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Why such a low vote?

posted 16 years ago by angelofvic
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Vote, people, so this movie will get the rating it deserves.
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[–] jpicco 16 years ago

It deserves a lower rating. This is a preposterous and mean-spirited movie, whose plot hinges on a horror story a nuclear silo PR guy tells to a little kid and a phone call in which the President violates every law imaginable in his attempt to take out an underworld power broker....and still doesn't sell the idea that his call was worth making.

Also, one of the main characters is a wide receiver named Hot Dog McNally.

Astoundingly bad movie.

[–] tom0557 16 years ago

I agree with jpicco. This film was lousy when I was a kid and it still is. It reduced the nuclear arms issue that existed between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to simple stereotypes.

Rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse and a few are better. - Homer

[–] Doom 16 years ago

Respectfully disagree and agree with the OP.

I thought this was a great film.

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[–] preppy-3 15 years ago

I caught this drivel in a theatre back in 1987. It was an audience full of adults. There were more than a few giggles as the movie unfolded and it became more and more implausible. Towards the end when Peterson casually tells his son that the president is waiting for him in his room the audience lost it. From then on it was open season on the movie. The movie had good intentions but its plot is just ridiculous.

[–] MichaelMovieLoft 14 years ago

Yeah, in the words of Leonard Maltin, "It's dripping with good intentions". I found a lot of it implausable as well.

MM

[–] yastepanov 10 years ago

I think this film gets few votes because very few people saw it as it lasted about 1 showing in theaters before the production company realized it was a turd that would not make them any money.

I saw it on a plane. Not once -- they showed it on EVERY FLIGHT that month, at a time when you had a choice of watching this film or reading, sleeping or attempting to kill off brain cells with alcohol.

No amount of alcohol could remove the memory of this vastly simplistic movie form my mind.

It reminds me of a joke by columnist Dave Barry, who talked about how he participated in a hunger strike to help end the Vietnam War. He pictured someone running into the office of President Lyndon Johnson and saying "Mr President! Some kids at ??? High School are refusing to eat because of the War!" To which Johnson replies: "Oh my gawd! I better change my entire foreign policy!"