@jamesfrbray It's excellent. I was in my early 30s when I first saw it and it still scared the crap out of me. Of course, that was during the 80s, when it seemed as if it was very likely to come to pass ...
Back in 1997 (I think) - a bunch of pissed-off people brought the UK to its knees over the price of petrol by blockading the oil refineries. It took less than three days for the country to slip into a near-medieval state. It was a clear example of how we are interconnected like "threads" as the title suggests. Pull the rug of fuel, or the safety net of electricity out from under us, and we're quickly doomed.
It's amazing we made it past this sort of nonesense.
Another 20 years and I think we can say we've past the first extinction point of our civilization. It's safe to assume that the major nuclear powers wouldn't do it NOW given our interdependence. It'll take at least another two decades for the small nutter countries like North Korea and Iran to come on board
@mjptrapster We hope so anyway....for North Korea and Iran....but nothing is guaranteed. Afterall, in 1939 the most technologically advanced nation on Earth was nazi Germany, and we all know what they did.
The irony is that this bleak film - possibly the bleakest in history - errs on the optimistic side. Nuclear winter would probably last so long that no one would have a chance of survival.
My grandfather saw hiroshima after the war. He was always such a peacefull man and I think that was part of the reason why. He was a man I always considered myself blessed to have known for 36 years. Millions of good folks like him just wanted to come home from the war and build their countries in a better way. But some militarists and their lackies want to destroy everything humanity has ever built that is good. The world needs real leadership and we aren't getting it. very sad indeed.
@starquant LOL My thoughts exactly! In a more realistic (as far as aspects of health & hygene r concerned) postapocalyptic movie such as "The Road," @ least they attempted 2 make th teeth look rotted.
@xXKittyxCat Curious as I was 2 c that myself, it wouldn't've mattered much if it ws a stillbirth. To get an idea of wht it may have looked like, just google "depleted uranium babies." I wonder if th births that survive 2 adulthood would be like th mutants in "The Hills have Eyes" or "Fallout?
It's NHS dentistry - it is perfectly acceptable to believe that this rudimentary, medieval form of tooth-filling would be reinstated after a nuclear war.
Astonishing film. Yet I think still too optimistic even as grim as it is. People won't coexist. They will kill each other off. Nothing has been learned. Nothing has been gained. May God have mercy on us.
Uhmm..well isn't this just dandy, I'd rather kill myself rather than live through something like this...it be the same as dying from the blast after all we all are somewhat responsible for the actions of our leaders...
@Trag3dyInV3nus Well I vote down starting a thermonuclear war over some make believe god(s) or a power crazed group of greedy, thieving governments who could care less as long as they line their pockets right now. The People need to wise up, educated themselves and break out of this Jersey Shore,Dr.Phil, Left-Right, GOP, Democrat, merry-go-round, ignorant inexcusable sedative state of complacency. Or this will happen sooner than later, and it won't be dandy. Your right, it will be OUR faults.
This film depicts the worst actions of humanity! I.e. nuclear war. We never ever learn from our past. During the Second World War fifty million people perished in a barbaric conflict. Did that deter us and try and make people work for peace? Well just think of how many wars have been fought since. It is only a matter of time before we destroy ourselves and nuclear weapons are just the very job. We have already used these god forsaken weapons against others.
Well - my mate is a script-writer on the next Xmas special of Eastenders. And he says that a "nuclear event" is going to come to Albert Square this year.
Regarding the fillings, I doubt that she, or for that matter anyone else in this post-apocalyptic world, would even have many teeth left.
In most other countries it would be total anarchy, the strong and crafty preying on the weak and naive etc. It would be the exact opposite of "The meek shall inherit the Earth"
I wish they had made a sequel that told whether the human race survived or not, and in what form.
thanks, bawoman for response. I guess we'll never know how people would start to build relationships after a situation like this. It says in the film that population would drop to the level of Mediaeval times and from that we know there wouldn't be the infrastructure to enable people to connect. However this is now over 20 years old so we can only guess how things would pan out.....
thanks, bawoman for response. I guess we'll never know how people would start to build relationships after a situation like this. It says in the film that population would drop to the level of Mediaeval times and from that we know there wouldn't be the infrastructure to enable people to connect. However this is now over 20 years old so we can only guess how things would pan out.....
Well I just finished watching this, I am only in college at the moment but this sort of thing scares me so much. I can't imagine a worse kind of hell. Watching a programme like this puts a whole different perspective on everything, what I do now and in the future. I would say that people shouldn't have to live like this in fear but that will never happen one thing that should happen is the end of all weapons of this kind.
@musicmanstingray1234 well i wached this when i was 16 in 86 when this was a real possibility & it left us (those of us that wached it of my age) a bit traumatized & a little bit scared. a small part of our childhood died after seeing this.............. danm good film though
The reality of several strikes on home because they had to be sure the leveled the place was never far from your mind growing up in a priority target area.
On the upside it never happened so when people bitch about the ecconomy and enviroment I just have to think back and realize this is not so bad.
@JRCrowley learn much? hah i suspect that you didnt live through these times then ? at least i suspect you werent old enough to really understand the very real fear of that period. The fear that any moment you could haver been killed by a thermo nuclear inferno & that now while our relations with Russia China & other former eastern bloc countries can be for the most part frosty they are in no way as bad as they were in the 1980s when this was a very real possibility
@Ske11en wtf are you talking about? I did live through those years, very much so. Clearly you completely misinterpreted my comments. read it again. I said '"movie" ? No. Movies are about fluff. This is about reality.' I was stating that this movie was done so realistically that it was less a movie than a good realistic representation of what might happen in the event of an all-out nuclear war.
