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Airport (1970) looks like the 1970s. This is good. Many movies from the 1970s look like a dirty basement full of old shoes. This one looks like a nice basement. An expensive basement owned by a guy who sells mufflers. It is old-fashioned. It was probably old-fashioned in 1970. It was probably old-fashioned when the pyramids were built. But it survives. Like a stale ham sandwich left in a desk drawer. You look at it and you think, “That shouldn’t be good.” Then you eat it. The style is not chic. Chic is for French people who smoke tiny cigarettes. This movie has regular style. The kind of style you get when you buy a brown suit from a catalog…
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An unintentionally comedic yet unquestionably thrilling disaster that works as well as it does because it’s essentially a quaint thriller, with a deliciously palpable tension lurking over every motive. You know every narrative element after a while, yet you still want to see how it all plays out. It’s super 70s, and I had a lot of fun. Helen Hayes sashays into her role with glee. She manages to instill mystical, catatonic mystique in her character while keeping the audience captivated as she puts herself into greater danger. I couldn’t really get into it since it was too generically comic for me, but she brought life to what could have been a minor character.
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When I was reading what the movie was about, I think I already knew this would be the one I loved. The movie Airport involves a man that is suicidal and also a woman called Mrs Ada Quonsett who sneaks onto flights without a ticket. There has been more drama about a woman that wants to divorce a man, as she found out something. Airport is one of the craziest films I’ve seen this year, including a bomb, a thief and some crazy family drama. Mrs Ada Quonsett, I think, is my favourite character; she made me chuckle so much throughout it all. I couldn’t even stop looking at the screen when a very intense moment happened on the plane and things were not looking good, but overall it was a great movie.
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65/100 Funny to read the contemporaneous reviews of this juggernaut (still one of the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation—about $550 million domestic in today’s money), which almost uniformly treat it as beneath contempt. Wonder what they’d think if I could zip back there in a time machine and show them what today’s equivalent looks like. For a big dumb event movie, it’s almost surreally adult by current standards, albeit in a shallow, soapy kind of way; even the ostensible “villain” has an utterly banal, real-world motivation for his behavior, never coming across as anything more than a terrified, desperate loser. Nor would any mass audience today tolerate such a slow, patient, methodical buildup. I’ve never read…
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Everyone will pass through the Airport, And are hoping the lines are real short. Flying is faster, With no disaster, And price gouging when at the food court.
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I love a good disaster film. If you’re a fan of horror, how could you not like them? That one tiny little piece of set-up in every Final Destination film likely drew some inspiration from this genre. Better still, an entire film that centers on a horrific event, SIGN ME UP. The 70s created a grandiose blueprint for this genre and Airport led the first wave. With its lineup of popular stars, polished production and blockbuster storytelling potential, it’s no surprise that Airport raked in the bucks. But if you look beneath the surface, it’s a pretty shallow story, anyone could predict the series of events, and the script lacks personality. For gods sake there is more procedural and social…
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This movie takes a FULL HOUR to get started. You will spend a lot of time and getting in the weeds with everyone’s drama at the Airport and believe me there is a ton of tea to be spilled. But once it gets going it gets rather exciting and the star studded ensemble is on full display. Wild to think this kickstarted a disaster movie craze that would last through the decade. But one thing is clear, I ain’t setting foot on a plane being flown by Dean Martin.
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“Have you ever been a stowaway on any other airline?” “Oh, yes. But I like Trans Global the best.” “Well, it’s nice to meet a satisfied customer.” Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster), manager of Chicago’s Lincoln International Airport, has his hands full when a snowstorm hits the airport, while his marriage is in trouble as well. Meanwhile, Bakersfeld’s brother-in-law, pilot Vernon Demeres (Dean Martin), has an extramarital affair with a stewardess. Demeres also prepares to evaluate another pilot on an upcoming flight to Rome, not knowing a passenger on board poses a danger … Airport is a disaster drama film written and directed by George Seaton, based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey. It’s the 1st installment…
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Representing the birth of the 70s disaster movie cycle, Airport was a huge hit upon its release in 1970. Looking back 50+ years on, the genre obviously evolved, fine tuning the tropes, characters, and plot mechanics, which would all calcify by the close of the decade. While Airport’s pacing might be off a smidge and the script is more interested in developing character dynamics than providing the type of thrills associated with a disaster picture, Airport’s third act is satisfying when the crisis transitions from a simmer to a boil. Dean Martin, George Kennedy, and Helen Hayes (who won an Oscar for her work here) deliver some great performances to help you through the down time and get your pulse racing as Airport reaches its climax.
