Can someone please explain Falcon vs Viper. I know it was Viper when it was in testing, but as a kid the F-16 was always a Fighting Falcon. I know that the V variant is called Viper, but did pilots always call them Vipers? CW let us know!
Pilots have called it the Viper since its inception. Now only nerds and Eagle Drivers call it the Fighting Falcon. Later, LockMart created a new variant and called it the Viper officially. #TheMoreYouKnow
Actually by '86 there was an internet, just no World Wide Web. I had friends who were online as high-school kids back in '84. Also, DARPANET, the predecessor to the web, has been around since '69.
My father went into the USAF as an Aircraft Mechanic, and he's always commenting "How much fuel do these planes have?!?" lol I can't take him to the movies because he talks through the whole thing, tearing it apart. I keep telling him I don't mind ripping it apart... just do it *AFTER* the movie. lol
my wife is the same way between deployment and lanes, we can not watch a military movie or police movie without me yelling out oh just died, oh dead, oops dead when clearing a building lol
No joke, at full afterburner at low altitude, 800 pounds would be gone in about 45 seconds. Even if he was only flying at full military power, you're looking at 6-10 minutes depending on altitude (and 10 minutes might be stretching it). Having said that, the F-16 *is* capable of supercruise (barely!) with a clean loadout, and at this point he's got to be pretty close to that. So he *might* be able to take her to Mach 1 without afterburners, but he wouldn't be able to stay there long.
Man I watched this movie at least 100 times as a kid and I owned the soundtrack cassette. I could recite the whole movie by memory. Thanks for doing this one.
@@immikeurnot sgt Sixta don't care bout no sucking chest wooooooound, just as long as the moooostash hairs are within the corners of yer mouth areas according to the grooooooooming standards and yer shirt tails aren't hanging out when traipsing around on the deck.
My brother was number one in his class at Vance during the Viet Nam war and after that was an instructor. His dad was killed when he was two at the Army Ammunition Plant in an explosion when he was two so I'm 15 years older. He would take me out and sit me in the seat of a T-38 at eight years old and I was in heaven. Back then he would buzz our town (McAlester, OK) all the time when that was legal (or actually the Air Force didn't find out about it). It's pretty cool to be in the second grade in a small town with your brother buzzing it and doing afterburner climbs and aileron rolls over your town about once a month. Back then, it was painted white and called the "white rocket". So, I love your videos.
As a retired 462/2W1 (Weapons) I can say we also hold this movie in high honors. The visionary in flight reloading, reconfigs, that scrolling info panel, and of course a kid with long hair casually walking around the flightline. Its all timeless classic.
Dammit Mover, and here in all my 42 years I believed in this movie. Actually thought a punk teenager could steal an 50+ million dollar aircraft and fly into enemy territory and go save my father. Let alone flying in a fighter jet with my father.... sigh. Now seriously, I forgot all about this movie, thank you for bringing it back! Your comments and insights were the best! Love your books too!
Well, if an A-10 could magically get behind a MiG-29 and if you for some reason had the A-10 already configured with a big air to air loadout, it could spam enough AIM-9s to take anything out. The A-10 might lack in speed but it sure does have stores.
@C.W. Lemoine USMC here....1 of the things I miss so much about the military, is sitting around with my buddies commenting on military movies with each other just like this. Love the channel, love the content. Hoo-Rah flyboy!
The footage of the planes and the hud footage was what won me over when I first saw this movie as a kid. Like you said they did some great stuff for the time. The little stuff to help explain and visualize things to folks who might not know are... what they are.
...Never use your real name when conversing with thee enemy, true fact, that said I'm certain their is a bounty offered in a certain province for the capture/body of "Biggus Dickus"..
I wouldn't be surprised the insurance companies would be the ones to veto that. Because Tom's ego writes checks his body can't cash, and someone's got to remind him of this fact :P
@@iad77 Tom Cruise was just a beginning actor back when the original TopGun was made. It was only his 7th movie and Top Gun was his first lead role in a Blockbuster. He wasn't in any position to make any demands. It was the producers that wanted to do Top Gun , because they heard of the actual Topgun.. and the Navy was on board. So what other plane then the F14 could there have been in that era?? There were no bugs at Topgun back then
@@stijnvandamme76 I think Gamebreaker was talking about the upcoming TopGun sequel movie. The trailers show Maverick in a Hornet for that one. Or he got the two movies confused somehow...
Your dry humor and sarcasm shine through with these clips. Awesome stuff, gave me a good laugh. The ladder. The helmet. The reappearing weapons. All stuff I missed as a kid.
