He's smoking right next to his pregnant girlfriend. Kind of dated it by that scene alone. I love this movie though, one of the most depressing films I have ever seen.
The only thing that really bugs me about this film, is how the Women are portrayed. They all come across and submissive, domesticated ( as one keeps sheep) and very stupid.
Well there may be war in Iran soon & who knows where that will go.. Sure the Cold War is over but there are lots of nuclear powers and the World is tiring of Isreal stamping its feet and ordering the US to intervene any time it wants to make a quick buck. Nukes are unlikely, thats more a China/Russia/North Korea etc. alliance senario (not saying these nations are "evil" but rather opposed to the Isreal and its US/Euro military stooges) but use of chemical/biological weapons are possible IMO.
@andy7666 I highly doubt the Iran situation will lead to full scare nuclear war, but youre right, theyre less rational. The other countries you mentioned understand there is no winner in a nuclear attack, but I think they have a concept that one bomb will make Irseal surrender. that wont happen. What will happen is Israel will annihiate them and the other Arab countries will shit.
@MercuryRis Of course you are aware that 10 of the 23 Arab states are NOT in the Middle East. Moreover, the stated opinion of the CIA, MI5, FSB, and Mossad is that the Iranian government is actually "rational" when it comes to armed conflict, hence the reason why the Iranian government have never supplied chemical or biological weapons to their allies in Lebanon - they know that if such weapons were ever used in Lebanon or Palestine, then Iran would be held responsible and would be attacked.
I know this is soooooo off-topic, what is the year and model and of car Jimmy is driving? All I can tell is that it's a Ford. It starts with a "C" but I can't tell anymore than that.
Certainly superior to that idiotic American "drama" "The Day After". U.S.ers haven't been capable of manufacturing anything but financial "services" for several decades. Anything they come up with requires dimming one's IQ by several points.
@TheShalasweet the day after wasnt so bad, but they hadnt considered the after effects ie: the fallout etc. they might aswell have just made a film about a series of massive conventional air raids.
@TheShalasweet I watched The Day After at age 10. It scared the living daylights out of me. I then just so happen to catch this movie the one and only time it aired in the US in the 80's. The main points, at least in my mind, were conveyed in both movies. First and foremost, you can't win a nuclear war. Second, the unlucky people are the ones who survive. I don't understand what The Day After missed that Threads captured. Full scale nuclear war is living hell 4 those who survive.
@LadyGrinningSoulDiva Right! I live in the US and I think people would go apeshit if the Lindsay Lohan (whoever she is -- I really don't even know or care) news bullshit was interrupted by something as annoiying as the Civil Defense tone-alert warning of incoming ICBMs. I worked as a TV meteorologist and I swear I received calls for hours from people when I cut in to their soap opera with my (silly me) annoying TORNADO WARNINGs >:-) But I loved it..
Now this seems nothing more than a curio, I would have been 12 when threads had been first broadcast, how the BBC fought with the government to challenge it's banning. We listened to lunacy of Reagan, the viciousness of thatcher and saw the paranoia of the soviet union. As school children we had to watch protect and survive and our parents talked about how we would be OK if the bomb dropped. The world was indeed paranoid about nuclear war, as it is now by terrorism. I also remember the day afte
@Godlesseuroboi they were still teaching protect and survive in schools in the mid 90s. was at comp school then, i think we watched it all in history in year 8 (13yo) which for me was in 1997/1998.
Ahh, i remember when families all sat around the tv enjoying the shows that they all liked before the world exploded and everything went to pot. fun times!
Does anyone think the "books of war" are there because the local governor (who would become one of the de facto local leaders/ local government in the event of a nuclear attack) is just there to symbolise that he, and likely his colleagues have no clue how to manage such a crises and are merely going completely by the book? I'm assuming the book doesn't really know what its doing either because the whole lot of them turn up dead.
@joeymod135 I could not agree more - while his methods damaged this country's long-term financial situation, he hated the bomb and he deserves some credit for at least lessening the danger. Of course now we've got the terrorist issue which is harder to control if maybe less universally catastrophic.
@LadyGrinningSoulDiva Yeah, I've been a little freaked out because of the shit that's happening between North and Sorth Korea. The news barely seems to be covering. Apparently, knowing what the "hottest celebs" are doing is more important than our safety.
I remember watching this when i was 14yo, in the mid nineties i was a electrician the firm i worked for had a contract with city council hq that had a nuclear bunker (think every council hq has one in the UK) anyway there's books in there with instructions to make contact with local hospitals, police etc & to shoot any prisoners that maybe alive in there cells in prison.
