"Red Dawn" Is In Remake !

[tt11758]

We all know sheep lie. They samnit! Stupid lying sheep.
FQ13 who can stil picture some religious old guy taking the grand kids to see the new cowboy movie for a bit of "wholesome entertainment".

Which is why sheep herders tuck their jeans into the tops of their boots.

OK, who farted in the corner?!?

[philw]

Sledge, You Aussies are coming out with your own version.  It's called "Tomorrow when the war began".  Looks pretty good.

well I saw this last night 

not bad movie 

it is based on a book with the same name that has been modernised  ( according to the Mrs that read it )

looks like they are also doing a sequel to it as well starts filming soon for a 2012 release



Red Dawn 2011 will be out this year as well
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/

[GUNS-R-US]

well I saw this last night 

not bad movie 

it is based on a book with the same name that has been modernised  ( according to the Mrs that read it )

looks like they are also doing a sequel to it as well starts filming soon for a 2012 release



Red Dawn 2011 will be out this year as well
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/

I'd like to see that!

[warhawke]

Ya want to hear something really funny, my mom and dad were really pissed last summer because the Red Dawn film crew kept shutting down the street behind their house. Seems they wanted to film in a city that already looked like a war-zone so they picked my old neighborhood in Southwest Detroit.

[billt]

Do they fight the "Peaceful Muslims" this time instead of the Russians?  Bill T.

[Sponsor]

[cooptire]

Do they fight the "Peaceful Muslims" this time instead of the Russians?  Bill T.

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Nope, I believe it is the Chinese this time. The "peaceful" muslims would never do anything like that! For Shame.

[pioneer]

Uh oh!  I think I saw my photo on the "Dangerous Citizen Board."

I am a huge fan of the original and own a copy.  Guess I'll have to watch it this weekend.  The old movie is kind of campy, and if you can get past the Sheen and Swayze actors acting as patriots, it is mildly entertaining.  And that's the point.  It is entertainment.  Those same lefties who decry both the original and the remake, see nothing wrong with anti-American flicks by Michael Moore, or movies about the assassination of George W. Bush.  Not some fictional president, but a sitting (at the time) US president.  That's ok.  That is perfectly acceptable as "art."  

I look forward to the remake, although remakes are usually crappy, I shall see it in the theater and buy a copy when the DVD version is released.  

WOLVERINES

[Ping]

Just hope the remake of Red Dawn is not screwed up like most other remakes.

Wonder when Hollywood will make a good "Punisher" movie?

[fightingquaker13]

The question isn't whether its a good remake. The question is why do a remake to begin with? I mean, by definition, its already been done. Move on, find something new. The first one was campy and absurd, but like most people of my generation I saw it as  a land mark film, just like "The Day After". It shaped our world as we grew up during the Cold War, Quick test. Go into a bar full of thirty and forty somethings and yell "Wolverines!". I guarantee everyone will know what you are talking about. They may look at you funny, but they will understand.   Now? What's the point? It was absurd to imagine that the US could ever be succsesfully invaded even during the Cold War, but we actually kind of welcomed the idea as at least we could shoot back rather than passively waiting for the missles to fall. It was an empowering flick in the '80s. Now its its just silly. Seriously, a Chinese invasion? What are they going to do? Swim? The idea of Muslims taking over is even more absurd. Neither has the resonance of the original as without the Cold War context, it really makes no sense. You can remake "True Grit" and it works as its a timeless story about vengance and heroism. "Red Dawn" belongs to a particular time and place. If you weren't there, you don't get it. Its like Nena's "99 Luft Balloons" or Jesus Jones' "Right Here Right Now". You were either a child of the Cold War or you weren't. If you were, those songs and that movie have serious memories attached to them. If you weren't, they are just campy '80s schlock. Don't bother trying to remake them as they are the product of a particular time and place and depend on a worldview shaped by that time and place to give them meaning. Minus that? Its just a B movie. Rant over.
FQ13
PS Here's a bonus.

And my favorite (I swear I saw officers cry when the wall came down and I was crying with them. That was a moment I will remember if I live to see 100), everyone in DC was singing this thing. It was a brief high before reality set in, but sweet lord, being in DC and wearing the uniform in '89-90? It was a magical time, the failed coup against Gorby, the Wall coming down, democracy in Eastern Europe, the dissolution of the USSR. Lord, it was like 50 years of history were gone and we were looking at a whole new world. I mean seriously, we were trained for four years to fight an NBC war against an enemy that just dissolved in a puff of smoke. There aren't words to describe what that felt like. It must have been like what VE day felt like for the Brits.  Anyway, Jesus Jones had it right. A great song that captured an amazing  moment. But just like Red Dawn, it doesn't stand the test of time. It was about a moment. "Right here, Right Now" indeed. You were there or you weren't.

[tombogan03884]

  
    This is a lot more appropriate than Commie Nena