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[apocalypsos]

Hi, my name is trollprincess, and I fangirl the apocalypse. But you knew that already. What you didn't know was that when I was browsing through the DVD racks at FYE today, I found a copy of The Day After and squealed out loud.

This, mind you, while an employee was standing right next to me. It's easy to explain a squeal when looking at Pirates of the Caribbean or A Knight's Tale or any Lord of the Rings movie, but it's kinda difficult to explain mindless glee over finding a DVD of a twenty-year-old TV movie featuring nuclear war and Steve Guttenberg.

I simply had to have it. I've never actually seen it (dude, I was six when they showed it on TV) but for fifteen bucks, I won't even care if it sucks. You know, just as long as there's lots of dead people when it's over.

Also picked up a few extra clothing bits -- underwear, a pair of khakis, a couple of tops -- and a pair of sneakers and a pair of fuzzy-soft tangerine flip flops (because the shoes were "buy one, get one free" and those tangerine flip flops love me). Then I stopped at the Hoffman AMC and picked up my Spider-Man 2 ticket for tomorrow. Since I got the last of the first showings, I won't even have to wait in line outside. (Although I will have to wait in the theater if I want a good seat, but as long as I bring my Alpha Smart and my minidisc player, I can kill all sorts of time.)

Now, if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to curl my hair and watch the planet get nuked.

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[harpie84.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen Threads? Talk about a great nuke 'em all movie - this one scared me a whole lot more than The Day After. I found a copy of it on ebay a couple of years ago - in today's context it looks kinda cheesy but still way nastier about the effects of nuclear war than The Day After.