No doubt I’ll get flamed for this, but as much as I wanted to like Red Dawn going in, I just found my intelligence insulted in too many ways, from the over-the-top macho stuff to the cartoonish portrayal of how the enemy would deal with us after the invasion. I hope the remake handles these things a little more believably. I love a good us vs. them movie. I just don’t want to have to go “oh, come on” every few minutes.
THere is nothing over-the-top about COIN operations being too macho in ‘Red Dawn’. The only criticism I have is that trained paratroopers would not start firing at a school for no reason. Even the Nazi didn’t do that in the Ukraine in WWII. What makes you think that Soviet troops in 1984 would behave any differently than SS troops in Russia during WWII?
>>>I just found my intelligence insulted in too many ways, from the over-the-top macho stuff to the cartoonish portrayal of how the enemy would deal with us after the invasion.
Except that was how the enemy was dealing with other people after the invasion, but the invasion in Afghanistan.
Movies had been made about the war in Afghanistan, and failed. Nobody was interested in watching Muslims Mujaheddin with bad teeth and beards fighting Russians.
But take the SAME scenario, place it the mid west, take high school pretty boys and girls with flawless complexions and teeth so bright you could guide Santas sleigh, and NEVER hint about the parallels to the real war, and you had a date movie. And you still got the message across, though in subliminal form.
And honestly, Lea Thompson and a machine gun, how can you go wrong.