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* LastNoteNightmare: The last few moments of the film show Looking Glass taking off as the Emergency Broadcast System activates. Then, as the plane gets airborne, the screen freezes and there's a piercing high pitched note akin to [[ShellShockSilence tinnitus]], as if the network's already been destroyed by a nuclear attack.
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to DeadlineNews above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated underwater while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz. The sound of another explosion can be heard before the broadcast cuts out, but it is never elaborated whether this is the carrier exploding, or a second Soviet nuke going off.]]
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to DeadlineNews above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated underwater while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz. The sound of another explosion can be heard before the broadcast cuts out, but it is never elaborated whether this is the carrier exploding, or a second Soviet nuke going off.]]
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* LastNoteNightmare: The last few moments of the film show Looking Glass taking off as the Emergency Broadcast System activates. Then, as the plane gets airborne, the screen freezes and there's a piercing high pitched note akin to [[ShellShockSilence tinnitus]], as if the network's already been destroyed by a nuclear attack.
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to DeadlineNews above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated underwater while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz. The sound of another explosion can be heard before the broadcast cuts out, but it is never elaborated whether this is the carrier exploding, or a second Soviet nuke going off.]]
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to DeadlineNews above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated underwater while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz. The sound of another explosion can be heard before the broadcast cuts out, but it is never elaborated whether this is the carrier exploding, or a second Soviet nuke going off.]]
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* MassOhCrap: Implied as the story goes on with reports of evacuations and of mass protests in Hiroshima and at the UN ...
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* MassOhCrap: Implied An interesting one that doesn't involve mass rioting and chaos. Instead, as the story goes crisis threatens to bring the U.S. and U.S.S.R. into direct conflict, CVN reports on an organic prayer meeting occurring in Hiroshima, with some reported to have traveled across the country to attend. In addition to reports of evacuations people evacuating large cities like New York City, across America schools close early with no intention of reopening the next day. Events nationwide also get canceled. Don Tobin describes it as a growing "feeling of prudence and of mass protests in Hiroshima and at restraint, as the UN ...only response we have to events we cannot control."
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* ThisJustIn: As to be expected of a news network reporting on a crisis. The most poignant one happens at the very end of the film, when Don Tobin announces "here's a bulletin that's just come in" and it turns out to be about Air Force One taking off to join Looking Glass in the air. The countdown is over.
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* ThisJustIn: As to be expected of a news network reporting on a crisis. crisis--
** Shortly after the announcement that CVN News is shifting to twenty-four hour coverage, right as he is about to cut to a State Department briefing, Don Tobin is handed a bulletin announcing that the government ordered the shutdown of all nuclear power plants as a precautionary measure.
** The most poignant one happens at the very end of the film, when Don Tobin announces "here's a bulletin that's just come in" and it turns out to be about Air Force One taking off to join Looking Glass in the air. Thecountdown "countdown to Looking Glass" is over.
** Shortly after the announcement that CVN News is shifting to twenty-four hour coverage, right as he is about to cut to a State Department briefing, Don Tobin is handed a bulletin announcing that the government ordered the shutdown of all nuclear power plants as a precautionary measure.
** The most poignant one happens at the very end of the film, when Don Tobin announces "here's a bulletin that's just come in" and it turns out to be about Air Force One taking off to join Looking Glass in the air. The
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* NukeEm: When the ''Nimitz'' battle group reaches the Persian Gulf, what's thought by Michael Boyle to be a nuclear depth charge is used on a Soviet sub that slips into the battlegroup and gets too close to the ''Nimitz''. Boyle isn't able to find out if someone in the fleet with rogue or who even had launch authority to use it--not that it matters, because the Soviets retaliate with tactical nuclear weapons of their own. [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction And from there it goes global.]]
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* NukeEm: When the ''Nimitz'' battle group reaches the Persian Gulf, what's thought by Michael Boyle to be a nuclear depth charge is used on a Soviet sub that slips into the battlegroup and gets too close to the ''Nimitz''. Boyle isn't able to find out if someone in the fleet with rogue went rogue, or who even in the fleet had launch authority to use it--not authority--not that it matters, because the Soviets retaliate with tactical nuclear weapons of their own. [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction And from there it goes global.]]
