aside from a few topical references to abortion and premarital sex this film looks like it was made ten years earlier.
shareThat's what I thought after watching it. This one was too talky and dramatically acted. What was the big deal about the old lady? She seemed to take away from the movie. Airport '75 seemed more enjoyable. Less slow spots and more straight ahead action.
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I definitely agree. Based on the some of the fashions and the cinematography, and also the way people in the film hype up the Boeing 707 like it's some amazing new plane (when it had its first commercial flight in 1958), it almost seems as if they filmed this in 1960 and left it in a vault for ten years before finally releasing it.
In the era of "New Hollywood" movies like Bullitt (1968), Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The Graduate (1967), Airport somehow looks and feels "older" than those films that came out two or three years prior. But the movie was a success and spurred the disaster genre of the 1970s, so I can't completely fault it.
And it wasn't a coincidence that Irwin (Master of Disaster) Allen considered his films to be "MOVIE Movies", which harkened back to the films of yesteryear. Allen's disaster movies had mostly older stars in them and appealed to mostly older audiences - with some appeal to younger audiences, but not nearly as much. The cinematography on his films was kept fairly brightly lit and without any fancy camera gimmicks - so the audiences could "see the Stars better".
shareI saw "Airport" in theaters a couple of times when it first was released, and the audience both times was mostly teenagers like me and people in their twenties. At that time, the cast of a movie didn't have to be in their age group for the movie to appeal to young people. We weren't as segregated into tribal generations as people are today.
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