WOLVERINES!!!

Lets see...No Powers Booth...No Harry Dean Stanton (Avenge ME!!!)...No Tom Skerit's evil twin Skippy...The Red Menace just doesn't cut it since Red October was the last cold war film.

They could replace Russia with China?

Or, the movie could take place 20 minutes into the future, where some other random country is all the sudden a world power and wants to invade the US.

Have to agree with everyone in that it was a film of the time - all those of us who were teenagers or older in the years prior to the mid-80s know that there was a foreboding fear around the world about the Cold War, even us way down out of sight at the bottom of the Pacific (I remember a discussion one time on how many nukes, if any, the USSR would waste on New Zealand).

And it was after the embarrassment of the Vietnam war, after the failure of the Iranian hostage rescue, before the first Iraq war when the best the US could do militarily was to invade Grenada and to supply Iraq - so a film on the US actually being successfully invaded and the military unable to defend the land was not an unthinkable topic.

I don't think it matters if kids nowadays relate to the Cold War era or not. I saw the movie when I was a kid and just thought it was cool. I didn't watch it thinking it could actually happen or consider how it relates to the real world.

Speaking of remaking "Red" movies.

Red Sonja

Starring Rose McGowan...

OK, I think I'd actually like to see the remake now. I tried to re-watch the original Red Dawn last night. Ho-ly shit. That has got to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I don't know how I ever thought this was stupid fun. It's not fun, just stupid. And boring. And shitty.

Maybe, in the hands of the right director, this new one could actually be fun.

Oh, it's terrible. I'm not quite sure why it's so popular, I think the setup and the context are what really get people going. And the part where they pop up out of the wheatfield.

I guess the remake will probably cause a bunch of people to claim that their "childhood has been raped" or whatever.

When I saw TREK, they showed a trailer for LAND OF THE LOST and this big fat manchild starts groaning, bitching, and he literally says "they're raping my childhood". And he was serious. OVER A SHOW WITH PUPPET DINOSAURS AND KIDS IN MONKEY SUITS.

Speaking of remaking "Red" movies.

Red Sonja

Starring Rose McGowan...

I can deal with that, Howard be damned.

snarkerati.com/movie-news/a-new-robocop-movie-on-the-way/

And if the new Red movies weren't enough for you, it looks like we're getting either new installments or reboots of both Robocop and Death Wish.

mjl1783 wrote:

snarkerati.com/movie-news/a-new-robocop-movie-on-the-way/

And if the new Red movies weren't enough for you, it looks like we're getting either new installments or reboots of both Robocop and Death Wish.

I heard Robocop got dropped, or at least put on the back burner due to Aronofsky getting his long awaited supernatural ballerina movie greenlit (or something).

Michael Barnes wrote:Speaking of remaking "Red" movies.

Red Sonja

Starring Rose McGowan...

Where do we go for tickets?

IMDB says 2010.

mjl1783 wrote:

snarkerati.com/movie-news/a-new-robocop-movie-on-the-way/

And if the new Red movies weren't enough for you, it looks like we're getting either new installments or reboots of both Robocop and Death Wish.

Maybe they'll actually film Robocop in Detroit this time instead of Houston...

Primrose Lane, where the fuck is Primrose Lane?

And how the fuck could you say a movie is set in Detroit and not have one fucking shot of the Ren Cen....

Michael Barnes wrote:

When I saw TREK, they showed a trailer for LAND OF THE LOST and this big fat manchild starts groaning, bitching, and he literally says "they're raping my childhood". And he was serious. OVER A SHOW WITH PUPPET DINOSAURS AND KIDS IN MONKEY SUITS.

I saw maybe 5 seconds of that show when I was a kid....I thought it sucked then. I've maybe seen about 5 seconds more of it...It still stucks. ABout the only thing good about it is the Sleestak Librarians from Robot Chicken.....

And will Farrel....GAH!!!!

Man, I loved Land of the Lost when I was a kid. In fact, it was one of my first boardgames. It had a spinner... Anyway, I caught a little bit of it on TV the other day and I can understand why I liked it. Juraissic Park it's not. But there was some bit about "temporal rifts" or some shit going on. In another episode the uncle or whomever got captured by the Sleestak and they had to use some diplomacy to get him off the menu. Nothing very deep but still decent sci fi for small kids back then. I mean it really didn't seem that different from Dr. Who in ways.

But ya know I was a wierd kid who thought super hero programs were the absolute bottom of the barrel shit in children's entertainment. Those fucking things reeked of cheap just as much as Land of the Lost did.

Red Sonja, now that might be good. I really liked Planet Terror. Although I can't recall a thing about the original movie other than it wasn't very good.