Airport

A landmark in Cinema Stupide that hearkens back to simpler times when every husband is married to a nagging wife and stewardess' job roles involved serving food, drinks and sexing up the hyper-libidos of middle-aged drunken pilots suffering from the stress brought on by their nagging wives.

Re-watching this makes Airplane! that much funnier. Dated disaster flick has a charming enough cast to get by as a decent watch.

Dull. The relationships, the lightweight banter, the manufactured emergencies - it's all just so yawn inducing. After watching 'Airplane!' all these movies seem so ridiculous and melodramatic. Watch that instead or 'Air Crash Investigation' for the other end of the spectrum.

With a great ensemble cast and engaging subplots all around, "Airport" had a wildly successful run at the box office and spawned three sequels. While every one of the sequels has some merit, none of them recapture the magic of this first installment. The melodrama may be a little dated, but it's still a great yarn.

This is a pretty solid disaster movie. Yes it takes it's sweet time getting to the disaster and yes there s a lot of melodrama but neither of those things are necessarily bad. Disaster film aren't made like this any more, nowadays it's all about the spectacle and body count.

A soap opera masquerading as a disaster movie. The kinda of overlong disaster flick that was popular during the 70s. The plot surrounds a bomb threat in an airplane and follows a group of over-privileged Americans reacting to their unfortunate inconvenience.

Solid disaster film, one of the first of the 70s cycle. Lancaster and Martin add gravitas to their roles, and supporting players equally fine, especially Hayes (as amusing naughty-girl senior citizen), the always wonderful Stapleton as anxious wife of plane bomber, and incomparable disaster-film staple Kennedy. Seaton wrings maximum suspense and excitement from the scenario; the script occassionally surrenders to cliche, but film ultimately emerges as a superior entertainment.

Nothing special. The others get progressively more craptacular

Not bad.

I had to look this up, but indeed, airport security didn't really exist when this film was made, which is what allowed the main plotline to unfold. Helen Hayes' character makes this watchable but the amount of womanizing found in this movie will likely turn off today's viewers.

Well-paced movie, especially for its time. I liked the ensemble cast. Interesting subplots going on. Yes, it was a tad heavy-handed but all the characters had depth - not cardboard cutouts unlike many other ensemble cast movies ive watched recenty. I think i also learned a lot more about airplanes and the airline industry thanks to this movie- never before.

I liked watching Lancaster, Martin and Kennedy, but the soap opera back stories are a bit much. An Oscar for Helen Hayes?

There is something so pleasant when, expecting mediocrity, you get excitement. A slow and detail focus movie that ramps up the thrills in the last 30 minutes, tying up all of the conflict the various characters experience nicely. It doesn’t try to be anything more than it is: a solid plane movie

Just takes so long to even start the central premise of it being a disaster movie, it's amazing how low standards were that this spawned a whole subgenre throughout the 70's.

The Dean Martin storyline is the only interesting one of the bunch.

Jean Seberg için seyrettim. Lincoln Havalimanında geçen olaylar. İş arkadaşların arasında geçen aşk. Kaçak 1 yaşlı yolcu. 1 canlı bomba. Kötü hava şartları. Ünlü oyuncular olmasına karşın, senaryo o kadar kötü ki. Bir de film çok ağır. Bildiğin üstüme öküz oturdu. Filmin sonunda, bomba patlıyor. Ve hiçbir şey olmadan uçağımız iniyor. Hayatımda seyrettiğim en kötü Oscar adayı filmi. Dördünü planladık. Üçü sürpriz.

This disaster film didn't age well, and the only reason I can think to watch it now is to give some context to "Airplane!"

Watched again yesterday. This is very much a movie about the goings-on of an airport, with some affairs thrown in. There is the subplot with the bomber on the plane, but it's not all that prominent as you'd might think. Hard to believe this started off the disaster movie genre, but it's interesting to look at in a way. Originally rated 1/23/19.

there's no electricity in it, no smart talk, no flair. Written and directed by George Seaton, it's bland entertainment of the old school: every stereotyped action is followed by a stereotyped reaction-clichés commenting on clichés.

'The high and the mighty' was already passé in the 50s, and is better than this, and also funnier. So it begs that age-old question: Why?

A Chicago-area airport is beset by various crises in the course of a snow night, not least of which is a suicidal man (Van Heflin) who intends to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight. A massive hit which led to the disaster craze of the 70s, it's uneven in retrospect, with compelling sequences detailing the nitty-gritty of running an airport interspersed with rather variable melodrama. Still worthwhile, with it's a hell of cast (Helen Hayes won an Oscar as a cutesy stowaway) and a great score.

Sluggish and predictable, but it still maintains tension pretty well while balancing the comedy and drama.

all the actors were great in it, especially hayes and stapleton of course.

Pretty enjoyable movie, moves along well and has some interesting characters. I felt it should have ended sooner (SPOILER WARNING - the bomb explosion should have been the climax with an ending a few minutes thereafter), but I liked the movie overall.

Entertaining box-office hit.

Old-fashioned disaster thriller built around an all-star cast, fairly moronic script, and an unavoidable accident during the flight of a passenger airliner. A boxoffice hit that paved the way for many lesser disaster flicks (including its many sequels) detailing the reactions of the passengers and crew as they cope with impending doom.

Slow to start with all the exposition that's going on in the first half and it plays more like a TV series than like a motion picture. The second half is not too shabby, although the plot is not entirely believable. Performances are mixed with Lancaster, Seberg and Hayes being the best among the cast.

Setting the tone for the rest of the movie, the opening sequence features a blizzard taking in place in full sunlight, complete with crisp shadows. Not quite as many laughs as "Airplane!", but close. It makes one nostalgic for the time when flying was a reasonably civilized experience.

Takes forever to get to the point. After that it's decent but nothing special.

The original. Good when it came out, production quality doesn't hold up.