Red Dawn (remake)

[Brian in Mesa]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, MGM said at the Cannes Film Festival that Red Dawn, John Milius' 1984 movie about a group of American rebels fighting Soviet forces, is a candidate for a remake.

 

[Gaddabout]

Wolverines!

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[PDXChris]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, MGM said at the Cannes Film Festival that Red Dawn, John Milius' 1984 movie about a group of American rebels fighting Soviet forces, is a candidate for a remake.

This is were I draw the line on remakes.

 

[Renz]

After they re-make Red Dawn that are going to do Roadhouse.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

After they re-make Red Dawn that are going to do Roadhouse.

Maybe they are just gonna remake all of Swayze's movies...Like he never existed.

 

[Gaddabout]

Maybe they are just gonna remake all of Swayze's movies...Like he never existed.

No no no, you got it all wrong. They're remaking all of Lea Thompson's movies in which she had little to no impact on them ... which is all them except the Back to the Future trilogy.

Or maybe they're remaking all the movies in which Swaze and Jennifer Grey starred in together.

 

[Mulli]

No no no, you got it all wrong. They're remaking all of Lea Thompson's movies in which she had little to no impact on them ... which is all them except the Back to the Future trilogy.

So we can expect another Howard the Duck?

 

[Russ Smith]

So will it be Al Qaeda or North Korea playing the role of the Soviet Union/Cuba invaders?

or are they not aware the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991?

Can't they just make a killer bee movie with really kill special effects.

 

[Shane]

Russ is hoping this will be called

"RUSS DAWN"

 

[Red Dawn]

Blasphemy!!!

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Maybe they are just gonna remake all of Swayze's movies...Like he never existed.

what about just remaking patrick swayze?

 

[Zeno]

This is one of my favorite movies. I'm not sure how they could do a remake and have it relevant to todays world.

Wolverines = insurgents or terrorists by todays definitions?

 

[Gaddabout]

Wolverines = insurgents or terrorists by todays definitions?

Dude, way worse. Wolverines = NRA members. How else could they have that kind of arsenal on hand? This movie, if it's done right, will make the anti-gun lobby turn violently shrill. It will be like Kramer being sent into seizures by the sound of Mary Hart's voice.

 

[Beaver]

no

 

[SuperSpck]

There are a lot of bad ideas in the world...

This lengthens the list.

 

[Russ Smith]

This is one of my favorite movies. I'm not sure how they could do a remake and have it relevant to todays world.

Wolverines = insurgents or terrorists by todays definitions?

Yep the thing that made that movie work was it played upon fears and emotions we all somewhat had about communism at that time.

These days those fears are largely about terrorism.

 

[Covert Rain]

Not sure I want to see a remake. Although I thought the ending of the original movie was sort of lame. At the time I saw the movie I just thought it was so cool to basically seeing a bunch of kids kick ARSE.

 

[Lefty]

Why would they make a sequel to a bad movie?

They are going to make a sequel to Red Dawn, a very bad movie. I ask, "why?"

By the way, one of the actors will be Tom Cruise's son.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/tom-cruise39s-son-quotred-dawnquot-remake-reuters

 

[Covert Rain]

Red dawn is considered a cult classic. Bad?!?!?!?

Also this is not a sequel. It's a remake.

 

[Renz]

Maybe you had to be there. If you grew up in the 80's, it's definitely a classic. Not a great movie, but still a classic.

 

[mojorizen7]

I still have it on VHS

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"Boys?.........avenge meeee!!!!!!!.....avenge ME!!"

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[Gaddabout]

Classic? No. Cult classic? Maybe if you were a young Republican.

I can only think of three possible treatments:

- The remain faithful to the original storyline with only tweaks to make the politics modern, which can only happen if this is being funded by the U.S. Army as part of their new recruitment agenda (you laugh, but we've done stories about the U.S. Army holding network gaming parties for high schoolers -- SOCOM etc. -- and their recruiting HQ).

- They're actually going to flip this on its head and turn it into an anti-war message

- They're going to do it as satire.

Those are the only three legitimate options as I see it, none of which will make fans of the original (or those who are still willing to admit they're fans) happy.

But any way you look at it, there's one guarantee: IT'S GOING TO SUCK SO BAD YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE IT ANYWAY.

 

[Dr. Jones]

I used to have nightmares about russians parachuting into my yard.

WOLVERINES!!!

 

[Stout]

Classic? No. Cult classic? Maybe if you were a young Republican.

I can only think of three possible treatments:

- The remain faithful to the original storyline with only tweaks to make the politics modern, which can only happen if this is being funded by the U.S. Army as part of their new recruitment agenda (you laugh, but we've done stories about the U.S. Army holding network gaming parties for high schoolers -- SOCOM etc. -- and their recruiting HQ).

- They're actually going to flip this on its head and turn it into an anti-war message

- They're going to do it as satire.

Those are the only three legitimate options as I see it, none of which will make fans of the original (or those who are still willing to admit they're fans) happy.

But any way you look at it, there's one guarantee: IT'S GOING TO SUCK SO BAD YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE IT ANYWAY.

Gad, you're letting your politics shine through waaaay too much by basically saying you like it more if you're a warmonger. Yeah, okay, the movie was geared against our enemies but, ya know, it was made during the cold war when there was a very real threat of military action against us.

That said, a classic and a cult classic both. The remake will NOT be good and I will NOT be watching it.

 

[Mulli]

Gad, you're letting your politics shine through waaaay too much by basically saying you like it more if you're a warmonger. Yeah, okay, the movie was geared against our enemies but, ya know, it was made during the cold war when there was a very real threat of military action against us.

That said, a classic and a cult classic both. The remake will NOT be good and I will NOT be watching it.

Absolutely Toonman. Absolutely.