Don't bother! - Airborne (2013) Discussion

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[–] astat-2 12 years ago

At least give us some arguments, please. An opinion not supported by any argument is irrelevant.

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[–] Indifferent_Observer 12 years ago

OP is an idiot and a drama queen. There is one of him on every Low Budget movie thread. It wasn't bad at all. 6/10

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[–] Midnight_Rainbow 12 years ago

And you are obviously related to or a friend of one of the crew/cast members of this movie. No other reason to be jumping down my throat! Each to his own, but I think this movie was a piece of sh!t! if you don't like reading other people's opinions because they don't match yours, may I suggest you avoid discussion forums and negatively titled threads.

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[–] davey2100 12 years ago

yea this film was pretty terrible. I even made my first review that's how bad I thought it was.

The twists were so bad and I really didn't care for any of the characters and it took about an hour for a story to even form.

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[–] Indifferent_Observer 12 years ago

<<<And you are obviously related to or a friend of one of the crew/cast members of this movie. No other reason to be jumping down my throat! Each to his own, but I think this movie was a piece of sh!t! if you don't like reading other people's opinions because they don't match yours, may I suggest you avoid discussion forums and negatively titled threads.>>>

WOW, thats original. Never heard that posted on a forum by an uneducated imdb nitwit before.

Hey idiot. Yeah YOU, dummy!

Look at my post history and review history before you claim I'm a shill. I'm sure you don't have the brains to understand how shills work so I won't waste either of our time trying to explain it to you because I know you won't get it anyway.

Go back to your Hollywood film and leave the genre films for the genre fans...idiot.

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[–] Indifferent_Observer 12 years ago

"OP is an idiot and a drama queen. There is one of him on every Low Budget movie thread."

Actually there's always one of THESE buffoons on every low budget movie thread, pathetically trying to slander those who actually know a good film from a stool sample. And yes, it was indeed a bad film. Worse then bad, actually.

Films like these are wrongly called B-Movies. Untrue. These are C or D movies. Many B-Movies are excellent.

Lulz, you have no idea what youre talking about. This is the epitome of a B film. Stick to being the sheep you are and stop trying to be witty and funny because you're neither. You're just a sheep. Baaah!

Now shine my fvcking shoes!!

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[–] Midnight_Rainbow 12 years ago

Small word of advice dirtydingusmagee .... you either need to graduate high school (grow up) or seek professional treatment. You're an absolute degenerate!

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[–] Midnight_Rainbow 12 years ago

Frankly, I'm not wasting my time on writing up a long winded review to say why it stunk. It was lame from start to finish, not many other ways to say it. The script was written by a 15 year old who'd just learned what swear words are. The storyline was ridiculous and choppy. The acting was atrocious and it watched like a movie someone doing a film studies degree made in freshman year. Generally I think it should come with a free time machine so you can go back a few hours and save yourself the misery. And excellent cure for the will to live, but that's about it!

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[–] El_Beastador 12 years ago

I'm just gonna throw my opinion in here too.

This movie was terrible.

Hopefully anyone who hasn't made up their mind yet, will see this thread and the fact that everyone bar one person has said how bad it is.

I really wanted to like it too as it stars Andrew Shim, who's from my home town, but even he seemed to realise how bad this movie was and didn't bother trying.

The guy that plays Brick Top from Snatch is in it too and he spends most of the movie just sitting there looking like he'd rather be somewhere else. The rest of the time he acts like Brick Top from Snatch.

Mark Hamill was awful.

The blonde stewardess was hot though.

Oh, and the ending was the most predictable thing I've ever predicted in all that is obvious and foreseeable.

Seriously people, give it a miss.

"Maybe there is a beast... Maybe it's only us."

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[–] samson_k 12 years ago

It was a bad film - awful terrible film to be honest.

The plot was muddled and had so many loose ends it was like a second draft screenplay at most - it hadn't been polished at all.

Spoilers if you care follow

There was a lot made about a member of the cabin crew that was not on the manifesto - the film created some mystery as to who he was and it was never, ever resolved.

The heist part of the plot was needless and added nothing except for a whole load of questions i.e how were the thieves going to land the plane in South America - how much fuel did the plane have so that it would make South America as opposed to New York, why was the SIS even interested in the vase? Who killed the cabin crew member in the hold if it was neither of the thieves? As someone mentioned on another thread what the Hell was the ending scene where the Black Ops team are hustling an entire Control Tower worth of people out of the building for - to execute them? That was dramatic hubris at it's finest. Why were all the passengers red flagged and how did they all get on board the same plane? It takes 12 - 13 hours to fly from London to Rio - so what exactly was the timescale of this ridiculous story?