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* TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: On the eighth day of the crisis as the ''Nimitz'' battle group approaches the Persian Gulf, Don Tobin announces that CVN News will be broadcasting twenty-four hours a day to provide ongoing coverage.
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* TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: On the eighth day of the crisis as the ''Nimitz'' battle group approaches the Persian Gulf, Don Tobin announces that CVN News will be broadcasting remain on the air until further notice.
--> '''Tobin:''' Broadcasting twenty-four hours a day is a big job, and if we seem toprovide ongoing coverage.trip over our feet from time to time, we're gonna ask you in advance to bear with us.
--> '''Tobin:''' Broadcasting twenty-four hours a day is a big job, and if we seem to
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* JustBeforeTheEnd: The film covers a span of nine days, concluding with full-scale nuclear war.
* LastNoteNightmare: The last few moments of the film show Looking Glass taking off as the Emergency Broadcast System activates. Then, as the plane gets airborne, the screen freezes and there's a piercing high pitched note akin to [[ShellShockSilence tinnitus]], as if the network's already been destroyed by a nuclear attack.
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* NukeEm: What the US and the Russians eventually see as the only option...
* OhCrap: A chain reaction OhCrap at that: Mick / Michael sees the explosion of the first nuclear bomb of World War 3 behind him, and when the video relays this to the studio, before he has time to speak, the anchor Don has his OhCrap moment.
* OhCrap: A chain reaction OhCrap at that: Mick / Michael sees the explosion of the first nuclear bomb of World War 3 behind him, and when the video relays this to the studio, before he has time to speak, the anchor Don has his OhCrap moment.
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* NukeEm: What When the US ''Nimitz'' battle group reaches the Persian Gulf, what's thought by Michael Boyle to be a nuclear depth charge is used on a Soviet sub that slips into the battlegroup and gets too close to the Russians eventually see as ''Nimitz''. Boyle isn't able to find out if someone in the only option...
fleet with rogue or who even had launch authority to use it--not that it matters, because the Soviets retaliate with tactical nuclear weapons of their own. [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction And from there it goes global.]]
* OhCrap: A chain reaction OhCrap at that: Mick / Michael sees the explosion of the first nuclear bomb ofWorld War 3 WorldWarIII behind him, and when the video relays this to the studio, before he has time to speak, the anchor Don has his OhCrap moment.
* OhCrap: A chain reaction OhCrap at that: Mick / Michael sees the explosion of the first nuclear bomb of
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* ThisJustIn: As to be expected of a news network reporting on a crisis. The most poignant one happens at the very end of the film, when Don Tobin announces "here's a bulletin that's just come in" and it turns out to be about Air Force One taking off to join Looking Glass in the air. The countdown is over.
* TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: On the eighth day of the crisis as the ''Nimitz'' battle group approaches the Persian Gulf, Don Tobin announces that CVN News will be broadcasting twenty-four hours a day to provide ongoing coverage.
* WatchTheWorldDie: Having just watched the tactical nuclear warfare unfold in the Gulf, with full-scale nuclear war minutes away and the Emergency Broadcast System about to activate, a bewildered Don Tobin spends the last few moments he has on air reflecting on what one of the pioneers of nuclear weapons policy had told him about the inevitability of an exchange.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: A CVN News Alert on the fifth day reports on the battle between American and unknown aircraft in Saudi Arabia. We're actually shown an executive ordering the interrupt to the network's master control over the phone, which required him to provide an authorization code.
* TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: On the eighth day of the crisis as the ''Nimitz'' battle group approaches the Persian Gulf, Don Tobin announces that CVN News will be broadcasting twenty-four hours a day to provide ongoing coverage.
* WatchTheWorldDie: Having just watched the tactical nuclear warfare unfold in the Gulf, with full-scale nuclear war minutes away and the Emergency Broadcast System about to activate, a bewildered Don Tobin spends the last few moments he has on air reflecting on what one of the pioneers of nuclear weapons policy had told him about the inevitability of an exchange.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: A CVN News Alert on the fifth day reports on the battle between American and unknown aircraft in Saudi Arabia. We're actually shown an executive ordering the interrupt to the network's master control over the phone, which required him to provide an authorization code.
