The Worst Aviation Movie of All Time

"Aviv Hod" wrote in message
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How about "The Langoliers", not just for the aviation content but for
altogether low production value, plot, and acting. It's a terrible made
for TV movie adaptation of a Stephen King story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112040/

"A blind girl, a teacher, a machine worker, a musician, a stoner, a
mystery writer, a businessman, a mysterious Englishman, and a raving
psychopath in a business suit on a flight to Boston find themselves
utterly alone when the rest of the passengers and all of the crew vanish.
Diverting the plane to Bangor, Maine, they discover that they seem to be
the only people left on the planet, and that time and the Langoliers are
catching up with them all too quickly..."

-Aviv

Ah yes! I do remember seeing that many years ago! Seem to remember I thought
it was pretty good back then! LOL! Thinking back now though, it was pretty
pathetic.
Crash Lander

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:41:54 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:


"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"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.

Even worse is having a teenaged daughter (Josh Harnett fan) that brought it
home on DVD and played it several times.

A few years back I worked for a dot-com in the TV industry. I worked a booth at
Las Vegas at a National Association of Broadcasters convention. This was right
after Phew! Harbor came out on DVD. Many of the big display booths had their
huge-screen TVs set up playing that movie, with huge speakers, zillion-watt
amps, and all.

Our booth? We were playing "The Princess Bride."

Seemed to me that we had more people hanging around us...and many of the people
just walking by would glance at the screen, double-take, then grin. Actually
had a couple of people thank us.

As for the worst aviation movie, one really has to split it into two categories:
Worst Movie with an Aviation Theme, and Worst Depiction of Aviation.

Phew! Harbor and Hell's Angels fit into the first category...though I only saw
PH the once, flying was really secondary to a really, really, bad plot. I don't
recall any outright groaners about the flying itself, although it has been years
and years. Hell's Angels' flying scenes are good, it's just very idiotic plot
with actors trained in the silent era (and a movie re-shot in sound).

In the latter category is "Iron Eagle." The aviation just plain, PLAIN bad. I
still remember the slow-crawl of the phase 'Bail Out' across an LED display when
one of the F-16s was hit.

But I think we're going to find that the flying scenes will be getting worse.
Back in the old days, they had to (for the most part) fly actual airplanes
through the maneuvers required. This meant there were pilots involved in SOME
aspect of the production.

With CGI, though...they don't need flying expertise, anymore. Just some nerd
with a computer who thinks he knows all about flying.

(Hey, WAIT a minute.... :-)

Anyway, my vote for worst-flying-movie-of-all-time: Iron Eagle. Iron Eagle II
was just as bad, but had the benefit of some nice flying scenes of the Rutan
Ares.

Ron Wanttaja

Didn't you like the scene where they were racing a C152 against a dirtbike?
Watch the flaps on the 152. Must be go fast devices for movie airplanes,
they seem to use them more than the rest of us when they want to go really
fast.

Actually, that 152 in the canyon race was the ONLY good part of the
movie -- but we all had a hearty laugh when our hero was coming down
to the wire, straining for every last knot from his mighty 152 -- with
full flaps deployed!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I reakon I have 2 candidates in the DVD cupboard at home. Can't think of the
titles right now, but I'll check tonight and let you know.
Ones about a 'smart' stealth fighter that flies itself, and obviously gets
wise to the fact it can think for itself, and then goes and tries to blow up
the enemy by itself.

That's called "Stealth" -- and (unfortunately) it's on our schedule
for Movie Night in April...

I actually paid to see it at the theater, and have felt unworthy ever
since.

:-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
That's called "Stealth" -- and (unfortunately) it's on our schedule
for Movie Night in April...

I actually paid to see it at the theater, and have felt unworthy ever
since.

:-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

That's the one! Boy was that bad, but I reakon the second one I described is
worse.
Crash Lander

Diverting the plane to Bangor, Maine, they discover that they seem to be the only people left on the planet, and that time and the Langoliers are catching up with them all too quickly..."

"Look, it's the new people!"

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

John Galban writes:

It goes on and on like this for a couple of hours. Don't even get
me started on the VSI with the spinning needle that unwinds in a dive
like an altimeter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122202/plotsummary

There's an extended review he

http://www.airodyssey.net/articles/movie-panic.html

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

In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

That's called "Stealth" -- and (unfortunately) it's on our schedule
for Movie Night in April...

take it off the schedule. dead air would be better

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

Jay Honeck wrote:

I reakon I have 2 candidates in the DVD cupboard at home. Can't
think of the titles right now, but I'll check tonight and let you
know. Ones about a 'smart' stealth fighter that flies itself, and
obviously gets wise to the fact it can think for itself, and then
goes and tries to blow up the enemy by itself.

That's called "Stealth" -- and (unfortunately) it's on our schedule
for Movie Night in April...

I actually paid to see it at the theater, and have felt unworthy ever
since.

:-(

The other movie I described is a film from 1995 called "Crash Landing",
and no, I didn't create my nick name after watching it! :-)
It is really a crap movie.

--
Oz Lander.
I'm not always right,
But I'm never wrong.

Blanche wrote:
John:

I tried to send off-list email about the F16 factory, but verizon considers
my ISP to be non-existent. So for the rest of you, sorry...

Sorry, John, but I predate you to the late 70s. I spent 4 months
there managing a re-training program for people being "surplused"
into software development for GenDyn. They figured I was the best
person since I did lots of aerospace software...

The most fun (not) was my hotel room at the departure end of
the runway. At the time, the plant co-existed with the AF base
and B-52s were based there. 5:30am - 40-50 of those suckers took off.
I never had to set my alarm clock. On the down side, every
evening at 5:30 pm they'd come back, right over the pool where we
were all hanging out with our favorite libation....

Would that be the White House motel? I remember the B52s taking off and
rumbling things mightily.