The Worst Aviation Movie of All Time

One interesting sidebar for "Iron Eagles" is that (approx) 95% of the
air to air scenes were done with 1/6 scale R/C models photographed
from a helo.

I happend to see two of the F16 models (beautifuly built, BTW) on
display at a hobby expo about a year after IE was released.

Carry On...

Jay B

More to the point:

"High Road to China"

Jay B

"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1175180601.824480.314510
@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

And I still like The High and the Mighty.. In fact the clip of Wayne
smacking Robert Stack in the mouth was used in my last CRM class!

That should win the all-time award for "Most Inadvertently Hilarious
Scene".

What makes it great is that they are all deadly serious. Wayne is
almost dead-pan, in a very Leslie Nielsen way, while he's dope-
slapping Stack!

Yes, though I think the CRM class was split on whehter this was a
positive or negative example of good CRM. Depends on the situation, I
guess.
The thing I remember best about that movie, having seen it as a kid, is
when the nav leans over and tells the captain that they've just "passed
the point of no return". dhunh dhunh dhuuuunh!

Wasn't til years later when I actually learned what PNR meant....


Bertie

In article . com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

I've debated showing "Snakes on a Plane" on "Movie Night", but
"Flightplan" -- a pretty good movie, starring the always-good Jodie
Foster -- was panned by our audience as not being a "real" aviation
flick.

In other words, there's got to be flying in the movie -- real flying,
not just sitting inside an airliner -- or the crowd gets restless.

Snakes on a Plane is one of those movies that is so bad, it is
good. As a movie, it was completely awful. It has every cliche in
the book (flight attendant on her last flight, the kid, the pregnant
lady, the annoying rich guy, etc). But it is a wonderfully awful
movie.

When I saw it, they had a South Pacific Airlines flight attendant
handing out safety briefing cards (both small cards and posters)
of what to do in the event of snakes on a plane.
http://shop.newline.com/cat/Exclusiv...rd-Poster.html

The other fun thing the theater did was throw rubber snakes at the
audience at various points in the movie.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

Jay Honeck wrote:
I'm going to add another catagory to this collection. Movies that
should have been the worst but really, weren't that bad.

Snakes on a Plane.

I've debated showing "Snakes on a Plane" on "Movie Night", but
"Flightplan" -- a pretty good movie, starring the always-good Jodie
Foster -- was panned by our audience as not being a "real" aviation
flick.

In other words, there's got to be flying in the movie -- real flying,
not just sitting inside an airliner -- or the crowd gets restless.

I understand and there is some cockpit footage in "Snakes on a Plane." What
makes up for the lack of more cockpit footage is what may be the best line
ever spoken in a movie.

John Clear wrote:
In article . com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

I've debated showing "Snakes on a Plane" on "Movie Night", but
"Flightplan" -- a pretty good movie, starring the always-good Jodie
Foster -- was panned by our audience as not being a "real" aviation
flick.

In other words, there's got to be flying in the movie -- real flying,
not just sitting inside an airliner -- or the crowd gets restless.

Snakes on a Plane is one of those movies that is so bad, it is
good. As a movie, it was completely awful. It has every cliche in
the book (flight attendant on her last flight, the kid, the pregnant
lady, the annoying rich guy, etc). But it is a wonderfully awful
movie.

When I saw it, they had a South Pacific Airlines flight attendant
handing out safety briefing cards (both small cards and posters)
of what to do in the event of snakes on a plane.
http://shop.newline.com/cat/Exclusiv...e-Safety-Card-
Poster.html

The other fun thing the theater did was throw rubber snakes at the
audience at various points in the movie.



You nailed it. It was pure escapist fun. The fact that they didn't even
change the title from what was originally just a working title and never
intended for public consumption just added to the fun because no one should
have walked into that film thinking they were going to see anything other
than Samuel L Jackson fighting snakes on an airplane.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote

I understand and there is some cockpit footage in "Snakes on a Plane."
What makes up for the lack of more cockpit footage is what may be the best
line ever spoken in a movie.

And that line is? :-)
--
Jim in NC

In a previous article, "John Mazor" said:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
roups.com...
And I still like The High and the Mighty.. In fact the
clip of Wayne
smacking Robert Stack in the mouth was used in my last
CRM class!
Anybody got a link to that scene? I could have used it on
occasion.

It used to be on Rod Machado's web site.


--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
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"Gregg Germain" wrote in message
...
Jay Honeck wrote:

We often talk about the BEST aviation movie here, but how 'bout the
worst?

any film with Steven Segal
and Apollo 13

Morgans wrote:
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote

I understand and there is some cockpit footage in "Snakes on a
Plane." What makes up for the lack of more cockpit footage is what
may be the best line ever spoken in a movie.

And that line is? :-)


I can't possibly do justice to Mr. Jackson's line so here is an 18 second
clip of th eline on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQeQMyZeeI