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Fabio

Has anyone here seen this mightily scary film about the consequences of a US - Soviet nuclear war?

It's based in Sheffield and it really does bring you back in time to it (or seemingly so cos I was born in 1988 a few years before this was made).

I must give it another watch cos it's been about a year since I saw it last...

If anyone hasn't seen it but would like to it's available in full here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488

indough

Fabio wrote: »

Has anyone here seen this mightily scary film about the consequences of a US - Soviet nuclear war?

It's based in Sheffield and it really does bring you back in time to it (or seemingly so cos I was born in 1988 a few years before this was made).

I must give it another watch cos it's been about a year since I saw it last...

If anyone hasn't seen it but would like to it's available in full here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488

they made us watch that in school when i was a young fella

wouldnt see that happening today

Nolanger

That was the big scare back in the '80s.
Now we're onto far more serious matters such as the supposed global warming sorry - climate change.
Evey era has its scaremongering.

Pigman II

It's classic television. Everyone should give it a watch imho.

I'm guessing it's actually grimmer today than it was in the 80's as its apparent high level of authenticity means it's an unintentional document of how utterly rubbish and depressing life in general was back there anyway.

Running Bing

very affecting (and effective) TV movie (if thats what you'd class it as).



I love the way it goes so in depth in showing the effects by letting us see what happens years after the initial explosion. Its made even more effective by showing it gradually rather than just saying here's 1990, now heres 2050 (cant remember the actual time span in the film so apologies if thats way off:D).



Anyway I would recommend it to anyway, especially if you find the subject matter interesting.

ixoy

Very good movie - I could imagine it being very effective at the time. One of its strengths is the incredibly dispassionate way that it announces the damage caused by nuclear fallout, blithely wiping away millions of people in cold typeset. It's pretty much unremittingly grim (a product of the '80s then) and the ending is very memorable and one of the most downbeat that I've ever seen.

phoenix2181

other films you might find interesting

The day after
Miracle mile
Atomic cafe

Fabio

I remember having seen the ending that I couldn't sleep after it...was literally afraid of going to sleep.

The acting was actually pretty good in it and the way it went through the stages the bomb goes through too...

...the massive light...then the heat and wind and suddenly this massive blast.

The melting glass, burning pair of hands and the amputation without anesthetic was pretty gruesome but only realistic of what would have happened.

One of the bits that isn't so gruesome but stays with you for a long time once the movie is finished is the lack of proper grammar etc in the speech of the children born after the atomic exchange. They speak like they are using telegraphs...scary stuff and what does that bode for the future?

Following on from the last poster, The War Game is an early 1960's film on the same subject matter. Apparently it was only shown in 1985 as it was banned by the BBC till then.

indough

it was made with the purpose of being shown in 85 as that was the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Vic Vinegar

Sheffield eh? I was born near there.

"By eck, it's grim up north, i'm tellin thee!"

........and that's before any nukes have hit....:)