Looks like a reach to me in some cases. A conservative note here or there does not make a symphony one of ours.

But Red Dawn? Absolutely belongs there. Come on. Movies don’t all have to be thought provokers; they’re allowed to be purely entertaining.

It’s PS3 so it’s open to me…

While they throw some stones at Joe McCarthy in subtle way they do portray the Soviet Communists as ruthless bad guys as it should be. And they do pay homage to good old fashioned marriage.

Dude, that scene with the paratroopers dropping down and shooting up the schoolyard?!?!

I and three others in the world liked it.

The Postman.

I agree with you about Red Dawn. But then, I also liked it, along with Starship Troopers and THX 1138,

I mean seriously, the movie was made when the Peace Movement was protesting Reagan on 5 continents.

Context is key to its inclusion on the list. This isn’t a WWII movie made 60 years after the war, this was a Cold War movie made during a time in the Cold War where lots of “both sides are wrong” movies were being made.

I agree that without that context, the movie shouldn’t make the list. However, the context is a big deal.

Its un-American to not like Red Dawn.

Starships Troopers was kind of fun, but it was liberal with its one world government and feminist messages

What other movie portrays the Cubans as the Russian Foreign Legion? (Well, there’s Heartbreak Ridge, and no others I can think of.)

What other movie takes on what would have happened if the Cold War hadn’t stayed cold?

When the movie came out, the Soviets were still a plausible military threat.

And when the movie came out, it was still plausible that American high school kids might spontaneously fight an invader.

Great cinema, it’s not, but it’s a memorable movie.

are quite different from our customary idealization of veterans. At least in the book! The movie appears to have been written in crayon on butcher paper.

A veteran to RAH was anyone who served, at some risk to his or her life, in the military services or the civilian equivalent.

If you were physically unable to serve as a trooper or pilot, they would find something, equivalently dangerous, for you to do. That way, everyone who was willing to serve could serve. You earned the privilege of voting by placing yourself at risk – whether as a drop trooper or a volunteer in a medical lab.

RAH wrote Starship Trooper to offer some ideas on what makes a “good citizen.” Not what makes a person a knowledgeable voter or officeholder but only on what would tend to make the citizen consider more than his or her own wants, needs or desires.

I’m merely noting that it was awful.

are not “conservative”. It would be more accurate to call them 25 movies that really tick off liberals. I think Forest Gump is a clear example of a movie that is not at all conservative but that drives liberals crazy. It’s treatment of Vietnam, and of small town life and of the 60s protest movements wasn’t really a conservative view point, but it was a view point at odds with liberal orthodoxy.

The one solid theme in Red Dawn was it’s pro-2nd amendment tack.

I had a friend in high school who was an Air Force dependent, and as a result I had the good fortune to watch the first of the Death Wish movies in a movie theater on an Air Force base.

Wow, what an experience. Every time Chuck Bronson blew away some scumbag, everyone in the theater was on on thier feet cheering. Second amendment rights on steroids.

NT