Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!jab From: jab@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Red Dawn: Review - (nf) Message-ID: <3900057@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Aug-84 00:56:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.3900057 Posted: Sun Aug 26 00:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 01:14:29 EDT References: <3900056@uokvax.UUCP> Lines: 30 Nf-ID: #R:uokvax:3900056:uokvax:3900057:000:1137 Nf-From: uokvax!jab Aug 12 23:56:00 1984 #R:uokvax:3900056:uokvax:3900057:000:1137 uokvax!jab Aug 12 23:56:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.movies / lmaher / 9:19 pm Aug 12, 1984 */ _Red Dawn_ is a powerful movie about a band of teenagers who take to the hills and become guerrillas after a communist invasion of America. On my scale, definitely a should-see. /* ---------- */ Make that *TWO* people from here that enjoyed it. Well, perhaps not "enjoyed it". You didn't "enjoy" the movie "Southern Comfort," you experienced it. This is one of those movies. I particularly found the way that one of the kids began to ENJOY killing (he was avenging his father's death) rather frightening, but quite realistic. Are THESE the movies that will be rated "PG-13"? There's no question in my mind that this would have been rated "R" under the previous scheme, because of the violence. Keep this in mind, parents: "PG-13" is not a partitioning of "PG" into "okay for little kids" and "not okay for little kids", it's a redefinition of what "PG" and "R" mean. I guess that means that if a movie's rated "R" because of violence, it must have something *SO* gruesome that you might not want to go, and taking the kid is out of the question. Jeff Bowles Lisle, IL