new Red Dawn, wow..

STANGBOYTOM · Mar 23, 2013

I love the original, but this thing is the worst remake I've ever seen.:huh:

Blaylocke · Mar 23, 2013

I thought it was alright, little irritated that they made it the NorKs instead of the chinese (Box office reasons) and the little brother actor was terrible. But, the original Red Dawn wasn't exactly Shakespeare.

MrCaprioni · Mar 24, 2013

Yeah the little brother was horrific. I could not stand him but the rest was okay

theflyguy · Mar 25, 2013

Wife and I watched it Friday night. We were both disappointed in the remake. Terrible ending....

SonicBlue03 · Mar 25, 2013

Did any of you actually watch it thinking it would be good, or was it more curiosity to see what they could do with a reboot?

Blitzkrieg · Mar 25, 2013

I never and I mean never watch "remakes".. virtually all of them are revisionist/leftist propaganda

SonicBlue03 · Mar 25, 2013

I agree with that philosophy for different reasons. Most remakes are complete bowel evacuations. Not worth the time.

Burt Gummer · Mar 25, 2013

Hollywood simply cannot make decent, fun movies anymore. No creativity at all. So they resort to lame remakes and reboots; just sad. I haven't been to a theater in over a year and a half now. Was going to see Die Hard 5? since Bruce is pro-gun, but was warned that was an awful POS also.

They try to compensate for the lack of vision with spinning cameras, CGI and flashing lights, but that gets old really fast.

A buddy of mine demonstrated this to me by playing the original True Grit vs the new one. No comparison. The old movie was ART. The characters were defined, the landscapes and music were beautiful. The actors were MEN.

Kind of falls in line with the Idiocracy thing - that mankind as a species is de-evolving - and we are ...

Glock Jock · Mar 25, 2013

had they not spent all that time and money having to remake the movie after it was done because the Chinese made them replace the bad guys with N. Koreans it might have been better. I thought it was terrible.

3MTA3 · Mar 25, 2013

The movie is horrible, but at least it's one more reason to put a warhead in the forehead of Kim Dong None (or whatever he calls himself). The only reason they don't invade the south is that as soon as the troops saw what life could be like without a Suprthey would turn around and start firing the other direction.

Kelzebubba · Mar 26, 2013

Burt Gummer said:
A buddy of mine demonstrate this to me by playing the original True Grit vs the new one. No comparison. The old movie was ART. The characters were defined, the landscapes and music were beautiful. The actors were MEN.
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I bet your buddy never read the book True Grit. Warning I am about to piss off a bunch of John Wayne fan boys, but the new movie of True Grit was much closer to the original book than the John Wayne movie.

Much like the Wizard of Oz, in the book there were no ruby slippers (they were magic and were whitish silver), they totally left out the witch of the North in the movie, and the china doll village, the emerald city wasn't really made of emerald either.

A lot of things that people believe are perversions of the originals... It is twisted, but that is the hard truth of life.

But as for Hollywood being stupid and not able to create anymore... I don't think they ever really created much that was any good to begin with. I barely watch tv anymore.

Blitzkrieg · Mar 26, 2013

As an example of a remake that was absolute propaganda, One of my favorite old TV series was The Wild Wild West. The movie featuring Will Smith as James West made me puke, and I never even saw the movie!

Burt Gummer · Mar 26, 2013

Add Jim Carrey to the list of actors that was once funny, now just a worthless tool.

Cold Dead Hand with Jim Carrey from Jim Carrey, NickCorirossi, Charles Ingram, Funny Or Die, BoTown Sound, millsfx, and Melissa Gould McNeely

Bigfoot · Mar 26, 2013

Kelzebubba said:
I bet your buddy never read the book True Grit. Warning I am about to piss off a bunch of John Wayne fan boys, but the new movie of True Grit was much closer to the original book than the John Wayne movie.

Much like the Wizard of Oz, in the book there were no ruby slippers (they were magic and were whitish silver), they totally left out the witch of the North in the movie, and the china doll village, the emerald city wasn't really made of emerald either.

A lot of things that people believe are perversions of the originals... It is twisted, but that is the hard truth of life.

But as for Hollywood being stupid and not able to create anymore... I don't think they ever really created much that was any good to begin with. I barely watch tv anymore.

I once read that the big money goes to marketable 'stars', special effects and the Hollywood-tax-avoiding black hole and it's the writers budget that gets cut. Good writing is the very thing I watch movies for. Yeah, they don't get much of my money either.

JAFO · Mar 26, 2013

Blaylocke said:
I thought it was alright, little irritated that they made it the NorKs instead of the chinese (~~Box office~~ POLITICAL reasons) and the little brother actor was terrible. But, the original Red Dawn wasn't exactly Shakespeare.

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