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Originally Posted by Webstral
I don’t understand why the airborne troops were dropped in Colorado in the first place. What purpose are they supposed to be serving there? Why aren’t they crushed by 4th ID, which is just down the road in Colorado Springs?
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I'm not defending the film- it only seemed plausible when I was a kid, scared of impending nuclear annihilation- but maybe the 4th ID was already elsewhere. I don't know the chronology in the film's backstory, but presumably the Reds had struck first in another state[s] and the 4th was deployed there to meet/defeat the threat.
Obviously, the film's premise was pretty ridiculous. As a war flick, Red Dawn doesn't hold up under close scrutiny- not then, not now. It "worked" because many Americans felt a very real fear of the Soviet menace at the time. If anything, the film was/is a valid social commentary on late Cold War America.
As far as the new film goes, I don't think many Americans are scared of the NKs. I don't think it's going to have the visceral emotional appeal that the original did back in the '80s; it's just going to be another '80s remake action film flop that relies on bad CGI to make up for a terrible story/script/acting/etc.
Now, if the writers/directors/producers didn't cop out by casting NK as the baddy, and instead made the PRC the enemy, the new Red Dawn would be saying something.