History YMMV / RedDawn2012

** [[Film/{{Thor}}]]'s love interest is [[Series/AgentsOfShield Mockingbird.]] Hello, bring on your Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse jokes!

** [[Film/{{Thor]]'s love interest is [[Series/AgentsOfShield Mockingbird.]] Hello, bring on your Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse jokes!

** Before it was pushed back, the remake was going to be a {{Dueling Movie|s}} with the film adaptation of ''[[Literature/TheTomorrowSeries Tomorrow, When the War Began]]'', which is essentially ''Red Dawn'' [[AC:IN [[LandDownUnder AUSTRALIA]]!]] Two of the ''Dawn'' remake's stars, ChrisHemsworth and Isabel Lucas, are Australian themselves.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Some state one of the reasons they saw it is to see [[Series/DrakeAndJosh Josh Peck]] as a {{Badass}}.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: '''Meta:''' Remaking a movie where the Chinese are the bad guys in a market where China provides a large revenue, only to replace the Chinese villains with North Koreans. Given that a quick internet search could bring this up, it might be considered just as insulting to some Chinese citizens that they'd be so easily interchanged with North Koreans.

** One of the Wolverines, Daryl, makes a ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' reference. Before the 2012 remake came out, there was a mission in ''ModernWarfare 2'' that had a ''Film/RedDawn1984'' reference. The mission was called ''Wolverines!'' and the achievement for that mission was ''Red Dawn''.
*** Also, apparently in this continuity Russian ultranationalists took over control of the country. This is ''exactly'' how the ModernWarfare series begins.

* BrokenAesop: A meta-example. The film's message about standing up for your ideals and never giving in to foreign invaders rings rather hollow given that the filmmakers censored the identity of the villains in post-production to retain access to that [[MoneyDearBoy sweet Chinese box office cash.]]

*** Also, apparently in this continuity Russian ultranationalists took over control of the country. This is ''exactly'' how ModernWarfare series begin.

* UnfortunateImplications: All the protagonists who don't die are white, the ones who do die are minorities, much much more in [[http://www.racebending.com/v4/featured/red-dawn-remake-review-reflections/ this article;]]

** In the {{Podcast/Rifftrax}} for the original ''Film/RedDawn1984'', the characters survey their wrecked town while the commentators say "They replaced our town with UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}!" Guess where the 2012 remake was filmed?

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Jed and Matt's father being shot while they are unable to do anything. Jed's death as well]]

* HoYay: Robert and Daryl's [[spoiler: good-bye]] was reminiscent of other movies' scenes where the doomed character says good-bye to their loved one.

* LighterAndSofter: Although it can still be pretty dark at times, the remake isn't nearly as bleak and depressing as the original.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: North Korea invades the United States. It's a bit baffling to comprehend how that's supposed to even work.

** One of the Wolverines makes a ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' reference. Before the 2012 remake came out, there was a mission in ''ModernWarfare 2'' that had a ''Film/RedDawn1984'' reference. The mission was called ''Wolverines!'' and the achievement for that mission was ''Red Dawn''.

** In the {{Podcast/Rifftrax}} for the original ''Film/RedDawn1984'', the characters survey their wrecked town while the commentators say "They replaced our town with [[MotorCity Detroit]]!" Guess where the 2012 remake was filmed?

** In the {{Rifftrax}} for the original ''Film/RedDawn1984'', the characters survey their wrecked town while the commentators say "They replaced our town with [[MotorCity Detroit]]!" Guess where the 2012 remake was filmed?
** Before it was pushed back, the remake was going to be a {{Dueling Movie|s}} with the film adaptation of ''[[TheTomorrowSeries Tomorrow, When the War Began]]'', which is essentially ''Red Dawn'' [[AC:IN [[LandDownUnder AUSTRALIA]]!]] Two of the ''Dawn'' remake's stars, ChrisHemsworth and Isabel Lucas, are Australian themselves.
** The film opens with Josh Peck's character losing a football game. [[DrakeAndJosh At least he didn't have to go through a bunch of wacky sitcom hijinx to trade places with a crazy janitor in order to do so.]]

* JustHereForGodzilla: Some state one of the reasons they saw it is to see [[DrakeAndJosh Josh Peck]] as a {{Badass}}.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Jed and Matt's father bieng shot while they are unable to do anything. Jed's death as well]]

* CompleteMonster: Captain Cho, who immediately passes the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler: shooting Tom Eckbert]] and most of the North Korean soldiers as well.