Both The Day After and Threads send the same message. Dont do this!!!!!! Threads did build on a few things over The Day After but they both show how fast we could lose everything if something goes wrong. We are used to our infostructure. Think about the fact that it could be totally destroyed in less than an hour.
@schomminater You're absolutely right, I don't see any "superiority" as people say from one movie to the next. The message was conveyed quite clearly, the is no acceptable outcome to a nuclear exchange. TDA, showed the 1st detonation to be an aerial 1, the point to show the effects of EMP. What did Threads show, nothing is just says a "Denotation high over the North Sea" and the effects. After that, whats more to it. Except, both show the unlucky ones are the survivors.
@NRAforlife67 hey there, you may want to look up the BBC tv production called "The War Game" made in the 60s. It's pretty much unknown due to censorship by bcc back in the day. In my opinion the best of its kind. I mean it's really good and distressing, because of the realistic depiction.
my friend told me about this movie after i told her about 2012....................things havn't changed much...............soldiers are still getting killed in Afganistan and we're always fighting over something! There's no world peace, never will be, until we've all gone!
@sam077088 Sadly, I think you're quite right. Like the late great George Carlin said "mother earth will be just fine without us....she'll shake us all off like a bad case of fleas" I think he was bang on the money there..all the problems are caused by people who have a lust for power/greed/money etc etc. Another great quote (not sure who said it though) is "when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"...sadly we know it'll likely never happen :(
1988, if you think about it. Worked out where me and my family would've been the day the Bomb dropped. Disturbs me, but it'll never happen anyway. Powers used this shit to keep us in check. 9 11 is their latest album. What next?
Don't sell the Day After short: as a young man, that film made me realize for the first time that after a nuclear holocaust, no government would be left to protect me from the awful acting of Steve Guttenberg.....
Why do they keep showing Phantom jets? Thought we went from Lightnings to Buccanears to Tornados etc? Phantoms are McDonald Douglas, American aircraft!
The Phantom II was widely used by the RAF and the Royal Navy (prior to the decommissioning of our 'real' Aircraft Carriers).
Two things I think is eery about this film is that Britain in the early 90's (when i grey up) wasn't so different, so it hits a chord for me, and the disturbing everyday things you hear and see, for example the accident on the M6 that the radio newcaster mentions. All very very believable.
is he the actor that was in the tv series 24? he was a part of the presidents cabinet; briefed the president on how many civilians would die from the terrorist attack set on l.a.. the president had faith in jack bauer and was impeached for it.- i believe that this is the actor from season 1 & 2! i might be wrong...someone correct me. this is so ironic if it is the actor!
this was actually made when nuclear war was possible with the soviets would be so scary after watchin this realising this could come true quite easily
war book ...!!!! fuck ........mairy can you get these people in my ofice .......my drug dealer ,the bloke that owns the the pub ,,,and that fit tart out of tesco,s ....what food we got...? ........two cans of spam and a bottle of vodka ,and 10 marlboro lights ....i think we might need sun screen
@ThoughtTraveler Iran is not the problem, it's Israel's inability to deal with the fact that Iran is an independent country, and Israel's financial bullying of other country's into taking more sanctions against Iran.
1:54 - 2:42: This scene almost parallels the current controversy between North and South Korea regarding the sinking of a South Korean warship a few weeks ago.
@NRAforlife67 - Hey! I agree with that statement 100%. This is WAY scarier than any horror movie. Worse than mass murderers, vampires, aliens and monsters. Threads gives me chills and goosebumps, almost moves me to tears.
I can't believe how much better this is than "The Day After". It's so believable and realistic, and frightening that we could have even contemplated such a horror. Scary to think these still exist and I'm afraid someday they could still be used.
@mongoose704 Well, in many or most cases not, I would say. We all know that we can do nothing in order of preventing natural disasters (except those who thinks to pray or to sacrifice will help) and little to nothing in order to prevent war.
Fear only makes sense when it help us to escape or destroy danger.
P.S.: I imagined "Threads" to be much more shocking. Maybe I´d just heard too much about it horrors, before I watched it.
@mongoose704 I am shocked more by silent horrors. Gore and violence mostly have not much effect to me. Before I was old enough to see how kitshy it, "When the wind blows" was the most shocking movie, I´ve ever seen. Nowadays it´s "The Tin Drum" and "Funny Games", and "Vacancy" also gave me goosebumbs.
