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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2018 12:10:41 GMT
If you have a couple hours to burn this is a good one....
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Post by ayatollah on Feb 28, 2018 15:20:33 GMT
I saw that. My mom used to make her class watch it in her schoolteacher days. Predictable Flying Monkey Brit superiority crack about Threads being better coming later today.
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Post by My NoRevisionism Pillow on Feb 28, 2018 16:50:30 GMT
Yeah Monkey! "Threads" sucked! Take that!
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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Post by ayatollah on Feb 28, 2018 17:09:20 GMT
Yeah Monkey! "Threads" sucked! Take that! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! Threads, oddly enough, was more like an American Hollywood production, relying on shock scenes. Not that The Day After wasn't a nuclear soap though. The really good one was the one nobody remembers, no special effects, called Testament about a rural California family slowly suffering the after effects of ww3.
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Post by My NoRevisionism Pillow on Feb 28, 2018 17:42:43 GMT
Yeah Monkey! "Threads" sucked! Take that! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! Threads, oddly enough, was more like an American Hollywood production, relying on shock scenes. Not that The Day After wasn't a nuclear soap though. The really good one was the one nobody remembers, no special effects, called Testament about a rural California family slowly suffering the after effects of ww3. no, I remember "Testament", it was on the local PBS station, very low key & realistic
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Post by Joc Spader on Feb 28, 2018 19:37:34 GMT
Terrified me as a kid. Now I know the truth.
Easiest thing to fake is that flash at the beginning.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2018 20:52:32 GMT
Terrified me as a kid. Now I know the truth. Easiest thing to fake is that flash at the beginning. What else can you do?
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Post by My NoRevisionism Pillow on Feb 28, 2018 21:09:18 GMT
Terrified me as a kid. Now I know the truth. Easiest thing to fake is that flash at the beginning. scared me too, then I got married & learned the meaning of terror
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2018 1:42:15 GMT
Threads, oddly enough, was more like an American Hollywood production, relying on shock scenes. Not that The Day After wasn't a nuclear soap though. The really good one was the one nobody remembers, no special effects, called Testament about a rural California family slowly suffering the after effects of ww3. no, I remember "Testament", it was on the local PBS station, very low key & realistic But both "Threads" and "The Day After" were based on "The War Game".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2018 4:22:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2018 13:12:32 GMT
First, of the three movies you mentioned, only one dealt with nuclear war. "The Omega Man" was biological warfare and "Soylent Green" dealt with overpopulation and collapse of the ecosystem. And the "Planet of the Apes" had the war happening initially CENTURIES before the events of 1 & 2, and a "limited exchange" between 4 & 5. Up until "Threads/The Day After" most movies used file footage of nuclear tests, and you had survivors dusting themselves off and restarting civilization. Only "On the Beach" ended with no survivors, and only the BBC's "The War Game" and TOHO's "The Last War" personalized it with depictions of actual cites and individuals being wiped out.
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Mar 1, 2018 13:56:55 GMT
Yeah, no doubt because 7:25 AM in the morning is a bit early to be drinking anything else besides coffee, tea, soda pop, or water.
The concept of "The Day After" is a good one and deserves a remake. However it should be done with modern special effects, and should by necessity of the nature of the topic be "Rated R" for Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence, Nudity, and Excessive Gore.
Todays audience doesn't want the topic to be "candy coated" or dumbed down for a childrens audience. Remember that this is an Adult topic and that the audience you are pitching to are adults who want to see a horror movie that will scare the shit out of them.
Nearly every good adult themed horror movie needs a "Fuck Scene" which fits right in line with married couples who know they are about to die from a nuclear missile attack. (think of the couple found preserved in Pompeii in an embrace) Then there is the required scene of the fight in the missile silo over whether or not to turn the key.
Shocked people who let out streams of profanity when they get the alert on TV and on their smart phones that it is not a test of the emergency broadcast system and that there are inbound nukes. Riots and looting as people completely loose their shit over the realization that they are about to die, etc.
As of yet, nobody has treated the topic of nuclear war in a movie without cheating the audience out of the level of horror and explicit gore needed to do the subject matter "justice".
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Post by eastenn on Mar 1, 2018 14:36:01 GMT
Terrified me as a kid. Now I know the truth. Easiest thing to fake is that flash at the beginning. scared me too, then I got married & learned the meaning of terror "...then I got married & learned the meaning of terror".
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Post by eastenn on Mar 1, 2018 14:40:52 GMT
I recall news stories of college students asking their school administration to stock suicide pills on campus.
Crackpot sissies.
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Mar 1, 2018 15:26:20 GMT
I recall news stories of college students asking their school administration to stock suicide pills on campus. Crackpot sissies. What for? Back then it was an estimated 30 minutes or less for the whole nuclear missile deployment thing to be over with. Now that the process is streamlined to a great extent, now it is more like 12 or 15 minutes from the time you get the alert. Although as incompetent as the current administration is, you might not get an alert at all. Back when Ronald Reagan was president,it was generally agreed by both sides that the population of citizens needed 30 minutes in which to make their final arrangements. So certain considerations were taken into account to make that possible such as formal declarations of war before taking any real action. However, in todays climate of lack of trust between the governments of nations, those considerations designed to let citizens have time to make their final arrangements are no longer likely to be honored or implemented. Therefore from a practical standpoint it would most likely happen suddenly without warning. From a horror film standpoint that wouldn't make for much of a horror film. But would it subtract much from the artistic integrity of the film to just assume that the public would get 15 minutes advance notice. Would it subtract much from the integrity of the message that the film is trying to get across? Millennials are a difficult audience to pitch to, so that makes it tough working out the details of the script for a proposed film about nuclear war set in present day political atmosphere. Like how much should the artistic vision bend to meet the perceived expectations of the audience that the film is being pitched to.
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