This movie seems to get a whole lot of hate and I don't get it. Yes, realistically this could never happen N.Korea blah blah blah, but it's a movie. It is supposed to entertain, not be %100 fact based and "OMG DIS COULD HAPEN!1!!1". I personally really liked it, so tell me why you did/n't like it
shareI agree with you. I liked it. As a fan of film who deplores remakes and read all the bad reviews, I was expecting to get some laughs when I took the dvd out from the local library. But it actually turned out to be better than I thought. I like the nods to the original and how the directors incorporated them. There were momentswhen I laughed and shook my head but overall, it was a decent flick.
shareThe movie was terrible, but in a way it was fun to watch, up to a point. In the same way that some of the really bad SF movies from the 50's are fun to watch. But at some point the clichés just got too overwhelming for me.
Add to that the totally impossible premise that NK even has enough of an air force to fly an entire division (including tanks) 9,000 miles with no refueling and nobody noticing. Yeah, that sounds reasonable. I rated it at 3 stars - not sure why so high, perhaps out of pity.
I went and watched this on it's opening night (day before Thanksgiving 2012, only time I have ever did that for a movie) and I loved it. It was a fun ride and probably the best movie I have seen in a theater when it comes to mind numbing action. It was worth the wait and much better than I expected when they announced it years go.
I liked this more than the original in that way, that was more of a wait and watch film, this movie had a nice deal of action. They took it too the bad guys instead of attacking them when they had time. The actors were not as good as the original, but they were fun still and I enjoyed them. Liam and Josh were solid, and I love the Football and pre invasion stuff.
I didn't have a problem with the film makers changing the invading army from Russia and Cuba to N.Korea. I also didn't have a problem with this film having way more special FX and actors who were more physically appealing (I guess) then the original.
What really annoyed the heck out of me was how horrid this film was.
In the original film the two brothers (Jed and Matt) weren't such whiney little vaginas. Well, Jed wasn't because he was originally portrayed by the late Patrick Swayze. And Charlie Sheen's version of Matt didn't come across as stupid as 2012 version.
But Josh Peck's version was so infuriatingly stupid. He ditches his team not once, but twice. He gets one member killed in a ridiculous attempt to rescue his girlfriend. Then, when he gets back to the Wolverines' secret camp, he just walks off to pout. That was the time that the entire team needed to come together to stomp his azz for putting them all in danger.
Not only that but Matt ends up being the leader of the rebel movement after Jed dies? WTF?
In the original film Matt was shot and killed and I felt bad. In 2012 version I kept hoping someone would put a bullet through his eye throughout the entire invasion and for the rest of the film.
Liam does a decent job as do most of the other actors. But they're nowhere near as capable as the original cast. C. Thomas Howell as Robert, Jennifer Grey and the rest were definitely hard acts to follow.
The N.Korean Captain Cho (played by Will Yun Lee) does a decent job as the main villain. I just wish they did more with his character like the original did with Ron O'Neal's Colonel Ernesto Bella.
Having Jed and Matt's father as sheriff was fine. Changing the part of the story where a band of ex-special forces guys join up with the Wolverines instead of Powers Boothe's Colonel Andrew Tanner was fine. The pacing of the film was fine.
It was the rest of the film that was the problem.
And what's the deal with making "heroes" in films nowadays into such wimps and whiners?
I enjoyed this movie too.
There were some flaws, but overall it was enjoyable and not nearly as horrid as everyone makes it out to be.
Yes the original is better and a bit more believable, but this is Hollywood.
I thought it was going to be really terrible with the 5+ star rating, but I enjoyed it.
Yes some of the kids were a bit whinier, and I still dont see how they were to get in and out of the city so easily. But for the most part still good.
What baffles me is how did the Total Recall remake with Colin Farrell get almost a full star more than Red Dawn (2012)?
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I SAW IT expecting to be a good time *beep* movie with a lot of blowing up and shooting, which is what it delivered. the first one was a *beep* movie but i loved it as a kid, so i'm sure this can be as fun as the other without putting much thought into it. it's just too bad there aren't as badass people as those commies from russia. you'd think they'd use terrorist extremist. they're the badasses right now, but overall it was a good bad movie. i watched it while i worked and didn't seem to miss a single beat. so good for wasting time
shareThis is normally not my type of movie and despite what I thought was a horrible performance from Josh Peck(huge miscast in my humble opinion) I actually enjoyed this movie quite bit. I was going to rate it 7/10 but then they killed off Jed(Hemsworth) in such a silly way. I mean someone with that level of training and battle experience wouldn't drop their guard and walk casually by the window like that. Yeah I know there were a lot of unrealistic things in this movie but that scene was the one that did it for me. Possibly because I mainly watched this because Hemsworth was in it, I thought he carried the whole movie. I also thought that the ending(last 15 minutes felt a bit too rushed. I rated it 4/10.
shareI think the plot is outrageously unrealistic, but that doesn't make it a bad film. I liked it much better than the original, actually. I couldn't connect with that film at all. Thought the acting was pretty good as a whole, but Josh Hutcherson is awful.
Otherwise I really liked it. Once you accept that in the world of the film, this is all plausible, it's actually pretty good.
"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
I also enjoyed this movie. After reading several comments that attest that this could never happen, I would like to say 9/11. Most people take their freedom for granted, and with the push to bring democracy to third world and foreign countries, I feel that a scenario such as this is quite possible. If you push people too far, eventually they push back. As far as I'm concerned, being ignorant to the possibility of an invasion doesn't diminish the fact that there are several other countries out there with the power and the technology to take over. The whole of North America could definitely fall if the right powers banded together and decided they had enough of our western *beep*
shareI watched this last night on netflix - its not going to win any awards, but it was a fun entertaining watch.. I do agree with alot of the sentiment that the Matt character was miscast.. other than that - i have no complaints..
the one thing the movie did that sort of got to me was that it made the "Wolverines" alot like the Iraqi people - using IEDs and car bombs to send their message against the invading outsiders..
anybody else catch that?