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.
Ever see this one?
Countdown to Looking Glass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knSSUEdLcvg
Newt Gingrich is even in it, kind of scary when you consider what’s going on in the middle east today.
Being in SAC at the time our take was that it was made to make us feel guilty for fighting the Cold War. Didn’t work. We weren’t too upset at the thought of SAC HQ in Offut Nebraska getting destroyed.
I watched “Threads” online in 2009 and it had me shaking through the next day.
You can watch a good, full hi-def version on the Vimeo app. It’s not on youtube and you can’t find a US region DVD online.
Was Testament located in Northern California...Mill Valley area if I remember. Yes., it was harrowing and very depressing. I remember mother and kids at home...Husband, dad was at work in SF. Local harried news announcer comes of the tv during mid morning to say that nukes were incoming and the tv goes static during announcement. Chilling...
“Fail Safe” with Henry Fonda is a good one too.
Check out “The Bedford Incident” with Richard Widmark.
I almost started fist fights in the USAF with fellow NCO’s who maintained that during a nuclear war basically every US base was going to be evacuated by air. I asked them were they talking about being evacuated by the planes that were going to be over 100% tied up moving combat troops for at least the first week of a war?
We didn’t have enough transport planes to do the job then and probably still don’t now.
Threads came out a year after “The Day After.”
I forgot about Special Bulletin.
In 1983, I watched it with a friend. When the nukes went off, we drank a toast.
Yes. It was very effective.
Quite a lot of these pro-Soviet movies in 1983-1984.
“If they fire one...”
That is a chilling one too...Widmark and Poitier at the very end is classic, knowing what’s coming.
There was a silver lining to this spud of a movie: Lawrence Kansas was nuked.
That is a great movie although the near-hopelessness of their attempts to escape and the ending did make me sad.
I spent most of my life dealing with the pressures of nukes and nuclear war and I tend to like feel good movies now. Happy endings are a treat for me after so many years of heavy stress.
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