Favorite aircraft movie?

[XyZspineZyX]

A while ago, someone asked for a list of movies with JETS in them... and got a few responses.

So out of curiosity, I'm going to open the floodgates a little wider and ask for your favorite aircraft-related movie.

For example:

Battle of Britain
Memphis Belle
Flight of the Intruder
Hot Shots

or, my personal favorites:

#1: Dawn Patrol
#2: The Blue Max


If you love aircraft, and pretty darn good story lines, you can't go wrong with either of my top two picks. (WWI timeline in both though, so no jets. Sorry guys.)

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[XyZspineZyX]

A while ago, someone asked for a list of movies with JETS in them... and got a few responses.

So out of curiosity, I'm going to open the floodgates a little wider and ask for your favorite aircraft-related movie.

For example:

Battle of Britain
Memphis Belle
Flight of the Intruder
Hot Shots

or, my personal favorites:

#1: Dawn Patrol
#2: The Blue Max


If you love aircraft, and pretty darn good story lines, you can't go wrong with either of my top two picks. (WWI timeline in both though, so no jets. Sorry guys.)

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[XyZspineZyX]

Hmmmm...I am gonna say:

1) Top Gun
and
2) Midway

[XyZspineZyX]

For all its childishness, lack of realism, and a plot that Dr. Suess could come up with: Top Gun is still a classic /i/smilies/16x16_man-wink.gif .



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[britgliderpilot]

Battle of Britain and Memphis Belle are good.

Jet movies - well, however bad it is, nothing has ever or possibly well ever stack up against Top Gun. It can't. Whatever you say about the F22, you can't make a Top Gun movie with it . . . . there's only one seat /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.gif


Dambusters?


Aces High?


Hot Shots is alright in a fun kind of way . . . . but all those funny quotes usually mean I laugh too much /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.gif


Never seen Flight of the Intruder or Dawn Patrol . . . so can't comment.


Tossup between Battle of Britain and Top Gun. And simply because it's about a real scenario and has less of the Macho crap in it, I go for Battle of Britain.

Not so say Top Gun's not good . . . but Battle of Britain is better . . .


Glider pilot . . . . twist and turn

[XyZspineZyX]

Another great one is Independence Day, having a high school aged Fresh Prince driving a USMC F/A-18C with USAF insignia... gotta love it.


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[XyZspineZyX]

It's a funny thing, airwar-movies tend to suck eel through plexiglas. Iron Eagle anyone?

One of the best I can remember is a six (I think) episode series called A Piece Of Cake, about the Battle of Britain. It's absolutely brilliant. Quote:
""Never has so many owed so much to so few" ... "He must've seen our bar tab...""

I still haven't seen The Right Stuff, although I've read the book to shreds, is it good?

[XyZspineZyX]

Behind Enemy Lines and the SAM from hell scene! Love watching that on the bigscreen tv with surround sound. Besides that, I always thought that the Iron Eagle movies (how many were there again?) were pretty cool, though far fetched.

-Smitty

[XyZspineZyX]

Oh yeah! The Right Stuff is one of the best ever. It's almost 6 hours chronicals a good chunk of jet and space aeronotic history. Pick up the special edition DVD for $20 at Amazon.com.

-Smitty

[XyZspineZyX]

i liked a lot Firefox, with Clint Eastwood.

[XyZspineZyX]

Tora! Tora! Tora! has some great flying scenes. I also like 633 squadron, that 'Flak Alley' sequence is still one of the best /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif . I vaguely remember 'piece of cake' as being very realistic without un-necessary building up of the 'heroes'. Jeez, has no-one made a good jet movie yet? Those mentioned above are not, apart from 'The Right Stuff'

Apocalypse Now! has some cool parts, although largely fictional... Damn Napalm has ruined the surf!!! /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif

Anyone remember Bat-21?

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Top gun is my definitive favorite, since I have seen only a few and that is the only I can remember /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.gif

X-men 2 also was exciting when the falcons appeared and chased the blackbird

[Ramjets]

All the movies mentioned so far are great. So, then, let me add to the list one of my "Old Time Favorites"!...


STRATIGIC AIR COMMAND...with Jimmy Stewart! I just love that flyin' cigar of a plane...the B-36 Peacmaker.

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[XyZspineZyX]

Donâ´t forget "DARK BLUE WORLD"

http://www.sonyclassics.com/darkblueworld/index-withflash.html

[XyZspineZyX]

Ooh, good question. For me it's gotta be:

#1 Battle of Britain.
#2 The Dam Busters
#3 The Right Stuff - awesome film
#4 The Great Waldo Pepper
#5 Top Gun - it had to be somewhere
#6 Bat-21

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[XyZspineZyX]

Airplane!

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[XyZspineZyX]

Can anyone remember a movie where a US Navy carrier goes through (I'm trying not to laugh here) a time warp and ends up in WW2? I think it ends up with Tomcats VS Zeroes and that's how America turned the tide in the Pacific.