@Falldownhard: Of course, I wouldn't call "The Day After" anything close to either unrealistic or unbelievable, but I agree, "Threads" is much better in quite a few ways.
@falldownhard This movie cannot be mentioned without mentioning The Day After...and vice versa it seems. The Day After had its flaws but was more like a movie. This movie had its flaws as well.
but you have grasped an important point.
Those beasts are still out there. More than enough to create the holocaust depicted in this film.
Yeah, but the BBC never showed it on their networks again after the first run. The Day After is good for where it was made. We in America can't get any like this on TV. :P
@falldownhard The Day After's message is no less poignant than Threads, although it was made for TV and unfortunately had to be toned down for America's FCC rules. The director, Nicolas Meyer (of Star Trek II and Star Trek VI fame), I'm sure if he could do it again, he would probably make it more realistic.
With that said, Threads is much more raw with less gratuitous melodrama.
I actually think a movie like Day After/Threads with modern effects would be far more frightening.
@falldownhard I saw a poster for this documentary, and the headline said "As close to nuclear war as you could get" and I believe the said that this makes "The Day After" look like "A day at the races" I believe it
This is the best movie about nuclear war that I have ever seen. It's gritty, scary, and shows that the living would definately envy the dead! I just wish these war mongers would think about what this kind of war would do to the planet. There would be nothing left! Just drop the bomb on top of me I don't want to be around after it drops!!!
The country was going to be split into 18 fully autonomous zones contolled from a RG (Regional Government) HQ bunker. These would direct whatever was left of the police and military to distribute food stocks, relocate survivors to areas outside the blast zones and corrall the survivors into agricultural production. A few are open to the public as museums now such as the bunkers near Epping Forest, Chester and Fife
For our younger viewers, note the 'corned beef' reference at 5:55: "I hope it's not from Argentina." This movie came out in 1984, only 2 years after the Falkland Island War between Britain and Argentina.
Better still is the "s" added to "homelessness officer" at 5:25. As if the assumption when it was typed that there would only be one was outdated by the "recession" mentioned in the previous clip.
Very Funny indeed. That corned beef would have been made by Swift corporation (Established in Argentina by British investors)
Falklands war proved that the scenario depicted here is not unlikely at all. Even today.
Never underestimate the possibility of extreme stupidity of leadership (specially in failed democracies) Falklands war is a good example. By the way, I wonder what cuold be North Korean leader's wildest plans today. (goosebumps)
Sanlorencino1981: As for the North Korean leader's wildest plans, this is a guy who kidnapped actors and fillm directors to make movies of his own design, and now he has nukes. If that doesn't give you goosebumps, I don't know what will.
The realism of this film is incredible! Especially if you lived in the 80's. I tell you what, I watched it when it was first aired, and it was muted that it would never be shown on terrestrial TV again! Such was the incredible impact of this super docudrama, which is the bench mark of this type of film/docudrama.
The Day After was extremely significant. It is still significant. I was merely attempting that after ~30 years, Threads seems to hold up better to modern scrutiny. I remember watching The Day After in 1988. It scarred the hell out of me and did a lot to shape my views regarding nuclear weapons.
@2degucitas The only one that was just as good was "Operation Looking Glass," which was about the events leading up to a nuke exchange. It was a four-hour film telling the story in a series of news broadcasts, it was shown in 1987 on independent television in the U.S. Haven't found it since!
They don't need to remake it, RB215, it has stood the test of time. They do, however need to have a private screening of it for those leaders that you've mentioned.
9:14 Ugh!! Damn broads is 80's England were ugly
pissedoffdude87 6 days ago
boy does the global situation sound similar too anyone
angrynhpatriot 1 month ago 5
"As long as it's not from Argentina" lol there is a little humour in it despite the very serious nature of the film.
maroon45 1 month ago
STILL NO BOOM
antourte1 1 month ago
E.T was in this film.
MyMerlin1 2 months ago
He's smoking right next to his pregnant girlfriend. Kind of dated it by that scene alone. I love this movie though, one of the most depressing films I have ever seen.
originalamam 3 months ago
this film scared the living fuck out of everyone at the most inconvenient time :P
BenK8319 3 months ago 3
@BenK8319 I would say this and The Day After scared the living fuck out of everyone at exactly the _right_ time...
