in both the original movie and the remake, i think the creepiest scenes are where they commit suicide, and where they discuss their plans to commit suicide. to me, the thought of someone intentionally killing himself is much creepier than the thought of someone getting killed by someone else. furthermore, imagine if a person changes his mind after he takes the poison. furthermore, i doubt many people would commit suicide, even under these circumstances.
In 1956 when Shute wrote this novel it was only large bombers that could deliver nuclear bombs to their targets. Ballistic missiles that carry nuclear warhead were still being perfected. I don't think China had nukes then and so Australia was more safer from the direct effects of such a war then. The launch of Sputnik in 1957 into space orbit, changed everything overnight. Missiles could now reach targets in minutes instead of hours with bombers.
The best thing is that in reality all this hialt spillage etc is US propaganda twist to promote strong US-AUS alignment which in such scenario in fact is VERY FAR from AUS interests, simply because in case that any of the northern superpowers makes 'sucessful' first strike on the other reducing TOTAL warheads used to say 5-10% of the max exchange (while receiving some reduced revenge), south would gain relatively, while north remaining an obvious total looser.
I saw this move a few years ago. It's a wonderful movie with a message. I love Rachel Ward and Armand is really good also. It's certainly worth watching..
seria muy feo morir de esa manera... lo bueno seria estar con todos nuestros seres queridos, con las personas que mas queremos... y pensar en los mejores momentos de nuestras vidas... morir felices.
It is awfully sad. It is as if a prediction of Fukushima now ... I was apathetic watching the scene of thousands dead people in Japan, and the fear of unknown dreadful results of radiation clouds ... The poor whales and all other creatures in the the ocean and on earth. The suffering that human do to human. At least if this would be a lesson to all nations, to freeze and stop development of such self destruction. Yet I salute the makers of this great film.
@9abcdefgz .. dont despair, the whales have survived.. china is making nuclear powerplants, the US has extended their life spans beyond limits by 10 years.. and Africa and South America are going ahead with nuclear power.. though, the combined nuclear arsenal today is still well into the tens of thousands.. the post 1990s nuclear warheads, produced, have a radiation fallout half life, of roughly 10% of the hiroshima types.. meaning, we can survive, albeit.. in a MAD scenario.. 10%
While the Whitman poem is a fitting piece to use just prior to the ending credits, Nevil Shute took the title for his book from T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Hollow Men'. The passage he took this from goes, "In this last of meeting places we grope together and avoid speech gathered on this beach of the tumid river." The final stanza of the Eliot poem reads, "This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang...but a whimper."
Great film with a BRILLIANT moral code. After that I need to watch something cheerful and upbeat. Yes there is madness in the world but also a lot of goodness, we must keep that in mind, good will prevail. So with that in mind I'm off to watch something funny and happy :-D
I had to read this book back in high school and then we watched the 1959 version of the movie. It was depressing but it seemed more like fiction than anything that could ever happen. Today I watched the 2000 version of the movie for the first time and it scared me to death to think that this could happen some day.
watching the last half of this movie was like a nightmare i desperately want to wake up from. we've all had one so bad when we wake up its like coming home from a tour of vietnam as a pow...or escaping from a unit 731 camp with your whole family. god i'm glad i made it to the end of this film. and yes threads was even worse by alot actually. i seriously doubt a nuclear war will ever take place. icbms are only for strategic posturing.
@thelaughingman79 - I would agree on the latter part. Yes there are lunatics everywhere, but more good People than Lunatics at the end I think common sense somehow makes it through. A point is though, even though it may be highly unlikely a Nuclear War will ever happen, the fact remains that we still have the destructive means and capabilities to start one. the saying goes "its in our nature to destroy ourselves" so we have to keep that in mind, the day we forget is the day lunacy takes over.
I don't like the way this version ends, not really. It seems so - Lifetime-y. A woman worried about being stood up by her date for a suicide pact. The scene with Peter and Mary was wonderfully done, however.
"'The Day After'"? Will shock you? That was the most sanitized version of a post-nuclear war movie ever made (not to mention the cheapest special effects ever used). The Politically Correct police even demanded (and got) the producers to remove a scene where a teenager sneaks back upstairs (into the radiation) to retrieve her birth control pills. 'The Day After' was Americas weak response to the English movie "Threads". Now that... was a seriously realistic, (and horrifying), movie.
@transneural They may still have surivived a bit longer. It all depends on how much they could tolerate higher levels radiations, but like humans who are also mammals, then their tolerance levels would be low perhaps 20 rads at the most. In this situation your'd be dealing with100s 100s of rads more sufficient lethal doses to kill most life. Insects would have highest tolerance to radiation other than some plants.
@Zari7000 In this exceptional situation its understandable because I would too. The scene where the doctor tells Dwight that his friend will die after bleeding from every one of his offrices would not be a nice way to go. That's is what the reality of radiation sickness is; would you want yourself or a love one too go through that horrible death no way
@Zari7000 So black and white an answer in so few words.. Just same boring retread of what you intitally said in your first comment that you mad aout this TV film. Anyway you die a horrible death from radiation sickness on you own that is, while I'd take with everybody else, the pill. At least you'd be morelly superior all on your own. Perhaps God will give you medal for being such good boy.
I say they supply the sub and make south. Hang in there as long as humanly possible. Who knows in 6 months the rdaition maybe decay to 0.1 rads/hr. that is livable!!!
Wow. I'm a huge fan of the original. However, I must say this was a great remake. Especially for being a made for t.v. movie. It would have been cool if they had put "Waltzing Matilda" in the closing credits as a nod to the original.
don't despair =" For God so loved the world (that's all of us) that he gave His only son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16 I am not afraid - I believe - do you?
don't despair =" For God so loved the world (that's all of us) that he gave His only son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16 I am not afraid - I believe - do you?
Great remake so much better than the original. Food for thought on how stupid man kind can be. Lets hope we never have to personally know this scenario.
@noobcrusher141 Physicist Cresson Kearny in his book "Nuclear War Survival" addresses this very point, and also the pseudo-scientific premise of "On the Beach". Fallout decays very rapidly. He has a chart that shows that if it is 1000 rad 1 hour after the burst, it decays all the way down to 43 R/hr in just 14 hours, and within 48 hours it is down to less then 10 R/hr. Most nukes would be airburst which produce very little fallout. And even in a groundburst the fallout is deposited locally.
