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'Flight'. Pretty disappointing. So here's four great airplane movies.

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It starts out a cool plane movie. Then it devolves into the same old, same old, 'alcoholic has to hit bottom' movie we've seen dozens of times already.

Seriously, every beat in this movie (past the cool opening) was totally predictable. Particularly the ending.

Seen it all before. Too many times.

Great airplane movies:

1) No Highway in the Sky - Jimmy Stewart, Glynis Johns, Marlene Dietrich.
2) Fate is the Hunter - Rod Taylor and Glen Ford
3) Flight of the Phoenix - Jimmy Stewart
4) Spirit of St. Louis - Jimmy Stewart. Damn, he likes airplane movies.

"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Dr. Greg House

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loosely based on true ... scary, tragic & needless event ... - TBone 15:29:35 02/19/13 (0)
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 ... no survivors.

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It had one nice idea - barryb 08:24:52 02/11/13 (1)
The inverted plane was exciting and clever. At least this movie had ONE idea, which is better than most manage these days. The film dragged terribly at points -- like when they showed Denzel alone in his hotel room, lying there doing nothing but feeling anxious because he was an alcoholic. The eye candy in the opening scene was first rate and I thought Denzel's performace was excellent. Overall, it's not the most inspired.
- The film dragged terribly at points -- like when they showed Denzel alone in his hotel room, lying there - oldmkvi 08:15:59 02/14/13 (0)
  Sounds like most French Films I've seen, shot in Real-Time. Minutes watching someone sleep...
Would "The Great Santini" count as an 'airplane' film? - Enophile 08:23:20 02/11/13 (0)
I liked that one.

"Catch Me If You Can?"

Maybe not.

I liked "The Right Stuff," but it's been almost 30 years since I saw it, so I won't bank on that endorsement.
Difficult to improve on the crash scene at sea in Cast Away. Nt - geoffkait 18:05:20 02/09/13 (0)
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RE: I'd also add The Blue Max to that list. - user510 09:52:34 02/09/13 (0)
One of my favorites, in any case.
The Blue Max (1966)
I'd hesitate to include The Aviator (2004) or Amelia (2009)to the list simply because neither of these attempts at movie making provided a memorable experience for me.
There are probably more worthy additions but The Blue Max gave us a window into the fading days of WW1 Germany's war machine. And it was an interesting juxtaposition of the low born versus high born fighting in the same unit, etc.
I'd hesitate to add The Dawn Patrol (1938) with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and David Niven,. WW1 fighter pilots again. Kind of a buddy flick WW1 style filled with corny sentiments about bravery and honor and so ridiculous as to be not really very involving. But fun if in the right frame of mind for it.
-Steve

Edits: 02/09/13
"The Great Waldo Pepper" - geoff 07:25:05 02/09/13 (0)
my favorite. The dogfight at the end is superb.
Partial to 'The Blue Max' for it's great flying sequences not Peppard. * - mr grits 19:47:08 02/08/13 (0)
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Shirley, you remember Airplane. SNAP! - PhilJ 16:48:11 02/08/13 (3)
watched it recently

my local college radio station plays the Peter Graves comments non stop

LOL
- Our local sports station was discussing Jabbar's career yesterday and they had about 4 "drops" of his dialogue - Road Warrior 20:45:25 02/08/13 (0)
  from Airplane.
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  "I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
- #1. I also liked, "Executive Order," and "Redeye." nt - tinear 19:02:47 02/08/13 (0)
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- Now that's a good airplane movie! NT - grantv 17:50:19 02/08/13 (0)
I'd add "The Right Stuff" to any list of great "aiprlane" movies^ - Road Warrior 15:57:20 02/08/13 (0)
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"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"

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