BLUE THUNDER | Demonstration Scene | Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell

[@WiWsouljar]

This, airwolf, street hawk, knight rider and the A team made my childhood the best.

[@mjb0810]

You're missing manimal & Mcgyver from that list

[@txDDS]

@@mjb0810No he isn't

[@KarimAkors]

AutoMan......yaiks

[@nike80nl]

Same here 👌

[@matthewnowell671]

Mine as well!

[@StefanBlagojevic]

Oh yeah!! This brings wonderful memories! Eternal gratitude to late Roy Scheider for this beautiful movie! Rest in Peace Roy Scheider and thank you for everything! ❤

[@Sn0wc4t]

Not sure I'd want to be directly down range of a helicopter gunship that's live firing. Especially one with a run away gun!

[@TheRVSN]

That is for dumb mob watching movie.

[@MrMegamike2k]

It was the 80s so it's ok.

[@stuartjohnston1086]

Ironically, Roy Schneider and Malcolm McDowell became very good friends during the making of Blue Thunder.

[@davidtatro7457]

Also Ironically, Malcom did not like flying and got some severe anxiety during some of the stunt scenes. And Roy only made the film so he couldn't be forced into making Jaws 3.

[@youwebz]

Is there a making of Blue Thunder or how did you find that out?

[@shanebarker3131]

@@youwebz Maybe IMDB ?

[@jdslater1]

Her coming from the Sun is still a damn cool shot

[@EpicLib]

Yes! That's what i was thinking when this clip started, a great moment of cinematography

[@Devil-mn3dc]

Hell yeah!!! My dad worked for aerospaciale when this was made was one of the guys who helped make the helicopter for the movie.

[@youwebz]

Awesome

[@7CharlesV]

This movie is one of my guilty pleasure, popcorn and Pepsi favorites. I loved the flying sequences, (even if some of them were models.) Like when Scheider steathily rises into view off the bridge when the bad guys are chasing Candy Clark's character. I really dug Roy Scheider's seemingly easy going but deceptively tightly wound character. Malcom McDowell's military man who deserves his comeuppance. But my favorite actor has to be Warren Oates, who I'm of the understanding that this was his last film. What a fantastic actor, in anything I've ever seen him in. Even As a supporting role as the Deputy in "In the Heat of the Night." And one of the best villains, Anthony James. Scary dude, in whatever role.

[@youwebz]

Well said

[@shanebarker3131]

The JAFO torture-chase-death scene fkd me uppppppp as a kid

[@FUNshoot]

Chief Martin Brody: "Bet this will handle a shark." Drill Sergeant Hulka: "This would work great in Czechoslovakia or Wisconsin."

[@mattel1814]

You gona need a bigger boat…

[@lonestarr1341]

Unkle Hulka 🤣

[@d.l.9517]

"It... Is... Alive"

[@wrongway3363]

When Uncle Hulka met Jaws, "the year we made contact" !

[@therookpiece]

This movie had a great but dark story, especially for a kid of the time.

[@TheLAGopher]

I remember seeing this film as a 15 year old in 1983. It's story of authoritarian elements in the military and government engineering civil unrest and fear of terrorism going into the 1984 olympics,to declare martial law and massacre protesters of police brutality, is even more timely a topic these days then in 1983.

[@karadan100]

I love how they just stuck a bunch of stuff on a Gazelle to make it look awesome but kept the same sound of the gas turbine engine.

[@stereobrian8113]

But her sound is really good for that period. I heard it a lot times in real life, and it is much better than classic chopper. No blade sounds, just engine.

[@michael_mack]

No Man, you wrong. Its absolutely 100% the oryginal Blue Thunder. You clearly don't knows anything about choppers. 😂

[@kingarthur5110]

The ol' screaming chicken leg. Heard many of them when my dad was stationed at RAF Shawbury.

[@kirkchartier7141]

**according to them 20 mm Cannon firing 4,000 rounds a minute = 66.6 rounds per second, personally I think 20 mm Cannon is too much overkill for any police work, short of drug enforcement over the border stuff. **Even the Six Pack minigun which is a 5.56 minigun firing at about the same rate of fire (according to one source), is still too much Overkill for most situations. **But a light armored car, or light helicopter with a huge ammunition capacity, probably two to three times what you'd carry with a minigun 7.62x51 would give some serious suppressive firepower, for military use.

[@kleetus92]

She has a nice whine to her... I think most of it is from the enclosed tail rotor... The EC 135 and the Dolphine sound a lot alike with that similar design.

