Comments on: The Five Best Plane Crashes In Cinema

By: n bell

n bell — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:15:31 +0000

I would place a vote for the plane explosion scene in “The Incredibles”. It may be an animated movie, but that was a powerful scene.

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[...] Flight hit the web earlier this week (it looks good, don’t you agree?) Well, Unreality Magazine put together a list of The Five Best Plane Crashes In Cinema. Go check out their list and see if [...]

By: Mike S

Mike S — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:44:57 +0000

The crash in “Con Air” is pretty good, special effects-wise, but it’s known as The Magical Crash to people who live in Las Vegas, for its complete disregard of geography & physics:
It starts with the plane cartwheeling due SOUTH down the middle of The Strip; then, inexplicably, it makes a sudden 90-degree left turn to go smash into the big guitar sign on the Hard Rock Casino, which is 1 Mile EAST of the Strip; then, most amazing of all, it miraculously “gains back” enough of its lost momentum to fly another 4 or 5 miles back NORTH (the direction it started from) to finally slide to a stop at the end of the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0000

I saw Cast Away on an international flight. Great movie. Not sure it was the most suited entertainment for a flight over the Pacific though.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:35:38 +0000

Yeah, Flight of the Phoenix, the 1965 version. That terrified me. I was rather young.

By: popcorn

popcorn — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:34:55 +0000

How about United 93? That was intense as hell

By: Jax

Jax — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:04:16 +0000

Shame we had to limit this to movies only as the crash in the pilot episode of “Lost” was pretty traumatic too. I remember seeing it sometime before actually airing on TV and having to warn my step-mom whom has a pretty big fear of flying. Of course if I was on a plane where the runway had to be “gelled up” in case of the plane sliding in due to stuck landing gear I might feel the same way… But um FOCUS! FOCUS! yes the crash in the Lost pilot still deserves an honorable mention, if not for the scene of people being pulled from the plane but also the beach scenes right after.

By: FrankenPC

FrankenPC — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:16:53 +0000

“Fight Club: “Life Insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.” This one is short, but sweet.”

I was going to mention this, but you are on top of the game!

By: Deke

Deke — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:43:04 +0000

Loved The Grey, and that crash scene was unreal (first movie I thought of when seeing the thread title).

By: Remy Carreiro

Remy Carreiro — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:50:08 +0000

@Kas, thank you very much!
@Wevs, I agree, That image of the plane headlight coming towards the window is imprinted on my mind.
@Sara, Water takes it to a whole new level for me, too. Drowning in a huge hunk of metal is a truly terrifying concept to try and grasp.
@Alvaro, I wish that was the actual movie description of Flight of the Phoenix. Sara C gets the point for knowing that.