Yep, I drag it out every couple of years -- it's an action movie to be sure with a major Hollywood spin; but has a good story in case anyone sorta remembers the cold war... when it was truly cold
I agree. People born after 1980 don't have a concept of the cold war and what it was about. I showed this to my adult nephew (he's a combat vet in his forties but born in 1982) and he thought the movie was terrible. He just didn't seem to appreciate that back then the Soviet Union really was a scary place to be if you were a foreign agent. All the build up of Clint dealing with the KGB shadows and agents before he gets the plane was completely lost on him. When I was kid watching this in the theater I found it quite a thriller before it became an action film!
I actually went to the movies with my wife (RIP) to watch this in Los Angeles when it first came out. Loved it then. Love it now more than forty years later.
This scene is so emotional - just like the book ; all is lost, everyone shot, but in the moment of total despair just before death, Baranovich looks and with a last breadth sees Grant in the pilot suit walking and dies knowing they will likely succeed - I love how the music changes and goes quiet - just epic - gets me every time!
Actually, in the book, Baranovich never knew that Gant made it to the plane. He died before he got to the plane. The movie added this fact to make the emotional connection more complete.
My one disappointment was the final fight scene. In the book he is thinking, “I wish I had a missile I could shoot backwards.” The thought-controlled system dutifully ejected a flare which got sucked into the other engine. It was all accidental. In the movie he not only did it on purpose, but they tried to add suspense by making him “think in Russian,” whatever that means. Still a decent approximation of the book.
@@diamondbill7556 That's just a minor detail, but I know what you mean about a change at the wrong time. It's like when I saw The Hunt for Red October in the theater, I was so looking forward to Ramius ramming the V.K. Konovalov, but ended up with the rather cheesy scene where they're hit by their own torpedo - though the scene with Dallas luring the torpedo and then doing the emergency surface was outstanding, I still would have preferred the book's ending with the ramming!
@@camschuster5947 Some elements of truth seem so very spurious and elusive it seem nearly impossible to get a clear fix on what our loving freedom of speech actually entails. The virtual reality of our language has the potential to lead us down the deadly path of negative thinking. A linguistics professor at Harvard was lecturing his class and he said, "...in English, a double negative forms a positive. However, in some other languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative ." If your reality is just an epistemological reflection of your political narrative, the truth will shatter your reality. Even the very nature of Biblical Truth can be so very fickle. When we go back to Genesis we read of God asking the man, ""Where are you?"" But it's not like God did not know where Adam was. Some would say God was lying when He asked that question. Others would say God was testing the man when He asked that question. Still others would say God was the conscience of the man questioning his own actions. Like it or not, there does seem to be some hidden spectrum of truth which requires faith to see, There must be some Rainbow Spectrum of Truth Frequencies between Absolute Truth and Nuanced Truth, like a Rainbow Bridge of Truth. I am reminded of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies.
I remember this sitting in the hanger in Cut Bank, MT when I was a kid. My father had his plane in the same hanger so he had access. He drove me out saying he wanted to show me something cool. As a kid, walking into the hanger and seeing the Firefox sitting there thinking it was real was pretty mind blowing. I remember it being all wood and If I recall it had small engine inside on the back with a chain to a gear on the main gear wheels on one side so they could taxi it around. It had controls for it about the center of the plane. It was pretty neat seeing all the fake icebergs, dry ice lines for the fog and submarine sail set up in the field at the airport. For a town that got massive snow fall at any given time every couple days during winter we didn't get snow for 3 weeks. The production crew got tired of waiting and packed it all up and went to Glasgow, MT. The night they left, we got 18" of snow. lol
A forgotten classic and rarely played on Television . A phase in time with aircraft , we had blue thunder & of course air wolf & this brilliant Clint performance
This is crazy. I was just thinking about this movie the other day. Didn’t say it out loud, didn’t talk about it, didn’t google it. Now here is a video in my feed about it. Our phones are now reading our minds.
I know what you mean I saw this movie with my brother and wife Little did I know that within 5 years I would have both taken from me RIP Seeing this clip brought back to me the fracility of our lives and how you are alive one minute and gone forever the next
Watched this aboard a ferry crossing from Zeebrugge to Felixstowe during a severe North Sea gale. The pitching of the ship added another dimension to the flying scenes!
Me too on HBO I must’ve watched it 20 times anything Clint Eastwood from the good the bad and the ugly to any which way, but loose I was a fan of . In retrospect, I find it interesting that the film portrayed the Soviet Union in lock step with the views of the United States government. there is no doubt they were evil however the idea that our government was fighting the forces of dictatorship for democracy has been proven to be wishful thinking. In addition, that our lives were so much better as citizens the United States, as opposed to citizens of the Soviet Union, and that our economic system was clearly better does not have the same shine as it did 35 years ago.
