[Nick5]

Unfortunately Red Dawn was a huge flop, one of the biggest box office flubs of the 80's, so you'll wait a long time. If only it had been a good movie...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Unfortunately Red Dawn was a huge flop, one of the biggest box office flubs of the 80's, so you'll wait a long time. If only it had been a good movie...

Red Dawn is a cult classic, it's success is not measured in box office receipts.

A lot of movies in the 80s stuck.

[PsyOp]

Unfortunately Red Dawn was a huge flop,... If only it had been a good movie...

Red Dawn was a great movie. Unfortunately, you had to know a little history and understand the implications of current events in order to realize how good it was. It was trashed before it hit the screens as "red-baiting" tripe by the usual suspects, though it was nothing of the sort.

The movie suffered from a well organized effort to convince people not to see it. The same thing happened to "The Beast", a very well-made, well-acted and authentic movie about the Soviets in Afghanistan. They were both anti-Soviet, and in the 80's, the left couldn't allow that, especially at the movies.

[justlurking]

Unfortunately Red Dawn was a huge flop, one of the biggest box office flubs of the 80's, so you'll wait a long time.

Red Dawn grossed nearly $36M in the US:

http://us.imdb.com/Business?0087985

I wasn't able to find an authorative reference to the cost of production, but several reports put it at 8.5M. From what I remember, it wasn't exactly a high-cost production.

That's hardly a flop.

[jimbo123]

Not true about Red Dawn being one of the biggest flop of the 80's:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1984&p=.htm