# \*Good\* movies featuring hot air balloons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2013, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166 "2013-07-22T06:11:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/41 "2013-07-24T15:03:59Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > The balloon in _Witness_ is seen at a distance, for five seconds. It’s not a “movie which features one.” But it is a great movie (IMHO), which just goes to prove Ebert’s observation. 😉 I don’t remember a balloon in Witness and I’ve seen the movie about a half dozen times. [The Adventures of Baron Munchausan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096764/?ref_=sr_1) directed by Terry Gilliam has a hot air balloon. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/42 "2013-07-24T17:56:03Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I don’t remember a balloon in Witness and I’ve seen the movie about a half dozen times. Samuel (the child played by Lukas Haas) sees one from the train between Lancaster and Philadelphia. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/43 "2013-07-25T06:27:16Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Samuel (the child played by Lukas Haas) sees one from the train between Lancaster and Philadelphia. OK, whatever. I sure remember Kelly McGillis’ hot air balloons. ba-dump-bump! ---
**Author:** ![2ninup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/9de053/32.png) [@2ninup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ninup)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/44 "2014-03-23T01:00:27Z")
Hi All, Does anyone remember the name of a Sci-Fi movie, probably from the '80’s that had about 6 strangely shaped hot air balloons in the last scene? It was in a desert type environment on an alien planet with the 2 survivors of some battle, a man and woman in their 20’s. One of the balloons was in the shape of a new moon, another a sun etc. I had seen these same balloons one afternoon around 1987 flying together over the San Francisco Bay and never forgot them. Then I caught the end of a movie a couple of years later and saw the exact same balloons but couldn’t catch the name and no DVR’s at that time. I have been searching since then to find the movie but never could, Can anyone help? TIA in advance for any help, 2ninup ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/45 "2014-03-23T01:15:09Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Around the World in 80 Days? > [@NDP](#): > > I don’t think Ebert liked that movie. As for me, I thought it was entertaining but lightweight. It’s routinely considered the weakest Best Picture Oscar winner. ---
**Author:** ![2ninup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/9de053/32.png) [@2ninup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ninup)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/46 "2014-03-23T02:36:02Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > It’s routinely considered the weakest Best Picture Oscar winner. Thanks everybody for your replies but it’s not Around the World in 80 Days. This is a Sci-Fi movie and made around 1985-7 Thanks anyway 2ninup ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/47 "2014-03-23T03:14:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Afraid not. > > The _Albatross_ from Jules Verne’s _Robur the Conqueror_ (which the movie was _really_ based on\*) was an _aeronef_ – a heavier-than-air flying machine kept aloft by a huge number of rotors, like a super-helicopter\*\*, bot a balloon at all. In the book, however, there IS a balloon. I cannot recall if it is gas or hot air, though. Can’t recall if that made it into the movie, either. (Evidently it did, based on the poster: [Master of the World (1961 film) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_World_(1961_film)) ) Early in the film, the protagonists fly in a hot-air balloon which is shot down by the Albatross. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/48 "2014-03-23T03:59:17Z")
[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062803/) had a hot air balloon didn’t it? Grandpa Potts took off in one? ---
**Author:** ![2ninup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/9de053/32.png) [@2ninup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ninup)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/49 "2014-03-23T06:26:59Z")
Thanks, but this was a SCI-FI movie ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/50 "2014-03-23T11:45:35Z")
> [@2ninup](#): > > Thanks everybody for your replies but it’s not Around the World in 80 Days. This is a Sci-Fi movie and made around 1985-7 > > Thanks anyway > > 2ninup > [@2ninup](#): > > Thanks, but this was a SCI-FI movie Theyre responding to the thread conversation in general, not your question. I don’t know the answer either. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166/51 "2014-03-23T13:12:06Z")
it’s not a hot air balloon but they’re whimsically similar - _Up_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-featuring-hot-air-balloons/664166.md?page=2)