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So I saw the new Red Dawn a while ago at a 3rd- or 4th-run theater.

It was an absolute block of solid cheese, you could tell they just had a list of ideas for Totally Sweet Scenes, or Shots even, and then were like “oh shit, we need a plot and some characters to paste these together with”. The thread about the dude resenting his brother not being there for him was hilariously halfassed and obligatory. When that guy yelled “Wolverines!” on top of the building I just broke out laughing.

This movie was basically drawn on the front of someone’s binder. But for all that, good goddamn was it inspiring.

Hear tell they reedited it to change the occupying forces from Chicoms to Norks in deference to the Chinese market. And I mean whatever, they’d pretty much sold out even before that, an honest attempt to update the right-wing zeitgeistiness of the original would have made the occupying forces American.

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