Posted on 06/08/2010 5:20:52 AM PDT by C19fan
There was a lot to love in the original Red Dawn. I think I’ll watch it again.
the chair is against the wall...the chair is against the wall.
My copy is VHS, and I tossed that damn thing out years ago :(
Sounded pretty good up to that point.
Awesome!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“The Red Scare” was a lie concocted by the Pravda Media. To believe that all works created in opposition to Stalinist Communism were “overblown hysteria” is to cast George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 onto the scrapheap of junk culture.
The Left tried to spin 1984 into an indictment of Reagan era conservativism. This from the people who said that we could never defeat Soviet Communism.
I know nothing at all about this movie. However, I predict that there will be some, or all of the following:
A smart Asian, or smart nerdy-and-harmless white guy
A wisecracking gay guy (for comic relief)
A couple of good-looking female cheerleader-types to keep the guys in the the audience interested.
A tough, streetwise, hard-as-nails-on-the-outside-but-privately-insecure black or Latino girl.
A couple of dumb white football types that start out "bigoted and hateful" but eventually see the light that diversity provides.
Because everyone knows that every clique in HS has all of these sterotypes in it. Especially in the smalltown Midwest US. Right? Mine sure did. /sarc.
What made the first movie work (for me, at least) is that all of the people looked like they might have come from my hometown. That, and at 12, the whole proposition looked like one big adventure. :-)
“Why don’t we just shoot at ‘em?”
Valkyrie was OK. But I liked the dramatic atction of War of the Worlds, and the subtle conservative themes, such as how technology is crucial for defense, you never know the true strength of your enemies, and how life is more fragile than it seems.
Will SuperFly be helping the Chinese like in the first Red Dawn?
Not a couple of brothers as in the first.
Sometimes, Hollywood likes to make money. Remember Independence Day? 24? Never hurts to hope.
PS — Valkyrie was awsome, actually. One of those movies that is great to watch once and only once.
The kind of movies I really hate are spams like “Angels in America”.
Thanks for the Post.
Anyone know about a US release of the Australian “Tomorrow when the war began” ?
Every now and then a blind Hollywood squirrel finds a nut. I'll look around on aintitcool news, see if there's anything out there on it.
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