World War III - The Cinema Snob 

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My father directed this movie when I was a kid. For some reason, someone thought it was a good idea to give me one of the "Crew" shirts when I visited set one time. As a result, I was a 7 year old owner of a military green t-shirt that inexplicably said, "World War III" in stencil font across the chest. It's only now, over 30 years later, that I realize just how weird that is.

Man, this footage from January 2020 hasn't aged very well.

This episode hits differently now. "I'm just gonna get down on the ground with my shittin' cup."

I never made it past the opening section to Fallout 3’s Operation Anchorage, but I didn’t know it’d get this bizarre

I kept finding myself saying, "Hey, it's that guy!" So many actors you'd constantly seeing guest starring and co starring in 70's and 80's shows all the time.

"They made out during Schindler's List." Good throwback.

“More coffee drinking than in a Coleman Francis film” nice one!

I do believe *Igloo tanks* are referred to as *Tankgloos* .

World War 3D is a great name for a spoof movie ... or reality.

"Since this is 1982 and this is the Third Part of the World War Trilogy , shouldn't this be in 3D?"

Ride the corpse down the mountain Homer Simpson style.

Mona from Whos the Boss is a freak in everything.

Perhaps it would have been more memorable if the ending had been set to Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing and it then cut to black.

There is a serious version of Dr. Strangelove . Sydney Lumet's Fail Safe came out mere months after Dr. Strangelove and deals with a very similar "misunderstanding escalates to nuclear war scenario", but much more grounded and technical. Not everybody dies at the end, but it's still a downer ending. The movie is not near as memorable or fun as Dr. Strangelove, but if you consider it on its own with no comparisons it's stands as a very well made political drama.

I just want to know when the World War franchise goes into space. Do we have to wait for World War X ?

My Mom was born in 36 and LOVED Rock Hudson. She was in complete denial that he was Gay. My brothers and I teased her about it for years even after he passed. Rock sure did look like a movie star. Great review Brad....the timing is perfect.

"Whoops, Apocalypse!" is a great spoof on the trend of WW3 movies in the '80s. Would love Brad to do that one.

"WE'VE ALSO MONITORED A NEARLY 70% INCREASE IN THE USE OF STOCK FOOTAGE ON OUR SCREENS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE THE BUDGET TO SIMULATE MASSIVE MOVEMENTS OF MILITARY HARDWARE!"

"Don't Give Up On Us" would've gone so well here. Det. Hutch could've sung it to Dr. Nichols as he held him in a post-coitus spoon.

I really think you should do 'The Day After' now that's a depressing World War 3 Mini-Series

I think that this miniseries should have used the original ending that involved the President and the Russians having a giant pie fight in the War Room instead of nuclear armageddon.

youve successfully built my hype for this series id never heard of. I dont know what this is but for some reason, hell yes ive been waiting for this

It’s episodes like this that remind my why I love this channel so much. Bravo, Snob.

Never thought I'd see Jessica Tate coming on to Macmillan

I feel like alot of this could be solved if we got Major Kong on the scene riding a bomb down on the russians from a plane screaming yee haw. Your missed Slim Pickens.

4:51 Poor Boomer. Survived the war with the Cylons only to get killed by a Soviet infiltrator. :(

In case anyone's interested, Premier Gorny's son is a member of the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization (aka the Young Pioneers), similar idea to Soviet Boy Scouts & Girl Guides. It was expected for the children of Party members to join this group.

As a fellow Pennsylvanian, I can confirm we definitely like bombs, fire and destruction. Hell...people set police cars on fire downtown just the other day.

I just watched some parts of the 'Amerika' miniseries on RU-vid and now I really wanna see Brad review it. The miniseries itself is interesting in its own weird way but its production and the reaction it got is what seals the deal for me. Plus the fact that it's so obscure to contemporary audiences compared to 'Red Dawn' and 'The Day After.'

Good thinking Snob get in your War Room!

Remember War Games. Do you want to play chess or global thermonuclear war. And we mustn't forget the giant computer that was called the Whopper.

The Big Red Button and also the Red Phone. And lets not forget The Day After.

Thanks for the shitting cup idea, looks like we'll be needing it...

i dont know why but "The Shittin' Cup" has been the highlight of all these recent episodes for me

I think my family chose the new episode of Alice when this premiered

Omg. I totally lost it after The Great Race Clip. I loved that movie as a kid!

I remember watching that Monday night's episode of That's Incredible! on ABC, when Cathy Lee Crosby beat Fran Tarkenton in the first version of Madden on the Apple IIe.

"You switched the samples" nice The Fugitive reference. "Devlin McGregor could give you... Provasic!"

9:33 it's "Die Hard II" co-hero Leslie Barnes!

The Future of 1987 lol

Robert Prosky may have been from Philly, but he was of Slavic decent.

Is it just my paranoia or does the Red sleeper agent that takes out the base at the beginning look like a young Vladimir Putin?

I loved this miniseries as a kid. I have not seen it in years.

this is your best work from 2020

I loved it.Had it on VHS,until a house fire.Hate you can't find it anywhere.

Very happy.

Man, that squeezy sound effect when the I I I shows up under the World War logo makes this movie sound like it should be a comedy.

Finally! Time to get to my bunker in fear

At 17:58; "Your record indicates that you are some sort of frustrated genius. SO START GENIUS-ING!!" (Always thought that was the better reading...) 😁

So basically watch the Day After instead.

