One thing I never quite got about the original Red Dawn - these teens are living in the woods for months before seriously taking shit on, yet they never, ever think to make out with each other? Not even once?
Also, why not just stay in the woods longer? Well, there'd be no movie then. But that's why I dig the look of How I Live Now a bit more. It starts with romance in the woods - at least judging by the trailer - then World War III happens. I don't know from this who the bad guys are, and I don't care - the threat is tangible, unless they tell us late in the game that North Korea invaded Europe somehow, which I don't expect.
Saoirse Ronan is growing up fast. Watch after the jump and see what you think.
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Better Red Dawn Remake?
Spotted this at Toppless Robot:
I don't know, the trailer didn't look all that impressive to me. I also haven't seen the remake of "Red Dawn" Either. However as to your make out question if I remember right the original movie eluded to the fact that the two girls had been raped and even suggested it had been in multiple ways.
ReplyDeleteThe grandfather mentioned the commies had "tried to have their way with them" but later on the one girl absolutely freaked when Charlie Sheen's character mentioned something up her ass. Also when Powers Booth's character asked one of the kids about her he was told "something bad had happened to her". Just reading between the clues but I got that impression.
Another semi-descent kids and war flick is "Tomorrow when the war began" which is so so in believability but not a bad movie.
I was meaning to mention "Tomorrow when the war began", but I was rushed on this post.
DeleteHow I Live Now looks like a movie version of the music video for Arcade Fire’s song the Suburbs.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow, When the War Began was a terrible movie. The books are pretty good. They’re completely unrealistic and I imagine the only research the guy who wrote them did was watch a lot of old WWII men-on-a-mission movies but at least he gets what made the best of those movies work. There is a wonderfully developed rural setting and the tragedy of the situation is conveyed better than it is in Red Dawn.
What I think is this type of movie and books like the "Hunger Games" percolating through the culture, people may not know exactly what's going wrong but they are starting to realize something is.
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