@Ske11en: I was very young at the time and lived in a "neutral" country and I was very aware of the threat, even though I didn't know what it was about. It was mainly talks about the US president having "a red button" he could press to destroy the world with.
@cherianshaw I'm around your age, probably. Anyone over 40 is much smarter about the danger of nuclear war because we lived through the Reagan era. That motherfucker almost had us all sucking in the plutonium. Sometimes I think it's a miracle we've made it this far. Ask any young person what an MX missile is today. They won't have a clue. Most don't even know what ICBM stands for, or the great benefits that a neutron bomb gives you over a regular old thermonuclear weapon.
@JRCrowley There's a difference between possibility and probability. The Soviet Union is gone and many Warsaw-Pact countries are now part of NATO. A trans-Atlantic nuclear armageddon is no longer a significant probability. Possible but not probable. Far more likely are scenarios like India & Pakistan or North Korea & Anybody with 10's of bombs detonated in a local area rather than 10,000's across 2+ continents. Serious stuff but a whole different scale.
@cherianshaw I disagree. Though the cold war is "over," and there have been substantial reductions on strategic nuclear weapons on both sides, both countries have their nuclear forces on hair trigger alert. Though it is less probable that a nuclear war could occur due to hostility, it is very probable that this could occur by accident-which is even more heinous.
@JRCrowley I was an anti-nuke protestor since the 1980's, and yes, it has hard to translate the tension the world felt at that time to a younger person. 1983, with Able Archer, and the who Reagan thing was terrifying. But, I can hardly imagine what the world went through during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The threat is still there-not by international tension, but through miscaclulation.
@musicmanstingray1234 The biggest warmonger and the owner of the largest nuclear arsenal is the US and they have a greedy group of corporate elites and banksters who exploit other countries by which they profit. If more of us wake up( and more are every day) and stop believing everything we hear on mainstream news we can get them to change their ways.
People just need to love one another. Love is the key. I never seen a time as now where people just hate one another without cause or reason and if there is a reason, it's petty trying to validate what's really in people hearts. Love is the key man in the mirror. This movie came about to show us, we can't love or get along. This is the end results, nobody wins.
Watched this when it first came out and never forgot it. Watched it just with my 2 teenage daughters and the effect on them was just the same 27 years later, So ground breaking for 1984 (no pun intended).
I'd love to see a remake of this. The first half is an amazing film, but becomes disjointed and loses the human element in the second half. A remake would be awesome, and perhaps needed. Total nuclear war isn't too likely, but an accidental one could still happen (the Russians once thought we were attacking them back in the 80's)
@lanxatdadisco That's what i said at the time. We decided it was because cannibalism was a big tabu and even that wouldn't trigger it. However, i later realised that very probably, someone i knew had been stranded on a raft after a shipwreck, missing presumed dead, and when he was rescued many months later, all the other people on the raft had mysteriously vanished, so now i think, yes, definitely they would've eaten dead bodies.
Everyone talking about Kim Jong il and his nuclear arsenal and using this movie as example of what may happen, but most people forget, or just want to ignore, the nuclear power of United States, that CAN cause the same destruction and horror, it's just another nation with the biggest mistake in human weaponry, so think: don't be afraid of a foreigner blowing your asses when your president carries everywhere he goes a nuclear device to doom us all if he likes.
@joyandian No a better ending is if the baby talked back to her with a Stewie Griffin voice, saying "Victory is mine!" Then she shreaks. But it doesn't end there. The babie says in that creepy voice of Stewie very flatly, "Shut up bitch." Then ends just as abruptly as it did the first time. Now that'd be awesome! And during the credits it replays the scene of the woman pissing herself, but augment this with lots of people pissing and shitting themselves down their pant legs. Priceless!
I don't know whether to thank you for uploading this or not... utterly utterly grim and a sense of hopelessness, not to mention the childhood nightmares that came flooding back. It was a superb drama. The end, while terribly sad, was a metaphor for the death of mankind. Women were going to produce mutated babies, signalling the end of the species. We could no longer produce anything viable. That is what the end said to me. Roll credits, no more needed to be said.
notice how the actress playing ruths daughter had fillings in her teeth. Not something you'd get in a post apocalipse, but then again better than terminator where the apocalipse turned everyones teeth into neon lights.
@TheHappydazz No, but Carl Sagan predicted world temperatures would drop as a result of burning oil fields during that war. And sure, there was no fallout as a result of the super volcano, but there were also only a few hundred thousand people at most, compared with billions today, so I think it evens out.
What will life be like now if this was to happen now in the uk after mass immigration there would be more people here competing for food it would be twice as bad now liblabcon have destroyed the british spirit....
@TheHappydazz Actually, nuclear winter is a myth that's been perpetuated.. there's no real evidence for it, it was just a hypothesis and there is evidence to support that it would not happen if you want to look into it (Gulf War, nuclear tests).
And even if there was a nuclear winter, humanity has already survived the eruption of a super volcano, which produces similar effects to the proposed nuclear winter hypothesis and yet we survived and with a much smaller population than today too.
