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The Maddest Car In The World (1974) - a West German race adventure concerning a Volkswagen Beetle called "Dudu." This gadget-packed
European cousin of super car 'Herbie' (from Disney's The Love Bug) has built-in rotor blades for emergency flight.
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Mad Max 2 
(1981) - George Miller's post-apocalypse actioner co-stars Bruce Spence, as the pilot of an autogyro
machine, who helps Mel Gibson's heroic ex-cop escape from the villains.
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Magnum Force (1973) - this crime thriller, about vigilante cops in San Francisco, is the first sequel to Dirty Harry, and it stars
Clint Eastwood in his signature role as detective inspector Harry Callahan. The movie features an SFPD Bell JetRanger landing at a crime scene.
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Magnum, PI (1981-87) - a TV detective show (starring Tom Selleck), this comedy adventure series is set in Hawaii, where Vietnam veteran chopper
pilot, T.C. (played by Roger Mosley) is one of the hero's sidekicks. The show featured aerial scenes with various helicopters, ranging from the regular
Hughes (MD) 500, and Bell 206 JetRanger, to a US Coast Guard HH-52 (Sikorsky S-62) Sea Guardian.
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Making Waves (2004) - TV drama serial about life aboard the Royal Navy frigate HMS Suffolk, this features a rare appearance of the GKN Westland
naval HAS Mk.8 Super Lynx, with its distinctive 360-degree, under-the-nose radar pod.
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Malibu Express (1985) - in this Andy Sidaris adventure, helicopter gunmen chase the hero's racing car and land on the highway to force
him off the road.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) -
"Frank Sinatra stars in this 'Cold War' thriller by John Frankenheimer about Korean War veterans
brainwashed into assassins. We get to see Bell 47J helicopters, with big red stars on them, posing as North Korean air force choppers." -
NATHAN DECKER
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) - Jonathan Demme's remake of the classic Cold War drama features brief helicopter action during the film's
early scenes, set in Kuwait, 1991, where two enemy Huey gunships are involved in a night attack a US Army patrol. Later winning a medal for his
bravery, one of the American soldiers uses a heavy machine gun to shoot down one of the helicopters. We see the chopper on fire, and the side door
gets blown off, but there's no actual crash scene, and the murky green-tinted footage (seemingly filmed with available light through night-vision
lenses) is quite realistic in the documentary manner of a TV newsreel. The closing scenes feature a S-70C Firehawk (Brainerd Helicopters) as a
UAE Air Force chopper (painted red and green).
Manhunter (1986) - this psycho thriller, about an FBI agent tracking down a serial killer, features a JetRanger landing upon the rooftop of a
federal building to urgently deliver some vital evidence to investigators in the crime lab.
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Man On A Ledge (2012) - this crime thriller features a TV news helicopter (a Eurocopter AS-355F) fitted with a nose-mounted camera system. The chopper flies between buildings, and the downdraft from its rotors almost
knocks the suspected jumper off the outside of a hotel.
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Manticore (2005) - this TV movie about US soldiers in Iraq, where they stalked by a mythical Persian beast, features some low grade CGI work
of Black Hawk helicopters, including one rescue flight that is boarded by the Babylonian creature which kills the pilot, and causes the military
chopper to crash and burn when it gets briefly airborne. The monster survives the fiery wreck after the helicopter explodes.
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) - Nicolas Roeg's new
wave SF movie features a Bell 206 JetRanger flying into World Enterprises' corporate compound in New Mexico.
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The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) - the finale of this lively British comedy thriller (starring Bill Murray and Joanne Whalley) sees the
bad guys' helicopter exploding in the sky over London, due to a hidden time-bomb.
The Marine (2006) - a police helicopter (a Bell 206 LongRanger) joins the cops' search of Carolina swamplands for a gang of robbers.
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The Marine 3: Homefront (2013) - this action movie begins with a pre-credits montage showing military training exercises in US recruitment poster imagery.
There is stock footage of a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion dropping troops into the water, a pair of Boeing Vertol CH-64 Sea Knight transports on the ground, and a Bell UH-1 Huey taking off with both of its side doors wide
open.
We also see a couple of low-flying Boeing CH-47 Chinooks over a river and then, with their rear door ramps down, filmed in silhouettes above mountainous terrain.
Finally, a Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter appears, flying towards the camera.
