FIREFOX (1982) | Mover Ruins Movies (Ft Gonky) Part Two 

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As a kid of the 80's, I thought this was the most bada$$ movie. And, it had an arcade game where you could plug in your own headphones!

Loved Firefox. It was an underrated movie. Clint will always be the man.

At 9 years old, this movie was a blast as a kid and definitely fueled my love for aviation.

Gant is closing his eyes during the flat spin because he's suffering from PTSD, and the Russian pilot salutes him as a sign of respect after proving himself to be a tough adversary before going in for what he expects will be a victory kill for himself.

I was a huge airplane nerd as a kid in the 80s, I was hyped to see this movie. I remember like 80 minutes of clandestine sneaking around russia and maybe 8 minutes of flying. cold war era flicks just crack me up today.

19:50 is a Coup de grace. A popular trope in the 70s and 80’s comparing fighter pilots to chivalrous knights of the Middle Ages. “You have been a worthy adversary, I will end it now”. Ah, the 80’s. Thanks for doing this movie.

This was a fresh take at watching this flick, thanks for that. With Dragonslayer in '81, Firefox in '82, then Blue Thunder in '83, amongst other gems of course, what a time to be a kid.

"Firefox" was a great movie for a young kid. Then came "Iron Eagle".

As a kid seeing this with my fighter pilot father, we had a BLAST watching it together. Great memories with him. One of the many kick ass movies that propelled me into becoming an Air Force Pilot myself. Good all-American shit right there!🤘’Merica!!!!

Someone get Gonky a proper damn mic

Man I loved this movie as a kid. My favorite part was him on the cockpit narrating his actions.

The one thing that stuck with me from that movie was the scene at the airport during the "Your papers please" scene. I can remember thinking can you imagine a world where you are ask for your papers/ID etc just to take a flight? As a former pilot and spending years of my life in security lines I think of that scene often.....

I love that they built a full-scale mock-up of the "Firefox." There's not enough practical modeling left tin film nowadays. Toss together a cockpit and hang a bunch of blue sheets on it, then call it a day.

Have always enjoyed this film. The book and it’s sequel are excellent. Would highly recommend them. In the book, the Soviet pilot gets overconfident. Anyone spot Cliff from Cheers in the refuelling scene? 😀

I can just feel your sanity crumbling away by that Viper throttle Mover 😂

Been so long since I've seen this movie...thanks for posting guys. Just noticed that Wolf Kahler was in it as the KGB guy. He was also one of the head Gestapo dudes in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I have this weird memory about this movie, I _think_ it's true? Back in the 80s, a couple guys who worked on the special effects for Firefox came to speak at the Apple computer club that I belonged to. I think they worked on the computer controlled camera rigs. They showed us pictures of a radio-controlled Firefox airplane that actually flew. It was about 6-8 feet long I think (based on a picture of the plane standing on its tail next to a person), and they were trying to use it for some of the flying sequences. Unfortunately the operator of the plane got confused by all the snowy terrain wherever they were, and he flew it into the side of a mountain, destroying the plane before they got any usable footage. So it never appeared in the movie.

So glad you did this film. Remember going to the theater to watch this movie. Great to laugh this early in the morning. Looking forward to part 1.😅😅

You can't ruin this movie for me because I remember when this came out & saw it @ least 3 times in H.S. until it came out in VHS. There also used to be game us could play at Aladdin’s Castle Arcade where you sat in like the pilot to play, very cool. My friends in my AFROTC unit @ college, those of us intending to be fighter pilots, us to watch this along w/ Baa Baa Black Sheep videos, anything military aviation related. Had a 1/48 scale model of Firefox & Eagle on my desk, Loved this movie.....

You had to watch that as a kid, then it's an awesome movie... well a kid in the 80's!

TOMCAT !!! Fun fact : the log cabin in Alaska IS in Alaska . And a funny story why . This was sometime mid 70s and there was a competition between him and Burt Reynolds as to who was the number one movie star . Anyway down in the lower 48 he needed bodyguards because of his popularity . He came up to do some fishing . And a bunch of bodyguards were with him in an undisclosed small Alaskan town . They stopped at the town's shopping mall in the middle of a busy weekday . They got out of the trucks and all the locals IGNORED Clint Eastwood . That's why he has that cabin up here .

