Heads up - "The Day After"

[Individualist]

The movie, starring Jason Robards, will be on the TV Land channel at 8 pm eastern time.

[Shredr]

1. that movie scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

I wonder how it'll hold up.

[xmas74]

2. No thank you.

That is supposed to happen practically in my backyard. I live near Whiteman and it used to give me chills whenever they would mention Sedalia, Leeton, Harrisonville, etc.

[terrya]

3. That movie scared the bejeebus out of me when I saw it.

This came out during the Reagan Adminstration. Still during the Cold War. Let's say that I thought the film was entirely plausible. And it's still plausible.

[sniffa]

7. the scenario is impLausibLe now

now that saddam is in custody.

i'm watching it too. :D

[terrya]

8. It's plausible for me just because this President is capable of ordering..

the use of nuclear weapons. I haven't felt this uneasy about a President vis a vis a nuclear first strike since...well, since Reagan.

The scariest part had to be when the effects of the nuclear blast are shown. Very realistic. :scared:

[Sequoia]

4. My daughter was just asking me about that movie yesterday.

Guess I'll watch it tonight. Thanks.

[trof]

5. Thanks for the heads up.

Another thing I like about DU.

[ET Awful]

6. I remember watching that the first time it was on and being royally

freaked by it.

I'll turn it on now.

[evlbstrd]

9. It was made here in KC while I was in college and in Lawrence, KS.

The night it first aired, you coulda had the streets to yourself.
I saw it again not too long ago. It held up well.

[terrya]

10. This is a scary double feature with "Testament"

Both are chilling films about the effects of nuclear weapons use and the aftermath. They both came out around the same time.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. that and "Threads". Threads really frightened me.

:scared:

[LSK]

11. cool movie even thou its propaganda

[sniffa]

13. how Long is this movie?

2 hrs or more?

[LSK]

15. 3 hrs I think

These old 70s and 80s TV movies spent a while on several different characters developing them.

[Debbi801]

16. I think so...

I seem to remember it running over 2 nights the first time it was one. But, that was so long ago, I could ahve forgotton. :shrug:

That movie frightened me beyond words when I first watched it.

[LSK]

14. here comes the good part

BOOM!!

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17. BLAMMO!

That's all I need to see!

[LSK]

18. after the commercial

We just launched our nukes.

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20. fuckin commercials

come on! i gotta see kansas get blown to shit!

[Individualist]

19. Good part?

When I first saw this movie in 1983, I got cold chills when those nukes were launched. Twenty two years later, I just had the same reaction.

[LSK]

22. yes its a little unnerving

But at the same time Im drawn to it in a sick sadistic way.

I still wonder if living 35 miles from downtown Chicago is "safe".

[Individualist]

24. Very unnerving

to all who understand that nuclear warfare is insane.

[sniffa]

21. kaboom

[jayctravis]

23. Wasn't there also something called "Special Broadcast"

that was a War of the Worlds/Blair Witch Project type of horror movie about a nuclear detonation that is documented by live newscasters on video?

Maybe it was called "We Interrupt this Broadcast..."?

[Dukkha]

28. Special Bulletin

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/

When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway.

[Heddi]

33. I grew up in Charleston and remember that movie VIVIDLY

I was *SO* fucking freaked out...I was young..maybe 8 or so (need to see when it was released to let ya know). My mom kept telling me it was only a movie...but when you see things in a 'movie' that you see every day--The Battery, The Cooper River Bridges, etc...it seems really real.

I remember I couldn't sleep for MANY nights after that thing came on and my mom could do nothing to comfort me. Of course, with her being a rabid Regan hater, and hearing her talk about how that crazy old man was going to blow us all to bits one day (pre-movie), i had reason to fear.


Also, when the movie was on, there was a scene where people were being herded into a fallout shelter, and these people were panicking trying to get out because they didn't know where their children were (who were at school, and evacuated to another place). My mom was crying saying "I couldn't handle that if that happened. I just don't know what I'd do if I didn't know where you were". Gee...thanks mom...I'm already freaked out that the Ruskies are going to blow me away... :)

Special Bulletin was FREAKY FUCKING SHIT.

There was a HUGE aftermath after it was shown. I remember that night all the 11:00 news stations had really long intros about how THIS WAS ONLY A MOVIE...to please STOP calling the TV stations...there is no nuclear attack...this was fictionalized, there never WAS a nuclear warhead at the Naval Weapons Station, etc.

I'd like to see it again now as an adult---remind me what Charleston looked like in the 80's

[amandabeech]

25. Also starring John Lithgow, the guy who played "Flounder"

in "Animal House" (Stephen Furst?)and the guy who played "Holling Vincour" on "Northern Exposure."

[sniffa]

31. steve guttenberg

who keeps steve guttenberg, a star

[jayctravis]

32. John Lithgow Rocks!

3rd Rock from the Sun.

I just got a CD of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS in which he sings.

[Dukkha]

26. I remember when it first aired

TONS of propaganda commercials ran with it. Even one ad selling fallout shelters.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. Is it just me....or are they taking commercial breaks at really crappy

times? Still freaky...after all these years.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

29. Which one was the movie where they were driving around in a school bus...

with like 8-12 people. They kept hearing echoes of the past, and there was just no one anywhere. I keep asking people, but they have no idea what it's called, although they usually do remember the concept.
Duckie

[Greylyn58]

30. Wow...I remember when this movie came out

it was all anyone could talk about. It scared the hell out of me, especially with Reagan in office and all the saber rattling he was doing.

I saw the movie a couple of years ago and it has held up well. Scary flick.

[LSK]

34. Ironically, the Senate is debating bunker busting Nukes on CSPAN2

Kerry is speaking now.