Willem Dafoe Flight of the Intruder Prep Navy News This Week

[bc9021010001]

This movie cost $35,000,000 and made less than $15,000,000. Why make crap like this?

[PInk77W1]

this guy can really play a bad guy good

[FYTYTY]

I totally forgot Dafoe was in this movie!

[sucutraco1]

thanks for sharing this.

[1939PlymouthRatRod]

I love him in this and the start of a wonderful career.

[chuckolove]

I lived at Barbers Point during the middle Nineteen-Sixties. It was a cool place back then. The beaches there, back then, were beautiful. WWII refuge was still strewn up and down the shoreline. Cement pillboxes; rusted-out vehicles. Gun mounts. The old, dome-shaped persuit-plane hangers were still there, at Barbers Point, back then. Hangers still had WWII gear in them, back during the Sixties. My Father used to bring me home real cool stuff. Barbers Point was cool, back in the Sixties.

[fushheads]

Willem Dafoe is so cool, his gay characters seem straight.

[galatian5]

I loved his portrayal of Virgil Cole. He was like the Cool Hand Luke of pilots.

[GomerSanchez]

Willem Dafoe: Do you like him better with or without the mustache?

[vf74tomcat]

Thats the pool outside the enlisted club at Barbers. I loved being stationed there!

[verdaccio]

even if they are maka believe ya know

[ghostcatinmirror]

Talk about sexy!

[punkrockxzz]

great actor, movie was cool in the aspect of flying scenes, book was cooler though

[RickDuggan]

The ejection seat trainer has little in common with reality.

That movie had some good aerial footage but overall it was a total waste of film.

[thedreamdealer]

its better than TopGun!

[GomerSanchez]

@thedreamdealer Wow I wouldn't go that far, I love Willem and hate Cruise but let's be real here...Top Gun is and was THE fighter pilot movie.

[dobravery]

@GomerSanchez You just set yourself up for a Flight of the Intruder quote. Lt. Jake Grafton: "Fighter pukes make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY!"

Both movies are great when you consider that most movies since are strictly computer animation/CGI for the flight scenes.

[philburrell]

is that the Dilbert Dunker?

[RickDuggan]

No, it's the ejection seat trainer. The Dilbert Dunker is a cage with a rudimentary seat which slides into the pool and then basically flips upside down (though not completely). The student has to undo his 4 point release, simulate opening the canopy by pushing a lever and then extricate himself from it and swim to the surface. I actually found it pretty fun, mostly because I was a diver. I asked to do it again but was told no. Many other people in my class found it less exciting than I did.

[josephdupont]

Dafoe is really cool.. i loved him in this part.