The leadership sound like the enemies from "Hogan's Heroes"...Thanks for posting, Mover...

my favorite part was left out - it's when the general finally gets fed up and tells off his boss, "because of your stupidity - STUPIDITY!" love that part

Time 14:45 -- "They're pressure washing the ice." Our crew once swept water off the deck while we were sailing through a rainstorm, so I'd say that this film pretty accurately depicts the absurdity of many Navy evolutions. 🤦‍♂🤣

Oh, Firefox! I loved this movie the 1st time I saw it. It was on HBO some time in 1983-1984 and I was 11ish y/o and thought it was awesome. The next time I watched, around '95, I thought differently.

Awesome to see you two again, thanks for all your hard work Mover you make me laugh, love it!

Another fine Historical Documentary.

This movie in the 80’s was awesome. Still is awesome for the nostalgia of it all. Very dated graphics now but what a beast of a fighter

Great to see you two again and thanks for bringing this back to us today, Mover ( and Gonky!)

Wolf Kahler in the Soviet Air Control segment. He's been in everything. Always a watchable actor.

My uncle took me to see this back in the day when I was 10, I was very aware of Clint and was stoked to see him in such a role, then the flight scenes kicked in and I thought they were cool, yet even at 10 I noticed the subpar superimposed special effects… still a pretty good flick!

Glad you did this film. Really enjoyed Gonky and your banter. This was an entertaining movie back in the day.

I saw your post notification and saw the title "FireFox" and I am in heaven! Been waiting for this one! Off to rumble for part 1 then back here for part 2!!!! Awesome Monday!!!!!!!

Omg, I have been WAITING for you to do this movie! One of my favorite cheese movies and I've watched it probably two dozen times so I was ecstatic when I saw Mover decide to check it out. If any movie needs a complete modern update and reboot, it's this one. Kudos to you and Gonky!

First and only time my old man took me to the movies, he wasn't much in to such frivolities but something this now 47 year old will never forget

As a kid I loved that movie and the arcade game too.

Love this channel. Always great to see Gonky give his feedback too!

This is still one of my faves, but yikes. Tanking off of a Bear, taking Aphids off of a MiG-25 (?!?!?) that ONE PERSON can carry... the list goes on and on. Still, always fun to watch you and Gonky buzzsaw this stuff. Thanks for doing this!

At the beginning of this film, the cabin location where the helicopter touched down was Clint’s guest cabin. My Uncle owned the property next door in the Burney/Castle. He helped clean the place and washed the windows with vodka since alcohol left no streaks on the glass panes.

YEEEEESSS! THANK YOU! Mover and gonky + Firefox = awesome

You guys are awesome. Thank you for the commentary.

Have been waiting for this for a long time - congrats Mover

We have all missed you, and all of this.

Went back and watched Part 1 first and I’m so glad I did. Hilarious commentary.

Haha, awsome video Mover and Gonky, hoping for more old wierd ones like this. Made several days for me!

I love how Firefox is just a scaled down, twin tailed XB-70!!!

Thank you for reviewing this. One of my favorites. Watched this when I was about seven I guess at the drive-in. Aviation is not real accurate but it was 82 so I can still appreciate the effort. Another movie you could check out if you are interested in Vietnam era is Bat 21.

Loved this movie as a pre-teen in 1982, especially with the brilliant Nigel Hawthorne of Minister/Yes Minister fame playing the role of dissident scientist Baranovich. Still have the first print of the book with the MIG-25 on the cover.

One of my favorite films growing up.

LOL you guys are great, I always look forward to mover ruins movies

What are blood wolf packs?... This jet definitely DOES look like Skunk Works. A preview of what was to come. Well thank you , gentlemen! That was entertaining ! I actually had never seen this movie before ( blush to admit) it was even more fun with the fighter pilots' perspective and commentary.

