Airport Terminal Pack [DVD]

i purchased this to have physical movies out in the country where tv reception is limited, cell service is non existent, and internet is unheard of. this is a great pack!

Indeed. Some have said that Airport was "Grand Hotel" in the skies and it is, but where do you find so many talented people in one true big drama hit nowadays?I gave it five stars, because it merits its historic value, having all four movies reunited in a very affordable, and may I say, for the price, very elegant package.True, the second and the fourth are not very intelligent sequels, but they also follow the rule of disparity, as for the Star Trek, Star Wars, Batman, Superman and other even installments.Yet, if one considers, what effort went into making them, on can only admire them.The 2 double-sided DVDs are impeccable, the image was never clearer and the widescreen format helps a lot in keeping all the spectacular scenes together.The first Airport is a must in widescreen, since many scenes were shot in the split-screen process, which gets completely confusing when panned and scanned.The only regrettable thing happens to be the sound elaboration of Airport 1975 and Airport '77.Again, Universal made the mistake to transfer them in a flat monaural version, when, as many fans of the sensurround process know, both were released, as for Midway and Earthquake in that format.I sometimes wonder why the studio didn't try harder to translate the old surround track into the modern 5.1 Digital Dolby one.It's an easy process. In fact, I have isolated some tracks myself and digitally recreated a 5.1 stereo surround track from a monaural portion of the DVDs. It worked and it's a matter of a few hours work, with some remastering and mixing involved.Alas, I don't have a more powerful computer, otherwise I would have remastered the entire soundtrack of all the three monaural movies and redubbed the DVDs.So my question is, if I as a private person with a knack for such things, am able to do it, why cannot Universal do the same?Lack of interest, money, time or what?Nevertheless, despite these unnerving issues, the four movies are still worth collecting, at least until another special edition pops up, with Airport (as in this release) in Dolby Surround 5.1, Airport 1975 the same, Airport '77 ditto, and Airport '79 - The Concorde, in its proper Stereo track.I emphasize the value of this collection, if just for its filmic, historic value and for the economical side of it.As said, when will you find actors such as Burt Lancaster, Helen Hayes, Maureen Stapleton, Jacqueline Bisset, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Van Heflin a.m.o. reunited in a movie again?Or in the others, actors as Charlton Heston, Dana Andrews, Karen Black, Gloria Swanson, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Myrna Loy, Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Olivia DeHavilland, Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee, James Stewart, Alain Delon, Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert, Mercedes McCambridge, Cicely Tyson, David Warner and to top them all of, George Kennedy as Joe Patroni?Think about it.This is "That's Entertainment" in the clouds, with one under the water (Airport '77), alas without Esther Williams in it, but still, it's a who's who in Hollywood in the crazy '70s.Is this not money well spent?Besides, these are movies that anyone can enjoy, without having to feel ashamed to watch them in the family and with the family.Let's hope the sound remastered collection will soon see the day. Until then, enjoy four well entertaining movies for the price of two!

This is a very good deal. Finally you'll get the chance to have the whole collection in just one pack, separated in two DVD's. Also the price is very good considering that you're purchasing 4 movies for less than 20 Dollars.Movie #1: AIRPORT (1970)This movie received 10 Oscar nominations in 1970, including Best Picture. The special effects are very good, but don't imagine special effects like Titanic, there are almost 20 years of difference.This story is about a Boeing 707 flight from Chicago to Rome and in the passenger list there is a man whois broke and gets an insureance for the trip so he gets on board with explosives to blow the plane so his family could claim the insurance.There are other stories in this movie like an old woman stowaway and the unexpected pregnancy of the captain's flight attendant mistress.Movie #2: AIRPORT 1975 (1974)This movie is not as good as the first one but it's good anyway.The story is about a flight of a Boeing 747 that in the middle of the flight crashes with a small private plane leaving no captain and first officer, so the senior flight attendant has to be in charge of the cockpit until an expert pilot gets on board in the middle of the air from another plane (something almost incredible to show back in 1975).Movie #3: AIRPORT '77 (1977)Another story about a Boeing 747 but this time is a private flight from an art collector who's carring several millions in paintings. So some workers in the plane plan to make sleep the VIP passengers with gaz so they can steal the artworks but everything goes wrong when then the automatic pilot crashes one wing with a petrol base in the Atlantic making the plane go under the ocean. So a rescue team have to save the pasengers who are 200 feet underwater before the airplanes cracks with the water pressure.Movie #4: THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT '79 (1979)In my opinion this is the best one. The story is a bit crazy but very good making you be glued to the screen. It's about a nuclear weapons expert who plans to destroy the Concorde with missiles because his lover who happened to be a jurnalist has in her power documents that revealed his secret operations, so the pilot and captain have to skip the missiles and then prevent the damaged aircraft from breaking and crashing the French Alps.You'll find First Class actors in all the movies including: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset, Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Gloria Swanson, Linda Blair, Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Alain Delon, Roberto Wagner and George Kennedy who appears in all the movies.I really like this movies, they are very interesting and another thing that I like very much in this movies is that you can notice how we have changed our concept of travelling, now it's something normal and usual but you'll see that everybody in the movies are so excited because they're going to be inside of a plane and everyone is very elegant.