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Martial Angels (aka: Chuet sik san tau, 2001) - this Hong Kong caper, about a gang of female thieves, features brief shots of an
Aerospatiale Alouette II, when villains from the Russian mafia use a helicopter to drop henchmen into the girls' hideout and kidnap the heroine's
boyfriend.
The Martian Chronicles (1980) - in this TV miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's classic SF book, the last man on Mars uses an autogyro to
fly halfway around the planet in - supposedly - romantic pursuit of the last woman. Sadly, the vain blonde (Bernadette Peters) wasn't worth trip.
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M*A*S*H (1969) - Robert Altman's black comedy about US Army doctors in the Korean war has a minor, ambiguous-psychic character - amusingly
nicknamed 'Radar' (played by Gary Burghoff), who can sense incoming medevac helicopters (bearing more wounded soldiers) before anyone else can
hear their approach to the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital camp. A long-running, sitcom-format, and very popular TV series followed (1973-84), which
used footage of the Bell 47D-1 air ambulances from Altman's film in its title sequence.
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The Matrix (1999) - this stunning science fiction thriller boasts
a spectacular urban action sequence in which the hero (Keanu Reeves) jumps out of a hovering chopper to catch his falling mentor (Laurence Fishburne)
in mid-air, followed by the bullet damaged helicopter's crash into the side of an office building. The pilot (Carrie-Anne Moss), who only learnt to
fly this Bell 212 (UH-1N) moments earlier - via a computer program download into the VR scene - escapes from the explosion, tethered to the hero,
just in time.
Max Payne (2008) - an action fantasy thriller, based on a videogame, features this brief appearance of a New York police helicopter (A-star
type) during a night sequence.
The Medallion (2003) - Gordon Chan's fantasy adventure stars Jackie Chan, and features a Sikorsky S-70 UH-60 Black Hawk carrying the film's
hero across Hong Kong harbour. The villain's henchmen use a Bell 430 with a rope ladder to kidnap a Chinese boy from the rooftop of a block of flats
in Dublin, and their helicopter flies to the bad guys' hideout on the Irish coast, where it enters a huge cave (some obvious digital visual effects
here) and lands inside.
Medicopter 117 (aka: Jedes Leben zählt, 1998) -
"German TV series (hugely successful) following the adventures of a BK-117 EMS helicopter and
its crew. About as realistic as Fireman Sam, not great flying and really, really silly stunts (no, you would not suspend a paramedic from
a winch to get a boy out of a lion's enclosure in a zoo). In a strange twist of fate the chopper used in the series (a real BK-117 with medical
configuration) was used as a temporary replacement for one of Germany's real EMS helicopters for a while, complete with TV markings. Fiction became
reality." - BERND BIEGE
Meet Joe Black (1998) -
this film has a media mogul (Anthony Hopkins) who commutes, using a Sikorsky S-76 (flown by Al Cerullo), from his Long Island mansion to his New
York office. - ALEX YOUNGS.
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Mega Piranha (2010) - Eric Forsberg's fishy monsterama
features lots of helicopters, mostly in cheap and trashy CGI format. A Black Hawk flies over the Orinoco, to search for a missing US politico's
riverboat. During night mission in Venezuela, three obviously CGI gunships attack some oversized piranhas. One military transport (possibly a
grey Seahawk), lands at a secret army bunker. American hero steals a Venezuelan army Black Hawk, which is chased by authorities using two other
similar choppers, but fired rockets and machine-gun mayhem destroys enemy rotorcraft. Finally, five CGI helicopters, used by special forces team
defending Florida's coastline against gigantic piranhas, drop diver troops into the sea to fight an underwater menace. The bad guys arrive in a
Black Hawk, which gets eaten by a giant 'flying' fish (in a parody of Jaws 2).
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Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011) - this TV movie is a comedy horror with lots of giant snakes and alligators that emerge from Florida's everglades.
A Hughes 500D (CGI) flies over swamplands where the helicopter is used to search for mutant creatures. In one action scene, the pilot drops a rope
ladder to the rescue blonde heroine (Debbie Gibson), but - in repeated continuity errors, some views of the chopper overhead show a Bell 206 JetRanger.
There is a Bell 230 (CGI) that crashes in an explosion during attacks on a Miami petrol station/ garage. A Bell 412-EP (a real one, from Miami Dade
fire and rescue service, in stock footage) flies over the highway, and shows up later for the heroine's attempted escape from a cave site, but it's
a Sikorsky MH-53 (CGI) that drops a rescue ladder in the movie's worst continuity error. When an explosion kills the monsters, the blast knocks the
heroine out of the chopper's open cabin and she falls into the infested estuary.
