# What should the President have done? (Spoliers for Fail Safe)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 10, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-president-have-done-spoliers-for-fail-safe/509620 "2009-09-10T23:32:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-president-have-done-spoliers-for-fail-safe/509620/41 "2009-09-13T01:00:07Z")

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Whenever someone tells me black and white films are all boring and no-good, I tell them to watch Fail Safe and The Manchurian Candidate. I don’t think that ever works, though, because those movies don’t contain any of the Wayans brothers.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-president-have-done-spoliers-for-fail-safe/509620/42 "2009-09-13T06:02:31Z")

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Does anyone know why the aerial footage was in negative?

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**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-president-have-done-spoliers-for-fail-safe/509620/43 "2009-09-13T06:12:09Z")

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I don’t remember that. Was it supposed to be a view from a military plane? If so, it might have supposed to have been IR/night vision. Like [this](http://www.ausairpower.net/000-ASRAAM-4A.jpg).

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-president-have-done-spoliers-for-fail-safe/509620/44 "2009-09-13T06:19:43Z")

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No, just shots of the planes flying.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-president-have-done-spoliers-for-fail-safe/509620/45 "2009-09-13T06:34:13Z")

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> [@Disposable Hero](#):
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> The moment that sticks in my mind is the American diplomat describing the last-ditch defence of Moscow from the roof of the embassy…made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up so it did…and nothing in the scene but the president, his translator and a phone.

That scene just played. It gave me a chill.

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