You'd figure the factory worker yelling about money would figure, y'know, "less about the money, more about the OH MY GOD we're gonna die" bit. Sheesh.
Don't forget Canada! We have to assume they're with the Russians since they simply allowed them to stroll along the west coast from Anchorage to Seattle unmolested! That would give this war two fronts! Unstoppable! BEWARE TEH CANADA! ;D
Is it just me or is the room at 2:10 the same as at 7:05 in the last clip? All they did was put in some furniture! The map on the wall looks the same, anyway....
You know a more realistic portrail of an invasion from overseas would be mass global factories and corporations all run by Chinese, employing the tractor man and the tank guy too. Gasp! Oh my!
I thought his orders were to keep him alive? So... he had him killed?
You know, considering this movie was made so close after the end of WWII I find it hard to believe that anyone back then could believe that America would never be able to repel an attack by Russia.
Which is somewhat confusing, as the whole point of Capitalism and Free Enterprise is that the government DOESN'T own any company. If they take it over thats nationalization... something the communists did.
This movie is hypocritical and contradictory to its very own message!
Oh burn! You know we should've been at his hearings, we could've shortened that fat bastard's fear monger career by a year or two. Then again Edward R. Murrow did that with relative ease anyway.
You know I honesty tried to find something good that came out of McCarthy's fear rantings. But all I discovered is that he caught more fake commies then real ones. Oh well, I tried to be non-bias. But some events in history can only be interpreted one way. Maybe with a few shades of grey, but not much
My favorite McCarthy/Red Scare story: they tried to bust Lucille Ball because her grandfather was a registered Communist. Desi Arnez said, "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that isn't legitimate."
I'm partial to the good old fashioned "Have you no Decency sir?" personally.
Whats unfortunate though is some of the deeper wounds caused by that period. Actors who played ball with HUAC for example they weren't exactly treated favourably afterwards by some people.
Personally I feel its wrong to criticise the actions of some of the people who testified on behalf of HUAC. They were just doing what they though was right. HUAC simply used them to accomplish their own goals.
But of course my favourite out of them all, the McCarthy lists, the Hollywood trials, the Red Scare movies, my favourite little messed up controversy of the fifties was the Comic Books trial. You should find the transcripts of it, the whole damn thing reads like a video game violence debate. Just replace Wertham with Jackie Thompson and every reference to comics with video games and you won't be able to tell the difference!
Well duh, don't need to spell it out to me. I prefer my Cold War propaganda to at least be entertaining, well structured, well acted and not 2-diemensional all the way around.
Like Red Dawn! Sure its American Cold War propaganda, but at least its a cool war movie and some of the communists are at least a bit more realistic. Afterall it was an accurate depiction of Guerilla warfare and at least the acting is less wooden then this crap.
Well at least us westerners aren't like that anymore. We don't just hassle the Russians, we hassle EVERYBODY from other countries. At least we're being fair now.
How come we always think that a legal immigrant to the west is either a spy or terrorist in waiting. Maybe they're over here because they think their home country really sucks. Why can't they come here? They deserve as good a shot at happiness as the rest of us! You know what I'm saying?
That's what I always say when someone goes off on the "They took our jobs!" rant. The Statue of Liberty? Hello!? Her plaque says "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." It doesn't say, "STAY OUT!"
You know up here in Canada we have a different system. Yes I know my profile says I live somewhere else, I like to think I actually do live in the Cayman Islands sometimes.
Anyway, our immigrant system is very different, you just have to live here for three years and you're officially a citizen. No Green Card required.
I suppose theres reasons to keep immigrants out, but to be honest if your country is founded on immigration you should try and live up to your heritage and be more accepting
Seriously though, my goal in life is to be a Paleontologist, and if I got a really nice job offer from one of the MANY nice museums in Canada...provided I finally crack the metric system and can still get my comic books.