@frantic1971 It wasn't pseudo-science. In the 1950's, when the book was written, people knew a lot less about the long-term effects of radiation. It is now clear that there would be no poisonous cloud slowly moving South. This TV series is based on an outdated concept...
@royalcourtier People are making the mistake of judging this by what is known today about the long term effects of nuclear war. Shute wrote this in 50s when most scientists believed that a slow poisonus cloud would have moved across the southern hemisphere from the northern one. They did not know about nuclear winter or depletion of the ozone layer that is known now. There info was gained from the numerous nuclear tests that were being down then, in pasciific and in the Aussi outback desert.
@frantic1971 I'm not sure that's true. Str90 and Caesium137, both products of nuclear explosions, have a half-life of more than 30 years. Even if fallout is deposited locally, one must take into account longterm soil and livestockcontamination, Not to mention genetic deviation and nuclear winter caused by high atmospheric particles. Perhaps people living far from ground zero could survive, but life would still be hellish. IMO there is little "Nuclear War Survival" Just an excuse for nukes..
@anisete46 What about then plutonium the most stable being been istope 2.44( has a half-life 7.6*10 power 7 years. All nuclear weapons have this power source, or specifically plutonium -239 that has a half life of 2.44*10 power 4 this would also be the by product of any nuclear explosions. Many nuke power plants have large amounts of this stuff in them as well. This would be in the atmosphere and in the soil for centuries to come.
You should read or watch more about chernobyl and radiaton And why do you say that 25 megaton bomb is hypothetical, If 50 megaton bomb is real. At least it was called tsar bomb. was detonated in 1961 on Novaya Zemlya.
I suppose the message is who wants to live in a fucked up world. Armande Assante's Character is the bravest. the man who said enough-is-enough, and wouldn't launch his nukes at the behest of bunch of warmongers.
@HENJAM48 If I were in command of a sub I would launch. YOu never know, it may be a preemptive strike to take out the enemy silos. On the other hand, if they are gonna kill you I am all for REATALIATING!!
the original ending is much better........where gregory peck sails back to america on the conning tower with ava gardener watching from the shore............
@squeamishsquirrel You are correct, over time, the radioactive isotopes would have decayed; life could have gone on, and within a generation or two the least damaged areas of the globe may have been mostly livable again, as witnessed with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
@squeamishsquirrel In the original novel, the world-ending fallout was due to the use of Cobalt Bombs, which deliberately create lots of long-lived fallout. Cobalt 60, generated during the detonation has a half life of @5 years: Short enough to release a lot of radiation, but too long to realistically wait it out in shelters. Even if you could wait it out, the earth's ecosystem would be damaged beyond habitation by the time the radioactivity cooled.
@utar88utar - If praying is for some people then don't begrudge them that, whether its real or not, each to their own I say, but I do agree with you in the terms of DON'T DO IT, definitely. Every single prospective World Leader or government member should be shown Films like this before taking Office and if a single one of them is not moved by it then they should be immediately deemed totally unfit for any sort of Official Duty.
@soeffingwhat delusion of god should be treated like any other mental disfunction and consider a schizophrenia (hearing voices and seeing ppl that arent there).
we got meds for that if im not mistaken.
for example, result of NOT treating that kind of mental condition may result in, for example, me losing head in the middle east to some psycho 14 years of motherfucker whos brain has been abused since birth by parents and sick society.
no, dude. no tolerance for religious nuts! fuck them.
@utar88utar - Delusion of God?.. just because someone wants to believe in something you don't believe in does not make them delusional. There is a HUGE difference in being schizophrenic and merely 'choosing' to believe in something. I'm not saying you should have tolerance for Religious Nuts at all, I hate those pricks too but don't paint every single one who happens to believe in their choice of Religion with the same brush as Religious Nuts. Sane People who choose to beliee are not like that.
@wwwonderful Yes, you have a much better grasp of reality; we are the product of unthinking forces, with no aim or plan; all our emotions like love and compassion are merely synapses firing in the brain, nothing more; morality is merely a social construct, as it cannot be anything more (morality does not evolve - something is either right or it isn't); and it will all end with the heat death of the universe. Far more rational. Bravo!
@utar88utar Well said. Religion is an escape, a cowardly way of getting through a situation. We hear about those who were "saved" by God, but how many more prayed and died anyway? Those ones can't testify, so the "blessed ones" try to convince us that God's got a 100% record. More frightening than laughable, but I forgive religious people, for they know not what they do.
@wwwonderful That's why Marx called religion: 'the opiate of the masses'. Or in a modern context of Richard Dawkins 'the God Deluded.' Its an escape from reality which is that there is only a Godless universe, and Its a fascist belief that those people are the saved ones. God's a dictator and so if you can believe in that sick perverted ideology of nonsense, then you can kill people or entire countries with not an ounce of remorse.
@aberdown Hardly! This is sentimental to the point of covering up the real horror. If you want to watch something even remotely close to the real tragedy it would be just watch then English film called 'Threads'. Its the end of humanity without the romance.
@simplenametag Yes, "Threads" is the real deal. Besides, they've already proven that Australia wouldn't be safe at all. That was just hope left over from the 1950's.
@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z Well in theory yes they could of. How about Soviet subs they carry nuclear weapons and can sail all over the world, including Australia. They just had to be off the coast lets say Sydney, just for argument sack, and fire their nuclear missiles at it.
@MasterJediDude The novel is of its time when they didn't know about the whole phenomena of nuclear winter, which would happen after such a catastrophe. I mean even if less than quarter of the nuclear stock pile was used in war, you'd still get these long term disasterious environmental effects across the planet.
@simplenametag a romantic apocalyptic novel something you don't equate with this sort genre. Where as with Threads was the gritty reality that would be a nuclear holocaust.
well life goes on there are these bacteria that live of heat found in volcanoes on the bottom of the ocean. evolution occurs and many species occur probably even faster due to all the radiation.
