Gotta tell you most of the kids I saw this with were chuckling, not taking notes like it was a primer on How To Keel Kommies.
And for all the noise of how this movie pandered to the Bircher paranoia of getting invaded, the movie was pretty even-handed in depicting the Russian soldiers onscreen (most of them clueless teenager grunts themselves), and with the depiction of Howell's character going batsh-t crazy as a character NOT to emulate.
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posted by PaulW (Sun May 09 10, 5:15PM)
Gotta tell you most of the kids I saw this with were chuckling, not taking notes like it was a primer on How To Keel Kommies.
And for all the noise of how this movie pandered to the Bircher paranoia of getting invaded, the movie was pretty even-handed in depicting the Russian soldiers onscreen (most of them clueless teenager grunts themselves), and with the depiction of Howell's character going batsh-t crazy as a character NOT to emulate.
posted by Kenny (Mon May 10 10, 8:39AM)
Didn't they end up shooting one of the kids because he was a traitor or something?