Classic Cold War Flicks

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

WHOA WHOA WHOA THERE PARDNER...



Does this mean that you didn't like it the first time?







BURN THE WITCH!! BURN HIM!!





How can someone not like Citizen Kane? IT HAS JOSEPH COTTEN IN IT for Pete's sake.

Umm...


*Quickly changing the subject*

Yes, Seven Days In May is a GREAT cold-war flick. I'm also a fan of Failsafe (a more serious look at the Strangelove scenario) and, when it turns hot, a little-known film about the layman's reaction to a nuclear war called Panic In The Year Zero.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056331/

Another in the same vein was The World, The Flesh and The Devil, a very unusual movie and progressive at the time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053454/

Frau Kaleun wrote:

I tend to have problems when the main character, by default the protagonist, is someone I don't find very likeable. It doesn't make it a bad picture, just one that doesn't resonate for me as much personally. I have the same problem with Gone With The Wind, lol, which kinda blows the "gender bias" theory right out of the water.

Not necessarily. SWMBO hates Gone With the Wind because of the character of Scarlet O'Hara is so unlikable (and figures that Vivian Leigh probably wasn't really acting she seemed such a natural B. Meow!). She also doesn't like Casablanca or From Here to Eternity for romances saying the endings are depressing. I really enjoy all three but Chocolat, a favorite of hers, makes me break out in hives. She even cried after watching Captain Corelli's Mandolin; at Nicholas Cage for god's sake!

Back on the Cold War topic though...

Nobody mentioned Red Dawn! Here on SubSim, the ultimate flag-waving, commie killing, pick-up driving, Cuban bashing, USA boosting propaganda epic passed unnoticed and obviously unwatched. Amazing!

[Sailor Steve]

I watched it. That doesn't mean I would ever mention it.

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