Movies like this give space travel even more importance. It's best to get some people off the earth before some rogue nation, say Iran or Pakistan, start a nuclear chain reaction that could destroy this ant farm.
@HerrEllsworth Have you taken something there? Are you being serious? Where the hell would these people go there's no where else in this solo system that can sustain life like earth? That planet they've discovered that could support life is 24 million light years from us, too far away. I am afraid this ant farm as you call it is all we've got for now or the foreseeable future.
@ddd1953 naval or army regulations do not stipulate wearing arms on shore leave. Thankfully. Start with firearms (or sticks and stones), end up with missiles and nuclear weapons. Why could'nt we be cousins with bonobos instead of chimps ?
@TomBarrister Oh,I remember that!Now that you mention it.Although I thought it was a remake Movie and they made it into a mini series.i stand corrected!Thanks.Very powerful film tho as was the original!
We can make things safer, together. Try to look past, and outgrow our crumbling institutions that make us fight, such as, religion, the money system, groups, etc. Avoid distractions such as, mindless entertainment, sports shows, political conventions and race issues (really non-issues). Focus on the NOW. Pointless to dwell on the past, or to suffer anxiety about the future. What will you do RIGHT NOW?
Nobody they would die as well perhaps a bit later than the humans would. I'd of thought they'd of shot them before that. The only things that would survive those high levels radioactivity would be insects. They would be the ones that would inherit the earth after we've gone.
Horrible! That scene makes me keep think of that poor Russian disdent Ludvko who also died from being radiatively poisoned from Russian agents in London.
Actually now you mention it, Osbourne whirling around with the painting, cut to Peter and Mary whirling around in each others arms is that a good example?
Shute wrote his novel with two messages, one, to warn us that we can end all things human, two, to explore how humans deal with the ultimate end of all history, and the way we face that end.
The first film had a great impact when released. It was the film people could not look at but could also not watch. It has great drama and a very human story.
It is still very possible.
Resist, fight, make change, you can do it. one person at a time.
Anisete46 asked why disinfect for a fatal injection?
Habit, I would suppose. Might also be a sign of respect as oppose to "Hey old buddy, it doesn't matter any more, so the normal functions we show people, just going to forget about them."
Basically, though, one does the standard just incase things don't go the way they were anticipated. Faulty poisons, maybe an answer is found & then there is a concern about people done in with dirty needles, something.
Why not? Petroleum was gone by this time. That's why they're in the horse cart and not a car. In the novel, they had coal but not petroleum, thus the steam locomotive.
For suntzu1985... thanks for the input.. i watch this film almost everynight and often just comment to talk to myself it seems...re fallout shelters, I was living on an Army base in Texas during the Cuban missile crisis and our "shelter" was a windowed basement with a few bottles of water and canned goods, pathetic..Still I'm sure there are top of the line things for "important" people (politicians) and young fertile women ! altho the half life of plutonium is..well, something enormous..
yes, they would work for a short period of time a month or two before people would begin to run out of supplies not to mention being confined for such a long time would cause some severe psychiatriac and psychological problems.
Have you read or heard of Cobalt-60 doped nukes designed by Leo Schilard? I would take YEARS for the radiation levels to decrease enough to be safe for people to get out.
lets face it mate..no matter w3here in the world you are from...if 1/4 of the nuke missiles get shot off...the whole planet is fucked..courtesy of the usa and russia and china mostly
only 50 Hiroshima sized bombs would render the planets ecosystem so badly damaged that most of the grain producing countries of the world would not be able to produce grain anymore. meaning most of the planet starves. add fifty more nukes (and Hiroshima ones are bloody small) and the human race simply starves completely.
That is correct - the Russians and Chinese used Cobalt Bombs against each other. Cobalt 60 is nasty stuff - its half life of roughly 5 years is short enough to emit a LOT of Radiation, but long enough that you can't wait it out in a Fallout Shelter.
If we ever have a war fought with cobalt bombs, we're SO SCREWED. I would be like, ''It's been a pleasure knowing this planet.'' In the novel, humanity doomed itself by causing the war. Shute wrote the novel to warn us that nuclear war should NEVER happen. If we ignore this message and blow each other up, we may end up like the dinosaurs. We could end up causing our own extinction. (I'm not saying the dinosaurs caused their own demise, but that's beside the point.)
Nice to know that that the Iranians are creating same scenerio as what was portryed in the novel. That's why we've got to stop them developing nukes or were doomed.
@thelearner60 The nuclear "threat" posed by Iran has been seriously overblown. Even if Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program--which is not at all certain--they could develop a handful of bombs at best. Not nearly enough to create a scenario like this. Plus, if they ever dared use their bombs, or if they even threatened to, they'd be instantly taken out. Say what you like about the Iranian regime, but I doubt very much they want to be blown to smithereens.
