KnockBack, Episode 135: Red Dawn
Added 2020-09-10 16:00:04 +0000 UTCBy the time the '80s rolled around, the Cold War was just about over. The Soviet Union was slowly-but-surely crumbling, and the threat posed by Mutually Assured Destruction was waning by the year. That's what makes movies like 1984's American action classic Red Dawn so interesting. In its alternate history tale, the USSR expands its sphere of power through Central and South America, while NATO dissolves, the US becomes isolated, and its only allies are a downtrodden England and a nearly-annihilated China. The result, as it turns out, is World War III, and Red Dawn shows one rather peculiar theater of that conflict: A guerrilla campaign conducted by some high school students in rural Colorado. So stock up on supplies, raid your gun cabinet, and run for the hills, Wolverines: The communists are here, and a political reckoning is brewing.
Comments
Raiders is definitely a good name.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-15 16:24:11 +0000 UTCYeah, this is good shit.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-15 16:24:00 +0000 UTCI haven't. I'll check it out. =)
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-15 16:23:01 +0000 UTCMy highschool was the "Raiders" with a wolf logo/Mascot so that would've been dope as fuck
Empty Symbol
2020-09-15 12:27:07 +0000 UTCI feel like I'm always commenting about an aside not central to the topic, but you have to let Dagan now that without "The Time of My Life" we never would have gotten this gem: https://youtu.be/R8Wde1fFvPg
Kevin Sullivan
2020-09-15 02:23:58 +0000 UTCHas anyone seen tomorrow when the war began... Basically and Australian red dawn. Nostalgic movie for me.
Eric Hawksley
2020-09-13 04:19:36 +0000 UTCMy mistake was watching the good one first I think! Great ep btw :)
Martin
2020-09-12 21:05:36 +0000 UTCI'll say.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 21:00:08 +0000 UTCThank you. <3
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 21:00:02 +0000 UTCNo, he is. He's an extra.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:59:54 +0000 UTCHa! Thanks!
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:59:46 +0000 UTCYeah man! It's all about that lore and that background. I love it!
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:59:39 +0000 UTCYeah, I think I say so a little later.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:59:04 +0000 UTCInteresting.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:58:55 +0000 UTCFair enough.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:58:50 +0000 UTCI didn't hate the remake... but this is obviously the better movie.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:58:42 +0000 UTCHell yeah.
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:58:33 +0000 UTC=D
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:58:24 +0000 UTCWell either way i was in ground zero during "ww3" lol
NotYurRealDad
2020-09-11 23:18:01 +0000 UTCWW3 was in January my guy, I know 2020 dragging hardddd.
Alec
2020-09-11 22:28:08 +0000 UTCThe single most Colin Moriarty thing ever put to celluloid.
David Graham
2020-09-11 20:35:49 +0000 UTCThanks for reading my question guys! This was a fantastic episode!
Connor Spencer
2020-09-11 19:56:06 +0000 UTCCharlie Sheen isn't in Apocalypse Now, his father Martin Sheen is.
Kyle Goodrich
2020-09-11 03:12:38 +0000 UTCViktor
2020-09-10 21:02:01 +0000 UTCI am honored for my question to be read for such a fine audience. What Colin says in the beginning about changes to the world order is incredibly important. With NATO not a thing there is no unified force that would hold several Soviet Field Armies. The U.S. Forward deploys a great amount of our own forces, but Mainland based forces would be enough to hold and eventually repel (after some time) 3 Soviet Field Armies - which is what US Planning was designed around - However if the Soviets were able to reinforce from Europeans forces an additional 2 Armies it would make our fight that much harder. That, and most war plans called for the use of tactical nukes, so who knows. What also is important is the ability to move land forces through Mexico. There are very few natural defenses along the border, the same with Canada . This is why the US has always relied on a Strong Navy. If they could not use Mexico the Soviet proxies would have found the Gulf a hard sea to traverse with the US Naval Units found at Gulfport & Mobile An excellent listen - thank you Gents
Rob Aitken
2020-09-10 19:57:41 +0000 UTCWas the novel you were thinking of “Alas, Babylon,” by Pat Frank?
Kenneth Oms
2020-09-10 18:49:56 +0000 UTCI first saw this movie last year when i was deployed to Turkey during "WW3" surprising fitting
NotYurRealDad
2020-09-10 18:27:50 +0000 UTCI shall enjoy this but only after the Commie scum is driven from our land
Rob Aitken
2020-09-10 16:44:49 +0000 UTCLooking forward to this one! Watched it with my wife recently (followed by the 'meh' modern remake).
Martin
2020-09-10 16:18:45 +0000 UTCI remember watching this movie for the first time. Just moved to California and asked the video clerk to recommend me a movie. He handed me a VHS of Red Dawn. Needless to say this movie is a classic
Andrew
2020-09-10 16:07:49 +0000 UTCI thought so too but I think it’s just been referenced a lot. I think it was one of Dagan’s movies that he was too young to see, or something close to that.
Thomas Torres
2020-09-10 16:05:17 +0000 UTCI am so hyped for this one. WOLVERINES!!!!
Kenneth Oms
2020-09-10 16:02:57 +0000 UTCI could have sworn you did a red dawn knockback. Cant wait to listen, great film.
Liam Fagan
2020-09-10 16:02:04 +0000 UTC
