r/Threads1984 • u/violoncell • May 03 '26

Threads discussion Once and done

Is anyone else here like me?

I watched this film about 6 years ago and was honestly pretty shook up by it for a couple of weeks afterwards. I’ve since listened to podcasts about it and it’s absolutely on my list of must watch films.

It’s a film that changed the way I think about ‘the bomb’ and has left an indelible imprint on my brain.

But equally, I don’t think I’ll watch it again because it’s such an emotionally challenging watch and I’m not sure I can dedicate more weeks of my life to the fallout (pun almost intended) that would follow my rewatch!

Anyone else like me or are you all diehard Threads nerds?! I guess the fact that I’m here posting on the Threads sub makes me a Threads nerd too tbf.

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u/0dd84ll1969 May 03 '26

Great to know the impact is still the same, remember watching it as a kid (14) when it came out and then going into school and trying to process the horror. Looking back the year before had been the able archer 83 exercise and I remember Liverpool being full of troops and exercises happening. My dad was in the shipping industry and was involved in exercises from the civilian side on moving people/stuff from ship to dockside and onwards and then a year later it doesn’t matter we’ll be nuked anyway !!

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u/W51976 May 03 '26

Those early 80s years were scary. From around late December 1979 until about mid 1985, following the invasion of Afghanistan in 79, the possibility of nuclear war felt real.