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WOLVERINES!!!!!! New RED DAWN trailer is here.

August 10, 2012 @ 12:34 pm (Updated: 2:04 pm - 8/10/12 )

In the '80's America's best defense against Soviet Invasion were patriotic high school football players played by Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen. They and their fellow students, "Wolverines", took on the commie invaders, avenged their parents, and inspired teen boys across the nation to dream of what they would do to fight in a real Soviet invasion. To this day, yell "Wolverines!!" to any group of men and their eyes will mist over with pride at the thought of "RED DAWN."

Long have we dreamed of another RED DAWN, but with the collapse of the Soviets, who could invade? The Russians? Nope. They've been reduced to mobsters lording over alcoholics and persecuted punk bands. Islamo-Fascists? Heck no! Too controversial and non-PC. Neo-Nazis? Ben Affleck already took them on in his Jack Ryan flick. How about the Chinese Communists? Well....

That's where the new Red Dawn started. It was supposed to be a surprise attack by the Chinese Communists that would put America on its knees. It seemed plausible. They've got the numbers. They've got a powerful military. They seem to be ascendant. But then someone at the studio realized they are also a big market for Hollywood films and making them the bad guy would mean no theater showings for them. So they did what the mayor's kid did in the first film--they switched sides and decided that North Korea would be the invading army.

That's right. North. Korea. The place without electricity at night where people are inches shorter than their relatives in South Korea because of lack of food.

Sad.

Since the long delayed movie was already filmed as a Chinese invasion, this mean they needed another delay to go back in with computer help and digitally alter all Chinese symbols so that they would be North Korean. I don't know if they had time to make their Dear Leader the new fat kid.

Finally, the movie is done and is slated for a Thanksgiving release. And BONUS it takes place in Washington state! As for the studios, they consider themselves fortunate. Thanks to the delays, the film's star, Chris Hemsworth is not just a promising young actor but a bonafide star (Thor, The Avengers, Snow White and the Huntsman, Cabin in the Woods).

While I hated the change to N. Korea as the baddie and I fully expected to laugh at the trailer, instead I felt as I did back in 1984, ready to put on my letterman's jacket and yell "Wolverines!!"

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  • Drool wrote...
    This is Typical....
    August 10, 2012 12:22 pm
    ...of the lack of imagination in Hollywood today. Another recycled movie.
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  • LogicNReasonPlusScience wrote...
    Guarentee the script received a real 'libarotomy...
    August 10, 2012 9:07 pm
    but, I'll still have to check it out.
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  • LogicNReasonPlusScience wrote...
    time to go to bed.. typos...
    August 10, 2012 9:08 pm
    thx
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  • manimal wrote...
    China
    August 10, 2012 2:53 pm
    I would've enjoyed a decent remake of Red Dawn. Unfortunately, the switch from China to N. Korea ruined the plausibility of the movie. A future invasion of the continental US by China at least has a shred of believability to it. N. Korea, not so much - not unless the N. Korean force is really comprised of Chinese troops and equipment under a false flag.
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  • myopinion wrote...
    Its
    August 10, 2012 3:32 pm
    A movie people good god, GET A LIFE.
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  • Cougsfan34 wrote...
    You..
    August 10, 2012 4:25 pm
    get a life and go enjoy something for once.
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  • rubegoldberg wrote...
    Cheddar cheese remake
    August 10, 2012 6:35 pm
    No John Milius = fail. Plus, no Harry Dean Stanton as the father
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  • vsekvsek wrote...
    The way Hollywood works nowadays
    August 10, 2012 9:38 pm
    I wouldn't be surprised they made it an invasion of tea partiers and liberal vegan eating pothead occupiers band together to kick some conservative @ ss.
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  • Daddy Dennis wrote...
    The first one...
    August 10, 2012 10:45 pm
    Cuba and the Russians worked hand-in-hand. I honestly think this movie makes a point though. With technology screaming ahead, a very small and poor nation with a very small and powerful weapon could cause big trouble.

    China is home to the second largest and fastest growing Christian population on Earth. The dynamics of their progress are unlike the Soviets. Being a Christian in North Korea is much like it was in the Soviet Union. The North Koreans hate everything about us. The Chinese do not.

    I will see this movie.

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  • tlmbrt wrote...
    DUMB!
    August 10, 2012 11:10 pm
    Why were they so petrified of using Muslim extremists? Guess the North Korean population in the US is too small to protest! DUMB movie....
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    North Korea
    August 11, 2012 12:05 am
    is just an extension of China, so this is about China invading...... the northwest!

    Not changing the actors, however, continues to reinforce the stereotype that "they all look the same", right?

    Hollywood: The world that finds fault with their own realities without realizing it......

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  • Habakkuk 1:9 wrote...
    The original
    August 13, 2012 9:16 am
    The only upside to this is they will undoubtedly come out with some great Blu-Ray version of the original, hopefully with good interviews and making-of scenes.
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