RED DAWN (1984) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch! | Patrick Swayze | Charlie Sheen | Lea Thompson

[@technofilejr3401]

Early in the Ukrainian war, the graffiti tag "Wolverines" was being painted onto the sides of destroyed Russian vehicles of various types. This movie is underrated and almost forgotten. But someone in the Ukraine remembers it and sprayed that tag.

[@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms]

People joke about Red Dawn but it's a very underrated movie in my opinion... and I would bet that those people who joked about it (if the truth were told) at some point found themselves thinking about it late at night and pondering just what they would do if they were in that situation. That, to me, is rather high praise for any movie.

[@Ivy94F]

When I was bored in class I used to imagine my escape route if this ever happened. I found out later that almost everyone did this.

[@vovindequasahi]

Do they joke about Red Dawn? I never ever heard anyone joke about this movie. This is one of the darkest bleakest movies of the 80's, especially with "the Brat Pack" starring. Dude you have to tell me who joked about it, because I'm amazed at that.

[@aikenp]

I find that most of the people who joke about it, are afraid to admit that this could possibly happen. Also how unprepared they would be if it did.

[@markdarko4931]

​@@aikenpthis could never happen

[@douglascampbell9809]

All the younger people wonder why kids who grew up in the 80's have a disproportionate amount of military knowledge. This film is one of the reasons. We knew what these weapons were. How they functioned, limitations etc.

[@georgemartin1436]

Lea Thompson said it was her favorite role ever.

[@batbrick3949]

6:22 “They got there fast.” This is one reason why every state has their own National Guard. Their Army National Guard and Air National Guard forces are under the command of their states’ governors. In essence, all 54 states and territories have their own military, separate from the Regular Army and the Army Reserve.

[@donuttech635]

Also this took place in Colorado, you have the Air Force Academy, Ft. Carson and NORAD, in Colorado Spings area. Ft. Sill, Ft. Riley and Ft. Hood are all within a short distance.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

That may have been the case when this movie was made but is not anymore. The National Guard is just an extension of the DOD.

[@flibber123]

I like the writing, it has good attention to details. For instance, Cuba was a Soviet ally. So it makes sense that if the Soviets were to invade, they'd leverage their relationship with Cuba in some way. BUT the movie makes use of Cuban characters for more than that. The Cuban officer has spent his career being on the side of rebels who are against outside oppressors. But working with the Soviets he recognizes that he has been corrupted. He is now the outside oppressor and he doesn't like it. You don't usually see character depth like that in lower budget action movies.

[@rubenlopez3364]

The group did grow, the Cuban Colonel said that every time the attack, the revolution grows. Other groups started doing the same thing all over the occupied areas after world got around about The Wolverines

[@johnmonk66]

ANd what movie did you watch?

[@andrewcarlson7252]

​@@johnmonk66The quote, "people waking up with their throats cut, some say it's you." Is evidence that there were other partisan guerrillas out there.

[@ShadowSonic2]

​@@andrewcarlson7252I figured it was the occupation forces doing that, blaming the Wolverines

[@andrewcarlson7252]

@@ShadowSonic2 a good theory as well. It is a story of fiction so we can take any turns we want for the sake of entertainment.

[@JayStar-yj9pu]

The Cuban leader was Ron O' Neal, most famous for playing a dealer/pimp in the Blaxploitation classic 'Superfly'

[@manishmishraji]

Watched it as a child.. Felt immensely motivated

[@ScarriorIII]

Feel it again.

[@74vman]

Favorite line "Because we live here"

[@batbrick3949]

18:42 No, these boys and girls already knew how to shoot well. When you grow up in the country, hunting and shooting skills are taught early. That’s the often-maligned American gun culture.

[@jtoland2333]

And should the time come when all the s--t comes down, those will be the survivors. The rest of us will be standing outside of Whole Foods, whining

[@ray24051]

I was in the Army when this movie came out and guys in my unit after we went to go see it we would hold up our M16s and yell Wolverines! Lol.

[@Daniel_Rood]

I'm just old enough to remember duck and cover drills. Had us doing those up until... I wanna say 3rd grade. Maybe 4th. It was a very scary time. I remember when the Berlin Wall came down and two years later the Soviet Union collapsed. It was like an actual weight was lifted off all of us.

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

Hello, I and my classmates did more than one " Duck & Cover Drill ". I perfected the art of getting completely under the seating portion of my desk.

