I am a huge Red Dawn fan. I’ll admit it had some cheesy parts, but overall it’s one of my all time favorites. The other day I caught a snippet about a remake coming out sometime next summer, and that the new invading force is China instead of Russia. I’m on the fence about the whole thing. One one hand, I did like the original, and the Chinese twist might be good. But on the other hand, a bad movie is always worse when you know they already made a good one twenty some years ago. So I’d like to hear what some other people think. Good or bad?
It was hard enough to swallow the premise of Russia making a non-nuclear ground invasion of the U.S. But at least the Cold War was still on then, Russia was still the USSR and still at least theoretically committed to a global Communist revolution. How are they going to sell that WRT China?! China as it is now?! They haven’t invaded anything since that border skirmish with Vietnam back in the . . . . '80s? '70s? They can barely hold on to Tibet and Sinkiang. They’re not expansionist, except in commercial terms. And the U.S. is their biggest trading partner – a war with us would cripple their economy.
All remakes suck the big one.
More Yankee jingoism…what made the last one was the fact that Ronnie Raygun was on the throne at the time…
Also, there were genuine wheat shortages in Russia back when Red Dawn was made. This was the actual premise of the movie invasion: famine in Russia forced the Russians to attempt to sieze control of the mid-section of the country, where most of the food was produced. According to the movie, they had a multi-front effort and came up through Mexico, and also landed and re-staged in Alaska, coming in over Washington/Idaho, all in the effort to take the heartland.
I’m not certain how that could translate today, regardless of choice of aggressor country.
It’s definitely a real thing. As to whether it’s good or bad (obviously it’s not plausible), is kinda hard to say before anyone’s actually seen it.
they should remake Dr. Strangelove with China next
I guess the Chinese will finally want to collect on our debt.
Here are some pics from the film. Could be astraight action film, could be an allegory of the Iraq/Afghanistan invasion, could even be a comedy. Hard to tell.
I thought the same thing until after 9/11…
Who is to assume that it couldn’t be done today?
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The port of Long Beach is under Chinese control, and Lord knows how many container ships arrive each day with contraband. It wouldn’t be hard to fill a few with Ak47s and Troops.
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We sold the IBM StinkPad to a Chinese company, so they have legitimate copies of our hardware and technology.
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We gave them anti-missile defense technology.
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We have natural resources they do not.
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We have more livable and less polluted cities than they do.
Seriously? Have you chanced to glance at a globe and noticed that logistic chains across the blue bits may be tricky?
…boats, dude.
Ships actually, but it is irrelevant. There is no conceivable way that the Chinese could invade the US across the Pacific Ocean. The logistical capability does not exist.
At the current time there are around 900,000 troops stationed in the US itself - link. So do do it right you would need to send at least 10x that number. So you need to transport, equip, fuel and arm 9 million people. And manage to supply them across an ocean with multiple naval bases capable of breaking the chain.
The film is reportedly in the can, but on indefinite, perhaps permanent hold because of MGM’s financial troubles.
Who is the link to the original?
The don’t need it. They can hire coyotes to ship a 9-million man army into the U.S. In fact, they got that all done three months ago. 
SOME cheesy parts?!
It’s being filmed in Michigan. Wolverines!
The Chinese are going to invade dressed in Appalachian State uniforms.
That was wrong…
…but funny! 
Okay, this is how I’d do it:
Forget about China, make it North Korea because Kim Jong-il is so off-his-nut bonkers, that you don’t need a plausible reason to invade for your plot premise.
I’d also have them try to take over just a single state or township to hold as ransom. That way you don’t have to deal with the implausibility of having a enormous force to fight all of the U.S. You just need to sneak in a smaller invasion for to quietly take over a city, and then make “not wanting to kill civilians” the reason the the U.S. initially holds off on stomping the invaders.
Then you could have humor as the invaders see Team America: World Police for the first time.
ETA: But as for the real project that Hollywood has been working on, all I can say is :rolleyes:
Oh. Jesus. FRAKKING. Christ.
All I got to say.