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You could pull any 30 second clip from this and it would look terrible, but I actually enjoyed this a bit. Didn’t mind all the subplots but needed quicker pacing. George Kennedy chomping on a cigar barking out orders made me smile. The pilot who likes his three unplanned kids more than his four planned ones has some issues. Gonna be a big payout if I’m on the jury with the people suing the airport about the post-midnight noise.
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Damals großes Katastrophenkino, das die Leinwand ausgefüllt und zum Beben gebracht hat, heute genau die Art Film, die man schauen will, wenn es nicht zu hektisch sein soll, und man seine Aufmerksamkeitsspanne trainieren will. Auf der Couch einmümmeln und dem Regen zuhören, wie er auf das Dach plätschert. Vollgepackt mit Figuren zum Liebhaben, weil sie alle machen, was sie sagen, und der doppelte Boden nur dazu da ist, damit keiner aus dem Flugzeug fällt. Das spielt sowieso nur eine untergeordnete…
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Enjoyed the stress this story caused. Didn’t like all the dudes cheating on their wives.
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the lesson learned from this movie: dont let your wife hold you back from finding the love of your life
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Helen Hayes is a lot of fun as an unrepentant stowaway.
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When the priest did the sign of the cross and immediately slapped that man I chuckled Hate movies about how much men hate their wives, but Mrs.Quonsett made up for it
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Completely ridiculous. This has to be the least interesting thing I’ve ever seen Burt Lancaster do… he deserves better. I’m all for spending time to develop characters, but this takes the melodramatic soap opera route to try and get you to care for these people. It didn’t work for me at all. This one is best viewed simply as the launchpad for the disaster movie craze of the 1970s.
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The best part was UNDOUBTEDLY the nun chugging the entire flask of alcohol! Never mind, it was in fact the priest saying a prayer and moving immediately to smack a passenger.
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this old lady is an icon to us all. movies from this time are made with such insane film quality. the scenes are more limited but man the aesthetic, the style, the shots, the set…classy. the idea that this is what airports were ever like is just insane. shrimp cocktails on the snack cart and smoking on planes and everyone just chatting. also both the male leads just end up with their mistresses???
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My headcanon is this is what Burt Lancasters character is up to before he snaps and ends up at the beginning of The Swimmer
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Really good, exciting older movie.
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Literally everyone who worked in an airport in the 60’s was having an affair. The friendly skies indeed. Mildly entertaining.
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This is a great example of “people used to look old.” Jean Seberg is about 30/31 in this movie… I’m 45 and she looks like my elder. (No shade on Jean, just wild how this used to be a thing.) More generally, interesting how this very normal, casual, plodding film produced three sequels and multiple parodies.
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Really wanted to like this more but the pacing was ROUGH on my adhd
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AAllyson 8 月 19, 2026
Does every man cheat on his wife in this movie
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NNathan Richardson 8 月 18, 2026
Picked up on a whim. This is a veryyy slow burn, as the movie really gets you in deep with everyone’s drama. Here’s a spoiler: everyone is an adulterer. And it takes basically two hours to get to the actual meat of the movie, which kind of surprises me given this movie was once in the top ten of highest grossing movies in the US/canada. Honestly, I think this would be a killer classic if it were cut to 90 minutes and removed a lot of that fluff. The tension in the air really does grip you, even with the Master Stowaway Grandma bit.
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little mrs quonsett you sneaky girl!!
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It goes without saying I have t seen this movie since 1977. But I can tell you it scares the living crap out of me. I suffered an irrational fear of flying for decades because of this film and its sequel. And that tells me everything I need to know.
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The first non-kid’s movie I ever saw with my Mom. The suspense was easy to follow and a lot of fun. Admittedly, I had no idea about birth control and the whole Dean Martin/Jacqueline Bisset drama thing. George Kennedy stole the show for me. The movie that sets my original bar for action suspense movies.
