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  • #16
    They are re-making Red Dawn with a 2010 release date by the way (and i quote Wikipedia) :

    'Two top executives at MGM, Harry Sloan and Mary Parent, announced that a remake of Red Dawn is in the early stages of pre-production in May 2008 at the Festival de Cannes. This was announced along with a big-budget rebuild of RoboCop, which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss. The remake of Red Dawn is slated to be directed by Dan Bradley, who has previously worked as a second unit director and stunt coordinator on films such as The Bourne Ultimatum, Spiderman 3 and the Quantum of Solace. MGM has announced that Red Dawn will be remade "keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in". In a further announcement the same month, Dan Bradley has been confirmed as the director with Carl Ellsworth, screenwriter of Red Eye and Disturbia writing the updated screenplay. Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman (A Man Apart) is also acting in a producer capacity. Australian Chris Hemsworth has been cast in a lead role.

    Ellsworth has said:

    "The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that were in. As <Red Dawn scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again It was later revealed that the Chinese would be the invaders and they would be aided by the Russians later on."

    Joining Hemsworth are Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki with a possible setting of Spokane, Washington. Tony Gilroy, who wrote The Bourne Trilogy and Micheal Clayton will do a rewrite of script.'

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    • #17
      Lots of good suggerstions but..

      how about you post a link to IMDB (www.imdb.com) and perhaps your own rating from one to ten. It would be a lot easier for others to find/buy the movies in question.
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      • #18
        Originally posted by Ramjam
        They are re-making Red Dawn with a 2010 release date by the way
        I was really excited about this until I realized, that now I would be one of the guys in the camp and not one of the Wolverines.

        "Boys! Avenge me! Aveeeeenge me!!!" (just practicing )

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        • #19
          Resident Evil 2 where they are trapped in the city.

          And I can't believe no one has mentioned the classics of classics...

          Planet of the Apes


          And don't forget Charleton Heston in Omega Man.
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          • #20
            Originally posted by kato13
            I was really excited about this until I realized, that now I would be one of the guys in the camp and not one of the Wolverines.

            "Boys! Avenge me! Aveeeeenge me!!!" (just practicing )
            These last years, words like oeremake, oeprequel/sequel and oebased on make me shudder... Specially when referring to something Ive previously enjoyed.The worst thing is that, although suspecting an imminent disaster, my friends and I always end up in the queue of the theater ticket office, smiling and shrugging our shoulders...ready for the disaster, but with a tiny and insignificant spark of hope. Of course, at the end of the movie, nobody will admit the previous existence of this spark...



            Ahhh...Now Im starting to feel the tragedy floating around me... I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. ...
            L'Argonauta, rol en català

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            • #21
              Originally posted by General Pain
              I just found this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnation_Alley_(film)) after reading up on cockroaches for food in HQs T2K campaign....
              You might be interested that I have my take on the Landmaster detailed out in T2K 2.2 terms here:
              I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes

              Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com

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              • #22
                Originally posted by kato13
                I was really excited about this until I realized, that now I would be one of the guys in the camp and not one of the Wolverines.

                "Boys! Avenge me! Aveeeeenge me!!!" (just practicing )
                Me and my Basic Training buddies were really hacked off about the release date on that one -- we most likely weren't going to see each other in a long time, if ever, and it was opening only two weeks after we finished Basic!
                I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes

                Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Marc
                  These last years, words like "remake", "prequel/sequel" and "based on" make me shudder... Specially when referring to something I've previously enjoyed.The worst thing is that, although suspecting an imminent disaster, my friends and I always end up in the queue of the theater ticket office, smiling and shrugging our shoulders...ready for the disaster, but with a tiny and insignificant spark of hope. Of course, at the end of the movie, nobody will admit the previous existence of this spark...



                  Ahhh...Now I'm starting to feel the tragedy floating around me... I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. ...
                  Remakes and sequels almost never match the original. And no movie I've ever seen has matched the book version. Who's better at special effects, after all -- the wizards in Hollywood or your own mind
                  I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes

                  Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by pmulcahy11b
                    Remakes and sequels almost never match the original. And no movie I've ever seen has matched the book version. Who's better at special effects, after all -- the wizards in Hollywood or your own mind
                    I was very, very happy with the Lord of the Rings films - my biggest gripe was that the Dunedain had beards in the film (high-born Dunedain can't grow beards due as they have some elvish blood).
                    sigpic "It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli

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                    • #25
                      There was a moive i saw along time ago, it was on TV, and had been cut up pretty bad. It had a group in an underground facility that had survived a nuclear war (they didn't say how they survived the war, but i think they had cryogenically been frozen). But they sent out numerious recon teams to find help, and the movie had one of the last recon team going out. one had a combined crossbow and they traveled in a buggy like vehicle. when i saw it i thought it was a Morrow Project movie... Has anyone else seen it
                      Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.

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                      • #26
                        a good read - and a lot of clasics

                        The Big Book of War - Twilight 2000 Filedump Site
                        Guns don't kill people,apes with guns do.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by General Pain
                          Great link General!
                          Mmmmm... i didn't remember "Strange days". I enjoied it very much!!
                          L'Argonauta, rol en català

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                          • #28
                            Just saw Defiance, starring Daniel Craig (James Bond) and Liev Shrieber. It's about Jewish refugees and partisans in Belorussia in WWII. I was disappointed. The battle sequences were poorly done and some of the acting was pretty shmalzy (is that Yiddish).

                            On the plus side, it did give some me some ideas of how to deal with refugees and partisans in T2K.
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                            • #29
                              By dawns early light

                              Following some of the suggestions of my fellow posters, I saw oeBy dawns early light this last week. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099197/ I liked it. As some good film of this genre, it causes you to move uncomfortably on your seat while the domino effect of the preplotted defensive responses seems to carry unrelentingly the humankind to the abyss of a total nuclear exchange... The human behaviour always being the only unknown factor in the equation.

                              Its difficult to assess the weight of individual decisions in the activation and deactivation of the mechanisms of a nuclear response. The Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine can seem logical over an strategic map. A scientific mechanism to keep the scales in an unstable balance point, once two powerful players discover themselves armed to the teeth for the fear to the other. But an accident, a third force in the shadows, terrorism or the misjudgement of the facts by some link in the chain can easily displace the scales. Its human. And only a human reaction of someone with enough courage and sense to emerge at least one moment from the programmed response could avoid the disaster or, at least, save as many lives as possible once the blind and logical mechanism is activated...

                              Well, thanks for the reference. A good movie.
                              L'Argonauta, rol en català

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                              • #30
                                Has anyone seen "Terminator:Salvation"

                                I missed it at the cinema, so will probably pick it up when it comes out on DVD, but I wondered if anyone had any opinions on it

                                Also, if you like your post apocalyptic landscape with relatively few survivors, there's "I Am Legend" with Will Smith (yes, I know it's a remake!)
                                Author of the unofficial and strictly non canon Alternative Survivor’s Guide to the United Kingdom

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