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Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010) - this 'mock-buster' silly monster movie features a batch of helicopter scenes, but they're all CGI. First,
an A-Star flies over a supposedly African landscape to report sightings of the gigantic crocodile. There's a curious sci-fi transport (a hybrid of
American and Russian designs) which brings a US federal agent to a warship in the Atlantic, and the heroine keeps flying this blue chopper around,
on coast to coast missions, until it crashes on a California beach. There are Apaches and Black Hawks above Miami, where an A-Star TV news flyer
is swatted by the croc's tail, so the damaged helicopter is forced to crash 'n' burn, once it's safely out of sight behind the Orange Bowl landmark.
Later, a Sea Knight and Chinook transports appear briefly while being used to airlift oversized eggs.
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) - the first sequence of this low-budget monster-movie has a Bell 412 drop its sonar device
into Antarctic seas.
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Meltdown (2000) - this Hong Kong comedy thriller (basically
Die Hard meets Naked Gun) sees the hero (Jet Li) flying a chopper up to the rooftop of a besieged tower block, where terrorists
are already waiting for him. Blasted by the villains' gunfire, the helicopter crashes into the building through its windows and then spins around
inside the structure where its rotors wreak havoc, before it finally explodes - blowing out an entire floor of the building.
Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (1992) - John Carpenter's under-appreciated sci-fi romantic-comedy thriller stars Chevy Chase as the titular
hero, and features an FBI helicopter (an Aerospatiale AS-355E TwinStar), which pursues him on a train journey, and then later appears hovering
close to the rooftop of a building during the climactic chase sequence in San Francisco.
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Memories (aka: Memorizu, 1995) - this anime feature is an anthology of three genre stories. Second episode, Stink Bomb, is a
black comedy featuring a TV news chopper (of A-Star design) landing atop an office block to rescue a survivor in plague city. Several types of
military helicopter (including Sea Kings, Dolphin SAR, Huey, and MD 500) all appear in later scenes when the army and navy scramble forces to
contain the accidental release of a chemical weapon. There's a sky full of about 100 Cobra gunships which attack the infected protagonist when he
emerges from a road tunnel on his scooter. Finally, a Sea Hawk escort and a Sikorsky (S-65) CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy transport hover above the city
with a NASA spacesuit crew on their mission to capture the infected man.
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Men Of Honour (2000) - an inspiring true story, this maritime biopic about a US Navy diver (played by Cuba Gooding Jr) who struggles to
overcome elements of ingrained racism - especially a veteran Master Chief (Robert De Niro) in America's armed forces. In the main rotary action
scene, a Sikorsky 'Seahorse' SH-34 (S-58) crashes while delivering mail to a ship.
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The Mentalist (2008-11) - season three episode, Code Red (2010), of this TV crime drama, has a California highway patrol helicopter
(an AS-350) landing in the car park of a biotech lab.
The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009) - this satire about US army research into psychic powers, has stock footage of a Cobra gunship in Iraq
used in its title sequence. A couple of Huey transports drop troops onto a battlefield for Vietnam War flashbacks, there's a brief (mostly off-screen)
Kiowa air strike in the Ramadi battle, and our psi heroes fly away to escape using a JetRanger in the movie's finale.
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Mercenary Fighters (1988) - this action movie starring Reb Brown is about a team of mercenaries unwittingly assisting a genocidal African dictator. Brown and his pilot
friend assault the bad guy's base using an Aerospatiale AS-350 Squirrel. The dictator tries to escape aboard a Bell 47, but gets killed. There's also a brief scene where some prostitutes are flown in, for the mercenaries,
aboard an AS-350B helicopter. - BILL HIERS
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Mercenary For Justice (2006) - a Mil Mi-8 Hip (chartered from Air Malta by the filmmakers) with UN markings appears in this Steven
Seagal action flick. There's also a rather battered Bell Huey UH-1H (formerly in service with the Ethiopian Air Force, restored as tourist
attraction for a Cape Town heli-base), used to pickup the heroes from the war zone on a South African island. However, the film has no appearances
for the MBB / Kawasaki BK-117 choppers, which are pictured on the DVD box and poster artwork.
