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.
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!
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.
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 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
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!
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!
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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
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 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.
Agreed DF, because you have to see the mission as an incredible longshot also, how many Russians die helping him. Which is played out in the base house when he arrives and Baranovich tells him, the escape plan. Soon as Baranovich explains they're gonna set a small fire in the hanger and Mitchell Gant asks what will happen to them and Baranovich says "it doesn't matter". Outraged, he asks why he doesn''t resent the Mi6 in London ordering them to their death and Baranovich explains the harshness of their life and says "if I feel resentment towards London it is a small thing compared to my resentment towards the KGB. At that point Gant knows he can't fail. When he succeeds, the victory is that much sweeter.
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..
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.
It's usually the casting director that picks the actors. They do an initial read, then get a callback. Because Clint directed this one, maybe he did help select them too in the second reading. I agree, the supporting cast was brilliant as well. Very believable.
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!
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
Magoid is right both the Hunt for Red October dialogue and the book/movie are a reference to Viktor Belenko's defection in 1976. Also, the FIrefox doesn't look much like the Mig25. However I thought I read somewhere, the set builders made a modified version of the Mig29 Fulcrum, which saw service a year later in the USSR (1983).
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.
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.
Easily, the most historically acurate depiction of the USSR to date. This should be a 'must watch' for any History Major in every Ivy League University. America owes you eternal gratitude Major Sergeant Colonel Private. Wayne, sir yes sir comrade !
When he ran into the patroll dog his Russian was so terrible that the only thing I understood was that he called the dog a "cow" 😂, like : " Get your cow out off my face seargent" 😂😂😂 Otherwise, loved that movie when I first seen it 25 years ago, love it still.
I actually felt i was Clint whenever i slid my bicycle between a street post and a gutter, with but inches to clear my wheel on either side. It was my way of mimicking the way he flew the jet in between two cliffs! I was so thrilled back then each time I pulled it off! Now I feel really dumb having taken the risk! Well I was just 10 that time, so I guess I could cut myself some slack! 😁😁😁 But i really love this movie! 👍👍👍
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
@@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.
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
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!
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 😂❤
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.
The phones are probably listening to without us even knowing it.
Exactly! Just last week, I thought of this movie, never looking it up or Googling it and here it is on my feed! O_o
@ Were you thinking in Russian? LOL.
A totally underrated film. Their work on how the Soviet Union looked and felt in the 80's is incredible. All the actors on both sides nail it.
I read the book first, and the film pretty well matched it.
Nailed the Russian language dialogue too.
Hidden gem. For a boy in the 80’s this was straight aviation PORN.
大笑いしました！
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
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
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.
My brother loved this brilliant underrated 80s classic Clint Eastwood film
Firefox back in the day
Even in 2024
Timeless gem
Awesome 😊
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!
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 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)
😅
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!
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!
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???
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.
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.
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?
and the drive in.....
Almost like a cult classic, but very underrated. All of the silence and darkness really captures the 80s cold war vibes.
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.
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
@@Cybo-Man
no doubt - and your model doesn't even achieve 'trans-sonic' am i right?
Another great Clint flick. Saw this with my father in the theater. He loved cold war movies.
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.
Classic. I appreciate the slow build up of tension.
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.😂😂😂
Actually met Mr. Eastwood during the filming of this movie when stationed at Edwards Air Force Base.
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.
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
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.😂😂😂
It's a slow burn, but an awesome movie!
Always loved that one line "Smoke it!"
You mean “simple?”
@@simpleman5688 huh?
All the memories shared in the comments here ❤️ Isn’t this how the internet should be?
I am sorry for everyones loss, my condolences
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.
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I remember seeing this in the theater -- I think my dad took me -- I was 13. What a different time that was.
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...
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
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 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.
Agreed DF, because you have to see the mission as an incredible longshot also, how many Russians die helping him. Which is played out in the base house when he arrives and Baranovich tells him, the escape plan. Soon as Baranovich explains they're gonna set a small fire in the hanger and Mitchell Gant asks what will happen to them and Baranovich says "it doesn't matter". Outraged, he asks why he doesn''t resent the Mi6 in London ordering them to their death and Baranovich explains the harshness of their life and says "if I feel resentment towards London it is a small thing compared to my resentment towards the KGB. At that point Gant knows he can't fail. When he succeeds, the victory is that much sweeter.
