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Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I can confirm that the 1984 Threads movie is pretty traumatizing. Not in a horror movie kind of way, in a "this is realistically what would happen in and after a nuclear war, which is the end of everything in the worst way you can imagine" kinda way.

It's on youtube.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It gave me a chuckle that they slotted that into the article!

    IMDB even has a listing for "woman who urinates herself" when the bomb drops.

    I always remember the last scenes when the main protagonists daughter tries to wake her "RUTH! RUTH!".

    I've got it downloaded but haven't watched it since the 80s as it's part of my childhood trauma so might take a bit of unpacking!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I only saw parts of it… but yeah, it’s plenty messed up. What’s even worse is that it’s not messed up in an exploitative way, though. Like you said, it’s horrible because a nuclear war would be horrible. The people who were unlucky enough to survive would be absolutely brutal to one another.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    It's the antithesis of all the gung-ho apocalyptic films that has all the alpha males wanking off about they would survive & become a leader.

    I watched it when it was broadcast & the conversation at school for weeks after was how no-one of us wanted to survive the blast because of how fucking horrific and what a curse it would be!

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