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Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Hitchcoc This was so hyped in its day (1983, 34 years ago). We're still under the threat of a nuclear holocaust with more fingers on the trigger. Unfortunately a couple of those are relatively unstable figures. I remember the lead up to this film and all the talk that went on. When it ended, we were told to look around at the beauty of the world and life itself and to be grateful for this to not have actually happened. The missile silos in Kansas (and obviously other parts of America) are opened and weapons launched. Someone, probably the Soviets and employed first strike. That leads to speculation as to what would happen in the aftermath. I remember the scene in the grocery store where the teenage checkout guy is moving at triple time. The falling ash and the dropping temperatures of a nuclear winter. People trying to help the survivors when food and water are contaminated. It barely addresses the horrors of radiation sickness and dismemberment. This had quite an impact on America for a while. But we've gone back to thinking that if it's dropped on someone else, it will be OK.

Martian62 I was in the USAF stationed in Spain when this came out. I was very interested in this show because I had just left Whiteman AFB about a year earlier. I was disappointed in the realism. Being a "missile troop" at Whiteman, I knew what would happen to the areas where the missile sites were and the importance of the KC metro area. The only way in the world anyone would be able to get from west Missouri to KU med center is if many of the Russian missiles never hit their targets. Those that didn't die in the initial explosions, would die from the blast waves and the EXTREME amount of radiation from all those missiles would kill them in days.

Eric Stevenson Back in the late 1990's, disaster movies were all the rage. Unfortunately, most of them weren't good. It's hard to say that it's really a time where disaster movies declined, because they were never that good to begin with. Even if movies like the Airport series were popular in their day, something like "Airplane!" was so good, it killed the genre off. It seems like the only disaster movie in history that everyone has good memories of is "Titanic", and this movie. This film deserves to be praised for all the attention it brought to TV movies. They are still movies and even though they never hit theaters, they deserve to be remembered if they are really good.The actual destruction happens almost exactly halfway through the movie. What's really interesting is that the actual destruction only happens for three minutes. I guess nowadays you could compare this to a zombie apocalypse, only without the zombies. It's great to see all of the different characters that appear and even how they have little interaction. It really is realistic in that sense, as it shows all the individuals that are affected by something this big. The creepiest thing is probably at the end where they say this film probably DOWNPLAYED what a nuclear war would be like.The film ends the exact way I knew it would. There is no big happy ending and everyone is still where they were halfway through the movie. This is where it's easy to notice how good the film's pacing is. It is mentioned that there is a ceasefire meaning no more nuclear weapons. There's at least some glimmer of hope in this tragedy. It does in fact seem like the same thing would happen in real life. I have to recommend this film, if only because it tries very hard to send a sincere message and shows us how important the medium of television is. ***1/2

Tony Bunch .......I was a full time college student and working full time at a close-to-home service station. Because of the ample TV previews acting as constant reminders of this upcoming TV movie promising to be, "a television event like never before", I brought a small television to work. IIRC, it was a Monday night and the movie started at 8:00 pm. I did NOT want to miss this movie. I had spent many years hearing Air Raid sirens blaring at exactly noon on the first Monday of each month. Any time I saw a movie or documentary dealing with the possibility of nuclear war, I remember also doing, "duck and cover", drills at the public school I attended back in the 60's.I will tell you what I remember most about the night this movie first aired. That night the movie was first shown, we did not sell a single gallon of gas while the movie played. I remember commenting to one of my co-workers, " I would just bet you that this movie would give the Superbowl a run for its' money!"This movie dared to be explicit and it dared to provide as much in the way of historic accuracy predicting the post attack specific, minute details regarding the devastation at ground zero. Even the prediction of resultant property damage x-number of miles from ground zero was shown to be lesser when compared to the damage at ground zero. In other words, I think the makers of this movie did their homework. I would guess that they looked for and acquired ample special topic technical advisor's. Many years later when I was day-dreaming at work taking a moment to have a 1980's flashback, I recall having this movie come to mind. Right there and then, I wrote a note to myself on a carbon-type credit card imprinter paper, "find DVD entitled, "The Day After." Right after that moment, on the same piece of paper I also reminded myself to get the movies, "Dr. Strangelove, and how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb", "Dawn's early light" and, "Failsafe". Faithfully submitted, A man in his 50's !