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Title: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on June 14, 2005, 07:36:06 AM
If anyone remembers a  good movie wich i forgot to put on the list, let me know.  8)
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: elias_b on June 15, 2005, 04:33:14 PM
I still like the goog old Battle of Britain.
You forgot on movie: Hot Shots!!   ;D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on June 16, 2005, 07:33:34 AM
The final countdown, cant belive i forgot that one. Have it on DVD at home...   :P

Love the scenes were the Tomcats toy with the Zero´s.

Then we have Hot Shots. Its about aviators, but come on....Brakes and a U-turn???  ;D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Joopey on June 16, 2005, 12:30:35 PM
Aahhh, the memories..!  :D  My favorite is Top Gun. Saw that flick about 2000 times (1993 times because of Kelly McGillis...). But we dont want to forget 'Blue Thunder'!
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on June 16, 2005, 12:52:48 PM
Aahhh, the memories..! :D My favorite is Top Gun. Saw that flick about 2000 times (1993 times because of Kelly McGillis...). But we dont want to forget 'Blue Thunder'!

Ahhhh sweet Kelly!! She took my breath away.... ;D

Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on June 17, 2005, 04:37:01 PM
Indeed! The memories!

You should add Flight of the Intruder and Avro Arrow. Very good (for aviation movies).

And I can think of lots of bad ones. Behind Enemy Lines, is a recent one.

I still have my hopes up for Fighter Pilot: operation Red Flag. Should be something more decent than the hollywood stuff. http://www.fighterpilotfilm.com/
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on June 28, 2005, 08:07:21 AM
Have you guys seen that movieclip of french pilots playing with  Mirage F1´s?
They do some real low level flying, playing with their lives. Its really extreme...   :o
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: RecceJet on June 28, 2005, 09:14:53 AM
Yeah I've seen that footage of Mirage F-1s flying low over a desert, nice and fast. Basically they take off and remain at an altitude of about no more than 20ft. The Kiwis did that a lot in their RNZAF A-4K Skyhawks. When they did exercises with the Royal Australian Navy the Kiwi pilots would fly between the masts of a frigate for fun! Then again, the little Skyhawk is a great aircraft for that kind of flying  ;) There is footage of those New Zealand pilots doing that too, I'm sure its not hard to find on the internet.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on June 28, 2005, 09:30:09 AM
I saw it for the first time this weekend. My thoughts at first was that this is some civilian pilots flying around playing with their lives. But i was wrong, french fighterpilots showing off. Very impressing,not the kind of stuff you would see at an airshow.  ;D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Joopey on June 28, 2005, 06:44:29 PM
Years ago, I saw a french movie about a Fouga Magister suffering a birdstrike. I believe the name was 'Orange is Green'... Anybody remember that one?
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Goose on June 29, 2005, 01:46:07 AM
Loved Flight of the Intruder, cause it really got into the heart of the matter, and you felt the frustration. Top Gun is good just because of the flying, HATE the sceens with them in the cockpit twisting around like they on a swivle chair! >:(
Battle of Britain was good, not a big fan of WW2 aircraft though.

Should add the Fightin Leathernecks to the list, with John Wayne.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on June 29, 2005, 08:11:21 AM
Ha ha,  the twisting in Top Gun. But i saw it again recently and i found something even more annoying. They repeat everything they say! Example:

-Do you see him Goose??
-I dont see him, i dont see him!

Or....

-He´s coming around on our tail, coming around on our tail!

Guess thats the "backseatdrivers" job in a F14 to repeat everything twice, just to make sure that the pilot knows.  ;)

Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Goose on June 30, 2005, 01:46:20 AM
yeah I guess that is the job to repeat and sound paniky!!!!  I hated the dislogue in that movie also, I gues watch it to look at the Mighty TOMCAT now.

ICEMAN about to shoot missle Dialogue: I got missle lock!!! I'm gonna fire! ROGER ENGAGED!!??

