Comments on: Kablam! Nucleoid War!

By: Lornkanaga

Lornkanaga — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:17:08 +0000

The first movie I ever saw with Michelle Pfeiffer was “Grease 2″

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084021/

I’ve been a fan of hers ever since.

Oh, and I’m pretty sure it was Goose who spoke the line, in a bomb shelter (g).

By: Hube

Hube — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:40:51 +0000

BTW, I didn’t see anyone comment about “Fail Safe.” Now THAT was a suspenseful, scary flick about an [accidental] nuclear strike.

Recently, George Clooney and other big stars did a live TV remake of it. Stick w/the original, however!

By: Hube

Hube — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:38:23 +0000

I recall Ted Koppel saying immediately after “The Day After” that if you look outside, everything is as it was. The weird thing is, he nailed exactly how we all felt! I was 18 at the time and viewed it with my girlfriend. We were, in a word(s), scared crapless.

By: maggie

maggie — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:02:39 +0000

I saw “Threads”. freshman in high school, and the Gulf War 1 had taken place the year before. It was creepy and we had to fill out a questionnarie about the movie. and Laura that book is “cardinal of the kremlin”.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 14:28:45 +0000

docjim505, I do remember “World War III.” Rock Hudson and Brian Keith. And the poignant ending, right, where the people all over the Earth grow silent and look up as the bombers fly overhead? or is that a different movie?

One of the Clancy novels, can’t remember which, had the mujahadeen fighting the Soviets. Our people were arming them for their struggle.

By: Mark La Roi

Mark La Roi — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:57:33 +0000

“Wasnâ€™t â€œRed Dawnâ€ a movie about teenagers leading an insurgency against an overwhelming force occupying their homeland?”

Yup! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985/

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:42:16 +0000

Mwalimu, you’ve said it!

By: Sean P

Sean P — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:40:42 +0000

For whatever reason, I never saw The Day After when it aired. However, shortly after it aired, a local affiliate ran a British miniseries called “Threads” that (I believe) The Day After was based on. Did anyone see that one? Extremely creepy.

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:53:13 +0000

I think that the movie The Day After is worth seeing, at least from a cultural and historical perspective. It was a movie that did a good job of reflecting the political paranoia of the early 1980s. Back then, it was widely believed by some (mostly in Hollywood and the MSM) that nuclear war was imminent, and that American military and political leaders couldn’t wait to “push the button” and incinerate us all. Anyone who took issue with that piece of conventional wisdom, who even hinted that the Soviet Union might actually be up to no good, was obviously as a nuclear warmonger and a Republican.

Today of course things are very different. Weâ€™re not afraid of nuclear winter anymore, but now we will all probably die soon from global warming. Or from seeing the 10 Commandments etched on a building. We live in a country where the DNC and the MSM are occupied with finding homophobes under every bed and gulags in every back yard. Now thatâ€™s progress!

By: andy

andy — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:47:41 +0000

Loved Red Dawn, didn’t care for the Day After, altho it did give me the heebie-jeebies. I was already in the USAF and quite aware of the artistic liberties in that film and War Games (good flick tho). Ah, to think what if blogging had been around in the 80s, we’d have lots of fun with pop culture — new wave music, big hair-do’s, brat pack & anti-nuke flicks.

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:25:16 +0000

Cobra, you pointed out how much changed since Rambo. The Russians out, the taliban in, the mujahadeen either absorbed or killed… that’s alot of change.
I never could watch the Rambo movies. Watching a draft dodger play a vietnam hero always disgusted me.
No, you don’t need to have served to play a soldier, but if you run to Canada because you won’t fight in a war, you ought not to make millions of dollars off the men who did

By: SickAndTired

SickAndTired — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 04:24:42 +0000

Oh, and then there was the ‘mineshaft gap’ because we had to construct underground mines where all the beautiful, alluring, sexy young women would be taken and, naturally the most ‘important and intelligent’ among us. That was Dr. Strangelove’s survival idea, let’s all go underground and party, party, party.

By: SickAndTired

SickAndTired — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 04:20:25 +0000

Agreed RedBeard – Remember George C. Scott, “But Mr. President, they’ll see the big board.” Busts me up every time. And then later the ‘commie’ ambassador secretly photographs the ‘big board’.

By: firebird

firebird — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:47:58 +0000

I never saw the original and i dont attend to see the new version its probibly too liberal and too left-wing for me

By: Cobra

Cobra — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:23:18 +0000

SCSIwuzzy,

I never mentioned the Taliban, but you’re correct.