A bad movie with good flying scenes?

[AirDOGGe]

Anyone heard of the new movie "Kill Speed" yet? It looks like it might have potential for plane buffs like us.

Plot: KILL SPEED” is a high-octane, youth oriented, “TOP GUN” meets “FAST & FURIOUS” tale about best friends who fly home-built, high-tech planes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout rural California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle. That is until a beautiful young woman who is not what she pretends to be infiltrates their group

Judging by the poster, those "home-built, high-tech planes" are merely L-39's. Here's a link to a movie review site featuring this new flick:

IMDB (International Movie Data Base):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1027683/

Reviews say it's a very poor movie (sounds familiar) but one reviewer said he liked it, then admitted he liked planes (potentially good news).

Anyone seen it yet? Any good flying shots if you have?


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[mrcraigarcher]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Isn't this the one that got people in trouble for buzzing Santa Monica pier?

[Race5]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Isn't this the one that got people in trouble for buzzing Santa Monica pier?

Same one. A few of the Reno pilots / planes are a part of that deal. Last I heard they were going to re-shoot a lot of it and try to improve it before releasing.

[AirDOGGe]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Well, I guess they released it.

By the way, the movie review site includes a trailer. The first scene with the police car made me think "silly" but the flying shots look great!

[Dudewanarace]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

It was "Fast Glass" before all the trouble.

[beachboss]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Yea, the opening with an L-39 getting 'Vapor' and flipping the chippy was a little over the top. It has Dede and Skip Holm doing the flying.

[BEARCLAW777]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

this looks like a movie of the week that i would see on the sluth channel

[First time Juke]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Ok...good flying really...but what is the best movie with good flying ?

I give my vote to James Bond movie OCTOPUSSY !

[WVRACEFAN]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Not necessarily a bad movie, but "The Great Santini" had some pretty cool F-4 flying scenes.

[ramp mouse]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

two come to mind, the great waldo pepper, and fire hawk, the armys version of top gun, without the jets, girls, plot.

[spacegrrrl]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Great flying movies have to include:

The Battle of Britian
The Great Waldo Pepper (sadly no longer available new, glad I bought it when it came out!)
Always
High Road to China (why did this never come out on DVD??)
The Blue Max
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (sadly never seems to have been released as tape or DVD :-( )
Mephis Bell
Tora Tora Tora
Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines
Air America
The Great Santini
Jet Pilot
Flying Leathernecks
(OK, anything with the Duke and flying!)
The Jimmy Stewart's Stategic Air Command (also pretty much unavailable :-( )
Wings
The Rocketeer
Spirit of St. Louis
Tunguskee Airmen
The Pancho Barnes movie (also not available)
Flight of the Intruder
Top Gun
The Aviator with Christopher Reeve
The Aviator with DiCaprio
The Gypsy Moths


Spacegrrrl

[bluffman]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Spacegrrrl, You left one out: Call To Glory, Craig T. Nelson, the first one before it became a weekly series. Some great U-2 scenes, etc.

Larry

[BuckyD]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

Ahhh- 'THE Great Aviation Movie List' returns once again!

GOD IS MY COPILOT (Dennis Morgan) - My alltime forever favorite

Followed by...

DAWN PATROL (Flynn, Niven & Rathbone)
FIGHTER SQUADRON (Edmund O'Brien & Robert Stack)

(My Top-3)

AIR FORCE (John Garfield & CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS (James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Alan Hale) & WAR LOVER (McQueen!!!) -are right 'up' there too!

Wish they'd release my #1 in DVD someday soon while I'm still 'On the Sunny Side of theSod'.

DBD

[bluffman]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

BuckyD, Just checked Amazon, God is my copilot available on DVD, $24.99 for new, had used available for $7 to $12 or so.

Larry

[BuckyD]

Re: A bad movie with good flying scenes?

YES!!!

Big Thanks, there Larry! I'll check it our straight away (just hope it's an 'official re-release', f/good quality image).

B&W - but that would be a great candidate for Turner to colorize, I think.

DBD