@squeamishsquirrel Short answer, yeah they could have built a shelter if they put all their resources into it. But, the ozone would be virtually depleted, meaning there would be an increase in uv levels and health problems. Soot from the fires would create a nuclear winter lasting years, dropping global temperatures to around -7 on average. Basically the earth would be so screwed, there would be no point in trying to continue, best leave the earth to a species deserving of it.
@alphade10 Like the Cockroach, which can withstand radiation, go without food for 6 months+ and even live for weeks without it's own head. Man says that we were made in God's image, i say that God would surely of been a cockroach.
@alphade10 I also do not believe in God, in fact, i don't believe in religion whatsoever. However i realise now that what you replied with is so much a better statement.
By the time it would have reached Australia it would have been reduced to "safe" levels. It wouldn't have been as strong as the radiation in Chernobyl now because of the nature of fallout from nuclear weapons against that of meltdowns. They would have instead starved or frozen to death under the dark skies of the global nuclear winter.
This is the way the world ends... both with a bang, and a whimper... interesting, this ending was different from the first movie and the book. I was surprised. Some movies should be required viewing- ones like "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May", and this one.
@squeamishsquirrel not cobalt or strontium90 radiation with half-lives of 500 years.. yet, I think I would have not taken the pill, or injected my child, waiting to see if things somehow got better in a protected shelter...surely evolutionary processes would have given some people higher protective abilities? maybe? In my town in the 60s we all had bomb shelters, but they were mostly lame...
like those tankers over Assante's shoulder when he comes over the hill.... maybe the director could have waited for clear horizon.... awesome movie.. What's more chilling is how few views this has....
this version is as disturbing as the original. I'd imagine that there would have been numerous ships/subs showing up in Australia, Argentina, Chile and Antartica...
With respect, my friend, you missed the point. In Hollywood, there is always a happy ending. In real life, politicians and war- mongers think they will still be here to make money and rule over us 6 short months ofter a nuclear holocaust. This was the most truthful movie I have ever seen. This movie shoud be required viewing to every 13 year old in school. What scares the hell out of me is that it reads like today's headlines. Christians, stay awake, the bridgroom comes!
there are alot more good people in the world than bad...we need to join together and stand strong against the bad. Good will win, we have God and he has the majority on his side.
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Good thing the fine citizens at Katrina weren't there. They'd be porking that sleeping lady instead of organizing things, and protecting their womenfolk.
AussieRoo1, this was pretty gut wrenching, but thanks for the movie. As far as I know this is only available on Youtube. In closing, I just realized the filmmaker's tip of the hat to Bergman (Seventh Seal) @2:19.
this wouldn't happen. Since the 50's nuclear devices have been tested hundreds of not THOUSANDS of times. These have included underground tests, atmospheric test, ocean tests, ground, and air burst tests. Nuclear fallout clouds have been all over northamerica , especially around the Nevada, Utah area and upwind. Its not good for you that for sure, but you couldn't increase the radiation level on the entire planet like that.
@fatezor It is one very possible scenario, though not the only possible one. First of all, all the fallout released by all the tests ever done wouldn't compare to a real nuclear exchange. Second, the book makes clear the exchange included a large number of "salted" nuclear weapons, which are designed to create as much deadly fallout as possible.
Fallout from 'regular' nuclear weapons, shortly after the detonation, begins to decay at the rate of a ten-fold decrease for each seven-fold increase in time.
Even in heavily hit areas, 99% of radioactivity should be decayed after a few weeks - few months.
Of course there will still be residual iodine131 and other mildly-toxic junk in the environment. But you won't die just because you went outside.
@fatezor BTW, in the original book, the author made it clear the weapons used were in large part cobalt bombs, or "salted" nuclear weapons, designed to produce a maximum amount of deadly fallout. No such device was ever built in reality. But in theory, such bombs could produce effects something like those in On the Beach.
word, and yeah its a good story. But even if all the worlds nukes where used at once, the particles just don't have a half-life long enough to irradiate the entire planet like in this movie. Couple weeks to a month or so in a bunker, then you are good to go out and explore your new post apocalyptic world! On the beach world is too depressing. I would prefer a road-warrior type post apocalyptic future :D
@fileboy2002 Absolutely right,surviving a nuclear war, even in a bunker for weeks or months, is not a sustainable option, there would be nuclear winter, increased cancer rates, deformed children, decimated crop and plant life, deadly UV radiation from destroyed atmosphere leading to blindness and skin cancers,.most nuclear isotopes in HBombs have a half life of 500 years., not to mention total breakdown of society..See BBC film "Threads" on the site for most likely post-attack scenario....
I don't think radiation would be the issue in this scenario. It would be global cooling and crop failure due to dust in the atmosphere blocking the sun (If the warheads were mostly ground bursts). National and corporate leaders in underground bunkers with filtered air and protected food and water would survive the 2 to 3 years necessary for the radiation to go to ground. Then they and their families could re-populate the earth and build cleaner, safer nuclear weapons for the next war.
it is hard enough to accept the fact of our own personal demise..how much more difficult to accept the disappearance of our whole species,and yet it will disappear eventually, tomorrow, in 200 or 1000 or 2 million years.."we are so small between the stars, so large against the sky".. it all comes down to why are we here anyway? Maybe to help and love each other up to the end...but we are far from that goal...
If we can spread far enough throughout the universe, perhaps we can exist in some form or another for billions of years, or even until the universe collapses back upon itself, if that really will happen.
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guys guys guys guys guys..... this is my all time favorite movie. You see, its time for the earth to recycle itself and get rid of the human race all together. We deserve to be extinct. Look at what we do to each other, look how we treat each other. Look what we've done to our earth. Its time for the human race to be extinct, as if it never existed in the first place. It is time.
End Times porn - disgusting. If humans would get away from fear and ignorance and concentrate on courage and tolerance, this could be the garden spot of the Universe, and the Moon, and Mars, Titan, Europa, Ganymede - it's all here for our use and enjoyment. One gets to a point where one wonders if we're worth saving at all - just turn it over to the owls and bees.
This is the LEAST scary nuclear apocalypse movie I have ever seen. Search youtube for the U.S film 'The Day After' 1983. That will shock you, it shows how appalling things will actually be. Or in a modern context, watch 'The Road'.
in both the original movie and the remake, i think the creepiest scenes are where they commit suicide, and where they discuss their plans to commit suicide. to me, the thought of someone intentionally killing himself is much creepier than the thought of someone getting killed by someone else. furthermore, imagine if a person changes his mind after he takes the poison. furthermore, i doubt many people would commit suicide, even under these circumstances.
coventrygardens 1 week ago
All that over the issue of Taiwan.