[@7woundsfist]

Growing up in the 80s, the red menace was real. My older cousins loved this movie.

[@gordonhaire9206]

The Red Menace was never real. It was Cold War propaganda. Cuba and the USSR were never a real threat. The good old USA was the greatest threat to peace.

[@gordonhaire9206]

The Red Menace was never real. The USSR and Cuba were never a threat to the US. America was the threat.

[@craiglortie8483]

i still remember growing up in the midwest and having nuke drills.

[@kdsuibhne]

The Red Menace is still real. China, Russia, & North Korea. All three are allied with Iran and other extremists.

[@archersfriend5900]

Have you checked current events in the last 2.5 years. The Red menace is back.

[@jokerz7936]

This movie is a testimony of how good of actors Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Because they were great together in Dirty Dancing, but disliked each other due to some falling out from the filming of this movie. & Red Dawn on it's own is great.

[@schmidtfam04]

They disliked each other during the making of Red Dawn but made up when cast in Dirty Dancing. They realized they could not squander an opportunity to be in a great project over grudges from a previous movie. And we have the gem of Dirty Dancing with some fantastic chemistry!

[@putinscat1208]

The father was played by the great late Harry Dean Stanton

[@jamisonmunn9215]

This Red Dawn makes it very clear that remakes have no business being done.

[@thedarkknight2221]

It’s hilarious that even after this movie as well as the X-men movies came out, barely anyone actually knows that wolverines are REAL animals or even what they look like.🤣

[@lancesingleton3700]

Michigan wolverines mascot helps lol

[@FosterTravis1071]

Nasty little bastards... mean.

[@orangeandblackattack]

Then they don't know any University of Michigan alumni. lol

[@ghostlee6434]

It the education system these days. To many college graduates who have KZbin channels but don't know basics. There's a saying that "there's a lot of smart dumb people "walking around with degrees now

[@paulmartin2348]

Degrees mean nothing. It's about the person who holds the degree and that person would be very successful no matter what they did. Having the degree is just one thing they have done on their journey. (most "academics" are worthless)

[@matthewdunham1689]

The John Milius masterpiece from the 80s. This and his Conan the Barbarian.

[@joegarza4869]

For us born in the seventies,this movie was scary as shit.

[@christopherkowalczyk4405]

I was born in 78 and remember this being on TV somewhere every weekend. In my 20s talking to my friends all remember seeing this over and over as children in the 80s and now refer to it as a training film.

[@joegarza4869]

@@christopherkowalczyk4405 I was born in 78 too

[@realisticthought1781]

Born in 77. Movie was a staple

[@hardensoul7248]

I had forgotten how brutal this movie was. Violent and death with emotional impact.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

I was born in 1970, so I was in my teens when this came out. It was HIGHLY relevant as me and most of my friends spent every weekend camping in the woods, wearing camouflage, and practicing our skills. Until Reagan came along, the communist threat was a very real (and constantly spreading) menace. Myself and several of my friends ended up in the military after high school.

[@richardpoindexter6322]

Saw this at the movie theater about 40 yrs ago multiple times.....glad you ladies reacted....one of my favorite movies...R I P patrick swazye..... Dam im getting old.....

[@w41duvernay]

When this movie came out, word of mouth quickly spread about it. Man everyone flipped out watching it that first Saturday morning.

[@kencramer1697]

I was 8 and living in Colorado when this came out. I cannot tell you how many discussions happened over the next few years between my friends and I. As kids we thought that this was a real possibility. We had plans and forts built up in the hills. It really drove our imaginations. We lived in the foot hills right up against the front range.

[@Com1xguy]

As a kid in the 80s, I had a huge crush on Jennifer Grey after this movie.

[@w41duvernay]

Oddley enough, while shooting this movie her and Swayze didn't get along. They had to do Dirty Dancing a few years later.

[@jamalbryant8099]

She looks good on ferris bueller movie

[@chrisspratlin5656]

As a Gen X person who was 13 when this movie came out, I and many others my age considered it our movie. In the 1980's WWIII was not if but when for us. Every night on the news it was talked about, and the Soviet Union was waging war in Central America. Some years later after the wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed, they released some of their secrets and come to find out there was a plan just like the one in the movie. Later the Soviet leadership disregarded it because of the citizens in the US which are allowed to own military style weapons (2nd Amendment of the US constitution). The Soviet leaders realized that not only would they be fighting the military and police but much of the citizens in the US. This was the first PG-13 movie released because of the violence. The PG-13 rating was created for this movie. I at the time just happened to be 13 years old ;).