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* AlphabetNewsNetwork: The fictional news network taking center stage is CVN. We're not privy to what "CVN" is supposed to stand for, outside of the MeaningfulName (see below).
* AlternateHistory: ''Countdown to Looking Glass'' makes it clear at the very start that this is meant to be a "what if" scenario, and not simply TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
* ApocalypseHow: Compared to its contemporaries, ''Countdown to Looking Glass'' doesn't show the full nuclear exchange or the aftermath. The film instead alludes to the apocalypse unfolding, starting with the presumed exchange of tactical nuclear exchange in the Persian Gulf, evacuation of the President and White House staff, and then with the activation of the Emergency Broadcast System. That being said, the reports from CVN leading up to the end give the sense that everyone in the world is anticipating Societal Collapse or outright Species Extinction.
* ApocalypticLog: The film explicitly says at the start that "you will witness a series of events reported by the evening news on television" that (in the film at least) leads to WorldWarIII.
* AlternateHistory: ''Countdown to Looking Glass'' makes it clear at the very start that this is meant to be a "what if" scenario, and not simply TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
* ApocalypseHow: Compared to its contemporaries, ''Countdown to Looking Glass'' doesn't show the full nuclear exchange or the aftermath. The film instead alludes to the apocalypse unfolding, starting with the presumed exchange of tactical nuclear exchange in the Persian Gulf, evacuation of the President and White House staff, and then with the activation of the Emergency Broadcast System. That being said, the reports from CVN leading up to the end give the sense that everyone in the world is anticipating Societal Collapse or outright Species Extinction.
* ApocalypticLog: The film explicitly says at the start that "you will witness a series of events reported by the evening news on television" that (in the film at least) leads to WorldWarIII.
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* MassOhCrap: Implied as the story goes on with reports of evacuations and of mass protests in Hiroshima and at the UN...
* MeaningfulName: CVN is the network the film centers on, and it is also the US Navy designation for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, such as the ''Nimitz'' (CVN-68).
* MeaningfulName: CVN is the network the film centers on, and it is also the US Navy designation for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, such as the ''Nimitz'' (CVN-68).
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* MassOhCrap: Implied as the story goes on with reports of evacuations and of mass protests in Hiroshima and at the UN...
UN ...
* MeaningfulName: CVN is the network the film centers on, and it is also the US Navy designation for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, such as the ''Nimitz'' (CVN-68). Making the link even more explicit, the logo for CVN looks similar to military stencil.
* MeaningfulName: CVN is the network the film centers on, and it is also the US Navy designation for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, such as the ''Nimitz'' (CVN-68). Making the link even more explicit, the logo for CVN looks similar to military stencil.
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* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to Deadline News above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated underwater while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz. The sound of another explosion can be heard before the broadcast cuts out, but it is never elaborated whether this is the carrier exploding, or a second Soviet nuke going off.
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* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to Deadline News DeadlineNews above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated underwater while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz. The sound of another explosion can be heard before the broadcast cuts out, but it is never elaborated whether this is the carrier exploding, or a second Soviet nuke going off.]]
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Notable for its realism at the time (though not so much anymore) and for occasionally being HarsherInHindsight. One of the less famous of the nuclear war movies of the 1980s along with ''Film/{{Threads}}'', ''Film/TheDayAfter'', and ''Film/WorldWarThree''. Notable along with ''Threads'' for being on the "hard" end of the SpeculativeFiction spectrum in that, at the time, such an attack could have happened exactly as it depicted ''and'' that it even bears some relevance in the present.
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Notable for its realism at the time (though not so much anymore) and for occasionally being HarsherInHindsight. One of the less famous of the nuclear war movies of the 1980s along with ''Film/{{Threads}}'', ''Film/TheDayAfter'', and ''Film/WorldWarThree''.''Film/WorldWarIII''. Notable along with ''Threads'' for being on the "hard" end of the SpeculativeFiction spectrum in that, at the time, such an attack could have happened exactly as it depicted ''and'' that it even bears some relevance in the present.
