DON'T bother with the remake. THIS is the correct 1 to watch. I also recommend watching the ABC The Day after tommorrrow. NOT the weather one...

@RockMountainYJ

5 ай бұрын

The remake had some good action scenes but other than that the story line and plot was garbage.

@donfette5301

5 ай бұрын

@@RockMountainYJHow can you compete with the original cast! Even Superfly is in it. Plus, I’d argue that the historical context matters: the original was made at the apex of the Cold War. No doubt that impacted everything/everyone involved. It certainly left a mark on me as a kid.

@iAmEbolaWoT

5 ай бұрын

100%

@MrVvulf

5 ай бұрын

I'm grateful for the warning that there was a remake, and that it was trash. A desecration akin to remaking Rocky or Rambo.

@GeraldWalls

5 ай бұрын

There IS NO REMAKE. Fight me. There are also only 3 Star Wars movies, 3 Terminators, and 2 Robocops.

Grew up with this movie on a loop. Long live the 80s.

@tonygonzales3206

6 ай бұрын

Wolverines!!!!

@ianmedford4855

5 ай бұрын

We used to play Wolverines in the woods damn near every day for a full summer. We even dug the spider holes and made covers for em so we could do the tank at the gas station scene.

@mena94x3

5 ай бұрын

Same!!! 🎉🎉💪💪

@mercilessradio1770

5 ай бұрын

Amen

40 years later still holds up! Directed by John Milius who wrote the screenplay for Apocalypse Now! Thanks!

@groothewanderer3710

6 ай бұрын

Yep, he also wrote and directed Conan the Barbarian.

@lodey

6 ай бұрын

@@groothewanderer3710soundtrack by Basil Poledouris who also did Conan and who is the most amazing ever. Amazing emotional scores that drive these movies that with clunkier soundtracks would seem hacky.

@thunderstruck5484

5 ай бұрын

@@lodey exactly! Brilliant scores

@OroborusFMA

5 ай бұрын

Milius did not write the Apocalypse Now screenplay. He wrote the Willard narration sequences which are, yes, very important but they are but a fraction of the movie.

You have to understand the way things were back then, the USSR was our biggest enemy during the Cold War and the Chinese Communists and Russian Communists hated each other, the belief was, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

@LordLOC

6 ай бұрын

Also, pretty sure in the movie's world, the US and China had agreed to some sort of mutual defense treaty I believe. I forget where I saw/read it, but Nixon went to China in this world also, and more and more capitalism spread in China and the US got more popular etc.

@fenix6297

5 ай бұрын

@@LordLOC Nixon DID go to China, which is why it is reflected in "this world". And it did lead to more capitalism in China - as it eased tensions. Prior to the Nixon trips and multiple discussions, China feared that the US would bomb them (understandable after events in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos). Partnership with the US eased their fears of Soviet aggression and US reprisals - which allowed them to build up their infrastructure and military from the mostly agrarian nation they were prior.

This version of this movie needs to be shown in every school across America🤷‍♀️

Congratulations! You just watched the first PG-13 ever released. If you were a teenager in 1984, this movie was absolutely EPIC

@pnwajs3532

5 ай бұрын

I always thought Dreamscape was the first PG-13 film.

@christypriest30

5 ай бұрын

Amen

@moonglow630

5 ай бұрын

Yes, Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom was the reason for the new rating system

@JasonHauser125

5 ай бұрын

@@pnwajs3532 Dreamscape deserves an R-rated remake. It was a great idea for a movie.

@RJStockton

5 ай бұрын

Ironically, it's also the most violent movie ever made if you count the 400 million dead Chinese and others who died off camera.

This, along with the original Road Warrior, weren't just movies. They were training videos for Generation X. That's what a lot of us expected our future to be like.

No matter how many times I've seen this movie; the narration at Partisan Rock makes me tear up every time.

@allenruss2976

6 ай бұрын

Every time for the past 40 yrs

@TheNichq

5 ай бұрын

Same.

@goaway152

5 ай бұрын

so that this nation shall not perish from the earth,

For us that grew up in the late 70s through the 80s, these movies felt very real because we were living under the shadow of the Cold War. The year before this movie released the TV movie The Day After (1983) aired, and it totally scared the crap out of everyone. You should react to it.

@s1d9m9f8

5 ай бұрын

That movie still gives me chills.