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TW hella cheating
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Didn’t hate these movie although it took some time for me to really enjoy the film. But I believe the drama in this movie is unexpected and also crazy. Two of the main guys are basically cheating on their wife’s but normalize in a way that’s unexpected it feels like reality tv that managed to be made into a movie
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Bbuh1 8 月 17, 2026
five stars if thought about like a frederick wisemen doc
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I just love the look and feel of this movie. So much real sets and just the style of the 70s. Flashing back to the lack of tech too. So many cool little elements of a classic film. I dig the core story of running an airport. Keeping it open during the snow storm and having a bomber on a plane. However it felt like that first hour dragged on. So much little character development that I should have loved.…
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Airport (1970) looks like the 1970s. This is good. Many movies from the 1970s look like a dirty basement full of old shoes. This one looks like a nice basement. An expensive basement owned by a guy who sells mufflers. It is old-fashioned. It was probably old-fashioned in 1970. It was probably old-fashioned when the pyramids were built. But it survives. Like a stale ham sandwich left in a desk drawer. You look at it and you think, “That shouldn’t…
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I love that Helen Hayes won an Oscar for this. But also what a final button moment… so 70s.
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I found this to be enjoyable, but unfortunately Airplane is so engrained in my mind that I was really missing the comedic aspect. I watched this for 2 reasons. The first being that I’m trying to watch every best picture nominee. The second being that I want to get to Airport ‘77 and see Jimmy Stewart. After finishing, this feels like a necessary evil for both points.
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Sort of the first of many ’70s disaster movies with huge ensemble casts, but the formula wasn’t quite perfected yet. Airport takes about an hour before things really get off the tarmac (figuratively and literally), and by that time you’re already wanting everyone on the plane to die in an inferno anyway. Movie looks really gorgeous though, especially all the snowy sequences, reminds of me O’Hare in the winter time. And the climax is pretty well staged, I definitely didn’t expect it to go down how it did. For a movie about planes, we spend far too much time on the ground though.
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HHam 8 月 15, 2026
Antiquated gender politics, vaguely distressing in 2026, dressed all up in Technicolor. But, a movie from another time. 70s interiors and mountains of fake snow. Very cozy.
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Oh to be a pilot in the 70s
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well no one is sending a thank you letter to boeing these days! (BURT STILL GOT ITTTTTTTTTTTTT fine shit)
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A quaint time capsule of how air travel used to be. Pretty boring for the first half, but it actually gets interesting right when the story begins. Funny that all the marriages are horrible, and listening to Dean Martin slur his lines.
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I think if I saw this before seeing a lot of movies that were inspired by this, I would have been way more into it. I still really liked it, though. I was worried there was too much going on but everything kinda came together really nicely by the end.
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I loved the score, and seeing the inspiration for a lot of Airplane!
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GGhostOfReach 8 月 13, 2026
Liked it enough by the end, but it’s rather dull the first 20 mins. I enjoyed the melodrama of it all, but trim 30 mins here or there and the film would probably move faster. For a film released in 1970, I couldn’t help but think how old-fashioned this movie is in terms of filmmaking. Literally one year later, you have The French Connection just bursting with explosive dynamism and kinetic energy.
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A movie for it’s time was one of the most star studded feature films of it’s time. Starring Dean Martin, George Kennedy and other Hollywood heavyweights in probably one of the most iconic disaster films of the past 60 plus years. It takes a while to get going but when you have an abundance of riches you need to tread softly and get to know the cast because after that it’s an edge of your seat thrill ride. Released in 1970 this movie kinda started the whole disaster movie craze.
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It’s wild to have seen Airplane! dozens of times and then finally watch what it’s riffing on. And I kind of knew what it was going to be like because Airplane! is just that good, but holy shit this is out there. Dean Martin tries to convince the stewardess he knocked up to get an abortion in the middle of a bomb scare. But it’s also very fun and well made. The funky split screens are awesome and it’s not…
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A very slow, tedious movie. But, it’s sort of fun to see all the old stars together.