[@TheWarriorsFromHell]

somehow matchbox got the rights to make a toy off this design and still makes them to this day, they must over 100 different paint variants

[@Altair885]

I've got Two of them, one from the 80's when I was a kid and one I bought for my son last year! I believe the model is MB-57. It's the one where the tail section slides in and out and it has folding rotor blades. Both the ones I have are red.

[@TheWarriorsFromHell]

@@Altair885 i think i've had 3, 2 police and 1 military

[@Havanacuba1985]

No way I’ve never seen them , how cool

[@rossbethell4187]

Yep I didn’t buy it but somehow as a kid in the late 80s I ended up with a dark blue one. Then saw the film and was like …..”wait a minute…”

[@SulliMike23]

I actually had one

[@infolover_68]

The movie and the tv serie of Blue Thunder made my days in the 80s'!! 👈👈👈👈👌👌👌👌

[@joetuktyyuktuk8635]

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂Arnold Swartzenegger: "Those are unarmed civilians down there!..." 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@11C1P]

Sure, next I bet you tell me all they want is some food?

[@RebelWithoutACause_]

The Running Man

[@joetuktyyuktuk8635]

@@RebelWithoutACause_ 🍰

[@matthiaslaue66]

Then it will be some "Aktschn" ...A.Schwarzenegger

[@randytravis3998]

get to the chopper

[@historickeeper]

Poor Gazelle having all the stuff bolted on to it funny watched this as kid then ended up working with said aircraft in the army shame kids don't have stuff like this now a days.

[@DJ_TideWave]

One of my all time favorite films! I have it on VHS, Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-Ray! Such an iconic movie! 😊

[@ivanpodrez3403]

I am 40 now and I still remember my dad taking me to the movie theatre to see this film. What a great classic! Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell are both perfect for their roles. Too bad noone has even heard of it nowadays.

[@youwebz]

Rob “you can do it” Schneider?

[@ivanpodrez3403]

@@youwebzWhooops...

[@countzer0408]

How old were you at the time this movie came out? I’m 52 and I was 11 years old when this came out, so you would’ve been what, 1 or 2 years old? That’s some memory you have. Complete and utter total recall.

[@ivanpodrez3403]

@@countzer0408Funny story. I live in Russia. So they only ran it in theaters after the collapse of Soviet Union. I think I've seen it in 1992.

[@countzer0408]

@@ivanpodrez3403 Ahhh, that would definitely explain it. I stand corrected. 😉

[@IFeelTheDark]

What isn't shown here is the great buildup to the demonstration. The arrival at the location in the early morning, with the sun just coming up. Talk of what they're about to see. Makes what follows so much better.

[@JeffNolan]

Sgt Hulka thinking back to his time in Czechoslovakia…

[@WalksWithNoFear]

He had to cancel some Czechs

[@alanmacpherson3225]

"Chicago Bang Bang".

[@dallashord5221]

The Big Toe!

[@coryboy345]

Does this mean we get the rest of the day off?

[@youwebz]

🤣 well done

[@RichardDragon-m6k]

Blue Thunder is the best helicopter movie ever Best helicopter best action and actors you definitely can’t get any better Blue Thunder beats Airwolf hands down sincerely Richard ❤

[@saber-jocky3436]

I'll take an Apache from Fire Birds over this piece of crap any day. At least they are real military combat helicopters. And on top of that, Tommy Lee Jones is better than most all the actors in Blue Thunder.

[@Craig-e9m]

Well we never got an Airwolf movie so can't really compare as a one off

[@thegrandinquisitor8239]

Airwolf can travel at Mach 2 and has a ceiling of 60,000 ft. Airwolf wins. "Dom, gimme turbos..."

[@JamesLerem]

Pfft.. AirWolf would fly circles around BT with its stealthy self.

[@Craig-e9m]

@@JamesLerem Whisper mode

[@pedroferreira5710]

You got to love the detail of the helicopter shooting a thousand roubds per second in the direction of the "audience". I loved this show and fought with my mother to allow me to see it because it was on a late schedule and school was on the following day 😂

[@internetabyss]

Loved this movie back in the day, awesome helicopter

[@MikeSmith-rh5gc]

Wish they’d release this in 4k. Love this movie

I can't say how much I searched for this series, I saw it when I was a kid and forgot the name, today I found it. AWESOME!

[@Bel-Air_12th-17]

Super film de 1983, indémodable, que je ne me lasse jamais de revoir et revoir encore 🎬🇺🇲😃❤❤❤❤

[@NightwingP40]

80s baby checking in!!!

[@brokl26]

That’s because your childhood was the best. How do I know? Because those on your list made my childhood the best. I might be alone in this, but I’d like to add this little nugget. I loved Hardcastle and McCormick. Even the theme rocked. We waited each week. No streaming. The anticipation was amazing.

