November 09, 2009

"Wherever you look - the guns follow..."

Now, if it's helicopter crashes you want, Blue Thunder has at least three (0:26 - very satisfying, 2:12 - crashus interruptus, 2:45 - fireball). My favorite moment comes when the cops pull over his girlfriend in her car - only to discover they must answer to a higher power (2:53).

It is one in a great tradition of Roy Scheider action films that are insanely implausible, yet highly watchable, the pinnacle of which is the utterly brilliant and totally awesome Executive Target, which has helicopters, and crashes, and (at 1:52) a particularly satisfying helicopter crash.

Executive Target is further enhanced by Angie Everhart, who is packing heat, and also has a gun.

1 Comments:

Blogger JAB said...

Do not neglect the deeply terrible Fire Birds, with Nicolas Cage, which the Undersecretary and I once watched 93% of the way through, finally losing patience at the climatic helicopter battle.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099575/

November 10, 2009 at 10:08 AM  

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