Comments on: Patrick Swayze's Forgotten Role

By: Eric Kirk

Eric Kirk — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:51:12 +0000

As a leftist, I always found the film hilarious. I mean, here the Russians and Cubans were so brilliant in taking over the US and couldn’t take out a handful of high school students. I loved it when the Cuban guy’s first words as he’s getting out of the helicopter are orders to go down to city hall and get a list of all the registered gun owners. And the bumper sticker about the cold dead hands, as the camera slowly moves to the gun in hand, with the soviet heel prying the cold dead fingers. Woooo. That was deep. And of course the angle of illegal aliens being a secret invasion because nobody can tell the difference between Cubans and Mexicans.

But best of all was the Green Party takeover of Europe leading to the demise of NATO.

In the end, why didn’t the Russians just poison the food? They would have had all of them right there.

By: Steve R

Steve R — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:12:28 +0000

I enjoyed Red Dawn, but never saw it as a realistic scenario for an attack on America. I’ve always harked back to Abe Lincoln’s words about a foreign invasion. He once said that no foreign army marching over the Blue Ridge would ever conquer the United States. “As a nation of free men (he said) we shall either live forever, or die by our own hand.” Of course, that allows for the possibility that we could be so destabilized by internal political and cultural strife, so weakened in our foreign policy, and so riddled with national self doubt as to invite an invasion by some coalition of the willing such as Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia — name your poison. Hmmm — maybe the Red Dawn scenario isn’t so far fetched after all…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:26:29 +0000

I bet they do to this what they did to “war of the worlds”, take a great classic and turn it into some liberal B.S. about how rotten a father Tom Cruise was.There were no children in the original movie, and no “politically correct” garbage, either.

By: Michaelle Maloney

Michaelle Maloney — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:01:03 +0000

He was a great actor. I need to get caught up on his movies.

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:38:10 +0000

Patrick Swayze was married to the same woman for 34 years, this man is my Hero!

I loved the mini-series North and South, he did a fantastic job. And I have to say, I have watched Road House several times! Red Dawn had such an emotional impact on me, it was a great movie, but I only watched it twice, I guess the idea of an enemy invading America is just too unthinkable…

Rest in Peace Patrick, we will miss you….

By: oldwolves

oldwolves — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:49:23 +0000

The new “Red Dawn” movie. Just great. Let me see.

Bad guys.Hmmm. Muslim terrorist? No.To close to reality. Communist? No. (To close to white house politics.) Has to be Right wing Nazi Europeans.

Good guys.Hmmm. God fearing gun toting bible carrying hero? No. To close to reality. Has to be a liberal soup kitchen volunteer who drives only hybrid cars and doesn’t eat meat and blames America for the war because America causes global warming.(Extra points if gay) Runs the schools socialist newspaper, the “World Togetherness Press”

All right everyone. what about a script? Please add your ideas here.

By: "gunner"

"gunner" — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:14:11 +0000

add: coincidentally, i watched “red dawn” again a week or so ago, its still as good as ever and does not need a “remake”, particularly not a “politically corrected” version from the usual suspects in todays hollywood.

By: "gunner"

"gunner" — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:02:11 +0000

i seldom waste money on hollywood films, but “red dawn” is one of the few i’ve bought on tape, along with “hunt for red october” and the “lord of the rings” trilogy. as for the remakeof “red dawn” i’ll wait to see what they do with it, if they turn it into just another hollywood liberal propaganda sermon i’ll pass, even if they give it away free.

By: kathyshaidle

kathyshaidle — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:16:27 +0000

We played this for one of our Right Wing Movie Nights. Such fun.

I hear they are remaking it! Lots of folks angry about that, let me tell you, mostly because there are apparently no Muslim terrorists as bad guys in this one. I know: what a shock!

By: Evergreen78

Evergreen78 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:39:59 +0000

I only saw this movie once (sorry!), but there was one line that I often think of & will never forget: One of the kids is whining about “Why do WE have to do all this? I’m tiiiiired,” or something like that, and the answer was “Because we live here.” I love that.

By: swathdiver

swathdiver — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:39:48 +0000

Let’s not forget Roadhouse and one of my favorite’s, Uncommon Valor!

By: Tar and Feathers

Tar and Feathers — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:00 +0000

One of my favorite films. Gonna have to watch it again. In addition to Swayze, it featured a young Charlie Sheen and Lea Thompson, plus an amusing and sardonic performance by Powers Boothe as a downed American fighter pilot.

I enjoyed Swayze in “The Outsiders,” plus one of my all-time guilty pleasures, “Road House.” He did some great work.