The story was badly thought out.

In fact, for this film to have worked you needed to find out who the passengers were and by cutting needlessly back to the Control Tower you took away screen time to build up characterisation. The scenes in the tower served no real purpose - they weren't tense and they weren't relevant - the ending happened entirely due to the actions of the passengers and apart from a rather unconvincing scene with jet fighters the control tower sequences added nothing.

It had some nice atmosphere at the beginning and if the film had stuck at a strictly supernatural story then it could have been a bit like a John Carpenter film where a small group of people are under siege from something. Or the supermarket scenes in The Mist - build up characterisation and tension that way and then, perhaps we would care about the people that are being killed but I didn't give a toss. In fact when it started I assumed it was going to be a loose remake of a television movie called The Horror at 37,000 Feet as the set up was the same.

The acting wasn't bad as such, not when you consider the poxy script they had to work with.

So, even as B movies go this one, in my opinion, didn't have an awful lot going for it.

Do you have a licence for this minkey

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[–] rcwells86 12 years ago

Good review and agree with all of it, the plot was horrible. The acting was actually not bad though considering and that's all the movie had going for it.

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[–] Mighty_Emperor 12 years ago

That pretty much summed up my feelings too. They had some decent actors and a good budget (I've seen people do wonders with less) but the script so poor. I can't believe whoever fronted up the cash didn't have some say in its development, as they've hosed away a good chunk of cash there. I mean if you are going to hire Mark Hamill (and Don Beech) then stick them on the plane for goodness sake. All switching to the control tower did was make me think of Airplane, which is not something you want happening on a serious movie.

As you say, there is a lot that could have been done and there are plenty of precedents for horror in confined spaces. The baddie didn't feel like a threat, which is never good and you really needed to care for the characters if you are going to try and pull off that kind of ending. I'd have liked to see a Mist meets "The Horror of the Heights" take on it (Altitude made a stab at this kind of thing in a small plane but there is a lot of potential in setting such a film on a jumbo jet), although, as they got to play with a real plane perhaps there were constraints on smashing it up but I bet you could have found one being scrapped and messed that up.

It's a little frustrating - it is like someone has the ingredients to make a passable cake but they followed a recipe for shepherd's pie.

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[–] douces 12 years ago

terrrrrrible film, but hilariously so. I enjoyed it...laughed through half of it.

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[–] updatesfortwo 12 years ago

This is a general reply to the topic of this thread. People pay to see a film. They like it. Or they do not like it. It still surprises me to this day (though less so now) that when someone does not like a film they pay for, they react with so much venom you would think they were robbed at gun point.

I watched it earlier today. It is not going to change your life, but it is a decent movie. More crucially for your money, there is more effort visible on the screen than is seen in more high-budget releases. Bear in mind that the budget available to these film makers is probably nearly 10% of what is spend on major releases. Major releases that frequently don't seem to make any effort to entertain you at all.

"Airborne" has performances that suit it's genre, some decent bursts of mayhem, some attractive women, Bricktop, Jack Adleth, and Luke Skywalker in the same movie. I'd say that's pretty good value for a DVD.

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[–] samson_k 12 years ago

This is a general reply to the topic of this thread. People pay to see a film. They like it. Or they do not like it. It still surprises me to this day (though less so now) that when someone does not like a film they pay for, they react with so much venom you would think they were robbed at gun point.

Fair point - but ignoring the one factor. Movies are a product, if you buy clothes and they are flawed or badly made, then you can take them back. If you buy food and it has flaws or is badly made - again - you have an option to return the goods. If you pay for a service - say a plumber, he comes and does work in your house and messes it up - leaves pipes unconnected etc. You complain and get it fixed.

Movies are made as a product - you pay for one and it has flaws that ruin it for you (like this one was - and that's not opinion - the script is shoddy and badly written) then you have no recourse - you can't take it back to the video shop and say 'I didn't like it give me my money back'

So, venting is the one and only option that people have.

Movies are not made out of the goodness of the producers hearts - they are made to make money and as such should not be given any leeyway :)

Do you have a licence for this minkey

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[–] updatesfortwo 12 years ago

A fair point well made.

I find many films have flaws, I just did not find this as over-run with them as other viewers did. I didn't feel cheated, but to each their own.
Your point is still valid.

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[–] Indifferent_Observer 12 years ago

Its not that bad. People just get mad because they think the film is shilled so they crucify it. This is a common thing on IMDB and I doubt many people paid for this either(and probably less actually saw it which is why certain people are like, "I'm not going to waste my time explaining the film...blah, blah").

