[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Cold War Nostalgia Thread (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 4/6/2012 1:28:06 PM EDT
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Best Movies, songs and books of the Cold War Era. I am looking for the spirit or sense of odd fatalism we had during the era. For me movies are "When the Wind Blows" and "The War Game" Song has to be either "99 Luftballoons", or "2 Minutes to Midnight". Honorable mention goes to" Russians" by Sting And book is either "On the Beach", or "Fail-safe" |
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Besides the ones already mentioned:
Movies: Damnation Alley, Fail Safe, The Miracle Mile Book: The Guardians series by Richard Austin. Great ARF series––special team of warriors travel the country after an all-out nuclear war trying to rebuild it. Songs: Shout by Tears for Fears, |
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"John Goldfarb: Please come home"
"Hopscotch" "Don't Drink the Water" "Deal of the Century" "The Bedford Incident" Okay, the first 4 are comedies but they do illustrate the lesser known, lesser feared, but still very real world of what was going on, between overflights, diplomacy, MAG's, and espionage. The last? Well, let me put it this way. "Oh, my God! I've created an international incident (.....that could lead to war)! It's better if no one is around to explain, not to survive, so the button pushers don't know who to blame". _________________________________________________________________ ("Oh, come off it, Commodore! The Bedford won't shoot first, but if he fires one, I'll fire one!"––The Captain "Fire one, aye aye, Sir!"––overworked Ensign completing the circuit on a depth bomb ASROC, (w,stte), "The Bedford Incident") |
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Remember that one where the communists gave up on war/military power as a means to world domination, and instead they infiltrated America's universities and eventually even got a commie elected preside.... Wait- never mind. I started to laugh . . . . and then . . . . 
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Firefox. Dr. Strangelove Fail Safe. Fantastic Voyage. Any book by Tom Clancy. Kids today have no concept of what the cold war was about, how it affected every aspect of our daily lives. Remember ducking under your desks during bomb drills at school? Like it would help us if we got nuked. |
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Remember that one where the communists gave up on war/military power as a means to world domination, and instead they infiltrated America's universities and eventually even got a commie elected preside.... Wait- never mind. I started to laugh . . . . and then . . . . The Manchurian Candidate? |
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Remember that one where the communists gave up on war/military power as a means to world domination, and instead they infiltrated America's universities and eventually even got a commie elected preside.... Wait- never mind. I started to laugh . . . . and then . . . . The Manchurian Candidate? With Frank Sinatra |
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Remember that one where the communists gave up on war/military power as a means to world domination, and instead they infiltrated America's universities and eventually even got a commie elected preside.... Wait- never mind. I started to laugh . . . . and then . . . . The Manchurian Candidate? With Frank Sinatra With Barak Obama. 
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The Eiger Sanction Innocent Bystanders ____________________________________________________ ("Kaplan, you better make that dessert BLOOM!"––John Craig to the defector he got out, (w,stte), "Innocent Bystanders") Oh yes...The Eiger Sanction. Definitely one of my favorite movies!!! 
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The Eiger Sanction Innocent Bystanders Oh yes...The Eiger Sanction. Definitely one of my favorite movies!!! Another one of those spy movies and on the surface, not so much Cold War. It's when one gets into the sub themes that such things become apparent. Of course, what was used then can be used now. Quoted:.........Kids today have no concept of what the cold war was about, how it affected every aspect of our daily lives. Remember ducking under your desks during bomb drills at school? Like it would help us if we got nuked.
That's one of the things about the 1972 failed pilot, "The Stranger". People rake it over the coals now, but having not seen it when it came out, they miss the critical points of it. When I saw it on TV when it came out, I knew nothing about it, so I had the same fears as the astronaut when he was in his hospital room. It is often seen as a poor version of a certain Gerry Anderson movie, but its concepts pulled a lot on the era it was made in. People tear it apart because of the apparent lack of security everywhere........but when one is in a totalitarian state, not only is iron clad security not needed everywhere but also, one does not want to make waves, question what is happening in such a world. But since the modern viewer does not live in such a police state, they miss seeing that impact. ________________________________________________________________________________ (Stryker speaks a few words of Russian and when Dr. Revere doesn't respond, "You don't speak Russian, doctor?" "No-o, no, I never had time to learn another language.", (w,stte), "The Stranger") |
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The Spy who came in from the Cold is always a classic. But honestly, I think Dr. Stangelove is the epitome of cold war cinema 
Speed Dr. Strangelove for sure. The scene in the beginning where the fighter aircraft is trying over and over to catch the refueling harness from the air tanker is set to the tune "Try a Little Tenderness" 
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For me it was actually riding around on fast attack subs trailing Soviets in points North. 
Guess I was living the fantasy. Well, that's what I was sort of worried about when I saw the topic until I saw it was about fiction. I was afraid that one wanted us to relate the reality of things and even a score after the fact, that is something I don't talk about much. Except, perhaps, to say this generality. People outside the intel world cannot believe the things, the restrictions that go on, but on the inside, one just takes it as the way it is. ___________________________________________________________________ ("I could have been canned!"––Zoe furious at her boyfriend for publishing data connected with her working for MI5, (w,stte), "MI5") |
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On the Beach. Nevil Shute Scared the crap out of me as a young boy. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I've heard of this- good things. Never seen it. Is it Australian, or just set in Oz? It's a American movie. The Wikipedia entry is pretty accurate. I read the book, and saw the movie in 1965, when I was 13. Mike |
My fiance is significantly younger than me, and what kinda started this was I was talking about Reforger, and mentioned the Fulda Gap... She was all "where?" and gave me the  .. we have been on a Cold War paranoia TV and movie kick ever since.Now if only I could find "Threads" on a region one dvd Always wished they had mad "Red Storm" into a movie |
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OMG! Ray Milland fucking ruled! What a cool movie. |
