"Poll: Favourite Aerial Dogfight in a Movie?" Topic

SInce Tango forgot to phrase his dsicussion in the form of a poll:

What is your favourite aerial dogfight in a movie?

Blue Max.

The Final Countdown

Star Wars IV: A New Hope

The Great Waldo Pepper

Beaten to it I see – there's only one horse in this race:

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But the question is dogfight IN a movie; not movie with a dogfight.

For me, it's the scene in Battle of Britain when the new kid in a Spitfire squadron doesn't follow the rest of his formation, gets separated, and promptly shot down by a 109 that he never saw coming.

No cute dialogue, no drawn out heroics, no flashback. That always left an impression on me.

"But the question is dogfight IN a movie; not movie with a dogfight."

Maybe I'm just a bit muddled this morning but I see no difference in the two!

My favorite is this one from the fabulous short film The German. link

* Aces High — final dogfight.

* Wings — First Dogfight
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Hells Angels

When that kid in Iron Eagle does his gun run on the enemy.

….and I am Soooo kidding…

Another vote for Star Wars – granted it is not really a dogfight with airplanes but it ripped it off from them and is done perfectly.

Actual whole movie worth of dogfights – Area 88.

Red Tails

My favorite precursor to a dogfight is the "Repeat Please" sequence from Battle of Britain.

The dogfight scene itself, not so much.

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The Blue Max

Ok, I'll go ahead and say the all too obvious choice since no one else will Top Gun. Great aerial camera footage of modern fighters with somewhat believable scenes of the actors pretending to be fighter pilots. From scanning the sky for 'bandits', to feeling the physical stress of pulling high G maneuvers, the movie did a pretty good job of portraying the drama of it all.

I have three that I love.

From WWI era..I love Blue Max. I also really enjoy the final dogfight in Waldo Pepper.

From WWII..Battle of Britain. I can watch this movie a hundred times and still love seeing bf-109s, Heinkels, Spitfires and Hurricanes in glorious color.

Post War…I like Top Gun. I love the Jets zooming around. I get the sense of my face plastered on the cockpit glassas I search for that elusive MiG.

Phil

The Blue Max

I agree, The Blue Max.

BoB all the dogfight scenes, not the bomber-killing
scenes.

The Peter Jackson dogfight movie at the Australian War Memorial was awesome. Does anyone know, do they still show it there?

Hot shots! Where he beat to iraqi planes with his wings.

Final dogfight in Top Gun. (You're gonna do what?)

Blue Max all the way

Hells Angels

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Next question?

Fatman

Oh I like that one…. :-)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Flyboys

Final dogfight in the Great Waldo Pepper

Dom I juast found out its on Netflix now all I have to do is steal Beccas account details to watch it.

Fatman

The Blue Max.

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@Nazrat: EXCELLENT. Thanks for sharing. Love the surprise ending. I had no idea.

I greatly enjoy the authenticity of the flying in Wings too. Cameras onboard the planes. Actors doing all their own flying. Nothing fake whatsoever. And the neatest thing about it is that the planes are all original.

Blue Max is a pretty film but a far cry from the genuine "swoop" achieved in Wings.

Nothing else comes to mind as a stand out above the rest. I just love dogfight sequences, from biplanes to jets.

Although I have to qualify that with hating a lot of the CGI crap that passes for real airplanes. The laws of physics are dead to CGI.

The Battle of Britain!

The dogfights are great; however, when they switch to the model plane blowing up it does lose a lot.