I thought it was slightly above average and mildly entertaining. I wouldn't pay for it, but I'd definitely donate some bandwidth to see it.

And I actually saw it unlike some of the sheep in this thread who don't even know what a bad* movie really is.

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[–] TheBeardedWonder 12 years ago

Sure they do, as they said, it looks like this. Bad acting, loose plot ends, terrible pacing, below average editing/sound mixing, generic writing with no humor, no scares, no interesting characters, not even really any good effects throughout the ENTIRE movie. Nothing happens for the first act but bad actors giving bad dialogue on badly produced sets. It's like they took things from other plane movies (living dead on a plane, snakes on a plane, red eye, flightplan, etc), re-enacted them with even WORSE actors, and called it a movie.

It was shot like a pro movie with a couple noticeable faces and a nice HD camera, the usual tricks awful movies use to make them seem legit. Unfortunately they forgot to give them anything interesting to do in front of the camera. I'd like to hear from Dingus above me what was so GOOD about it, because as now I can't even name things that were decent.

As the saying goes, garbage in/garbage out...

"dude i dont care i just love this movie you guys have a realy taste in movies what wrong with you"

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[–] ShadowsGathered 12 years ago

Meh, I rather enjoyed it... it didn't have as much of a supernatural element to it as I'd hoped it would, but personally I didn't find it that bad... and what else would have you been doing with that hour and a half anyway?

... the hardest thing in this world is to live in it...

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[–] nikkiten1979 11 years ago

It was awful... but I was distracted by Mark Hamill's appearance... He looked like a human jabba the hut.

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can't outrun your own shadow

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[–] ShadowsGathered 11 years ago

Well, we're all human, nikkiten1979... some people age well, some don't.

... the hardest thing in this world is to live in it...

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[–] nikkiten1979 11 years ago

No, really? I didn't know that...

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can't outrun your own shadow

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[–] always_keep_fighting 11 years ago

I Redbox'ed this. I want my buck thirty-five and my 90 minutes back.
As to what else I could have been doing...let's see what springs to mind...
A Brazilian Wax done by a blind guy who works out of a phone booth
A root canal with no anesthesia
Removing my own eyeball with an oyster fork
Seeing my grandparents have sex

This movie sucks HARD. I wish I'd read these reviews before spending my $$.

"What's that? Bag o' tricks?" Glory
"No. Bag o' knives." Willow

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[–] Cleric-J-Dubois 11 years ago

I know it's VERY late in the day to still be ranting about this movie (but I guess that's what forums are for) I just feel I have to get a small point across. On a previous thread, someone actually 'told me off' for obtaining a movie via my bandwidth. I politely told them that they ought to share their honest character traits with the several million other people like me. I would now like to point out that it's absolutely because of movies like this one that make me NOT spend money. This was appallingly bad. Shocking from start to finish. And can I just say to whippetchick: you are one funny chick. My grandparents are long deceased, but I too would still rather see them knocking boots in the 90 mins............!

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[–] always_keep_fighting 11 years ago

LOL Thank you for the smile, Cleric! And I wouldn't worry much about someone here telling you off for downloading movies. You can be sure that that same person has his/her own little secrets that they wouldn't want you to know about.
I would definitely be ticked off if I'd bought this steaming pile of you-know-what, and couldn't get my money back. Maybe stores should re-think the way they sell movies; they couldn't possibly cost more than a buck and a half to make the DVD, so why do we have to pay so much for them? They've already made money at the box office. It doesn't cost any more to make a good one than it does to make a stinker. Put 'em all out there for $3, and I'd bet the "illegal" downloading would slow down a lot, and the company that makes the DVDs would still make plenty of money. JMHO
I waited anxiously for "Les Mis" to come out, and was going to fork out a stupid amount of $$ for the DVD, but hubby convinced me to watch it first, and I'm glad I did. I didn't like it at all...except for AH singing, "I Dreamed A Dream" and would have been royally pi$$ed if I'd have wasted all that money on a movie that just irritated me to death. But for $3, I'd just add it to my library of DVDs and let someone who enjoyed it have it.

"What's that? Bag o' tricks?" Glory
"No. Bag o' knives." Willow

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[–] allseeing 10 years ago

This is a B movie and it is littered with B movie actors. You only have to look at some of them to see that they all turn up in the same, low rent, stuff.

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[–] Shaggy99 10 years ago

It's not the only thing the film stole. I kept wondering why a British plane looks so much like Air Force One. Then when I saw the American jets flying in it hit me that they copied those scenes from the movie Air Force One.

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