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sickrubik
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Replacing Chinese invaders with North Korean invaders What. The original movie was Soviets/Cubans/Nicaraguans. |
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Evildrider
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Harry Dean Morgan is like the perfect replacement for Powers Boothe.
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Rendakor
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Wasn't this already remade into a mediocre video game?
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sickrubik
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Wasn't this already remade into a mediocre video game?
Not really remade, but yeah, the John Milius wrote "Homefront". |
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HaemishM
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Replacing Chinese invaders with North Korean invaders What. The original movie was Soviets/Cubans/Nicaraguans. The original "remake" was about the Chinese invading - from what I read. Might have had something to do with the delay in releasing it. |
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sickrubik
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Replacing Chinese invaders with North Korean invaders What. The original movie was Soviets/Cubans/Nicaraguans. The original "remake" was about the Chinese invading - from what I read. Might have had something to do with the delay in releasing it. No the studio that it belonged to went away. It was stuck in limbo/dev hell. It wasn't reshot. |
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HaemishM
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Yes, its release was delayed because they had to change the villains from Chinese to North Koreans.
EDIT: I don't think they did any reshoots, mind you, but they did have to change the nationality. It isn't like Americans would know the difference anyway.
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sickrubik
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It ws a mix. I completely forgot that they changed the chinese thing. I always assumed it was always "vaguely asian". But MGM was the studio doing it, and they were.. having issues. But that may have been somewhat a smokescreen, but it was also part of what delayed Cabin in the Woods. via wikipedia, hilarity."In March 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that MGM is changing the villains in its Red Dawn remake from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to China's lucrative box office. The changes reportedly cost less than $1 million and involve changing an opening sequence summarizing the story's fictional backdrop, re-editing two scenes and using digital technology to transform many Chinese symbols to Korean. The changes will not eliminate all references to China though will give North Korea a much larger role in the coalition that invades the U.S. Producer Trip Vinson stated, "We were initially very reluctant to make any changes, but after careful consideration we constructed a way to make a scarier, smarter and more dangerous 'Red Dawn' that we believe improves the movie."[16]"
So they went from "this might offend chinese" to "now we're just assuming they all look alike." Yeah, nothing offensive about that. So in a roundabout way the ended up making a remake of Homefront. |
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Nevermore
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Population of North Korea: ~25 million
Population of US: ~313 million
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Over and out.
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palmer_eldritch
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I am so looking forward to this.
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Teleku
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Oh goody, China will complete it's take over of AMC theaters at the end of August. To bad its still not China in the movie, but everybody knows who it actually is, so the Chinese public's responses to it playing at AMC theaters across the US should be rather comedic. |
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Does it have a young Lea Thompson in it?
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Since we're ramping the story up to 11, which character in this one is a robot?
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sickrubik
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Since we're ramping the story up to 11, which character in this one is a robot?
From the acting... most of them? |
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Lantyssa
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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UnSub
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Since we're ramping the story up to 11, which character in this one is a robot?
From the acting... most of them? So it's staying true to the original then? |
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sickrubik
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Since we're ramping the story up to 11, which character in this one is a robot?
From the acting... most of them? So it's staying true to the original then?  |
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Chimpy
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So I am watching the original on Netflix....I think GW Bush watched this movie and mimicked Swayze for his shtick, the mannerisms and accent are uncanny  |
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Lantyssa
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A lot of Bush's mannerisms were purposefully done to increase his Drinking Buddy appeal.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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The original is hilarious.
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Hey, this is out! And currently trending 10% on rotten tomatoes for some reason.... |
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I really need to see this. I might wait for video release though, so I can properly adjust my blood alcohol level. And maybe offer my own running Rifftrax commentary.
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An America, FUCK YA movie coming out after a bitter and divisive political campaign wherein half the country couldn't give a shit if the other half were nuked and it's not doing well? I can't imagine.
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Teleku
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One of the reviews said the whole thing is a tea party fantasy as well. Apparently the president just doesn't react at all to the not-Chinese invasion, which is why it's up to the kids to take there 2nd amendment guns and drive out the chinks themselves.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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Chimpy
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The whole premise of the original Red Dawn was an objectivist-with-a-gun-fetish-who-hates-mexican-people's wet dream. I wouldn't expect anything less hyperbolic in a remake.
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The whole premise of the original Red Dawn was an objectivist-with-a-gun-fetish-who-hates-mexican-people's wet dream. I wouldn't expect anything less hyperbolic in a remake.
As I said, the original is hilarious. All these Communist troops parachuting into Nowheresville, USA, they shoot the black guy first for no real reason, the old man who sends his virgin 18-yo daughters (or granddaughters, can't remember) with the red blooded young US males so that the communists don't get their godless penises anywhere near them, the father who says something like, "what I did in raising you might have been considered abuse, but now I'm justifed!" and a host of other cliches. And Patrick Swayze can't act. At all. The only reason it is probably remembered is that it is a great teen boy power fantasy - that they'd be able to just pick up a gun and take on trained soldiers and win. |
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All you really need to know is that the original Red Dawn is 100% John Milius, the guy the Coen brothers based Walter on.
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All you really need to know is that the original Red Dawn is 100% John Milius, the guy the Coen brothers based Walter on.
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The only reason it is probably remembered is that it is a great teen boy power fantasy - that they'd be able to just pick up a gun and take on trained soldiers and win.
In the mid 80's there wasn't a lot of entertainment choices and it was potluck if you chose to rent Red Dawn or something like 976-EVIL, which was fucking terrible. |
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All you really need to know is that the original Red Dawn is 100% John Milius, the guy the Coen brothers based Walter on.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Its a league game.
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