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Reel China: Hollywood Tries to Stay on China's Good Side (Red Dawn Remake Goes '1984')
The Los Angeles Times ^
| Wednesday, March 16, 2011
| Ben Fritz and John Horn
Posted on 03/16/2011 8:55:59 AM PDT by kristinn
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posted on
03/16/2011 8:56:05 AM PDT
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
I was going to see this one.
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posted on
03/16/2011 8:58:59 AM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
To: kristinn
I doubt very much if the "new, improved" version is really an improvement. The original is still worth viewing again, even if the USSR is gone.
What's wrong with Hollywood, that they have to keep re-making pictures? Don't they have any new ideas?
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:00:55 AM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
(New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. A primer on armed revolt. Available form Amazon.)
To: kristinn
The NORKs invading the USA??? Seriously??? The original movie was great and didn’t need to be rebooted. WOVERINES!!!
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:01:15 AM PDT
by
reegs
To: kristinn
“...excise bad guys from the Communist nation lest the leadership in Beijing be offended.”
Guess what, morons, you just offended a large part of your audience in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. You see, making the invading force into North Koreans changes this movie from an interesting speculation as to the possible, into something on the other side of an LSD-induced fantasy. It simply isn’t believable, and thus I will not see it...and I was actually looking forward to it.
Thus are the wages of kissing Red Communist ass.
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:01:48 AM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
(Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
To: kristinn
How about a sequel called, “Cresent Dawn” about a terrorist, Islamic cell that infiltrates across our porous southern border? Oh, wait... that’s actually happening.
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:04:02 AM PDT
by
reegs
To: kristinn
Invading North Koreans? I think the US Army could handle that without relying on a bunch of school kids turned partisans. Why not just do a remake of the Mouse That Roared and have the Duchy of Grand Fenwick invade us again?
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:08:36 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
To: kristinn
The same is true for yet another remake “Arthur”. From the trailer I saw, the original charming movie turned tasteless.
How many more films are they (no talent Hollywood) going to destroy?
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:12:15 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: KarlInOhio
At least this makes it more believable, since I think a group of high-schoolers could single-handedly defeat the North Koreans.
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:13:00 AM PDT
by
Chipper
(You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
To: reegs
The NORKs invading the USA??? Seriously??? That would be like Costa Rica invading Nazi Germany.
To: JoeFromSidney
"Don't they have any new ideas?"In short, no. Call it the "Gen X effect"...the generation raised without creativity, thanks to cable and MTV, is now at the controls, and has no idea what to do. So they do what they're best at...destroying that which has already been done.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:16:42 AM PDT
by
wku man
(Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
To: kristinn
I made the mistake of having my sons learn German. It should have been Mandarin, so they could speak to their bosses.
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:19:40 AM PDT
by
henkster
(Every member of Congress must put the fate of the nation over their next re-election campaign)
To: kristinn
Meanwhile the CHICOMs rubbed it in Obama’s face by playing a virulent anti-american ditty about them kicking our asses in Korea at the White House.
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:25:09 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: kristinn
They just managed to make ‘Battle Los Angeles’ look more realistic and probable.
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:26:25 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(Pray for Japan.)
To: kristinn
North Korea invading the USA? ROFLMAO. That is inconceivable—why are the writers these days so pitiful?
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:27:16 AM PDT
by
The Toad
To: JoeFromSidney
Why change the story line. It was the cuban’s and the russians the last time that attacked and the Chinese were on our side.
From the movie when the kids are asking the downed fighter pilot who is on our side he reponds “about 700 million screamin china men”. The kid says that he thought there were a billion china men. The pilot says something tothe effect that there used to be...
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:32:54 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: kristinn
I am not going to see a movie with a lame concept.
NK as the agitator? Really?
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:33:04 AM PDT
by
Vendome
("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
To: kristinn
Because a North Korean takeover is so plausible.
/sarccccc
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:35:39 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(God bless Gov. Walker and the WI Legislature!)
To: henkster
I made the mistake of having my sons learn German. It should have been Mandarin, so they could speak to their bosses. Spanish and Arabic would help too... for the future.
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:36:50 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(God bless Gov. Walker and the WI Legislature!)
To: kristinn
Wonder how much Canada would charge us to take Hollywood?.
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posted on
03/16/2011 9:40:16 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
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