Reply #21: The 2000 remake with Armand Assante was pretty good, too [View All]

[Dogmudgeon]

Some of the details (the phantom telegraph key, for instance) were a little old; for the remake, they used a solar-powered laptop computer.

The remake also showed a little of what radiation sickness was like: vomiting, diarrhea, weakness.

The acting was not quite as good as Stanley Kramer's version, but it was excellent on its own.

BUT ... I don't think there will be a nuclear war on that kind of scale, not at least for 50-75 years. It would take a renewed, multi-decade arms race. The threats we now face are coming in the next two or three decades. Famine and mass migrations will do that kind of destructive work.

It's still possible to avoid that kind of world trauma, but it's going to be difficult. And even then, we'll still have to reduce the stress on the world's resources.

--p!