You just got a subscriber! I always wanted to be a fighter pilot. This comment section is also hilarious. Funny quick story. While at the mall a Navy recruiter grabbed me up and started their spiel. He asked what I wanted to do and I said fighter pilot. He asked how were my grades I said Bs (I lied) they set up an appointment at the office. The next day, they picked me up and brought me to the office. Once they found out I had terrible vision the recruiter said that I could be a navigator or fly another type of aircraft. I said no and told him I was actually a C student. He turned bright red and ended it with "have a good day". I said " so nobidy is gonna drop me back home"? He replied "have a nice day" didn't even look up from the papers on his desk. Much props to combat pilots and airmen in general. One if my Fraternity brothers just got his own small plane and I couldn't be any prouder.
I didn't catch those statements, but I did catch where he said they were D's, then corrected to B's. B and D are the 2 seat training versions of the A and C variants. Okay. I'll go back to my scotch and shut up now.
There are 1 seat and 2 seat variants. For take off and the flight they used single seat config. For the rescue, through Hollywood magic turned it into a 2 seat trainer.
Doug "Iron Eagle" Masters scorecard all in one single mission. Shot down 3 enemy aircraft (2 by gun) Destroyed 1 enemy aircaft on the ground Shot down 2 enemy attack helicopters by gun Destroyed 2-5 enemy anti-aircraft guns Destroyed 2 towed enemy air-to-ground missile launchers Destroyed 3 enemy vehicles Destroyed an enemy radio tower Destroyed an enemy air traffic control tower. Destroyed an enemy fuel depot. Successfully rescued 1 American POW
So, six kills. Enough to be an ace. Enemy aircraft on the ground count as air-to-air kills. . .that's how Chuck Yeager got Ace status in one day, he hit a row of German fighters on the ground.
Mover, you had me ROFL’ing throughout both parts! I saw the movie when it first came out at the Patrick AFB Base Theater and it was so cheesy back, but it sure make just some hilarious entertainment. I even went back with some buddies to watch it again a few days later. What Memories... Your sarcasm is spot-on! I also noted back then when he fired the Maverick while taxiing on the runway near the end. I guess he must have disabled the WOW switch when he helped his dad into the cockpit. Oh, and I’m guessing that his dad’s helmet was just sitting on the seat along with the boarding ladder too. Also, looking at the ACES-II pitot-like tubes above and behind their heads were just a casted/forged block of aluminum that was supposed to replicate those tubes/structures. Anyway, lots of laughs here - loved it!
@CWLemoine dammit man! LOL I was drinking something when you said "Oh look they are doing push-ups!" and I spit out out through my nose I was laughing so hard! xD
I recently discovered the channel and came across this reaction video and had to laugh; I was 10 when this movie came out and I remember it being so awesome. lol. Wow though, seeing it again...it certainly was a cheesy movie. :) Between this, Top Gun, and The Final Countdown, I so wanted to become a fighter pilot when I was a kid. I remember my dad taking me to an airshow in Toronto one time and I got to talk to a RCAF CF-18 pilot. I asked him if I could become a pilot, even though I didn't have 20/20 vision, and I distinctly remember him saying I'd have to be a navigator first and then maybe I could transition to a pilot. I kept hearing you had to have perfect vision, etc, so I let that dream go. I should have made them "tell me no". :) BTW speaking of old movies, have you ever seen The Final Countdown? It's sort of a silly movie but there are some great shots of F-14s fighting Zeros. :)
They made a pretty good movie with the $299.00 budget they had to work with. Not to mention Iron Eagle had the secret weapon that the enemy didn't have. A Walkman filled with American Rock Music.
actually ..does the backseater count for the kill? his dad has 2 kills at the start of the movie..and is riding backseat for 3 more.. would that put him as an Ace? Also Doug gets 4 MIGs , 1 more on the ground (does that count too?) and 2 helos.. so he definitily would be an ace
Thanks for the much needed laughs Mover,really makes been in self-isolation more bearable 😷 Now I know its not a movie about fighter planes,but do you reckon you'd be able to ruin "Flight of the Intruder" for us???
"Not as good as Top Gun" 8-year-old me certainly agreed, but when I got older I came to like Iron Eagle more than Top Gun overall. The characters are easier for me to latch onto and sympathize with than those in Top Gun I guess, and I just find the whole premise of Iron Eagle more enjoyable, despite being massively less believable. Top Gun definitely has better production value all around though... better sound, better original score (though IE had some awesome licensed music in it), better visual effects, better cinematography, etc. Ultimately it's down to personal preference, as with all entertainment media. I certainly don't have anything against someone liking Top Gun more, and I'll always think fondly of both films :)
"...not as good as Top Gun." What?! Was Top Gun good enough to have not one, not two but THREE sequels? Yeah, I didn't think so. I eagerly await your reviews of Iron Eagles II, III and IV. If the series had continued I believe they would eventually had General Charles "Chappy" Sinclair flying a Sopwith Camel.
