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Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: President-Elect Bob Noel on November 27, 2019, 04:16:36 PM

Title: gotta love the older aviation films
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on November 27, 2019, 04:16:36 PM
before CGI, they used actual film of real aircraft.

Don't get me wrong, films like Apollo 13 have some incredible stuff.  But nothing beats real airplanes shot on film.

I just finished watching "The Aviator" again  [edit - 1985 Christopher Reeves movie], and felt like expressing my opinion...
Title: Re: gotta love the older aviation films
Post by: Lucifer on November 27, 2019, 04:18:29 PM
before CGI, they used actual film of real aircraft.

Don't get me wrong, films like Apollo 13 have some incredible stuff.  But nothing beats real airplanes shot on film.

I just finished watching "The Aviator" again, and felt like expressing my opinion...

I enjoyed watching Strategic Air Command again.  ;D
Title: Re: gotta love the older aviation films
Post by: Anthony on November 27, 2019, 05:16:49 PM
before CGI, they used actual film of real aircraft.

Don't get me wrong, films like Apollo 13 have some incredible stuff.  But nothing beats real airplanes shot on film.

I just finished watching "The Aviator" again, and felt like expressing my opinion...

I actually kind of like the movie "The Aviator" about Howard Hughes.  However, it was obvious a bunch of GAY, Hollywood types, with NO aviation knowledge did the CGI flying sequences.  1970 Battle of Britain for the win. 
Title: Re: gotta love the older aviation films
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on November 27, 2019, 05:51:31 PM
I actually kind of like the movie "The Aviator" about Howard Hughes.  However, it was obvious a bunch of GAY, Hollywood types, with NO aviation knowledge did the CGI flying sequences.  1970 Battle of Britain for the win.

to clarify, I was referring to the 1985 movie "The Aviator" with Christopher Reeves.  I never did see the flick about Howard Hughes.



Title: Re: gotta love the older aviation films
Post by: Anthony on November 27, 2019, 06:08:34 PM
to clarify, I was referring to the 1985 movie "The Aviator" with Christopher Reeves.  I never did see the flick about Howard Hughes.

Is that the one where he went down in Alaska with some girl or something?
Title: Re: gotta love the older aviation films
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on November 27, 2019, 06:35:51 PM
Is that the one where he went down in Alaska with some girl or something?

pretty much, set at a time about 10 years after WWI, the crash was somewhere near Boise and the girl was Rosanna Arquette.