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Calling All L.A. Wolverines For The New Beverly's July 4th RED DAWN Screening w/ Lea Thompson!

RED DAWN IS TERRIBLE by supercowbell5THECOWBELLHASSPOKEN	Jul 3rd, 2009 02:40:19 PM

Lea Thompson is a goddess... by JackLucas	Jul 3rd, 2009 02:42:09 PM
and RED DAWN is a classic. If you grew up in the 80's you would understand. If not, fuck all five foot two hundred fifty pounds of you, you fat disgusting fuck. Just fuck you. I love you, Lea!
im 6'1 and red dawn sucks by supercowbell5THECOWBELLHASSPOKEN	Jul 3rd, 2009 02:45:09 PM
lea thompson is insanely hot though
Wasnt C Thomas Howell in it? by skimn	Jul 3rd, 2009 02:47:00 PM
Im sure he aint too busy to attend.
RD is highly implausible but entertaining by Chuck_Chuckwalla	Jul 3rd, 2009 02:54:56 PM
I seem to remember Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze were in it. And I remember Lea gets shot in it, damn shame. She reminds me of my first girlfriend.
Lea Thompson.. by ShogunMaster	Jul 3rd, 2009 02:55:49 PM
was the only good thing about Howard the Duck..
They should double bill this Rocky IV by skimn	Jul 3rd, 2009 03:01:30 PM
Its jingoism night at the movies.
Lovin' Me Some Lea... by BoggyCreekBeast	Jul 3rd, 2009 03:08:33 PM
Wish I lived there so I could bask in the sheer Lea-ness of that event!
Ahh Lea Thompson by tomdolan04	Jul 3rd, 2009 03:10:00 PM
As a twelve year old guy seeing Back To The Future way back when, Lea Thompson in the dress she wore to the dance with Marty...sigh. First crush oh yes.
I never saw it, but doesn't she get full frontal by skimn	Jul 3rd, 2009 03:25:55 PM
with Tom Cruise in All The Right Moves?
RED DAWN was an unintentional brilliant metaphor by Continentalop	Jul 3rd, 2009 03:35:18 PM
Millius' RD is often looked at as jingoistic cheese, which I think was Milius' intent (at least the jingoism) but it also is a subversive endorsement of unconventional warfare, including the Vietcongs' tactics against the US and their rational for fighting us. Now I am not a NLF or a North Vietnamese Army apologist, but many of the reasons for why the Vietcong fought America, the tactics, and the motivation ("Because we live here") could have been said by Charlie. It also shows the hubris of a super-power against a much inferior, less sophisticated opponent (sound familiar?), and how show of force doesn't always work against guerillas fighting for their national pride. Maybe if the Russian Army in RED DAWN had listened to their Cuban version of General Petraeus they might have won.
"why the Vietcong fought America" by Continentalop	Jul 3rd, 2009 03:37:01 PM
I meant "why the Wolverines fought the Russians". Running short on coffee.
"there's still nothing more American than fantasizing about (non by V'Shael	Jul 3rd, 2009 03:42:27 PM
You sad asshole.
Ask her about THIS scene in Howard the Duck. by Stuntcock Mike	Jul 3rd, 2009 03:56:43 PM
http://tinyurl.com/n3s6bn
HarryKnowles will Die I will kill him. His by WalkenLives	Jul 3rd, 2009 04:14:16 PM
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Are non-Michigan grads invited? by Chewtoy	Jul 3rd, 2009 04:14:43 PM
I recall Red Dawn being especially goofy even back then. Cheesy too. I can't imagine a remake working in the present.
Thanks Mike... by BoggyCreekBeast	Jul 3rd, 2009 04:38:10 PM
Crop out the duck and that's my new wallpaper! WOOF!
I liked Red Dawn by liljuniorbrown	Jul 3rd, 2009 05:14:07 PM
It was cheesey fun. People take shit to seriously, like some one was going to wacth Red Dawn and make some life altering choices. It was the height of the 80's cold war "let's kill the commies" mentality. As a kid watching it on TBS, i'm thinking Lea Thompson is hot and Patrick Swayze's kicking ass. Thats about as deep as it got with me.
