No commercials - and a special disclaimer about the content.
There can be no higher praise than that!
It was a terrific programme, of course; a hard-hitting human drama set in a Northern English city that had been attacked by nuclear missiles. The first 45 minutes, at least, just let you get acquainted with the characters, while ominous media footage in the background suggests what is to come.
Then the attack ... from then, it never lets go - for the next 13 years!
I seen that movie threads, & he mentions that the day after is a walk in the park to it ? if that is so, why are there so many similarities to it ?and keep in mind, that The Day After first aired back in november of 1983 and threads aired a year after that.
@SteelHyaena and SocratesTheGadfly, in fact all. This is how it will end up. No one side understanding the other. Mankind's history has a profound tradition of not being able to admit it's wrong or when to stand back on the brink. This film, albeit nearly 30 years ago will eventually be able to say I told you so. It will happen, even though some of our intentions are genuine. All because of ego and lack of trust. We are built that way.
This movie is the gold standard in disaster movies. A mixture of fiction and realism... I believe it helped in changing the politics of nuclear war towards lunacy in the 80's. This movie should be archived as part of the anti-nuclear movement and get a smidgeon of credit towards partial nuclear disarmament. The only other movie I can think of which puts nuclear war in a bad light would be: Doctor Strange Love.
It was an amazing film - extremely brave by the BBC to air it. And also to release their attack warning footage - all those government warnings are for real - in an actual attack, the people of the UK would have been listening to those exact recordings (complete with electronic musical jingles).
@2608513 "an impression" ? do not make me laugh. YOU are a FOOL and your use of profanity in starting an argument PROVES that you are a FOOL with the IQ of a toadstool and frankly you BORE me, little boi / gurl.
@2608513 really? the more you prattle along espousing nonsense just PROVES that you have no concept nor any frame of reference in regards to NATIONAL SECURITY. furthermore, your use of profanity has already discredited all of your rantings and as such you are an epic FAILURE. My arguments are based on TRUTHS and FACTS yet you result to name calling which is a sign of weakness and a liberal mentality of intolerance which is the basis of hysterical and emotional arguments, it is simple, YOU FAIL!
@2608513 when someone like you "claiming" to have a higher level of intelligence but resorts to the use of PROFANITY that CLEARLY indicates a diminished if not a RETARDED level of intellectual acumen. I do not discuss such issues as NATIONAL DEFENSE through "insecurity" but more precisely from a level PROTECTION from enemies who would seek to destroy us. If you are unable to understand let alone comprehend such important matters then you need to go to your toy box little boi / gurl !
@2608513 That certainly demonstrates your level of intellectual acumen, depth of thinking and intelligent quotient! SINGLE DIGITS!! It really must be quite difficult for you to function on a solitary braincell. You have my PITY!
See in the UK we get a voiceover lasting 5 seconds saying "Some Viewers may find the following scenes disturbing." In the USA they get a 1:55 minute speech talking about how it is graphic, disturbing and will make you uncomfortable!
@SteelHyaena and @SocratesTheGadfly. You're both wrong. You do realize you're being played right? They get us to fight each other over minuscule things, divide us and instill fear in us and they capitalize on that so that they make a quick buck and get a seat in power. They don't care about the people. They care about their stupid ideologies. We complain about the way things are abroad but its not so different here. Sunni, Shiite, Democrat, Republican. Same difference.
@henshinboy9 actually quite the contrary. the issue is about what is RIGHT and what is WRONG. liberalism is WRONG and it is just another way of controlling people and it has evolved out of marxist socialist communism and is just another method of exerting POWER and CONTROL over people. Freedom, Liberty and Independence are the natural rights of all mankind.
@blindthrall actually quite the contrary. failed ideologies such as liberalism, socialism, facism, dictatorship and communism exert control over people.
@SocratesTheGadfly Wow, you truly are a master debater. Say "quite the contrary" has certainly brought me around to your way of thinking. And you position is so strong, citing examples would only be showing weakness. Bravo.
Religion has been controlling people long before any of those forms of government, half of which you probably can't even define. At least you learned how to turn CAPSLOCK off.
@blindthrall Simpletons like you are such a pitiful sight trying to think with a diminished IQ and stunted intellect coupled with a solitary brain cell. Historical facts proves that liberalism and all of its derivatives are failed ideologies that always lead to depravity, destruction and death of civilizations. The problems in the world are the direct results of fools acting to control others. Religion is not the problem. Ideologies that conflict against natural rights are the problem.
