SO FAR, LADDER 49-22, BACKDRAFT 15. WHICH ONE WAS BETTER? (9/18/08)

Kurt Russel or John Travolta?

Backdraft has always been my favorite movie. Come on, who can forget when that movie first came out, All the "wackers" coming to movie theatre with there pagers one, knowing that they are out of their district, dragged the love ones to see it and they didn't want to. And who can not forget the famous line of the movie, "You go, We go!"

CAST YOUR VOTE AND OPINION.

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Permalink Reply by Antonio A on January 7, 2009 at 11:29am

Backdraft any day

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Permalink Reply by Heather on January 7, 2009 at 12:23pm

Well I got to go with Backdraft awesome movie But Ladder 49 was also a great movie my pick of the two Backdraft

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Permalink Reply by Wilsy on January 7, 2009 at 12:41pm

I think Ladder 49 it is more realistic, going into a fire without a mask in Backdraft, I think if they put the effort in Backdraft to make it more realistic it would be an incredible movie but for now Ladder 49 has my vote.

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Permalink Reply by Denise Co 29 on January 7, 2009 at 1:35pm

Backdraft But very close.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon "Gopher" Runer on January 7, 2009 at 1:45pm

I would have to say Ladder 49. The sacrifice that he decided to make is one that i would hope that no one would ever have to make. But it is one that i would hope that me or any one of my fellow firefighters would have the courage to do in that situation.

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Permalink Reply by Chief 29 on January 7, 2009 at 3:11pm

How about Towering Inferno?

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Permalink Reply by Floyd Aldridge Jr on January 7, 2009 at 3:18pm

I liked both of them also but Ladder 49 was showing more of our jobs. Backdraft showed us the arsonist and ladder 49 showed us what might be going on in a trapped FF mind! And Towering Inferno was the best!!

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Permalink Reply by Don Vuletic on January 7, 2009 at 3:20pm

My vote is for Ladder 49. It was more realistic. I remember Backdraft coming out and thought it was the best until Ladder 49. The quotes from Backdraft will always be the best. But the effert By ladder 49 was more realistic.

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Permalink Reply by Marvin Hawk on January 7, 2009 at 4:24pm

Actually the best line from Backdraft was the line "The funny thing about firefighters is that day or night they are always firefighters." I think that both movies had their place in the Cinematic date line. Which means that the technology that allowed for better realism in Ladder 49 was probably not available to Ron Howard in the 1980's.

Backdraft for my two cents was a little corny in it's story line, but till it was made I can't think of another Firefighting movie other than Firehouse which stared Richard Roundtree and dealt with the racial tensions of the career fire service in the early 70's.

Ladder 49 came after Worcester(6), Keokuk (3), and 9-11(343). After those terrible events Hollywood was not going to get a free pass from the fire service on how they portrayed us.

So I guess if pressed I've got to give them a half point each.