Threads… ”they’ve done it!”

Threads… ”they’ve done it!”

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andySC

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1,232 posts

165 months

Friday 27th September
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Threads will be shown on BBC 4 on October 9th at 10:15. A film that terrified many & will likely do the same next month. It’s a tough watch & I vividly remember watching it at school in the 1980’s. I’m originally from Doncaster so not far from where the film is set. In fact the first explosion seen in the film is an attack on RAF Finningley which is only a few miles from my old house so it would’ve been over for me pretty quickly. The attack scene is brutal, dogs barking, kids crying & screaming & sirens.

Doofus

28,469 posts

180 months

Friday 27th September
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andySC said:
The attack scene is brutal, dogs barking, kids crying & screaming & sirens.
That sounds like any large town on any given day. smile

Thanks for the heads up though. I'll record it.

Lucas Ayde

3,729 posts

175 months

Sunday 29th September
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Doofus said:
That sounds like any large town on any given day. smile

Thanks for the heads up though. I'll record it.
Boy, are you in for a shock ...

essayer

9,626 posts

201 months

Sunday 29th September
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The most depressing film I’ve ever watched, and I’ve seen Requiem for a Dream

nuyorican

1,874 posts

109 months

Sunday 29th September
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Nice cheery film Threads. wink

Seen it a few times as used to live in the city. Will set a reminder, thanks.

Sheets Tabuer

19,647 posts

222 months

Sunday 29th September
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It's where I gained my first hatred for traffic wardens.

Mont Blanc

1,419 posts

50 months

Sunday 29th September
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Excellent.

Hopefully someone will record it in HD and upload it to somewhere like YouTube/DailyMotion/Vimeo. The only online versions I have ever found of it have been fairly poor quality or splattered with foreign subtitles.

Colonel Cupcake

1,185 posts

52 months

Sunday 29th September
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I saw it when it was first broadcast. I don't think I can stomach another viewing.

nuyorican

1,874 posts

109 months

Sunday 29th September
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I'm about ready for nuclear oblivion tbh. I've had a good innings. It'll save getting old and should be a good, albeit brief show.

junglie

1,961 posts

224 months

Sunday 29th September
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This is rather timely.

I was listening to a podcast called ‘Cold War Conversations’, and they were talking about this film. I had never heard of it.

It does sound rather harrowing and, apparently, the BBC commissioned it but then would not show it for years.

Doofus

28,469 posts

180 months

Sunday 29th September
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Lucas Ayde said:
Doofus said:
That sounds like any large town on any given day. smile

Thanks for the heads up though. I'll record it.
Boy, are you in for a shock ...
Why? I've seen it before.

PRO5T

4,901 posts

32 months

Sunday 29th September
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Didn't watch it live but they made us watch it in school, jeez I'm the same age as my eldest when it was first broadcast and there's no way I'm letting her watch it.

Scarfie

165 posts

29 months

Sunday 29th September
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It's a severely depressing film!

As an aside, I said to a friend recently they are ramping up the nuclear fiction (Oppenheimer) and now with Threads again, we are bang on in line for some made up nuclear scenario to be fed to us within the next year. These shows are put out for a reason, it's pure programming and propaganda.

Mont Blanc

1,419 posts

50 months

Sunday 29th September
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Scarfie said:
It's a severely depressing film!

As an aside, I said to a friend recently they are ramping up the nuclear fiction (Oppenheimer) and now with Threads again, we are bang on in line for some made up nuclear scenario to be fed to us within the next year. These shows are put out for a reason, it's pure programming and propaganda.
rofl

tangerine_sedge

5,174 posts

225 months

Sunday 29th September
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Scarfie said:
It's a severely depressing film!

As an aside, I said to a friend recently they are ramping up the nuclear fiction (Oppenheimer) and now with Threads again, we are bang on in line for some made up nuclear scenario to be fed to us within the next year. These shows are put out for a reason, it's pure programming and propaganda.
Who's feeding us this narrative, and to what purpose?

Alex Z

1,512 posts

83 months

Sunday 29th September
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essayer said:
The most depressing film I’ve ever watched, and I’ve seen Requiem for a Dream
Yep, same here on both counts.

nuyorican

1,874 posts

109 months

Sunday 29th September
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tangerine_sedge said:
Who's feeding us this narrative, and to what purpose?
Lizards. For the lols.

eldar

22,759 posts

203 months

Sunday 29th September
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essayer said:
The most depressing film I’ve ever watched, and I’ve seen Requiem for a Dream
When the wind blows is equally depressing, possibly.

NowWatchThisDrive

766 posts

111 months

Sunday 29th September
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Thanks, but no thanks...seeing this once was more than enough for me!

dxg

8,781 posts

267 months

Sunday 29th September
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We should never have disbanded the Royal Observer Corps. Their existence ensured an undercurrent of unease among the populace. Or those than knew volunteers, at least.

Perhaps society's ills might be cured if we had a common Sword of Damocles over our heads.