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Does anyone on here remember the TV movie special “The Day After”?
Posted on 11/26/24 at 7:56 am
Posted on 11/26/24 at 7:56 am
I vividly remember the big to do over this movie from 1983. They had a panel of journalists afterward reacting to the movie, discussing the ramifications of a global nuclear war and mutually assured destruction. As a high school kid I remember it really affecting all of us being at the tail end of the Cold War.
My question is, where did these people go, and is the Cold War so far removed from our memories that we think we are safe from such a thing happening IRL?
My question is, where did these people go, and is the Cold War so far removed from our memories that we think we are safe from such a thing happening IRL?
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Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:00 am to Mike da Tigah
No need to be concerned, you can just get under a desk.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:01 am to PsychTiger
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No need to be concerned, you can just get under a desk.
Duck and pucker, I mean, duck and cover?
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:01 am to Mike da Tigah
Watched this as paper of a school project. People were traumatized by it. ??. They had PSAs about it.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:02 am to Mike da Tigah
I sure do remember. It was an anti-Reagan nuclear fear mongering. I enjoyed the movie because I enjoy apocalyptic themes.
I wish someone would make a good movie about Stephen King’s The Stand. Every thing done has been poorly done IMO.
The other would be the books by Forsyth beginning with One Second After.
But we’re stuck with remakes of classic movies with DEI casts.
I wish someone would make a good movie about Stephen King’s The Stand. Every thing done has been poorly done IMO.
The other would be the books by Forsyth beginning with One Second After.
But we’re stuck with remakes of classic movies with DEI casts.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:04 am to Mike da Tigah
I remember that. I was about 11 or 12. In my mind, It was the result of not being able to stop the WOPR by teaching it to play tic tac toe.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:06 am to Mike da Tigah
Americans are generally so spoiled and focused on what's happening now, they've lost perspective. It's our culture, instant gratification..
Long term is pushed in the back of their minds.
And there are still too many brainwashed by the MSM. Like everyone who voted for the Marxist.
Long term is pushed in the back of their minds.
And there are still too many brainwashed by the MSM. Like everyone who voted for the Marxist.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:06 am to NineLineBind
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I remember that. I was about 11 or 12. In my mind, It was the result of not being able to stop the WOPR by teaching it to play tic tac toe.
That was a Matthew Broderick movie.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:07 am to Mike da Tigah
Hell yeah I do.
Ever wonder why it’s never replayed on network TV?
Ever wonder why it’s never replayed on network TV?
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:09 am to PsychTiger
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No need to be concerned, you can just get under a desk.
I just need a helluva lot bigger desk than what I needed in the fifth grade. Dining room table will suffice I hope.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:11 am to Mike da Tigah
I do and one scene haunted me as a kid.
There was a family (man, wife and child) that was in a field, and they were cooking another guy's cow. When the owner of the cow approached them the man shot him on the spot and calmly went back to what he was doing.
There was a family (man, wife and child) that was in a field, and they were cooking another guy's cow. When the owner of the cow approached them the man shot him on the spot and calmly went back to what he was doing.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:14 am to Mike da Tigah
i 'memba. it was disturbing.
decades later i discovered that the UK had made a similar, probably even more terrifying movie based on a similar premise. youtube has the entire thing here.
decades later i discovered that the UK had made a similar, probably even more terrifying movie based on a similar premise. youtube has the entire thing here.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:15 am to Mike da Tigah
I remember the media making a big deal about it and that even at 12 years old I could pick up that it was politically driven. At about the same time, NBC had a similar movie that was supposed to be a real time newscast of terrorists setting off a nuke in Charleston harbor. Special Bulletin I think was the name? I remember that one being more realistic. I hardly remember what actually happened in The Day After just the hype.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:15 am to Mike da Tigah
Such movies are not good for business anymore. "Just keep looking at all the trannies over there and let the MiC and Corporations take care of things...I mean we are the experts".
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:20 am to PsychTiger
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No need to be concerned, you can just get under a desk.
The desk for protection from a nuclear attack... the hallway with a book over your head for protection from a tornado. We were prepared to survive anything!
School is on fire? No worries. Just line up single file and go outside. (And yes, I know you can't have everyone just running willy nilly outside stampeding through the hallways)
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:22 am to goatmilker
Its funny how society changed.
I remember a scene in Red Dawn that would be considered "right wing" today.
The Cuban commander ordered a subordinate to go to the sporting goods store and get the 4473 forms to tell him who had the guns.
I remember a scene in Red Dawn that would be considered "right wing" today.
The Cuban commander ordered a subordinate to go to the sporting goods store and get the 4473 forms to tell him who had the guns.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:22 am to Deplorableinohio
One Second After would be good. Jericho was a decent tv series.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:24 am to Mike da Tigah
Remember it well... There was also a TV mini-series "World War III" and a movie "Countdown to Looking Glass" along that time...
CBS ran some 60 minutes type docuseries as well about nuclear war...
CBS ran some 60 minutes type docuseries as well about nuclear war...
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:25 am to Mike da Tigah
Yea, I remember when it came out. I also remember hearing sonic booms in the afternoons while in elementary school.
My mom and dad told us kids how they were ready for all of us to go up in flames during the Cuban missile crises. They truly thought, "This is the end for sure".
I wonder if people realize the devastation that would happen if just one of those big ones went off? I think almost everyone within about 50/75 miles, or some large distance would immediately be deaf and blind no matter what.
you can see the entire movie on you tube.
Here's a trailer clip,
LINK to The Day After 1983 trailer
My mom and dad told us kids how they were ready for all of us to go up in flames during the Cuban missile crises. They truly thought, "This is the end for sure".
I wonder if people realize the devastation that would happen if just one of those big ones went off? I think almost everyone within about 50/75 miles, or some large distance would immediately be deaf and blind no matter what.
you can see the entire movie on you tube.
Here's a trailer clip,
LINK to The Day After 1983 trailer
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:26 am to Mike da Tigah
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That was a Matthew Broderick movie.
Yep. Matthew helped us avoid “The day after”.
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