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I remember they showed us this movie, in the school classroom, when I was 14 years old, followed by an even more harrowing movie made by the UK government of every detail of how all the survivors would die of radiation poisoning, including the government in their bunkers (because of contamination through the underground water table). Nothing survived. That was my education.
I remember when this movie aired. It scared a lot of people. So much so that ABC set up toll free hotlines for people to call and receive counseling. Che, as far as I know, you are the only one to react to this movie, and thank you for doing so!
You are most welcome. As another commenter said, you can't only see people endlessly pretending to have never seen Jurassic Park or Star Wars over and over again right? 😉😂
Yeah, I was 13, the family watched it. GREAT IDEA ABC. Scarred for life. Of movies that should not be shown to kids, this def should have been rated R or even X.
At the time that this movie came out, Journey was filling arenas and stadiums around the country. So, the night that the movie aired, Journey was in town. Less than 100 people showed up. When the movie was over, a radio DJ said: "The movie is over. You can come to the concert now." And people did, and the band waited for them to show up.
I wish all voters would would see this and do enough homework about who they're putting into office. The global destabilization we've seen come to pass in the last couple of years speaks more loudly to me than TV news soundbites like; RUSSIA, Russia, Russia or ORANGE MAN BAD, ORANGE MAN BAD.
There are today far fewer nuclear weapons deployed around the world, assuming the US and USSR actually lived up to their treaty obligations. However, even with far fewer weapons, the US and Russia are both still using what is effectively a "launch on warning" system.
As much as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the film "The China Syndrome", impacted our nation's view on the safety and viability of nuclear energy, this film did the same and helped to eventually end the Cold War, and the USSR. It also influenced the numerous international nuclear proliferation and arms reduction treaties that have been enacted since the airing.
I saw this first on German TV in 1988 when I was 11. Needless to say I was traumatized by it. Luckily within a year or so the cold war was history and here we are at the same BS again only 30 years later. Think it's safe to say this movie helped to shape a generation. Very sad it is so overlooked today. It still should be mandatory viewing in schools today.
Well said Bob. I remember watching 'Threads' on the telly in the early 80's and wondering, 'How can they show this on tv?'. I think folk forget how scary that era was. Over here in the UK we had a whole series of govt produced short films called 'Protect and Survive'. They can still be found on TH-cam.
I have seen Threads a few times and think that it is far bleaker and, in my opinion, closer to the reality of what a nuclear strike and its aftermath would be. There is no happy ending.
Another great movie that came out in the 80s is Testament. It focuses on a family and their small rural town. It portrays the effects on areas not directly impacted by the bombs.
The scariest movie ever made that nobody living today seems to have even heard of and you have the honor of being the first channel to react to it. Thank you for that. You have won my fealty (and subscription) for doing it. As to its impact in 1983, it wasn't that we didn't fully understand the horrors of a nuclear war. We had been living with that spectre hanging over our heads for 30 years. The problem was that it became necessary to become complacent about it in order to try to have normal lives. But the extreme hype that preceded this movie and the images we saw when it finally aired (the missiles rising out of the cornfields, etc., etc.) brought it all back to the forefront of our minds and for many it was almost traumatic. And I recall that the network that aired it (ABC) was so taken aback by the affect it had that they didn't rerun the movie in the summer like they did all their other TV movies. Even though the ratings would have likely been thru the roof (like they were at its premier) they apparently had a feeling of responsibility about it so they opted not to traumatize their viewers any further. But as you noted in this reaction, it did have a significant effect on world politics and attitudes, one of the few movies that can make that claim. And of the two others I can think of in that same category one is also from the medium of television. It is a 1977 ABC miniseries called ROOTS. Ever heard of that one? It too was HUGE.
@@HonestMovieReactions I'm personally not a fan of THREADS. I think it went way beyond what was needed to get its message across. Half way into it I was screaming at the screen, enough already I get it. Nuclear war is a bad thing. And I really didn't need to see some woman peeing down her leg at the sight of a nuke going off in the sky to understand that either. I mean really, what was that director thinking? And in the end I think he accomplished the exact oposite of what he was trying to do. He did the unthinkable. He made nuclear war boring. In THE DAY AFTER, however, they did it right. They went with the attitude that less is more and they intentionally toned it down. Instead of an all-out nuclear war they presented the aftermath of limited nuclear exchange and focussed on how even that was sufficient to destroy civilization. My question, though, was not about THREADS. It was about the 1977 ABC miniseries ROOTS which raised the consciousness throughout the US (and in many other countries I am sure) on the subject of slavery. Have you seen (or even heard of) ROOTS?
And Alex Hailey later admitted he created a fantasy myth for african-americans to rally around, and that was the biggest hoax perpetuated on the population that some in the black community still believe to this day even though the real truth they are afraid to admit. Roots had a big impact on US culture, but it was all lies.
I love that this movie shows the effects of the EMP pulse that the bomb generates. ANYTHING with an electrical circuit will be instantly short circuited and become nonfunctional. It may be your first indication a bomb has hit. If ever, the power goes out and suddenly your cell phone won't come on, it may be an EMP.
@@robertsteinbach7325 correct, the best warning I heard was radio stations. Only 10% of radio stations are EMP shielded, so if all of a sudden 90% of all radio stations go off air that’s you’re early warning.
@@csarock1 That is not what happened to the electric system of Hawaii when the first Thermonuclear device high in the atmosphere over Johnson Atoll, over 900 miles away from Oahu Island in Hawaii, the Honolulu telephone microwave link was destroyed and permanently knocked out 300 street lights. An EMP pulse from an overhead high altitude nuclear explosion is sufficient to destroy microprocessors. 99% of vehicles on the road now have a microprocessor controlling the car functions. If this computer is destroyed the vehicle cannot run.
@@csarock1 Older cars would restart. Onboard computers may be destroyed. Most cars at the time this was made could recover. Today's cars would need new computers (which would not be available).
I was in high school when this movie originally aired. It was a big deal at the time...thought provoking to say the least. It brings back a lot of memories.
To me, the most gut wrenching part of the film is when the people are running for shelter while the sirens blare in the background, knowing that in the next few minutes, they'll likely be dead or severely burned or maimed. I cant imagine what that would be like. Hope I never find out.
The director of this film was Nicolas Meyer, the writer/director of the 2 best of the original cast Star Trek movies, Wrath of Khan (2).and Undiscovered Country (6). Meyer is good at developing the characters so he made you care about the people in the film and what happens to them. Bravo to you, Che, for tackling a hard subject film like this...the first TH-cam reaction I have seen of it...that most would be afraid to do. Please consider reacting to other movies like this in the future!
I do my friend. Sadly they are over on Patreon and not here on TH-cam, since they get blocked. For example we watched Threads as well on Patreon, but my TH-cam abridged & edited version got banned on here by BBC 🤦♀️
@@HonestMovieReactions Yeah, I did notice that you watched that movie. It is even more depressing than this film. Brave that you watched it...I saw it as an adult. I watched this film when it was broadcast and it deeply effected me. I had a few nightmares because of it and it led me to do a school project where I questioned a West German exchange student about how he felt living in the target zone for all the SS-20 medium range missiles the USSR had pointed at them in the mid 80s as well as all their tank divisions. I saw Testament recommended...it was shown on American Public Television about the same time as this film and it is a powerful documentation of what a small outlying town (to San Francisco) would go thru after a nuclear exchange...you should watch that! Also, it is my understanding that President Ronald Reagan watched The Day After and it was that viewing that prompted him to start negotiations on the Salt II Treaty with the Russians that helped lead to the end of the Cold War.
This film has haunted me through my life. It had a significant effect on me, an eighth grader at the time of its airing on ABC in 1983, as the content challenged my ideas about nuclear war, and our ability to "win" it. Thanks to government propaganda over the decades, most of the public assumed our eventual survival and victory should we ever engage in a nuclear war against the now former Soviet Union. Yet, that changed after the broadcast. The impact on public opinion about nuclear war, for the various generations of the public that viewed this single-night event, continues to resonate nearly 40 years later. Thank you for taking a chance and doing a reaction on this significant cultural event in my lifetime.
Well we all are going to die. And thousands die tragic deaths around the world everyday. It is more important to have faith in an eternal life that is promised by God. The Son of God, Jesus Christ died and was raised from the dead to give you assurance of the paradise that Adam and Eve lost. Prophecy, archaeology and the written word of God is something everyone should explore during these uncertain times. Look at our economy, and people losing jobs because of mandates to get the... . Watch the prepper channels to see how scarce some items, including medications, are to find. Read how scary Chapters 6, 11, and 13 of the book of Revelation is. The signs of its soon fulfillment is getting harder to deny. Peace.
