On The Beach Part 1

Part 1

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Entertainment

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• On
• The
• Beach
• Nuclear
• War
• United
• States
• Australia
• China

[jimtrueblue99]

Good try Armand Assante, Rachel Ward, et al, but Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins, Fred Astaire, et al are just plain better. What a difference in culture and manners you see in these two movies. The original has dignity and humaneness this version isn't even aware of. The original is genuinely tragic. In this version the end of the world is just bad luck. The writers spent all their time in the shallow end of the pool.

[profitleads]

It was a good try, but the 1959 production stands alone.

[coventrygardens]

i prefer the original version, and yet it is quite possible that my feeling is based simply on the fact that i'm used to the original version. i've thought about the original numerous times over the last 25 years or so, whereas i didn't see the remake till the last few days.

[Professor6871]

@anisete46 I do to.

[palibrae]

It's totally unrealistic. Radiation (fallout) doesn't advance across the globe in clouds. And it has a half-life of limited duration. The craziest thing about this scenario is that a nuclear submarine, like a deep cave, is an absolute long-term shelter against radiation. These idiots could have unshipped the torpedoes, loaded up with food and supplies, brought all their wives and girlfriends aboard and restarted the human race after a long submergence.

[soeffingwhat]

@jimtrueblue99 I don't think so, I think its treated tragicially here too.

[coventrygardens]

@jimtrueblue99 yea, but this new version is probably more realistic. in a situation like the one shown in the storyline, society would likely breakdown, and there would be chaos. i doubt people would act orderly and well-mannered like they did in the first version. even if an actor is well-mannered, it seems unrealistic for the character he plays to be well-mannered under these circumstances.

[worldslinger81]

The French interviewer at the start of this is wrong. By starting the blockade it's the Chinese who start the end of the world.

[olivemike81]

"Surely one of you has got to back down." lol

[ragemanchoo82]

@AussieRoo1 I love love LOVE that you uploaded the whole picture but could you please add "(2000)" or something to that effect to the headings to separate it from the 1959 film?