No more implausible than some of the other politically reliable, but otherwise incompetent "managers" they put in charge of nuclear weapons development
"Damn you and your vaguely foreign/hispanic accent! Siding with the communists! Even after I gave a job working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for $1.07 an hour!? I suppose next you will want health insurence!"
All the stock footage of "Russian troops in guise of American troops" was just a way to circumvent the cost of buying Russian military uniforms. They had to use stock footage of our troops practicing airborne manuvers in order to further their lame plot.
Anyway it's not a B-29, it's a TU-4
Wunderwaffen1946 11 months ago
this announcer guy is one smarmy a-hole
pretorious700 1 year ago
Despite heroic efforts of our armed forces- Bozo has been canceled.....
buckracer 1 year ago
"France has pledged crepes."
"With strongly-worded cables - they're very put out."
gaglir 1 year ago
They kill our nations hobo's! BOX CAR WILLLLLY!
kreigor 2 years ago
movie: "Have a Cigar..."
me: "You're gonna go far..."
DJStry 2 years ago
"Enjoy my headshot"
"Hi I miss anything!"
"Knock it off over there"
"And even as I speak to you....I'm not wearing pants"
thedarkpoets 2 years ago
You'd figure the factory worker yelling about money would figure, y'know, "less about the money, more about the OH MY GOD we're gonna die" bit. Sheesh.
lastxwriter 2 years ago 2
LEVITTOWN!!!!
Dragmack 2 years ago
England has joined the war - presumably Scotland, Wales and N Ireland have remained neutral.
"I *really* like cattle."
NorwichTeenwolf 2 years ago
Don't forget Canada! We have to assume they're with the Russians since they simply allowed them to stroll along the west coast from Anchorage to Seattle unmolested! That would give this war two fronts! Unstoppable! BEWARE TEH CANADA! ;D
ShadesofScorpius 2 years ago
What's with Kevin Pollak the cab driver?
And why did they choose to focus this movie on some douchebag anchorman anyway?
Gmmof 2 years ago 2
...plus a little bit of the late Bruno Kirby?
feverdeanmg 2 years ago
I like how, by this time, Henry Kissinger's influence has finally allowed him to overthrow the executive branch and declare himself president.
durane42 2 years ago
Is it just me or is the room at 2:10 the same as at 7:05 in the last clip? All they did was put in some furniture! The map on the wall looks the same, anyway....
PantisMantis 2 years ago 3
You know a more realistic portrail of an invasion from overseas would be mass global factories and corporations all run by Chinese, employing the tractor man and the tank guy too. Gasp! Oh my!
livinintwilightzone 2 years ago
Exactly.
feverdeanmg 2 years ago
"So, there is only one thing to do..."
So, the factory managers brilliant plan was to get himself killed?
He should've kept a handy Factory Self-Destruct button at his desk, would've been lots cooler.
antistrunt 3 years ago
acme brand self destruction buttons!
when you need a boom, boom with acme
vampirehunterme 2 years ago
I thought his orders were to keep him alive? So... he had him killed?
You know, considering this movie was made so close after the end of WWII I find it hard to believe that anyone back then could believe that America would never be able to repel an attack by Russia.
I mean, what with the arms race and all.
FNGLHR 3 years ago
Well, this really is an anti-communism propaganda film, whose point is to scare the sh!t out of Americans!
TomMSTie 3 years ago
Plus there's a reoccurring diatribe about how companies should turn their businesses over to the government and build tanks.
TomMSTie 3 years ago
Which is somewhat confusing, as the whole point of Capitalism and Free Enterprise is that the government DOESN'T own any company. If they take it over thats nationalization... something the communists did.
This movie is hypocritical and contradictory to its very own message!
FNGLHR 3 years ago
Which sounds like McCarthyism to me.
TomMSTie 3 years ago
Oh burn! You know we should've been at his hearings, we could've shortened that fat bastard's fear monger career by a year or two. Then again Edward R. Murrow did that with relative ease anyway.
