1 So, are you saying they've ran out of artistic skill, or that they've discovered a new and innovative way to lose money? 

2 I think the answer to your question is "yes".

3 "Via" in "the link is here", or "Via" as in "I'm cursing like I've been in Hammer's Slammers for ten years"? Either works...

4 "Via" is what I use now instead of "On screen".

5 "Via" makes more sense, since it's a blogging standard. The "On Screen" was supposed to refer to Startrek somehow, but I could never figure it out. Usually the captain calls "on screen" to bring up a visual to the big screen, and somehow this does not click with "I have received this information thanks to...".

6

I have a bad feeling about this movie.

They can't make Americans the good guys anymore, so expect to see all sorts of angst as the Wolverines wonder if they're on the right side and also expect to see the politicians working with the enemy as thinly disguised Republicans, extra points if they get Teh Fred to play one.

Nope, Hollywood is far too political to ever allow a movie with unashamed American values free.

Heck, it would surprise me not at all if this remake is set in Iraq or Afghanistan and the Wolverines are fighting against the Imperialist Americans with Israelis playing the part of the Cuban allies.

Quick question, which one (1) movie since 9/11 has America as the good guys in the War on (Some) Terror?

Team America, the one with the non-anatomically correct puppet-sex scene.

In all the rest, we're the bad guys.

7

Yeah, the post I linked to said:

The cause of the invasion? Oil, of course. There are hints that America is kinda to blame, too. In today’s PC environment, that’s not too much of a surprise.

As you say, making America or American's heroic is just not acceptable in this day and age. Americans are supposed to doubt, apologize, and do penance. The only good Americans are anti-American Americans.

8

Without getting into the politics of it all, I remember seeing the movie at the theater and laughing through the opening invasion of Colorado by the Cubans. It was the one scene where the commander stoops down and takes a pistol from a dead citizen. As he does so, we see the bumper sticker on a truck.  "They can have my guns when they pry them from my cold dead hands!"

I cracked up and said to my friend "this film has to have been financed by the NRA!"

Funny how you don't see that bumper sticker around so much any more...

9 One of the things about it that didn't age at all well was the fact that a lot of the invaders were Nicaraguans. That was topical when the film was made (this was in the era of the Sandinistas) but seems strange now.

10 Robocop might also be remade ("might" because Sony said "no", but MGM said "yes").

I'd rather they just make a Robocop IV than rehash the original.