the timboucher experience

I guess I was only four years old when it came out is partly why I never saw it before this, but I just saw Red Dawn on the UPN Hangover Movie (thankfully I’m not sill hungover). Plus my parents were always pretty anti-war stuff growing up. We weren’t allowed to have toy guns (although I did have some, secretly) - although wait a minute, my dad was really into strategy games on the computer and NES. So that doesn’t quite add up. But anyway, yeah so I never saw that movie before and I have to say, it was pretty awesome. I mean, propaganda through and through, but that movie must have been fucking intense coming out in 1984 when people were actually still worried about Communists and stuff like that. I guess I was born late enough - and remained mostly unaware enough - that I was never really worried about Communists invading the country.

Actually, the funny part to a movie like this is how differently it can be read now. Back then, people saw it and were afraid it would happen here. But when I saw it, I just imagined it was about resistance fighters in Iraq, fighting the US Army, instead of the Soviet/Cuban/Nicaraguan occupation force. From that perspective, it seemed more relevant and real than ever. Really, you don’t even have to read into it hardly at all to recognize that this movie is an inspirational and instructional video for terrorism. I bet that alleged Al Qaeda training video they always show clips of on the news is nowhere near as exciting as this movie. All that AND it’s definitely Patrick Swayze’s best role ever.

• At dawn
• Apocalypse of the American Empire
• British & Nazi Terrorists
• Blood Red
• The Village & Little Red Riding Hood