Posted on 06/18/2009 10:52:01 AM PDT by B-Chan
Wolverines!
We had our Red Dawn here - November 7, 2008
I don’t have high hopes for this movie.
I guess I missed the idea for the remake- the original was bad enough, but a remake?
Oh well, can a pre-quel be far behind?
If I had my way in the remake,
it would involve the elected fascists attempting a final crackdown on the populace,
and [initially] isolated groups performing “wolverine style” guerilla warfare on them.
IMO< the premise needs to be altered to reflect the attack from within. To hell with the Russian and Chinese boogie men angle. We might not last until that eventuality, at the rate we’re going.
Today the red threat sits in the White House and Congress.
And I’ll bet the first movie - like all firsts - will be better than the remake.
No wolverines here in TX, but we have badgers.
They are very fierce like some Texans, but unfriendly unlike most Texans.
If you are smart you will not try to twist a badger out of it’s hole. It is almost impossible to do, but if you manage to get him out of the hole you will wish you had not.
This was just on TV last night.
A bit of trivia: the original was filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Red Dawn was a kind of a re-imagining of what the "nuclear" conflict with the Soviets would look like. Plus, it didn't shy away from painting the Soviets as blood thirsty, unapologetic killers. Hardly the stuff of modern day anti-American flicks. One of the primary antagonists was a Cuban national. How's that going to work with the leftist, Hollywierdos infatuation with Che and Fidel?
Who's going to be the villain now. Are we going to be invaded by Exxon or "Big Pharma"?
Or, my prediction, is that this new "Marine on leave" will have some kind of revelation about how cruel he was to people in Iraq and that America "had it coming". Kind of a Red Dawn meets Apocalypse Now meets Deer Hunter, or the like.
That version will be playing in the streets, not the movies.
I look forward to it!
"Badgers? we don' need no steekin' badgers!"
(I've been waiting a long time to use that line..... ;-))
i suspect the truth wont be far off from your wish
Instead of Russian and Chinese soldiers, make it believable - Obamas ACORN/brownshirt brigade on one side and the monkeywrenchers on the other.
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