when this came out, did people think it could actually happen?
>>222324500NoRemove nuclear weapons from the equation and it's possible. But in a post-nuclear world this would never happen, as the writers surely knew
Bruh, 4 years ago all the plebs wet convinced Russia could steamroll through Europe. Of course people in the 80s were convinced the USSR has the potential to win in a war against Murrica.
Reminder that China was actually the ally of the US in this movie.
>>222324500I doubt it. Being surrounded by 2 oceans and having no militarily powerful neighbors, the modern continental US is pretty much immune to land invasion. One of the many reasons it’s a superpower
>>222324500Yes. Consider how retarded the average person is now in a time where you can look anything up and imagine how it was back then when everyone trusted the TV and only smart people went to college
>in the remake it's North Korea occupying the US because Hollywood doesn't want to lose the chink market lmao
>>222324500We had Carter in the White House.
>>222324500yes they did. Many boomers still do.
>>222324574Only because the Soviets nuked the fuck out of them for some reason.
>>222324500I watched this movie with my wife and she asked me when all this happened, so I had to explain that the US was never invaded by a communist coalition during the 1980s.
>>222324500I mean, war between the U.S and Soviet Union was still totally possible in 1984. However the invasion of the U.S aspect was always unbelievable. It's not really a problem because it's just the gimmick of the film. The premise can't even happen without it so just look past it and enjoy the film.
>>222324500Yes>Five of the 36 paratroopers in the beginning of the film got blown as much as a mile off-course during filming. One got stuck in a tree, and had to convince locals that he wasn't really an enemy soldier.
>>222324800>1984
>>222324836China and USSR almost did nuke each other at one point.
>>222324500I found this on TV late at night when I was like 9, i think it fucked me up
>>222324574China had a border conflict with the Soviet and had opened trade and diplomatic ties with the United States in the late 1970s.
>>222324500The plot, a Soviet and Cuban invasion from Mexico, was based on C.I.A. and War College studies of U.S. weaknesses at the time. The US propaganda machine ran 24/7 that Russia was the enemy and something like that was possible. It was a pretty weird time.
>>222324500I've been trying to remember the name of a novel I read that was similar to Red Dawn. I remember one of the main characters was a woman named Mrs. Adams, and the Soviet guy in charge of the US got upset because there were too many people named Adams and it was hard to track her down.
Red Dawn but the good guys are good.
>>222324838Your wife is a stupid bitch.
>>222324892China didn't have a lot of nukes at this point. The Soviets were going to nuke China over the border conflict but Kissinger told them the US would nuke the Soviet Union in response.
>>222324849>I mean, war between the U.S and Soviet Union was still totally possible in 1984.NATO would've unironically wiped the floor with the commies. they had the upper hand in military tech since the early 70s.the thousand tanks pushing into the fulda gap would've been a thousand burning wrecks within a few days. the soviets understood that they were on the backfoot, this is why they didnt try any shit after cuba
>>222324838are there any advantages you derive from being married to someone who is functionally retarded? I assume she must be hot but is it really worth it long-term?
