Fire Birds
Appearance
Fire Birds is a 1990 American action-thriller film about elite Apache helicopter pilots who are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.
- Directed by David Green. Written by Paul F. Edwards, Nick Thiel and David Taylor.
The best just got better. (taglines)
Brad Little
[edit]- Mr. Preston, this operation will be a failure if we all die!
- Boy, you're going to be busier than a three-peckered goat.
- Rules of engagement: 1. Whoever sees the other person first is the winner; 2. Whoever gets seen first is toast.
- When we have mastered these tactics, we will use them to seek out and confront the forces of evil and kill them deader than hell!
- [describing what he expects of his protégé] A 1st class all American hero with his heart and brain wired together cooking full tilt boogie for freedom and justice!
- Make that damn thing go away, son!
- [demonstrating Apache's capabilities to Preston] You could crash this thing at twenty G's and survive, but I am NOT going to prove it to you!
- Once a helicopter battle has been engaged, someone is going to die. You boys do not have the speed to run away from a fight.
Jake Preston
[edit]- [to Brad] Well. That's very big of you, Little.
- I AM THE GREATEST!
- Time to throw the dog a bone, Breaker.
- [Jake is trying to rescue Guthrie from Stoller] You're not touching her, you filthy piece of shit!
- Oops. You blew it.
Billie Le Guthrie
[edit]- [commiserating with Jake after he fails a test] It's like sex, hardly anyone gets it right the first time.
Dialogue
[edit]- Jake: Breaker, strawberry gum?
- Breaker: No.
- Jake: How about you, sir. Strawberry gum?
- Brad: [angrily] No!
- Jake: [dead pan] It's delicious?
Taglines
[edit]- The best just got better.
Cast
[edit]- Nicolas Cage - Jake Preston
- Tommy Lee Jones - Brad Little
- Sean Young - Billy Lee Guthrie
- Bryan Kestner - Breaker
- Bert Rhine - Eric Stoller
- Dale Dye - A.K. McNeill
- Mary Ellen Trainor - Janet Little
- J.A. Preston - General Olcott
- Peter Onorati - Rice
- Gabriel Lopez - Johny Signaleer
External links
[edit]- Fire Birds quotes at the Internet Movie Database