Post radiation kino

Tell me about a scene in Threads that will make me want to watch it

What's that movie that starts with a silo crewman going to work?

A cat burns in nuclear hellfire

During the attack sequence almost every family presented is decimated in one go as children, parents and pets die off in an instant, leaving "lucky" ones behind who spend the rest of the movie slowly decaying in rags with no food or water. It depicts the aftermath of an attack extremely well, how every aspect of modern society crumbles almost instantly. The hospitals are overflowed with victims, but theres' nothing the staff can do. The municipality staff leading the recovery effort is trapped under rubble and slowly perish as they try to coordinate rescue workers through landwires and radio. The stress portrayed is extremely on point.

It might be the Day After, but I believe he's a pilot and not a silo crewman

Thats what they get for using the telephone.

I think maybe it was. I remember a movie with a guy leaving his home in like Arkansas and going to the silo.

Anyway have a song youtu.be/5_0OVHcIMh0

It made me feel hopeless for days

Sad depressing kino

Threads is the best thing British television has ever produced. Ghostwatch is up there too, but the kids in it cannot act.

Never heard about On the 8th day, gonna have to check it out

No need for other recommendations

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Wait is this the referrence they used for the watchmen series?

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Even if you take Don Johnsons uniform it really look similar.
Is this some "after the nuclear attack" reference?

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It made life feel so bleak for me for multiple days.

A pregnant woman and some dude share some raw sheep meat of a sheep that died of radiation poisoning and they haven't eaten for days

Why does a traffic warden have a gun? What happened to his face?

why don't you watch the movie and find out

14 year old gets raped, but because she was born in a world with no real society, she never went to school or learned how to read or write or even speak.

absolute kino

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Fucking british making me cry.

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Local officials trapped in a purpose built bunker despairingly argue about a logistical problem, stop, then one of the men screams out: "Why did they do it?!"

Give Blackout a watch, It's speculative fiction by channle 4 on what would happen if the power went out for a bit

>she never went to school or learned how to read or write or even speak.
She was from Sheffield, What's the difference?

you've never seen Wargames then.

The ending is the illiterate child of one of the main women characters (who has died by this point) getting raped by a friend then ending up pregnant. Because no one gives a shit about her and she's had no education she can barely speak english and the final scene is her giving birth in some makeshift hospital with the howling wind taking over all sound as she begins screaming after a "nurse" gives her the newborn baby. The scene freezes and cuts to black. The end.

no dole in radioactive wasteland

Started watching it and it seems internally inconsistent despite some really nice individual concepts. The found footage style doesn't make any sense

I guess we will never know who was phone.

Why are we getting a hard-on over CND agitprop all of a sudden?

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this is what the world will look like if democrats ever get back into power

Still watching. Beginning to feel sick watching it.

Get up, come on get down with the sickness!

Oh wah ah ah ah!

I can't believe they not only remade it but did it fucking live

kek. that moment was so bizarre and out of character

>so bizarre and out of character
All Englishmen resent their wives

Threads is fucking harrowing. Legit sleepless-nights-core kino.
If you want something similar, try The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965). Same subject matter- Britain after a nuclear attack, presented like a documentary. The BBC banned it for being too disturbing and it wasn't shown until twenty years later.

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Those games are trash, zoomer

It's basically misery porn and stealthy activism. They made sure to not include anything hopeful or good happening to really drive the point home. TLDR; it's manipulative as fuck.

>lousy activists didn't include any of the positive good bits of the nuclear apocalypse

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>Drama is manipulative
Whoah. This is really insightful analysis.

>Nuclear apocalypse due to retarded politics
>'why wasn't it hopeful?'

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This>That

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Even after nuclear apocalypse, there would be people doing good, enjoying what they have, striving and prevailing. The movie completely ignores that with every scene basically being a new attempt to drive any hope out of those watching it. As it is, it's like the ending of The Mist. A gutpunch so obvious only an idiot wouldn't cover his stomach.

People are dying of radiation poisoning, Sheffield is a nothing city, If it's not London the British goverment doesn't care

There was still some people doing (or trying to do) good through the entire movie, but one swallow does not a summer make.

>there would be people doing good
Threads shows this on numerous occasions but is only there to drive home the hopelessness of the situation
>enjoying what they have, striving and prevailing
The characters aren't just in poverty or homeless - the whole of society has collapsed. How do you expect people to respond?

