The Day After
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Movie Reviews of The Day After
Movie Review: A must see!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the DVD and I loved it- Just as harrowing and chilling as I remembered it - as well it should bee saw this when I was a sophomore in high school and we even had a discussion on it in our science class the next day after it aired. What was really could have happened. While the film was less then real (less severe) what was there was pretty accurately.
At the same time I was real disappointed because there was no bonus features or discussions- especially since this was such a large talked about show. This show was originally 3 hours long but was edited down to 2 hours before being aired on TV. I keep wondering what the 1 hour of deleted scenes were.
I heard that one of the scenes was showing the actual baby that was just delivered towards the end of the movie.(note that the woman was NOT smiling when she saw her newborn)...this scene was the baby being deformed (or sick?) from the fallout and radiation. I heard this second hand and I don't know how reliable the source was but I am curious if this is true? I've searched the internet with no luck. Does anyone have any idea? Could that have even been possible?
BUY IT- and think of all the nuclear bombs we have now.
Movie Review: Does what it can within the limits of mass medium
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't believe this film increased or decreased the possibility of nuclear war. I don't believe it even fractionally captured the nature of nuclear destruction nor of "the day after"; no film to be viewed by the general public would do so. Nevertheless it is a good effort at portraying the human side of such an event and it does suggest some of the problems that might ensue from such bombing. The cast lives up to the requirements of the script and the director keeps the action moving forward without falling into a lachrymose stream. If you did not see the TV version, it is worth seeing it in this DVD version.
There are documentaries which show surviving people and their artifacts (buildings, bridges, streets) after they have been impacted by all-out combat. Social science research shows a real possibility that portraying the real horror,as it is, may have the effect of making people turn their back on anything connected with the realities portrayed. It is doubtful this film went that far.
At any rate, it is a good film to see, not too terrible but , at least, suggestive of the reality.
Movie Review: A view from Russia - then and now
Summary: 5 Stars
This scary but so important film was shown once in USSR. The close match in Soviet cinema was the movie "Letters of a dead man" describing the life after the fallout, in the shelters, and again the downfall of almost everything in 'the days after'. But even more scaring were 'nuclear' trainings, teaching films and posters in school. Every new block building was scheduled to have its fallout shelter, and the view of shelter entrances was to remind us every day: this day is possible.
We still live keeping that in mind. May be, inhabitants of all big cities may become blast targets, and maybe, others may be spared. But even more important are the main consequences of the nuclear war: the end of civilization, end of all comfort and peace provided by human society. You may survive in the blast, prepare yourself and your family to live under the ground or somewhere in 'the days after', as in 'Blast from the past' comedy, but the others, less happy survivors will later do the deadly job for the blast. That impressions, and not the 'mushrooms' dominate in 'The day after'.
Movie Review: The Day After & Today
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie. When I first viewed it in 1983, it scared the heck out of me, my family, and my girlfriend, along with about 25million plus Americans that night. The momentum building up to the fateful moment is difficult to decipher becuase the radio and TV newsbroadcasters are overshadowed by the characters talking to each other. If one really listens to those broadcasts, the storyline and dramatics really will scare you - if they don't, then you don't recall the Cold War (thankfully!).
Good acting by all, a nice glimpse of how unprepared FEMA was in this movie that we can relate to given Hurrican Katrina; emotionally stirring if you really watch and become engrossed in the drama, because back in 1983, we did fear a nuclear war on a different scale than the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
A good movie for simple historical purposes, well worth it for entertainment value, and it's a cool glimpse into what could have happened to us back then.
Movie Review: Frightening Thought
Summary: 5 Stars
Hello. I remember all the "buzz" about this show when it first appeared on television in 1983. At the time, I was prolly at work and also didn't have a VCR then. Now that I have seen it in its entirety, it is an absolutely frightening experience. Now, the dangers of nuclear war are more relevant: India and Pakistan have it... North Korea has it...Iran it trying to get it... Israel has it... the list goes on... The acting in "The Day After" is awesome. Jason Robards is amazing. I was pleasantly surprised by Steven Guttenberg. He's known mainly for those "Police Academy" movies, but he gave an fantastic performance. That sequence where you first see several closeup shots of the Kansas City skyline is ominous, because you kind of have an idea of what will happen next. I can see "The Day After" being remade, to take advantage of our modern technological advances. All in all, the film serves as a reminder that there will never be any winners in a nuclear conflict.