Author Topic: Your Favourite Aviation Movie? (Read 4621 times)

doobs · « **Reply #30 on:** February 06, 2007, 08:54:04 PM »

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Treize69 · « **Reply #31 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:02:53 PM »

Wow, I'm the only one for Fighte Squadron huh?

C'mon people, its Edmund O'Brian, Robert Stack and Rock Hudson in P-47s!!

Masherbrum · « **Reply #32 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:10:31 PM »

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Originally posted by hitech
12:00 High

Mine too.

Monster0 · « **Reply #33 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:37:59 PM »

Tora Tora Tora
Midway
Now Flyboy's.
That part in Heavy Metal also :>

Tango · « **Reply #34 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:46:57 PM »

Nobody wants to say "Pearl harbor"?

*runs away*

Mace2004 · « **Reply #35 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:54:55 PM »

I can't believe you guys. No votes for this one?

Aces High (1976)
Director: Jack Gold
The air battle on World War I's Western Front was brutal. This story focuses on one British pilot fighting the Germans.

The Right Stuff: Awesome

Hell's Angels: Amazing number of airplanes involved

Midway and Tora! Tora! Tora!: Great in the original "Sensuround"

Flight of the Phoenix: Original, not the latest POS

Flying Tigers and The High and the Mighty: Hey, it's the Duke damnit!

Subsection · « **Reply #36 on:** February 06, 2007, 10:40:35 PM »

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Originally posted by RedTop

Tuskegee Airmen

Thanks RT... couldn't remember the name (this head cold must be really kicking my oscar !!!....

and Tora Tora Tora.........

oh.... memphis belle was good too

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #37 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:03:31 PM »

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Originally posted by dtango
(4) Always - story was ok, the flying sequences and special effects were outstanding

(Tango, XO
412th FS Braunco Mustangs

Hell, if you liked "Always", you should see the ORIGINAL version, "A Guy Named Joe" with Spencer Tracy, Irenne Dunne, Ward Bond, and Van Johnson. Spencer Tracy was the ghost pilot, Irenne Dunne was his girl friend, Ward Bond was his best friend, and Van Johnson was the P-38 pilot Spencer Tracy played "guardian angel" to. It's a lot better than "Always".

I bet I've been asked a couple of hundred times if "SaVaGe" cam from 12 O'Clock High. It's one of my favorite movies, but no, it didn't. "SaVaGe" comes from my Cherokee Indian heritage.

Another great movie, although you don't really SEE any flying, is "Command Decision". There's something odd about it though, if you see it, you'll figure it out, eventually.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #38 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:15:18 PM »

Bedknobs and broomsticks ... the flying bed was too uber ...

or
Spitfire
Battle of Britain
One of our Airplanes is missing
Waldo Pepper
The original Memphis Bell Watch it here
Tuskegee Airmen
12 oc high
30 seconds over Tokyo
Dr Strangelove ...(Slim pickins in a B-52 Yeeee haaaw )
Midway

-CodyC · « **Reply #39 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:15:51 PM »

If you haven't seen Dark Blue World, i highly recommend it, only saw it a couple times here.

1. Battle of Britain
2. Dark Blue World
3. Midway
4. The Hour and fifteen minutes of awesome graphics and fighting in the middle of Pearl Harbor > Tora! Tora! Tora!
5. FlyBoys(graphics are awesome, however the Red Baron character in the movie, the bad guy in this case, is black with all other fokkers red, woulda been better if it was the other way around, but still good.)

Kermit de frog · « **Reply #40 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:20:26 PM »

tuskegee airmen was an okay film. It should have been better. Even many of the airmen alive weren't completely happy with the film.
I thought it was a nice film.

12 o'clock high and Dark Blue World are my top 2 favorite aviation films.

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #41 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:20:30 PM »

memphis belle

best part was when the tail gunner hit a 109, shouts with glee at the kill, then the downed plane chops right through the tail section of the rookie b17 next to them.

war must be hell.

dambusters close second for the music.

Krusty · « **Reply #42 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:30:33 PM »

Thanks JB88! LMBO!

HiTech: What do you make of this?
Skuzzy: I can make a crane, or a hat, or a paper airplane!

Airplane definitely counts, it was a war movie (well, a small part of it!)

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Ted: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine: When will you be back?
Ted: I can't tell you that. It's classified.

I also liked "Tuskeegee Airmen", but felt it could have been better.

I guess when it comes down to it, there's a lot of "good" ww2 movies, but very few "great" ones.

I guess I'd count Tora Tora Tora and maybe Midway, but that was more about the back story and only partially about the air war.

There was one, I think it was called "Bomber Command" or "Strategic Command" about a pilot on the B-47s flying the SAC flights during the cold war. It was interesting enough, despite a lack of real action.

Raptor · « **Reply #43 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:39:52 PM »

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Originally posted by -CodyC
5. FlyBoys(graphics are awesome, however the Red Baron character in the movie, the bad guy in this case, is black with all other fokkers red, woulda been better if it was the other way around, but still good.)

The Red Baron in Flyboys was the one that let the American Pilot live when his guns jammed, and the American later shot down.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #44 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:59:51 PM »

Air Force- Wartime movie starring John Garfield. Story of the fictional B17C Mary Ann. Great film of early B17s. You've gotta suspend your disbelief as they fly into the Pearl Harbor attack, then head for the Phillipines via Wake Island. The Mary Ann has to belly in but somehow the crew builds her back to life and off she goes to spot a Japanese task force and call for help.

Angels One-Five- 1950s movie about a fictional RAF squadron during the B of B. They managed to scrape together 5 Hurricanes for the flying scenes. Good old Sceptic.....

Some of the carrier films are good too. "Fighting Lady" "Bridges at Toko Ri"

Battle Hymm-The story of Dean Hess in Korea flying F-51s.

The Hunters-F86s over Korea.