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post #1 of 6
1/14/12 at 6:47pm
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"The other" made for television production following the build-up, occurrence and after math of nuclear war. Only following from the British perspective. As good a movie as The Day After is, it's true what they say. Threads makes it look like a Saturday morning cartoon.

 

The most frightening movie I've ever seen. Don't think I'll ever be able to shake it off.

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post #2 of 6
1/15/12 at 8:26am

I do believe this is on Google Video, though I can't search for it right now. Either that or Yahoo video.

 

And HOLY SHIT it is bleak. Really upsetting and brilliant, with startlingly real performances. With nuclear annihilation such a serious threat back then, I can't imagine how hard I would have shit my pants watching this. Feels like a document from an actual alternate world where we all destroyed each other, and watching it on Google/Yahoo video as I did (don't recall) just made it feel more real.

 

I understand this film has a weirdly low profile, and I don't understand that. If you love watching apocalyptic movies, this is a drop-everything must.

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post #3 of 6
1/15/12 at 8:51am

Suicide 'Threads'.jpg

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post #4 of 6
1/15/12 at 9:27am
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I understand this film has a weirdly low profile, and I don't understand that. If you love watching apocalyptic movies, this is a drop-everything must.

 

As is the early antecedent, Pete Watkins' fake documentary The War Game. Watch that then Threads for the grimmest double bill ever.
 

 

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post #5 of 6
1/15/12 at 1:31pm
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I do believe this is on Google Video, though I can't search for it right now. Either that or Yahoo video.



It's on YouTube in its entirety.

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post #6 of 6
1/16/12 at 6:53pm
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Jackson directed another excellent made-for-television film Indictment: The McMartin Trial.

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