The Worst Aviation Movie of All Time

In article ,
Ron Wanttaja wrote:

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

Well...I'll disagree with you, to some extent. A good score should not be
intrusive, but the best ones enhance the movie.

We are actually in agreement. I don't think I've expressed myself
very well. The score needs to enhance the movie, the plot, the story,
without being the story.

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

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:25:17 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote:

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

What happened to "Downloading copyrighted media since 1995"?

or

"Kids! Download these plans for making explosives from stuff you have
around the house!"

or

"Email today for more information on Uncle Bob's Mystical Mushroom
Logs!"

Don

On Mar 28, 7:28 am, "Dan Luke" wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote:
We often talk about the BEST aviation movie here, but how 'bout the worst?

I'd put "Pearl Harbor" up against anything for sheer Hollywood stupidity.
Sure, there have been plenty of crappy aviation B-movies made, but P H was
crappiness on a grand scale.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

Unquestionably the worst aviation movie ever made. Even worse than
"Top Gun."

"Top
Gun" was infamous for its idiotic dialogue, "You can be my wing man
any time." "No, you can by MY wing man." Ugh.

Star Wars III wins that battle (is flying in space really flying?). I'm
thinking of the scene where ObiWan thanks Anakin for saving his life
again. I don't think I have ever heard cheesier dialog (except perhaps
later in the same film)

Jose
--
Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

On Mar 28, 6:37 am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

"Iron Eagle" and its sequels were awful. "Pearl Harbor" was worse.
"Flight Plan" has prompted boycotts by flight attendants and aviation
groups. "Mission Impossible II" was stupid and showed an abysmal lack
of knowledge about emergency oxygen systems. That "Airplane" movie
which was really a remake of "The Poseidon Adventure" where a
submerged Boeing 747 manages to keep air inside because of its
pressurization system is beyond the pale. I remember one movie where a
drunken baron pilot (possibly Mxs) took off and slammed into an
airliner. I think it was named "Final Approach" or something like
that. Another one (or maybe the same one) had an airplane lose
pressurization. It was represented that the owner of the airline was
cutting corners and had only installed enough "oxygen" to keep half
the people alive. Like "MI2" this flick had all the oxygen in stored
in huge tanks somewhere on the plane, as if it was a Space Shuttle or
something. Then various actors actually went on rants about how the
deregulated airlines all cut costs by not carrying enough oxygen for
all the passengers.

"Snakes on a Plane" is also a contender, as is "Air Force One." "Top
Gun" was infamous for its idiotic dialogue, "You can be my wing man
any time." "No, you can by MY wing man." Ugh.

Still, all of those considered, "Pearl Harbor" gets my vote as the
worst. Billed as historically accurate and carefully researched, I
don't think they got a single fact right.

I refuse to watch the "Flight of the Phoenix" remake. The original, of
course, is one of the greatest aviation movies of all time. I have
heard that the sequel is one of the worst.

I have not seen any of the "Turbulence" movies, either. Or "Executive
Decision," or "Airport 79," or "SST: Death Flight" (which reviewers
said made "Airport '79" look good), or "The Crowded Sky," or "Panic
in the Skies," or "Passenger 57" with Wesley Snipes, or many other bad
movies. So little time, so many bad movies.

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:25:17 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote:

In article ,
Ron Wanttaja wrote:

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

Well...I'll disagree with you, to some extent. A good score should not be
intrusive, but the best ones enhance the movie.

We are actually in agreement. I don't think I've expressed myself
very well. The score needs to enhance the movie, the plot, the story,
without being the story.

Yes, I saw one of your later posts and realized what you meant.

I remember back when I was a little kid and my parents dropped me off for one of
those movie-mill live-action Disney flicks in the '60s. Even THEN I noticed how
badly the music suited the movie. In retrospect, I think they just had some
generic music they added to all their cheapie films.

Ron Wanttaja

Ron Wanttaja writes:

I remember back when I was a little kid and my parents dropped me off for one of
those movie-mill live-action Disney flicks in the '60s. Even THEN I noticed how
badly the music suited the movie. In retrospect, I think they just had some
generic music they added to all their cheapie films.

Sometimes a movie is written to match the music, as in the case of _Singing in
the Rain_.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Ron Wanttaja writes:

I remember back when I was a little kid and my parents dropped me off
for one of those movie-mill live-action Disney flicks in the '60s.
Even THEN I noticed how badly the music suited the movie. In
retrospect, I think they just had some generic music they added to
all their cheapie films.

Sometimes a movie is written to match the music, as in the case of
_Singing in the Rain_.


Or "what a fjukkwit"



berti e

"Don Tuite" wrote in message
...

Not AML, Jay, my mom!


I think your prose was a little too subtle, a little too nuanced, for Jay.

Jose wrote:
"Top
Gun" was infamous for its idiotic dialogue, "You can be my wing man
any time." "No, you can by MY wing man." Ugh.

Star Wars III wins that battle (is flying in space really flying?). I'm
thinking of the scene where ObiWan thanks Anakin for saving his life
again. I don't think I have ever heard cheesier dialog (except perhaps
later in the same film)

Just imagine Yoda as a student pilot...

Tatoonine traffic, 27 left base turning I am, Tatoonie traffic.

--
Jim Pennino

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