First of all..
I co-owned a video store. There was this young teen who would only rent this movie. Over and over and over..
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This is surely in my top 5 GREAT movies to watch! This material deserves a real Film-DVD or Film-Blue Ray release. IMHO!
I saw it when it first came out. It was every bit as shocking as Glickenhaus's other genre movies.. if not more so.
I'm also sure its release has been hurt by how accurate it must have been.
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The folks that give this movie a bad or low rating.. Well they need to put this movie into context. Unless you were at least 20 years old in 1980.. NONE of this movie will make much sense. Many of the "In" jokes or cold war antics will not be fully understood.
Yes we were actually AT WAR with the Russians. Yes a whole lot of goofy stuff happened back then. On both sides of the wall.
At the time this movie came out.. This movie made it a point that America was not a super power anymore. We had lost the ability to field troops. Post Vietnam era really took its toll on the Military.
We couldn't even launch helicopters to rescue our hostages in Iran. Poorly trained.. Poorly armed.. We were a toothless lion (with nukes) in 1982.
Also you need to understand that SCENARIOS such as presented in this picture were actually "Thought about" back then. What if THEY do this? Is there anything WE can do? People forget that under Regan.. America nearly launched WWIII nukes more than 6 times! The scene where the American President orders a first strike against Israel. Then the next scene is the Israeli (guy in charge) being told the strike is coming. Yes it would surely have gone like that. So much for secrets right? To that end.. I'm sure there were rouge "Elite" units active back then. Folks that had the "Keys" and kept up the "Code books" to gain access.
There is probably more truth in this movie than any TOM CLANCY book.
Yea.. really.
PS: From what I understand Glickenhaus is "Not a nice man". His production company has hurt young film makers. (Watch out)
I co-owned a video store. There was this young teen who would only rent this movie. Over and over and over..
-----
This is surely in my top 5 GREAT movies to watch! This material deserves a real Film-DVD or Film-Blue Ray release. IMHO!
I saw it when it first came out. It was every bit as shocking as Glickenhaus's other genre movies.. if not more so.
I'm also sure its release has been hurt by how accurate it must have been.
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The folks that give this movie a bad or low rating.. Well they need to put this movie into context. Unless you were at least 20 years old in 1980.. NONE of this movie will make much sense. Many of the "In" jokes or cold war antics will not be fully understood.
Yes we were actually AT WAR with the Russians. Yes a whole lot of goofy stuff happened back then. On both sides of the wall.
At the time this movie came out.. This movie made it a point that America was not a super power anymore. We had lost the ability to field troops. Post Vietnam era really took its toll on the Military.
We couldn't even launch helicopters to rescue our hostages in Iran. Poorly trained.. Poorly armed.. We were a toothless lion (with nukes) in 1982.
Also you need to understand that SCENARIOS such as presented in this picture were actually "Thought about" back then. What if THEY do this? Is there anything WE can do? People forget that under Regan.. America nearly launched WWIII nukes more than 6 times! The scene where the American President orders a first strike against Israel. Then the next scene is the Israeli (guy in charge) being told the strike is coming. Yes it would surely have gone like that. So much for secrets right? To that end.. I'm sure there were rouge "Elite" units active back then. Folks that had the "Keys" and kept up the "Code books" to gain access.
There is probably more truth in this movie than any TOM CLANCY book.
Yea.. really.
PS: From what I understand Glickenhaus is "Not a nice man". His production company has hurt young film makers. (Watch out)