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richAnd

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Yes, lets spare the rotten dictatorship any hurt feelings. Poor America, how we miss you!


http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/mgm-changing-red-dawn-villains-so-as-not-to-offend-chinese-box-office
 

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And I think 'Hollywood' now officially makes more money from the overseas take than from domestic b.o. so, yeah, that's what this is about. Hey, you'll always have the original.
 

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Way to rob the film of any relevancy what so ever. It's not like China's going to let a film about a successful, youth driven insurgency into its theaters anyway.


North Korea simply doesn't have the resources, technology, or manpower to invade another country. Even if the United States had no military whatsoever, North Korea couldn't get significant troop levels here to mount a successful invasion.


China made sense because it has taken over from the USSR as America's new bogeyman. And the controversy around the film would have generated some badly needed buzz. With North Korea, they might as well make it direct-to-video.
 

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I would be upset by this if I thought this movie would be any good. I mean, the 80's one was just fine, I don't see this film bringing anything new to the table.


The cynical jerk in me thinks that the only way this remake would be interesting is if it showed just how useless and ill equipped this generation of kids today would be handling an emergency. There's no way they're going to make that movie.
 

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Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt

Even if the United States had no military whatsoever, North Korea couldn't get significant troop levels here to mount a successful invasion.

Well, neither could China, so it doesn't really matter. Either way, it's silly. (Heck, it was silly in 1984, but it was still a really fun movie!)
 

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Originally Posted by Aaron Silverman


Well, neither could China, so it doesn't really matter.

China's a rising military power with the world's largest standing army. They're certainly not as credible a threat as the USSR was, but they play into current American paranoia and are many magnitudes more credible than North Korea.
 

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Many magnitudes more than zero is still zero. :)


China has a huge army but no way to transport them anywhere overseas.


At any rate, either way it has no connection to reality. Considering MGM's financial situation, I can understand why they'd want to not alienate the Chinese market.
 

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In the original film Cuba and Nicaragua were allied with the USSR. Sounds like China was going to be acting solo in the remake?


And I can't TELL you how many times I've been confused for a North Korean. :D
 

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Originally Posted by Cameron Yee

And I can't TELL you how many times I've been confused for a North Korean. :D

Soon people will think that you're leading an invasion of the US... a CGI and audio redone invasion!


Personally, I'm getting a little sick of all of these remakes. So few of them have been worthwhile. I question why some of them are being remade... this one included.
 

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