F-16 pilot after blowing up civilian restaurant in downtown L.A.: "HOLY SHIT." MOVER: "That's a valid reaction." 🤣🤣🤣

The best line ever written in a script is in this movie: "You're supposed to be stupid; don't abuse the privilege!"

My favorite line comes after the failed test: Fletcher: One civilian dead for every ten terrorists. That's an acceptable ratio. Frank Murphy: [Leaning closer to Braddock] Unless you're one of the civilians!

Thank you for doing a MRM on one of my favorite movies! A few interesting points: The AH-64 Apache was approved for production the same year this movie was in production (1982). Most of its capabilities were not publicly known, so the production designer, Phillip Harrison, extrapolated from speculative magazine articles like Popular Mechanics. I'd say he did very well! The "Harrison Fire Control Helmet" demonstrated to Murphy in the movie is named for Phillip Harrison. The original concept for the movie was "'Taxi Driver' in the air". Murphy was supposed to grow increasingly psychotic until he snaps. The production realized quickly that they would need extensive help from the LAPD to film this movie, so a cop going psychotic was not going to fly, so to speak. There are still remnants of this original idea in the movie--for example, Murphy's total disregard for the lives of people in the buildings and on the ground during the air battle. The aerial stunt coordinator was Jim Gavin, a LONG time stunt pilot who has worked on a million movies and TV shows. He and his crew were all Vietnam chopper pilots. Gavin would teach the actors how to fly during the course of the production, and Roy Scheider got good enough to actually control the helicopter. Roy Scheider was in the Air Force, and washed out of pilot training because he was, in his words, "a lousy navigator". The LAPD cooperated extensively on the production, even taking the director and others on actual ride alongs in their helicopters. The liquor store robbery scene with the guy in the orange shirt and cowboy hat was cribbed directly from an actual call that happened during one of the ride along flights. The only exception to the LAPDs cooperation was that they forbade the producers from calling it the "LAPD Helicopter Division," which is why the unit is called the "Astro Division" in the movie. The writer, Dan O'Bannon, was annoyed by the story changes to his original concept. He wrote the aerial battle over Los Angeles to be as complex and dangerous as he could make it, thinking they would never be able to get permission to shoot it, and would abandon the project. Malcolm McDowell was deathly afraid to fly. He signed on to the picture on the guarantee that they should shoot all his cockpit scenes on the ground with rear projection and green screen. When he saw Roy Scheider and Danny Stern eagerly hopping aboard, he felt bad and reluctantly volunteered to go up. Between scenes, he would have to put his head between his knees because he was so sick. The real ships were modified at a shop in Costa Mesa, California. The FAA had to monitor and approve each modification. They ended up adding over 200lbs to each helicopter, and they did, indeed, struggle under the weight. The scene where Blue Thunder does a loop is an R/C model. The chickens dropped in the street when the F-16 missile destroys the BBQ chicken shack were all real roasted chickens, which were much cheaper than rubber ones. One the shot was finished, an army of homeless people swarmed in to grab all the chickens.

Props to the writers for having the presence of mind to throw the yoga scene in there. It's sort of like throwing a "Shelby" tag on a Mustang.

It always cracks me up that Malcolm McDowell kept finding himself assuming prominent roles in aviation movies, despite the fact that the actor was morbidly terrified of flying. Seven years earlier, he played a squadron commander in 1976's "Aces High", which still ranks as the best WWI aviation film to date.

I saw this movie before I'd ever seen an Apache or knew it was in development. When I was 11, my uncle told me one day "there's this movie about a helicopter that automatically aims a gun wherever the pilot is looking!" and I was hooked from that point forward. And it's absolutely the reason why I love the Apache today. When I fly Apache in DCS, I'm really pretending it's BT. The first time I flew with a friend, he was back seater and pulled off an accidental barrel roll and I involuntarily yelled "what's up Blue Thunder!" I guess my point is you can't ruin this movie for me. 😀

Blue Thunder was modeled after the early AH-1 Cobra, Hence the square armored glass. Yes that was a light bulb he removed from the button. Its a shame that JAFO turned to a life of crime and tormented a small boy that was "Home Alone". And the F-16 not only sounded like Battlestar Galactica Vipers as they flew by but their control sticks were identical to them as well.

