The Day After v. Threads and When the Wind Blows

[derspiess]

Chinese North Koreans

I'm not overly excited about it.

That is terrible. 

If the story is like that of the video game Homefront, it's semi-plausible.  Or at least as plausible as it can possibly be.  New, charismatic NK leader manages to unite the Koreas under his rule and goes all 21st Century Co-Prosperity Sphere on East Asia.  A rising Korea eventually pounces on a weakened US that is reeling from economic and energy problems. 

Originally the Chinese were the bad guys, but someone realized that would shut them out of the lucrative Chinese market, so they changed them to North Koreans in post-production.

[CountDeMoney]

Originally the Chinese were the bad guys, but someone realized that would shut them out of the lucrative Chinese market, so they changed them to North Koreans in post-production.

Faggot ass Hollywood cowards.  Can't blame a union on this decision, though.

Besides, you'd think with the increased extroverted nationalism in China these days, the Ed Anger-Sans would spooge over the concept.  PLA overtaking Seattle?  Me Rikey!

[derspiess]

Originally the Chinese were the bad guys, but someone realized that would shut them out of the lucrative Chinese market, so they changed them to North Koreans in post-production.

Faggot ass Hollywood cowards.  Can't blame a union on this decision, though.

Besides, you'd think with the increased extroverted nationalism in China these days, the Ed Anger-Sans would spooge over the concept.  PLA overtaking Seattle?  Me Rikey!

Maybe, dunno.  Btw if you want some real fun, talk to a Russian who has seen Red Dawn.  They bitch incessantly about bad dialogue & other supposed inaccuracies, but you know they're just pissed 'cuz their side is getting ripped up by a bunch of teenagers.

[crazy canuck]

Originally the Chinese were the bad guys, but someone realized that would shut them out of the lucrative Chinese market, so they changed them to North Koreans in post-production.

Faggot ass Hollywood cowards.  Can't blame a union on this decision, though.

Besides, you'd think with the increased extroverted nationalism in China these days, the Ed Anger-Sans would spooge over the concept.  PLA overtaking Seattle?  Me Rikey!

Maybe, dunno.  Btw if you want some real fun, talk to a Russian who has seen Red Dawn.  They bitch incessantly about bad dialogue & other supposed inaccuracies, but you know they're just pissed 'cuz their side is getting ripped up by a bunch of teenagers.

It was Cubans

[CountDeMoney]

Maybe, dunno.  Btw if you want some real fun, talk to a Russian who has seen Red Dawn.  They bitch incessantly about bad dialogue & other supposed inaccuracies, but you know they're just pissed 'cuz their side is getting ripped up by a bunch of teenagers.

Colonel Bella epitomized the best of the Castro Revolution. 

[derspiess]

It was Cubans

And Russians. 

[Tonitrus]

It was Cubans

And Russians.

And Nicaraguans.

And the Russian dialogue is better than in Red Heat. 

[Syt]

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/red-dawn-wasnt-about-the-cold-war-it-was-about-shooting-people/265361/

'Red Dawn' Wasn't About the Cold War; It Was About Shooting People

[derspiess]

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/red-dawn-wasnt-about-the-cold-war-it-was-about-shooting-people/265361/

'Red Dawn' Wasn't About the Cold War; It Was About Shooting People

I don't like that article.

[Jacob]

Chinese North Koreans

I'm not overly excited about it.

That is terrible.

IIRC, it was the Chinese in the script and for much of the production, but then I guess they realized that would really tank their sales in China (or possibly endanger the prospects of other films by the company), so they made a switch.

[Jacob]

... or did someone already make that point?

[Razgovory]

Remember Special Bulletin?  That was the fake newscast that had domestic terrorists detonating a nuke in Charleston, SC of all places.  I was actually in South Carolina at my aunt & uncle's place when it aired and it freaked my mom & her dimwit sisters out even though they knew it was fake.

Oh, yeah man. Now that one scared the shit out of me.  That one because of the homemade terrorism angle, but Countdown to Looking Glass was even more frightening:  same motif--fake news--with the superpower showdown in the Persian Gulf after the Iranians closed the Straits of Hormuz.  In 1984, that shit was waaay too close to possibility.  With the reporter on the USS Nimitz steaming to the Gulf to reopen it, and the Soviets responding?  Yikes.

Those two films were a hell of a lot more effective--because they were a hell of a lot more plausible--than The Day After, which I thought was incredibly stupid.  So Kansas City gets melted, big deal.  The Chiefs have sucked since the 60s.

Countdown was the one I remembered.

[Barrister]

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/red-dawn-wasnt-about-the-cold-war-it-was-about-shooting-people/265361/

'Red Dawn' Wasn't About the Cold War; It Was About Shooting People

It's a silly article.  Of course Red Dawn was about the cold war.  These weren't some faceless enemy, it was the Reds.  They rounded up people and put them into political re-education centres!

The comments about how you could easily improve on the low-budget original are fair game, but there's a reason it's become a cult classic.  And the damn dirty commies are part of that reason.

[Syt]

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/red-dawn-wasnt-about-the-cold-war-it-was-about-shooting-people/265361/

'Red Dawn' Wasn't About the Cold War; It Was About Shooting People

It's a silly article.  Of course Red Dawn was about the cold war.  These weren't some faceless enemy, it was the Reds.  They rounded up people and put them into political re-education centres!

Beeb, what's up with you taking my posts so overly serious recently? Relax.

[crazy canuck]

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/red-dawn-wasnt-about-the-cold-war-it-was-about-shooting-people/265361/

'Red Dawn' Wasn't About the Cold War; It Was About Shooting People

It's a silly article.  Of course Red Dawn was about the cold war.  These weren't some faceless enemy, it was the Reds.  They rounded up people and put them into political re-education centres!

Beeb, what's up with you taking my posts so overly serious recently? Relax.

This is Red Dawn we are talking about.  It isnt something silly like a beauty pageant contestant talking about removing her breasts.