Naddig74 2 months ago
The only thing that really bugs me about this film, is how the Women are portrayed. They all come across and submissive, domesticated ( as one keeps sheep) and very stupid.
starquant 3 months ago
Well there may be war in Iran soon & who knows where that will go.. Sure the Cold War is over but there are lots of nuclear powers and the World is tiring of Isreal stamping its feet and ordering the US to intervene any time it wants to make a quick buck. Nukes are unlikely, thats more a China/Russia/North Korea etc. alliance senario (not saying these nations are "evil" but rather opposed to the Isreal and its US/Euro military stooges) but use of chemical/biological weapons are possible IMO.
andy7666 3 months ago
@andy7666 I highly doubt the Iran situation will lead to full scare nuclear war, but youre right, theyre less rational. The other countries you mentioned understand there is no winner in a nuclear attack, but I think they have a concept that one bomb will make Irseal surrender. that wont happen. What will happen is Israel will annihiate them and the other Arab countries will shit.
MercuryRis 4 weeks ago
@MercuryRis "other Arab countries"??? Iran is NOT an Arab country.
SultanChase 3 weeks ago
@SultanChase Ok, Down, Fang. I stand corrected! I meant to say "Crazy nutjob Middle-East countries" Is that better?
MercuryRis 3 weeks ago
@MercuryRis Of course you are aware that 10 of the 23 Arab states are NOT in the Middle East. Moreover, the stated opinion of the CIA, MI5, FSB, and Mossad is that the Iranian government is actually "rational" when it comes to armed conflict, hence the reason why the Iranian government have never supplied chemical or biological weapons to their allies in Lebanon - they know that if such weapons were ever used in Lebanon or Palestine, then Iran would be held responsible and would be attacked.
SultanChase 3 weeks ago 2
@joyandian thanks for uploading the videos
scatteredmist 4 months ago
I remember the fear of the early to mid 80s so well. This BBC piece is so well done.
sugarmaple28 4 months ago 2
i'd smash Ruth's shitpipe wide open!
LordRassy 5 months ago
@LordRassy LOL!
sinusbradycardia 4 months ago
Do anybody know what the name of that tune that Alison is listening on her headphones at 1:35.
georgelee43211 6 months ago
@georgelee43211 Clair de lune by Claude Debussy
WhoopsMrsMiggins 5 months ago 3
@WhoopsMrsMiggins Thank you.
georgelee43211 5 months ago 3
>:-) Winner and STILL the CHAMP!
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kayper54 6 months ago
@ChristopherSaindon Can YOU tell me what kind of Ford that is and the year model?
kayper54 6 months ago
@kayper54 It's a 1984 Ford Char. Unfortunately, it doesn't work after the EMP.
SloreTactician 6 months ago
I know this is soooooo off-topic, what is the year and model and of car Jimmy is driving? All I can tell is that it's a Ford. It starts with a "C" but I can't tell anymore than that.
kayper54 6 months ago
Very disturbing!!
sarialkhalili 6 months ago
Certainly superior to that idiotic American "drama" "The Day After". U.S.ers haven't been capable of manufacturing anything but financial "services" for several decades. Anything they come up with requires dimming one's IQ by several points.
TheShalasweet 7 months ago
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Totally
Theodorus5 6 months ago
@TheShalasweet the day after wasnt so bad, but they hadnt considered the after effects ie: the fallout etc. they might aswell have just made a film about a series of massive conventional air raids.
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@TheShalasweet I watched The Day After at age 10. It scared the living daylights out of me. I then just so happen to catch this movie the one and only time it aired in the US in the 80's. The main points, at least in my mind, were conveyed in both movies. First and foremost, you can't win a nuclear war. Second, the unlucky people are the ones who survive. I don't understand what The Day After missed that Threads captured. Full scale nuclear war is living hell 4 those who survive.
sinusbradycardia 4 months ago 3
@sinusbradycardia I often think, you survive, hand out the cyanide laced punch.
MercuryRis 4 weeks ago
@TheShalasweet The cultural cringe is strong in this one ...
ShiggityBlam 3 months ago
@LadyGrinningSoulDiva Right! I live in the US and I think people would go apeshit if the Lindsay Lohan (whoever she is -- I really don't even know or care) news bullshit was interrupted by something as annoiying as the Civil Defense tone-alert warning of incoming ICBMs. I worked as a TV meteorologist and I swear I received calls for hours from people when I cut in to their soap opera with my (silly me) annoying TORNADO WARNINGs >:-) But I loved it..
ChristopherSaindon 7 months ago
@ChristopherSaindon doesnt the american nuclear attack warning include the line "get to a fallout shelter now, holy shit!" ??
hogalog 6 months ago
2:47 Thank God they demolished the "Egg Crate" (on the right) in 2001! Godawful screaming ugly, it was.