Mr Mover, I have not watched one of your videos in a while and I have never commented but I appreciate every serviceman from everywhere for your service. I have family in the RN, one nephew who I don’t see was a Challenger driver and the eldest nephew is the one in the Navy. Getting away from that, I love this film👍👍👍👍

That’s where Cessna got its radar for Jericho’s Citation.

It’s like watching two B-1s trying to dogfight 😂

You got it up!!!! That is cool.. So funny I was just asking you this the other day. Going to part 1 now.

Yes! I've been waiting for this one!

As a kid, I loved the flying bits, but wasn't keen on the build up, but now I love the build up to the theft, but start to drop off when the plane takes off... and then I discovered The Hunt For Red October...

One of Clint’s very first roles was as a fighter pilot in the 1955 giant radioactive spider movie Tarantula! He had a closeup cockpit shot for maybe thirty seconds as he was firing missiles at the spider.

"Anti-Spin switch" LMAO

What a fun review! Sorry about the copyright hit--I would've loved to have heard Gonky and Mover talking about the Red Flag scenes. Firefox is cheesy but it's fun. Sometimes you just have to let go and have some fun.

One of Clint Eastwood's earliest movie roles was very briefly as an F-84 pilot raining fire on a giant spider in the (rather good) 1955 monster movie Tarantula. Pre-Rawhide Eastwood was working as a contract player for Universal Studios, earning $100 per week to appear briefly in movies that also included the (terrible) Revenge Of The Creature (sequel to the much better Creature From The Black Lagoon) in which he wore a lab coat. Here's a clip of him in the cockpit: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JBlumsniGko.html&ab_channel=TrueWax

Mover, does the DoD give you a choice of which inspiring martial music they pipe into your cockpit when you're flying a combat mission?

Ah classic 80's Clint gotta love it. Wouldn't mind them going back and reworking the CGI.

He was running canyons, while Maverick was a Flight School student. We must show some Respect!

These are the best parts of the movie for me so I'll be on the lookout for part 1 but I'm well satisfied with this half.

Firefox is probably better at the spy stuff than the flying stuff, but the flying stuff is still a lot of fun. And you can see that at least the script gave _a little_ thought to causes, effects, and consequences, instead of just having stuff happen so the plot can move forward, so that's nice.

Hey man I work with a pilot who has served with Gonky and thought that was pretty cool, such a small world. The pilot I work with, flew the F/A-18. I got to pick his brain about it as I want to enlist as a pilot in either air force or navy. I currently work in Huey though.

was waiting to see the iconic scene where he fly's over the water and then destroys the helicopter on the back of the ship just by flying over it, probably the best looking scene of the move but you left it out for some reason?

Why is Gonky's audio so bad?

I remember this movie! I was 18 years old when it was released!

13:55 "he's got two different refuelling ports" that's correct, one is for jet fuel the other is for vodka, fuel for the pilot!

This is an underrated movie.

The part where they're in formation was the Russian pilot paying respect for him pulling out of the spin he was in.

Loved that Canyon Run. There was a Arcadeversion of this Fight at the Time. IIRC on Laserdisc.

Friends alerted me and I tore myself away from Air Disasters to wade in on this copyright thing - what the xyz! this is an a n c i e n t movie that every living being has seen at least 5 times, (and exceedingly hard to ruin because it‘s got Clint in it)(who I will watch push an ice cream cart )For this you tube claps people in irons, and truly vile content passes unchecked?? Clearly all about money, and not art, the art of turning a turnip into entertainment, which you absolutely master! Keep doing these added-value - reviews! Thanks for keeping us amused.

At the time, this was such a cool film. The 1st time it was on UK TV back in the 80s, I was still at school and the following day we were all drawing aeroplanes. No matter the class, we just brushed English/maths/science/history to one side and drew planes lol.

The Spaceballs references were spot on.

I watched a documentry about Clint Eastwood. He is discussing this film at one point, and talking to a man about how they lost control of one of the RC models they were testing in Southern California, and it caused a minor accident as it crashed into the freeway. Also, Clint Eastwood had one of his first roals, as the Squadren fighter pilot lead in the movie, "Tarantula"

FINALLY! Love this...

