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Re: Red Dawn Remake to Replace Chinese...
Posted: 2011-03-20 06:17pm
by adam_grif
Sarevok wrote:open_sketchbook wrote:For fucks sakes, who cares how plausible it is. Red Dawn isn't about making sense, it's about "Wolverines!" and being an allegory for resistance fighters terrorists in Afganistan fighting the Soviets Americans.
Under that logic one might as well replace the North Koreans with Colombian drug cartels then. A good antagonist IS crucial to storytelling even if the movie is a thinly veiled comedy. The PLA being on US soil is something Americans distantly fear even though it is unlikely. Featuring the North Koreans is akin to getting invaded by Unicorns.
At least this isn't as a bad as Homefront, where the writers took everything deadly serious and the back of the box jabbers on about how this is a "scarily plausible" future.
Re: Red Dawn Remake to Replace Chinese...
Posted: 2011-03-20 08:26pm
by Darth Fanboy
The solution is easy, have the name Red Dawn refer to "Red States" and then have the movie be about all of the Red States rising up at once with support of the military to crush the peacenik liberals ruining America!
Re: Red Dawn Remake to Replace Chinese...
Posted: 2011-03-21 02:29am
by Pelranius
adam_grif wrote:Sarevok wrote:open_sketchbook wrote:For fucks sakes, who cares how plausible it is. Red Dawn isn't about making sense, it's about "Wolverines!" and being an allegory for resistance fighters terrorists in Afganistan fighting the Soviets Americans.
Under that logic one might as well replace the North Koreans with Colombian drug cartels then. A good antagonist IS crucial to storytelling even if the movie is a thinly veiled comedy. The PLA being on US soil is something Americans distantly fear even though it is unlikely. Featuring the North Koreans is akin to getting invaded by Unicorns.
At least this isn't as a bad as Homefront, where the writers took everything deadly serious and the back of the box jabbers on about how this is a "scarily plausible" future.
Pretty much all the KPA gear in Homefront was Chinese military equipment (Type 99 tanks, Z-10 attack helicopters). Kaos Studios admitted that they wanted to use China at first.
Re: Red Dawn Remake to Replace Chinese...
Posted: 2011-03-29 10:56am
by Julhelm
Why didn't they just have the UN as the villains instead? Then it would've been a hit with the NWO crowd.
Re: Red Dawn Remake to Replace Chinese...
Posted: 2011-03-29 01:37pm
by Gil Hamilton
Tripp Vinson wrote:The changes made to Red Dawn in the last few weeks were made in consultation with military think tanks and people that specialize in game theory. Really smart people that spend their days constructing doomsday scenarios for our military and government. The type of people that know the limitations of the North Korean military. The type of people that can project a series of events that could lead to some very scary things happening to our Country. I can assure you, we listened well to those people, especially with regards to the capability of the North Korean military.
I wonder if Tripp here has heard the phrase "garbage in, garbage out"? I'm sure they hired some very smart people who took one look at the requirements for the scenario and cheerfully went "Sure! We'll do this!", then took their silly requirements and coughed up any number of silly results in exchange for not-so-silly amounts of money, snickering all the way.
Just because you hired a think tank doesn't mean their results are plausible. No think tank is going to turn shit into sugar for you if you are adamant about using shit.