My dad's a Mi35 operator (Indian air force) I showed him this video and he was impressed. His thoughts were exactly the same as yours, he is really particular bout his helicopters so gotta say You know your choppers

Funny note: Blue Thunder was made into a TV show around the same time AirWolf was on TV. Obviously, AirWolf was a more popular show. Interestingly, the BlueThunder TV show cast included James Farentino from "The Final Countdown" and his JAFO was Dana Carvey / Church Lady from SNL.

I remember my girlfriend at the time was wanting to see this because her dad flew helicopters 🚁 in Dallas and she took me to see it. I paid she drove. I’m glad you got it out of KZfaq jail!

The F-16 stick came off a Mohawk observer aircraft, and was also used for the vipers in the origional Battlestar Galactica. You were right, the sight on the F-16 is from an F-5.

This was hands down one of my favorite movies as a kid! I also watched airwolf religiously, but after growing up I tried to go back and watch airwolf and couldn't get into it, blue thunder still holds up for me. Just in case you are curious there is a KZfaqr (Nightflyyer)who did the f16 scenes in the movie flying rc f16's.

Roy Shreider was a great actor . Blue Thunder and an Apache are very similar so the machine is very realistic . I watched Airwolf also and while very cool in one episode it was at 80,000 feet at Mach something so far fetched . The ep 1 - 2 hour Airwolf movie was pretty good as movies of that type go .

As a child I loved this movie. I would watch it again and again with my motorcycle helmet on and pretend I was flying a helicopter.

Aww Mover. I have to disagree. For me, Blue Thunder was the original. It is a thing of beauty and best of all, the audio is incredible. It actually sounds like a helicopter....unlike Airwolf.

As much as I agree that Airwolf is objectively prettier (it's a 222 so that's a given), I like that they tried to make Blue Thunder more down to earth, at least in it's design. I can almost see elements of a proto-RAH-66, what with the 'stealth elements', Fenestron tail rotor, and the mini-20mm cannon. Also maybe they're implying that the weird thermal lock display in the F-16 is supposed to be like a feed from the AIM-9's thermal sensor? IDK

I remember this when it first came out. I really liked the yoga scene too 👍👍.

Mover, I flew with LAPD Air Support Div as a Sgt for 9 yrs. I flew with the best JAFO to work our unit, Jim Mahon (RIP). He coined the term JAFO (Just A Fucking Observer) & the directors decided to use it.

Just came across this. I recently went to a week long training with LAPD Air Support. They are very proud of this movie. It was a class of about 50 people and I was only 1 of maybe 5 people that had heard of this movie or seen it. I am currently 42. It was actually cool walking around the Hooper Heliport.

*Blue Thunder* and *WarGames* were each directed by John Badham, and both were released in 1983. Several actors appear in both films

Mover this is great!! Suspending our disbelief and taking at face value the “capabilities” of each helicopter, Airwolf was the faster, sleeker looking, more heavily armed, but Blue Thunder’s sheer ugliness and that big cigar-looking gun on the front and all the other stuff hanging off of it from all angles, to me, that was my favorite. My brother and I probably nearly came to blows as kids arguing over this. Gonna have to agree to disagree. Airwolf is the “better” helicopter”, but Blue Thunder will always look more badass to me! Thanks for another great “Mover Ruins Movies”!

I'm amazed you never seen this until now. Not as good as Airwolf. Now you're ready for Streethawk!

I absolutely loved this movie as a kid. I met Jim Gavin (Blue Thunder pilot) while working on MH-53E SeaDragons as a Mech in the Navy (HM-15) and Peter McKernan and Frank Sweet (Airwolf pilots) and Roger “T.C.” Mosley at a fly-in while in flight school in Tulsa, Oklahoma years ago. Those guys were really cool and very skilled pilots. But I’m putting my vote into the hat on Blue Thunder and the Hughes 500 from Magnum PI!!! Okay, I’ll give Riptide’s “Screaming Mimi” an honorable mention!

I loved how they had to have Malcolm McDowell scream right before he died, thats the way a villian should die. Have you ever thought of doing a reaction to WWII fighter gun camera footage? I'd love to get your expert input.

Agree with you 100% Mover. The Lady (Airwolf) remains my favorite and has very nice lines. Blue Thunder is very ugly, but I grew up in the 80's, and Blue Thunder remains a nostalgic guilty pleasure of mine. Love the theme.

