Rating: - Good video...could use a better description in crash
I used this video for a project/report in college. Worked well. The acting is poor in some areas especially the crash with people bouncing up and down screaming like mad... I guess I am not very sympathetic being a pilot but mostly screaming will not help other than making everyone else be very nervous and make it the situation worse. On second note it would have been useful if it actually showed more of the outside descent and research for the last half of the film. Ex. like how the airplane hit using a simulation model or something of the sort with computer graphics. Other than that it shows ... Read More
Rating: - flight 191
I saw this alot on USA. I taped it,too.I wonder if It's on DVD. It's based on a true story,and it happed in August 1985,due to wind sheer. Parkland hospital,where JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald died were mentioned.
Rating: - Excellent pre-crash approach realism, some cliched acting
Aircraft films usually prove aggravating. Bad directors resort to unrealistic sounds, actions, loud music, and horrendous dialogue in a vain attempt to paralyze the hapless viewer. It's even worse if you know something about flying, and find yourself constantly questioning why the over-budgeted dimwits didn't take some technical advice... you don't remember to extend flaps thirty seconds before landing, you don't use a yoke to turn an aircraft on the ground.
Fire and Rain didn't make any of these 'in-air' mistakes. There is no sensationalizing or embellishment. Everything, from the high ... Read More