The Concorde Airport '79 (1979) movie review - Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- This is the original review of The Concorde Airport '79 by Siskel & Ebert on "Sneak Previews" in 1979. All of the segments pertaining to the movie have been included.
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Even as a little kid the flare gun scene made me laugh.
THAT WOULD TEAR THE PLANE IN PIECES
WHAT A DUMB MOVE
And "Airplane" came out the following year!
And their dreaded sequel came two years later, in which we really didn't need at all.
Enjoyed airplane a very funny movie
I like how they keep explaining what Yes and No means.
I can see now where they got the inspiration for AIRPLANE!
The series as a whole was one of that comedy's main inspirations, another being a late night movie showing of ZERO HOUR! Many of the characters in AIRPLANE are named after those in the aforementioned 1957 adventure.
@@jessecoffey4737 I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
@@jessecoffey4737 After seeing AIRPLANE!, I saw plenty of comparisons of that film, in Zero Hour!, in which I really plan to see very soon. Sometimes, I really admire watching spoof movies first, since when I watch the original film of where it usually starts, I imagine the same thing going on, but in a much different tone, and with a much different style added.
Incidentally, both Zero Hour and the original Airport were based on books by Arthur Hailey. The sequels, of course, had nothing to do with him, and I agree with Siskel that they should be retitled, since the airport is no longer important to the story.
@@jessecoffey4737 Ironically, Zero Hour is actually a very good movie. We had watched it with the intent of lampooning it, and finding all the little references in Airplane.... and we were pleasantly surprised with how much we enjoyed the film. Then we got tickled pink when we saw the original actor of Ted Striker from Zero Hour in Airport 1975, which was certainly intentional casting :P
Gene was wrong. This film had humor but it was unintentional.
John Clossick I just saw this turd today to torture myself. I think you are right. It's crap like this that made Airplane possible.
@David Topchiev It is when it's on the big screen!
They really should have retired the "Airport" name after the first one. The first one was a "day-in-the-life" type of movie that actually involved an airport as a plot point. The rest of them were just really bad "Irwin Allen in the sky" knockoffs that were little better than TV movies; hell, this was even directed by a TV movie director!
This was almost like the TV movie "SST Death Flight," except with better visual effects, lower-grade actors and no viruses.
Semi-Quasi-Interesting bit of trivia: The original "Airport" was actually shot in 70mm. I can only assume 70mm stock was way less expensive than it is now.
I'm not sure what you would have named 1975,... perhaps "Mid Air Collision", but I could totally see '77 being renamed "Coast Guard Rescue"
Thankfully, Robert Wagner and George Kennedy both had senses of humor and survived this stinker to appear in funny comedies: Wagner in Austin Powers and Kennedy in Naked Gun.
Wagner had a huge tv series after this..Hart to Hart...remember?
Love Naked Gun great comedy
LOL! Great acting and special effects, huh? Movies like this didn't even need "Airplane!", 'cause they did an excellent job of parodying themselves!
Clifford Shafran At least the film flopped at the box office. By the time the film was released, people are going to less disaster films and more summer blockbusters like Alien, Rocky II, and The Muppet Movie.
@@patrickshields5251 And let's not forget Breaking Away
@@oldfashionedguy1368 Even though it only made a modest profit, people went to see that too, along with North Dallas Forty and Escape From Alcatraz.
And all these are good movies, which all did good business, even if they're not blockbusters. They made 1979 a pretty good movie summer.
@@cliffordshafran9250 They really did like that summer because of all the movies I mentioned. Too bad for next summer in 1980.
Robert Wagner used one expression for the entire film.
Also didn't remember how his wife drowned.
@@arricammarques1955 Well, when you can't swim...
I love the movie and fabulous music
Get out
I think the whole movie only one person dies?? not much of a disaster more of an annoyance....Siskel`s comment on the plane landing and taking off again was true.....
This was such a wacky movie. I loved it!
Effects were awful, even for those days.
What's even worse is, WB's knockoff James Bond film "Never Say Never Again" uses visual effects that look just like this,... and it was made FOUR years LATER!
Dumb movie. Airport 1975 was best of all them. That not saying much. There much better movie out there in summer 79. Rocky II, Alien, The Muppet movie, The In Laws, Escape from Alcatraz.
Agreed. Airport 75 is the best one. So much tension!