@wardenphil Well, that what some people (e.g Christopher HItchens) believe. I really see no basis for it. Their behavior, although cynical, is usually quite rational.
@fileboy2002 Exactly. And I think the only true reason we avoided nuclear war so far is that we're too cowardly to start it. God bless our cowardice, for a change... ;-) And I doubt they'll ever be a global nuke war, or a nuke war of any kind. Nukes were only ever useful for scaring your opposition, no one really built them with the intent to use them.
@ZemplinTemplar did you know that EVERY SINGLE weapon that has EVER been invented, devised, manufactured and created has been used at least ONCE. yes, it is true and if you know ANYTHING about the history of humanity there are ALWAYS evil people who will use those weapons. that is a HISTORICAL FACT!
@SocratesTheGadfly Nuclear weapons were used against Japan in 1945. It brought WW2 to an end saving my dad who was going to take part in the invasion of the country, from being possibly killed there. If nukes hadn't been there the US would of used instead poison gas.
@Professor6871 do you think that I do NOT know that? of course I know the history of world war 2 in which hiroshima and nagasaki were destroyed by the "little boy" and the "fat man" atomic weapons. operation olympic was the planned invasion of the japanese home islands using 4 marine corps divisions and as many as 20 to 30 army divisions and may have resulted in thousands more casualties. as for using poison gas though that is pure speculation.
@ZemplinTemplar Yes because we designed weapons that made us think twice in using them. No sane person would use them only someone or somebody who'd gone a wall. Your right nuclear weapons were only useful to scare the opposition shitless, but they were also there to prevent another major conventional war from happening again like WW2.
Russians knew that any major conventional war they initiaed first, lets say in Europe, would quickly become nuclear in days or even hours.
That horse at 2:48 is a great allegory...
KuunLan87 4 months ago
Armand Assante's voice seems to glide across the words.
RedJoe10 5 months ago
Movies like this give space travel even more importance. It's best to get some people off the earth before some rogue nation, say Iran or Pakistan, start a nuclear chain reaction that could destroy this ant farm.
HerrEllsworth 8 months ago
@HerrEllsworth Have you taken something there? Are you being serious? Where the hell would these people go there's no where else in this solo system that can sustain life like earth? That planet they've discovered that could support life is 24 million light years from us, too far away. I am afraid this ant farm as you call it is all we've got for now or the foreseeable future.
Professor6871 3 months ago
0:31 "...Fresh air..." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
geoffck6969 11 months ago
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Didnt know they could say fuck and fuck on aussie television.
Ericzeppe 1 year ago
Now this is the post-acapolyptic aussies i´m familiar with. The only thing thats missing are the crazy haircuts and buggies
Ericzeppe 1 year ago
who's going to take care of the horse ?
anisete46 1 year ago
@anisete46
in a few days...there aren't be any horses left to care... nothing...
HerrSchneepfote 1 year ago
@HerrSchneepfote yes there would what about the rabbits, cockroachs or flies that have a much bigger tolerances to radioativity than humans do?
Professor6871 3 months ago
@anisete46 Nobody I'm afraid. Probably someones would have it for dinner before they took those pills they gave them to end it.
Professor6871 3 months ago
why isn´t he wearing a sidearm as required by naval shore regulation? He should have a 45 or a 9mm.
This is standard U.S. Navy and any other navy . And the same for army and air force officers. At least when I was in the service!
ddd1953 1 year ago
@ddd1953 naval or army regulations do not stipulate wearing arms on shore leave. Thankfully. Start with firearms (or sticks and stones), end up with missiles and nuclear weapons. Why could'nt we be cousins with bonobos instead of chimps ?
anisete46 1 year ago
"..I just wen out and got something to eat." What a line.
wardenphil 1 year ago
They were screwing!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
1:23 - Geez, get a room!
Steve10578 1 year ago
i ve never understood why they bother disinfecting the injection site here
anisete46 1 year ago
@anisete46 Could be just force of habit.
SupaBriMan26 1 year ago
This movie deserved many Academy awards and so did Armand Asante
walleyrt69 2 years ago 12
@walleyrt69 It was a TV miniseries, not a movie. It did win two Golden Globe awards.
