Posted: 11/6/2006 9:13:57 PM EDT
And Dr. Strangelove? I grew up in the "duck & cover" generation. GREAT movies!!
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I'll put in a +1 for Fail Safe really fucking me up first time I saw it. Same thing with The Day After. That creeped the shit out of me. Strangelove is simply one of a kind. Couple more for the list are By Dawns Early Light with Powers Boothe and Rebecca De Mornay www.imdb.com/title/tt0099197/ Twilight's Last Gleaming with Burt Lancaster www.imdb.com/title/tt0076845/ On the Beach is a film that will REALLY leave you screwed up at the end www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/ And while not *quite* in the same league you can't dismiss Damnation Alley www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/ (Damn, I want a Landmaster SOOOO bad every time I see the film) and Colossus: The Forbin Project www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/ Still one of my all time favorites. WarGames www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/ was another that really hit home with the "we could all be dead tomorrow" feeling. People today that didn't live through the Cold War simply cannot understand the constant background apprehension that people lived through every single day wondering if "This was the day". 
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AWESOME movie, especially when you consider how old it is. |
I can recite dialog along with the characters when watching it and there are parts of it that still creep me out. |
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I was born in 1984. Two of my favorite movies as a kid were Red Dawn and Dr. Strangelove. Dead serious. Then again, I guess I was weird, because some of the first books I read had to do with the nuclear threat presented by the Soviet Union...this was when I was 4 years old (started reading at age 3). Sure, I didn't understand most of the words, but I tried and I'd ask my dad to explain anything I didn't understand. So yeah, I was 4 years old and I already understood that we were living in a very dangerous world. Man, I sure fit in around here 
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By the age of ten, one has some degree of being able to discern reality from fiction. I was five when I first saw FailSafe. In my mind, it was some kind of documentary film of what is going to happen. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Mainly I remember how the movie effected my dad. Nowadays people look back at the Cold War as kind of a running joke about Bert the Turtle, and how silly we were with our elaborate fallout shelters. The threat was real, and it has affected all of us in ways we can only begin now to understand 
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