Your favourite nuke movies

[Vako]

Ricola's cannon shot inspired me to make this topic. What are your favorite nuke movies? Or other movies featuring high-energy weapon events, either real or simulated.

Mine are:

Miracle Mile

Threads

Terminator III

Trinity and Beyond

Atomic Cafe


Also, The film "Outbreak" has a really good simulation of a fuel-air-dispersal bomb in the beginning of the movie, but the rest of the movie sucked.

Bomb go boom, pants go brown.

[clvmike19]

Dr. Strangelove!

and if I can add the book "On The Beach"........OH WOW is that a depressing book about the end of the world. Read it.

[The_Dessert_Eagle]

Yeah! Definitely Dr. Strangelove.

And then "The Day After" - OK, it's a TV movie, but still pretty well done.

Then there was another 80's TV movie I barely remember that I thought was called "Special Report" but I can't find it in IMDB. It was about a group of terrorists who smuggled a nuclear bomb into a harbor in Charleston, SC. It was presented TV news style although they ran disclaimers after every commercial break. It did not have a happy ending.

I was not too fond of "The Sum of All Fears" because of (1) Affleck and (2) the plot change from Muslim terrorists to Nazi terrorists. Nazis? The special effects were pretty cool I guess.

I'm drawing a blank. I'm sure I'll change my mind after seeing a few more titles.

[doodude]

Without question FAILSAFE.
Henry Fonda as the Prez. Larry Hagman as the interpretor. Black & white cold war flick from 1964.
There was also The Bedford Incedent with Richard Widmark & Sidney Portier.
Both were powerful films.
These werent particularly nukies but other great black & white coldwar films were,
Seven Days in May with Kirk Douglas & Burt Lancaster
The original Manchurian Candidate with Frank Sinatra. ( Far better than the stupid remake )
King Rat with George Segal
Man! They dont make em like dat anymore...

[Mini Dickman]

...Robocop 2 :)

In all seriousness, though. The Day After and Terminator series.

[Logan Benson]

miracle mile
planet of the apes "you damn dirty apes"

[Daniel Ruoss]

Dr. Strangelove for sure. After that....

By Dawn's Early Light - Powers Booth movie. It's about a B-52 crew and the efforts of the President to avert a total nuclear exchange after a terrorist nuke explodes in Russia and the first opening salvos are fired.

The Day After - The movie that scared the shit out of everybody in the 80's. Interesting drama of life after a nuclear war. A bit too dramatic, but a good movie nonetheless.

Fail Safe - Older Cold War drama. Came out about the same time as Dr. Strangelove. Great if you like classic movies. They don't make them like this anymore. American bombers are sent to attack the USSR after an electronic malfunction.

The Terminator Series - I guess more action than nuclear drama but I'll watch any of them any time they're on. Go Gov. Arnie!

The Sum of All Fears - I agree that Ben Affleck sucks and the changing of the terrorists from Muslim to Nazi is a PC cop-out. Morgan Freeman saves us from Ben's tedious acting and I was on the edge of my seat when I first watched it. I hadn't read the book so I was shocked when the bomb really went off! Sorry to spoil it for those who haven't seen it!

[TedBellLover]

Dr. Strangelove!

and if I can add the book "On The Beach"........OH WOW is that a depressing book about the end of the world. Read it.

Also the movie of the same name, with Gregory Peck as the skipper of a US nuclear sub. Very little hope.

[TedBellLover]

Dr. Strangelove for sure. After that....

By Dawn's Early Light - Powers Booth movie. It's about a B-52 crew and the efforts of the President to avert a total nuclear exchange after a terrorist nuke explodes in Russia and the first opening salvos are fired.

The Day After - The movie that scared the shit out of everybody in the 80's. Interesting drama of life after a nuclear war. A bit too dramatic, but a good movie nonetheless.

Fail Safe - Older Cold War drama. Came out about the same time as Dr. Strangelove. Great if you like classic movies. They don't make them like this anymore. American bombers are sent to attack the USSR after an electronic malfunction.

The Terminator Series - I guess more action than nuclear drama but I'll watch any of them any time they're on. Go Gov. Arnie!

The Sum of All Fears - I agree that Ben Affleck sucks and the changing of the terrorists from Muslim to Nazi is a PC cop-out. Morgan Freeman saves us from Ben's tedious acting and I was on the edge of my seat when I first watched it. I hadn't read the book so I was shocked when the bomb really went off! Sorry to spoil it for those who haven't seen it!

