# Movies that still hold up but only God knows why

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**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541 "2019-07-04T23:02:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/79 "2019-07-08T01:23:01Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> No, but I own Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.
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> Talk about a surprise ending.

The flower children of the Sixties didn’t expect to grow old. They would have their brief bright day in the sun and then either be shot by the Man or incinerated in the coming thermonuclear war.

ETA: has any movie ever had the chutzpah to conclude, with no presaging whatever, by having nuclear war break out?

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