[7/6/2000 12:03:13 AM | link]
Tonight I saw The Day After on cable.
I remember when I was in 8th grade when this movie was shown on TV for the first time. It was a really big deal at the time. It was the only TV show we were ever forced to watch as a homework assignment, and everyone was talking about before and afterwards. I remember advertisers pulling support from the show so it was shown without any commercial interuptions. I can't think of another movie that comes close to the impact this movie had on me as a kid. I also remember Testament being shown very shortly after The Day After, but it didn't have anything like the impact the first show had. People fighting over batteries is really all I remember of that one.
I haven't seen the BBC's Threads. Perhaps I'll rent it this weekend.