Radrook 1 month ago
The day after from 1984 was just as good as threads.
adam29ont 1 month ago
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In 1956 when Shute wrote this novel it was only large bombers that could deliver nuclear bombs to their targets. Ballistic missiles that carry nuclear warhead were still being perfected. I don't think China had nukes then and so Australia was more safer from the direct effects of such a war then. The launch of Sputnik in 1957 into space orbit, changed everything overnight. Missiles could now reach targets in minutes instead of hours with bombers.
Professor6871 1 month ago
I love happy endings....
THANK GOD FOR THE BOMB!
+ Bachmann 2012!
USAsoldier1955 1 month ago
depressing
pondo1988 1 month ago in playlist More videos from AussieRoo1
amazing movie. So sad, and breathtaking. And a warning.
elvenlolita 2 months ago
I would have finished the bottle of wine
anisete46 3 months ago
@anisete46 .. and a second.
MzProgressive 2 months ago
Respond to this video... Thanks for posting this! We were looking for the original with Gregory Peck and were surprised to find an updated version.
Either way ... haunting.
MzProgressive 2 months ago
@anisete46 Try a bottle of whisky to!
Professor6871 1 month ago
Powerful. Thanks for uploading.
ashland1977 3 months ago
What a heavy movie, as well done as the original film.
Very moving.....
stuartthegrant 4 months ago
Thanks for posting. I enjoyed it as much as the 1959 version.
InternetKev 4 months ago
Last shore,Nevil Shutte ,was first ,and a film with G.Peck.
Lightsdarks 5 months ago
I'd rather die puking up my own organs and shitting all over myself. Sucking the planet of every last bit of oxygen and life i could get out it.
fatezor 5 months ago
The best thing is that in reality all this hialt spillage etc is US propaganda twist to promote strong US-AUS alignment which in such scenario in fact is VERY FAR from AUS interests, simply because in case that any of the northern superpowers makes 'sucessful' first strike on the other reducing TOTAL warheads used to say 5-10% of the max exchange (while receiving some reduced revenge), south would gain relatively, while north remaining an obvious total looser.
krbosak 5 months ago
they took the blue pill
COSDR 6 months ago
Thanks AussieRoo
RATTLEY67 6 months ago
waaaait one minute... who commanded the ship of there is no first or second in command?
dude444666444 6 months ago
DOOM AND GLOOM... FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB!
rowanmonkey 6 months ago
pretty milque-toast.. i agree with the suggestion to see 'threads".. all this drama and angst is tiresome especially after two hours.. .. yawn.
nosowisewoman 6 months ago
Spoiler: Everybody dies.
ChaosDynamics 7 months ago
That tramp Moira is the last person on earth i'd want to die with
pissedoffdude87 7 months ago
@pissedoffdude87 they had sex don't you know that changes everything. :)
nsdreamer1981 2 months ago
I saw this move a few years ago. It's a wonderful movie with a message. I love Rachel Ward and Armand is really good also. It's certainly worth watching..
lukeloveslauraalways 7 months ago
seria muy feo morir de esa manera... lo bueno seria estar con todos nuestros seres queridos, con las personas que mas queremos... y pensar en los mejores momentos de nuestras vidas... morir felices.
Eder5837 7 months ago
crikey! the last two parts of this film are bloody hard to watch!.
MrTevB 8 months ago
As usual the book is better, but this film is very good. If you haven't yet read the book, do yourself a favour and do so.
Comme d'habitude le livre est mieux que le film, mais ce film est très bien. Si vous n'avez pas encore lu le livre, faites-vous plaisir en le lisant.
Champagne pour tous, Dieu pour les autres :-)
wwwonderful 9 months ago
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wwwonderful 9 months ago
I hope the Chinese love their children too...
ddd1953 9 months ago
It is awfully sad. It is as if a prediction of Fukushima now ... I was apathetic watching the scene of thousands dead people in Japan, and the fear of unknown dreadful results of radiation clouds ... The poor whales and all other creatures in the the ocean and on earth. The suffering that human do to human. At least if this would be a lesson to all nations, to freeze and stop development of such self destruction. Yet I salute the makers of this great film.
9abcdefgz 9 months ago
@9abcdefgz .. dont despair, the whales have survived.. china is making nuclear powerplants, the US has extended their life spans beyond limits by 10 years.. and Africa and South America are going ahead with nuclear power.. though, the combined nuclear arsenal today is still well into the tens of thousands.. the post 1990s nuclear warheads, produced, have a radiation fallout half life, of roughly 10% of the hiroshima types.. meaning, we can survive, albeit.. in a MAD scenario.. 10%
teddythebenny 9 months ago
While the Whitman poem is a fitting piece to use just prior to the ending credits, Nevil Shute took the title for his book from T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Hollow Men'. The passage he took this from goes, "In this last of meeting places we grope together and avoid speech gathered on this beach of the tumid river." The final stanza of the Eliot poem reads, "This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang...but a whimper."
geoffck6969 10 months ago
Gee, that's cheery. Shall sleep well now...
geoffck6969 10 months ago
Great film with a BRILLIANT moral code. After that I need to watch something cheerful and upbeat. Yes there is madness in the world but also a lot of goodness, we must keep that in mind, good will prevail. So with that in mind I'm off to watch something funny and happy :-D
soeffingwhat 10 months ago
I had to read this book back in high school and then we watched the 1959 version of the movie. It was depressing but it seemed more like fiction than anything that could ever happen. Today I watched the 2000 version of the movie for the first time and it scared me to death to think that this could happen some day.
76runjen 10 months ago
Facing the end is one of the most harrowing things anyone will ever have to do.
We all say it will be alright but just wait till it happens to you!
aberdown 10 months ago
what's the name of the song at 2:52 until the end of the poem of walt whitman?