@eragon2121 The collection of burning oil wells lowered local temperatures; they're not a good comparison with continent-wide burning cities (different fuel type). Carl Sagan plugged a worse-case scenario but other nuclear winter researchers were involved in Threads; what they used was a milder possibility (cold but short). There's only one way to test the hypothesis properly and I'd rather not do it.
I wonder that communication would break down as rapidly as this. Would we really resort to speaking like that? And would we not do our best to make a community out of the ruins? I know it's difficult to imagine a scenario like this but this is extremely depressing. I guess I just like to think the human spirit will rise to try again.
No youre not.I think if any a time where people would learn to try to stick together and care for each other it would be this one.I dont want to sound optimistic or anything,I just dont believe something like this would completely destroy the human spirit.At least not completely.
wow.this is about as real as it gets.forget about jason robards running thru the streets in a starched shirt in the middle of a nuked city. this had it down right.eistein said that after ww3 the next war woulsd be fought,with sticks an stones. if anyones interested theres some books on this very thing you might want to look up.... "warday" by whitley streiber an james kunetka,cannot remember others offhand.
@taylor39781 It depends on how the attack panned out worldwide. If Britian is typical then the global population would fall to around 500 million. If steam power and mining has returned after 13 years, someone can put engines on old ships and there is enough division of labour to build up surpluses, this raises the possibility of very basic trade re-emerging with other countries e.g. coal for uncontaminated fruit. Then again, in many cases, people might just plunder what they need
@TomthatiscalledTom No reason to believe Britain would be typical though.. Britain has far more urban areas than rural areas per sq mile than a country like the US so pretty much anywhere in the country would devastated. And what about all the countries un-involvedin the war?
@firecraxker It was certainly dead -- there's no sound from it at all -- and I think, from her expression when she unwraps it and looks at it, the audience is supposed to infer that it was also malformed.
@snlker Uh, no. Vast areas of the United States and other countries would not be affected by the direct blast and fallout effects. There simply aren't enough bombs in existence to do that kind of damage. Plus, most countries wouldn't be hit by a single bomb, I'm assuming. Small, compressed countries like Britain would have the worst of it, as depicted in this film. Plus there is no scientific evidence that the nuclear winter would be on the level depicted in this film.
@eragon2121 If you hit the right areas, and there are enough bombs, you will create a whole lot of thick blak smoke.I remember forest fires in canada filtered out the sun time for a day while the wind blew it toward us from norther Quebec.It was supposed to be like 80+ degrees and was only about 60-65 that day,and we could see the sun, just filtered.If you hit oil refineries and the like and major cities? it will block out the sun in a big way and cool things down real fast from the smoke
It's supposed to be depressing. That's the whole point. Click on the thumbnail 4 down in the right side bar titled 'CKND-Introduction to Threads(1985)
As regards the long term prognosis for humanity..it's difficult to tell because the movie never lets if a) the year long nuclear winter went global or b) where the 3,000 MT strikes were distributed. I suspect the USSR and USA got about 1,000 MT each and the rest was split between Europe and strategically important third world nations: China, Isreal, South Korea, Cuba. If Britain is typical, then the global population would still be in hundreds of millions
@TomthatiscalledTom I figured that in the world of this film, most countries got totalled to one degree or another, because there is no foreign aid arriving from anywhere else to help our country get started again
Judging by the looks of its face, the dead baby may have anencephaly (literally being born without a part of the skull or a brain.) Most babies die in the womb or minutes after birth, while the rest die within a few days or weeks (one survived on a life support machine for two years and died from heart attack.) If genetic mutations made this condition much more common, humanity is probably completely screwed.
Harrowing or what !! .. This is how we know life would be by allowing the dark ones a free reign, so am proud to have been a part of the dissenting Anti throng back yonder, and still am.
More folk should be watching this AND standing Up !
This film is one of the most disturbing film's i have ever seen.:(.
jgtdaw 3 days ago
This film scared me 4 good.Dam,deformed baby.@=|
jgtdaw 3 days ago
Mmmm, the pole-shift is sounding better all the time...
Starrmaiden 2 weeks ago
This part is supost to be the hope of the future and to see how civilization slowy rebeuilding it's shelf
CaptainViral84 2 weeks ago
Victoria O'Keefe died in a car wreck ;(
vimfuego1 2 weeks ago
Sheffield is in a bit of a bad way! However the rest of the country is fine lol
jamiebrighton1981 3 weeks ago
They made me watch this at school in the 80's. I was twelve
That seems kind of fucked up to me in retrospect.
MyBeinghuman 3 weeks ago
I hope all that fuss over Iran was worth this.
singularwave 3 weeks ago
Thats one scary-ass drama. Superb!
jamesfrbray 3 weeks ago
@jamesfrbray It's excellent. I was in my early 30s when I first saw it and it still scared the crap out of me. Of course, that was during the 80s, when it seemed as if it was very likely to come to pass ...
MrsNorris55 3 weeks ago
@MrsNorris55 I'm 35 :-)
I'm not much of one for following news/politics these days, but I must admit the whole Iran situation seems a little more ominous now....
jamesfrbray 3 weeks ago
@jamesfrbray Not so scary, at least they saved Women for the purposes of making cups of TEA... YAY.
starquant 3 weeks ago
@starquant mmmm, radioactive tea - lovely..... :-)
jamesfrbray 3 weeks ago
@jamesfrbray Imao
starquant 3 weeks ago
I think it's safe to say that if Atomic devastation ever happened today we would be better equipped for survival in the new world.