You know I honesty tried to find something good that came out of McCarthy's fear rantings. But all I discovered is that he caught more fake commies then real ones. Oh well, I tried to be non-bias. But some events in history can only be interpreted one way. Maybe with a few shades of grey, but not much
FNGLHR 3 years ago
My favorite McCarthy/Red Scare story: they tried to bust Lucille Ball because her grandfather was a registered Communist. Desi Arnez said, "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that isn't legitimate."
TomMSTie 3 years ago
I'm partial to the good old fashioned "Have you no Decency sir?" personally.
Whats unfortunate though is some of the deeper wounds caused by that period. Actors who played ball with HUAC for example they weren't exactly treated favourably afterwards by some people.
Personally I feel its wrong to criticise the actions of some of the people who testified on behalf of HUAC. They were just doing what they though was right. HUAC simply used them to accomplish their own goals.
FNGLHR 3 years ago
But of course my favourite out of them all, the McCarthy lists, the Hollywood trials, the Red Scare movies, my favourite little messed up controversy of the fifties was the Comic Books trial. You should find the transcripts of it, the whole damn thing reads like a video game violence debate. Just replace Wertham with Jackie Thompson and every reference to comics with video games and you won't be able to tell the difference!
FNGLHR 3 years ago
I remember hearing about that in a documentary about the history of Comics.
TomMSTie 3 years ago
Well duh, don't need to spell it out to me. I prefer my Cold War propaganda to at least be entertaining, well structured, well acted and not 2-diemensional all the way around.
Like Red Dawn! Sure its American Cold War propaganda, but at least its a cool war movie and some of the communists are at least a bit more realistic. Afterall it was an accurate depiction of Guerilla warfare and at least the acting is less wooden then this crap.
Still funny to riff though.
FNGLHR 3 years ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to be patronizing.
Red Dawn, awesome movie. WOLVERINES!!!
TomMSTie 3 years ago
Its cool. I know how hard it is to read people through simple writing.
FNGLHR 3 years ago
Also with the window cleaner bit, there's a string anti-foreigners message. Like you should suspect all people of Russian birth.
TomMSTie 3 years ago
Well at least us westerners aren't like that anymore. We don't just hassle the Russians, we hassle EVERYBODY from other countries. At least we're being fair now.
How come we always think that a legal immigrant to the west is either a spy or terrorist in waiting. Maybe they're over here because they think their home country really sucks. Why can't they come here? They deserve as good a shot at happiness as the rest of us! You know what I'm saying?
FNGLHR 3 years ago 3
That's what I always say when someone goes off on the "They took our jobs!" rant. The Statue of Liberty? Hello!? Her plaque says "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." It doesn't say, "STAY OUT!"
TomMSTie 3 years ago
You know up here in Canada we have a different system. Yes I know my profile says I live somewhere else, I like to think I actually do live in the Cayman Islands sometimes.
Anyway, our immigrant system is very different, you just have to live here for three years and you're officially a citizen. No Green Card required.
I suppose theres reasons to keep immigrants out, but to be honest if your country is founded on immigration you should try and live up to your heritage and be more accepting
FNGLHR 3 years ago
*gasp* You're one of those damn frost backs!?!?
Seriously though, my goal in life is to be a Paleontologist, and if I got a really nice job offer from one of the MANY nice museums in Canada...provided I finally crack the metric system and can still get my comic books.
TomMSTie 3 years ago
Never heard that one, I prefer Canucks. But I get the reference.
FNGLHR 3 years ago
Kids in the Hall alumni Scott Thompson said it in a stand-up special. He also said, "Snow Bird" and "Ice Ni**er."
TomMSTie 3 years ago
why can't the president face the screen?
4youglencoco 3 years ago
LOL at the hit at 4:07
Youngwrit3r 3 years ago
lmfao i watched it like 5 times in a row. I'M DYINGGGGGGG.
4youglencoco 3 years ago
So the president is Wilson from Home Improvement?
