Posted on 06/13/2010 6:23:39 AM PDT by Perdogg
Well this should not be a surprise to anyone but Red Dawn is the latest film to be put on hold due to MGM’s financial status. With no executives to control the studio, creditors have placed the responsibility of the once great film company on themselves. This move has affected all the movies it was tied to, from the twenty-third Bond film to The Hobbit. Because of MGM’s financial problems Daniel Craig left Bond 23 for Girl with a Dragon Tatoo and Gullimero Del Toro left The Hobbit.
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OMG...
I’ve seen dog crap on the sidewalk that was better than the original Dune.
NO! No Ealing remakes!
England just doesn’t have the eccentric, quirky actors and actresses anymore. The English film industry is no longer regional; evrything’s homogenized and Hollywood.
There was a new St. Trinians movie in 2007, with a modern English cast. Blecchhh.
This is the studio that has in recent years spent big bucks on “Lions for Lambs,” “Fame,” and “Valkyrie.” Completely unsurprising that there would be financial problems.
I think perhaps, The Hurt Locker suffered from the fact that the movie, really wasn’t that different from watching the news from the middle east.
Seriously we can see real troops fighting real bad guys on the internet for free, from people like Michael Yon. Though donations at his site are certainly an option.
Why in the world would someone be inclined offhand, to plunk down $10 on what most conservatives would presume to be a bit of propaganda, to watch an imitation of that conflict?
Red Dawn, done properly would be a huge draw. China as a threat is real, and a growing fact most Americans are for some reason determined not to look at.
(including most on this forum)
Well, we better start paying attention. This movie would have been a good starting point.
Which makes this poster believe the initial respondent who believes the movie was ‘bought off’ by China, is probably onto something.
Our national strength is well on the way to being demolished methodically - and even our side isn’t doing anything to stop it.
It’s mind boggling. Even the right seems not to care anymore.
btw, do you copy-paste your sig every time you post?
No, I draw it as a bitmap, from scratch, every time anyone reads it, in real-time.
It's very stressful, and allows me very little sleep...especially when a large number of FR folks are using broadband.
Uh oh, here we go, time to do it again:
Ha..... and I control the F5 key!
A sig function would be nice. Copy & paste every time would seriously reduce my post rate.
I thought the remake of The Blob was better than the original, even without Steve McQueen. I particularly liked the fact that they spent 30 minutes developing the characters of the kind sheriff and the diner waitress with a heart of gold. Then, of course, the blob killed them!
i’m genuinely bummed. I was really looking forward to this flick
One of the big Scientologists has their son casted as the hero in the new Red Dawn, I wouldn’t be surprised if the movie is canned now that the decision makers are from locations outside the bubble of Hollywood, a bubble infected with the Scientologists’ cult members.
Flight of the Phoenix remake was pretty good, but still did not beat out Jimmy Stewarts version of it.
It can be argued that Tom Cruise and his Scientologist handlers have specifically targeted MGM to destroy the company. Tom Cruise’s son is the star of the Red Dawn remake.
The canning of this movie might be a serious and measured insult to the Scientologists running around the MGM backlots.
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...Gullimero Del Toro left The Hobbit.
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And who knew they were an item.
But maybe The Hobbit has a thing for wolfmen.
(OK, awful humour)
Got your tix for Blobfest 2010 yet?
...where were the men [in Red Dawn]...
In such a situation, I expect the men who were inclined to defend their country would have tried to escape the occupied zone to join (or rejoin) the military.
Cecil B. DeMille did better on his 1950s remake of “The Ten Commandments” than the earlier silent version.
The Star Trek “reboot” was better than the original movie. (flame away!)
Here’s a thought...how about making a new movie instead of a remake?
By far, no. The worst spin-off was Shock Theory.
(And yes, you can honestly say that a movie as bad as the original getting a sequel, we deserve what we get, but still.....)
No conservatives bothered to see The Hurt Locker either. That movie was a box office flop
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I saw it, it should have flopped, it was boring and a pice of junk film. I expected better.
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