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From: terryl@tekchips.UUCP (Terry Laskodi)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Red Dawn (Non-Spoiler)
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Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 14:06:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 14:06:35 1984
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      Well, I went and saw "Red Dawn" last night, and it wasn't as bad as
people made it out to be: it was worse. There was absolutely no plot develop-
ment at all, and almost no character development. I got the impression that
the actors weren't really interested in their roles(except maybe the foreign
sounding ones; hard to tell their emotions); I really didn't care if any of
the kids lived or died, and the way some of them died just didn't make any
sense in the context of the overall movie. There were a couple of MAJOR
points to the plot that the movie just ignored (as someone already said, why
did Russia invade the US to begin with; also, what happened and how did it
happen the Russian snow troops were able to track them down with the trans-
mitter that one of the kids supposedly swallowed??? How and when did he have
the chance to see the Russians????)

     All in all, I'd say this movie was a total waste. Avoid it at all costs.