The original was one of my favorite movies growing up. Looking forward to the remake but please don’t screw this up.
I was working on the road last year and one of the shows was in Detroit. I wasn’t looking forward to it, but we ended up staying at the Westin Cadillac and Michael Symington’s new restaurant “Roast” was on the ground floor. (Excellent meal and one of the best steaks I’ve ever had, no kidding.) We got in pretty early in the day so I checked in and then took off to go get some supplies for the room. I walked out of the hotel and turned a few corners and walked right smack into the set of Red Dawn! There it was, a stage, chairs, banners, propaganda posters everywhere, tanks and APCs painted up with the red star just sitting in the street (unsecured), various pieces of artillery sitting around, and not one single person or security guard anywhere. There were some pieces of chain link fence, sawhorses, and some traffic cones here and there but the area was not secured or closed off. It was obviously a day off because there weren’t any production trucks or vehicles of any kind, and no crew.
My first thought was “Damn, the Jug Eared Jesus already has the first reeducation camps set up.” Then I realized that thought was stupid. A reeducation camp in Detroit is just redundant! You put the camps in the midwest or the south, not in one of your strongholds, that would be wasted resources. I took quite a few pictures and some video of the scene, and even though I hadn’t heard they were remaking Red Dawn, it was obvious what this was. I’ve done enough movie and TV production work to know that the way things look in person is usually very different from the way it will appear on screen, but standing there on the set it felt pretty low budget. It probably isn’t, but that particular location looked cheesy. When I got back to the hotel I looked it up on IMDB.com to confirm that’s what it was, but I’ve since forgotten who’s starring in it.
On the way back from the store I walked back through the set again, and all I could think was “Tanks and artillery on the streets of Detroit, that seems about right.” Not hard to imagine at all, but this 9mm of mine just isn’t gonna cut it. This was in late October of last year.
Here are a few pics:
Even the first Red Dawn (if you removed all the action) had mixed messages and wouldn’t seem so pro USA if you just read the dialogue.
X2!!!
That’s beautiful…
Amen Brother.
Yep - the Obamaites will be welcoming their new Chinese Overlords as they parachute in. :rolleyes:
That is just fucking creepy.
Actually this movie is about a communist party, they invade Washington DC and start attacking the US from within. Wait… why does this sound familiar? 
Yeah it is. Aside from the red star its no different than Obama’s entire message…
I’ve got something else in mind. Tea anyone?
Without someone like Milius or Mann involved, it’s going to suck.
That is what I think as well. I think this will be really bad.
no worse than the A Team movie
Don’t worry, you can always kill someone with that 9mm and take their rifle.
When in Rome…
Which doesn’t mean much.