@theConquerersMama

5 ай бұрын

That movie was terrifying. People today wouldn't get it because they would see it with a different filter of experience. Which is normal. Time marches on. But at the time, for a young person it was the most gritty, realistic depiction of an attack we had seen on TV.

@davestang5454

5 ай бұрын

99% of Americans don't have the faintest clue what to do in the event of a nuclear war. They might as well go outside with some beach chairs and some beer and watch the end when it happens.

One of my favorite moments is the "I never HEARD OF IT!" statement...

Robert was a real one. "They're all talking about quitting. They've all lost the stomach for it. Well, except for Robert." He started out as an innocent kid, and wanted nothing more than revenge for his parents.

@rubenlopez3364

6 ай бұрын

He was down from the beginning, the first one to join the brothers. We all need a Robert in the group

@paulgardner5079

6 ай бұрын

plus he was th eone that ended up smoking Daryl when Jed couldnt

@daendiznigh

5 ай бұрын

It started when he tasted that deer blood , they say something changes in a man once he drinks his first kill

@paulgardner5079

5 ай бұрын

@@daendiznigh I thought it was Danny that drank the deer blood?

@dhazer69

5 ай бұрын

@@daendiznigh As a deer hunter I remember having to drink the blood of my 1st kill and when I take a new hunter out and they get their first kill they must take a drink of deer blood and hang the nuts of the buck on a brank where the buck died. It lets the spirit of the deer to be free.

“We live here” resonated with me. This is my country and I will dig in my boots and defend it to the death. Against all enemies foreign and domestic!

@seaneendelong8065

5 ай бұрын

Never more needing to be said... And heard

@Dr.MantisTobogganMD

4 ай бұрын

HERE HERE! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

That Cuban guy was always on the side of the guerillas. Being on the other side took it's toll on him.

@andrewward5891

6 ай бұрын

Yeah he saw himself among the young wolverines. He was probably their age when he fought in Castro’s army to overthrow Batista.

@gibbletronic5139

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. That's why he let Jed go in the end. He saw himself in Jed and he realized that they were both done fighting.

They never made it to spring. It's not about the conclusion of the war. It's about these kids.

I watched this when it first came out in the 80's, I'm in my 50's now and this film still resonates with me today. That was the world we lived in back then, the Cold War was something else the Chinese werent friendly with Russians...very underrated film in my opinion.

@spacedinosaur8733

5 ай бұрын

Even recently, China recently congratulates Vietnam on the communist anniversary as brothers...while at the same time their Coast Guard ships are harassing Vietnamese fishing vessels in "their" waters as defined by the 10 dash line. Friendly speech while casually backstabbing someone.

"How did they parachute in?" They replaced commercial planes, which they shot down, with military transports mimicking their transponders. It is explained briefly in the intro.

Avenge Me! ........AVENGE ME!!!!

@serinx

6 ай бұрын

well, he was in The Avengers :P

Thanks for the great reaction video. I've been a fan from the first time I saw it as a young kid in the 80's. The scene with Jed and Matt's dad in "the camp" gets me everytime. Such a powerful scene

If you haven't watched Wargames and By Dawn's Early Light and The Day After, you have not yet figured out GenX. Also check out the remake of On the Beach with Armand Asanti. We are not only the latch key kids, we are the last generation who really lived under threat of a US-Soviet nuclear war.

@kens97sto171

5 ай бұрын

Those are all great movies.. the first On The beach from the 50's is also really good.. recommend watching that one first then the remake. Acting is WAY WAY better in the first one.. but the story in the second is a bit more relatable for our generation.

@davestang5454

5 ай бұрын

Disagree, at least mildly. The threat of a nuclear strike on the U.S. by Russia and now China and North Korea is very real in 2024.

Another "WWIII" movie you should check out is "The Day After". It was made for TV, but could have been in theaters (had the production value of a theatrical release). Those movies helped shape the Generation X attitude of the 1980s. We were constantly told about the threat of WWIII and missiles flying "at any given moment". Many of us became quite cynical about it all. But we're grateful that it never actually happened outside of Hollywood studios. The Day After is, I believe, on KZread somewhere, so you might be able to get away with using more footage (but don't swear me to that). It was actually required viewing for middle-school and high school kids at the time. I remember it scared the bejesus out of lot of kids, but not me. Between that movie, and this one (Red Dawn), I got motivated to learn as much survival stuff as I could. I still have all that knowledge, but given that I'm physically disabled now, I'd rather not survive the initial strikes.

