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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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and it was banned in Britain!Des
Agreed, the most scary moments, for me, was when those missiles lauched from Lawrence, KS. Imagine walking outside and seeing those contrails streking skyward--you know it's all over.
Totally inept hollywood version of events with ridiculous melodrama to fill the time.There was a very good film on this topic which I don't recall off-hand - But another pretyt strong one out of Britain was called "Threads"...and that was an infinitely better film than Tthe Day After.
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This was supposed to be very good but I missed it along the way and the video stores never seem to carry it.
I liked Threads much better than The Day After .
BBC: 1. Hollywood: 0.
It was, I remember feeling the pessimism going through me. I saw it few years later, it did not catch my attention anymore, I suppose that the cold war was long over.
The Day After was not much more than a bad TV play.
;^)
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"Alas, Babylon" is a book by Pat Frank. It is about the survivors of a nuclear holocaust in South Florida. They are aware something has happened, but at the moment they are dealing with the lack of electricity and gas, no more food being delivered to the grocery store, no more gas for their vehicles, and the dangers of radioactivity. Most high schoolers in the United States are required to read the book at one point or another. It is not political...it is more about what would it take to survive in a world cut off from what used to be.The title comes from a verse in the Bible. Psalm 137:5 (NIV): "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion."
It refers to the sorrow felt by the Israelites during their Babylonian exile.
By the way the Psalm was us in Germany for a kind of " Disco " hit in the 70īs....
Pat Frank's(Harry Hart)novel of same title, think he wrote it
in 1959, published 1960. I've read novel and seen movie, setting
in North-North Central Florida, USA (I think). Has been so many years memories are vague, but I
do recall seem enjoying both, however, would have to reassess via
new viewing-reading. - AH.
is my favorite post-apocalyptic film
The final scene is one of the best ever...
Grins
an award-winning British docudrama about nuclear post-apocalyptic
Britian. Directed by Mick Jackson. Stark and hard-hitting. Parts
of this film I found difficult to view. - AH.
Never scoped this one. A low-budget, B&W post-nuclear film
directed by Arch Oboler. Check out reviews at www.imdb.com if
interested. - AH.
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