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Post by snsurone on Aug 13, 2018 16:28:48 GMT
Did FAIL-SAFE win any Oscars? It certainly deserved them.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 13, 2018 16:41:36 GMT
Did FAIL-SAFE win any Oscars? No Academy Award Nominations BUT: BAFTA Awards 1966 Nominee UN Award Sidney Lumet USA.
Laurel Awards 1965 Nominee Golden Laurel Drama 5th place. Dramatic Performance, Male Henry Fonda 5th place. www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/awards?ref_=tt_awd
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 13, 2018 16:48:22 GMT
It's an excellent movie but the absurd premise is a big distraction for me whenever I watch it.
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Post by snsurone on Aug 13, 2018 17:52:26 GMT
Taylor, why do you think the premise is absurd?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 13, 2018 18:00:09 GMT
It's an excellent movie but the absurd premise is a big distraction for me whenever I watch it. I find that disbelief is harder to suspend when it's a "serious" film such as this one..
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Post by Eλευθερί on Aug 13, 2018 20:14:47 GMT
It's an excellent movie but the absurd premise is a big distraction for me whenever I watch it. Do you mean Fail-Safe or The Manchurian Candidate?
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 13, 2018 20:30:48 GMT
It's an excellent movie but the absurd premise is a big distraction for me whenever I watch it. Do you mean Fail-Safe or The Manchurian Candidate? Fail-Safe
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 13, 2018 20:31:32 GMT
Taylor, why do you think the premise is absurd? The events surrounding the situation would never unfold the way they do in the movie.
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Post by snsurone on Aug 13, 2018 22:42:46 GMT
Taylor, why do you think the premise is absurd? The events surrounding the situation would never unfold the way they do in the movie. Maybe not today, with all the progress in communication, but in 1964, it was quite plausible.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 22:53:24 GMT
It's an excellent movie but the absurd premise is a big distraction for me whenever I watch it. Do you mean Fail-Safe or The Manchurian Candidate? The Manchurian Candidate has a very absurd premise. I call TMC a straight-faced farce. Hard to tell how absurd is Fail-Safe.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Aug 13, 2018 23:14:24 GMT
Do you mean Fail-Safe or The Manchurian Candidate? Fail-Safe I posted earlier in the thread a couple of examples of actual situations from real life that were not that far off from what happened with the nuclear alert trigger in Fail-Safe.
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Post by snsurone on Aug 14, 2018 0:03:13 GMT
I posted earlier in the thread a couple of examples of actual situations from real life that were not that far off from what happened with the nuclear alert trigger in Fail-Safe. Jimmy the Greek--do you also remember the school drills that were practiced regularly in the '50's?
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 14, 2018 0:18:59 GMT
I did have one science teacher in high school who had a more practical understanding of the nuclear threat.
During the required drill he instructed us to crouch under the desk, to tuck our heads way down, and to kiss our butts goodbye.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Aug 14, 2018 0:28:02 GMT
I posted earlier in the thread a couple of examples of actual situations from real life that were not that far off from what happened with the nuclear alert trigger in Fail-Safe. Jimmy the Greek--do you also remember the school drills that were practiced regularly in the '50's? I wasn't even born then.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 14, 2018 14:28:34 GMT
I posted earlier in the thread a couple of examples of actual situations from real life that were not that far off from what happened with the nuclear alert trigger in Fail-Safe. In those situations, did they launch bombers that couldn't be recalled when they found out it was a false alarm?
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Post by snsurone on Aug 14, 2018 14:41:13 GMT
Jimmy the Greek--do you also remember the school drills that were practiced regularly in the '50's? I wasn't even born then. Sometimes I forget that I'm several generations removed from many of the posters here.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 14, 2018 15:03:52 GMT
Sometimes I forget that I'm several generations removed from many of the posters here. Still, you've got plenty of company here as well. Did faculty at your schools exhibit the same perverse glee at springing "drop drills" as they did at mine? One would be droning on, "The gerund always has the same function as a noun, and... DROP!!!" They had us well trained. In 1971, years after those drills, when the Sylmar quake hit at 6:00AM, I was still asleep, and for the first waking split-second, I thought we were being bombed, and quite reflexively went into that fetal "drop" position, expecting the house to collapse on top of me. Such is the power of years of mindless conditioning.
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Post by snsurone on Aug 15, 2018 18:26:27 GMT
Thank you for being a fellow "baby-boomer", Dog.
To tell the truth, I could never tell if my teachers had a "perverted sense of pleasure" because whenever they said, "Duck and cover!", we all dropped to the floor with out heads buried in our laps. What I can remember is my 3rd-grade teacher's high heels as she walked around the room, making certain that we did exactly what we were instructed to do. What I'll never understand is how authorities believed this procedure would protect kids from a nuclear attack! Can't believe such stupid thinking!
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Post by vegalyra on Aug 15, 2018 23:33:36 GMT
Thank you for being a fellow "baby-boomer", Dog. To tell the truth, I could never tell if my teachers had a "perverted sense of pleasure" because whenever they said, "Duck and cover!", we all dropped to the floor with out heads buried in our laps. What I can remember is my 3rd-grade teacher's high heels as she walked around the room, making certain that we did exactly what we were instructed to do. What I'll never understand is how authorities believed this procedure would protect kids from a nuclear attack! Can't believe such stupid thinking! Actually the thinking behind duck and cover wasn't really to protect you from direct blast effects, it was for collateral shock waves away from the main blast area that would have knocked down walls or roofs of buildings. A desk from that era could have protected you from falling ceiling tiles or glass being blown out of classroom windows. I found an old study done by the University of Houston in the late 1950's for Civil Defense that outlined blast radius from the known Soviet bombs/warheads of the time. There was no illusion by Civil Defense planners that anyone within that radius would either have died instantly or soon after from extreme radiation poisoning. The study was fairly complete, it even showed radiation fallout during different times of the year depending on prevailing wind patterns that affect Gulf Coast Texas in Summer or Winter, etc. It had predicted casualties and methods to institute to reduce the number of deaths. Of course, there aren't many basements in the Houston area due to our poor soil (mostly clay based) so Fallout Shelters were usually just large buildings that could hold a lot of people that were away from what was thought to be the main targeted areas of the region.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Aug 16, 2018 7:13:30 GMT
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