid, but, hmmm.

Don

You are most definitely not alone.

Interestingly, I learned much later that some of those machines actually
flew...

Peter