FortuneSoldier95 1 month ago
@FortuneSoldier95 bollocks
starquant 1 month ago
@FortuneSoldier95
No we wouldn't.
Here's why. We rely too much on technology.
Back in 1997 (I think) - a bunch of pissed-off people brought the UK to its knees over the price of petrol by blockading the oil refineries. It took less than three days for the country to slip into a near-medieval state. It was a clear example of how we are interconnected like "threads" as the title suggests. Pull the rug of fuel, or the safety net of electricity out from under us, and we're quickly doomed.
jazzx251 4 days ago
The baby was born with a massive eyeball in the middle of its face, and tentacles.
HighProphetOfRegret 1 month ago
Phew! Well as Alan Partridge would say at least "It's good news about the chocolate oranges..."
KILLERSTROP 1 month ago
It's amazing we made it past this sort of nonesense.
Another 20 years and I think we can say we've past the first extinction point of our civilization. It's safe to assume that the major nuclear powers wouldn't do it NOW given our interdependence. It'll take at least another two decades for the small nutter countries like North Korea and Iran to come on board
mjptrapster 1 month ago
@mjptrapster We hope so anyway....for North Korea and Iran....but nothing is guaranteed. Afterall, in 1939 the most technologically advanced nation on Earth was nazi Germany, and we all know what they did.
PotatoGunsRule 1 month ago
Don't you just love a happy ending.
YardleyGeorge 2 months ago
i find it funny that they have a shot of her with mouth open wide showing a few fillings lol
jamesg2205 2 months ago
@jamesg2205 Yep, a friend of mine commented on that at the time as well, but it seemed trite. Nowadays it's funny!
nineteenthly 2 months ago
@nineteenthly yeah i did chuckle aswell, sad to see that she died in real life so young
jamesg2205 2 months ago
@jamesg2205 Really? Oh, that's really sad, i didn't know that.
nineteenthly 2 months ago
@nineteenthly yeah i think she was only about 21 and in a car crash :(
jamesg2205 2 months ago
the moral of the story: the only way to win the game is not to play
john3000931 2 months ago
Great,but sad:Thanks
boolouwhatstrue2 2 months ago
Amazing why anyone would want to live in Scotland really.
MrFlibble2011 2 months ago
The irony is that this bleak film - possibly the bleakest in history - errs on the optimistic side. Nuclear winter would probably last so long that no one would have a chance of survival.
nojyt 2 months ago
@nojyt Bingo.
JRCrowley 2 months ago
My grandfather saw hiroshima after the war. He was always such a peacefull man and I think that was part of the reason why. He was a man I always considered myself blessed to have known for 36 years. Millions of good folks like him just wanted to come home from the war and build their countries in a better way. But some militarists and their lackies want to destroy everything humanity has ever built that is good. The world needs real leadership and we aren't getting it. very sad indeed.
heartfire451 3 months ago
Bloopers?
chialikeitgrows 3 months ago
this film was made because the government were sayin u could win a nuclear war
TheDEATHSTARIII 3 months ago
one of the most horrific films ever . a shocker ...
kathsouthgate 3 months ago
I think I'm scarred for life.
eric77lv 3 months ago
I never seen before so extremely bleak movie.
TheYankee006 3 months ago
Well that's me having nightmares for the next 2 weeks! Fuck that shit!
My19781978 3 months ago 8
I noticed she had fillings in her mouth while screaming during the birth.... it;s great the dentists survived.... IMAO.
starquant 3 months ago 14
@starquant LOL My thoughts exactly! In a more realistic (as far as aspects of health & hygene r concerned) postapocalyptic movie such as "The Road," @ least they attempted 2 make th teeth look rotted.
@xXKittyxCat Curious as I was 2 c that myself, it wouldn't've mattered much if it ws a stillbirth. To get an idea of wht it may have looked like, just google "depleted uranium babies." I wonder if th births that survive 2 adulthood would be like th mutants in "The Hills have Eyes" or "Fallout?
JackRussellTerrier2 3 months ago
@starquant don't be such a fucking pedantic bore.
retchen 3 months ago 2
@retchen ha ha ha ... well said, Thanks for bringing me back to earth... no worries.
starquant 1 month ago
@starquant
She actually died very young in a car crash.
m00nshine2004 1 month ago
@starquant LOL. Yep. A bit of an "oops" there ...
MrsNorris55 3 weeks ago
@starquant
It's NHS dentistry - it is perfectly acceptable to believe that this rudimentary, medieval form of tooth-filling would be reinstated after a nuclear war.
jazzx251 4 days ago
i wanted to see what the baby looked like....
xXKittyxCat 3 months ago 3
@xXKittyxCat Search anencephaly to get some idea.
Standuble 3 months ago
Astonishing film. Yet I think still too optimistic even as grim as it is. People won't coexist. They will kill each other off. Nothing has been learned. Nothing has been gained. May God have mercy on us.
iswim2themoon 3 months ago 2
Uhmm..well isn't this just dandy, I'd rather kill myself rather than live through something like this...it be the same as dying from the blast after all we all are somewhat responsible for the actions of our leaders...
