Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
2. Red Dawn
The original: 1984
The remake: TBA
If any film was of its day, it was this fear-mongering what-if saga of Russian and Cuban military forces invading rural America. Sure, it’s easy to dismiss this as right-wing propaganda, but it is pop culture’s most hysterical expression of Cold War paranoia. Given this post-9/11 world we live in, our new generation of Wolverines will undoubtedly wage guerilla warfare against a country that’s part of the so-called Axis of Evil. But are there any terrorist nations--be it Iran or North Korean--that are capable of not just launching but sustaining an invasion that would make a 21st-century Red Dawn relevant? Or believable? That’s the challenge facing first-time director Dan Bradley and the acne-faced grunts he’ll enlist to tear all occupying forces to shreds.
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