[@AddSerious]

I was 11 when this film came out and had a HUGE impact on me

[@Tushar_995]

You are 51 ? Damnn

[@emilianosintarias7337]

what kind of impact? it was just a fun cold war propaganda movie, not a documentary

[@markjohnson6194]

​@@emilianosintarias7337you weren't a kid in the 80s

[@johto]

About same age here, watched this when i was around 10 years old... i'm not even American, but this was intense movie and still one of my favourites 👍

[@victorclemente-mt4to]

Same here, I was 11 and we were still in the Cold War. As kids and young teenagers talking about WWIII and what might happen was common conversation and a shared fear. This movie brought to the big screen everything we were already imagining could happen. So it was a huge impact seeing it on screen.

[@justanobadi6655]

The best quote is from when they free the Prisoner camp. "We're all gonna die! Die standin' up!"

[@russellfalch7570]

In 84 I was 17 and had already signed up for the Army in 85 I was stationed in Colorado we watched Red Dawn like a training film almost weekly

[@allenruss2976]

Thank you ladies. This inspired a generation of us when it came out

[@tremilius]

inspired to what?

[@realisticthought1781]

@@tremiliuspatriotism

[@ScarriorIII]

"This is where I regret...not knowing how to do any of this." This is your wake up call, your chance to change that for the better. Seize it. And if anyone honestly wants help in pursuing that, I'm more than happy to provide what I know or direct you to professionals. This movie isn't fictional, its probable. Remember 2020? And by the way, those 4473 forms are real.

[@garyfullmer4353]

The 4473 forms are real. It's the form you fill out when you buy a.A firearm prior to the background, check. It does have some information on it, but even you're Social security number is optional. They would have to go to every sporting. Good store and go through every 4473 and then And then enter that information into a database and then Most of it's going to be useless, because people move, etc. Those forms are supposed to be kept in the store for a some amount of years I can't remember. But if you move or sell your firearm to somebody else or something that form is fairly useless, because the information on it is now Incorrect. Not rooting for us to have to fill out those forms or anything. But if we can just keep it to that at this point, it's not too bad, because At present, the information isn't computerized. It's just on paper forms locked in a file cabinets.In the store where you bought the firearm.

[@BatFan1]

Damn, in all these years I've seen this movie since the movie became a staple of cable tv, it took Achara pointing out that Jed and Matty's final moment together was at the swings their father took them as kids 😢

[@THEBaldEagle1]

