Posted on 07/11/2008 6:40:41 AM PDT by tlb
LOL! Best one yet!
“Code Pink Dawn”
SCARY!!!!
The ACLU will parachute in and save the day from the evil Right Wing Radio Talk Show hosts invading San Francisco.
Oh, please.
Here http://www.rawles.to/patriots.htm would be a better screenplay that they can come up with. It is based on a complete US economic collapse and the ugly aftermath. It is a little like the short lived Jericho series on TV.
And worst of all...NO ORANGE TIP ON THE ASSAULT RIFLE.
“The intent was laudable, but the movie itself sucked. It was horrible.”
You are banished for 1 hour. I am turning my back on you!
Worst. Adaptation. Ever. But I guess we should have assumed it would stink when Demi Moore was cast as Hester Prynne.
I do have to say, though, Gary Oldman as Dimmsdale, hott. Yes, with 2 t's.
Check the links out and ferret out the Australian newspaper report.
OR check out the better docs in this dogpile.com listing:
AT LEAST, PLEASE READ THE QUOTES OF OUR POLITICAL LEADERS listed from 1900 on at the link above at post#76 on that thread.
Remember in the opening sequence we’re informed that Mexico and Central America have gone commie and invited the Russkies in, along with their Cuban allies so that’s where the invasion is coming from.
NICE! I was a senior in HS when it came out. I loved it. Plus Erin Grey and “the other Girl”! MEOW
Director/screenwriter John Milius reported that he had obtained the help and input of former Secretary of State and NATO commander General Alexander Haig to create the backstory/scenario,[citation needed] which required an invasion of the US by communist countries with minimal use of nuclear weapons on both sides.
The film’s backstory involves several alternate history political precedents. The Green Party came to power in West Germany, forcing the removal of U.S. forces from that nation and all nuclear weapons from Europe. The resulting upheaval left NATO as a political nonentity, with only Britain remaining as a U.S. ally. At the same time, Soviet allies Cuba and Nicaragua each expanded their armies to 500,000 men, subsequently overrunning El Salvador and Honduras. A civil war in Mexico resulted in that country falling behind the Communist “Iron Curtain.” In a parallel to Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union, like Nazi Germany, now had a broad base from which to invade its primary enemy, and thousands of troops from satellite nations to augment their own armies.
During this time, the Soviet Union was suffering its worst wheat harvest in 55 years and food riots were occurring throughout the nations of the Warsaw Pact. Apparently desperate for food to feed its people, the Soviet Union and its allies launched a full scale invasion of the United States. Although the movie was released in 1984, the story itself takes place in the near future, starting in 1989 and ending in 1990, because the Holodomor of 1932-1934 is probably[original research?] what is being referred to in the opening narration as the previous “worst wheat harvest” that happened 55 years beforehand.
The Soviets utilize a three-phase attack. First, they use strategic nuclear strikes to destroy key points of communication including several major U.S. cities (Omaha, Kansas City and Washington, D.C. are specifically cited). Strategic nuclear weapons are also used to destroy ICBM bases in Montana and the Dakotas. In addition, it is hinted that Cuban infiltrators aid in confusing U.S. forces by raiding Strategic Air Command bases throughout the Midwest and Texas. Coupled with these nuclear attacks, Soviet transport aircraft containing elite Soviet VDV and Cuban paratroopers slipped through the U.S. radar disguised as commercial airliners.
The second phase saw Cuban and Nicaraguan armies (with small contingents of Soviet forces) pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border into the Great Plains of the United States. The third phase involved a Soviet invasion of Alaska across the Bering Strait from Siberia. They crossed into Canada occupying the Yukon, British Columbia and Western Alberta, most likely including Calgary[original research?], and cut the Alaskan Pipeline, but were decisively stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border by U.S. forces (thus preventing a link-up with Soviet forces occupying the Great Plains).
Elsewhere, Britain remained loyal to its American allies, but suffered heavily for it, Tanner’s remark that the UK will not last long suggests that without support from mainland Europe and the US, the Red Banner Northern Fleet had defeated the Royal Navy and cut off the British Isles.[original research?] China also declared war upon the Soviet Union; the reason for this is unexplained, though there was some long-standing animosity between the two powers resulting from the Sino-Soviet split. Colonel Tanner refers to there being some “600 million screaming Chinamen” on the American side. When asked “I thought there were a billion screaming Chinamen?”, he cryptically replies “There were” and throws his drink in the fire, causing it to flare and suggesting China had suffered Soviet nuclear strikes. In the film, the effects of the nuclear weapons are not shown because the location (northern Colorado) is far from any bombed sites.
O.M.G!
Someone must notify the World Court immediately.
And get that environmental impact study started TODAY!
Code Pink Dawn.
That is great!
Jennifer Grey and Leah Thompson
LOL - sorry!
IIRC,
The 4th ever secret meeting of the House of Reps was reported in the spring.
All kinds of things can alter the Puppet Masters plans between Spring and Dec 2008 in a complex fast changing world.
My sources are whatever they are—everything from very flaky to very solid.
AS my boss, the world’s best expert on the topic noted in my BA program library job . . . it was the very flakiest most fringe groups who MOST ACCURATELY and EARLIEST identified who Hitler was; what he would become and what he would do.
Ignore the early warning system if you wish. Your life. Your family.
I’m just a watchman. It’s my duty to warn. I am not good at making mules drink.
WOLVERINES!!!!
Red Dawn has (had?), the distinction of having the most movie deaths of any film at the time. hoora.
Carolyn
YUP!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE INFORM YOURSELVES!
Sheesh.
It’s shocking how CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN FREEPERS who ought to be amongst the MOST informed are so many still so clueless.
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