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Synopsis: Blue Thunder is a specially modified helicopter. It is for police work, but is armed and designed to counter street insurgencies. Its makers want to show what it will do, but have to train Los Angeles Police pilot Frank Murphy to fly and use it in order to allow it to operate in the city. Murphy and the project pilot have differences going back to Vietnam. The conflict between them continues to heat up as Murphy begins to suspect that Blue Thunder is more than has been disclosed.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): John Badham
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1983
109 min
1,291 Views


-How's it going?

-What's this "JAFO" sh*t?

Look up.

Look down. Look left.

Look right.

-Don't worry.

-What's JAFO?

You know what Montoya told me?

He told me you looped one

of those things. A helicopter.

He's putting me on, right?

No, he wasn't.

You actually looped a chopper?

-That's right.

-When?

When I was young and stupid.

You're telling me it was

a complete 360? Right over the top?

A full loop.

I thought that was impossible.

It is.

It's aerodynamically impossible.

Anyone who tells you any

different is a damn liar.

Now, you take the Ranger

and I'll be in my bird.

We'll have a little game.

Follow my leader.

Follow my leader.

Catch you later.

Catch you later.

Murphy, this is Cochrane.

Join formation with me, echelon

right. And keep it tight.

Roger that, colonel.

Wanna show me that loop, Murphy?

Negatory.

I thought so.

Okay, slide over to my left.

Come on, keep it tight.

Christ!

Any closer, we start eating blades.

We're following his leader.

Now push it over and pick up speed.

Follow me through

a high-speed climbing turn.

Level out at 500 feet.

All right, Mr. Murphy.

You take the lead.

Roger that.

Damn! Damn it! Sh*t!

We got a runaway!

Jeez! What was that?

Grab your ankles and kiss your ass

goodbye. We're going down.

Mayday! Mayday!

We're going down.

Willowbrook and Alameda.

Request ambulance, fire.

Shut the fuel off.

Shut the fuel off!

Head's up!

Jesus! Where'd that bus come from?

Steady. We're gonna

make a house call.

Central, this is Blue Thunder.

It seems that we have a ship down,

somewhere in the Watts area.

Are you all right?

-Are you all right?

-Yeah.

Get the hell off me!

I hope you broke your f***ing neck!

You could've killed half of my crew!

You knocked down the whole damn shack!

Get the hell out of here!

-Listen, Dick. Thanks a lot.

-Be careful.

-Take care.

-See you.

Rather a near thing today.

I heard your turbine failed.

Or was it your flying?

Back off, a**hole.

What's that I hear? Threats?

Well, what a change.

We are acting brave nowadays.

Are you threatening me, Murphy?

No, I'm telling you. Back off.

Catch you later.

-Can I see your watch?

-Sure.

You know where it is, don't you?

Are you losing weight?

Getting older too. I think you

have to turn up here.

Getting enough sleep?

Are we having two different

conversations or I am going nuts?

The train ride. The train ride.

I'll find it.

-If you don't run out of gas first.

-What?

When that needle points to empty,

it means you're out of gas.

That's broken.

We got plenty.

Mommy! You missed the train ride.

Hang on.

-Are you crazy?

-This a one-way street!

I won't tell if you won't tell!

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Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American film screenwriter, director, visual effects supervisor, and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres.O'Bannon is best known for having written the screenplay for Alien, adapted from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett. He also contributed computer animation to Star Wars, worked on cult classics such as Dark Star, Heavy Metal, and Total Recall, and wrote and directed the horror comedy The Return of the Living Dead. more…

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