Death By Helicopter!

    One of the main things helicopters do in movies is either saving lives or taking them in very very gory ways. (Ever see someone killed by a helicopter in a non-gory way?) If you have a hero that looks like nothing can save him and he is going to die, send in a helicopter. If you have a bad guy who MUST die, send in a helicopter.

    In the movie A Good Day To Die Hard Bruce Willis is back in the last movie in the Die Hard series. The coolest part in the movie and trailer is when Bruce Willis and his son jump out of a window and fall down a construction side plank things and slide down a red tube thing.. The whole time the bad guy is shooting at them with his helicopter machine guns. Somehow he misses them completely and they live. At the end of the movie Bruce Willis is fighting the bad guy on a roof. (Again) The bad guys helicopter is there too trying to kill the good guys again. But this time Bruce Willis knocks the bad guy off of the roof into the helicopter tail rotor making him turn into just a cloud of blood, and making the helicopter crash.

    In the movie The A-Team, the team team up to get their friend Murdock out of a Mexican mental hospital. Murdock is the team’s pilot, he can fly almost anything he says. As they are getting away from the hospital Murdock drops a really big thing on B.A. Buraca’s (Mr.T) Van. Then Murdock does some pretty awesome flying with loops. Bad guys chase them through Mexico in a helicopter. But as soon as the cross the American border a American jet comes flying past them shooting a missile at them and blowing up the bad guys. Later in the movie the team drives a tank out of a flying helicopter and tries to “fly” the tank by shooting it.

In the movie Godzilla you can see a lot of helicopter throughout the movie not doing much. Because what are they going to do to Godzilla? But at the final battle part of the movie, after Godzilla totally fatalities Moto.(Laser breathing down his throat and ripping his head off) The hero is on a boat with the Nuke sailing away from the city. At the last second a military helicopter flies over him and lowers a team of people to save him. They pick him up and get him in the helicopter and fly him to safety before the nuke goes off. (Totally would not have had enough time to get to safety with the kind of helicopter they were in)

In these movies usually when you see the hero flying a helicopter there is awesome music playing in the background of the movie. But sometimes there is not. A great helicopter song in an action movie about helicopter would be Lift me up by Five Finger Death Punch. Or if it was a comedy a cool song would be, Believe it or not by Mike Post.