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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nilsen on June 02, 2004, 08:04:08 AM
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Im trying to find a movie for my dad, but i have very little info to help me..
The theme is ww3, and i belive it was made in the 70's or 80's. Dont remember much of the movie myself, but its about a nuclear war between russia and usa, and you follow a few people around the US from just before and while after the missiles hit the US....
lol, thats all i have to go on....any tips at all?
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Damnation Alley?
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LOL..i was trying to find that one to, and it was supposed to be my next question :D thx...
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Im trying to find a movie for my dad, but i have very little info to help me..
The theme is ww3, and i belive it was made in the 70's or 80's. Dont remember much of the movie myself, but its about a nuclear war between russia and usa, and you follow a few people around the US from just before and while after the missiles hit the US....
lol, thats all i have to go on....any tips at all?
I remember one I saw as a kid...it was on HBO. It was more documentary-ish where the movie ended with a reporter saying that the US and Russia had exchanged small scale nukes, etc etc. I think the reporter was an a aircraft carrier
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Red Dawn?
Did most of the movie take place in a B52?
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The Day After?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0085404/
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I cant remember any ac in the movie, but it could have had sort of a documentary style to it..
No B52s either gunslinger...it was kida from the civilian point of view...
The end scene was pretty "dramatic" with an old fella comming home to his big city in ruins trying to find the home of his wife or something....you saw the city (new york prolly) as a smoking pile of rubble in real planet of the apes style.
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Maybe this one?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099197/
"By Dawn's Early Light"
Here's the link to the trailer..
http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=3700
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Leem check closer...i think Grun may be on to something :)
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Yup we have a winner:
GRUNHERZ :)
thx all for your troubles, ill see if i can get that one and damnation alley on dvd or vhs if im unlucky
-edit- ...just found out that it was released on DVD 5/18/04, and another movie i was looking for on the same subject called Testament http://imdb.com/title/tt0086429/
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Originally posted by LePaul
Maybe this one?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099197/
"By Dawn's Early Light"
Here's the link to the trailer..
http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=3700
Wow fellas this is a great thread. I'll have to mark this for review when I get back from Brazil later on next week. I never saw this movie but I'd sure like to now after reading the story line.
Plus there are some other ones as well in the thread.
Here is one I remember...
Miracle Mile
http://imdb.com/title/tt0097889/
It was interesting and disturbing at the same time. I'll have to watch it again.
Watched the trailer for By Dawn's Early Light and noticed James Earl Jones. He was in Dr. Strangelove as well.
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"Miracle Mile" is it.
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Yeah... I was thinking, Miracle Mile also.
Another good one, but older is Failsafe.
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Nilsen, I suggest you get this movie: http://www.ibp-intl.demon.co.uk/nuke/threads.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/
It's much more realistic and shocking than The Day After.
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How about the 80s(maybe) ww3 movie tween russia and the usa where in the movie it was fought in Alaska. The climax was something like a bunch of russians after the movie's usa group that was held up in some sort of refinnery or oil pumping station along the alaskan pipeline.. The final hold up was all the USA guys in these really large oil pipes that they moved to point in different directions.. Snow was falling in a whiteout condition... All the goodguys were firing outta these long pipes at the russians advancing in the distance.. of course the good guys were almost outta ammo and in no communication with other good guys and no way to warn the rest of hte USA that russia was attacking and WW3 had begun.. Maybe at the end of the movie it showed the US president talking to the Russian president by phone pleading him to turn back their Backfire bombers.. After the president hangs up he makes the remark he knows the russians are not turning back..
Ok crazy I know and my depiction sucks to say the least Im sure.. Does it ring a bell w/ any of you guys?? In fact the name of the movie could have been WW3.. lmao will look for that now..
dude
AoM
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Dude, you will kick yourself. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084919/)
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.
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Yep 'WW3'.
IIRC Rock Hudson played the President, David Soul was the American commander on the ground in Alaska.
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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.
(http://www.gilbertv.com/coppermine/albums/06012004/country.jpg)
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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 :mad:
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Originally posted by Nilsen
-edit- damn this "region" crap....its only available as region 1 :mad:
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".
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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.
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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
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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...
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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 :)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Yeah, it was pretty good.
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/
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Nielsen...if you can find it there was an HBO Movie called "Countdown to looking glass" It was good as well. Strangly close to todays events.
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Originally posted by RedTop
Nielsen...if you can find it there was an HBO Movie called "Countdown to looking glass" It was good as well. Strangly close to todays events.
ill do a search for it RedTop......thx
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Don't forget Threads (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/)
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004U409.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Wasn't that just a warm-you-up on a Sunday afternoon movie?