Trag3dyInV3nus 3 months ago
@Trag3dyInV3nus Well I vote down starting a thermonuclear war over some make believe god(s) or a power crazed group of greedy, thieving governments who could care less as long as they line their pockets right now. The People need to wise up, educated themselves and break out of this Jersey Shore,Dr.Phil, Left-Right, GOP, Democrat, merry-go-round, ignorant inexcusable sedative state of complacency. Or this will happen sooner than later, and it won't be dandy. Your right, it will be OUR faults.
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I love the way this film ends
5thcenturyad 4 months ago
How was babby formed?
oddun 4 months ago
Well that cheered me right up.
TheGodParticle 4 months ago
Oh fuck ... Deformed baby
paolofanderson 4 months ago
Is that Jimmy's friend, Bob, in the next room??
rbryant100 4 months ago
@rbryant100 No, thats not Jimmys friend Bob. Dosnt look anything like him.
cadwalauni 4 months ago
@rbryant100 no, it's Bill Murray
MrDyonisis99 4 months ago
And Israel threatens everyone with nukes to this day
woodbinedrinker 4 months ago
grim shit
fcumenglish 4 months ago
This film depicts the worst actions of humanity! I.e. nuclear war. We never ever learn from our past. During the Second World War fifty million people perished in a barbaric conflict. Did that deter us and try and make people work for peace? Well just think of how many wars have been fought since. It is only a matter of time before we destroy ourselves and nuclear weapons are just the very job. We have already used these god forsaken weapons against others.
bigjackie82 4 months ago
that was one depressive piece of art
BoboShantiOne 4 months ago
@BoboShantiOne What was? The deformed bloodsoaked baby or the entire film?
cadwalauni 4 months ago
Damn! For an old movie, this was pretty good. GRIM as hell! Probably close to the truth in its time. Good post!
jdogg67333 4 months ago
I looked up the cast on wikipedia and the actress who plays Jane in the later part of the film apparently died some years later in a car accident.
LightLife4 4 months ago
@LightLife4 Yes, I read about that. Its very sad. Such a beautiful girl, she would have made a really good actress as an adult. But it wasnt to be.
cadwalauni 4 months ago
Feel-good movie of the year.
lulzwarrior 5 months ago 18
@lulzwarrior "movie" ? No. Movies are about fluff. This is about reality.
JRCrowley 2 months ago
@JRCrowley
no shit.
( hypothetical reality that is...)
lulzwarrior 2 months ago
@lulzwarrior no shit, but the stupid comments keep coming.
JRCrowley 2 months ago
@lulzwarrior
Still more cheery than Eastenders!
m00nshine2004 1 month ago
@m00nshine2004
Well - my mate is a script-writer on the next Xmas special of Eastenders. And he says that a "nuclear event" is going to come to Albert Square this year.
jazzx251 4 days ago
And we done this to Japan (By we i mean the Allies, Not just America)
god0bless0the0uk 5 months ago
@god0bless0the0uk Not on this scale
efcboy 5 months ago
Regarding the fillings, I doubt that she, or for that matter anyone else in this post-apocalyptic world, would even have many teeth left.
In most other countries it would be total anarchy, the strong and crafty preying on the weak and naive etc. It would be the exact opposite of "The meek shall inherit the Earth"
I wish they had made a sequel that told whether the human race survived or not, and in what form.
JackRussellTerrier2 5 months ago
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thanks, bawoman for response. I guess we'll never know how people would start to build relationships after a situation like this. It says in the film that population would drop to the level of Mediaeval times and from that we know there wouldn't be the infrastructure to enable people to connect. However this is now over 20 years old so we can only guess how things would pan out.....
TheSteelydanfan 5 months ago
thanks, bawoman for response. I guess we'll never know how people would start to build relationships after a situation like this. It says in the film that population would drop to the level of Mediaeval times and from that we know there wouldn't be the infrastructure to enable people to connect. However this is now over 20 years old so we can only guess how things would pan out.....
TheSteelydanfan 5 months ago
heavy shit...
Jdina666 5 months ago
Well I just finished watching this, I am only in college at the moment but this sort of thing scares me so much. I can't imagine a worse kind of hell. Watching a programme like this puts a whole different perspective on everything, what I do now and in the future. I would say that people shouldn't have to live like this in fear but that will never happen one thing that should happen is the end of all weapons of this kind.
musicmanstingray1234 5 months ago
@musicmanstingray1234 well i wached this when i was 16 in 86 when this was a real possibility & it left us (those of us that wached it of my age) a bit traumatized & a little bit scared. a small part of our childhood died after seeing this.............. danm good film though
Ske11en 5 months ago
@Ske11en Agreed. It is though a must watch.
musicmanstingray1234 5 months ago
@Ske11en
Same here.
The reality of several strikes on home because they had to be sure the leveled the place was never far from your mind growing up in a priority target area.
On the upside it never happened so when people bitch about the ecconomy and enviroment I just have to think back and realize this is not so bad.
We can fix all this.
northerbrewer 4 months ago
@Ske11en "when this was a real possibility " ? I've got news for you. It's a real possibility RIGHT NOW. You didn't learn much.
JRCrowley 2 months ago
@JRCrowley learn much? hah i suspect that you didnt live through these times then ? at least i suspect you werent old enough to really understand the very real fear of that period. The fear that any moment you could haver been killed by a thermo nuclear inferno & that now while our relations with Russia China & other former eastern bloc countries can be for the most part frosty they are in no way as bad as they were in the 1980s when this was a very real possibility
Ske11en 2 months ago
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@Ske11en wtf are you talking about? I did live through those years, very much so. Clearly you completely misinterpreted my comments. read it again. I said '"movie" ? No. Movies are about fluff. This is about reality.' I was stating that this movie was done so realistically that it was less a movie than a good realistic representation of what might happen in the event of an all-out nuclear war.
