Now that was a scary movie.
Posted on 07/13/2020 7:44:29 AM PDT by AggregateThreat
I remember watching this as a kid, everyone was freaking out. Had an almost War of The Worlds radio broadcast feel to it.
Before Nicholas Meyer's made-for-television film The Day After had its official airing on November 20, 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan and his Joint Chiefs of Staff were given screening copies. In his diary, Reagan recorded his reaction to seeing Meyer's graphic depiction of a nuclear holocaust that devastates a small Kansas town, writing:
"It's very effective and left me greatly depressed. So far they [ABC] haven't sold any of the 25 spot ads scheduled and I can see why. Whether it will be of help to the 'anti-nukes' or not, I can't say. My own reaction was one of our having to do all we can to have a deterrent and to see there is never a nuclear war."
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bflr
Notice how No Nukes hasn’t protested against Iran either ramping up nuclear power or developing nuclear weapons.
>>Compared to “Threads”, “The Day After” was a comedy.
nothing at all like the cartoon When The Wind Blows with a soundtrack by Roger Waters in which 2 older adults slowly die from radiation poisoning. title song by David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h1lRqUBuSI
When I was a kid in the 80s, when ever I heard anything that sounded like a jet, I would think we were being nuked. I was scared out of my mind about nuclear war.
>>Yup. Can you imagine if Germany had been first with television and Goebbels had it at his disposal?
They did have tv broadcasts in the 1930s and throughout the war.
They televised the 1936 Olympics.
They piped it into the homes of Nazi Party officials and into the hospitals where soldiers were recovering from battle.
They had an “instant process” film that preserved the image and have been examined by later researchers.
From 1999
https://www.amazon.com/Television-Under-Swastika-History-Nazi/dp/B07P9SKBD9
Threads, the UK equivalent, was much more terrifying.
I was too young, In 1983 was five. But it was filmed in my state partially. As I got older kept hearing about it. Saw the movie as an adult.
Most of us knew the global warming thing was a scam... just like the acid rain, dead oceans, killer bees, peak oil, no polar bears, dead whales, silent spring, massive starvation by 2000 etc etc etc.. and all the other ‘the world’s gonna end’ crap the left puts out to scare people into voting for them.
What was different about nuclear war was it was possible - and would be real.
I listened to a flyover this year of WWII planes in tribute to the 75th anniversary of victory in Europe.
You could hear them approaching from the distance (props) and there were upwards of a dozen of them.
This wasn’t at an airfield, this was over a city.
now figure what it was like in WWII in England or France as planes (with bombs) are flying overhead for a raid.
Not in the homes of the masses, though?
Thanks.
Scary as hell, which is why the snowflake generation we have now, would immediately vote to surrender if such a thing happened today. They think some virus where they can’t even think of a person they know that has died, is the worst things can get.
Someone should make Alas Babylon! into a movie.....black and white with modern CGI would be great.
So we can expect a similar movie before President Trump's reelection also.
I just watched the remastered version on YT. Don’t. Looking at the previews later shows that version with most of the major interesting parts gone. Plus no soundtrack. It’s two actors in what can best be described as acting a graphic novel. In that version I swear the background noise is from trucks and cars. I suppose that it still covers the main points. This version shows nothing of the blast. Here’s the link so people can save an hour and hopefully find the full original version that looks better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=484h0mnU0-M
Now that was a scary movie.
Two things I remembered from Threads: One was the woman wetting herself as she looked up and saw the mushroom cloud, t'other was a 100 years later schoolroom scene and the irony of a teacher showing the children skeletons of animals - as if they hadn't seen hundreds - human and otherwise.
"Dr. Strangelove" - Besides Sterling Hayden's bravura performance, the biggest thing I remember was thinking that if the bomber could receive a call-back code, it could also receive a signal to blow up the plane. I'll bet each one of ours had a self-destruct charge for just such a case.
Powerful, glory to God.
‘The Day After’ came out in the US while I was overseas in (then West) Germany with the Army. It wasn’t until after I got back to the US that I had a chance to see it. I was pulling CQ duty and the NCO in charge had a TV and a VCR set up for us to watch. He said he had a copy of TDA that one of his family had recorded, so I decided to watch it.
When it got to the part where the B-52’s were launching on alert, I became aware of how hard my heart was beating. I had to stop the tape for a few minutes to remind myself that it wasn’t real. The rest of the movie was a serious downer, especially knowing there was no way it could get better for anyone in the film.
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