{"id":9171,"date":"2013-12-04T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9171"},"modified":"2021-03-21T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:45:29","slug":"z-view-red-dawn-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9171","title":{"rendered":"Z-View: &#8220;Red Dawn&#8221; 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z120413red_dawn2012.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"791\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pitch:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Hey, we could remake &#8216;Red Dawn&#8217;!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s do it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tagline:<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;Welcome To the Home of the Brave&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Overview:<\/strong>\u00a0When 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The original movie.<\/li>\n<li>The scenes when North Korea parachute into town and the kids make their getaway is exciting.<\/li>\n<li>Making the Patrick Swayze character a military man is a nice touch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The invading force was originally filmed as Chinese. \u00a0Producers decided to change the invaders to North Korean in post-production so as to not alienate the Chinese box office. \u00a0&#8220;Hey, the invading force looks Chinese&#8230; but they are really Korean?&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Those clever ********.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The invading army in the original 1984 movie was the Soviet Union, which no longer exists. \u00a0Now you know just how bad the &#8220;original&#8221; Wolverines were!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hiding in the woods, the students shoot off dozens [hundreds?] of rounds of ammo, without a worry that they will run out. \u00a0[I guess there is no worry since it is so easy to sneak in and out of town and get more.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">What teenage love will cause a freedom fighter to do&#8230; or not do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happens to Thor when he doesn&#8217;t have his hammer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rating: 2 out of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitch:\u00a0&#8220;Hey, we could remake &#8216;Red Dawn&#8217;!&#8221; &#8220;Let&#8217;s do it!&#8221; The Tagline:\u00a0 &#8220;Welcome To the Home of the Brave&#8221; The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26676,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions\/26676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}