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RED DAWN...

Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007
edited April 2008 in General Discussion
Tonight at 10:30 on AMC.

Sure I own it, but, what the hell.

Doug

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  • Tech141Tech141 Member Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great movie. Makes ya think....
  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wolverines!
    The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,446 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great movie Got a 400 a.m. wakeup have to skip on it tonight.
  • shaneshane Member Posts: 882 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yep.......one of my fav's!!
  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry guys....I always put that movie right up there with "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Beach
  • kristovkristov Member Posts: 6,633
    edited November -1
    It is time for a rewrite on that movie: In 2012 the now friendly Russians have landed in the United States in an attempt to liberate us from the Mexicans and Cubans.
  • ruger270manruger270man Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for the tip!

    I'll be watching.
  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by beachmaster73
    Sorry guys....I always put that movie right up there with "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Beach

    I always thought it would make a great name for a morning-after birth control product.
  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    DWS....Excellent[:D]!Beach
  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,597 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You got Red Dawn

    I got Navy Seals



    Damnit
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by DancesWithSheep
    quote:Originally posted by beachmaster73
    Sorry guys....I always put that movie right up there with "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Beach

    I always thought it would make a great name for a morning-after birth control product.


    That is funny.

    Thanks. I haven't laughed this much and not shared it with my wife in a while. I'm still laughing.

    That is one bad movie. The concept is good and that's what gives it longevity, but the acting one of the last of the '70s genre, a time when acting wasn't required to make movies.

    A new version would be accepted.
  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,251 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,646 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember seeing it the theater in 1984-I was in the 8th grade lol and it had all the Brat Packers in it and the Russians were still scary to us--ahh life was good.
  • oldnbaldoldnbald Member Posts: 3,578
    edited November -1
    One of my favorites. It was on recently and I watched it again, even though I own the movie. Lots of young stars got their break in that movie.
  • TwoDogsTwoDogs Member Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    John has a long mustache.
    The chair is aganist the wall.
  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,646 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    always get a chill when Col. Bella tells his minions to go to the gun stores and find form 4473 to find out who owned guns in town. If thats not a reason for not having gun registration or any of that stuff then I dunno what is.
  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,183 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like that movie.
    I love the scene where the history teacher looks out the window and Russian paratroops are landing on the practice field.
  • jhimcojhimco Member Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think someone talks about this movie at least once a month on this forum. Yes- I know it is a good movie.
  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cheesy movie. How did the enemy get APCs and tanks that far inside the country without no one noticing that soon after the invasion? How were their planes that the paratroopers jumped from make it that far inside the country to begin with? It implies that the SAC and TAC were sleeping.
  • Oklahoma223Oklahoma223 Member Posts: 2,648 ✭✭
    edited November -1
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,947 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of the all time worst, if you have to watch it Doug, why on earth would you also endure the commercials?
  • Pa.BillPa.Bill Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "How was it?"
    "It was good"
  • Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    One of the all time worst, if you have to watch it Doug, why on earth would you also endure the commercials?



    TiVo.

    Doug
  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member, Moderator Posts: 29,714 ******
    edited November -1
    I rented "Red Dawn" at the adult movie store but I don't think it was the same one. Or was that "Pink Dawn"? [:p]
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Zulu7
    Cheesy movie. How did the enemy get APCs and tanks that far inside the country without no one noticing that soon after the invasion? How were their planes that the paratroopers jumped from make it that far inside the country to begin with? It implies that the SAC and TAC were sleeping.


    Apathy.
    China Cargo Ships.
    Socialist sympathizers on the West Coast.
    Mexico.
    Canada.
    Clinton's in the White House.
    Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House.
  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,597 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by eboydell
    RACK OPS! Sure, "Navy Seals" is a cute factitious movie about sailors who want to be Marines. By your signature, you were/are a U.S. Marine!!!! GET A GRIP! THROW THAT MOVIE AWAY! Semper Fi![;)]


    Earl, I don't have Navy Seals. Navy Seals was on last night on my AMC channel in the same timeslot that Doug had Red Dawn in

    I guess if I stayed up till 1:30 I could have watched it [;)]
  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Earl...I just have to tweak you a little. I don't think ANY Navy SEAL has ever woke up and thought, "Gee I wish I was a Marine." I don't remember how many jarheads I've heard say, "Yeah we were working with the SEAL's. But I am reminded of my favorite all time SEAL-USMC story......