Same here. My family did not have cable but an uncle that lived two houses down did. I remember watching it multiple times at his house while him and my dad sat outside drinking beer on the weekends. All those channels run together for me so I couldn't remember if it was HBO, Showtime or the The Movie Channel.
@@doublestrokeroll It did, but there was a lot of accuracy there, as well. The Soviet Union certainly wasn't the worker's paradise most leftist morons believe it was these days. Half the free world LONGS to be ruled like Soviet style peasants - but only because they think it was a million times better than it actually was.
Filme sensacional demais. Pena que não tem na Netflix não 😮. E não achei o DVD . Um dos melhores filmes de ação de Clint de quem sou fã, apesar de estar no Brazil país onde tudo é difícil.
That is because you have zero knowledge about Soviet Union... All this scene is like a bad amateur theatre play from 19th century about 20th century. A really bad one. Zero realism and zero knowledge on what they film. But I think it does the job. Represents us as evil idiots and successfully dehumanizes us and that is why you all like it.
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Yup. Ironically, while the Soviets were very good at making planes as a whole, their electronics were 20 years behind. They did have amazing electronic projects like the OGAS system and first Pentium processors were based on research by former Soviet engineers hired by Intel, but practical execution of new designs got stuck in early 70s due to bureaucracy and inherent problems of centrally planned economy.
I first saw it on TV when I was a kid. My mate said I should watch it. I had a small portable with rabbit ears and was hooked. And on a school night too! Mum found the book in a charity shop a few days later which I still have.
You know AI is getting a little too creepy when yesterday you are simply "thinking" about a good movie you saw years ago, and it pops up 1st on your suggested RUclips feed today. Didn't talk, search, nothing - just a thinking about a memory.
this could be done without a model, simply marks you with other people pf similar intrests, then when they dive in a nostalgia wave every once in while, the algorithm takes note and delivers you those contents before you even think of looking for
Me & my brothers saw this movie at the Media Theater for $1 in 1983. We loved it, stayed & watched the 2nd showing. What a great theater, Art Deco design, it would show newish movies 6 months after their initial release. We saw many great movies there. Stripes, For Your Eyes Only, Arthur, An Officer & A Gentleman, Tron..
This was one of the first movies to have an arcade video game, of the same name, simultaneously show-up in the video arcades. The video game, of course, was based on the movie.
@@CantankerousDave For _Star Wars,_ going to the trouble to put a dedicated video arcade game INTO nearly every video arcade location makes sense, because _Star Wars_ was a blockbuster movie. _Firefox,_ on the other hand, was NO blockbuster.
It's Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark. He's a Good Guy! His scene in RotLA in the tent with the coat hanger is hilarious. Rest in peace, Mr. Ronald Lacey. You were one of the greats.
A very good film. The thing I admire most about Firefox is that while Clint does take center stage in the inevitable flight of the titular aircraft, he's picked a great cast of actors to make the spy part of the film shine brightly. I'm only sad that Firefox Down was never made. Even an animated adaptation would be welcome.
I saw FIREFOX in 1982 at the Bitburg Air Base movie house while stationed at nearby Pruem Air Station, north of Bitburg. What made it memorable was that the projector bulb kept flickering throughout the entire feature. Two years later I was stationed at Mill Valley Air Force Station, and one evening ABC was showing the Clint Eastwood thriller in a three-hour broadcast slot in 1984. Well, I taped it off the air and dubbed it later on, leaving out the commercials. ABC showed the entire movie, and I got plenty of thrills. The visual effects were great, but it was Clint Eastwood who anchored the film all the way.
I know this film, I have been re-watching this film for several years now. For me, this is the only film with Clint Eastwood that I not only watched to the end, but also re-watched 5 or 6 times already. A very stylish film, for my taste.
Careful what you wish for, they would ruin it if they made a remake today. Not sure if Clint is up to doing it as he is gettin old. But Clint is still a timeless classic in his own right.
This movie freaked me out as a kid. The cold war was at its peak, everything about the USSR was depicted so ominously and dark. They really did a good job building tension in this.
I remember my moms driving all over town to find this movie playing. Finally found a showing at the 4 screen movie theater in the middle of a shopping Plaza parking lot. One of the coolest 2 hours a 7 year old could have
An awesome film. Then and still is now. I think one of the scientist technicians with the glasses was one of the SS officers in Raiders of the Lost Ark!
Fun Fact: The basic design of the fictional Firefox in this movie was almost identical to the real XB-70 Valkyrie bomber that was designed, built, and flight tested in the mid to late 1950's and intended for use by the Air Force.
@@johncampbell3979 Look again. The Firefox looks nothing like the SR-71 while having the same basic canards and drop winglets of the Valkyrie. (Just FYI: I was in the Air Force and got to see the Blackbird up close.)
I remember as a kid wanting to watch only the action scenes but they make no sense without watching everything that comes before. This is a movie you need to watch it all, is so good.
