Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!mathnews2 From: mathnews2@watdcsu.UUCP (mathNOOS [editors]) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Red Dawn (slight spoiler) Message-ID: <350@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 22:42:15 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.350 Posted: Sat Aug 11 22:42:15 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 02:09:43 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 26 Saw _Red Dawn_ the other night at it's first showing in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and I would have to say that I don't think the four dollars I paid was wasted. Certain premises on which the movie was set were rather hokey, such as all of Central America falling to the Communists led by Cuba and Nicaragua or the demise of NATO as a result of the Green Party winning power in West Germany (This is the slight spoiler, that is the first thirty seconds of the movie). I found, as did the audience, that the battle scenes evoked a sort of ``They blowed up real good!'' reaction, but in many ways the movie played to the opinions of the Reagan administration and the Gun lobbies (you'll get the idea likely when you see it). The technical aspects weren't bad, nor was the story nor the acting, and I would rate it 7.5 out of ten (not many movies get that high of a rating from me). I recommend it if you want a serious movie. PS. (mini-spoiler) Did anyone notice that the survivors were perhaps the weakest emotionally in the group? Marcel Kahnt U. E. Entertainment Editor mathNEWS University of Waterloo {allegra, utzoo, decvax, ihnp4 }!watmath!watdcsu!mathnews2 (my sister was bit by a moose.... -).