Most of the war is told second-hand with the battle fought from the perspective of some teenagers in a small Midwestern town.ĥ. Red Dawn - Red Dawn is one of the rare movies set during World War III as the Soviet Union invades the US. It's implied that Snake's mission to deliver the tape will avoid World War III.Ĥ. Escape From New York - In this near-future, New York is a maximum-security prison, and Snake Plisskin has to rescue the president and recover an audiotape. The idea is that a nuclear war would wipe out humanity, leaving mutants as rulers.ģ. X-Men: First Class - Set in the 1960's, the superheroic X-Men race to stop a psychotic mutant from provoking the Cuban Missile Crisis into triggering World War III. This is one of few modern movies to focus on the Cold War definition of WWIII, ainly due to the fact that it's adapted from an eighties comic.Ģ. Watchmen - In an alternate world where superheroes exist, the US and the Soviet Union are still on the brink of nuclear war. Some WWIII movies are about avoiding the war.ġ. Here are 10 movies that provide an overview of the concept of WWIII. Although technically the concept of WWIII is simply another war that draws in the major superpowers, the fear has always been that the war would escalate into a nuclear exchange that destroys the world.
No one seemed to realise what that would mean Maverick and his friends celebrate raucously aboard the Enterprise, completely oblivious to the fact that they just started World War III.World War III has been a threat looming over Mankind ever since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Not only was an American ship present in hostile (presumably Russian wasn't there a Cold War going on?) waters, but FOUR enemy planes were destroyed BY Americans in defense of that ship. Not only is an American plane piloted by Hollywood shot down, but four enemy MiGs are destroyed and the others are forced to flee. What country would not question the ship's presence? Maverick, his nemesis Iceman, and several other pilots are launched into combat to protect the communications ship and get into a dogfight with multiple enemy fighters. The enemies are in the right here- there is an American ship in their waters, and for all they know, it is there on purpose.
At the climax of the film, after Maverick has returned to the USS Enterprise devastated by the loss of his best friend Goose, he is called upon to engage several enemy fighters who are terrorizing an American communications ship that has drifted into hostile waters. One of the enemies even engages a missile lock on Maverick's wingman, Cougar. Before Maverick and Goose are assigned to Top Gun, they fly against a squad of enemy fighters no shots are fired, but there is clearly tension between the two sides. The allegiance of the enemy pilots is never revealed however, seeing as Maverick's aircraft carrier base (the USS Enterprise) is located in the Indian Ocean and the planes are called MiGs (a Soviet model), the planes are likely Russian or Chinese. The highlight of the film is its several fantastically-shot aerial combat sequences. Top Gun (1986) Top Gun, one of Tom Cruise's early films after his breakout role in Risky Business, is the story of hotshot Maverick's journey from arrogant cadet to mature Navy pilot.
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