Lallan Posted April 21, 2012 Posted April 21, 2012 Started a successful "Books" thread on military....books. So lets do a film one, post any flying military film that is worth watching!! "Too Tall" SQ 213 i7 870 / 8GB RAM 1333MHz / 2x500Gb Hard Drives @7200 RPM / Windows 7 64 bit / ATI Sapphire 6870 / Asus P7P55D-E / NZXT Phantom Case/ Corsair H80 liquid and fan cooler. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Yurgon Posted April 21, 2012 Posted April 21, 2012 Pretty obvious: The Final Countdown, 1980, starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. Some very nice Tomcat scenes, plus the Navy allowed the crew to film large portions on the (then fairly new) Nimitz. On top of that, the movie's actually got a good story that makes you think "Damn, what if...?"
vanir Posted April 21, 2012 Posted April 21, 2012 Tuskagee Airmen was a good movie but due to Hollywood plot treatment pretty much everything else made that has some decent budget to make any sort of flight scenes you have to delete everything except the ten minutes or so of flight sequences, ie. Pearl Harbour, Flyboys, Top Gun, etc. The classics like Cain's Battle of Britain and a Czech movie (which uses clips from the BoB movie) called Into the Blue I think, of course they're pretty good but a bit pedestrian as documentaries. I find ones like Memphis Bell too heavy on the star spangled banner but it has its moments. With fairly recent evolution and availability of CGI tools hopefully now previously unrealistic flight sequences will be available to small budget film makers, so you might see an increasing number of specific market straight to dvd releases with some surprising content. That's be pretty fantastic. Other than that, greater budget movies in Hollywood have two main production goals, extreme conservatism or extreme capitalism, telling a story or entertaining enthusiasts couldn't be further from their minds. Their beancounters surveyed market predictions to conclude that boobs are good for business and entertainment is for childrens classifications, the only story they even know is boys have schlongs and girls have gardens to put them in. Best you get is a few seconds worth of flight sequences in movies about American superiority and American values. The Ju-52 and 109 escort scenes in Valkyrie were awesome, the Kittyhawk strafing too. The flight sequences in Hart's War. The stukas and Heinkels in Enemy at the Gates. Things like that, just patches here and there.
Grimes Posted April 21, 2012 Posted April 21, 2012 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1 The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world. Current Projects: Grayflag Server, Scripting Wiki Useful Links: Mission Scripting Tools MIST-(GitHub) MIST-(Thread) SLMOD, Wiki wishlist, Mission Editing Wiki!, Mission Building Forum
Phantom88 Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 I enjoyed the F/A-18F Playing "Hide-n-Seek" with the SAM's in "Behind Enemy Lines" with Owen Wilson;) Patrick
lobo Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 The Blue Max. Lobo's DCS A-10C Normal Checklist & Quick Reference Handbook current version 8D available here: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/172905/
Le_CuLtO Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 Les chevaliers du ciel / Sky fighters. Stupid movie with wonderful scenes. (a french top gun like)
HiJack Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 Red Tails: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1780522521/
smnwrx Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 The best part about when I used to work at blockbuster was finding gems like this that were trying to cash in on the Top Gun/ Iron Eagle thing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101897/ This one sticks in my mind the most. Flight of the black angel
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