TomBarrister 10 months ago
@TomBarrister Oh,I remember that!Now that you mention it.Although I thought it was a remake Movie and they made it into a mini series.i stand corrected!Thanks.Very powerful film tho as was the original!
walleyrt69 10 months ago
@walleyrt69 Not a academy award since it was only shown on showtime but definently a Emmy for the movie and for Mr. Asante
rich5248 3 months ago
@rich5248 It was very much an under rated movie.
walleyrt69 3 months ago
We can make things safer, together. Try to look past, and outgrow our crumbling institutions that make us fight, such as, religion, the money system, groups, etc. Avoid distractions such as, mindless entertainment, sports shows, political conventions and race issues (really non-issues). Focus on the NOW. Pointless to dwell on the past, or to suffer anxiety about the future. What will you do RIGHT NOW?
2242bzo 2 years ago
Who takes care of the horse?
anisete46 2 years ago
Nobody they would die as well perhaps a bit later than the humans would. I'd of thought they'd of shot them before that. The only things that would survive those high levels radioactivity would be insects. They would be the ones that would inherit the earth after we've gone.
thelearner60 2 years ago
look what is happening behind the captin's back at 1:21 - 1:25
JotalianLeague 2 years ago
why does that surprise you?
anisete46 2 years ago
4:39 is the most disturbing thing ever!!
sarcogram720 2 years ago
the reality of radiation sickness
anisete46 2 years ago
Horrible! That scene makes me keep think of that poor Russian disdent Ludvko who also died from being radiatively poisoned from Russian agents in London.
thelearner60 2 years ago
Has anyone noticed the great editing in this film?
ddd1953 2 years ago 2
I agree but can yu give examples?
anisete46 2 years ago
Actually now you mention it, Osbourne whirling around with the painting, cut to Peter and Mary whirling around in each others arms is that a good example?
anisete46 2 years ago
Shute wrote his novel with two messages, one, to warn us that we can end all things human, two, to explore how humans deal with the ultimate end of all history, and the way we face that end.
The first film had a great impact when released. It was the film people could not look at but could also not watch. It has great drama and a very human story.
It is still very possible.
Resist, fight, make change, you can do it. one person at a time.
ddd1953 2 years ago 22
absolutely
anisete46 2 years ago
great scene in the café, especially the girl with her polite smile at the end..
anisete46 2 years ago 2
Anisete46 asked why disinfect for a fatal injection?
Habit, I would suppose. Might also be a sign of respect as oppose to "Hey old buddy, it doesn't matter any more, so the normal functions we show people, just going to forget about them."
Basically, though, one does the standard just incase things don't go the way they were anticipated. Faulty poisons, maybe an answer is found & then there is a concern about people done in with dirty needles, something.
Felixuncia 2 years ago
felixuncia: I agree absolutely - respect and dignity.
wardenphil 2 years ago
yes, all probable reasons... mostly habit I suspect.
anisete46 2 years ago
Aussies are great....
anisete46 2 years ago
A steam locomotive?!
And they hade atomic submarines...
It dosen't match xD
MannenQ 3 years ago
Why not? Petroleum was gone by this time. That's why they're in the horse cart and not a car. In the novel, they had coal but not petroleum, thus the steam locomotive.
brucearmstrong1 3 years ago
absolutely... I'm just surprised they still had some coal fired engines still lying around..
anisete46 2 years ago
You only refuel a nuclear sub every 10 or 15 years, so for the time period in question ( less than a year), this is indeed plausible.
wardenphil 2 years ago
The oil ran out I suppose.
thelearner60 2 years ago
can you tell they're married? (Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown)
anisete46 3 years ago
yeah, that cobalt stuff is a bitch..
anisete46 3 years ago
why disinfect the injection when he's condemned anyway?
anisete46 3 years ago
Even if it doesn't make sense we tend do things out of a sense of routine.
arscon 3 years ago
the Aussies in the 1959 film were much more calm..
anisete46 3 years ago
Yeah but in this movie at least they had accents
airdriver 3 years ago
Who's unhitching the poor horse???
anisete46 3 years ago
For suntzu1985... thanks for the input.. i watch this film almost everynight and often just comment to talk to myself it seems...re fallout shelters, I was living on an Army base in Texas during the Cuban missile crisis and our "shelter" was a windowed basement with a few bottles of water and canned goods, pathetic..Still I'm sure there are top of the line things for "important" people (politicians) and young fertile women ! altho the half life of plutonium is..well, something enormous..
anisete46 3 years ago
why do they bother to disenfect for the fatal injection?
anisete46 3 years ago
would fall out shelters have been an option?
anisete46 3 years ago
yes, they would work for a short period of time a month or two before people would begin to run out of supplies not to mention being confined for such a long time would cause some severe psychiatriac and psychological problems.
suntzu1985 3 years ago
Have you read or heard of Cobalt-60 doped nukes designed by Leo Schilard? I would take YEARS for the radiation levels to decrease enough to be safe for people to get out.
