Your Favorite Cold War Movie - Page 2

glatt · 08-11-2005, 03:07 PM

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

The Mouse That Roared

melidasaur · 08-11-2005, 03:25 PM

Russkies... please don't laugh.

Also any James Bond movie that featured West v. Russia.

Elspode · 08-11-2005, 03:48 PM

You and Cowhead are pals, or did I miss a name change somewhere along the line?

barefoot serpent · 08-11-2005, 04:21 PM

Nope, don't know cowhead -- at least I don't think I do -- but we do hail from the same pasture. Small world.

Elspode · 08-11-2005, 04:28 PM

I was just noting your user title, which essentially translates as "Cowheadville"...

barefoot serpent · 08-11-2005, 04:39 PM

Yeah, I was wondering when someone was going to pickup on that -- had to give it away in this thread tho'. I also always found the city of Vacaville in CA an interesting usage of 'Spanglais'... parlez Usted ingles?.

edit: and oh yeah, there was also the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca:
http://www.english.swt.edu/CSS/alvar1CDV.HTML

Poor kid -- I don't know what his parents were thinking...

BigV · 08-11-2005, 08:02 PM

Ok, since you all blew through the stop sign above, I'll don my lemming suit and vote for Manchurian Candidate. Yes, Frankie Baby, haven't seen the remake. Maybe someday. Denzel Washington is a fine actor, and he features in another good movie in this genre, Crimson Tide.

footfootfoot · 08-11-2005, 09:23 PM

ahem,

BigV · 08-11-2005, 09:33 PM

Yes?

The chair recogizes the appendages three. You have the floor, sirs. No offense intended of course.

richlevy · 08-11-2005, 10:11 PM

Three Days of the Condor. I remember seeing it in Israel and being searched before entering the theatre. The search really added to the paranoia factor of the movie.

Here is the script.

Quote:

Turner: What does Operations care about a bunch of goddamn books? A book in Dutch. A book out of Venezuela. Mystery stories in Arabic.
Atwood: Wait!
Turner: What the hell is so important about…
[He stops as he sees the connection.]
Turner: Oil fields. Oil. That's it, isn't it? This whole damn thing was about oil! Wasn't it? Wasn't it?
Atwood: Yes, it was.

Quote:

Higgins: It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Joe Turner: Ask them?
Higgins: Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!

wolf · 08-12-2005, 12:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grant

The Day After with Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow. I haven't seen this movie in years...gotta find a copy!

I watched that on TV when I was in college. There was a thunderstorm the night of the broadcast that came in quickly, with very little warning, and announced it's presence by producing a lightning bolt that struck the science building which was next to my dormatory.

The building survived, but one sorority girl melted down, as she beleived that the "big one" had just hit.

It was pretty hilarious.

I actually thought Countdown to Looking Glass was a much better movie, with a more realistic scenario. It was made for HBO and didn't get a lot of attention.

I also saw Threads (sometimes referred to as "The British Day After" and When the Wind Blows which is a very poignant cartoon.

In the vein of Dr. Strangelove, I also am a fan of By the Dawn's Early Light which I may have a copy of somewhere in the massive pile of video tapes.

The original Manchurian Candidate is another favorite, as is From Russian with Love.

One that wasn't quite as distinguished was S*P*I*E*S (Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould were so good in M*A*S*H they have to be really great in a campy spy movie with a really bad script).

I also count the two James Coburn "Flint" movies as kind of cold war flicks, even there was only a brief walk-on by actual Russians in the second one.

See, I told you there would be more.

Hemlock · 08-12-2005, 01:22 AM

I will have to go with "Top Secret" with Val Kilmer.

That and "Flight of the Navigator."

wolf · 08-12-2005, 01:25 AM

Forgot Wargames.

Oh!!! And Colossus: The Forbin Project

BigV · 08-12-2005, 01:35 AM

On The Beach

BigV · 08-12-2005, 01:41 AM

Welcome to the cellar Hemlock.

Big movie fan? If you are, you'll have plenty of company here.

08-11-2005, 03:25 PM	#17
melidasaur Traded your soul for pogs. Join Date: May 2004 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 646	Russkies... please don't laugh. Also any James Bond movie that featured West v. Russia. __________________ I love England, what can I say?

08-11-2005, 03:48 PM	#18
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	You and Cowhead are pals, or did I miss a name change somewhere along the line? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

08-11-2005, 04:28 PM	#20
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I was just noting your user title, which essentially translates as "Cowheadville"... __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

08-11-2005, 04:39 PM	#21
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	Yeah, I was wondering when someone was going to pickup on that -- had to give it away in this thread tho'. I also always found the city of Vacaville in CA an interesting usage of 'Spanglais'... parlez Usted ingles?. edit: and oh yeah, there was also the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca: http://www.english.swt.edu/CSS/alvar1CDV.HTML Poor kid -- I don't know what his parents were thinking... Last edited by barefoot serpent; 08-11-2005 at 05:03 PM.

08-11-2005, 08:02 PM	#22
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Ok, since you all blew through the stop sign above, I'll don my lemming suit and vote for Manchurian Candidate. Yes, Frankie Baby, haven't seen the remake. Maybe someday. Denzel Washington is a fine actor, and he features in another good movie in this genre, Crimson Tide. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not. Last edited by BigV; 08-12-2005 at 01:37 AM.

08-11-2005, 03:07 PM	#16
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming The Mouse That Roared

08-11-2005, 04:21 PM	#19
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	Nope, don't know cowhead -- at least I don't think I do -- but we do hail from the same pasture. Small world.

08-11-2005, 09:23 PM	#23
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BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Yes? The chair recogizes the appendages three. You have the floor, sirs. No offense intended of course. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

08-12-2005, 01:22 AM	#27
Hemlock May Ter Dee Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 26	I will have to go with "Top Secret" with Val Kilmer. That and "Flight of the Navigator."

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BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	On The Beach __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

08-12-2005, 01:41 AM	#30
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Welcome to the cellar Hemlock. Big movie fan? If you are, you'll have plenty of company here. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

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