Who the hell says roger engaged???? Every flight instructor of radio telephoney since the dawn of eternity musta turned over in their graves to hear that!!!!
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on June 30, 2005, 08:10:19 AM
Isen´t it great? he he... You are right Goose. Now i usally look at Top Gun just to see the flightsequences and Kelly of course. ;D

There is also two Swedish movies with modern fighters. One is a drama, but starts with a niiice flightsequence with the Viggen. Its about 10mins long, some low and fast flying. Ends with a birdstrike and landing on a freeway. Then rest of the movie is all talk. Name of the movie is "Älskar, Älskar inte".

Then we have a recent movie, a thriller. About bad guys trying to sabotage the Gripen. A few nice scenes, but to short. This movie is called "Hotet".

The flightscenes from both movies are made by the same team that made the scenes for Top Gun.  :D

Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Goose on June 30, 2005, 07:02:25 PM
Yeah it's nice to see movies about aircraft from other countries. There was one about Italian F-104. I can't remeber the name. It was along the lines of aliens but the main character was an F-104 pilot, it had some beautiful shots of starfighters in solo, pairs and formation with tornados.

There was also a movie from the '80s or early '90s "Dark Angel", featuring an F-21 Kfir flown by the USN Top Gun school. The plot was the pilot went wacko and tried to nuke Nevada.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Joopey on June 30, 2005, 09:13:00 PM
Yep, the Italian movie was 'Blue Tornado', with Dirk Benedict from The A-Team. This was a very bad movie, by the way. Very, very bad... :)
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Goose on July 01, 2005, 02:44:57 AM
Yes it was bad, for me it was refreshing to see a movie with something other than american aircraft.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on July 01, 2005, 07:54:48 AM
I remember Dark Angel, think it was Peter Strauss played the leading role. There is a few so called B-movies out there about aviation. The ones i have seen, has mostly just taken clips from Iron Eagle.
ID4 had some cool flightscenes but they are all animated.

Yesterday  i was talking with my younger brother and we agreed that, they should do a movie like The Final Countdown. But let the jets kick the zero´s ass bigtime and the whole japanese fleet, change the outcome of Pearl Harbour. With modern effects it could be done really cool.  ;D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on July 01, 2005, 11:05:18 PM
Yeah it's nice to see movies about aircraft from other countries. There was one about Italian F-104. I can't remeber the name. It was along the lines of aliens but the main character was an F-104 pilot, it had some beautiful shots of starfighters in solo, pairs and formation with tornados.

There was also a movie from the '80s or early '90s "Dark Angel", featuring an F-21 Kfir flown by the USN Top Gun school. The plot was the pilot went wacko and tried to nuke Nevada.

'Blue Tornado', yep BAD, but loved it for the Tornados. But what's the name of that British movie with Tornado F.3 pilots?

You mean 'Black Angel'. Those F-21s were really USMC's, but for the movie they used an Israeli Kfir, not F-21. And if I remember correctly, it was called Mirage in the movie. Anyway, did you notice it has some of the same footage as Iron Eagle. For example the Kfir in dogfight, and the airfield attack (different angle, same targets, explosion and special effects). That's why the aggressor "Mirage" carries red roundel with yellow star and not US markings...because in Iron Eagle, they are real foreign bad guys.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Goose on July 02, 2005, 03:22:35 AM
Thanks for clarifying that webmaster. It's been a long time since I saw that movie.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on July 24, 2005, 12:01:49 AM
Watching 'Black Thunder' right now, something about a Nova active stealth plane...the same Kfir again... it can go totally invisible even for the human eye.  ;D Looks like a third movie that borrowed some footage from Iron Eagle I, Americanised Israeli F-16s and the Nova being the Kfir. Probably a pretty bad movie, it is going on now for 10 minutes and the first typical B-class movie "sex" scene is taken place already.

Edit: looks like the Cessna shots are the same as well.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on July 25, 2005, 07:35:42 AM
Yes, its a lot of that in the b-movies. (scenes from Iron Eagle).

