Posted: 3/16/2011 2:41:09 PM EDT
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Lame. When MGM decided a few years ago to remake "Red Dawn," a 1984 Cold War drama about a bunch of American farm kids repelling a Soviet invasion, the studio needed new villains, since the U.S.S.R. had collapsed in 1991. The producers substituted Chinese aggressors for the Soviets and filmed the movie in Michigan in 2009. But potential distributors are nervous about becoming associated with the finished film, concerned that doing so would harm their ability to do business with the rising Asian superpower, one of the fastest-growing and potentially most lucrative markets for American movies, not to mention other U.S. products. As a result, the filmmakers now are digitally erasing Chinese flags and military symbols from "Red Dawn," substituting dialogue and altering the film to depict much of the invading force as being from North Korea, an isolated country where American media companies have no dollars at stake. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-china-red-dawn-20110316,0,995726.story |
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Well, I'm out. I really was looking forward to it even though I knew it was going to suck with the terrible effort at realism, but this is just full blown retarded now. I'm guessing as badly as they've #$%@ed it up it will be available on Netflix Streaming in short order anyways if not go directly there. Nobody is going to want to see this craptastic excuse for a movie that has NO right carrying the title "Red Dawn." |
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Quoted: Well, I'm out. I really was looking forward to it even though I knew it was going to suck with the terrible effort at realism, but this is just full blown retarded now. I'm guessing as badly as they've #$%@ed it up it will be available on Netflix Streaming in short order anyways if not go directly there. Nobody is going to want to see this craptastic excuse for a movie that has NO right carrying the title "Red Dawn." Rename it Pink Morning |
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Hmmm. So we have to change a movie villain because the real life country is so powerful that nobody can point out their potential? Isn't that the point of having a movie villain? (BTW, didn't North Korea go a little batty when they were depicted as torturers in this or that 007 movie?) |