This being my favorite movie back in the days, and now working in the Airline industry always has me thinking " There's no way in heck FAA would allow me to play my music flying a jet lol"
Random trivia: In the famous scene in The Shining when Jack Nicholson hacks through the door with an axe, the production initially used a lightweight stunt door designed to easily break apart- assuming most actors wouldn't be able to cut through a real door. Jack Nicholson had been a volunteer firefighter and his proper axe technique apparently destroyed the stunt door so quickly that they ended up putting a real door back in its place so the scene would look correct.
Great channel CW.....as a fellow pilot I def appreciate your commentary and love of aviation! Love all the old movies, more time spent on story than on special effects!
FlyingMercury and also that killing some Egyptians is nothing and no one cares. They are not humans, just a bunch of targets for the army of freedom... yeah you watch it as a kid and few decades later you drop bombs on Iraqi weddings, cuz anything is possible;) Try to find a single Soviet movie where Russians are bombing or killing foreigners “just because anything is possible”. I bet 100$ you will not succeed.
This movie is both fun and a bit sad for me. My brother was an instructor at the Air Force Academy during the late 80s and early 90d. RIP Captain Dean W. Gonzalez. Gone but NEVER forgotten.
Saw this film SO many times back in the day...my friends and I knew it was cheesy BS but still it was great fun, mainly because those aerial sequences were indeed so awesome. Was hoping you might rip on the stellar security the Air Force displayed versus a bunch of military brats stealing classified info but maybe that's another video, heh. Great work as always.
Mover you're the best, you mad me laugh after long time of sadness with this covid19.... Thank you 🌷 and god bless all humanity. I would like to suggest the French movie "les chevaliers du ciel". Have a look at it sometime. Thanks
Believe it or not, I actually saw this movie in the theatre when it came out in 1986. It is a silly 80's movie, but it does remind me of my childhood, so I enjoy watching it. 👍
"Chappie, I want to help you." Sure kid, just what exactly are you planning to do? do a wingtip formation, run across to my plane and pull me out and drag me over to your Viper?
Your comments reminds me of seeing this with my dad, he was USAF active duty Lt.Col & I was a 16, freshman AFROTC @ UIUC. I took him to see it & he walked out half way though it ticked... I'll be 100 & remember what he said... "Boy, you invite me to one of these B%$% so-called AF movies again.. You're gonna go missing like Louis Gossett Jr career has, your mother will never know it was me!!' I'm completely serious... I've always believe it was mostly because Gossett call sign was the same as General Daniel "Cappie" James. He flew with him in Vietnam... p.s. I skipped asking if he wanted to see Top Gun w/ me later that year & I used that same type Walkman sitting on Zulu Alert... Good times..
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Can someone please explain Falcon vs Viper. I know it was Viper when it was in testing, but as a kid the F-16 was always a Fighting Falcon. I know that the V variant is called Viper, but did pilots always call them Vipers? CW let us know!
Pilots have called it the Viper since its inception. Now only nerds and Eagle Drivers call it the Fighting Falcon. Later, LockMart created a new variant and called it the Viper officially. #TheMoreYouKnow
Was called viper after the Viper starfighter in the 1978 TV series Battlestar Galactica due to the resemblance.
@@CWLemoine >:(
Another roy, holy crap thought I was the only one. All these years I've been calling them the fighting falcon, nerd.
D Models and B Models “two seaters” are not easy to find, Evan back then. They found two. Cool.
Back in the days of VCRs and no Internet this was a gem to young aviation enthusiasts.
Agree
Yes!
Still is a gem to young aviation enthusiasts.
Actually by '86 there was an internet, just no World Wide Web. I had friends who were online as high-school kids back in '84. Also, DARPANET, the predecessor to the web, has been around since '69.
@@helifanodobezanozi7689 You completely missed the point... knowing stuff is not always intelligence. run along now.
I love that two jeeps wouldn't make it through the 'Hades Wall-of-Fire', so they send a motorcycle with a sidecar next.
Faster acceleration through the flames as opposed to an armored keep.
They sent a sidecar cos it’s impervious to Hades😂😂😂
Lol... I love observations like this.
It's possible the motorcycle was supposed to go 1st. The editing in this movie is awful.
