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almost 4 years after the events of 911, if asked what comes to mind about that day, most people would probably comment on things such as the sight of planes crashing into and the collapse of the twin towers, the scores of people being killed, acts of terrorism and heroism mixed together, etc. everyone who was alive at the time will never forget that day.
There's this American pilot who's flying along, minding his own business, when suddenly he's outnumbered by evil, cowardly non-American fighter planes (they're Middle Eastern types, but suffice to say they don't like apple pie or Elvis Presley), who proceed to shoot him down.
Portrayed as fliers, they never flew their planes, Martin Johnson was an ex-vaudevillian, used friends like Jack London for financial gain while stiffing them of royalties, denying his wife's apparent depression, using her as a cute prop, all this makes these films unbearable.
For those not familiar, it's based on a puppet show about a family of astronauts who use state of the art rockets, spaceships and subs to rescue people from various disasters (falling bridges, stricken planes, burning buildings, etc) each week.
Since Charlie unexpectedly loses his family in a plane crash, they were on one of the planes of September 11, 2001.
He is truly outstanding in this movie as Charlie, a lost and lonely figure, whose entire family (including the dog) was killed in one of the hijacked planes on 9/11 and who has apparently lost all touch with reality as a result.
And why did they sound like supersonic planes in the battle through the sky in the end ?
This flight-suited modernist has fascinating conversations with the Boss and his woman, their attraction being evident; then Boss sends up his aircraft against them, the Scientists come with huge numbers of planes and drop the "Gas of Peace" onto the ruins of Everytown.
(Ironically, film audiences in its release year laughed at reports that enemy planes were attacking England--appeasement was at its height.
We lost John Candy before he made enough of his great brand of comedy, and he is only better in one movie: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (with Steve Martin).
The agents from Heaven and Hell happen to be women, and the two otherworldly planes and their agents have been modernized, using cell phones and operating like modern businesses.
restaurants, airports and planes, food, television, etc.
It would amount to the same effect if the 9/11 footage of those planes crashing into the WTC were shown a hundred years from now, and the viewers were intentionally misled into believing that these crashes happened all over America that day, that every single American was physically harmed, and every person from Middle Eastern descent was responsible.
But all three just arrived by plane in NY, from war, on 30-day Army leave, and are about to catch planes to their eventual destinations.
In a real sense, women have not yet received full honor for their contribution to the war effort, whether they were ferrying planes, tending wounded, of carrying intelligence.
When I first heard of this movie I thought it was goingto be an awesome time-traveling movie with lots off dogfighting featuring WW2 Japanese planes on American jet action!But do I get that?
Tales of a plague spreading across the Earth, sightings of bizarre beings as well as planes and cars malfunctioning fills the airwaves.
The task is retrieving a black box, that isn't your run of the mill black box like what is found in air planes, this one has a very powerful secret.
There is USS Nimitz, nuclear carrier, equipped in jets, reconnaissance planes, marines, and so on, everything that is needed in modern warfare.
People crash on an island after their planes explodes into two pieces.
An all star cast provides the drama of relationships growing and waning in between some decent scenes of Japanese planes dropping bombs on the ships in the harbor.
The end with the Handley-Page planes coming back is moving.
There are real planes used over the lush British countryside but a lot of scenes are back projections and do not convince but are fun.
Only bit I saw was an old mine warning on a beach that was too hilly and rocky to be Norfolk, let alone the lack of planes going overhead!
The enemy planes incorrectly referred to as Zeroes were actually AT6 Texans which were almost always used in other movies as well.
The ground crews, pilots, and planes were not in place until November of 1941.
Once upon a time,back during the second Middle East conflict,the Israelis had a plane in the air 24/7 carrying a nuclear bomb.If they looked like losing(how's that for bad sportsmanship)they would bomb the crap out of Egypt.Sort of like picking up their toys and stomping off home.This plane - or one of a number of planes so equipped - I'm a bit confused on this point - is shot down and lies hidden in the desert for 29 years until it is discovered by Arabs,and a South African(taken over from the Brits in the International Villain stakes) buys it for $400 dollars,selling it on to a unregenerate nazi for $50 million.Said unregenerate nazi (Mr Alan Bates - a chain smoker just to add to his general bastardness) uses it to blow up a football stadium in Baltimore thus plunging the world into the nuclear abyss.Go figure.
Playing 459 times this month on all the Bad B-movie channels, Steve Martin plays a watered down Neal Page from "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," a much superior movie.
The plot is realistic and the characterization has the existential overtones the French so much love: agents doomed to obey orders and never ask questions living a lonely life of lies without any friends(while blowing up ships and routinely jumping down planes).
After there are two fatal crashes in which the planes were not properly equipped, Mitchell denounces his superiors and is put on trial for insubordination.
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