While I’m sure that some of my more deranged readers fantasize that I watch it over and over, I’ve actually never seen the movie “Red Dawn
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While I’m sure that some of my more deranged readers fantasize that I watch it over and over, I’ve actually never seen the movie “Red Dawn
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Wolverines!!!!
Wait. The Chinese? Hell, they’re more capitalist than we are now. I for one would welcome our new Chinese overlords, and humbly beg we be considered for “Special Administrative Region” status like Hong Kong.
How do you say wolverines in Mandarin?
I think I’m going to be sick.
I expect the source material to be treated about as seriously as Starship Troopers.
RD director John Milius made sure the original had lots of nice pro gun stuff in it. Expect this one to have nothing of the kind.
In general, the purpose of remakes seems to be risk reduction in the funding process and to “update” the material to the modern Hollywood zeitgiest.
Which means there’s a 99 percent chance this one will s*ck.
K,
I’m not saying Hollyweird can’t do it, but I don’t see how a movie about US partisans can’t be pro-gun. Uh-oh…
“Wow, thankfully the president took all the confiscated weapons from the right wing crazies and buried them in the mountains. It sure was lucky that the local ServeAmerica civilian military colonel, the high school tolerance counselor, had the key to the Rocky Mountian stash!”
Hey, I want a writing credit!
I saw it at the theater in 1984 (trivia note: it was the first PG-13 movie, that level of rating having been created weeks earlier after the gross-out scenes in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom caused the Claude Raineses of that time to be shocked, shocked! that teenager movies had gross-out parts in them). Remember that this was less than 18 months after the KAL 007 shootdown. The first 20 minutes was genuinely suspenseful. It went downhill rapidly after that, though…
Big D: “I expect the source material to be treated about as seriously as Starship Troopers.”
What, the original was “War and Peace”?
It was fun shlock then, and it’ll be fun shlock now.
“AVENGE ME, BOYS! AVVVEENNNGE ME!”
I think I’ll stick with the original. I hate when Hollywood “updates” movies I enjoy and turns them into dreck. Witness what they did to “The Andromeda Strain”. Obligatory PC talking points throughout.
Pardon me while I cough up a hairball. . .