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1,001 Things Learned From Watching Red Dawn


1. Mi-24 Hind > AK-47
2. Can you actually survive multiple hits to the torso from a 12.7mm Gatling gun (or at least till someone can join you at your side and hold you until you die).
3. If your friend is dying, don't try to provide any first aid--just talk to them until they die.
4. Make sure to hide grenades under your dead friend's when your country is invaded.

"Toto, I've [got] a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

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6. When the "enemy" drops food in the middle of the road...it's a trap! Don't take it, dummy.

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Every person that served can be called a veteran, but not every veteran can be called a Marine.

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7. If you slaughter 100s of highly trained and well armed soldiers with a ragtag group of high school students defying the odds and taking heroic risks to save your friends and neighbors while diminishing the enemies morale, but are eating beans every day, you should never "think you're tough".

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8. Some movies from the 1980s should remain in the 1980s, don't try to remake them years later.

"Toto, I've [got] a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

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9. You can fire an RPG at a helicopter and do no damage

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C Thomas Howell should never be allowed to cry in a movie.

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C. Thomas Howell should never be allowed in front of a camera.

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10. Jed is the "honcho sport"

11. For some reason being the High School senior class President gives you the authority to propose that you surrender to an invading army occupying your town.

12. If you have two granddaughters it is better to give them to a group of boys fighting for survival in the mountains than hide them in your house.

13. Soviet paratroopers will waste a lot of ammunition shooting up a High School of unarmed kids once they arrive.

14. Upon seeing two High School boys duck behind the front dashboard of their car a Soviet soldier will just shoot up the engine block and won't actually go inside the car to kill them.

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15. Even after contacting them on several occasions, tracking ten people and 4 horses that build daily campfires is apparently VERY tough.

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16. Superfly is a commie.

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When you realize that the only thing between America standing or falling is a strong guerrilla presence, it's best when confronted by a Russian Hind, to stand out in the open so you are easily killed in some bizarre display of heroism, effectively weakening your unit.

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