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Awesome Movie

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

A few minutes into this movie, Becca turned to me and said, "There isn't anyone good in this one like the others." I disagreed. This film is filled with some of my favorite people and while it's the worst film in the series, it's also my favorite. If they ever make a blu ray of it, I demand to do a commentary track for it!Directed by David Lowell Rich (Satan's School for Girls, Eye of the Cat), this film is quite relevant today, as it's rife with corrupt corporations, drone planes and media scandals. You've got Robert Wagner playing a corrupt arms dealer who is in love with Susan Blakely, yet he keeps trying to kill her.For the ladies, there's Alain Delon as the dashing captain. And for the men, there's Sylvia Kristel as the gorgeous airline hostess. And for the fans of The Omen, there's David Warner as a henpecked flight officer.There may never be a movie as sexist as this one. Just look at the way the character of Patroni has changed. He's no longer a ground crew guy who will kick a pilot out of his own plane. Now, he's flying the plane while making sexist jokes at every opportunity To wit:Isabelle: You pilots are such... men.Capt. Joe Patroni: They don't call it the cockpit for nothing, honey.Or when he asks Delon's character about Vietnam:Capt. Joe Patroni: Gee, I remember this Eurasian gal. She had these great big blue eyes. They called her the tarantula. You ever run into her?Capt. Paul Metrand: No, I don't think so.Capt. Joe Patroni: You'd remember if you did. She was a real ball breaker!That makes me wonder - how was Patroni in Vietnam? Wasn't he already working in the Chicago airport back in the original? Well, now his wife is dead, his son is in college and he's ready to party. In fact, when they get to Paris, he gets set up with a prostitute and has the night of his life. Is he mad when the ruse is revealed? Hell no! It makes him overjoyed as he slaps his pal's back!Then there's Eddie Albert as a rich businessman and Sybil Danning as his wife, to which Patroni comments "She's his fourth wife. There's this story that back in the 20's when he was barnstorming he made a bet that he could put it to this good lookin' wing walker. He boffed her right out on the wing a thousand miles above El Paso. His ass got so sunburned he couldn't sit down a week!"What is happening with this film? I literally yelled at loud several times during it, shocked at how raw it seems in the world of political correctness. But this isn't Blazing Saddles, a film that uses non-PC language for comic effect. This is a scummy cash-in, the final film of a once high prestige franchise. And I loved every minute of this strange bird!Martha Raye gets locked in a bathroom as a plane faces turbulence! Jimmie "Dynomite" Walker smokes up and carries his saxophone everywhere! Cicely Tyson just wants to get her son a new heart! John Davidson performs his own marriage ceremony to a Russian gymnast! Mercedes McCambridge, the voice of Pazuzu, is in this! And Charo is in the credits and has around thirty seconds of screen time, thirty seconds which had me screaming in pure joy!Have you realized yet how much I adore this movie? How can you not love a film where a heat sinking missile is defeated by rolling down the window of a supersonic airplane and shooting a flare gun out the window? And after the plane went through such chaos between New York and Paris, why would anyone allow it to fly again the next day? Why wouldn't security be increased? And why not crash land the Concorde in the alps? Why would they even get on the plane in the first place?Even better, there's a news report earlier in the film that sounds like it came straight out of The Simpsons, a strange piece of comedy in a film that has been serious so far. That's because that voice belongs to Harry Shearer!Obviously, we wouldn't have Airplane! without these films. But after watching the last two films, it's pretty hard to parody what has become a parody.

This is a real disaster. I mean, the whole flick is boring and the effects with the Concorde are ridiculous. There isn't that much that I can say except if you are going to watch it be prepared to have a big laugh.And still people are loving this flick. The effects done with the drone are stupid , it's being keyed and you just can see that it was a key. The Concorde looping on mach 2 or doing other stunts is just laughable.And if you think the first disaster was it be prepared for the second crash. Trying to land in the snow, really...If you do like the Concordde then it's worth seeing for watching take-off and shots made in the air.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 2/5 (not intended)

Any movie with Alain Delon, Bibi Andersson, Charo, Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson and Mercedes McCambridge in the cast is at least worth a look. But, the odd cast combination is unfortunately the only interesting thing about this film. It is long and drawn out, far too many scenes where not much of anything happens. The score is over done, the special effects are surprisingly poor and obvious. The melodramatic acting is not very good in spite of the caliber of performers, although Martha Raye is memorable. The screenplay is actually rather stupid and is not in the least bit convincing. Watch Airport or better yet, Airplane! instead.

'The Concorde...Airport 79' was the last of the quartet of disaster movies that began with 'Airport' ( 1970 ), based on Arthur Hailey's novel. By the time this one appeared, the genre had run out of puff, as 'Meteor' and 'Beyond The Poseidon Adventure' clearly proved. Crusading television reporter Maggie Whelan ( Susan Blakely ) is given incriminating documents that prove beyond a doubt her lover, Dr.Kevin Harrison ( Robert Wagner ), is implicated in illegal arms sales. He decides to bump her off. Now, if you and I wanted to murder someone, we'd probably hire a hit-man. But that's too simple for Harrison. A real villain through and through; had the make-up department issued him with a false moustache, he'd probably be twirling it like there's no tomorrow.No sooner is Maggie's Concorde in the air than he dispatches robot drones and then armed Phantom jets to blow it to pieces. Luckily the plane is being flown by three brilliant, sex-obsessed men ( played by George Kennedy, Alain Delon, and British actor David Warner ) and they skilfully avoid destruction, before touching down in Paris where the Kennedy character ( 'Joe Patroni' - the only one to appear in all four movies ) makes out with a hooker! Maggie fails to connect the attacks on the plane with the importance of the documents on her person ( some reporter! ), and boards it again to fly to the U.S.S.R. Harrison insists he is innocent and pleads with her not to go. Does she listen? No way! Does he think to shoot her on the spot and spare the passengers his insane revenge plot? No way! The plane decompresses in mid flight and has to touch down in the snowy Russian wastes. Watching this on television, Harrison shoots himself in the head. End of film.Eric Roth ( who later wrote 'Forrest Gump' - another load of cinematic blue ice ) should have blushed with shame for taking the pay check for this farrago, while David Lowell Rich's direction is about as satisfying as airline food. Some fun to be had from the cast though, who include old-timers Eddie Albert and Martha Raye, and a few 'promising-newcomers-who-never-made-it' such as Andrea Marcovicci and John Davidson ( the latter's character seems to have been the inspiration for 'Ted Stryker' of 'Airplane!' ). You will howl at the sheer absurdity of it all, and the sight of a black guy ( Jimmie Walker ) wandering round the plane playing the saxophone while Martha Raye's pensioner forever dashes back and forth to the toilet only adds to the fun. Sylvia Kristel, a.k.a. 'Emmanuelle', looks tasty as the stewardess. You half expect her to rip her clothes off to use the material to make bandages. What David Warner is doing in all this is anybody's guess. He makes an inane speech about a giant banana at one point, and you wonder why his co-pilots feel safe flying with him.As it did not get released in Britain until a year after it was made, it was shiftly retitled 'Airport 80 - The Concorde'. That same year, 'Airplane!' arrived. The 'Airport' series had gotten so unintentionally farcical it must have been hard to tell the difference.I'll leave the last word to Joe Petroni. When the stewardess admires the pilots' masculinity, he replies ( probably the film's single most memorable moment ): "They don't call it a cockpit for nothing, honey!".