Exactly, threads is way more gritty and accurate there's no way at the end of the day after there would have been a hospital and drugs like how they showed it.
There is nothing to love, when a nuclear exchange of 3,000-5,000 megatons could result in population being reduced to mediaeval levels, life expectancy cut by half, education and health care destroyed and culture gutted.
President Reagan got a private screening of the movie before it aired on ABC in the United States. It left him terribly depressed and some say led him to the rapprochement with the USSR in 1985. He was still a man of principle and anti-Communist but he also realized the awesome power in his hands and what it could unleash. Also, the nice lady who owned the farm that was destroyed in the movie rebuked the characters in the movie for trying to escape. An ICBM installation would be hit by one or several ground burst weapons and a property so close by would be turned into plasma - even in an underground shelter. She was planning for a tornado not a thermonuclear ground burst.
All those years ago and now we truly are facing the unthinkable.Poland is talking about going to war with Russia. CHina is saying its going to take Taiwan...not looking good
"Threads" did have a more graphic depiction of the aftermath, but I will always find "The Day After" FAR more frightening. The anxious build up to the attack and the gothic, demonic mushroom clouds rising up into the air just created a chilling atmosphere that no other nuke film has ever matched. For those in the UK that are fans of "Threads", I highly recommend the film "The War Game" from 1965. I felt that British effort was better than "Threads", as well.
The big controversy was that the film The Day After showed on-screen deaths by nuclear blast - something apparently not seen before. That many Americans would be traumatized by this - having never thought about or seen it before; - that it was on at Prime Time. They could not sell all the advertising time as sponsors shied away from such ideas associated with their products.
This film is unsettling, every time I watch it.....it really makes us think about something we dont want to think about..... losing control of our lives 😖
I remember the angst inspired by this movie. The closer the air date got the more fevered became the discussion. It was a time of great unease as I remember it. To think that a variation of this scenario is even more likely today is unsettling with nations rattling sabres at an unprecedented rate with the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
I don't know if my mother watched it or not, but she sure as hell didn't let us kids. I was paranoid enough about nuclear war. I would NOT have been able to handle it
In 1964 when the US Navy presented the Poseidon missile to Lawrence, Kansas.....are you award that the Poseidon is launched from submarines ? and that Lawrence, Kansas is in the middle of the USA...nowhere near an ocean. USA rocks though !!!!!!!!!!!
The Communist North Koreans invaded South Korea in 1950. Nuclear bombs cannot change that fact. Soviet documents released in 1994showed this about North Korea.
This video left me wondering what it was about. It started with The Day After, then suddenly we're talking about protestors, Nicaragua, Grenada, the Freeze movement, the perceived Communist threat, and nuclear policy. It uses TDA as its starting point, but it wanders aimlessly until it looks like an Australian journalist's home movies from his vacation in the US. War is bad, and we disagree on the rest. Is there a point? It's not about TDA. This seems to have been made before anyone had seen the movie. At best it's a grossly over-simplified snapshot of the current state of the American side of the Cold War. Maybe that's appropriate. We do like things presented to us in a grossly over-simplified way in the US. Don't make us think too much or we might have to nuke you.
"The Day After" was considerably inferior to the original British production that it copied, "Threads". I watched both at the time they were released and could compare them. Both got a great deal of publicity and attention then.
I think you are a little confused. ABC-TV broadcast "The Day After" on Nov. 20, 1983. The BBC broadcast "Threads" Sept. 23, 1984 and TBS made the first U.S. broadcast of "Threads" on Jan. 13, 1985.
@@stevegordon5689 I'm with you there, my friend. I'm not snobby enough to call a movie "considerably inferior," especially when they are such different movies with different purposes. But Threads messes with my mind in a way TDA doesn't.Through the whole movie, Threads keeps gutting me, slowly, painfully, incessantly. I live in the US, and I swear I knew those people! They're English Midlanders (right?), but they're unquestionably and universally human. Some are friendly, some annoying, and none are perfect or ideal. That was the goal of Threads, not The Day After. TDA ended with a tinge of hope, and the characters were idealistic, not realistic.
This was one of the most inaccurate depictions of what would happen if the bomb drops tbh (TDA). Threads was as close to reality as its going to get. I also love (heavy sarcasm implied) how Americans always seem to think if a nuke is dropped on them, all they have to do is fire bigger, better bombs right back and America and the world is saved bar the couple of dumbasses who just didn't care to prepare properly. No. Once one nuke is dropped, that's it. We're all done for. nothing and no one left to fight back. No amount of prep will help anyone, no amount of money. Britain's civil defence plan was piss poor, absolutely, but Threads showed very clearly and accurately that money and preparation did not matter; most people died in the end, rich and poor alike.
For all its horror, The Day After is still a movie. Threads, on the other hand, is a depression shot that goes on and on and just never ends...
Exactly, threads is way more gritty and accurate there's no way at the end of the day after there would have been a hospital and drugs like how they showed it.
@@adrianh332 Not only that but notice how it's always a lovely Summer's day without hardly a cloud in sight days AFTER the strike.
Any chance we can get Keir Starmer and Joe Biden to watch this . And every other western War Monga.
Feb. 26, 2022---Thank you as I happened to find this by accident.
I felt Threads was even more scary. But I think both conveyed a strong message. Mutual Assured Destruction is not the answer.
As Einstein said: "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
People need to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.
There is nothing to love, when a nuclear exchange of 3,000-5,000 megatons could result in population being reduced to mediaeval levels, life expectancy cut by half, education and health care destroyed and culture gutted.