One of the coolest looking fictional planes ever to be put on film. And at the end Captain Piett had the same look on his face when the Firefox took off as he had when the Millennium Falcon went into hyperspace at the end of Empire Strikes Back
The hilarious part of this is that while this was being filmed, the USA had the SR-71 and F-117 in active service, while the B-2 and F-22 were in design phase..... The Soviets never had anything even remotely close to ANY of those.
A bit of Polish at 1:02 can be heard in the background - _jeszcze raz_ which means "again", whereas Russian would be _yeshsho raz_ - it might be they had trouble finding actual Russians and got a Pole or two to stand in instead (I have noticed this in other films).
@@maxgluteus4263 Grammatically, yes. A lot. Vocabulary maybe 40-45% shared. To set it in context, Italian and Spanish are about 70% shared vocabulary, which is enough for speakers of each to vaguely understand one another. Erwin Weit, the Polish-German interpreter for Polish party chief Gomulka, noted that when talks were being held with East German counterpart Ulbricht. Weit sensed that Ulbricht, a fluent Russian speaker after many years in Moscow, could understand something of the Polish Gomulka was speaking before Weit translated - just because of some Polish-Russian similarities.
@@stevekaczynski3793 thank you for your info! I can tell your last name is Polish, I hope Polish and Russian can get along given there are so much similarities
Remember the book cover with the nose, canards, an intake and a TSR2 style wing appearing out of a cloud?.. As a young lad whose uncle was RAF and took me to every Airshow I was obsessed with fighter aircraft and saved pocket money to get the book on that image alone! P.S. anyone remember the sit-in arcade game? That cost me a LOT of pocket/birthday/Christmas money!
Fun fact: the Russian scientist who gets executed is Englishman Ronald Lacey. He is best known for playing Toht - the black trench coat wearing Nazi henchman in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. The other scientist who helps Gant at 10:15 is English actor Nigel Hawthorne. He did hundreds of roles on stage and screen and is probably best known for playing Sly’s nemesis - Dr. Cocteau in “The Demolition Man”.
The summer of 82. The cigarette smoke was thick in the theater when I took my dad to see this movie. I had just turned 50, and my dad was 73. We are both still alive and kicking and still talk about this movie often.
If movies have taught is anything, is that people outside the US talk to each other in accented English when Americans aren’t around. When Americans are around, the locals speak the local language - badly.
I lived in Alaska when this came out, and at the beginning where it says somewhere in Alaska on the screen the whole treater cheered. I was 9 at the time I loved this movie then and still today.
@@FIREBRAND38Nah. The ice floe refueling was perfectly feasible, as was the Soviets sending the second one after him. And this one was absolutely possible. Infiltration and theft, assisted by inside players. Happens every day.
as an 80s kid the arcade game for this movie was absolutely epic! the graphics where far better than most of the other black background screens at the time.
That's because it was a LaserDisc game...the only computer generated effects were the cursor and the rings of the bullets...ruclips.net/user/shortsFPoLiZ6uobA
The sounds when he starts the engines sound realistic. 1. APU starts up. 2. APU starts spinning engine 3. Engine 1 is spooling up. 4. APU switches to engine 2. 5. Engine 2 spools up. 6. All engines running. Of course the tail plugs would've blown out way before they're shown but I love that attention to detail.
I honestly think Firefox is one of Eastwood’s most underrated films.
Not underatted
Yep, I drag it out every couple of years -- it's an action movie to be sure with a major Hollywood spin; but has a good story in case anyone sorta remembers the cold war... when it was truly cold
I love it
I wish they had made the follow up to the book 'Firefox Down'
I agree. People born after 1980 don't have a concept of the cold war and what it was about. I showed this to my adult nephew (he's a combat vet in his forties but born in 1982) and he thought the movie was terrible. He just didn't seem to appreciate that back then the Soviet Union really was a scary place to be if you were a foreign agent. All the build up of Clint dealing with the KGB shadows and agents before he gets the plane was completely lost on him. When I was kid watching this in the theater I found it quite a thriller before it became an action film!
I actually went to the movies with my wife (RIP) to watch this in Los Angeles when it first came out. Loved it then. Love it now more than forty years later.
I'm so sorry for your loss.. same here.
I saw this in la..at the Sherman oaks galleria when it came out
@@carypyke935Love lives on forever. ❤❤
I watched on the TV ,but I loved it just like your guys😊
When movies were actually good
This movie convinced me to download and install the Firefox browser.
woow good one
Yes, because they have become just as oppressive as the Soviets
@@knerduno5942 Now just a minute....!
@@knerduno5942 Firefox is the not oppressive one. Chrome is the one keeping you from installing the good extensions (like ad blockers)
😅
My brother loved this brilliant underrated 80s classic Clint Eastwood film
Firefox back in the day
Even in 2024
Timeless gem
Awesome 😊
You are in command now Admiral Piett!
@@Hungryman97sCollectibles lol more likely a firing squad here
Another awesome film, TESB!
