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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
You Kids OK?
Am I the only dude here who was deeply disturbed by this movie? I'm glad that so many of you got a kick out of this film, but I mean wow this was not a feel good movie at all for me, not that I expected it to be one, but it was just so hopeless, infuriating, incomprehensible and real. I guess that's what made it so powerful, the idea that we all know from the beginning of the movie that these kids with their promising lives are not going to make it. No happy endings here and we know it, because we saw the 2003 remake and so we know that the Hewitt family prevails. Some scenes in the movie just made me want to stand up and walk out because they were so messed up. I mean waking up next to your dead girlfriend that has been tortured and mutilated for hours while you failed to help her, that's just unthinkable. I guess that's why this movie was so much more chilling for me than the 2003 one. This movie was most terrifying because it hinders on the idea that we can fail at protecting the ones we love and being subjected to watch as your girlfriend or boyfriend is being tortured and killed with you being helpless to act really scared me. Powerful and highly emotional movie, with a solid story I recommend it if you have a strong stomach.
Red Dawn (1984)
Great Flick
Being a Russian American I found myself switching allegiances during this movie. I must say I loved this flick. I've always been fascinated with the cold war, and the what if scenarios. If you can relate, then this movie is a must see. I thought this movie showed a very strong human side to the realities of a partisan's life, and I believe it was fair. It wasn't an American Rambo, where one man takes down a whole Soviet battalion. No it was a powerful story of what people must conform to in order to deal with the outcome of invasion of ones motherland, and how people, the ordinary person deals with this reality and how they're transformed by it. The United States has never been invaded, and I found this film to be a great prediction of how if an invasion ever took place the American people would fight to the bitter end if they had to. In a way these partisans reminded me of the Soviet partisans of WW2, and how they fought on. This is a great movie which is not overdone, but is very realistic, and fair. The acting is not brilliant, but is good, and the whole movie works. I absolutely loved it!