Im wonder if i should put Firefox on the list also.
For those who dont remember the movie:

Clint Eastwood going to steal a secret russian plane, a really fast one.  ;)

My problem is that the plane is fictional, so does it deserve a place on the list, what do you think guys?
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Ramon on July 25, 2005, 12:46:46 PM
Hello all,

For me it will be the movie Top-Gun, great shots of the fabulous Tomcat.
In my opinion can no film yet, beat this movie.

By the way: There is now a movie on the way, that maybe can change my vote........... ;)
Check out http://www.leschevaliers-lefilm.com/
And view the trailer, very nice shots of the Mirage 2000.

Regards, Ramon.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on July 25, 2005, 02:20:06 PM
Hello all,

For me it will be the movie Top-Gun, great shots of the fabulous Tomcat.
In my opinion can no film yet, beat this movie.

By the way: There is now a movie on the way, that maybe can change my vote........... ;)
Check out http://www.leschevaliers-lefilm.com/
And view the trailer, very nice shots of the Mirage 2000.

Regards, Ramon.


Well it looks like a good movie with great flightscenes. To bad the video was so short, i already want to see more of the movie.  :D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on July 25, 2005, 04:32:28 PM
I'm afraid it is going to be a bad B movie, despite the great footage in the trailer. But compared to 'Stealth' at least the footage is real, they used some quite expensive kit to shoot the scenes, so hopefully they had some money left for poper actors and filming of the other scenes. It is presented by Pathé so hopefully it will appear in Pathé cinemas in the Netherlands, we'd better keep an eye out for this Ramon, it probably won't show long and I'd love the see these shots on a large cinema screen!
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: 27flyer on July 29, 2005, 09:39:09 PM
Just Military Aviation or general?  For the fighter jocks out there:  Top gun.  But my wife brought home a little movie made by a flight attendant called "The Aviary"  which I'd rank high up there.  It's about comercial aviation (can you guess what I do?)  and it was made on a shoestring, but it's pretty good.  I wouldn't say my favorite, but thought I'd mention it, since it's a little film.  Some great shots in the air, no idea how they did it.  I bought the dvd for a friend at http://theaviarymovie.com  I highly recommend it.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on July 30, 2005, 09:07:25 PM
Just Military Aviation or general?  For the fighter jocks out there:  Top gun.  But my wife brought home a little movie made by a flight attendant called "The Aviary"  which I'd rank high up there.  It's about comercial aviation (can you guess what I do?)  and it was made on a shoestring, but it's pretty good.  I wouldn't say my favorite, but thought I'd mention it, since it's a little film.  Some great shots in the air, no idea how they did it.  I bought the dvd for a friend at http://theaviarymovie.com  I highly recommend it.

So, i added "The Aviary" for you.
Thanks for the tip.  :D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on July 31, 2005, 01:37:06 AM
I can't recall Firebirds, someone voted for it. What is it about? How good is it?

Aviary is not really my kind of movie, but if you say it is good I believe you, and when it shows on TV I will try to watch it.

Just thought of another one, although its aviation part is limited, Broken Arrow. Or did someone mention that earlier on? Not my favorite, actually think it is one of the worst action/thriller movies in which John Travolta took part.

I really think Tony Scott should make another fighterjet/air combat movie, without making it a Top Gun part 2 of course! I love his films.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on July 31, 2005, 11:20:07 AM
Firebirds is about helicopters, the apache. Dont remember who starred in it. They are training and then fight it out with colombian druglords. Bit of a "Top Gun" but with helicopters. Better then most B-movies out there..
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: RecceJet on August 03, 2005, 12:30:33 PM
Doesn't Firebirds have a Swedish design aircraft in there? I vaguely remember the jet that the drug lords use... was that a Draken? The stunts they do in the Apaches are a bit unrealistic, but hey: its Hollywood of course
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on August 03, 2005, 03:00:44 PM
According to IMDB trivia, they were indeed Drakens.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: 27flyer on August 03, 2005, 07:31:26 PM
So, i added "The Aviary" for you.
Thanks for the tip.  :D