Liked the music that Alison was listening to in the scene before. Chillaxin'.
ViceroyCDR 8 months ago
@ViceroyCDR yeah, it's a version of Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune"
parkhurst2006 7 months ago
Now this seems nothing more than a curio, I would have been 12 when threads had been first broadcast, how the BBC fought with the government to challenge it's banning. We listened to lunacy of Reagan, the viciousness of thatcher and saw the paranoia of the soviet union. As school children we had to watch protect and survive and our parents talked about how we would be OK if the bomb dropped. The world was indeed paranoid about nuclear war, as it is now by terrorism. I also remember the day afte
Godlesseuroboi 8 months ago
@Godlesseuroboi they were still teaching protect and survive in schools in the mid 90s. was at comp school then, i think we watched it all in history in year 8 (13yo) which for me was in 1997/1998.
hogalog 6 months ago
Ahh, i remember when families all sat around the tv enjoying the shows that they all liked before the world exploded and everything went to pot. fun times!
MsHolly30 8 months ago
Iran in the far east... lol
lrn2geography ya git!
outwrangle 8 months ago
@outwrangle You're a sweet, naive product of your age. Most amusing:)
MrRik2 7 months ago
if this happens i want too be pissed and with close family under the stars plenty of tinned foods
jason31ful 9 months ago
Replace "Soviet Union" With "China" and this is a very realistic scenario...
tjmick1992 10 months ago 3
Does anyone think the "books of war" are there because the local governor (who would become one of the de facto local leaders/ local government in the event of a nuclear attack) is just there to symbolise that he, and likely his colleagues have no clue how to manage such a crises and are merely going completely by the book? I'm assuming the book doesn't really know what its doing either because the whole lot of them turn up dead.
Standuble 11 months ago
@NRAforlife67 12 monkeys, that some scary movie... maybe not the movie but the concept that one man can pull 'it' off, alone.
scary shit.
utar88utar 11 months ago
come on.. when do they drop the bomb on these idiots..
thargor1981 11 months ago 2
hahaha 4.57... ahhhh haaaaaaa.....its alan partridge
thargor1981 11 months ago
THE LORD JESUS IS COMING SOON!!! BE READY THE SALVATION IS FREE AND NOW... ACEPT HUM AS SAVIOUR
juanmisionero1 11 months ago
@juanmisionero1 I'll accept a hummer from the saviour.
blindthrall 9 months ago
i think its more in depth than the day after was
pizzaman147 1 year ago
Be afraid... be VERY afraid !!!!
cc1sportingtorver 1 year ago
this movie was made because certain people were sayin you can win nuclear war
TheDEATHSTARIII 1 year ago 30
behold,our future.
MannyJazzcats 1 year ago
Steve Coogan I believe drinking tea at 4:57?
vkman34 1 year ago
@vkman34 Coogan would've been about 13 when this was made.
ibizajoey 1 year ago
CORNED BEEF! HOPE IT'S NOT FROM ARGENTINA!!! LOL
73kdt 1 year ago 2
@joeymod135 I could not agree more - while his methods damaged this country's long-term financial situation, he hated the bomb and he deserves some credit for at least lessening the danger. Of course now we've got the terrorist issue which is harder to control if maybe less universally catastrophic.
falldownhard 1 year ago 10
@OutlanderWarrior What the fuck are you on about? What do you think the Battle of britain was fought in? Hot air ballons? Dopey cunt
kamelion7 1 year ago
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@kamelion7 You said:
"What do you think the Battle of britain was fought in? Hot air ballons? Dopey cunt"
Well, that's not entirely inaccurate; you guys *did* use a lot of Barrage Balloons during the Blitz!
HooshIsASoup 1 year ago
@22reTOYOTA What the hell are you talking about? He sounded rather realistic and quite serious.
pytko3 1 year ago
@LadyGrinningSoulDiva Yeah, I've been a little freaked out because of the shit that's happening between North and Sorth Korea. The news barely seems to be covering. Apparently, knowing what the "hottest celebs" are doing is more important than our safety.
