Keyword: airplane
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Top Gun
Not every action movie needs to reinvent the wheel, but Top Gun manages to feel fresh anyway, thanks largely to Tony Scott’s confident direction. You can tell a lot about a movie from its tagline, and “Up there with the best of the best.” gives away the game in the best way. The setup is…
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The Dark Knight Rises
There are films you watch once and forget, and then there’s The Dark Knight Rises — a 2012 action from director Christopher Nolan that has kept audiences talking long after the credits roll. “The legend ends.” That’s the line the studio chose to sell the film, and it doesn’t oversell it by much. Strip away…
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Airplane!
If you’ve never given Airplane! a fair shot, 1980 is as good a year as any to fix that — Jim Abrahams’s film has aged into something like a cult favorite. “What’s slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?” That’s the line the studio chose to sell…