Well shit...a Red Dawn remake

[Weezer]

http://www.reddawn2010.com/

As much as I find the 1984 Red Dawn a huge guilty pleasure, this is just gonna FUEL those goddamned Teabaggers, and their god Glenn Beck.

[Kléber]

Yellow Peril would be a more appropriate title

[Weezer]

Yellow Peril would be a more appropriate title

:laugh:

I can't believe some people still think China is still "communist."

[Pirate Utopian]

I thought it was gonna be about Muslims this time.

If it's about commies, it can never match the glorious 80s cheese of the original.

[Martin Blank]

They were filming this in Detroit for a couple months, including in my neighborhood (supposed to be Spokane, Washington -- they used a downtown parking garage as the "police station").

I talked to some of the crew about the message they were sending by trying to cast China as "communist". They kept talking about how "its fiction made to look like its real"; my response was "You ain't kiddin'!" I even challenged them to have a scene with a momentary glimpse of a "communist militia" fighting against the occupation, or at least have pictures of real-life communists among the Wanted pictures (and they did take a couple "mugshots" of those of us who showed up to complain about their film -- we'll see if they use them).

I did get some cool posters out of it, too. My favorite is the anti-Krispy Kreme agitprop!

[RadioRaheem84]

The "Red" Chinese. In case they didn't notice there's probably more stuff from China in these kids closets than from anywhere else.

[Dr Mindbender]

bobkkkindles will be co-starring as the main antagonist.

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

I wikipedia'd it. ''We feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?'' The New Era of McCarthyism begins...only it'll have to have a new name because McCarthy is dead...

[AK]

The New Era of McCarthyism begins...only it'll have to have a new name because McCarthy is dead...
Glenn Beckism?

[Manifesto]

Looks. Like. Shit. I never saw half of the original Red Dawn but this looks terrible and how the hell do they invade like that? I'm guessing its California.

[Tatarin]

All this complaining. Let us make with complicated 3D graphics a version of our own. Why not "Gold Dawn"?

[Psy]

Looks. Like. Shit. I never saw half of the original Red Dawn but this looks terrible and how the hell do they invade like that? I'm guessing its California.

World In Conflict fans probably remember Colonel Sawyer saying the Chinese have no amphibious capabilities thus why the Chinese invading force turned around when in the game you retook Seattle from the Russians taking away the Chinese's ability to land troops in main land USA. That and I bet the remake of Red Dawn's story will pale in comparison to the story of World In Conflict, I doubt we'd get a Mark Bannon the gun hoe American tank commander that gets a French Commandant killed through gross neglect then later mows down innocent Russian civilians due to assuming all unidentified targets were hostile.

Really I'd rather see a movie based on World In Conflict rather then a remake of Red Dawn, at least World In Conflict tries to be belivable.

[x359594]

In the original Red Dawn the Chinese were reluctant allies of the US having also been subject to attack by the USSR. That version was utterly stupid but it was indeed a well made film, so I can understand why it's a guilty pleasure.

The premise of China attacking the US is pretty lame since the US is China's main trading partner; who will be able to buy their all their export goods? What will they do with all those dollars they hold?

[scarletghoul]

Fuck, I'm so excited now. Totally gonna see this when it comes out.
Also love how the website uses chinese bits in the writing, like how cyrillic characters are often misused, to make it more communist

[Psy]

The premise of China attacking the US is pretty lame since the US is China's main trading partner; who will be able to buy their all their export goods? What will they do with all those dollars they hold?
That and China is only a regional power, China's war plans in the event of a major war with NATO is limited to Asia.

[cop an Attitude]

the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is Col. Tanner? he would be.
It's a Hollywood popcorn flick, like the first one, so you can really only take it's politics and inaccuracy with a grain of salt. who knows, I might be kinda cool, how distasteful it may be. I might see it, I can think of more useless ways I've blown 2 hours and 10 bucks (the Grudge 2).

[Dr Mindbender]

is it just me or has there been a big upsurge in cold war paranoid wankery recently in the movie and game industry?

We had the world in conflict game in 08, a game where N.Korea invades the US (lolwut) called 'Homefront' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlKPvsvAnO8) has been announced, and now this?