They just didnt see what happened to the jeeps that side of the firewall.
You crack me up. Being a retired SERE Instructor in the US Navy this is why my lady can not watch military movies with me.
My father went into the USAF as an Aircraft Mechanic, and he's always commenting "How much fuel do these planes have?!?" lol
I can't take him to the movies because he talks through the whole thing, tearing it apart. I keep telling him I don't mind ripping it apart... just do it *AFTER* the movie. lol
@Will Kelly salty Seaman already did that. It's good video as well
my wife is the same way between deployment and lanes, we can not watch a military movie or police movie without me yelling out oh just died, oh dead, oops dead when clearing a building lol
I’m a university biologist. Watching you review these movies is soothing for me. Because I feel the same way watching the news about corona. 👊
Doug- "Im taking her to Mach 1"
CW- "No not with 800lbs your not!"
LOL DIED LAUGHING!
No joke, at full afterburner at low altitude, 800 pounds would be gone in about 45 seconds. Even if he was only flying at full military power, you're looking at 6-10 minutes depending on altitude (and 10 minutes might be stretching it). Having said that, the F-16 *is* capable of supercruise (barely!) with a clean loadout, and at this point he's got to be pretty close to that. So he *might* be able to take her to Mach 1 without afterburners, but he wouldn't be able to stay there long.
Can it even use all 800lbs? E.g. Like the -14 has 300lbs that can't be pumped from the tanks.
@@keencolios591 He's got a catch can bro, catches out unburnt fuel and sends it back around. 😂
Anything is possible with the power of Rock n Roll!
Yes he can but just light and burn 750 lbs in 30 sec
Man I watched this movie at least 100 times as a kid and I owned the soundtrack cassette. I could recite the whole movie by memory. Thanks for doing this one.
Strike Eagle? Man, this has more bombs then a freaking B-1!
"you'd think Dad would take over at some point"
Only one of them has been shot down, just saying 😂
Plus dad has a sucking chest wound and/or perforated axillary artery. Not to mention the whole "in shock" issue he'd be experiencing.
Jonathan Farrow It can't be easy to fly with a bullet in you. Granted I'll have to admit, I've never tried.
@@immikeurnot sgt Sixta don't care bout no sucking chest wooooooound, just as long as the moooostash hairs are within the corners of yer mouth areas according to the grooooooooming standards and yer shirt tails aren't hanging out when traipsing around on the deck.
Yeah Dad was shot down, so why would we give him control over the Eagle ?
His dad was a crappy Pilot
LOL Doug has so many bombs it's like he is playing Ace Combat.
Megalodon64 Amount of bombs they were dropping he should have taken a B1
Completely realistic !!! Don’t mess with Doug dude. Them is fighting words. 🤨😝
Console commands are awesome 😀
In fact, Doug is in the back seat and Chuck Norris is flying. When Doug landed Chuck jumped from the plane and is flying RC while running home...
About that onetime he Fired a missile whilst taxing though..
My brother was number one in his class at Vance during the Viet Nam war and after that was an instructor. His dad was killed when he was two at the Army Ammunition Plant in an explosion when he was two so I'm 15 years older. He would take me out and sit me in the seat of a T-38 at eight years old and I was in heaven. Back then he would buzz our town (McAlester, OK) all the time when that was legal (or actually the Air Force didn't find out about it). It's pretty cool to be in the second grade in a small town with your brother buzzing it and doing afterburner climbs and aileron rolls over your town about once a month. Back then, it was painted white and called the "white rocket".
So, I love your videos.
Lmao I love the actual mig-23 silhouette on the X-wing scanner.
"we'll fight em in the air"... "that's usually how it works"... lol
"if you're listenin to this, we suck" lmfao I thought the same thing watching this movie
As a retired 462/2W1 (Weapons) I can say we also hold this movie in high honors. The visionary in flight reloading, reconfigs, that scrolling info panel, and of course a kid with long hair casually walking around the flightline. Its all timeless classic.
Dammit Mover, and here in all my 42 years I believed in this movie. Actually thought a punk teenager could steal an 50+ million dollar aircraft and fly into enemy territory and go save my father. Let alone flying in a fighter jet with my father.... sigh. Now seriously, I forgot all about this movie, thank you for bringing it back! Your comments and insights were the best! Love your books too!
One of these days you should do "Flight of the Intruder". I always liked that one.
Excellent book, published in amazing "Red-Black series" in Poland.
Even Better BROKEN ARROW
@@weezy4life187 I always loved how roomy they made the B2 cockpit. Like you could seat 5 people in it
Ya but at least Flight of the Intruder was written by a real Intruder pilot.
