THE absolute stupidest airplane movie

SixPapaCharlie said:
I did notice fewer buttons as the movie progressed.

I also noticed a complete absence of the phonetic alphabet
"Eye Aye 429 beginning our descent"
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How many pilots say "over" at the end of a radio transmission?
 
Anthony said:
If one really wanted to "hide out in the reserves" wouldn't you just get a desk job instead of flying the F-102 Delta Dagger. A plane known to be difficult to fly.
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Exactly. I thought little Jimmy took over flyingron's identity for a brief moment.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Well I finished it...

So many questions and twists.
And the M.Night Shyamalan flip at the end totally threw me.

There are just no words....

none.
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I don't know if it was supposed to somehow be related to the time travel thing but did you notice the really good looking flight attendant had a spooky octogenarian doppelgänger?
 
Silvaire said:
I don't know if it was supposed to somehow be related to the time travel thing but did you notice the really good looking flight attendant had a spooky octogenarian doppelgänger?
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Yes, My wife goes "I wonder if that is supposed to be her mom."
I replied "I was thinking it was her dad"
 
Anthony said:
If one really wanted to "hide out in the reserves" wouldn't you just get a desk job instead of flying the F-102 Delta Dagger. A plane known to be difficult to fly.
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I recall reading somewhere that he applied for duty in Vietnam, but was turned down because they weren't flying the F-102 over there. F-106, yes. I really get tired of people dredging up the dis-proven stories about his alleged misbehavior with the ANG. But, whatever fairy tale makes a lib happy...

Back to the original purpose of this thread...

I enjoyed "Final Countdown". Suspend belief (necessary for much of that which comes out of Hollywood) and it's a fun flick. And, Jimmy Stuart did a good job in "Strategic Air Command". Of course, the scenes with actual flying B-36 bombers make the whole movie worthwhile in my book.

Another "gem" from the 1950s that I haven't seen in decades, but watched as a young (6?) kid in a theater in a casino at the south shore of Lake Tahoe while my grandparents spent some time paying their taxes in the casino, was "Bombers B-52". I'll leave it to your Google-fu to see who was in it, but there were a couple major (later on) actors who had significant roles in that one. And, yes, I remember who. Other than scenes of the B-52 (when it was new to the Air Force) the plot isn't all that great, either.

The gaffs in "Top Gun" are just too much. There are some significant ones in "The Right Stuff", too. Hollywood just has too much trouble getting some stuff right. Oh well...
 
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SixPapaCharlie said:
So I'm watching this movie.
Quick question. Does a 757 have independently moving yokes?

There's a lot of one guy steering and the other yoke is motionless.

Also there is a lot of both pilots manning the yokes together
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It apparently doesn't have a compass either, they didn't know their course without the instruments.
 
Fearless Tower said:
Why would they have needed to make another propaganda movie?

The movie itself was a showcase for the (at the time) brand new F-14 and CVN 68.
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You'll have to ask the Navy about that. In the mean time, here is Sea Legs...


Based on the date shown, it may be that Final Countdown used footage from this film.
 
You know... this might make sense... them new fangled aroplanes with all that GPS and fancy crap get kicked back before the invention of the signal source? Of course they'd need to go to round dials.

C'mon... stark trek phasers worked when they time traveled to 1940.

Don't you people keep up with the history of the absurd?
 
I enjoy time travel and alternate reality movies, and Flight WWII has both.

The first 44 minutes are great. Really interesting and well done. The acting is workmanship; Nigel the young British radio operator on the ground really steals the show. The captain, co-pilot, and young and old stewardesses fill their roles just fine. The fire extinguisher scene actually seems believable.

It's a low budget movie, but it looks like the money was put on the screen and not in some studio executive's pocket.

Oh, at the very beginning they explain the yokes being different. Minute 1: "Disengage your yoke and get it figured out."

During the credits, two of the passengers are reading about "Megalodon" the giant shark, and there was a movie made about that. (Maybe by the same production company?)