JRCrowley 2 months ago
@Ske11en: I was very young at the time and lived in a "neutral" country and I was very aware of the threat, even though I didn't know what it was about. It was mainly talks about the US president having "a red button" he could press to destroy the world with.
catsilvy 2 days ago
@JRCrowley That's so funny! How old are you?
cherianshaw 2 months ago
@cherianshaw I'm around your age, probably. Anyone over 40 is much smarter about the danger of nuclear war because we lived through the Reagan era. That motherfucker almost had us all sucking in the plutonium. Sometimes I think it's a miracle we've made it this far. Ask any young person what an MX missile is today. They won't have a clue. Most don't even know what ICBM stands for, or the great benefits that a neutron bomb gives you over a regular old thermonuclear weapon.
JRCrowley 2 months ago
@JRCrowley There's a difference between possibility and probability. The Soviet Union is gone and many Warsaw-Pact countries are now part of NATO. A trans-Atlantic nuclear armageddon is no longer a significant probability. Possible but not probable. Far more likely are scenarios like India & Pakistan or North Korea & Anybody with 10's of bombs detonated in a local area rather than 10,000's across 2+ continents. Serious stuff but a whole different scale.
cherianshaw 2 months ago
@cherianshaw I disagree. Though the cold war is "over," and there have been substantial reductions on strategic nuclear weapons on both sides, both countries have their nuclear forces on hair trigger alert. Though it is less probable that a nuclear war could occur due to hostility, it is very probable that this could occur by accident-which is even more heinous.
gljazzhead 1 day ago
@JRCrowley Not only that but Reagan helped the Soviet Union collapse upon itself.
blackhorsecav1 2 months ago
@JRCrowley Actually it was Reagan who stopped a nuclear catastrophe.
adibese 3 weeks ago
@JRCrowley I was an anti-nuke protestor since the 1980's, and yes, it has hard to translate the tension the world felt at that time to a younger person. 1983, with Able Archer, and the who Reagan thing was terrifying. But, I can hardly imagine what the world went through during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The threat is still there-not by international tension, but through miscaclulation.
gljazzhead 1 day ago
@musicmanstingray1234 The biggest warmonger and the owner of the largest nuclear arsenal is the US and they have a greedy group of corporate elites and banksters who exploit other countries by which they profit. If more of us wake up( and more are every day) and stop believing everything we hear on mainstream news we can get them to change their ways.
rosiethebear300 5 months ago
@rosiethebear300 Exacty.
musicmanstingray1234 5 months ago
@ThePinhead555 Yeah, don't be ridiculous. Why would there be a family and a sunset?
littleniyah 5 months ago
we need to forget how to hate and learn how to love
xenoghost1 5 months ago
People just need to love one another. Love is the key. I never seen a time as now where people just hate one another without cause or reason and if there is a reason, it's petty trying to validate what's really in people hearts. Love is the key man in the mirror. This movie came about to show us, we can't love or get along. This is the end results, nobody wins.
ccalll1 5 months ago
Watched this when it first came out and never forgot it. Watched it just with my 2 teenage daughters and the effect on them was just the same 27 years later, So ground breaking for 1984 (no pun intended).
Aquaseventytree 6 months ago
D'aaaw. What a beautiful baby abomination.
HypaSonicDeathMonkey 6 months ago
FUCK i hope that China and the USA dont fuck each other. I don't want to see my country gets killed like Britain in the movie.
But in the film case germany would have been blowed from the map.
TroTLF 6 months ago
I think that's the grandfather there in the final scene...
anisete46 6 months ago
At least she has a good dentist...
livkivi 6 months ago
@livkivi I noticed that too. Post Fallout babies may be deformed or/ and have mental retardation but they'll have amazing dentures?
MentalMyles 6 months ago
I'd love to see a remake of this. The first half is an amazing film, but becomes disjointed and loses the human element in the second half. A remake would be awesome, and perhaps needed. Total nuclear war isn't too likely, but an accidental one could still happen (the Russians once thought we were attacking them back in the 80's)
ficken3 6 months ago 2
eee bye eck,that wera shite endin wanit...
MICKEYISLOWD 6 months ago
@MICKEYISLOWD
d >_< b
DaveFallows 1 month ago
No-one in the film succumbed to cannibalism? that's being very optimistic.
lanxatdadisco 7 months ago 28
@lanxatdadisco That's what i said at the time. We decided it was because cannibalism was a big tabu and even that wouldn't trigger it. However, i later realised that very probably, someone i knew had been stranded on a raft after a shipwreck, missing presumed dead, and when he was rescued many months later, all the other people on the raft had mysteriously vanished, so now i think, yes, definitely they would've eaten dead bodies.
nineteenthly 2 months ago
Everyone talking about Kim Jong il and his nuclear arsenal and using this movie as example of what may happen, but most people forget, or just want to ignore, the nuclear power of United States, that CAN cause the same destruction and horror, it's just another nation with the biggest mistake in human weaponry, so think: don't be afraid of a foreigner blowing your asses when your president carries everywhere he goes a nuclear device to doom us all if he likes.
doarner 7 months ago
NEUCLEAR WARS SHALL NEVER TAKE PLACE ON EARTH.
