I was just talking to a friend about how they really need to remake Red Dawn, and I saw this out on the internet, comes out of november of 2010. Any thoughts?
www.reddawn2010.com
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I was just talking to a friend about how they really need to remake Red Dawn, and I saw this out on the internet, comes out of november of 2010. Any thoughts?
www.reddawn2010.com
We were talking about this at work 2 weeks ago. They are filming/have filmed entirely up in Michigan. It looks like this will be a more intense movie than the original.
I guess that, instead of Russia and Cuba invading, the word is that it is Russia and China this time around. In the original movie, I really liked the part where the Russian troops were up in the mtn's and they found an arrow. One of the Russian soldiers was bs'ing his buddies and telling them that the arrow was from our Indians. The other guys called him on that and pointed out that the "feathers" were made of plastic. I thought that that scene helped to humanize these invaders.
I really enjoyed the original but I'll definitely be seeing this new version.
WOLVERINES!
Could never figure out why hollyweird feel the need to mess with prefection.. Let's face it they have no original ideas out there.. This is akin to doing remakes of Gone with the wind or Casablanca.. Anybody remember the remake for tv of From here to Eternity from the late 70's?
Besides, I can't really find the Detroit setting plausable, Let's face it, chances are the people of Detroit would give the commies a parade rather than fight...
Great, just what we need, another shitty remake. I've never seen Red Dawn, but I'll go pick it up.
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did someone piss in your cereal this morning, you are pissy in all your posts.
Sturtle give it a try. Have to gear you mind for early 80's to really appreciate. Three years later Swayze did Dirty Dancing go figure....
Will definatly have to watch it.
CO-AR15 feild trip?[ROFL1]
I'm not sure what the premise of the remake is. In the origional, the Russians and Cubans invaded us. This was back during the cold war and so it seemed plausible at least. Does anybody know what brings about the invasion in the remake?
Seriously Sturtle, you've never seen Red Dawn? Man, you've GOT to rent it!
I remember how the commies were able to identify and disarm private firearms owners by looking at purchase records. I remember thinking that little tidbit was amazingly pro gun for Hollywood.
The thought of the CHinese invading us isnt' plausible? I've been terrified of them for years. Tell you the truth though, they could decimate us without firing a single bullet. Our entire economy (sadly) revolves around China.
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plus they own pretty much all our debt
I was 7 when Red Dawn came out, And my father took me to the movies to see it. I remember being vividly terrified at what I saw, and had nightmares about it. I guess it explains why I turned out the way i did.
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This is just wrong on so many differant levels....
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Yeah, now that I think about it, you're right.
That is the real danger of off-shoring industrial capacity. I wonder if we would have the means to produce the materials necessary to fight a major war against an enemy like China. Personally, I think one of the best things we could do would be to get back to being a country with an economy based on production and manufacturing rather than a service based economy. Just my thoughts though.
I don't mean to sound pissy, but I prefer original movies, not crappy remakes. If anyone can name a single remake that was better than the original, I'm all ears, but I can't think of any at this time. The only acceptable way to steal an idea for a movie is make a movie from a book. Even the American versions of other countries movies are lame. Like all those horror movies that came out like The Grudge and The Ring. Both of those were remakes of original Japanese remakes. It's kind of sad how much money can be made off of Americans by dumbing down a film just so people don't have to read subtitles. Oh well. Anyway, there are a TON of movies that I haven't seen, and I I've caught up on a LOT of classics from recomendations online.
Some examples:
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Heat
Sexy Beast
Revolver
Rock n Rolla
I bolded my two favorites on there.
I recently started a thread on some other boards asking people to list their top ten animes and have watched about 8 new movies I had never previously seen before. At least 5 of them turned out to be really great. I'm going to put Red Dawn on my "Netflix que" and watch it this week.
And for the record, if I have my history correct, China has never invaded another country in its entire history, if you don't count Tibet.
In fact, for a while, I told all my friends, "Despite having the worlds largest standing army, you know why China has never invaded another country? Because they have a chink in their armor!"
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NEVER SEEN IT?
really?
I didn't think that was possible.
That's worse than never having seen The Patriot.
(You have seen that one, right?)
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I haven't seen The Patriot (and heard it sucked) AND I haven't seen Braveheart. My cousin tried to get me to watch Braveheart for years, and I had it in my possession for a few weeks, but I never got around to it. It's not that I don't want to watch it, just never got around to it.
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so do you only watch little mermaid, snow white and the seven dwarfs and Cinderella because you certainly have missed a whole lot of great moves.
I think I've seen more great movies than ones I've missed. Do we need to start a top ten thread so I can make my "To Watch" list a little longer? Also, it sounds like Red Dawn might be near as old, if not older than I am.
Here is what I have in que right now:
Red Dawn
Year One
Big Trouble Little China
Collateral
ConAir
Spirited Away
Public Enemies
Zombieland
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
Big Trouble In Little China? Wasn't bad when it came out (prolly bc I was 5yo) but other then Kim Cattrall I see no reason to watch it again.
I've seen it labeled as a "classic" a few times, so I picked it up.
