Author Topic: Trying to find a movie (hard) (Read 740 times)

rpm · « **Reply #15 on:** June 02, 2004, 10:27:07 AM »

Dude, you will kick yourself.

Nilsen, don't waste the time looking for Damnation Alley. Saw it a few weeks ago for the first time in years. It definitely does not hold up well. If you are into self torture you could do a "Damnation Alley" / "Iron Eagles III" double feature.

midnight Target · « **Reply #16 on:** June 02, 2004, 10:42:03 AM »

Yep 'WW3'.

IIRC Rock Hudson played the President, David Soul was the American commander on the ground in Alaska.

rpm · « **Reply #17 on:** June 02, 2004, 10:56:33 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Rock Hudson played the President, David Soul was the American commander on the ground in Alaska.

Nilsen · « **Reply #18 on:** June 02, 2004, 10:58:40 AM »

We saw "Adromeda Strain" a few days back, and it gave us flashbacks to the movies i was looking for...thats the reason i was trying to find them. Call it nostalgia if you will. Used to like these movies when i was younger and my dad and I tried to remember the names. Ill try to find a web store that sells it later today.

-edit- damn this "region" crap....its only available as region 1

Boroda · « **Reply #19 on:** June 02, 2004, 11:26:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
-edit- damn this "region" crap....its only available as region 1

Does anyone sell DVD-players with region support in the West?... Check your manufacturer's site, usually the region support can be switched off by some key sequence on the remote control.

Or go buy Chinese BBK player for under $80...

BTW, here is another "post nuclear war" film from USSR:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091759/

Again, it's not "easy watching".

Sikboy · « **Reply #20 on:** June 02, 2004, 11:42:57 AM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Yeah... I was thinking, Miracle Mile also.

Another good one, but older is Failsafe.

Miracle Mile is one of my All time favorites!

If you are going to watch Failsafe, be sure to save time to watch Dr. Strangelove as well. Those two movies work really well together, achiving the same idea through totally differant tactics.

-Sik

This is a great thread.

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #21 on:** June 02, 2004, 11:42:57 AM »

lol guys.. thanks.. after writting all that it occured to me that the title coule be just that simple.. hehe Gay country indeed!! haha

And Boroda, we'll have none or your pinko commie propaganda films here!! lmao guy.. Was it a good film? Was america responsible for starting ww3 in russian movies? Somehow I believe it must be that way.. We are, after all, the same... 8)

dude

AoM

Boroda · « **Reply #22 on:** June 02, 2004, 12:19:07 PM »

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Originally posted by TheDudeDVant
And Boroda, we'll have none or your pinko commie propaganda films here!! lmao guy.. Was it a good film? Was america responsible for starting ww3 in russian movies? Somehow I believe it must be that way.. We are, after all, the same... 8)

Characters in that film don't have a "nationality". Names are not Russian. It's just a film about people surviving in an underground shelter after nuclear war. It's not about "who's to blame".

There were very few Soviet films where Americans were potrayed as enemies. And if they were - they were usually criminals, people who were insane and so on. You haveto understand that raising national hatred was impossible according to Soviet official policy. Working people from all over the world were supposed to be good. It was impossible to state that all Americans are evil.

BTW, "The Day After" was shown on Soviet TV in mid-80s, with all that reports of Russians taking West Berlin (that was a casus belli IIRC), and Soviet warheads hitting American cities...

Nilsen · « **Reply #23 on:** June 02, 2004, 12:26:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
Does anyone sell DVD-players with region support in the West?... Check your manufacturer's site, usually the region support can be switched off by some key sequence on the remote control.

Or go buy Chinese BBK player for under $80...

BTW, here is another "post nuclear war" film from USSR:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091759/

Again, it's not "easy watching".

My samsung dvd can not be converted this way...ive checked. Most if not all DVD players sold in the west are supposed to be region coded..thats kida the point of the entire stupid system. I will not buy a chinese player thank you very much

You can get them here for under 40$ but im not going there. Ill just order the movie and hook my laptop up to the tv...problem solved.

Id love to see the movie you linked to Boroda, but my russian is abit rusty

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #24 on:** June 02, 2004, 12:41:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
Characters in that film don't have a "nationality". Names are not Russian. It's just a film about people surviving in an underground shelter after nuclear war. It's not about "who's to blame".

There were very few Soviet films where Americans were potrayed as enemies. And if they were - they were usually criminals, people who were insane and so on. You haveto understand that raising national hatred was impossible according to Soviet official policy. Working people from all over the world were supposed to be good. It was impossible to state that all Americans are evil.

BTW, "The Day After" was shown on Soviet TV in mid-80s, with all that reports of Russians taking West Berlin (that was a casus belli IIRC), and Soviet warheads hitting American cities...

wow Boroda! I could not have imagined myself being so wrong.. Thanks for illuminating my ignorance!

Most war movies created here portrayed Russia as evil. Actually in my youth 80% of the time any portrayal of anything russian equaled evil.. I find this very sad.. but we gotta have our badguys..

Only later in life do some of us realize the lengths takin to propagandize the people. For me it started at an early age. Propagandized by religion and history book history.. I did not see the world with truthful eyes. I am trying to see better though..

One thing for certain though. The more I learn and talk to folk around the world the more I realize we are all the same and desire the same things.. Only governments segragate the world..

btw Boroda, where do you call home now? Thanks again my friend!

dude

AoM

Estel · « **Reply #25 on:** June 03, 2004, 02:09:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
Id love to see the movie you linked to Boroda, but my russian is abit rusty

As I know, it was doubled and published on the West as "The Dead man's letters (The Shelter)". I know, because of one my french friend saw it on TV. And as was said by Boroda, there is no really enemy shown. This is just few days in shelter.

Wolfala · « **Reply #26 on:** June 03, 2004, 02:39:48 PM »

I know the movie: "By Dawns Early Light"

B52 guys - go into russia - wack a Mig 29 with the tail gun and send 3 others through the mushroom cloud.

mosgood · « **Reply #27 on:** June 03, 2004, 03:01:51 PM »

Anyone remember the TV movie that was shot to look like a special news report? I think it was called "Special Bulletin" or something like that. It had terrotist in boston harbor, on a boat, with a nuke.

I remember that there were a lot of people that tuned in thinking it was real and the tv network got a bunch of complaints

-tronski- · « **Reply #28 on:** June 03, 2004, 03:32:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Wolfala
I know the movie: "By Dawns Early Light"

B52 guys - go into russia - wack a Mig 29 with the tail gun and send 3 others through the mushroom cloud.

I thought this movie was tops...Powers Boothe...James Earl Jones...Martin Landau

Tronsky

rpm · « **Reply #29 on:** June 03, 2004, 05:49:53 PM »

Yeah, it was pretty good.

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Plot Summary for
Special Bulletin (1983) (TV)
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0086350/