Posted on 09/15/2009 9:33:52 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com
>Dont remember it, but might rent it after “V”
The one with the Nazi Lizards from space.
And starring Marc Singer, as I recall.
No doubt I’ll get flamed for this, but as much as I wanted to like Red Dawn going in, I just found my intelligence insulted in too many ways, from the over-the-top macho stuff to the cartoonish portrayal of how the enemy would deal with us after the invasion. I hope the remake handles these things a little more believably. I love a good us vs. them movie. I just don’t want to have to go “oh, come on” every few minutes.
Do you find it at all ironic that you are the ONLY person in this thread who didn’t like Red Dawn, yet you keep speaking for “most folks” as if you had a clue what most of us think?
“Red Dawn” and “The Patriot” should be required viewing in every High School in the USA.
Something I thought about when JFK, jr, died: He’s rich, and good-looking—but he’s dead.
Really helps combat envy.
Good movies IMHO. Of course, my guidelines for picking a movie are 1) make me laugh or 2) blow something up.
I can't understand the hate for Red Dawn. When it comes on TV I always watch it. And its premise doesn't seem so far fetched to me.
LMAO!
What did Jed say gave him the right to shoot that first Russian point blank in the head? "We live here!"... that was very much the political theme
THere is nothing over-the-top about COIN operations being too macho in ‘Red Dawn’. The only criticism I have is that trained paratroopers would not start firing at a school for no reason. Even the Nazi didn’t do that in the Ukraine in WWII. What makes you think that Soviet troops in 1984 would behave any differently than SS troops in Russia during WWII?
Red Dawn is my favorite all time movie. I watch it at least once every year.
The movie has had a lasting effect on me!
Form 4473 sent chills down my spine. To this day I have never purchased a weapon wherein I had to fill out government forms to do so.
I buy them all legally 2nd hand.
Part of my job involves viewing, studying, and writing about films. I think Red Dawn is a fine and important film.
Red Dawn is on a list of movies I call my "Must watch list"
If I am sitting down to watch TV and it is on I must watch it, especially if it is on one of my HD Movie channels. Recently a newer "Director's Cut" version of Red Dawn was shown on HDNet Movies channel and I recorded it and watched it several times before I erased it.
It was nice to see the movie again in Movie House quality and on my big screen.
From Wikipedia:
Ironically, the operation to capture former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was named after the movie (Operation Red Dawn), as well as its targets, which were dubbed Wolverine 1 and Wolverine 2. The Army captain who named the mission said that: "Operation Red Dawn was so fitting because it was a patriotic, pro-American movie." Director John Millius said about the operation's name: "I was deeply flattered and honored. It's nice to have a lasting legacy."[7]
Reagan Man, do you want a second stab at such a sentiment? hahahaha
>>>I just found my intelligence insulted in too many ways, from the over-the-top macho stuff to the cartoonish portrayal of how the enemy would deal with us after the invasion.
Except that was how the enemy was dealing with other people after the invasion, but the invasion in Afghanistan.
Movies had been made about the war in Afghanistan, and failed. Nobody was interested in watching Muslims Mujaheddin with bad teeth and beards fighting Russians.
But take the SAME scenario, place it the mid west, take high school pretty boys and girls with flawless complexions and teeth so bright you could guide Santas sleigh, and NEVER hint about the parallels to the real war, and you had a date movie. And you still got the message across, though in subliminal form.
And honestly, Lea Thompson and a machine gun, how can you go wrong.
Not with the kids it wasn't. After I saw the movie with my friends we ALL wanted to be Wolverines and kill some commies. It was inspirational to say the least.
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