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Mercury Rising (1998) - "in this action thriller, an ex-FBI agent (Bruce Willis) protects
an autistic boy from a gang of assassins. At the end, the corrupt government official behind the whole thing tries to escape with the kid in a helicopter
(an MD-520 NOTAR, I believe) from a skyscraper rooftop. Although flown by bad guys, the chopper actually kills the main assassin who's fending off
the FBI so the official can escape; the high winds combined with the rotor wash of the chopper shatter the building's windows and the unfortunate
lackey is promptly shredded by flying glass." - BILL HIERS
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Miami Golem (aka: Cosmos Killer, 1985) - this Italian sci-fi horror exploitation movie is about DNA from a meteorite that's used
by villains to create an evil alien creature with psychic powers. A gunman, aboard a Bell 206 JetRanger that's circling over open ground by a
riverbank, fires his machine-gun at a TV reporter (David Warbeck), who climbs aboard a passing bus and then - with just a six-shooter handgun -
manages to shoot down the chopper, which drifts away trailing smoke. Later, henchmen chase the hero using airboats in the Florida everglades,
but a Bolkow Bo-105 gunship and the attacking Huey - as featured so prominently on VHS and DVD box artwork, do not appear on screen.
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Miami Vice (1984-9) - this popular cop drama, starring Don Johnson and Edward James Olmos, favours Bell 47, JetRanger, or LongRanger helicopters
for transport, surveillance, and pursuit. Fifth season episode Line Of Fire sees airborne gunmen using an Aérospatiale SA 341 Gazelle
to shoot-up a boat where a federal witness is under police protection. When the hero shoots it down with a flare gun, the burning chopper that falls
to the ground is obviously a Hughes 500 model (stock footage?). When another detective flies in a Bell 47 to search for his missing partner, the
shadow of his helicopter on the greenery below is clearly that of a Bell 206 silhouette.
"The original TV series made extensive use of choppers, most noticably the Bell 412 EMS helicopters
of the Metro Dade Fire Department. Which are even once used for an aerial assault on a bridge in the Florida Keys (not prototypical usage)." -
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Miami Vice (2006) - this big screen version of the cult 1980s' TV series was directed by Michael Mann, and features a couple of police AS-350
A-Star helicopters, one during the highway chase sequence, another in some later action scenes, hovering above the finale's dramatic shootout. Also,
there are other Miami-Dade police helicopters (including a Bell 206L-4 Long Ranger IV) visible in the background of an aircraft hanger for the endgame
mission prep scene. The credited pilots are Kevin LaRosa, Al Guthery, Rick Shuster, and Dan Rudert.
"Lieutenant Castillo rides in a police helicopter (probably a JetRanger type) orbiting the city
as an aid to Crockett and Tubbs' current mission." - WINNIE LEUNG
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Midnight Run (1988) - in this likeable comedy-thriller road movie, mafia hitmen use a helicopter to chase the car driven by a bounty hunter,
and the airborne gunmen play a cat 'n' mouse game on the highway, firing their assault rifles to force the heroes' car off the road, making the driver
crash under a bridge. Jack (Robert De Niro) shoots the chopper's tail rotor - so it spins out of control, hits the rock face of a riverbank and
explodes in mid-air.
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) - Woody Allen's whimsical romance includes scenes with bicycle-powered helicopter invention that adds
to the story's magical charm.
Mighty Aphrodite (1995) - in this film by Woody Allen,
"the man of Mira Sorvino's dreams drops out of the sky courtesy of an AS-355 TwinStar." - ALEX
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Militia (2000) - a cheap TV production about ATF agents fighting US terrorists, Jim Wynorski's movie features standard action scenes involving
Bell Hueys (which, in one mismatched aerial sequence, changes its paint-job from plain green to camo!) but also has stock footage, outtakes and scenes
taken from Rambo, Delta Force 2, and American Ninja 2, with Apaches, Cobras, an Aerospatiale SA-361 (Dauphin, or early version
of the Panther?), a Hughes 500 gunship attacking a car, and shots of the police 206 JetRanger sequence lifted wholesale from Terminator 2.
One trigger-happy survivalist hits a Huey with RPG fire, and the helicopter is destroyed in midair, but the explosion is obviously from a different
film. For its blatant misuse of borrowed footage, and editing helicopter clips together without any attention to detail whatsoever, this film gets
a Rotary Action HALL OF SHAME award.
Millions (1991) - Carlo Vanzina's predictable and soap operatic morality tale about the redemption of a sleazy money-grabbing playboy (Billy
Zane), opens with an off-screen helicopter crash. Hard to identify from wreckage in the night scene, but this looks like a standard Boeing (MD) 500.
