The really cool thing about "Red Dawn" is that it's a perfect 80s movie. It stars half of the brat pack and it's a hilarious melding of "The Breakfast Club" and "Rambo."

Whatever Orangeguy. There are a half a million scarecrows in Denver that would kill for an Orange, let alone an Orangeguy. Bastard.

Now go piss in the radiator.

One of my favorite movies ever!!

Great movie. Ahead of its time really..

Remember how those Commie Bastards got in the sneak attack? They used commercial airliners to get in...

I've never seen this movie. Could the kids in Red Dawn hold their own against the students in Toy Soliders? If so, I might have to watch this.

All-time best!

Two years ago i might have agreed with you on many of these points.

BUT, then there's a little thing called the Iraqi insurgency that has involved untrained civilians fighting a professional force with more than a little success.
We're talking about a force that has involved ten year olds in its operations and is frighteningly believeable.

Now, that said, long-term fieldcraft depicted in RD is fictious and can only be learned by training on it for months.

RD is a guilty pleasure. Although some elements take on new meaning in light of recent phenomena.

Really, the only unbelievable point of the movie is that the Soviet Union would've had a large enough army to do a full scale invasion of the US.

1. The military didn't 'leave a bunch of highschool kids' to fight the war. The army was fighting at several fronts. The kids were behind enemy lines. They also weren't the only resistance group operating. There are several scenes indicating an organized resistance movement and that the Wolverines wanted to make contact with them.

2. People fighting for their own country in their own country tend to be very good without much military training. History is full of this. Look at the citizen resistance movements of WWII, Vietnam, Mexican, American and Cuban revolutions.

4. Did you watch this movie? They did hide in the woods. It's actually not very easy to hide in the woods as there is very little sustainable food there. They don't fight back until after they sneak into town to get supplies after they had been just hiding in the woods.

It's a fun movie, not a documentary. I'm guessing you're too young to have been around for much of the 80's and probably not any of the 70's. It was quiet the film for its' time.

^ What he said.

I really liked this movie--one of my all time favorites!

The ending-- I really liked how this movie has a realistic ending and not just a 'happy kill all the bad guys' ending. The way it shed light on the cuban general and how he had grown sick of war, not a typical two dimensional movie bad guy. Also, the main characters werent invincible, like most cheesy action movies.

The ending of this movie, instead of centering around the main characters, has a bigger picture, like a true to life war. The story ends with the breaking up of the wolverines and the naration ties up loose ends. Its a story about growth and fighting for what you believe in, and changing to survive, and what that change means for different characters. Kids became heroes and murderers. Everyone changed in a different way and yet they made a great team.

I remember reading some article (booklet in the DVD?) where the director defended the believability by talking about Afganistan, and how a civilian uprising kept the russians at bay for years, regardless of training and equipment.

anyway thats my random thought review

I think it's pretty safe to say that anyone who doesn't watch this movie at least once a week whilst cleaning their rifles is without a doubt a traitor to this country.

You gave yourself away GynoRhyno

No American says "Whilst"

Reach for the sky...!

The biggest problem with your theorey is that Red Dawn *did* work.

Red Dawn + Blue Thunder = Purple Rain

A little cinemathematics courtesy of "Not Necessarily The News".

Funny... but you'd think that g

The chair is against the wall.

John has a long mustache.

Powers Booth was the bomb in this movie.

Nobody's mentioned Jennifer Grey yet??

I have an unhealthy infatuation with her in the 80's.

I would eat her butt in front of my mom.

Did anyone see the hilarious South Park episode that spoofed this film??

It was the one where the town bans old people from driving(since they have been murdering people left & right unable to see properly)...and the old people revolt parachuting in and taking over the town.



As for Red Dawn,I find it a guilty pleasure and pretty amusing. For a highly 'patriotic' film,they sure do make the black teacher a moron and his death scene is hilarious because of its obviousness.

Ask yourself,an army of people are parachuting into your school field. Would you not be the least bit concerned and naively walk out towards them mumbling gibberish to yourself outloud only to be machine gunned down?

This sequence was hilariouslly spoofed in the South Park episode.

I believe those were the actual code words to the La Resistance on D-Day. I could be wrong however.

They were.

I still like this movie.....

Yes, he was out of highschool, he was just dropping his brother and his friend off at school.

How did that happen? Did he get a blood transfusion or something?

Remember he drank the deer's blood?

"There's going to be something different about you...Always."-Matt