[@BCWasbrough]

It was a different era back then. People were MUCH less comfortable arming local police with military-grade weapons.

[@IHRZGHKIP]

No, they weren't. It was just no one ever talked about it. The S W.A.T. team in Dallas used to have L.A.W.S. They just never had the cause to use them. Know why? Because in the 80s we let kids fight with each other and they didn't shoot up their schools.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

They were? From those of us outside the US, it always looked like your police, where the backup army after the main Army and National Guard.

[@BCWasbrough]

@@Thurgosh_OG The 80's was when American police realized that the Geneva Convention didn't apply to them, and they could gear up however they wanted to "fight crime". Your observations were correct. The situation just got much worse since then.

[@RedTail1-1]

Define "military-grade"

[@BCWasbrough]

@@RedTail1-1 Define wasting my time with pointless questions.

[@misterbig9025]

Modified Gazelle helo

[@sid2112]

Still used for recon missions by the EU! A solid frame to be sure.

[@joshcarter-com]

Apparently Blue Thunder was so heavy it hardly flew. It must’ve been a bear for the pilot to handle!

[@SCARFACE-gp4fy]

Had my first orientation flight in a gazelle in the British army early 92

[@mrgone658]

-->"Do you think you could fly it?" -->"You flew it, didn't you?" Nugget right there.....😁.....

[@riaanpotgieter475]

Watched this movie in a theater when it was released in South Africa ❤🌹 😼😎 Soooo many moons ago, but still a great movie!!!

[@FureyinHD]

Who would have thought a Gazelle with a square canopy would be so deadly

[@jim-stacy]

I was wondering what the base chopper was. WAY too small foa an apache!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@jim-stacy Way before the Apache too.

[@MeppyMan]

@@Thurgosh_OGnot really. Before it was officially introduced sure (by 3 years), but the Apache started development on the 70s.

[@jim-stacy]

@@MeppyMan wast the apache a response to the the Bell AH1 Cobra?

[@JollyRoger-no7ps]

I can’t recall how many times I’ve seen this movie and still love every minute of it but what just dawned on me that the spectator stands are at the end of the mock street the helo firing live ammunition straight at them. Doesn’t seem very safe or realistic for the demonstration of a prototype.

[@generalilbis]

Oh, it's definitely a horribly unsafe idea... but the demonstration's MoC repeatedly points out that Blue Thunder's gun targeting system is basically so precise it can turn an area of effect weapon like the 20mm auto-cannon into something fit for a marksman. So there's no fear of stray rounds. Which is definitely bullshit...an Apache's single-barrel chaingun might be that accurate - or close - but no Gatling-style automatic weapon I've ever heard about is that precise. Doesn't matter if the gun is mounted to some gyroscope-stabilized gimbal mount/turret or being handled by a T-800 Terminator with advanced targeting capabilities...MOA doesn't exist when you have multiple barrels on a gun or cannon.

[@dronkozkov5804]

@@generalilbis да даже если бы стрельба была абсолютно точной, рикошет мощного боеприпаса определённого кого-нибудь бы убил.

[@JuanFlores-n5z4q]

Saw this movie when it came out. Good times.

[@robertcooper6853]

Targets all over. Gun mounted in a power turret that never moves but obliterates everything in a city street. Hollywood, baby!!!

[@tb7771]

Wow, haven't seen this since the early 80's. One of my Favs.

[@TechTinkerHobbyist]

great movie, def a childhood fav, thx for sharing

[@DigitalDiabloUK]

American defence contractors be like "some of you may die, but it's a price I'm willing to pay "

[@anthonyC9199]

The graphics are so good!

[@flymachine]

The graceful Gazelle on PCP - I wonder if American fans at the time knew it was a French machine?

[@phanthomphanthom0123]

Genial..........was für schöne Kindheitserinnerungen........feinste Sahne.............

[@Vadr_H8r]

I always wanted his watch!!!❤❤❤

[@AnthonyThomas_Ant]

Observers down range of the demo - JAFO.

[@newsmith]

Blue Thunder wouldn't stand a chance against Airwolf ;)

[@marcelojj2009]

Oh, the ages long discussion !

[@luciusvorenus9445]

The pilots who flew Blue Thunder said the modifications made to the helicopter made it difficult to fly. The pilots who flew Airwolf said the modifications made to the helicopter made it fly better! Unfortunately, Airwolf was sold after the series was canceled. It became an air ambulance and crashed into a mountain, killing all on board .

[@SpongeDarth]

One chopper showcased actual existing technology. The other required fast-forwarding of footage to produce a cheap-@$$ illusion of ridiculous high speed flight.