Lea Thompson in the '80s... by photoboy	Jul 3rd, 2009 05:26:24 PM
...was the Megan Fox of her time, except without the tattoos, low IQ and skankiness.
Poor Lea by lockesbrokenleg	Jul 3rd, 2009 05:38:39 PM
Went from Red Dawn to Carline in the City to midnight movie premieres. Poor girl.
Lea Thompson is TEH HOTNESS by spud mcspud	Jul 3rd, 2009 06:00:14 PM
She made duck fucking sexy. I'm not even sure the great Megan Fox could pull that off. Me, she could pull off. EVERY DAY. But not the duck fucking. That is Lea's, and Lea's alone. That hot, hot momma.
"What's the difference?" "BECAUSE WE LIVE HERE!!!" Ratatatah!!! by Orionsangels	Jul 3rd, 2009 06:13:09 PM

Poor Lea by lockesbrokenleg	Jul 3rd, 2009 06:34:45 PM
A fucking duck and SpaceFlop killed her career.
Obama: "We're FREE now." Rest of US: "...free?" by DreamSeasonBobby	Jul 3rd, 2009 07:13:18 PM
Relax, I'm a confessed Kool-Aid drinker, so what if I like to spike the metaphoric punch. I don't know if Red Dawn was originally R or PG-13 rated, but I remember the liiiinnnnne of us they let in (ALL ages) here in poorindianatown back when it first came out in the mid 80s.
PG-13... by BoggyCreekBeast	Jul 3rd, 2009 07:28:52 PM
one of the first, if not the first... Google it, or Bing it, or whatever.
Jennifer Grey > Lea Thompson by Raymar	Jul 3rd, 2009 09:17:45 PM

Avenge Me! by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Jul 3rd, 2009 09:37:29 PM
Against all these haters.
Howard Douche Is Very Lucky To Be The Rebound Guy After Dennis Q by mjgtexas	Jul 3rd, 2009 09:45:48 PM
She still looks great in that pasty skin Minnesota way.
Lea Thompson DOES still look great by Nasty In The Pasty	Jul 3rd, 2009 10:01:56 PM
Funny how Back To The Future envisioned Thompson at age 47 as this frumpy, latex-swathed hag, but now that she IS 47...she still looks almost the same. Check out the documentaries on the Howard The Duck DVD (yes, I bought it...and the film isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be), and she still looks incredible. Must be an 80's thing, as most of the chicks I crushed on back then (like Elisabeth Shue) are still SMOKING hot.
Man, Lea, where have you been lo these many years.. by DoctorZoidberg	Jul 3rd, 2009 10:17:27 PM
I would still do you.
Anyone who said it was cheesy is too cynical by Razorback	Jul 3rd, 2009 11:25:03 PM
It was actually very much in keeping with the time and how guerrilla forces operate. It was also less a statement about Vietnam and more of a statement about why it would not happen. Red Dawn represents a REAL scenario created by the Cubans, Nicaraguans, and even Soviets that considered how an invasion of the US southwest would go. Their conclusion was that the American citizens were too well armed.
Lea is still yummy. by Dingbatty	Jul 4th, 2009 03:07:47 AM
I wonder if she is doing this to generate goodwill, because of the people on IMDB spreading rumors that she is mean to fans when they approach her?
