Threads / War Games / The Day After

[JonB]

Just had a watch of this. Threads that is, but the other 2 docu/films are going along the same lines I am led to believe.

Obviously it was made 4 years before I was born, at a time of heightened worrying of a possible nuclear strike of Britain.

It makes very grim watching, it isn't a "horror", but it really does put some awkward thoughts in to your mind. I suspect many of the older members here probably watched it when they were younger, I expect watching it then was probably nightmare inducing.

My worst image from the film has got to be that ginger woman cradling her still born child, that stare sent chills down my spine, I expect I will probably have a few restless nights.

There are no winners in a Nuclear war at the end of the day.
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[Whosthedaddy]

Remember watching Threads at school.

War games is a little now with all that computer hacking malarkey from BBC or Amstrad and a 56k dial up.

Food for thought I suppose.

Will never happen as no one will ever have the nerve to 'press the button'.
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[JonB]

[Visitor Q]

Didnt they have one even closer then that with a 'detected' launch as well, where one guy refused to launch. Was in the Mail/Express about a month ago.
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[JonB]

Yeah that was the 5 accidental missile detections by a USSR Satellite, but a very cool guy refused to launch a retaliate missile.
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[mr_pete]

"By Dawn's Early Light" is also a top "brink of doom" film. Just make sure you watch the original (older) film with Powers Boothe, not the new one of the same name, which is a romance or somesuch twoddle
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[Visitor Q]

Sum of all Fears is also not /that/ bad and actually has a nuke going off
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[Syx]

Crimson Tide is another good one.

[Dragonfly]

I used to have threads on video, scared the heck out of me. I would have preferred to die there and then than survive like that. That sceen with the child giving birth also was disturbing. I havnt seen it in years now so its vague the details.
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[Scotch Bonnet]

Biggest problem I had with Threads was towards the end, the 10 year+ aftermath stuff.

I really didn't buy the breakdown of language thing, also I'd expect that even despite the devastation, the USSR would have been able to follow-up the attack with an invasion, particularly after 10 years had passed.

The attack and immediate aftermath, though, truly chilling stuff.
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Threads can be watched here : https://video.google.com/url?docid=-2023790698427111488&esrc=sr1&ev=v&len=6465&q=threads&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-2023790698427111488&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-2023790698427111488%26q%3Dthreads%26total%3D14426%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D0&usg=AL29H23epoH8_UKBeVBbWMpYNcweQG_K-A

By Dawn's Early Light is here : https://video.google.com/url?docid=-7184168563320557608&esrc=sr1&ev=v&len=6010&q=%22by%2Bdawns%2Bearly%2Blight%22&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-7184168563320557608&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-7184168563320557608%26q%3D%2522by%2Bdawns%2Bearly%2Blight%2522%26total%3D5%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D0&usg=AL29H23Wzw2Q7t9GfJJfJOjOWDQPFTbIrQ
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[mr_pete]

And lets not forget "When The Wind Blows"
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[JonB]

[Scotch Bonnet]

Yeah, but the USSR was so geographically huge, and the NATO arsenal so small in comparison, there would be an awful lot more of what was recognisably Soviet Russia that would have survived the exchange. Even after that much devastation, 10 years is a long time - and anyone capable of rustling up a recognisable modern (even by WWI/II standards) army in that period would have europe as their oyster.
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