Dumbest... remake... well, not ever, but since the beginning of this decade

I can see it.

Chinese troops manning checkpoints. They shoot up a station wagon with a mother and her three kids coming home from soccer practice. A sullen crowd forms. A chinese soldier who knows english takes the megaphone. "They did not stop. Against the raw. You must stop at checkpoints. Rook at the sign!" He points to a small cardboard sign that has some chinese characters on it.

Americans with a variety of hunting rifles etc ambush a chinese patrol on a city street. The chinese open fire at everybody -- shoppers, seniors in jogging suits, they systematically shoot grenades into every window. The american fighters mostly get away but the chinese keep shooting. "Man, those guys are crazy!" They watch from a distance as the chinese planes do airstrikes on the city block where the attack happened. "Oh god, what do we do now?"

The americans find out about an unarmed russian group that is taking the first steps toward setting up socialised medicine. They argue whether to kill them. "We can't do that! They're civilians! It would be a war crime!" "What the hell have you been smoking?"

The hero has an argument with a liberal.
"Hey, things aren't so bad. They're going to have elections!"
"Why do you care which communist wins the election?"
"If you want to run, just tell them you're a communist and they'll let you."
"What the hell."
"Look, stop and think. Are you better off now? In the bad old days 40% of the population couldn't afford health insurance."
"I don't know what you've been smoking, but I'm not going to stop killing communists until they're all dead."
"Man, you're a terrorist. Unless you get with the program I'm going to have to report you to the police."

The hero kills the liberal -- cuts his head clean off with a big knife -- while the TV runs an announcement that says american-on-american violence is up 3% this month, and the threat from terrorists and Anti-American-Agents (AAAs) is increasing. The US government will enlist more people into the American Defense Force and pays recruits $15,000/month.

US insurgents who have jobs as baggage handlers at the airport have created a plan. They will sneak aboard a collection of civilian aircraft and then take over the controls and ram into a collection of buildings used by the invaders, both military and civilian buildings. They will die gloriously, striking a blow for freedom! The girl kisses the second hero and cries over his sacrifice, and he delivers a noble speech about how we all have to do whatever it takes to preserve the american way of life.

And the plan succeeds! They strike the Pentagon, the IRS headquarters, Yankee Stadium where the foreign soldiers are massed watching a foreign comedian, a nuclear power plant, etc. The survivors cry and cheer and plan for the next attack. They agree to do whatever it takes, and in their secret headquarters they salute an old torn US flag. Then the soulful music plays while the credits run and the audience walks out feeling patriotic.

I love it.

It's simple: crazy-scary terrorists take over High-School in flyover country and hold hostages. Rag tag group of patriotic teenagers kill terrorists. Much flag waving, one-liners, and dead terrorists. I'd see that.

abrotherk,

You are confusing IEDs and booby traps. In the movie, that was a grenade that he gave to her. It functioned the way it was intended, so there was no IED element to it. He basically booby-trapped her body...something done quite frequently by guerillas in Vietnam.

cool_cons,

What would terrorists have to gain by capturing a high school in same podunk Midwest town? Hell, some places would let them have it.....

Which is a rather interesting commercial judgment by the producers:

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2009/08/14/Another-Red-Dawn.aspx

You should all be ashamed of either your lack of 80s movie awareness or your lack of creativity.

The jingoistic 80s movie that could, nay, SHOULD be remade is "Invasion America," the Chuck Norris vehicle in which a terrorist army invades America through South Florida and conducts random, DC-sniper/Mumbai like attacks throughout the Southeast until Chuck lures them into a trap and gives them what they have coming.

(What exactly the terrorists' grievances are, or why they are unable to take a shower during their entire time in America is never explained).

This plot, sadly, is relatively plausible, and Norris could make an appearance either recreating Lee Marvin's role in "Delta Force" (because there are numerous senior citizens in Delta), or better, as President!

Now THAT would be some great camp updated for the post-9/11 generation.

I have heard that it might feature the Chinese instead of the Russians, not that this makes it any better. To be honest I generally despise this type of movie based on the plot alone, they're generally too black and white to justify as anything except for a patriotic money making venture.

Is it really a good idea to insult one's bankers?