backdraft movie

[FFYagour88]

whats is your option on the movie backdraft? and are there any other good similar movies out there

[BFDNJFF]

Let me grab my popcorn cause this one may get funny.

[PureAdrenalin]

I prefer Towering Inferno myself, but, you can't beat the classic lines in backdraft.

[CALFFBOU]

Ladder 48.5

[frenchfireball]

i prefer the movie ladder49.


but if you want real firefighting,watch" into the fire" by BCouturier,great documentary about firefighters.

[BoxAlarm187]

whats is your option on the movie backdraft? and are there any other good similar movies out there

I'm confused, Backdraft and "good" used in the same statement?

[backsteprescue123]

Am I being delusional or did I really just read a thread asking people's opinions of backdraft?????















BTW, I like it. As entertainment,which it should be nothing more.

[JohnVBFD]

I'm sorry, much like the pizza of Chicago and its baseball teams....

Eng17 and Truck 46 running and responding to every fire in Chicago, while made goosebumps rise in my skin, and filled me with a longing to do something I haven't done since a very bad bar night in Chile....

They don't compare to.....

The great Tommy Gavin and the boys of Eng99 and Lad 62.

[nmfire]

If you think Backdraft is bad, rent "Ablaze".

[ChicagoFF]

What do you people want? Backdraft was good and entertaining. It's a movie, and an old one at that! What do we compare it to? That crybaby Ladder 49? Now that was a pack whiney, sissies. I cringe every time I see that overly dramatic, everyone taking themselves so seriously, pile of embarrassing crap. Who really goes home and complains to their wives? And who's wife is really that concerned? That syrupy drivel went on and on until I can't stand to even look at it anymore. The Backdraft guys were more my style - rowdy, drunken jagoffs out to have a good time, not cry in their beers all night thinking what big hero's they are. Merry Christmas.

[frenchfireball]

What do you people want? Backdraft was good and entertaining. It's a movie, and an old one at that! What do we compare it to? That crybaby Ladder 49? Now that was a pack whiney, sissies. I cringe every time I see that overly dramatic, everyone taking themselves so seriously, pile of embarrassing crap. Who really goes home and complains to their wives? And who's wife is really that concerned? That syrupy drivel went on and on until I can't stand to even look at it anymore. The Backdraft guys were more my style - rowdy, drunken jagoffs out to have a good time, not cry in their beers all night thinking what big hero's they are. Merry Christmas.

i clearly understand your point of view,you work and live in Chicago,so.....

[ElectricHoser]

Speaking of movies, we're watching that James Bond flick which involves a car chase where Bond and his girl flee the police in a mid-70s American LaFrance tiller ladder.......

Suspension of belief is necessary of course, as the ladder's "locking lever" or whatever it was rattles loose as they careen through the streets, and the aerial begins swinging wildly from side to side as the chase goes on, whacking into a variety of objects. Obviously the writers don't know squat about hydraulics on a ladder truck (though clearly the props people did after it was over, as they had to disable or override the stuff to make those scenes work). I can see some side to side movement if it wasn't totally secured, but not the free-swing action like a worn-out toy fire truck.

ANYway.... since I have never had the good luck to be able to work a department with a tiller, one question comes to mind.

At the beginning of the chase, it is just Bond and his girl in the cab, no one in the tiller. If no one is holding the tiller steering wheel, will the rear axle tend to drive in a straight line and "trail" like a normal trailer, or would it turn one way or the other and "lock" in the outward position with no one holding the wheel? Secondary to that, I assume there is a way to lock the rear axle into the straight position to make it possible to drive the truck with one person if necessary.

Any insight and education appreciated....

[firemonkey311]

Same thing happens with a ladder truck at the end of the movie Con-Air. The ladder starts the raise as its tearing through the streets of Vegas and the bad guy at the end of the stick goes through the side of a bridge. Seems to me like some one went to fantasy land or smoked one to many doobies while writing the script.

As to Backdraft.... Its a freaking movie. It was entertaining but no where near realistic. But thats what movies are supposed to be. They are supposed to broden your imagination.

I liked Ladder 49 better. Everyone says I kinda look like Jouquin Phenix. I don't see the resemblance.

[res54cuecaptain]

backdraft? i think every firefighter should see it and learn from what i think is the best training video out there for firefighting!! its so realistic and (not to mention) so up-to-date with 21st century technology that nobody should go without watching it!

*for the record yes, this post is just bleeding with sarcasm*

[backsteprescue123]

backdraft? i think every firefighter should see it and learn from what i think is the best training video out there for firefighting!! its so realistic and (not to mention) so up-to-date with 21st century technology that nobody should go without watching it!

*for the record yes, this post is just bleeding with sarcasm*

Wait a second........by bleeding with sarcasm you mean that you really don't think that its a great training movie?


Hell thats our whole training library right there.

[ADSNWFLD]

Ladder 49 and Backdraft are movies, how many cops that you know shoot at cars they are chasing until they explode. They are movies!
For the record I like Backdraft better, I can't swallow Vinnie Barbarino as a chief officer. A fire? "What? .... Where? ...."

[DeputyChiefGonzo]

Backdraft happens when my wife steals the covers off of me while I'm sleeping!

[MPVFD2046]

Backdrafts occur after eating very spicy food....

[ndvfdff33]

I'm not too fond of it and I don't really have a reason why. Just never enjoyed it.

[frenchfireball]

Backdraft happens when my wife steals the covers off of me while I'm sleeping!

lmao.nice!