Another AWESOME Mega Episode, Brad. I'm pretty Old School myself. Loved the various references of The Great Race, Family Affair and Alice. XD I was not expecting those

I'm shocked that there wasn't any implications of adding the Battle of Hoth references anywhere in this bizarro miniseries. Great stuff! Great stuff! I just hope we do get a glimpse of the mini series known as Amerika soon! I'm curious as to how it'll played out in your review.

Uncle Cinema Snob

Thank you, Mr. Snob. I needed that.

Can they get more specific about when in the future, is it not the in the not too distant future? Because, if it is someone needs to warn a guy named Joel and his robot friends.

I appreciate everything you've done to capture, analyze, recollect and share so much about Cinema, Snob. ...but calling right-wing conservative movies "artless 90 minute viagra ads" is what I'll be taking away from this one.

22:03: Well, to be honest, Father Mulcahy was a fuckin' badass in that episode...

I've never bought RU-vidr branded merch, but I need a Cinema Snob "Shit'n Cup" right now!!!

Why is there the sound effect of a balloon getting inflated when the single letters of the title card appear??

I love your videos Cinema Snob. They never fail to entertain me. Also, you inspired me to make my own youtube channel, thank you.

Igloo-Tanks !! Awesome. 👍🏻

fastest click in the west last time i was this early snob had hair as was sitting on the basement floor

9:31 kinda coincidence that he mentioned the name stryker when the patch he is wearing below the ranger tab is the 172nd. that unit would be a stryker brigade in the early 2000s. plus there was never a ranger unit in the 172nd

I recently got this on VHS ♥

I have a hunch that the script was written during or shortly after the actual grain agreement between the US and the USSR that gave you Yakov Smirnoff, and was not updated to reflect the fact, that after the neo-Stalinist years of Brezhnev, the two following first premiers after him and before Gorbachev were former leaders of the KGB. I do think it's intentional that the screenplay purports an internal coup to plausibly deny that they wanted to suggest the Soviets want a war. In case somebody under 30 reads this, today's equivalent is when a leader says they barely have to time to watch TV, but are keenly familiar with ratings (of course same day watchers, no VOD on streaming), but I digress... I find it a bit lacking that after 1998 a new movie wasn't made about how just a year later in '83 during a NATO exercise the Soviets have mistaken a Korean commercial flight for a spy plane and shot it down. The piloy who did it died in 2015, still believing he shot down a spy plane, which would mean, yes, it has a "crisis actors" conspiracy. Andropov and Gromyko were hardliners, who believed in their ideology, and like a "No True Scotsman" believed that citizens under their occupation don't revolt, it's gangsters with CIA backing. Or at least that was the justification back then when they suppressed the uprising of 1956.

Feels like we're not too far from World War III in some parts of the country now

I remember this! I wish there was some way to watch it.

Do Threads if you want a really depressing one.

16:36 I would have gone with an ALF reference for that actress, myself.

The silencer shots were from Goldeneye too.

Great timing Brad.

well i was gonna try to watch this before your review but then i got stuck watching the other WW3(the news)

In an alternate reality Ronald Reagan played the president in this movie and Rock Hudson was elected president.

Anybody ever heard of this movie called the Fourth War it has Roy Scheider in it. It's one of my guilty pleasures.

That reminds me, Invasion U.S.A. when?

Still, it's not as dull or depressing as Rocket Attack USA.

at last!

Snob new what was coming! That's why he waited!

"Shittin Cup" A Zilla cupholder and Cup.

Awesome Work 👍

Love 'the great race', ever seen tony curtis in manitou? Good shit, great channel..

Well this is a surprise. Wasn't expecting this movie to be reviewed.

He survived BattleStar Galactic only to be shot in Alaska.

If this took place in the Fallout universe the Soviets would have gotten a nasty surprise: Liberty Prime!

X-TRA POINTS for that *CALIGULA* poster. Regards, Kev

Do The Swarm next!

I was hoping for that fake Lee Majors saving Santa movie from the beginning of Scrooged to actual be made.

23:36 About time the blood show up this MINI MOVIE

I got to finally see The Omega Man shortly after the quarantine started. 5:02- And this mini-series was 2 years before the first Terminator. 6:46- That's what I've been telling myself every morning since January 21, 2017. 7:13- Or get Ernest P. Worrell. He saved Christmas once, and he can do it again. There's more snow in this mini-series than Devil Times Five and Cutthroats Nine combined. 20:09- "Today, we celebrate our Christmas Day!" 34:48- "He falsified his research. So that RDU-90 could be approved, and Devlin McGregor could give you...Provasic!" 36:43- At least the REAL 1987 gave us RoboCop and Predator. 37:39- Should have been Crackers Phinn.

Brad's on the ground again. Dark times are here again.

Rock Hudson being romanced by Mona from "Who's The Boss?" while we also see the backstory of the Deep Throat from the X-Files.

Actually a timeline where Rock Hudson was president doesn't sounds bad.

This made its debut on my 9th birthday :)

26:37 "Zucchinis in bread crumbs" Don't be fooled by her pretty words! Frozen breaded zucchini is mostly crumbs and will make your money magically disappear!!!

How did I never here of this?

Brad's right, Rock Hudson WOULD be an awesome name for a president.

God-Damnit Saul !!!

Good morning Snob!

Let me know when the "The Offical TCS Shittin Cup" becomes available for purchasing!