What film did you watch last night?

[lazybloke]

Bit of miseryness for you....

Threads (1984)

The BBCs bleak and realistic look at a Nuclear attack on the UK, it's got better practical effects than many contemporary films. It was 40 years old this year and I think still as relevant today as it was then. Its utterly harrowing, and spans roughly 20 or so years so shows a good amount of the short-medium term effects on the country.

Ghosts (2006)

Inspired by the 2004 Morecambe Bay Cockling disaster where at least 21 Chinese migrants drowned after being cut off by the tide. The film is a fictional story, and some liberties are taken such as showing the local cocklers being hostile to the Chinese, as actually local cocklers did try to warn them of the dangers. However it paints an utterly bleak picture where these people had taken a 6 month journey to the UK, and being paid as little as £100 per week for long hours, and the miserable conditions and lies they are given and forced to endure.

Both films 10/10 for me though.

OOh I'd like to see Threads again; but I can't see it on iplayer.
Must be nearly 40 years since I saw it, that was at school.

 

[wiggydiggy]

OOh I'd like to see Threads again; but I can't see it on iplayer.
Must be nearly 40 years since I saw it, that was at school.

Its available through the internet archive:
View: https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

 

[lazybloke]

Its available through the internet archive:
View: https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

I really hadn't remembered much of that; I thought it might be interesting drama, i wasn't prepared for it to be so horrifying.

I think I've had my fill of it for another 4 decades, but for anyone else; Radio 4 are doing a feature on it, "Reweaving Threads" on Saturday evening. BBC4 was going to televise the film the next month.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I really hadn't remembered much of that; I thought it might be interesting drama, i wasn't prepared for it be so horrifying.

I think I've had my fill of it for another 4 decades, but for anyone else; Radio 4 are doing a feature on it, "Reweaving Threads" on Saturday evening. BBC4 was going to televise the film the next month.

Thanks I'll listen to that.

I watched in school as well (as part of Religious Education class - our RE teacher was an old hippy and very pro CND) and remember having to write an essay about it. I've watched it a few times since, never ceases to horrify me.

Theres another BBC film called 'The War Game' I need to watch, this one wasn't actually screened on the BBC for 20 years after it was made although it was seen elsewhere in that time.


View: https://archive.org/details/TheWarGame_201405

 

[MontyVeda]

Psychomania... it never ceases to entertain. 9/10

 

[dicko]

Airport ‘79, total rubbish couldn’t wait for it to finish.

 

[AndyRM]

Airport ‘79, total rubbish couldn’t wait for it to finish.

It's peak B Movie territory, the bit where the pilot shoots a flare gun out the cockpit is gold!