Here’s a first look at Red Dawn, based on the 1984 film of the same name. It tells the story of a city in Washington state that suddenly finds itself under attack by a foreign enemy and a group of young patriots determined to fight back. The film, directed by Dan Bradley, stars Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas and Josh Hutcherson. It’s set for US release on November 21.
Hot Trailer: 'Red Dawn'
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after watching this mediocre trailer it only makes me appreciate the original film that much more.
The studio must be doing cartwheels over the movie having been accidentally delayed enough for Hemsworth and Hutcherson to become box office draws. This pic looks like it would have been DOA at the theaters three years ago, but it sat on the shelf long enough to now have the stars of The Avengers and Hunger Games. Talk about luck!
Yeah, at least the original made some sense. In this turd of a remake I guess we’re supposed to believe the North Koreans attack Washington State because their GPS systems confuse it with Washington DC.
I have to agree. So US Central Command got crippled according to the movie… what’s that got to do with the defense of US Northern Command? *Chuckle*
Is this movie supposed to make us feel what it’s like to be an Afghan civilian?
Yes.
Probably not but I think it’s supposed to make us:
-feel proud to be Americans
-feel confident about our military
-think that N. Koreans will brutally shoot an American father in front of his family
-think that N. Korea does NOT like to be instigated
For the record everybody, N. Korea’s military is NOT starving. They may be too far away to invade the USA, but they share a border with a country they can invade which would have a huge impact on the USA.
That was my first thought when that house blew up.
I’m conflicted as to whether that’s a good thing or not.
My big problem is this notion (from what I’ve heard) that North Korea is pulling this off. The threat is so incredible and we’re in Will Ferrell territory now.
WOLVERINES!!!
Not a bad trailer, all things considered, but the “They messed with the wrong family” line was literally cringe inducing.
I’m sorry. I can’t even think of something snarky to say about this one. It just looks insanely stupid.
The entire point of Red Dawn was normal teenagers fighting an army. This trailer ruins that entire concept within 9 seconds when you find out the main guy ia a Marine.
I love how they redid the scene where the girl leads the soliders into a trap where all the guys have dug holes in the ground and they pop up and shoot the soldiers. Yet in the trailer it shows that scene taking place in the middle of a street. How did they dig holes in pavement?
“How did they dig holes in pavement?”
This is actually an important plot point that’s set up earlier in the script.
Before the invasion, we see Josh Peck’s dad loading up his barn with strange machines.
JOSH PECK: Dad, tell me you didn’t get another one of them pavement hole diggers.
DAD: You can never have too many, son.
JOSH PECK: But you’ve got over 100! We can’t even afford to eat!
DAD: I know. But I can’t help thinking they’ll come in handy some day…
LOL
If you actually pay attention to the trailer, you can see the holes have been dug in a vacant lot, not in street pavement.
And the whole Chinese / North Korean switch-over that MGM and Film District performed was done so as not to offend trade relations (in terms of Hollywood product) with the no-longer sleeping giant, China. The ramifications of which play frighteningly close to the original premise of this remake.
One of the characters of the original flick wasn’t a teenager.
That scene isn’t in the middle of a street
Yes please.
I saw this movie already.
Chris Hemstworth is an Army Veteran who can train a group of kids how to be guerrilla fighters? Talk about missing the entire point. They’re supposed to be kids making it up as they go along without any real clue what they are doing, which is something we like to call “drama”.
Unbelievable drama and Patrick Swayze’s character was an adult that trained them and Hemsworth’s character is a marine
Thor and the kid from DRAKE AND JOSH are now fighting the North Koreans.
One way ticket to yawnsville
This trailer makes me torn between agreeing what Cleetus said about being an Afgan civilian and understanding why this sat on the shelf for 3 years.
Truly terrible
More Like RED YAWN.
So the invading army is North Korea? How did they get enough food to survive the trip?
F-ing hilarious dude.
Yes, man! Yes.
