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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What are George Lucas, and other big D's up to?
Date: 11 Dec 92 16:49:02 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Dec10.212847.28399@cs.ucla.edu>, reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu 
(Peter Reiher) writes:
> In article <92345.132642IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> -((ZERO))- 
<IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:

>>What *IS* George Lucas up to anyway?  Off on some secret Star Wars shooting?
> Lucas is supposedly devoting most of his attention to the "Young Indiana
> Jones" TV series.

And a damn fine show it is.
 
>>What's James Cameron up to now?  Didn't he sign a 500 million dollar deal
>>allowing him to get some movies cranked out?  Where's SPIDER MAN? 
> Supposedly, his next film will be "The Crowded Room", concerning a woman
> with multiple personalities, I believe.  I don't think it's started shooting
> yet, and there's still a chance he'll do something else.

I had heard it was a man.  In fact I had heard that John Cuzack was set 
to star...I would really like that.  After _Fat Man and Little Boy_ and 
_The Grifters_, I'm anxiously awaiting his next drama.

Greg Bole                               "Rug-man!  It's been a few  millenia.
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                    Slap me some tassle!"
                                             Robin Williams in _Aladdin_
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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Need help on Alfred Hitchcock
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 12:36:54 GMT

In article <1992Dec6.055043.14261@leela.cs.orst.edu> yousten@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Ken Yousten) writes:
>In article <jyc.723587082@Leland> jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:
>>   Another is Saboteur, a film that's flawed overall but has some great
>>photography and some individual scenes which are among Hitchcock's best
>>set pieces.   
>
>Agreed.  As a whole, I didn't like it much, but the fight scene with
>Bob Cummings and Norman Lloyd on the Statue of Liberty is gorgeous.

However, Hitch had the wrong character hanging by his fingers.  He corrected
this blunder in _North by Northwest_ (really a remake of _Saboteur_).

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
From: peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Help find "M", The 1950's American Version
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:12:31 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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I'm looking for "M", the American version, on film or video, preferably the
latter. Please e-mail any pertinent information. Thanks.

--Peter M.

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From: rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Emma Thompson a shoe-in for Best Actress??
Date: 20 Dec 92 03:16:21 GMT
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	Now that LA and NY film critic circles and National Film board 
	has come up with their selection of the best.  Emma Thompson was
	one item of agreement for all three as best actress.  One ponders
	the meaning...  Also Gene Hackman was select as the best suporting
	by all three. 

	As for the other items.  NY and LA reverse their first and second for
	best picture which were The Player and Unforgiven.  Clint East was 
	LA's choice for best actor, and I believe Tim Robbins was NY's.  
	National's choice for best pictures is Howard's End and Jack Lemond
	for best actor for Glenngarry Glen Ross.
-- 
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From: mmidboe@nyx.cs.du.edu (digital saint)
Subject: Re: Watchmen
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 05:45:17 GMT

To: kmink@hubcap.clemson.edu
Subject: Re: Watchmen
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
mosyne.cs.du.edu>
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Bcc: 


        A Hoffman or Pacino for Roschach? Pacino would be nice but I'd
like to see David Cronenburg (His role as the psychotic doctor in Night
Breed was interesting) or DeNiro. Does anyone know who all worked on the
scripts for this movie? Also I can't see why Hollywood wouldn't jump on
this. Comic books, when done right, have proven to be big money makers in
the past. The Watchmen is an excellent story. Plenty of other movies have
proven that no budget is to big. So what is stopping the Watchmen?


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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: What is this movie?
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 21:12:12 GMT

In article <0096515B.A6ECA9C0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 9072falkk@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>Does anyone know the name of the movie in which the line "Take me to the
>Casbah" was spoken?  

The line "Come wiz me to ze Casbah" was supposedly spoken by Charles Boyer, 
playing a criminal named Pepe Le Moko, in "Algiers".  (To Hedy Lamaar, if 
memory serves, but I wouldn't swear to it.)  However, like "Play it again, 
Sam", it was never actually spoken in the film.  Variations of it undoubtedly 
occur in any number of Bugs Bunny cartoons, however.

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu

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From: dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter)
Subject: "Delicatessen" Theater Poster...
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:00:22 GMT


To the fan who inquired as to the price and condition of this poster
(sorry, I deleted your message)--please e-mail to me.

I have one in excellent condition!
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Black Holes of Cinema
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:28:30 GMT

mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes) writes:

>This may be a controversial or flame-baiting topic, but it relates to the 
>"overrated" thread.  Black holes are cinema are people with no talent who keep 
>making movies!