Mindhunters (2004) - Renny Harlin's thriller about FBI rookies, stalked by a serial killer while they complete intensive training as psych
profilers, features a Bell 204B used for transport to and from the island location. It's not very clear, even after listening to the director's
commentary track on this film's DVD release, how much of this aerial footage is live action camera work, and how much is purely CGI.
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Minority Report (2002) -
"hovering thingies used by the cops could be helicopters. Then again they could be anti-grav
stuff. But I think they are helicopters." - BERND BIEGE
Miracle Mile (1988) - Steve DeJarnatt's satire on Cold War nuclear fears has a group of L.A. residents in search of a pilot for the helicopter
they plan to escape from the holocaust in. After setbacks and delays, the chopper does eventually manage to get airborne, but then the missiles
arrive...
Mirror Wars: Reflection One (aka: Zerkalnie voyni: Otrazhenie pervoye, 2005) -
drama about hijacking a Russian stealth fighter plane.
There is an interesting Mil Mi-17 (Russian service designation Mi-8MT) with a bulbous 'radar'
nose modification, obviously made for the movie as I am not aware of any such version in regular military service. In the same clip sequence, a
Mil Mi-17 is also shown firing a missile. - COSTAS TSAGANAS
The Mi-8 variant used in the film is a very real aircraft, designated Mi-8MTYu (Cyrillic MTIO). It was used for detection of re-entry vehicles and
small surface targets. Only one was built and used by Ukrainian Air Force, based at AB 'Kirovskoe'. The original code was '80 Red', but was painted
over and coded '75 Yellow'. They may have done this for the filming.
- TRAVIS E.B. (Stingray)
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Missing In Action (1984) - the first sequence of this action movie, about POWs from the Vietnam War, shows a squadron of US Army UH-1 helicopters
(but with no more than two choppers on-screen at once), swooping down to pick-up American soldiers retreating under enemy fire. One of the Hueys is
destroyed on take-off when hit by a machine-gun blast.
Back home, escaped prisoner Colonel Braddock (Chuck Norris) watches a TV clip of the animated Spider-Man, in which the superhero uses web gunk to
'shoot' down a cartoon helicopter and stop a villain's prison breakout.
A single UH-1 appears, in climactic scenes on the coast, to rescue some freed captives, and this armed transport fires a rocket at the enemy's gunboat
in the bay. Finally, the same helicopter lands outside government offices in 'Saigon'.
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Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985) - this prequel movie is about the hero's escape from Vietnam. It starts with a UH-1 Huey flying
over the jungle. The helicopter fires rockets at enemy ground forces, before it attempts to rescue US troops. The rescue fails when the transport
is shot down by a grenade launch. American soldiers jump from the burning chopper just before it crashes, exploding (off-screen) behind a hill, in
a classic rotary action cliché.
The chief villain's private Huey flies over the POW camp and lands to bring supplies and a bevy of girls. This featured helicopter returns with
some henchmen to collect the prostitutes. The Huey is used for the villain's flight into the camp just before the escaped hero starts blowing up
the huts. The chopper takes off again to search for US soldiers. It flies over camp with one captive hanging upside down from its landing skids,
and lands before a climactic shoot-out and big explosion. At last, the Huey performs one final take-off from the location with the victorious hero
aboard. The credited pilot is Cal Hyatt.
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Moby Dick (2010) - this low-budget monster movie, produced by genre mock-buster specialists Global Asylum, features a couple of CGI helicopters:
a Sea Hawk transport dodges a nuclear missile fired from the submarine hijacked by obsessed Ahab, and then mega-whale Moby Dick pops up and swallows
the helicopter whole. There's a futuristic version of an Osprey gunship that's knocked down from the sky by a whale attack, and this chopper whirls
out of control and plunges into the ocean.
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Modern Combat Aircraft 2: The West's Combat Helicopters (1987) - the video release of this American aviation documentary looks at a dozen
of the world's most powerful and lethal military helicopters, from the Bell UH-1 'Huey', and the MD-500 Defender, through to the Sikorsky H-76
Eagle, and the deadly Boeing (MD) AH-64 Apache.
I have not actually seen this particular film (if you have - please send me your comments) but, reportedly, there's a detailed script by Christopher
Chant.
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Monsters (2010) - this low-budget British sci-fi horror
features several widescreen shots of military helicopters (mostly Sikorsky S-70 types) on patrol in the skies over Mexico. In one night scene,
a Seahawk flies so close to a building that we see candles in an upstairs room are blown out by a draught from the rotors. During the journey
northwards to the US border, there's wreckage of a Seahawk transport seen on the roadside.