I'm European, and I dont remember people envisioning survival and victory following a nuclear war. And I've difficulties believing that it could have been significantly different in the USA. Everybody knew that the Soviet Union had enough warheads to reduce to rubles every significant US city several times over. Are you sure that it wasn't just you who had a delusion of survival and victory, and that you weren't just attributing the same thoughts to your fellow citizens?
This film was seen by President Reagan at the time and led to disarmament treaties of nuclear weapons with the then Soviet Union. So it can be said that this film had a very big impact on political history.
I was 15 when this came out in Australia. It wasn't a TV movie here but was on at the cinema. Our teachers structured most of our year around it. Our English "Novel of the Year" was Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (it is also about Post-Nuclear survival) and the teachers took our entire form (about 100 students) on an excursion to the movies to watch it. They effectively created a generation of activists at school and we never had any doubts about what Nuclear options would do to the world from then on. I put it on for my kids to watch at a similar age. I think it's required viewing. I remember that at the time the threat of Nuclear War was frighteningly real but my teacher said that he was far more worried about the new chemical and biological warfare options that were opening up. He was right, those weapons have since been used many times because it's possible to unleash them and cover it up. Given the situation with NATO, Russia and China today, I think it's time for a remake with better special effects and tighter scripting to get the warning back into the public eye.... and I think some films about chemical and biological options should be made.
This aired on network television in 1983. Millions of people sat glued to their TV sets. The events depicted prior to the nuclear missile strikes, is eerily accurate to how the US military prepared for a Soviet invasion into West Germany during the Cold War years, and the doctrine of using tactical nukes to slow them down. Most people who were alive during this period thought as you do, that in the event of a nuclear war, they wanted to die in one of the blasts so as not to have to try survive in the aftermath. What is interesting is the very first nuclear weapon detonated, was in fact an airburst in the upper atmosphere, which caused an EMP which fried all electronics. It would be worse if it happened today since the world is so heavily dependent on technology and electronics.
At the time this movie was made....it WAS a reflection of current events. I watched it as a child and remember watching it and another one called "Threads" vividly. But given the current events in Israel and in Ukraine, I'd love to see it modernized and remade to fit today's current events. There are 2 full generations that have come on the scene that haven't seen (and really should see) a movie like this. I enjoyed watching it "with" you!
Che, nice to see a reactor have the Will to watch such a difficult movie. I saw this when it first came out. Gave me the chills. Still does. Let us hope nothing like this ever happens. God bless and thanks for all your great work 😘
You are most welcome dear. Well we watched Threads over on Patreon which was even scarier than this movie. Sadly my video on TH-cam was blocked by the BBC🤦♀️
It has already been said but if you haven't yet watched 'Threads' I highly recommend it. It's even grittier than this film and goes further into the future to show the devastating effects of nuclear fallout/winter.
Fantastic. I'm glad you are putting this out. Other movie reaction channels watch the same drivel day after day 🤦♂. How are people believing that so many Americans haven't seen Jurassic Park or Star Wars before? Give me a break! 🤣😆
I can name like 4 people just in my family that have never seen Jurassic Park or Star Wars... not everyone had horrible parents that just stat their kids in front of a tv, so they didn't have to deal them.
It's true that people from reaction channels have never seen any movie and never heard any music, but nevertheless plenty of people have never seen many very famous movies. I'd guess the majority of the population has never seen any given movie, regardless how famous it is. The only exception IMO would be movies that are traditionally regularly broadcasted on TV, like during the Christmas season, such for instance as the wizard of Oz in the USA. I've never seen Jurassic Park myself, only watched parts of the first three Star war movies (but that because of a total lack of interest in them), never watched Avatar, watched only a bit of one of the Matrix movies and same for the Alien movies, only one of the "terminator" and I don't even remember it, never watched any superhero movie apart from an old Batman, to give some examples. I could easily fill a reaction channel with very famous movies that I've honestly never seen (even though I've seen many others.) My problems would be more that I don't react very emotionally to movies and tend to be very critical, while people visiting reaction channels want people who are both emotional and very positive and enthusiastic.
There are three other movies along this track, Threads, Testament, and Special Report. Threads is a British movie, it came out around the same time as The Day After, and is about the effects of a nuclear attack on Sheffield England. Testament came out in the late 70s and focused on a small town near San Francisco (which had been wiped out in a nuclear attack). Special Report was a TV movie (which means it came out on TV rather than in theaters, sometimes they're referred to as made-for-TV movies) styled as a series of news reports about a terrorist nuclear attack in Charleston, South Carolina. Although I think Testament and Threads are the best produced, they're all worth a look.
A good CBS Reports with Dan Rather was the effect on Omaha (and the Strategic Air Command Offutt AFB Number One U. S. Target) of two multi-megaton thermonuclear weapons. It was called "The Defense of the U. S." and appeared around the early 1980s similarly to those movies listed above. However, this was a documentary and didn't mince words or compromise the terrible aftermath of these weapons. Good program if you can find it.
i did watch it when it came out. i think what made an impression on me was that suddenly on top of the immediate dearhs, there would be blindings, trauma, burns, brokien bones and all kinds of non lethal but serious injuries and no healthcare system to take care of it. the piecing togetrher afterwards would be really chaotic.
This came out my sophomore year of high school, everyone that I knew watched it. After the movie aired in my high school to comfort us our teachers told us that we had nothing to worry about in all-out thermonuclear war. That because we live in Philadelphia we will be hit by at least a dozen 3 Megaton Thermo nuclear warheads. That before our brains could register what that bright light off in the distance is, we would be vaporized. Dying without pain, there one second vaporized the next second. Unless you're in an underground parking garage, you have nothing to worry about we were told. It worked. Thank you and thumbs up for the video.
"Philadelphia we will be hit by at least a dozen 3 Megaton Thermo nuclear warheads" Totally not. One per city. How did you put it in your head that 36 megatons would be wasted on a city?
I lived just to the south of where this movie was set. I had just graduated from High School and was in College and we had a trip to Kansas City for a class trip. In the middle 1970's NBC had a documentary on if the Minuteman missile field was attacked. There were 150 missiles buried in the farmland and each was expected to receive 2 warheads each with a 20 Megaton yield. That would leave 300 warheads impacting Western Missouri. Kansas City would receive 5 as it had an airport, a Federal Records Center, and the Weather service office. St. Louis would receive 3 as it had another records center, the McDonald-Douglas Military Airplane factory, and the inland port for the river. It was unnerving going to the city after seeing the movie and knowing all the facts.
@@seisies-mama Ohio represents transportation hubs and that's what would probably be targeted. Columbus (Road hub), Cincinatti (CVG Airport) and Cleveland (Inland Seaport on the Great Lakes) would all be targets. Any Air Force base, and any factory manufacturing military goods would be targeted as well as any runway capable of handling large military jets. The idea of a bombing campaign like this would be to degrade an enemies infrastructure. Dayton and Akron would be targeted as well. Daton for the Wright-Patterson AFB (Air Force Museum and Air Force Intelligence Center is Headquartered there), Akron is a manufacturing center for tires and also has an Aerospace concern as well with a Lockheed plant located there. Toledo might be a target as well being an inland port on the lake. Youngstown as a former Steel manufacturing center might be targeted, it would depend. In the 1980's a lot of Ohio would have been hit.
Sadly the BBC blocked my Threads video on TH-cam. We watched it together on my Patreon, which has the full version. Yes Threads is far more horrifying than The Day After in some ways.
There are no issues with the length of your TH-cam videos, your editing is fine and no need for anyone to take issue with your work. Thank you for taking your time and doing a great job. I did see this when it first aired, I thought it was great someone finally was honest about it and not being all hurray America in films. I'm American born and raised, but it means nothing if Russia had dropped a few thousand nukes all over. Pray for peace.
We had a baseball coach back then that said, if the bombs ever started falling, he'd get out there with his catcher's mitt and try to catch the bombs. I am with him. I don't want to survive the blast.
From around the same time staring Michael Broderick, War Games. Which was a theatrical release not a t.v. movie. Nice to see you back again. I think it's been a while, unless I'm just missing you. Take care, stay safe and be well always !😘
@@HonestMovieReactions Jealous of your incredible beauty and warm, thought provoking yet subtlety pleasing fun reactions ! P.S. Thanks for being so kind and getting back to me and letting me know !
