More terrifying than any horror film I've seen
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Fail-Safe
mase-6 — 13 years ago(January 12, 2013 07:25 PM)
I was in elementary school during the Cuban Missile Crisis (and remember the bomb shelter, and duck and cover drills). Fail Safe reminded me how that could have turned out even worse than the ending of this film.
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Alek_Hidell — 12 years ago(May 21, 2013 10:44 PM)
Agreed. I also grew up doing duck and cover drills and being told that it wasn't if the bombs would fall, it was when. To this day, the final scene of the fast cuts right after the countdown still sends literal shivers up my spine.
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shenandoahpride — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 11:39 PM)
I remember "drop, duck and roll" drills in the early 1960s. Now that I think of it, it was an old school with oil-soaked, varnished wooden floors and desks, and I doubt we'd be very safe in case The Bomb dropped!
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artisticengineer — 12 years ago(August 03, 2013 08:03 PM)
What is even more terrifying is how close we actually did come to a nuclear war (or nuclear exchange depending on how you view matters). President Kennedy felt we had been to odds of 1 out of 3 to about 1 out of 2 chance of actual use of nuclear weapons during the missile crisis. In the 1990s new declassified Soviet documents showed that the odds of a nuclear exchange during that crisis were actually greater than even!
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jgroub — 10 years ago(January 21, 2016 08:42 PM)
Yes. I remember seeing this for the first time as a teenager in the early 80s - probably on TBS - and having basically exactly Buck's "Holy mother of god" reaction when I heard the President's proposal. Except my reaction rhymed very well with the name Buck.
Terrifying.
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LateNightCable — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 01:10 PM)
Being that this film was made very much during the Cold War, and much of the dialogue goes down some rather chilling avenues, I'd be curious to know what the emotional climate was like on set.
"Cristal, Beluga, Wolfgang Puck It's a f#@k house."