Red Dawn should remain forgotten.
A truly horrible film.
I like “Red Dawn” because of its overwhelmingly politically incorrect perspective, but I do kinda agree...not a great movie.
It wasn’t that bad. I thought they could have done for a bit of a better script, but you have to admit it did give one hell of a creepy effect in the unlikely event of a Soviet-Bloc invasion in the American Southwest. Watching RPG’s close up heading straight for the camera was kick-ass special effects for it’s time.
The gun control implications were frightening, as well. The ending was a bit of BS, but at least ‘we won.’
For an 80’s movie, it fared well. You have to remember it was the decade of decadence. Superficiality was reigning supreme at that time.
Go Wolverines!!!
Watching it now, I’d probably wince at the acting. But, at the height of the Cold War, when I was young, I saw it at the movies with a group of friends, and it hit home for us. Now it’s interesting to watch because it’s so different politically from the films made in Hollywood today... I wonder how Hollywood will handle its remake. I don’t think young people today are fearful of China like we were of the Soviet Union. Ironically, the original actors probably are left-leaning.
Good news - second chance to make it.... better
Red Dawn (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/
Western soldiers loved it. It personified the Reagan years and our efforts against the Soviet Union and was a huge snub to the media and the left in general, and an excellent action film.
It was also banned in many theaters of West Germany and we NATO guys loved it.
even i appreciate this movie... and i was a total lib back then... wasn't Charlie Sheen in this movie? the US invaded by the Soviets... Ronald Reagan definitely comes to mind when i think of this movie...
Red Dawn is my favorite all time movie. I watch it at least once every year.
I tend to agree. I could never get over the implausibility of millions of Russians "sneaking" into the country on planes. When I tried to argue the logistics of millions of foreign soldiers getting into the country without our defense picking it up, a co-worker who liked the film tried to argue with me. A truly laughable movie.