1,001 Things Learned From Watching Red Dawn
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Red Dawn
MightyTiki — 12 years ago(April 21, 2013 06:41 PM)
- Mi-24 Hind > AK-47
- Can you actually survive multiple hits to the torso from a 12.7mm Gatling gun (or at least till someone can join you at your side and hold you until you die).
- If your friend is dying, don't try to provide any first aidjust talk to them until they die.
- Make sure to hide grenades under your dead friend's when your country is invaded.
"Toto, I've [
got
] a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
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the_la_baker — 12 years ago(May 29, 2013 08:49 PM)
- If you slaughter 100s of highly trained and well armed soldiers with a ragtag group of high school students defying the odds and taking heroic risks to save your friends and neighbors while diminishing the enemies morale, but are eating beans every day, you should never "think you're tough".
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joerebk — 12 years ago(November 29, 2013 05:32 PM)
- Jed is the "honcho sport"
- For some reason being the High School senior class President gives you the authority to propose that you surrender to an invading army occupying your town.
- If you have two granddaughters it is better to give them to a group of boys fighting for survival in the mountains than hide them in your house.
- Soviet paratroopers will waste a lot of ammunition shooting up a High School of unarmed kids once they arrive.
- Upon seeing two High School boys duck behind the front dashboard of their car a Soviet soldier will just shoot up the engine block and won't actually go inside the car to kill them.
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namaGemo — 12 years ago(March 24, 2014 07:22 AM)
When you realize that the only thing between America standing or falling is a strong guerrilla presence, it's best when confronted by a Russian Hind, to stand out in the open so you are easily killed in some bizarre display of heroism, effectively weakening your unit.
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crockett_john — 11 years ago(July 05, 2014 02:43 PM)
- Land is so scarce in Colorado that the Russians have to co-locate all their military assets, making them easy targets.
- A Russian jet pilot who watches someone drop a grenade in the cockpit will sit still and wait for the grenade to explode.
- Russian soldiers who know there is an insurgent force attacking them in small numbers will not be suspicious when they see people acting suspiciously.
- Russian wholesale grocers like to pack a variety of groceries in the same box.
- If you shoot twice, they'll know where you are, but campfires, vehicles, and horses will evade detection.
- When you're loading up on survival supplies, make sure you bring a football, but no more than one radio.
- The Boy Scouts is a paramilitary organization.
- Urine makes a good engine coolant.
- If your high-school is attacked, your brother who just dropped you off will somehow know there was an attack and will come back and get you.
- Russian paratroopers put their weapons in a barrel and jump unarmed into enemy territory.
- After an invasion, the street sweepers will no longer be operating and the streets will fill up with debris.
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Ramdapanda — 11 years ago(October 01, 2014 02:53 PM)
- Friendly jets will carpet bomb empty spaces in the middle of no where several miles behind enemy lines.
- A single friendly tank will infiltrate occupied territory, and fire upon two enemy tanks for several minutes without any of them actually hitting anything.
- Tanks will rotate their turrets as often as possible especially when there's nothing to aim at.
- High-shool rebels will take the time to dig perfectly square holes and create covers to match instead of hiding in bushes 50 meters further away.
- Invading armies hand out detailed information about their armored convoys to anyone interested.
- If one of you're friends get captured and in turn tortured and forced to swallow a tracking device, your only option is to kill him.
- If you are said friend from point 33, you will by no means notify anyone that you were forced to swallow a tracking device.
- The rule 'what goes in must come out' doesn't apply for tracking devices.
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MadTom — 11 years ago(October 05, 2014 01:29 PM)
- A single friendly tank will infiltrate occupied territory, and fire upon two enemy tanks for several minutes without any of them actually hitting anything.
Let's put you in the gunner's seat of one of the tanks at that range with the enemy tank in a hull-down defilade position and see how well you do. - Tanks will rotate their turrets as often as possible especially when there's nothing to aim at.
Depending on the tactical situation, that can be well within US Army Armor doctrine, allowing the gunner with telescopic and thermal (infrared) sights to detect threats that the tank commander might not detect with the naked eye or less powerful binoculars.
MadTom
Major, Armor, US Army (Retired)
- A single friendly tank will infiltrate occupied territory, and fire upon two enemy tanks for several minutes without any of them actually hitting anything.
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Ramdapanda — 11 years ago(October 05, 2014 11:41 PM)
Let's put you in the gunner's seat of one of the tanks at that range with the enemy tank in a hull-down defilade position and see how well you do.
Fair point, let's just focus on a tank being alone behind enemy lines.
Depending on the tactical situation, that can be well within US Army Armor doctrine, allowing the gunner with telescopic and thermal (infrared) sights to detect threats that the tank commander might not detect with the naked eye or less powerful binoculars.
Also a fair point, although I'm pretty sure driving around down town in a secure area doesn't qualify for this. -
ohiopdg — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 10:23 PM)
- When a father tells his sons not to come back to town just make sure he yells out at the end to " Avenge Me!" thus putting their sons back in harms way
- when stocking up at the local gun store after an attack make sure you grab every bit of ammo you can get not knowing it is compatible with the firearms you are taking
- before number 37 be sure and grab a box of arrows
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davcalla777 — 10 years ago(April 26, 2015 05:21 PM)
- When your a high school history teacher, ignore every bit of common sense, and walk straight up to a foreign speaking soldier who is armed who just parachuted in, he wont shoot you
- Jed doesn't know when to believe your mouth.
- When invading the USA, dropping troops into Calumet CO. is the best drop zone
- High school kids use toilet paper, not leaves
- Peeing in the radiator will suffice
- When your high school is invaded, big brother Jed willbbe there in mere seconds
- A lone white girl walking out of a building didn't plant a bomb, but, she will bring her friends right back
- Soviet tanks take gasoline
- Calumet is deep fortunate to have a Shepard like the mayor
- Picking up headphones in the mountains screaming for God to help u will bring reinforcements
- Indians made arrows from steel
- Swallowing a bug will bring the troops to u, and no danger of indigestion
- Sending Daryl into town under Soviet occupation to visit Dad is no cause for alarm maybe he was bugged or he didn't talk
- Jed never heard of the Geneva convention
- Wolverines can hide in the mountains until they don't hear jet engines no more
- The chair is against the wall
- John has a long moustache
- U don't slaughter the pig if he saw the fox eat your chickens
- Colonel Bella and his man learned English instantly
- Jed doesn't like it when people cry
- When u see Soviet tanks and troops blocking the road, and they start shooting, merely driving off the road just a little bit will make them forget u, let alone come after u
- When the enemy drops food boxes on the road, no danger exists of them being bugged or sending gunships after u
- Killing 1 wolverine counts as 12 dead
- Hate and anger keeps Robert warm
- The early bird gets the worm
- Col. Andrew Tanner met his 80 year old feisty wife in the closet at a party
- Killing Soviet troops will make Jed and Matt's mom real proud
- You can't survive on olives and rice crispies