Red Dawn Remake

[Thundarr]

They should do a movie where Canada invades the U.S. We could take the north half of your country pretty easily, maybe we'd stop at the Mason/Dixon line so we don't have to fight your gun-toting good ole boys.

CANADIAN BACON 2: THE REVENGE

I love it!
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[Thundercrack85]

Good luck getting past Montana. They'd probably let you annex Michigan though.

 

[Thundarr]

Good luck getting past Montana. They'd probably let you annex Michigan though.

Our military made it past Montana several times. All the way to Washington DC, where we burned the White House to the ground. In fact, the white house is white because they got tired of rebuilding it, so they started just whitewashing the burns every time we invaded. The US government doesn't let that information be taught in American classrooms, but the US has never defeated Canada in battle (even though they tried several times).

 

[Thundercrack85]

Our military made it past Montana several times. All the way to Washington DC, where we burned the White House to the ground. In fact, the white house is white because they got tired of rebuilding it, so they started just whitewashing the burns every time we invaded. The US government doesn't let that information be taught in American classrooms, but the US has never defeated Canada in battle (even though they tried several times).

I wasn't educated in American schools.

The British forces that burned down the White House were not from Canada. They were British Regulars from Bermuda, if I recall correctly. Led by an Irishman. Then again, most Americans barely remember 1812, since it was a fairly unimportant war in their history.

Though yes, invading Canada generally has disastrous consequences. Never invade a country with a good hockey team seems to be the rule of thumb.

 

[jmc]

i remember times when they would invent and create a new country . everyone would win.

Tomorrow When The War Began, basically the Australian version of Red Dawn didn't even name the country, it was just some generic Asian nation that invaded us for reasons that weren't really explained. That kinda worked because you were seeing things from the teens perspective in that like them you didn't really know what was happening. Downside being when you don't specifically name any country or have to invent one you're diminishing the threat.

 

[cherokeesam]

Just have Iran invade and conquer the US of A. That's an idea that the paranoid Islamo-fearing idiots at Fox News can get behind. And even the PC Police aren't gonna object to Ahmedinijad being the new Xerxes.

 

[Octoberist]

So by the time the movie comes out, it'll be three years old.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Looks okay I guess but I'm getting a little tired of hearing Filter's "Hey Man, Nice Shot" being used in trailers for action films. Unless one of the characters pulls out a gun and shoots himself in the head, the song doesn't fit.

 

[chamber-music]

Did know Tom Cruise son Conner was in this. I didn't know he acted either.

 

[terry78]

Well, it's about what I expected. Though with all the "teenagers rising up to battle their oppressors" stories we've had, it's not as groundbreaking as the original.

 

[marvelman2006]

looks pretty good actually and given the delays it might pay off given chris and josh's recent success. Did anyone else watch and kept waiting for chris to summon lighting?

 

[charl_huntress]

Interesting...but I've kind of lost some of the excitement for the remake. It's been in development hell too long. I'll wait for Netflix.

 

[MadVillainy]

I'm not gonna lie... I didn't look that bad. Will I see it in theaters? Unless I hear it's really good probably not. But they have some good actors in the leads, although Josh Peck looks a bit narm-ish in the trailer. The action looks decent and if they fixed the problems that were in the script draft I saw, then it could be decent.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

It's about time. I'm not expecting greatness but I'm looking forward to it all the same.

 

[MadVillainy]

This has a crappy release date though.
2 weeks after Skyfall
1 week after the last Twilight movie
and 2 weeks before The Hobbit

THey shouldve released it somewhere that's not March, Summer, or near the Holiday season

 

[8wid]

Finally... it actually sort of was worth the wait. The secret weapon aspect makes it look interesting and refreshing and maybe sort of plausible.

 

[TheVileOne]

You guys know this is basically the movie version of the videogame Homefront right?

I mean John Milius was story advisor for that game and it had the EXACT SAME PLOT!

 

[jacobed]

Who cares

 

[TheVileOne]

Just saying, that game had the plot of North Korea invading US and destroying infrastructure with a big ass EMP.

 

[MadVillainy]

Again who cares?

 

[jacobed]

Just saw the trailer, looks pretty great and its absolutely nothing like Homefront haha not even close.

 

[DarthAlani]

Our military made it past Montana several times. All the way to Washington DC, where we burned the White House to the ground. In fact, the white house is white because they got tired of rebuilding it, so they started just whitewashing the burns every time we invaded. The US government doesn't let that information be taught in American classrooms, but the US has never defeated Canada in battle (even though they tried several times).

Oh please The USA would utterly crush Canada if they really wanted to.

 

[jacobed]

Just saw the trailer, looks pretty great and its absolutely nothing like Homefront haha not even close.

 

[Duke]

Having the Chinese invade the U.S. would've been a whole lot better & more believable than North Korea, but oh well.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

The concept is absolutely ludicrous. North Korea has a GDP of 40 billion dollars. That's like what Mark Zuckerberg finds between his sofa cushions. They don't have the resources, weapons, financial capability or man-power (they have 23 million people, we have 300 million) to occupy the USA. This whole movie fell apart once they changed it from China. The worst thing will be seeing obvious Chinese actors dubbed in Korean. Sorry, not on board. Film company wimped out.