I had this movie on VHS and thought it was a great practical joke to play on people by putting it on before they came in so they just thought it was background noise only for them to hear the "We interrupt this program for a special bulletin" and watch the fun begin.
Of course as the years progressed, the joke lost its power because the look is so 80s and the USSR is no longer a threat.
The main storyline is one of a group of terrorists, who do not think of themselves as such, trying to get everyone's attention to what a full scale nuclear attack can do. They take a news anchor and camera man hostage and tell their story to the world. Their message is totally missed in the glitz of the media's usual antics such as fancy graphics and theme music to the crisis instead of just focusing on the crisis itself.
This should be seen by anyone taking a journalism course and those critical of the mainstream media would get a kick out of it.
Of course as the years progressed, the joke lost its power because the look is so 80s and the USSR is no longer a threat.
The main storyline is one of a group of terrorists, who do not think of themselves as such, trying to get everyone's attention to what a full scale nuclear attack can do. They take a news anchor and camera man hostage and tell their story to the world. Their message is totally missed in the glitz of the media's usual antics such as fancy graphics and theme music to the crisis instead of just focusing on the crisis itself.
This should be seen by anyone taking a journalism course and those critical of the mainstream media would get a kick out of it.