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Great art it certainly isn't. The last time I watched it, I was appalled by the paint by the numbers disaster scenario and characters with the accompanied dialog. Still, it has certain momemts. My parents took us to see it Easter Sunday in 1970. I did like it then, and the movie was a massive box office hit.
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I like all 4 of the Airport films. They're full of memorable appearances, great cinematography and editing, outstanding and eternally memorable scores, and Chuck Heston has one of the funniest bits of dialogue of the genre toward the end of Airport 1975 (which became a thing in '80s action films that I don't think he ever got credit for).
Yeah, they're silly, but it's good corn.
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I read somewhere that Burt Lancaster thought it was a tremendously bad movie, he just did it for the dough. It was the last true hit he was ever in, in terms of big B O.
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Nov 26, 2008 - 9:47 PM
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This film holds a fairly insignificant place in my moviegoing memories, but when you speak of AIRPORT, you are also speaking of a big, VERY influential, all-star film which kicked off the infinite series of disaster films including THE TOWERING INFERNO, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, EARTHQUAKE, THE SWARM, the succeeding AIRPORTS, and many, many more, and pretty much continues to this day.
You may laugh 40 years after the production of AIRPORT, but wait 'til you see 2008's movies 40 years from now!
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Heston commented on the genre in his TCM interview with Robert Osborne. He said that everybody did them because they paid really well and it was usually only a few days work for the small supporting performers. He didn't comment on whether he found them to be good or bad.
It really seems no different to me than any big budget action or adventure spectacle of any decade, though these days the money is often spent more on the technical aspects than huge casts of big stars. One or two big names, and the rest goes to the visual effects, etc. (or sometimes no big names at all). And generally speaking, I still prefer genre thrillers of this nature from the '70s over just about any disaster or big effects film of this decade.
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I loved the film on the big 70mm Todd-AO screen in 1970, and I still love it. What a great score, too!
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Nov 29, 2008 - 8:40 PM
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I like the film for it's luscious looks (old school system Hollywood giving it's last send of in grand colours, costumes, sets and vehicles).
The thing that ruined it for me is that suck awful cow "Mrs. Quanset", the "funny" "loveable" element in the film. They should have used her old cadaver to dampen the impact of the bomb. Better yet: they should have had her hauled away by the cops and have her LAPD'd behind some hangar somewhere. Damn that croaker gets on my nerves.
For the rest I really like this film and I am going to watch and enjoy it again tonight (who knows maybe tonight that $%&** might be sucked in one of the engines).
D.S.
The film is slick and sleek. In 1970, it was a major boxoffice smash. The cast is sterling. Even if one didn't care for Mrs. Quonset, it had a precedent with the Margaret Rutherford character in the earlier fogbound airport movie "The V.I.P.s." Both actresses won Oscars for those roles.
But it was Maureen Stapleton's performance as Inez Guerrero in "Airport" that elevates the movie's pedigree significantly, aided by a stolid Burt Lancaster, a humorously rugged George Kennedy (off a recent Oscar win for "Cool Hand Luke"), and a terrific Dean Martin in an assured and appealing performance. Even Jacqueline Bisset's character was appealing and sympathetic. The supporting actress Oscar should have been given to Stapleton but in those years, for some reason, such Oscars went to character actors who had been passed over for the awards as leading actors or actresses in years past.
And, to be sure, Alfred Newman's masterful score helped this film soar. It's a wonderfully entertaining film.
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