Red Dawn 2

As sons of the waining Cold War years all, I think we can all attest to reveling in Red Dawn (I wonder if that was Charlie Sheen's last sober movie?).

Now look, I know the bad guys this time (since it can't really be the Russians), can't be Radical Islamists less the "Red" make no sense (although those regimes are all socialist). And more to the point, the idea of an Arab nation conducting an armed military invasion of the US is laughable. So, they used the Chinese. Ok, fine. But get this - MGM execs were concerned about the fall out of offending China, so they went in to the finished movie and digitally altered all the movie's Chinese flags and insignias (& foreign dialogue), replacing them with North Korea's! I guess they think all Asians look alike because they didn't reshoot the film with Korean actors.

The thing that strikes me is it's just as laughable to think North Korea could conduct a military on military mainland invasion of the US. In fact, I was barely buying China (at least they have 10 million well fed soldiers).

No, I'm afraid we must accept that the good old Cold War era film can not be brought back with the same level of "ummpf." But hey... give Putin a few years, I'm sure he's working on it.