The Day After (1983)

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[ScottfromNJ]

Ever see this one?

Countdown to Looking Glass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knSSUEdLcvg

Newt Gingrich is even in it, kind of scary when you consider what’s going on in the middle east today.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Being in SAC at the time our take was that it was made to make us feel guilty for fighting the Cold War. Didn’t work. We weren’t too upset at the thought of SAC HQ in Offut Nebraska getting destroyed.

[Catmom]

I watched “Threads” online in 2009 and it had me shaking through the next day.

You can watch a good, full hi-def version on the Vimeo app. It’s not on youtube and you can’t find a US region DVD online.

[abigkahuna]

Was Testament located in Northern California...Mill Valley area if I remember. Yes., it was harrowing and very depressing. I remember mother and kids at home...Husband, dad was at work in SF. Local harried news announcer comes of the tv during mid morning to say that nukes were incoming and the tv goes static during announcement. Chilling...

[vetvetdoug]

My favorite line in the movie, War Games, was when the General told the kid, I'd piss on a spark plug if I'd think it'd help!

[Ronniesque]

“Fail Safe” with Henry Fonda is a good one too.

[Publius]

Check out “The Bedford Incident” with Richard Widmark.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I almost started fist fights in the USAF with fellow NCO’s who maintained that during a nuclear war basically every US base was going to be evacuated by air. I asked them were they talking about being evacuated by the planes that were going to be over 100% tied up moving combat troops for at least the first week of a war?
We didn’t have enough transport planes to do the job then and probably still don’t now.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Threads came out a year after “The Day After.”

[wally_bert]

I forgot about Special Bulletin.

[Fiji Hill]

In 1983, I watched it with a friend. When the nukes went off, we drank a toast.

[BenLurkin]

That newscaster's name was Clete Roberts. He was local in L.A., since passed away. His bit is very similar to that in the opening of Fallout 4

[BenLurkin]

Yes. It was very effective.

Quite a lot of these pro-Soviet movies in 1983-1984.

[BenLurkin]

“If they fire one...”

[Ronniesque]

That is a chilling one too...Widmark and Poitier at the very end is classic, knowing what’s coming.

[tumblindice]

There was a silver lining to this spud of a movie: Lawrence Kansas was nuked.

[uncbob]

Quite a lot of these pro-Soviet movies in 1983-1984.

Movie was a left wing propaganda piece trying to put pressure on Reagan during his summit meetings with Gorbachev

[uncbob]

That is a chilling one too...Widmark and Poitier at the very end is classic, knowing what’s coming.

Typical Left Wing garbage showing the military as psycho right wingers

It was later remade with Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington ( same theme )

[OldMissileer]

So was a late-'80s HBO movie called Miracle Mile, with Anthony Edwards.

That is a great movie although the near-hopelessness of their attempts to escape and the ending did make me sad.

I spent most of my life dealing with the pressures of nukes and nuclear war and I tend to like feel good movies now. Happy endings are a treat for me after so many years of heavy stress.

[uncbob]

“Fail Safe” with Henry Fonda is a good one too.

An other Hollywood anti military crapolla movie just like Seven Days In May