Cap I had nightmares for a good 10 years after that movie about a nuclear bomb heading towards my school in Parkland. I even relived that same dream a few years back, amazing how much of an impact that movie had on me. Its timing and how much of an event it was in our culture really drove that fear home.
There are four scenes that I remember about that movie more clearly then the actual nuclear attack during gthe movie
The first scene after the attack when the family is huddled in the basement listening to the radio and you know that the world has ended and the president (who sounded like RR) states that the citizen's of the United States shouldn't worry because the government was still in charge
The scene with the daughter of the one family lying on a cot in a triage center in a school, all her hair has fallen out and she has horrible sores on her face and she asks a someone if she's still pretty. Then they pull back the camera and you see thousands of people waiting to die
The Jason Robard scene when he returns to his bombed out house to die and starts crying.
The Radio call at the very end "This is Lawrence Kansas, is anybody out there"
That movie was terrifying and sobering and thought provoking, it was one of the first real movies that showed that nuclear war would be the end of everything.
Yeah I had nightmares after watching that. I found a copy of it at HMV last year but I've only watched it once and even now its still terrifying.
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^ the scene where the woman is giving birth near the end of the movie is for me one of the bleakest things I've ever seen on film.
I had The Day After pop into my head a few weeks back, and I'd almost forgotten just how scary and close the prospect of nuclear war was in 1983. Almost forgotten.
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Just watched Threads (well, listened to most of it) . . . Quite the powerful movie for its time.
Although the chances now are not as likely, all it takes is one modern-day bomb to create a scenario like that anywhere in the world. And 13 years after the explosions, life looks as dysmal as ever.
Highly recommended for post-Apoc fans!
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Just watched Threads (well, listened to most of it) . . . Quite the powerful movie for its time.
Although the chances now are not as likely, all it takes is one modern-day bomb to create a scenario like that anywhere in the world. And 13 years after the explosions, life looks as dysmal as ever.
Highly recommended for post-Apoc fans!
Its funny but the city buster bombs that were being created in the 60's and 70's and 80's to make up for accuracy issues are a thing of the past, ICBM's carrying massive bombs aren't as prevalent.
Most of the bombs are lighter and smaller and far more precise.
They're also cleaner in terms of fallout then the bombs that our generation grew up with.
It used to be that the race was to develop the biggest war head. Now the race is to develop a bomb that can hit precisely and take out infrasturture.
The really big warheads now are reserved for upper atomosphere detonations.
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The Stand mini-series was another really good one from the early 90's era. A little mystical, but otherwise really intriguing.
I really tried to like the mini-series, it had a lot of solid actors and stayed pretty true to the book, but they really picked the wrong guy to play Randall Flagg.
When I read the book I saw either a Robert Duvall type or Clint Eastwood, instead we get a guy who looks like an unemployed janitor with a rock star mullet.
I also thought Molly Ringwall was pretty bad in it.
That chick couldn't act.
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In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant life being kept in a greenhouse on board a spacecraft.
"Silent Running"
Pure science fiction but hauntingly prophetic for these uncertain times, This stirring monologue from Silent Running always had the chills running up my spine. A great moment from a time when science fiction had more dependency on story telling rather than action and special effects.
