Anyone else watching "The Day After" right now? (Or, as I call it, Jan 21, 2009)

[Ian David]

The Day After
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The Day After is an American television movie which aired on November 20, 1983 on the ABC Television Network. The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between the United States/NATO and the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact and its effects on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri, and several family farms situated next to nearby nuclear-missile silos. The film was written by Edward Hume and directed by Nicholas Meyer. The film was released on DVD on May 18, 2004.



More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After




Meanwhile, Joe Freeper hops on his computer and writes, "Dear Sci-Fi channel Demotraitors... why don't y'ever show RED DAWN!"



Red Dawn
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Red Dawn is a 1984 film by John Milius about an invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and the resulting guerrilla actions of a group of American high school students in the fictional town of Calumet, Colorado. The movie features Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, and Powers Boothe.

Produced in the last decade of the Cold War, Red Dawn has become something of a cult classic and has become a touchstone of 1980s pop culture. Red Dawn was the first movie to be released with a Motion Picture Association of America PG-13 rating (The Flamingo Kid was the first film to actually receive the rating, but was not released for 5 months after certification.)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dawn

[EFerrari]

1. No, but as a re-entry student at 25, I remember my English 1A

teacher announcing to our class that we would not be discussing the film. He seemed really angry and in retro, it seemed like the kind of anger that impotence inspires.

We didn't talk about it although, we were all scared out of our wits about it. I had two sons under ten at the time.

[Skarbrowe]

14. Miracle Mile is another good one. The Day After scared the crap

out of me back in 1983. I was taking a Political Science class at Purdue at the time and I remember when I drove to classes the next day and looked up at the sky I kept thinking how quickly everything could be gone.

Miracle Mile is another small movie that really has a great impact. You don't have to see a lot of special effects to feel the fear and hopelessness.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097889/

[Tom Joad]

2. Red Dawn is often "honored" as being one of the worst films of all time.

[qazplm]

4. ah it wasnt all that bad

and it had plenty of positive themes.

I dont think anyone with a brain who watches the film comes away glorifying war.

Certainly it is a bit cartoony, but I think it lays out the problems of having two hugely powerful nation-states basically playing chess with the world.

[Strelnikov_]

24. Wonder how many US officers are having their own personal Col. Bella

revelations over in Iraqnam.

[lost-in-nj]

3. I have seen it

scared the crap out of me......

great movie
another good one is called
On the Beach with Ava Gardner....




lost

[dipsydoodle]

5. We get in here [UK]

almost to the point of monotony - Red Dawn that is. Having said that we also get all the documentaries first hand that you're never likely to see broadcast on TV in the States. Such is freedom !

[wundermaus]

6. This one haunts me to this day...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086429/

[HeeBGBz]

7. Gut wrenchingly sad movie n/t

[wundermaus]

8. Film Summary: TESTAMENT

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ryahnke/filmteach/test-v.htm

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Kevin Costner likes postapocalypic films, eh?

[datadiva]

9. Watching it,

I was struck by the girl who said she wasn't worried, said if had been about oil and Saudi Arabia, she'd be worried. I guess there were thinking people even then.

[Liberal Veteran]

10. Red Dawn: Isn't that the movie where the Soviets invade and liberate the US....

....and terrorist insurgents fight to kick the liberators out of the country?

:sarcasm:


Do you think the neocons root for the Soviets to defeat the terrorist "Wolverines"?

[gatorboy]

11. Yes, it was the first and last ever Patrick Swayze jihad.

Unless you include Roadhouse.

[Ian David]

18. They sure got upset about the last season of Battlestar Galactica, didn't they? n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. I think there are missing scenes that have been edited out

When I saw it originally broadcast on network TV, I remember some of the horrific scenes of people burning alive as the atomic blast hit a major city. There were some interesting special effects, including people's flesh burning off revealing their skeletons underneath, which were then vaporized. I don't recall seeing some of the more graphic scenes in any of the versions shown on the Science Fiction Channel.

[Ian David]

19. Same here. n/t

[Forkboy]

13. "Threads" is way more messed up.

[gulliver]

16. "Threads" is depressing, but un-missable. Link.

The whole movie is on-line at Google.

http://video.google.com/url?docid=-2023790698427111488&esrc=sr1&ev=v&q=Threads&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-2023790698427111488&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-2023790698427111488%26q%3DThreads%26total%3D5689%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D0&usg=AL29H21bT3OVc5odYYJukDnm3_X4vdiMJw

[tridim]

15. I watched the first half and decided to go grocery shopping instead

It's a tough movie to watch, especially since it takes place at my alma matter.

[Ian David]

17. I think that's what I'll do on Janurary 18th. Hold an Apocalypse Film Festival...

while we wait and see if Bush pulls the trigger rather than leave office.

[Red Zelda]

20. Red Dawn blows

It was made as a response to The Day After, which too many asshat wingnuts thought would pacify us and keep us from hugging our nukes like giant testicles.
Yeah, not wanting nuclear holocaust - that's sooooo fucking abnormal.

[Ian David]

21. But now that WE are the occupiers, the message has kind of changed a little. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. I thought I saw the Day After in Fifth Grade but the dates don't jive. I must have been a wee bit

older than I had thought.

At any rate it scared me very badly.

[Feron]

25. I like both movies.

However Red Dawn is a cheesy popcorn action movie. It's in the same vein as Commando and any Steven Seagal movie. Only people who think that Rambo can survive a barrage of machine gunfire unscathed think that Red Dawn is realistic.

Or in other words, it's mindless entertainment.

On the other hand, Threads and The Day After are quite different. Both are great movies although Threads is a lot more depressing than The Day After.

I haven't seen Testament yet.