Nuclear war movies, The Day After, Threads...
Everybody talks about Threads, a lot of people talk about The Day After...that's all well and good but I think other related movies are overlooked too much, like Control, that was another movie from the 80s, and it had Burt Lancaster and Ben Gazarra in it, now it didn't deal with the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, it had 15 people conducting an experiment of living in a fallout shelter for a month, and near the end of the month it's revealed that the real thing is about to happen.
Granted, for the action the movie has a slow build up because most of it is spent exploring what all these people are about, and what happens when they're in an enclosed space with each other and only each other. However, that is an important part of these kinds of movies, getting to know the characters, and seeing that they're as individual, and at the same time, as common and plain and ordinary as any one of us, so some of them we can relate to. But then, word gets out the bomb's going to drop, and they've got people pounding on the door begging to be let in, and the shelter's only built for 15 people so it becomes a matter of do they save themselves and sacrifice everyone else? or do they let the people in and face the consequences of it? That was a great movie in my opinion, it deserves better recognition than it gets. Has anybody else seen it?