@leosarmiento4823

6 ай бұрын

You can find it on KZread, as I caught it during a recent re-watch (like millions of viewers, I experienced the ABC movie event, as an 8th grade, in 1983). It forever changed my views about "winning" World War III.

@spacedinosaur8733

5 ай бұрын

@@leosarmiento4823 Much like WarGames

@egoranonymous3223

5 ай бұрын

That movie scared the shit out of me back then

@homer1075

5 ай бұрын

I must have been 7 or 8 when that came out. We weren't allowed to watch it.

@Carandini

5 ай бұрын

Hell, I never wanted to survive. Better to croak in the blast. The world on the other side of a nuclear war isn't one worth living in. The world this side of a nuclear war is no longer worth living in.

When he said “Walked right up into America through Mexico” and you pointed to your head I did the same yep. Military age males all at the southern border today.

@poppletop8331

5 ай бұрын

Military age males seem to make up a vast amount of "asylum seekers" coming into the UK. You know, they've passed several safe countries to get here. Somethings brewing here!

Young people were the target audience for this movie and it really worked.

Being a teen in the 80’s, during the Cold War and under threat of WWIII, this how we thought it could go down, any day!

@davestang5454

5 ай бұрын

It STILL could.

we do not speak of the remake. what you have to remember when this was made the vast majority had a grandparent that served in ww2 and possibly a parent that served in the Korean or Vietnam war, playing cowboys and indians or war was a common childhood pastime

The paratroopers at the start are not Russians, but were in fact Cubans and Nicaraguans while the Russians arrived later after they came down through Alaska and Canada

@Rogers_Ranger

5 ай бұрын

When Mr Teasdale is shot in the beginning the paratrooper is speaking Russian and the commander has a blue beret , and that is Russian camo. This was a throwback to the Afghan Invasion when Russians dropped from commercial airliners . be advised.

Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell and even Daryl the traitor (Darren Dalton) -- playing RANDY ( a stupid SOC ) were all in The Outsiders.

@kenjaminbuttonz

5 ай бұрын

Even William Smith (Colonel Strelnikov) was in The Outsiders. He played the store clerk that shot Dallas Winston (Matt Dillon) near the end of the movie.

@ClassicRollPlayer

5 ай бұрын

@@kenjaminbuttonz....oh....emmm.... gee!!! I NEVER PUT that one together! 40 years later and mind blown. thank you for that!

@someAholeComment

5 ай бұрын

AKA, the brat pack

The Wolverines grew, the Colonel said every time they attack more people get inspired to do the same and when they freed the camp they let a lot more Rebels out

Patrick Swayze's one liner "You lose" is his version of Arnold's "I'll be back". Swayze also said that line in Roadhouse. I saw this movie in the theater the summer of 1984 along with Gremlins. It was the first PG-13 film ever released. That rating came into existence after Spielberg lobbied the MPAA for another rating between PG and R after feeling bad for him dark Temple of Doom was.

At the time, the Soviets and Chinese weren't friendly; we were playing sides, "enemy of my enemy is my friend" with China. The Soviet vehicles were American tank bottoms with mocked up tops. They were so believable that CIA agents can through and asked how they could get hold of actual Soviet vehicles.

@user-jn6gc3jy8p

5 ай бұрын

The enemy of my enemy is your friendly neighborhood Chinese Cuban restaurant?🤨

@jimamos7984

5 ай бұрын

@@user-jn6gc3jy8p Now serving tater tots

Story is supposed to take place in Colorado to take out the passes in the Rockies but was filmed in the New Mexico Rockies. Besides the Cuban officer, his assistant was supposed to be Nicaraguan.

@tommc3622

6 ай бұрын

Filmed in/around Las Vegas, New Mexico. The setting of Calumet, Colorado is a fictional town.

@davestang5454

5 ай бұрын

Many places in NM and CO look very similar in landscape. NM is a popular filming location.

