Hi, this is Jennifer, and welcome to this movie break. Um, this is Jennifer and welcome to this week's movie break.

This week I had a Mike Sard Lemonade and I sat down and I watched a disaster movie from the 80s.

I don't want to say suggested by Cleolinda Jones on Twitter, but it definitely was kind of her fault.

She was having a good discussion about the TV movies that they would make in the 80s that were in reference to nuclear holocaust and what would happen afterwards.

And they all seem to be lessons on like if you live in the middle of

nowhere in America this is what's going to happen to you and it wasn't just

America in this particular case it was because I watched the day after but

there was also another one pretty famous called threads which was British and

so it told you what happened in Britain called Threads, which was British.

And so it told you what happened in Britain.

Here's the thing about the day after, as opposed to threads.

The day after, they're both about the after effects of nuclear annihilation. The day after is the cheerful one. Threads is very depressing. And when I say very depressing, I mean that if you're going to

sit down and you're going to watch threads, you're going to be needing some alcohol, a security blanket, a teddy bear, some tissues, a hug. You're going to need a night

when you can have a nightmare. It's just, there's something a little more unsettling

about that movie than there is about the day after.

I think the reason for that is because I think if you showed threads on the TV in America,

people would have breakdowns.

The Brits always tend to do, when they deal with something that is, um, of the same subject matter or something that we do, they kind of take it a step further.

And, uh, you know, they're not afraid to kind of go, um, a wee bit further. And so what you end up with is, is them touching in a couple of points on

something that the day after only kind of hinted at. In this particular case, with the day after,

God, this is a depressing movie. I mean, it's depressing anyway.

You know, it's depressing subject matter.

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