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Ah, a simpler time in aviation. When one could easily smuggle a bomb on a plane and an old lady can easily stow away on an international flight by being adorable.
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je pensais l’apprécier une fois vu “Y-at-il un pilote dans l’avion?” qui est grandement inspiré de ces films catastrophe des années 70 mais même pas
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I loooove ’70s-style disaster movies, but have somehow made it this long without ever watching the grandmother of them all. It’s great. It has everything I want from a disaster flick, starting with the large cast of characters (played by a Hollywood Who’s Who of actors just past their heydays) all with their different dramas outside of the disaster itself. Then when disaster strikes, there’s problem solving and complications and adjusted problem solving and working together in spite of differences.…
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EElspeth 8 月 10, 2026
This movie was a mix of “days in the life of an airport workers” then going to absurdism. It was just such a strange development but thouroughly entertaining.
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It gives you an insight on what goes down in the 70s airport with comedy at times
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If this was the in movie flight I’d also bring a bomb on board
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J
This movie wasn’t bad, ok disaster movie. It dragged but that was the standard for the all star cast movies of it’s time.
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The “Leaving Soon” alert on Netflix once again pitches a movie I have little interest in to the top of my queue! All I knew about this movie and the franchise came from old Mad Magazine parodies. I pictured members of the Hollywood old guard screaming and bouncing around a turbulent cabin, but was ill-prepared for the hour-plus walk-up conversations about airport logistics and politics. (Also hilarious just how lax airport security was back then.) Airport:Airport ’79::Rocky:Rocky IV. There’s so…
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The movie that Airplane makes fun of. I can see why.
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disaster movjes where they have to explain in depth everything bad thats gonna happen cause no ones done it before >>>
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Melodrama first, then disaster film. Ok. Enjoyed the last half.
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Dated but thrilling nonetheless.
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“I didn’t always fly a desk.” Really should have been called TELEPHONE 📞 I tried watching this years ago and had to fast forward to get through the 98% of its fluff. Now that I’m planning to watch the entire AIRPORT Saga. Was time give this flight another chance….NOPE. Most of the disconnect has to do with the 70s snail pace of the era. The movie leads you to believe it’s all disaster. But most of the story is just…
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A soapy hoot from start to finish, and a perfect Sunday afternoon movie. What a big fuck you to Burt Lancaster’s wife at the end. To paraphrase Sally Albright in When Harry Met Sally, “He wanted to quit paying so much attention to his job, he just didn’t want to quit paying so much attention to his job for meeeeee!”
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Only movie in which I like George Kennedy. Helen Hayes deserved the Oscar. I wish my pilot smoked a pipe.
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Burt Lancaster should’ve been on that toilet and he shouldve been blown out of the plane Rambo style and yelled just like Hank Hill. Imagine if Mad Men ended like this.
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Who tf was this movie made for I think I need to rewatch on a more patient day and either without the influence of pale ale or with greater quantity of it
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EEmma 8 月 8, 2026
Let’s all just cheat on our wives!
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K
The movie was 25% disaster and 75% talking about a disaster.
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Stop dreaming, Just hold on to the job. First of all, there weren’t 82 people on that plane—there were 83, because Gwen was pregnant. 😂 She was afraid the captain would make that joke, so since he was too busy dealing with the chaos, I decided to make it myself. My favorite part of the movie was the old lady and the way she boarded the plane every single time. I honestly hope she never stops getting onto planes like…
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An important film in cinema history; oddly modern in what it’s trying to do and manages to pull it off. Long, overplotted, and dramatically overheated, but never boring. The editing keeps the ensemble legible and the momentum never really stalls. Surprising social commentary for three years before Roe v. Wade, women’s rights, institutional authority, and responsibility all get real weight here. Premiered at a gloomy time in US history and that mood bleeds into both the presentation and the characters…
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Truly the last film of its kind
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The pros: an old bitty as a major character. The cons: what was with the anti-abortion messaging? The movie was about an airport.
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honestly pretty boring compared to the other disaster films ive seen :/ also if dean doesn’t sing, i really don’t care.