I loved this movie when it came out. Best flying sequences until “Top Gun” for a teenager who knew nothing about actual fighters (even if most of it was model work) and the story was “Hunt for Red October” for aviation before Tom Clancy was a thing. No cheesy love story like in “Top Gun”, just “get in there and steal the bad guys’ stuff”.

I loved this film as a kid. They actually had a laser disk video arcade game that I dumped endless quarters into. Now I spend all of my money on DCS! Ha! This is actually based on a really, really good book by Craig Thomas and even has a sequel "Firefox Down" Both are full of espionage and cool fighter pilot stuff, but mostly very heavy on Russian KGB, GRU intrigue. There's even a book in which Mitchell Gant I think ends up stealing a Russian helicopter called "Winter Hawk". All really great reads! Thanks for doing this. I really enjoyed the video!

Down the canyon, if the lead plane can get the shockwave going it might succeed in putting the trailing plane in whiteout conditions so he'll fly into the wall. Nope, that didn't work. The sequence looks really cool, though. Gant (Eastwood's character) had a PTSD event and lost control of the plane. The Russian pilot saw he was out of control, disengaged, waited until Gant got it back under control and ... you good dude? Ok ... re-engaging. Utterly ridiculous, of course. Gotta love 80s flicks. The flying scenes rock. No one remembers anything else.

Oh you did this one a month ago? Never saw the notification, damn This is like the only specifically aviation-related movie I ever saw before Top Gun Maverick came out and it was a damn fun one to watch

burner all day ! Good stuff guys.

The flight helmets created for the film were modified Gentex HGU-20P “clamshells”. You’d be correct that failed all kinds of flight and shorty runs. They were considered too heavy in neg g rolls and the was a blind spot in the peripheral vision. I say “created for the film” because there were some post-test runs made and Clint’s costuming/art dept. had two configured with the mics and tubing. Eventually, the last of these skid lids were reconfigured yet again with dual mics and a red, white and blue color scheme for use on some of the early crew missions on the space shuttle. Those helmets sell for thousands of dollars to collectors- I don’t think anyone has come across these two used in the movie though.

Love the expressions on Mover and Gonky at 3:51. Jet should be torn to pieces at this point.

What "that" was was Gant having a PTSD flashback. Then he dropped his wheels in a surrender gesture, which the pursuing pilot acknowledged with a salute. Gant snapped out of it at the last moment and evaded. Ah, and this film was pre-CG. Practical models rotoscoped int background plates.

Given the date this was made and probably not even with the Top Gun budget (even that used a LOT of movie trickery as well) this is pretty cool. It's quite difficult after decades of cgi to get back in that mindset. In a probably not intended way, the Top Gun Maverick comment was a compliment.

The formation part was reciprocating how Clint didn't kill him when he was vulnerable (knocked out cold). Btw no STS after rolling scissors?

Gonky needs those rear facing missiles for the next rematch.

Oh man, I forgot a lot of this movie! And it is going to stay forgotten.

Loved this film when it came out although it’s special effects look ropey now at the time it was amazing. Don’t know if you spotted him but in the scene on the ice with the submarine John Ratzenberger who played Cliff in Cheers appears briefly. As always I enjoyed the video thanks 👍

What’s the best about MRM is that it is very unexpected when one bursts out laughing - for me - when Mover said they are power-washing the ice/snow

The Russian pilot didn’t want to kill someone who couldn’t fight back, so we made sure that Clint was awake before resuming the fight.

2:23 hope that isn’t supposed to be afterburners. Very, very under powered if it is. 😂 maybe he started with the throttle in max AB position and had an engine fire. lol

Nobody disses Clint. Nobody!

The man Clint asked about making a runway would leave the navy, go to post and become a post man, he would hang out at a bar called Cheers.

About the throttle, Rafale has one throttle for 2 engines. You can decide to command both with the throttle (default) or only one (contingency). Dassault is planning to use also one unique throttle for both engines in the upcoming Falcon 10X. Rafale cockpit explained by a navy pilot : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FEfY9SYN01M.html Video with the test pilots explaining the logic behind one throttle : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VYugHFwY3uM.html

This movie really deserved to be a film.