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WATCHING RED DAWN
EVILDR235
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I enjoy watching a movie with Americans kicking *.Go Wolverines,
EvilDr235
Two types of people drive old cars.Rich people because they want to and poor people because they have to.
EvilDr235
Two types of people drive old cars.Rich people because they want to and poor people because they have to.
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Brian Ostro.
member: NRA,RFC, John Birch Society, American Numismatic Association.
Famous line from the movie Tombstone with Val Kilmer:
Bandit to Doc Halliday:"You're just a drunk piano player, you're so drunk , you're probably seeing double!"
Doc Halliday: "I've got two guns, one for each of you! "
The chair is against the wall
(Lea Thompson has great hair)
John has a long moustache
(Patrick Swayze reads Boy's Life magazine)
Beach - Agree. BTW, I met Patrick Swayze while hiking Grand Canyon one year. I will be nice and just say that he is full of "himself"!
Boomer
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as it is by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed"
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Some gunbroker forum members don't realize this film is fiction, and not a documentary.
Jason
Proud NRA member
"The constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people; that...it is there right and duty to be at all times armed."
Thomas Jefferson 1824
Mateomasfeo
In the scene where the Russian Colonel and the Cuban Major start to walk away from Rivas' Drugstore just beore it explodes, I am walking away from the camera on the right side of the screen.
I'm also in the scene where (I forget his name) is yelling at the boys to "Avenge me boys!"; I'm over his right shoulder, walking in a figure 8.
Got almost $1500 for 3 days' work.
And yes, the chair is against the wall!!!!! (even now!)
If you know it all; you must have been listening.WEAR EAR PROTECTION!
It will hurt you, More than it will hurt me..
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Thanks for all the help!
P.S. Just feeling kinda ornery this am...maybe not enough bran today. Beach
Woods
It's better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
Don
Welcome to America...Now speak English.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
I can separate reality from fantasy, and still enjoy.
The gene pool needs chlorine.
Greg
Former
USMC
ANGLICO
Leah Thompson certainly lended much to the fantasy aspects of the movie and thus gave the movie some minimal sexual credence. It certainly is worth watching for sexual fantasies involving Leah. My major knock on the movie is its complete lack of any credulity... nothing else. It's an excellent teenage "wetdream" film.
For those who liken this movie to the greatest films of all time I congratulate you on your choice....do you think Stone Cold Steve Austin will ever regain his belt? Beach
I think you have found your calling as a critic of film. Maybe it is time for you to quit your day job. I know i would watch your show. [8D]
Greg
Former
USMC
ANGLICO
I would think that as fellow gun enthusiasts and freedom loving Americans, we should all appreciate the film for its powerful pro-2nd Amendment message, regardless of how we feel about how unrealistic the exact scenario might have been.
Get the job done and come home safe guys.
I rush in where others flee.
I would think that as fellow gun enthusiasts and freedom loving Americans, we should all appreciate the film for its powerful pro-2nd Amendment message, regardless of how we feel about how unrealistic the exact scenario might have been.
I think a pro-2nd amendment message presented in an absurd context does nothing for the cause. At best this was a rank remake of China's Little Devils starring Ducky Louie.
Three Thumbs Down
I liked it the first time I saw it, still like it every time it comes back on the tube; guess we can't all be intellectual giants.
Different strokes fer different folks.
...guess we can't all be intellectual giants.
I certainly agree with your first statement. The second is gratuitous and snide.
guess we can't all be intellectual giants.
Don't give 'em any false encouragement... They're liable to miss the fact that you're kidding.... [;)]
I enjoy RED DAWN even though I wish it were a stronger movie. The image of enemy parachutists landing in the American public school's front yard and shooting a teacher was probably intended to have the same visual impact of the scene in TORA TORA TORA where the officers watch in disbelief as Jap planes fly over Pearl.
I don't think RED DAWN is as "fully formed" a movie as it could be, but Milius only started directing with CONAN THE BARBARIAN. I appreciate his effort on RED DAWN and maybe someday a remake will be able to do more with this story idea. There's nothing wrong with using a small troop of enemy landing in a one-street town in the middle of nowhere for a microcosm of a larger American invasion -- we do hear about the rest of the invasion on the radio -- but obviously the movie did not have a hundred million to spend to give us the INDEPENDENCE DAY special effects version.
