How about a movie thread? - Page 142

barbara · #**1411** 09-22-2016, 01:19 PM

Husband and I watched Seven Days in May last week end.

It was interesting. I had seen it before but a long time ago.

donquixote99 · #**1412** 09-22-2016, 01:58 PM

Quite a classic of film literature, in my opinion. Good suspenseful yarn, stays real and plausible imho, and has a couple of points.

Tom Joad · #**1413** 09-22-2016, 04:26 PM

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Quite a classic of film literature, in my opinion. Good suspenseful yarn, stays real and plausible imho, and has a couple of points.

I think Dr Strangelove is a better take on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0

donquixote99 · #**1414** 09-22-2016, 07:41 PM

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I think Dr Strangelove is a better take on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0

Huh? Strangelove was a dark satire, more entertaining, but for that reason less alarming. It wasn't 'real.'

Though it can be argued that it's much more real now. General Ripper certainly has a real world analog in the Republican presidential candidate. Being just a tad less 'military' is most of the difference....

Boreas · #**1415** 09-22-2016, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

Huh? Strangelove was a dark satire, more entertaining, but for that reason less alarming. It wasn't 'real.'

Though it can be argued that it's much more real now. General Ripper certainly has a real world analog in the Republican presidential candidate. Being just a tad less 'military' is most of the difference....

As well as Generals Flynn and Boykin.

It occurs to me that dark satire would possess great appeal for a troll.

Tom Joad · #**1416** 09-23-2016, 09:00 AM

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Huh? Strangelove was a dark satire, more entertaining, but for that reason less alarming. It wasn't 'real.'

Yeah, but it was refreshing to have something that could make you laugh about the subject. I don't know about you, but I spent a lot of my pre-teen years absolutely terrified of the Russians and nuclear war.

I remember reading both Seven Days in May and Failsafe, plus seeing the movies. Then there were those stupid assed "Duck and Cover" drills in school.

I'd seen the pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after they were nuked and I can remember feeling really insulted that these grown ups actually thought us kids were stupid enough to think that huddling under our little wooden school desks with our hands clasped behind our necks would give us a chance of surviving something like that.

Then there were the nightmares. I can still remember them. I had this one where I was riding to school in the school bus and the Russians had invaded. They stopped the school bus and this Russian dude that looked and sounded like Boris Badinov from the Bullwinkle show came on board and he had a Tommy Gun like they always had in the old gangster movies. And he looked back at us kids from the front of the bus and said "I hate to do this" and then he opened up on us with the Tommy Gun and that's when I woke up.

It sounds funny now, but it scared the fucking shit out of me back then.

Boreas · #**1417** 09-23-2016, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Yeah, but it was refreshing to have something that could make you laugh about the subject. I don't know about you, but I spent a lot of my pre-teen years absolutely terrified of the Russians and nuclear war.

I remember reading both Seven Days in May and Failsafe, plus seeing the movies. Then there were those stupid assed "Duck and Cover" drills in school.

I'd seen the pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after they were nuked and I can remember feeling really insulted that these grown ups actually thought us kids were stupid enough to think that huddling under our little wooden school desks with our hands clasped behind our necks would give us a chance of surviving something like that.

Then there were the nightmares. I can still remember them. I had this one where I was riding to school in the school bus and the Russians had invaded. They stopped the school bus and this Russian dude that looked and sounded like Boris Badinov from the Bullwinkle show came on board and he had a Tommy Gun like they always had in the old gangster movies. And he looked back at us kids from the front of the bus and said "I hate to do this" and then he opened up on us with the Tommy Gun and that's when I woke up.

It sounds funny now, but it scared the fucking shit out of me back then.

Now I know why you like Trump.

Tom Joad · #**1418** 09-23-2016, 10:20 AM

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Now I know why you like Trump.

You have no idea why I like Trump.

You still think that Clinton is the lesser of two Evils.

She most assuredly is not.

A Clinton victory will deal a devastating blow to the progressive movement.

A Trump victory will energize it.

Pio1980 · #**1419** 09-23-2016, 10:29 AM

A vaccine that cures by killing the host.
No thanx!

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donquixote99 · #**1420** 09-23-2016, 10:47 AM

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You have no idea why I like Trump.

You still think that Clinton is the lesser of two Evils.

She most assuredly is not.

A Clinton victory will deal a devastating blow to the progressive movement.

A Trump victory will energize it.

You're assuming there will be a free election four years in the future, in such case. Not a safe assumption.