Loved the book by Craig Thomas, Absolutely loved the film and Clint did a great job.
Clint looks like an alien when he walks fully dressed with the helmet on. A real action movie here !
A much underrated Cold War movie. Love it.
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.
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.
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..
I still remember when a special showing was made of "Firefox" at the San Diego Aerospace Museum.
"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.
13:00 Once again Captain Piett lets his prey escape...
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
Let the force be with you
Captain Piet😅
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.
It's usually the casting director that picks the actors. They do an initial read, then get a callback. Because Clint directed this one, maybe he did help select them too in the second reading. I agree, the supporting cast was brilliant as well. Very believable.
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?
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
Still a great movie , eastwood is a legend actor.
The charisma of Clint is incredible.
One of my favourites.......it's soo relevant still.....it's almost a saga.
I love that Eastwood doesn't even attempt a Russian accent!
Saw this in theaters, this is peak Cold War action suspense!
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?
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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
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.
seriously good scene in a seriously good movie, nice one Clint!
I have the movie and watch it over and over. With me right now on the road as a truck driver.
Shiny side up.
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.
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.
Wow! I haven’t thought of this film in years!! Awesome!
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.
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@perryfefchuk637 🫡
Return of the Jedi
This poor competent commander gets bamboozled twice in 2 years.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Magoid is right both the Hunt for Red October dialogue and the book/movie are a reference to Viktor Belenko's defection in 1976. Also, the FIrefox doesn't look much like the Mig25. However I thought I read somewhere, the set builders made a modified version of the Mig29 Fulcrum, which saw service a year later in the USSR (1983).
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 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.
I was a Drive-in theatre Manager when it came out. Great movie!
Still my favorite movie. I used to dream about stealing the MiG-31.
Impeccable Russian with a FANTASTIC DIALECT done by Clint.
Thanks for getting it.
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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.
I was a kid when I read the book, the movie was a good approximation. Clint makes everything work
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...
Easily, the most historically acurate depiction of the USSR to date.
This should be a 'must watch' for any History Major in every Ivy League University.
America owes you eternal gratitude Major Sergeant Colonel Private. Wayne, sir yes sir comrade !
This was always a classic to me. Wasn't perfect but good enough.
When he ran into the patroll dog his Russian was so terrible that the only thing I understood was that he called the dog a "cow" 😂, like : " Get your cow out off my face seargent" 😂😂😂
Otherwise, loved that movie when I first seen it 25 years ago, love it still.
One of my favourite Eastwood movies
I actually felt i was Clint whenever i slid my bicycle between a street post and a gutter, with but inches to clear my wheel on either side. It was my way of mimicking the way he flew the jet in between two cliffs! I was so thrilled back then each time I pulled it off! Now I feel really dumb having taken the risk! Well I was just 10 that time, so I guess I could cut myself some slack! 😁😁😁 But i really love this movie! 👍👍👍
I've watched this movie 100 times
I loved this movie as a child. Watching it again I notice many problems with this movie, but damn, I still love this movie.
It’s kinda fun critiquing old movies that we know by heart, as we all have 20/20 hindsight. “White Christmas” got the treatment this year!
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
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
I was so happy when they remastered this into 1080. 😎
Jet Engines, or ornamental Patio Burners? 🤣
Watched this movie as a teen still one of his best imo
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.
"You have to think in Russian" Always killed me even as a kid.
I watched this movie with my when I was a young teen, I remeber it so vividly. He was a big Clint Eastwood fan. RIP dad.
Me too, possibly the last film he took me to see at the cinema RIP dad.
I have no explanation why this movie still creeps into my head all these years later.
Brilliant movie. Loved it when I saw it as a kid. Used to have the Firefox F7 tabletop game.
"Shoot the tyres!"
Proceed to shoot like Stormtroopers.
"Aw, you guys. Always kidding around."
Great film! I need to go watch it all now!
First watched Firefox at an early age like 8...best film in the days of growing up..❤
I was never sneaky enough to pull off such a stunt. I left those things alone. Still alive today
My fav part of the film is when they figure out why Gant is there. "He cannot be here for that!"