Name ONE Great Film Most Have Never Seen...

**Averageman** · 08-18-22, 03:37

Originally Posted by The Dumb Gun Collector

Being there

Doctor Strangelove

**SteyrAUG** · 08-18-22, 05:21

Originally Posted by Averageman

Doctor Strangelove

Pretty sure everyone has seen that one.

**JediGuy** · 08-18-22, 05:25

Inagaki’s Samurai trilogy (Musashi). I know that makes it three films, but hey, it’s the internet.

**SteyrAUG** · 08-18-22, 05:36

Originally Posted by Hank6046

Threads, its honestly hard to watch. Set in the UK in the 80s during all out nuclear war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

The Double Feature to "The Day After." It's pretty bleak, scenes of burying kids in the front yard and things like that. Probably more substance (character development, atmosphere and better acting) than "The Day After", but "The Day After" has the higher budgets and special effects. When Stephen Furst questions the launched minute man missiles as "some kind of test right?" and John Lithgow replies "Their on their way to Moscow, they take about 30 minutes" to which Furst replies "So do theirs...right?"

Powerful stuff. But Threads didn't seem to get played here and The Day after didn't seem to get played in the US, although both films should have been shown in both places. Maybe it's for the best, "The Day After" had me thinking about a bug out plan and even though my emergency bag was absurd (1,000 round of 5.56 for a SP1 carbine, pop tarts, camo sticks and a set of woodland BDUs) I really thought I could somehow move around after that and survive more than four days. I half assed some makeshift shelters in a dozen locations in town that would have done little for me except keep me out of the rain.

I thought about nixing the geiger counter out of my grandparents bomb shelter, but I worried they'd need it. Don't ask me why my plan wasn't to try and ride it out in the bomb shelter my grandfather built in the 60s. Maybe it was the 25 year old jars of CD marked peanut butter, maybe I had just seen too much Red Dawn but lacked the mountains to go hide in.

**SteyrAUG** · 08-18-22, 05:47

Originally Posted by JediGuy

Inagaki’s Samurai trilogy (Musashi). I know that makes it three films, but hey, it’s the internet.

Just make sure you get the Criterion Collection. In addition to the Musashi trilogy, he probably made the best version of the 47 Ronin (Chushingura) (1962) also starring Toshiro Mifune. In many ways Inagaki was the other Kurosawa. Only Masaki Kobayashi came close to those guys.

**john armond** · 08-18-22, 06:08

For the zombie fans, Dead Set. It's actually a British five part mini-series from 2008, but is only about 2.5 hours long in total. It has a very bleak ending.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Set