The Worst Aviation Movie of All Time

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"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.

Second that!!

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

I would add all of the "Airport" movies to the candidates' list!

At that point everybody just has the dry heaves.

Jim

On 28 Mar 2007 06:37:31 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote:

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.


Perhaps the third worst movie would be the 1954 soap opera in the sky, The
High and the Mighty.

The high point of the movie would be John Wayne bitch slapping Robert Stack
in the cockpit. (Two thumbs up)

The low point would have to be the sleeping kid in the back seat finally
wakes up after a safe landing, after sleep through:

1) The left outboard engine seizes up, causing its prop to separate and
send the blades through the fuselage, followed by a serious engine fire.

2) The passengers losing their minds and generally running amuck around the
cabin.

3) A wrestling match with a passenger who discharges a pistol.

4) The cabin door back where the kid is sleeping gets thrown open and they
throw everything not nailed down out of the aircraft.

Man, that kid can sleep! He'll never need an Ambien prescription.


--
Dallas

Die Hard 2 is a contender for worst, IMO.

1) Airplane blindly follows ILS to below runway level and crashes No
ambulances or fire trucks came, that I recall.

2) When the airport closes, all other planes circle helplessly
forever, waiting to run out of fuel, instead of diverting.

3) Airport manager runs around with E6B in hand at beginning, which
told him they were in trouble.

4) The ejection seat scene.

5) The flame following leaking fuel up into the sky scene.

Etc. Woof woof!!

My second choice would be any of the sequels to Airport, but
especially the one where the 747 goes into the ocean and survives
intact to the bottom of the sea.

Kev

Jay Honeck wrote:
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.

And the converse would be the really, really good
movie "No Highway in the Sky" with absolutely
retched special effects of the airplane.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Jay Honeck writes:

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...

Was anyone in the audience a 12- or 13-year-old boy with no flying
experience?

Nah, too easy


bertie

In a previous article, "Kev" said:
My second choice would be any of the sequels to Airport, but
especially the one where the 747 goes into the ocean and survives
intact to the bottom of the sea.

There was a Futurama episode where their space ship sinks in the ocean,
and as the pressure builds, they ask the professor how much pressure it
can take. He says it was built for outer space, so it can take anywhere
from 0 to 1 atmosphere. I think of that Airport movie whenever I see that
scene.


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D: is just a data disk. That's why it's called "D", for "DATA".
C: is the Windows OS disk, so it's called "C", for "CRAP".
-- David P. Murphy

You don't allow your audience to throw popcorn at the screen?

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"Marco Leon" wrote:

At least in the first one they
were able to borrow a real F-16 from the Air Force. Apparently someone in
the USAF actually saw how bad the original was because there was no
government hardware anywhere in the scenes that I saw.

USAF would allow use of any of its equipment.
The F16 was Israeli Air Force.
The production company built plywood F16 mockups powered by VW engines
for the ground shots.

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john smith wrote:

In article ,
"Marco Leon" wrote:

At least in the first one they
were able to borrow a real F-16 from the Air Force. Apparently someone in
the USAF actually saw how bad the original was because there was no
government hardware anywhere in the scenes that I saw.

USAF would allow use of any of its equipment.
The F16 was Israeli Air Force.
The production company built plywood F16 mockups powered by VW engines
for the ground shots.

First line should read...

USAF would not allow use of any of its equipment.