I watched Blue Thunder in Chicago during my first Navy Reserve ACDUTRA after getting off active duty on the USS Eisenhower. It was a helluva ride.

I was born in '81. I remember watching Air Wolf with my dad. Loved that show!

Good commenting! Note: the bolt that got loos on the JetRanger was mounted wrong. Inverted. 😉

Firefox (1982) used the same set up for Gazelles standing in for Mi-24s during the submarine sequence. Airwolf had the advantage of Ernest Borgnine.

I watched it as a child with the original Movie Ruiner, my dad. An Israeli Air Force Lt Col that was a Bell 205 and later C130 navigator. I remember clearly his comments during the movie, 'that's non sense, can't do that'...

The scene where the F16 explodes by the gun fire was made with a real RC modell airplane. The person who build and flew it has a youtube channel by the name NightFlyyer. There you can find a videoabout how the scene was made.

14:20 Always struck me as silly that the SWAT chopper actually follows him around the drain canals, under the bridges and whatnot. Like... why? They could just fly above the bridges and shoot from there or wait for him to come out.

I like the look of Blue Thunder helicopter. The large slab glass reminds me of early Hind helicopters while the rest is very Cobra like. So much collateral damage. LOL.

Ha, the side stick in the F-16 at time index 17:38 is from a Viper... from Battlestar Galactica. 😆

1983….. I was already retired from the USAF for four years! You’re so young, Mover!

Roy Scheider would have killed so many Great White sharks with that mamma jamma.

My Dad flew little birds (OH-6) in Vietnam. I was about 13 when the movie came out. My Dad was thrilled, but we watched Airwolf on TV together. I did get my private pilots license for a fixed wing in college in 1990. Took my Dad up with me and he loved it. It was just a Cesnia 150, but flying a tail dragger is tough. I was 20 at the time.

Blue Thunder was my jam back in the '80's!

The "hit the brakes and fly right by" move basically started with Apollo in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Would love to see Mover trying to ruin the old, British tv-show Piece of Cake, with lots of Spitfires doing Spitfire stuff

Blue Thunder is a heavily modified Gazelle, and the cues of it being a Gazelle are as follows: #1- The tail rotor is the Fenstrom type, #2- The main rotor is a three bladed design, #3- The aircraft has an exposed drive shaft for the tail rotor, and #4- The chopper has a single engine with a very promonant exhaust, along with externally mounted oil coolers.

GREATEST helicopter movie ever. Not an ugly bird. Way better acting than in airwolf. JMO

As an 11 year old, I loved this movie. Always fun seeing it talked about.

@11:58 I used to visit the LAPD SWAT armory as a kid. I even got to climb around in the Ram. SWAT had all sorts of fun toys including MP5s, M16s, AT4, and a very large weapon for the RAM or helicopter (.50BMG or 20mm, I don't remember). During the San Diego police chase of the stolen M60 tank, the SD police ask dispatch to call LAPD because they knew LAPD had an anti tank weapon.

How about the next Mover Ruins Movies the clint eastwood "classic" FireFox

I remember hearing Roy Schider calling the the chopper a big blue beetle in an interview....

Blue Thunder is awesome. That helicopter still looks cool. Production wise this movie is amazing. With that said, Catch you later!

Pretty sure that Airwolf came about because of Blue Thunder.

I forgot about this film! I think the helicopter actually looks really cool :) Nice flying scenes, I can't believe he used civilian buildings to evade the missiles!

"At least they didn't try and say it was supersonic" So here's a thing about the Blue Thunder spinoff TV series. Columbia had actually been toying with doing a sequel to the movie, until they heard CBS were doing Airwolf and they were *not* happy with CBS for "ripping them off", so they went ahead with a TV show even though the movie's writers (Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby) told them "It won't work as a series". Airwolf made it to air just ahead of Blue Thunder, and rather quickly it was apparent that Airwolf was the better show, so Columbia and ABC began very obviously trying to compete with Airwolf and you can see this actually translating into changes to the Blue Thunder helicopter week by week as they 'borrowed' elements from Airwolf. By episode 3, Blue Thunder's helmet visor has gone from being a standard manual pull-down visor to an automatic that slides down when the gun turret is activated. Chaney starts referring to the Turbine Boost as "Turbo Thrust" and its use was usually accompanied by an unconvincing shot of a jet of flame belching out of Blue Thunder's main turbine. Last but not least, in the final episode when Chaney is showing off features "...you can only find in Blue Thunder" (his words), he states that the ship can do speeds " ...close to Mach 1". Which is patently ridiculous but at this point the writing was already on the wall for the show (hell Dana Carvey didn't even show up for the last episode). (Also, someone at Columbia had a real hard-on for the Seiko Voice Note wristwatch; not only are Bubba and Ski wearing them in Blue Thunder, but all four Ghostbusters wore them in the original movie)

Thanks Mover! Loved "Blue Thunder" back in the day..

