Kevin's Watch

Since we got to talking about this in the war movies thread, I thought it deserved its own.

On the Beach-Best. Cold. War. Movie. Ever.
White Nights
13 Days (good call Loremaster)
Fail Safe
By Dawn's Early Light
Amerika
The Day After

What else we got?

Red Dawn - though that's not really Cold War.

Great list, Cail.

and The Falcon and the Snowman

Heh, I intentionally left Bedford out for you Danlo.

Thank you! It completely rules, and I'll tell you Fail-Safe scared the living crap out of us, back in the day...

There was a remake of Fail Safe a few years back, I believe George C. Scott was in it. It was good, but in no way captured the feeling of the original.

As cheesy as it was, I also really liked Soldier, with Ken (Wiseguy) Wahl.

On the Beach is a good book. Will have to see the movie.

Watch the "classic" one first, but give the new one a shot too.

Will do.

Somebody needs to make a flick out of this post-apocalypse novel.

I KNEW you were going to say that! Incredible story!

Dr. Strangelove. The fact that Stanley Kubrick was accused of being anti-American over this film makes it all the more compelling in my eyes.

I only recently caught 13 Days on TV. Excellent movie! An amazingly fresh look at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sorry I missed it when it came out. Must've been one of those films that arrived in the theatre one week and left the next.

Matrixman wrote:Dr. Strangelove. The fact that Stanley Kubrick was accused of being anti-American over this film makes it all the more compelling in my eyes.

I only recently caught 13 Days on TV. Excellent movie! An amazingly fresh look at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sorry I missed it when it came out. Must've been one of those films that arrived in the theatre one week and left the next.

Yeah, that's pretty much how it happened. My wife and I saw it when it first came out, then I went back a few days later by myself and watched it again. It's fantastic! I believe it was automatically panned by critics just like every other Kevin Costner movie.

I haven't seen most of the movies mentioned so far, thanks for the recs, I'm adding them to my Blockbuster queue.

Same thing here. I saw an ad for it and it looked good, especially since it had both Costner and Bruce Greenwood (been a fan of his since St.Elsewhere). We couldn't go one weekend and it was gone the next.

It's hard to find many more besides those mentioned, but don't forget Seven Days in May with Burt Lancaster either. I don't know if War Games or FireFox rate...but a few folks have classified them as CW movies...

Wasn't here a really cool old sci-fi cold war TV movie called Collosus, or something like that. About US and Russian supercomputers first plotting against each other, then communicating with each other, then merging into one?

Firefox is great!

Danlo, you're thinking of.... www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

Cool flick.

Yeah, War Games and Firefox (great flick) both count, as do The Terminator and The Abyss.

How about Ice Station Zebra?

OOOH COOOOOL LOVES Ice Station Zebra--well in that case doesn't MacClean's The Gold Bug count too???

I don't understand why The Terminator counts...

I don't understand why The Abyss counts.

Loved Firfox when it came out. Nowdays I still like it but wish the special effects held up a little better. I'm guessing The Hunt For Red October qualifies.