Fire Birds (1990)
Actors:
Cylk Cozart (actor),
Dale Dye (actor),
Samuel Hernández (actor),
Tommy Lee Jones (actor),
Charles Kahlenberg (actor),
Bryan Kestner (actor),
Charles Lanyer (actor),
Harrison Le Duke (actor),
Garth Le Master (actor),
Phillip Troy Linger (actor),
Bob Lujan (actor),
William Medici (actor),
Peter Michaels (actor),
Peter Onorati (actor),
Nicolas Cage (actor),
Plot: The U.S. Government is willing to help any country that requires help in ridding themselves of drugs with support from the Army. Unfortunately, the drug cartels have countered that offer by hiring one of the best air-combat mercenaries and have armed him with a Scorpion attack helicopter. The army decides to send in its best people from its Apache Air Combat school. But first they have to be taught how to fly air-to-air combat missions
Keywords: army-life, drug-cartel, helicopter, independent-film, military, title-spoken-by-character
Genres:
Action,
Adventure,
Taglines: The best just got better.
Quotes:
Brad Little: Mr. Preston, this operation will be a failure if we all die!
Brad Little: Boy, you're gonna be busier than a three-peckered goat.
Brad Little: Rules of engagement: one, whoever sees the other person first is the winner; two, whoever gets seen first is toast.
Brad Little: When we have mastered these tactics, we will use them to seek out and confront the forces of evil and kill 'em deader than hell!
[to Brad Little]::Jake Preston: Well that's very big of you, Little.
Jake Preston: I AM THE GREATEST!
Jake Preston: Time to throw the dog a bone, Breaker.
[Jake is trying to rescue Guthrie from Stoller]::Jake Preston: You're not touching her you filthy piece of shit!
Jake Preston: Oops. You blew it.
Brad Little: Little's pre mission pep talk to Preston describing what he expects of his protégé "... a 1st class all American hero with his heart & brain wired together cooking full tilt boogie for freedom & justice!"