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Posted: 3/9/2006 5:02:15 PM EDT

With Jason Robards.

I remember watching this as a kid and laughing at it....

What about you?

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:04:05 PM EDT

[#1]

Yup, cool movie.......

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:04:34 PM EDT

[#2]

Cool.

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:05:41 PM EDT

[#3]

I remember watching that in the threatre back in Denmark.

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:06:10 PM EDT

[#4]

man, i thought "post impact" was stupid!

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:08:24 PM EDT

[#5]

I remember everybody was talking about that movie when it first aired back then. Freaked a lot of impressionable, young minds out, mine included. I was 13.

ETA
I own about 10 DVDs, this is one of them. I have yet to watch it though

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:11:03 PM EDT

[#6]

I just looked for it, but I am in AZ. So Post Impact is on in an hour, and then The Day After. What say you, worth watching, either one?

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:11:23 PM EDT

[#7]

I wonder if they'll run Commodore 64 commercials?

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:12:38 PM EDT

[#8]

best line:

college kid one: "where do you think we'll be tommorow?"

college kid two: "somewhere in the stratosphere"

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:12:58 PM EDT

[#9]

Is anybody out there .....Is anybody out there at all.

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:13:07 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I wonder if they'll run Commodore 64 commercials?

Oh man, now THAT is bringing back some memories!!!!

vmax84

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:14:06 PM EDT

[#11]

I was infatuated with the movie when it came out on TV; I video taped the broadcast & I still have it on the shelf.

I guess I was one of those young, impressionable minds who didn't laugh at it...lemme see, I'm going to be 50 this year, let's do the math...I was 27 years old? Maybe it's because I still remember those old CD drills- 'Duck and Cover!!!!'

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:15:17 PM EDT

[#12]

What is this movie about?

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:16:37 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
I just looked for it, but I am in AZ. So Post Impact is on in an hour, and then The Day After. What say you, worth watching, either one?

Dated 1980's movie. Fun to watch, I was 15 when the movie was shown on broadcast TV. The hype/hysteria was unbelievable back then.

A better movie than Post Impact. Maybe tape it and watch it when you have time to kill.

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:18:27 PM EDT

[#14]

From IMDB

www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/plotsummary
Plot Summary for
The Day After (1983) (TV)

The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. The bulk of the activity centers around the town of Lawrence, Kansas.

It is the mid-1980s. An aggressive Soviet leadership orders troops marched to the border of West Berlin, and then decides to invade West Germany with multiple armored tank & troop divisions. In Lawrence, Kansas - on the border with Missouri - a family is preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter, and Dr. Oakes (Jason Robards) is keeping busy in his role as chief of surgery in the small University Hospital at Lawrence. These people go on with their daily lives but are drawn closer to the possibility of a nuclear war, as the Russians use a nuclear ballistic missile against a West German city, and then attack a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf. The Americans strike back by hitting a Soviet ship, and then the Russians hit NATO regional headquarters with a nuclear warhead! People start creating makeshift fallout shelters in their basements, but many are caught off guard when, 1 at a time, nuclear missiles are launched from their silos along the Kansas - Missouri border. USAF officers then announce that 300+ ICBMs are inbound to the U.S., and 2 of them strike Kansas City, Missouri! Many are killed outright, but still more must face the danger of radioactive fallout. Now, the characters we follow are living in a barren, devastated world - devoid of electricity, safe drinking water, and food - and filled with radioactivity, starvation, and disease...in the horrific aftermath of 'The Day After'...

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:18:32 PM EDT

[#15]

That movie needed less talking and more glowing in the dark.

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:19:40 PM EDT

[#16]

checking it out. Looks like it may be a little slow paced for myself

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:34:39 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
checking it out. Looks like it may be a little slow paced for myself

Yep, kinda slow.

IIRC the fireworks start up pretty soon, better get these out...

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:37:13 PM EDT

[#18]

eta, I think the part where the doc survives just hunched over in hs volvo is coming next

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:44:20 PM EDT

[#19]

Just for those that don't know or remember, this "movie" was made for TV and written by the typical Libs/Commies.

I love the hair styles and clothes.

