In the end, it didn't even open in China.
Money well spent.
shareThat's what happens when liberals try to take a gung-ho movie made in an entirely different time period and climate like Red Dawn, remake it to be a politically correct safe Summer action flick and decide to market it to the very country who's serving as the villain, then decide to change the country to an incredibly small and ridiculous country, then decide it will be a "coalition" of countries anyway.
Good God, and people complain about the first one being unrealistic.
Can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around.
The whole post production editing killed this movie, I loved the original red dawn for its over the top premise and seeing cold war paranoia visualised as someone who was only a tolder when the wall fell can appreciate how bat poop crazy things must have been.
I was following a community site which was following the production of the film and had tons of set photos http://www.reddawnmovienews.com/index.php/red-dawn-on-location-photos and you could see the effort put in, I love the propaganda posters etc, with china/russia being the invaders this film would have been so much better.
The Best Korea tack on is stupid, it isn't even a plausible what if, it is just dumb, I wish they would release the final original film or someone would leak it.
I think I remember following that website too! I was in high school when the remake was first announced, and I remember how cool it was looking through "leaked" photos and seeing if it was possible to ID any of the firearms, uniforms, tanks, etc. Back when the bad guys were rumored to be Red Chinese with Russian advisers, it was cool as hell. Of course, we didn't know much about the plot or the characters or how the heaviest themes and excessive violence (aka the best parts of the original Red Dawn) were going to be watered down to the point of being nonexistent.
Then came the news that the movie got delayed for years on end, then it was announced the bad guys were changed to North Koreans using CGI to change flags and uniforms, and it became painfully obvious that the movie was basically gonna be a "safe and marketable" film which is NOT something which should describe a war film, let alone Red Dawn. Hell, the videogame Homefront came out around this time and even though it ended up being a Call of Duty rip-off, the plot was decent enough. John Milius was even involved, too.
Can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around.
Back when the bad guys were rumored to be Red Chinese with Russian advisers, it was cool as hell
I was equally as excited but the final result gave me the sads :-(
e videogame Homefront came out around this time and even though it ended up being a Call of Duty rip-off, the plot was decent enough. John Milius was even involved, too.
From what I have read the Best Korean republic was initially china but because of marketing or investor reasons it got changed :-( share
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