Razorback by AsimovLives	Jul 4th, 2009 04:35:52 AM
The reason the USSR would never invade the USA, or western europe, are, for the most part, three: 1) the economic price would be too much for why they would rip; 2) For the same reasons why Iraq is the stallemate it is, which the russians only knew too well with Afghanisthan. The USA would be Afghanisthan times 10, and that would be a nightmare too fucking great to even contemplate. 3) The very nature of guerrilla armed resistance that would inevitably face. Everty country that has invaded another country inthe 20th century have faced extremly crippling guerrilla resistance that ends up taking too much of a tool to make the invasion be a complete waste. This can be seen from WWII foward. With the exception of China's invasion of Tibet, no invading country in the history of the 20th century has been sucessful. It would not be the fact that american civilains that have weapons that would cause a problem for the russian invasors. guerrillas always get armed with the same weaponry as the invasors, and for good reasons: it deplets the enemy of his own weapons, makes easier for the guerrilla to rearm themsevles with the same type of ammo and weaponry from the fallen enemy, and would simplify matters. Simplicity is always an important thing in wagging war, specially guerrilla warfare. Using the same weapons of the enemy was always a good thing. And notice as in Red Dawn Milius wisely portaits the wolverines as using more and more captured soviet weaponry, to the point in the end they use nothing but that. And that is a good thing because of what i said above, but also for this other thing which Milius, as a major gun nut, knows all too well: soviet style weapons, like the AK-47, are perfect for guerrilla type warfare. no american build weaponry would work as well for the needs of guerrilla warfare. This is why the AK-47 is was so popular and still is. It's reliability and resistance to wear and tear are legendary, and great accets to guerrilla type warfare. No, it wouldn't be that american civilains that have lots of guns at home that would be a problem for the invading soviets: it would be the experiency of the guerrilla resistances, and that's not an exclusive american trait, it's an exclusive trait of EVERY PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND THAT HAVE BEEN INVADED BY FOREIGN POWERS. Many countries which had gun control or lacked a gun culture did offered a sucessful guerrilla resistance to invaders. Civil owenership of guns means nothing in such scenarios.
YOU VILL LOSE by ironic_name	Jul 4th, 2009 04:39:52 AM

oleg will take over witha paperclip and a ham sandwich by ironic_name	Jul 4th, 2009 04:41:57 AM

One of the most hillarious moment in Red Dawn by AsimovLives	Jul 4th, 2009 04:46:11 AM
is when you have that dead hick with his gun on his hand and he has this bumber saying "you only take my gun from my dead pried fingers" and then a russian soldier just does that, very nonchallantly. It's a great moment of pitch black humour from Milius and Co.
The Spetnaz russian commander by AsimovLives	Jul 4th, 2009 04:46:51 AM
He's Conan's dad!!
Actually the russians today and at Red Dawn's time by AsimovLives	Jul 4th, 2009 05:02:00 AM
use the AK-74, not the AK-47, as their army service rifle.
Milius is Ganghis Khan by Stuntcock Mike	Jul 4th, 2009 07:06:53 AM
in the drawing in the classroom at the beginning of the film
I'm tired to masturbating to her in "All the right moves"! by Cotton McKnight	Jul 4th, 2009 10:10:13 AM
The tape is practically worn out. I need more material, Ms. Thompson, make more movies.
Well done, Beaks! by jimmy rabbitte	Jul 4th, 2009 11:52:05 AM
...love the "Welcome 2 France" link.
Encouraging drunk driving... by Jaka	Jul 4th, 2009 12:51:00 PM
...is not patriotic, it's foolish in the extreme. Sounds like a fun event, though. Hope y'all have designated drivers and a great time.
Red Dawn is a Classic by Lornsorrow	Jul 4th, 2009 12:59:47 PM
Red Dawn is a great film that has some very good moments in it and deals with a serious subject in a way that I think struck a decent balance between action/adventure/fantasy and dead seriousness. But what some people might not think about, is that some of these themes were thought about by a lot of people back in the 80's during the whole "red scare". It was thought very possible that the big russian bear from the north might actually come down on us. The real possibility of nuclear war and who knows what else, was hanging over peoples heads (granted, some people thought about it more than others). But such themes were coming out in movies and such.The cold war was kinda at a peak. The last peak. Before the wall fell and the Soviet Union disappeared, there was a time period where it looked like it could really go crazy. A lot of movies at that time dealt with that pressure in different ways. There were some movies that suggested we should all just get along, and there were others that looked at what could happen if it all went to shit. A lot of us kids and teens, well, we tuned out a lot and buried our heads in music and other things. But even there stuff would come up. Who can forget the nuclear front cover and theme to the "Ultimate Sin" album by Ozzy Osbourne (even if the album itself may not one of his best - I still enjoy it). And there were others. SO I guess my point is, I really hate seeing people bitch and moan about the supposed "silliness" of the film. Today, if the film was made, all they would have to do would be to replace the bad guys in the old Red Dawn with the kind of terrorism and Islamic takeover of america that I'm sure are on some people's minds. I generally don't like remakes, but THAT, I would probably go see. Besides, the spread of religion and religious extremism is something that is far harder to stop than political extremism. I mean, potentially, militant Islam (or any other militant religion theoretically that wants to impose a theocracy) can certainly become a greater threat in the long run than anything Hitler ever conceived of. When "god" is put into the equation, the world goes bonkers... That's the stuff that dark ages are made of... "RUN TO THE HILLS, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" - IRON MAIDEN
cheesy? Hell no... by MurderMostFowl	Jul 4th, 2009 01:52:16 PM
As a young boy in the 80's when I saw Red Dawn, I believed ever freaking moment of it... just the school scene at the beginning freaked me out. I would have followed the "older" kids of the wolverines to the ends of the earth. I was very into this movie as a kid. My heart sank and I was actually so nervous when the tracking device thing happens. That was so awful for them to have to face. I really bought into the whole thing. So yeah maybe it's cheesy now, but there as a kid it really worked for me.
