The Day After and "Threads"

An Fear Aniar

Remember those? Scared the **** out of me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/08/22/threads_dvd_review.shtml

The Day After

My Mum and Dad were in the Civil Defense and they used to have an annual nuclear emergency drill. Counting the roentgen levels hourly off RTE.

Dudess

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055353345

My mum went to CND meetings in the early 80s - my dad sneered at her for being a hippy...

R0ot

Scary stuff. With all the crap between Russia and Georgia and Russia's thread to Poland over the US missile defence system installation this crap could all be very real again.

One-Day-Juande

Never seen this film but after watching that clip, I must point out that running in a nuclear holocaust is really a rookie error.

Any fool knows that all you've got to do is paint yourself white and lie on the ground.:rolleyes:

Fabio

Threads is just about the scariest film I have ever seen.

It's available to watch in full on Google Video by typing in "Threads".

Apparently it's the most realistic portrayal of nuclear war ever and if you watch it pay particular attention to the last twenty minutes or so when the "new" generation who were only babies or little kids on warday, actually speak. The speech is very poor and almost like radio-talk (two way radio talk!) because of lack of education and less people to speak to.

Steyr

Something that still gets me jumpy is the part in Terminator 2 where your one is at the playground in her dream and the bomb goes off, and all the skin peels off etc:eek:

Dudess

That scene in T2 is one of my favourite movie scenes ever - extraordinarily powerful stuff...

Fabio wrote: »

if you watch it pay particular attention to the last twenty minutes or so when the "new" generation who were only babies or little kids on warday, actually speak. The speech is very poor and almost like radio-talk (two way radio talk!) because of lack of education and less people to speak to.

That is probably the most horrific aspect of all - the new generation. They are like feral animals.