MGM to Bring Back Red Dawn and RoboCop

[American Patriot]

I don't get this "mature looking teens". The main character wasn't a teen, wasn't in HS and was a Marine who'd been to Iraq already.

[vector7]

I haven't watched Red Dawn 2012 yet hoping it will be as good as the 1984 version.

Just dled that youtube in 360p but kind of wanting to wait to see it on Blu Ray set to come out 90 days from the films release.

Those that did see it, how did it compare to Australia's Tomorrow When the War Began?

There is talk of a sequel, Tomorrow When the War Began 2:

Pledge on film sequel

Amy Harris and Joel Christie
The Daily Telegraph
August 22, 2012 10:00PM

Tomorrow When the War Began


Cast members Deniz Akdeniz and Caitlin Stasey from the first movie. Source: Supplied

NEW life has been breathed into the sequel to the surprisingly successful Aussie blockbuster Tomorrow When The War Began with producers promising cameras will roll early next year.

Considered dead in the water 12 months ago, Tomorrow When The War Began 2 - based on a series of books by John Marsden - is still searching for a director after the original auteur Stuart Beattie dropped out.

But executive producer Matthew Street said a "great screenplay" exists and that production would eventually begin.

"(The sequel) is certainly not dead," Street said yesterday.

He said Aussie actor Kieran Darcy-Smith had written a "great screenplay" based on Marsden's original book series. The news has come as a surprise to the cast however, with starlet Phoebe Tonkin saying she had not heard about plans for the project.

"I would have loved to have done a sequel but I don't think it's going to happen," she said.

"A bit of time has passed now.

"I don't think there will be one, or at least not with the original cast - which probably is a shame.

"But that could always change, you never know."

Her doubts echoed sentiments shared earlier by co-star Caitlin Stasey, who said she feared the original cast of the movie would be too old to play the teenage characters in the original by the time a sequel came about.

[Ryan Ruck]

Yeah, the YouTube one isn't worth watching the whole movie. I'm guessing since it is a screener they do some weird pan and zoom stuff as well as distorted focus at times.

It's been a while since I've seen Tomorrow but I'll try to give an opinion later tonight when I've got some time.

[Ryan Ruck]

Since this thread is about Red Dawn and RoboCop, here's the newly released trailer for the new RoboCop. Looks okay...

[Toad]

Necro-ing this thread. Finally caught Red Dawn on cable last weekend. Sucked. Hard. Like a motivated actress on a casting couch. Even the cable info guide gave it 1 out of 4 stars. And that was kind.

[Ryan Ruck]

Ouch!

I thought it wasn't half bad.

Not as good as the original but not half bad. I think it would have been better if they had stuck with the Chinese as the bad guys instead of shoehorning the North Koreans into the role.