good movies about airlines/airport ops/ air travel?
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
I can't get enough of the opening and closing scenes of Love Actually. The movie isn't really about travel per se but those scenes get me every time.
Actually, the latter is more or less a documentary for those bits as they just used a bunch of footage from LHR.
I can't get enough of the opening and closing scenes of Love Actually. The movie isn't really about travel per se but those scenes get me every time.
Actually, the latter is more or less a documentary for those bits as they just used a bunch of footage from LHR.
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There'sa great scene in the first "Airport" (about 1970, based on the Arthur Hailey (sp) novel) - a very snobbish, impossible-to-please passenger in F demonstrates her disgust with airline food by extinguishing her cigarette on top of the fliet mignon that the stewardess ('60s, remember) has just served her
Maybe the thing that stretches credulity the most is trying to envision the drink-enjoying Dean Martin as an airline captain!
All of the disaster-movie melodrama is spun around the background story of a Midwestern airport (certainly meant to be O'Hare) struggling to stay open in the wake of one of the worst snowstorms ever.
Maybe the thing that stretches credulity the most is trying to envision the drink-enjoying Dean Martin as an airline captain!
All of the disaster-movie melodrama is spun around the background story of a Midwestern airport (certainly meant to be O'Hare) struggling to stay open in the wake of one of the worst snowstorms ever.
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While not about travel per se, Catch Me If You Can provides a highly romanticized view of air travel, as does, to a lesser extent, The Aviator.
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While on NH in January, I watched a recent Japanese film called "Happy Flight," about an NH flight gone horribly wrong and the plucky crew saving the day. Apparently, the airline was more than happy to work with the filmmakers. Some NH people are even extras.
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"Boeing Boeing", there are several movie versions based on a British play. I've only seen the American version starring Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis. The movie itself is a slightly above average take on the 60's sex comedy, although Lewis is good, breaking away from his usual hapless klutz roles.
Broadly speaking, the Curtis character, an American journalist based in Paris, is engaged to three "stewardesses", one is working for LH, one for AF and one for British United. Basically he has their schedules worked out to the minute, so that none of them ever cross paths with each other in his Paris apartment.
What is particularly quaint about the movie is the notion that there was once a time when airlines actually followed a schedule. Can you imagine anyone today basing anything on an airline schedule?
Broadly speaking, the Curtis character, an American journalist based in Paris, is engaged to three "stewardesses", one is working for LH, one for AF and one for British United. Basically he has their schedules worked out to the minute, so that none of them ever cross paths with each other in his Paris apartment.
What is particularly quaint about the movie is the notion that there was once a time when airlines actually followed a schedule. Can you imagine anyone today basing anything on an airline schedule?
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Airport (stowaway passenger plus another passenger with a bomb)
Airport '75 (small plane collides with 747)
Airport '77 (private 747 crashes in Bermuda Triangle...bare-chested Navy saves the day!)
Airport '79 - The Concorde (sabotage!)
Red Eye (Jodie Foster loses her daughter on a plane)
Airport '75 (small plane collides with 747)
Airport '77 (private 747 crashes in Bermuda Triangle...bare-chested Navy saves the day!)
Airport '79 - The Concorde (sabotage!)
Red Eye (Jodie Foster loses her daughter on a plane)
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I found a trailer of this on YouTube and it looks great. Wish I could see the movie here in the States... Or I wish I could fly on NH just to see, though that would be one expensive movie ticket