The good thing about that movie is it's the only one I can remember that got the cannon sound right. Not rat-tat-tat at all, just a ripping, tearing roar. Great stuff.
I sure hope the guy who wrote the script managed to shake his drug habit.

[Stormin]

T-Bone_ wrote:
- Another great one is Independence Day, having a high
- school aged Fresh Prince driving a USMC F/A-18C with
- USAF insignia... gotta love it.
-

Actually, wasn't it "The Rock" that had USAF marked F/A-18 Hornets?

Cheers,
Carl

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[Ramjets]

olaleier wrote:
- Can anyone remember a movie where a US Navy carrier
- goes through (I'm trying not to laugh here) a time
- warp and ends up in WW2? I think it ends up with
- Tomcats VS Zeroes and that's how America turned the
- tide in the Pacific.
-
- The good thing about that movie is it's the only one
- I can remember that got the cannon sound right. Not
- rat-tat-tat at all, just a ripping, tearing roar.
- Great stuff.
- I sure hope the guy who wrote the script managed to
- shake his drug habit.
-
-

"FINAL COUNTDOWN" with Kirk Douglas

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[Stormin]

olaleier wrote:
- Can anyone remember a movie where a US Navy carrier
- goes through (I'm trying not to laugh here) a time
- warp and ends up in WW2? I think it ends up with
- Tomcats VS Zeroes and that's how America turned the
- tide in the Pacific.
-
- The good thing about that movie is it's the only one
- I can remember that got the cannon sound right. Not
- rat-tat-tat at all, just a ripping, tearing roar.
- Great stuff.
- I sure hope the guy who wrote the script managed to
- shake his drug habit.
-
-



The Final Countdown. It is not currently available on VHS or DVD.

I saw that movie on a liberty weekend while I as at USMC OCS Quantico, VA.

Cheers,
Carl



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[XyZspineZyX]

Not currently available on VHS or DVD, eh? LOL

But are we restricted to fiction here? I watch Discovery Channel alot, and I remember seeing a clip from, I think, F-15 test flights, where some kind of pod (too small to be fuel) falls off the Eagle's port wing and hits the wing of the A-4 follow plane, cutting it off and sendind the Skyhawk into a flatspin, flames trailing. The pilot ejects to safety. It's captured on three cameras or something, one of the most intriguing aircraft-stuff I've seen.

[Stormin]

Not in any particular order:

Flight of the Intruder
Twelve O'Clock High
Tora Tora Tora
A Piece of Cake
Battle of Britian
Dark Blue World
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
By Dawn's Early Light
The Right Stuff
Thirteen Days
The Wings of Eagles
The Tuskegee Airmen
The Hunters

Cheers,
Carl


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[XyZspineZyX]

Does Pearl Harbour count? /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[XyZspineZyX]

Top Gun, Right Stuff and Iron Eagle 2...
and if youre really fiending for a list of jet movies check out the site b-low.

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Glad you mentioned "By Dawns Early Light" Stormin. Now that was one awesome movie.



Message Edited on 06/19/0310:03AM by Biggs_CV

[Rogue9]

In no order:

Flight of the Intruder
Menphis Bell
The Right Stuff
Bat 21

[XyZspineZyX]

I not thinking that I know much about jets but in Behind Enemy Lines the F/A 18 is a two seater, but don't they just use a two seater for training.

apollosmith wrote:
- Behind Enemy Lines and the SAM from hell scene! Love
- watching that on the bigscreen tv with surround
- sound. Besides that, I always thought that the Iron
- Eagle movies (how many were there again?) were
- pretty cool, though far fetched.
-
--Smitty
-
-

[XyZspineZyX]

Both the Rock and ID4 had USAF insignia on their F/A-18s /i/smilies/16x16_man-wink.gif


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[XyZspineZyX]

colin8651 wrote:
- I not thinking that I know much about jets but in
- Behind Enemy Lines the F/A 18 is a two seater, but
- don't they just use a two seater for training.
-

The F/A-18B is a two seater primarily used for training, with stick and throttle in both seats. The F/A-18D and F can be a trainer, but the rear seat is usually a WSO (Weapons System Officer) who can target and fire weapons independently from the pilot. They can even target and 'lase' weapons for other planes while the pilot takes care of another set of targets. The WSO also helps with SA and navigation.

-Smitty

[XyZspineZyX]

- colin8651 wrote:
-- I not thinking that I know much about jets but in
-- Behind Enemy Lines the F/A 18 is a two seater, but
-- don't they just use a two seater for training.


Also remember, that the F18 used in Behind Enemy Lines was an F18 SUPER Hornet! Much bigger than the a "normal" 18.

-=FireStorm

[XyZspineZyX]

Surprised none of you mentioned "Dr. Strangelove", one of the greatest, funniest, most sarcastic movies ever, featuring Peter Sellers in three parts as the US president, a RAF officer and Dr. Strangelove himself.