[cop an Attitude]

is it just me or has there been a big upsurge in cold war paranoid wankery recently in the movie and game industry?

We had the world in conflict game in 08, a game where N.Korea invades the US (lolwut) called 'Homefront' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlKPvsvAnO8) has been announced, and now this?

don't forget COD2's "wolverines" mission. I have a theory on this phenomenon, the phenomenon being that all the modern art regarding the future is dystopia-esk. I mean in the 50s till even the 90s we all thought the future was going to be flying cars and automatic ass scratchers, now everyone thinks where going to die in 2012. And you know what they say about the arts, it dictates the times. Although "art" today may be painted in a board room, it still leaves an impression on people's ideas of the future. I feel that its an indirect way of accepting an era of decline.

[the last donut of the night]

I feel that along with fueling anti-communist rants, this movie will also display the Chinese occupying soldiers as mindless drones for their great leader. The American media has been great at this; apparently, it's inherent in "Oriental" cultures to be subservient and brainless.

[Jimmie Higgins]

This movie will be great for insulting right-wingers in OI:

"Hey shuddup you! Don't you have to be standing in line for the opening of the "Red Dawn" remake with a box of tissues and a jar of Vaseline?"

[Psy]

I feel that along with fueling anti-communist rants, this movie will also display the Chinese occupying soldiers as mindless drones for their great leader. The American media has been great at this; apparently, it's inherent in "Oriental" cultures to be subservient and brainless.
This is why I feel it will pale in comparison to World In Conflict, no scenes like the cut scene before the invasion of West Berlin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3btHkgink), rather the remake of Red Dawn like you said would probably just have the Chinese as simply a invading hoard.

[Guerrilla22]

It is being filmed in Detroit because Michigan has really low taxes on films produced here in order to try to drum up some sort of economic activity. Ironic, a movie about "communists" invading the city with literally the worst economy in the US. In the movie the Chinese should takeover GM hq and run the company successfully.

[Psy]

is it just me or has there been a big upsurge in cold war paranoid wankery recently in the movie and game industry?

We had the world in conflict game in 08, a game where N.Korea invades the US (lolwut) called 'Homefront' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlKPvsvAnO8) has been announced, and now this?

To be fair World In Conflict is not really paranoid wankery and not just because it is an alternative history. In World In Conflict while the USSR invaded Seattle the USA invaded Murmansk first that resulted in civilians getting slaughtered (before that both were fighting in Europe), then you have the Americans not only nuking Cascade Falls (that in the loading screen of the Russian retreat you have the voice over poiting out what complete madness it is to nuke your own troops just to kill the enemy) but that the Pentegon planed to launch a full scale strategic nuclear strike against Seattle that would have killed all the civilians there (meanwhile in the Soviet campagin Colonel Vladimir Orlovsk goes out of his way to minimize casultes on both sides).

World In Conflict's multiplayer prevented it from being a strait paranoid wankery as in multiplayer you have people playing the USSR. Yet the remake of Red Dawn and the game Home Front probably are going to be strait paranoid wankery, where the US are just victimes of a invading horde.

[Comrade B]

The movie is supposed to take place in Spokane? I don't know about you, but I am from eastern Washington... and outside Spokane is a giant military training ground filled with mines... also there are inconvenient open plains, random rough cliffs, and the most spread out city on the fucking planet... Doesn't the movie take place mostly in the wilderness? because eastern Washington... yeah, not the place for guerrilla warfare, not even the forested hills in Walla Walla county.

Also, if you wanted to exterminate Americans in the Pacific North West, the Umatilla chemical weapon depot is practically unguarded


Not to mention, eastern Washington doesn't look like Detriot. Whoever made this movie, I doubt they have even seen eastern Washington.

[The Author]

Oh God no...not a remake of this too...

Fuck you Hollywood for remaking all the classics. You're killing us with shit flicks.

[The Ben G]

First Halloween, Then This?!?! Heard they were remaking A nightmare on Elm Street, too....

Hate these Propaganda movies.:cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing::cursin g:

[Kwisatz Haderach]

The fact that they are using the Chinese in this movie might serve to reduce its impact as paranoia fuel - because it will confuse the hell out of the paranoid crowd. Remember, the current Enemy of Freedom (tm) is supposed to be the Muslim world, and/or the evil Obama and his minions in the government. The Chinese are, for the most part, outside of the dominant right-wing worldview.