@@depj1000 Dale Brown?
A10 vs Mig 29?
I would like to have this on the next installment of storytime with Mover
I second that .. motion carried
I third, motion is moved to the group, no objections, motion passed!
And I shall bang said gavel thusly...
I would think the mig 29 would get BRRRTED
Well, if an A-10 could magically get behind a MiG-29 and if you for some reason had the A-10 already configured with a big air to air loadout, it could spam enough AIM-9s to take anything out. The A-10 might lack in speed but it sure does have stores.
My dad actually built one of the kfir models for this movie. Despite all the 80ness..i love this movie lol
It's all good for Doug Mastrs until Iron Eagle 2. Then he faces those stealthly Russian F-4s.
*Which he proclaims are MiG-29's ;)*
Mig29 Phantoms are extremely dangerous birds. Watch your attitude mister!
He was fine. he came back and helped out by "doing something rash"
Yeah funny how he can evade everything from the migs in IE1 but yep once those "mig29's" show up.... Sigh.... Its the best scene in IE2 though....
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-4 Phantoms
@C.W. Lemoine USMC here....1 of the things I miss so much about the military, is sitting around with my buddies commenting on military movies with each other just like this. Love the channel, love the content. Hoo-Rah flyboy!
The footage of the planes and the hud footage was what won me over when I first saw this movie as a kid. Like you said they did some great stuff for the time. The little stuff to help explain and visualize things to folks who might not know are... what they are.
I haven’t laughed that much in ages Mover. Your sense of humour whilst teaching us about Vipers is incredible.
Big thanks.
Have not laughed that hard in a while.
Thanks man, you really know how to brighten up a sad pandemic.
“I need Two.Brave .Men! ”
‘-I am sorry zir. We are out of brave men at this time. Please retry your request later ’
😂😂
...Never use your real name when conversing with thee enemy, true fact, that said I'm certain their is a bounty offered in a certain province for the capture/body of "Biggus Dickus"..
He has a wife, you know...
@@rumrnr78
Do you know what her name is? Incontinentia
Incontinenia Buttox-- *SHUT UP!!!*
I will NOT have my friend Biggus Dickus mocked by the common soldiery!
@@jeffreyramsden954 ...Common thsoldiery conthsithsts of rapthscoulions!
Poor Brian, you just couldn't catch a break your entire life. Then you just had to go be A VERY NAUGHTY BOY!!!
Tom Cruise wanted to fly an F-18 himself for Top Gun, and the Navy told him "HELL NO" Also, quit ruining my movies, Mover!!! lol
I heard he specifically wanted the tomcat for the original top gun, before he agreed to do the movie, was in a making of doc...
I wouldn't be surprised the insurance companies would be the ones to veto that. Because Tom's ego writes checks his body can't cash, and someone's got to remind him of this fact :P
@@reiviloonk3849 Insurance companies? The military would probably veto it first before it would get to the insurance.
@@iad77 Tom Cruise was just a beginning actor back when the original TopGun was made. It was only his 7th movie and Top Gun was his first lead role in a Blockbuster.
He wasn't in any position to make any demands.
It was the producers that wanted to do Top Gun , because they heard of the actual Topgun.. and the Navy was on board. So what other plane then the F14 could there have been in that era?? There were no bugs at Topgun back then
@@stijnvandamme76 I think Gamebreaker was talking about the upcoming TopGun sequel movie. The trailers show Maverick in a Hornet for that one. Or he got the two movies confused somehow...
Oh, they're doing push-ups. HILARIOUS !!!! Great commentary !!!
...the first guy in AF history to make Ace before entering the academy.
I came here immediately after learning of the passing of Louis Gossett Jr. I heard Mover's voice: CHAAAPPPPYYYY!!! 😥
Your dry humor and sarcasm shine through with these clips. Awesome stuff, gave me a good laugh. The ladder. The helmet. The reappearing weapons. All stuff I missed as a kid.
"It's a good thing we have Chappie to tell us what's going on"
C.W. Lemoine would be excellent at CinemaSins
Soy Cinemasins vs Chad Mover Ruins Movies
I love the solid still explosions of the airplane like it's not even moving and it just blows up
I like how he still has the Hades underneath as he is landing after he just dropped it 2 seconds before.
J. Ehlers he used a cheat code.
@@gawainethefirst lol
Impulse 101
You just got a subscriber! I always wanted to be a fighter pilot. This comment section is also hilarious.