>Dolph Lundgren

I'd keep Dolph around for his entertainment value, though.  He is to acting
what Woody Allen is to bench pressing, but that's what makes him so much
FUN!  (In a twisted sort of way, of course.)

>Keanu Reeves !! Major black hole! Can he walk and chew gum as anyone other than
>                 Ted or Bill ?!?

No, he can't.  The fact that Keanu gets movie roles up the wazoo and Alex
Winter (who played Bill, and who *is* a good actor) does not is proof that
there is no divine justice.

>Jim Belushi

Agreed.

>Patrick Swayze Major major black hole!!!!

I thought he was good in "Ghost," and I'd hoped that the film would
somehow make him a better actor, but it didn't happen somehow.

>Jean-Claude Van Damme !

Lord, yes!  Not only can he not act worth a Damme, he is also an arrogant
and insufferable bastard in real life, based on the articles I've read
about the man.

>Sylvester Stallone   (enough Rocky and Rambo black holes!!)

Here's an actor who has talent (yes, it IS in there somewhere), but who
has abysmal taste in choosing which films to be in.  I thought he was
great in "Rocky" and, God help me, "Tango & Cash," but that's about it.

>  Any more nominees......?

Somebody should stop Macaulay Culkin and Kevin Costner before it's
too late.


                                    --Steve Stelter
                                      sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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From: cosulliv@fraser.sfu.ca (Christina Marie O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Best foreign films, by country
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:12:42 GMT

d40937@leibnitz (Jean Yves Desbiens) writes:

>Evelyn C. Leeper (ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com) wrote:
>: 
>: What is wrong with this picture?
>: 
>Well, when we say foreign film in the language of holywood,
>it usually means something that is not american. Seeing there
>so many americans on the net and so few canadians I also put
>the canadian films in because they are foreign to americans if not
>to me.
  But then, shouldn't Americans list Canadian films as foreign?  
 Americans when talking about their films to others don't
>consider them foreign to the others because they expect us to know about them,
>and most times that is the case, but canadian films are not well
>known so I cannot discount them in the same way.I
   Actually, Canadian cinema for all the 3% of distribution they take up in 
local wide-screen markets, is making a name for itself outside North America.
My Anglo (and I mean from the UK, Jean Yves, not merely from outside Quebec) 
report having seen "Dead Ringers", "The Cat Came Back", "American Boyfriends" and "Roadkill" and "The Adjuster." 
Even more amazing, a Kiwi pal reports seeing "Naked Lunch!"
>They are foreign
>to you not me because you don't know much about them while 
>american movies are not foreign to me because they have a much
>wider distribution than even local movies.   
C'est dommage, c'est vrai.  
As a side note, I gotta wonder how films that fail to receive funding from
Telefilm Canada find distribution inside and outside Canada.  Any filmmakers
wanna fill me in on that one?

>--
>SEIZE THE DAY, MAKE YOUR LIFE EXTRAORDINARY .  "Dead Poets Society"

>Jean-Yves Desbiens                  | d40937@info.polymtl.ca
>Etudiant en genie informatique      | 
>Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Can | To indeed be a god ...,
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From: malhotra@duke.cs.duke.edu (Manish Malhotra)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Underrated Actor/Actress
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:46:38 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

In article <1633@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
>>
>>Actor- A tossup between Gene HAckman and Christopher Walken. Hackman, IMHO
>>is strong no matter what role he plays, from Lex Luthor to the Sheriff in 
>>"Unforgiven" gives a fine performance. He just never seemed to get any credit
>
>twisted type (such as in The Conversation).  Hackman's one of my all-time
>favorites, maybe The favorite -- I go to all his movies even when I know
>they're going to be bad.  


I think he would be nominated for the best supporting actor in 
"Unforgiven" this year. IMHO, he should be.  

Manish
From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Rest-of-the-year hopefuls (was: A Few Good Men:a comedy?)
Date: 13 Dec 92 09:40:27
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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In-reply-to: whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu's message of 11 Dec 92 23:40:19 EST

whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
|I saw A Few Good Men at a free college preview and quite frankly I
|thought that 
|it was hilarious.  Unfortunately, the movie fails as a drama but succeeds as a
|comedy.  The gross melodrama and overacting sent me as well as the whole
|theatre into hysterics.  Nicholson was okay but watching and standoff between
|at the end was just ridiculous especially when Tom Cruise starts screaming "I
|want the truth!"  The opening sequence when the marines were showing off their
|rifle twirling skills also sent people laughing.  Other people may feel
|different but I left the theatre with a big grin on my face.  If this movie
|wins any Oscars, it would be a gross crime.


