I’ve often thought that about the original, in the light of later events.
Americans using guerilla tactics, IEDs and blowing up civilian targets* to attack invading forces = good.
Afghanis doing the same = bad.
It all depends which side you’re on.
*ISTR a post office getting blown up in the original
My little sister, who in our family has notoriously bad taste in movies, is SUPER excited about it. She didn’t know it was a remake, either :smack:
For me, pretty Hemsworth can’t overcome the plot. He was good enough to “redeem” Thor, but not this one.
They did the same thing this past year with the video game “Homefront”. The premise is that the United States is occupied and you’re fighting in a resistance movement. Hilariously, the US is occupied by North Korea. It’s painfully obvious (and reports have backed up) that it was intended to be China but the producers got cold feet about the Chinese market.
Edit: I see AlohaBear32 beat me to a Homefront reference.
Ugh. I’m thinking of boycotting the movie as well.
Part of a chase scene was filmed in a neighborhood a few blocks away from me. My wife and I watched it for a while before we got bored after several takes. We talked to some of the people involved, and it was most definitely supposed to be the Chinese invading, because these days they’re the only nation that could pose a credible threat to the USA. After filming, the movie seemed to disappear, and we wondered what sort of production hole it fell down, and why.
Now we know: political correctness, 2012-style. Because if the Chinese might be offended, then good heavens we can’t allow that, even if it means essentially flushing the entire investment down the toilet :rolleyes: (And it does mean that, because the idea that North Korea could invade the US is so laughably implausable that this movie is guaranteed to bomb.)
I’m sure Kim Jong III feels he could invade and conquer america in a day, and still have time to beat McLroy and Woods in a threesome.
Just think of the propaganda that having this documentary detailing the history of that invasion could create!
Yep, your definitely right about that…apparently Homefront and The Red Dawn remake were being produced around the same time,but due to Chinese “economic co dependence”, both flipped the Villian to North Korea,a nation slightly above Ancient Rome in terms of Technology…
But I will say Homefront had a few more things going for it,unlike its movie version (AKA Red Dawn Remake)
1.The story was set in the near future (2025) as opposed to current day. Although apparently, technology never got past 2012…but like in The Red Dawn Remake, a EMP is used to take down the USA’S power grid.
3.The game got a bit of buzz due to the fact it somewhat accurately predicted Kim Jong Il’s death in 2012…it was off by a month…he died in Dec 2011…the origonal backstory of the game before the official release had his son much slimmer and handsome. Before the final release they changed it to an actor who looks almost spot on like the Real Kim Jung Un, something I personally found disturbing. Japan did as well and removed all refrence to Korea,and the game is banned in South Korea…apparently it upset people that thought South Korea would be so overwhelming accepting of a communist takeover.
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The trailer alone seemed so xenophobic it made me cringe.
I never saw the original, but I did read the Australian YA novel, Tomorrow When the War Began, which has a very similar premise. And, I see from the wiki, was made into a movie two years ago.
I just watched that movie… It’s not bad. The kids are away on a camping trip when they return to find their hometown invaded. In the books apparently the invading nation is never named and details about the country deliberately don’t match any existing one. In the movie it is clearly China.
There are many reasons why a North Korean invasion of…well, anyone but South Korea is impolausible, and many, many things wrong with NK and its military.
But they have, apparently, a nuclear weapon, at least a low-grade version, and jets and missiles and tanks. The problems they have do not stem from a lack of technology.
Back to bashing the remake!
The commercial has a character saying “They took out US Central Command!”
OK, see, what does THAT have to do with a Korean invasion of the US? US Central Command is in charge of the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf…NOT the defense of US national territory.
BEHOLD THE MAP!
Not only is the area of operation of US Central Command a very rough neighborhood, you’ll also note that coming through CENTCOM would be the longest possible way from North Korea to the continental United States.
Ludicrous.
…that seems like a weird thing to pick on. In the movie the PRK have some super weapon…perhaps PART of their invasion plan was to disrupt Central Command to prevent abroad assets from being easily deployed back on the homefront. Who knows! It’s a line in a trailer.
The reviews are coming in and it’s basically what you would expect. 11% all critics, only 1 for 31 among top critics at Rotten Tomatoes.
One of the guy in the movie was on Letterman a few days ago and was sort of embarassed to be plugging the thing. Mention was made of how much younger he was when he filmed it (i.e., it’s been sitting on the shelf), but he’s glad that it’s being released, yadda yadda.
Conan, Judge Dredd, Total Recall, etc. Hollywood is on a remake roll.
And we really gotta watch out for that immense North Korean navy that can wipe ours out and land a huge invasion force. Why wasn’t this issue #1 in the election?
Nope. Not at all. The finished movie was shelved because the studio that was going to distribute it went into bankruptcy. While it was sitting on the shelf, China became a much larger market for US films. The money people now making all the decisions at the studio realized that they wouldn’t sell many tickets in China if China was the villain, so they changed it to Cuba.
No political correctness involved. It was purely a hard-headed business decision.
The only way I would approve of this movie is if it simultaneously made me root for people planting IEDs and feel bad for supporting IED planters.
Has there been a sillier premise for a major film in recent times than North Korea invading the USA?
Yes. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is another cold war story that has lost relevance.
Did their navy land an invasion force in Colorado, or was this another of the recent “aliens attack LA” movies?
I still know people who work for MGM.
They have James Bond’s Skyfall in theaters now, plus The Hobbit is about to be released, so it will be a good year for them. They will make more than a few bucks.
However, the idiots in charge of green-lighting films felt they needed some more films this year and simply went to the vault (too cheap and too stupid to find a new script) and yanked out a couple of old films and dusted them off for re-makes. Get ready for the upcoming re-make of Carrie as well.
You would think with all the money pouring in they would take a chance on something new and original, but you would be wrong.
The Carrie remake has a great cast and got a ton of good buzz at Comic-Con. It’s been 40 years, I think a remake after 40 years is fine.
Didn’t they already do a remake back in the '90s?
They did a made-for-TV remake back in 2002 which was actually intended as the pilot for a proposed TV series where Carrie lives. I don’t count it.