I saw this movie when I was in middle school. Our teacher requested that we what it, and the next day we had an in depth discussion in our Civics and History classes regarding it. How it related to the Cuban Missile crisis that took place in the 60's and the arms race and nuclear weapon stockpiling that was taking place during the 80's. I really appreciate the education I was provided, enabling me to understand concepts and comprehend ideas and actions. The relevance of History and the impacts understanding it can for the future.
And it's unbelievable that we are currently so close to a situation like this. Human beings do not learn even from their mistakes. We can only ask God for mercy and for those in power to keep their minds sane.
I loved that you reacted to this gem of a movie. Even though it is a very tame version of what things would actually be like, it still horrified people when it was shown on Tv. That's what it should do, it's why it should be a deterrent only because no one wins in a world after nuclear war. Again, great reaction, you are one of the few to brave into this world that they showed.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video my dear. I actually watched another nuclear war film called Threads that was even more horrifying (the post-nuclear world), but my video was blocked on TH-cam. That video is on my Patreon.
I watched for the fist time two years ago and it stays with me. I was terrified by it so much that I wrote a post on Facebook about how to watch it. One of my recommendations was to watch on a day before you have to go somewhere, because as long as you are thinking about the next day's trip, the movie won't weigh you down that much. You want this movie to stay with you, though, but you don't want it to overwhelm you to the point of despair. This is a great movie. I am proud to own it. There is a British version called "Threads" and it is the epitome of the phrase, "Hold my beer".
I remember when this movie first aired. I was a small child and did not sleep a wink! It's all everyone talked about at school! The teachers helped by talking to us about it because there were a LOT of terrified kiddos, grade school through high school, that were absolutely freaked out! Especially during the cold war, chernobyl, 3 mile island, etc...
Thank you SO much for getting this out there! Others have suggested Threads, but another movie that came out around this time is Testament. It differs from The Day After in that it focuses on a family and their small town miles away from the explosions and how the aftermath affects small rural locations that weren't impacted by the blasts. It has some really great performances and a couple of gut-wrenching scenes.
@@HonestMovieReactions You should do Testament. It was originally a Public Broadcasting Service TV movie before they decided to release it theatrically. "Maybe" the copyright strikes wouldn't be as bad. Maybe.
The U.S.S.R. nuclear arsenal was significant even back in the 1980s. They had thousands of nuclear weapons, the movie mentions 300 missiles inbound, judging by the number they weren't targeting the silos, they were more likely targeting strategic locations such as Command structures, air and naval bases, industrial zones (which meant major cities). In all likelihood 25 percent of the U.S. population would die in the first hour of the war. The U.S.S.R. would suffer the same if not worse considering they fired on a N.A.T.O. member which necessitates a counter attack by all Nuclear NATO members. The rest of Russia's nuclear armament probably fired on NATO members which includes Most of Europe.
I can only imagine my dear. A very scary movie indeed. We also watched Threads over on my Patreon (my YT video was blocked), and that was even more terrifying! 😱
13 or 14 when this came out. Height of cold war in 80’s. We lived near Wright Patterson Air Force Base which was a top 10-20 target for the Soviets. Not to far from Oak Ridge so another top 10 target. Heh. I still have special insert Dayton Daily News had in a Sunday paper discussing cold war and Day After.
A thoughtful heartfelt review. Thank you. People didn't want it then and they do not want it now. Most people in the world basically want to live in harmony with each other. Unfortunately we all have leaders who continually drag us into endless wars. Nuclear war has been prophesied and seen in dreams and visions numerous times for thousands of years. With war in Europe escalating we are now closer to it than we have been in decades.
Sad indeed, but true. We watched The Day After and Threads over on my Patreon. Threads freaked me out even more than this film. I wish our world leaders would watch these movies when they make their decisions. Glad you enjoyed the video dear. Take care.😊
To get the full effect you should consider that people, in the US at least, were really worried about nuclear war. Kids in schools used to practice what to do when the alarm signal9ing an attack was sounded. The President at the time, Reagan, even made a joke that was caught on microphone saying "I just signed legislation outlawing Russia, we begin bombing in five minutes". That's how intense the Cold War was. A British movie, Threads, is even more hardcore than this movie if you can believe it. Don't watch Threads unless you really want to see what WWIII would have been like.
Also for perspective on the extent of the damage, each ICBM holds between 3-8 warheads. So when he said 300 missiles inbound that was probably 1000 warheads.
Yeah the Minuteman III carried 3 warheads which each had a 350Kt yield. Now the peacekeeper missile carried up to 12, but upon it's deployment, treaties limited that missile to 10 warheads at 300kt each.
I saw this a a kid in the 80's. Very chilling to watch. The threat is still there today but hopefully calmer heads continue to prevail. Should the calm fail and the apocalypse comes, there's an old saying, "The lucky ones died first."
This is the only reaction to this movie that I can find. I was so young when this came out, but I’ve seen bits of it over the years. Just watching this still makes me numb with horror, and I still cry. The ending is so small scale but also profound in its compassion.
I actually have this on blu ray, saw this when I was a kid and it scared the hell out of me! The real scary part is this is a sanitized toned down view of what a post nuclear attack world would look like. The anarchy, disease, famine would cause millions of more deaths. The lucky ones will have died in the blast. Threads has already been mentioned but others include Fail Safe from 1964 and Testament from 83 I think.
The wife making the bed in denial then the husband dragging her off somehow made the biggest impression on me. I saw this live back in day when I was 13.
I was 12 years old in 1983 and I definitely remember watching this with my family. It goes without saying that it freaked me out, knowing that it could become a reality. Especially in those days hottest days of the Cold War. Definitely check out Threads 1984. Way more darker and wrenching than The Day After. Great review Che.
Since you asked about radiation levels, a general rule that's the basis of the guideline for sheltering for two weeks is that radiation levels after nuclear tests have been empirically measured to roughly decrease by a factor of 10x every 7 hours. Though I'm not sure if this is only for the best case of an airburst nuke which doesn't kick up much dust to fall out back to the ground carrying radioactive fission products from the bomb. If you liked this movie you might also check Threads, made by the BBC in 1984, which goes years into the future to show what postwar England could look like under one of the bad cases of the nuclear winter hypothesis (which is controversial and might have been overstated based on later modeling, but would still likely be very bad for at least the first growing season after the bomb).
Che, this movie surprised me. I mean did someone recommend it? I remember when this movie was shown on tv. We were still in the cold war with the Soviet Union and Ronald Reagan was President. Many were actign like drama queens about Reagans desire to use Nukes without any thought. Yet his leadership and other asspects lead to the fasll of the Soviet Union. I have never belived there would ever be a Nuclear War. Even with the threats from Russia during the war in the Ukraine I have felt them as just bluffs. Great reaction though and this movie does get people to thinking. Thank you. Take care. 🥰
We watched both The Day After and Threads in their full versions over on Patreon. Threads was even scarier than this movie. Sadly my video on TH-cam was blocked by the BBC
@@HonestMovieReactions Che, it is ok. I know TH-cam has its own political reason to ban free speech. As scary as these videos are I don't worry about such things today. There is nothing you can do to stop the possibility of a Nuclear War. I always learned to deal with issues I have control over in my life and just pray about the issues I don't have control over. Our shoulders are not big enough to carry the world's problems on them. This movie is definitely an eye-opener. As we begin August I hope you and your family have a wonderful month. Looking forward to more videos. 🥰
This was filmed in my hometown (Lawrence, KS). My brother was an extra & got to hang out with Jason Robards, who was very nice to him. There was a park by the river where we used to go to hang out, get stoned, play frisbee etc. I remember going there one day & across the river, they had that tent city all set up. It was kinda surreal.
And now you need to watch "Threads", a British film that came out about a year later and covered the same topic...from a much more graphic point of view (it is available for free on TH-cam).
We had to watch this at school when I was 10. The teacher taped it off the TV and we watched it. One teacher told us that we didn't need to do our homework because we was all going to die. The principal had to take her out of the auditorium and told us she would be alright. I can remember the news talking about how the bombs were coming to get us. Things got really weird after this movie was shown.
So the day after was the most terrifying movie I had ever seen back when I watched it when it originally aired. That was until I saw the UK's take on the topic from around the same time (a year later than the day after), called "Threads". The Day After was done quite well, but threads didn't pull any Punches, and I recommend watching that as well. But be warned it is brutal. As hard as the day after is to watch, they actually toned it down some before it was allowed to air. Threads did not however get toned down, and you can find it on TH-cam as well.
If you think this movie was bad, watch "Threads". It's the same concept, only made the following year in the UK. The attack scenes and the very end were even more terrifying. "Threads" really conveyed just how absolutely fucked this world would be following a full-on nuclear war between East and West.
