So, I just watched the first 10 min. of Red Dawn: a few questions...

[rockymountaindem]

1) Why is the black character always the first to die?

2) The Soviets attack America. Why is their first target some high school in rural Colorado?

3) If the attack comes from Mexico, why would the Ruskies drop paratroops 400+ miles behind the main front? That's a suicide mission.

Who came up with that shit?

[Aristus]

1. The same type of stupid assholes who are currently running the country.

It doesn't have to make sense, as long as we can shoot stuff up, man.

I'm sure that was the attitude.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. It's my theory the NRA paid for that flick

So many references to gun law and other not-too-subtle stuff.

Never did like Swayze anyway.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. I wonder if it was like Red Scorpion - paid for by thugish crook

Jack Abramoff to raise awareness of his pet dictators in Africa.

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/08/17/abramoff/index_np.html

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But long before he became the poster boy for the Beltway's back door, the young Jack Abramoff was at a crossroads. It was 1987, he was in his late 20s, and the presidency of his political hero, Ronald Reagan, was winding to a tarnished close. The Iran-Contra hearings covered the front pages, and Oliver North, whom Abramoff knew and admired, was about to be indicted. The Republicans were disillusioned, and after years of service to the party -- as chairman of the College Republicans from 1981 to '85, he'd mentored Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed, had worked for one right-wing think tank, and founded another -- Abramoff apparently was no longer sure he wanted to go into politics full time. So he took a detour, doing what any other kid from Beverly Hills might when finding himself at a loss: He decided to try his hand at show business.

<snip>

[MrScorpio]

4. Answers:

1. Just like George Bush, Hollywood doesn't like black people, especially Black Teachers.

2. They heard that it had a Black teacher, who knew a lot about the history of warfare, and they wanted to shoot him first, because we was so dangerous.

3. They really had to go after that Black teacher. The only way was a direct assault on the High School.

A writer who hates Black High School teachers.

[DainBramaged]

5. Suspend your disbelief

80's Cold War propaganda. Patrick Swizzlestick ooh ah vehicle.

[Clintmax]

6. I think Red Dawn was listed....

as the most violent movie ever made according to the number of violent acts shown per minute of film running time (or something like that). I don't know if that's still true or not. Plus, I haven't seen the movie in years.

[MrScorpio]

7. Robocop is number one

Red Dawn is number 13

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2IHOC98VVNDCR/002-2006373-2363253

[Clintmax]

9. Wow. You learn something new every day.

Thanks, Mister!

[KG]

8. Red Dawn is a great flick - it stars Jennifer Grey and Lea Thompson

'nuff said :9

[flvegan]

14. Agreed. Though their parts weren't big enough.

Well, their parts they played in the movie weren't...

[KG]

15. i've always found their parts to just about the right size....

:)

[cleofus1]

10. ok

1. as long as there is one black man left alive there will never be a white heavyweight champion
2. they are shock troops that are part of a pincher manuever
3. they are cuban troops...therefore expendable...

[Lethe]

11. i dunno but i was 3 or 4 years old when that movie came out

and it scared the shit out of me. I would get nervous as hell if i heard a plane or helicopter overhead for days afterward.

[underpants]

12. did you notice that the WOLVERINES were called "Insurgents"?

I taped it as a joke for my wife about a month ago and she watched one Saturday while I was cutting the grass.

Those high school students learned how to use explosives to harm the opposition and......seriously the whole thing is really creepy looking at it now. They are referred to as "insurgents" by the Soviets and Cubans.

[rockymountaindem]

13. No,

I didn't want to drown in bullshit so I turned it off.

[TheMightyFavog]

17. I watched it on Spike last month.

I wondered to myself if this film is particularly popular in Iraq.

[MN ChimpH8R]

16. The African American guy

(Frank McRae) who gets killed in the first few minutes of the film is the father of my best friend from law school. He was an NFL player back in the 60s and early 70s. He was also in "License to Kill" as Sharkey.

Met him when I visited my friend in LA. Man, that dude is huge!