Threads fucking scarred me for life. Hell, living through the damn Reagan administration scarred me for life. I was in my late teens when Threads came out and we were all purely convinced that we were going to be blown off the face of the planet just any ol' time Ronnie Ray-Gun couldn't get his damn jelly beans.
@SteelHyaena President Ronald Reagan RIGHTLY AND JUSTLY DEFENDED the western world against the soviet empire. you need to get over your liberalistic brain washed mind, the real enemy that you should have been concerned about was the soviet empire which at the time was waging a war against afghanistan.
@SocratesTheGadfly You're an asshole and I'm not even discussing this with you, since the first thing you did was start calling names and being strident. I know what was happening over there, and they also LOST that war aaaalll by themselves, for the same reasons WE are having difficulties over there.
@SteelHyaena "name calling"? what name did I call YOU? you referred to me as an 'asshole' when I only pointed out to you the TRUTH. here is some additional TRUTHS for you to cogitate upon, the soviet empire and its communist allies MURDERED over one hundred fifty million people worldwide and yet the liberals of the world IGNORE that fact. also, remember there are two types of liberals, the immoral, unethical liberals who make up LIES and the parrot liberals who recite those LIES. which are you?
@MrRik2 you should not be putting YOURSELF down like that. You have a brain given to you by God and it is YOUR responsibility to learn to use it, otherwise YOU become a FOOL.
@MrRik2 It is quite clear that you are trying to function on a solitary braincell with a single digit IQ. As such, it is pointless to engage in a conversation with you because you have PROVEN yourself to be a FOOL!
@MrRik2 Actually quite the contrary because God has NO "shiny bottom". however, it is quite clear that your mind is POISONED, you have my sincere PITY!
@SocratesTheGadfly Oh, he so does! A great big, shiny bottom made of clouds around which a thousand angels gaily cavort. It says so in that hilarious and revolting "bible" of yours, so it must be true.
I'm glad I didn't watch it then, I was five years old and it would have messed me up something fierce. It was bad enough watching it two years ago and being depressed for weeks afterward.
This film put me off my vegetarian food for weeks, it was that sickly, anybody who ain't seen the movie, I urge you not to watch it, It physically sickens you.
@livkivi I'm sorry, but are you retarded? Nobody learned what exactly? That film producers can make a chilling fictional film? You do realize this film was fictional. And what exactly is the connection to Chernobyl? What is the connection between Soviet incompetence that led to a meltdown of a nuclear reactor and a fictional BBC film on nuclear war? I want some answers!
The problem is that this film depicts all-out war starting from an initial conflict that simply wouldn't have brought on strategic war. Much more likely for the 70s and 80s would have been an accident that triggered a launch response on one or both sides.
But the notion of Sheffield or any other non-military target being attacked for its "steel, energy, communications, [and] chemicals" capability smells like Cold War propaganda. The book 'World War 3: August 1985' is much more realistic.
after i watched that movie [about a year ago], i couldn't sleep for days...and i had to leave the light on at night...i'm mildly embarassed that i just told you guys that.
And just how lame was the story in The Day After?
It already happened! The last time we deployed missiles in Turkey caused the Russians to deploy missiles in Cuba and the result was the cuban missile crisis. It most certainly didn't come CLOSE to resulting in a blockade of Berlin and the invasion of West Germany as depicted in TDA. It was a terrible story designed to make a political statement against Reagan's talk of redeploying missiles in Turkey.
I watched threads....I wish I hadn't. I haven't been able to sleep much since I did watch it. I do, however, realize that these videos are meant to show us the mistakes of the past and why we should not conduct nuclear war: no one wins.
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Threads wasn't anywhere near as good as The Day After. It was way too campy, but thats the BBC for you. Really bad special effects and stages, ala Day of the Triffids or Dr Who. The Day After was better financed and better acted. Period.
@flug747 Don't get me wrong. Threads was a realistic scary story. But this guy in the vid says its better than TDA. Its not. They have one scene in Threads where a nuclear bomb goes off that looks like someone blew up a gasoline truck! There are just too many scenes that don't look real. By campy I mean low budget, not not disturbing.
@fatdogtavern "scene... that looks like someone blew up a gasoline truck" The main purpose of this film is to show how people's lives would be affected - both Threads and The Day After do this, as does Nevil Shute's book On The Beach, which was published in 1957.
@tim3929 Yes I agree and I understand your point. I'm just saying that the announcer makes a comment that some people thought that Threads was better than TDA. Its not. As far as the post apocalyptic issues facing humanity the two movies are comprable. My point was that the special effects in Threads were in many cases bordering on silly. In TDA when a nuke goes off, you know it. In threads when a nuke goes off you think "Who blew up the BP station?"
