Response to theonionmurders, 24 November 2012 2:18AM
So you are condemning a 2012 remake of a 1984 film because a 1956 movie was an allegory of a series of hearings in 1964?
Do I have that right?
I disagree. I think that crappy remakes have only one purpose: To get money out of teen-age boys. In order to do that, they have lots of explosions, pretty girls, and heroic main characters. Given the number of these movies made every year, every possible variation on villains is used. Far from being a nationalist paen to the existential threat posed by China, it uses the laughable North Korea as its primary villain. Other films that have featured North Korea as a villain: Salt, Iron Man 2, and Team America: World Police.
Not every movie is art. Not every movie has any relevance outside the desire of its producers to make money. And to try to use a B-movie to make sweeping statements about a country shows a rather obvious lack of insight into either movies, or the US.
The OP was trying to make a criticism of the US based on an (unseen) remake of a B movie made 30 years ago. I continue to maintain that this supposed ability to glean insights about the US as a whole from the content of bad movies ranks right up there with dowsing for accuracy.
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vicarious oglign creep claire perry is still gassing on about my footage