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> I watched "The Day After" when it was first broadcast and have not seen it
> since. Let's see, I would have been 17 or so at the time. I remember it
> scaring the h*ll out of me, up to a point. I thought the events leading up
> to the attack and the immediate aftermath to be the most chilling and the
> most plausible. IIRC, the events after the attack were a bit silly.
I was in college...I remember it was a very topical film since the time
frame was Reagan's cold warrior saber rattling that had a lot of people
really scared, & it was criticized by conservatives as some kind of
liberal attempt to undermine the government and set up a pacifist state of
someting. But saying "nuclear war is horrible" doesn't necessarily mean
saying "we should unilaterally disarm" (even if the people who made the
movie felt that way.) I really didn't want to watch the first hour (which
was set at a college with students registering for classes despite all the
bad news on the radio, right?)
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> The nuclear attack movie that had the biggest affect on me was "Testament"
> which showed the aftermath of a nuclear attack in an incredibly chilling
> way. As with "The Day After" I've only watched it once and I but with
> "Testament" I still can clearly remember certain scenes.
>
Oh, God. I'm from the Bay area, (where it was set in the suburbs) and I
could never bring myself to watch that one! I heard enough about it...I
mean, I lived/live I think just about far enough from ground zero not to
get vaporized. If you can't make it to a remote survival shelter a zillion
miles from anything, make for ground zero, cause it at least then you'll
die *quick*. Radiation is a horrible way to go.
Kristin
who sometimes gets too haunted by upsetting movies to function the next
day
