Dracula
Acceptable Nationality Targets
We must survive, all of us. The blood of a human for me, a cooked bird for you. Where is the difference?
Oh yeah North Korea could totally invade America. Its soldiers are just so well-nourished.
edited 18th Mar '11 8:23:29 AM by occono
Dumbo
Sneering Imperialist
The Joke-Master
I can't say I really give a flying fuck whether North Korea(ns) get offended or not. What does piss me off is that MGM apparently thinks audiences will buy the idea of one of the most economically backwards nations in the world (that is also entirely dependent on foreign aid to stay afloat at all) would be capable of moving a significant force across the Pacific at all, much less taking over the whole United States.
I see the Awesomeness.
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The logic of making the movie is not sound, neither is making North Korea the villains, mostly because it falls into WTF? territory. North Korea isn't really much of a market anyway.
Fight smart, not fair.
DUMB
I was going to say, the same thing happened to Homefront.
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Some Guy
Either way, it amounts to so much xenophobic Yellow Peril paranoia.
edited 18th Mar '11 10:18:25 AM by Filby
Groovy.
I think that might be justified in the case of Kim Jong Il.
Well, other than the fact that he doesn't have much in the way of military power.
Both making China the main bad guy and turning them in North Koreans and making North Korea the bad guy sound insulting to China. So I guess the question is which one makes more sense in invading America. North Korea has more of the mindset, but China is more beleivable in actually making some headway, tohugh I have ehard that North Korea is almost entirely one big military.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
The problem is anybody invading the USA. Nobody has that kind of heavy lift capacity except possibly Russia and even then, it's not much. Most of their military forces were always poised to strike at Europe, not USA, because it is just ridiculous otherwise. Pacific is large and trying to cross through Alaska is about as awesome as Belgium in the first world war. There's this country called Canada that usually gets in the way.
I see the Awesomeness.
If it's North Korea I'd expect the following conversation in the pentagon.
(Higher ranked) General B: Send in a tank!
General A: Don't you mean tanks?
General B: No, I think one should do it.
Gristknife
They can't even get an invasion force to North America.
Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.
Actual Wrestling Legend
...um, actually, I say hooray. This saves me the embarrassment of belonging to a country which responds to a recession by releasing a movie in which we topple our landlords economic rivals with m-16s.
Always Right
Isn't Yellow Peril supposed to be a thing of the past? Be it Korean or Chinese or Japanese...
edited 18th Mar '11 10:43:23 PM by Signed
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."
Why didn't they stick with the Russians anyway? A movie about teens fighting the ruskies back in the old days was believable, now everyones just gonna wonder why they don't bomb the shit out of em.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Street Writing Man
What's funny is; everyone's forgetting about the involvement of the Cubans and the Nicaraguans (those Cold War era enemies du jour) in the original. The franchise is about catering to "current" fears. MGM should have just stuck to its guns and cast the Chinese as the bad guys. They're at least a credible threat.
edited 18th Mar '11 10:52:09 PM by drunkscriblerian
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
Actually, NOT updating is the right way to go because then you feel it's just a nostalgic film of the Cold War. Now it's just plain stupid with more plot holes that they exceed the surface area of the movie.
...so they've decided to offend the North Koreans instead.
I facepalmed. IRL.