To its credit, the movie does a good job creating a scenario that makes the preposterous seem believable. I mean, most people would realize that Soviet bloc troops being air dropped in the middle of the US is pure fantasy. But this movie has a clever idea of using Mexico and Cuba as forward bases for the Soviet attack. That's something that many 'what if' movies don't do well. setting up a believable situation. I also like the political jokes in the movie. 'They can have my gun when...' and there is someone taking it out of his cold dead fingers or the part about checking the sporting goods paperwork to find out who the gun owners are.

@andrewward5891

6 ай бұрын

I agree. Once you get past the absurd fantasy of the Cubans and Russians invading America (the remake is even more ridiculous with the North Koreans invading) it’s a pretty cool movie.

@xhagast

6 ай бұрын

@@andrewward5891Anything is possible if you get caught with your pants down. But the North Korea movie was a disgrace.

@mena94x3

5 ай бұрын

It's plausible in that they were using transponder codes of commercial American aircraft.

@Rowgue51

5 ай бұрын

It would be pure fantasy today. It wouldn't have been in 1984.

@davestang5454

5 ай бұрын

No one should take the details of the plot as a very accurate scenario. I don't think that's the point. It has some of the comedic elements of a movie like "Commando" or "Delta Force" mixed in with the violence.

I love that you are watching this movie. I was a teenager in the 80’s and this was a must watch for my kids. People always said this kind of thing could never happen. Look at the world now. Just saying people need to understand the world can always change. How many kids now days would know how to take care of themselves much less be able to defend themselves?

Still one of my favorite lines in all cinema history. "Dogface! I show you how Soviet men die!" Robert - "I've seen it before, pal"

We grew up with this for our future, so we lived for today. Songs like 1999, Dr. Feelgood and Nothin' but a good time was where life started. Today, I worry if our Border Problem hasn't brought Red Dawn to fruition.

Glad you like the movie. I'm approaching 50 years old, and this movie was a favorite as a kid. It was an awesome movie, especially as this came out at the height of the Cold War. It felt so epic then, because it felt possible. I think it was set in Colorado, as Calumet is a town there. They also referenced Denver being in bad shape.

I am 51 years old, so I 2as a kid/pre teen when this movie came out. I watched it so many times on HBO back then. The reason the movie hit my generation so hard, and is remembered the way it is, is simple. Growing up in the 80's put us right in the middle of the Cold War, and the events of the movie could have easily happened in our lifetimes. Our entire childhood took place with the threat of WWIII constantly looming over us. I am glad you watched and enjoyed this classic action movie with such a deeper underlying story.

All that hate's gonna burn you up inside. It keeps me warm.

I havent seen this since 1984. I always like your reactions.

33:15 This is amazing acting on Patrick Swayze's part. R.I.P.

I saw this movie with my friends back in the day when we were teens. This actually had us on edge. We all had bug out bags packed and ready to go. Still on of my all time favorites.

Imagine being a Boy Scout troop from Amarillo, on a backpacking trip, and rolling into Las Vegas, New Mexico, and seeing tanks and stuff all around the town because they were filming this there. The mountain that they showed at the beginning, Hermits Peak, was where we were headed. Obviously we had to go see the film. Brigs back those memories every time I see it.

In the 80s, Cuba & Nicaragua were allies of the Soviet Union. The invasion: Cuban & Nicaraguan paratroopers with Spetsnaz (Soviet elite special forces).

That Colonel was also troubled as he said he had always been on the other side in his past. Now he was "the man" and it was an issue.

@gibbletronic5139

6 ай бұрын

He had seen the look in Jed's face before in his own men. He knew that Jed wasn't a threat anymore, that he wasn't coming back to fight.

@tvdroid22

6 ай бұрын

@@gibbletronic5139 Yeah, I can go along with that.

Thanks for giving this movie some love. Fond memories of running through the woods as preteen playing "Wolverines" with the neghborhood kids..

This has always been one of my favorite movies.

When they were listening to Radio Free America, when the announcer was giving code words “John has a long mustache”, those were the exact words the Allies sent by radio to the French Underground to signal the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII.

This movie scared me more then nightmare on elm street as a kid - been obsessed with WW3 and nuclear war ever since 😂

@pegatheetoo1437

6 ай бұрын

Then you should be prepared for what's coming down the pike ... soon!

@daendiznigh

6 ай бұрын

@@pegatheetoo1437 i am , been getting ready for years

@user-jn6gc3jy8p

5 ай бұрын

Imagine Freddie Krueger was in this movie, fighting for freedom, wherever there's trouble.

