posted on Jan, 12 2009 @ 08:50 PM
You know, living in the age of the terrorist is tough. It’s enough to make a person miss the communists. Most of you were babies when the Berlin
wall fell but at least those damn Ruskkies stayed on their side of it. Oh sure, there was lots of yelling and accusations and baiting of one another,
but nobody strapped on a bomb and blew up a bus with it. Sure, as a child we would have to duck under our desks in atomic bomb drills, like that
little particle board desk was someone going to stop the radiation and shock wave from a 100 Kiloton nuclear bomb, but that was about as bad as it
got. Hell, the tornado drills were scarier than the communists. I never thought I’d say it but I miss the good old days of the cold war. (sigh.)
I have Red Dawn on DVD and occasionally watch it. About once a year or so.
How do you remake a classic though? Remember when that evil, soul less monster Ted Turner added color to Casablanca? (May he forever burn in hell for
that transgression.)
Some movies were not made to be updated. They are from a time and place that is unique to that time and place.
Perhaps it's my lack of vision.
I just hope it's not theirs.