Everyone can get promoted if you are under the guy who came out of light speed too close to a targeted star system.
"Thank You Lord Vader."
He is as clumsy as he is stupid…
This scene is so emotional - just like the book ; all is lost, everyone shot, but in the moment of total despair just before death, Baranovich looks and with a last breadth sees Grant in the pilot suit walking and dies knowing they will likely succeed - I love how the music changes and goes quiet - just epic - gets me every time!
😂so agree ..gets me every time
Actually, in the book, Baranovich never knew that Gant made it to the plane. He died before he got to the plane. The movie added this fact to make the emotional connection more complete.
The tension and acting are very underrated throughout the movie. That scene you mentioned has it all.
Agree - watched this decades ago and still remember the scene where he died just after seeing the plane fly overhead knowing they succeeded
Sorry it’s Gant 😂❤
I was a kid when I read the book, the movie was a good approximation. Clint makes everything work better.
Did you read Firefox Down as well?
@@davidscott820
That wasnt bad either but I hardly remember it.
@@davidscott820 No, and I haven't even heard of it. Thanks, I will look it up
My one disappointment was the final fight scene. In the book he is thinking, “I wish I had a missile I could shoot backwards.” The thought-controlled system dutifully ejected a flare which got sucked into the other engine. It was all accidental. In the movie he not only did it on purpose, but they tried to add suspense by making him “think in Russian,” whatever that means. Still a decent approximation of the book.
@@diamondbill7556 That's just a minor detail, but I know what you mean about a change at the wrong time. It's like when I saw The Hunt for Red October in the theater, I was so looking forward to Ramius ramming the V.K. Konovalov, but ended up with the rather cheesy scene where they're hit by their own torpedo - though the scene with Dallas luring the torpedo and then doing the emergency surface was outstanding, I still would have preferred the book's ending with the ramming!
The only movie I have purchased in full on RUclips. Absolute classic. “Think in Russian.”
@@camschuster5947 Some elements of truth seem so very spurious and elusive it seem nearly impossible to get a clear fix on what our loving freedom of speech
actually entails. The virtual reality of our language has the potential to lead us down the deadly path of negative thinking. A linguistics professor at Harvard was lecturing his class and he said, "...in English, a double negative forms a positive. However, in some other languages, such as Russian, a double
negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative ."
If your reality is just an epistemological reflection of your political narrative, the truth will shatter your reality. Even the very nature of Biblical Truth can be
so very fickle. When we go back to Genesis we read of God asking the man, ""Where are you?"" But it's not like God did not know where Adam was. Some
would say God was lying when He asked that question. Others would say God was testing the man when He asked that question. Still others would say God
was the conscience of the man questioning his own actions.
Like it or not, there does seem to be some hidden spectrum of truth which requires faith to see, There must be some Rainbow Spectrum of Truth Frequencies
between Absolute Truth and Nuanced Truth, like a Rainbow Bridge of Truth. I am reminded of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies.
I remember this sitting in the hanger in Cut Bank, MT when I was a kid. My father had his plane in the same hanger so he had access. He drove me out saying he wanted to show me something cool. As a kid, walking into the hanger and seeing the Firefox sitting there thinking it was real was pretty mind blowing. I remember it being all wood and If I recall it had small engine inside on the back with a chain to a gear on the main gear wheels on one side so they could taxi it around. It had controls for it about the center of the plane. It was pretty neat seeing all the fake icebergs, dry ice lines for the fog and submarine sail set up in the field at the airport. For a town that got massive snow fall at any given time every couple days during winter we didn't get snow for 3 weeks. The production crew got tired of waiting and packed it all up and went to Glasgow, MT. The night they left, we got 18" of snow. lol
wow, that's an amazing story! Very cool
I had no idea this part was filmed in Montana. Filled in nicely for Mother Russia. Haha. Also, what a great childhood memory. Thx for sharing.
Awesome
My father and uncle took me to see this as they both loved Clint and thought I might enjoy this movie. I was 17 when it came out. Loved it.
A forgotten classic and rarely played on Television . A phase in time with aircraft , we had blue thunder & of course air wolf & this brilliant Clint performance
First Time I Saw This Movie, I Was Blown Away. FIREFOX, What A Machine, Awesome😊.
yeah, always loved this one as a Kid in the 80s / 90s
Me too!
This is crazy. I was just thinking about this movie the other day. Didn’t say it out loud, didn’t talk about it, didn’t google it. Now here is a video in my feed about it. Our phones are now reading our minds.
I've watched this film over ten times now, I loved it back in the 80s and still do.
Especially The Uncut version.
only 10 ? lol
But yeah, one of my all time Favorites from the 80s for sure!
Great film, very underated
I think I liked it as a kid but then I grew up and figured out it's was just nonsense American propaganda.
Movie name???
