The arrival of the T-Rex in the rain in Jurassic Parkthe successive liquefactions of the T-1000 in Terminator 2the emergence of the Millennium Falcon into the bowels of the Death Star at the end of Return of the Jedi… There are scenes that, no matter how much time passes, remain gems of cinema and new generations appreciate them in the same way that the first viewers did. But there are other sequences with which the same does not happen.
In most cases the blame for poor aging comes from the use of ‘new’ technologies. Those formats that were cutting edge in their day and that have since become quite obsolete. Air Force One houses one of those sequences with such rudimentary visual effects that they make us laugh.
The final scene of ‘Air Force One’
Air Force One It is an action movie with an unstoppable pace. Director Wolfgang Petersen did a great job with Harrison Ford as the protagonist. In case you don’t remember, Ford plays US President James Marshall. A group of terrorists infiltrate the president’s plane, where he is traveling with his wife and daughter, to kidnap them. The president, a decorated Vietnam veteran, will bring out the heavy artillery and return to war times to free his family.
After two hours of pure adrenaline, comes the impressive finale where President James Marshall takes down his attackers. As you can see in the video that you will find below these lines, the digital effects that were used to simulate the plane crash are today very outdated and the images are striking when we see them with the glasses of 2024.
Almost three decades have passed, enough for digital cinema to be something totally different. In defense of the film we will say that in the second half of the 90s there were great advances in computer generated images and thanks to those first steps today we have products like Avatar. However, we can’t help but watch the scene and wonder if viewers in 1997 believed that plane crash was realistic.
The original article appeared on our sister website AlloCine.
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