Haha. Hemsworth looks more like a kid. His Thor bodybuilding made him look a bit different.

I think it looks pretty good.

By Thor's hammer that doth look craptastic.

I don't know. We'll see. I'm not a fan of the original at all so the remake doesn't have a lot of work to do to be better.

Yeah, I agree. That opening "invasion" sequence was pretty intense.

I saw the original well after it's release so I have zero nostalgia for it. I like the concept but it's so dated that I couldn't get into it beyond "it's okay".

But this looks interesting enough to see, at least as interesting as the original.

The original isn't great but it's good for what it is. It resonates for me because I saw it so young.

Harry Dean Stanton makes any movie better.



His character doesn't get much screen-time but this speech in that scene really makes you care about him. Stanton is so great in those type of father roles.

In 25 years we've gone from "Avenge me!" to "Kill this piece of shit..."


If only the filmmakers had known they could have had a closeup of Hemsworth saying "I will become your Avenger..."

Harry fucking Dean Stanton. It's that voice, man. He sells it w/ that voice especially. He's a total package kind of actor. Man...I smiled so much when I saw him in The Avengers. He's just fun to watch.

That doesn't look bad. I'll check it out. Its funny how it getting shelved may make it way more successful, considering Hemsworth and Hutcherson's careers now compared to then.

Looks like something made for television. Looks so much like that JJ Abram Revolution tv show.

The worst part of that trailer for me was honestly their choice of music at the end. I dig the song, always have, but it is almost as dated as the original Red Dawn.

I don't know about this - I just have trouble even pretending to believe a North Korean invasion of the US. Who was helping them? Paraguay?

Should have left it as being the Chinese - that possibility is very believable.

I think they want this film to be released and make some cash in China so maybe that's why we got NK?

Looks like a decent rental. But I doubt I'll enjoy it half as much as the original.

That's exactly what happened. However, I think since the film was already made. They should have just left it intact for U.S. and any other countries that want the original version, and only release the altered version in China(if it were even released over there). Hollywood films are edited in various manners in many countries already, so this would be no different. But instead, the entire world is getting the altered version which is annoying.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...0,995726.story

They told you in the trailer I believe how NK got the jump on us

That doesn't make it any more plausible.

You realize this will be shown in NK as actually having happened.

The original was a really cool B movie. The invasion here doesn't appear to have the ominous elegance of the original. What was once the odd sight of a couple of silent parachuters landing outside of a high school window has become a CGI-fest of explosions and fiery airplane parts. That there's a "secret weapon" the kids are after now is kinda lame.

Really, I'm furious that the American film industry has become so pussified that it's preemptively kowtowing to a brutal communist dictatorship without China even ASKING or voicing any protest about the movie. What's even dumber is that they think there's a chance in hell of this movie getting cleared to be distributed in China anyway, given that it's still an anti-communist movie if NK is the villain.

Our art should not be shaped by the delicate sensitivities of repressive regimes. We're America for fuck's sake! Offending authority and calling assholes assholes is our tradition. And China is ruled by assholes. We should be verbally and artistically bashing dictatorship all day long, not kissing its ass. This movie won't get a penny from me.

What if it's a good movie?

Though I do agree w/ you on how US is catering too much to other countries level of comfort. Oddly enough though...I don't mind IM3 going to China. There's an interesting story that can develop from that.

Trailer looks bad. But really, I just don't want catering to Chinese censorship standards to be a lucrative strategy for American movie studios, so I can't go see it on principle. I truly hope it bombs spectacularly, no matter how good it is. If it turns out to be some sort of masterpiece I'll watch it on cable or something, but nothing that I have to vote with my dollars on.

Gross. Didn't know that. Someday, when China is free, we're gonna look real bad in hindsight for doing business with that authoritarian regime. Just as now American companies that had financial ties to the NAZI's look bad. When the people are freed over there, they won't like us very much.

We've been doing business w/ China longer than I've been alive. I don't think it'll at all look as bad as the whole Nazi thing.

Who cares what it looks like in the future. Do we really want to pussify ourselves even more over 'what ifs'?

As Americans we are typically so ethnocentric they could have changed the baddies to Mexicans without changing actors and we probably wouldn't notice.

I had always hoped for a remake with it being aliens ... space, not illegal.

I don't think this movie will be a hit.
Back in the 80's teen movies were big and teens went to see them.
Now teens have the net, video games and kinds of movies to see instead of a teen 80's remake.