The Day After v. Threads and When the Wind Blows

[Barrister]

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/red-dawn-wasnt-about-the-cold-war-it-was-about-shooting-people/265361/

'Red Dawn' Wasn't About the Cold War; It Was About Shooting People

It's a silly article.  Of course Red Dawn was about the cold war.  These weren't some faceless enemy, it was the Reds.  They rounded up people and put them into political re-education centres!

Beeb, what's up with you taking my posts so overly serious recently? Relax.

I wasn't talking to you, I was discussing the article.  And I knew you were joking in the other one, hence the attempted smilie

stupid uppercase P

[Legbiter]

Another oldie but a goodie. The Testament.

All-American housewife in a far-away suburb of San Francisco lives through WW3. No fancy buildup, warning, no nothing, an interrupted broadcast from the President on tv, followed by a brief flash as San Fran is nuked (along with the husband at work) and then you get to watch the town try to cope with the total isolation. Throw in infants, children and the old dying en masse from radiation poisoning, followed by the adults, etc. Film ends with the mother and her surviving children attempting suicide with carbon monoxide poisoning before she loses her nerve. Birthday party for one of the kids includes a candle on a Graham cracker.

[Ed Anger]

I wish Powers Boothe would parachute into this tread and start strangling people.

[derspiess]

... or did someone already make that point?

I'll let you have it

[Jacob]

I'll let you have it