Funny quick story. While at the mall a Navy recruiter grabbed me up and started their spiel. He asked what I wanted to do and I said fighter pilot. He asked how were my grades I said Bs (I lied) they set up an appointment at the office. The next day, they picked me up and brought me to the office. Once they found out I had terrible vision the recruiter said that I could be a navigator or fly another type of aircraft. I said no and told him I was actually a C student.
He turned bright red and ended it with "have a good day". I said " so nobidy is gonna drop me back home"? He replied "have a nice day" didn't even look up from the papers on his desk.
Much props to combat pilots and airmen in general. One if my Fraternity brothers just got his own small plane and I couldn't be any prouder.
you pointed out a couple times he was in a single seater, then didnt comment on how he had room for dad
Good point
😁😁
I didn't catch those statements, but I did catch where he said they were D's, then corrected to B's. B and D are the 2 seat training versions of the A and C variants.
Okay. I'll go back to my scotch and shut up now.
There are 1 seat and 2 seat variants. For take off and the flight they used single seat config. For the rescue, through Hollywood magic turned it into a 2 seat trainer.
As a retired CPO, your snark is most appreciated! I chuckled a lot!
I am active duty CPO. GMC. Retire next year at 24 years. NAVY CHIEF! NAVY PRIDE!
Wow this was real. For the longest time I was convinced this movie was just a hallucination from my childhood memories.
"dammit , just hold together for 2 more seconds" .... (mover "story of my life) ... LmFaO!!!!
Watching you analyze one of my favorite childhood movies was like watching a police show with my father.
"ATTACK THEM THROUGH THE FLAMES!"
... I prefer to attack my enemies AROUND the flames...
"Attack them through the flames!""
Or, you know, drive around them....
This Viper has it all, the gun of an A-10 , A/A MSLs of an Eagle , the alpha of the Hornet , just awsome!!
I lost it at "If you're listening to this, we suck!!!"
Chappy’s magician brother: Chaffie, sometimes you see him, sometimes he’s obscured...
Doug "Iron Eagle" Masters scorecard all in one single mission.
Shot down 3 enemy aircraft (2 by gun)
Destroyed 1 enemy aircaft on the ground
Shot down 2 enemy attack helicopters by gun
Destroyed 2-5 enemy anti-aircraft guns
Destroyed 2 towed enemy air-to-ground missile launchers
Destroyed 3 enemy vehicles
Destroyed an enemy radio tower
Destroyed an enemy air traffic control tower.
Destroyed an enemy fuel depot.
Successfully rescued 1 American POW
1 felony count grand theft aero :)
and all that with less stores than targets. Talk about recycling.
'Murica :eagle tears up::
and he launches rockets instead of MK82s
So, six kills.
Enough to be an ace.
Enemy aircraft on the ground count as air-to-air kills. . .that's how Chuck Yeager got Ace status in one day, he hit a row of German fighters on the ground.
I had no idea how much joy these two videos would bring me. Thanks for what you do!
Dude, this was 34 years ago. The tankers were a lot younger back then and had a higher operational rate! :)
Haha "documentary of the ted masters rescue" 😂 fucking classic
Im dying watching this Mover 🤣 i love these vids, Thanks
I'd like to see you ruin Firefox. That was one of my favorites as a kid growing up. "Remember, you must always think Russian".
Oh, that one was awesome!
"Ahhh the Boss Fight!"
-C.W Lemoine
Mover, you had me ROFL’ing throughout both parts! I saw the movie when it first came out at the Patrick AFB Base Theater and it was so cheesy back, but it sure make just some hilarious entertainment. I even went back with some buddies to watch it again a few days later. What Memories... Your sarcasm is spot-on! I also noted back then when he fired the Maverick while taxiing on the runway near the end. I guess he must have disabled the WOW switch when he helped his dad into the cockpit. Oh, and I’m guessing that his dad’s helmet was just sitting on the seat along with the boarding ladder too. Also, looking at the ACES-II pitot-like tubes above and behind their heads were just a casted/forged block of aluminum that was supposed to replicate those tubes/structures. Anyway, lots of laughs here - loved it!
The f-16 is 76-1-5. Doug Masters has 6 of those kills and he’s still in high school!
