Posted: 6/25/2006 10:17:50 PM EDT
| Anyone know if this is any good? Guess it was a made-for-TV movie? Seen it in the stores. I've always enjoyed watching WWIII type movies, such as Red Dawn and By Dawn's Early Light. |
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I think "Threads" was actually a british production. The Day After was focused on Kansas City, Missouri, in the aftermath of a soviet nuclear strike. Steve Guttenberg (Mahoney from the Police Acadamy movies), John Lithgow(third rock from the sun), and John Cullum (Holling Vanceour from Northern Exposure) were all in it. |
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Not bad. Stuff in there to make you go "Hmmmm...." especially gets the thought processes going about surviving SHTF/TEOTWAWKI and how you'd handle it. I remember seeing it when it first aired. Scared the living shit out of me. Had creepy nightmares for awhile after it. <shudder> For those of that lived through The Cold War, it was pretty chilling. I used to show my (now ex) GF films like that, Fail-Safe, The Manchurian Candidate, War Games, On the Beach, etc.... She was born in 1979 in Czechoslovakia and defected here just before the collapse, so she never experienced all that from OUR side of the wall. Eye opening to say the least for her. For people born too late to have any memory of The Cold War, I'm sure it's just like another one of Sci-Fi's insipid "end of the world" B movies they spew out on a regular basis, not understanding that many of us "old timers" really did expect to die in that fashion. 
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Yes it's good. Yes you should rent it. I love Red Dawn, but The Day After is much more realistic IMHO. |
I like to think they exist in the same fictional universe - Colorado apparently was spared from the nuclear exchange that the AF Pilot in Red Dawn refers to. |
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I enjoyed it. Being "made for TV" it has limited production values and it DEFINITELY has that "made in the 80s" feel but overall a worth the time spent. Of course anyone who remembers watching it "live" will especially enjoy it. I remember that one and "War Games" had all of us on our toes. And if you can find it, the 2001 remake of "On The Beach" is really a good one. |
The nuclear "exchange" in Red Dawn was one sided, with the Ruskies taking out C3I and nuke silos in the US. I think he mentions NORAD. |
Yeah, showed up on tv in the mid or late 1980's . I think there was one scene where they were bringing the dead or dying into a school gym and they were starting to pile up. If i recall the end credit theme music was some type of religious music played on a organ. Kinda creepy. |
Thankfully I have that one on DVD. The part that really stuck with me was the mushrooms coming up when everyone was in traffic...after....the EMP shut everything down. |
The part that sticks in my mind is the X-ray flash of the running horse. |
Ah, never thought of that. And the Colonel did mention nukes. 
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Makes me think of Terminator 3 when Sky-Net becomes self-aware and the war starts. When the Civil Defense network was activating, that was chilling. Best part of the movie. |
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I saw it a while ago. It was mildly interesting. The biggest problem I had with it was the number of goofs. 1. Total lack of understanding regarding the difference of radiation and contamination and the effects they would have on the human body. 2. Vastly overrated the amount of radiation involved in a nuclear blast. 3. Something that has pissed me off about every disaster/TEOTWAWKI flick I've seen, people fleeing the city are in a massive traffic jam while the other side of the highway is empty. I mean really, wouldn't you just cross the fucking median and drive on the completely clear side of the highway? Question of those in the know: Would an EMP fry the electronic equipment that was turned off/ powered down, or just the operating stuff? |
Saw it when I was a kid, it was kind of eerie but at the same time it was also anti climactic. There were several non realistic aspects to it as well. Since you havent seen it I wont spoil it for you since it is still an entertaining movie. At the same time I think that the cheesiest movie that I saw that related to WWWIII was 'Damnation Alley'. Entertaining along with killer cockroaches!  
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Another made for tv movie like that took place I believe in a texas port where there were some terrorists that had gotten hold of a nuclear device and were demanding some type of ransom. The movie was shown like it was a special news broadcast, so when they came back from the commercials they made a brief announcement with a special screen that said that it was just a movie and not to panic. Apparently they did not want a modern day reaction like 'war of the worlds' had when it first came out. That movie scared the hell out of people as well since it was so realistic fror it time. 
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I remember that one. NEST responded to the harbor, all that stuff. From what I recall, the bomb actually ended up going off, didn't it? |
Preach it, brother....  Most chilling part for me is when the missiles launch. People just standing there watching, not knowing who fired first or why, and not immediately appreciate what's coming. Yeah, the scene from T3 is scarier than all hell, too. What's scary about that one is that I seriously believe it can happen. Sometimes I wonder if I should have had children. 
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Special Bulletin The terrorists (American physics students, IIRC) placed a bomb aboard one of our WWII carrier (Yorktown, Saratoga, ?) which is on static display. At the end, it detonated as a team tried to disarm it. |
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we watched it in school back in the day......scary stuff... just watched it the other day on TV and watched Red Dawn....I have seen red dawn so much over the years...great movie that I would love to see remade with islamic invaders....I think there was a movie with islamic invaders in the US and Bruce Willis was in it..He was an Army General or something |
The Siege Made before 9/11 and overly sympathetic to our "friends", the Mooslimbs. |
You're thinking of "The Siege" - while I gotta respect Hollywood's not sugar-coating the enemy, I can't respect their absurd portrayal of the Army. |
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There was once a TV movie called "Under Seige" (i think), where the ROPers come to America. On scene had the Tangos walking through a mall or street with shops, throwing grenades into each. Another had them mowing down a bunch of people in a restaurant near the Capital, in order to fire rockets at the Capital dome. A third scene had an airliner exploding on takeoff. Damned scary, too. |
| Alas Babylon would be the best novel of that genre. I don't know if they made a movie of it or not. Alas Babylon was a code phrase a fellow's pilot brother said he would use if it looked like a nuclear exchange was imminent. There was. There was a certain degree of hope in the story, however. On the Beach, old version and new version, had to be the most depressing movies I have ever seen, followed by The Day After. No hope at all in them. |