The Day After (1983)

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[OldMissileer]

When home video first came out, it was almost a requirement that all B-52 crewmen had their own copy of Dr. Strangelove.

If you were, or are, in the nuke business it is almost a requirement that Dr. Strangelove is your favorite movie.

[DCBryan1]

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

Wrong. Lawrence made it. It is where Lithgow kept calling for help in the hospital and Jason Robards walked from to a nuked KCMO area (including Sedalia, MO, Whiteman AFB, Richards Gebauer AFB, and the Minuteman fields of central MO.

I went to KU....and I agree, should be nuked. More commies there than in Leningrad ;)

[M1903A1]

I remember it well, along with “Trinity’s Child”. (Saw the movie first.)

An interesting side-note...the MiG-25s that Polar Bear 1 encounters were described in the novel as being on a one-way mission, as they didn’t have enough fuel to get back to base from leading the Soviet bombers over the Arctic Circle into Canada. In the early years of the Cold War, our nuclear strike plan involved both P-51s on similar one-way missions into the Soviet Union, escorting the B-29s.

[Ronniesque]

I forgot I had this movie in my archives and just watched it again. Very good movie. I have almost all of the movies mentioned here. Forgot that Wally Cox was in this movie. Poor guy sure got typecast.
Special Bulletin I do not have. That one did touch on terrorism a little, though it was homegrown. The acting in this one was so-so though. The way media covered events was attacked in this movie.
Dr. Strangelove is a classic though a dark comedy. Same year as Fail Safe, one of Fonda’s better ones (not counting westerns).

[DCBryan1]

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.

[BradyLS]

Special Bulletin was pretty good. I enjoyed that one.

[BradyLS]

I saw that one on TV when I was kid. Sometime around 1980.

It’s only with hindsight that I understand that even the local stations would sometimes try and stay “topical” with whatever they could afford to show as their matinee.

[foreverfree]

I was in college when I watched "Special Bulletin" and "The Day After". I watched SB gate to wire. TDA aired opposite part 1 of the miniseries docudrama about JFK, called "Kennedy" (the 20th anniv. of the shooting was coming up). I flipflopped between TDA and "Kennedy" for the first few minutes, then stuck with TDA for the rest of the airing.

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