Red Dawn (Collector's Edition)
by John Milius
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Actor: C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Lea Thompson, Patrick SwayzeDirector: John Milius
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Red Dawn (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: AVENGE ME!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
THE WAR: A possible future result of the Cold War, where the Russians and Cubans try to join Vodka and cigars for WWIII, invade through commercial airliners, and take the U.S. from within. For the most part, this was made as a warning message to the Russians: Do NOT try it. If you invade, our effing teenagers are violent, will join the war, and will destroy you.
STORY: A group of Colorado high-schoolers (Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Gray, Lea Thompson) led by a recent graduate (Patrick Swayze), toughened under his watchful father's eyes, see their small town under siege from Russian and Cuban paratroopers. After initial doubt, they flee to the remote wilderness of the surrounding mountains when they see the opening salvo of WWIII. The commies thought the town a perfect strategic point for indoctrination and POW camps, but they didn't close the noose quick or tight enough. At first the kids are in the hills to survive, but soon they harden into guerilla soldiers, capable of ambivalently disemboweling a Russian, and making a Cuban-ear necklace without batting an eye.
PATRIOTISM: When the meet up Col. Andy Tanner (Powers Boothe), the kids learn that only China and England stand with the U.S., and that the rest of Europe is too busy doing their nails, sipping lattes, and being emo. Only through the survival instinct, ingenious military strategy, superior firepower, and sheer American will has the enemies cunning plan been stopped, as Tanner puts it, "Butt cold!" Protect this house!
FAVORITE BATTLE(S): Faced with their first encounter, the kids pull out bows, arrows, and a few of daddy's shotguns to destroy a couple Russian officers who are sight-seeing instead of fighting (typical officers). After a perfectly placed arrow between the shoulder blades, one Russian weeps like a little girl for her mother. When another gets impaled by the rain of shotgun shell, the impact snaps his spine like a dry toothpick. The last moron crawls to his jeep, dragging body parts, looking like he just lost a really long paintball game, and cries into microphone for God - as if he's not on America's side - before Patrick Swayze makes breezeway through the Russkie's mongoloid skull.
FAVORITE LINE: WOLVERINES!
THE MESSAGE: The worst decision any foreign Army could make is to invade America. Waaaaaay too many private citizens own weapons for any enemy to stop, and eventually the 2nd Amendment's true militia nature would end up causing the slaughter of all of those stupid enough to invade. DO NOT try it, commies.
Summary of Red Dawn (Collector's Edition)
Red Dawn opens with one of the most shocking scenes ever filmed; on a peaceful morning, through the windows of a high school classroom, students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field: the invasion of the United States has begun! As their town is overrun by foreign nationals, eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team, the Wolverines, they wage unremitting guerrilla warfare in defense of their parents, their friends and their country. Powerful, chilling and absolutely gripping, this outstanding film features some of today's most popular stars, including Patrick Swayze (Ghost), Charlie Sheen (Platoon), C. Thomas Howell (The Hitcher), Lea Thompson ("Caroline in the City"), Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) and veteran actor Harry Dean Stanton (Alien). When it comes to thrilling entertainment, Red Dawn wins the war with a vengeance!The Ronald Reagan 1980s were all about going back to the future--rewriting the past to better suit Reagan's upbeat vision of the present. So, Sylvester Stallone's John Rambo (a psychotic, shell-shocked Vietnam vet in the original film, transformed into a flag-waving hero in the sequel) was able to go back to Southeast Asia and "correct" history by decisively (and single-handedly) winning that messy ol' war on behalf of America. Red Dawn is a paranoid cold-war cautionary tale that presents us not with a rosy alternative past, but with an ominous vision of the future, metaphorically plopping a piece of Russian-occupied Afghanistan into America's back yard. In this celebration of the Second Amendment, storm troopers from the Evil Empire descend upon the inadequately defended United States and hold America hostage. Stealthily avoiding the invaders, a motley group of red-blooded, small-town, gun-toting teenagers go underground to form the Wolverines, a guerilla resistance squad dedicated to making those Russkies rue the day they parachuted onto U.S. soil. It's a darn good thing those kids had the right to keep and bear arms, huh! Written and directed by macho filmmaker John Milius, the self-described "Zen fascist" who also cowrote Apocalypse Now, as well as the horrifying shark story Robert Shaw tells in Jaws. The cast includes Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey (a few years before she and Swayze took up Dirty Dancing), Charlie Sheen, Powers Boothe, Harry Dean Stanton, and Ben Johnson. Red Dawn was a commercial success, although audiences invariably split into two camps, finding it either patriotic or appalling. Whatever your verdict, the film remains a telling reflection of its era. --Jim Emerson
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