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* BookEnds: The film begins and ends with a video clip of Looking Glass taking off
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%%* ApocalypseHow: Class 1-2 begins at the end.
%%* ApocalypticLog: As it is being written.
* BookEnds: The film begins and ends with a video clip of Looking Glass taking off
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%%* ApocalypseHow: Class 1-2 begins at the end.
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* DeadlineNews: Michael Boyle, aboard the USS Nimitz in the end when the nuclear war begins. Even were the war to have stopped then and there, the initial radiation from the first blast would have been deadly at that range...
* DownerEnding: Once you go nuclear, you can't go back...
* DownerEnding: Once you go nuclear, you can't go back...
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* DeadlineNews: Surprisingly averted in the case of Michael Boyle, aboard the USS Nimitz in the end when the nuclear war begins. Even were begins, as he's standing on the war deck of the aircraft carrier when a nuclear depth bomb goes off to have stopped then destroy the submarine, and there, also manages to survive a Soviet nuclear weapon exploding within the carrier group, as he was inside the carrier's island at the time and was shielded from the worst of the initial burst of radiation. That being said, his fate is left unknown, as the incredible amounts of radiation from in the first blast would have been deadly at that range...
atmosphere completely block out his television feed, and worse still, a third explosion is heard just before it cuts out altogether.
* DownerEnding: Once you go nuclear, you can't goback...back.
* DownerEnding: Once you go nuclear, you can't go
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* MeaningfulName: CVN is also the network the film centers on, and it is also the US Navy designation for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, such as the ''Nimitz'' (CVN-68).
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to Deadline News above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated far away while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz, a sound of an nuclear explosion and the camera image blurred and frozen shortly after Michael reporting how "calm" the Strait of Hormuz looked after the previous fireball dissipated implies Nimitz was incinerated/sunk by a third nuclear explosion.]]
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to Deadline News above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated far away while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz, a sound of an nuclear explosion and the camera image blurred and frozen shortly after Michael reporting how "calm" the Strait of Hormuz looked after the previous fireball dissipated implies Nimitz was incinerated/sunk by a third nuclear explosion.]]
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* MeaningfulName: CVN is also the network the film centers on, and it is also the US Navy designation for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, such as the ''Nimitz'' (CVN-68).
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to Deadline News above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonatedfar away underwater while Michael was reporting on the flight deck (with Michael assuming it was a nuclear depth charge dropped by one of the Nimitz's picket ships to attack a Russian submarine), the second nuke detonated much closer and shook around but didn't sink the Nimitz, a Nimitz. The sound of an nuclear another explosion and can be heard before the camera image blurred and frozen shortly after Michael reporting how "calm" broadcast cuts out, but it is never elaborated whether this is the Strait of Hormuz looked after the previous fireball dissipated implies Nimitz was incinerated/sunk by carrier exploding, or a third nuclear explosion.]] second Soviet nuke going off.
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler: In regards to Deadline News above, there were two nuclear bombs detonated outside of the Nimitz while Michael Boyle was reporting, the first nuke detonated
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%%* TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: What "CVN" becomes.
* WatchTheWorldDie: The reporters, who know all too well how this will end.
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%%* TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: What "CVN" becomes.
* WatchTheWorldDie: The reporters, who know all too well how this will end.
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Notable for its realism at the time (though not so much anymore) and for occasionally being HarsherInHindsight. One of the less famous of the nuclear war movies of the 1980s along with ''Film/{{Threads}}'', ''Film/TheDayAfter'', and ''Film/WorldWarIII''. Notable along with ''Threads'' for being on the "hard" end of the SpeculativeFiction spectrum in that, at the time, such an attack could have happened exactly as it depicted ''and'' that it even bears some relevance in the present.
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Notable for its realism at the time (though not so much anymore) and for occasionally being HarsherInHindsight. One of the less famous of the nuclear war movies of the 1980s along with ''Film/{{Threads}}'', ''Film/TheDayAfter'', and ''Film/WorldWarIII''.''Film/WorldWarThree''. Notable along with ''Threads'' for being on the "hard" end of the SpeculativeFiction spectrum in that, at the time, such an attack could have happened exactly as it depicted ''and'' that it even bears some relevance in the present.
