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My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« on: December 26, 2009, 04:41:06 PM »
I know more than 90% here have seen it more than once, but while at Blockbuster, Red Dawn Caught my eye, I asked my 14 year old son if he had seen it and he said ,...uh,...no.. :(

Well, that's BS!,... I grabbed it, and said you will by the end of today.

One of the tragedies of a divorce, but I was around his age when the movie came out, and some of the aspects even in today's "worldy climate" still apply.  For the record it's better in Hi-Def....

WOLVERINES!!!!!

I'll be reviewing the favorite movie posts, and getting my son up to speed, on what he's really missed out on.

It's a guy thing,...

Mountain Men is next, Heston and Keith as beaver trappers, against the Blackfoot Indians.  Jeremiah Johnson, Man from Snowy River, number of war movies, more John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Sgt. York., etc,...

He's been with his mother too long.

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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2009, 04:47:00 PM »
Dude, you named a bunch of my must see, must have movies. Mountain men, never knew Brian Keith could be that funny, check him out in Nevada Smith as well, 1st time I saw someone reloading on screen. MAX SAND. ;D >:( ;)
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2009, 04:47:14 PM »
Leaving aside the fact that any reasonable (male) judge would revoke your custody rights for that alone, (I mean,damn man), you must also include "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" as well as "Apocalyse Now". Since we are of roughly the same vintage, The Breakfast Club and Fast Times at Ridgemont High are probably also required, but far less important. ;D
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2009, 04:48:31 PM »
Jeremiah Johnson is on TBS Sunday at 9P.M. Love that movie. Others that are great Patton, To Hell and Back, Pork Chop Hill, and The Longest Day.
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2009, 04:54:12 PM »
Bad Daddy! Bad, BAD Daddy!!!!!!

 ;D

Good on making it right thou, lots of good movies to show him. Cowboys is another - the only JW movie in which his character died IIRC. But a very good coming of age movie, has great life lessons in it.
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2009, 05:05:43 PM »
Quote from: Pathfinder on December 26, 2009, 04:54:12 PM
Bad Daddy! Bad, BAD Daddy!!!!!!

 ;D

Good on making it right thou, lots of good movies to show him. Cowboys is another - the only JW movie in which his character died IIRC. But a very good coming of age movie, has great life lessons in it.

He died in "The Shootist" as well, his last film I believe...
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2009, 05:20:09 PM »
Quote from: Pathfinder on December 26, 2009, 04:54:12 PM
Bad Daddy! Bad, BAD Daddy!!!!!!

 ;D

Good on making it right thou, lots of good movies to show him. Cowboys is another - the only JW movie in which his character died IIRC. But a very good coming of age movie, has great life lessons in it.


To the best of my knowledge there are seven films that John Wayne died on screen, they are presented here in reverse chronological order:

THE SHOOTIST (1976) - Killed in gunfight in saloon at end of film.
THE COWBOYS (1972) - Killed by Bruce Dern and avenged by the boys.
THE ALAMO (1960) - As Davy Crockett killed by Mexican soldier lance.
SANDS OF IWO JIMA (1949) - Killed by sniper bullet at end of film.
WAKE OF THE RED WITCH (1949) - Killed as ship plunged off ledge and sank with Octopus.
THE FIGHTING SEABEES (1944) - Killed by sniper as he was about to leap from bulldozer.
REAP THE WILD WIND (1942) - Killed by squid undersea.

There were a few films where his death may or may not be seen.

In THE MAN WHOSHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962) he has died and the film's story is told in flashback by James Stewart who has come to his funeral.

In THE SEA CHASE (1955) - He and Lana Turner are on the ship when it sank but the film leads you to believe that perhaps they survived.

In THE DECEIVER (1931) - Ian Keith played Thorp in this film and John Wayne took over when this character became a corpse.

In CENTRAL AIRPORT (1933) - John Wayne doesn't even speak and is barely recognizable as one of the men aboard a downed airplane seen floundering in the ocean at night. I have never seen this film so I do not know if his character dies or not.
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2009, 05:22:12 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on December 26, 2009, 05:05:43 PM
He died in "The Shootist" as well, his last film I believe...

I think he died in another in which he played a bad guy earlier in his career.  Some movie with sailing ships that I can't remember.
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2009, 05:25:20 PM »
Might want to consider the movie, Second Hand Lions.  Fun clean movie with good life lessons to be learned.
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Re: My Son Has Never Seen Red Dawn!!!
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2009, 05:32:26 PM »
+10 on Second hand lions, excellent movie. All JW's stuff is great, but the aforementioned is dynamite.
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