@daendiznigh

5 ай бұрын

@@user-jn6gc3jy8p with his funny one liners before he kills ….”now your prime time bitch” ratatatataatat

I grew up watching this movie... loved it then, love it now

This movie was shot in and around Las Vegas, NM. The shot of the Russian troops visiting a historical site is a true landmark visited by Theodore Roosevelt near the top of Hermit's Peak 😃

That was a great reaction to a classic 80s action movie! I remember going to the Drive-in Theater with a car full of friends to see it in '84. And you're right, C. Thomas Howell is in The Outsiders, as well as the guy who played Daryl, the traitor, he was a Soch in the film. Red Dawn was mostly filmed in Las Vegas NM. I took a road trip down there a few Summers ago and saw the "Welcome to Calumet" sign on the side of the building, the Drive-in Theater where they held prisoners, the court house, the train station, the Bank and a lot of the store fronts in the film. Again, thanks for your reaction and I'm looking forward to your next! 🎥🍿👍

"They took over so fast, " Can you imagine a modern college campus, they would be welcome the troops as they parachuted in.

The mayor is Lane Smith. He was the prosecutor in My Cousin Vinny. The Avenge Me dad is Harry Dean Stanton. If you see his name it's gonna be a good movie. ❤❤

Great movie. Sad but great. 1st PG13 movie to be shown in theaters.

A training film cleverly disguised as a blockbuster movie.

If we were invaded by any country. Every AMERICAN ( man / woman and child ) would DEFEND this country. I may not like my government and what's going on in this country right now. But, I would give my LIFE to help DEFEND it.

@Blaskor314

6 ай бұрын

I will stand with you...but I'm afraid these days not every American would be willing to step up, and that is sad.

@FosterTravis1071

6 ай бұрын

40 years ago, you'd be right... now, not even a chance.

@gordonhaire9206

6 ай бұрын

there was absolutely no chance of an invasion in 1984, and there's no chance now. The USA is the world bully. We've caused more death, destruction, pain and suffering than any other empire in the history of the world. We're the threat, not the threatened.

@hisdudeness8328

6 ай бұрын

Why do you think the Cuba Colonel told his subordinate to go to the sporting goods store and get form 4473? They wanted to know exactly who owned guns in the area and what kind and how many they had.

@Blaskor314

6 ай бұрын

@@hisdudeness8328 Exactly. I hate that form.

This is an all time classic

I am a child of the cold war, this could have happened but was unlikely. Still a great movie and a classic! I use to have nightmares of Mi-24 Hind helicopters chasing me in my back yard when i was a kid. We did have a secret alliance with China during most of the cold war. China and the Soviet Union did not get along after roughly 64' thier alliance today is more recent ,post cold war. The weapons and uniforms are very accurate to the period.

Ferris Bueller’s sister and Marty Mcfly’s mom were bad ass back in the day and pretty hot 🤣

@NoStingersSince1994

5 ай бұрын

And kissed Charlie Sheen or Charlie Sheen kissed Jennifer Grey. One of those ways. Hahaha. Awkward!

@NoStingersSince1994

5 ай бұрын

@paullandis5524 You're not wrong. Jennifer Grey & Lea Thompson were so hot.

@yourgearyourway4094

5 ай бұрын

And Dirty Dancing?!

So the story goes the Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze had HUGE conflict during this movie and never talked to each other except for scenes. Never after the movie until Dirty Dancing. Imagine all that and they still had the magical chemistry for DD.

Thanks for letting me "re-watch' this again. 1. Harry Dean Stanton😇 was one of the best character actors I've ever seen. Deep portfolio, including, but not limited to, Alien, Pretty in Pink, Christine, Escape from New York and the Green Mile. He even had a part in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. It was when the boys went to jail and he was an inmate, but the footage was cut. 2. Loved Patrick. 😇 He started out a professional ballet dancer but injured his knee so went to acting. 3. This was the first movie with the PG-13 rating.

Jedediah Smith, who Patrick Swayze mentioned early on during the deer hunting sequence, was an early 1800s American explorer, frontiersman/mountain man, hunter, trapper, . He heavily explored the Rocky Mountains and discoved the 20-mile wide South Pass in Wyoming which was a part of the Oregon Trail. Jim Bridger was much of the same except more in Colorado. He purchased a fur company from Jedediah Smith and named it the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. (Funny that, huh?). They both did their thing in the early 1800s, after the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

Love Powers Boothe in this film. Played his role very well.