I was 8yo when I watched this. It was particularly impactful because we watched it at home. The movie depicted nuclear effects of Second World War style bombs. It would have been worse had they shown effects of modern weapons. Ronald Reagan watched it a month before it was shown on TV. It had a tremendous impact on him, to the point he walked away from his Evil Empire rhetoric and started making overtures to the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, due to the multiple leadership changes in the Soviet Union it took two more years to bear fruit with Gorbachev, who was like-minded in his horror of the thought of nuclear war.
What's funny is the military scenes are from a different made for TV movie from the late 70s called First Strike that was a propaganda piece where the Soviet Union caught the US off guard with a surprise nuclear attack. The Day After couldn't get that kind of access to military bases and such because they refused to have the Soviets start the shooting war, instead leaving it ambiguous who fired the ICBMs initially.
They actually toned down this movie from it's original version because it was too graphic for television. Nuclear war would be beyond comprehension and I am not sure the mind would be able to process the challenges ahead.
I just noticed a key edit between future releases of this movie and the original broadcast. In the first broadcast, they had someone imitate the voice of then president Ronald Reagan, which in a small way probably added to the unnerving nature of not wanting this film to become reality.
Fortunately most world leaders know that they can't launch a first strike without being equally and utterly obliterated in a second strike. The only ones that don't know or don't care are the ones that blow themselves up for 72 virgins in heaven.
There are some interesting made for TV movies from the days of Civil Defense. One is called A Day Called X. There's also a Canadian audio play called The Last Broadcast that was a college Radio/TV class assignment that people might find interesting.
Just to clarify some things you saw that might not have been commented on.... You were right about covering the windows but they were also giving themselves extra shielding from Gamma radiation. It takes at least 18 inches of earth to prevent the radiation from penetrating. Preferably you'd be at least six feet underground also. Storm shelters aren't the best for fallout protection but they aren't the worst. The people out on the highway, realistically, would have been temporarily blinded by the flash and their cars would have been tossed around like toys by the shockwave. Anyone within about a mile of Ground Zero would have ceased to exist in any form or fashion except for their "atomic shadow".
The difference between this movie and threads is that threads is a lot darker and horrific to watch. Both films don't say who fired first as they leave that to you to wonder. A nuclear war would kill billions and fallout would be deadly. A nuclear winter would starve people to death and Goverments wouldn't exist any more. It's a reminder that in 1962 Cuban missile crisis was closest to nuclear war between the 2 superpowers. I believe after centuries of wars in this world a nuclear war will happen one day when one leader presses that nuclear button as the rest of leaders would press that button. A lot of people say this war in Ukraine could end up world going into a nuclear war. Putin has threatened world of nuclear attacks on west and it's scary to think he talks of nuclear war. The day after and threads shows what could happen!
I have this movie on DVD and it's a good. In the likelihood of an actual nuclear war it would be thousands of times worse than what the movie depicted. When this came on TV I was in second or third grade and my parents let me watch it.
It's hard for people today to understand the Cold War era; concern about nuclear war was always lingering in the back of people's minds to one degree or another. It's amazing how quickly things changed though - in November of 1989, East Germans and West Germans in Berlin united to tear down the Berlin Wall, and just three weeks after that George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met at the Malta Summit to declare the end of the Cold War. Two days after the conclusion of the Malta Summit, a young KGB officer stationed in Germany by the name of Vladimir Putin barely fended off a group of irate Germans who were trying to breach the KGB office in Dresden. When Putin sought help from a nearby Red Army tank unit, he was told that Moscow wouldn't authorize assistance. It was a lesson about political leadership that stayed with Putin for the rest of his life; years later he said that the collapse of the USSR was the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". For Putin, the Cold War never ended.
I went to school in the states in 1983. We all got a note home from our teacher that said a movie will be shown on tv tonight that you should decide if your child should Watch or not. I thought it was about sex and the day after your first time having sex.
Hi Che! I remember when this was broadcast on TV. It scared the daylights out of most people. Me, it motivated me to learn how to survive. I was 16 when this aired, and we had to have a discussion about it in school the next day.
Hello John. Good to see you again. Yes I can only imagine how people felt when they first saw this. We watched Threads as well on Patreon, which was even scarier, but my video on TH-cam got blocked.
@@HonestMovieReactions Yeah, I've had a rough month. But I'm back around. 1983 was still when we lived under that nuclear threat, and "at any minute, we had 30 minutes left to live". I grew up in that, and this movie in particular made us very aware of what that threat actually looked like. Also, we were told that the movie was a "best case scenario", meaning that reality would likely be a lot worse. It put me on the path of learning survival skills that have benefited me to this very day. When bad things happen, I don't panic, I react to what's going on. I know how to treat injuries in an emergency, and those skills have saved a few lives. I haven't watched all of Threads yet, but I have seen a few scenes from it. One of these days, I get around to watching it.
I grew up in this time. This show gave me nightmares for days. Also, each one of those missiles would be MIRVs. They would have multiple warheads. 300 missiles is thousands of warheads.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver MIRV's can have a dozen warheads. Don't know what nuclear weapon information you've read, but MIRV's had at least three and as many as 12 independent warheads. I grew up in the shadow of the mushroom cloud. In my youth I made it my business to learn about the weapons that were around in the early 80's.
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I remember they showed us this movie, in the school classroom, when I was 14 years old, followed by an even more harrowing movie made by the UK government of every detail of how all the survivors would die of radiation poisoning, including the government in their bunkers (because of contamination through the underground water table). Nothing survived. That was my education.
Well we watched Threads over on Patreon which was even scarier than this movie. Sadly my video on TH-cam was blocked by the BBC
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I remember when this movie aired. It scared a lot of people. So much so that ABC set up toll free hotlines for people to call and receive counseling.
Che, as far as I know, you are the only one to react to this movie, and thank you for doing so!
You are most welcome. As another commenter said, you can't only see people endlessly pretending to have never seen Jurassic Park or Star Wars over and over again right? 😉😂
I remember watching this myself, I was 13 when it aired. Watched it as a family.
I remember reading that Mr Rogers dedicated a full week to this movie and helping kids understand.
Yeah, I was 13, the family watched it. GREAT IDEA ABC. Scarred for life.
Of movies that should not be shown to kids, this def should have been rated R or even X.
At the time that this movie came out, Journey was filling arenas and stadiums around the country. So, the night that the movie aired, Journey was in town. Less than 100 people showed up. When the movie was over, a radio DJ said: "The movie is over. You can come to the concert now." And people did, and the band waited for them to show up.
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I finally managed to get this through copyright! This is a movie I wish all our world leaders would watch today.
I'm glad you managed to get this through since we loved it over on Patreon haha
I wish all voters would would see this and do enough homework about who they're putting into office. The global destabilization we've seen come to pass in the last couple of years speaks more loudly to me than TV news soundbites like; RUSSIA, Russia, Russia or ORANGE MAN BAD, ORANGE MAN BAD.
There are today far fewer nuclear weapons deployed around the world, assuming the US and USSR actually lived up to their treaty obligations. However, even with far fewer weapons, the US and Russia are both still using what is effectively a "launch on warning" system.
As much as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the film "The China Syndrome", impacted our nation's view on the safety and viability of nuclear energy, this film did the same and helped to eventually end the Cold War, and the USSR. It also influenced the numerous international nuclear proliferation and arms reduction treaties that have been enacted since the airing.
I have been putting off watching this as its such a heavy ( but great) film - thanks for tackling this one
I saw this first on German TV in 1988 when I was 11. Needless to say I was traumatized by it. Luckily within a year or so the cold war was history and here we are at the same BS again only 30 years later.
Think it's safe to say this movie helped to shape a generation. Very sad it is so overlooked today. It still should be mandatory viewing in schools today.
We watch this and Threads over on Patreon and I found Threads even scarier! My wife watched this with me and she got freaked out hahahaaha
😂 Yes I remember you telling us about that on Patreon.
Well said Bob. I remember watching 'Threads' on the telly in the early 80's and wondering, 'How can they show this on tv?'. I think folk forget how scary that era was. Over here in the UK we had a whole series of govt produced short films called 'Protect and Survive'. They can still be found on TH-cam.
I have seen Threads a few times and think that it is far bleaker and, in my opinion, closer to the reality of what a nuclear strike and its aftermath would be. There is no happy ending.
Another great movie that came out in the 80s is Testament. It focuses on a family and their small rural town. It portrays the effects on areas not directly impacted by the bombs.
Well we watched Threads over on Patreon which was even scarier than this movie. Sadly my video on TH-cam was blocked by the BBC.