Red Dawn is a masterwork John Milius was an underrated genius, and so much of his work, is so hard-hitting...that (much in the same way that so much of John Carpenter's works were)...sometimes take a while to find their audiences. As for Red Dawn...this has been one of my personal favorites, since I was a kid. Saw it in theaters. Loved it for its storyline and action back then. NOW? As I rewatch this, as an adult...it is for the performances (Patrick Swayze and C. Thomas Howell, and of course Harry Dean Stanton...were EXTREMELY good performances), and their character arcs...the cat and mouse strategy, and (of course) the uncanny-parallels, as to what is going on RIGHT NOW...in America. The way Powers Booth describes how " The Russians cut the Alaskan Pipeline"..."the Southern Border swung open, and the whole Cuban, etc armies come flooding in"..."food shortages and an allusion to cannibalism, in cities that have been taken over by the enemy"...to "Omaha, Cheyenne, etc simply being wiped off the map"... Well...THIS is not only VERY harrowing to even think of back in 1984, but (as America's Southern Border and ridiculous foreign policy going on right now, letting enemies and rogue regimes and oppressors...simply "get away with incursions"??? Is like a prophecy here, in 2024. The film...yes, is made to be entertainment...and structured as an ultimate "survival tale", revolving around "WHAT would our children do...if (God Forbid) this type of thing ever happened on our own soil"? John Milius ALSO was so good at his craft...that he ALSO knew to both: 1) cast the smaller/supporting roles to exceptional character actors. (Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton, William Smith, Lane Smith, Frank McRae, Vladek Shaybal, etc) in roles that they could make-memorable, with a touch of class...all PERFECTLY CAST. 2) and of course: Milius ALWAYS wrote the "sometimes people change" (aka: "The paradigm moment") for even the villain. Case in point: the GREAT Ron O'Neal (his performance WAS CERTAINLY Oscar Nomination Worthy...as much as Swayze's was...in every way). Known most as "SuperFly" in his heyday...Ron O'Neal STEALS the whole show, with his TRI-LINGUAL (he speaks English, Spanish AND Russian, often times IN THE SAME SCENE) and brings a sympathetic depth to a character that (if written for today's movies?...would be a one-dimensional heavy)...when he lowers his weapon and gives the "ok, pass thru hand signal" to Jed and Matt, and then drops his weapon, showing a "sign of relief that he has finally SAVED himself from becoming a monster that he wasn't meant to be"... That takes a BRILLIANT actor to be able to simply portray that...without dialogue. Red Dawn yanks your emotions around, as if they were on a rope. You genuinely FEEL..."hate, love, camaraderie, revenge, extreme sadness, exhilaration, humor, and lastly...PAIN (especially in the scenes where "Jed simply CAN'T pull the trigger, to execute his childhood friend Darryl (Mayor's Son/The Mole)...and again when "Toni" asks him to "put her out of her misery" while suffering from the helicopter attack and being mortally wounded. This is EXACTLY what a quality film is supposed to do. Make you FEEL for its characters, while you escape within the story. Leaving you with a sense of "What the Hell would I do...in this scenario. What type of character would I be or become or evolve into?" RED DAWN...9 Stars/out of 10. All the way. (I would have given it TEN...but the characters "Aardvark and Danny" were most-annoying. And they could have done without the "creepy AF Lea Thompson falling in love with Powers Booth (reverse Oedipus Complex?) mini-story. Otherwise? I find this film perfect.

[@Biorythym]

When I was 8 in August or September of 1984, my parents took me and my sister to the Drive-in (they had us get on the floorboard and threw a blanket over us to be cheap)...and watched a triple feature....Gremlins, Ghostbusters and Red Dawn (though eight year old me had a hard time staying awake during Red Dawn)

[@rubenlopez3364]

Oh man the blanket trick takes me back

[@markjohnson6194]

The blanket trick worked every time!!

[@TC_Smitty]

Yep, pretty much the same for me.

[@FosterTravis1071]

Unless you started laughing....​@markjohnson6194

[@momalwayssaiddontplayballi3973]

I had the same experience, but I was 9 and no Gremlins

[@richardbalducci4490]

“Oh My God………this is soooooo distressing!” Yes. Because this is YOUR Future‼

[@JayStar-yj9pu]

Not many people realized why Harry Dean Stanton appeared as a security guard in The Avengers... "Boys, AVENGE ME...!!"

[@ghoffmann821]

Son, you've got a condition.

[@mena94x3]

I loved him in One Magic Christmas (1985).

[@JayStar-yj9pu]

@@mena94x3 funny cuz I was JUST NOW thinking about his role in Repo Man which unfortunately 98% of American movie viewers aren't aware of...connects to quite a few substantial hits through the following decades

[@allyourmoney]

28:17 The famous "We're fighting wolverines" speech, where the commander takes a metaphor way too far & everyone just politely agrees with him.

[@leitheparsons1186]

I saw this in the theater and all the guys of my generation that I know talked about what they would do. The guys I know that watched this sat down and showed this to their kids.

[@w41duvernay]

AT LEAST you are watching the right one. BOOTH POWERS was amazing as the pilot.

[@johto]

good comment ! 👍

[@NefariousKoel]

Powers Booth was amazing in everything I saw him in. RIP.

[@mena94x3]

*Powers Boothe

[@anathardayaldar]

8:45 "Talk to the NPCs". LOL

[@wmason1961]

I was 23 when this came out. It helped form a lot of my 2nd Amendment opinions.

[@allenruss2976]

I was 18 and George Orwell had solidified mine yrs earlier

[@Ryan_Christopher]

This is what the 2A is for, not “in case for toppling your own government.”

[@allenruss2976]

@@Ryan_Christopher it's for that too

[@skyblu81]

I'm not crying you're crying my eyes are just sweating

[@crigarsha]

40:59 "that football training coming in clutch" When i was in boot camp (U.S. Army) and had to throw grenades...being a baseball player all of my young life, definitely helped a ton! Sports translates pretty well when it comes to being a good soldier! Great reaction you two! Wolverines!!!!

