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The makers of this movie obviously haven't been paying attention to geopolitics or economic trends. Russia is a capitalist country run by gangsters not the Communist Party, China is a major trading partner, Fidel Castro is almost dead, and the North Koreans are starving to death. The "commies" just don't make good straw man bad guys anymore. A more "realistic" movie would be about Christian fanatics duking it out with Islamic fanatics for oil and nuclear power.
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@Bill-Lee: have them doing so in giant robots inspired by the look of crusade era armour on both sides and you've got yourself a franchise.
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@Bill-Lee: This pretty much sums up exactly what I've been thinking since hearing about this remake. Why would China invade us? It's entire economy is so entangled with ours that it WANTS us to keep living the way we live and to invade us and cripple our infrastructure and destroying our communications (to my non-military trained understanding I assume is the best way to invade) would hurt their economy too much to justify it.
And, I haven't seen the original in awhile but I believe one of the conceits wais that the South American countries rally and invade north through Mexico which, at least, makes sense given their animosity towards us in our meddling in their revolutions at the time. Without any neighboring allies how exactly are the Chinese supposed to GET their military forces here?
And China may have the power to take us on but ALL of NATO? Because surely our allies would come to our aid? And, frankly, China hasn't got anyone else really powerful to back them up. Cuba hasn't got anything and N. Korea is mostly back with little actual bite. Back in the 80's Russia at least had allies that could back them up.
Or I'm most likely overthinking an incredibly ill conceived remake of a movie that so very much a product of its time and the reason it's a cult classic more for camp and its insanely dated appeal? Unless they are going the Reefer Madness: The Musical route making the remake a film AGAINST the type of propaganda the first film was I just don't get this.
Though, I'll be there to watch it just to see what they do. Reply
And, I haven't seen the original in awhile but I believe one of the conceits wais that the South American countries rally and invade north through Mexico which, at least, makes sense given their animosity towards us in our meddling in their revolutions at the time. Without any neighboring allies how exactly are the Chinese supposed to GET their military forces here?
And China may have the power to take us on but ALL of NATO? Because surely our allies would come to our aid? And, frankly, China hasn't got anyone else really powerful to back them up. Cuba hasn't got anything and N. Korea is mostly back with little actual bite. Back in the 80's Russia at least had allies that could back them up.
Or I'm most likely overthinking an incredibly ill conceived remake of a movie that so very much a product of its time and the reason it's a cult classic more for camp and its insanely dated appeal? Unless they are going the Reefer Madness: The Musical route making the remake a film AGAINST the type of propaganda the first film was I just don't get this.
Though, I'll be there to watch it just to see what they do. Reply