Red Dawn

[ericadawn16]

So, I saw Red Dawn two months ago but never made an actual post about it. This is it. I should note that I have never seen the original.

The whole premise is that the Russians and North Koreans band together to take over the United States. Honestly, they kind of lost me already. I didn't quite get why...I mean, at least in the original cut of this, it was Chinese so they could just be collecting their debts. Then, they decided not to piss off China and thus...North Korea.. The, there was the gun thing. I was born and raised in Florida. I know what kind of arsenals people have that they've bought from friends, gun shows or over the internet...all the loopholes. You can't tell me that people aren't going to see strange people in strange uniforms parachuting over their house and NOT try to shoot them down? Especially in Florida, they'd just claim "Stand Your Ground". Then, I thought maybe that was why they picked the pacific northwest? They thought there were more pacifists there who didn't have guns?

However, they did address this...to an extent. There are later guns and things. They do admit that Florida, Georgia and Alabama did not fall or if they did, they beat them back. There were some other places, too.

Now the movie is only 93 minutes long.

93 minutes

Like a Disney animated film...

Since it is only 93 minutes, it felt truncated. Characterization was shorted. There were little snatches of romance here and there. There wasn't a feeling of an overall plan. Josh Hutcherson and Connor Cruise seemed to be boyfriends but this was never really addressed. It felt like a television series where you had filmed the pilot and the season finale but then, you got canceled so all you had was the first and last episodes. Then, you turned those into a movie even thought there was basically no in between.

I did like that there was actually an Erica and it appears that in the original, she was played by Lea Thompson. Yay, Caroline in the City!

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is only 88 minutes. I'm not sure when I'm seeing it. The local theatre is only showing it in 3D.

3D

Imagine the redband trailer in 3D...I'd rather not. Mom has also remembered how I couldn't get her to go to Cabin in the Woods and that had Chris Hemsworth AND Joss Whedon so she's decided that it would probably not be a good idea to see it.

Comments

[mountain-hiker.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the remake of Red Dawn, but the original movies was one of my favorites when I was a kid. It was a little more plausible back then, though. We were still locking horns with the Soviet Union over the Cold War and they used Communist Cuba as a base for the invasion. The other thing I liked about it was because it supposed took place in Colorado; I remember seeing the Arapaho National Forest sign and thinking, "That's here!"

The town in the movie, Calumet, CO, is an actual town -- a ghost town northwest of Walsenberg, CO. The movie was filmed further south, though, in Las Vegas, NM.

[eldarwannabe.livejournal.com]

I haven't read your review (because I haven't seen the remake, and based on the trailers I never plan to...) but I highly recommend the original. C. Thomas Howell are both very good, and it stars a pre-Dirty Dancing Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I wrote off Red Dawn when I saw they'd changed it from the Chinese. Because NK? Seriously? If you're going to sell out so as not to piss off our Communist overlords, at least put a little thought into it.

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the Red Dawn remake and I don't plan to :/

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I was reading old journal entries and came across this comment, it would have been funny if Red Dawn was also Sony.