@fatdogtavern Yeah glass melts and bright light blots out all vision in a has station explosion, LOL! Exploding buildings, cinder blocks and steel beams crushing people, and people being burned to death by the flash...yep that is just a gas station explosion.
@fatdogtavern It was made during th 1980s what kind of graphics did you expect? :P
I think Threads goes into a lot more detail and depth, covers many more issues of a nuclear attack and provides us with a lot more information of the struggle of life when the population falls to Medieval numbers, and overall a lot more graphic and uncensored.
@OrangeJuice101 The Day After was also made in the 1980's, a year before Threads and its special effects were much much better and I'd say the acting was at least on par with Threads. The whole point of my comments are that the commentator in this clip states that Threads was thought by many to be better than TDA and thats just not true. I mean look at the picture to the right here for the clip "Nuclear War in Britain (part1)" Does that look like a nuclear explosion to you? Very Cheesy!
@fatdogtavern Cheesy? I don't think you know what that word means but it was TDA that was cheesy. it was cheesy to understate and underscore the horrific reality of nuclear war which TDA didn't come close to capturing. The proof is in the fact that people are saying: "Cool effects."
Threads was ugly BY DESIGN, especially the effects. Cheesy? OMG not even close. It was rude, insensitive, unsympathetic, cold, harsh and gritty.
@OrangeJuice101 I am glad the graphics were subdued. It made for an ugly film and that is precisely what the director and producer wanted: An unsexy, ugly film because nuclear is precisely THAT. They didn't want a bunch of snot nosed kids going: "Cool dOOd! Awesome!"
It's not about "special effects", it's about the consequences of a global crisis and I believe Threads portayed it in an unforgiving, realist and gritty light.
@OrangeJuice101 And the scenario leading to war was more realistic in Threads. It was over oil. BTW in The Day After a girl basically points out how ridiculous it would be to go to war to save the Germans (she was right, we didn't when they blockaded Berlin before.) She then says "now if we're talking about oil in Saudi Arabia then I'd be really worried." TDA discredits its own plot behind for WW3 but credits that which Threads endorsed, LOL!
@OrangeJuice101 As any film makers will attest to, special effects are a method of story telling. If used only for the effect of getting a bunch of teenage boys to say "kewl dOOd," it becomes a boring movie much like the special effects orgies released today that are mostly crap movies overall.
The effects in Threads conveyed the message the director and producer wanted us to receive. Nuclear war is UGLY and HORRIFIC.
This guy has it spot on... Threads was one of the most disturbing things I have ever watched in my life. The fact I was in my teens and growing up in Cold War Britain when it was aired might have had something to do with it.
This is my province CKND is called Global now, but they are slowly introducing the call letters back. We often debated if Winnipeg and Manitoba would be targets. We were not pleased by the proximity of Grand Forks Air Base across the border, and the missile silos there.
this is a film EVERYBODY must see, it doesnt matter that the soviet union collapsed and cold war is long gone, in fact its the major super powers the so called ''good guys'' are the ones you need to watch.
They would do it in a heartbeat, and not give a shit about anyone else, i mean whats the best way of ''cleansing'' a vastly populated planet and many wising up to thier true agenda's, quite simple and brutal, Global Genocide.
@lostronin666 I agree even if it never happens (in which hopefully not) people to to wake up and realise what could happen, yes its very disturbing and horrible but its the only way to make people realise just how lucky we are and should try and get along with everyone and in the world too. goverments are so wrapped up sometimes with power that they fail to see how this affects everyone else who don't even want something like this to happen like what hitler did and also al qaieda
"Discomfort" ... yeah, that's one way of putting it, I guess ... Threads is on YouTube but this guy is not understating things; it is very graphic and very grim.
I was wondering that myself. The Day After is a brillant movie, very sad, very depressing. But it pales before Threads. It's probably the total lack of human (not comical) relief. There is no, absolutely no compassion, no sharing of emotions or experiences. People even lose their speech, their ability to feel for each other. I remember that being the starkest impression Threads made. Society, familiy, friendship is getting utterly destroyed. Devastating.
@Retrontario I watched this movie 2 years ago. Believe me, there's no way to erase this from your memory. I would gladly go back in time to tell myself to not see this film.
