Red Dawn remake changes villians from Chinese to N. Korean

[Kristy]

Well, if it's set in Seattle, they would probably be surrendering at Dicks' drive in. Only question is whether it would be the Queen Anne location (near Seattle Center) or on Broadway in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Naw, I think they'd just chill at the local Starbucks.

[FORD]

The Commies can HAVE Starfucks. I haven't set foot in one since Howard Schultz sold the Sonics to those OklaHomo Bush funding assholes.

[Nitro Express]

Bill Gates when he was in high school ran a company called Traffo-Data. He wrote software that compiled all the data from those traffic reading meters they put across the road. He made several thousand dollars off the venture and had the bank give him a $1,000 bill (back went they still existed). Bill and some of his friends then went to Dick's and ordered burgers and stuff and then cocky Bill Gates paid for it with the $1,000. I guess it caused a big stir because the manager thought it was either fake or Bill stole it from his parents and refused to take it. Some Dick's history there.

[VanHalenFan5150]

It wasn't the Chinese who invaded the US in the first film. It was the Cubans and the Russians. Just wanted to point that out....

[FORD]

Bill Gates when he was in high school ran a company called Traffo-Data. He wrote software that compiled all the data from those traffic reading meters they put across the road. He made several thousand dollars off the venture and had the bank give him a $1,000 bill (back went they still existed). Bill and some of his friends then went to Dick's and ordered burgers and stuff and then cocky Bill Gates paid for it with the $1,000. I guess it caused a big stir because the manager thought it was either fake or Bill stole it from his parents and refused to take it. Some Dick's history there.

Guess Bill didn't hold a grudge though, since he still eats there on occasion......

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....of course, that is the Queen Anne location, near Seattle Center. The Broadway location is a walkup window only, no seating.

[FORD]

It wasn't the Chinese who invaded the US in the first film. It was the Cubans and the Russians. Just wanted to point that out....

True, but the Chinese were supposed to be the bad guys in the remake, since there's no longer any such thing as a Soviet Union, and nobody is going to buy Cuba as a credible threat by themselves. For the same reason that North Korea isn't. But apparently they decided that pissing off the Chinese was not worth the economic risk of nobody there wanting to pay to see the movie.

[Nitro Express]

My brother thought taking tests was fun. The harder the funner for him. He went to the University of Utah and was bored silly so he went to Stanford and finally got challenged there. Bill Gates and his friends at Harvard used to see who could study the least and get an A. They also skipped class to play poker. Bill financed the upstart of Microsoft with his poker winnings. Bill said later on when Microsoft got going his poor work ethic at Harvard came back to haunt him because Japanese customers sent over people to make sure the product was going to be finished. Unless it's a lab or a project, school is just memorizing and people who memorize things easy usually get bored in a traditional school.

[Nitro Express]

True, but the Chinese were supposed to be the bad guys in the remake, since there's no longer any such thing as a Soviet Union, and nobody is going to buy Cuba as a credible threat by themselves. For the same reason that North Korea isn't. But apparently they decided that pissing off the Chinese was not worth the economic risk of nobody there wanting to pay to see the movie.

I really don't see the Chinese as a threat. They aren't sending their troops all over the place. They come in and make business deals. China didn't screw us. Guys like David Rockefeller and George H. Bush did. Those are the guys who really opened up China and were making deals to outsource our industry over there. Nixon gets the credit but it was really the Rockefellers and their long time agent Henry Kissinger behind all of that. Chase Manhattan Bank was doing business with the commies before communism even fell.

The Chinese are hard working industrious people who were already controlled by their leaders so US corporate interests made deals and the Chinese leaders accepted because communism wasn't working and China wanted to modernize. I think the US corporate interests just figured we could always keep China in line with our military. I think they underestimated China on that and now China seems to be calling the shots more.

[SunisinuS]

It wasn't the Chinese who invaded the US in the first film. It was the Cubans and the Russians. Just wanted to point that out....

I was talking about the remake....I know the first film.

[SunisinuS]

I really don't see the Chinese as a threat. They aren't sending their troops all over the place. They come in and make business deals. China didn't screw us. Guys like David Rockefeller and George H. Bush did. Those are the guys who really opened up China and were making deals to outsource our industry over there. Nixon gets the credit but it was really the Rockefellers and their long time agent Henry Kissinger behind all of that. Chase Manhattan Bank was doing business with the commies before communism even fell.

The Chinese are hard working industrious people who were already controlled by their leaders so US corporate interests made deals and the Chinese leaders accepted because communism wasn't working and China wanted to modernize. I think the US corporate interests just figured we could always keep China in line with our military. I think they underestimated China on that and now China seems to be calling the shots more.

I think you should read more books on China. Anyone that makes a deal with China should read some books first. I have.


Hence the Title of the Thread.

Chinese said...We own a part of you....do not make us the Villians.



Don't fucking tread on me.

[SunisinuS]

My brother thought taking tests was fun. The harder the funner for him. He went to the University of Utah and was bored silly so he went to Stanford and finally got challenged there. Bill Gates and his friends at Harvard used to see who could study the least and get an A. They also skipped class to play poker. Bill financed the upstart of Microsoft with his poker winnings. Bill said later on when Microsoft got going his poor work ethic at Harvard came back to haunt him because Japanese customers sent over people to make sure the product was going to be finished. Unless it's a lab or a project, school is just memorizing and people who memorize things easy usually get bored in a traditional school.

I was sent to HS in second grade...... lol funny to remember it...but people that know me......are always afunned when they talk to me.

[ashstralia]

I was sent to HS in second grade...... lol funny to remember it...but people that know me......are always afunned when they talk to me.

afunned eh

[Hardrock69]

I can't wait to miss this....

[chefcraig]

If Powers Boothe isn't involved, why is this even being considered, let alone made?

[Nitro Express]

I think you should read more books on China. Anyone that makes a deal with China should read some books first. I have.


Hence the Title of the Thread.

Chinese said...We own a part of you....do not make us the Villians.



Don't fucking tread on me.

The creditors always own the debtors. That's called banking. Most Americans are owned by the banks because they have little to no equity in anything. It's called debt slavery and they used to throw people into prison for it. Maybe that's coming. I lived in Hong Kong and went to school there. They were always very afraid of the mainlander commies. We had lot's of boat people coming into Hong Kong harbor as well. Everyone wanted to escape to the little island and finger of land because were were surrounded by communists. You would hear the stories of how people escaped Mao and lost everything.

Not a good system but then communism was a western invention brought into China by the Russians.