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Surprisingly Good

posted 11 years ago by Mathieas
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I just watched it on Netflix having avoided it for so long based on all of the negative comments I've seen about the movie and I have to say I really enjoyed it.

The hate seems to come from three different camps. The first thinks the premise is too absurd, I guess they've never seen a movie before and or viewed this as some type of documentary. The second seem to base the hate purely on Josh Peck. I looked him up, apparently he was in a Nick show, which I'd never heard of. In fact, I'd never heard of him, which I guess was better since I had no bias going in. The third group seem to just dislike the movie because it is too pro-America. I guess they'd rather see the movie from Korea's standpoint.

All in all I liked it.

[–] UpperEastSider 11 years ago

Didn't care for the ending but the rest of the movie was quite good, I thought!

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[–] UpperEastSider 11 years ago

Your opinion.

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[–] UpperEastSider 11 years ago

Uhh...yeah, that's still your opinion.

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[–] UpperEastSider 11 years ago

That's fine. I don't care what you think of me.

To each, their own. Some liked it, others didn't. Not everyone has a fit to throw about every remake that comes out.

Funny how you were just on the fashion forum, chewing me out for being willing to pay more than $1.50 for a piece of clothing (thanks for deleting your posts, by the way), and now you're here arguing with me and changing your username every ten seconds. Cute.

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[–] shawneuser 11 years ago

This movie is horrible.

There are two things good about it- Chris Helmsworth and Adrianne Palicki- though she is tremendously underused.

The premise is complete *beep* No, Transformers is more realistic than this. The notion of alien robots is more reasonable than North Korea invading Spokane WA.

The acting except for Helmsworth is terrible. Josh Peck and Colin Cruise are horrible. The girls have nothing to do other than shoot guns and scream.

The bad guys are two dimensional cardboard cut-outs who have like two lines in the whole movie.

There is no discernible plot. Does anyone even know the purpose of any of the firefights? It is a complete mess.

Peace.

[–] jimheeren 11 years ago

couldn t said it better myself

[–] philowiz 10 years ago

I hated it for none of those reasons. Although not one of my favorites, I enjoy the original (1984) Red Dawn. I actually think it does a nice job of mustering up some American pride, while also questioning the ethics and effects of war, and there is some fair amount of character development, and some genuinely touching scenes. I recently finished the Red Dawn remake (2012) and it's god-awful. All of the nuance is gone, none of the questions, and no character development. Plus, it takes genuine concerns often voiced by liberals (such as the massive rate of income inequality) and renders them talking points of the North Korean take over. It's essentially two hours of people shooting at each other, with breaks for stupid romance stories, and liberal bashing.

And Hemsworth can't hold a birthday candle to the Swayze.

[–] chamohlamb 9 years ago

You forgot that it's a remake of a well liked 80s movie.

[–] edgar959 9 years ago

NOT surprisingly BAD