Top Gun with its homosexual overtones is not better than Airplane!
Airplane was not an "Airplane Movie." It was a comedy and one hell of a Comedy. For comedy it is near the top of my list. Leslie Nelson and Robert Stack were absolutely Brilliant. Airplane Movies. 1. Bridge at Toko Ri. Acting was Superb. The aircraft did what those aircraft could do at the time, no more and no less. The movie was patriotic as were those actors, i.e. William Holden, John Ford, Mickey Rooney etc. 2. Battle of Britain. No explanation needed. 3. Blue Max. Good actors, aircraft performing in battle situations that are realistic, good plot with intrigue and Ursela Andress was smoking ass hot as the countess, George Peppard as the ace but from a common background, he crossed the barriers between upper and lower class and paid for it with his life, George Mason as the aristocratic general trying to keep the whole damn mess in proper order. His last orders put things back to normal. George Peppard flew a new aircraft with a design defect known to the general but not George Peppard. 4. The original "Flight of the Phoneix" 5. Although nor an airplane, I will put Apollo 13 in the mix. Great Acting by all. If you know what was going on in Houston Control after the fuel cell explode you would be amazed. Houston Control saved those men as did those men's heroic actions. Houston had a few days to calculate and design a trajectory using the Lunar Excursion Model as the rocket to bring them home. The astronauts were taking star shots and using points on their spacecraft to line it up for the burn to put them on the proper course. Super geniuses on the ground devised the plan and master pilots of the air and space carried them out.