Red-blooded America runs deep in 'Red Dawn' - film liberal critics love to hate (WOLVERINES!!)

WND ^ | November 25, 2012 | Drew Zahn

[Perseverando]

Out of curiosity, I took a look at how film critics from other newspapers and publications reviewed the new “Red Dawn,” a remake of the 1984 cult classic about teenagers taking up guns and defending America from communist invaders.

You’d think from the critics’ condescending sneers that the remake is utter garbage.

“Preposterous,” said one critic of the remake’s premise that North Korea could invade the U.S. today. “Outdated,” said another, suggesting the plot line be relegated to the ancient Cold War and the once-upon-a-time Red Scare.

The only thing that’s “preposterous,” however, is the speed at which these obviously liberal critics leaped to dismiss the movie. I honestly, without hyperbole, wonder if some of them even watched it.

For starters, the movie explains that North Korea doesn’t invade without “help,” and that they used a cyber attack on the American financial system and an electromagnetic pulse weapon, or EMP, against the U.S. infrastructure. Furthermore, North Korea only invades the Pacific Northwest, while other enemies attack elsewhere. It’s not really that implausible.

Besides, the original film cast Cuba as the invading force – not the Soviet Union, as is commonly reported – so don’t talk to me about “preposterous.”

And as for “outdated,” the Red Scare is far from over, as many Americans outside the leftist worldview recognize. It’s just that the threat of communism in the U.S. now comes from our own public universities, instead of Moscow.

So politically biased bashing aside, let’s look at the film a little more honestly, shall we?

“Red Dawn” is indeed a remake, provoking many of the same themes and even revisiting some of the same scenes as the original (“The chair is against the wall; the chair is against the wall,” drinking deer blood, “Wolverines!” and so on). It tells the story

[Mad Dawgg]

"Look amigo, how can millions of troops and materiel get transferred from one country to the next without being detected?"

In the first Red Dawn which was set in the 80s. It might have been possible. If the attackers had intimate knowledge of our sat system and was able to mask movements using holes in coverage and such. But it would have taken a huge effort and slowed down their advance to months I remember talk in that movie of slipping up through Mexico and down through Canada and using private airliners and such. But still it would have been near impossible to pull off a total surprise attack.

Today it is totally out of the question. You might sneak a couple hundred troops in at one time but a full fledged battle force won't get within 500 miles of our borders without us knowing about. Hell we will know when the start loading their troops into ships and/or planes at their own military bases. And I am fairly sure our battle doctrine will be to engage these units long before the get near our borders.

[driftless2]

Even if the Soviets could have magically transported one or two million soldiers across our borders without being detected, it would not be near enough to prevent them from getting slaugtered by our combined forces which would quickly overwhelm any troop concentrations not supported by planes, tanks, artillery, etc. The whole “Red Dawn” plot is laughably stupid.

[PapaBear3625]

Look amigo, how can millions of troops and materiel get transferred from one country to the next without being detected?

It's not a question of detection. It's a question of initiating a war over that detection, something the US rarely does. We go to war AFTER being attacked.

You think the US would invade Iran to stop their nuke program?