I'll have to disagree, the original 1970 Airport had a special charm about it, and was able to keep the tension going even on scenes that (on paper) would seem to drag, but they don't. Plus you had multiple separate plots running simultaneously that all converge seamlessly into each other.
And I personally enjoyed Airport '77 more than 1975, if only because of the underwater rescue aspect of it (which... lets be honest, the movie shouldn't have even been called Airport at all, it really should have been called Coast Guard Rescue LOL)
All that being said, ranking Airport 1975 third among those three movies is like an Olympic Bronze Medal. It may be third place, but its STILL an Olympic Medal.
'79 on the other hand.... oof, talk about diving head first off a friggin cliff.
@@k1productions87 Airport was good it got academy award nominated for picture and other nominated. Helen Hayes won best supporting actress for her role in the movie I heard Burt Lancaster hated the film. I think Airport 1975 was more exciting. I rank it 1. Airport 1975 2. Airport 1970. 3. Airport 77. 4 Airplane from 1980 that spoof airport and Zero Hour. Airport 79 don't deserve to on the list
@@michaelperkowski641 Zero Hour itself does deserve to be on the list though
Yes it is literally a dumb ass of a movie. Makes Airport 77 look like a piece of art.
Airport '77 was actually quite good. Though it should have been renamed "Coast Guard Rescue"
Thankfully, no more "Airport" movies have been made since.
Airplane made sure of it.
I anticipate Henry Cavill starring in a reboot. LOL !
All this and Charo too!
Robert Wagner is anything but Wagnerian...
Funny - the airport movies were strictly 70s films, none after that (like '81 they hoped wouldn't happen).
If Wagner wanted to off Blakely he should have took her to sea and let a shark eat her. Seriously the disaster films ended in Dec.'78 when a movie called Superman came out which was a disaster film in itself but with a positive edge. Airplane was just the icing of the whole genre.
sharks with laser beams of course
Siskel's hopes came true and they have stayed true for four decades. The box office and critical success of the comedy classic *Airplane!* in 1980 was a big, big help in *Airport '81's* failure to come into existence. *Airport '79* has been posted to UA-cam under the title of *The Concorde Plane* if you want to see what they were panning: ua-cam.com/video/B3ac9ve_2hk/v-deo.html
An Italian dub, under the film's overseas title of "Airport '80" is also on UA-cam: ua-cam.com/video/AkEnomry--I/v-deo.html
If ever there was a movie ripe for parody, it’s this one. It’s a shame no one ever thought to make one.
This movie doesn't need a parody; it already is a parody.
You DUMB ASS, ever hear of AIRPLANE?
The *Airplane* movies gave it one.
@@CaptainSpalding72 YES!!!!
The wonderful Sylvia Kristel starred.
Its the Concord. Why couldnt it outrun everything?
Because it wasn't the fastest thing in the air. It topped out at around Mach 2
An update to my last post: I just discovered that this and "SST Death Flight" have something else in common besides being really bad disaster movies with SSTs in them.
It would seem that the director of "Death Flight" also directed this!
You're telling me this wasn't meant to be a comedy? Coulda fooled me.
This pile of crap should have been on MST3K instead of its also bad half brother film, SST: Death Flight.
Yes!
I've only watched the first Airport and even that one I felt was just average and looked hopelessly dated in 1970. I did not get invested in a single human story or performance. And it was nominated for Best Picture? Over Five Easy Pieces?
Hence the reason why I never take Oscar seriously.
The Concorde was sexy; it could do no wrong.
RIP ALAIN
"You have your choice of steak or fish..."
Stinky cheese = Script
See, this is what I don't like about taking flights...when those jets come after your plane and try shooting u down lol
it's not the fear of flying,it's the fear of crashing.this was probably one of the worst movies i ever went to a theater to see.
Here's my take on the situation. "Airport 1979" was very dumb, sometimes incompetently made, but it was also fun to watch and parts of it were hilarious. Then you take a movie like "Schindler's List" was laborious and tedious and overlong and uninvolving. I suppose you can say that it was a more competent production, but I also can't really say it's any better than this airport spectacle because I would rather watch the 1979 cheese fest seven days a week.
Hahaha. The worst sequel ever.
No, Clerks 2 was.
Those effects ars awful
Hahaha. Concorde is awful