Standing up for Red Dawn

You guys know I've always stuck it (in the 80's) to Steve Spears for his boundless admiration for the 1984 movie Red Dawn.

Now comes an intruder to the party who can't hold a candle to psycho-Soviet troops yet demands to be addressed with swift retaliation.

Today's page 2A had a Red Dawn-related item from our gossipy The Jizz -- oops -- The Juice. (Sorry, I was thinking about Max Rebo's brand of Star Wars swing music, or perhaps a birding technique, or maybe a characteristic impression left by an animal or plant. Where's your head at?)

Anyway, The Juice reported a remake is in the works. While I'll agree that's a bad idea, I take exception to the description of Red Dawn's original cast (Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey) as "an unbelievably amazing cast of unfulfilled promises." (The Juice did give Patrick Swayze a backhanded compliment, though. I expected some kind of cancer gag.)

I submit that collectively starring in some of Hollywood's most memorable movies (Platoon, Wall Street, Back to the Future, Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Outsiders and E.T.) not to mention, in Sheen's case, headlining the top TV comedy today, is more than most actors can brag about. Definitely more than any gossip blogger.

Can't wait for Spears' response to this cyber-sacrilege of his favorite flick. But I've got his back.

WOLVERINES!

Comments

[Clark]

Wow, somebody who hates The Juice as much as I do!

[langley]

Wah wah wah wah. Stop crying. Just because your page is less entertaining than the Juice. (The Jizz? really? lame.)