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[Watch Party] Red Dawn (1984), Thursday 30th April, 10pm US Eastern

1mon 21d ago by piefed.social/u/klu9 in action_movies@piefed.social from mastodon.social

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This Thursday, at 10 pm et, join us for the original RED DAWN (1984)! The film is on Tubi and also on Prime, commercial-free!

WOVERINES!

From Wikipedia:

Red Dawn is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius, from a screenplay co-written with Kevin Reynolds, and starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey, with supporting roles played by Ben Johnson, Darren Dalton, Harry Dean Stanton, Ron O'Neal, William Smith and Powers Boothe. Set during a fictional World War III between an increasingly isolated United States and the Soviet Union, the film follows a group of teenage guerrillas, known as the Wolverines, fighting against a joint Soviet-Latin American invasion force in Colorado.

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I remember watching this as a kid in Central America. It's a fun action film but also represents a lot of paranoia by US conservatives about Latin America, which was present in the 80s and continues to metastize today. In their telling, Latin Americans are somehow the ones exploiting the US and indeed the movie starts out with the US being invaded by an ethnically-diverse military from around the world. File this next to the later Rambo movies: indicative of many of the neuroses that have driven some of the worst US policy of the last several decades and interesting in that regard. But also entertaining if you just shut off your brain for a while and grunt and yell along with the film.

starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey

A bunch of 80's A-listers, all of them doing a decent job. Also notable is Ron "Super Fly" O'Neal in a supporting role as a Cuban Army colonel.

File this next to the later Rambo movies

I did! A while ago, I made a NeoDB collection called "Red Scare" with these bombastic, paranoid US films, especially focusing on 80s action.

My attempt to balance out those films was what led me to try watching the Soviet film Одиночное плавание (The Detached Mission) (1985).

Which you might remember did not go well, thanks to the Eastern European phenomenon that is the "lektor" (tl;dr: a person who purposely drones over foreign language dialogue in a film in the most boring voice imaginable)

Aaaand I just realized the name of the Polish-language Scene/Bittorrent release group Lektor.pl must be a reference to that, er, "great cinematic tradition".