Dead man´s letters
Them!
Stalker (one of the few films where most of the staff died because of the exposure to the radioactive setting)
Repo Man

To that I'd say that the tone doesn't change once the bombs go off. The urban privation and struggles of the young couple in pre-nuke Sheffield is treated with the same deliberately flat tone as the struggles of the farmers working the irradiated wasteland however-many years later. People are shown striving before and after, but only the context has changed.
And as for it being 'stealthy' activism, it's pretty upfront about what it is. Nuclear holocaust is a pretty grave subject and it's a pretty engaged film.

>Stalker
You mean the Tarkovsky one or some other one? That's fucked up. Didn't that ahppen with that shitty Genghis Khan movie too? They filmed it near nuclear test sites and it ended up killing John Wayne.

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Seconding Dead Man's Letters.

>How do you expect people to respond?
Build a new one? Honestly, How do people not watch Threads and see how incredibly NUCLEAR WEAPONS BAD it is? It's like an endless series of images of drowned rapefugee children or that walrus falling.

>upfront
Not really. I didn't see any "This is anti-nuclear propaganda" disclaimers.

you know literally nothing about how the UK works

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This is a bit off topic but it's about a catastrophe so I'lll post it:
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This movie is something else

glad to see my wargame posting has inspired other people. never gets mentioned and youre the only person ive seen mention it other than me. anyone who likes threads or the day after needs to watch this

>how the UK works
It doesn't since Maggie ended all the jerbs?

Can you imagine if something like this randomly aired today? Wasn't this aired like a real news report?

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>NUCLEAR WEAPONS BAD
Well, they are.

>Build a new one?
Rebuilding a society takes some time (specially one as complex as the one we have nowadays). Do you think civilizations magically rebuilt a decade after the Bronze Age collapse?

It's a nuclear apocalypse, you fucking imbecile. Are you actually this stupid or are you just trolling?

you know I just remembered the USA sent out a fake nuclear strike warning, lol

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This isn't Fallout, Todd.

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yeh it was played as a normal broadcast but anyone with a brain can tell its not real, that being said i am sure it fooled some people

I miss Stickdeath before it went racist

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Is there a blu ray release of Threads at all?

kino, shatner is a good voice over desu

>that ending with the chinks
>that music and visuals
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Saw this about a month and a half ago. Good stuff, has a fair share of information but wish it had more. Also
>that ending with China

I back-to-backed these two and it was a hell of a doomfest. I went around feeling dour for days. They're really similar, but watching them together you see that, even with a fully-functioning civil defense plan (which they had in the 60s but not in the 80s) the outcome is the same - they're both just as fucked and really nothing you can do matters short of having a proper shelter.

>Build a new one?
This literally happens in the movie. Arguably the old one never 'disappears', it just becomes simultaneously more authoritarian and less able to effectively control the outlying or rural regions of the country. We see soldiers in barracks listening to recorded music.

>Build a new one?
Lol don't worry lads. He's got it all covered. Just get a bit of 2x4 and a bag of topsoil; have you a new society by next week.

The Day After , its scared senators to drop the arms race

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>Well, they are.
They are also necessary as a deterrent for other countries with nuclear weapons.
I'm mainly allergic to anti-nuclear fags.

Oh there is a cheaper edition on there, that is the limited one I guess

10 cloverfield lane

Seh tha' to me face lad, an 'al knock thee ova' head with a bitta' steel

War Game is almost as good as Threads. It is still really good, but the touch more realism and desperation of Threads makes it better, and goes further with the idea of societal collapse. The colour picture does add to this.

Some schmaltzy 'it'll-be-okay' ending would have utterly wrecked the tone and ruined this film.
So really the problem isn't the film, then. It's some agenda you can't put down. Look, even the most pro-nuclear-armament people are also realistic that an actual nuclear war would be an unrelenting horror.

>They are also necessary as a deterrent for other countries with nuclear weapons.
Isn't the deterrent capability dependent on the fact that they have the ability to make life as horrible as the film depicts?

Nuclear war doesn't make life better for anyone, user, that's the whole point.