[@Easy_Skanking]

The main issue I had with this movie was that were not enough truck guns. I went to a rural high school on the 80's and there were gunracks in just about every pickup at the school. There were loads of hunting rifles and shotguns on display and the racks were often made in shop class. Firearms and hunting are just part of our culture.

[@williamjones6031]

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.

[@jamesharper3933]

Saw this when it came out at the theater. One of the things I love the most about this movie is the realism and great acting by some young up and coming stars. The man who played Patrick Swayze's dad and gave a very good performance was Harry Dean Stanton, who played Brett on Alien. Very nice reaction from both of you.

[@dabreal82]

The gal in the striped shirt almost made me fall in love when she said "talk to the NPCs" 😂

[@rogersjgregory]

I always liked this movie. The cast is crazy. You have Johnny and Baby from Dirty Dancing, this also put Charlie Sheen and C Thomas Howell on the map. Harry Dean Stanton gave such a good performance in a small role, which is so emotional and real. The way the movie starts is so brutal, and it doesn't let up, it hits the ground running, which is awesome. Modern movies, take note.

[@philmullineaux5405]

Powers Booth, a highly underrated actor. More famous for commercials and voice overs. In the amazing Bill Paxton movie, Frailty. And in tombstone!

[@thejamppa]

Way they made soviet tanks and other vehicles looking alike soviet that even person who knows these things bit better than average person, had to really few times to stop and look wait, what and think while how they did it... Since there wasn't any supply of these things available in 1984. The work they put on these things is simply amazing to me.

[@binboh]

This is a classic for me. I was a teenager when this came out. Whatever you do, DO NOT watch the remake. It doesn't compare to the original.

[@Ivy94F]

I haven’t seen the remake. To me, it felt like you can’t recreate the cold war fear from the 80s so the film wouldn’t have the same impact.

[@ShadowSonic2]

​@@Ivy94FIt was supposed to be about a Chinese Invasion of the West Coast but the Studio got cold feet and changed all the Chinese Flags to North Korea ones, hoping no one could tell the difference between Korean and Chinese

[@Ivy94F]

@@ShadowSonic2 Oooh yeah, I can see why they would get cold feet about that. Lol. NKorea is a much safer antagonist to use politically.

[@theylied1776]

As someone who was a kid in 1987, we were not afraid of the communists. Most people were hoping something happened... believe me. You have people that were prepping for this scenario since the mid-1960s.

[@IggyStardust1967]

I can't lie.... this movie is one of the main reasons ("The Day After" being another) that I learned every survival lesson I could back in the 80s. I was 17 when this movie came out.... and while it didn't "scare" me, it motivated me to learn how to survive should this happen. The threat was real back then.

[@w41duvernay]

YEAH, THAT DAY AFTER... ABC version mini series was scary, even Caused Reagan to seek a reduction in nuclear stockpile.

[@bettyb1313]

You have no idea how important this movie was in my youth!

[@laurakali6522]

Taps, St Elmo’s Fire, Ordinary People, Bad Boys, Mask, Teachers, The Falcon and the Snowman, and Less Than Zero are good ones that are on the more serious side of 80’s movies.

[@UrbanAnywhere]

Oh man, Taps. People need to watch that. Haven't seen that in decades

[@laurakali6522]

@@UrbanAnywhere and I forgot All the Right Moves.

[@EggBoi_8]

3:57 gun purchases after this movie came out was insane.

[@mattdavis7876]

I'm glad to see that this film has aged as well as it has! Fun fact: it was the first film to receive at PG-13 rating.

[@FosterTravis1071]

​@yt45204depends on how you remember things, to me... these "Russians" weren't all that civilized.

[@TeeSpicerReacts]

Funny thing is Patrick Swayze (Charlie Sheen brother) and Jennifer Grey (the girl who died with the grenade) acted in Dirty Dancing together 3 years after Red Dawn!

[@ShawNshawN]

Fun fact. The guy playing the KGB officer in the end was an ex CIA Russian expert. On set he kept away from the kids and made sure they were scared of him, which comes off really well on set. All the kids loved filming it as they got full army training for the film. When they shot the snow scene with the weapons, they almost got frost bite from the gun firing in your hand as it transfers the cold to your fingers.

