Red Dawn?

[OLS]

I am on the side of LIKING RED DAWN......
I agree that classic doesn't mean one thing exclusively. They Live with Rowdy Roddy Piper?
Great little cheeseball.
Plan 9 is a classic and it sucks.
Talladega Nights is a Terrible Movie, and yet people just can't STOP LOVING IT.

I like Red dawn a lot but always thought it should have been better. Just because it had all the budding new stars
of the day does not mean they were cast to be freaking Oscar candidates. If ANYTHING is bad about this its how
easily they decided to keep Chinese relations in the great state they are by digitally manipulating the right frames.
Hollywood is filled with caricatures of human beings running things, they are scared 5hitless of originality. But you could
easily show them what you think about it. Most choose not to, and go to the theater and see crap du jour every night.
When it is released on DVD in a few weeks, I will do my part as a good American and download it illegally.

if i am a sucker, and I am, it is that I always have hope that now that they CAN, they will make it better.
But of course, then they go out and re-make THE THING just as bad as it could possible be.

[E.J.]

Originally Posted by OLS

They Live with Rowdy Roddy Piper?
Great little cheeseball.

Woke up at 4:00 AM on Monday and couldn't fall back asleep, got up, made coffee and watched about an hour of "They Live".....

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by OLS

But of course, then they go out and re-make THE THING just as bad as it could possible be.

The Thing wasn't a remake, Brad, it was a prequel. The last scene of the "new" one is the first scene of the old one.

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by icehog3

The Thing wasn't a remake, Brad, it was a prequel. The last scene of the "new" one is the first scene of the old one.

I've avoided the new one, thinking it was a remake. Guess I should watch it...... Or should I????

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by SvilleKid

I've avoided the new one, thinking it was a remake. Guess I should watch it...... Or should I????

If you have 99 cents for the rental and 90 minutes to kill (perfect cigar time), it was relatively entertaining, I liked the first one a lot, so it was interesting to see what went on before that one started.

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by icehog3

The Thing wasn't a remake, Brad, it was a prequel. The last scene of the "new" one is the first scene of the old one.

Ehh, that may be the case with the newest iteration, but the 1982 John Carpenter one starring Kurt Russell was a remake of the 1951 version with James Arness. It was entitled The Thing From Another World, and was based on a 1938 short story by "Don A. Stuart" . . . best known as Golden Age SF editor John W. Campbell.

That being said, I have no problem with remakes of movies like Red Dawn . . . as long as they NEVER have the balls to remake something like Citizen Kane.


Edit, for accuracy's sake: It was actually classed as a novella by Campbell, entitled Who Goes There?