Posted on 07/06/2013 4:42:52 PM PDT by ken5050
Well, the cable news networks are non stop with their coverage of the air crash in San Francisco. Looking at the pictures, it seems a miracle that the number of fatalities is so low. If there is one unintended consequence of this crash..at least we will be spared talk about Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman for the next few days. As the networks are talking aviation and nothing but, I thought it would be a slight diversion to discuss our favorite aviation themed movies.
One of the best scary scenes ever.
LOL, yes, Those magnificent men in their flying machines, for a comedy, On wings of eagles, for a serious movie, with John Wayne, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis, Ken Tobey, Maureen O’hara.
That one has come up a lot...a lot of love for it!
I built hundreds of model aircraft as a kid...I had an entire air force hanging from my ceiling..My dad in in the 8th AF in WW II..pilot..he dropped out of college in 39..signed up..he was stationed in Iceland from 40-42...he flew the C-47..they flew the unarmed U-boat suppression flights over the convoys..he dropped Pathfinders just before D-Day..was shot down on D day...made it back..
Always with John Goodman and the guy from Jaws.
No I mentioned it for the GeeBee, but she was a reason to watch for sure...
“Dumbo!”
I vote for the 'Aviator'. But I also like 'The Great Waldo Pepper'. Also portrayed by a lunatic leftist.
‘King of the Rocket Men’ was the original...preceded ‘Commando Cody’by a few years. Great stuff...the evil Dr. Vulcan trying to flood Manhattan with his doomsday ‘Decimator’ device...the Mayor Lindsay clone; years before the real one came on the scene.
LOL! “Magnificent Men...” is one of my faves!
I also like the one where Jimmy Stewart crashed in a desert and their aeronautic engineer to fix the plane was a TOY MANUFACTURER...”Flight of the Phoenix!” (Didn’t really warm up to the remake of it.)
Your point about the ever present agenda nowadays rather than the timeless theme is spot on. They, quite simply, don’t make them like that anymore. I doubt they’d have much of an audience now anyway.
I've seen "Battle of Britain" and "Strategic Air Command", and "12 O'Clock High" a million times.
The MST3K version of "Starfighters" is great - starring B1 Bob.
The more recent "Memphis Belle" was good.
Haven't seen "Red Tails" yet.
If you like subdued Irish romantic comedies "Waiting for Dublin" features a downed American in Ireland trying to get his 5th kill in order to pay off a mobster in Chicago when the war is over and falling for a local redhead i the process.
Wow. Your dad really experienced a lot over there...thank God for men like him.
Not David McCallum. You may have confused him with Hardy Kruger.
Jennifer Connely, when she makes that entrance in the evening dress...oh man!
Midnight Run was pretty good.
“I have always thought the opening scenes of the plane crash in “Castaway” were some of the most impressive in any aviation movie showing a crash.”
You didn’t watch it with my pilot husband that grew up in Hollywood. Any movie involving a plane is a comedy in our house. Kind of hard to suspend disbelief when your husband is doubled over laughing, and asking, “Well which is it- a 747 or a 737?” Kurt Russel exclaiming he recognized the airport- we were apoplectic.
Yes, Agatha Christie must have been a racist.
Amazing how much times have changed.
Hahahahah...too bad.
Sometimes, you really do need to suspend belief to really enjoy some things.
I had a dream one night that I was in a DC-9 that was privately owned and had been converted into a party plane. Carpeting, very few chairs, loud music, people dancing, the whole nine yards.
While we were partying, the plane was bouncing around and jouncing us, and were were sliding and falling and bumping into each other. Finally, I decided to go up the cockpit and talk to the crew to find out what was going on.
I opened the cockpit door and looked in.
Remember the part in the movie “Castaway” when Tom Hanks opens the cockpit door a spit second before they hit the water? That was what I saw.
The pilot turned and said “Not now.”
I closed the door and woke up...whew!
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