Well!  So what does that leave for Oscar hopefuls for the rest of the
year?  _Hoffa_, _Chaplin_ and that thing with Michelle Pfeiffer?
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From: bj893@cleveland.freenet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: What are best mail order video sources?
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:14:34 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I am looking to find the best source(s) for getting videos by mail order. 
At this particular time I am looking to buy a dance video which is proving
hard to find in my local area (Boston).  Could some helpful soul(s) point
me towards various mail order sources of videos. 

I am interested in any mail order source that carries videos that can be
hard to find in the local video store.  Please let me know the
speciality/focus of the various mail order sources.  I am also interested
in places that rent via mail order.    

If there is interest I can post a summary.

Thank you,

-bert
<bj893@cleveland.freenet.edu>
From: annie@garnt.berkeley.edu  (Anne Jessop)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Stephen King Movies
Date: 12 Dec 1992 01:30:25 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Originator: annie@garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec11.020330.12912@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
>> |> The Running man
>
>TRM was Stephen King?  Kinda out of his stly isn't it?  I'm surprised he'd
>bother, as much $$ he makes per horror story!  :)

Actually, it was, but it was made from a novella of the same title that he
wrote as "Richard Bachman".  It's from a collection called _The Bachman
Books_, or stories, or something like that.  There's another cool story in
there about a marathon-to-the-death (similar in theme to RM, but with a
bunch of teenage boys who engage in a marathon where they all just walk
until only one is left.  How long it lasts depends upon how long they can
remain walking.  Really chilling stuff.)  _Thinner_ was another of the
books he wrote as Bachman.
Besides, I gather from the tone of your comment that you didn't think much
of the Running Man.  Is this correct?  How come? It was a pretty great
Arnie movie.  Richard Dawson's cameo as the game show host from hell was
pretty well typecast, I'd say.

--Annie
 

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From: rafem@gvlf7-e.gvl.unisys.com (Ralph Marrone)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Stories on the possibilities of genetic eng.(was Re: Jurassic Park)
Date: 14 Dec 92 13:46:56 GMT
Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, Great Valley Labs, Paoli, Pa

In article <young.724296946@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> young@elec.uq.oz.au (Steven Young) writes:
>dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us (Dan Hartung) writes:
>
>Anyone know of any other books on some of the implications and possibilities
>of genetic engineering.
>


_The Blood of The Lamb_ by Thomas Monteleone.
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: top five movies of al
Date: 13 Dec 92 16:15:01 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications


E(MV>In no particular order (except for alphabetical) the top five
E(MV>movies of all time are as follows...

E(MV>1. "Casablanca" (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid)
E(MV>2. "Dracula"    (Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder)
E(MV>3. "Fletch"     (Chevy Chase, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tim Matheson)
E(MV>4. "Glory"      (Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes)
E(MV>5. "Last of the Mohicans"
E(MV>                (Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe)

E(MV>I welcome responses...

     My only response to this would be: Pal, you have GOT to see more
     movies!
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From: antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns)
Subject: Gas Food Lodging
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:07:27 GMT


This is indeed a keen film. And I know I've seen Fairuza Balk
somewhere before...possibly quite a bit younger. Any clues?
--jcburns
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Daniel Day Lewis, Anyone?
Date: 18 Dec 1992 20:27:45 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Dec18.201151.26746@mlb.semi.harris.com>  
cbh@opus.mlb.semi.harris.com (Cherie Slasor) writes:
> I agree that a lot of the dialogue was difficult, but I felt like  
that
> was a result of James Fenimore Cooper's writing.  I haven't read  
LOTM
> but I have read other books written in the same time period and  
that's
> how they wrote.  As far as I know, that's how people really spoke.   
It
> just added to the feeling of historical authenticity as far as I  
was
> concerned.

Actually, Cooper by and large goes in the other direction. In the
novel Last of the Mohicans, the characters constantly speak in
a stilted, overblown fashion.  Hawkeye is prone to say things
like "We shall smite those imps."
>           cbh@mlb.semi.harris.com    |  Melbourne, FL   32902-0883

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Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  

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From: sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu!dragel (Cheryl Dragel)
Subject: Re: The Culkinator! Was: Re: JACOBs LADDER
Originator: dragel@sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:06:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.144548.1539@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>  writes:
>    Culkin is just a puppet in the hands of such ruthless people
> as John Hudges and Chris Columbus

...or how about his *parents* (or, more specifically, father
from what I've heard lately)?