InAGaddaDaVida29 1 year ago
@InAGaddaDaVida29 The news can't cover it. Kim Jong-Il has already threatened the US if they continue to talk about him and his doings in the media.
zcrawford81 1 year ago
I remember watching this when i was 14yo, in the mid nineties i was a electrician the firm i worked for had a contract with city council hq that had a nuclear bunker (think every council hq has one in the UK) anyway there's books in there with instructions to make contact with local hospitals, police etc & to shoot any prisoners that maybe alive in there cells in prison.
jaldorian 1 year ago
Both The Day After and Threads send the same message. Dont do this!!!!!! Threads did build on a few things over The Day After but they both show how fast we could lose everything if something goes wrong. We are used to our infostructure. Think about the fact that it could be totally destroyed in less than an hour.
schomminater 1 year ago
@schomminater You're absolutely right, I don't see any "superiority" as people say from one movie to the next. The message was conveyed quite clearly, the is no acceptable outcome to a nuclear exchange. TDA, showed the 1st detonation to be an aerial 1, the point to show the effects of EMP. What did Threads show, nothing is just says a "Denotation high over the North Sea" and the effects. After that, whats more to it. Except, both show the unlucky ones are the survivors.
sinusbradycardia 4 months ago 3
Unless I over looked it. there is only a U.K dvd version available on amazon.com
Can this be purchased in U.S DVD format and if so, where?
stavrophotography 1 year ago
I think both movies are horrific Period!
jocelyna38 1 year ago 2
@jocelyna38 i like to think this an the {the day after} are the same just in different states
creapsmantic 1 year ago
dont worry about stripping the door the flash should get it off .....
killme96 1 year ago
03:07 Typical English upper class Rular....watering his flowers.
NolanRogers2 1 year ago
Hello..who does know the young girl that is hearing classic music with headphones??
Is it to me,that she is now welknown,or was she only at this film at an film??
She must be as old as me,but i can also fail.
Caddl123 1 year ago
@NRAforlife67 hey there, you may want to look up the BBC tv production called "The War Game" made in the 60s. It's pretty much unknown due to censorship by bcc back in the day. In my opinion the best of its kind. I mean it's really good and distressing, because of the realistic depiction.
kunstsein 1 year ago
@NRAforlife67 Not as scary as The Fourth Kind..! that made me 'shake' with fear!
nottingtohide 1 year ago
Disgusting Movie. Makes Pain by viewing.
michelkoch 1 year ago
my friend told me about this movie after i told her about 2012....................things havn't changed much...............soldiers are still getting killed in Afganistan and we're always fighting over something! There's no world peace, never will be, until we've all gone!
sam077088 1 year ago
@sam077088 Sadly, I think you're quite right. Like the late great George Carlin said "mother earth will be just fine without us....she'll shake us all off like a bad case of fleas" I think he was bang on the money there..all the problems are caused by people who have a lust for power/greed/money etc etc. Another great quote (not sure who said it though) is "when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"...sadly we know it'll likely never happen :(
Ironlord2015 1 year ago
This should be made mandatory viewing for all newly elected nuclear power leaders.
Alan7997 1 year ago 13
1988, if you think about it. Worked out where me and my family would've been the day the Bomb dropped. Disturbs me, but it'll never happen anyway. Powers used this shit to keep us in check. 9 11 is their latest album. What next?
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
Don't sell the Day After short: as a young man, that film made me realize for the first time that after a nuclear holocaust, no government would be left to protect me from the awful acting of Steve Guttenberg.....
Senor0Droolcup 1 year ago 4
@Senor0Droolcup Same here.
sinusbradycardia 4 months ago
Why do they keep showing Phantom jets? Thought we went from Lightnings to Buccanears to Tornados etc? Phantoms are McDonald Douglas, American aircraft!
MinkeySimon 1 year ago
@MinkeySimon
The Phantom II was widely used by the RAF and the Royal Navy (prior to the decommissioning of our 'real' Aircraft Carriers).
Two things I think is eery about this film is that Britain in the early 90's (when i grey up) wasn't so different, so it hits a chord for me, and the disturbing everyday things you hear and see, for example the accident on the M6 that the radio newcaster mentions. All very very believable.
Qorlan 1 year ago
@Qorlan "grew up" even hehe
Qorlan 1 year ago
i miss the good old ussr
xxXSTIGYXxx 1 year ago
is he the actor that was in the tv series 24? he was a part of the presidents cabinet; briefed the president on how many civilians would die from the terrorist attack set on l.a.. the president had faith in jack bauer and was impeached for it.- i believe that this is the actor from season 1 & 2! i might be wrong...someone correct me. this is so ironic if it is the actor!
nahablack 1 year ago
this was actually made when nuclear war was possible with the soviets would be so scary after watchin this realising this could come true quite easily
tgerule 1 year ago
When it comes to making grim films, WE in the UK take the biscuit..!! :-) Tell it like it is. This was a great film..!!
crawleygat37 1 year ago
war book ...!!!! fuck ........mairy can you get these people in my ofice .......my drug dealer ,the bloke that owns the the pub ,,,and that fit tart out of tesco,s ....what food we got...? ........two cans of spam and a bottle of vodka ,and 10 marlboro lights ....i think we might need sun screen
killme96 1 year ago 2
@killme96 lol that was quite funny lol............dont forget the corned beef
samantha232 1 year ago
@killme96 lol and dont forget the pimp down the road
theunraveler 1 year ago
Funny how Iran is NOW the MAIN problem for World Peace...just like this movie in 1983 predicted.
