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Post by ErrolC on Feb 24, 2012 8:50:08 GMT 12
In the first movie it's not set back in the older days of when the book came out.There is a scene of three enemy jets chasing a RAAF jet and the jets look like the ones they use now, but i'm not 100% sure they are new jets. IIRc they were Hornets. But as it's not a documentary it's not that relevant ... Quite. Especially as the movie doesn't even appear to be set in a plausible version of our timeline.
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Post by Calum on Feb 24, 2012 8:57:30 GMT 12
But the guy who wrote them was clearly inspired by Red Dawn, he took the idea for his books. Red Dawn captured my imagination when it came out. I think I was about 13. I just liked the idea of a bunch of kids taking on a professional army as guerillas, it was great. It also introduced a whole new group of actors to the movie world who went on to big things. Plus that scene with the Mil Hinds was just brilliant. I reckon if we looked hard enough we could find a book that pre dates red dawn where a group of children takes on an invading Army. It's not ground breaking of an idea. I remember playing similar games as kid after reading commando comics . The Director of red Dawn was a bit of a Right Wing nut bag, he thinks the remakes bad guys should be "illegal aliens."
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 24, 2012 11:07:12 GMT 12
Yes but Calum somewhere on the net when the first Aussie film came out I saw a direct quote from the author who said he was inspired by Red Dawn, according to that site. Not sure where it is though.
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Post by Luther Moore on Feb 24, 2012 23:31:57 GMT 12
Glad it's a fiction movie, not a documentary on the history channel ;D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 25, 2012 0:11:25 GMT 12
Documentaries on the History Channel are usually fiction too Luther. ;D
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Post by yogi on Feb 27, 2012 21:28:56 GMT 12
I'm interested in knowing what aircraft they will use in the movie. It'll be like avatar when they load the big transport up with a pallet of HE and roll it out the back ;D
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Post by ngatimozart on Feb 27, 2012 22:11:09 GMT 12
I'm interested in knowing what aircraft they will use in the movie. It'll be like avatar when they load the big transport up with a pallet of HE and roll it out the back ;D Wonder where we can get one of those transports from? No need of long runways; VTOL and huge large. Be just the thing -fit a whole suadron of LAVs in the back
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 2, 2012 21:27:44 GMT 12
I watched Tomorrow When The War Began tonight after I discovered my sister has it on DVD, and I borrowed it.
Hmmm. Yes, I'm now convinced it's a rip off and update on Red Dawn, no wonder the people actually remaking Red Dawn have had to stall their project. I liked the bit when the FA-18 got splashed, and some of the other explosion CGI graphics was good too, but you'd expect the effects to be better 25 years on.
The actors were better in Red Dawn and the story a bit more dramatic and interesting too. I guess they had to dumb it down for the modern audiences.
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Post by Luther Moore on Mar 2, 2012 22:58:09 GMT 12
That's one of ours! Nek minnit..BOOM!!!
The acting is shocking, almost got to the point of turning it off. It also drags on a bit.
Now, who will play the downed RNZAF pilot, will it be Jake the muss, Uncle Bully or Frodo?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 2, 2012 23:21:52 GMT 12
Gotta be good old Russell Crowe. Sam Neill's a bit old for it...
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 3, 2012 1:54:49 GMT 12
What were the jets that the "baddies" were flying? Eurofighters?
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Post by Calum on Mar 6, 2012 13:29:22 GMT 12
IIRC they were chinese J-20's or the like
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2012 16:08:12 GMT 12
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Post by adzze on Mar 6, 2012 17:16:14 GMT 12
Can't see any canards in that sequence, mind you they're CGI, so they could choose any design they wanted (including fictional designs so as not to offend Chinese sensibilities perhaps )
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Post by Luther Moore on Mar 6, 2012 18:40:43 GMT 12
The RAAF jets are F-18's.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 6, 2012 19:52:57 GMT 12
We knew that. We were trying to work out what the baddies' jets were.
Their helicopter was a bit crap. At least the original film Red Dawn had awesome Mil Hind replicas.
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Post by Calum on Mar 6, 2012 22:38:03 GMT 12
You could be right. It's been a while since i watched it.
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Post by Luther Moore on Mar 6, 2012 23:03:20 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2012 16:25:54 GMT 12
I actually enjoyed this movie when I went to see it, but looking at the acting and CGI in that clip... It actually kinda looks terrible doesn't it haha :/
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Post by E.T. on Jun 3, 2012 17:11:41 GMT 12
The only RNZAF action sequences I can even think of in a film are those from 'Sleeping Dogs'. There were several in the 80's and 90's: "The Rescue" featured a lot of filming in NZ and the so-called military aircraft were all ours - the opening shot of the head-on Herc taking off with regular NZ markings on one side and the film version markings on the other side a clearly visible blooper! IIRC we got the NZ premier screening of Indianna Jones and the Lost Ark in the AMS hangar at Ohakea for our involvement in that. Maybe not an action sequence but there was also an ad for a car that used Lee Majors of Six Million Dollar Man fame in the cockpit of '54 post Kahu update filmed in the 2 Sqdn Hangar pretending it was a F18. Lee Majors was pretty past it then and required heavy make-up to hide the alcoholic-blotched face! I'm sure there were more but memory is getting rusty...
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