Thanks for adding it.  I saw some good ones on your list that I'll check out.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on August 07, 2005, 06:16:23 PM
Yupp, it sure is the J35 Draken in the movie "Firebirds.  I actually forgot that part of the movie.  ;D

By the way, does anyone know where you can get hold of cool aviationclips or movies of airshows?
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: TOPGUN4LIFE on October 22, 2005, 11:36:10 PM
Top gun is the best ever!
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Ramon on October 23, 2005, 01:16:36 PM
Hi Guys,

Just want to let you know that this DVD came out.
The trailer is allready very impressive........... :o and movie is in cooperation with Boeing.

Link: http://www.fighterpilotfilm.com  :P
and is now also allready out on DVD: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A2XB9K/milavia-20
Only have to know if I can play it in my DVD player, with all those "area's".

Best Regards, Ramon.  ;)
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on October 23, 2005, 08:38:37 PM
All i can say is that i want to get my hands on this movie.. 

Btw thanks for the tip Scorpion.  :D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on October 24, 2005, 11:52:13 PM
If you prefer Amazon.co.uk, follow this link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A2XB9K/milaviamilita-21
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on October 25, 2005, 08:13:43 AM
I´ll will wait, see if its going to be ripped. Then i can download it from torrentspy or piratebay.  >:D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: RecceJet on October 25, 2005, 11:33:01 PM
I´ll will wait, see if its going to be ripped. Then i can download it from torrentspy or piratebay.  >:D
Not sure if you want to be saying that on a public forum :-\
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on October 26, 2005, 12:02:06 AM
Consider this. The more people that buy it, the more chance we have of more military aviation movies. And if they do good, hollywood will pick up on it as well...  ;) Not that I can say your purchase will influence this, but at least I get 5% from amazon which will be invested in this website. So more reason to buy  :P
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on October 26, 2005, 08:55:07 AM
Yesterday i orderd a Viggen-documentary from a swedish site. That will cost me 360 Skr, that equals 52 $. Buying movies in Sweden is expensive, since i dont have a creditcard. I cant order from the sites outside of sweden or those who only accept creditcards.  :P

About downloading ripped versions. They cant do anything about it unless you get caught with a version on your harddrive or you´ll stupid enough to make alot of copies and sell them. Dosent matter what you say on a forum.  >:(
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: 27flyer on December 05, 2005, 09:19:58 PM
Thanks for adding it.  I saw some good ones on your list that I'll check out.
The movie trailer is at http://theaviarymovie.com/mainpage.htm
Some reviews of the movie:
http://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=8193
http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/article/177
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on December 06, 2005, 07:57:58 AM
Looks like Top Gun is in a massive lead with 5 votes. Actually im not surprised, its a great movie thou it is getting a bit to eighties.  ;)
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on December 06, 2005, 11:26:22 AM
By the way, what about "The Aviator" (2004)? Should be about  "Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s." but I stayed away from it, fearing that it is just another romantic hollywood movie with DiCaprio not really about aviation. Now looking at the trailer, I see some things I like for a movie, but I guess it shows all good exciting parts (and isn't really exciting) so maybe not that cool for an aviation point of view, but the story seems interesting....?

Anyway seen it?
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Viggen on December 06, 2005, 11:34:53 AM
The Aviator, well i have not seen it myself. But i wanted to. Then my younger brother told me that its just romantic bullsh*t after he seen it. Not a movie for aviation-lovers, wanted me to stay away from it cuz it was just a waste of time and money.

