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November 17, 2007
The Day After
Sci-Fi is showing the nuclear disaster movie The Day After right now. I'll never forget watching this when it first aired in 1983. I was 12 years old and it scared the living piss out of me. It still does -- but it's more poignant now that I understand the politics behind the narrative. The quid pro quo beginning with tensions in Berlin; then we attack the Soviet troops with an air burst; then they nuke one of our ships in the Persian Gulf in retaliation; and so on and so on.
Chris Matthews recently said something rather chilling and it's been running through my head while watching this movie. He said he was glad that Dick Cheney wasn't in charge during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Posted By Bob Cesca | November 17, 2007 05:41 PM | DIGG ME!
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I was the same age when it first showed. My parents wouldn't let me watch it, but I remember it scaring shit out of everyone. There was a nuclear weapons plant in our area which made the threat of an all-out exchange all the more disturbing.
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at November 17, 2007 06:41 PM
Holy shit! I can't believe it has been 24 years since that movie first aired. I was a junior in high school then and it might have been the only time I did see it. I'll have to look for it on Netflix. I do remember being a little freaked after watching it.
Posted by: Broadway Carl at November 17, 2007 08:35 PM
NO CHIT! I'm betting he is, however, living with BITTER DISSAPOINTMENT!
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Posted by: siri at November 19, 2007 05:03 PM
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