The two WWII history professors are from Akron University, Akron OH. (Why Akron?) The cockpit door code is 26859 -- that's got to mean something to someone, but not to me.

All right, watch the first 44 minutes, then forget the rest or fast forward, Or, pause it, pretend you've started a different movie, and restart it as "Our writers went on strike and we had to cobble together something to finish the movie." They are two separate movies.
 
tinerj said:
I enjoy time travel and alternate reality movies,
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So do I. There is an old Twilight Zone episode called "The Last Flight", where a WWI fighter pilot travels to current time, well 1960 was current then. Very cool.
 
tinerj said:
...Oh, at the very beginning they explain the yokes being different. Minute 1: "Disengage your yoke and get it figured out."...
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You see it's a disadvantage knowing alot about the Boeing 757 because you're inevitably going to sigh and mumble that there is no yoke disconnect but then someone else watching the movie who knows nothing about the Boeing 757 is going to tell you that there also aren't storms that send you back in time to WWII Europe so why don't you just shut up and watch what this flight attendant does with the fire extinguisher.

And you know, they have a point....
 
And of course the plane can be from an alternate present (or is it and alternate future) where the yokes do disengage.
 
SkyDog58 said:
Did you see "Flight" a few years ago with Denzel Washington? Don't tell me that it is worse than that.
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Oh it was.

They loose satellite reception because they went back in time, so the only instrument that works is their radar, I didn't realize altimeters, airspeed, etc all had to do with satellites.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg with that cinematic gem.
 
Watched the whole thing though, didn't ya? :)
 
I rather enjoyed the Star Trek episode where they got thrown back to an alternate past and got attacked by German WW II fighters over San Francisco Bay!
 
James331 said:
Oh it was.



They loose satellite reception because they went back in time, so the only instrument that works is their radar, I didn't realize altimeters, airspeed, etc all had to do with satellites.



And that's just the tip of the iceberg with that cinematic gem.
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Too bad they didn't have a ADF, the could have tune into London radio....all you people who got rid of you ADFs are sorry now
 
Not a single instrument on my Fly Baby would fail if it were taken back in time.
 
Palmpilot said:
I rather enjoyed the Star Trek episode where they got thrown back to an alternate past and got attacked by German WW II fighters over San Francisco Bay!
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Huh? I don't remember that one. It wasn't in the original series. Was not a big fan of the series that followed.
 
Anthony said:
Huh? I don't remember that one. It wasn't in the original series. Was not a big fan of the series that followed.
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It was one of the later series - might have been Voyager, might have been Enterprise.
 
There was definitely something about the girl that played the flight attendant but I can't quite put my finger in it

Aqueela Zoll


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Just watched this **** show, and literally laughed out loud several times. Ms Zoll certainly made it infinitely more watchable, but the complete lack of aviation reality blew my mind. Like when they were building the cockpit set, and someone must have said "go buy a bunch of airplane dials and stuff" because you very clearly see a King ADF indicator. Plus you can see an AI and an altimeter on the panel. So, your pitot didn't survive the time travel? Vacuum suddenly stop working? Not to mentioned the bullet-riddled wings (boom), climbing high to escape the fighters after the pressure vessel is burst, flying lower (?) to get better radio reception, walking aft on the plane to go down to manually fix the nose gear, dude holding on to said gear both high enough to evade the aforementioned fighters and fast enough to keep aloft in a 757, but he's able to hold on and even climb up... I laughed about a dozen times watching this thing. Yes, MST3000 style with some pilot buddies and a case of beer would be a hoot.

Did I mention how laser hot Aqueela Zoll is?
 
Remember, this was not only time travel but alternate universe. In their alternate reality Jar Jar, Ralph Wiggam, Britany Pierce, and Goofy designed that airplane.
 
"The Dirt Bike Kid" was Ralphie from "A Christmas Story."
 
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