(minor spoilers)– WHY oh WHY did 'Rodensky' want war so badly??
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — World War III
JSouth1 — 15 years ago(September 29, 2010 09:27 PM)
I just watches this movie after MANY yearsand It IS gripping and tense!! Last time I watched itI thought it was "too slow" with MANY periods of inaction between the "good parts" and thusnot that exciting to me.
That was about 1987 or so.
Since thenI have grown to REALLY LIKE the "thinker movies" that do NOT rely on fireworks, glitz or non-stop action. This is DEFINITELY one of those. A movie that begins with a radar blackout of a small part of Alaskaand ends like "failsafe".but on a GLOBAL scale.
I DO have one BIG question.WHY did that whitehaired guy, "Rodensky" or suchSOOOOO want to go to warand START ONEafter "giving his word" to Rock Hudsonthat he would NOT do so?? Did he REALLY think the USSR could "win" a nuclear war? At the timethe Titan II's were still around and a few of them would most DEFINITELY have been sent to Moscowto deliver their 9-10MT "present" two of which could have DESTROYED Moscow!! Did he REALLY think that the USSR Could intercept ALL of our RV's and bombssuremaybe 80-90% at MOSTbut that would STILL have left at least 300 nukes hitting the USSR-which would have REALLY "shook things up". IMHOhe was a lunatic!! -
tgs333 — 15 years ago(November 12, 2010 06:16 AM)
He was a hard line communist with a deep hatered toward the USA. That's my guess. He also said often, that the USSR could survive the first wave of Nukes. With that, he probably could have sacked the USA and withstand the damage of a handful of cities. With the USA beaten and deystroyed, he'd go down in history as a great Soviet Hero.
Basically, he was a mad man - much like Hitler, Sadam, etc
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep." -
jloper — 15 years ago(December 03, 2010 07:48 AM)
Rudinsky, the KGB guy, was contemptible of the USA's military power. Earlier in the movie, he said "We have taught them how to count megatons." What he didn't seem to know was although the USSR "maxed out" the warheads it put on its missile launchers and bombers, the USA hadn't, i.e., the big land-based Russian missiles like the SS-18 already had their maximum fit of 10 warheads, but the USA's 550 Minuteman III missiles, although they only carried 3 warheads apiece, could have carried 7, and the 300 or so B-52 bombers (the B-52G had a payload of 60,000 lbs. and the B-52H a payload of 70,000 lbs.) carried only a quarter or a third of the warheads they could have.
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terrondt — 15 years ago(January 22, 2011 06:53 AM)
i agree. i saw this movie as a child and just got the dvd from rare movies website. i own 2 dvds. one to loan and the other for my personal dvd collection. rudusky had a low opinion of the american military. he deluted himself on thinking us president mckenna(rock hudson) and the american military would never go to war over the alaskan invasion. how dead wrong he was. the idiot thought he had a first strike when he lied to the us president after the last hotline phone conversation. well, president mckenna would order an all out us launch at the same time the soviets would. more like same strike missiles and bombers passing each other at the same time!
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jspinksever — 10 years ago(February 03, 2016 04:47 PM)
if you watch the movie carefully, it looked either he was the so called the mad man that would trigger world war 3.The other is that both he and Gorny and a russian genreal were widower's,. I don't know the connection ,we do know that Gorny wanted peace,but Robert Prosky's role of Rodensky,his life maybe was diffrent on being a widower ? so fire the missles.after all he lied to the Soviet command that Mc'Enna Lied about turning the bombers around.