The Worst Aviation Movie of All Time

On 31 Mar 2007 06:36:35 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

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

Not AML, Jay, my mom!

We got Mom tranqed enough twice to fly -- EWR to SFO and back. I
suppose it didn't help that she was flying with my sister, who "helps"
the flight-deck crew keep the airplane flying by pulling constantly up
on the arms of her seat.

My sister flew with me once, in a 150, nearly 40 years ago, but I
freaked her out with an abrupt control input when I reacted to a
glimpse of some motion in my peripheral vision. (We were abeam Yonkers
and just out of the TEB control zone, and I was a little twitchy. I
learned to fly in the LA basin, but flyig around New York was new to
me.)

Don

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and Apollo 13

Apollo 13 still puts me on the edge of my seat....
And I _KNOW_ how it is going to turn out! g

It is on my top ten list.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOyQ3nTDgCs

Priceless and confirms what a bozo movie Apollo 13 was. The script and
dialogue was so dire.
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Bob Noel wrote:
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.

But how can you *not* notice the opening fanfare of Star Wars? Or
the closing montage? (hm...don't think I spelled that right)

A characteristic of a great movie score is that it fits perfectly
with the film moment, highlights it...

What would the shower scene in Psycho be *without* the music?

On 31 Mar 2007 19:58:50 GMT, Blanche wrote:

Bob Noel wrote:
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.

But how can you *not* notice the opening fanfare of Star Wars? Or
the closing montage? (hm...don't think I spelled that right)

A characteristic of a great movie score is that it fits perfectly
with the film moment, highlights it...

What would the shower scene in Psycho be *without* the music?

Or think of "The Guns of Navarrone," "Bridge over the River Kwai," or
"Magnificent Seven."

Don

"Don Tuite" wrote:

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

But how can you *not* notice the opening fanfare of Star Wars? Or
the closing montage? (hm...don't think I spelled that right)

A characteristic of a great movie score is that it fits perfectly
with the film moment, highlights it...

What would the shower scene in Psycho be *without* the music?

Or think of "The Guns of Navarrone," "Bridge over the River Kwai," or
"Magnificent Seven."

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" or "The Godfather"

Dan Luke writes:

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" or "The Godfather"

_Chinatown_.

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In article , Blanche
wrote:

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

But how can you *not* notice the opening fanfare of Star Wars?

by being totally grabbed by the whole experience, not just the music.
The music is there to add/enhance/emphasize, not to scream "HEY
LISTEN TO THE MUSIC"


Or
the closing montage? (hm...don't think I spelled that right)

The closing montage is for the crediots (think snigglet) :-)



A characteristic of a great movie score is that it fits perfectly
with the film moment, highlights it...

yes, which is different than having the audience be thinking about
the music rather than the story. (an exception might be the Cantina
scene in Star Wars, Episode 4, "A New Hope".


What would the shower scene in Psycho be *without* the music?

Don't know. I don't think I've ever seen a Hitchcock movie.

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Bob Noel writes:

by being totally grabbed by the whole experience, not just the music.
The music is there to add/enhance/emphasize, not to scream "HEY
LISTEN TO THE MUSIC"

John Williams did a great deal to bring back this type of music to motion
pictures. He's very good at matching the music to the action, although, in
some cases, the action has been matched to the music (in the case of _Close
Encounters_ for some sequences, as I recall).

If you want a superlative example of music that you don't notice, watch just
about any Warner Bros. cartoon. Carl Stalling had an uncanny mastery of this
type of music (most of the sound effects in the cartoons are in fact musical).

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On Mar 29, 11:40�am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1175180601.824480.314510
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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

If the CRM class was split on whether bitch slapping Robert Stack was
good or bad I have to wonder if the class was divided between left and
right seat occupants....

John

Bob Noel wrote:
In article , Blanche
wrote:

What would the shower scene in Psycho be *without* the music?

Don't know. I don't think I've ever seen a Hitchcock movie.

(*sputter sputter sputter*)

What? You've never seen the original Psycho? How about Mel Brooks'
"High Anxiety" with the shower scene spoof?

amazing...astonishing....outlandish....he's never seen Psycho...