Still, Milius did a lot with a little. The ideas he looked at (like the young and strong having to take the lead out in the elements, the execution of a collaborator) are probably what makes the movie so interesting despite its lack of grand scope. We beat the Redcoats from the hedge rows too, after all. I don't think they needed the Wolverine theme or the idea of "news of their little band getting around" in order to make any of their points. The goodbye scene at the detention camp was sufficient -- but even in the "Avenge me!" scene, Milius doesn't quite squeeze the most out of what should be an extremely powerful moment.
But I'll take what Milius has to give, since the film wanders into some unique territory, and the fact that it managed to get made at all in liberal Hollywood is something.
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
I enjoy RED DAWN even though I wish it were a stronger movie. The image of enemy parachutists landing in the American public school's front yard and shooting a teacher was probably intended to have the same visual impact of the scene in TORA TORA TORA where the officers watch in disbelief as Jap planes fly over Pearl.
I don't think RED DAWN is as "fully formed" a movie as it could be, but Milius only started directing with CONAN THE BARBARIAN. I appreciate his effort on RED DAWN and maybe someday a remake will be able to do more with this story idea. There's nothing wrong with using a small troop of enemy landing in a one-street town in the middle of nowhere for a microcosm of a larger American invasion -- we do hear about the rest of the invasion on the radio -- but obviously the movie did not have a hundred million to spend to give us the INDEPENDENCE DAY special effects version.
Still, Milius did a lot with a little. The ideas he looked at (like the young and strong having to take the lead out in the elements, the execution of a collaborator) are probably what makes the movie so interesting despite its lack of grand scope. We beat the Redcoats from the hedge rows too, after all. I don't think they needed the Wolverine theme or the idea of "news of their little band getting around" in order to make any of their points. The goodbye scene at the detention camp was sufficient -- but even in the "Avenge me!" scene, Milius doesn't quite squeeze the most out of what should be an extremely powerful moment.
But I'll take what Milius has to give, since the film wanders into some unique territory, and the fact that it managed to get made at all in liberal Hollywood is something.
Isn't there a morning after contraceptive called Red Dawn?
How to answer, hmmmmmmmmm ...........
Okay, I've got it - pick the answer that you think fits best:
1) Gratuitous and snide? Only if you thought that it was directed specifically towards you.
2) Gratuitous and snide? Damn, I was trying for superfluous and insulting.
Yeah, I know, I know, pretty lame; I'm still working on the first cup of coffee. (To be truthful, though, my favorite answer is #2) [:o)]
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
They live in a world where 1776 never happened.
Afganistan,20 years ago also didn't happen to the Russians.
As per the Romans..they also live in a world where we are invulnerable..and will remain that way forever.
I don't find it amazing that the older folks wouldn't fight in the flick..they won't even raise a fuss in peacetime,as our masters steadily disarm us.
It's entertaining, and in the end I guess that's what counts. I just finished (I mean JUST finished) Windtalkers and although it is based in truth, I found it incredibly boring. So much so, I actually fell asleep and had to back up and catch up on what I missed. I never would have guessed I could fall asleep with my surround sound cranked, bullets whizzing by me but I guess I could. [B)]
Roger22, I thought the Topgun movie specifically mentioned that the F5's were SIMULATING the Russian planes, not saying that they were Russian planes. BTW, I saw a F5 two seat trainer come into the airport here in Oklahoma City a while back. I didn't know they made 'em. After I saw it I came home and researched it and sure enough...
I thought the Topgun movie specifically mentioned that the F5's were SIMULATING the Russian planes, not saying that they were Russian planes. BTW, I saw a F5 two seat trainer come into the airport here in Oklahoma City a while back. I didn't know they made 'em. After I saw it I came home and researched it and sure enough...
I believe A4's were used to simulate Russian planes in the "training" scenes; F5's were used to simulate Russian MIGs in the "combat" scenes. I also believe the first F5 configuration was a two-seater (T-38).
we kept them loaded with four 50-pounders and 20mm.
The pilots of course were all trained over here and spoke fair english. VNAF pilots were "hot shots" every one!
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