The last scene in this movie Partisans rock always makes me cry

Wolverines!

Patrick Swayze and C. Thomas Howell were both in the outsiders. Patrick and Jennifer Grey went on to Dirty Dancing 2 years later, Jennifer and Charlie Sheen would be in Ferris Bueller's day off, and Leah Thompson would star in All the right moves with Tom Cruise, and the Back to the Future movies among others and her own series in the 90s. Caroline in the city. Powers Booth, already an accomplished actor would be seen in the Classic TOMBSTONE, a few years after this as well.

@tracithomas6543

5 ай бұрын

Powers Booth also starred in the titular role of the miniseries about Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana in 1978. My grandmother was an extra in it. Booth was scary good as Jones.

@debbielough7754

5 ай бұрын

Darren Dalton was also in The Outsiders, but I think he was a Soc.

The final scene where the boys went to the park was one of the coldest days on record it snowed ice and the ground started to crack from the cold. Charlie sheen said he wanted to cry but his tear ducts were frozen

My favorite movie EVER !!!!! Still shocked since the first time ( April 1992) I saw it

When this movie came out in 1984 a new movie theater opened up at the mall by my house and I went to see it. Cause they were letting in everyone free. The first night I was too young so I snuck in and saw it at 10 and was changed forever.

Great movie. For my friends and I this was more of a training video. lol

I just remember in one of the GTA games, in the gun shop, the advert telling you to watch the documentary "Red Dawn"

Saw this at about 15. The first thing I saw when I left the theater was a guard tower. Berlin was an interesting place to grow up in the 80's.

Another movie from the 80's with the theme of "what could have happened" is Hunt for Red October with Sean Connery. This movies hits me different than almost everyone else, as an U.S. Army Tanker when this came out we would sit around in the barracks do vehicle identification (the movie did a great job).

As it turns out, despite much rightful fear on the subject, Russia never had any real plan for the full scale invasion of the US. It was researched, but the consensus was that due to geography, lack of naval strength to transport troops, and the highly armed American public it was a very nearly impossible waste of time. The Second Amendment saved us and we never even knew it.

@michaelvandeginste3497

6 ай бұрын

That is also what discouraged the Japanese from trying to invade during World War II. They were worried about "a gun behind every blade of grass".

@bafumat

6 ай бұрын

@@michaelvandeginste3497 the Japanese never had the man power to do it. They already had a full scale invasion and genocide of China going at the time.

@lucianaromulus1408

5 ай бұрын

Something every Democrat needs to learn

One of my favorite movies of all time. 🥰🥰 Growing up, my brother and I loved to watch it, then dress up in fatigues and face paint, grab our play guns and go at it out around the neighborhood. 🎉🥰💪💪 It also helped that, like Jed and Matt... - my brother and I didn't always get along, but _nobody_ could say anything against the other one but us, and nobody could hit/hurt the other one but us, we'd die for each other if that's what it took. - my name started with a J and his name was Matt - we were both athletic, competitive, loved the outdoors and hunting. - are ardent patriots. Nobody is going to invade our country without a fight from us. *- oh, and I used to call him Matty when I was little. ....That scene in the playground killed me.

Years ago, I used to save movies on VHS that were somehow connected to each other...usually sequels and depending on the size of the video tape, I could fit 3 or 4 movies on it. One of my tapes was a Jennifer Grey related tape. It included "Ferris Bueller" with Jennifer and a very small role for Charlie Sheen, then this one which also starred those two...as well as Patrick Swayze...which led to the next movie..."Dirty Dancing" with Jennifer and Patrick.

Not sure if it was mentioned already but fun fact: all those buildings that were blown up arent really there. The set designers built all of them so they could blow them up. and another fun fact: those explosions caused a lot of property damage. Not because they harmed the buildings next to them but because the explosions were powerful enough to shatter windows miles away. The townsfolk had a blast during the filming.

@davestang5454

5 ай бұрын

Yes, the townsfolk had a "blast". LOL.

One of my favorite movies form my childhood.

Fun fact, when Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey meet on this movie they really disliked each other and it carried over to Dirty Dancing, which shows how great.of actors they were. I saw this in theaters when it came out, alot of us believed it could really happen.

