Wednesday, August 10, 2005
WOLVERINES!
Allow me, if you will, a few moments to depart from my daily adventures and share with you an experience I just had while in front of SPIKE-TV. I don't know how I have missed out on a film this complete until now but somehow I did. What is this mystery movie that changed my life? Nothing much, just a little something called Red Dawn. I'm sure I am the only person my age who hadn't seen it by age 23.
If you haven't seen it, it can pretty esily be summed up: The Commies invade Colorado, and high school kids form a militant group and kick some serious Commie ass. There are many levels to this movie, including Charlie Sheen and Lea Thompson in career making roles, but I'll leave it there with you mouth watering for more until you see it yourself.
As we all know there were so many great movies to come out of the 1980's,
but this one captured everything that was great about those movies and then some.
The comraderie of The Goonies.
The high school conflicts of The Breakfast Club.
The product placement of E.T.
The miltary prowees of Platoon.
C. Thomas Howell.
The hard-ass father figure of Prancer.
The Cold War paranoia of War Games.
The Cold War propoganda of Rocky IV.
Not only that, it also included an all-star cast (featuring a precurser to the amazing acting from Patrick Swayze in Road House, and the horrible acting from Swayze in Dirty Dancing--of course in this movie Baby committed murder-suicide rather than face capture by the Commies, something that would have made Dirty Dancing a lot more interesting.). If only the cast included Michael J. Fox and Ally Sheedy, it would have been perfect. And maybe Gerald McRaney. I must however admit that it was edited for television, and, according to my granddaddy, edited pretty badly. According to him we missed more fighting scenes (there was more!!!) and some pretty important meetings in between the armies and the Americans in the re-education camps.
Watching it I could just picture Ronnie Reagan enjoying the film over and over again during his tenure at the White House. So take it from me, if you haven't seen Red Dawn, rent it tonight. Or better yet, go ahead and buy it. It's rare for a movie to have everything, but this one does. And so much more.
¶ 8/10/2005 11:07:00 PM
If you haven't seen it, it can pretty esily be summed up: The Commies invade Colorado, and high school kids form a militant group and kick some serious Commie ass. There are many levels to this movie, including Charlie Sheen and Lea Thompson in career making roles, but I'll leave it there with you mouth watering for more until you see it yourself.
As we all know there were so many great movies to come out of the 1980's,
but this one captured everything that was great about those movies and then some.The comraderie of The Goonies.
The high school conflicts of The Breakfast Club.
The product placement of E.T.
The miltary prowees of Platoon.
C. Thomas Howell.
The hard-ass father figure of Prancer.
The Cold War paranoia of War Games.
The Cold War propoganda of Rocky IV.
Not only that, it also included an all-star cast (featuring a precurser to the amazing acting from Patrick Swayze in Road House, and the horrible acting from Swayze in Dirty Dancing--of course in this movie Baby committed murder-suicide rather than face capture by the Commies, something that would have made Dirty Dancing a lot more interesting.). If only the cast included Michael J. Fox and Ally Sheedy, it would have been perfect. And maybe Gerald McRaney. I must however admit that it was edited for television, and, according to my granddaddy, edited pretty badly. According to him we missed more fighting scenes (there was more!!!) and some pretty important meetings in between the armies and the Americans in the re-education camps.
Watching it I could just picture Ronnie Reagan enjoying the film over and over again during his tenure at the White House. So take it from me, if you haven't seen Red Dawn, rent it tonight. Or better yet, go ahead and buy it. It's rare for a movie to have everything, but this one does. And so much more.
¶ 8/10/2005 11:07:00 PM
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Hulkamania always wins bitch! And Josh I CAN'T believe you'd yet to see that movie. My roommate came running down the hall screaming "Dude! Red Dawn is on". Needless to say, I was done studying for the night.
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From now on, priority goes to the Wolverines! Well Regan always looked plastic/rubber but now so does Hulk. Have you seen him lately, he's so glossy. Looks like a life-sized action figure. It's weird.
Now you see why I learned Russian...so you go-tards wouldnt have to! Wolverines!
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