I really appreciate someone finally putting some spotlight on this movie, although I do not agree with some of the things you say; I mean, I'm not gonna pretend I know squat about flying, but I do know a thing or two about script-writing and I've read one of the earlier drafts for this one too =) To address the elephant first; yes Airwolf was a better TV series, but Blue Thunder was a better movie and frankly the first two AW episodes, aka the TV pilot was shit storywise imho. Funny enough the original design for the Thunder was to be to be very slick, advanced and aerodynamic, but due to technical limitations they ended up building a new canopy for a Gazelle and from what I've read the thing was a real hog when it came to flying, which makes it a testament to how good the stunt team actually was. And since Apache was made around the same time, it added to the realism and helped with the marketing, even if it made BT ugly. My biggest gripe with the movie story-wise was Murphy being selected as the 'civilian' test pilot due to his mental issues and service history BUTT, it checks itself from a plot perspective, because in the end it channels him to do the one thing he could the movie finale. MINOR SPOILER: As for the climax itself, Murph was shown to avoid civilian casualties from the start, and he wasn't really the one who fired these missiles, so it was arguably a case of self-defense, plus if he really was that blood thirsty, why didn't he kill the pilot? He was right there, defenseless. On a side note, I've always thought it was kinda lame that after facing planes the final boss is another helicopter, but in the end that battle is way more personal, and therefore better. And yes Cochrane was meant to be a prick =3 And Malcolm McDowell played him beautifully.

The stick is a OV-1 stick which was used in Battle Star Galactica Vipers 😉

I love when you pause to point out what's wrong. I do the same thing. Mover you are legit the best bro. Keep it coming!

One of my favorite movies! Lots of random trivia: - RC helicopter and F16s were used for many scenes - Malcolm McDowell was terrified of flying - they had to speed up the footage of many of the flying scenes as blue thunder was so slow Also thought it was funny that they were flying this top secret helicopter around the city in daylight for a check ride .

Great, underrated movie... loved the soundtrack as well! Just great and fun stunt flying. More realistic than slick cool Airwolf :) (except the hugely nose-heavy cannon..) Fun to hear how accurate things were, though nobody would ever approve shootdowns over populated LA! collateral damage...

Finally, the Blue Thunder video is out of KZfaq jail. 😆 Congratulations Mover, you never disappoint you are such a role model, like it or not. Kick the tires and light the fires! 🔥

The 20mm was made from painted Broomsticks I remember them saying. And I think I wore the pause button out on me mums Betamax from the yoga scene when I was a kid 😅

Malcolm Macdowell was deathly afraid of flying and had it written into his contract that he could do his flying scenes on the ground. But, when he saw the dailies with the other actors being airborne, he went up and shook the whole time.

I loved Blue Thunder growing up, Air wolf I feel takes place in the Power Rangers universe because its waaay too unrealistic. You'll probably hate my fan made movie with the Vic Viper vs Air wolf dog fight. I also got a Top Gun vs Firefox.

I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on the anime Yukikaze, all about pilots and aircraft. Yes, there are some silly scenes (like a plane flying backwards), but it also uses a lot of jargon and expects the audience to know or do their own research.

I got so excited when I saw this in my feed. One of my favorite series on one of my favorite channels covering one of my favorite movies from my childhood

Another note, at the time of the movie and until recent days, March AFB never had F-16s based there. The Guard unit had fighters, although they were still F-4 Phantoms. Dean Paul Martin, actor Dean Martin's son, passed away in a F-4 when he tragically crashed in the San Bernardino mountains in 1987. And agreed, as I worked on fighters for a bunch of my career, the ejection seat in the F-16 had a center ejection pull on the MK-18 seat; the side pull in the movie is more like the F-15's ACES II ejection seat.

The only redeeming feature of _Airwolf_ was the theme music. Fight me. Okay, I actually enjoyed the show for the characters, but the helicopter demanded far too much suspension of disbelief, and its capabilities seemed to change weekly based on plot convenience.

