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Thursday, November 03, 2005

TV Time — II 

I tried to watch an exciting adventure movie on TV the other night, called Red Dawn (1984), about Soviets invading the heartland. A group of high school kids take to the hills with rifles, etc.

The premise is good, but the movie is one long bore because the enemy is depicted as incompetent. Soviet helicopters bumble through the valleys looking for these kids on horseback (!) and fire a few flares or smokebombs at them. Imagine if the monster in Alien had been a somewhat aggressive porcupine, instead of a lightening-quick, unstoppable beast that could suck people's brains out in two or three seconds and vanish into an air duct. That would be dull, I think.



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Watching TV is a good way to tear yourself away from the computer.