[@MegaRayland]

@@luciusvorenus9445What “modifications”? Slapping an air intake, and three metallic painted plastic tubes to the bottom and the end of the landing gear structure is hardly making “modifications”. All the functional shots of guns and rocket launcher coming in or out were close ups of partial props, not a working helicopter. Blue Thunder actually received modifications and was a working helicopter. Airwolf merely had a few props attached to it for when in combat mode or civilian mode with the transformation shot on partial props.

[@IHRZGHKIP]

No, it wouldn't. If you armed Blue Thunder with the same weapons, then yes it would. Blue Thunder was built on a wildly better platform than Airwolf was.

[@RaulRodriguezasteroides]

Esta película está excelentemente bien lograda. Grandes actuaciones de Roy Scheider y Malcolm Mcdowell ...un lujo de trama, y efectos para el año de su estreno 👏👏👏🧎🧎🧎

[@Teeveepicksures]

my old man loved this movie

[@Mortalcoil100]

The notion that the gatlin gun could be that precise is... hysterical.

[@TamiJoeris-ge5dg]

"Well well, look who it isnt" I love Malcolm.

[@CyberSystemOverload]

The 80s had a thing for souped up helicopters.

[@lisaroberts8556]

A byproduct of the Age of the Huey and Cobra in Vietnam.

[@guillermobrandt291]

Excellent movie, but the series was not successful. Airwolf and his music were successful and remained engraved in us forever. Airwolf is the most beautiful helicopter I know.

[@squirrel-1969]

Welly, welly, well my little droogies what do we have here? It's blue thunder!

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

It will do more than hand out a tolchoc to the old Gulliver, eh? This is ultraviolence incarnate. Viddy well, little brother, viddy well.

[@everythingismusic20]

You gonna need a bigger copter

[@daveg5857]

The ideal tool for quelling civil unrest. Yikes!

[@coryboy345]

He's following his leaduh!

[@MeppyMan]

I still say that out loud sometime randomly confusing friends. Lol.

[@coryboy345]

@@MeppyMan i do the 👉 catcha latah

[@blackwolf8281]

Bloody helll !! You tell tech I'll have their balls for breakfast!! Sir?? Is that with or without syrup!?? Great movie..

[@Talsedoom]

I wouldn't dare to be even in spectator area. All about this scene is unsafe. Minigun is anything but safe. Also they put a freaking Caligula to pilot this thing!

[@shaunjensen571]

How do you replace Malcolm McDowell with Dana Carvy in the tv series?

[@sumdumunkey]

They didn't. Dana Carvey had Daniel Stern's role.

[@shawnbyers6291]

Classic movie, one of my favorites. But that was a god awful demo! 😂

[@youwebz]

Must of been a Biden initiative.

[@hmoobdaisiabyangchannel2340]

Very nice

[@flashnewlight1075]

From the introduction of new attack helicopters to government conspiracies, there are no movies like this right now.

[@WoWmakerWT]

Let's take minigun and helicopter to the park. What could ever possibly gone wrong? Oh those old series xD

[@MostlyPennyCat]

"In a riot situation"?? You're going to use a 20mm gattling cannon? 😂 I hope these are special cannon rounds that don't go through people...

[@yogssothoth3199]

And if they do go thru people there is always Qualified Immunity.

[@eefneleman9564]

I keep reading EVIL on that firing switch.

[@mediatourist]

Desert strike 😊

[@noelht1]

2:17 of course that kind of fire power wouldn’t be used unless it was our worst case scenario of such as hate speech on Facebook. Or thought crimes

[@youwebz]

🤣 so true. Lucky it wasn’t in the UK……

[@jamesbutler5570]

Lets introduce the new civil unrest killer ... drones

[@brumph7256]

I bet he wishes he had this helicopter when he was the sheriff on Amity Island….😂😂😂

[@horaciotaliercio2378]

Que buena pelicula, la vi varias veces, aparte buenos actores.

[@Foldy435]

Unbelievably a defense contractor offered to donate fifty million rounds of live ammunition to director John Badham for Blue Thunder's gatling gun. John Badham thanked them but said no.

[@tripleseven8361]

The last line was the best!

[@velocitymg]

And fast forward 40 years to the Apache, movie was way ahead of its time

[@krashd]

Not really, the Apache may have been officially introduced three years after this movie but it's first flight was over 10 years before Blue Thunder was made.

[@tonig8082]

Great Move 👍👍👍👍

[@gutimon]

In our childhood we saw it as normal that a combat helicopter would make a strike demonstration with the public in the line of fire.

