Hmm, I'm having trouble coming up with just one movie...

[Jericho941]

...where the Air Force looks halfway competent. What the hell, man?

Independence Day

AWACS flies straight into a UFO's shields, because AWACS jets really need to get THAT close to something to track it. Ultimately the day is saved by a Marine, a drunk, and a President, asses all riding in Navy Equipment. From Groom Lake.

Transformers

After figuring out that we can hurt giant robots by shooting them with flechettes, we send some guys on foot with grenade launchers after them.

Transformers 2

Promoting everyone who survived the first movie, we do our damndest to get them killed again, because for some reason we need to air-drop giant robots onto towns, accompanied by humans on foot.

Amazingly, to our apparent frustration, the Air Force personnel manage to survive the movie, resulting in only a few Brits biting the bullet. Sorry NATO. We tried really hard, but when an annoying, spaz-tastic teenager survives getting directly carpet-bombed by a B-1 dropping 2,000-pound bombs, we know we just can't win this one.

Iron Man

After failing Convoy Ambush 101 so the hero of the story can feel bad, we have F-22s flying over Asskrackistan, where they'd be completely useless. They completely fail to stop a man in a flying suit, collide in midair, and then to show you that the enlisted haven't been forgotten, Egress apparently jacked up the ACES II resulting in our hero having to tug his chute out for him. Either that or we FODed the jet up. Damn.

Iron Eagle
Like you have to ask.

So, uh... can anyone think of a movie where we look good that ISN'T about the Army Air Corps?

[blackeagle603]

Beat me to it Chris.

Yeah, I'm still in love with B-39's and B-47's.

[HTRN]

Oh and the drunk in ID4 was ex Air Force, and so was the president.

Randy Quaid saved that movie from being utterly forgettable.

"Hello boys.. I'M BACK!"


HTRN

[Denis]

Dr. Strangelove?

[Rich]

Denis beat me to it.

In ID-4, wasn't that an F-16 waiting for the Fearless Leader to board, which magically transformed into an F/A-18 for the aerial scenes?

[HTRN]

In ID-4, wasn't that an F-16 waiting for the Fearless Leader to board, which magically transformed into an F/A-18 for the aerial scenes?

Stealth technology. Keeps our enemies guessing.


HTRN

[dfwmtx]

Red Dawn

[randy]

What Chris said, plus

Bat 21, which, while screwing up many of the details, did give the sense of what we were willing to do to recover one of our own.

Bombers B-52

A Gathering of Eagles

Flight From Ashiya Too much soap opera, but again, shows Air Sea Rescue doing what it takes to get the mission done. (And if you have anything snarky to say about ARRS or the PJs, run far and run fast. Once I'm done with you I'll turn the remains over to Chris and CC)

Air Force One The Eagle Drivers take the fight straight into the teeth of the Russians and take the hits the mission requires. (The rest of the movie....eh from the point of this discussion. I doubt you could find even MC-130 drivers stupid enough to do the air to air pulley thing)

Call to Glory, The original TV movie, before it went soap opera as a series. From talking to guys who where there doing it at the time, not a bad (for TV) overview of U2 ops during the Missile Crisis.

Firefox Eastwood's character was an ex USAF F-105 pilot

[jetfxr69]

I'm with Randy on Air Force One.

Of course, fact that I worked on THOSE Eagles might mean I'm a little biased. I remember the day they left for filming...

[Rich]

Blackeagle603: Yeah, I'm still in love with B-39's and B-47's.

Err, don't you mean the B-35/B-49 Flying Wing, along with the B-47?

The B-39 was a B-29 with Allison liquid cooled engines and was not produced.