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Lileks: Info on RED DAWN Remake [my title]
The Bleat ^
| 2 November 2009
| James Lileks
Posted on 11/02/2009 5:25:38 AM PST by B-Chan
Over the fire I chatted with a neighbor who’s working on the “Red Dawn” remake. Get this: in the new version, China and Russia invade the US – to put a stop to our greed. There are times you wish you had a mouthful of kerosene so you could do a flaming spit take. If this is how the film turns out, it’ll be hilarious; it’s as if the filmmakers were a bit ambivalent about all the horrible jingoism that such a film might unleash, so they had to temper it with a bit of theoretical altruism that could be true, you know, in a sense. I almost expect the Russians and Chinese to invade to enforce Copenhagen protocols, and the brave Americans fight back for a modified rollout of carbon emission standards that will allow domestic industry to perfect the new HydroWind Energy System, which the Chinese don’t want because they just signed a UN agreement to respect patents of other countries.
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: avengeme; entertainment; lileks; motionpictures; reddawn; wolverines
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:25:40 AM PST
by
B-Chan
To: B-Chan
I feared as much...
PC pathetic.
2
posted on
11/02/2009 5:26:54 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: B-Chan
To: B-Chan
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:27:56 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(q)
To: B-Chan
To: B-Chan
It was a stupid movie the first time around, and most remakes are worse than the original. Hollywood never changes.
To: B-Chan
"There are times you wish you had a mouthful of kerosene so you could do a flaming spit take." Nominated for the best written sentence of 2009.
To: B-Chan
Then these idiots will be shocked, just SHOCKED, when the movie flops...
8
posted on
11/02/2009 5:29:29 AM PST
by
piytar
(This tag deleted by the Ministry of Truth. Love Big Brother. Or else!)
To: incredulous in PA
Just curious: How old are you?
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:29:44 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: B-Chan
To: B-Chan
Bah!
My suggestion: a U.N. group of lefties sends in “peacekeeping” force in order to rescue a far left president who has just been voted out of office and doesn’t want to leave...
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:34:19 AM PST
by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
To: piytar
Then these idiots will be shocked, just SHOCKED, when the movie flops... You forgot to use the word "unexpectedly" in that comment.
12
posted on
11/02/2009 5:37:12 AM PST
by
Turbo Pig
(...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
To: B-Chan
Yeah China and Russia, two countries with a history of being altruistic.
13
posted on
11/02/2009 5:40:29 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Sam's Army
I agree.
Unfortunately, how many stupid “social studies” teachers will show this in school for classroom discussion of the evils of American capitalism?
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:48:12 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
To: driftdiver
Well, Chinese tanks sure did cut down those carbon emitters in Tiananmen Square, didn’t they?
15
posted on
11/02/2009 5:50:38 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
To: ArrogantBustard
it was a stupid movie. and i’m 46.
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:52:53 AM PST
by
sig226
(My President was President of the week at the Norwegian Slough Academy.)
To: B-Chan
in the new version, China and Russia invade the US – to put a stop to our greed
That may send it to DVD fast.
Many of those 'remakes' just do not do well in the US market. Many only make $$$ in the overseas markets.
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:54:12 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: incredulous in PA
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:54:34 AM PST
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: B-Chan
most movies are fiction...this may be all out propaganda
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posted on
11/02/2009 5:56:12 AM PST
by
dalebert
To: B-Chan
China and Russia invade the US – to put a stop to our greed. Is Howard Dean producing this meaningless dreck?
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