Agreed.

I've been tired of comic book films for quite some time, because I have felt that they have become so homogeneous in their reliance on SFX and shoddy, trope-riddled storytelling that I can hardly bring myself to care what's happening from one minute to the next (felt this way about Avengers). Quite frankly, I'm of the…

I don't care for the reliance on disaster in film (side note: I hate the term "disaster porn"), but I don't mind a realistic, more serious portrayal of superheroes now and then—as long as it isn't used as a gimmick or an attempt to simply replicate what another film has already done. I just want to see well-made,…

This. 100 million times. This.

I only hope that the normals don't began to dictate to the industry that every movie of this type be a comedy routine.

Isn't this an old story?

Yeah, but we're not talking about the impact the book had on specific people. We're talking about the impact it had on science fiction. Atwood owes a debt to Huxley and Orwell who both owe debts to Zamyatin, so I don't think it's fair to give credit to an author for a sub-genre that was already well-established,…

It's my first day. I'm still getting the hang of things.

I don't want to argue with you. Good day.

Why do you feel the need to insult people who have different opinions from yours?

No. I would just downvote the ones that are annoying and intentionally abrasive.

Take care. Glad to know I'm not completely alone out here...

I didn't know that! Interesting. I'll read them one of these days, and thanks for the bit of info.

I'm getting the impression that you feel very strongly about this.

Those damned illegals! See, Red Dawn warned us that they would invade! Now it's really happening.

There you go. Mexico is mentioned, but not as part of the invasion force.

I'm going off memory here, but I don't remember a reference to Mexican troops in the film or the screenplay. Cuba (I think Nicaraguan troops are mentioned in the screenplay too), being a Communist country allied with the USSR were the primary antagonists. I'm pretty sure the paratroopers who dropped in at the start of…

In the film, Russians move up through Mexico. Mexicans are never implicated as being part of the invasion force. Cubans were allied with the Russkies.

They were Cubans, not Mexicans. Remember, the Cubans are commies.

Good call. Enemy from within.