Oh no. A Remake of Red Dawn

[SheilaT]

5. I've been seeing the previews for a couple of months.

The original has a great first ten minutes, but after that was just hilariously bad.

I have a feeling this one will be the same. From what I gather from the previews, the set-up of how we get invaded is improbable in the extreme. Maybe technological not possible.

One huge problem I have with a lot of movies is that some important aspect that the plot revolves around just can't happen. Now, I'm not talking something in a science fiction film like time travel or faster than light drive, or a fantasy in which a person gets to see what the world would have been like had he not been born. No, those are the kinds of single things we all willingly suspend our disbelief about to get to the rest of the movie. They're okay.

But something like having a very dangerous criminal on a commercial airline flight, just so he can than take it over. People like that aren't allowed to fly commercially. Things like, one and only one person designed all the critical systems of an airplane so she can wind up wandering around the amazingly spacious behind-the-scenes electronics to thwart the bad guys. Those are just two that come to mind, but they happen so often that a lot of my friends don't like going to a movie with me because I'll carp endlessly about those things that to me bring a movie to a screeching halt.

And my problem isn't just that the plot flaws are in my opinion insurmountable, and yet the movie was made anyway. That's bad enough. But then, a lot of people will take what's presented on absolute faith, that what's shown is what can happen, or what does happen in real life. The show Myth Busters should be more widely watched.