The Day After( the old movie)

[RealMickeysGirl]

I saw it in college and had nightmares about it for years. One recurring one was that DBF - now DH - and I decided that we didn't want to live through that so we knelt down and hugged each other on the administration building steps - I usually woke up at the bright flash point.
I have very vivid dreams (seem very real sometimes). Just the process of coming to that decision in the dream was very upsetting. I don't even know how close we were to any possible targets so the likelyhood of us even being near enough to a bomb to see a flash is still unknown to me.

I try my best not to think about that movie and I definitely wouldn't watch it again.

 

[Jasminesmommy]

I thought i was the only one scared to death of this movie. I was very scared as a child and cried for days about it and told my mom I don't want to die and want to grow up and marry and have babies. I was like 7.

 

[alliecats]

Testament was more sad than scary. Of course, the circumstances were scary, but it was devastating to watch how it affected this one small family in particular. TDA was really kind of cheesy. I don't remember Threads--will have to hunt that up.

 

[Virgo10]

I don't remember Threads--will have to hunt that up.

Be sure you don't watch that alone!! Check out Special Bulletin too. That was really well acted.

 

[imsorry]

Yes! and i thought of this movie after 9/11. I was in my early twenties when I saw it, just married, and I felt so bad for the daughter who was planning the wedding. Didn't she go running outside to try to find her fiance, then die from the radiation? I was surprised it was never on TV again (not cable).

 

[Brianne]

I remember when it came out--the school district sent home letters asking parents not to allow their children to watch it. Most ignored the letter from the sounds of it; my mother, on the other hand, did not. I didn't actually see the movie until this past year (Netflix has it, if anyone's looking to rent it).

Even though it's an older movie, it was actually very well done---it stood the test of time. Scary theme, but I think right now I'd be more afraid of rewatching "The Stand" miniseries than The Day After. Bird flu scares me a bit more than nukes at the moment.

 

[mytwotinks]

I live in the area that the movie was filmed and it was a very big deal around here at the time. I was in the 5th grade and I think that all of my friends watched it. I haven't seen it since. Isn't it funny how big a fear that was at the time and now we have moved on to a completely new set of fears for our world. I don't even think that my 8 year old would know what "nuclear" means. I know I did at that age.

 

[SeeDisney]

Yes, me too, I remember I was a junior in high school and it was a big big movie to watch and yes it scared us too.

I'm curious to see this movie now.

 

[goofygirl]

I agreee Threads is a better quality film, and very scary.


I feared nuclear war as a child, and did not think about nuclear war again until 9/11. I was afraid the attacks were going esculate into WW III, nuclear war and the end of the world. I remember parying, "Please god, let my death be quick if its inevitable!"

 

[Mad4Mickey]

We watched it here too. I'm seen it a million times but my DH said he'd never seen it.

A year after TDA was on I watch a similar movie on PBS called Threads. It made TDA look like a Disney film. An amazing docu/drama with an ending that I will never ever forget. Threads is very hard to find now but I have seen copies on Ebay.

On my list of scariest films ever, Threads is right up there near the top.

I wonder where I can find this movie Threads because to tell you the truth when I watched TDA I was freaked out again LOL

I do think they cut out scenes though or maybe I just didnt see the ones that I remembered because I missed the first part of it .