Watched this in the drive inn. With my uncle and cousin. Good memories, both gone now ❤
I know what you mean I saw this movie with my brother and wife Little did I know that within 5 years I would have both taken from me RIP Seeing this clip brought back to me the fracility of our lives and how you are alive one minute and gone forever the next
@@michaelnaisbitt7926 Very sorry to hear that. May God continue to comfort you.
@@michaelnaisbitt7926 how did they croak?
He speaks perfect English to the guards and no one suspects him as a spy, love the old movies
There wasn't much point in him speaking Russian when the cinema audience couldn't understand the dialogue 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, because speaking perfect russian in an american movie would get everyone involved anywhere.
I was thinking the very same thing.
at least the Americans didn't send a black guy this time
Bugs me every time. At least give him a Russian accent.
Almost like a cult classic, but very underrated. All of the silence and darkness really captures the 80s cold war vibes.
Watched this aboard a ferry crossing from Zeebrugge to Felixstowe during a severe North Sea gale. The pitching of the ship added another dimension to the flying scenes!
An all star cast for the senior members and an exceptional cold war era based thriller, excellent design for the plane too
Stefan Schnabel simply owns his role. Nigel Hawthorne also.
all those right angles at the nose/cockpit? that alone makes it a trans-sonic bird like the F-111
Ive seen an RC scale version of this plane and it flies beautifully
@@MasterMayhem78
no doubt - and your model doesn't even achieve 'trans-sonic' am i right?
Hidden gem. For a boy in the 80’s this was straight aviation PORN.
Here in Brazil we watched it on TV in the 80s.
I remember my mother "RIP" checking to see if I had already gone to sleep.
I was flying the MIG31.
Another great Clint flick. Saw this with my father in the theater. He loved cold war movies.
I remember watching Firefox on HBO when I was a kid. This film captured the dark backdrop of early the 1980’s Soviet Union perfectly.
Me too on HBO I must’ve watched it 20 times anything Clint Eastwood from the good the bad and the ugly to any which way, but loose I was a fan of . In retrospect, I find it interesting that the film portrayed the Soviet Union in lock step with the views of the United States government. there is no doubt they were evil however the idea that our government was fighting the forces of dictatorship for democracy has been proven to be wishful thinking. In addition, that our lives were so much better as citizens the United States, as opposed to citizens of the Soviet Union, and that our economic system was clearly better does not have the same shine as it did 35 years ago.
Same here. My family did not have cable but an uncle that lived two houses down did. I remember watching it multiple times at his house while him and my dad sat outside drinking beer on the weekends. All those channels run together for me so I couldn't remember if it was HBO, Showtime or the The Movie Channel.
You mean it captured US propaganda perfectly. Still flies over the heads of most americans as judging by the comments here.
@@doublestrokeroll It did, but there was a lot of accuracy there, as well. The Soviet Union certainly wasn't the worker's paradise most leftist morons believe it was these days. Half the free world LONGS to be ruled like Soviet style peasants - but only because they think it was a million times better than it actually was.
А ты был в Советском Союзе? Фон там был в то время нормальный...Даже в армии.😂😂😂
God, I loved this movie as a kid.
Filme sensacional demais. Pena que não tem na Netflix não 😮. E não achei o DVD . Um dos melhores filmes de ação de Clint de quem sou fã, apesar de estar no Brazil país onde tudo é difícil.
Same! I watched it over and over again!
Michael: Amen 🙏
Hey Kid, this is God, thank you for the comment...
we had the best stuff as Kids in the 80s...
This was such a perfect Cold War film. More serious than Red Heat, but still astonishingly good. Clint’s Russian was not horrible.
Это кинокомедия похлеще,чем кино с Чарли Чаплиным...😂😂😂
@ Может быть но не согласен.
@@Jabberwok28 с чем несогласен?Ну,хорошо, не Чаплин, Савелий Крамаров.😂😂😂
the casting for the KGB and resistant characters was excellent in this movie, they were very convincing.
that's what 80 years of propaganda convinced you of!!! I find none of it convincing in the slightest! Rambo 3 is better than that!
That is because you have zero knowledge about Soviet Union... All this scene is like a bad amateur theatre play from 19th century about 20th century. A really bad one. Zero realism and zero knowledge on what they film.
But I think it does the job. Represents us as evil idiots and successfully dehumanizes us and that is why you all like it.
app knows word kanaan along lobbies real name eveyr pin of madhba palces since 650 yeras .......along we alla re no pas sno trianned .......along ....non bslim countries no exists all the wolrds media and net owlrd is amde ........1 man show along vocie fr lingo .....x-mass too this yera we will ..........and 100 percent budget o f all countries we since 650 yeras ...race by rca e...in ur armas .....nakie livers as ur arma............kings to all installed........sit......in serahc of fb will do all in details......laong u alls to all app cn ain this .....channle .......see all gaming page sor nchatting are gone..........city spread is ..lefto........along dmas grids..........komlla app apllied on ur oms gate for untiy...............shais all human covers like armas..all...........