The scariest movie ever made that nobody living today seems to have even heard of and you have the honor of being the first channel to react to it. Thank you for that. You have won my fealty (and subscription) for doing it.
As to its impact in 1983, it wasn't that we didn't fully understand the horrors of a nuclear war. We had been living with that spectre hanging over our heads for 30 years. The problem was that it became necessary to become complacent about it in order to try to have normal lives. But the extreme hype that preceded this movie and the images we saw when it finally aired (the missiles rising out of the cornfields, etc., etc.) brought it all back to the forefront of our minds and for many it was almost traumatic.
And I recall that the network that aired it (ABC) was so taken aback by the affect it had that they didn't rerun the movie in the summer like they did all their other TV movies. Even though the ratings would have likely been thru the roof (like they were at its premier) they apparently had a feeling of responsibility about it so they opted not to traumatize their viewers any further.
But as you noted in this reaction, it did have a significant effect on world politics and attitudes, one of the few movies that can make that claim. And of the two others I can think of in that same category one is also from the medium of television. It is a 1977 ABC miniseries called ROOTS. Ever heard of that one? It too was HUGE.
Glad you enjoyed the video my dear.
We actually watched Threads over on my Patreon as well, but the BBC blocked my TH-cam version sadly.
@@HonestMovieReactions I'm personally not a fan of THREADS. I think it went way beyond what was needed to get its message across. Half way into it I was screaming at the screen, enough already I get it. Nuclear war is a bad thing. And I really didn't need to see some woman peeing down her leg at the sight of a nuke going off in the sky to understand that either. I mean really, what was that director thinking? And in the end I think he accomplished the exact oposite of what he was trying to do. He did the unthinkable. He made nuclear war boring.
In THE DAY AFTER, however, they did it right. They went with the attitude that less is more and they intentionally toned it down. Instead of an all-out nuclear war they presented the aftermath of limited nuclear exchange and focussed on how even that was sufficient to destroy civilization.
My question, though, was not about THREADS. It was about the 1977 ABC miniseries ROOTS which raised the consciousness throughout the US (and in many other countries I am sure) on the subject of slavery. Have you seen (or even heard of) ROOTS?
No I haven't seen Roots.
And Alex Hailey later admitted he created a fantasy myth for african-americans to rally around, and that was the biggest hoax perpetuated on the population that some in the black community still believe to this day even though the real truth they are afraid to admit. Roots had a big impact on US culture, but it was all lies.
Threads is far better than The Day After.
I love that this movie shows the effects of the EMP pulse that the bomb generates.
ANYTHING with an electrical circuit will be instantly short circuited and become nonfunctional. It may be your first indication a bomb has hit. If ever, the power goes out and suddenly your cell phone won't come on, it may be an EMP.
This may be your first warning in real life. In essence, your 2 minute warning.
@@robertsteinbach7325 correct, the best warning I heard was radio stations. Only 10% of radio stations are EMP shielded, so if all of a sudden 90% of all radio stations go off air that’s you’re early warning.
I heard the cars not working is a myth!! I heard they will stall and restart.
@@csarock1 That is not what happened to the electric system of Hawaii when the first Thermonuclear device high in the atmosphere over Johnson Atoll, over 900 miles away from Oahu Island in Hawaii, the Honolulu telephone microwave link was destroyed and permanently knocked out 300 street lights. An EMP pulse from an overhead high altitude nuclear explosion is sufficient to destroy microprocessors. 99% of vehicles on the road now have a microprocessor controlling the car functions. If this computer is destroyed the vehicle cannot run.
@@csarock1 Older cars would restart. Onboard computers may be destroyed. Most cars at the time this was made could recover. Today's cars would need new computers (which would not be available).
Whilst this film is effective try watching Threads, it is a British film about the same subject that honestly makes this look like a disney film
I was in high school when this movie originally aired. It was a big deal at the time...thought provoking to say the least. It brings back a lot of memories.
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To me, the most gut wrenching part of the film is when the people are running for shelter while the sirens blare in the background, knowing that in the next few minutes, they'll likely be dead or severely burned or maimed. I cant imagine what that would be like. Hope I never find out.
The director of this film was Nicolas Meyer, the writer/director of the 2 best of the original cast Star Trek movies, Wrath of Khan (2).and Undiscovered Country (6). Meyer is good at developing the characters so he made you care about the people in the film and what happens to them. Bravo to you, Che, for tackling a hard subject film like this...the first TH-cam reaction I have seen of it...that most would be afraid to do. Please consider reacting to other movies like this in the future!
I do my friend. Sadly they are over on Patreon and not here on TH-cam, since they get blocked. For example we watched Threads as well on Patreon, but my TH-cam abridged & edited version got banned on here by BBC 🤦♀️
@@HonestMovieReactions Yeah, I did notice that you watched that movie. It is even more depressing than this film. Brave that you watched it...I saw it as an adult. I watched this film when it was broadcast and it deeply effected me. I had a few nightmares because of it and it led me to do a school project where I questioned a West German exchange student about how he felt living in the target zone for all the SS-20 medium range missiles the USSR had pointed at them in the mid 80s as well as all their tank divisions. I saw Testament recommended...it was shown on American Public Television about the same time as this film and it is a powerful documentation of what a small outlying town (to San Francisco) would go thru after a nuclear exchange...you should watch that! Also, it is my understanding that President Ronald Reagan watched The Day After and it was that viewing that prompted him to start negotiations on the Salt II Treaty with the Russians that helped lead to the end of the Cold War.
This film has haunted me through my life. It had a significant effect on me, an eighth grader at the time of its airing on ABC in 1983, as the content challenged my ideas about nuclear war, and our ability to "win" it.
Thanks to government propaganda over the decades, most of the public assumed our eventual survival and victory should we ever engage in a nuclear war against the now former Soviet Union. Yet, that changed after the broadcast. The impact on public opinion about nuclear war, for the various generations of the public that viewed this single-night event, continues to resonate nearly 40 years later.
Thank you for taking a chance and doing a reaction on this significant cultural event in my lifetime.
Thank you for sharing your own story Leo. 😊
I was in the sixth grade and was traumatized for some time. For a few months I would panic whenever I saw airplane contrails in the sky.
Well we all are going to die. And thousands die tragic deaths around the world everyday. It is more important to have faith in an eternal life that is promised by God. The Son of God, Jesus Christ died and was raised from the dead to give you assurance of the paradise that Adam and Eve lost. Prophecy, archaeology and the written word of God is something everyone should explore during these uncertain times. Look at our economy, and people losing jobs because of mandates to get the... . Watch the prepper channels to see how scarce some items, including medications, are to find. Read how scary Chapters 6, 11, and 13 of the book of Revelation is. The signs of its soon fulfillment is getting harder to deny. Peace.
I'm European, and I dont remember people envisioning survival and victory following a nuclear war. And I've difficulties believing that it could have been significantly different in the USA. Everybody knew that the Soviet Union had enough warheads to reduce to rubles every significant US city several times over. Are you sure that it wasn't just you who had a delusion of survival and victory, and that you weren't just attributing the same thoughts to your fellow citizens?
This film was seen by President Reagan at the time and led to disarmament treaties of nuclear weapons with the then Soviet Union.
So it can be said that this film had a very big impact on political history.
I was 15 when this came out in Australia. It wasn't a TV movie here but was on at the cinema. Our teachers structured most of our year around it. Our English "Novel of the Year" was Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (it is also about Post-Nuclear survival) and the teachers took our entire form (about 100 students) on an excursion to the movies to watch it. They effectively created a generation of activists at school and we never had any doubts about what Nuclear options would do to the world from then on.
I put it on for my kids to watch at a similar age. I think it's required viewing.
I remember that at the time the threat of Nuclear War was frighteningly real but my teacher said that he was far more worried about the new chemical and biological warfare options that were opening up. He was right, those weapons have since been used many times because it's possible to unleash them and cover it up.
Given the situation with NATO, Russia and China today, I think it's time for a remake with better special effects and tighter scripting to get the warning back into the public eye.... and I think some films about chemical and biological options should be made.
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I didn't think this movie made it that far around the world. Good to hear it.
This aired on network television in 1983. Millions of people sat glued to their TV sets. The events depicted prior to the nuclear missile strikes, is eerily accurate to how the US military prepared for a Soviet invasion into West Germany during the Cold War years, and the doctrine of using tactical nukes to slow them down. Most people who were alive during this period thought as you do, that in the event of a nuclear war, they wanted to die in one of the blasts so as not to have to try survive in the aftermath. What is interesting is the very first nuclear weapon detonated, was in fact an airburst in the upper atmosphere, which caused an EMP which fried all electronics. It would be worse if it happened today since the world is so heavily dependent on technology and electronics.
