Z-View: “Red Dawn” 2012

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The Pitch: “Hey, we could remake ‘Red Dawn’!”

“Let’s do it!”

The Tagline:  “Welcome To the Home of the Brave”

The Overview: When North Korea invades the US, a group of high school resistance fighters [led by Thor on leave from the Special Forces] decide to become resistance fighters.

The Good:

  • The original movie.
  • The scenes when North Korea parachute into town and the kids make their getaway is exciting.
  • Making the Patrick Swayze character a military man is a nice touch.

The Bad:

  • The invading force was originally filmed as Chinese.  Producers decided to change the invaders to North Korean in post-production so as to not alienate the Chinese box office.  “Hey, the invading force looks Chinese… but they are really Korean?”  “Those clever ********.”
  • The invading army in the original 1984 movie was the Soviet Union, which no longer exists.  Now you know just how bad the “original” Wolverines were!
  • These high school kids go in and out of the occupied town easier than they could sneak out of their parents homes at night before the takeover.
  • Hiding in the woods, the students shoot off dozens [hundreds?] of rounds of ammo, without a worry that the invading force will use the sound to locate them.
  • Hiding in the woods, the students shoot off dozens [hundreds?] of rounds of ammo, without a worry that they will run out.  [I guess there is no worry since it is so easy to sneak in and out of town and get more.]
  • What teenage love will cause a freedom fighter to do… or not do.

The Ugly:

  • What happens to Thor when he doesn’t have his hammer.

Rating: 2 out of 5