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re: Does anyone on here remember the TV movie special “The Day After”?
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:27 am to Mike da Tigah
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:27 am to Mike da Tigah
It’s still on You Tube:
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Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:28 am to Deplorableinohio
I've never really been a reader, but a coworker from a sister facility recommended On Second After shortly after it came out because he knew I had visited the area set in the book several times (Ashville NC). I gave it a try and bought the follow up books as they came out. It's an excellent series and would make great movie if done true to the books. I do recall reading that someone or some group bought the movie rights but never proceeded with it.
This post was edited on 11/26/24 at 8:35 am
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:35 am to Mike da Tigah
I remember it. I do think the threat of a global nuclear war at least had decreased until Iran starting getting close to nuclear capabilities, increased saber rattling from N. Korea, and Putin's increasing rhetoric and invasion of Ukraine. With terrorism being a more immediate threat, nuclear wars between nation states faded into the background a bit.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:39 am to Mike da Tigah
I would have been 4 years old when this originally aired so I don’t remember that, but they most have shown it in network tv because I do remember seeing it later on, and it wasn’t on VHS or cable, so it must have been shown yearly for a few years after 1983.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:42 am to Mike da Tigah
My mom was a student to become an X-Ray technologist at the time. This was required viewing for her class.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:42 am to MemphisGuy
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We were prepared to survive anything!
We were and could survive anything. Kids are too soft and squishy.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:43 am to uggabugga
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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.
I just watched that movie. It shows how truly we unprepared for strife and hardships.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:44 am to Deplorableinohio
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I wish someone would make a good movie about Stephen King’s The Stand.
We all got a little taste of it in real life 4 years ago. Funny story, early in the pandemic, I was on my way home from working out (gym was still open) and stopped at the grocery store for some TP (panic had started and they had none). As I was coming back to my car, there was a huge crow perched on the cart corral next to my car honking at me, and I remember thinking, "If I had my Glock, I could end all of this right now...but it would probably turn into a banana before I could squeeze the trigger."
This post was edited on 11/26/24 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 11/26/24 at 9:08 am to Mike da Tigah
Brilliant but psycho marketing. They got people to think it was their responsibility to watch this very very important TV movie. Parents were told no tot let their kids watch it, and then they were told that they should.
I was 12. All I remember is radioactive Jason Robards walking around the destroyed world.
I was 12. All I remember is radioactive Jason Robards walking around the destroyed world.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 9:10 am to Broadside Bob
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I remember it. I do think the threat of a global nuclear war at least had decreased until Iran starting getting close to nuclear capabilities, increased saber rattling from N. Korea, and Putin's increasing rhetoric and invasion of Ukraine. With terrorism being a more immediate threat, nuclear wars between nation states faded into the background a bit.
Yeah, once the Berlin Wall fell it left our memories, I suppose so much so that saber rattling with nukes is safe to come out and play again all these many years later. If only SDI had become a reality.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 9:16 am to Mike da Tigah
A better movie is Fail Safe (1964) directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars Henry Fonda, Walter Mattau and a young Larry Hagman. Another is a 1990 HBO movie By Dawn's Early Light. Stars Powers Booth, Rebecca DeMorney, James Earl Jones.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 9:18 am to Mike da Tigah
Remember the TV miniseries Amerika? It was done a few years after The Day After. Amerika was about a Soviet takeover of the USA and was carried out with help from the United Nations. Got a lot of criticism for that and the movie sort of disappeared from American consciousness after being shown. I don't think they ever put it out on tape of eventually DVD because of it's anti-UN and anti-communism messaging.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 9:19 am to Mike da Tigah
Posted on 11/26/24 at 9:25 am to Mike da Tigah
Here is a thought ...
The movie was shown Nov. 20 1983, right before Thanksgiving . Then Christmas and into New Years Eve
For What year?
1984
Posted on 11/26/24 at 10:10 am to Mike da Tigah
That film was terrifying as a child in the 80s. It was awesome.
Posted on 11/26/24 at 10:16 am to Deplorableinohio
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It was an anti-Reagan nuclear fear mongering.
That was the ONLY reason that movie was made. And the reason it got so much coverage. It was during the era all the Eurofags were protesting US missiles in Europe (you know, the missiles the American taxpayers paid for to defend and protect Europe).
Posted on 11/26/24 at 10:22 am to SoFla Tideroller
I think folks have a hard time understanding why the Gen X folks have a hard time getting worked up about climate change.
"Well kids, we grew up in a world that we expected to get 'blinked' out of existence at any moment. Because of that, we have a hard time caring about what your climate scientist says may happen in 100 years".
"Well kids, we grew up in a world that we expected to get 'blinked' out of existence at any moment. Because of that, we have a hard time caring about what your climate scientist says may happen in 100 years".
Posted on 11/26/24 at 6:14 pm to eitek1
Posted on 11/26/24 at 6:26 pm to Mike da Tigah
quote:No kidding. It's almost like we forgot Russia is dangerous!
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?
Posted on 11/26/24 at 6:30 pm to Big Scrub TX
Amazing Grace and Chuck
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