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I would like to talk about Marcus Rathbone. Die you fuck how fucking dare you how are you even smart enough to have the arrogance to assume you know what you’re doing ever in any situation You see a flight attendant taking a briefcase from a guy and you are so fucking blinded by classism and misogyny that your only thought is what a cunt and you can’t spend one second thinking about the situation that is unfolding in front…
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The captain deliberately struck me across the face! Unless you shut up, the second officer’s going to do exactly the same thing. Airplane August continues with this look at a Chicago airport on the night of the worst snow storm in 6 years. On top of that, they also have a serial stowaway (which won Helen Hayes her 2nd Oscar) on the loose, pilot Dean Martin knocked up a flight attendant and is trying to send her to Sweden for…
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Bellissimo gli aerei mi hanno fatto sborrare un botto
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like Airplane! but not funny 🙁
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So stupid, I loved it.
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RRaph McFly 8 月 4, 2026
Compliqué de juger un “film-catastrophe” à l’ère pré-blockbusters (on est ici en 1970) : forcément on oublie trop souvent de retirer ses lunettes contemporaines et on finit par s’emmerder sec. Certes c’est peut-être LE premier film du genre disaster movie, mais hélas c’est extrêmement longuet, pompeux, les personnages masculins ne peuvent pas faire autrement que d’avoir des love interests de vingt ans leurs cadettes alors qu’ils approchent la soixantaine, c’est forcément un peu gênant et je ne dis pas cela gratuitement,…
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❄️✈️👵💣🛬 There’s no way that you would ever get away with such a long set up anymore, but it really does pay off.
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I loved the meandering nature of this. Affairs really run rampant in air travel.
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“Remind me to thank Mr. Boeing” because a plane DIDNT break down…what a different world they lived in someone should make a satire of this, it’d be so funny
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It’s good and I wanted to like it more, it’s just missing the extra zest to make it really memorable
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Guess they didnt ask passengers to take out their electronics when going through security in the 70’s.
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I love trans vaginal. It’s my favorite airline!
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The #1 novel of the year – now a motion picture! Great tagline. The most interesting part of this movie is seeing the realistic portrayal of how an airport was run in the late 60s/early 70s. Unfortunately, that novelty doesn’t last 2 hours and 20 minutes. August 2026 Challenge: Dan Recommendation
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dino just mogging
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“How we do know he’s not just an ordinary eccentric?” Oh, the 1970s… Really enjoyed this, even if 20+ years after first seeing the Naked Gun I still struggle to treat any film featuring George Kennedy as anything other than an Ed Hocken backstory.
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Airport passe plus de temps à faire patienter qu’à décoller. Derrière son statut de classique, il reste surtout un long enchaînement de dialogues et de sous-intrigues qui donnent l’impression que le vrai suspense a raté son embarquement.
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I have no idea why I was compelled to watch the complete Airport franchise yet here we are. I would have loved to have traveled back in time to the opening week of this film as I’m sure the audiences ate up seeing all the melodrama and performances. Maureen Stapleton delivers the best performance of the film which balances the campiness and kitsch of the movie.
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Surprisingly funnier than Airplane! at certain moments.
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this movie would’ve been so boring without the old lady and the manager’s wife
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There’s too much adultery going on at that airport smh my head.
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I want the confidence of Ada Quonsett
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Teilweise arg überfrachtet mit allerlei menschlichen und beziehungstechnischen Problemen, ist Airport dennoch ein sehenswerter Film, der für mich persönlich, gekonnt zwischen täglichem Flughafenbetrieb und außergewöhnlichem Katastrophen-Szenario spielt. Die Bilder im Schnee und in der Maschine selbst sehen richtig, richtig gut aus. Der Schnitt mit den vielen Splitscreens, wirkt auf der Leinwand sicherlich nochmal anders, verkommt hier aber ganz gar nicht zu einem Gimmick, sondern wird glaubwürdig eingebettet. Ich hatte zwischenzeitlich wirklich Lust, den Film im Kino zu schauen. Der Score…
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Wouldn’t have the briliance of Airplane! without this giant slab of entertainment, so that’s good enough. (Oscar: Helen Hayes, Supporting Actress)
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Avec AIRPORT, on nous promettait un film catastrophe avec un avion et porté par un casting de prestige. Peine perdue car AIRPORT dure 2h17 et la catastrophe en question n’intervient que 30 minutes avant la fin. Du coup, le spectateur se retrouve devant un drame choral sur des histoires de couple, des peines de coeur et autres sentimentalisme. Oui le casting est de prestige, de B.LANCASTER à J.SEBERG en passant par D.MARTIN, mais AIRPORT est surtout un pétard mouillé très décevant. Dommage.