Check out a movie called “Deadly Encounter”. Full of some of the best helicopter stunt flying ever. BTW. The huges 500c is the hero!

Great video, having almost as much fun viewing the old LA skyline from the 80s vs today's while hearing your commentary on the movie.

As the JetRanger plummets towards the construction site hut, its altimeter show decent through 2000 ft....??? Jim Gavin is my hero. His name is at the end of nearly every great action film from the 80s that needed a pilot. He lived in the 'pre health and safety' era and must have had so much fun. Often acted as a pilot too which must have made it a lot easier for continuity. This film was very underrated at the time I think. RIP Jim Gavin & Warren Oates

One more thing. The SWAT guys do know he is in a armored helicopter right. Lol

"He's definitely not doing 600 knots at 150 feet." Or, well, at any altitude. Also, what sort of warhead did that AIM-9 have? Or were they storing thousands of gallons of fuel inside the bar-b-q shop? And final gripe - in the helo dogfight, when he loses visual, why didn't he just look for him from above the buildings?

Blue Thunder premiered on May 13th 1983. Airwolf premiered on January 22nd 1984. So maybe the reason why Airwolf was so much better than Blue Thunder was the creators of Airwolf saw the amount of interior & exterior flaws Blue Thunder had. So probably from that alone, gave the creators of Airwolf the opportunity to make a better & more advanced helicopter.

Really enjoyed blue thunder love the music of it and the style

blue thunder was meant to look practical not elegant as air-wolf was. also it was meant to look manacing. btw- jafo is shorthand for just another f#@&ing observer. the movie was innovative in it's time and was quite popular. the closest in appearance to it is the apache ah64.

It’s amazing how the pilots really flew the aircraft and not cg must appreciate the skill and balls to do that lol. Can’t imagine doing that in these days.

One of the best movies out there: If you're walkin' on eggs, don't hop!

Great video. Good to see you enjoying a movie especially the flying scenes.

I'll take Blue Thunder over your "imaginary bottom slung Mavericks and fast only because they sped the film" Airwolf anyday 😀

I wouldn't say Blue Thunder is an ugly helictoper. I loved the looks of it. But Airwolf is just Airwolf, the coolest thing ever made for television. I think they made a Blue Thunder TV show after this movie but it flopped. Roy Scheider was an awesome actor, miss him. And details are very good, great work from the team. And I think it's possible to hit an F-16 with canons like this. I mean there are stationary AA guns and they worked pretty good when we look at Vietnam so why not hitting one with an helicopter. And talking about Vietnam: what about the movie "Flight of the Intruder" next?

Great commentary. I loved Blue Thunder both the movie and the series as a kid, and also Airwolf. Your recent MRM on Airwolf got me watching the Airwolf series on Peacock starting right from the beginning - it’s so good. And there’s a lot of web content on it - even an interview with one of the guys who owned the helos and did a lot of the flying. So true about the 500s always being the bad guys (except for TC in Magnum PI). Thanks for alerting to Folds of Honor. I linked to donate automatically with eBay sales - great charity.

Great review. I worked for the Army's Aviation Command in the late 80's and through most of the 90's. When I started, I learned that the we didn't have "whisper mode", so no Forest Lawn for you....Although, the NOTAR and some of the SF helicopters could sneak up on you; I had a NOTAR sneak up on me when I was sitting on the steps of MDHC in Mesa while watching the CAF B-17 doing touch & go's at Falcon Field. The Apache had an impressive targeting package, but only had the single barrel 30mm "Chain Gun." I personally liked Blue Thunder a little better than Airwolf, but both fueled my love of helicopters. Probably my favorite scene was the "raining chickens" scene. My favorite movie quote is when the bad guy is saying Murphy checks his sanity with a wristwatch, and Warren Oates says, "What do you check yours with, a dipstick?"

This was a ridiculous movie especially when compared to the Airwolf series of documentaries.

Finally! Was waiting for a year or two for this!

Absolutely loves this movie when I was a kid. Watched it so many times. Would have to agree to disagree on the sexiness of the BlueThunder chopper Mover. I think because of its Tank-like appearance it looks way more menacing than Airwolf. Love your channel!