@Retrontario NOOOO PEOPLE SHOULD WATCH IT. its is very disturbing but this film isn't trying to scar you its trying to get into your heads about the possibilities that this sort of thing could happen. this films coming up to 30 years old and we're fine but people should watch and realise just how privilage they are right at this moment
@BggProductions If "everyone" was in a position to deter a nuclear war, I would agree, but since the majority of us cannot, why suffer through such misery? Don't bother responding, I don't care what you have to say. Go watch THREADS again and pleasure yourself.
@Retrontario Wow. Threads really messed you up, eh? Or were you already a social fuckup before you watched it? That's ok, you carry on going through life with your fingers in your ears shouting "LA LA LA LAAA!", you'll do just fine mate.
@Retrontario I would agree. I'm from England, and can relate to this film completely. After watching this it really got under my skin and into my head, I couldn't stop thinking about it and potentially how close I'd come to being in that nightmare. Sadly many of todays ignorant generation really don't appreciate the message behind the film and think it's a huge joke, but growing up surrounded by airbases in England this was the reality we faced, never knowing if we'd be dead in 4 mins time.
Fictional is right. It had NO basis in reality at all. Just shock to frighten the gullible sheep.
TheBlacksmith45 2 months ago
Spot on mate
The Bomb doesn't even exist
Just like your brain
cajjer 2 months ago
@TheBlacksmith45
Hope you have inside information to back this statement up.....
kevind39 1 month ago
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I think republicans and Russians must watch this movie.
TheYankee006 2 months ago
Any time I've felt pissed off with life, I play this film and it quickly sobers one up.
All this nearly happened in 1962, 1973 and during the premiership of Andropov.
It's easily the most chilling presentation of what nuclear war would mean for everyone. Protect and Survive...Duck and Cover.
SweetStout 3 months ago
If only every tv exec thought like this.....
ashland1977 3 months ago
Sheffield is a city.
glitch4465 3 months ago
Wow!
No commercials - and a special disclaimer about the content.
There can be no higher praise than that!
It was a terrific programme, of course; a hard-hitting human drama set in a Northern English city that had been attacked by nuclear missiles. The first 45 minutes, at least, just let you get acquainted with the characters, while ominous media footage in the background suggests what is to come.
Then the attack ... from then, it never lets go - for the next 13 years!
So brave in 1983.
jazzx251 4 months ago 7
I seen that movie threads, & he mentions that the day after is a walk in the park to it ? if that is so, why are there so many similarities to it ?and keep in mind, that The Day After first aired back in november of 1983 and threads aired a year after that.
sr71ablackbird 4 months ago
A British Army Nuclear/Biological/Chemical Warfare instructor in the mid 80's, told me that Threads scared the hell out of him.
This from a Army NCO whose specialism was this whole subject.
THAT's a positive review!
SSCFPA 4 months ago 5
@SteelHyaena and SocratesTheGadfly, in fact all. This is how it will end up. No one side understanding the other. Mankind's history has a profound tradition of not being able to admit it's wrong or when to stand back on the brink. This film, albeit nearly 30 years ago will eventually be able to say I told you so. It will happen, even though some of our intentions are genuine. All because of ego and lack of trust. We are built that way.
jasonpatchett1 4 months ago
This movie is the gold standard in disaster movies. A mixture of fiction and realism... I believe it helped in changing the politics of nuclear war towards lunacy in the 80's. This movie should be archived as part of the anti-nuclear movement and get a smidgeon of credit towards partial nuclear disarmament. The only other movie I can think of which puts nuclear war in a bad light would be: Doctor Strange Love.
viewer3412 5 months ago
@viewer3412
I think you're right.
It was an amazing film - extremely brave by the BBC to air it. And also to release their attack warning footage - all those government warnings are for real - in an actual attack, the people of the UK would have been listening to those exact recordings (complete with electronic musical jingles).
jazzx251 4 months ago 2
@2608513 "an impression" ? do not make me laugh. YOU are a FOOL and your use of profanity in starting an argument PROVES that you are a FOOL with the IQ of a toadstool and frankly you BORE me, little boi / gurl.
SocratesTheGadfly 6 months ago
@2608513 really? the more you prattle along espousing nonsense just PROVES that you have no concept nor any frame of reference in regards to NATIONAL SECURITY. furthermore, your use of profanity has already discredited all of your rantings and as such you are an epic FAILURE. My arguments are based on TRUTHS and FACTS yet you result to name calling which is a sign of weakness and a liberal mentality of intolerance which is the basis of hysterical and emotional arguments, it is simple, YOU FAIL!
