I was too young to fully comprehend what was going on in this movie the first time I saw it, so I just thought this scene was cool-looking. I don't remember that Invisible Man character being in the movie, either.

kinda creepy, but i think the scariest anti-nuclear war movie that came out of the 80s is Amazing Grace and Chuck and the scene where the AF guy explains how if chuck's sister and mother were washing dishes (haha) and a nuke went off 50 miles away and the same time chuck's sister dropped a fork, the both of them would be vaporized before the fork hit the floor.

i mean at least i remember it being a creepy movie, but the last time i watched it i think was on laser disc *shrug*

Five'd for nostalgia and for the black guy running away.

"Man, FUCK this SHIT!"

This came on when I was seven and it made me deathly afraid of nuclear war with the Russians. Then a few years later Amerika came out and that made me afraid they were going to invade. As far as I can tell the 1980s were a race between the right and the left to scare the shit out of me.

The generation of kids who grew up as teens in the early to mid 80s was probably the one most seriously fucked up by the idea of nuclear armageddon. It was everywhere, from The Day After showing it happen to The Road Warrior showing what was bound to come (though I think Damnation Alley was sooooo much cooler). And then the Cold War ended and we were left almost feeling like we'd been lied to.

Now ask yourself why the majority of these kids went on to do very little in the 90s.

way to bomb kansas, stupid russians

I grew up in the 80's and spent my teens in the 90's with the threat of the bomb being a constant reminder. To add to things, my family lived next door to an obvious first strike target. My father's rational for living so close to it? "When the world hits it's breaking point and the nukes drop, being one of the few that gets instantly vaporized will be a blessing".

-1 because it's obviously faked CGI footage: no camera would survive a nuke. Bad Hollywood, bad!

(And before you answer, get a sense of humour)

This shit is still going to happen. We'll get in a nuke fight with the Chinese once the oil runs out.

There was a website listing russian targets on american land and the number of missiles they would each receive. It was very intersting, mostly everything greater than a small trailer park would be under nuclear fire, that included road and train junctions, big cities, small cities, etc,etc...
Can't remember the URL

I don't know, now I'm even more afraid of the Invisible Man

I saw this on TV a couple months ago. You see the stock footage so often that it's kind of meaningless even in context like this.

What can I say I was pretty scared of this in my early teens which wasn't too far back, so I'm a young one too, and Roachbud your reassuring optimism is a shining light to all of us

I grew up pretty certain I was going to die in a nuclear war one way or another, and the instant vaporizations always struck me as the thing to hope for. So, this part of "The Day After" didn't weird me out; the best part is at 0:31 when the guy says "I see BMs ... numerous. I see BMs".

Nuclear war may yet destroy us all, but potty humor will live on.