Also have to give credit to RED YAWN. I laughed at that one too.
A movie that (due to not wanting to seem critical of China) would have us believe that North Korea somehow stopped starving to death long enough to actually invade and take over part of the USA.
In the sequel, America is invaded by Iceland, with about the same amount of realism.
Hot teens versus PRC tech that’s better than our tech. Yeeeah…
So I’m guessing from the use of “Hey Man Nice Shot” that this trailer was cut back in the 90s. Apparently the same time when the movie was actually shot, too.
Yeah. I also like the fact “Hey Man Nice Shot” is about a guy shooting himself in the head. 1990s AND suicide. Double relevant.
this is what happens when you pick a bunch of models to play kids, give them cheesy ass dialogue, and set the pacing of the film to a rap song.
Wait, Chris Hemsworth and Josh Peck are brothers? They might as well have told us Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker were brothers in Rush Hour.
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker were brothers in Rush Hour.
yeah – “brothers from another mother”.
Every movie is allowed to be far-fetched as long as it plays by the rules it sets within it’s own universe. That being said, this looks like a giant piece of dog shit. Hollywood loves to imagine that a single individual with military experience can lead complex strategic operations. I have many peers with years of military training that have enough trouble maintaining minimum standards, much less leading a rag tag bunch of spirited teenagers to victory over a division of North Korean armor assets.
Do you think the movie this is remade from is also idiotic?
Does it feel like teenagers with machine guns are a little too on-the-nose of late? I’m not going to demonize the movie (the original was awesome) but feels a little pandering, stoking some patriot conspiracy fires from the far right in a from-my-cold-dead-hand sorta way. (Remember, the original preceded the end of the cold war by a few years)
Fuck yeah! Battleship 2!
Fight those ChXXXse…North Koreans!
First, I wish hollywood had enough courage to portray a more likely enemy to accomplish such an attack. Namely, China. Or some cabal comprised of China, Iran, and Russia. As noted above, the North Koreans can barely feed themselves. Their army would be so pleased to get over here, they’d all probably defect at the first sight of an In’n Out Burger.
Second, we are way better to the Afghans than the Soviets ever were by leaps and bounds, to the point where our rules of engagement put American lives on the line. Soviets would rape, pillage and kill whatever was in their path. Watch Restrepo; you’ll see.
Great points. This movie actually had the potential to be interesting, but I’m not getting that from the trailer.
1. North Korea. Why, oh why? As noted above, there’s probably more food in Subway’s CA locations than all of North Korea. It’s would have been more plausible if the Canadians invaded Michigan.
2. Hemsworth. He looks like a blend of John Connor and Stanley McChrystal, and I don’t mean that in a good way.
3. The Plot. They’re going after the one weapon that can disable all of the North Korean forces…because they thought rural Colorado would be a good hiding spot.
I do not like to slam movies, but this one is way too easy. They really should have explored new avenues with how the kids fight back vs. just re-using old scenes.
North Korea alone is not the invading force
Sorry to tell invading a country is more difficult the further the country you’re invading is. That being said China doesn’t have the capability to invade the US anymore than North Korea.
Liberal Hollywood re-making a great patriotic movie like Red Dawn?!?
Thats a good one.
So the North Koreans have invaded the US this time around I see… is this a sci-fi movie?
Bad trailer too. Cut it again.
Because Hollywood was such conservative city and industry back when the original Red Dawn was made…
back in 1983? Are you kidding? How old are you? And don’t you know who John Milius is?
You know liberal Hollywood made the original great, patriotic movie, right?
And the right does not own patriotism, not by a long shot. Don’t confuse the liberal tendencies of artists with the product that “liberal” Hollywood puts out. Via liberal Hollywood, America (“F*ck, yeah”) is always winning non-existent wars like in TOP GUN or RED DAWN and goes back and re-writes the endings to real wars, like RAMBO.
This is crying out for canned laughter.