Ahhh, yes, the 80's!! I wish they had a character that was wearing "parachute" pants!!

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:47:20 PM EDT

[#20]

Is this the movie the Enviromenalists remade a couple years ago and based it on global warming and the subsequent ice age?

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:48:53 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Is this the movie the Enviromenalists remade a couple years ago and based it on global warming and the subsequent ice age?

Nope, this is "Nuculear" War!!

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:49:49 PM EDT

[#22]

I think it's one of those movies that's so bad it's good. I actually got on DVD it for X-Mas this past year

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:51:31 PM EDT

[#23]

See the look on Steve Guttenberg's face when he got in the truck and saw the gun in the gun rack?

Kind of an "oh shit" look.

Wait, need to put these back on for the light show....ok, ready!

ETA: here it comes!!!

OH NOES!!!11!!

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:52:20 PM EDT

[#24]

BIRDS AWAY!!!!!

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:53:29 PM EDT

[#25]

Damn, that's a lot of canned beans!!!

The Shit Is Hitting The Fan, didja see everyone lined up at the phone booths?

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:54:37 PM EDT

[#26]

Look at those sheeple! Yuck!

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:54:47 PM EDT

[#27]

The S is HTF! "Gimme that corn dog, dammit!"

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:55:29 PM EDT

[#28]

Fracking commercials!

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:56:23 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Fracking commercials!

But...Buffalo Snackers!

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:58:15 PM EDT

[#30]

Anyone remember the old school survivalists from back then?

I remember articles about Valmets, Colt ARs, M1As, available but $$$ FN FALs, occassional HK, etc...

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:59:45 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Anyone remember the old school survivalists from back then?

I remember articles about Valmets, Colt ARs, M1As, available but $$$ FN FALs, occassional HK, etc...

Remember the movie" The survivors"?

Honky mofo

Posted: 3/9/2006 5:59:56 PM EDT

[#32]

I was going through MEPS at the time for the Army Reserves(hearing test). Girl getting married looks just like my ex-fiancee,H-bomb's got nothing on a skillet upside the head,damned that hurt.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:01:13 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Anyone remember the old school survivalists from back then?

I remember articles about Valmets, Colt ARs, M1As, available but $$$ FN FALs, occassional HK, etc...

"They" are still around. I guess it worked.

Bob

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:01:59 PM EDT

[#34]

Did the S just HTF?

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:02:15 PM EDT

[#35]

Here we go!

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:03:14 PM EDT

[#36]

W00T!

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:04:01 PM EDT

[#37]

Well, at least some b-52s got away!!

Let the bombing commence!!

Ya know, we need a nuke blast gif or something.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:05:19 PM EDT

[#38]

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:06:26 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
homepage.mac.com/luismulet/.Pictures/Animations/Nuclear%20Explosion.gif

Remember, "Ass to the Blast." That's what the Army taught, anyway.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:06:36 PM EDT

[#40]

How are launch codes created and protected? Just curious.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:06:45 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Fracking commercials!

But...Buffalo Snackers!

I seldom laugh at posts here, but that post made me laugh till I was coughing.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:07:24 PM EDT

[#42]

Nice 'pale horse' imagery.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:07:52 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
How are launch codes created and protected? Just curious.

Completely by computer. Highly-validated computers. Very SECURE computers.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:09:22 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Quoted:
How are launch codes created and protected? Just curious.

Completely by computer. Highly-validated computers. Very SECURE computers.

I see.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:10:14 PM EDT

[#45]

You know...... we may laugh about this, but you have to admit it would be DAMNED bad...

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:10:21 PM EDT

[#46]

The S is DEFINATELY H'ing T F !!!!!

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:10:48 PM EDT

[#47]

Get in the basement bitch!

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:11:26 PM EDT

[#48]

Yeah this definitely would not be good.

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:11:49 PM EDT

[#49]

Why is everyone standin out side watching

Get the fuckinside, underground, fucking anywhere but outside

Posted: 3/9/2006 6:12:31 PM EDT

[#50]

I think my personal shit would be hitting the back of my underpants if I was standing around outside and I saw all those ICBMs

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