Posted on 11/04/2016 5:38:56 PM PDT by Tuxedo
I remember watching this Live on television in 1983. I find it especially upsetting the way Obama and Hillary keep saying things about Donald Trump and his finger on the button, when they are engaged in sabre-rattling with Russia. Maybe they need to take a look at this movie again. I was in Hiroshima a month ago and went to the Peace Park and Museum. What I saw there will never leave my mind. I fear seriously for our future if Hillary gets elected.
Probably the best of the "tired/depressed/guilt-ridden scientist" performances in the genre is that of Fred Astaire in On The Beach. His drunken rant at a cocktail party is totally believable, he completely "sells" the character. Overall, his performance probably edges out that of Gregory Peck in the film.
The special effects were pretty good though.
Yes, that one was pretty good. So was a late-'80s HBO movie called Miracle Mile, with Anthony Edwards.
A effective low budget film from the same year — and a lot more pertinent to the age of ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood
Special Bulletin [1983]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUxu_m6mrU
Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow was way better.
LOL!
Saw it live in ‘83, too. TG we had cold beer...
Got it on DVD. Only wish I still knew bomber crews when “By Dawn’s Early Light” came out. Would have been a fun discussion.
When home video first came out, it was almost a requirement that all B-52 crewmen had their own copy of Dr. Strangelove.
Watching the minutemen launch and watching their trails still sends shivers up my spine which is why that one Verizon? Commercial is so annoying
I was in the military at the time when I saw it. I didn’t get to see it when it was shown. I saw it when I got back to the States after a tour in Germany. I was watching it while pulling CQ duty, from a videotape the other CQ guy had. I remember by the time of the scene with the B-52’s taking off, my heart rate was through the roof. I had to stop the tape and spend a couple minutes calming down and reminding myself that “It was only a movie”.
I also remember that, after the attack, when the President made his address to (what was left of) the nation, the director purposely used a voice actor that sounded like Reagan. In the later ‘cut’ versions, the voice actor has been changed.
That film scared the Hell out of me. It still does.
I felt relief.
You see the Japanese had weaponized the bubonic plague and were planing to release it on the West Coast of the US. From there it would have spread to Australia, Europe and Asia in a few days.
You want to feel sorrow and shock think of the Plague hitting a Europe and Asia that had been turned to rubble at the start of winter.
There are much worse things then atomic weapons.
That to me was one of the most awesome scenes ever where Anthony Edwards surrenders to the police at the department store and they start bugging out as WWIII suddenly isn’t a secret anymore.
Some of the missile launch scenes were taken from the TV documentary “First Strike” using real missile combat crews. I once chatted with one of the officers who appeared in the movie and asked him about the post launch scene where the security crew at one of the missile bases were waiting for helicopters to evacuate them to a safe place. He told me there was no such evacuation plan in reality, sending in helicopters to evacuate the crews at the missile fields was a waste of time, as the silos and launch control center would be hit well before the choppers arrived.
It was HARROWING..!
The name of that movie is called "Threads" and it is THE most shockingly disturbing movie I have ever seen (unless of course you include "The Room"). The hospital scene alone should be required viewing for politicians around the world.
"Threads" is actually an updated version of an earlier British film called "The War Game". Go find both films on YouTube. Either one makes "The Day After" look like a comedy. The Brits don't joke around when it comes to nuclear war.
I also want to mention another nuclear war movie called "Testament". There are no scenes of destruction, but it has to rank as the most depressing film I have ever seen. I don't even want to talk about it here.
Post #38.
I guess my sorrow I felt had more to do with sadness that it had to come to that. We really didn’t have a choice and there is no doubt that had the Japanese had the bomb that they would have used it.
I remember “By Dawn’s Early Light”.
It’s based on a book called “Trinity’s Child”, by William Prochnau.
Interesting casting in the movie. Martin Landau as the President, Powers Boothe and Rebecca DeMornay B-52 pilots.
There was an English version of similar theme called Threads...equally depressing but more realistic.
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