Actually met Mr. Eastwood during the filming of this movie when stationed at Edwards Air Force Base.
WB needs to release the full length version on Blu-ray.
With modernized special effects please ! A lot of them didn't age very well. Just rewatched the movie 2 weeks ago.
Classic. I appreciate the slow build up of tension.
I've always loved that there was a real MiG-31 in the 80s that looked nothing like this lol
Yup. Ironically, while the Soviets were very good at making planes as a whole, their electronics were 20 years behind. They did have amazing electronic projects like the OGAS system and first Pentium processors were based on research by former Soviet engineers hired by Intel, but practical execution of new designs got stuck in early 70s due to bureaucracy and inherent problems of centrally planned economy.
Why does that make you laugh out loud? Odd, that.
@@thesweeples3266lol
Yup. The pug. Ugly as hell but a good jet.
Damn if they cockpit area is the same as an f117??? This was a few years before the unveiling of the f117?? Somebody got some inside info
It's a slow burn, but an awesome movie!
Always loved that one line "Smoke it!"
I first saw it on TV when I was a kid. My mate said I should watch it. I had a small portable with rabbit ears and was hooked. And on a school night too! Mum found the book in a charity shop a few days later which I still have.
You know AI is getting a little too creepy when yesterday you are simply "thinking" about a good movie you saw years ago, and it pops up 1st on your suggested RUclips feed today. Didn't talk, search, nothing - just a thinking about a memory.
this could be done without a model, simply marks you with other people pf similar intrests, then when they dive in a nostalgia wave every once in while, the algorithm takes note and delivers you those contents before you even think of looking for
That's because you thought in Russian.
That's because you are AI. Just organic.
Did you watch any Eastwood or similar movies?
GOOD! THINK OFB SOME HOT MOMMA PORN ON RUclips, THINK IT HARD AND SEE WHAT COME'S ON RUclips FOR IT OVER THE WEEKEND!! 😎☝
My fav part of the film is when they figure out why Gant is there. "He cannot be here for that!"
Every time I try to Google this movie, all I get are searches for the Firefox browser. A definite favorite of mine.
got to include mig 31 in the search
have you tried "firefox movie" by chance?
All the memories shared in the comments here ❤️ Isn’t this how the internet should be?
I am sorry for everyones loss, my condolences
13:00 Once again Captain Piett lets his prey escape...
Me & my brothers saw this movie at the Media Theater for $1 in 1983. We loved it, stayed & watched the 2nd showing. What a great theater, Art Deco design, it would show newish movies 6 months after their initial release. We saw many great movies there. Stripes, For Your Eyes Only, Arthur, An Officer & A Gentleman, Tron..
At least he got to see Gant go for the plane before he died.
In the novel he didn't .
@@raven-jn8yn
Yeah. That was cold.
A much underrated Cold War movie. Love it.
I remember seeing this in the theater -- I think my dad took me -- I was 13. What a different time that was.
Saw this in theaters, this is peak Cold War action suspense!
This was one of the first movies to have an arcade video game, of the same name, simultaneously show-up in the video arcades. The video game, of course, was based on the movie.
A laserdisc game, no less. Used the same controller as the Star Wars arcade game.
@@CantankerousDave For _Star Wars,_ going to the trouble to put a dedicated video arcade game INTO nearly every video arcade location makes sense, because _Star Wars_ was a blockbuster movie. _Firefox,_ on the other hand, was NO blockbuster.
@@JohnBerry-q1hBut the game WAS. That was tge OG fighter game. Very advanced for the time.
Hey, that soviet colonel is one of Darth Vader's subordinates, LOL
Empire pay isn't what it used to be. Material losses you know.
Admiral Piet====>Colonel Privyet
It's Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark. He's a Good Guy!
His scene in RotLA in the tent with the coat hanger is hilarious.
Rest in peace, Mr. Ronald Lacey. You were one of the greats.
"Gant, can you fly that plane? Really fly it?" "Yeah, I can fly it. I'm the best there is."
Dim from 'A Clockwork Orange' decided to become a Soviet dissident after his life of droog ultra-violence came to an end.
A very good film. The thing I admire most about Firefox is that while Clint does take center stage in the inevitable flight of the titular aircraft, he's picked a great cast of actors to make the spy part of the film shine brightly.
I'm only sad that Firefox Down was never made. Even an animated adaptation would be welcome.
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Star wars
@perryfefchuk637 🫡
Return of the Jedi
This poor competent commander gets bamboozled twice in 2 years.
I saw FIREFOX in 1982 at the Bitburg Air Base movie house while stationed at nearby Pruem Air Station, north of Bitburg. What made it memorable was that the projector bulb kept flickering throughout the entire feature. Two years later I was stationed at Mill Valley Air Force Station, and one evening ABC was showing the Clint Eastwood thriller in a three-hour broadcast slot in 1984. Well, I taped it off the air and dubbed it later on, leaving out the commercials. ABC showed the entire movie, and I got plenty of thrills. The visual effects were great, but it was Clint Eastwood who anchored the film all the way.
