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The collision...

posted 16 years ago by Cinema1988
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-I'm watching this now on AMC and I've seen it before but its been a while. I was wondering how come they didn't show the little plane actually hitting the 747 from an outside view? Was it not in the budget or could they just not portray it convincingly at that time? It would've been a lot cooler to see happen instead of a brief view from the cockpit seeing a tape of a plane coming at them on a screen then seeing the dummy co-pilot sucked out the hole seconds later. Eh, still like this movie though.

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[–] 16 years ago

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[–] argonus-1 16 years ago

Most likely due to technological and budgetary restrictions....

and yes...the obvious dummy....couldn't have looked any less realistic.

[–] Cinema1988 16 years ago

-Yeah it must've been a budget thing, I just looked at the information on here and it was only $3million?! Honestly I thought it was a little more than that, maybe 6 or 7 million...definitely makes sense why they didn't attempt to try depicting that scene with more detail and in your face graphics. That's odd though because AIRPORT 1970 had a budget of $10million five years earlier...Due to that film's success, shouldn't this one have had at least the same or bigger budget? Didn't even have half its predecessor.

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[–] juanmonge69 16 years ago

All the money went to pay all the kitschy character actors.

[–] jconn426 13 years ago

Over at 20th Century-Fox, the producers of "The Planet of the Apes" films kept cutting the budget back with each picture. I guess they figured they could get by on the strength of the previous movies. Seems like the Airport movies were the victims of the same sort of thinking.

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