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago 2
Although we're not as likely to get into a nuclear spat with Russia. :P
eddievhfan1984 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler Iran is not the problem, it's Israel's inability to deal with the fact that Iran is an independent country, and Israel's financial bullying of other country's into taking more sanctions against Iran.
MagnusVideos 1 year ago
7:43 made me jump
r0ckandrollTV 1 year ago
1:54 - 2:42: This scene almost parallels the current controversy between North and South Korea regarding the sinking of a South Korean warship a few weeks ago.
Felamine 1 year ago
@NRAforlife67 - Hey! I agree with that statement 100%. This is WAY scarier than any horror movie. Worse than mass murderers, vampires, aliens and monsters. Threads gives me chills and goosebumps, almost moves me to tears.
TheRadical42 1 year ago
Scary film!
ocalared 2 years ago
3 words.. REMAKE THE MOVIE!!
musicalglenn 2 years ago
@NRAforlife67 I agree! It's a REAL Horror Movie!
holmsatlarge 2 years ago
I can't believe how much better this is than "The Day After". It's so believable and realistic, and frightening that we could have even contemplated such a horror. Scary to think these still exist and I'm afraid someday they could still be used.
falldownhard 2 years ago 34
Not that The Day After was bad. It was more sanitized though. ABC requested the horrors be understated.
The Day After was a punch in the gut.
Threads was a kick in the nuts.
mongoose704 2 years ago 5
To be afraid mostly makes not much sense. You only can change what you are able to change, but the rest you just have to accept.
VitoPossilipo 2 years ago
But it takes wisdom to know what we can or cannot change.
mongoose704 1 year ago
@mongoose704 Well, in many or most cases not, I would say. We all know that we can do nothing in order of preventing natural disasters (except those who thinks to pray or to sacrifice will help) and little to nothing in order to prevent war.
Fear only makes sense when it help us to escape or destroy danger.
P.S.: I imagined "Threads" to be much more shocking. Maybe I´d just heard too much about it horrors, before I watched it.
VitoPossilipo 1 year ago
@VitoPossilipo That is possible you heard too much...
plus our society is overexposed to gore and violence.
mongoose704 1 year ago
@mongoose704 I am shocked more by silent horrors. Gore and violence mostly have not much effect to me. Before I was old enough to see how kitshy it, "When the wind blows" was the most shocking movie, I´ve ever seen. Nowadays it´s "The Tin Drum" and "Funny Games", and "Vacancy" also gave me goosebumbs.
VitoPossilipo 1 year ago
I just found "When the wind blows." I have never seen it but will watch it in a bit.
mongoose704 1 year ago
@mongoose704 - "When the Wind Blows" is good. The book is way better. Still, the movie has some very unique animation and it captures the book well.
TheRadical42 1 year ago
@Falldownhard: Of course, I wouldn't call "The Day After" anything close to either unrealistic or unbelievable, but I agree, "Threads" is much better in quite a few ways.
JohnnyDart76 2 years ago
@falldownhard This movie cannot be mentioned without mentioning The Day After...and vice versa it seems. The Day After had its flaws but was more like a movie. This movie had its flaws as well.
but you have grasped an important point.
Those beasts are still out there. More than enough to create the holocaust depicted in this film.
mongoose704 1 year ago 4
Yeah, but the BBC never showed it on their networks again after the first run. The Day After is good for where it was made. We in America can't get any like this on TV. :P
eddievhfan1984 1 year ago
@falldownhard A very skillfully directed film indeed.
IIIL47v 1 year ago
@falldownhard The Day After's message is no less poignant than Threads, although it was made for TV and unfortunately had to be toned down for America's FCC rules. The director, Nicolas Meyer (of Star Trek II and Star Trek VI fame), I'm sure if he could do it again, he would probably make it more realistic.
With that said, Threads is much more raw with less gratuitous melodrama.
I actually think a movie like Day After/Threads with modern effects would be far more frightening.
