What I learned from that TV movie was that when nuclear war breaks out, the world will be inundated with bad acting.
When this movie originally aired, I was about 15, and my father refused to let us watch it (”buncha B.S. anti-Reagan propoganda!”)
I’ve seen bits and pieces of it over the years, but overall haven’t been too impressed.
None of my friends understood it. I had to explain what was happening to them.
It was just a fairly routine Irwin Allen style disaster movie, only this time the disaster was nuclear weapons.
I hate that movie.
There’s a nuclear war movie called Testament that I really liked. A very young Kevin Costner and Rebecca DeMornay are in it.
Long ago they also had a BRITISH version of this, more or less.
It was HARROWING..!
I didn’t see it until last year, so it was ollllld, but wow was it scary..!
The most memorable thing to me about the movie was the musical score. Most of its viewers were probably unaware it was built around the tune to an old hymn, “How Firm a Foundation.” The fourth verse of the hymn says:
When through fiery trials your pathway shall lie
My grace, all sufficient, shall be your supply.
The fire shall not harm you. I only design
Your dross to consume and your gold to refine.
Obama and Clinton have gotten a lot of people killed, in Libya, in Iraq and Syria, their irresponsibility saw the rise of ISIS.
Trump has done nothing Obama, the Clintons or Bush 43 did.
Sure, I saw it in 83
Didn’t learn anything. Already had a pretty good understanding of how potent nukes are.
Your best bet is to be one of those FReepers posting via satellite from the latrine in his outhouse, getting ready to draw well water to mix with some home-brew corn squeezings.
And I’m not joking.
This was a leftist scare movie aimed at Ronald Reagan. The meme back then was that Reagan was going to get us into nuclear war...
Saw it live in ‘83, too. TG we had cold beer...
Watching the minutemen launch and watching their trails still sends shivers up my spine which is why that one Verizon? Commercial is so annoying
There was an English version of similar theme called Threads...equally depressing but more realistic.
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.
In 1983, I watched it with a friend. When the nukes went off, we drank a toast.
There was a silver lining to this spud of a movie: Lawrence Kansas was nuked.
I never understood why no one has made a movie after Lucifer’s Hammer and Alas! Babylon!. Great books. I guess there have been too many asteroid movies, but Alas Babylon! would be a great flick....even in black and white since the setting was the late 50s, early 60s.