This film has a 53% Rotten rate on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Royalcourtier — 10 years ago(July 20, 2015 12:31 AM)
"Assertive and triumphant America"? No, ignorant, racist buffoons who think that their brand of jingoism and stupidity ought to represent the USA. When I read posts like yours I feel sympathy for Al Qaeda and ISIS.
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Tito32 — 9 years ago(May 28, 2016 04:56 AM)
Too little, too late, to say the least
To say that he owned you would be understatement of the century.
Not that someone as brainless as you would ever understand something like that.
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chilone — 11 years ago(January 12, 2015 08:03 AM)
I'm honestly surprised it's that high. This isn't a movie that's likely to sit well with movie critics for a whole host of reasons.
Yeah, but you and many others are still discussing it
30 years
after it came out.
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electrictroy — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 11:51 AM)
People still discuss Plan 9 from Outer Space, but certainly NOT because it's good. It's junk.
I suspect Red Dawn will fall into the realm of "forgotten movies" after the 80s generation has passed way. It has not aged well at all, and its storyline is weak. -
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rregan-3 — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 12:53 PM)
This thread is full of craziness. It's the same beep with Lone Survivor and American Sniper. As long as America looks like some immortal warrior of righteousness, people will put up with crappy acting and writing. How heroic America is portrayed as no bearing on how much I like or disklike this movie.
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Gabe1972 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 12:40 AM)
For sure. I think it's a pretty good movie, although when you read posts by people that didn't live through that time, you'd think the movie is awful. They just don't get it, envisioning it as some elitist nonsense. I love people that comment on things they clearly have no idea about.
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ajhart-60432 — 9 years ago(August 21, 2016 11:52 AM)
The only real complaint I have about the film is how most of the main characters are killed off.
You can play it out two different ways: this rag-tag group of kids bands together and successfully beats back a Soviet invasion until they get backup from the Green Berets (as mentioned in the film), or they get slaughtered after a few successful insurgent attacks.
I had no serious qualms about the scene where Powers Boothe's character and one of the Wolverines are killed on the tanks. You obviously have to remind the audience that there are serious stakes involved. But then everyone starts to die and whatever attachment the audience has developed towards the characters is ruined.
The David versus Goliath story structure is a very common one in fiction, but David has to win. Otherwise, you're just left with an empty feeling at the end. I've read that the director wanted to show the futility of war, but to shoehorn that sentiment into this film was a mistake. The Wolverines didn't need to singlehandedly defeat the Soviets, but they should have survived long enough to see reinforcements come and finish the job.