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The American apple pie movie of the Nuke era. Bring out your dead but don't forget to bring a blueberry pie and some milk and cookies to the wake.
I almost cried when i watched this, not because of the grave message of the film to humanity, but because it was so unbelievably unimaginable. MUltiple strikes across the USA, most urban centres hit, but hey this town carrys on functionally and with all the sentiment of a mid afternoon made for TV drama for bored housewives. Utter crap-don't mention the science to these scriptwriters, research was an afterthought. How this was ever nominated for an Oscar i do not know. Some reviewers have suggested that this film is superior to Threads because of the beautiful sentiment within the storyline but surely sentiment is an emotion fatally crushed in the aftermath of the end of the world. The emotionless stark reality and utter despair displayed in THreads is surely all that would be left followed by death. AN admirable effort to "Hollywoodise" the subject but totally inappropriate. Almost laughable if the subject wasn't so grim. Now wheres that cookie jar.
The American apple pie movie of the Nuke era. Bring out your dead but don't forget to bring a blueberry pie and some milk and cookies to the wake.
I almost cried when i watched this, not because of the grave message of the film to humanity, but because it was so unbelievably unimaginable. MUltiple strikes across the USA, most urban centres hit, but hey this town carrys on functionally and with all the sentiment of a mid afternoon made for TV drama for bored housewives. Utter crap-don't mention the science to these scriptwriters, research was an afterthought. How this was ever nominated for an Oscar i do not know. Some reviewers have suggested that this film is superior to Threads because of the beautiful sentiment within the storyline but surely sentiment is an emotion fatally crushed in the aftermath of the end of the world. The emotionless stark reality and utter despair displayed in THreads is surely all that would be left followed by death. AN admirable effort to "Hollywoodise" the subject but totally inappropriate. Almost laughable if the subject wasn't so grim. Now wheres that cookie jar.