President Reagan got a private screening of the movie before it aired on ABC in the United States. It left him terribly depressed and some say led him to the rapprochement with the USSR in 1985. He was still a man of principle and anti-Communist but he also realized the awesome power in his hands and what it could unleash. Also, the nice lady who owned the farm that was destroyed in the movie rebuked the characters in the movie for trying to escape. An ICBM installation would be hit by one or several ground burst weapons and a property so close by would be turned into plasma - even in an underground shelter. She was planning for a tornado not a thermonuclear ground burst.
Psychologically, threads felt even more devastating.
Same here but I'm from the UK.
All those years ago and now we truly are facing the unthinkable.Poland is talking about going to war with Russia. CHina is saying its going to take Taiwan...not looking good
"Threads" did have a more graphic depiction of the aftermath, but I will always find "The Day After" FAR more frightening. The anxious build up to the attack and the gothic, demonic mushroom clouds rising up into the air just created a chilling atmosphere that no other nuke film has ever matched. For those in the UK that are fans of "Threads", I highly recommend the film "The War Game" from 1965. I felt that British effort was better than "Threads", as well.
The living will Envy the Dead.
Scary in 2022
When I first saw this tv movie it really makes you think about the future of our children and their children 💔😔😢😞😪😕.
Both threads and day after scared me to death!
The big controversy was that the film The Day After showed on-screen deaths by nuclear blast - something apparently not seen before. That many Americans would be traumatized by this - having never thought about or seen it before; - that it was on at Prime Time. They could not sell all the advertising time as sponsors shied away from such ideas associated with their products.
This film is unsettling, every time I watch it.....it really makes us think about something we dont want to think about..... losing control of our lives 😖
Though now the danger we face is a pandemic and really is unseen but kills and unlike the nuclear war scenario this really goes scary.
We never had any control of our lives.
Remember this like it was yesterday.
I remember the angst inspired by this movie. The closer the air date got the more fevered became the discussion. It was a time of great unease as I remember it. To think that a variation of this scenario is even more likely today is unsettling with nations rattling sabres at an unprecedented rate with the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
I don't know if my mother watched it or not, but she sure as hell didn't let us kids. I was paranoid enough about nuclear war. I would NOT have been able to handle it
Great movie.
Great upload
The day after was a comedy compared to threads.
I was 9 years of Age in 1983
Gosh we were a bunch of dorks then...yes saw it as a kd, thought how it'll end, but it's nothing compared to current proceeding generation's fears
In 1964 when the US Navy presented the Poseidon missile to Lawrence, Kansas.....are you award that the Poseidon is launched from submarines ? and that Lawrence, Kansas is in the middle of the USA...nowhere near an ocean. USA rocks though !!!!!!!!!!!
Mate, he said Polaris.
Hadn’t seen Threads yet
this may sound odd but tanker rail cars would make a perfect underground bomb shelter if one can stand up in them??!!
Also could use Sea cans.
DO not watch "Threads" then!
The Communist North Koreans invaded South Korea in 1950. Nuclear bombs cannot change that fact. Soviet documents released in 1994showed this about North Korea.
This video left me wondering what it was about. It started with The Day After, then suddenly we're talking about protestors, Nicaragua, Grenada, the Freeze movement, the perceived Communist threat, and nuclear policy. It uses TDA as its starting point, but it wanders aimlessly until it looks like an Australian journalist's home movies from his vacation in the US. War is bad, and we disagree on the rest. Is there a point? It's not about TDA. This seems to have been made before anyone had seen the movie. At best it's a grossly over-simplified snapshot of the current state of the American side of the Cold War. Maybe that's appropriate. We do like things presented to us in a grossly over-simplified way in the US. Don't make us think too much or we might have to nuke you.
Luckily it was just a movie! Wasn't the case in 1945 Japan though!!☢️💣
"The Day After" was considerably inferior to the original British production that it copied, "Threads". I watched both at the time they were released and could compare them. Both got a great deal of publicity and attention then.
hebneh The Day after came out before Threads, not after.
I think you are a little confused. ABC-TV broadcast "The Day After" on Nov. 20, 1983. The BBC broadcast "Threads" Sept. 23, 1984 and TBS made the first U.S. broadcast of "Threads" on Jan. 13, 1985.
The day after scared me.Threads traumatized me!
@@stevegordon5689 I'm with you there, my friend. I'm not snobby enough to call a movie "considerably inferior," especially when they are such different movies with different purposes. But Threads messes with my mind in a way TDA doesn't.Through the whole movie, Threads keeps gutting me, slowly, painfully, incessantly. I live in the US, and I swear I knew those people! They're English Midlanders (right?), but they're unquestionably and universally human. Some are friendly, some annoying, and none are perfect or ideal. That was the goal of Threads, not The Day After. TDA ended with a tinge of hope, and the characters were idealistic, not realistic.
The three hour version of The Day After was at least as moving as Threads.
What a joke and so unreal. A person walking in fallout. A good movie is Threads in 1984 on the BBC.
I think you've missed the point of this video
This was one of the most inaccurate depictions of what would happen if the bomb drops tbh (TDA). Threads was as close to reality as its going to get. I also love (heavy sarcasm implied) how Americans always seem to think if a nuke is dropped on them, all they have to do is fire bigger, better bombs right back and America and the world is saved bar the couple of dumbasses who just didn't care to prepare properly. No. Once one nuke is dropped, that's it. We're all done for. nothing and no one left to fight back. No amount of prep will help anyone, no amount of money. Britain's civil defence plan was piss poor, absolutely, but Threads showed very clearly and accurately that money and preparation did not matter; most people died in the end, rich and poor alike.