Dragon Day, What the actual fuck? Options

[MARS]

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Lo and behold, folks, another entry in the inexplicably still popular genre of modern invasion fiction: A fearmongering 'China attacks the US' flick that's even dumber than the remake of Red Dawn!

[MARS]

I didn't claim the opposite, I was merely clearing up the title confusion. Warfront was a neat little RTS with a nice spin on this whole 'what if secret WW2 superweapons were real?' thing whereas FoL wasted an interesting premise though botched game design.

[8igDaddy8lake]

I didn't claim the opposite, I was merely clearing up the title confusion. Warfront was a neat little RTS with a nice spin on this whole 'what if secret WW2 superweapons were real?' thing whereas FoL wasted an interesting premise though botched game design.

Oh no, I didn't think you were, I was just pointing it out. It saddens me when an initially great premise turns into...frankly, garbage.

[ComradeCrimson]

The only movies I can really think that works from the perspective of the invader always makes the invader go turncoat. Such as with Pocahontas, Avatar, etc.

Personally I'd like to see a film based on an invasion where the character WAS the invader, he/she DID do terrible things and maybe the movie is them looking back on it all, having regrets maybe to keep the moral integrity of the story, but the facts of what they did don't change. Like that suggestion where humanity committed genocide on an alien race.

It'd be an interesting take and I think it'd captivate audiences, and wouldn't make them outright hate the invader either. Because not every invasion in history was one of greed or ambition- (and there is plenty of movies showing conqueror's in positive lights, I've seen enough movies with Genghis Khan shown well or Alexander the Great, Atilla the Hun, Ceasar, etc.) sometimes it was for survival, do or die between two groups.

The closest thing I've ever seen to this was this one anime that was about a Nazi occupied Japan, about a police officer who has to be re-educated or some such after a terrorist/partisan attack. I don't remember its name but it was fairly good, same guy who made Ghost in a Shell if I believe.

This post has been edited by ComradeCrimson: 27 Aug 2014, 13:04