Thought the same. I watched it on an airplane. Great concept, felt underdeveloped. Guy Ritchie side project?
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Watched it on a deadhead. Also recommend if you have nothing better to do.
Ghosts of Beirut on Amazon, highly recommended.
The WW2 movie “Wing and a Prayer” just appeared on youtube- looks interesting.
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Looks like it just might have been worth the wait.
Perhaps the biggest TV movie of the 1980’s premiered on this date 40 years ago 20 Nov 1983: The Day After. Some reports said that the movie had an effect on Reagan and Gorbachev. If you haven’t seen it, it is on YouTube and certainly worth a watch.
A slice of television history: Why 100 million viewers tuned in to watch a TV movie in 1983
Jason Robards starred in ABC's "The Day After," a movie about a nuclear holocaust that set a still-standing TV ratings record.
www.usatoday.com
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Perhaps the biggest TV movie of the 1980’s premiered on this date 40 years ago 20 Nov 1983: The Day After. Some reports said that the movie had an effect on Reagan and Gorbachev. If you haven’t seen it, it is on YouTube and certainly worth a watch.
A slice of television history: Why 100 million viewers tuned in to watch a TV movie in 1983
Jason Robards starred in ABC's "The Day After," a movie about a nuclear holocaust that set a still-standing TV ratings record.www.usatoday.com
https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/nov/14/fallout_from_the/
It's was a real thing thing to just take it for granted that eventually things were going to go south, and a nuclear war would be the result. The movie was filmed in large part in Lawrence, Kansas which was about 70 miles from where I lived, and would go to KU 2 years later. The show was quite impactful, especially given that I recognized a lot of the locations.
Obviously you knew it was fiction, but it was structured in a way that it was easy to believe that real life could play out that way.
I've not seen it since 1983, and don't know how it holds up, but at the time it was a well done tv movie.
I was born in KS, bc my dad was a missileer on a Titan II SAC base. Saw the movie as a young lad, and it was fairly horrifying.
I believe they spliced in actual AF produced video of how shit would go down on an EC-135 if there were a Soviet launch.
Interesting article attached to this post about the cultural impact of 'The Day After'..
They have Travis and Taylor.
Personally, I didn't think the IMAX showing that I saw was much more visually impressive than watching it on my ten year old HD TV at home. I'm not a big fan of movie theaters in general, so YMMV.
Another good one to watch in the same vein is the British movie "Threads" which is actually more intense IMO. I believe they were going to originally maybe split "The Day After" into two parts but then realized for the proper effect they couldn't do that, I might be mixing that up with their deciding on no commercials after the attack sequence though). I might be misremembering but they also made a decision to not include music in the film for similar reasons. What got me was at the end when it says that the reality would be worse and they had to tone it down for the film. I've also read that the guy who made it did so because he thought Reagan was going to get us into a war with the Soviets.
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