Thursday, May 27, 2004

   How sweet it is...
Didn't I already use that as a post subject? Oh well. I've got tomorrow and Monday off from school, so I'm set.

If you're anything like me (that is to say, interested in politics to a great degree), then I'd suggest PoliticsForums.org. This is one of the best sites I've ever been introduced to. If you're looking for some serious discussion about politics , with no threat of N00BS posting something stupid in the thread and getting it shut down, this site is for you.

Oh, and this is one movie you should never, ever watch; Red Dawn. This movie is the most jingoistic, retarded piece of tripe ever. It was made in 1984, which was in the middle of the Cold War. The basic plot? Russians and Cubans (evil Commie bastards that they are) send paratroopers and tanks in and invade the southern US, taking it over. Of course, Patrick Swayze and a bunch of high school teens go into the woods, and manage to hold off any Soviet soldiers that come their way... >_< Overall this movie just blows. It's full of idiotic propaganda that says it's okay to kill, as long as it's a Communist! Seriously! There's a scene in the movie where Swayze injures this Russian soldier, who is about 19 years old. As the kid is crawling to get into a car to escape, Patty boy catches up, pulls a Colt .45 out of nowhere, and shoots the kid in the head. And does the movie make it seem like a tragic, senseless act of violence? Nope. Instead, it pretty much justifies it. Overall, it's just a dumb movie.

Apparently, however, there was at least one person who not only liked the movie, but believed every propagandic scene/line! Here's a quote from the message boards at the above link (in response to somebody else rating the movie just as I did);

"These comments of yours are idiocy. Red Dawn was the first and only movie to show,in a truely unbiased manner, the fear that "normal" American people had during the 1980s that the CCCP/Communists would invade and take over their country. I find it interesting that a person from Greece could not identify with this feeling unless you were a Marxist at the time or are just completely ignorant of history. I know that in Hungary during this time we had no great love for the Soviets given their terrible repression and murder of anyone including children who opposed them.

This film shows the fight for freedom against communist takeover undertaken by several American youths. In the end, it also shows the disillusionment of both Cuban/Soviet soldiers and American youths/freedom fighters with war as a method for anything.

In a way its king of weird that we don't see Greeks such as yourself out whining about nationalist movies from the 1950s & 1960s in which Greek "patriots" were fighting and killing Soviet inspired guerillas or Nazi German invaders. The comparison is the same - US v Soviet, Greek v Nazi."

The only way I can justify watching this movie is turning it into a drinking game. "Take a drink every time you see or hear propaganda!" Boy, wouldn't that be a quick game?
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