@CWLemoine dammit man! LOL I was drinking something when you said "Oh look they are doing push-ups!" and I spit out out through my nose I was laughing so hard! xD
I recently discovered the channel and came across this reaction video and had to laugh; I was 10 when this movie came out and I remember it being so awesome. lol. Wow though, seeing it again...it certainly was a cheesy movie. :) Between this, Top Gun, and The Final Countdown, I so wanted to become a fighter pilot when I was a kid. I remember my dad taking me to an airshow in Toronto one time and I got to talk to a RCAF CF-18 pilot. I asked him if I could become a pilot, even though I didn't have 20/20 vision, and I distinctly remember him saying I'd have to be a navigator first and then maybe I could transition to a pilot. I kept hearing you had to have perfect vision, etc, so I let that dream go. I should have made them "tell me no". :)
BTW speaking of old movies, have you ever seen The Final Countdown? It's sort of a silly movie but there are some great shots of F-14s fighting Zeros. :)
The Final Countdown is great! It introduced the Tomcat to Hollywood before Top Gun. It was a great movie with really nice Air to Air footage.
They made a pretty good movie with the $299.00 budget they had to work with.
Not to mention Iron Eagle had the secret weapon that the enemy didn't have. A Walkman filled with American Rock Music.
British
I am still laughing! We needed this Mover! Thank you 😂
"It's convenient they left the harness on him" LMAO
This guy really puts "Everything Wrong With" to the next level. :D
Almost like having actual experience is different than just talented writers and professional voice actor ? ;) Who would have thought.... ;)
❤R.I.P. Brotha!!❤💯✊🏿👨🏿✈️🎬📽
You will be Missed But Never Forgotten!!
The F-16 is 76-1-5. Doug Masters has 5 kills and his dad, “The Colonel” has the 1 loss?
actually ..does the backseater count for the kill? his dad has 2 kills at the start of the movie..and is riding backseat for 3 more.. would that put him as an Ace? Also Doug gets 4 MIGs , 1 more on the ground (does that count too?) and 2 helos.. so he definitily would be an ace
He's gonna have a hell of a field day with Iron Eagle 3's plot
i am pretty sure Doug now has more air to air gun kills in a jet aircraft than have ever been recorded in history, he is a true ace lol
Thanks for the much needed laughs Mover,really makes been in self-isolation more bearable 😷
Now I know its not a movie about fighter planes,but do you reckon you'd be able to ruin "Flight of the Intruder" for us???
"Not as good as Top Gun"
8-year-old me certainly agreed, but when I got older I came to like Iron Eagle more than Top Gun overall. The characters are easier for me to latch onto and sympathize with than those in Top Gun I guess, and I just find the whole premise of Iron Eagle more enjoyable, despite being massively less believable. Top Gun definitely has better production value all around though... better sound, better original score (though IE had some awesome licensed music in it), better visual effects, better cinematography, etc. Ultimately it's down to personal preference, as with all entertainment media. I certainly don't have anything against someone liking Top Gun more, and I'll always think fondly of both films :)
"If you're listening to this, we suck " lol good stuff man
"...not as good as Top Gun."
What?! Was Top Gun good enough to have not one, not two but THREE sequels? Yeah, I didn't think so. I eagerly await your reviews of Iron Eagles II, III and IV. If the series had continued I believe they would eventually had General Charles "Chappy" Sinclair flying a Sopwith Camel.
Didn't they kill a modern fighter with an old world war 2 plane in one movie? hahaha
TP2 comes out in July, virus dependent, and it's not like Tom's getting any older. They could catch up, John.
Ahhhh Iron Eagle 2, where they use F4 Phantoms as Soviet/Russian MiGs. I mean its no Dassault Mirage, but i admire the attempt.
Glad Top Gun didn't have tons of sequels because atop Gun Maverick was just amazing
This being my favorite movie back in the days, and now working in the Airline industry always has me thinking " There's no way in heck FAA would allow me to play my music flying a jet lol"
“It’s MOVER dad! He’s an American!”
"Is he an ace, yet? I lost count." I barrel rolled on my floor from laughing
I’m a firefighter I react the exact same way when there’s fire fighting or first responder scenes in movies. LOL
Random trivia: In the famous scene in The Shining when Jack Nicholson hacks through the door with an axe, the production initially used a lightweight stunt door designed to easily break apart- assuming most actors wouldn't be able to cut through a real door. Jack Nicholson had been a volunteer firefighter and his proper axe technique apparently destroyed the stunt door so quickly that they ended up putting a real door back in its place so the scene would look correct.
Great channel CW.....as a fellow pilot I def appreciate your commentary and love of aviation! Love all the old movies, more time spent on story than on special effects!
8:00 That scene was in Cobra Kai Season 1
One of my favorite movies from the 80s. Love the action. Love the soundtrack. How can you not? It had Queen.
10:30 I think that is a water treatment plant and not an oil refinery.
Beat me to it. Was about to say floating roofs on oil tanks don't look like sewage treatment plants from the top 😆
@@ftwr6s712 You are wrong! They have now started a new process of making oil from sewage! :D
Right, so can you imagine how pissed they'd be if someone set fire to their sewage? Think of the smell.
