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I agree, IRON EAGLE is terrible, but a close second has to
be the re-make of FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, at least as compared to the wonderful original with Jimmy Stewart, et al. "Jay Honeck" wrote in message oups.com... | We often talk about the BEST aviation movie here, but how 'bout the | worst? | | Having spent nearly a year of my life showing aviation movies every | Tuesday night in our theater at the hotel, I am in a somewhat unique | position to comment on this. I've seen over 50 aviation movies in a | row, and can lend some perspective. | | Many of the early aviation movies were saddled with the stilted acting | styles that followed the introduction of "talkies" in the 1920s/30s, | so you have to take some of them with a grain of salt. | | An example is Howard Hughes' "Hells Angels", which is full of nice | flying scenes and some truly terrible acting. It's like they didn't | know how to write dialogue, yet -- which was okay, cuz the actors | didn't know how to deliver it. | | 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. | Every aviation movie he starred in (with the notable exception of the | "Island in the Sky" -- read about it he http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045919/ | ) has the same plot, and he played the same character. Many are quite | awful, although the WWII flying scenes are often quite good. | | But after last night I can honestly say that the award for worst | aviation movie EVER made goes to "Iron Eagle" -- the 1986 movie that | was the Air Forces's quick answer to the success of "Top Gun". | | By God, it's awful. The story line (Synopsis: A teenager and a | Colonol steal two F-16s, fly half-way around the world, destroy a | Saddam-look-alike's air force, and then LAND on the runway they just | destroyed to rescue the teenager's father from certain death), the | acting, the flying scenes, the combat scenes (astoundingly bad, with | missiles that fly at light-speed), even the credits are just | TERRIBLE. | | This movie should have single-handedly ended Lou Gossetts' career, but | -- inexplicably -- they actually made a SEQUEL to this dog! I will | not see it. | | We showed it last night at Movie Night, and the comments ranged from | "Thank God we didn't pay anything to *that*" to "I need another | beer." The scenes where targets on the ground -- like a water tower | on stilts -- blow up with near-nuclear force after just a few machine | gun hits were especially well derided... | | Although Move Night is always just an excuse to get together and | hangar fly and fly the Kiwi flight simulator, this was so truly | terrible that it 'bout killed us. | | Anyone got any other "nominations" for WORST ever? | -- | Jay Honeck | Iowa City, IA | Pathfinder N56993 | www.AlexisParkInn.com | "Your Aviation Destination" | |
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