If you read that New Yorker article about Paul Ryan, you will notice that the zombie-eyed granny starver considers James Pethokoukis a confidant.
That’s what Ryanmentum is all about: turning up the Nuge and rocking out to Ayn Rand and Red Dawn.
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If you read that New Yorker article about Paul Ryan, you will notice that the zombie-eyed granny starver considers James Pethokoukis a confidant.
That’s what Ryanmentum is all about: turning up the Nuge and rocking out to Ayn Rand and Red Dawn.
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Southern Beale
Government can’t create jobs but it sure can lose them.
Roger Moore
I have never seen a movie, nor will I in the future, with a crowd as crazy amped up as when I saw The Matrix opening week at Groman’s Chinese Theater. When they started the wire work and bullet time, it was pandemonium.
Hunter Gathers
Red Dawn is my brother-in-law’s favorite movie. It goes without saying that he’s a paranoid, alcoholic moron who hates his wife.
The Other Chuck
I have never seen a movie, nor will I in the future, with a crowd as crazy amped up as when I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show. When they started dancing around in their lingerie, it was pandemonium.
Hill Dweller
The Willard campaign is out with a new ad accusing Obama of stealing money from Medicare.
fuzz
How you can watch that movie, or Rambo 3, and not see us as the Russians is beyond me. We have all these movies and TV shows about the end of the world or invasions or whatever where we’re the guerillas, well armed civilians fighting against oppressive invaders (human or otherwise).
Do people not see the irony in this or is that just the point, they don’t want to and it’s all pure escapism/ war porn fantasy?
Hunter Gathers
I have never seen a movie, nor will I in the future, with a crowd as crazy amped up as when I saw The Phantom Menace after waiting in line for 2 hours. When the end credits started rolling, half of the audience had committed suicide.
Warren Terra
I’m sure Pethokoukis is all kinds of lousy, but all that tweet says is that people who’d go to an early Red Dawn screening are, by and large, exactly the sort of America Fnck Yeah morons cheering their lungs out for their ritualistic tribal display that you’d think them to be. The tweet doesn’t actually say the movie deserves any enthusiasm.
PeakVT
Pathologically pathetic Pethokoukis.
The Other Chuck
I have never seen a movie, nor will I in the future, with a crowd as crazy amped up as when I saw Chimpanzee. When Oscar went looking for his mother, the audience was in tears.
MikeJ
“Red Dawn” Might Be The Most Intelligent War Movie In Decades
seanindc
wolverines mothafucker.
also to, wolvafuckingrines.
Jay in Oregon
Margaret Thatcher has passed away at 86.
http://twitter.com/OfficialSkyNews/statuses/235460248935211008
Valdivia
@Hill Dweller:
just saw that and mentioned it on the other thread. I hope the O team hits them hard. Seems like Romney will be playing the 2010 election playbook ignoring that Ryan already passed 2 budgets that do much much more than make cuts to providers in medicare.
flukebucket
@Jay in Oregon: I assumed she had been dead for years and years.
BGinCHI
I have never seen a movie, nor will I in the future, with a crowd as crazy amped up as when I saw Chariots of Fire.
When those lads ran along that beach in slow motion I was not alone, oh no, in giving a hale and hearty cheer.
schrodinger's cat
@Jay in Oregon: So are we all Anglo-Saxon now?
Jay in Oregon
@flukebucket:
Heh:
http://isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/
(Which has not been updated as of this writing.)
BGinCHI
@Jay in Oregon: She’s with the Hell’s Angels now.
schrodinger's cat
DougJ@top
Who is this person and where do you find these crazy people?
Warren Terra
@Jay in Oregon:
Could be so, but I’m seeing nothing of the sort elsewhere, and your link is dead.
PeakVT
@flukebucket: Thatcher suffered from dementia for many years (jokes about conservative policies aside) and did not appear in public.
ETA: or we could be seeing a repeat of this incident.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Jay in Oregon:
That twitter feed is a fake.
Violet
@Jay in Oregon: That link isn’t coming up. Not seeing it on BBC or google news.
Hunter Gathers
@Jay in Oregon: Sweet Zombie Jesus, now we have to put up with weeks of Iron Lady worship. Maybe we should bust up some trade unions and invade a small, insignificant South American country to celebrate.
Edit – Crap. I done been had!
Xecky Gilchrist
@flukebucket: Might as well have been, the last decade or so.
cathyx
@The Other Chuck: Thanks for the reminder. That would be my pick too for craziest movie watchers ever. And the longest running with crazy viewers too.