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Der Film hat über eine Stunde Verspätung. Aber da der Cast so namhaft ist und dementsprechend angemessene Screentime braucht, muss er sich und somit auch die Zuschauer erstmal durch Beziehungsdramen quälen, bevor dann doch endlich mal die Maschinen gestartet werden und der Film abzuheben beginnt. Und selbst dann dauert es noch eine ganze Weile, bis er die dringend benötigte Spannungshöhe erreicht. Als Beginn der Katastrophenfilme der 70er natürlich bedeutend, aber für sich betrachtet doch eher enttäuschend.
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Airport was the second biggest moneymaker of films released in 1970, and the biggest within the calendar year. It got 10 nominations at the Oscars, including for Best Picture, with Helen Hayes winning for Best Supporting Actress (beating her co-star, Maureen Stapleton). It kicked off the ’70’s run of celebrity-filled disaster movies, and spawned three sequels of its own. But it’s generally considered to be a corny relic, a big piece of blockbuster cheese. Burt Lancaster, the film’s main big…
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slow start but ended up being quite fun. Helen Hayes stole the show!!!
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This was nothing like I thought it was going to be. It’s a melodrama hangout movie with loveable ass characters for 90 minutes, then a bomb goes off! Delightfully antiquated, what a picture. George Kennedy plays an Italian!!
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Airport manager Burt Lancaster has a rough night as marital issues, a plane stuck in snow, annoying environmentalists, a feisty stowaway and a sweaty dude with a bomb on a plane cause him lots of trouble… … and with all that stuff going on, AIRPORT really, really takes a while until it finally takes off to create some suspense and give in to some genre mechanisms. Too much time is spend with very annoying characters and soap opera stuff while…
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Overlong but luckily some of the characters are worth seeing such as Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett. Dean Martin’s character is actually a huge jerk in the first hour but I guess he’s redeemed later on. It’s a decent film and if Airport helped pave the way for 70s disaster movies like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno then I am eternally grateful.
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The film credited with kicking off the seventies disaster movie boom, which is one of my favourite periods and sub-sections of cinema, so we really have a lot to thank for this inaugural entry. Obviously the genre had yet to take off, including a lot of the tropes we know and love, but it’s really a solid start, albeit not a particularly sensational one. We spend a great deal of time with the assortment of players in and around the…
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75% of your time watching this is spent just muttering “Get Dean Martin pissed! Get a gun in Burt Lancaster’s hand! And get Van Heflin on that plane with that bloody bomb… We don’t have all goddamn day!” The other 25% is spent wistfully sighing “Man, they don’t make ’em like this anymore, huh?”
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I love movies that look and feel like this idk. Great costumes, great score.
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That old lady was the star ⭐️
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Considered the movie that launched the 70s blockbuster disaster movie boom. It is not, however, the first disaster movie ever (that honor belongs to 1933’s Deluge). I liked the character development and flow of switching back and forth from the airplane to the airport. They did a good show showcasing how important each character’s job was to the story. I felt like the “disaster” itself was a bit anticlimactic, but overall a solid flick. New (to me) movies 2026
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I will say this movie is probably the craziest movies I’ve ever seen! Having a sucidal man, a stowaway, a man who is a workaholic, and the captain who got one of the stewardess pregnant.
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The last hour of this really heats up, I just wish the first 75 minutes were either a lot better or a 15-20 minutes shorter.
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It’s tough to take this movie seriously this side of Airplane, but it’s very well made and a lot of fun.
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Airport! This film captures an airport utopia that I want to return to if it ever existed. I loved this movie.
