Just curious, saw that this is coming out soon. It’s not Cubans and Soviets this time, now it’s North Koreans. I can only hope that they’ll invade Wasilla.
North Korea invading the United States? Really? Did they not use China because they thought it would hurt the international box office?
I’m refusing to watch it out of principle.
Wonder if it’s going to be as big a propaganda piece for the NRA as the original was. “Comrade! Check the gun store for the names and addresses of all the gun buyers that the Americans have to provide!”
Figures.
I don’t really get the point of remaking this movie. The story is so steeped in the Cold War, and if you can’t use the only country with a conceivable chance of invading the U.S., then it’s extra-pointless.
Plus, the original sucked.
Yeah, but the original, which I’ve never seen, doesn’t have Chris Hemsworth in it. Any opportunity to see Thor kick some more ass (or even just stand there reading the phone book) is enough to get me there.
Chris Hemsworth. Swoon.
(don’t tell my husband)
Wolveriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiines!
I agree
I admit that I liked it as a teen in the 80s. The cold war was being waged IRL and everyone was concerned, so the movie struck a chord. The movie–while not necessarily realistic–at least didn’t completely glamorize the rebels and gloss over the consequences of such a situation. Everything is not presented as black or white. People die. The rebels live a harsh life. And they don’t win some major victory at the end that turns the tide of the war (though there is an epilogue showing that US eventually prevailed). For an 80s action movie about teenagers, it could have been a LOT worse.
Plus, I had a huge crush on Lea Thompson.
Indeed—a similar problem actually happens with Watchmen, I think, if not to the same extent.
If I were making the Red Dawn remake, though, and I wanted to modernize it/shake people up? I’d keep the Chinese as the invaders…and I’d make them the protagonists. Set a few, indeterminate years in the future, with the U.S. as a failed, increasingly balkanized state, with China being the liberator, albeit one that’s not all sunshine-n-roses and motivated more than a little by self-interest. The American rebels are as much concerned with killing each other than driving out the occupier, and hero Col. Bei La is struggling to win the “hearts and minds” of a populace as much as he is to keep his men alive in the unraveling military quagmire.
Yep. Goin’ there. And with something that wouldn’t lose the Chinese box office. 
My only hope is that this movie will take a tack on insurgency that hits really close to home with what we’re dealing with in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I’m sure it won’t though.
The film version of Watchmen was helpfully set in the '80s, leaving the original’s “Cold War with the Russians” context intact; the exposition is all “Soviets” this and “Soviets” that, sure as we get Adrian Veidt talking business with Lee Iacocca and a not-much-younger-looking Eddie Blake killing Viet Cong in a '70s flashback.
Huh…funny part is, should I shellout $8 to see it, I’m going into it not seeing as a Red Dawn Remake…but As a Movie Version of the Video Game “Homefront”, which has roughtly the exact same plot (and was penned by John Milus, the writer of the Origonal Red Dawn)…much the same way as I went to see The Book of Eli as a Fallout 3 movie…
Don’t know why, but I’m a sucker for American Invasion (as far as being invaded) movies/games. Guess the thought of a tank and drones rolling down the street next to KFC excite me in some strange sadist way
Huh…funny part is, should I shellout $8 to see it, I’m going into it not seeing as a Red Dawn Remake…but As a Movie Version of the Video Game “Homefront”, which has roughtly the exact same plot (and was penned by John Milus, the writer of the Origonal Red Dawn)…much the same way as I went to see The Book of Eli as a Fallout 3 movie…
Don’t know why, but I’m a sucker for American Invasion (as far as being invaded) movies/games. Guess the thought of a tank rolling down the street next to KFC excite me in some strange sadist way…guess because the only images of war you see are deserts or third world countries, never in big metropolis or suburbs…
Apologies for the double post…I should add however…
Much as I’ve professed my love for plots about America being invaded, unless this movie is set at least 20+ years in the future and Korea Unifies under a Communist regime (much like the Homefront game scenario) then its utter hogwash…North Korea can barely feed its citizens and they don’t have enough bullets in the entire country to invade San Diego, let alone the entire midwest and stragetic command…
There’s a part of me which is wishing they’d made it as Command & Conquer’s Red Alert, not Red Dawn. 
Oh, I saw the movie…I just think it didn’t do an especially good job of it (perhaps understandable, though—the original’s setting was both very much a product of it’s time AND hopelessly too long to completely adapt to a single film).
Avenge meeeeeeeeeee!
Maybe in the new one, they’ll cast somebody who can fake-cry better than Patrick Swayze.
The first one really hit its high point when a Soviet Tank unit clanks up behind the “rebels” with diesel engines roaring, and catches them by surprise.
Although real-life oppressors probably would try to find guns hidden among the populace (if the words Lexington and Concord mean what I remember), it put some weird perspective on the idea to read this.