The Day After (1983)

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[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.

[Publius]

What I learned from that TV movie was that when nuclear war breaks out, the world will be inundated with bad acting.

[Tuxedo]

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.

[workerbee]

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.

[samtheman]

Worst acting ever

[ealgeone]

None of my friends understood it. I had to explain what was happening to them.

[Publius]

“War Games” was far more effective.

[Tuxedo]

I was 18. Things were so different then, but I also believed we were far better prepared then than we are now.

[Tuxedo]

War Games is one of my all time favorites. Dabney Coleman was great.

[Tuxedo]

War Games is one of my all time favorites. Dabney Coleman was great.

[Tuxedo]

I swear I only hit “Post” once.

[Ted Grant]

It was just a fairly routine Irwin Allen style disaster movie, only this time the disaster was nuclear weapons.

[tuffydoodle]

Everybody knows you did it twice.

[Ciaphas Cain]

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.

[Bryanw92]

>>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.

[Publius]

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.

[tuffydoodle]

There’s a nuclear war movie called Testament that I really liked. A very young Kevin Costner and Rebecca DeMornay are in it.

[gaijin]

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..!

[samtheman]

It was an anti-Reagan propaganda piece

[KarlInOhio]

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.