Oppledeldoc 3 years ago
They took out Box Car Willie!
grumblesa10 3 years ago 2
So the Soviets just put some random mexican janitor in charge of making tanks!
sokarsfleet 3 years ago
No more implausible than some of the other politically reliable, but otherwise incompetent "managers" they put in charge of nuclear weapons development
grumblesa10 3 years ago
"Anybody got a light?"
I think I hear one coming...
GoblinXXX 3 years ago 2
I think you misspelled "patrician".
00mooks00 3 years ago
was actually going for "Poor-toe-ree-ken" but suffer from a case of dyslexia so kinda makes it hard to spell more complex words
WhiteTiger225 3 years ago
Puerto Rican.
durane42 2 years ago
Lol, there was more drama in that one scene than in the whole movie.
pockypurse 3 years ago
So, the moral is: Don't trust employees with or without Green Cards?
primepm 3 years ago 2
"Damn you and your vaguely foreign/hispanic accent! Siding with the communists! Even after I gave a job working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for $1.07 an hour!? I suppose next you will want health insurence!"
radioblueheart 3 years ago 8
Wow! Who knew the Soviets were such meanies! It makes me want to go build a few tanks.
Kinemacolour 4 years ago
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And then give them to a gay perutirican actor posing as a russian
WhiteTiger225 3 years ago
I think you misspelled "patrician".
00mooks00 3 years ago
"they took out Boxcar Willie"
silverage59 4 years ago 2
I love it when the bad guy slaps the Tractor Factory owner and his hair(hairpiece?) has a dramatic scene, LWOL!
silverage59 4 years ago 4
He, Him...this movie was a joke, lol, as they couldn't even say Russia!
silverage59 4 years ago
yeah....their just called "THE ENEMY"
skrapyard444 4 years ago
Gee, the world is going to hell in a handbasket and these two find the time to fall in love. This movie makes no sense.
christimacc 4 years ago
"France has pledged crepes."
Ivyandstone 4 years ago 2
This movie is kind of like Red Dawn, but with more stock footage.
tvsdavid138 4 years ago 3
And a marked paucity of Patrick Swayze.
GoblinXXX 3 years ago
All the stock footage of "Russian troops in guise of American troops" was just a way to circumvent the cost of buying Russian military uniforms. They had to use stock footage of our troops practicing airborne manuvers in order to further their lame plot.
dwthrock 4 years ago 2
"Tractor Police! John Deere squad"
leto17 4 years ago
-Tom: "You're just shooting caps off on a postcard!"
-Crow: "Hi! I miss anything?"
drewcifer721 4 years ago
I love how the President speaks through his ear. He never has to show his bad side to us.
Nktalloth 4 years ago
"I will now read 'the velveteen rabbit'."
"I'm not wearing pants"
TRUFFL3S 4 years ago
"Anybody got a light?" I think I hear one coming!
SoundsmithOne 4 years ago
Servo: They took out Boxcar Willie.
donna637 4 years ago
"So...are you gonna finish the windows?"
Ryushinku 4 years ago 2
"We have huge stocks of atomic weapons in reserve."
"Everything must go."
haredog62 4 years ago
"He's always bragging about his huge stocks!"
MoJoelRizing 4 years ago 2
So WW3 is a lot like WW2...
Kitsune1282 4 years ago
I have Valium blackouts.
Enjoy my headshot.
Mount -Man-! XD
hackpuppet 4 years ago
"Your son drew another giraffe, sir."
"When middle managers rebel."
outmywindow 4 years ago
"To the people of these cities I bring this message:"
"You´re on your own."
sixfeetjenna 4 years ago
The Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis feud is heating up.
twatsuckmydick 5 years ago
Thank you very much! I was hoping I wouldn't have to wait too long for ep. 6.
haredog62 5 years ago
"We're destroying their beach resorts and vacation areas!"
gonzaleo 5 years ago