*THIS IS INSANE!* Red Dawn (1984) *FIRST TIME WATCHING REACTION* Patrick Swayze , Charlie Sheen 

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

“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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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 RU-vid 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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 😃

I don't think Milleneals or Z can understand this film fully. For you it's just some fantasy, alt history movie. However, I'm Gen X. We always assumed ww3 would come in our lifetimes, that we would fight it, or more likely die in the beginning nuclear exchange. Gen X was raised to fight/die in ww3, we thought this was our future. As kids we played in the woods figthting out scenerios, we did drills at school for nuclear attacks, we had classes telling about communism, and what to expect. After rambo every kid I knew wanted to learn survival skills. Heck in shop class if you wanted to learn how to make a booby trap you Vietnam vet Shop teacher might help you! Sometimes I think we'd have prefered it to having to see our country rot from within. We had a pretty dark view of the future, but honestly, this cancer I see about us in the nation now is more hurtful.

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.

A training film cleverly disguised as a blockbuster movie.

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

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

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"

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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! 🎥🍿👍

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.

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

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.

This is an all time classic

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?

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.

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

Wolverines!

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

Dude….when this came out, we were in the middle of the Cold War…Gorbachev hadn’t been in power yet to ease tensions between us & the USSR….it was scary because it could be possible if the Russians, Cubans & Nicaraguans had the balls to invade us…I remember seeing it in the theater….it was an event 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. ❤❤

Red Dawn, Navy Seal, Heart Break Ridge, Rambo are Probably reason i joined the Army -

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.

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

This came out in my teenage years. I still run around, sometimes yelling, "WOLVERINES !!!"

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.

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.

I think some of the things that weren't clear to you in the set-up is just a generational thing. What the Soviets had done in Afghanistan, their relationship with Cuba, things like that that we saw on the news every night were assumed by the filmmakers to not need an introduction. I was in my early 20s when I first saw it and it seemed like a mostly logical progression of events, at that time, that could lead to these things happening. I think a lot of country kids these days would still react much like the Wolverines did and would have many of the same skills.

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.

NEXT OF KIN is my favourite Patrick swayze movie

Classic! Thanks for reacting to this great movie!

Most of all of them are from the movie The Outsiders

This was how the Resistance and Partisans worked during WWII to fight the Nazis and both groups included a large number of women. In fact, the code message heard in this movie "John has a long mustache" was an actual code message used to alert one French Resistance group to strike their target in preparation for D-Day.

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.

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.

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.

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

i was canalized by this movie when i was a kid to be a die hard red blooded American. cold dead hands indeed.

Hello brother i hope all is well. This is a classic movie that kick-started a few careers.

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

New subscriber, just found your channel. I liked your reaction very much, so now I’m off to see what other movies you’ve done. Peace from Ohio …

I just subscribed. I have finally found a reactor who doesn't talk and make stupid sounds throughout the whole damn movie. Most talk non stop just to make the reaction about themselves and miss important parts of the movie then question things at the end or didn't get the point of certain parts of the movie. If they would shut up and watch and then give their opinion, they would probably gain more subs. It's irritating. Good reaction my man!

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.

The Cuban colonel is Ron O'Neal. Check him out in Super Fly.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.