SocratesTheGadfly 6 months ago
@2608513 when someone like you "claiming" to have a higher level of intelligence but resorts to the use of PROFANITY that CLEARLY indicates a diminished if not a RETARDED level of intellectual acumen. I do not discuss such issues as NATIONAL DEFENSE through "insecurity" but more precisely from a level PROTECTION from enemies who would seek to destroy us. If you are unable to understand let alone comprehend such important matters then you need to go to your toy box little boi / gurl !
SocratesTheGadfly 6 months ago
@2608513 That certainly demonstrates your level of intellectual acumen, depth of thinking and intelligent quotient! SINGLE DIGITS!! It really must be quite difficult for you to function on a solitary braincell. You have my PITY!
SocratesTheGadfly 6 months ago
Now imagine them airing it on BBC One nowadays. "If you have been affected by the issues raised in this programme, please call our hotline."
hotelmario510 7 months ago
I have watched almost every Nuclear War movie produced. Threads by far is the most intense depiction of such a horrific event.
luxone01 8 months ago 3
See in the UK we get a voiceover lasting 5 seconds saying "Some Viewers may find the following scenes disturbing." In the USA they get a 1:55 minute speech talking about how it is graphic, disturbing and will make you uncomfortable!
Duty281Returns 8 months ago
@Duty281Returns Manitoba is in a place called "Canada."
SCE2AUX 6 months ago
This is by far the most depressing thing I have ever seen
cf19d 10 months ago
@SteelHyaena and @SocratesTheGadfly. You're both wrong. You do realize you're being played right? They get us to fight each other over minuscule things, divide us and instill fear in us and they capitalize on that so that they make a quick buck and get a seat in power. They don't care about the people. They care about their stupid ideologies. We complain about the way things are abroad but its not so different here. Sunni, Shiite, Democrat, Republican. Same difference.
henshinboy9 11 months ago
@henshinboy9 actually quite the contrary. the issue is about what is RIGHT and what is WRONG. liberalism is WRONG and it is just another way of controlling people and it has evolved out of marxist socialist communism and is just another method of exerting POWER and CONTROL over people. Freedom, Liberty and Independence are the natural rights of all mankind.
SocratesTheGadfly 10 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly Religion is the classic foolproof way to exert POWER and CONTROL over people, Mr CapslockCrusader.
blindthrall 8 months ago
@blindthrall actually quite the contrary. failed ideologies such as liberalism, socialism, facism, dictatorship and communism exert control over people.
SocratesTheGadfly 8 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly Wow, you truly are a master debater. Say "quite the contrary" has certainly brought me around to your way of thinking. And you position is so strong, citing examples would only be showing weakness. Bravo.
Religion has been controlling people long before any of those forms of government, half of which you probably can't even define. At least you learned how to turn CAPSLOCK off.
blindthrall 8 months ago
@blindthrall Simpletons like you are such a pitiful sight trying to think with a diminished IQ and stunted intellect coupled with a solitary brain cell. Historical facts proves that liberalism and all of its derivatives are failed ideologies that always lead to depravity, destruction and death of civilizations. The problems in the world are the direct results of fools acting to control others. Religion is not the problem. Ideologies that conflict against natural rights are the problem.
SocratesTheGadfly 8 months ago
Threads fucking scarred me for life. Hell, living through the damn Reagan administration scarred me for life. I was in my late teens when Threads came out and we were all purely convinced that we were going to be blown off the face of the planet just any ol' time Ronnie Ray-Gun couldn't get his damn jelly beans.
SteelHyaena 11 months ago 2
@SteelHyaena President Ronald Reagan RIGHTLY AND JUSTLY DEFENDED the western world against the soviet empire. you need to get over your liberalistic brain washed mind, the real enemy that you should have been concerned about was the soviet empire which at the time was waging a war against afghanistan.
SocratesTheGadfly 11 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly You're an asshole and I'm not even discussing this with you, since the first thing you did was start calling names and being strident. I know what was happening over there, and they also LOST that war aaaalll by themselves, for the same reasons WE are having difficulties over there.
SteelHyaena 11 months ago
@SteelHyaena "name calling"? what name did I call YOU? you referred to me as an 'asshole' when I only pointed out to you the TRUTH. here is some additional TRUTHS for you to cogitate upon, the soviet empire and its communist allies MURDERED over one hundred fifty million people worldwide and yet the liberals of the world IGNORE that fact. also, remember there are two types of liberals, the immoral, unethical liberals who make up LIES and the parrot liberals who recite those LIES. which are you?
SocratesTheGadfly 11 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly Imbecile.