One of his best movies, I have watched this maybe a thousand times.
Still a great movie , eastwood is a legend actor.
I know this film, I have been re-watching this film for several years now. For me, this is the only film with Clint Eastwood that I not only watched to the end, but also re-watched 5 or 6 times already. A very stylish film, for my taste.
I am 48 years old, I watched this when I was a kid, patiently waiting for a remake
Clint controls the rights. He may be close to doing it. That's one of the ones he's indicated he'd like to have an update to.
Same here as a kid, I was just in awe of the plane.
Why? It’d be all woke and suck like everything Hollywood puts out these days.
Careful what you wish for, they would ruin it if they made a remake today. Not sure if Clint is up to doing it as he is gettin old. But Clint is still a timeless classic in his own right.
No more remakes! It’s all Hollywood does anymore. They end up ruining everything they touch.
This is my first view of this video. Although I have been a fan of Clint Eastwood for years, i hadn’t heard or seen Firefox. Great action movie.
I was a kid when I read the book, the movie was a good approximation. Clint makes everything work
Wow! I haven’t thought of this film in years!! Awesome!
This movie freaked me out as a kid. The cold war was at its peak, everything about the USSR was depicted so ominously and dark. They really did a good job building tension in this.
I still remember when a special showing was made of "Firefox" at the San Diego Aerospace Museum.
One of my favourite spy films and it’s aged very well. Watched this many times whilst staying over at my grandparents when I was younger.
One of my favourites.......it's soo relevant still.....it's almost a saga.
I remember my moms driving all over town to find this movie playing. Finally found a showing at the 4 screen movie theater in the middle of a shopping Plaza parking lot. One of the coolest 2 hours a 7 year old could have
An awesome film. Then and still is now. I think one of the scientist technicians with the glasses was one of the SS officers in Raiders of the Lost Ark!
Ronald Lacey. Played Arnold Ernst Toht in Raiders
I loved this movie as a child. Watching it again I notice many problems with this movie, but damn, I still love this movie.
Fun Fact:
The basic design of the fictional Firefox in this movie was almost identical to the real XB-70 Valkyrie bomber that was designed, built, and flight tested in the mid to late 1950's and intended for use by the Air Force.
Real fact: It has a similar wing configuration. That's where the similarities end entirely.
No where near the XB-70 in design. Far closer to the Blackbird, with the exception of engine placement, which is more like the F-18.
Not even close to the XB-70 which is about 3 times the size
@@johncampbell3979
Look again. The Firefox looks nothing like the SR-71 while having the same basic canards and drop winglets of the Valkyrie.
(Just FYI: I was in the Air Force and got to see the Blackbird up close.)
More like the XF-108.. but really its own design.
Loved the book by Craig Thomas, Absolutely loved the film and Clint did a great job.
seriously good scene in a seriously good movie, nice one Clint!
I remember as a kid wanting to watch only the action scenes but they make no sense without watching everything that comes before. This is a movie you need to watch it all, is so good.
One of the coolest looking fictional planes ever to be put on film.
And at the end Captain Piett had the same look on his face when the Firefox took off as he had when the Millennium Falcon went into hyperspace at the end of Empire Strikes Back
The charisma of Clint is incredible.
The way he walked out to the Mig-31 so cool, calm, and collected in the midst of all that chaos is pure cinematic genius.
The hilarious part of this is that while this was being filmed, the USA had the SR-71 and F-117 in active service, while the B-2 and F-22 were in design phase..... The Soviets never had anything even remotely close to ANY of those.
Still my favorite movie. I used to dream about stealing the MiG-31.
A bit of Polish at 1:02 can be heard in the background - _jeszcze raz_ which means "again", whereas Russian would be _yeshsho raz_ - it might be they had trouble finding actual Russians and got a Pole or two to stand in instead (I have noticed this in other films).
Based on your spelling, Russian and polish are very similar
@@maxgluteus4263 Grammatically, yes. A lot. Vocabulary maybe 40-45% shared. To set it in context, Italian and Spanish are about 70% shared vocabulary, which is enough for speakers of each to vaguely understand one another.
Erwin Weit, the Polish-German interpreter for Polish party chief Gomulka, noted that when talks were being held with East German counterpart Ulbricht. Weit sensed that Ulbricht, a fluent Russian speaker after many years in Moscow, could understand something of the Polish Gomulka was speaking before Weit translated - just because of some Polish-Russian similarities.
@@stevekaczynski3793 thank you for your info! I can tell your last name is Polish, I hope Polish and Russian can get along given there are so much similarities
I always hoped they would turn the next book, Firefox Down, into a sequel movie. But it never happened. Too bad. It was also an excellent story...
Love this move and when was on dutch TV i watch every time when i was kid.