@trb2021

6 ай бұрын

She didn't like him but he went to her and talked her into Dirty Dancing and they made up.

This came out in the middle of the cold war. So not only a great action movie but scary how it was happening.

23:40 Actually we were able drive a very serious wedge between Red China and the Soviet Union and got China to sign a treaty that if WWIII broke out they would come in on the side of NATO and not the Warsaw Pact. This was also mostly due to China simply wanting to be on the winning side.

Wolverine’s! One of my favorite movies of all time! I met C Thomas Howell and he even autographed my AK47 stock!

Even back in the 80s when this movie was knew, we acknowledged there were some corny parts to it and stuff but it didn't matter. You couldn't help but love the movie.

NEXT OF KIN is my favourite Patrick swayze movie

Via Con Dios. Best last line in a movie. I love how he motioned like a Jedi and said Via Con Dios... Go with God. That is such a soldier, Jedi, Soldier thing to say.

Terrific commentary at the end. Glad people are watching films like this. I saw this in Utah on my way to my first Air Force base assignment in Alaska, whe the Soviet Union was real and a real global threat. That was all a formative experience for me.

@jeff-hopkins

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for serving. It is because of men like you that people like me and my family sleep well each night. Because we know that you've got our backs! 🙂

I grew up in this world, in this time, in a Marine Corps family. We grew up with this being a very real possibility. This, or nukes. I'm glad it only ended up as a movie. So far.

This came out during some scary times. There were fallout shelters all over my town, including under the Catholic grade school I attended. We practiced, same as a fire drill, to go calmly and organised downstairs through the lunchroom, through the kitchen to the shelter. It was massive space, fully stocked as the kitchen used it as a grocery store kind of pantry for our school. My state had minuteman missile silos everywhere, so we had a lot of places with fallout shelter signs. A couple of the actors in Red Dawn were in the Outsiders.

Classic! Thanks for reacting to this great movie!

I'm in my 50s and grew up in the Cold War. This represented all our fears during those days. There was threat of imminent nuclear war, and then the "what if" if any of us survived. Or there was the idea that the enemy could parachute in like this and take over, or try to take over. The scariest movie in my experience about the Cold War is "The Day After", from 1983. It's about a nuclear war taking place from the perspective of average Americans going about their daily lives. I think that's what made it so disturbing is that it showed us just being normal, minding our own business, then suddenly the end of the world falls on top of us.

C Thomas Howells character was the best of the show how he progresses through the movie to cold decisive no bs i love this movie man

Love this movie so much. One of my proudest moments as an American was early on in the Ukraine-Russia war where the Ukrainians wrote "Wolverines" on the side of a destroyed Russian tank.

Graduated 1984 this movie has become part of my soul I am a wolverine if need be

I always get the feeling this had a direct influence on the creation of the Fallout franchise. Before this the closest I remember a movie about invading the US was 'The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming' from the 60's.

This is one of my favorite movies.

I live in those mountains. Let me agree with you on winter in the Rockies. They didn't show enough snow, though. You know they ski there with 60+ inch base and then add new on top of that for skiing. - 20 degrees is common enough. You're not going to feel much like going on a raid, or anything else that gets you more than 4 feet from the fire. It's a good movie though. Glad you liked it too.

40:06 It's kind of poetic that when Jed and Mattie were talking to their father, he said "Remember when I used to take you to the park...?" And in ended up with Jed and Mattie dying IN the park,.

"and as we remember, please let them forget, so they can be little again."

When this movie came out, we were still 7 years out from the end of the Cold War, so it was pretty relevant to the time. And ironically, it's relevant once more with today's situation with what's cracking off around the world. I haven't watched the remake but once, so I don't remember much about it, but I ought to considering what's going on now.

36:35 I've probably watched this movie 8 or 10 times and I never noticed that. (One of the ones I bought way back on DVD.) He already assumed that he and his brother were dead men.

I saw this when first came out in the theater. The place was packed. The scene at 16:30 where Patrick Swayze kills the wounded Russian sitting the car....Everyone in the place roared in approval and delight. Never underestimate the power of propaganda. They can turn anyone against anyone.

@andrewward5891

6 ай бұрын

The movie does a good job showing the brutality of guerilla warfare. The kids end up almost as brutal as the Russians- killing prisoners and even executing their friend.