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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

They are apparently not only remaking Robocop but also brat pack 80's war film 'Red Dawn' now too..

....don't ask me how the story will play out considering the original was set in a very different time when Russia was a Super Power so I'm thinking maybe China? Its hard to know for sure though... for anyone who has never seen the original film though it was basically a 'What If?' kind of film about the USSR invading America in a surprise attack and a group of kids who escape a nearby school and head out into the mountains and eventually decide to fight back using guerilla warfare and calling themselves 'WOLVERINES' It had a great cast of young talent Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer grey, and Harry Dean Stanton,

Synopsis:
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

I know the plot seems pretty out there now today....but years ago it was quite scary and nervy in a way...but that aside I still think it was a great war film ...here's a trailer

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YoUtAlKiNgToOmE · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:08 pm Post subject:

his film in its day,and i am not sure if it stills stands today,i doubt,if rambo has his way,but it had the most killings in a movie more than any other,so i read once.

but nevertheless,a really good film in it`s day,a cult classic in my opinion.and star a cast of who`s who.

i liked this alot,but a remake,they could get away with it,because there are so many enemies to choose from,but who would you star in it,probably not an all star cast,because i doubt anyone who`s anyone would get involved in a remake of this nature.
so a face we are familiar with and a bunch of up coming wannabies,making the first step,and i bet you,they are all georgeos.
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YoUtAlKiNgToOmE · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject:

that is a good film in it`s day.........
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

Yeah I would agree with you YTTM about considering it a cult classic...it was very different from the other type of brat pack movies of the day I always thought....the film did show the bad parts of war and as you say lots of killings even the fact that the whole beginning of the movie shows a load of children at a school being slaughtered and later on the main kids seeing their parents in a type of Concentration Camp...at the time it was shocking to see..then when you take into account the whole betrayal part of the film it was a 'no holds barred' affair really

As for the remake I reckon you could be right with the casting but I don't know about the enemy..I think its much more difficult to see a viable realistic enemy as the Russians were in the 80's to America....yep the US has lots of enemies today but none that would concievable launch or be able to launch a land offensive in such a massive scale. I know I mentioned China earlier but even with that I felt I was reaching a little...I guess they could have it that America's economy has collapsed and its super power status reduced a great deal at the beginning of the move??
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lord vader · Site Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 3131 Location: scotland

oh my go og my friggin god , no way , not these 2 films aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

You want it really Sta

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lord vader · Site Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 3131 Location: scotland

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

It could be worse they could be remaking Highlander.....oh........

...yeah..they are already

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6132

They made some great films in the 80s and Red Dawn's one of them

The story seems unbelievable at first but soon grabs you and you're rooting for the kids to fight back

I still can't watch that scene where he drinks that animal's blood though

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

Oh yeah the blood drinking scene...they have some weird traditions in America

I really like the scene where one of them betrays them by swallowing a transmitter and ends up admitting it and they all know they have to kill him but some can't......its a good scene

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