MrRik2 10 months ago
@MrRik2 you should not be putting YOURSELF down like that. You have a brain given to you by God and it is YOUR responsibility to learn to use it, otherwise YOU become a FOOL.
SocratesTheGadfly 10 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly I think that proves my point...
MrRik2 10 months ago
@MrRik2 It is quite clear that you are trying to function on a solitary braincell with a single digit IQ. As such, it is pointless to engage in a conversation with you because you have PROVEN yourself to be a FOOL!
SocratesTheGadfly 10 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly I refer you to my original comment, godboy.
MrRik2 10 months ago
@MrRik2 once again you open your mouth, or write what you are thinking, and fail yet again because I certainly am NOT a 'god'. QED
SocratesTheGadfly 10 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly No. But you'd like to kiss his shiny bottom.
MrRik2 10 months ago
@MrRik2 Actually quite the contrary because God has NO "shiny bottom". however, it is quite clear that your mind is POISONED, you have my sincere PITY!
SocratesTheGadfly 10 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly Oh, he so does! A great big, shiny bottom made of clouds around which a thousand angels gaily cavort. It says so in that hilarious and revolting "bible" of yours, so it must be true.
MrRik2 10 months ago
@SilverBars42 Radiation?
livkivi 1 year ago
I'm glad I didn't watch it then, I was five years old and it would have messed me up something fierce. It was bad enough watching it two years ago and being depressed for weeks afterward.
JonLeibow 1 year ago 2
This film put me off my vegetarian food for weeks, it was that sickly, anybody who ain't seen the movie, I urge you not to watch it, It physically sickens you.
VOLVORULEZ1995 1 year ago
Typical You Tube- turns into a slanging match over which had the better special effects , Threads' or 'The day after' :-(
'Threads' was a BBC lowish budget film of the horrors of what could have happened at that time. Watched it at school and was terrified.
Still (despite it's cheesy so called film-making) stands up today as a great great piece of work.
SoiCowboy2 1 year ago
A programming warning that still treats the viewers like adults...I never thought I would ever see such a thing.
electrogeek77 1 year ago 15
This is about the most sensible thing I have ever heard a tv executive say.
LadyMezzo 1 year ago 15
Wow, only 1 year before Chernobyl. And yet nobody learned anything...
livkivi 1 year ago 2
@livkivi I'm sorry, but are you retarded? Nobody learned what exactly? That film producers can make a chilling fictional film? You do realize this film was fictional. And what exactly is the connection to Chernobyl? What is the connection between Soviet incompetence that led to a meltdown of a nuclear reactor and a fictional BBC film on nuclear war? I want some answers!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
@livkivi And neither did you.
blindthrall 8 months ago
@blindthrall Nobody asked you, moron.
livkivi 8 months ago
@livkivi Sorry I didn't get your permission, dipshit.
blindthrall 8 months ago
The problem is that this film depicts all-out war starting from an initial conflict that simply wouldn't have brought on strategic war. Much more likely for the 70s and 80s would have been an accident that triggered a launch response on one or both sides.
But the notion of Sheffield or any other non-military target being attacked for its "steel, energy, communications, [and] chemicals" capability smells like Cold War propaganda. The book 'World War 3: August 1985' is much more realistic.
El135o 1 year ago
if i was watching this in the 80s id listen 2 this guy lol
neilam6 1 year ago
after i watched that movie [about a year ago], i couldn't sleep for days...and i had to leave the light on at night...i'm mildly embarassed that i just told you guys that.
rawrvintageisclassic 1 year ago 2
And just how lame was the story in The Day After?
It already happened! The last time we deployed missiles in Turkey caused the Russians to deploy missiles in Cuba and the result was the cuban missile crisis. It most certainly didn't come CLOSE to resulting in a blockade of Berlin and the invasion of West Germany as depicted in TDA. It was a terrible story designed to make a political statement against Reagan's talk of redeploying missiles in Turkey.
mongoose704 1 year ago
I watched threads....I wish I hadn't. I haven't been able to sleep much since I did watch it. I do, however, realize that these videos are meant to show us the mistakes of the past and why we should not conduct nuclear war: no one wins.