My new thing is that I've decided to make a list of every book that I can ever remember reading. I put it in a Google Doc and so far I'm up to 124 or something, just from memory (and help from Wikipedia and Google). It helps to just look up an author, then look through their works to see which ones I've read. I've always known I've read a lot of Stephen King (17) and Dean Koontz(26) but was never sure exactly how many I've actually read. It is a fun and interesting thing to do. Brings back both memories of the books, and what you were doing when you read them (if you can remember).
THe only remake I can think of that is better than the original is Gone in 60 Seconds. The original, i own on DVD, and although there are lots of cool crashes, there isn't much of a plot.
You guys see some crappy movies. In relation to guy movies for this site:Quote:
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Way of the Gun
Terminator
The Wild Bunch
Scarface
Saving Private Ryan
Robocop
Braveheart
Pork Chop Hill
God Father
I'd take "Taken" or a Bourne movie over anything on your list above.
The gayest I'll go is Starship Troopers.
"Patriot" was OK, but it seemed for a while like Mel was just looking for movies to kill English people.
Tsk, tsk. Much to learn these young ones ;)
Ok... Heres my list of good movies. No particular order.
1. Terminator
2. Independance day
3. Alien
4. Heartbreak Ridge
5. Shawshank Redemption
6. Green Mile
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Police Academy
9. The Naked Gun
10. Better Off Dead
Right now I'm waiting for Netflix to send Terminator Salvation. I hope its good.
Oh yeah, I still haven't seen Way of the Gun either.
Otherwise, I've seen most of both of those lists.
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I wouldn't bother with year one. one of the worst movies jack black has made IMO. I thought it was horrible.
I haven't heard a lot of good things about it, but it's not like it cost me a lot* of money to check it out. I'm not expecting much. Those are just the movies I have immediately in que though.
I was really disappointed in Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell. I think i laughed about twice the entire movie.
Space balls
Young Frankenstien
Blazing Saddles
I just watched Blazing Saddles again a week or so ago, wife picked it up for $2 on Black Friday. Anti-gun or not, Mel Brooks is a riot.
I don't know how I could have forgotten Saving Private Ryan. What a well done movie. Braveheart and Rob Roy were both good, and I really don't care if people say they weren't terribly historically accurate. It's a MOVIE. Sort of like when some professors were whining about Apocalypto. Again, MOVIE. Not a documentary. This is ENTERTAINMENT, if they want accuracy try an encyclopedia. Even then, whose accuracy are you going to get? Anytime you have a conflict, accuracy is mostly defined by the winners.
Also on my like list were-
The Missing
300
Master and Commander
The Last Samurai
Kingdom of Heaven
3:10 to Yuma
The Horse Soldiers
Ghost and the Darkness
We Were Soldiers
Shooter
The Sand Pebbles
On my Gratuitous Action Flick List -
The Punisher (The one with Thomas Jane and John Travolta)
The Underworld movies
all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies
all the Mummy movies
Iron Man
all the Tremors movies (Bert's the greatest!)
Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick
Quigley Down Under
All the Indiana Jones flicks!
Swordfish
And, of course, Beowulf
I can't find Space Balls or I'd have it too! And I haven't seen Young Frankenstein in years. I haven't seen Way of the Gun yet, but right now Gran Torino is next on the watch list. I can't believe I've let myself miss that one this long!
My favorites that go along with the genre in this thread would have to be:
Saving Private Ryan
Revolver
Rock n' Rolla
Heat
BlackHawk Down
The Last Samuri
Sword of the Stranger
Ghost in the Shell
Fight Club
Kill Bill series
Jurassic Park
Goodfellas
Appleseed
Vexille
As far as more action and less content I'd add
Ninja Scroll (kind of cheesy lines but awesome violence and adult situations. Not for kids)
Pitch Black
Matrix (First one only. After the second one I didn't even bother anymore)
300
Other mediocre movies like those.
Open Range was pretty good.
"Open Range" is on my short list of all time great westerns along with "Unforgiven".
The only issue I'd challenge with "Open Range" was Costner's 12-shot SAA in the final gunfight scene. It was explained on the DVD edition 2nd disk, though, so he knew it was an issue that purists would catch.
My favorite line from "Unforgiven" was when Hackman called Eastwood a coward for shooting an unarmed man:
Little Bill Daggett: "Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!"
Will Munny: "Well, he shoulda armed himself if hes gonna decorate his saloon with my friend."
Yeah thumbs up on Unforgiven as well.
Open range is great. The main tough is bragging about killing their friend and charley just shoots him in the face.
That's the way to handle a gunfight.
"Leave the gun,,, Take the canoli"
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Someone mentioned MANY posts back that Hollyweird doesn't have any original ideas any more. I agree wholheartedly, but one movie I've been waiting to see for a couple of years now is the remake of Logan's Run. This movie is still catagorized as being "in production" and is now listed as coming out in 2012.
I'm a little over half way through Red Dawn. Early '80's indeed. haha. Even though I read the post about Patrick Swayze being in it, it took me about 30 minutes to realize who I was looking at.