The blue screen outside clips of the B-52's are nothing special of course, from a realism point of view, but I seem to remember that the USAF was pretty suprised at how well Stanley Kubrick nailed the (then top secret) in-flight procedures in the B-52.

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[XyZspineZyX]

Hey guys .... i dont remember the name of the movie but it had Italian F-104 and Tornado's in it.
Sort of like a sci-fi movie ...with these pilots flying low and see blue bright light and all.
Does any one remember that.
It was called Blue something ????????

[XyZspineZyX]

Final Countdown - great flying scenes - lousy special effects, nice historical nuances. Sorry Carl - got it on DVD a couple of months back. Now if only they could have been sent back 10 years earlier and we could have had Vigilantes on deck!

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[Ramjets]

Does flying The Bomb count as an aircraft movie? I refer to, of course, your friend and mine that we've all come to charish..."Major T.J."King" Kong"(aka Slim Pickens). Anybody with balls enough to saddle up and personally fly The Bomb to target gets my vote for, er, ummmm...well, I'd vote for 'im for sumpin' YEEEEeeeeHAAAAaaaaw/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif

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Ramjets wrote:
- Anybody with balls enough to saddle
- up and personally fly The Bomb to target gets my
- vote for, er, ummmm...well, I'd vote for 'im for
- sumpin' YEEEEeeeeHAAAAaaaaw

Actually, I think that would put him well into the running for a Darwin Award ( http://www.darwinawards.com )

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Great suggestions, everyone! Thanks! (Slowly building my DVD library... one aircraft at a time.)

Another suggestion, though aircraft feature only marginally in it, is the documentary: "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie"

Good historical info, great footage, excellent soundtrack, makes you think... and those who don't like thinking can simply sit back and watch big explosions.

(thought this might be a better contribution than Disney's "Rocketeer".) /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif

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[Stormin]

Freycinet wrote:
- Surprised none of you mentioned "Dr. Strangelove",
- one of the greatest, funniest, most sarcastic movies
- ever, featuring Peter Sellers in three parts as the
- US president, a RAF officer and Dr. Strangelove
- himself.
-

Put that movie on my list! One of my favorites.

"Very well, Colonel Batguano, if that REALLY IS your name!"

Cheers,
Carl

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[Stormin]

Rabina wrote:
- Final Countdown - great flying scenes - lousy
- special effects, nice historical nuances. Sorry Carl
- - got it on DVD a couple of months back. Now if only
- they could have been sent back 10 years earlier and
- we could have had Vigilantes on deck!
-

It's only available in DVD in UK and Germany in PAL.

I did see that used copies of the original NTSC VHS are being sold. I might pick one up.

Hard to believe I first saw that movie over twenty years ago!

Cheers,
Carl

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[XyZspineZyX]

Am I the only one that likes Air America? Ok, it doesn't have any jets in it, but it has the awesome Pilatus Porter.

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Stormin wrote:
- "Very well, Colonel Batguano, if that REALLY IS your
- name!"

"Gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the war room!"

The whole bodily fluids part is pretty hilarious too!

[XyZspineZyX]

Iron Eagle I.

[XyZspineZyX]

I really don't like any aircraft movies (since everything is so wrong)

I hate Bat-21 and Behind Enemy Lines the most

Especially after going through survival and evasion

Memphis Belle is ok, but even that has a pretty good amount wrong.



The best move for me by far is Band of Brothers. I have never seen a more accurate and true to life military movie ever.

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[XyZspineZyX]

Can anyone tell me the name of a film with the B-52's in it? The opening scene is a nuke being detonated in Washington, and US responds, also rember the B-52 drops a nuke in a valley to get rid of some MiG's chasing it

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[XyZspineZyX]

I also find more or less every plane movie too wrong to be really good (haven't checked Dark Blue World yet though).

I still appreciate watching well-made flight scenes no matter how cheesy the dialogues are of course. That's why Top Gun is still a classic even if I couldn't take it for serious when I was 12 (MiG-28? Oh please... /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif ) But good in the real sense? Hmm not really /i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.gif

It would be great if there was a movie about planes with the quality of "Das Boot", which I still consider the best overall war movie ever.

- Caretaker

[XyZspineZyX]

olaleier wrote:
- Can anyone remember a movie where a US Navy carrier
- goes through (I'm trying not to laugh here) a time
- warp and ends up in WW2? I think it ends up with
- Tomcats VS Zeroes and that's how America turned the
- tide in the Pacific.
-
- The good thing about that movie is it's the only one
- I can remember that got the cannon sound right. Not
- rat-tat-tat at all, just a ripping, tearing roar.
- Great stuff.
- I sure hope the guy who wrote the script managed to
- shake his drug habit.
-
-I think that was the Philadelphia Experiment. But, hell, I could be way off. Know the one you're talking about though. Pretty good one.

[XyZspineZyX]

-Final Countdown
-Top Gun