Originally Posted by copeab (Post 12197)

What if one of the Australians was Yahoo Serious?

Originally Posted by Raellus (Post 12184)

Condorman? Loved it as a little kid; watched it again a few years ago... Sheesh! It did not hold up at all.

Originally Posted by copeab (Post 12114)

I For example, John Carpenter's _The Thing_ was far superior to the original.

Originally Posted by Ed the Coastie (Post 12150)

I remember seeing Red Dawn while on Liberty Weekend in Boot Camp. (I also saw Ghostbusters, Condorman, and Yentl -- don't ask -- that same weekend.) It has long been one of my favorite movies.

I'm not sure that a remake would really have the same impact today as it did 25 years ago. We now live in a society that all-but demonizes the mere access to a firearm, much less teaching our children how to actually use such an "evil thing". To show a group of high school students who not only have access to and know how to use guns but who are also willing to do so against other human beings -- and yet keep from portraying them as a group of psychopathic juvenile delinquents -- is almost asking too much of the hankie-wringers who seem to be infesting Hollywood these days.

On the other tentacle, I would happily go see a true movie adaptation of Starship Troopers...I have nothing against the existing movie nor the "Roughnecks" animated series, but neither of them match very closely the way the book played out in my mind. I also second (or third or whatever) the suggestion of a movie made of The Forever War. For that matter, I would love to see movies of Old Man's War and any of the Falkenberg's Legion books. (I was given a copy of West of Honor as a commissioning present, and have carried it with me ever since.)

Originally Posted by Nowhere Man 1966 (Post 12244)

It's a bummer how the world has changed so much in 25 years. To me the 1980's don't seem that long ago, yet I feel like I'm an alien in this world of today. Heck, I work with people who are so young, they don't even remember the Cold War.

Chuck

Originally Posted by Nowhere Man 1966 (Post 12244)

Heck, I work with people who are so young, they don't even remember the Cold War.

Chuck

Originally Posted by RN7 (Post 12575)

Any one ever see Invasion USA with Chuck Norris. One of the greats ;)

Originally Posted by RN7 (Post 12575)

Any one ever see Invasion USA with Chuck Norris. One of the greats ;)

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six (Post 12592)

I also recall a mini series starring David Soul where WW3 starts with US and Soviet soldiers fighting each other in Alaska; can't remember what that one was called but the ending was pretty grim...seem to remember that scenes of the two groups fighting each other in Alaska was interspersed with shots of the two countries' leaders in their respective war rooms...as the conflict in Alaska escalated so did the likliehood of the War going nuclear...

Originally Posted by Marc (Post 12595)

It's name was "World War 3", I think... They don't lost a lot of time with the title... I saw it about two years ago. Just entertaining, nothing else, as I recall it. The action scenes are its weakest point.

And saint Goggle says that:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084919/

Originally Posted by Marc (Post 12595)

It's name was "World War 3", I think... They don't lost a lot of time with the title... I saw it about two years ago. Just entertaining, nothing else, as I recall it. The action scenes are its weakest point.

And saint Goggle says that:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084919/

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b (Post 12598)

IIRC, it ended with Rock Hudson (who played the President) saying: "They're going to launch. And those bombers are not going to turn back." That was right after he got off the Red Phone, and the Russian President assured him there wasn't going to be a war in a rather sarcastic tone of voice. And then he put his face in his hands; he know what he was going to have to do.

And the tactic that David Soul's character used called "Buzzsaw" -- I wasn't even in ROTC yet and I knew that was more of a die-in-place tactic. Laying in those pipes, you have good cover from the sides, but the front, a good spray or a grenade will take you out, and you've got no place to go.

Originally Posted by Marc (Post 12595)

It's name was "World War 3", I think... They don't lost a lot of time with the title... I saw it about two years ago. Just entertaining, nothing else, as I recall it. The action scenes are its weakest point.

And saint Goggle says that:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084919/

Originally Posted by Littlearmies (Post 12610)

What was particularly good about that page was the "if you like this then try these...." section - "Seven Days In May" and "Fail Safe" - two really great Cold War movies...

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b (Post 12612)

I haven't seen Seven Days in May, but Fail Safe is an iconic Cold War movie. I read the book before I saw the movie, though -- I had a totally different idea of what the Vindicator bomber looked like (I was thinking more XB-70 Valkyrie) than the B-58 Hustlers they used in the movie.