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The Day After (1983)
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| November 4, 2016
| Tuxedo
Posted on 11/04/2016 5:38:56 PM PDT by Tuxedo
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:38:56 PM PDT
by
Tuxedo
To: Tuxedo
What I learned from that TV movie was that when nuclear war breaks out, the world will be inundated with bad acting.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:40:25 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Publius
Well yeah, that is certain. Not well acted at all, but the premise is interesting how disengaged the people were when all the escalation was occurring. That will be repeated if it happens for real. So many ignorants out there.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:42:28 PM PDT
by
Tuxedo
(The few, the proud, the deplorable...)
To: Tuxedo
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.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:42:41 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is public enemy #1)
To: Publius
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:43:27 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(Vote Trump)
To: Tuxedo
None of my friends understood it. I had to explain what was happening to them.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:43:45 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Tuxedo
“War Games” was far more effective.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:43:56 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: workerbee
I was 18. Things were so different then, but I also believed we were far better prepared then than we are now.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:44:24 PM PDT
by
Tuxedo
(The few, the proud, the deplorable...)
To: Publius
War Games is one of my all time favorites. Dabney Coleman was great.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:45:13 PM PDT
by
Tuxedo
(The few, the proud, the deplorable...)
To: Publius
War Games is one of my all time favorites. Dabney Coleman was great.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:45:13 PM PDT
by
Tuxedo
(The few, the proud, the deplorable...)
To: Tuxedo
I swear I only hit “Post” once.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:45:41 PM PDT
by
Tuxedo
(The few, the proud, the deplorable...)
To: Tuxedo
It was just a fairly routine Irwin Allen style disaster movie, only this time the disaster was nuclear weapons.
To: Tuxedo
Everybody knows you did it twice.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:47:26 PM PDT
by
tuffydoodle
("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
To: Tuxedo
I was nine when The Day After aired. My mother went psycho after watching it and began obsessing that night about the end of the world.
I hate that movie.
To: samtheman
>>Worst acting ever
I think you missed the point of the movie. I was about to transfer to my first SSBN when that movie was shown. It was disturbing in its time. We didn’t think about critiquing the acting as much as we thought about the effects of nuclear war. Overall, it had the same message as “War Games” and that is that the only way to win is to not play the game.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:49:55 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
To: Tuxedo
Matthew Broderick was good, John Wood gave a deliciously cynical air to his part as the tired scientist, and Barry Corbin was a blast.
Coleman's line about Broderick being ideal for KGB recruitment brought howls of laughter in the theater.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:50:54 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Tuxedo
There’s a nuclear war movie called Testament that I really liked. A very young Kevin Costner and Rebecca DeMornay are in it.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:51:04 PM PDT
by
tuffydoodle
("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
To: Tuxedo
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..!
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:51:30 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Bryanw92
It was an anti-Reagan propaganda piece
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:55:06 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(Vote Trump)
To: Tuxedo
but the premise is interesting how disengaged the people were when all the escalation was occurring. That will be repeated if it happens for real. So many ignorants out there. I remember one stupid character watching the missiles launching asking if that was just a drill.
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posted on
11/04/2016 5:56:26 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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