Walker
That remake is going to fail so hard. North Korea? Really?
raven
The start of Airplane with a blank screen in a dark theater after sparking up. People were screaming with laughter and we couldn’t figure out why. . .for a while/
trollhattan
Sorta O/T, video of Obama making a pretty sly Seamus joke wtih special bonus: Treacher trolling the Daily Intel comments. He seems to think he’s a clever and funny fella. Bloggah, please!
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/president-obama-seamus-joke.html
cathyx
The actor who played Horshak just died too. 63.
Jay in Oregon
CORRECTION:
http://twitter.com/ninatypewriter/statuses/235461681592012800
The OfficialSkyNews twitter account is a spoof, and Margaret Thatcher is not dead.
Still doing better than CNN on the ACA ruling, though.
@Litlebritdifrnt: Thanks for the catch; the person who forwarded me the original tweet forwarded the correction as well.
Quicksand
I have never seen a movie, nor will I in the future.
MikeJ
@Jay in Oregon:
Bulworth
Yes, Red Dawn was an awesome movie. I was 18.
trollhattan
@Jay in Oregon:
Fortuitous timing–they won’t need to work her into the Olympics closing. Does thinking that make me a bad person? [edit: okay, is fake.]
General Stuck
It’s gonna take at least a couple more decades for this country to wring the Cold War from our national mentality. By then, republicans will have formed a death cult chaining their bodies to The Obama Black Memorial Obelisk on The National Mall.
Cassidy
What’s interesting to me is that as much as we make fun of WOLVERINES!, Red Dawn really did fit into the cultural zeitgeist of the time. Now of course, 27% of the population have used it to fuel their giant pen1s fanatsies, but I don’t think that’s how it was intended. OTOH, the remake really has no place other than as a vehicle to let muscular, good looking guy be muscular, good looking action hero.
Cassidy
@Walker: Oh you underestimate the vapidity of popular culture. It will do just fine as a fall action movie.
jl
Sexy Paul Ryan had a fat juicy wad
But he was sadly and liar and fraud
All the faux pundits and corporate yes men
Could not make Mr. Dick pretty again.
Ryan/Romney, year 12, the up to date upside down ticket!
Litlebritdifrnt
Gotta love Twitter
trollhattan
Ryan’s brother used to work for Bain & Company? WTF?!?
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/14/paul-ryans-major-private-equity-connection/
Violet
Somewhat OT, my favorite Biden comment today is this:
Good job, Joe! Keep painting Romney as Richie Rich–entitled, ultra wealthy and completely out of touch with the issues normal people face.
JPL
Sarah Palin is still hoping to have a deep conversation with Thatcher and that wasn’t possible before the rumor of her death.
Mike in NC
@Walker:
The premise is so inanely stupid, yet screenwriter John Milius just can’t seem to help himself. He even came out with a video game version called “Homeland” that pushed the same load of crap. Of course the bad guys were originally Chinese but the producers decided that wouldn’t fly. No wonder the movie has sat in a vault for three years.
Violet
@trollhattan: Oh, good Lord. Did you see the crazy eyes his brother has? Yikes!
JPL
@trollhattan: ugh… he has the same creepy eyes.
cathyx
Ok ladies, here is Mr. November, Paul Ryan.
Litlebritdifrnt
Over at Wonkette they are all speculating as to what Trump’s “big thing” is for the convention. One of them thinks it will be him in a board room telling an Obama look alike “you’re fired” and then he will get a brief (non speaking) stint on the stage. Make of that what you will.
cathyx
@Litlebritdifrnt: Those republicans really know how to bring the house down.
Rommie
Are we actually seeing the Wingnut Event Horizon now? I mean, the Wingularity is pulling harder and harder, and it seems to be heading for Tampa…
scav
For a second there I thought the UK was having a really really really good year.
trollhattan
@Violet:
Have to go there–behold, the young Ryans:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm295738624/tt0056931
pragmatism
woke eric cantor up ’round one
he didn’t hesitate to call himself a young gun
real ‘muricans encourage policymaking based on avoiding the feverish dreams of ayn rand, grover norquist and the makers of red dawn.
evinfuilt
Starting to think the future will be a mix of Idiocracy and Starship Trooper, Idiot Fascism.
Litlebritdifrnt
@cathyx:
Yeah, it’s almost as brilliant as purple heart band aids and waving tire gauges. /snark.
