Airwolf
Senior Member
There's something about those 60's, 70's and 80's movies and tv shows centered on airplanes and helicopters that makes them better than most of the latest productions... I don't know what it is - not the cheesy special effects for sure, and I don't think it's the nostalgia as well...
So, what's your favorite airplane/helicopter movie / tv show?
For me it's:
- Blue Thunder - I was like:
when I first saw Blue Thunder as a kid
and it was my favorite movie until I discovered:
- Airwolf (no wonder when you look at my nick ;] ) - I first watched this tv show when I was 14... almost everything seemed perfect about the show... great cast, excellent music, interesting story, attention to detail... and it made my next few years, and later I've been creating some Airwolf based game addons (for MS Flight Simulator, Operation Flashpoint), 3D Animations, even music remixes... I still have a certain sympathy for this show so, maybe one day I will build T-Rex/HK 600 based RC Airwolf?...
And same sequence recreated by somebody in OFP (using my addon Airwolf model):
- Top Gun - I'm not a big fan of the short scientologist guy and I never was, but thanks to this movie being a Tomcat fighter pilot is most certainly almost every boy's wet dream, and It wasn't any different in my case... Opening sequence as well as final credits still give me the chills down my spine...
- Final Countdown - I like every movie about time travel as much as aircraft movies and once I discovered Final Countdown I tought it was even better than Top Gun - it's strange for me that the simple idea of today military fighting against armies of the past wasn't really never explored in other movies...
- Last but not the least one - Battle of Britain - great, historically correct aerial sequences and interesting plot... this movie is soooo much better than "Pearl Harbor" for example, and at least as good as "Tora! Tora! Tora!" or "Midway"....
So, what's your favorite airplane/helicopter movie / tv show?
For me it's:
- Blue Thunder - I was like:
when I first saw Blue Thunder as a kid
and it was my favorite movie until I discovered:
- Airwolf (no wonder when you look at my nick ;] ) - I first watched this tv show when I was 14... almost everything seemed perfect about the show... great cast, excellent music, interesting story, attention to detail... and it made my next few years, and later I've been creating some Airwolf based game addons (for MS Flight Simulator, Operation Flashpoint), 3D Animations, even music remixes... I still have a certain sympathy for this show so, maybe one day I will build T-Rex/HK 600 based RC Airwolf?...
And same sequence recreated by somebody in OFP (using my addon Airwolf model):
- Top Gun - I'm not a big fan of the short scientologist guy and I never was, but thanks to this movie being a Tomcat fighter pilot is most certainly almost every boy's wet dream, and It wasn't any different in my case... Opening sequence as well as final credits still give me the chills down my spine...
- Final Countdown - I like every movie about time travel as much as aircraft movies and once I discovered Final Countdown I tought it was even better than Top Gun - it's strange for me that the simple idea of today military fighting against armies of the past wasn't really never explored in other movies...
- Last but not the least one - Battle of Britain - great, historically correct aerial sequences and interesting plot... this movie is soooo much better than "Pearl Harbor" for example, and at least as good as "Tora! Tora! Tora!" or "Midway"....