Very interesting Jeff
At the time this movie was made....it WAS a reflection of current events. I watched it as a child and remember watching it and another one called "Threads" vividly.
But given the current events in Israel and in Ukraine, I'd love to see it modernized and remade to fit today's current events.
There are 2 full generations that have come on the scene that haven't seen (and really should see) a movie like this.
I enjoyed watching it "with" you!
Che, nice to see a reactor have the Will to watch such a difficult movie. I saw this when it first came out. Gave me the chills. Still does. Let us hope nothing like this ever happens. God bless and thanks for all your great work 😘
You are most welcome dear.
Well we watched Threads over on Patreon which was even scarier than this movie. Sadly my video on TH-cam was blocked by the BBC🤦♀️
I remember watching this and yes it was a big deal on tv back then , everyone was kind of freaked, thanks again!
You are most welcome my dear
It has already been said but if you haven't yet watched 'Threads' I highly recommend it. It's even grittier than this film and goes further into the future to show the devastating effects of nuclear fallout/winter.
We watched it over on my Patreon and it was even scarier than this movie for sure. Unfortunately BBC blocked my TH-cam video for it.
@@HonestMovieReactions Aye, that sounds like the BBC. 😉
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I can name like 4 people just in my family that have never seen Jurassic Park or Star Wars... not everyone had horrible parents that just stat their kids in front of a tv, so they didn't have to deal them.
It's true that people from reaction channels have never seen any movie and never heard any music, but nevertheless plenty of people have never seen many very famous movies. I'd guess the majority of the population has never seen any given movie, regardless how famous it is. The only exception IMO would be movies that are traditionally regularly broadcasted on TV, like during the Christmas season, such for instance as the wizard of Oz in the USA.
I've never seen Jurassic Park myself, only watched parts of the first three Star war movies (but that because of a total lack of interest in them), never watched Avatar, watched only a bit of one of the Matrix movies and same for the Alien movies, only one of the "terminator" and I don't even remember it, never watched any superhero movie apart from an old Batman, to give some examples. I could easily fill a reaction channel with very famous movies that I've honestly never seen (even though I've seen many others.) My problems would be more that I don't react very emotionally to movies and tend to be very critical, while people visiting reaction channels want people who are both emotional and very positive and enthusiastic.
There are three other movies along this track, Threads, Testament, and Special Report. Threads is a British movie, it came out around the same time as The Day After, and is about the effects of a nuclear attack on Sheffield England. Testament came out in the late 70s and focused on a small town near San Francisco (which had been wiped out in a nuclear attack). Special Report was a TV movie (which means it came out on TV rather than in theaters, sometimes they're referred to as made-for-TV movies) styled as a series of news reports about a terrorist nuclear attack in Charleston, South Carolina. Although I think Testament and Threads are the best produced, they're all worth a look.
The 3rd video was Special Bulletin.
A good CBS Reports with Dan Rather was the effect on Omaha (and the Strategic Air Command Offutt AFB Number One U. S. Target) of two multi-megaton thermonuclear weapons. It was called "The Defense of the U. S." and appeared around the early 1980s similarly to those movies listed above. However, this was a documentary and didn't mince words or compromise the terrible aftermath of these weapons. Good program if you can find it.
i did watch it when it came out. i think what made an impression on me was that suddenly on top of the immediate dearhs, there would be blindings, trauma, burns, brokien bones and all kinds of non lethal but serious injuries and no healthcare system to take care of it. the piecing togetrher afterwards would be really chaotic.
Most people just do a review with a fairly long time between viewing and reviewing. It was nice to see your reactions as you’re watching it.
the sad thing is, today or since march 2022 we are the closest to this scenario than ever in history of the world.
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even closer now, seeing that the president had already mentioned it just a few days ago.
Extremely close now in 2024
The most watched TV movie of all time in the USA. EVERYONE watched this. Cold War was terrifying.
Terrifying for sure
I think we're in, or getting closer, to a Cold War with China. ☹️
This came out my sophomore year of high school, everyone that I knew watched it. After the movie aired in my high school to comfort us our teachers told us that we had nothing to worry about in all-out thermonuclear war. That because we live in Philadelphia we will be hit by at least a dozen 3 Megaton Thermo nuclear warheads. That before our brains could register what that bright light off in the distance is, we would be vaporized. Dying without pain, there one second vaporized the next second. Unless you're in an underground parking garage, you have nothing to worry about we were told. It worked. Thank you and thumbs up for the video.
Wow that's crazy. Well I am glad you enjoyed the video John 😊
"Philadelphia we will be hit by at least a dozen 3 Megaton Thermo nuclear warheads" Totally not. One per city. How did you put it in your head that 36 megatons would be wasted on a city?
I lived just to the south of where this movie was set. I had just graduated from High School and was in College and we had a trip to Kansas City for a class trip. In the middle 1970's NBC had a documentary on if the Minuteman missile field was attacked. There were 150 missiles buried in the farmland and each was expected to receive 2 warheads each with a 20 Megaton yield. That would leave 300 warheads impacting Western Missouri. Kansas City would receive 5 as it had an airport, a Federal Records Center, and the Weather service office. St. Louis would receive 3 as it had another records center, the McDonald-Douglas Military Airplane factory, and the inland port for the river. It was unnerving going to the city after seeing the movie and knowing all the facts.
Would Ohio get hit? There's an af base,a couple of NWS offices in the state 😮😢
@@seisies-mama Ohio represents transportation hubs and that's what would probably be targeted. Columbus (Road hub), Cincinatti (CVG Airport) and Cleveland (Inland Seaport on the Great Lakes) would all be targets. Any Air Force base, and any factory manufacturing military goods would be targeted as well as any runway capable of handling large military jets. The idea of a bombing campaign like this would be to degrade an enemies infrastructure. Dayton and Akron would be targeted as well. Daton for the Wright-Patterson AFB (Air Force Museum and Air Force Intelligence Center is Headquartered there), Akron is a manufacturing center for tires and also has an Aerospace concern as well with a Lockheed plant located there. Toledo might be a target as well being an inland port on the lake. Youngstown as a former Steel manufacturing center might be targeted, it would depend. In the 1980's a lot of Ohio would have been hit.
I can now recommend it’s companion film Threads
Sadly the BBC blocked my Threads video on TH-cam. We watched it together on my Patreon, which has the full version. Yes Threads is far more horrifying than The Day After in some ways.
There are no issues with the length of your TH-cam videos, your editing is fine and no need for anyone to take issue with your work. Thank you for taking your time and doing a great job. I did see this when it first aired, I thought it was great someone finally was honest about it and not being all hurray America in films. I'm American born and raised, but it means nothing if Russia had dropped a few thousand nukes all over. Pray for peace.
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There were some good TV movies and mini series back in the day. This movie, The Stand, Lonesome Dove, V, Burning Bed, and Roots just to name a few.
We had a baseball coach back then that said, if the bombs ever started falling, he'd get out there with his catcher's mitt and try to catch the bombs.
I am with him. I don't want to survive the blast.
From around the same time staring Michael Broderick, War Games. Which was a theatrical release not a t.v. movie. Nice to see you back again. I think it's been a while, unless I'm just missing you. Take care, stay safe and be well always !😘
You are just missing me my friend. TH-cam stopped sending out notifications, so people have to come and manually check my channel 🤦♀️
@@HonestMovieReactions Jealous of your incredible beauty and warm, thought provoking yet subtlety pleasing fun reactions ! P.S. Thanks for being so kind and getting back to me and letting me know !
I saw this movie when I was in middle school. Our teacher requested that we what it, and the next day we had an in depth discussion in our Civics and History classes regarding it. How it related to the Cuban Missile crisis that took place in the 60's and the arms race and nuclear weapon stockpiling that was taking place during the 80's. I really appreciate the education I was provided, enabling me to understand concepts and comprehend ideas and actions. The relevance of History and the impacts understanding it can for the future.
And it's unbelievable that we are currently so close to a situation like this. Human beings do not learn even from their mistakes. We can only ask God for mercy and for those in power to keep their minds sane.
I loved that you reacted to this gem of a movie. Even though it is a very tame version of what things would actually be like, it still horrified people when it was shown on Tv. That's what it should do, it's why it should be a deterrent only because no one wins in a world after nuclear war. Again, great reaction, you are one of the few to brave into this world that they showed.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video my dear. I actually watched another nuclear war film called Threads that was even more horrifying (the post-nuclear world), but my video was blocked on TH-cam. That video is on my Patreon.
