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old 1980s BBC drama about nuclear war. watched it last night, depressed the fuck out of me but i'm so glad i watched it.

extra-awesome because it shows the effects of nuclear winter etc. decades after the war itself.

if you've got a couple of hours to spare i'd seriously recommend watching it. scariest shit you'll ever see.

part 1 of 13:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT96sgTwmvo

(jazz?)

i saw this movie a couple of years ago, it is indeed a dark, dark film.

9/10

Here's the not-in-little-youtube-bite-size-bits version:

Last year when I eventually got round to watching it I couldn't help but give out a little laugh at the end at how depressing the whole thing was. It doesn't help that it was made in the early 80's (an era in British TV where even super-happy kids TV would shit you right up)

watched it when it was originally broadcast and it put the shits right up me, couldn't sleep for weeks.

  On 10/3/2009 at 7:46 PM, mosca said:

watched it when it was originally broadcast and it put the shits right up me, couldn't sleep for weeks.

yep. i used to hear phantom air raid sirens every night in bed

was wandering round leicester earlier today thinking what would happen to all the little businesses and the people that run them should the place be nuked. really gets to you, this shit does.

excellent, that's tonight's viewing sorted

at times i wonder if it wouldn't just be the best thing to happen to this shithole.

i have good days too though.

is that angela rippon reading the news?

man she was a slammin hottie once.

they made us watch this in primary 5 at school.

check out 'the day after' for similar.

'when the wind blows', by raymond briggs pwns the both of them though. i didn't speak for a day and a half after i read that.

i eventually started to get really irritated at the stupidity of the couple in when the wind blows though

this is well gritty; has that early 80s bleakness you see in a lot of stuff made around then

i watched when the wind blows the same night a few back, that i watched threads. had an apocalyptic youtube night-in with a mate of mine and 14 cans of red stripe. was pretty harrowing

but yeah, the old woman in WTWB was a bit frustrating. i really dislike people who don't go balls deep when the need arises. if, on pain of death by radiation sickness, you need to piss into a pot in front of your husband, you fucking piss into a fucking pot!

fuck.

that was one of the bleakest endings to anything i've ever seen

  On 10/4/2009 at 2:06 AM, kaini said:

fuck.

 

that was one of the bleakest endings to anything i've ever seen

i do think the whole nuclear winter bit is quite overplayed (maybe that's wishful thinking on my part though lol)

nevertheless, very much worth seeing.

similar docudrama type thing, also worth a look

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2864871032688882557&ei=bOjHSr2NOJDCqQKgmantDA&q=the+war+game

The War Game is a 1965 television film on nuclear war. Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC's The Wednesday Play strand, its depiction of the impact of Soviet nuclear attack on Britain caused dismay within the BBC and in government. It was scheduled for transmission on 6 August 1966 (the anniversary of the Hiroshima attack) but was not transmitted until 1985, the corporation publicly stating that "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting". It was widely viewed before its BBC debut on video and in art-house cinemas, often using prints provided by Watkins, and the film won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1966.

  On 10/4/2009 at 2:18 AM, kaini said:

The War Game

i was literally looking for this just then, about to watch it

  On 10/4/2009 at 2:18 AM, kaini said:

The War Game

i was literally looking for this just then, about to watch it

is your avatar from 666?

  On 10/4/2009 at 2:52 AM, kaini said:

is your avatar from 666?

yes!

whoa, the police rounding up and shooting the fatally wounded. i thought after seeing threads that that kind of shit might have to be done, and here it is in The War Game.

loving the anti-religious undertones - the bishop dude saying how it's ok for us to nuke cities if we're "right". also the recognition (by Brits) of how fucked Dresden was. didn't expect that.

MOAR

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1892923857465314983&ei=bOjHSr2NOJDCqQKgmantDA&hl=en

The Day After is an American television movie which aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC Television Network.

The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated next to nearby nuclear missile silos. The film was written by Edward Hume and directed by Nicholas Meyer. The film was released on DVD on May 18, 2004.

imma have to watch some carl sagan or something to lift my mood after all this bleakness

  On 10/4/2009 at 3:26 AM, kaini said:

imma have to watch some carl sagan or something to lift my mood after all this bleakness

lol

i know it's fucking depressing

watching this shit is a character-building exercise. but worth it

thanks for the link, this is gonna be good.

i'm gonna have to watch my neighbor totoro after this

I was surprised that a film where a nuclear bomb is dropped on Sheffield was not a comedy.

uck

this bit of the day after is basically nuke porn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA

also, check out john lithgow at the start, lol.

and that's a young steve guttenberg on the motorbike.