ezraakave 3 years ago 2
yeah that cobalt shit is a bitch...can't remember the half life but it's big
anisete46 3 years ago
5 years.
ezraakave 3 years ago
lets face it mate..no matter w3here in the world you are from...if 1/4 of the nuke missiles get shot off...the whole planet is fucked..courtesy of the usa and russia and china mostly
musicalglenn 3 years ago
you think it takes a quarter?
only 50 Hiroshima sized bombs would render the planets ecosystem so badly damaged that most of the grain producing countries of the world would not be able to produce grain anymore. meaning most of the planet starves. add fifty more nukes (and Hiroshima ones are bloody small) and the human race simply starves completely.
problemat2 3 years ago
you are drawing on a flawed scale with a faulty bomb thats effects weren't planned for...
the chernobyl scale wouldnt' work here either
there is no sense for what would happen.
williamkendrick 3 years ago
And with got millions of them a slight over you could say.
thelearner60 2 years ago
@thelearner60 kill
Professor6871 3 months ago
and now Iran
anisete46 2 years ago
and now Iran
anisete46 2 years ago
I think Shute's novel mentioned the fact that the bombs had cobalt in them. But I don't know if the radiation's spread would still have been so even.
1814Brandan 3 years ago
That is correct - the Russians and Chinese used Cobalt Bombs against each other. Cobalt 60 is nasty stuff - its half life of roughly 5 years is short enough to emit a LOT of Radiation, but long enough that you can't wait it out in a Fallout Shelter.
wardenphil 3 years ago
If we ever have a war fought with cobalt bombs, we're SO SCREWED. I would be like, ''It's been a pleasure knowing this planet.'' In the novel, humanity doomed itself by causing the war. Shute wrote the novel to warn us that nuclear war should NEVER happen. If we ignore this message and blow each other up, we may end up like the dinosaurs. We could end up causing our own extinction. (I'm not saying the dinosaurs caused their own demise, but that's beside the point.)
MSparks909 2 years ago
And Cobalt-Cased bombs are the design being developed by the Iranians, to compensate for the lack of yield...
tcrlaf 2 years ago
Nice to know that that the Iranians are creating same scenerio as what was portryed in the novel. That's why we've got to stop them developing nukes or were doomed.
thelearner60 2 years ago
@thelearner60 The nuclear "threat" posed by Iran has been seriously overblown. Even if Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program--which is not at all certain--they could develop a handful of bombs at best. Not nearly enough to create a scenario like this. Plus, if they ever dared use their bombs, or if they even threatened to, they'd be instantly taken out. Say what you like about the Iranian regime, but I doubt very much they want to be blown to smithereens.
fileboy2002 1 year ago
@fileboy2002 The problem is that they are so fanatical they might not care.
wardenphil 1 year ago
@wardenphil Well, that what some people (e.g Christopher HItchens) believe. I really see no basis for it. Their behavior, although cynical, is usually quite rational.
fileboy2002 1 year ago
@wardenphil what in Iran or South Korea?
Professor6871 3 months ago
@fileboy2002 Exactly. And I think the only true reason we avoided nuclear war so far is that we're too cowardly to start it. God bless our cowardice, for a change... ;-) And I doubt they'll ever be a global nuke war, or a nuke war of any kind. Nukes were only ever useful for scaring your opposition, no one really built them with the intent to use them.
ZemplinTemplar 7 months ago
@ZemplinTemplar did you know that EVERY SINGLE weapon that has EVER been invented, devised, manufactured and created has been used at least ONCE. yes, it is true and if you know ANYTHING about the history of humanity there are ALWAYS evil people who will use those weapons. that is a HISTORICAL FACT!
SocratesTheGadfly 5 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly Nuclear weapons were used against Japan in 1945. It brought WW2 to an end saving my dad who was going to take part in the invasion of the country, from being possibly killed there. If nukes hadn't been there the US would of used instead poison gas.
Professor6871 3 months ago
@Professor6871 do you think that I do NOT know that? of course I know the history of world war 2 in which hiroshima and nagasaki were destroyed by the "little boy" and the "fat man" atomic weapons. operation olympic was the planned invasion of the japanese home islands using 4 marine corps divisions and as many as 20 to 30 army divisions and may have resulted in thousands more casualties. as for using poison gas though that is pure speculation.
SocratesTheGadfly 3 months ago
@ZemplinTemplar Yes because we designed weapons that made us think twice in using them. No sane person would use them only someone or somebody who'd gone a wall. Your right nuclear weapons were only useful to scare the opposition shitless, but they were also there to prevent another major conventional war from happening again like WW2.
Russians knew that any major conventional war they initiaed first, lets say in Europe, would quickly become nuclear in days or even hours.
Professor6871 3 months ago