Zuldaran01 10 months ago
watching the last half of this movie was like a nightmare i desperately want to wake up from. we've all had one so bad when we wake up its like coming home from a tour of vietnam as a pow...or escaping from a unit 731 camp with your whole family. god i'm glad i made it to the end of this film. and yes threads was even worse by alot actually. i seriously doubt a nuclear war will ever take place. icbms are only for strategic posturing.
thelaughingman79 11 months ago
@thelaughingman79 - I would agree on the latter part. Yes there are lunatics everywhere, but more good People than Lunatics at the end I think common sense somehow makes it through. A point is though, even though it may be highly unlikely a Nuclear War will ever happen, the fact remains that we still have the destructive means and capabilities to start one. the saying goes "its in our nature to destroy ourselves" so we have to keep that in mind, the day we forget is the day lunacy takes over.
soeffingwhat 10 months ago
I don't like the way this version ends, not really. It seems so - Lifetime-y. A woman worried about being stood up by her date for a suicide pact. The scene with Peter and Mary was wonderfully done, however.
1814Brandan 11 months ago
"'The Day After'"? Will shock you? That was the most sanitized version of a post-nuclear war movie ever made (not to mention the cheapest special effects ever used). The Politically Correct police even demanded (and got) the producers to remove a scene where a teenager sneaks back upstairs (into the radiation) to retrieve her birth control pills. 'The Day After' was Americas weak response to the English movie "Threads". Now that... was a seriously realistic, (and horrifying), movie.
TomDeTomTom 1 year ago
@TomDeTomTom I couldn't agree more. So glad I saw that one.
aberdown 10 months ago
what happened to the kangaroos?
transneural 1 year ago
@transneural They may still have surivived a bit longer. It all depends on how much they could tolerate higher levels radiations, but like humans who are also mammals, then their tolerance levels would be low perhaps 20 rads at the most. In this situation your'd be dealing with100s 100s of rads more sufficient lethal doses to kill most life. Insects would have highest tolerance to radiation other than some plants.
Professor6871 11 months ago
cowards take thier own lives. How stupid.
Zari7000 1 year ago
@Zari7000 In this exceptional situation its understandable because I would too. The scene where the doctor tells Dwight that his friend will die after bleeding from every one of his offrices would not be a nice way to go. That's is what the reality of radiation sickness is; would you want yourself or a love one too go through that horrible death no way
Professor6871 11 months ago
@Professor6871 I would never take my own life. Thats the easy way out. Be strong and not weak.
Zari7000 11 months ago
@Zari7000 So black and white an answer in so few words.. Just same boring retread of what you intitally said in your first comment that you mad aout this TV film. Anyway you die a horrible death from radiation sickness on you own that is, while I'd take with everybody else, the pill. At least you'd be morelly superior all on your own. Perhaps God will give you medal for being such good boy.
Professor6871 11 months ago
@Zari7000 Your strong will become weak after a Nuclear War!
aberdown 10 months ago
@aberdown Oh really! lol I know i am stronger than that. I will not give up without fighting for my life.
Zari7000 10 months ago
A DUMB ENDING!!! Man would figure a way out!!
eric777100763 1 year ago
@eric777100763 sorry eric....no way out of radiation as you will surely find.
musicalglenn 1 year ago
@musicalglenn There is ALWAYS a way out!!! Merry Christmas!!! Eric
eric777100763 1 year ago
I say they supply the sub and make south. Hang in there as long as humanly possible. Who knows in 6 months the rdaition maybe decay to 0.1 rads/hr. that is livable!!!
eric777100763 1 year ago
Wow. I'm a huge fan of the original. However, I must say this was a great remake. Especially for being a made for t.v. movie. It would have been cool if they had put "Waltzing Matilda" in the closing credits as a nod to the original.
Credithelper75 1 year ago
" Because I live, you shall live also." Jesus
janneyisin 1 year ago
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janneyisin 1 year ago
Great remake so much better than the original. Food for thought on how stupid man kind can be. Lets hope we never have to personally know this scenario.
ozjenva 1 year ago
@noobcrusher141 Physicist Cresson Kearny in his book "Nuclear War Survival" addresses this very point, and also the pseudo-scientific premise of "On the Beach". Fallout decays very rapidly. He has a chart that shows that if it is 1000 rad 1 hour after the burst, it decays all the way down to 43 R/hr in just 14 hours, and within 48 hours it is down to less then 10 R/hr. Most nukes would be airburst which produce very little fallout. And even in a groundburst the fallout is deposited locally.
frantic1971 1 year ago
@frantic1971 It wasn't pseudo-science. In the 1950's, when the book was written, people knew a lot less about the long-term effects of radiation. It is now clear that there would be no poisonous cloud slowly moving South. This TV series is based on an outdated concept...
royalcourtier 1 year ago
@royalcourtier People are making the mistake of judging this by what is known today about the long term effects of nuclear war. Shute wrote this in 50s when most scientists believed that a slow poisonus cloud would have moved across the southern hemisphere from the northern one. They did not know about nuclear winter or depletion of the ozone layer that is known now. There info was gained from the numerous nuclear tests that were being down then, in pasciific and in the Aussi outback desert.
Professor6871 11 months ago
@frantic1971 I'm not sure that's true. Str90 and Caesium137, both products of nuclear explosions, have a half-life of more than 30 years. Even if fallout is deposited locally, one must take into account longterm soil and livestockcontamination, Not to mention genetic deviation and nuclear winter caused by high atmospheric particles. Perhaps people living far from ground zero could survive, but life would still be hellish. IMO there is little "Nuclear War Survival" Just an excuse for nukes..
anisete46 1 year ago
@anisete46 What about then plutonium the most stable being been istope 2.44( has a half-life 7.6*10 power 7 years. All nuclear weapons have this power source, or specifically plutonium -239 that has a half life of 2.44*10 power 4 this would also be the by product of any nuclear explosions. Many nuke power plants have large amounts of this stuff in them as well. This would be in the atmosphere and in the soil for centuries to come.
Professor6871 11 months ago
@noobcrusher141
You should read or watch more about chernobyl and radiaton And why do you say that 25 megaton bomb is hypothetical, If 50 megaton bomb is real. At least it was called tsar bomb. was detonated in 1961 on Novaya Zemlya.
