‘Red Dawn’ World Premiere To Close Fantastic Fest

COMMENTS (5)

• I was excited about this when it was about our Chinese overlords, now, not so much. Hope it does well though.

  Comment by Anchorboy — Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 12:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• That’s a mistake, this will get torn to shreds with that audience. Acting is atrocious and plot is more inconsistent than the GOP platform. I don’t care how drunk they are, the tone of this film is more CW than Rambo.

  Comment by JT — Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 1:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This will suffer the same fate as the Total Recall remake.

  I was a big fan of the concept of the first Red Dawn, and even of much of the execution. While much of the acting from the young cast was awful, the feel of the movie was very real. These were average kids at a typical high school being affected by unthinkable events, and they often didn’t handle it well.

  After seeing the trailer for the remake, it’s clear they missed the point of the movie: average kids fighting back. Putting a marine in charge changes the dynamic of the movie, and lowers the stakes. Plus, looking at what Hemsworth brings to the role (based solely on the trailer) I’m quite worried about it inspiring any visceral reaction in the average moviegoer.

  Comment by Wicked — Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 2:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hopefully this will be the last o’ the 80′s remakes for sometime… just caught Fright Night over the weekend. I still stink from the wretch.

  Comment by Conan Doyle — Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 5:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• is this the film where the bad guys were changed from chinese to north korean to apease the chinese government? or am i confusing this with something.

  the first version with c. thomas howell (remember him) was not so great. do we need another film?

  Comment by dudette — Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 2:59am PDT  Reply to this post