Also Squadron Supreme! Nothing that reaches storied heights, but deals with heroes debating whether to mind-control their enemies into complacency, the Squad splitting in half over 'free will', and the ENTIRE series kicking off in the immediate aftermath of a planetwide disaster.

I also really like the Elite. Could have been awfully nameless and much more of an expy of Ellis/Millar type of characters, but they stand on their own.

Action 775! Oh, it's great. Just great. Many of the other ones mentioned here are kind of meditations of 'what does it mean to be Superman' or function as more symbolic stories. (My favorite, "For the Man who Has Everything", barely feature Superman at all).

I've had great times playing this. I think my favorite 'win' was a goofy condition where I played as the USSR and forced the USA to play Lone Gunmen, and then made them go nuclear and won. In our 'fictional telling', Allende coming to power in Chile resulted in Nixon getting killed via blowback and Agnew launching…

Totally true. It's amazing how every game seems to develop a different 'hot zone'. Sometimes Middle east, sometimes Africa, sometimes South America, but it never seems that any player ever gets an advantage or ever feels like they are more than a turn away from complete doom.

Phenomenal game. Just impossible to predict and it always feels like you're up against the wall at every moment, clawing for any extra point at every moment.

Great book, reading it now. It's hard to get a grasp on what they did 'successfully' because they're such a political tool and geopolitics never 'ends' in the sense that you can say something was a truly a success or failure.

Made him do like 70 takes of some scene without explaining why, or what, he wanted from Nicholson. Beatty sounds like a difficult director.

Double Agree! Adapating an authors own works and folding them into the larger biography was impressive. That's a unique approach to the biopic, and works so well, and is so distinct. Has any movie done that before/since?

Excellent point.

Both those movies have some incredible imagery and some really great tension. He made two really fascinating cult movies, in addition to writing a massively popular book. What a career.

Hahaha, Fabio and Patrick Ewing, commenters here are so amusing!

That second book in particular is a rush. Just an amazing Texas political Thriller.

That's interesting! Robert Caro's book makes it seem much more cold-blooded, in that LBJ knew that RFK hated him and wanted him off the ticket, and this was LBJ putting it right to Bobby, in about the lowest way possible, "say, how EXACTLY does the transfer of power work from your beloved dead brother to me, your…

Just watched it last night. Really expected/hoped for it, but no. She should have had the last line about terror, right?

Very well put. Moore had a sharp grasp on Cold War politics. The Soviets/Chinese would have more or less said "Dr. Manhattan was your savior, he's your problem". That's why the squid thing works.

Man. That image still sticks in my head. The slow wipe of blood from the whip. It's just…..not many movies forgo the whipping to show the cleanup of the implements, but it is well-wrought here.

Aaron Eckhart has a particularly nasty death in this. It's mostly off-screen, but man, I've seen this one time, maybe a decade ago, and it still creeps me out, the way he's cooked to death in a leather sack above a bonfire.

ha! yes, that is a TRULY unsettling part of the movie. I generally knew what was going to happen, but when they were investigating the cave and he started digging…its deeply, deeply odd.

The truth is much more sad
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