When Soviet and Cuban paratroopers invade Colorado, a group of teenagers flee to the mountains. Left with nowhere to run, they engage in guerilla warfare with the invading forces.
Guinness Book of Records considered it the "most violent film" at the time with a rate of 134 acts of violence per hour, or 2.23 per minute. Yet it was also the first film given a rating of PG-13. I guess the point was how much violence was depicted rather than how graphic it actually was.
@@wisnuprabowo3220 Bc the Mexican always illegally enter countries lol but someone else finally illegally entered Mexico!!! That’s why it’s funny. It blows my mind how instead of trying to fix their country themselves Mexicans always run away
@@wisnuprabowo3220 it’s almost like Mexicans don’t care about the future of their nation. Illegal Mexicans always come to America but they still try to say Mexico is better than America and they talk hella shit. If they think Mexico’s better we should just deport all the illegal ones. I love legal Mexican immigrants Bc most of them are proud to be American and they love America but the illegals are always hateful and ungrateful asf
The reason Bela let them go was because he started to sympathize with the Wolverines. He says somewhere in the movie that he had always been the insurgent, never the Occupier. He knew what it was like, fighting in your homeland against an invading force. He knew he would have been doing the same things. So when he saw the brothers unarmed and gravely wounded, rather than kill them, he took pity/mercy on them instead.
11:27 it makes sense to me because during the acts and extreme hardships of war people remember their own back at home I mean literally many soldiers of war have shared their own stories of doing exactly that. Allowing an enemy to get away due to them feeling utter pure empathy to/towards what they see and or used to be a comrade or nation of no issue. Or it can even go down to the basic level of my brother in arms. But that is how I see it so take it how you will.
@Kota Takata (STG) Who are you?? I don't know you. I also watch this channel everyday. And what exactly am I lying about? Birthday August 10 1973. Turned 7 in 1980. Quit trolling. Maybe I like to talk about things I know. I rarely comment on Kung Fu movies which he recaps alot! Get a life. What part of the like and leave a comment as it helps these channels aren't you computing smooth brain?
Red dawn(1984): makes highly detailed mock up Russian weapons (suchlike fake Mi-24A, T-72 MBT, ZSU-23, and Yak-38... The vehicle is so detailed that it fooled me thinking they brought the vehicle off from the black market, it's so cool 🤯) Red Dawn (2012): fuck it give this bastards an American tanks
yea the new one sucks ass, kinda bummed out the soldiers are portrayed as killing machines killing anything in sight but this was made during the cold war so why am i even surprised
Apparently one of the parachutists in the opening scene got blown off course, and landed in a farmers tree. Then he had to explain at the point of pitchfork that no he wasn’t a Soviet paratrooper. He was just an extra rigged up to look like one. The farmer wasn’t convinced until the police arrived.
@@timhare9867 that is amazing if that really happened. Imaginge growing up with the russian scare and one day some dude in russian millitary clothes is hanging there all american irl just saying im a movie prop dude plz put the shotgun away! "Yeeeap thats what a Russian WOULD say"
One minute in and I'm already confused, why is Russia targeting a small town when it could've been New York or Washington DC? And the teacher who walked out expecting to talk to armed hostile soldiers just won the Darwin award...
Little to no resistance as it doesnot have many people. A little town still has infrastructure to scale up a bit to house their supplies and troops. It might be closer to a theater or a big city that's why. During German occupation of Ukraine, they chose a small town in Ukraine instead of Kyiv as their capital. Reasoning was the same as above. Setting up a base or supply town in some large city would be risky (stalingrad like situation ).
Because most defense will be in bigger cities like New York Washington Los Angeles smaller towns will either have to wait or locals should defend themselves until help arrives
There is a story back then about red dawn directors, during shooting a scene they were pulled over by CIA agents in the car, they were asking them where they got soviet vehicles, this only explain how dedicated and accurate this guys were back in, not like cringe new production.