Yeah, "The Day After" absolutely scared the hell out of me as a teen in the early 1980's. You wonder why the oldest kids of the Baby Boomers (no pun intended) seem a little tentative and afraid, and mutter to themselves alot? Credit 1980's movies and news media. OH MY GOD, THE RUSSIANS HAVE NUKES TRAINED ON US AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!! Holy monkey shit! It's a surprise we didn't all commit suicide in despair. Only recently did I realize that was Steve Guttenberg losing his hair and dying, and it all seems okay now.

[FearAndLoathingInSoCal]

When I think of high-energy weapon I think of...


... Dr. Evil's "laser" (quotations included) :-P

[DancingOutlaw]

Miracle Mile is great. When the Wind Blows is a good animated nuke movie. A Boy and His Dog is a good post apocalyptic movie.

[CommunistaCow]

Definitely Dr. Strangelove.

Of recent releases, I've actually found the lower tech weaponry of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers to be more fascinating.

[Dr. P]

Strangelove, but it would have to be Red Dawn if they only would've incorporated dropping the big one!

[Mr. Irrelevant]

"The Day After" got to me for sure. Who did it not get to? Wasn't there a scene where a young lady see's the nuclear blast and the intensity of the light makes her go blind, then it shows her pissing herself? Yeah, it's little things like that, that make you wanna suck your thumb.

Also, Mad Max. :thumbsup:

anyone ever see "The Stand" mini-series?

That blew entire runways of Kong, but it did have that part in the end where the Trash Can Man, drove an ATV with a nuke strapped to it, which subsequently turned Las Vegas into a giant sheet of glass.
:score:

[beaver_clever]

As others have noticed: Dr. Strangelove:tipofthecap: , just Terminator 2, (when L.A. kisses the gunner's daughter), and its not really an explosion movie but I'd have to add War Games.

[TheWagesofSin]

All I remember about "The Day After" was that it scared the living Christ out of my mom. She wouldn't let me watch it, instead sticking me in my room with a pile of Archie comics.

If I remember correctly, she actually got involved with some sort of anti-nukes activism after that... and she was a pretty conservative person.

To this day, I've not seen the movie.

[Boss]

Fat Man and Little Boy.

[BowlHaircut]

Didn't Fahrenheit 451 end with a Nuke?

[Mr. Irrelevant]

I dunno, but "True Lies" did.:dance: :dance:

[Vako]

Didn't Fahrenheit 451 end with a Nuke?

Fahrenheit 451 ended with the main character, Montag, escaping into the wilderness. There, he met other exiles who learned how to "become books" by memorizing them. The exiles became their own tribe, who's collective goal was to pass the memory of the books to their children, so the persecuted literature would survive, for future generations. The State created a contrived newscast using video from survailance cameras. The newscast claimed that Montag had been captured and imprisoned. Their propaganda to the citizenry..."The show must go on".

Fahrenheit 451 did not contain any nuclear explosions.

[nate]

Independence Day had a nuke!

[Mr. Irrelevant]

Independence Day had a nuke!
Tru Dat!!!

Houston is a shit hole anyway! I'm kidding :poke:

[Don Berman]

Anyone remember Def Con 4? That is a happy movie.

[Chef Carl Chodillia]

"fail safe" & "dr. strangelove".

[Booze]

[QUOTE=Vako]

Threads

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I remember Threads & The Day After being shown quite close to each other here. Scary times for an 8 or 9 year old kid or whatever I was at the time. Threads was really depressing stuff. If you want the nuclear holocaust to be even more bleak than usual, then locate it in Sheffield, like they did ;-)

I think Threads had the melting milk bottle & woman pissing herself scene that someone else mentioned.

Strangelove has to be the best, & Fail Safe & By Dawn's Early Light were great too, as straight versions of that scenario.

Anybody remember another early 80's nuclear war drama called World War III? I think it was prolly a TV Movie mini series or two parter.

It had David Soul in the lead role & Rock Hudson playing the President. Yep...:gay: :thumbsup:

[Belasco]

"Armageddon" had a nuke - not that I am, in any way, comparing "Armageddon" to "Dr. Strangelove".

Strangelove is THE best.

[Belasco]

Rock Hudson playing the President.

I remember that. Everyone in the media was all impressed about how "progressive" it was to show the President enjoying his AZT cocktail every morning.

[Dr. P]

Azt?..

[Belasco]

Azt?..

:-$ AZT is the AIDS drug cocktail.

[Dr. P]

Oh, gotcha!

[Booze]

lmao lmao lmao
I remember that. Everyone in the media was all impressed about how "progressive" it was to show the President enjoying his AZT cocktail every morning. lmao lmao lmao