Am 42yr old and stil love this movie
I read the book when it came out in 77. Very exciting for a 9 year old!
yeah was a great movie back in the 80s too
There is also a sequel book.
@@julianaylor4351 Firefox Down its good as well id love that to get made into a movie sequel
@@julianaylor4351 It wasn't as exciting as the original.
Remember the book cover with the nose, canards, an intake and a TSR2 style wing appearing out of a cloud?.. As a young lad whose uncle was RAF and took me to every Airshow I was obsessed with fighter aircraft and saved pocket money to get the book on that image alone!
P.S. anyone remember the sit-in arcade game? That cost me a LOT of pocket/birthday/Christmas money!
Fun fact: the Russian scientist who gets executed is Englishman Ronald Lacey. He is best known for playing Toht - the black trench coat wearing Nazi henchman in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. The other scientist who helps Gant at 10:15 is English actor Nigel Hawthorne. He did hundreds of roles on stage and screen and is probably best known for playing Sly’s nemesis - Dr. Cocteau in “The Demolition Man”.
The summer of 82. The cigarette smoke was thick in the theater when I took my dad to see this movie. I had just turned 50, and my dad was 73. We are both still alive and kicking and still talk about this movie often.
Wow your dad is 115 and you're 92 if not one year older for either of you?
@@johnstuckaiiihis dad was 73 in 1982? That’s 42 years ago😳😳
then you slipped out of bed and woke up from your dream. Tell happy Bday to your 115yo father.
Impeccable Russian with a FANTASTIC DIALECT done by Clint.
Thanks for getting it.
I’M ON MY WAY TO RUclips STARDOM!!!
Good job speaking in English with an American accent didn’t give him away
I find it more concerning that all the guards speak fluent English with really disturbing efforts at a Russian accent.
Michael: Thanks 🙏
@@iain075it's like The hunt for Red October movie. They are on a Soviet Sub and they are speaking English . Lol. It kinda ruins the mood. Lol
@@thomaspelton7740 Hang on, the Captain is Scottish comrades!
If movies have taught is anything, is that people outside the US talk to each other in accented English when Americans aren’t around. When Americans are around, the locals speak the local language - badly.
I lived in Alaska when this came out, and at the beginning where it says somewhere in Alaska on the screen the whole treater cheered. I was 9 at the time I loved this movie then and still today.
One of my favourite Eastwood movies
I was so happy when they remastered this into 1080. 😎
I love the reference to Firefox in The Hunt for Red October.
"This isn't a pilot with a stray MiG..."
I believe that is a reference to Viktor Belenko's defection in 1976, when he brought to Japan the then brand new and secret MiG-25.
@magoid maybe so but in this context, Baldwin's character is eager to "take the boat" and the politician reminds him it's not plain sailing.
@@magoid It definitely is, but I think Firefox was also inspired by that real life incident.
@magoid
The Mig-25 was nearly a decade old at that point.. and the prototype YE-155 had actually flown way back in 1964.
I loved the book - I loved the movie, because it was just like the book. Firefox Down is another great book that should have been made into a movie!
I have the movie and watch it over and over. With me right now on the road as a truck driver.
I was a Drive-in theatre Manager when it came out. Great movie!
Great movie ! Pity there was never a film made of the 2nd book.
The sequel was even more ludicrous than the first.
Michael: Amazing 😻
I concur
@@FIREBRAND38Nah. The ice floe refueling was perfectly feasible, as was the Soviets sending the second one after him. And this one was absolutely possible. Infiltration and theft, assisted by inside players. Happens every day.
This is far and away, Eastwood's best work.
Can you really fly it, can you fly the plane........ I'm the best there is.✈️
In the book he’s even cockier than that. Talks about himself constantly
as an 80s kid the arcade game for this movie was absolutely epic! the graphics where far better than most of the other black background screens at the time.
That's because it was a LaserDisc game...the only computer generated effects were the cursor and the rings of the bullets...ruclips.net/user/shortsFPoLiZ6uobA
I was never sneaky enough to pull off such a stunt. I left those things alone. Still alive today
I have no explanation why this movie still creeps into my head all these years later.
Make it again with current day special effects. Clint might not get up the ladder .😢
The new version would be a drone he could fly it from the rest home. 😂
His son could and he looks a lot like Clint
The sounds when he starts the engines sound realistic. 1. APU starts up. 2. APU starts spinning engine 3. Engine 1 is spooling up. 4. APU switches to engine 2. 5. Engine 2 spools up. 6. All engines running. Of course the tail plugs would've blown out way before they're shown but I love that attention to detail.
Had no idea Nigel Hawthorne (as a Russian no less) was in this movie...Wow....
One of my favourite movies of all time, amazing still. Please release the extended version as a 4K please please
This was always a classic to me. Wasn't perfect but good enough.
was at Thule ab when they were there filming, Clint was pretty impressed with the B-52 G we brought in, gave him the full tour
0:29 That is one dirty windscreen