Airport 1975--Not as Good as I remembered it to me.

This film is a guilty pleasure. It may not be good or well made but i watch it at least once a year for the sheer pleasure of the nostalgia in watching it. I remember seeing it johannesburg in south africa in dec 1974 as a child. It was shown in a huge cinema with a huge 70mm screen that curved. The result was that you had to turn your head from side to side to see the plane in full. Wonderful stuff. I also remember the magical effect of flying over the mpountains when viewed in huge 70mm

The film was released as a big holiday season blockbuster in 1974. It was a subject of discussion in the aviation community. Mainly speculation on whether certain aspects of the film were technically feasible. It was not seen as an atrociously bad movie at the time.

I recall flying home for Christmas in 1974, and spending time at the newsstand in the Jacksonville FL airport. Two airline pilots were browsing a magazine in which there was an article about the film. They were debating whether a helicopter could pace a 747, and lower a person through a hole in the cockpit.

The deprecation of all aviation disaster movies has become group think, since the success of the "Airplane" parody movie. Before "Airplane", nobody thought these films were that bad.