Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
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Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Red Dawn (1984)
Director: John Milius
Screenwriters: John Milius, Kevin Reynolds (story)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell
Running Time: 114 minutes
Budget: $17 million
Box Office: $38.9 million
Streaming availability: None that I could find
On-demand/PPV: Amazon Prime, YouTube for $3.99, probably the other places, as well
Start Time: 9 p.m. (movie starts at 9:10 p.m.)
We'll close our July 4th doubleheader with this one, not the 2012 re-make, so don't be fooled. And a couple of fun notes from Wikipedia...
Peter Bart recalls that things changed when "the chieftains at MGM got a better idea. Instead of making a poignant little antiwar movie, why not make a teen Rambo and turn the project over to John Milius, a genial and rotund filmmaker who loved war movies and also loved war? The idea was especially popular with a member of the MGM board of directors, General Alexander Haig, the former Nixon chief of staff, who yearned to supervise the film personally and develop a movie career."
Milius was signed to direct at a fee of $1.25 million, plus a gun of his choice. Milius set about rewriting the script. He and Haig devised a backstory in which the circumstances of the invasion would take place; this was reportedly based on Hitler's proposed plans to invade the USA. Haig took Milius under his wing, bringing him to the Hudson Institute, the conservative think tank founded by Herman Kahn, to develop a plausible scenario.
Director: John Milius
Screenwriters: John Milius, Kevin Reynolds (story)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell
Running Time: 114 minutes
Budget: $17 million
Box Office: $38.9 million
Streaming availability: None that I could find
On-demand/PPV: Amazon Prime, YouTube for $3.99, probably the other places, as well
Start Time: 9 p.m. (movie starts at 9:10 p.m.)
We'll close our July 4th doubleheader with this one, not the 2012 re-make, so don't be fooled. And a couple of fun notes from Wikipedia...
Peter Bart recalls that things changed when "the chieftains at MGM got a better idea. Instead of making a poignant little antiwar movie, why not make a teen Rambo and turn the project over to John Milius, a genial and rotund filmmaker who loved war movies and also loved war? The idea was especially popular with a member of the MGM board of directors, General Alexander Haig, the former Nixon chief of staff, who yearned to supervise the film personally and develop a movie career."
Milius was signed to direct at a fee of $1.25 million, plus a gun of his choice. Milius set about rewriting the script. He and Haig devised a backstory in which the circumstances of the invasion would take place; this was reportedly based on Hitler's proposed plans to invade the USA. Haig took Milius under his wing, bringing him to the Hudson Institute, the conservative think tank founded by Herman Kahn, to develop a plausible scenario.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I can't decide if the lack of responses means you're all a bunch of Commies or if you are relying on guerrilla tactics to secretly show up tonight.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Gonna be poppin' outta my blind to mow down some Commie bastards. Only after I piss in the radiator.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Should be in
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
We'll start when the MGM logo fades to black.
The pause point will be at the end of the scene where the addition to the group meets everyone over dinner, so pausing with the new member sleeping in his tent.
The pause point will be at the end of the scene where the addition to the group meets everyone over dinner, so pausing with the new member sleeping in his tent.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Fellow SWT Bobcat!
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Man, teenaged me loved this movie. Do I remember right that it was the first PG-13 movie?
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
The second (after Oxford Blues).
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Yup, because of Temple of Doom.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Red Dawn was first.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
So it was. I always thought it was second.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Yeah, Google says my memory of this is right. That might be a first - Google is always proving me wrong.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I have a very clear recollection of this which is crazy since I was 7 when this came out. I recall the huge Red Dawn ad on the back of the entertainment section of the Chronicle and there was an article in there about the new rating.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Apparently I've been whistling the Red Dawn theme all day. All of the sudden really hyped up for this tonight! Set an alarm to remember to watch it and everything.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I am pleased that my recruitment plan has worked and we will be able to attack this assignment with numbers.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I should be in. Haven't seen this movie since I was a kid in the 80's and it was on cable TV 10 times a day.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I feel like it's one of those classic movies where I've seen the last "X" minutes about 20 times and the first three minutes twice.Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:51 pm I should be in. Haven't seen this movie since I was a kid in the 80's and it was on cable TV 10 times a day.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
United States stand alone.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I am so excited to rewatch. Loved this movie growing up. We used to watch it every timewe would visit my cousins in Michigan.
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Gonna try this on my tablet instead of computer today.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Two minutes out.
As a reminder, start where the screen fades to black after the MGM logo.
As a reminder, start where the screen fades to black after the MGM logo.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Hope you guys aren't gonna get trashed. There's reading in this one.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Never seen the whole thing. Was scared shitless of nuclear war as a little kid (bad experience with The Day After) and my parents never really liked us watching violent movies. Let’s go.
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The best right-wing propaganda reading!
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Roll film.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
"West German"?
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
This may be #1 on the most-watched movies list. I was scared of nuclear war too, but I leaned into that shit. I watched The Day After on repeat when I got it at the video store on a two-day rental.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Surprised no one has dropped the requisite mention that John Milius is the real-life inspiuration for Walter Sobchak,
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I probably went 20 years without seeing it after 1989, but holy shit did I watch this over and over.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Fuckin green party
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
Enjoying this with my 14 year old daughter. Time to indoctrinate her on the hatred of those dirty Commie bastards.
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TILJohnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 8:11 pm Surprised no one has dropped the requisite mention that John Milius is the real-life inspiuration for Walter Sobchak,
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I will never understand why this town was targeted.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
RUFF RYDERS!
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because bodie lived there.
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Wolverines!!!
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I think the gist is to get a stronghold in the middle as they divided the nation in two parts.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I mean, it's a town where 20-year olds drive 18-year-olds to school.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
This teacher is the only Black person these kids have ever seen.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Red Dawn (1984), Thursday, July 9, 9 PM ET
I somehow forgot Charlie Sheen was in this.
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