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Bad Aviation Films
Since we've had favorites, how about bad ones?
Someone mentioned Top Gun.Â* I thought that was horrible.Â* Yeah, there was eye candy for both of the only two real genders, and there were a bunch of great shots of aircraft, but the story line was total crap. So for one of my favorite bad aviation films, I nominate:Â* Jet Pilot with John Wayne, Janet Leigh, and believe it or not, Mamie Van Doren. Dan, 5J |
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On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 10:37:01 AM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
Since we've had favorites, how about bad ones? Someone mentioned Top Gun.Â* I thought that was horrible.Â* Yeah, there was eye candy for both of the only two real genders, and there were a bunch of great shots of aircraft, but the story line was total crap. So for one of my favorite bad aviation films, I nominate:Â* Jet Pilot with John Wayne, Janet Leigh, and believe it or not, Mamie Van Doren. Dan, 5J Chuck Yeager reported in his bio that he flew some of the stunts in 'Jet Pilot' He seemed disgruntled that he flew for his military pay only. No Hollywood paycheck. The Airforce supported the production I understand. Back on track, how about 1940's Goofey's glider cartoon. |
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Nope, that one has to go with the greatest of aviation films.Â* Lots of
really good information and the catapult launch reminded me of an incident at Moriarty a few years back... On 4/19/2020 10:15 AM, Scott Williams wrote: On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 10:37:01 AM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote: Since we've had favorites, how about bad ones? Someone mentioned Top Gun.Â* I thought that was horrible.Â* Yeah, there was eye candy for both of the only two real genders, and there were a bunch of great shots of aircraft, but the story line was total crap. So for one of my favorite bad aviation films, I nominate:Â* Jet Pilot with John Wayne, Janet Leigh, and believe it or not, Mamie Van Doren. Dan, 5J Chuck Yeager reported in his bio that he flew some of the stunts in 'Jet Pilot' He seemed disgruntled that he flew for his military pay only. No Hollywood paycheck. The Airforce supported the production I understand. Back on track, how about 1940's Goofey's glider cartoon. -- Dan, 5J |
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Aviation Films
At 16:15 19 April 2020, Scott Williams wrote:
Back on track, how about 1940's Goofey's glider cartoon. Or before that Laurance Wright's 1938 cartoon: www.newportpeace.co.uk/temp/Cloudcuckoo.mpg Laurance was a member at Dunstable pre-war. |
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Aviation Films
Not an aviation film per se, but Cliffhanger has one of the longest and silliest airplane crash sequences. It goes on and on, and when it finally stops with wings and engines a mile behind them the villianess reaches up to turn off the power to the overhead panel. Silly, but it looked good on camera.
We had a couple of old, nearly worthless, straight-pipe Lockheed JetStars and were contacted about possibly flying the aerial sequences and then using the fuselage for the crash sequence. The owner must have wanted too much to scrap the JetStar and the deal was never done. Paul A. |
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Aviation Films
Con Air with Nicolas Cage had one of the cheesiest crash scenes ever.
They took a junker C-123K transport plane, put it on rails, and slammed it into the Sands Hotel in Vegas for the grand finale. That was before the hotel was imploded in real life. They actually used three different planes in the filming, one was outfitted with a diesel engine from a bus along with its automatic transmission, driving the nose wheel. It was used to film taxiing scenes , now open to visitors at the Wendover UT airport, which was a monster air base used for training nuclear bomber crews in WW II. A third plane was privately owned, airworthy, which crashed in Denali National Park after the filming. With Hollywood magic, it looked huge on the inside, with two decks, and cells for prisoner transport. -Dave |
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Like fine wine, it's a movie that improves with time.
https://www.indiewire.com/2013/06/je...effect-127727/ On 4/22/20 8:44 AM, kinsell wrote: Con Air with Nicolas Cage had one of the cheesiest crash scenes ever. They took a junker C-123K transport plane, put it on rails, and slammed it into the Sands Hotel in Vegas for the grand finale. That was before the hotel was imploded in real life. They actually used three different planes in the filming, one was outfitted with a diesel engine from a bus along with its automatic transmission, driving the nose wheel.Â* It was used to film taxiing scenes , now open to visitors at the Wendover UT airport, which was a monster air base used for training nuclear bomber crews in WW II. A third plane was privately owned, airworthy, which crashed in Denali National Park after the filming.Â* With Hollywood magic, it looked huge on the inside, with two decks, and cells for prisoner transport. -Dave |
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My vote goes to "Les Chevaliers du Ciel" ("Sky Fighters" in the English version), a 2005 film by Gérard Pirès. Very good airplane scenes, filmed by the French Air Force without special effects (they put a special camera container under a Mirage 2000 for the filming), but a really crappy story.
The picture was based on a comics series, "Tanguy et Laverdure", more or less the French equivalent of "Steve Canyon". But for reasons unknown, the principal characters were changed, and their replacements were very dull, the actors below average. "Tanguy et Laverdure" without Tanguy nor Laverdure.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Fighters |
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Bad Aviation Films
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Zero stars...
Paul A. |
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I thought the Sky Captain film was pretty neat, though not aeronautically credible.
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