ChaPatEnd59 1 year ago
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Threads wasn't anywhere near as good as The Day After. It was way too campy, but thats the BBC for you. Really bad special effects and stages, ala Day of the Triffids or Dr Who. The Day After was better financed and better acted. Period.
fatdogtavern 1 year ago
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adeworks 1 year ago
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adeworks 1 year ago 2
@fatdogtavern
"Too campy"? Wow. I shudder before a movie you find scary...
flug747 1 year ago
@flug747 Don't get me wrong. Threads was a realistic scary story. But this guy in the vid says its better than TDA. Its not. They have one scene in Threads where a nuclear bomb goes off that looks like someone blew up a gasoline truck! There are just too many scenes that don't look real. By campy I mean low budget, not not disturbing.
fatdogtavern 1 year ago
@fatdogtavern "scene... that looks like someone blew up a gasoline truck" The main purpose of this film is to show how people's lives would be affected - both Threads and The Day After do this, as does Nevil Shute's book On The Beach, which was published in 1957.
tim3929 1 year ago
@tim3929 Yes I agree and I understand your point. I'm just saying that the announcer makes a comment that some people thought that Threads was better than TDA. Its not. As far as the post apocalyptic issues facing humanity the two movies are comprable. My point was that the special effects in Threads were in many cases bordering on silly. In TDA when a nuke goes off, you know it. In threads when a nuke goes off you think "Who blew up the BP station?"
fatdogtavern 1 year ago
@fatdogtavern Yeah glass melts and bright light blots out all vision in a has station explosion, LOL! Exploding buildings, cinder blocks and steel beams crushing people, and people being burned to death by the flash...yep that is just a gas station explosion.
Silly too!
mongoose704 1 year ago
@fatdogtavern It was made during th 1980s what kind of graphics did you expect? :P
I think Threads goes into a lot more detail and depth, covers many more issues of a nuclear attack and provides us with a lot more information of the struggle of life when the population falls to Medieval numbers, and overall a lot more graphic and uncensored.
OrangeJuice101 1 year ago
@OrangeJuice101 The Day After was also made in the 1980's, a year before Threads and its special effects were much much better and I'd say the acting was at least on par with Threads. The whole point of my comments are that the commentator in this clip states that Threads was thought by many to be better than TDA and thats just not true. I mean look at the picture to the right here for the clip "Nuclear War in Britain (part1)" Does that look like a nuclear explosion to you? Very Cheesy!
fatdogtavern 1 year ago
@fatdogtavern Cheesy? I don't think you know what that word means but it was TDA that was cheesy. it was cheesy to understate and underscore the horrific reality of nuclear war which TDA didn't come close to capturing. The proof is in the fact that people are saying: "Cool effects."
Threads was ugly BY DESIGN, especially the effects. Cheesy? OMG not even close. It was rude, insensitive, unsympathetic, cold, harsh and gritty.
mongoose704 1 year ago 2
@fatdogtavern Good point. But the explosions in 'The Day After' look like giant jellyfishes.
SamuelR45 1 year ago
@OrangeJuice101 I am glad the graphics were subdued. It made for an ugly film and that is precisely what the director and producer wanted: An unsexy, ugly film because nuclear is precisely THAT. They didn't want a bunch of snot nosed kids going: "Cool dOOd! Awesome!"
mongoose704 1 year ago 2
@mongoose704 I totally agree.
It's not about "special effects", it's about the consequences of a global crisis and I believe Threads portayed it in an unforgiving, realist and gritty light.
OrangeJuice101 1 year ago
@OrangeJuice101 And the scenario leading to war was more realistic in Threads. It was over oil. BTW in The Day After a girl basically points out how ridiculous it would be to go to war to save the Germans (she was right, we didn't when they blockaded Berlin before.) She then says "now if we're talking about oil in Saudi Arabia then I'd be really worried." TDA discredits its own plot behind for WW3 but credits that which Threads endorsed, LOL!
mongoose704 1 year ago
@OrangeJuice101 As any film makers will attest to, special effects are a method of story telling. If used only for the effect of getting a bunch of teenage boys to say "kewl dOOd," it becomes a boring movie much like the special effects orgies released today that are mostly crap movies overall.
The effects in Threads conveyed the message the director and producer wanted us to receive. Nuclear war is UGLY and HORRIFIC.
mongoose704 1 year ago 2
What a grown-up TV station.
BigDuke6ixx 1 year ago 2
I saw this very long ago. It freeze me to the bones. The idea of war in the soul of mankind it's yet far from disapear, sadly.
