Aw, come on now, Tim, we all know the real leading man in "Red Dawn" was C. Thomas Howell. His career really took off after that. I mean, could you honestly see Swayze in blackface for "Soul Man"? No, it would take a master thespian like Howell!

Red Dawn was the first movie I remember seeing Swayze in, though I've seen a few of the other actors in some movies at the time.(I was still in high school and didn't get out much)

It was a movie that scared the hell out of me because the Soviet Machine was pretty big then.  What most people don't seem to get is that the movie, while fictional, shows how horrifying an invasion would be(by any enemy, not just the Soviets at the time) and these kids had their lives turned upside down as a result.  How true is that in other countries like Chechnya or Afghanistan or Bosnia or Kuwait and various other countries in the world?

My guess is that they didn't talk too much about Red Dawn because it portrayed American kids as heroic and perservering in violent times, but would rather consider something like "To Wong Foo" or whatever that was (never saw it) as mainstream.  Whatever.

He was a good actor and from some accounts that I've heard, a good man. (I know a couple of people in the entertainment jobs who told me this)

-Jon

As a lifelong Houstonian, I've always been a fan of his, as an actor (regardless of venue) and as a person.  He met his wife at his mother's dance studio here in Houston, and they've been married their entire lives.  You don't find that very much in Hollyweird.

He was a good man who worked through his latest commitment while enduring cancer treatment, but refusing the pain killers because it would take away his edge as a performer.

Class act! 

I must say for some reason this site is very ghoulish when it comes to deaths. I can count on an article within hours of someone's passing about an obituary that isn't skewed a certain way or how the media should portray the deceased. Please show some restraint and respect for the dead.Waiting until after the funeral at least is a good gesture.

"Nobody puts baby in a corner!"

Cheers,

Chuck

Of course, that's because Red Dawn is seen as a right-wing icon, which it is.

Word is that Red Dawn is being remade by the Hollywood glitterati. I expect it will be a South American Marxist invasion to support the Bamster's failed military coup attempt. Or maybe an invasion of Cuban doctors to support the Bamster's failed Obamacare. Or, ....

Do You Believe In The Here After?

having a hard time getting your daily dose of anger?  Wow.  This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while.  Don't be such a hack, Tim. 

Please don't get me started about that excuse for a film Red Dawn. You really need to read Peter Bart's excellent book about the collapse of two of the most prestigious movie studios ever: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists, called Fade Out: The Calamitous Final Days of MGM. Could you imagine how Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin must have been rolling over in their graves when that steming pile of garbage was made? It all started to go downhill when Kirk Kerkorian bought MGM in 1969 and made really dumb decisions in hiring people that petty much destroyed MGM by selling off all the vintage costumes, props and backlot sets, turned it into an exploitation movie house, and funneling the money its movies made into building the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas. (Interestingly enough, my grandmother once did lunch with Kerkorian, but nothing ever came from that.)

The making of that movie Red Dawn was done in such a rushed time unlike so many other movies; the producers hired their production manager only weeks before shooting was scheduled to begin (normally a production manager is hired at least a year in advance.); the writer-director John Milius had problems with Alexander Haig in trying to get approval from the military for the use of filming their vehicles and weapons unless Milius gave into Haig's demands on scripting the movie. I could go on and on and on, but I'd just have to let you read the book in order to find out the story.

Look, if you want to see a good movie, I recommend one that was co-written by John Milius with Back To The Future writers Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It was Steven Spielberg's 1941, which is criminally under-appreciated. Better to see an under-appreciated film like that than going to the film pile-heap and pulling out Red Dawn. I mean, God, what a way to let Ted Turner buy your studio and take your film library for him to program it into his Turner Classic Movies channel. It's a good channel, but I rather it was called the MGM Classic Movies channel.

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