Politcalamity 10 months ago
@falldownhard I saw a poster for this documentary, and the headline said "As close to nuclear war as you could get" and I believe the said that this makes "The Day After" look like "A day at the races" I believe it
765Genobreaker 9 months ago
@falldownhard
There is, as you say, simply no comparison. "The Day After" was a superficial load of bollocks.
pretzelberg 8 months ago 2
@WyllowMorrigan I know, I found it here. Nice seeing it again.
mbabist01 2 years ago
This is the best movie about nuclear war that I have ever seen. It's gritty, scary, and shows that the living would definately envy the dead! I just wish these war mongers would think about what this kind of war would do to the planet. There would be nothing left! Just drop the bomb on top of me I don't want to be around after it drops!!!
holmsatlarge 2 years ago 5
thats interesting how many CEO's would have the balls to do their job, instead of looking out for their own first? What is in that book of war too?
bodunchar 2 years ago 2
keep calm dont panic! Have a cup of tea while you burn much better!
bodunchar 2 years ago 8
are these the rotary bunkers your on about?
ive been in the edinburgh one at chirstorphine-dont worry i had a M3 mask and disposable suit on for the absbestos...
coastkid71 2 years ago
thanks, that was very informitive. good post.
lunchmeat400 2 years ago
If central government should ever fail.....
The country was going to be split into 18 fully autonomous zones contolled from a RG (Regional Government) HQ bunker. These would direct whatever was left of the police and military to distribute food stocks, relocate survivors to areas outside the blast zones and corrall the survivors into agricultural production. A few are open to the public as museums now such as the bunkers near Epping Forest, Chester and Fife
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago 4
For our younger viewers, note the 'corned beef' reference at 5:55: "I hope it's not from Argentina." This movie came out in 1984, only 2 years after the Falkland Island War between Britain and Argentina.
wardenphil 2 years ago 4
Better still is the "s" added to "homelessness officer" at 5:25. As if the assumption when it was typed that there would only be one was outdated by the "recession" mentioned in the previous clip.
CrazyHorseInvincible 2 years ago
Very Funny indeed. That corned beef would have been made by Swift corporation (Established in Argentina by British investors)
Falklands war proved that the scenario depicted here is not unlikely at all. Even today.
Never underestimate the possibility of extreme stupidity of leadership (specially in failed democracies) Falklands war is a good example. By the way, I wonder what cuold be North Korean leader's wildest plans today. (goosebumps)
Best Regards from Argentina.
Sanlorencino1981 2 years ago
Sanlorencino1981: As for the North Korean leader's wildest plans, this is a guy who kidnapped actors and fillm directors to make movies of his own design, and now he has nukes. If that doesn't give you goosebumps, I don't know what will.
Best Regards from the U.S.
wardenphil 2 years ago
@Sanlorencino1981 Probably trying to find a crummier barber than the one he as now!
mbabist01 2 years ago
The realism of this film is incredible! Especially if you lived in the 80's. I tell you what, I watched it when it was first aired, and it was muted that it would never be shown on terrestrial TV again! Such was the incredible impact of this super docudrama, which is the bench mark of this type of film/docudrama.
loganduke 2 years ago 7
It is amazing how much better this film is than The Day After. Thanks for uploading!
leptonsoup337 2 years ago
Others have said that as well. The Day After had a huge impact and shouldn't be trashed just because it isn't as realistic as this.
2degucitas 2 years ago
The Day After was extremely significant. It is still significant. I was merely attempting that after ~30 years, Threads seems to hold up better to modern scrutiny. I remember watching The Day After in 1988. It scarred the hell out of me and did a lot to shape my views regarding nuclear weapons.
leptonsoup337 2 years ago
We are saying the same thing. You are right, Threads is a better made movie. Peace.
2degucitas 2 years ago
@2degucitas The only one that was just as good was "Operation Looking Glass," which was about the events leading up to a nuke exchange. It was a four-hour film telling the story in a series of news broadcasts, it was shown in 1987 on independent television in the U.S. Haven't found it since!
mbabist01 2 years ago
Thanks. I will give a look.
2degucitas 2 years ago
They need to remake this and show it to the leaders who have Nuclear weapons.
RB215 2 years ago 4
They don't need to remake it, RB215, it has stood the test of time. They do, however need to have a private screening of it for those leaders that you've mentioned.
lesterclaypool1 2 years ago 3
These are always tense situations that drives people like crazy to the supermarkets.
Maria6237 2 years ago
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1st comment wooo!
jpkestrel 2 years ago