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Subject: Re: Red Dawn (Non-Spoiler) - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 00:21:55 EDT
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ism780b!cathleen    Aug 22 11:59:00 1984

***** ism780b:net.movies / tekchips!terryl /  2:46 am  Aug 19, 1984

      Well, I went and saw "Red Dawn" last night, and it wasn't as bad as
people made it out to be: it was worse. There was absolutely no plot develop-
ment at all, and almost no character development. I got the impression that
the actors weren't really interested in their roles(except maybe the foreign
sounding ones; hard to tell their emotions); I really didn't care if any of
the kids lived or died, and the way some of them died just didn't make any
sense in the context of the overall movie. There were a couple of MAJOR
points to the plot that the movie just ignored (as someone already said, why
did Russia invade the US to begin with; also, what happened and how did it
happen the Russian snow troops were able to track them down with the trans-
mitter that one of the kids supposedly swallowed??? How and when did he have
the chance to see the Russians????)

     All in all, I'd say this movie was a total waste. Avoid it at all costs.
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It sounds to me like you were wearing a blindfold through the whole movie!

>>Why did Russia invade to began with??

Did you see the begining of the movie, it doesn't sound like it.
Russia was suffuring from many hardships: starvation, depletion of natural
resources, etc.
The mid-west was infiltrated by Cubans posing as Mexican workers, who
got settled here, and set things up for the first charter flight of
Soviet leaders.  They said a small amount of Nuclear weapons were used.
I agree that a lot of things are unclear, questions unanswered, but
it is only a movie! You make it sound like an inaccurate account of
a historical event.
The kid who swallowed the bug thought that they would have a better chance
of surviving if they were caught and put in camps with the rest of the town.
He didn't like doing what they were doing, he was scared (wouldn't
you be?) he wanted to surrender, by doing so he thought he, and his friends
would be safe.
One question brought up is `Who can you trust?'
The kid who was bugged did voice his fears to his friends, but he didn't
tell them he was giong to try to get them caught.
The movie depicts the infiltration of the mid-west in the same
manner that the Soviet Union actually invaded Afganastan (sp?),
through a charter flight of a seemingly `native' group of people.

I think it is presented from an interesting point of view,
and as not all the actors are great, most of the main characters
are played very well.

		       Jon
    `it's my opinion, I'm entitled to it, if you don't like don't read it'