Monster Shark (aka: Devilfish, aka: Devouring Waves, aka: Shark: Rosso nell'oceano, 1984) - a Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
appears in this Italian horror thriller directed by Lamberto Bava. The US Coast Guard helicopter is used for SAR flights, hauls bodies from the sea,
and saves a swimmer from the hybrid creature.
In 2010, it was remade as TV movie Sharktopus.
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Moon 44 (1990) - Roland Emmerich's sci-fi war movie has some futuristic helicopters (realised in flight by models only) that are used to defend
the mining operations of another planet from attacks by an invading force of space pirates.
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Moonlight (2007-8) - this supernatural romance TV series, of just one season, is about a private detective and vampire in L.A. In episode
four, Fever, our hero is stranded in the Mojave Desert after his stolen police car is destroyed by a rocket, launched from a Bell 206
JetRanger, sent by an illegal arms dealer. The sequence looks to be mostly, if not entirely, CGI work.
Moonraker (1979) - in this James Bond film (starring Roger Moore), a
helicopter pilot (Corinne Clery) takes our suave super-spy to meet the top villain (Michael Lonsdale). The Drax air-taxi is a Bell 206 JetRanger.
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Morons From Outer Space (1985) - in this sci-fi comedy, a military chopper brings an American agent (James B. Sikking) to the crash site
of the weirdo aliens' spacecraft.
Mr & Mrs Smith (2005) - this action comedy sees a
Bell 206 JetRanger involved in a desert rendezvous on the Mexican border. When the array of bombs go off, the helicopter is engulfed in dust, but
then... (I have no idea what's supposed to happen to the helicopter.) The explosions are spectacular, but the airborne chopper just seems to disppear
from view. The climax of the film has an Aerospatiale AS350 B2 Ecureuil carrying gunmen in pursuit of the heroes (Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie), before
the final shootout in a shopping centre. An early sequence, set in Bogota, begins with aerial shots of a military Twin Huey (which recycles a clip
from Clear And Present Danger). There's also insert footage of a Sikorsky S-76
Eagle flying over New York city.
Mr Deeds (2002) - "this bad comedy starring the 'demon-seed' Adam Sandler features a
nifty helicopter. The production rented a Sikorsky S-92 prototype VIP transport for the film, ferrying 'Shiva' Sandler to Manhattan in more-than-deserved
style." - NATHAN DECKER
Mr X (1995) - in this patchwork gangster thriller, an Aerospatiale Alouette II carries a hitman to attack hordes of yakuza hoods in a Hong
Kong tower block, where the lone gunman slaughters dozens of henchmen, but he fails to escape safely in the helicopter when a female gang leader
shoots at the chopper with a rifle, so it crashes into a nearby building and explodes. The pyrotechnic and model effects are unconvincing, and most
of this rubbishy American video's footage was culled from superior Asian action movies.
Munich (2005) - set in the 1970s, this suspense thriller directed by Steven Spielberg concerns a team of assassins (played by Eric Bana,
Daniel Craig, etc) hunting down Palestinian terrorists responsible for plotting the kidnapping and slaughter of Israeli athletes at the 1972
Olympic games. The airport scene, where the hostages are forced aboard a Huey, ends with a shootout, during which the helicopter is blown up using
a grenade. However, this sequence is edited into fragments and only appears in various flashbacks.
Murder At 1600 (1997) - in this White House conspiracy thriller, an unjust pursuit of the mismatched heroes (Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane) by
helicopter ends when its searchlight is shot out by the gun-toting heroine.
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Mutants (2009) - this French sci-fi zombie movie has a
Eurocopter AS-365C Dauphin 2 model used by the army base for killing 'mutants' menacing the heroine in a climactic sequence, and then soldiers use
the helicopter for a medevac rescue flight.
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My Fellow Americans (1996) -
"this lightweight political comedy starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner features a Sikorsky
S-62A made up as a Presidential VIP transport. It is the same S-62A that appeared in Disney movie, First Kid." -
NATHAN DECKER
The Myth (aka: San wa, 2005) - Stanley Tong's
fantasy adventure sees Jackie Chan's buddy escaping in a Bell LongRanger (Deccan Aviation)
from an angry mob in India. Later, the hero is lowered by cable from another helicopter to access a cavern behind a waterfall.
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