Red Dawn is one of my favorite (top 10) movies of my life time. i must have watched it 100 times on the beta-max when i was a kid.
Damn right, soldier. Thank you for you service! With whats going on these days, we all might be needed!That movie got my Red White and Blue Blood worked up then and that trailer got it worked up again.
Even when the movie came out I was getting older. I was 35 then. However, I was 6 foot 205 pounds and faily solid at that age. Not now. But I hope to be again, but I doubt it. My shoulders and legs are shot and don't work too well anymore.
Younger Patriots may just need us old farts someday.
I thought it sucked....
That movie got my Red White and Blue Blood worked up then and that trailer got it worked up again.
Even when the movie came out I was getting older. I was 35 then. However, I was 6 foot 205 pounds and faily solid at that age. Not now. But I hope to be again, but I doubt it. My shoulders and legs are shot and don't work too well anymore.
Younger Patriots may just need us old farts someday.
Saw it on the Friday when it came out as a 20 year old college kid. The theater, and this was in Center City Philadelphia, was packed. A cop in uniform was part of the SRO crowd and was teared up when I passed him exiting when it was over. People look back through the prism of the present and do not remember how scary those times were and the very real threat that existed.
I love this movie as well as the next guy but here is the thought I have always had. Maybe this would be better with a topic of its own but here goes.
The Wolverines. Heroes or "insurgents" or "terroists"? Are not the people in Iraq doing the same thing today? They fight an invading countries military with ever thing they have?
Lets here the pros and cons....
I like how it captures the idea expressed by an unidentified Japanese Navy officer, during a 1960 naval exercise -- "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Unfortunately, this quote (as well as the even more famous "sleeping giant" quote) cannot be linked to Yamamoto (Hollywood movie scripts not withstanding). While it does sound like Yamamoto, who was a dissenting voice in imperial Japan, the quote actually comes sourced through a US Navy officer who was quoting (or paraphrasing) an unnamed Japanese naval office, at joint naval exercises in 1960. The US officer had asked the Japanese officer why the Empire of Japan had not attempted an invasion of the US mainland in WWII.Close on the quote, just off on the time frame well that and the fact it is known who said it.
"You cannot invade the mainland United States.
There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese Navy)
I haven't seen Red Dawn since High School (graduated in '87, thank you very much) but what a great movie. I don't care if it was my Aunty Rose or Genghis Khan who laid down the "... a rifle behind every blade of grass" quote - the United States of America will never have a successful ground assault launched against it.
We do not have to worry about the ground assault. Our a$ are being sold out by our politicians fast.