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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh no. A Remake of Red Dawn
"Teenagers seek to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers,"
I figure they'd probably invade WalMart first for some groceries.
CanonRay
(14,038 posts)How lame can you get. How do they get here, rowboats?
Libertas1776
(2,888 posts)that the original invaders were the Chinese...but the movie producers, being the big capitalists that they are, didn't want to lose the very profitable Chinese market by having their movie banned over there. So, they changed the enemy to North Korea...supposedly after production. All the Chinese flags were digitally replaced with NK ones and any mention of China was re-dubbed with NK. Talk about a shitty script that can the main antagonists can be digitally replaced without an entire re-shoot.
also, rowboats haha
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)allowed per year into this new bastion of capitalism. They aren't. And the film is being universally panned as even wore than the first.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)It's been languishing around for several years,
went through several changes.
I'm shocked it was as good as it was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn_(2012_film)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) announced their intentions to make a remake of Red Dawn in May 2008 and subsequently hired Bradley and Ellsworth. The principal characters were cast the following year and the film went into production in September 2009 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Originally scheduled to be released on November 24, 2010, the film was shelved due to MGM's financial troubles. While in post-production, the invading army was changed from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to China's box office. FilmDistrict bought the U.S. distribution rights from MGM in September 2011 and set a new release date.
Edweird
(8,570 posts)It'll never fit right again.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)aandegoons
(473 posts)You are probably right about Walmart and the groceries. I wonder does red dawn come before or after black Friday.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts)Paladin
(28,204 posts)So what's the point?
BumRushDaShow
(127,325 posts)OMG luckily the keyboard wasn't nearby when I got the visual... That's a name I haven't heard in forever.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)The original has a great first ten minutes, but after that was just hilariously bad.
I have a feeling this one will be the same. From what I gather from the previews, the set-up of how we get invaded is improbable in the extreme. Maybe technological not possible.
One huge problem I have with a lot of movies is that some important aspect that the plot revolves around just can't happen. Now, I'm not talking something in a science fiction film like time travel or faster than light drive, or a fantasy in which a person gets to see what the world would have been like had he not been born. No, those are the kinds of single things we all willingly suspend our disbelief about to get to the rest of the movie. They're okay.
But something like having a very dangerous criminal on a commercial airline flight, just so he can than take it over. People like that aren't allowed to fly commercially. Things like, one and only one person designed all the critical systems of an airplane so she can wind up wandering around the amazingly spacious behind-the-scenes electronics to thwart the bad guys. Those are just two that come to mind, but they happen so often that a lot of my friends don't like going to a movie with me because I'll carp endlessly about those things that to me bring a movie to a screeching halt.
And my problem isn't just that the plot flaws are in my opinion insurmountable, and yet the movie was made anyway. That's bad enough. But then, a lot of people will take what's presented on absolute faith, that what's shown is what can happen, or what does happen in real life. The show Myth Busters should be more widely watched.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)about Russia/Cuba/Nicaragua invading the US (if I remember the premise correctly)...but North Korea? Really?
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)refineries for Stalin.
The John Birch Society Source Watch entry (The Center for Media and Democracy)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Birch_Society
pizzadave
(46 posts)TomClash
(11,344 posts)0rganism
(23,856 posts)That bird is bringing it all, no question.
Gonna give the movie a pass, though.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)Which includes a restored Russia. We can'offend Chinese but Russians are fair game. PS there is a Powers Booth lookalike character and my audience was actually laughing at the final sad dramatic ending
newspeak
(4,847 posts)remember when the downed pilot tells the kids that china had joined with the US against the russians and cubans? so, the first movie was already setting up the alliance with china.
when i heard they were actually making a remake of the movie. I thought, "we've got to have more imagination and creativity to spend money on new movies instead of making paranoid retreads.
just great propaganda film. pravda would be proud.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Delayed for one year because of the China -> North Korea alteration, but still the studio didn't know what to do with it. The fact that it was filmed with a then- relatively unknown Chris Hemsworth, who is now a big star, has something to do with the release.
Libertas1776
(2,888 posts)i believe MGM originally produced it, but went bankrupt....so that gummed up the works even longer.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)tomg
(2,574 posts)"Teenagers seek to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers," but then they run out of weed and realize that for the past two hours they have been listening to John McCain on Fox News.
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)They have to throw in someting to get people into the theater. The rebels could be led by Kid Rock and Steven Baldwin.
JHB
(37,133 posts)There's a line in the previews:
"To them this is just some place. To us, it's our home."
Sounds like a good reason for getting out of Afghanistan and staying out of Iran.
OneMoreDemocrat
(913 posts)for that matter.
Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)Homefront was released a year ago and was written by the writer of the original Red Dawn. It also features the North Koreans invading and a resistance cell being formed and joined by the main character.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 22, 2012, 02:56 PM - Edit history (1)
...makes their obsessive fears and anger necessary.
edbermac
(15,919 posts)By the guy who gave us Conan the Barbarian, fun in a very stupid way. The remake will be a dud.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Apparently, the classic WWIII America novel, "Alas, Babylon" was never made, and maybe this one shouldn't be sequeled.
Laochtine
(394 posts)according to the gop
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)I can see it's already laughably bad.