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You may be talking about "Threads." It truly was harrowing and harder-hitting than The Day After. But even The Day After really made me think.

People can make fun of the acting all they want, but those scenes of searching for loved ones in a stadium full of grievously wounded people, or of that guy saying "Get out of my house!" to the starving family, and his house is nothing but charred rubble, and they silently offer food to him, well, they were pretty powerful when I first saw them when I was like 14, and like I said, they still make me think now.

Really brought home the utter hopelessness of it all.

I haven’t seen Threads, but have heard it is better. If any of you ever get to Japan and can visit Hiroshima, it’s worth going there. I didn’t feel guilt, but I did feel sorrow and shock. War Games was supposedly based on a true event. I also agree at the time, I was so engrossed in the movie that I didn’t much notice the acting. Watching it again, you notice stuff like that... different times. I have been thinking about showing it to my kids so they can see the generation I grew up in and the fears we had.