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Summary: Boy, flying really did have glamour!!!
Review: Well acted, Academy Award winning (Best Supporting Actress 1970)disaster flick is a hoot on DVD. I had never seen "Airport" which is amazing considering I have worked for the airlines. It was great fun and a trip down memory lane to the days when flying involved more glamour than headaches. These days flying is little more than a glorified, albeit faster, ride on the bus. "Airport" features screen stars of its day and yesteryear. Helen Hayes really shined and richly deserved the Oscar. Maureen Stapleton gave her a run for the money in another excellent performance. Burt Lancaster, as usual, commands the screen. Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Jean Seeberg, Lloyd Nolan and Dean Martin were all wonderful. I think it is time people stop gripping about Goodtimes. This is a great little dvd at a budget price. If the Goodtimes contract with Universal studio expires (it may have) and Universal takes back these titles (as they did with the Universal titles released by Image) one of two things will happen. The titles may simply vanish off the shelves and possibly never see the light of day again. Or, Universal may issue a marginally better edition itself at several times the price. Witness their re-issue of "Halloween 2", instead of a special edition we got another "bare-bones" DVD (the blood aside) very similiar to the Goodtimes release except for the price. The only extra on the Universal release was a silly trailer, no running commentary, featurette or interviews. The Goodtimes, hopefully, are here to stay. Anyway, I am glad I have "Airport" on a widescreen DVD, order yours before it is gone and make some popcorn!!! Thanks, CAL
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Summary: Widescreen glory at last!
Review: Well, I bought the Widescreen edition and it blew my mind! This is the best of the Airport films, and it is also the best transfer to DVD of all the Airport films as well. Widescreen was needed for a long time, and it looks fresh, vibrant and wonderful. However, as with all the Goodtimes DVD's I have, I can't understand why they don't put anything extra on it. For example the original trailer would be nice (which is on the Internet Movie Database incidentally). Goodtimes should go to Ebay, and spent $US20 on the presskits and stuff like that, and put the stuff on the DVD. It would certainly make it nicer and more 'period' oriented. Things like Gone With The Wind will be done to death, but films like this still have a place in history, what with the actors and storyline and how good they actually are!
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Summary: The Grand Daddy of Disaster Movies
Review: Yes, it's campy. But hey, It's it's a Movie. I saw this movie in the theatre about 15 times, (that's before Home video ever came into view). This movie is fun. It even inspired me to go into aviation. Even though I was only 5 years old when I saw it at the movies, I still remember the applause when Joe Patroni got that plane out of the snow. This is a bonafide classic.
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Summary: Arguably the worst film ever nominated for Best Picture.....
Review: yet it stands as one of the best guilty pleasures of all time. To call this film a cheesy, overbaked soap opera would be understating things by a factor of twenty. Still, the entire cast chews scenery (especially George "Freudian Cigar" Kennedy) wonderfully and the "effects" (picture in picture silliness) are of the bargain basement variety. Overall, a ridiculous film with zero suspense and unsympathetic leads, yet full of unintentional laughs and a script unparalled in its inconsequentiality.
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