[tlb]

I can picture Patrick Swaze watching the remake, then going outside yelling "AVENGE ME!"

[dfwgator]

They probably won’t allow the rebels in the remake to carry guns.

[AU72]

I bet in this version the bad guys will be the good guys.

[Quix]

The way some things are looking . . .

They’d better hurry or Martial Law officials will not allow it’s showing.

[normy]

I seriously doubt movie makers today can even come close to the very un PC original. I fully expect the NEo-Nazi terrorists to get their asses kicked by the cheer leading squad.

[meowmeow]

As Red Dawn scared the heck out of people in 1984

I watched at the base theater in '84 and remember everyone laughing all through it. The mock-ups of Soviet equipment were particularly lame.

[from occupied ga]

As Red Dawn scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again

Only this time the bad guys will be bitter white middle class americans clinging to guns and religion. The heroes will probably be a couple of guys who turn out falling in love and having a homosexual relationship. It will undoubtedly show anyone who likes guns as an ignorant racist redneck - trust hollywood on this.

[Londo Molari]

Given hollywood today, I bet you it will involve rebels against an evil “right wing” government.

[qam1]

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[KarlInOhio]

Karl Rove takes over the country and liberals take to the hills with their guns knives copies of Das Kapital.

Hmmm... a Karlocracy... that doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

[Darren McCarty]

If John Milius isn’t directing, than I’m not interested.

[wbill]

Red Dawn was an AWESOME movie when I was 12 years old.

Now? Not so much.

[rjp2005]

Awesome!! Been waiting a while for this.

Unfortunately, the PC police will have a field day with this one. They will absolutely decry the original’s heavy emphasis on a boys audience and characters. If they Dark Angel/Alias/Buffy the Vampirize it, that would be awful.

[Artemis Webb]

I hated Red Dawn! I thought it was a mess. I expect even less of this version since John Milius isn't directing and keeping the Hollywood lefts nasty fingers off the final product.

[I still care]

I am sure it will be white, Nazi military types that are the enemy. You know, the industrial military complex with latent homosexual tendencies that always go nuts. Maybe quoting a few bible verses.

The good guys will be a bunch of diverse teens that worry in between killings about what the war is doing to the environment.

[OpusatFR]

The bad guys will be government/wall street/religious believer types plotting the demise of the middle class by bailing out Bear Sterns and Fannie Mae while incarcerating liberals/gitmo survivors/illegal aliens/code pink in Halliburton-built internment camps run by General Petraeus who feeds the interned liberals with soylent green made from women, children, and minorities.

Hey, it’s an election year. The left has the entertainment industry.

[MatD]

I have a real soft spot for this movie and Iron Eagle. I mean, both really sort of sucked really bad, but the intent was good. As bad as they were, I watch them evertime they come on the tube.

[Corin Stormhands]

Wolverines!!!

(let’s hope they don’t blow it)

[Sybeck1]

In my 1985 High Shcool Senior Memory Book, I listed “Red Dawn” as my favorite movie, and still catch snippets of it on cable as they play it alot.

Almost as bad idea to remake this as it is to do that upcoming monstrosity that is recasting “Star Trek”. Aren't there any writers in Hollywood, or is it all retreads from here on out! I can't wait until Harrison Ford is cast as Ben Kenobi in the Star Wars remake in a couple of years!!!

[retrokitten]

"As Red Dawn scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?"

Mostly we were scared by the bad acting.

[retrokitten]

Oooooh yeeeeah. WOLVERINES PING!