If you mean Marathon Man (starring Dustin Hoffman), I saw it many years ago. I cannot even remember the storyline anymore, but I do remember that I was on the edge of my seat the entire time that I watched it. I remember it as being a very good movie and action intense.

Yes, that's the film. I thought that the title had the "The" in it! I just know a few shots, the actors and the nice picture of Dr. Christian Szell!

"Is it safe?"

:oops::DI know that's got to be a movie quote but it still isn't evoking my memory. I do remember something about diamonds and Dustin Hoffman getting pulled inadvertently into some kind of international conspiracy. Somehow, I remember him doing alot of running in the movie, apart from the movie title.

Marathon Man. Do you like the dentist? :har:

I just finished watching The Day After.

That was great! Can't wait to see Threads.

I know this probably sounds sick that I'm calling these movies great....but...it's true. The Day After was one of the best TV Movies I've seen. :woot:

Here's a movie I have on DVD that had quite a cult following back in the day.
Heathers: a dark, romantic, comedy/drama.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rsposter89.jpg

Ronald Regan watched an advanced viewing of TDA and it had a profound effect on him it furthered his resolve to support SDI and to try to eliminate all nukes.Reagan and Gorbachev came close to pulling it off but they could not work out a deal.All of the extras in the city and town scenes are real Missourians.

TDA did a pretty good job portraying an attack and all of the SAC and Navy guys at the start those where not actors that was real footage filmed for a documentary and later used in TDA.
Here is the original documentary the military men where "acting" it is called "First Strike" watch it and then recall the scenes in TDA then you'll see which parts are real (training footage). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPEBROvR9w.

"Threads" is a bit more dramatic and better written and has less special effects but they are still well done.I like both for different reasons."Threads" also shows more the longer term effects of the attack while TDA focuses more short term.

There is an animated film called "When the Wind Blows" about nuclear war that you might want to watch.

Laurence Olivier. You need to see it again.

See my post #203, and try to keep up. :O:

I read that when Reagan saw the movie he had a stack of corrections he sent to ABC.

Makes it all the more powerful for me. :)

I'll check those out.

Depending on what I'm doing tomorrow I'll watch Threads and First Strike and track down When The Wind Blows.

Untrue.In fact he saw a version that showed some graphic things later removed but he had no effect on this decision.Someone probably heard that and decided to spin the story a little.

"President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," that is a sourced quote from Wikipedia.

Another show you might like is "Countdown to Looking Glass" that one is more about the events that lead up to a nuclear exchange it is pretty tense.

Your state at one time had a large number of ICBM silos now most of them are in the Dakotas back then they also had many silos in the mid-west and also in the tri border area of Wyoming,Nebraska and Colorado in addition to the Dakotas.They closed most down in 1997 now we only have the ones in the Dakotas of course the Russians have far fewer ICBMs as well.

Maybe some where near to you http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/hwp/fedfac/MinutemanII.htm.

Any serious enemy of the US would still want to wipe out Whiteman AFB and Offutt AFB in Nebraska so your part of the country would still be a bad location in a nuclear exchange.Dont feel left out Florida is just as bad with King's Bay near the state line in Georgia the East Coast Boomers use that port and Mayport is a major asset to the Navy that only 60 miles from me.

Maybe. :hmmm:

I'll look at the other one too.

You choose to ignore part of my post I think to still feel unsure.


Well either way Reagan's greatest progressive goal was the abolishment of nuclear weapons he and Gorbachev did try they failed at the end goal but they did end up greatly easing tensions and did agree on reduction treaties.You look that up and find it to be true in many places have an honest historical objective.That fact alone lets you know that Regan really did want to try and protect as best as possible Americans from nuclear holocaust that is why he so firmly believed in SDI because he saw that as a technology that would make a Nuclear weapon useless."The Day After" showed the effect of war on innocent people so it would strengthen his resolve to do have the best defense against such an event.

The idea that Regan viewed "The Day After" and wrote down a list of things to change implies that he disliked its message and was not impressed with the film.Basically it is a neoconservative myth.Anyway the subject of Ronald Reagan and his actual deeds and policies good and bad and the neoconservative myth of his deeds is an entirely different topic of discussion an interesting one indeed though I can such a thread going on for many pages as would a topic on the myth of how great Franklin Delano Roosevelt was again ignoring facts and seeking only to place on a pedestal an idealized view.

Another nuclear war movie you might check out is "Dr.Strangelove".

What's with all the depressing end of the world movies Red?

He has all summer off and only so much time to spend I recon.Though I'd save the depressing end of the world stuff for the last week or so of summer vacation myself.:hmm2:

Next week maybe it will be musicals.:D

Red you should check out classic "Twilight Zone" episodes "Time Enough at Last" is a good post apocalyptic one.

I didn't try to. Sorry. I was in a hurry. I had a friend coming over.

I've been eyeballing it for a while now... :D

I felt like Post-Apoc stuff and this kind of thing is interesting. :03:

I've got some time...yes...I figured I'd watch some cool and interesting movies. :O:

I really don't think so...I don't like musicals....but maybe something else. I've taken a strong liking to classic war films. :yeah:

What intrigued me was the way the White House was overrun...not too far fetched as I suspected initially it would be.

Once seen...never forgotten :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzw1_2b-I7A

Ahh, another good romantic/comedy that I found in my DVD box.
When this movie first came out, it was called "Don't Tell Her It's Me".
By the time I purchased it on DVD, somehow the name was changed to
The Boyfriend School.
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I think I'll watch Threads now. :hmmm: :yeah: