#movie aircraft

[nocternalrandomness]

The Memphis Belle taxis back to the ramp after a media flight from MCAS Cherry Point

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[rainmacaroni]

Family

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The Creator (2023)

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[usafphantom2]

During filming of Tora Tora Tora! in 1970, a R/C fibreglass replica P-40 with a dummy pilot served out of control and smashed into a row of static replicas. The footage was so spectacular it stayed in the film. The extras seen running for their lives were not acting!

@petehill854 via X

[grandmoments]

Airplane! (1980)

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Airplanes from China Clipper (1936)

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

The Ocean and Planes in Formation, 1950s

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

George Kennedy and Roy Davis on the set of Airport '79. Roy was the real-life inspiration for the character Joe Patroni in the Airport novel and 1970 film. Roy was the Director of Maintenance for TWA at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago and was a legend in the world of aircraft maintenance. He was the TWA guy who flew company aircraft out of mud bogs and snowbanks. George spent a great deal of time with Roy to get his character down for the film.

[j4m3s-b4k3r]

Staying Alive

Godzilla is just gonna smash stuff. Every time. No matter what humans do. Award winning actors & big name directors can headline a story where elite military forces wield the most advanced tech on Earth, but none of that will matter. The franchise requires that the big lizard will prevail. There is always entertaining spectacle, but (for me) there's little emotional engagement, because humans are merely gnats buzzing around the feet of The Big G. And so, I prepared for the inevitable cocktail of uninvolving mayhem as the lights went down before the latest Godzilla flick.

However, GODZILLA: MINUS ONE gripped me from the very beginning and didn’t let me go. I was amazed by this. I’d always felt that the sheer futility of any human action in a Godzilla film was the reason that these films would always have little involvement, despite all their spectacle. However, this film defeats those dramatic problems by flying straight into the eye of the storm. The implacable force of Godzilla is flipped, in a judo-throw by writer/director TAKASHI YAMAZAKI, to tell a moving story about human frailty.

After a cataclysmic war, the protagonist (movingly played by RYUNOSUKE KAMIKI) deals with the shame of being a kamikaze pilot who came home. To a Japan utterly firebombed into ashes by Bomber Command. Much of the plot deals with remorse, survivor’s guilt, and people forgiving others & themselves. With loved ones all dead, new families form when complete strangers become attached to each other. Every character is trying to pick up the pieces, and all their stories are affecting. 

In this Godzilla film, the human story is the A-story, and Godzilla is actually the B-story, and that’s why it works so well. Here, Godzilla is just a force of nature. Like the earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons that frequently bash the Japanese archipelago. The A-story is about humans making sense of life after cataclysm, just as the Japanese people have done countless times over the centuries. The frailty of human life is the very point of this story, which seems to ask - are frailty, failure and futility the same thing? 

In fact, this could be a moving film about finding meaning amongst the ruins, even without any Godzilla at all. Adding in a rampaging radioactive monster heightens the drama & stakes when these new human connections have been made. Godzilla is the ultimate unstoppable chaos agent, and in the right hands, the perfect vehicle for telling a story about finding meaning after loss, tragedy & defeat. Staying alive by accident, or even cowardice, isn’t a disgrace if something meaningful is done with the life that remains. 

I often squirm when a movie is over 2 hours, but GODZILLA: MINUS ONE didn’t feel bloated at all. Every scene and each performance strengthened the whole. It both looked & felt like a blockbuster epic, but apparently cost less than 15 million dollars. It was very impressive indeed.

5 Radioactive Stars!

[nocternalrandomness]

"The Batcopter"

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[thatsrightice]

Imagine it’s movie night on the aircraft carrier and they’ve got this new movie that just came out called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. And it’s a decent movie like the flyboys are loving it and Maverick is loving it and Ice isn’t hating it, but then it all goes to shit.

Cameron resonates with Ice a little bit because his dad was gone all the time on business trips too and Ice was also afraid of breathing wrong out of fear for his father’s wrath. He was totally on Cameron’s side of course, he knew this whole plan of Ferris’ was not going to end well but it’s just a movie, right? But then he feels the fear creeping up a little because the miles aren’t decreasing when they rewound the odometer and Cameron’s dad is going to be so pissed when he finally gets home. Then the car crashes through the window and Ice’s breathing stutters for a sec because oh god Cameron is so seriously dead. There is no coming back from that.

But then Cameron decides to stand up to father! Ice envy’s the strength Cameron has to do such a thing because Ice wasn’t sure he’d come out of that conversation alive. He wants to see this work out for Cameron, he wants to see this kid get out from under the oppressive shadow of his father.

And then the movie is over. That’s it. No follow up. And Ice hates that. Hates that he doesn’t get to see Cameron get his happily ever after. No reassurance everything turned out alright for him. The lack of resolution sits heavy in Ics’s stomach as his mind begins to fill in the gaps. There invisible oppression of his own father remains looming overhead.

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