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    Posted: November 27 2012 at 11:33am
If I close my eyes, I can still hear Harry Dean Stanton yelling "Avenge me!". It was so f*ck*ng funny!  

R.T. (10%): "It lacks the original's topicality, but at least pays tribute by delivering the same short shrift to character development and general logic".
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I've heard some people say while the original Red Dawn was implausible, people still liked it because they felt for the characters. The remake, however, seems to have just sucked any hint of sympathy out of the idea, so people find this remake worse than the original.  
 
Oh, and what is likelihood of Connor Cruise getting a Razzie nomination?  


RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: I don't think his role in the film is substantial enough to merit attention from us without giving the appearance of our "picking on" Cruise merely because of who his Dad is. 

You are, of course, free to wage a Forum argument in favor of his being nominated (and to write him in on your own Nominating Ballot) but at this time, I am unready to endorse the idea... 


Elizabeth Hartman and Judith Barsi are much more talented and beautiful than Scarlett Johansson and Chloe Grace Moretz. Fact.
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ALTHOUGH the 1984 ORIGINAL RED DAWN WASN'T a BERRY GOOD MOVIE, IT WAS a MONEY-MAKER for ITS STUDIO, and IT GOT O.K. REVIEWS (Over 50% Positive @ R.T.).  

BUT, GIVEN THAT the PREMISE IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT on THERE BEING a MORTAL ENEMY with WHOM the U.S. TEEN-AGERS DO BATTLE (in 1984 IT WAS the RUSSKIES in CAHOOTS with the CUBANS) the BERRY IDEA of RE-MAKING THIS in a POST-COLD-WAR WORLD IS ARGUABLY IDIOTIC and POINTLESS. 

WHEN THIS ILL-ADVISED REMAKE WAS in PRE-PRODUCTION in 2008, the "ENEMY" WERE the CHINESE COMMUNISTS (WHO HOLD an ENORMOUS PERCENTAGE of OUR NATIONAL DEBT). BUT THEN SOMEONE FIGURED OUT THAT IF THEY PORTRAYED the CHINESE PEOPLE in an UNFLATTERING WAY, the FILM MIGHT NEVER BE RELEASED in CHINA...and MILLIONS in REVENUE COULD BE LOST. SO THEY WENT in and DID "RESHOOTS," CHANGING the "ENEMY" to BE "NORTH KOREANS" (WHERE an AMERICAN MOVIE WOULD NEVER BE SHOWN ANYWAY). 

THAT KIND of "CYA/HEDGING THEIR BETS" MENTALITY PERMEATES EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS REMAKE, MAKING WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN an IRRELEVANT MOVIE ANYWAY into a KIND of PUNCHLINE to a JOKE ABOUT HOLLYWOOD's INABILITY to RESIST DOING the SAME THING OVER and OVER and OVER and... 

...and NOW IT's YOUR TURN to POST YOUR OWN THOUGHTS (and JOKES!) ABOUT ONE of 2012's TRULY WRETCHED REMAKES, RED DAWN (2008-2012)... 


JUST for FUN, HERE's a LINK to CHECK OUT the FOTO FUNNY for THIS FILM...

and HERE's the LINK to SEE OUR FORUM INFO PAGE (with LYNX for REVIEWS, BOX OFFICE, CREDITS and CETERA) on THIS FILM...  

ONE FINAL REMINDER -- REMEMBER: "BETTER DEAD THAN RED!"  
Ye Olde Head RAZZberry
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