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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
After years of being unavailable, it is good to see The Day After finally surface on dvd. It is a budget dvd with no extras whatsover and the transfer is slightly grainy, however, this works in the film's favour as it gives the film a period flavour.
Every review compares this to Threads - and with good reason. Both follow similar plots from similar perspectives, and both were made for television within a year of one another. Although not as bleak and graphic as Threads, when you bear in mind that The Day After was made for commercial television, then it is amazing that it is as brutal as it is. If you forgive its soap tendencies in the first half, this is definitely worth a viewing, especially if you want to be reminded of a time when nuclear war seemed not just possible but probable.
If you find The Day After and Threads of interest, then you should get yourself a copy of The War Game which is finally being released on dvd after 40 years of being unavailable in the UK. If you think Threads and The Day After are bleak or shocking, The War Game will show you just how daring British television could be.
34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
After The War Game this was really the first major film on the outcome of nuclear war. A lot of people who like Threads derride this effort --- probably for not being as relentlessly grim.
The problem is if you've actually seen The Day After it makes clear the effects of nuclear war are just as catastrophic as Threads. On 1983 when this film was made, many of the theories which today we take for granted like Nuclear Winter, were very poorly known. Threads had the benefit of this laster research.
However on the human level the effects are just as terrible; in vivid colour people are utterly vapourised, burned, shattered beyond belief. There is no hope or relief at the end of this film, most of the major characters like Jason Robards are left dying of radiation sickness, healthy young men and women drop like flies, hospitals are overrun, food runs out, looting and murder runs rampant.
People seem to be put off by this film because it's made for and stars Americans. The thing is, they're just people like anyone else and to equate the horrors of nuclear war with being something intrinsically part of what it is to be American is sad. This film even satarises the announcement from the President after the war and it ends, chillingly, with John Lithgow's lone voice calling out on his radio to the emptiness. There is no one to hear him, no one to send any help.
28 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
As a work of drama, this film is less successful than 'Threads'. In an attempt to give a panorama of American life, the film introduces too many characters and it takes a while to become engaged. However, for all its faults, this film is vital viewing.
According to Gerard de Groot in his history of nuclear weapons 'The Bomb', this film affected Ronald Reagan so profoundly that it inspired him to abandon his bellicose stance towards the Soviet Union and begin arms limitation talks. If that's true, then this is one of the most important films ever made.
According to Gerard de Groot in his history of nuclear weapons 'The Bomb', this film affected Ronald Reagan so profoundly that it inspired him to abandon his bellicose stance towards the Soviet Union and begin arms limitation talks. If that's true, then this is one of the most important films ever made.
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Day After DVD
I had an old recording of this excellent movie. I was delighted to see it was available on DVD.Obviously the quality has been improved and we all thoroughly enjoyed this recording... Read more
Published 2 months ago by wfg
politicians should watch this
Yep,agree with the "soap opera" style begining,but then thats maybe what makes it horific?where it turns to all out death and destruction,with a very good anti war ending.
Published 2 months ago by panzershark
Total crap
If like me you have seen Threads you would know how bad WW3 would be. However The Day After radiation only seems to make you rather ill. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Anthony D. Barratt
this is a combination of the war game and threads
the story around why the nuclear war started is clsoe to that of the bbc film THE WAR GAME but is similiar to Threads however this takes longer to build in terms of plot, the war... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Christopher
The end of the world as we know it
If you like really depressing films then this is for you.
As usual Jason Robarts is his excellent self. Read more
As usual Jason Robarts is his excellent self. Read more
Published 16 months ago by samgamgee
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
A self-conscious cautionary tale of how the next world war could so easily start. At first it seems like the Cuban missile crisis all over again, only Berlin now the setting for... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr. D. L. Rees
DVD review
This DVD would not play correctly on my standard DVD player. After showing the copyright warning it skipped to another chapter and stuck. Read more
Published 17 months ago by chris
Believable in the eighties I guess
I watched this film today and did not find myself as affected by it as when I watched it in the eighties. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Reader in Hayes, Middlesex
A creditable exploration of nuclear war
Because both films were out at roughly the same time, almost every review of "The Day After" will make comparisons with "Threads", its' British counterpart, and the Brits win every... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Matthew Norton
c+
It's an OK film. If it's the first ever post nuclear film you have seen then you will 'enjoy' watching iot. If you have seen 'Threads' then you will be disapointed.
Published on 23 Mar 2010 by Steve Bevers
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