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Red Dawn remake?
Seriously why does this exist?
These fantasies always strike me as a little gross. Oh poor future!America, overrun by foreign communists! Just what the world needed, another film that plays into the paranoia of isolationist xenophobes. Simultaneously terrified of all foreign contact, and of the end of Empire and its attendant global labour exploitation (by Americans--someone else will no doubt take up the cause). The original Red Dawn had the Cold War for real world context, and as the backbone of its alternate future. The Red Dawn remake has... fears of future Chinese economic and military dominance? Hardly comparable. Consider: the ~$900b of US Treasury bonds that the Chinese hold; the importance of US/China trade to both countries. (Oooh look, data). China and the US are interdependent, even as they're at ideological loggerheads, and sometimes outright hostile.
And if ever there was a group of people looking for shit to be afraid of, it's the people who produce movies like this. I kind of picture them chilling in a yuppified mancave, throwing back some American brewskies (produced by a German or Belgian beverage conglomerate), Fox news on in the background, complaining about the moral backwaters of the world (and the tragedy of their being damn fine vacation spots), and the coming terror of a possibly brave new unipolar world. With the Chinese in charge. Just imagine what they'll do to us! Not to say that the original Red Dawn was a heart-staggering work of cinematic genius, or that it made a lick of sense (in fact it did not), but seriously. SERIOUSLY. No one is going to invade the US. We can revisit the issue in 50 odd years, ok Hollywood? Maybe your ridiculous DOOM SCENARIOS will be more plausible then. Stick to zombie apocalypses and horrible natural disasters in the meantime. Yuppified, mancave-dwelling conservative paranoiacs: your country is still--by far--the military superpower of the world, and you have so many more pressing threats to your collective health, happiness and national safety than fucking CHINA INVADING.
Also goddammit Hollywood, can we get some new stories?
PS. Red Dawn is apparently #15 in a list of Best Conservative Movies. Ha ha ha.
These fantasies always strike me as a little gross. Oh poor future!America, overrun by foreign communists! Just what the world needed, another film that plays into the paranoia of isolationist xenophobes. Simultaneously terrified of all foreign contact, and of the end of Empire and its attendant global labour exploitation (by Americans--someone else will no doubt take up the cause). The original Red Dawn had the Cold War for real world context, and as the backbone of its alternate future. The Red Dawn remake has... fears of future Chinese economic and military dominance? Hardly comparable. Consider: the ~$900b of US Treasury bonds that the Chinese hold; the importance of US/China trade to both countries. (Oooh look, data). China and the US are interdependent, even as they're at ideological loggerheads, and sometimes outright hostile.
And if ever there was a group of people looking for shit to be afraid of, it's the people who produce movies like this. I kind of picture them chilling in a yuppified mancave, throwing back some American brewskies (produced by a German or Belgian beverage conglomerate), Fox news on in the background, complaining about the moral backwaters of the world (and the tragedy of their being damn fine vacation spots), and the coming terror of a possibly brave new unipolar world. With the Chinese in charge. Just imagine what they'll do to us! Not to say that the original Red Dawn was a heart-staggering work of cinematic genius, or that it made a lick of sense (in fact it did not), but seriously. SERIOUSLY. No one is going to invade the US. We can revisit the issue in 50 odd years, ok Hollywood? Maybe your ridiculous DOOM SCENARIOS will be more plausible then. Stick to zombie apocalypses and horrible natural disasters in the meantime. Yuppified, mancave-dwelling conservative paranoiacs: your country is still--by far--the military superpower of the world, and you have so many more pressing threats to your collective health, happiness and national safety than fucking CHINA INVADING.
Also goddammit Hollywood, can we get some new stories?
PS. Red Dawn is apparently #15 in a list of Best Conservative Movies. Ha ha ha.
Well...
... I think you're going to a hardware shop for oranges, there. For new stories in movies or television, try Kickstarter or IndieGoGo where you can fund the kind of stuff YOU want, not the overused gunk that Hollywood churns out.