So, I took a night off of the binge on the soul that is Shanghai, ordered a pizza and opened a bottle of wine. In my stack of DVD’s that seems to grow with my tolerance, I came upon what looked like an indie flick called ‘Ten To Noon’. I don’t link to it because it’s not even worth the effort of hitting the ‘link to’ button. Horrible. Threw it away. I went back to the pile and saw that I had picked up a film that really stuck with me as a kid.

Red Dawn.

From the opening sequence of paratroopers on the high school football field, to special feature of ‘carnage count’, which, when activated, keeps count of shots fired, body count – it’s everything awesome. Great acting by Patrick Swayze (never thought I’d say that) and a crew of others you’d recognize. Not a single curse word. Directed by John Milius (of Apocalypse Now fame) I was also impressed with the entire set – must have cost a fortune for the 80′s. And that the only country on our side was ’600 million Chinamen’ – oh, the days when we got along and weren’t blaming Coca-Cola for Tibetan uprisings.

Anyway, I digress – helluva film to have been a part of, getting to fire all those RPG’s and scream ‘Wolverines!’ after each fatality. For those who have always written this one off, here’s the original preview:

Would have been nice to be this bad-ass in my teens. My high school was a private one so we would have just called the enemy ‘simpletons’ and made fun of their shoes.