"Red Dawn" remake

[Reverenddel]

A'ight. I'll admit it, I'm gonna go see this...

I watched the Original, and it ain't any cinematic masterpiece, but it's patriotic, and if they capture a bit of that? That's good enough for me.

The movie "300", though not a cinematic masterpiece, I thought was a fine movie that showed what motivated, honorable, and loyal free people will do to preserve that freedom.

Including die for a cause, no one dies in the movies anymore... they can't make sequels.

Wish they would kill more folk off.

[Jakeiscrazy]

I loved the original Red Dawn. I have my doubts about this remake but recently the remakes have been good. Also I haven't seen 300. Maybe I should?

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[Reverenddel]

Ooooohhh JAKE! You have GOT to see "300"!

If you have a strong "freedom loving" streak in you... it's a movie to make you say "God Bless America" at the end, and NO ONE IS AMERICAN IN IT! HAHAHA

[Jakeiscrazy]

Alright I'll check it out. Just finished "the other guys" watching "anchorman" tonight and then I'll check out 300

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[ShotgunBlast]

Great movie.

As for Red Dawn, haven't seen the original. Might see the remake. Afraid life might imitate art.

[SpanishInquisition]

WOLVERINES!!!!!


Still undecded if I'll see the remake. I'm kinda horked off at Hollywood for selling out to China and going in post-production to change the bad guys that invade the North American continent to... North Koreans? Like North Korea could mobilize any credible threat to someone other than South Korea? Hell, South Korea is stretching it might thin...

[Reverenddel]

Hollyweird has to bow to their "Asian Masters"....

China is the ONLY viable threat.

[GeneFrenkle]

I'll wait for it to go to dvd and mybe have an original/update back-to-back showing. The original is a good one to stream on Netflix while cleaning rifles with your kid(s) over a few root beers.

[Tweaker]

The original is a really good guilty pleasure movie. It is fun watching these "rat pack" twerps wring every drop of drama from Milius' fun political script. So much weeping and hugging!

As a child of the 1980's, who wouldn't want to be the first kid on your block with the first confirmed commie kill? Ah, for a simpler time.

[AtomicPunk]

Alright I'll check it out. Just finished "the other guys" watching "anchorman" tonight and then I'll check out 300

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300 will be a letdown after those two classics. I know alot of people who liked it but I thought it was silly.

The new Red Dawn is a clusterf***. The ludicrous North Korean part (to appease the Chinese) was already mentioned. The whole point of the original movie was a bunch of untrained high school kids surviving in the woods and fighting for their country against all odds and eventually dying for it. The new one stars a war hero Marine that's home on leave. From the trailer it also looks like they've added a NK secret weapon thats carried around by the evil General in a briefcase so the Wolverines can kill him, capture the weapon and single-handedly win the war. They've turned it into a Mission Impossible movie for God's sake.

I'll put this in the category of remakes and sequels that should have never been made.

[GeneFrenkle]

They changed it that much? I'll pass, then.

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[OakRidgeStars]

AK47, baby!

[Wolvee]

I can't wait to see Red Dawn. They made most of the movie right near my house in Michigan. ...oddly I think the movie takes place in Washington now. IDK how that works out but whatever it's Hollyweird.


I don't know how it happened but 300 is my wife's favorite movie. It's the only Blu Ray we own beside Disney movies, lol.

[newdovo]

We'll see how the new "Red Dawn" fares.
Some good one-liners in "300". Here's another:

[Reverenddel]

Another guilty pleasure movie?

John Wayne's "Green Berets". Watch it every time it's on.

Dunno about the premise of the New Red Dawn (NRD), but I gotta have SOMETHING motivate my patriotism again.

[Kreutz]

I'll pass.



Mandatory lone black guy who is guaranteed to spout irritatng nonsense (ala Cole in Gears of War) ruins everything.

Also the hipster in the vest.....just...no.

Remember, spending money on movies just supports the Hollywood liberal elites you all claim to despise. It will get redstributed to Obamas third campaign run.

[scott9050]

Alright I'll check it out. Just finished "the other guys" watching "anchorman" tonight and then I'll check out 300

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300 will be a letdown after those two classics. I know alot of people who liked it but I thought it was silly.

The new Red Dawn is a clusterf***. The ludicrous North Korean part (to appease the Chinese) was already mentioned. The whole point of the original movie was a bunch of untrained high school kids surviving in the woods and fighting for their country against all odds and eventually dying for it. The new one stars a war hero Marine that's home on leave. From the trailer it also looks like they've added a NK secret weapon thats carried around by the evil General in a briefcase so the Wolverines can kill him, capture the weapon and single-handedly win the war. They've turned it into a Mission Impossible movie for God's sake.

I'll put this in the category of remakes and sequels that should have never been made.

X2 on that. The original played up to the fears that were there not only from the cold war but from a combination of the Able Archer incident and the Afghanistan invasion.

The premise behind this is stone cold silly.

[Reverenddel]

Surprisingly enough? Didn't suck.

Actually in some parts, it's as if they read Conspiracy Theories, and utilized those as a basis, and mapped it out fairly well.


It's probably not worth FULL price, but matinee, or Second Run? I would probably go see it again.




SPOILER ALERTS!

Not giving much away, but here's how they made it plausible. NK stopped being a "religious dictatorship", and because a simple commie country, joining with 5 other Asian nations in a "Asian Council" (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar if the flags looked correct)

America's economy didn't improve, and Europe's economy crashes. Africa has some major conflicts, and America jumps in putting us on a "multi-front war", spreading our domestic protection pretty thin since the sequestration lowered the active level troops to "NG-Reserves-Holdover".

Plus? The NKoreans don't do it by themselves. Russia jumps in. NK n'Company run the West Coast, Russia runs East Coast, Free America is the middle.

You'd think the Marine angle of "Jed Eckert" would f'ck it up from the Original, but in fact it makes it BETTER! NOW they have a trainer, and utilize techniques from the terrorist in Afghanistan, and Iraq that he was fighting.

The whole "magical device" thing? Not even likely, it's a secured communications scrambler like the "enigma" machine from WWII, they knock out bases using a low grade EMP's from blast over major targets.

Soooo, there ya' go, it's actually BETTER in some parts than the original, but NOT in others... the actors? Yeah, Connor Cruise is there because of his name, and "Josh" from "Josh, and Drake" from Disney sssuuuccckkksss a "Matty". But every other part is worth seeing.

[Kreutz]

The whole "magical device" thing? Not even likely, it's a secured communications scrambler like the "enigma" machine from WWII, they knock out bases using a low grade EMP's from blast over major targets.

So its a remake of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

[Jakeiscrazy]

Alright I'll check it out. Just finished "the other guys" watching "anchorman" tonight and then I'll check out 300

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300 will be a letdown after those two classics. I know alot of people who liked it but I thought it was silly.

The new Red Dawn is a clusterf***. The ludicrous North Korean part (to appease the Chinese) was already mentioned. The whole point of the original movie was a bunch of untrained high school kids surviving in the woods and fighting for their country against all odds and eventually dying for it. The new one stars a war hero Marine that's home on leave. From the trailer it also looks like they've added a NK secret weapon thats carried around by the evil General in a briefcase so the Wolverines can kill him, capture the weapon and single-handedly win the war. They've turned it into a Mission Impossible movie for God's sake.

I'll put this in the category of remakes and sequels that should have never been made.

300 was great, totally different but very good. It was a little slow at first. I've been on a movie kick lately. 2-3 a night because school is on vacation.