Aviation Movies?

"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Matt Barrow" wrote)
It took me two minutes to switch from DiCaprio to Hughes - tops.

Having spent numerous hours watching/hearing him while a then-teenaged
daughter when gaa-gaa over him a few years back (on DVD), I had trouble
getting his role in _Titanic_ out of my head.


I think that's why he was introduced to us (in the movie) the way he was -
forcefully, go, go, go. No time to compare. That's what I assumed Scorsese
was up to ...it worked for me.

What did your daughter think of him in The Aviator? Did his Hughes *work*
for her?

Well, she's 20 now, rather than 13, but she was fairly impressed (though she
thinks he's uggggly).

She was impressed, too, by the interviews (on the 2nd DVD) and by the fact
he had done a lot of research and acted as executive producer.


One nit about The Aviator - for me, the script was lacking (often uneven)
and was only rescued by good directing, good acting and great sets.

I still think the movie with Tommy Lee Jones as Hughes, (The Amazing Howard
Hughes), was better as a biography and less inclined towards his mental
illness which I think of as secondary to his great accomplishments. If you
get the two disk DVD, see the extra features part about his incredible
contributions to aviation.

Dave Stadt wrote:
Your "insights" are certainly not shared by the majority of the
industry.


That is the highest compliment I have been paid in a long, long, long time.
If I start thinking like the nit wits in la la land it's time seek serious
help.



Antonio


Interesting....so by that line of reasoning the less people that agree
with you the more you are assured you are correct?

Antonio

"Antoñio" wrote in message
...
Dave Stadt wrote:
Your "insights" are certainly not shared by the majority of the
industry.


That is the highest compliment I have been paid in a long, long, long
time.
If I start thinking like the nit wits in la la land it's time seek
serious
help.



Antonio


Interesting....so by that line of reasoning the less people that agree
with you the more you are assured you are correct?

Antonio

Read it again only a little slower this time and make sure you read all the
words.

In article , Dave Burton wrote:
Here is you chance to suggest movies to show at a fly-in. I'd
appreciate any suggestions for newer movies, available on DVD or video
tape. We've seen all the oldies. I've got to stick to PG films for

All of them?

If you want campy aviation movies, check out "Time Chasers" (a guy
builds a time machine into a Citabria. Great air-to-air shootout
with a Cherokee), or "Skydivers" (1960s, where the skydivers do their
own acting...)

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In article .com, james wrote:
was it recent? the one with harrison ford and anne hech? the movie
(and title), to me were forgettable

6 Day And 7 Nights. Had some great Beaver shots.

The PG-rated kind.

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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:59:18 -0500, "Montblack"
wrote:

(About The Aviator)

One of the best parts of the movie!

I thought so, too. And I almost boycotted it because I couldn't
imagine that boy-man as Howard Hughes. Did he get an Oscar for it? He
should have.


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There is also "Cloud Dancer" starring Keith Carradine, Jennifer O'Neil
and Timothy Bottoms. It's about an aerobatics pilot who begins to
suffer some physical damage from his strenuous routines and has to
decide what his future will be.

There's also drug running in there somewhere and a "dogfight" between
a P-51 Mustang (fully armed), and a Cherokee (I think it was a
Cherokee).

Lots and lots of flying action, but I don't think the film is
available anymore.

Corky Scott

Corky Scott wrote:

Lots and lots of flying action, but I don't think the film is
available anymore.

Amazon has several used copies at prices in the $30 and up range.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

("Cub Driver" wrote)
I thought so, too. And I almost boycotted it because I couldn't
imagine that boy-man as Howard Hughes. Did he get an Oscar for it? He
should have.


Jamie Foxx - RAY

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars00.html 00's

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars90.html 90's

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars80.html 80's

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars70.html 70's

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars60.html 60's

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars50.html 50's

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars40.html 40's

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars30.html 30's

I looked under 1976 but there weren't any writing credits listed :-)


Montblack

Corky Scott wrote:

There is also "Cloud Dancer" starring Keith Carradine, Jennifer O'Neil
and Timothy Bottoms. It's about an aerobatics pilot who begins to
suffer some physical damage from his strenuous routines and has to
decide what his future will be.

There's also drug running in there somewhere and a "dogfight" between
a P-51 Mustang (fully armed), and a Cherokee (I think it was a
Cherokee).

Lots and lots of flying action, but I don't think the film is
available anymore.

Corky Scott


Hi Corky,

There was a movie called "Wings of Fire" wiht Suzanne Pleshette and james
Farentino. Pleshette's "father" owned a struggling aero operation and
Pleshette flew P-51's in races.

You got to see some pretty good P-51 flying, F*F Bearcat flying and, of
course....

Susan Pleshette ;^)


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