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Red Dawn (1984)
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The Ronald Reagan 1980s were all about going back to the future--rewriting the past to better suit Reagan's upbeat vision of the present. So, Sylvester Stallone's John Rambo (a psychotic, shell-shocked Vietnam vet in the original film, transformed into a flag-waving hero in the sequel) was able to go back to Southeast Asia and "correct" history by decisively (and single-handedly) winning that messy ol' war on behalf of America. Red Dawn is a paranoid cold-war cautionary tale that presents us not with a rosy alternative past, but with an ominous vision of the future, metaphorically plopping a piece of Russian-occupied Afghanistan into...
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| Red Dawn Movie Review by Thom (3/21/2008) |
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The ignorance with regards to this film (and history) is staggering.
Red Dawn features an ensemble cast of recognizable eighties faces (Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey, among others) as high school students that survive a fictional invasion towards the end of the Cold War...
(complete Red Dawn review by Thom)
| Red Dawn Movie Review by Ron (3/21/2008) |
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This movie has a young Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, and Lea Thompson versus the Soviet army. Aside from the fact that it would be impossible for any country to get that many troops on US soil without being spotted this movie is very realistic. The group of teenagers uses guerrilla warfare to battle the...
(complete Red Dawn review by Ron)
A ridiculously conservative Americana flick about the 'inevitable' attacks of the communist union of Russia and Cuba on American soil. This film represents all the absurd fears Americans hold dear that inspire them to have a gun to each household and fear communism like it was the black plague.
The film follows a group...
(complete Red Dawn review by Jessica Film Junkie)
This film has so much right-wing propaganda that I felt I was watching the Republican Convention.
A group of teens with deer rifle takes on crack combat troops and we are supposed to believe that. I am sure glad that Patrick Swayze grew up in the five years before Road House.
He did reunite with fellow cast member...
(complete Red Dawn review by Movie Addict)
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