Thats just what they want you to belive. Its prolly where they hide the nukes.
Oh shit!
Thanks for the smile in these wild days around the world. Definitely needed...
"What's your status Doug?"
"800lbs of fuel, I'm taking her to Mach 1" ---- "No your not" ROFL /dead
Thanks for making this. This is my childhood right here. Amazing to see an expert break it all down. Super funny too!
I was laughing so hard at movers commentary. This movie got me interested in the F16 only thing missing was air wolf lol
"yeah I usually worry about chopper rockets"
When you're a kid and you watch this, you believe ANYTHING is possible.
FlyingMercury and also that killing some Egyptians is nothing and no one cares. They are not humans, just a bunch of targets for the army of freedom...
yeah you watch it as a kid and few decades later you drop bombs on Iraqi weddings, cuz anything is possible;)
Try to find a single Soviet movie where Russians are bombing or killing foreigners “just because anything is possible”. I bet 100$ you will not succeed.
Thought they were supposed to be Libyans?
@@480JD I didin't even know what a Libyan was when I watched this movie for the first time! 🤣
@@MrMaxStalsky Never heard of the Russo-Georgian war?
@@480JD I mean the fictional enemy country here is named "Bilya" - an anagram for Libya that's just about as subtle as "United States of Aremica"!
This movie is both fun and a bit sad for me. My brother was an instructor at the Air Force Academy during the late 80s and early 90d. RIP Captain Dean W. Gonzalez. Gone but NEVER forgotten.
I refueled Doug Masters over the NTTR while he was gearing up for this daring mission! Even in a constant bank he was always 0, 12, and 30!
Back to pre contact.....
He was so good I stayed up front, cooked lunch, and let him do it all himself.
Saw this film SO many times back in the day...my friends and I knew it was cheesy BS but still it was great fun, mainly because those aerial sequences were indeed so awesome. Was hoping you might rip on the stellar security the Air Force displayed versus a bunch of military brats stealing classified info but maybe that's another video, heh. Great work as always.
Mover you're the best, you mad me laugh after long time of sadness with this covid19.... Thank you 🌷 and god bless all humanity.
I would like to suggest the French movie "les chevaliers du ciel". Have a look at it sometime. Thanks
13:08 "Oh Jesus, the fire flips them over!" Hahahaha
"We already used both of them" Man, that still has me laughing
Of course, "take the lead with your stolen F16" xD hahahaha
''They got ACARS!! Nice, that's a good edition!!'''
LOL !!!
ACARS lol. How does it know target is destroyed? Sudden lack of radar image = yes?
@@jameylane9196 Got my pilot licence watching movies like these when I was a kid...anyway, let' have some fun! Cheers!
Now that's the thing I was really waiting for from you! Much appreciated. Excellent analysis of this outstanding documentary!!!))
Like the ‘50s cowboy revolvers with unlimited rounds...
I once watched John Wayne fire 86 shots(Yes, I counted) out of his revolver without stopping to reload....I want that gun!!
Believe it or not, I actually saw this movie in the theatre when it came out in 1986. It is a silly 80's movie, but it does remind me of my childhood, so I enjoy watching it. 👍
I wish I were back to being the kid I was when I thought this was great
3:37 "What is happening in the background" i cracked up when he said that🤣
Amazing how they blow up all those models with no forward momentum.
I remember seeing the second Iron eagle in the theater when I was a kid and was sad when Doug dies in the beginning lol.
"Chappie, I want to help you." Sure kid, just what exactly are you planning to do? do a wingtip formation, run across to my plane and pull me out and drag me over to your Viper?
Perhaps the funnest videos I’ve seen on TH-cam in the past couple weeks. I loved the Iron Eagle series as a kid.
"They even brought a ladder" 😂😂
Ofcourse.. they even had magically reappearing bombs and unlimited fuel and bullets, who not a ladder dude..😕
Your comments reminds me of seeing this with my dad, he was USAF active duty Lt.Col & I was a 16, freshman AFROTC @ UIUC.
I took him to see it & he walked out half way though it ticked... I'll be 100 & remember what he said...
"Boy, you invite me to one of these B%$% so-called AF movies again.. You're gonna go missing like Louis Gossett Jr career has, your mother will never know it was me!!'
I'm completely serious...
I've always believe it was mostly because Gossett call sign was the same as General Daniel "Cappie" James.
He flew with him in Vietnam...
p.s.
I skipped asking if he wanted to see Top Gun w/ me later that year & I used that same type Walkman sitting on Zulu Alert... Good times..