Also, it will be a blatantly racist movie that will piss off large numbers of Asian-Americans - perhaps fueling leftist sympathies among them.

[Robespierre2.0]

These movies are so silly. In the absence of regular U.S. army units, how can a bunch of rag-tag macho neo-fascist highschool kids camping out in the forest take on the Red Army/PLA?
If I were the Soviet/Chinese commander, once they've harassed a couple convoys and started to get on my nerves, I'd stop fucking around and burn down the whole forest.
Not environmentally friendly, I know, but I really hate the 'plucky team of teenage do-gooders' trope.

[Psy]

These movies are so silly. In the absence of regular U.S. army units, how can a bunch of rag-tag macho neo-fascist highschool kids camping out in the forest take on the Red Army/PLA?
If I were the Soviet/Chinese commander, once they've harassed a couple convoys and started to get on my nerves, I'd stop fucking around and burn down the whole forest.
Not environmentally friendly, I know, but I really hate the 'plucky team of teenage do-gooders' trope.
Also in the original Red Dawn the vanguard paratroops of the U.S.S.R wasted time and resources shooting up the high school, it is like they didn't have a primary objective or was shooting the hell out of school suppose to be their primary objective? I can see the mission briefing now (with fourth wall breaking)

Officer "you are the best of the Russian force, this mission is of the upmost importance you will air drop in broad daylight near this school and shoot the hell out of everything there"

Soilder "You mean the US forces in the area?"

Officer "Hell no, there's no US forces in the area, you are going to shoot the hell out of high school students and their principle"

Soilder "Wait, What!?!? You do know we will be going in with limited supplies and we could probably just take the school with little bloodshed"

Officer "Bah, we are the evil Russians we can fart RPGs out our asses, haven't you seen Invasion U.S.A with Chuck Noris?"

Soilder "No, that stupid propaganda flick come out the year following this one and will probably be remade too if the remake of Red Dawn sells well."

[hardlinecommunist]

First Halloween, Then This?!?! Heard they were remaking A nightmare on Elm Street, too....

Hate these Propaganda movies.:cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing::cursin g: Yes it is true they have a remake of Nightmare on Elm Street in the works the actor Jackie Earle Haley who played Rorschach in the Watchmen Movie is the new Freddy Krueger

[Bitter Ashes]

I'm thinking that it could be a good recruiting tool for more libertarian schools of socialism lol.

[Dr Mindbender]

First Halloween, Then This?!?! Heard they were remaking A nightmare on Elm Street, too....

Hate these Propaganda movies.:cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing::cursin g:

I think its just that they're running out of good ideas.


I have a theory that one day, a movie will be made about every conceivable concept and there will be literally no more un-made movie ideas. I think this is that prediction coming full circle.

[The Ben G]

Yes it is true they have a remake of Nightmare on Elm Street in the works the actor Jackie Earle Haley who played Rorschach in the Watchmen Movie is the new Freddy Krueger

It wont be the same without Robert Englund. They will probobly skimp out on Johnny Depp getting eaten by his bed, too.

[Comrade_Stalin]

They should do a movie based on the game Frontlines: Fuel of war. At least in that one, least that way we can see Red vs. Blue without out dated toys.

[RedStarOverChina]

Most Chinese actors have refused to take part in the movie because of its content, the majority of the Asian roles are played by Koreans.

But even Korean actors have expressed concerns that the film may inflame anti-Asian hatred at a time of economic distress.

[The Vegan Marxist]

I remember when the conspiracy theorists was using the development of this movie to build some 'see, I told you it's happening' scheme to try & explain that America is turning communist :laugh:.

http://www.infowars.com/red-dawn-2010/

[Bitter Ashes]

I remember when the conspiracy theorists was using the development of this movie to build some 'see, I told you it's happening' scheme to try & explain that America is turning communist :laugh:.

http://www.infowars.com/red-dawn-2010/
I remember playing GTA: San Andreas and hearing the radio in the gun shop advertising thier "Family fun day, also showing the documentary "RED DAWN!" :laugh: