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Firefox
Posted on 4/19/10 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 4/19/10 at 1:20 pm
Anyone remember this 80s cold war classic?
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The Soviets have developed the MiG-31 - a fighter that flies at 6 times the speed of sound, is invulnerable to radar, and worst of all - has a lethally sophisticated weapons system that the pilot can control through thought impulses. As soon as the pilot detects a threat - either visually or on a scope - his thought impulses will direct a missile to that threat, without so much as pushing a button. Mass production of the MiG-31 will give the Russians a huge advantage. Vietnam veteran Mitchell Gant, a former USAF ace pilot, is smuggled into the USSR to infiltrate the Russian airbase at Bilyarsk, where the Firefox/MiG-31 is being finished, and STEAL THE FIREFOX! Gant manages to overpower Col. Voskov - the Russian test pilot - and steal the aircraft, just as the USSR's First Secretary arrives at the base. Now Gant will run the gauntlet of Russian defenses - land-based missiles, naval warships, and helicopters - and reach a refueling point from a US Navy submarine. But the Russians still have a trump card - a prototype MiG-31 - and they send it up in pursuit of Gant after he completes refueling! What follows is a harrowing, cat-and-mouse chase across the ice floes of the Arctic. Who will survive?
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Posted on 4/19/10 at 1:22 pm to Sophandros
I do
Was an odd movie. I did watch it when I was like 10
Was an odd movie. I did watch it when I was like 10
This post was edited on 4/19/10 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 4/19/10 at 1:44 pm to ccla
As a child, I thought the movie was slow as shite until he actually steals the plane.
Posted on 4/19/10 at 1:52 pm to Sophandros
Intense but somewhat slow developing movie. The main take from the movie was the impact of becoming technologically disadvantaged from a military perspective.
Posted on 4/19/10 at 3:08 pm to davesdawgs
I thought about it this morning, and I wonder:
A) How would it hold up today--did it age well?
B) Have they considered remaking it and other Cold War movies, since they're doing Red Dawn?
A) How would it hold up today--did it age well?
B) Have they considered remaking it and other Cold War movies, since they're doing Red Dawn?
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