Violet
@trollhattan: Wouldn’t surprise me.
srv
Red Dawn 2012 preview:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nGoe7BdGdlg
Rafer Janders
@Roger Moore:
Hey, I was there as well at Graumann’s Chinese! Opening night!
Villago Delenda Est
I’m afraid the “America, fuck yeah!” crowd is too fucking stupid to get the message of the ORIGINAL “Red Dawn”, let alone the remake.
There’s a point in the original where the Nicaraguan commander tells his Soviet superior that he’s seen this all before. The Soviet general brushes it off, but the Nicaraguan knows the deal about insurgencies…he used to be an insurgent himself.
Calouste
@Litlebritdifrnt:
If they do that, the Democratic convention will have Trump and Romney look alikes yelling “You’re fired” at a group of teachers, steel workers, nurses and firefighters.
Suffern ACE
Of course we were amped. It was PG-13 for crying out loud. It was like the first almost R movie we could see without our parents. It was therefore, a let down, to realize that it got the rating for violence and not a boob. Porky’s it was not.
Suffern ACE
@Mike in NC: To make it work, they had to borrow heavily from the Mouse that Roared and quite possibly the Children of the Corn.
PurpleGirl
@The Other Chuck: True. Those midnight floor shows could get kinda crazy. (Great fun though.)
John PM
I could actually see that happening back in 1984.
However, will they cheer as hard for the remake now that the Patrick Swayze role is being played by an Australian?
John PM
I could actually see that happening back in 1984.
However, will they cheer as hard for the remake now that the Patrick Swayze role is being played by an Australian?
Roger Moore
@Rafer Janders:
I didn’t make it to opening night. I was there in mid-week because a friend and I were trying to go to an exhibition at L.A.C.E. and couldn’t find the place. We eventually gave up and decided to watch a movie instead, and Groman’s was convenient. I think a big part of what made it so spectacular was that the ad campaign for it had been low key, so nobody went in with really strong expectations. When it turned out to be really spectacular, you could really feel the reaction in the crowd. Ever since then, I’ve tried to go to watch big event movies at Groman’s because they’re so much more fun with the huge crowd and giant screen.
Catsy
@Mike in NC:
You mean “Homefront”? Was that the same guy? I thought the single-player campaign was pretty heavy-handed but still reasonably enjoyable, and the multiplayer had some excellent concepts. Not a *great* game by any means, but I don’t think it deserved half of the criticism it got. Admittedly the first time I heard about the Red Dawn remake I thought, “hey, sounds like they’re ripping off Homefront”.
Catsy
@Villago Delenda Est:
That and the part at the end where he lets the brothers go was always the most memorable part of the movie for me. It was one of the first times I’d seen the antagonists in a movie portrayed as something other than two-dimensional villains, and it had a strong influence on my ability to appreciate the shades of grey in human motivations.
Nowadays that’s not exactly remarkable, but at the time it was–especially when we were still mired in the Cold War and the antagonists were godless commies.
Walker
@Catsy:
For me the significant part of that movie was the psychological breakdown of the younger brother. When he stopped being guided by ideals and it became out revenge, it led to his death.
PanurgeATL
@Catsy:
Tora! Tora! Tora! is good for that as well (and did the same thing for me at the age of eight or so). There’s no question which side is the right one, but the Japanese are shown in the full three dimensions.
daverave
I can see why a fierce warrior like James Peth-uh-KOO-kiss would really be enamored with Red Dawn. Remind me, which branch of the military did he serve in?
Tata
puts down nail file
Why does anyone still bring up Nugent? No one ever made sex sound more futile.
sips tequila
Heliopause
My personal Red Dawn Story:
College buddy talked me into going to this movie with him. I told him that I’d read of the premise and thought it was the stupidest fucking thing I’d ever heard of. He insisted that he only wanted to check out the Russian dialogue, as he was studying the language at the time. OK, so I went to Red Dawn with him. The theatre went dark as the opening titles told us of Daniel Ortega’s jackbooted thugs overwhelming Reagan’s boys at the Rio Grande. I was solitarily laughing out loud, and let me assure you, this was a very liberal college town in a blue state. I guess it’s just bad form to laugh out loud in a movie theatre. At a movie that takes seriously a premise less realistic than The Wizard of Oz. It was as if Willy Wonka had an intro insisting that it was a true fucking story, and 40% or so of adults agreed. I felt a bit lonely that night.