Just Watched Again

I think so, it was a big cultural event, the ratings were off the charts. Families sat and watched it together.

"I agree with that assessment but it seems it would be from a rogue source and not a major world power launching a massive strike. "
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Probably true. But if a single gunshot (i.e. assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria) was enough to start a full blown World War, I wonder what a first nuclear strike -even a small scale one from a rogue state or terrorist organization- would start...

Well of course this is all a matter of opinion, age and artistic sensibility, and I probably did exaggerate a little...
Some of my favourite films were made in the 80's, chronologically speaking, but almost none of them were "of the 80's" in that they weren't especially representative of 80's film aesthetics.

"The cinema has never been as good since!"
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I'd argue Cinema of the 90's was more interesting than that of the 80's, and that both were a good notch below that of the 70's.
But then again, great film-makers will make great movies in any decade they happen to be working during. It's just that some decades produce more great film-makers than others...

EVen today, I won't wear a mask. Better to live and die free. To live in fear and under tyranny is not living at all.