AsimovLives by Razorback	Jul 4th, 2009 02:54:06 PM
You didn't really contradict anything I said, so I have no idea why you directed that at me, or why your conclusion seems to be an attempt to contradict me. The Cubans were the ones who decided the Americans were too well armed. Guerrilla warfare is much easier to wage if you have tons of weapons and ammo. As for them using Russian equipment, they had to first acquire that stuff. And they did it by killing enemy soldiers with the guns they had.
Was a shit film then, still shit now...zenophobic hooey by KillaKane	Jul 4th, 2009 03:49:13 PM
Milius's survivalist 'fuck the Reds fantasy' totally implausible. At least the remake will have the sense to focus on a more plausible threat.
KillaKane by DrunkyMcLush	Jul 4th, 2009 04:23:29 PM
Perhaps you'd like to back up your opinion? I'm curious as to why you think it's implausible.
DrunkyMcLush: it's implausible... by Baryonyx	Jul 4th, 2009 05:57:32 PM
...because, if I remember correctly, some of the invading troops parachuted out of commercial airliners. It's implausible because a bunch of kids with bows and arrows kill well-armed troops, it's silly because there are conventional tank battles taking place in America, but in China they just got nuked: so why not the States? It's silly because Russia & Cuba decide to team-up to launch a conventional invasion of America. Such realism!
Good film back in its day by HagCeli	Jul 4th, 2009 06:45:21 PM
but won't work in our times.
Thanks Baryonyx...that pretty much covers it ;-) by KillaKane	Jul 4th, 2009 06:52:38 PM
that and it's as cheesy as a block of year old Feta. A film for mulleted simians with gun racks in the back of their RVs and a second grader's perspective on Cold War politics.
Seemed implausible to me... by Mundungus	Jul 4th, 2009 07:19:04 PM
The target didn't seem to make sense. What I've thought, even way back then was that if they had said it was Alaska and it was an oil grab, the story would have been more realistic. There were actually Soviet hardliners who called for such an invasion, stating that the area was rightfully theirs because the Seward Alaska Purchase was corrupt or invalid (actually they didn't know about the oil in 1867). I think an Alaska location would have more logistic sense too, making the numbers of invaders vs locals and isolation from reinforcements seem more realistic. Hell, they could have still shot in the same location. Boy am I pissing away some time on twenty year old bullshit here.... Happy 4th to those in my country.
Hopefully it won't feature Cubans this time. by Orionsangels	Jul 5th, 2009 12:20:49 AM

Rifftrax! by DarthChimay	Jul 5th, 2009 03:06:46 AM
Don't forget - Mike Nelson (of MST3K fame) just release a rifftrax for this flick that he did with Joel McHale (of The Soup fame, not of McHale's Navy fame). Haven't watched it yet, but those are both funny guys.
Baryonyx by DrunkyMcLush	Jul 5th, 2009 04:54:06 AM
Did you see the same movie we're talking about? Because I seem to remember the kids killing with guns and grenades rather than bows and arrows. What they did was called Guerilla Warfare and it is quite effective. Because they're kids means nothing. As they say in Lord of War --- "A gun in a 14-year-old's hands is just as deadly as a gun in an adult's hands." Then again, maybe I should apologize. I forgot we were talking about real life and not a movie that came out in the 80's. Perhaps you'd like a more realistic movie, such as Predator? Perhaps Frankenstein?
