Comments on: Why not make a teen Rambo and turn the project over to John Milius? https://www.isegoria.net/2021/07/why-not-make-a-teen-rambo-and-turn-the-project-over-to-john-milius/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 14 May 2026 06:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: VXXC https://www.isegoria.net/2021/07/why-not-make-a-teen-rambo-and-turn-the-project-over-to-john-milius/comment-page-1/#comment-3383812 VXXC Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:36:35 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48063#comment-3383812 $38 million USD box office, not counting video etc.

The best scene is the classroom where the teacher explains the Great Mongol Hunt, which then turns into the paratrooper drop.

]]> By: Altitude Zero https://www.isegoria.net/2021/07/why-not-make-a-teen-rambo-and-turn-the-project-over-to-john-milius/comment-page-1/#comment-3383804 Altitude Zero Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:35:24 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48063#comment-3383804 Yeah, Red Dawn was actually pretty good. If the teen Freedom Fighters in the movie had been fighting a “theocratic, fascist” right wing American regime, it would be praised to the skies, right up there with The Handmaid’s Tale. But of course, since the enemy was the USSR, and even worse, Third Worlders…

The Left will never forgive Reagan for the fall of the Soviet Union. It’s not just Tankies. It was one of their few defeats at the hands of the Right (well, really, at the hands of reality, but it’s pretty much the same thing) and they cannot forget. It’s the same reason that almost all lefties hate modern Russia, and Russians — they gave up on Utopia. For this, they will never be forgiven.

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