The Postman premiered on free to air TV here in Adelaide, Australia about 2 weeks ago :-) coincidently, i only just finished reading the book about a week before that too ... an enjoyable enough read, but i think i liked the similarily themed 'The Wild Shore' by Kim Stanley Robinson better (is that what it was called?, i read it a few years ago now...) i taped The Postman, but the tv reception was bad (i blame my housmate for shifting the tv antenna for that! :-) ) so maybe i'll just rent the dvd if i can find it somewhere i've seen The Day After - we had to watch it for an assignment in high school! (was my english literature teacher morbid or what?!), but the one that really scared me was a BBC documentary (i cant remember what it was called) filmed in the 60's about a hypothetical nuclear attack on the UK. I think it was produced for the govt. of the day as an attempt to boost public morale about civil defence (or something like that ..) however, the filmmakers decided to go for realism instead, so it was banned until someone dug it out of the archives and screened it here about 10 years ago (i wonder if it's still banned in the UK) ... it had minimal effects, and was in black&white, but the clinical narration of the events and after effects was absolutely chilling ... "Horn, John" wrote: > > From: Gary Nunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > I am sitting here watching "The Day After" on the Sci-Fi > > channel and it has > > occurred to me that watching this is something like the > > morbid inability to > > stare at an accident as you drive by. I suppose it is a > > mortality thing. > > > > I remember the first time I watched this show. I was 18 and > > it scared me to > > death. I had nightmares for a week. > > > 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. > > 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. > > - John -- Mark Salkeld Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory Department of Physiology Adelaide University Ph: +618 8303 4566 Fax: +618 8303 3356 WWW: http://www.sciweb.science.adelaide.edu.au/physiology/home.nsf
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