Powers Boothe Should Have Won The Motherfucking Oscar by Darth Busey	Jul 5th, 2009 10:23:01 AM
"Used to be." (tosses cup of whiskey into fire)
Mundungus by AsimovLives	Jul 5th, 2009 04:19:47 PM
If i'm recalling the movie correctly, the reason why the russians didn't nuked the USA was because they needed to converse the farming land unspoiled. In the movie, what motivates the invasion is the USA's huge farming land, because in russia the crops have failed for some years. And i think it's said that the russians nuked the main cities of China, and i guess for the russians, china was more a local threath then a goal, ence their more heavyhanded dealing with the chinese, while for the USA they used classic occupational invasion.
Powers Boothe was great as Philip Marlow by AsimovLives	Jul 5th, 2009 04:20:48 PM
One of the best actors playing the role. Great mini-series.
Reason for invasion by Darth Busey	Jul 5th, 2009 04:38:05 PM
Watch the movie again. They clearly spell out the reasons for the invasion and why nuclear weapons were not used on U.S. targets. I also neglected to mention how fucking great RON SUPERFLY O'NEAL is in this playing a Cuban colonel. "COO-BAH....SAHN SAHL-VA-DOR..."
It will be cheaper to do business in China... by babblerouser	Jul 5th, 2009 05:08:28 PM
...than in the USA. Yeah, THAT'S the new Red Dawn...and it will be all but guaranteed when the libs you retards voted into the senate pass the cap & trade bill. And Franken, a suckass comedian at best, is now the vote that will block the fillibuster. Goooooo Hollywood..no really, just go... and take your lame ass remakes with you - no talent orginality lacking mofos
AsimovLives, your knowledge of the AK is pathetic by babblerouser	Jul 5th, 2009 05:21:48 PM
yes, it's a reliable weapon, but the reason it became so popular was that it took almost no training to use it and more importantly in it's simple design, allowing for less industrialized nations (Egypt, etc.) to manufacturer it at a very large capacity. Which is why it's the weapon of choice around the world. Next time you see an AK (ha, chuckle), look at the stamp of orgin and I'll bet you $100,000 that is wasn't made in Russia/former USSR republics.
ASIMOV LIVES ADMIT YOUR LOVE FOR STAR TREK!! by lockesbrokenleg	Jul 5th, 2009 05:31:16 PM
It's a damn good summer movie and a damn good movie. Admit your Spock love!!
DrunkyMcLush by Baryonyx	Jul 5th, 2009 06:10:18 PM
Yeah, they used guns & grenades. And they used at least one bow & arrow to kill a Ruskie: here's the clip from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =nUGqorHBW3w
AsimovLives by Baryonyx	Jul 5th, 2009 06:13:48 PM
If the Russians spared the USA because of its farmland, maybe they should've taken into acount all those rice fields in China before they nuked 'em.
AsimovLives is definitely right about one thing by Greggers	Jul 5th, 2009 08:01:42 PM
Powers Boothe was indeed a great Phillip Marlowe; in fact, I'd go so far as to say he was the BEST. Bogey, Dick Powell, Robert Mongomery, Mitchum, Elliot Gould -- Boothe somehow managed to have them all beat, whether through vitality (Bogey, Mitchum) or sheer coolness (all the rest). I really wish that show would pop up on A&E or something.
Lea Thompson was a piece of ass in her day by Rupee88	Jul 5th, 2009 10:51:18 PM
she hit the wall many years ago as they all do but damn was she hot in the 80s
Red Dawn was the first movie I ever walked out of by codereduk	Jul 6th, 2009 12:23:15 AM
It was the first time it ever occurred to me that, even though I had paid my money, I wasn't actually chained to the seat, and I could use my freedom of choice to walk out of the theater and try to reclaim some of my life, rather than just sit zombie-like through a horrible movie. It was a life-changing revelation, and the first of many movies that I have left half way through. God I hated Red Dawn.