I watched for the fist time two years ago and it stays with me. I was terrified by it so much that I wrote a post on Facebook about how to watch it. One of my recommendations was to watch on a day before you have to go somewhere, because as long as you are thinking about the next day's trip, the movie won't weigh you down that much. You want this movie to stay with you, though, but you don't want it to overwhelm you to the point of despair. This is a great movie. I am proud to own it. There is a British version called "Threads" and it is the epitome of the phrase, "Hold my beer".
If you thought this was scary/bad try Watching "Threads"
Do *Threads (1984)* next!
I remember when this movie first aired. I was a small child and did not sleep a wink! It's all everyone talked about at school! The teachers helped by talking to us about it because there were a LOT of terrified kiddos, grade school through high school, that were absolutely freaked out! Especially during the cold war, chernobyl, 3 mile island, etc...
Thank you SO much for getting this out there! Others have suggested Threads, but another movie that came out around this time is Testament. It differs from The Day After in that it focuses on a family and their small town miles away from the explosions and how the aftermath affects small rural locations that weren't impacted by the blasts. It has some really great performances and a couple of gut-wrenching scenes.
You are most welcome.
Well we watched Threads over on Patreon which was even scarier than this movie. Sadly my video on TH-cam was blocked by the BBC
@@HonestMovieReactions You should do Testament. It was originally a Public Broadcasting Service TV movie before they decided to release it theatrically. "Maybe" the copyright strikes wouldn't be as bad. Maybe.
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Thanx to sharing this whit us
Peace on earth
The U.S.S.R. nuclear arsenal was significant even back in the 1980s. They had thousands of nuclear weapons, the movie mentions 300 missiles inbound, judging by the number they weren't targeting the silos, they were more likely targeting strategic locations such as Command structures, air and naval bases, industrial zones (which meant major cities).
In all likelihood 25 percent of the U.S. population would die in the first hour of the war. The U.S.S.R. would suffer the same if not worse considering they fired on a N.A.T.O. member which necessitates a counter attack by all Nuclear NATO members. The rest of Russia's nuclear armament probably fired on NATO members which includes Most of Europe.
I saw this at our local cinema in 1985. I was 14 at the time. It’s stayed with me ever since.
I can only imagine my dear. A very scary movie indeed. We also watched Threads over on my Patreon (my YT video was blocked), and that was even more terrifying! 😱
This and Threads are the scariest movies I ever saw
Remember...each missile holds up to 10 warheads. When this movie came out ,it left a lot of people speechless
13 or 14 when this came out. Height of cold war in 80’s. We lived near Wright Patterson Air Force Base which was a top 10-20 target for the Soviets. Not to far from Oak Ridge so another top 10 target. Heh. I still have special insert Dayton Daily News had in a Sunday paper discussing cold war and Day After.
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I was 12 when this movie came out. The part where the guy says "this is not an exercise" made my hair stand up on end
This movie needs to be remade for a new generation
A thoughtful heartfelt review. Thank you. People didn't want it then and they do not want it now. Most people in the world basically want to live in harmony with each other. Unfortunately we all have leaders who continually drag us into endless wars. Nuclear war has been prophesied and seen in dreams and visions numerous times for thousands of years. With war in Europe escalating we are now closer to it than we have been in decades.
Sad indeed, but true. We watched The Day After and Threads over on my Patreon. Threads freaked me out even more than this film. I wish our world leaders would watch these movies when they make their decisions.
Glad you enjoyed the video dear. Take care.😊
This movie when it came out , seemed so real that it even made the news .
To get the full effect you should consider that people, in the US at least, were really worried about nuclear war. Kids in schools used to practice what to do when the alarm signal9ing an attack was sounded. The President at the time, Reagan, even made a joke that was caught on microphone saying "I just signed legislation outlawing Russia, we begin bombing in five minutes". That's how intense the Cold War was. A British movie, Threads, is even more hardcore than this movie if you can believe it. Don't watch Threads unless you really want to see what WWIII would have been like.
Well we watched Threads over on Patreon which was even scarier than this movie. Sadly my video on TH-cam was blocked by the BBC.🤦♀️
Thank you for putting this out!
You are welcome Trev
Also for perspective on the extent of the damage, each ICBM holds between 3-8 warheads. So when he said 300 missiles inbound that was probably 1000 warheads.
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@@HonestMovieReactions Correct reaction. And each warhead is probably 10x more destructive than the Hiroshima bomb.
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@@HonestMovieReactions That about sums it up. A true horror movie if I do say so.
Yeah the Minuteman III carried 3 warheads which each had a 350Kt yield. Now the peacekeeper missile carried up to 12, but upon it's deployment, treaties limited that missile to 10 warheads at 300kt each.
I saw this a a kid in the 80's. Very chilling to watch. The threat is still there today but hopefully calmer heads continue to prevail.
Should the calm fail and the apocalypse comes, there's an old saying, "The lucky ones died first."
This is the only reaction to this movie that I can find.
I was so young when this came out, but I’ve seen bits of it over the years. Just watching this still makes me numb with horror, and I still cry. The ending is so small scale but also profound in its compassion.
If you think this is bad, Threads is pure nightmare fuel
I actually have this on blu ray, saw this when I was a kid and it scared the hell out of me! The real scary part is this is a sanitized toned down view of what a post nuclear attack world would look like. The anarchy, disease, famine would cause millions of more deaths. The lucky ones will have died in the blast.
Threads has already been mentioned but others include Fail Safe from 1964 and Testament from 83 I think.
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Fun fact ,moscow can put most of its people underground in 30 minutes. They still practice this every couple of years.
The wife making the bed in denial then the husband dragging her off somehow made the biggest impression on me. I saw this live back in day when I was 13.
The son twitching his feet in pain at his burned retinas.
38:45 trying to convince her and catch her reminds me of when my Newfoundland gets loose and I have to chase him
I was 12 years old in 1983 and I definitely remember watching this with my family. It goes without saying that it freaked me out, knowing that it could become a reality. Especially in those days hottest days of the Cold War. Definitely check out Threads 1984. Way more darker and wrenching than The Day After. Great review Che.
I watched this when it aired in 1983 when I was 11 and that end with the two old men hugging broke me
TESTAMENT is another great nukemare movie...but it packs an emotional punch as we slowly watch the town slowly die.
Since you asked about radiation levels, a general rule that's the basis of the guideline for sheltering for two weeks is that radiation levels after nuclear tests have been empirically measured to roughly decrease by a factor of 10x every 7 hours. Though I'm not sure if this is only for the best case of an airburst nuke which doesn't kick up much dust to fall out back to the ground carrying radioactive fission products from the bomb.
If you liked this movie you might also check Threads, made by the BBC in 1984, which goes years into the future to show what postwar England could look like under one of the bad cases of the nuclear winter hypothesis (which is controversial and might have been overstated based on later modeling, but would still likely be very bad for at least the first growing season after the bomb).
Che, this movie surprised me. I mean did someone recommend it? I remember when this movie was shown on tv. We were still in the cold war with the Soviet Union and Ronald Reagan was President. Many were actign like drama queens about Reagans desire to use Nukes without any thought. Yet his leadership and other asspects lead to the fasll of the Soviet Union. I have never belived there would ever be a Nuclear War. Even with the threats from Russia during the war in the Ukraine I have felt them as just bluffs. Great reaction though and this movie does get people to thinking. Thank you. Take care. 🥰
We watched both The Day After and Threads in their full versions over on Patreon. Threads was even scarier than this movie. Sadly my video on TH-cam was blocked by the BBC
@@HonestMovieReactions Che, it is ok. I know TH-cam has its own political reason to ban free speech. As scary as these videos are I don't worry about such things today. There is nothing you can do to stop the possibility of a Nuclear War. I always learned to deal with issues I have control over in my life and just pray about the issues I don't have control over. Our shoulders are not big enough to carry the world's problems on them. This movie is definitely an eye-opener. As we begin August I hope you and your family have a wonderful month. Looking forward to more videos. 🥰
Thank you for the well wishes my friend. I wish you the same 😊
This was filmed in my hometown (Lawrence, KS). My brother was an extra & got to hang out with Jason Robards, who was very nice to him.
There was a park by the river where we used to go to hang out, get stoned, play frisbee etc. I remember going there one day & across the river, they had that tent city all set up. It was kinda surreal.
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Does your brother have a scene with Jason Robards?
And now you need to watch "Threads", a British film that came out about a year later and covered the same topic...from a much more graphic point of view (it is available for free on TH-cam).
I finally watched "Threads" a couple of weeks ago. It's terrifying.
