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Originally Posted by dkwookie
I just saw Firefox on telly, first time I have seen it in ages. I remember sneaking in to see this at the cinema when it was released. I was well under age for it but bluffed it through to get in.
I think this was the first film to trully fire up my enthusiasm for aerial combat, that dogfight between the two firefoxes at the end blew me away at the time. I really wanted to play a game with that dogfight. Surprised how well the fx hold up after all these years. Some great manuvers in there and it still gets the pulse racing when they drop down guns on in the canyon.
So anyone else got a fav dogfight from films?
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I remember that movie... it had Clint Eastwood in it as a veteran tortured by flashbacks, sent to the USSR to steal their super-advanced new plane that could be controlled by the pilot's thoughts (!!!) Back during the Cold War, there were endless rumors about secret technology the USSR was developing. Firefox was based in part on speculation about the Mig-25 foxbat, which isn't a dogfighter at all, of course in the movie the planes moved at high speed and impossible g's too. I remember Clint Eastwood stole the Firefox with the regular controls, and so the Russians sent the other one which was fully functional. And the spy who helped him steal the plane shot himself in the head.
The Soviets made fun of Firefox and the Hollywood Rambo genre in general with their movie "Solo Voyage" (одиночное плавание) which featured an American special forces vet tortured by funny flashbacks of people eating rice in Vietnam. And the heroes flew around in a little Ka-27 chopper.
My favorite dogfighting movie is still the Blue Max, cause it has the most accurate fighting. There was also a good descending spiral in Tora! Tora! Tora! when the two Americans took off to fight the Zeros. I haven't seen the Red Baron yet, but I've heard it's good.
I thought the fighting in Top Gun was pretty lame. Most of it was just a montage of shots strung together without really making sense.
Worst air combat movie I've seen in recent years was Stealth.