Udobbermann 1 year ago
I suppose the message is who wants to live in a fucked up world. Armande Assante's Character is the bravest. the man who said enough-is-enough, and wouldn't launch his nukes at the behest of bunch of warmongers.
HENJAM48 1 year ago
@HENJAM48 If I were in command of a sub I would launch. YOu never know, it may be a preemptive strike to take out the enemy silos. On the other hand, if they are gonna kill you I am all for REATALIATING!!
eric777100763 1 year ago
the original ending is much better........where gregory peck sails back to america on the conning tower with ava gardener watching from the shore............
northshore7x 1 year ago
@northshore7x I loved that ending too, but somehow this one satisfied me more... I must be a romantic :))... or scared of dying alone...
anisete46 1 year ago
why did they die??
100things2do 1 year ago
Very impressive movie!!
Roberto9722 1 year ago
Dünyanın en gerizekalı filmi...!
68turbulans 1 year ago
A POWERFUL MOVIE !
walleyrt69 1 year ago
@squeamishsquirrel You are correct, over time, the radioactive isotopes would have decayed; life could have gone on, and within a generation or two the least damaged areas of the globe may have been mostly livable again, as witnessed with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
jjobie 1 year ago
if you thing this is scary try watching a docu drama by the BBC called Threads,
tomlestrange2 1 year ago
@squeamishsquirrel The effects of radiation fall out. Bikini Atoll is still contaminated after all of those tests from decades ago.
cabbievonbump 1 year ago
The original was better
mortgagemessiah 1 year ago
@squeamishsquirrel In the original novel, the world-ending fallout was due to the use of Cobalt Bombs, which deliberately create lots of long-lived fallout. Cobalt 60, generated during the detonation has a half life of @5 years: Short enough to release a lot of radiation, but too long to realistically wait it out in shelters. Even if you could wait it out, the earth's ecosystem would be damaged beyond habitation by the time the radioactivity cooled.
wardenphil 1 year ago
One of the scariest movies ever made and one of the most brilliant!
aberdown 1 year ago
''before you embark on a journey of revenge, you must dig two graves''
-confucious
stepharnos 1 year ago
@stepharnos We should listen to him!
aberdown 1 year ago
@stepharnos Thank God for wise people like you!
aberdown 10 months ago
Gee Fatezor you're really a dickhead if you believe that. Winnable Nuclear War what a dick!
aberdown 1 year ago
Nothing more or less than the greatest movie ever made about the real tragedy of nuclear war! Pray this never happens just pray.
aberdown 1 year ago 13
@aberdown It won't happen. There are simply not enough nuclear weapons in all the arsenals combined for this to happen.
Scottrchrdsn 1 year ago
@Scottrchrdsn There aren't now there were when I was young 50,000 of the SOB,s!
aberdown 1 year ago
@aberdown pray? PRAY? how about simply DONT DO IT?! (nuclear war)
wont that work better than some mumbling to imaginary figure?
utar88utar 10 months ago
@utar88utar - If praying is for some people then don't begrudge them that, whether its real or not, each to their own I say, but I do agree with you in the terms of DON'T DO IT, definitely. Every single prospective World Leader or government member should be shown Films like this before taking Office and if a single one of them is not moved by it then they should be immediately deemed totally unfit for any sort of Official Duty.
soeffingwhat 10 months ago
@soeffingwhat delusion of god should be treated like any other mental disfunction and consider a schizophrenia (hearing voices and seeing ppl that arent there).
we got meds for that if im not mistaken.
for example, result of NOT treating that kind of mental condition may result in, for example, me losing head in the middle east to some psycho 14 years of motherfucker whos brain has been abused since birth by parents and sick society.
no, dude. no tolerance for religious nuts! fuck them.
utar88utar 10 months ago
@utar88utar - Delusion of God?.. just because someone wants to believe in something you don't believe in does not make them delusional. There is a HUGE difference in being schizophrenic and merely 'choosing' to believe in something. I'm not saying you should have tolerance for Religious Nuts at all, I hate those pricks too but don't paint every single one who happens to believe in their choice of Religion with the same brush as Religious Nuts. Sane People who choose to beliee are not like that.
soeffingwhat 10 months ago
@soeffingwhat "wants to believe..." = delusion
I pity religious people
wwwonderful 9 months ago
@wwwonderful They probably pity you.
blueeyes6533 9 months ago
@blueeyes6533 That's what they do best ;-)
wwwonderful 9 months ago
@wwwonderful Yes, you have a much better grasp of reality; we are the product of unthinking forces, with no aim or plan; all our emotions like love and compassion are merely synapses firing in the brain, nothing more; morality is merely a social construct, as it cannot be anything more (morality does not evolve - something is either right or it isn't); and it will all end with the heat death of the universe. Far more rational. Bravo!
uayfb1 7 months ago
@utar88utar Well said. Religion is an escape, a cowardly way of getting through a situation. We hear about those who were "saved" by God, but how many more prayed and died anyway? Those ones can't testify, so the "blessed ones" try to convince us that God's got a 100% record. More frightening than laughable, but I forgive religious people, for they know not what they do.
wwwonderful 9 months ago
@wwwonderful And I feel for non-religious people, for they know not what's in store for them.
kkamhawy 9 months ago
@wwwonderful That's why Marx called religion: 'the opiate of the masses'. Or in a modern context of Richard Dawkins 'the God Deluded.' Its an escape from reality which is that there is only a Godless universe, and Its a fascist belief that those people are the saved ones. God's a dictator and so if you can believe in that sick perverted ideology of nonsense, then you can kill people or entire countries with not an ounce of remorse.
Professor6871 6 months ago 2
@aberdown Hardly! This is sentimental to the point of covering up the real horror. If you want to watch something even remotely close to the real tragedy it would be just watch then English film called 'Threads'. Its the end of humanity without the romance.
simplenametag 7 months ago 2
@simplenametag Yes, "Threads" is the real deal. Besides, they've already proven that Australia wouldn't be safe at all. That was just hope left over from the 1950's.
MasterJediDude 6 months ago 2
@MasterJediDude No where would be safe in the southern hemisphere not just Australia.
Professor6871 6 months ago
@MasterJediDude Could Soviet missiles reach Australia/New Zealand at all during the Cold War?
