bambam Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I would like to see John Wayne ----Island in The Sky Bambam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 The TCM programmer posted a while back that they would be getting the rights to both "Island in the Sky" and "The High and the Mighty" in January of next year. I hope that all the other non-Wayne titles that his production company has been sitting on for decades will also air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 It's on now. Stupid movie. 1 They should have turned around and flown SE as soon as they began to ice up. They flew directly into the ice conditions instead of flying out of it. 2 They should have used 10 gallons of the gas to start a fire among some of the trees, It could have been seen from the air for 100 miles or more. 3 The DC3 batteries would have been good enough for radio transmission for more than a week. An SOS every hour on the hour by telegraph would have taken little electricity. They didn't need to use the power consuming voice transmissions. 4 They should not have moved out of the DC3 and into a makeshift stick hut. The hut is much colder inside than the inside of the DC3 because of the wind flowing into the cracks in the hut. The DC3 was sealed from wind. 5 The hunter should not have gone off alone. He should have carried a compass and gone due North or East or West or South. Every airman has an emergency compass. 6 There should have been plenty of elk, moose, and deer in that area of Canada. 7 The landing scene was not very well edited. The air men should have been strapped in their seats rather than standing up and in the doorway of the pilot's cabin. 8 If they didn't want to turn around, they should have turned South or South West, where there were many populated areas in the Northern US. Flying on Northwest into Canada was a stupid thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dash Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Yeah you can see why writers turned it into a Hilarious comedy and invented a whole genre based on one of Mr. Waynes poorest movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inglis Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Hi Fred I was watching it but lost interest in it,and I am a big fan but this movie just did not cut it for me . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 There must be hundreds of thousands of Americans who can see the defects in this film. Military people, boy scouts, lumber men, all Canadians, sailors, etc. The pine trees burn easily, so they should have set fire to the trees. They have a hand-crank generator that can be used to send radio signals. They have emergency flares which they did not use with the search planes flew overhead. There are planes equipped with direction finder antennals, loop antennas, they can track down the exact source of the outgoing SOS signals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Ok now, 5 days after the crash, John Wayne tells one of his men to go get the flares out of the airplane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Ok, now, 6 days after the crash, they finally use their direction finding antenna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inglis Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 OH Fred you made me laugh on that one and I needed a good laugh . Thanks so much ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Funny! But I really like this movie, I thought the acting was good and it kept me on the edge of my seat. But then, what I don't know about airplanes and survival tactics outside the mean streets of a big city would fill an airplane! Miss G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsl Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I'm with Miss Goddess on this one, your minute by minute recap was very entertaining. Mr. Dash: "Yeah you can see why writers turned it into a Hilarious comedy and invented a whole genre based on one of Mr. Waynes poorest movies." What comedy are you talking about? and by genre, do you mean airplane crashes, or disaster movies in general like 'The Towering Inferno' and others? Anne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsl Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Wayne: I understand what you're saying, but with some of these movies TCM is showing recently, there are no outstanding characteristics about them. Pffffft was a cute movie, but not especially an attention getter. So, to fill those idle moments, so we can go get a snack, attend to physical needs, or let the cat out, RO has to say something, so he draws on the entertainers past credits. Oscar is in the back of so many peoples missed opportunities. Anne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Well, maybe it just takes RO a while to shift his mind from Oscar month mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dash Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Airplane! the comedy; and the new type of comedy invented was a spin off of Airplane 1 and 2 a series movies valled Naked gun and spy hard and there were others . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dash Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 The disaster movies were made popular by a airplane disaster movie with dean martin in it. I think it may have been called: Airport; and it to influenced the creation of the comedy: Airplane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 This film should have had the creature from The Thing show up. Then we would have had an interesting movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 But, seriously, FredCDobbs, you're being too hard on the movie. Andy Devine: "It's 70 below up there and Dooley ain't thinkin' too logically." Is it 70 below where you did your thinking for them, Fred? This is based on a true story, ya know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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