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In Reply to: Day After: Makes Independence Day seem like Shakespeare posted by albee33 on May 28, 2004 at 17:41:31:
I have the 1984 release of "The Day After" on video tape. It was a terrifying
film and it was incredibly realistic. There were no super fancy computer effects.
Most of the nuclear explosion scenes were just cut ups stock archive film
footage of US test explosions in the 50s and 60s.I think what made the film terrifying was that there were no super-hero roles
and no personality actors in the film ; All of the roles were shot with relatively
ordinary people. The military staff in the film were real military officers who were
shot doing test exercises on live military hardware: i.e. the CINCSAC onboard the
Looking Glass plane who unlocked the war orders, and the minuteman launch
crew that we get to know who staffed the Oscar-1 launch control capsule. No
drama. Just ordinary people doing their jobs and, after the fact, dealing with the
consequences.-- Jim
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