Flight of the Phoenix Movie

[JohnH]

It's not everyday you see a C-119 on a movie poster so I shot this at a theatre last week...What a great month for aviation movies with the Howard Hughes movie and Phoenix coming out within a few days of each other.

John

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[Shay]

Not to nit pick or anything. But it's a C-119

Shay

[Shay]

Actually the last time I can recall seeing a C-123 Provider on the silver screen would have to be "ConAir" and before that "Air America"

Shay

[Tulio]

And the four-jet engined C-123 (with ejection seats of course) in Bruce Willis' movie Die Harder....


Tulio

[Ollie]

There's a C-123 in XXX.



Another in Iron Eagle 3.




Not to forget Outbreak!

[dj51d]

And the four-jet engined C-123 (with ejection seats of course) in Bruce Willis' movie Die Harder....

This was on not too long ago, and I noticed the C-123 actually had 6 engines as the podded J-85s were still present.

[Ollie]

About that movie, when Bruce lights up the fuel on the runway at the end, he's supposed to say "something mother f****r). But on the US telly, they dubbed it to "Mister Falcon"!!!!!!

[wendovertom]

If any of you WIXers would like, you are welcome to come out to Wendover and sit in the C-123 that was used in "Con-Air" - it is a bit of a hulk but we've cleaned out all the movie squib wiring and are in the process of trying to get some original seats for it. Fun stuff

Tom P
www.wendoverairbase.com

[desmo]

I saw the trailer over the weekend on TV.

It looked extremely good apart from the part were maurauding mad max types appeared on motorcycles and all terrain vehicles.

Not sure I remember this part from the original

I assume hollywood are trying to murder the plot the same way they murdered the bourne films

[Dan K]

I guess a camel attack doesn't strike fear in one's heart like it used to. I suppose it was all that footage from Desert Storm of smoking dromedaries after the A-10's had moved through the area.

(I AM a silly boy this morning!)

[mrhenniger]

I don't think we should prejudge the movie so harshly. What would be the point of telling the same story in the same way to create a new version that is simply a restored version of the original. Obviously we will get to see an interesting aicraft created out of a twin boom airframe, but if they come up with new villians and other interesting challenges/plot twists we could be in for a very fun 2 hours rather than just a repeat. I am looking forward to seeing FotP. I have already sold Catherine on going out to see it when it hits the screens.

Mike

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[Ollie]

I only saw the preview on the web, and the way the prop separates from the engine, moves forward and then right into the fuselage is silly.

When a prop detaches itself from an engine, it goes away very quickly.

On a us engine, it will go forward and right, but at the same time. Not forward, then right!

[turbo_NZ]

I hope you don't know this from personal experience, Ollie....

TNZ

[turbo_NZ]

I read that they actually converted the C-119 from a four-blader to a 3-blader, just to make it look a little more like the original C-82.

TNZ

[JDK]

I don't think we should prejudge the movie so harshly. What would be the point of telling the same story in the same way to create a new version that is simply a restored version of the original. Obviously we will get to see an interesting aicraft created out of a twin boom airframe, but if they come up with new villians and other interesting challenges/plot twists we could be in for a very fun 2 hours rather than just a repeat. I am looking forward to seeing FotP. I have already sold Catherine on going out to see it when it hits the screens.

Hi Mike,
Good post. However, wouldn't it be nice instead of taking an old movie, and facing all the flak they get for 'messing about with the original' they come up with a radical idea called a 'new movie' with an original plot?

If they'd called it 'My new movie from an idea I copied with modifications' then they'd be in a good arts tradition. Instead, they're in the great Hollywood tradition of regurgitating the same old same old.

Gee. Maybe on the other hand, they'll get to making documentry films of the remakes of the remakes of the sequel...

Yrs cynically...