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Professor6871 1 month ago
@Professor6871 So that means during the Cuban Missile Crisis Australia and New Zealand could have been nuked if war came?
qwertasdcfghjklmo24z 1 month ago
@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z Well in theory yes they could of. How about Soviet subs they carry nuclear weapons and can sail all over the world, including Australia. They just had to be off the coast lets say Sydney, just for argument sack, and fire their nuclear missiles at it.
Professor6871 1 month ago
@MasterJediDude The novel is of its time when they didn't know about the whole phenomena of nuclear winter, which would happen after such a catastrophe. I mean even if less than quarter of the nuclear stock pile was used in war, you'd still get these long term disasterious environmental effects across the planet.
Professor6871 1 month ago
@simplenametag a romantic apocalyptic novel something you don't equate with this sort genre. Where as with Threads was the gritty reality that would be a nuclear holocaust.
Professor6871 1 month ago
@aberdown PRAYING won't change a thing. people must chane the way they're thinking, the way we perceive the world. otherwise it WILL happen. Soon.
inferi312 7 months ago
still don't understand how he found her....but WTH
anisete46 1 year ago
Personally I would wanna Cum N Go! I would take the pill after I blew my final load lol.
BUDAGREEN1 1 year ago
champagne and strawberries and Armand.. what better death?
anisete46 1 year ago
well life goes on there are these bacteria that live of heat found in volcanoes on the bottom of the ocean. evolution occurs and many species occur probably even faster due to all the radiation.
zepharion1 1 year ago
@squeamishsquirrel Short answer, yeah they could have built a shelter if they put all their resources into it. But, the ozone would be virtually depleted, meaning there would be an increase in uv levels and health problems. Soot from the fires would create a nuclear winter lasting years, dropping global temperatures to around -7 on average. Basically the earth would be so screwed, there would be no point in trying to continue, best leave the earth to a species deserving of it.
alphade10 1 year ago
@alphade10 Like the Cockroach, which can withstand radiation, go without food for 6 months+ and even live for weeks without it's own head. Man says that we were made in God's image, i say that God would surely of been a cockroach.
Utorak007 1 year ago
@Utorak007 I think God would have created the cockroach to give humans a sence of humility. But I don't believe in any God.
alphade10 1 year ago
@alphade10 I also do not believe in God, in fact, i don't believe in religion whatsoever. However i realise now that what you replied with is so much a better statement.
Utorak007 1 year ago
@squeamishsquirrel
By the time it would have reached Australia it would have been reduced to "safe" levels. It wouldn't have been as strong as the radiation in Chernobyl now because of the nature of fallout from nuclear weapons against that of meltdowns. They would have instead starved or frozen to death under the dark skies of the global nuclear winter.
launch4 1 year ago
This is the way the world ends... both with a bang, and a whimper... interesting, this ending was different from the first movie and the book. I was surprised. Some movies should be required viewing- ones like "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May", and this one.
Hendo56 1 year ago
Life will continue, but without us.
Pyrroline 1 year ago
@Pyrroline yes it will have ten legs and crawel along the ground a cockroach.
Professor6871 1 month ago
I'm having this music at my funeral...
anisete46 1 year ago
@squeamishsquirrel not cobalt or strontium90 radiation with half-lives of 500 years.. yet, I think I would have not taken the pill, or injected my child, waiting to see if things somehow got better in a protected shelter...surely evolutionary processes would have given some people higher protective abilities? maybe? In my town in the 60s we all had bomb shelters, but they were mostly lame...
anisete46 1 year ago
like those tankers over Assante's shoulder when he comes over the hill.... maybe the director could have waited for clear horizon.... awesome movie.. What's more chilling is how few views this has....
irish89055 1 year ago
this version is as disturbing as the original. I'd imagine that there would have been numerous ships/subs showing up in Australia, Argentina, Chile and Antartica...
irish89055 1 year ago
They should change the ending with HOPE!!!
eric777100763 1 year ago
With respect, my friend, you missed the point. In Hollywood, there is always a happy ending. In real life, politicians and war- mongers think they will still be here to make money and rule over us 6 short months ofter a nuclear holocaust. This was the most truthful movie I have ever seen. This movie shoud be required viewing to every 13 year old in school. What scares the hell out of me is that it reads like today's headlines. Christians, stay awake, the bridgroom comes!
dlanniltd 1 year ago
@eric777100763 There is no hope that is the point please don't be silly!
aberdown 1 year ago
@aberdown In the movie, there sure isnt. Have a great day...best Regards, Eric
eric777100763 1 year ago
@eric777100763 That's pretty funny!
Provided this new Start Treaty with Russia goes through we really are coming to the end of the age where nukes can destroy all life on earth.
aberdown 1 year ago
@aberdown Why would a arms reduction treatyy make it worse??
eric777100763 1 year ago
@eric777100763 My point is once nukes drop below the 2000 mark we are leaving the age of mutually assured destruction for every man on earth.
aberdown 1 year ago
@aberdown IC your point!!
eric777100763 1 year ago
there are alot more good people in the world than bad...we need to join together and stand strong against the bad. Good will win, we have God and he has the majority on his side.
flow789 1 year ago
@flow789 that is precisely the sort of atitude that will destroy the world you just contradicted yourself.
aberdown 1 year ago
Imagine it can happen to the all of us.... It's horrific!!
We have to join our best thoughts all together and rise up the world conciousness, nurturing pure feeelings and overcome selfishness and fear.
This is the only way, folks!!
Let's do it!!
madalene2012 2 years ago
God !Or the Aliens that created us will never let it come to that! They know life in the Universe is to Precious.
walleyrt69 2 years ago
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Good thing the fine citizens at Katrina weren't there. They'd be porking that sleeping lady instead of organizing things, and protecting their womenfolk.
2242bzo 2 years ago
AussieRoo1, this was pretty gut wrenching, but thanks for the movie. As far as I know this is only available on Youtube. In closing, I just realized the filmmaker's tip of the hat to Bergman (Seventh Seal) @2:19.
GoldenBoughTrader 2 years ago
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GoldenBoughTrader 2 years ago
Fuck.....
dawid19900 2 years ago 2
No kidding. That about sums it up.
