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May watch it later seeing as it's Valentine's Day.

I remember watching it during the 1999 Kosovo war. The news stories at the time were kind of similar - Boris saying "send a missile" if something should happen again (can't remember the details). Russians racing to Pristina. Americans telling the Brits to get them out of the airport.
Seemed too much like the buildup in the film.
 
Watched it a few years ago now. Very rarely have I watched a film that played on my mind for several days afterwards.

Why were so many people shown it in school?
 
Yeah, it's certainly a film that stays with you. Actually I had a very long and vivid dream last night about being in a nuclear war - it was even worse than Threads :(
 
I remember when I first watched it as a kid, and finding out what 'disturbing' actually means. I watched it again fairly recently and it's still just as disturbing, it's the only film that I have ever eperienced that can make you feel 'grimy' and depressed even days later.

Amazingly powerful, and a good reminder about the realities of Nuclear weapons when games/movies seem to have got blasé about them :(
 
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armed police squads helping doctors kill those beyond saving....

happy days


edit: ah this is really bleak. They give real life examples from Dresden and Hiroshima

Yeah, think I've seen them all - none of them exactly a barrel of laughs :(

There was a documentary (Q.E.D. or Horizon) that showed what would happen if one average sized nuke was dropped on London. It was shocking - especially at the end when the commentator pointed out that in reality, during a nuclear war, London would be hit with multiple warheads much bigger than the one in the example.
 
Dire and depressing yes but thats what you would expect from a movie portraying nuclear war generally is depressing :( .

Fail safe original and remake + Thirteen Days + Stangelove are among my nuclear favorites.

I meant that "the day after" was dire as in a bad film, not that it was dire as subject matter.

'Threads' is a far superior film to 'The Day After' in it's portrayal of the hopeless nature of nuclear holocaust.
 
i watched this about a year ago. i don't know why, maybe its my age, but it didn't really bother me in the slightest. great film though! sort of felt a bit morbid after watching it.. but i didnt lose any sleep.

we still have air raid/nuclear warning sirens. just incase :p the noise sends a chill down my spine.

 
I think the two bits that really get me is when the guy sees the mushroom cloud and says "jesus christ they've done it... they've done it" and when the girl gives birth at the end:(
 
A very disturbing film about what could happen. Watched this too when I was a kid when it came out and scared us all. Threads and The Day After actually affected governments too as I remember something recently about an ex-minister talking about these movies and how it actually scared governments into thinking about how society would just collapse. He compared it in a way to the fall of Rome and how society went backwards.
 
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