I wish Moover had seen this one back in the day. Because some context helps. "Basically an Apache". Well yeah. But in 1983 the only people who knew what an Apache looked like read Aviation and Space Technology News Leakly. The Apache didn't enter service until 1986. It was just approved for production in '83. So this movie was actually the publics first exposure to ideas that we would later become so familiar with from the Apache. That heads up display, gun aiming helmet for example. In '83 that was still "future tech" as far as everyone knew. The whole backstory of the worry about Terrorists ahead of the LA Olympics was a thing. Munich was still fresh in everybody's minds. And yeah actually Airwolf did rush to market to capitalize on the huge reaction to this movie. They actually made a Blue Thunder TV show as well. But Airwolf beat it to air and was better. The Blue Thunder show was just a cop show. It lasted half a season.

Yes! Love Blue Thunder. Thanks for reviewing it. I was 22 and a rookie cop when it came out. We started calling our ride-a-longs JAFO, until some brass saw the movie too. Lol

I love silent mode. And I love Warren Oates line " I had twenty years in this outfit, when your idea of a good time was sittin' in front of the TV tube, watchin' Bugs Bunny and gnawing on your Fudgsicle!." I actually use that with my help.

The Gazelle is no ugly helicopter.. true it’s no 222 but it’s beautiful in its own 🚁

The stick on the F-16 is from an OV-1 Mohawk. It was leftover from the Battlestar Galactica series, where it was used as the control stick for the Viper. So, yes, an artifact from the OG BSG Viper was used to simulate a control stick of a plane that was nicknamed the Viper because of BSG. The circle is complete.

'83 a good year :) Good movie for it's time.

Fav lines: Malcolm McDowell "Do you know he checks his sanity with a stopwatch?" Warren Oates: "What do you use, a dipstick?" JAFO = Just another frackin observer. Loved that movie at the time. Good mix of action, humor and the first time I heard of Horatius at the bridge.

"Damn it, Cookie!!"

yeah the Ayatollah joke was taken by Roy Scheider straight from the stunt pilots that flew the thing.. as a side note they had an incident where during a flight with only Scheider, the pilot and a camera man haging from the side the camera guy harness began to undo so the pilot told Roy to take controls momentarily while he grabed the camera guy and pulled him back ... They had given Roy some basic flight advises and he could manage to just keep the bird straight for some seconds

BLUE THUNDER was also a short lived ABC-TV series in 1984 but lost the "TV Ratings Dogfight" to AIRWOLF. James Farentino played BT's new pilot and a pre SNL Dana Carvey was his Observer. Football Legends Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith rounded out the Blue Thunder Unit. BLUE THUNDER was a great strait-up 1980s action series!

Hey Mover! One of my favorite movies and soundtracks also. Most people shrug off the movie, but you have to admit it does have some awesome flight scenes. I saw it in the theater back in 1983 and yes, those F-16 scenes were bad even back then - too bad they didn't have the budget for the real thing. I wish someone would re-edit those scenes with real F-16s and cockpit shots - shouldn't be tough to do. Some real 20mm cannon sound would be nice also. Even though I have seen it multiple times, I never noticed the speed/altitude display reversed ( a bad error ) so kudos to you for pointing that out. The scene when Blue Thunder blocks out the sun is the best - esp. on a big screen. Some quick notes from documentaries I have seen; Malcolm McDowell HATED flying and was often airsick during the production, but he stuck with it. Warren Oates did great work as the 'Astro Divison' Capt. - it was his last film as he died shortly after it was finished - the film is dedicated to him during the end credits. As for the insult that is the TV show I won't even go there - a disgrace to the movie. Being a helo pilot, I am glad you gave it a good review overall - it isn't perfect but they sure tried.

As a USMC 6114 basic helicopter mechanic from 92-1997 in Hueys and Cobras, helicopters just rock!!

07:56 RUH ROH. Somebody forgot the safety wire on the castle nut. "Inconceivable!"

Malcolm Mcdowell is TERRIFIED of flying yet they got him up in the chopper. In the scenes where he looks nervous and on edge in the helicopters its because he was. He HATES flying. LOL. Props to him for getting up there tho.

It is so many years ago and the first and possibly only scene I immediately remember is when they notice the helicopter hovering silently right in front of the window.

I love so much about this movie... the camera angles, the editing, the writing, the acting, the music... love love love it. Chile rellenos and margaritas for everybody!

I was surprised BT didn't have chaff to help fend off missiles.