Simviation Forum - What's your favorite Aviation Movie?

Reply #15 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 2:30am

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How about "Black Hawk Down" ????

There aren't many aviation shoots, but, still useful

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Reply #16 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 2:44am

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Hmm, well Hotshots and Airplane were funny, but for a great character role you can't beat John Belushi in 1941 as the demented P40 pilot!! And some great airborne footage done in it Grin

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Reply #17 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 2:46am

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Forgot about that one. Black Hawk Down is also good. Helos played a major role in that battle.

Apollo 13 is also a good Aviation movie Wink

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Reply #18 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 3:56am

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Top Aviation movies in no real order:
The Battle of Britain.
The Dambusters.
633 Squadron.
Memphis Belle.

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Reply #19 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 4:48am

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Hot Shots and Airplane are my best ones. I really like comedies. 8)
Does anyone mind me saying that Die Hard 2 was rubbish from an aviation point of view?

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Reply #20 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 6:59am

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the "airport" series.
"flight of the intruder".
"pearl harbor" (impressive flight sequences!)
"memphis belle"
"airplane"
"hot shots"
"the battle of britain"
"top gun" (nr.1 aviation movie)
and all those other cheap movies like "into the sun" or "blue tornado" or the "iron eagle" series.

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Reply #21 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 7:05am

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Top Gun,
Pearl Harbor
The Black Sheep Squadron(not really a movie?)
The Dam Busters
Black Hawk Down
Behind Enemy Lines.

thats all i can think of now...

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Reply #22 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 8:00am

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Top Gun,
Flight of the Itruder,
Briges of ToKo-Ri,
Firefox,
Air Force One,
Hot Shots Grin

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The Right stuff,
Battle of Britain,
Tuskeegee Airmen (sp?)

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Reply #23 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 9:14am

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Historical would have to be Memphis Belle and Apollo 13.
For laughs, it would be the 70's classic, Airplane! (Not Airplane 2, that was horrible).
October sky was great!
There was also a movie based on a true story about three brothers that filmed an outdoor documentary. One of them went on to become a well known "Outdoor Documentary Guy", I think his name is Marty........... something. Anyway, in the movie, the youngest brother flies this prop plane for the 1st time out of his familiy's barn to fly over the hospital his father is in. The whole time he is talking out loud, all the things his father told him on "how to fly" this thing. The "scene" is really interesting.
Does anybody know which movie I am referring too?
Also, for Aviation "romance", we seem to have forgotten the movie "Always" with Richard Dryfus, Holly Hunter and John Goodman . There are some great scenes of these planes putting out forest fires mixed in with a little love story and "after-life" perpectives. I thought it was great. If you have not seen it, I would recomend it!
For all out action, it would have to be the classic TOP GUN! I think for many of us, this was the 1st movie we all got to see what our military was really flying, and I think we were impressed!
And for ALL OUT 24-7 aviation........The Discovery Channel WINGS!
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Reply #24 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 10:20am

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1: Top Gun

and a lot down...
Independence day (F-18 in the canyon)

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Reply #25 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 10:52am

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-The Right Stuff (shows a blackbird for a few seconds)
- Air Force One
- and some i can't come up with at the moment...

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Reply #26 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 11:01am

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Apollo 13 is also a good Aviation movie Wink

Never saw that one..........I was disappointed at the inaccuracy of the main catch phrase of the intire movie.... if you look back you will see that nobody said "Houston we have a problem"............the actual words spoken were......"Houston, we've had a problem " and little things like that make me wonder how it could be missed.........after all this was supposed to portray a situation which captured the attention of the entire world
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Reply #27 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 11:16am

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topgun which is also my all time fav movie

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Reply #28 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 12:43pm

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For all over accuracy I would go with the dambusters. No other film is as accuratly portrayed than that.

Then the Battle of Britain... Then there all pretty rubbish...

Apart from the original Memphis Belle... That used footage of actual combat in the war so all the planes are as they should be... Grin

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Reply #29 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 3:29pm

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mig 31 firefox Wink

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