So i guess its up to you guys to take the chance and see whats it like.  8)
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Gripen on October 14, 2006, 04:51:49 AM
Top Gun is stupid

and Firefox was based on the MIG-31, when the west thought it was a new super fighter and all that stuff. i read somewhere that when FireFox came out, a Russian pilot seen it, and he just happened to have something to do with the MIG-31 project and he said "If they think that, then its better for us" becuase the plane was nothing like it is in the movie, so u could say its based on fiction but then its not- so its hard to say

another example of Amerians thinking Russian tech was better is with the Russian Alfa Class Submarine- America spent billions developing deep running torpedoes and it was wasted, the Alfa couldnt do it, and it got the name "Golden Fish" becuase they kept melting down ;)
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Air Marshal on March 12, 2008, 08:06:39 AM
Stealth, Iron Eagle, and The Final Countdown are still my favorites.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: RecceJet on March 12, 2008, 11:57:04 AM
Top Gun is stupid

and Firefox was based on the MIG-31, when the west thought it was a new super fighter and all that stuff. i read somewhere that when FireFox came out, a Russian pilot seen it, and he just happened to have something to do with the MIG-31 project and he said "If they think that, then its better for us" becuase the plane was nothing like it is in the movie, so u could say its based on fiction but then its not- so its hard to say

another example of Amerians thinking Russian tech was better is with the Russian Alfa Class Submarine- America spent billions developing deep running torpedoes and it was wasted, the Alfa couldnt do it, and it got the name "Golden Fish" becuase they kept melting down ;)

Wasn't it the MiG-31 Foxhound that had a radar made of old fashioned valves? This seemingly obsolete feature actually ensured that it would have a radar that is immune to the EMP created from a nuclear explosion. I believe this design feature was not because the Russians weren't as advanced as the US thought, but because the MiG-31 had a specific mission and was designed accordingly. The same goes for the celestial navigation equipment onboard the early F-111s.

The F-111s had a device which was on the nose in front of the cockpit and allowed the crew to navigate by the stars in the event that an EMP took out all electronics. Old technology, maybe, but it ensured survivability.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on March 12, 2008, 02:38:17 PM
No, that was the MiG-25P's Smerch-A1 (NATO FOX FIRE  ;)), of ten years earlier. But!

Quote from: vectorsite.net
However, many microwave engineers insist even now that vacuum-tube technology is perfectly practical and cost-effective for high-power microwave applications

By 1979, the MiG-25PD came about using a version of the MiG-23's Saphir-23 radar, using transisters and pulse-Doppler operation to provide a look-down / shoot-down capability. The -PD is the one that went abroad. But probably quite downgraded, as the Soviets did with many exports to Arab countries.

The MiG-31's Zaslon was actually the first electronically scanned phased array radar to enter service in the world. It's passive, so more like the PESA than the AESA, and pretty old by now for comparison, but in a way ahead of its time.

The movie is based on a novel of 1977, 5 years before the Foxhound became known to the West. The movie actually first wanted to use a Viggen (denied by Swedish government), later cover artwork depicted a MiG-25 version (close one), but I guess this wasn't enough "hollywood" (it was known by now, the MiG-25 wasn't that great). Firefox was based on a novel. If you have a novel about a Russian aircraft, and you know the MiG-15/17/19/21/23/25/27/29, what comes next? You can take 31 if it's more advanced, or fill in those blanks if it's not more advanced, like they did with MiG-28 in Top Gun.

If that story about the Russian pilot is true (I doubt it), then the guy is pretty stupid to think a Hollywood movie reflects US DOD intel. Any fabricated link between the movie's MiG-31 and the real MiG-31 is nonsense, IMHO.

Sure, the US overestimated Soviet capabilities all the time, technology and numbers-wise. but don't try to link that with fiction writing... It's funny though whenever they established the last thing was crap afterall, they were yet surprised and scared of the next thing. I think it's kinda like: overestimate -> get facts -> underestimate -> be surprised -> overestimate, etc.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: RecceJet on March 13, 2008, 07:22:00 AM
If that story about the Russian pilot is true (I doubt it), then the guy is pretty stupid to think a Hollywood movie reflects US DOD intel. Any fabricated link between the movie's MiG-31 and the real MiG-31 is nonsense, IMHO.