We had to watch this at school when I was 10. The teacher taped it off the TV and we watched it. One teacher told us that we didn't need to do our homework because we was all going to die. The principal had to take her out of the auditorium and told us she would be alright. I can remember the news talking about how the bombs were coming to get us. Things got really weird after this movie was shown.
So the day after was the most terrifying movie I had ever seen back when I watched it when it originally aired. That was until I saw the UK's take on the topic from around the same time (a year later than the day after), called "Threads". The Day After was done quite well, but threads didn't pull any Punches, and I recommend watching that as well. But be warned it is brutal. As hard as the day after is to watch, they actually toned it down some before it was allowed to air. Threads did not however get toned down, and you can find it on TH-cam as well.
If you think this movie was bad, watch "Threads". It's the same concept, only made the following year in the UK. The attack scenes and the very end were even more terrifying. "Threads" really conveyed just how absolutely fucked this world would be following a full-on nuclear war between East and West.
I was 8yo when I watched this. It was particularly impactful because we watched it at home. The movie depicted nuclear effects of Second World War style bombs. It would have been worse had they shown effects of modern weapons.
Ronald Reagan watched it a month before it was shown on TV. It had a tremendous impact on him, to the point he walked away from his Evil Empire rhetoric and started making overtures to the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, due to the multiple leadership changes in the Soviet Union it took two more years to bear fruit with Gorbachev, who was like-minded in his horror of the thought of nuclear war.
You should do a reaction video of Trinity and Beyond the Atomic Bomb Movie Documentary film.
Great documentary
What's funny is the military scenes are from a different made for TV movie from the late 70s called First Strike that was a propaganda piece where the Soviet Union caught the US off guard with a surprise nuclear attack. The Day After couldn't get that kind of access to military bases and such because they refused to have the Soviets start the shooting war, instead leaving it ambiguous who fired the ICBMs initially.
They actually toned down this movie from it's original version because it was too graphic for television. Nuclear war would be beyond comprehension and I am not sure the mind would be able to process the challenges ahead.
I saw this when it first aired when I was only nine years old! It scared the heck out of me! It still does!
'The Day After' is a clean and glossy version of a bad day, with music. Try and keep that smile on your face when you watch 'Threads'.
Weird how people ignore the ending. _Threads_ is about what happens to Britain.
The Director of this TV movie was the man who did Star Trek’s 2 and 6
This was a realistic view of going thru a Nuclear War. I watched it when It came out.
As I was under 10 when this movie came out, my parents thought I was too young to watch this. It was/is thought provoking.
Another powerful post apocalyptic nuclear war movie is Threads.
Indeed it is Cathy. We watched the whole movie together on my Patreon. TH-cam and BBC blocked my TH-cam edited version 🤦♀
I was seven years old when they released this movie in 83 so I I got to see it with my family
I just noticed a key edit between future releases of this movie and the original broadcast. In the first broadcast, they had someone imitate the voice of then president Ronald Reagan, which in a small way probably added to the unnerving nature of not wanting this film to become reality.
As a nuclear weapons specialist for my government, I must say this is pretty realistic, especially the residual damages.
How do people get it in their heads that cities would be hit with 40 megatons?
I am very happy that you watch war movie again! YES! Nuclear war movie as well! Wow!
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Fortunately most world leaders know that they can't launch a first strike without being equally and utterly obliterated in a second strike. The only ones that don't know or don't care are the ones that blow themselves up for 72 virgins in heaven.
There are some interesting made for TV movies from the days of Civil Defense. One is called A Day Called X. There's also a Canadian audio play called The Last Broadcast that was a college Radio/TV class assignment that people might find interesting.
Just to clarify some things you saw that might not have been commented on.... You were right about covering the windows but they were also giving themselves extra shielding from Gamma radiation. It takes at least 18 inches of earth to prevent the radiation from penetrating. Preferably you'd be at least six feet underground also. Storm shelters aren't the best for fallout protection but they aren't the worst. The people out on the highway, realistically, would have been temporarily blinded by the flash and their cars would have been tossed around like toys by the shockwave. Anyone within about a mile of Ground Zero would have ceased to exist in any form or fashion except for their "atomic shadow".
This is single handily the scariest movie ever made
The difference between this movie and threads is that threads is a lot darker and horrific to watch.
Both films don't say who fired first as they leave that to you to wonder. A nuclear war would kill billions and fallout would be deadly. A nuclear winter would starve people to death and Goverments wouldn't exist any more.
It's a reminder that in 1962 Cuban missile crisis was closest to nuclear war between the 2 superpowers.
I believe after centuries of wars in this world a nuclear war will happen one day when one leader presses that nuclear button as the rest of leaders would press that button.
A lot of people say this war in Ukraine could end up world going into a nuclear war. Putin has threatened world of nuclear attacks on west and it's scary to think he talks of nuclear war.
The day after and threads shows what could happen!
I really enjoy your thoughts.
I have this movie on DVD and it's a good. In the likelihood of an actual nuclear war it would be thousands of times worse than what the movie depicted. When this came on TV I was in second or third grade and my parents let me watch it.
It's hard for people today to understand the Cold War era; concern about nuclear war was always lingering in the back of people's minds to one degree or another. It's amazing how quickly things changed though - in November of 1989, East Germans and West Germans in Berlin united to tear down the Berlin Wall, and just three weeks after that George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met at the Malta Summit to declare the end of the Cold War.
Two days after the conclusion of the Malta Summit, a young KGB officer stationed in Germany by the name of Vladimir Putin barely fended off a group of irate Germans who were trying to breach the KGB office in Dresden. When Putin sought help from a nearby Red Army tank unit, he was told that Moscow wouldn't authorize assistance. It was a lesson about political leadership that stayed with Putin for the rest of his life; years later he said that the collapse of the USSR was the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". For Putin, the Cold War never ended.
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The next movie I request for you to react to is the British made for TV movie "Threads". It is the British version of "The Day After".
Hello Robert. Well I have actually watched Threads. Sadly it's only on my Patreon (full length version), because the BBC blocked my TH-cam version.
the scary fact of the matter is that we have a higher chance of world war 3 today, then we did at the height of the Cold War
All the Air Force footage is from a documentary called First Strike.
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@@HonestMovieReactions Just in case you are interested. th-cam.com/video/MLimlaW4yPw/w-d-xo.html
I hope you will watch “Testament” and “Threads” soon. “The Day After” is great but both of these films are so much better and so much more disturbing.
We watched Threads and the video is on my Patreon (full length video). Unfortunately the TH-cam version was blocked by the BBC 🤦♀
How many ICBMs were fired? All the ICBMs! The dog is already dead from radiation, he just doesn't know it yet
The SLBMs haven't been fired.
I went to school in the states in 1983. We all got a note home from our teacher that said a movie will be shown on tv tonight that you should decide if your child should Watch or not. I thought it was about sex and the day after your first time having sex.
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Hi Che! I remember when this was broadcast on TV. It scared the daylights out of most people. Me, it motivated me to learn how to survive. I was 16 when this aired, and we had to have a discussion about it in school the next day.
Hello John. Good to see you again. Yes I can only imagine how people felt when they first saw this. We watched Threads as well on Patreon, which was even scarier, but my video on TH-cam got blocked.
@@HonestMovieReactions Yeah, I've had a rough month. But I'm back around. 1983 was still when we lived under that nuclear threat, and "at any minute, we had 30 minutes left to live". I grew up in that, and this movie in particular made us very aware of what that threat actually looked like. Also, we were told that the movie was a "best case scenario", meaning that reality would likely be a lot worse.
It put me on the path of learning survival skills that have benefited me to this very day. When bad things happen, I don't panic, I react to what's going on. I know how to treat injuries in an emergency, and those skills have saved a few lives.
I haven't watched all of Threads yet, but I have seen a few scenes from it. One of these days, I get around to watching it.
I highly recommend it, even though it is very disturbing!
Survival skills are always great to have my friend.
I grew up in this time. This show gave me nightmares for days.
Also, each one of those missiles would be MIRVs. They would have multiple warheads. 300 missiles is thousands of warheads.
300 missiles is about 600 warheads.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver MIRV's can have a dozen warheads. Don't know what nuclear weapon information you've read, but MIRV's had at least three and as many as 12 independent warheads. I grew up in the shadow of the mushroom cloud. In my youth I made it my business to learn about the weapons that were around in the early 80's.
@@alecbrinker7268 Soviet ICBMs had a dozen? Nah.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Reread my post 3-12. Quite clearly written.
@@alecbrinker7268 Soviet missiles had a dozen warheads each? Nah.