I was 14 when it came out. Loved it back then for all the action, violence and its general "un-PC-ness". Today it's a gu
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ms-zanadu — 12 years ago(November 14, 2013 06:30 PM)
Most definitely agree I just gave this movie a 10
. Surprisingly I didn't discover this classic gem until the 1990's and was also a teenager in the 1980's ( oh well better late than never right ?
) . Thanks hugh750 for your subject post
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averagejoeman2013 — 12 years ago(November 18, 2013 11:09 AM)
It wasnt Oscar worthy, but it was entertaining. My favorite character was Powers Boothe. I usually like his roles and he provided a lot more development to the team. I really liked his line when they first met him "It was five to one, I got four".
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Enigmatic-Ocean — 12 years ago(December 04, 2013 09:03 PM)
This movie is completely unbelievable, but it is awesome. Powers Boothe was my favorite character too. I always thought that it sucked that he had such a small amount of screen time, but he had a lot of character development. So, when he did die you actually felt the loss. I have never seen the remake and I don't want to. I have heard a lot of bad things about it
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sommert-507-32566 — 11 years ago(June 05, 2014 11:31 AM)
I saw it when I was a kid. I enjoyed it as an action film and in hindsight casting did a good job of picking a bunch of relative unknowns that went on to have something of a future in the industry.
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Geist9091 — 11 years ago(August 25, 2014 11:18 PM)
I saw Red Dawn when I was 14 years old living on an Army Base in North Carolina and the experience (at that time) was powerful and exciting. I have just seen the movie again on Netflix (years, pounds and miles later) and I have to say that Red Dawn is a Spectacular (American) Movie!
The story was more powerful than I remembered and at that time period it's plot (regardless of how unlikely it was then or seems now) was plausible.
(For some of us, it was a very frightening time to be alive in the world; to have people you loved in the world.)
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Hendry_William_French — 10 years ago(February 12, 2016 03:09 PM)
Yeah, it's a tremendous film. A great cast, great story, great director plus it's filmed in a really classic way - just looks different. 80s films were so much fun but they always had some character and meaning to them, it wasn't an excuse for action - there was a point to this (unlike say, the sh!tty remake).
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snickerdoodle68 — 9 years ago(December 03, 2016 10:00 PM)
I was. This movie was a big deal at the time, especially to teenagers. I have one friend who was traumatized by it and is now a full- blown prepper.
It's not surprising that modern audiences sneer at it and call it illogical, implausible garbage. To truly understand and appreciate this movie you really had to have been a teenager in the 80s.
Red Dawn has a lot cultural relevance to it, if you ignore the implausible story/plotline and watch it keeping in mind it's historical context. The Cold War between USA/ Russia was very real and scary to young people. The movie was written entirely for those kids, as the movie was seen and told only from their POV.
I watch this movie as an adult now and I am reminded of Obama's stupid joke to Mitt Romney "This isn't the 80 s anymore", dismissing his warnings about Russia. Here it is 2016 and guess what? Romney was right. Suddenly this movie doesn't seem so cheesy and improbable anymore.