A Nuke's epoch

[RobertScorpio]

Nuclear explosions in movies, or TV, are common place now...no big deal. But, for me, the first use of a 'nuclear explosion in a city' that really made me kind of, well, scared, was in the movie Terminator 2. The FX was done very good, and after the sequence I sat there in that theatre with my friend and I said "Shit, that was too real"....

what about you? what 'fake' nuke use really got to you the most?

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Canadave]

I've got to go with T2 as well. It's just got such an... impact. It creeps me out a little to this day.

 

[Good Will Riker]

The real possible threat of Mutual Assured Destruction between the Soviet Union and the United States while growing up during the 1980's.

 

[JNG]

The detonations in "The Day After" (as seen from afar) really brought it home to me and, it seems, many other viewers. The aftereffects...that's where it really got scary for people who had started to think of nucealr war as meaning instant, painless annihilation and had not ever considered that there would be a "day after" at all.

 

[RobertScorpio]

The detonations in "The Day After" (as seen from afar) really brought it home to me and, it seems, many other viewers. The aftereffects...that's where it really got scary for people who had started to think of nucealr war as meaning instant, painless annihilation and had not ever considered that there would be a "day after" at all.

Day after Was good for the reasons you stated. But I didn't think the explosions themselves were, well, creepy as T2..

Rob

 

[Mistral]

I thought the missle lifting off behind the lady's laundry in Day After was worse than the actual explosions.

But for the sheer horror of it all-On The Beach w/Armand Assante and a British cartoon who's name escapes me but who's images I'll never escape.

ed.-It was called When The Wind Blows and I still have nightmares sometimes

 

[Forbin]

Heck, the sound of the US ambassador to Russia's phone melting at the end of Fail Safe got me! I didn't need to see the explosion to know the world was fucked.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Heck, the sound of the US ambassador to Russia's phone melting at the end of Fail Safe got me! I didn't need to see the explosion to know the world was fucked.

Yep..sometimes mental images are more long lasting. Jaws always did that to me, until the end...when it jumps on the boat.

Rob
scorpio

 

[Philo]

Heck, the sound of the US ambassador to Russia's phone melting at the end of Fail Safe got me! I didn't need to see the explosion to know the world was fucked.

I first saw that when I was a kid, and it's definitely stuck with me.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

One word: Threads.

 

[Dayton3]

T2 was best no doubt.