Comments on Flashback to The Day After

Look! It's downtown Seattle, at the unscreened ports where they detect radiation two weeks AFTER the containers are unloaded onto the dock!

The only scene I remember from that movie is of a traffic jam on the freeway. Everyone's trying to get the hell out of town, yet the opposite-bound lanes are totally empty. It was so nice of people to obey traffic laws during pending nuclear doom.

That's GTube to you.

That's GTube to you.

And who better to convey the gravity of the issue than Steve Gutenberg?

in case anyone wants to know, you can usually find this movie at your local QFC for 9.99

:D

I vividly remember watching The Day After during my junior high years. I mostly recall being happy that I wasn't going to be one of those sorry-ass schmucks wandering around in post-apocalyptic Kansas with radiation sickness. Look at the pathetic yokels running away from the mushroom clouds!

I, on the other hand, would end up as a small discoloration on the 20 square mile piece of glass that used to be the Washington metro region. Growing up in DC during the Reagan administration nurtured the most wonderfully comforting sense of nihilism...

I was *young* when I first saw this movie, but it's haunted me my entire life. I found a used VHS a few years ago, and now I make all of my friends watch it. Best movie ever.