Originally posted by: Gaard
Nocturnal, see if you can find
this movie at Blockbuster. It's a pretty good flic (I remember when it was first broadcasted in '83 and everybody was freaked out) and gives you a pretty good idea of what a nuclear war
may be like.
Funny I was just thinking about that film. It took place (and was filmed) here in Lawrence Kansas. Interesting movie, in a morbid sort of way. It definitely made me think twice about trying to build a shelter or something and "escape" destruction, because life for the survivors was just so awful.
I have the DVD and watch it every so often (mainly just to see scenes of Lawrence back in the early 80s). But I have to say that I get chills during the scene when all the silos open and the minuteman missles come soaring out... hard to imagine what you'd be thinking about if you ever saw that.
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P.S. I was five when that aired, so I don't remember all the hubub, but I've read a lot about it and it was a big deal. The scenes after the blast were aired commerical-free because no sponsors wanted that time slot. After it was over they had a special newscast in which Carl Sagan first proposed the idea of Nuclear Winter.
I've got a morbid fascination with the idea of nuclear holocaust... it's just so absurd as to be intriguing.