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GoldenBoughTrader 2 years ago
At 3:16 to 3:20 there is an oil tanker in the distance out at sea!
wolseleyplumb 2 years ago
But they are all dead...That oil tanker is drifting
nuclear321 2 years ago 2
this wouldn't happen. Since the 50's nuclear devices have been tested hundreds of not THOUSANDS of times. These have included underground tests, atmospheric test, ocean tests, ground, and air burst tests. Nuclear fallout clouds have been all over northamerica , especially around the Nevada, Utah area and upwind. Its not good for you that for sure, but you couldn't increase the radiation level on the entire planet like that.
fatezor 2 years ago
This book was written in 1956 when such a thing was a real possibility.
wolseleyplumb 2 years ago
You don't think nuclear war is a possibility anymore? Or an uncontrollable bio-weapons release? I sure hope you are right.
RodneyAHampton 2 years ago
@fatezor It is one very possible scenario, though not the only possible one. First of all, all the fallout released by all the tests ever done wouldn't compare to a real nuclear exchange. Second, the book makes clear the exchange included a large number of "salted" nuclear weapons, which are designed to create as much deadly fallout as possible.
fileboy2002 1 year ago
@fileboy2002
Its not possible.
Fallout from 'regular' nuclear weapons, shortly after the detonation, begins to decay at the rate of a ten-fold decrease for each seven-fold increase in time.
Even in heavily hit areas, 99% of radioactivity should be decayed after a few weeks - few months.
Of course there will still be residual iodine131 and other mildly-toxic junk in the environment. But you won't die just because you went outside.
fatezor 1 year ago
@fatezor Well, thnaks for letting me know nuclear war isn't that bad after all--lol.
fileboy2002 1 year ago
@fatezor BTW, in the original book, the author made it clear the weapons used were in large part cobalt bombs, or "salted" nuclear weapons, designed to produce a maximum amount of deadly fallout. No such device was ever built in reality. But in theory, such bombs could produce effects something like those in On the Beach.
fileboy2002 1 year ago
@fileboy2002
word, and yeah its a good story. But even if all the worlds nukes where used at once, the particles just don't have a half-life long enough to irradiate the entire planet like in this movie. Couple weeks to a month or so in a bunker, then you are good to go out and explore your new post apocalyptic world! On the beach world is too depressing. I would prefer a road-warrior type post apocalyptic future :D
fatezor 1 year ago
@fatezor
Finally, an intelligent informed comment. A rare thing under the threads for this movie.
The people who think this is actually a good, or at least realistic, movie are woefully ignorant of the underlying physics.
ChristophDollis 1 year ago
@fatezor
Quite.
ChristophDollis 1 year ago
@fileboy2002 Absolutely right,surviving a nuclear war, even in a bunker for weeks or months, is not a sustainable option, there would be nuclear winter, increased cancer rates, deformed children, decimated crop and plant life, deadly UV radiation from destroyed atmosphere leading to blindness and skin cancers,.most nuclear isotopes in HBombs have a half life of 500 years., not to mention total breakdown of society..See BBC film "Threads" on the site for most likely post-attack scenario....
anisete46 1 year ago
@fileboy2002
No this isn't a possible scenario given the world as it actually is. It's an entirely stupid excuse for a low-budget movie with no special effects.
ChristophDollis 1 year ago
I wonder if that submarine still has nuclear warheads on board.
nonamefromhell 2 years ago
yes, because they did not fire them.
theshiz99991 2 years ago
and how did he know where she was at the end???
anisete46 2 years ago
dont understand how this can have 30000 viewers in episode 1 and only 8000 at the end..
anisete46 2 years ago
They got fed up of the non synching sound track?
wolseleyplumb 2 years ago
I don't think radiation would be the issue in this scenario. It would be global cooling and crop failure due to dust in the atmosphere blocking the sun (If the warheads were mostly ground bursts). National and corporate leaders in underground bunkers with filtered air and protected food and water would survive the 2 to 3 years necessary for the radiation to go to ground. Then they and their families could re-populate the earth and build cleaner, safer nuclear weapons for the next war.
yocanbanconit 2 years ago
it is hard enough to accept the fact of our own personal demise..how much more difficult to accept the disappearance of our whole species,and yet it will disappear eventually, tomorrow, in 200 or 1000 or 2 million years.."we are so small between the stars, so large against the sky".. it all comes down to why are we here anyway? Maybe to help and love each other up to the end...but we are far from that goal...
anisete46 2 years ago 2
If we can spread far enough throughout the universe, perhaps we can exist in some form or another for billions of years, or even until the universe collapses back upon itself, if that really will happen.
bmcguire80 2 years ago
It is NOT time for humans to be extinct. Look in the face of a child and think that if you can be that cowardly. Just give up?
It IS time for us to start growing up.
Filifloats 2 years ago
Not a matter of weeks or even months unfortunately... radioactive cobalt has a half-life of about 500 years I believe...
anisete46 2 years ago
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guys guys guys guys guys..... this is my all time favorite movie. You see, its time for the earth to recycle itself and get rid of the human race all together. We deserve to be extinct. Look at what we do to each other, look how we treat each other. Look what we've done to our earth. Its time for the human race to be extinct, as if it never existed in the first place. It is time.
daveyedgar1 2 years ago
:'( really
555banzai 2 years ago
It's funny how their wars never really save any lives, just their fail pride!
proverb311031 2 years ago
Please do not allow your leaders to chose this path of hate and fear, and that will lead to all of mankind's end. GOD bless you all!
proverb311031 2 years ago 2
End Times porn - disgusting. If humans would get away from fear and ignorance and concentrate on courage and tolerance, this could be the garden spot of the Universe, and the Moon, and Mars, Titan, Europa, Ganymede - it's all here for our use and enjoyment. One gets to a point where one wonders if we're worth saving at all - just turn it over to the owls and bees.
-drl
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
this is the scariest film ive ever seen
Watchyourselfz 2 years ago 13
@Watchyourselfz
One of the stupidest and least realistic, anyway.
ChristophDollis 1 year ago
@Watchyourselfz
This is the LEAST scary nuclear apocalypse movie I have ever seen. Search youtube for the U.S film 'The Day After' 1983. That will shock you, it shows how appalling things will actually be. Or in a modern context, watch 'The Road'.
stuporstar 1 year ago