Why Red Dawn Rules ALL

[StrobeNGH]

This thread is for Cherokeester.

I submit; Red Dawn rules ALL because it taught us all the value of Guerrilla combat, and because it taught impressionable teenagers that they too could fight off Russian invasion forces.

Also, Red Dawn teaches us the dangers of electing liberals to office. It was the election of the "Green Party" in Germany which led to the attacks . . .

 

[Cherokeester]

Wow a Red Dawn lover. I am glad guerrilla combat is so important. Too bad we didn't learn those lessons in Vietnam. Red Dawn was capitalist propaganda pure and simple. The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! Too bad they were to broke to come, even on vacation.

 

[solidfrontaxle]

Red Dawn rules all.
I grew up in the town it was filmed. My dad was an extra as a Soviet soldier. The school at the start is where my brother went. I even still have a bandoleer of spent blanks picked up at the train station.
Sure the acting sucked and some of the story was lame, but that movie is an awesome example of the 80s attitudes while at the same time being every kids fantasy. Im just glad there was a time movies like that could be made. Holllywood would never do something like that today.

 

[JoeT]

Who could ever forget the pissing in the radiator trick? Red Dawn rules.

 

[chadr]

X2

Red Dawn rocked for it's time. Maybe in 30 years there will be a remake of it that the acting won't suck.

 

[Spork]

Wolverines!!!!

 

[Kiel]

Just remember that playing on the hgh school football team is all thats needed to start an organized resistance, plus if you ever kill a deer you have to drink it's blood

 

[Meat_]

I'll never claim it to be a master piece, but I've watched it many times and will watch it many more.

 

[StrobeNGH]

who knew that Baby from Dirty Dancing was so Bad A**?!

She taught me a valuable lesson: if I am ever gunned down by a Hind, put a live grenade under my corpse so that I take out some of the Red Devils when they move me.

Another great lesson: If you are sitting in class, and you see parachutes out the window . . . run to your truck (another lesson, always drive a truck) and head to the nearest sporting goods store!

 

[Kiel]

who knew that Baby from Dirty Dancing was so Bad A**?!

She taught me a valuable lesson: if I am ever gunned down by a Hind, put a live grenade under my corpse so that I take out some of the Red Devils when they move me.

Another great lesson: If you are sitting in class, and you see parachutes out the window . . . run to your truck (another lesson, always drive a truck) and head to the nearest sporting goods store!

I love that part when the teacher is like this isn't right... they are way off course... Plus you can see all the guns and he goes out to investigate I wonder what will happen

 

[StrobeNGH]

Wow a Red Dawn lover. I am glad guerrilla combat is so important. Too bad we didn't learn those lessons in Vietnam. Red Dawn was capitalist propaganda pure and simple. The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! Too bad they were to broke to come, even on vacation.

I think we all know which character YOU would be in Red Dawn . . .

The Mayor


Oh, and the Russians didn't go broke until the 90's. 1984 was when Reagan was beginning to ramp-up the arms race.
In 1984 the Russians were still a viable threat, that's why we kept them occupied in Afghanistan.
Hell, the Russians are a viable threat today . . . we just don't want to see it.

 

[Meat_]

...Hell, the Russians are a viable threat today . . . we just don't want to see it.

They (their unattended stock piles) are a BIGGER threat now than ever before.

 

[Tacoma]

Yah, the unattended weaponry in a large, difficult-to-monitor country makes me nervous as hell.

 

[solidfrontaxle]

Another lesson: Don't let the russians feed you a homing beacon or your friends will shoot you when they find out.

Oh yeah, and if you are a Russian, don't steal a bike basket without checking whats in it first.

 

[Cherokeester]

I think we all know which character YOU would be in Red Dawn . . .

The Mayor


Oh, and the Russians didn't go broke until the 90's. 1984 was when Reagan was beginning to ramp-up the arms race.
In 1984 the Russians were still a viable threat, that's why we kept them occupied in Afghanistan.
Hell, the Russians are a viable threat today . . . we just don't want to see it.

I have never liked a movie enough to put myself in as one of the characters thanks, and the Soviets took 30 years going broke not just a few in the 90's. It was not Reagan that can take credit for it either.

 

[Meat_]

...It was not Reagan that can take credit for it either.

I suppose it was Hillary.

 

[GOAT]

Soviets took 30 years going broke not just a few in the 90's. It was not Reagan that can take credit for it either.

Agreed.

Thank this man

He ran what was left of the economy into the ground. The CIA had Brezhnev so wound up thinking we would invade Iran after the Shahs death. During the invasion of Afghanistan, the Russians deployed groups of surface to air missiles to fight off an airforce that didn't exist.

BTW. I saw Reddawn when it came out. Reminds me of the triumph of the will of the 80s.
My 2c
MP

 

[Cherokeester]

I suppose it was Hillary.

The Soviet collapse was a combination of many years of B.S. and hype. Paranoia was rampant and as mentioned above the Soviet leaders went nuts over it. You can credit Kennedy on up. The downfall was a culmination of years of build up and money wasted on both sides. I am just glad it wasn't us going out first.

 

[ryslc]

don't forget if you kill something to drink its blood!!

then you're a man!

 

[StrobeNGH]

the Soviets took 30 years going broke not just a few in the 90's. It was not Reagan that can take credit for it either.

The Soviet collapse was a combination of many years of B.S. and hype. Paranoia was rampant and as mentioned above the Soviet leaders went nuts over it. You can credit Kennedy on up. The downfall was a culmination of years of build up and money wasted on both sides. I am just glad it wasn't us going out first.

This is just an overt ploy to divert attention away from Red Dawn isn't it . . .

As for the Soviets: they were doing just fine until the '80's. Yes Kennedy began MAD, which ultimately led to their bankruptcy . . . but they got a nice break during the 70's.
When McGovern and his hoards of little minions started going nuts over Vietnam, we got distracted (just like today) and stopped fighting the war.

Nixon was too busy chasing his own shadow to fight them, and Carter's presidency gave the Soviets enough time to re-group themselves, and it was Reagan who got us re-focused on the dangers the Soviets posed.
Reagan re-started the arms build-up again, and the Soviets fell soon after.

Although you are correct that Kennedy can take a large share of the credit . . . Reagan was the one who jump-started the process, and had the conviction to follow through.
Reagan was panned by both sides of the aisle for the arms race he resumed . . . but in the end, he was right, and proved all the nay-sayers (Kennedy, Kerry, Daschle) wrong.

It's ironic how fast we forget these lessons . . .