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Took a while to get going but was worth it. I enjoyed the use of split-screen
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While I recognize that this isn’t great (its star Burt Lancaster called it “the biggest piece of junk ever”), I couldn’t help but be charmed by it. It moves at a very leisurely pace, so much so that after the first 30 minutes I entirely forgot that an explosive device was going to enter the picture and that getting the stuck-in-snow plane off of runway 2-9er was the central conflict of the film (which, I suppose, it kinda was in…
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Ever since I saw “Volcano” as a kid, I’ve enjoyed a guilty pleasure for contrived and silly disaster films. I especially like this kind, where there’s a wide array of characters with intersecting and overlapping storylines. A lot of modern disaster movies don’t really understand the concept that it’s not only the action that’s interesting, but the REaction of the human beings involved. They jammed as many disaster film tropes into this as they could think of.
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Der Film lässt sich eine Stunde Zeit um erstmal seine vielen Figuren einzuführen und jeden einen ordentlichen Hintergrund zu geben. Das ist nicht schlecht, aber auch nicht wirklich aufregend oder interessant. Als der Hobel dann endlich mal abhebt kommt es dann auch zur Katastrophe durch die ein wenig Spannung ins Spiel kommt. Ein Klassiker, der inszenatorisch ein träges Kind seiner Zeit ist. 3 von 5 vorgeriatrische Schwarzfliegerinnen
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C
A little Altman in the beginning when the ensemble is spread apart. I definitely understand the appeal of the whole drama at an airport and I did like how loose the beginning was. Even though they did keep tensions high to keep you engaged I just prefer the collection of people we float between without having to focus all the stories together so quickly.
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This is very pro “cheat on your wife with a younger woman”
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Really good plot with a lot of different plot lines subtly influencing each other, but it culminated in an underwhelming ending
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A little long, but a solid disaster thriller and a fun hangout movie. Great cast, the late ’60s/1970 style looks great, it’s shot well and has good characters. Other things that worked well — the score and the effects (including miniatures!). Really liked George Kennedy here. He is so cool. He’s a mechanic who’s trying to move a 707 that’s stuck in the snow. Meanwhile, Burt Lancaster is trying to keep the airport open during a snowstorm, there’s an old…
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Helen Hayes winning an Oscar for this is CAMP.
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Ddavid4533 7 月 18, 2026
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Less focused on the actual disaster and the film’s all the more enjoyable that way!
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More of a soap opera than a disaster flick as we have to learn about all of these character before they’re confined on a plane together. We have to know about Dean Martin’s affair with a stewardess a third of his age, Burt Lancaster’s failing marriage or the woman who manages to stowaway on any flight she fancies – an alarming prospect in a post 9/11 world. That’s not to say it isn’t engaging though – good performers hold your…
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i completely understand why this film spawned a series of descending-quality sequels & other parodies. also! mrs. quonsett is one of the best comedic side characters i’ve ever seen.
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Burt Lancaster movie star tour stop number three Dean Martin movie star tour stop number two George Seaton series mark one + homemade vanilla blue bell
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When it comes to the 70s disaster movie genre I would much rather watch The Poseidon Adventure over this one. This movie isn’t bad but I found it to be a little awkward, odd thing to say but it felt like everything in this film was off. There are pointless storylines and the film itself is way too long. I would rather watch the parody of the film (Airplane!) over this one
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On some dumb fundamental level, “Airport” kept me interested for a couple of hours. I can’t quite remember why. The plot has few surprises (you know and I know that no airplane piloted by Dean Martin ever crashed). The gags are painfully simpleminded (a priest, pretending to cross himself, whacks a wise guy across the face). And the characters talk in regulation B-movie clichés like no B-movie you’ve seen in ten years. Example: A bomb blows a hole in the…
- Synopsis
- An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.
- Director
- George Seaton
- Writer
- George Seaton
- Studio
- Ross Hunter Productions
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English, Italian
- Year
- 1970
- Runtime
- 137 mins
- USA05 Mar 1970
- Germany25 Mar 1970
- Finland10 Apr 1970
- UK22 Apr 1970
- Japan25 Apr 1970
- USA29 May 1970
- Ireland31 Jul 1970
- Spain01 Oct 1970
- Austria05 Nov 1970
- Romania20 Nov 1971
- USA26 Jan 1999
- USA10 Feb 2004
- Netherlands15 Aug 2012
- Netherlands28 Oct 2002
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