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Seth hows the woolpack

>They are also necessary as a deterrent for other countries with nuclear weapons.
Well, yes. And that works as long as the people in charge of both nations are scared over the possibility of MAD, and unwilling to escalate things over stupid shit. (Let's not forget the possibility of accidents and human errors, which almost caused nuclear war a couple of times).

Can imagine my parents not really understanding the effects of radiation and how utterly fucked they are in such a situation.

Reminder that americans, as peddlers of nuclear carnage, shouldn't, in good conscience, be able to watch anything in this thread

00:40 "at this distance the heat wave is sufficient to cause melting of the up-turned eyeball". Okay assuming you're not also completely covered in flames, how would the human body and mind react to your EYEBALLS MELTING? Would you pass out from the pain? How can you remain conscious with your eyeballs melting? Like what does that even mean? Do they kind of evaporate?

>not include anything hopeful or good happening
Wut?

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Wtf?

It's less Opening The Ark Of The Covenant and more like really really bad retinal scarring and blindness. Still horrific, but it's not like they're dribbling down your face.

not him but yeah tarkovsky's one was filmed at dangerouss industrial sites which caused alot of the staff, andrei included, to get ill later on

>hasn't seen the demon headmaster
>hasn't seen the ghost hunter
>hasn't seen bbc learning zone
SNEED

>So really the problem isn't the film, then
Yes, it is. It's transparent and single minded. It's deliberately showing a narrow picture to achieve agreement with its premise. Aka it's propaganda. Well-designed propaganda, credit where it's due but still.

No, The deterrent is that it removes your ability to wage any kind of war and achieve any victory.

Fuck off, peacenik

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There's nothing stealthy about it. Chernobyl could be considered stealthy as it purports to show reality even though it massively exaggerates thing like radiation burns, etc.

Full doc:
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Miscarriage

Buddy, if you make or like a movie about a plane crash are you anti-aeroplane? Is the film anti-aeroplane propaganda? Of course not. You take planes, realize there's a degree of risk, and are generally opposed to things going wrong and people dying when they don't work.
With a nuclear deterrent you hope it works, inasmuch as it deters a hostile nation from nuking you. This film shows what happens if something goes wrong, if that doesn't work, and what happens then. You say it shows a narrow picture but is anything in it inaccurate? Or wrong? Would none of that stuff happen? We never learn whether the strike in the movie was an attack, human error, or a machinery malfunction.

Based and demon-headmasterpilled

oh yeah?

>We never learn whether the strike in the movie was an attack, human error, or a machinery malfunction.
I think it does say that it comes after an escalation in conflict in the Middle East which used tactical nukes

Just that fucking tune freaks me out, there's something about it...

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Threads isn't actually anti-nuke propaganda at all, but low-key shilling for public education. Remember that it was also made during a pretty dominant right-wing period.
>if it weren't for schools, your children would turn into feral and non-verbal morlocks in one generation! there is no science to support this but vote labour anyway

it took 23 years to kill him

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Based ending

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This is the one part I disagree with. Life becoming a lot shittier in the outset of nuclear war makes sense, but language breaking down to that level in the aftermath - indeed, the fact that after the attack people seem to stop speaking *in general* does seem quite unrealistic.

You'd certainly have feral kids, but that's because a lot would lose their parents or anyone able to take care of them entirely.

One also has to remember that the film depicts how fucked the UK, specifically, would be in the case of a nuclear war. Wouldn't be good for anyone, of course, but Russia and America DO have large, open areas that, unless there was complete global areas, could get by fairly fine (though life would become harder, of course). Britain is a high-density island.

>if it weren't for schools, your children would turn into feral and non-verbal morlocks in one generation! there is no science to support this but vote labour anyway
Even with schools blacks still turn out like that

NV>Everything Else
Or If you're into it then 1,2,NV>The Rest

Without context this scene may not mean much, but for whatever reason it's the one that stays with me the most.
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Wonderful bait friend, you hooked a lot of people that are too uptight to ignore such a retarded statement or it's followups.

fag off ya

>enjoying what they have
dead beloved ones while living in a nuclear wasteland?. Good i really love the mongrels on this website who believe they would act like some kind of Fallout main protagonist

They're taking the opinion that the will to have and raise children would be lost completely as a result of the war, which would result in feral kids. Our main character conceived her child by accident anyway. She never had the chance to raise her normally, to get to love her normally, making feral kids see even more likely