UnitedKorean 7 months ago
@UnitedKorean Neither shall Koreans!!!
MICKEYISLOWD 6 months ago
the ending was not right at all.
kathypell 7 months ago
@ThePinhead555 a better ending than a 14 year old girl shrieking in horror at the deformed dead baby in her arms? ...i dont think so
joyandian 7 months ago 33
@joyandian truly an ending that Return of the King was missing!
MentalMyles 6 months ago
@joyandian No a better ending is if the baby talked back to her with a Stewie Griffin voice, saying "Victory is mine!" Then she shreaks. But it doesn't end there. The babie says in that creepy voice of Stewie very flatly, "Shut up bitch." Then ends just as abruptly as it did the first time. Now that'd be awesome! And during the credits it replays the scene of the woman pissing herself, but augment this with lots of people pissing and shitting themselves down their pant legs. Priceless!
jmitterii2 6 months ago
@joyandian Agreed. This shit's Real. I mean this is the stuff Nightmare fuel is made of!
kurlobe 6 months ago
@joyandian I agree. The long term affects also need to be shown in these sort of films, not just the short term.
LightLife4 4 months ago
aaaaaand now i cant play DEFCON without extreme guilt.
SonOfWeegee 7 months ago
The day after a better movie?? It only showed a day after the attack and did'nt even show the hospitals problems.
NielsShoe 7 months ago 3
Play Fallout 3 you weak hearted basterds!!!
cryteeek 7 months ago
I watched this when I was 16 no wonder I've suffered from depression my whole adult life. Can I suggest Aretha Franklin or Stevie Wonder as a remedy.
danprice2 7 months ago in playlist ƒιℓм: Threads (1984)
the bloody movie sucked compared to the day after, everybody saying threads way better needs to stop watching barry hines movies. NUFF SAID
nemzz9st 7 months ago
"No time for babbies here, use your common sense."
Yeah, like Ruth did.
hotelmario510 8 months ago
I don't know whether to thank you for uploading this or not... utterly utterly grim and a sense of hopelessness, not to mention the childhood nightmares that came flooding back. It was a superb drama. The end, while terribly sad, was a metaphor for the death of mankind. Women were going to produce mutated babies, signalling the end of the species. We could no longer produce anything viable. That is what the end said to me. Roll credits, no more needed to be said.
lukequixotesanjose 8 months ago 9
@lukequixotesanjose Meh... Ruth looked pretty healthy to me, I think her babies would be within margins.
mellhurstster 7 months ago
well at least it has a happy ending
Serduun 8 months ago 6
notice how the actress playing ruths daughter had fillings in her teeth. Not something you'd get in a post apocalipse, but then again better than terminator where the apocalipse turned everyones teeth into neon lights.
Roboshi2007 8 months ago
This is what happens when you get Carl Sagan started on nuclear war.
Don't. Just don't.
hotelmario510 8 months ago
If you want to see what the baby looked like just get a doll and leave it next to a roaring fire for a few hours
TomthatiscalledTom 8 months ago
Nuclear war. Fuck that, when Kim Jong il presses the button im going to reach for my sleeping pills a jack daniel's.
LJUncut 8 months ago 4
@ 30 seconds... nice fillings! very much doubt shed have fillings growing up in a post nuclear war world.
pplpilot 8 months ago
@pplpilot Sure they would. They've had fillings for hundreds of years.
It's probably lead though.
outwrangle 8 months ago
@pplpilot Maybe they're just rotten? LOL
MasterJediDude 8 months ago
@TheHappydazz No, but Carl Sagan predicted world temperatures would drop as a result of burning oil fields during that war. And sure, there was no fallout as a result of the super volcano, but there were also only a few hundred thousand people at most, compared with billions today, so I think it evens out.
eragon2121 8 months ago
What will life be like now if this was to happen now in the uk after mass immigration there would be more people here competing for food it would be twice as bad now liblabcon have destroyed the british spirit....
MrBorderghost 8 months ago
@MrBorderghost Don't know why you're worrying mate. If a nuclear warhead was dropped on Britain now, no one would survive anyway.
HoosierMF 6 months ago
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MrBorderghost 8 months ago
@TheHappydazz Actually, nuclear winter is a myth that's been perpetuated.. there's no real evidence for it, it was just a hypothesis and there is evidence to support that it would not happen if you want to look into it (Gulf War, nuclear tests).
And even if there was a nuclear winter, humanity has already survived the eruption of a super volcano, which produces similar effects to the proposed nuclear winter hypothesis and yet we survived and with a much smaller population than today too.
eragon2121 8 months ago
@eragon2121 The collection of burning oil wells lowered local temperatures; they're not a good comparison with continent-wide burning cities (different fuel type). Carl Sagan plugged a worse-case scenario but other nuclear winter researchers were involved in Threads; what they used was a milder possibility (cold but short). There's only one way to test the hypothesis properly and I'd rather not do it.
cherianshaw 2 months ago
I wonder that communication would break down as rapidly as this. Would we really resort to speaking like that? And would we not do our best to make a community out of the ruins? I know it's difficult to imagine a scenario like this but this is extremely depressing. I guess I just like to think the human spirit will rise to try again.
Or am I completely off my rocker????