Lea Thompson...Faptasitic for over 2 decades.. by conspiracy	Jul 6th, 2009 12:38:31 AM
From the killer crooked smile, to the perfectly proportioned body, down to what has to be some of the best legs in the business...Lea Thompson is in my top 10 of all time Faptastic babes. A real 3 tissue girl. I'd love the chance to run my moist tongue up the backs of her insane gams...up too her perfect, no doubt still taught buttocks...and as she slowly bent forward and positioned her her soft milky thighs wide apart, work my mouth between her luscious perfumed ass cheeks into the hot dampness of her furnace like vagina...stopping just for a second, a hesitation really, to savor the fact I was eating the sticky sweet living sex directly from Marty McFlys mom.
lockesbrokenleg by AsimovLives	Jul 6th, 2009 07:05:45 AM
I admit that i really like and respect the Star Trek original series. While no trekkie, i have lots of fun watching that show, and i respect the vision and the intelligence that went to make it. Or at least the first two seasons. But JJ's Star Trek, i have nothing but despise and loath, it's one of the very top stupidiest and most insulting movies i have seen in the last 10 to 15 years, and I'll use it as an example of a complete failure in all regards to filmmaking for years to come. Oh yeah!
babblerouser by AsimovLives	Jul 6th, 2009 07:14:16 AM
Maybe i didn't made myself clear in my previous post, but i do recall that i did mentioend that the AK was easy to use and couldm withstand a lot of punishement and still work in very taxing conditions, be it cold, heat, humidity, dust, mud, you name it. I'm very well aware that that assault rifle, characteristics by charactristics is surpassed by many other, like the M-16, the G3, the FNL, the Einfield, etc, but the sum of it's parts makes the AK to be the best assault rifle to go, generally speaking. and the fact it doesn't need much train to use it is a major plus for it. and that it was designed to be able to be repaired by any village blacksmith. All that works in it's favour. so much so, that in many pools, the AK always ends up as chosen as the best assault rifle. Each individual characteristics might be surpassed by other rifles, but in overall score the AK wins. And yes, i'm quite aware that the rifle was "given2 to other countries so they could developed their own versions for their own needs, and this is why we get the czeck, the chinese, etc etc versions of the rifle. Hell, even the finnish did a version of the AK, frlm which they improved into becoming their own armed forces service rifle, the RK 62. No, i don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of assault rifles, but i do know a bit of it, and slightly more then your post might make us believe.
FN FNC by AsimovLives	Jul 6th, 2009 07:16:07 AM
I fucked up above, i ment to say "FN FNC", not "FNL".
Did Lea Thompson make the showing? by growltiger	Jul 6th, 2009 04:28:15 PM
Did anyone go?
conspiracy... by TTMan	Jul 6th, 2009 08:34:37 PM
You're obvious illiteracy makes your "dirty talk" absolutely sickening. If this was a letter to PENTHOUSE FORUM, there would be no way any spellling check program could make your sentences any more coherent.
Yes, yes she did by newbeverlymidnights	Jul 7th, 2009 02:47:56 PM
Lea did a 10 minute Q&A before the show then stayed to watch the movie. I saw several people taping it so I'm sure it'll hit youtube at some point soon.
The unintentional message of Red Dawn by RegnadKcin	Jul 8th, 2009 12:21:04 AM
It makes you sympathetic to the folks whose country is invaded. So, replace the Americans with the Iraqis and the Russians/Cubans with Americans/British. Now, how do you feel about the movie?
RegnadKcin by AsimovLives	Jul 8th, 2009 02:27:48 AM
I'm not too sure if that was so unintentional as that. I suspect that with all his bravado right-winget talk, in truth John Milius is a far more humanist guy then he wants to show. He just loves to have that 19th century adventurer, Teddy Roosevelt/John Houston big white man hunter anacronic image. The man loves that romamtic imagery of manlihood of old. But i suspect deep down, he's a far more humane and humanist person, and you can see proof of that in his scripts, in his movies. Behind all his posture, there's a big heart in him.
AsimovLives by RegnadKcin	Jul 8th, 2009 07:41:24 PM
Interestingly, in 1984, the closest parallel would have been the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. If Milius was making a statement about that conflict, it was right on. But it's so hard for me to see through his jingoism, I have difficulty thinking of him having much of a heart, let alone a big one. But thank you for your comment. You've noticed something I missed, I guess.

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