Cris from Chile
cristiansoazo 1 year ago
This guy has it spot on... Threads was one of the most disturbing things I have ever watched in my life. The fact I was in my teens and growing up in Cold War Britain when it was aired might have had something to do with it.
lukequixotesanjose 1 year ago
Raise your hand if you did NOT feel uncomfortable which watching 'Threads'. I don't think they'll be any hands up at all.
plusplusplusplusp 1 year ago
This movie is most practical nuclear deterrent ever devised. Thank God we never, and hopefully won't, wake up in it one day.
dinamitash1980 1 year ago
i know its part of the cut map but... looks like a pyramid still is strangely placed
could still be masonic in the camera placement
MaTchBoOkPoEt 1 year ago
@MaTchBoOkPoEt Yeah probably them pesky masons trying to put you off the thought of nuclear war now, bastards !
thegarbeen 1 year ago
This is my province CKND is called Global now, but they are slowly introducing the call letters back. We often debated if Winnipeg and Manitoba would be targets. We were not pleased by the proximity of Grand Forks Air Base across the border, and the missile silos there.
ctomarctus 2 years ago
this is a film EVERYBODY must see, it doesnt matter that the soviet union collapsed and cold war is long gone, in fact its the major super powers the so called ''good guys'' are the ones you need to watch.
They would do it in a heartbeat, and not give a shit about anyone else, i mean whats the best way of ''cleansing'' a vastly populated planet and many wising up to thier true agenda's, quite simple and brutal, Global Genocide.
lostronin666 2 years ago
@lostronin666 I agree even if it never happens (in which hopefully not) people to to wake up and realise what could happen, yes its very disturbing and horrible but its the only way to make people realise just how lucky we are and should try and get along with everyone and in the world too. goverments are so wrapped up sometimes with power that they fail to see how this affects everyone else who don't even want something like this to happen like what hitler did and also al qaieda
kieranmay 1 year ago
Manitoba was probably the lowest prioritiy of targets to the Soviet missile forces.
boobtuber06 2 years ago
"Discomfort" ... yeah, that's one way of putting it, I guess ... Threads is on YouTube but this guy is not understating things; it is very graphic and very grim.
MrsNorris55 2 years ago 17
They've still got the nuclear weapons. Including countries like Israel who do not declare them.
pix042 2 years ago
i remember this.. great movie.. probably the most horrific nuclear war movie ever...
battyguy 2 years ago 21
@battyguy Yes it is!!
holmsatlarge 1 year ago
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Retrontario 2 years ago 10
@Retrontario: However, if the threat of nuclear war ever comes again, EVERYONE will need to see this movie.
CJAnonymous 2 years ago
I know, what the heck is behind that movie that it can conjure up such power?
boobtuber06 2 years ago
@boobtuber06
I was wondering that myself. The Day After is a brillant movie, very sad, very depressing. But it pales before Threads. It's probably the total lack of human (not comical) relief. There is no, absolutely no compassion, no sharing of emotions or experiences. People even lose their speech, their ability to feel for each other. I remember that being the starkest impression Threads made. Society, familiy, friendship is getting utterly destroyed. Devastating.
flug747 1 year ago
@Retrontario I watched this movie 2 years ago. Believe me, there's no way to erase this from your memory. I would gladly go back in time to tell myself to not see this film.
We4are7Borg 1 year ago
@Retrontario NOOOO PEOPLE SHOULD WATCH IT. its is very disturbing but this film isn't trying to scar you its trying to get into your heads about the possibilities that this sort of thing could happen. this films coming up to 30 years old and we're fine but people should watch and realise just how privilage they are right at this moment
kieranmay 1 year ago
@Retrontario Wrong. Everyone should see Threads. As another poster said, the film is the most practical nuclear deterrent ever devised.
BggProductions 1 year ago
@BggProductions If "everyone" was in a position to deter a nuclear war, I would agree, but since the majority of us cannot, why suffer through such misery? Don't bother responding, I don't care what you have to say. Go watch THREADS again and pleasure yourself.
Retrontario 1 year ago
@Retrontario Wow. Threads really messed you up, eh? Or were you already a social fuckup before you watched it? That's ok, you carry on going through life with your fingers in your ears shouting "LA LA LA LAAA!", you'll do just fine mate.
BggProductions 1 year ago
@Retrontario I would agree. I'm from England, and can relate to this film completely. After watching this it really got under my skin and into my head, I couldn't stop thinking about it and potentially how close I'd come to being in that nightmare. Sadly many of todays ignorant generation really don't appreciate the message behind the film and think it's a huge joke, but growing up surrounded by airbases in England this was the reality we faced, never knowing if we'd be dead in 4 mins time.
planejunky 1 year ago 4
@Retrontario and yet no one punched the dislike button on any of the segments.
ashkrowe 1 year ago