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That first one looks ridiculous (to those who haven't watched it yet, make sure you watch it all the way through). But when you think about it, that runway is probably no different any other runway from the pilots perspective. If you set down too early anywhere you are sorta screwed.

Some crazy airports for landings I have experienced are Sydney (the runway juts out into Botany Bay), Washington-Reagan (the runway is next to the Potomac, and begins right after a bend in the river), and Wellington (hilly on the sides and with the ocean at the end, as in the last two clips here).

Here, I found a Wellington clip (you'll see why it, like Chicago, is known as the Windy City):

I should perhaps also mention that the day I was to fly out of this airport every flight was cancelled because you couldn't see ten feet in front of your face in the fog.