--cheryl
dragel@sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu
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From: fineberg@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg)
Subject: Re: Good 1st time, not second
Organization: CSC, NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Division
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:20:11 GMT
Reply-To: fineberg@nas.nasa.gov

In article <1992Dec11.024157.3451@Virginia.EDU>, rrb2x@Virginia.EDU (Richard Ramiaz Banks) writes:
|> 	Did anyone think that "Robinhood: prince of thieves" 
|> sucked or was it just me?  How can you take a movie seriously
|> if killing people is a joke?  Anyways, Kevin Costners English
|> accent was great!  It was so thick that I could see right
|> through it.
|> 
|> 	Rikilla the Hun is ruler of northern China.
I don't understand what this has to do with the subject.   "Robinhood: prince of
thieves" sucked the first time, and I didn't see it again.

Sam
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: _Toys_, the trailer
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:23:43 GMT

In article <BzFK1H.JFD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.) writes:
>summer@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield) writes:
>
>>reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
>
>>advertisements for the film, with no footage from "Toys".  Anyone who has
>What?  clips _not_ from the movie?  You mean I can watch the preview with 
>no danger of lessening the fun when I see it for real?

Unfortunately, there is a second trailer that does show significant
amounts of footage from the film.  I believe, however, that it is reasonably
careful not to spoil the best parts of the film.  (At the cost of making
the film not look terribly interesting.  The first trailer was more
effective, in my view.)

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
From: organic@mgr.hjf.org (Miriam Organic)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Daniel Day Lewis, Anyone?
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:54:46 GMT
Organization: HJF AIDS Research Project, Washington DC

I saw room with a view but can't place him.... 
who did Daniel Day Lewis  play in that movie.
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Underrated Actress?
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:30:33 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

csroc@dime.prime.com (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2) writes:

[Deleted comment on the overratedness of Madonna's Thespian artistry]

>I almost agree with you,except for one role where
>I believe she should have gotten a supproting actress oscar,
>
>Desperately Seeking Susan

I don't know about Oscar, but it was a damned good job - and not just a "good
job...for HER."

And speaking of "Desperately...", it's one of the most underrated movies of
the last ten years....a hidden gem.
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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: Batman Sequels
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 07:55:56 EST

tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes:

What a wonderful name....!

> firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith) writes:
> 
> 
> 
> >Anyone have any definite information about where there will be Batmans III
> >and IV, who will direct, who the villains will be, etc?
> 
> Definite info?  Hell no, but as far as rumours go, Keaton signed a 3 picture
deal

Oh, what a pity!  A man further from *my* ideal of Bruce Wayne I can 
hardly imagine.

> deal, Robin Williams is supposed to be the Riddler, and there will most

Robin Williams.... well, he could certainly do it.  I hope that if he 
does it he does it as a blonde.  I'd like it if they featured the 
Riddler's girlfriend too (the one from The Question) but it isn't likely.

> likely been speculation as to whether they will ever introduce Dick
> Grayson's Robin in the films, and popular magazines will run stupid 
> all photo articles speculating on who will play Robin (as well as whether
> he will be a little kid, or high schooler) and the list will most likely 

Or a girl!  My favourite Robin is Cassie from THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS.
> 
> Can you tell I read comics?

...Can you tell I do?

> 
> Personally, I want Selina back.....  But it won't happen.  But a girl can 
> still dream...

Yeah, me too.  

Namaste,
Elizabeth 

> 

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From: pca8c@Virginia.EDU ("Phil Abel")
Subject: Re: Problems with DieHard 2
Organization: University of Virginia Nuclear Ordinance Warehouse
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:18:52 GMT

Even if the planes were painfully low on fuel, they could have
been rerouted from the Dulles traffic pattern to Washington
National (maybe 5 minutes away?) or BWI (15 minutes away?).

I doubt anyone would have the nerve to land a 747 on the dinky
runway at National, however... And if it screwed up the
approach, the secret service goofballs on the roof of the white
house would shoot it down with one of those missiles they keep
up there. 

Not to detract from this spectacular action film, but it is
notable that you can't simply hold air traffic hostage like
that.