Red Dawn Remake

[Matt]

What? Its already made.

 

[8wid]

What? Its already made.

Where have you been?

 

[Matt]

Yeah, I know, so I'm asking why they wouldn't just release it. Its already made, just distribute it and make what you can off it.

 

[Carnotaur3]

Yeah, I know, so I'm asking why they wouldn't just release it. Its already made, just distribute it and make what you can off it.

Marketing and distribution costs money... which is what MGM doesn't seem to have anymore. The article also didn't mention that the film was 'done'. It just said it was in 'post-production': editing, ADR, foley, etc.

 

[Thundarr]

There was a scene with one of the Communist Generals that really made him out to be... not such a bad guy? Really, he sees the brothers walk past him, and he does nothing because he feels for them (cheesy, but it's there). I mean, the film plays on Cold War fears, but just because it does that, it doesn't make it propaganda. Do you think Arachnaphobia is anti-spider? LOL

Not so much anti-communism as it was pro-America I suppose. My point was that many movies of that era played on the Cold War and the fear of communism. To some people, that alone makes them "propaganda".

In Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Rambo goes back to Vietnam to gather proof that there are still American POWs there and finds that the Vietnamese military are being aided by the Soviets. In Rocky IV, a Soviet boxer comes to America and beats Apollo Creed to death during an exhibition match with no remorse. And there were many Bond films where 007 had to go against agents of the KGB. Red Dawn is no more or less anti-communist "propaganda" than any of these films.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

In Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Rambo goes back to Vietnam to gather proof that there are still American POWs there and finds that the Vietnamese military are being aided by the Soviets. In Rocky IV, a Soviet boxer comes to America and beats Apollo Creed to death during an exhibition match with no remorse. And there were many Bond films where 007 had to go against agents of the KGB. Red Dawn is no more or less anti-communist "propaganda" than any of these films.

Actually no. Not in the movies. The Soviet Government was never the enemy.

 

[Crockett]

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Thank God the American Eagles Outfitters store survived the invasion.

 

[MadVillainy]

There just wearing normal clothes

I hope this gets released soon

 

[Catman]

thank god the american eagles outfitters store survived the invasion.

lol.

 

[mclay18]

Since MGM's debt is lifted, and that they have $500M to develop new films -- shouldn't they focus on getting Red Dawn and Cabin in the Woods promoted and have a distributor release them? Maybe when Chris Hemsworth hits it big in Thor, maybe they'll do it then -- since he's toplining both films.

 

[Catman]

We can dream.

 

[DACrowe]

This remake seems a bit late. The overly-patriotic, jingoistic, "America, **** Yeah!" thing was so 2002-2004.

Maybe the producers are hoping that in 2012 if the right has a real national resurgence that it will become profitable for release again?

Favorite lines of the original:

"Europe? They figured two times in a century is enough. They're sitting this one out."

"Remember boys, AVENGE ME!!! AVENGE ME!!!!!! AVENGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Also, the scene where they use gun laws to round up all the gun owners in the town? It just screamed, "The wingnuts were right! The wingnuts were right!!!!" Not to mention Millius's attempt of a CAsablanca moment when all the good Americans (gun owners) were singing "God Bless America" prior to execution.


The original may be a terrible piece of propaganda from the Reagan years....but it was so very schlocky and so very entertaining.

 

[jmc]

The other thing is the original was playing into the fear of the very real threat of war with the Soviet Union. The US and China are way too tied together economically now, so this film is kinda pointless really.

 

[8wid]

The other thing is the original was playing into the fear of the very real threat of war with the Soviet Union. The US and China are way too tied together economically now, so this film is kinda pointless really.

I think the issue that raises conflict in the film is over oil and something around the formal independence of Taiwan. Plus Japan gets nuked again in this one.

 

[terry78]

The villain has been changed to North Korea as opposed to China.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-china-red-dawn-20110316,0,995726.story

 

[MadVillainy]

I see people b****ing about the change.

I dont see the big deal. Especially when it means potentially more money for the studio

 

[Crockett]

Eh, it's not a big deal for me either.

 

[Matt]

I see it as a big deal because its kind of unrealistic to think that a country like North Korea could successfully invade South Korea much less America.

 

[Matt]

I see it as a big deal because its kind of unrealistic to think that a country like North Korea could successfully invade South Korea much less America.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

I ***** about this. Because it doesn't make any sense.

 

[Tron Bonne]

And China invading made any sense at all?

 

[Catman]

I see it as a big deal because its kind of unrealistic to think that a country like North Korea could successfully invade South Korea much less America.

And it's realistic that a bunch of HS teenagers save the country?

 

[TruerToTheCore]

And it's realistic that a bunch of HS teenagers save the country?

Have you even seen the movie? THe teenagers do not save America, they just become guerillas and give the occupying force a hard time. The moment the regular Soviet troops arrive they are close to be killed, but then the US army steps in and saves them.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

And China invading made any sense at all?

Not that much, at least at the moment. But China is still the largest country in the world, second in economic power and so the concept makes more sense than a piss-poor country with 25 million inhabitants and no navy.

North Korea invading the US would be more like a sequel to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared