John Ary here with a look at the remake of 1984's Red Dawn.
I absolutely loathe this film. It embodies everything we've come to expect from the mass-marketed, regurgitated studio-system drivel that has become the norm at our local multiplex. Instead of the original's gritty take on a group of teenagers who learn how to become guerrilla soldiers over the course of a long winter, this one seems to take place over a few weeks, with the kids learning all of their military skills with a two-minute training montage early in the film.
That's just one of the ways this film takes the original material and attempts to streamline it in the hopes of getting a PG-13 rating.
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