@@Its_Me_Romano east Germany. Both sides steal each other equipment back in cold war. The infamous french Exocet missile stolen from East German agents with perpetrator from west germany. so I guess lada's (Russian cars) also got stolen too. Or that might be wrong because I think some Lada brought to the US after the Reunification of Germany. Who knows.
@@Its_Me_Romano The Soviet vehicles in the movie were in fact _very good_ mockups, referenced from many pictures and captured soviet displays around the 1st world. They really went all out to try and replicate the T-72 tanks with local cargo tractors and the "Hind-Ds" were French helis with visual modifications to look like Hinds. Many of these vismod vehicles would later appear in other movies of the time period, such as Rambo III. Most of the small-arms were sourced from non-Soviet-aligned countries, like Egyptian AKs, Romanian Valmet machineguns or in the case of the "DShk" heavy machineguns, were actually American M60 machine guns modified to look Soviet.
@DisealBitches Yeah, this is most certainly false. Newer movies sometimes completely ruin the feel of the original movies, and sometimes the plot is even changed and things are "modernized"
Counterpoint: in Uvalde it took an entire battalion's worth of cops to stop one incel. And, let's be real, "stopped" is a generous term; he accomplished what he set out to do.
@@ccggenius I carry a .45 every day, inside waist right back. One in chamber, no extra mags. If you can’t do it in 8, you shouldn’t be shooting. Been shooting since I was 5 or 6. I just wish I was volunteering in that school on that day.
@@thebigsteppa9214 didn’t we defeat the strongest country on earth (the british) aswell though? Or was that just fake??? Lol. Also we could’ve decimated them, they were cowards and they hid with civilians
"russia, back then known as the soviet union" Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Ukraine: am I a joke to you?
Colonel Bella fought as a Partisan in Cuba and in a scene while writing to his Wife he felt disillusioned about the War and was going to resign his commission before Jed and his brother attacked the Headquarters near the end.
The Soviet Union isn't just Russia, the Soviet Union was a Union of 16 Countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Krygystan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan)
“Enemy soldiers are killing innocent civilians for apparently no reason” as he’s showing a clip of a Russian soldier picking up a handgun off a civilian… this guy
Yes, but seeing as how there are more guns than citizens in the United States, the natural assumption of any occupying Russian soldier would be that every American is armed.
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc Pretty sure every country has this thing where they say this, even Japan itself, at least one of their generals said, "You will find a gun behind every blade of grass." which means, at least at the time when the US Federal Government permitted people to get guns, it's just too many people with guns, to the point you might as well not invade. It's not worth invading for you will not be facing some hundred of thousands of soldiers, but millions to tens of millions of armed patriots. Not worth the risk. I suppose any occupation force, or any invasion force, would not take risks involving Americans. The meme of America is all about guns, so of course people stereotype Americans to have guns.
@@SgtHawk45 Personally, I'd think the entire population being armed would make it easier to invade, as you can drop the pretense that anyone is a civilian and just kill anything that moves. The biggest obstacle to a modern military (aside from another modern military) is the desire to NOT do war crimes, and it's not a war crime if they were armed.
@@overlord2066 we that country that you call kazak, we call kazahstan, in croatia, dont know for america or what country are you from, when all of you dont want to write your normal real names, are you afraid of something, someone would beat you if you say something?
The reason Col. Bela let the two brothers go as a sign of mercy and respect (Respect is big in Latin countries) was because he himself was a guerilla fighter during the Cuban revolution, one of the things that Fidel, and his brother, Raul Castro and Che Guevera said they were fighting against was imperialism, which is what the Soviet and Cuban joint operation was. It was not a revolution. It was imperialism. He became what he had fought really hard against, and Col. Bela felt regret, anger and rage, shame, and sadness at what he was doing and was tired by the time he and his executive officer saw the dead men from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Cambodia and Mexico. Col. Bela even wrote it in his letter to his esposa that there was no more revolution and that he wanted to be back on the island, resting in the sun in peace with her and you could tell he was completely tired by the letter. He saw two men that did their time in Hell. Jed and Matt went into war as boys, they died as men.
