cult film freak: AIRPORT 1975

Written by James M. Tate / 4/17/2010 / 1 Comment / charlton heston , disaster , drama , ensemble , karen black , linda blair , seventies , suspense

AIRPORT 1975

4/17/2010 | 1 Comment

title: AIRPORT 1975

year: see title

cast: Karen Black, Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, Linda Blair, Erik Estrada, Gloria Swanson, Conrad Janis

rating: *1/2

BLAZING SADDLES has not killed my love for Westerns, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN for heist films, SPACEBALLS for the original STAR WARS, but AIRPLANE has all but destroyed any chance of me taking this, or any plane disaster film, seriously again. A nun serenading a sick girl with an acoustic guitar, a stewardess at the controls after the pilots are taken out... sound familiar? The weak ensemble cast of passengers including three drunk idiots afraid to fly, a know-it-all kid bugging his putupon nanny, and Gloria Swanson as herself, are all uninteresting and eventually forgotten as, during the last half Karen Black flies the 747 as boyfriend Charlton Heston, whilst in a smaller plane with George Kennedy, talks her down. A boring, pointless wreck, and not even that fun to bag on.

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AnonymousApril 30, 2010 at 8:50 AM
I didn't like this movie. I've only seen the original AIRPORT once when they had an Airport Marathon on Channel 5 years and years ago. I remember liking that one. I did like AIRPORT '77. That was the one where they crashed landed in the ocean and they were underwater the whole time. AIRPORT '79 was okay. It seemed more like an advertisement for the new Concord jet than anything else. Funny we don't have Concords anymore but we still have the 747.
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