Cheesy movie wankage
Oct. 17th, 2005 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emmagrant01So I'm watching Red Dawn on TV. I remember seeing that film in the theater when I was about twelve, and the thing I remember about it back then was that in my kid mind, it seemed so real, like something that could really happen.
And watching it now, it looks like the fucking stupidest movie ever made. Hello, the Russians (okay, Cubans, but later the Russians) would invade a one-horse town in the middle of nowhere Wyoming, by air drop? The sheer amount of right-wing fear-mongering propaganda in this film is mind-boggling. We have to have our guns, or we can't protect ourselves from the enemy! You have to know how to kill and butcher animals, just in case you need to survive in the woods when they come for you! You should be hard on your boys -- how else will they know what it means to be men? You have to cloister and protect your daughters, or they'll be raped, or worse. And for God's sake, men don't cry!!
The dialogue is terrible, and the acting not much better. At least it's slashy. Heh. Patrick Swayze/Tom Howell OTP!!!
But you know what scares me about this? When this film came out, I really believed that shit was possible -- even likely. I was completely brainwashed. And you know, it's not that different from what's happening now, is it?
ETA: Oh, look! It's the scene where the Russians line up a bunch of American prisoners by a mass grave and shoot them while they sing America, the Beautiful! Those nasty Russians! *eye roll* "No crying!" Patrick Swayze says! "Hold it back!"
ETA 2: And the illegal aliens from Latin America were part of the evil plan!!! And no one is on our side but England! Those damn wussy French.
Hang on a sec -- that sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it? Hmmm...
And watching it now, it looks like the fucking stupidest movie ever made. Hello, the Russians (okay, Cubans, but later the Russians) would invade a one-horse town in the middle of nowhere Wyoming, by air drop? The sheer amount of right-wing fear-mongering propaganda in this film is mind-boggling. We have to have our guns, or we can't protect ourselves from the enemy! You have to know how to kill and butcher animals, just in case you need to survive in the woods when they come for you! You should be hard on your boys -- how else will they know what it means to be men? You have to cloister and protect your daughters, or they'll be raped, or worse. And for God's sake, men don't cry!!
The dialogue is terrible, and the acting not much better. At least it's slashy. Heh. Patrick Swayze/Tom Howell OTP!!!
But you know what scares me about this? When this film came out, I really believed that shit was possible -- even likely. I was completely brainwashed. And you know, it's not that different from what's happening now, is it?
ETA: Oh, look! It's the scene where the Russians line up a bunch of American prisoners by a mass grave and shoot them while they sing America, the Beautiful! Those nasty Russians! *eye roll* "No crying!" Patrick Swayze says! "Hold it back!"
ETA 2: And the illegal aliens from Latin America were part of the evil plan!!! And no one is on our side but England! Those damn wussy French.
Hang on a sec -- that sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it? Hmmm...
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Date: 2005-10-18 12:40 am (UTC)Yeah, for a long time I thought the Pilgrims were some really nice folks, helping out the Native Americans as best they could. Probably the least of my childhood brainwashing.
Propaganda always came off as being really creepy to me.
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Date: 2005-10-18 12:47 am (UTC)