[@PashaDefragzor]

I've been watching this movie in USSR deep in the Russian forest ^__^ When I was a 3-4 years old kid, I remember this movie clearly ^__^

[@Ed209sect32]

You don't see films focusing on military hardware anymore. Flight of the Intruder, Iron Eagle, Final Countdown(Sort of, lol), Firebirds, Top Gun, Delta Force to some degree, DARYL. At least nothing with more modern aircraft or land vehicles.

[@しーでびる]

ちょっちょっちょっ！😮🇯🇵日本語版（ソフト版）じゃないですか‼︎😊

[@おピンク兄弟]

もうちょっと日本人の書き込みが欲しいですね。

[@廣瀬聡-z2f]

ロイ・シャイダーは、ジョーズも含めて羽佐間道夫のイメージ。

[@Prof_Alexander_Blanco]

No me perdía esta serie!!!

[@Mandrake1976]

Malcolm McDowell sounds a bit like Eddie Izzard in this! 😂

[@shikarbabulall3897]

That Canon gun is more powerful than Airwolf's chain gun , its like Airwolf's Missiles , always wondered what else Blue thunder had as a kid I saw more of Airwolf in the 80's

[@Vim-Wolf]

Roy’s face when the white targets get hit, such a great actor.

[@kleetus92]

One thing I always had to laugh at was the fact that the pilot was shooting at targets with the spectators directly behind them... Nevermind they're only like 200 feet away and a 20mm round will certainly skipp or splatter that far! Ah hollywood showed us their lack of basic weapon understanding even back in the 80's and we never picked up on it. Still a fun movie though.

[@Jeff-bb3ur]

...I noticed that NO ONE in the stands got at all nervous as the Apache was flying AT THEM with it's front cannon firing uncontrollably. I think OSHA would have had something to say about that. 😅

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Blue Thunder is not an Apache. It is a modified Gazelle helicopter.

[@0508toya]

에어울프와 블루썬더는 내 어릴적 추억의 명작이었습니다.

[@bradvador336]

C'est une gazelle déguisée 😂 sacré truc 🤣🤣

[@davidself2223]

Love the collateral damage. Not bad for a color blind pilot.

[@jorgericardoparadanarvaez5579]

Relámpago Azul, una película de 1982, adelantada a su tiempo, mucho antes de ver a lobo del aire, y mucho antes de ver a los helicópteros Apache, Wow...

[@jessicaregina1956]

Helicopters dont usually engage aircraft of any sort.

[@simracer1256]

Rubbish. Kiowas and Gazelles both had Stingers

[@JC130676]

@@simracer1256 And AH-64's and AH-1's can be equipped with Sidewinders.

[@orlock20]

That's because the countries that have lots of helicopters have lots of jet fighters to try and control the sky. Helicopter can fight other helicopters and try to scare away any fighter jet hunting them. J-CATCH proved armed helicopters can at least scare fighter jets if not shoot them down.

[@Teeveepicksures]

Airwolf, dude.

[@Dontdeleteme-cv7go]

Best damn hovercraft ever.

[@billy1673]

That helicopter was light years ahead of its time.

[@tenedor5664]

Me encanta esta pelicula!.La vi dos veces el dia del estreno,cuando tenia 9 años.Y ahora la habre visto como 30 veces.Hay algunas cosas que son atemporales como los relojes casio.🍕

[@batmasterson1715]

I still have the toy with opening cockpit and Murphy figure based on TV show version.

[@viceroy7792]

You and I remember Budapest very differently…!

[@zefekesse]

Hélicoptère français, excusez du peu !! film génial que j'ai, d'ailleurs je vais le regarder bientôt

[@numero6_au_village]

Gazelle

[@Jcb64brrt]

L,hélico est un gazelle français transformé ,pas un cobra vétéran du Vietnam ,et encore moins un apache ! Le film je l, avait en vhs waouh c,est pas de hier 😮😊. mais un bon film quand même

[@seabeeusn76]

Gonna a need a bigger chopper....

[@corradoparris9679]

Is this coming to 4K physical media???

[@byronrivera8585]

I remeber that sound in airwolf , maybe the last seasons, they mix the sound from the Gazelle.

[@blackc1479]

Looking back its kinda wild to claim that a minigun could be that precise.

[@stinkymccheese8010]

I remember seeing this as a kid.

[@glennledrew8347]

An audience seated that close, and immediately downrange for a number of runs, is ludicrous in the extreme. And a 1 in 10 collateral loss rate for that scenario, at that fire rate and for that hit rate per pass was utterly impossible then, and probably still is. Talk about contributing to a false notion of weapon system capabilities.

[@MrSpartam]

un requin volant !!!! il nous faudra un plus gros hélico chief brody !!!