Mayday: Our Favorite Shipwrecks and Plane Crashes in Movies
How else do you celebrate May 1st?
It’s May Day! So how are we celebrating? Not with Maypoles and posies, but with a bunch of crashes from our favorite movies! Mayday! Mayday! Get it? These ought to get you excited for your summer cruises and flights.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr_MQKff7Oc
This is what happens when you invite Shelley Winters to your New Year’s party.
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFy_–bYJw
Okay, okay. It’s what happens when your ship capsizes. Sorry, Shelley.
Airport
’77
(1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QviITuOUiY
All we can think about is who’s responsible for that décor…
Final Destination
(2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8mF3xUBRSs
A lesson on why you should pack lightly…
Final Destination 5
(2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhgxXQGbR5Y
Does 11 years make a better plane crash? Yes. Yes indeedy.
Alive (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbirtASpgEk
They should just change this movie title to
Dead
.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7AZ5Z_To7w
An
Indiana Jones
plane crash is a happy plane crash.
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Get. That. Dirt off Your (Plane’s) Shoulders.
Die Hard 2 (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCQ_-Id8zI
Meh…still better than spending Thanksgiving with the in-laws.
Con Air (1997)
Too many mullets in one movie means only one thing: the complete destruction of Las Vegas.
Das Boot (1981)
We feel… oddly, at peace.
The Grey (2011)
That’s what some like to call a melted plane-sicle.
Fight Club (1999)
Some men fantasize about hot dogs, others dream of a good plane crash and life insurance rates. To each, his own.
Fearless (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1NhUSpCJsQ
Well, we’re not leaving our apartments for the rest of the day.
Castaway (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxP4WLfwa4
If you learned anything from this movie, it should have been proper plane crash attire. Cozy sweaters equal survival!
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