    There we were were on one of the few 3-ship ARG's in history in the middle late 1980's on one of the first Pacific MEU-SOC deployments. The USMC LTCOL who commanded the MEU Infantry unit had designated his battalion as the "Ninja Battalion". This retard had forced all of his Marines to dye one set of their BDU's black...the BDU's still looked a little like BDU's....just black BDU's. You can imagine how the Marines felt later in life when they went to other units and were told to throw those messed up BDU's away....Ah but I digress, back to the story. Anyway we had a training mission to send a covert rubber boat group ahore on an island and set up a monitoring station and report on enemy activities(You know the typical kind of training garbage that some intel wienie has spent way too much time thinking about). Well clearly it's a SEAL team mission (no more than six men) since it involves about a fourteen mile open ocean transit; but LTCOL "Ninja" Retardo,USMC wants his Recon Marines in on the operation....you know the USMC type...."My Recon guys can do anything a SEAL can do". The SEAL platoon commander, Lt. Joe Kernan from SEAL TEAM 5, says, "Thats a long way to go in a rubber boat especially in the open ocean. I don't think you want the Recon Marines to try it especially since the water could be really rough out there." LTCOL Retardo, USMC insists and demands that the MEU Commander permit his elite jarheads to join the party. I think you know where this is going.....two Zodiacs one with six SEAL's one with six USMC recon Ninjas are prepared. They were dropped off in horrible weather, made about 7 miles when the Zodiacs were flipped and swamped. SEALS got to their Zodiac, righted it sans outboard motor and then noticed that the Recon pride of the Corps were attempting to drown themselves. Tough decision for Lt Kernan...does he get his guys back in their boat and continue the mission with paddles or do he and his men jump back into the water rescue the non-swimmers of RECON. As he said later, "If it had been war and not training I'd let the idiots drown." So he and each of his SEALS dove back in, swam around to find the screaming drowning jarheads, got all of them..... by this time the rubber boats have blown away to China....all their gear, SEAL and USMC, is on the bottom of the ocean. And the SEALs start to swim dragging their burdens the remaining 7 miles. On board the ships we hear nothing....we still hear nothing...we still hear nothing...but you know SEALS don't transmit until they have something to say. Finally the Commodore calls a training time out lauches a helo and they are found on an island beach...six exhausted SEAL's and six bedraggled USMC-RECON wannabe's. So here is the best part of the story...after the errant commandos(both the Navy and the fake ones) get back on board. Col Retardo,USMC is furious about the loss of all the USMC gear....The SEAL's couldn't care less about theirs...They have more. He starts to berate Joe Kernan in front of the Commodore and the MEU Commander about irresponsibility and the loss of the gear. Joe looks at him with a withering and disgusted glance and says, "I made a tough call out there; I could either continue my mission or save your Marines do you think I made the wrong call?" Silence...absolute silence. LTCOL "Ninja Retardo, USMC retired soon afterward...as a LTCOL...I think the Commandant got a call on the black ninja suits and maybe all the lost gear. Bottom line... Joe went on to command SEAL TEAM 2 and another Team which we don't talk about. If you check the United States Navy website you can see what Rear Admiral(upper half) Joe Kernan is doing now. I was First Lieutenant on the USS Cayuga LST-1186 at the time and Joe and his team were administratively assigned to me.

    Great story...huh? Beach
  • mousemouse Member Posts: 3,624
    edited November -1
    Great Story Beach. Did you ever look at my brothers photo on
    the last thread of yours. He's on his motorcycle with his
    daughter. He was a marine sniper in Lebanon.
  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    mouse....I really don't know if I did or not. That diabetes is kicking my butt anymore with my memory. If you still have it I'd be honored to look at it again. Best, Beach


    P.S. I don't even remember the thread!!!![:0] The diabetes must be in overload now!
  • carrie2carrie2 Member Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like Rae Dawn(Chong)[:p] better
    Kentucky born and raised!
  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    Beach;
    I am not doubting your word...but my dim, dark memories say that if you couldn't swim...you wern't a Marine. I saw men dropped for that...

    That was, however, 10-15 years previous to your time frame..perhaps that was just another skill thrown overboard in the drive to become user friendly to all and sundry...
  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Highball...my comments on their inability to swim were somewhat tongue in cheek....Everyone of those Recon Marines had their little scuba diver pin and they were all rated First Class Swimmers...but there is a world of difference between a rated First Class Swimmer and a SEAL. Now as far as every Marine being a swimmer if I'm not mistaken back then sailors and Marines could still stay in if they could pass the doggie paddle stay afloat test.Beach
  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,143 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A lot can be learned from that film.




























































































    I still piss in my radiator when it gets low.
  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    Unkay, Beachmaster;

    And you just taught me another lesson.
    Bristling over a preceived 'insult' over something that happened 40 years ago has got to be a sign of ....something...that a feller ought to grow out of. [:D]
  • William81William81 Member Posts: 24,585 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like the movie...keeps me thinking about having enough supplies in case of emergency...
  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't head to "Radio Free California" !!!

    It's a Trap,

    Those commies were probly in on it from the beginning![:0]
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