This what grandparents act like they went through walking to school… My grandma claims she walked to school in the freezing cold! When her dad was alive my mom asked him about it. Turns out he drove her and her brother to school EVERY DAYYYY.
I remember watching it in the theatre when it first came out. Everyone was shocked. It's not often you see a child killed onscreen, but in Red Dawn they're killed in the opening and throughout the movie! Still, it's shows how ugly war can be and how it can destroy innocence.
The soldier letting the brothers go made complete sense, before the attack he wrote a letter saying he would not want anything more than to leave America and enjoy the company of his wife an and child, he let them go because he can think about how hard it is to loose someone that he loves the most
Being a black man I could tell you America is not all of that but Russia especially right now with how crazy Putin is acting seems like a bad guy right now
Which country would project themselves as the bad person in the story? Pretty much no countries. That's why countries have propaganda to convince their citizens that they are the hero's in the story. Soviet Union probably does the same thing as USA as well.
@@yeelin723 I could not find Soviet movies about bad Americans, a few of them are based on books and a few depict social problems but no war or invasions.
The plot armor is on a different level of absurd, but knowing how bad the Brezhnev years were for the Soviet Union(to a point that a Soviet Warship mutinied in an attempt to spark a 3rd Revolution) I'm not too surprised
@@Crashed131963 it’s not it also had 18 countries a production of great military weapons and tanks, the most powerful country and different military tactics
probably no one asked for this but the tanks seem to be like the russian T72 tank or T80. It seems modified from another tank so it’s like a whole different tank but they added stuff on it to make it look like the T72 / T80
i graduated highschool in 2007, and they made everyone watch this in our films class, something tells me they knew something was up and anything can happen.
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American 4 (four) engined propeller driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the USA (united states) during Ww2 (world war 2) and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, The B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress was designed for high altitude stragitic bombing, but also excelled in low altitude night incendiary bombing, and in dropping naval mines to blockade Japan (imperial japan). B-29s dropped the atomic bombs (2 of them actually) on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only aircraft ever to drop nuclear bombs in combat.
I'm not even going to click to SEE the video and be subjected to a distorted view of reality and pure propaganda. As if Russia would EVER invade USA (unlike USA's secret aspirations).
@@ThatEgyptianGuyy Niether are professionally trained, they are guerrilla fighters using anything they have and their home terrain to thier advantage. Unfortunately there are "poorly trained kids" as part of militia in Africa, what about them?
It depicts how well America would do in a war without allies. And before someone starts moaning: Vietnam (lost) Korea (stalemate) Germany (99.999999% won by Russia) Canada (lost) Mexico (win) Japan (nuked innocents just to win) Afghanistan (lost) Iraq (losing) Syria (losing) Africa (losing) Civil war (win) Remember this is supposedly the best military in the world, fucking Lichtenstein has a better record in military history.
Colonel Bella letting them live makes sense. He himself was once a guerilla fighter and could understand what they went through. In fact, he hates that Russian general guy and later resigns because he no longer wants to fight.
*Soviet military leaders in Red Dawn:* "Comrades, we will begin our multi-pronged invasion of United States!" "Da! To victory!" *Soviet military leaders in real life:* "Comrades, we will begin our multi-pronged invasion of United Sta-" "Are you fucking kidding me????"
Hmmm “wolverines” heard that before in this channel, its definitely not from a another group which survived a attack from a country and were also named the Wolverines
I found a full timeline of the red dawn story, but i can't find it anymore, but the Russian's loose the war in the end, they become bogged down and starve and in the end sign a peace treaty.
"This enrages the group and they execute him without any hesitation. Damn they must be mets fans" I say George Orwell fans who devote their life to read books like 1984. Its funny that this movie released in 1984 and shows a dystopian society
Not Russia alone invades USA in the movie, but the Soviet Union and the Communist Allies (Eastern Europe and Cuba). They had (in reality) the largest army in human history with ca. 4 million soldiers and more than 110.000 tanks and armored vehicles (I remember that number from the 80s). In the alternative timeline of the movie NATO broke apart and US stands alone against the Commies.
