The second red dawn movie shows a ridiculous and unlikely scenario where the DPRK invades America, but ironically if you reverse the roles and have it be that America invades the DPRK and the perspective is from North Korean students (who in this case would actually have military training from mandatory military service, so would actually have a reasonable reason why they can fight), it would be far closer to a possible reality (which thankfully the DPRK made moot since they actually have what it takes to not be invaded now).

You have movies where American soldiers are shown in these difficult and dangerous situations fighting 'insurgents', but if you reversed it and showed the average people who pick up weapons and fight back, THEY'RE the ones who actually have a struggle; these freedom fighters can't just call in air support, they don't have access to the latest weaponry, their enemies DO have air support, their families are literally on the line or even dead at this point; doing a movie from their perspective makes INFINITELY more sense, and it feels like such an easy idea to make a movie of, but obviously studios don't want to make that movie because they know NO ONE will be on their side, not even supposedly anti-war libs (similar to how when you make a meme about a VC or NVA soldier talking about taking out invading troops, you have 'all war bad' people coming in and crying about it, even though they keep quiet when someone posts pics or vids from the opposite perspective).

So many movies about America getting invaded by Aliens because realistically no one's going to actually try to invade America, whereas the opposite, BEING invaded by America, is actually a very possible thing for countries in the global South; the horrors of civilians being massacred? Your own neighbors and such? A reality people being invaded in the global South have to put up with.

I recall a novel Ben Shapiro wrote where he had terrorists show up and take a school hostage, whereas right now, in reality, America literally struck a girls' school and killed at least 160 girls, and Israel has been striking schools and universities. There were military people making comments about how realistic Ben's book was, which aside from being delusional, tells me these people think this kind of story is realistic because it's exactly the kind of thing they would do (every accusation is projection, etc).

You make ONE movie where the roles are reversed, where it's Iraqi freedom fighters fighting back, and the side characters are literally family, friends, neighbors, who will die and be tortured, and EVERYONE will be able to naturally feel how realistic this movie is because it's obvious on its face how realistic it is, and yet the media will jump down your throat about it.