by separate_wayz » Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:28 am
Hmmm. Wonder how this would work. The difference was, in 1984, you had a real Soviet Union still in existence -- not so today, obviously. In 1984, Leonid Brezhnev (who had rolled tanks into Prague, and funded revolutionary movements all over Asia, Africa, and Central America) had been dead only about a year. The Berlin Wall was still up. And the war in Afghanistan was still grinding on .....
I think a better movie to make would be "Invasion: America", based on the mid-'70s bookcase game by the same name. A socialist Europe and Soviet Union invades across the Atlantic, while a similar socialist-led South American coalition invades from the south, and a pan-Asian socialist coalition invades across the Pacific. The box cover had three foreign soldiers raising a red hammer-and-sickle flag on the Statue of Liberty, similar to the American flag-raising on Iwo Jima. Kind of a sobering thought, in 1976 when the game came out .....
(Will Patrick Swayze be in the re-make of "Red Dawn"? Will he say "Nobody puts baby in a corner!!!")
