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The Day After - 8/22/2008 11:43:21 PM
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CCCdnt
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The recent events involving Russia has had me thinking of this movie lately. For those of you that are not familiar with it, it was a made-for-TV movie that aired on ABC in 1983. The purpose of the film was to show the effects a full scale nuclear war between the U.S and the then U.S.S.R. would have to hopefully help deter one from happening (there was a message at the end of the movie that more or less said if a nuclear war were to occur, the outcome would be much worse than depicted in the movie). I recall somewhat seeing some of this when it first aired although I was only about 10 at the time. My wife was not old enough when the movie aired to have remembered it. I found this on DVD about a year or so ago and bought it. Given the time it was made (no CGI used) and that it was a made-for-TV movie, the special effects are pretty good. Hopefully nothing like this will ever happen.
Here is a link to an interesting article from 2003 about the movie.
< Message edited by CCCdnt -- 8/23/2008 12:17:19 AM >
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RE: The Day After - 8/23/2008 2:21:45 AM
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Memaw.
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I can remember exactly where I was when that movie came out on TV.
My son was only 3 years old and I can remember going outside after watching it, looking at the sky and almost expecting to see a missile.
Did it make an impact on me?
You betcha it did.
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RE: The Day After - 8/23/2008 9:45:02 AM
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I actually live near a nuclear weapons facility and I've always been glad of it. If anything happens we'll be dead first and we don't have to worry about anything else.
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Still a little worrisome though.