Sure, the US overestimated Soviet capabilities all the time, technology and numbers-wise. but don't try to link that with fiction writing... It's funny though whenever they established the last thing was crap afterall, they were yet surprised and scared of the next thing. I think it's kinda like: overestimate -> get facts -> underestimate -> be surprised -> overestimate, etc.

Over-estimating also boosts the budget of any agency if they say they need more resources to keep tabs on the bad guys ;) If an agency reports rival technology and development as inferior then perhaps the funding to keep tabs will be cut because the threat is percieved to be less.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on March 13, 2008, 12:46:54 PM
That's a good point, especially with the three 'rival' services in the US.
Maybe, we can say that overestimating the enemy's capabilities is taking place is every arms race...? Well, it fuels/catalyzes the arms race.

Back on topic. There's another aviation movie out for a while now, Fly Boys. US volunteers flying with the French Air Force during WWI. Action footage is fake and surely looks fake, makes flying WWI planes look easy, typical hero actions with romance scenes, pretty bad, but still enjoyable. It's something else, at least. Anyone seen it?
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: alyster on March 13, 2008, 01:46:51 PM
I've seen it. I wouldn't watch it again.
Has anyone seen Hells Angels? I've been trying to find one for some time now.

And how was behind enemy lines aviation movie  ???  ;D
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: Webmaster on March 13, 2008, 08:57:46 PM
Hells Angels... nope, I don't think so.

Behind enemy lines. It's not an aviation movie  ;) What irritated me the most was Owen Wilson, ever since Zoolander and other type-cast roles I can't take him serious. As aviation movie, it sucks. Computer animated Super Hornet on recce mission, pulling way too fast turns and bends to outmaneuver a SA-6, which takes forever (somehow), it looks like a video game (Ace Combat six?) eventually it's hit and our friend Owen and his buddy eject, his WSO is killed by enemy troops, but he gets away. It's like 10 minutes maybe? The rest is on-foot chased by (Bosnian-) Serbian military and some mercenary/ace/lonewolf "smart" sniper guy. Owen meets some Croat (I think) militia, encounters a minefield, hides between bodies of a mass grave, avoids sniper fire, the usual stuff. He needs to recover his recce-data-cd (which is somehow attached to his ejection seat) and make it for the extraction point. He takes out the sniper guy, by blowing up his ejection seat or something, can't remember exactly. In the mean time Gene Hackman is playing the typical US, stuborn and irritating commander (like the movie Crimson Tide), who basically says fuck you to NATO and protocol, "we are getting our guy out ourselves"... strangely he is eventually picked up by a Mi-8/17, which would suggest NATO coop.

It's okay to watch once, on TV or borrowed dvd. Don't buy or rent, it's a waste of money. Cheap, short story, highly predictable, bad casting + acting. It's supposed to be based on Scott O'Grady's story who was shot down in his F-16 over Bosnia, and struggled to keep alive, before he could be rescued. The reconstructions and footage in the documentary about it, is even better than this movie.
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: rockymartin21 on April 10, 2009, 10:57:28 PM
Ah yeah I liked Top Gun!
Title: Re: Your favourite aviation movie?
Post by: AVIATOR on June 13, 2009, 12:02:42 AM
My favourite aviation movie is "Twelve O'clock High". The greatest of all time.
The acting put in by Gregory Peck as General Frank Savage is awesome.
I have the DVD and never get sick of it.

There is a reason that 12 O'Clock High is considered one of the finest war films ever made...it is. Simple as that. It deals with complex characters, hellish circumstances and unlike recent films Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers it conveys the destruction and horrors of war through dialogue or simple facial reactions rather than close-up shots of gore, bullets ripping through bodies or limbs flying off. I'm not dismissing either of these films, the point is, that these things can be done without the in your face version as well and sometimes I think filmmakers have forgotten that.



http://www.aerovintage.com/12oclock.htm