TheSteelydanfan 8 months ago
@TheSteelydanfan
No youre not.I think if any a time where people would learn to try to stick together and care for each other it would be this one.I dont want to sound optimistic or anything,I just dont believe something like this would completely destroy the human spirit.At least not completely.
bawoman 5 months ago
"what the hell is this?, I ordered a chicken chowmein and egg fried rice!"
bl0xta 8 months ago 2
wow.this is about as real as it gets.forget about jason robards running thru the streets in a starched shirt in the middle of a nuked city. this had it down right.eistein said that after ww3 the next war woulsd be fought,with sticks an stones. if anyones interested theres some books on this very thing you might want to look up.... "warday" by whitley streiber an james kunetka,cannot remember others offhand.
TheReboot70 9 months ago
@TheReboot70 Nice, thanks! I'm always looking for other nuclear fiction. Doomsday is another: ISBN 13: 9780631133940
sisterbrothers 8 months ago
@taylor39781 It depends on how the attack panned out worldwide. If Britian is typical then the global population would fall to around 500 million. If steam power and mining has returned after 13 years, someone can put engines on old ships and there is enough division of labour to build up surpluses, this raises the possibility of very basic trade re-emerging with other countries e.g. coal for uncontaminated fruit. Then again, in many cases, people might just plunder what they need
TomthatiscalledTom 9 months ago
@TomthatiscalledTom No reason to believe Britain would be typical though.. Britain has far more urban areas than rural areas per sq mile than a country like the US so pretty much anywhere in the country would devastated. And what about all the countries un-involvedin the war?
eragon2121 8 months ago
The perfect antidote to that worthess 2012 movie. I perfer my apocalypse without happy endings thank you.
TheHitherto 9 months ago 4
They need to do way instain radiation> that kill babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back?
JonLeibow 9 months ago 9
I don't get it, was her baby deformed? Or dead?
firecraxker 9 months ago
More than likely stillborn given the affect of Radiation on foetus'.
1rishShaman 9 months ago
@firecraxker It was certainly dead -- there's no sound from it at all -- and I think, from her expression when she unwraps it and looks at it, the audience is supposed to infer that it was also malformed.
MrsNorris55 9 months ago 2
@firecraxker i think it's deformed AND dead...
MonkeyIron 6 months ago
so....this is Modern Warfare 3 huh?
GRIEF1712 9 months ago
This movie probably under states what would really be the conditions...after a year, most everyone in the northern hemisphere would be dead...
snlker 9 months ago
@snlker Uh, no. Vast areas of the United States and other countries would not be affected by the direct blast and fallout effects. There simply aren't enough bombs in existence to do that kind of damage. Plus, most countries wouldn't be hit by a single bomb, I'm assuming. Small, compressed countries like Britain would have the worst of it, as depicted in this film. Plus there is no scientific evidence that the nuclear winter would be on the level depicted in this film.
eragon2121 8 months ago
@eragon2121 If you hit the right areas, and there are enough bombs, you will create a whole lot of thick blak smoke.I remember forest fires in canada filtered out the sun time for a day while the wind blew it toward us from norther Quebec.It was supposed to be like 80+ degrees and was only about 60-65 that day,and we could see the sun, just filtered.If you hit oil refineries and the like and major cities? it will block out the sun in a big way and cool things down real fast from the smoke
snlker 8 months ago
It's supposed to be depressing. That's the whole point. Click on the thumbnail 4 down in the right side bar titled 'CKND-Introduction to Threads(1985)
darrenholcomb42 10 months ago
.....Well that was depressing.
RoryMcHugo 10 months ago
As regards the long term prognosis for humanity..it's difficult to tell because the movie never lets if a) the year long nuclear winter went global or b) where the 3,000 MT strikes were distributed. I suspect the USSR and USA got about 1,000 MT each and the rest was split between Europe and strategically important third world nations: China, Isreal, South Korea, Cuba. If Britain is typical, then the global population would still be in hundreds of millions
TomthatiscalledTom 10 months ago
@TomthatiscalledTom in what world are china, israel and south korea third world
andresrojas22 9 months ago
@TomthatiscalledTom I figured that in the world of this film, most countries got totalled to one degree or another, because there is no foreign aid arriving from anywhere else to help our country get started again
simonsomatic 8 months ago
lol at the lack of continuity by a double post.
Judging by the looks of its face, the dead baby may have anencephaly (literally being born without a part of the skull or a brain.) Most babies die in the womb or minutes after birth, while the rest die within a few days or weeks (one survived on a life support machine for two years and died from heart attack.) If genetic mutations made this condition much more common, humanity is probably completely screwed.
Standuble 10 months ago
kingston, it's called continuity you dick smoker, it's poor directing that's what it is
noelht1 10 months ago
Harrowing or what !! .. This is how we know life would be by allowing the dark ones a free reign, so am proud to have been a part of the dissenting Anti throng back yonder, and still am.
More folk should be watching this AND standing Up !
Thumbs Up.
netlethe 10 months ago
Just noticed a fuck up in this. When the girl is giving birth at the beginning, she has fillings in her teeth!
How? She was born after the war.
noelht1 10 months ago
@noelht1 shes a teenage actress from the 80s, this is not real! its a film.
kingston0708 10 months ago
@kingston0708 It's called continuity you dick smoker. The director should have spotted it and edited it out!
noelht1 10 months ago
@kingston0708 @kingston0708 It's called continuity you dick smoker. The director should have spotted it and edited it out!
noelht1 10 months ago