[@JayStar-yj9pu]

I always laughed at the Soviet soldier who misread the state park sign. Also, Powers Boothe's best roles were as Col. Tanner and later in Tombstone as Curly Bill

[@mena94x3]

His Curly Bill was awesome.

[@JayStar-yj9pu]

@@mena94x3 wanna learn a little Hollywood secret?

[@JayStar-yj9pu]

@@mena94x3 pull up Col Tanner's death in Red Dawn. Listen closely to his final words. Then...rewatch Curly Bill's demise. Tell me what you see!? 😎

[@mena94x3]

@@JayStar-yj9pu He couldn't shoot straight.

[@JayStar-yj9pu]

@@mena94x3 Col Tanner died while marking the enemy tank for the U.S. tank to destroy and said (because he was Air Force), "shoot straight for once, you Army pukes". Curly Bill ordered his fellow Cowboys off so he could kill Wyatt but couldn't hit him once until Wyatt blasted him during his crazed moment of "Reckoning". It's what I call Abstract Inversion (A.I.) and all Hollywood actors do it. In a way, Boothe did this again in The Avengers 2012 by ordering the nuke strike on Manhattan which Iron Man then diverted from hitting the mark. All actors do it...

[@brianoh7823]

I've watched this movie a thousand times. Very patriotic, inspiring movie that reminds us why the 2nd Amendment is so important. Your reactions and commentaries made it seem like I was watching again for the 1st time and saw perspectives I never realized. Good job! You two vibe well and hope to see more Achara, Vivian combo reactions in the future. 👏👏👏

[@mikematusek4233]

5 years before this movie came out, friends and I talked what if this happened. We were college students if Flagstaff, Az. and had it all planned out. This was filmed in the Las Vegas, NM area.

[@emilianosintarias7337]

At what point did you realize it was never going to happen?

[@barrywentworth4472]

​@@emilianosintarias7337nothing wrong with being prepared

[@emilianosintarias7337]

@@barrywentworth4472 Sure but the higher priority should be the higher likelihood. What actually happened is your own military took your rights as friends and neighbors were sent to get maimed for large corporations in the middle east and central asia.

[@John_Locke_108]

Saw this in the theater when it came out. I was 8 years old. My 11 year old sister took me. Been one of my favorite movies ever since. Finally got my wife to watch it a couple of years ago. She made fun of me for crying at the end.

[@TheNichq]

Back when us kids would see movies like this in the theatre lol.

[@John_Locke_108]

@@TheNichq We actually thought it was PG. Didn't realize it was it was PG-13 until the movie started. I actually went out to ask the person at the ticket counter.

[@goaway152]

exact same story. yusssss

[@juliant]

Horse riding 101... Get on the horse... Stay on the horse.🐎 I know, I'm a great teacher 👨‍🏫🤣

[@paulcarfantan6688]

Lol...can`t argue with that.

[@goji8416]

Keep horse alive... Horse keep you alive.

[@jeffburnham6611]

More relevant during the 1980's when it came out, as there definitely existed hostility between the West and the East during the Cold War. It was interesting that they mentioned going into sporting good stores to look at the 4473 forms. These are the real life forms every gun buyer fills out when buying firearms from a store or licensed dealer.

[@amberaustin3243]

I’ve seen this movie a few times. I’m glad you girls recognize the value of our boys in the military. 🇺🇸

[@jatilq]

This came out when I was 12, was such a badass movie then.

[@mena94x3]

Still is.

[@nothernmonkey8612]

NEXT OF KIN is a good Patrick swayze movie I think it was 1 of the first movie's Liam neeson did in the USA

[@mena94x3]

One of my favorite childhood movies. My brother and I loved to watch this, then dress up, put on some face paint and act it out in the neighborhood, often times involving other kids in the area. We freaking loved it. His name is Matt, mine starts with a J, so we felt an extra special connection with Matt & Jed.

[@Aaron-io8vw]

Stuff like this happened in real history tpo. During World War 2, there Jewish brothers, The Bielski's went into the forests of Belarus, gathered as many families and Youngblood they could, set up a hidden village in the forest and lead a guerrilla warfare campaign against the Germans eventually Hopkinton with other non Jewish partisan groups and the Soviet Red army Teenage Phillipino guerrilla lead by a young school teacher made life help for occupying Japanese troops during the war as well

[@bearcatXF]

> As an excuse for murdering innocent Polish women and children, here is what Robert Bielski, Tuvia Bielski's son, said: "The Bielskis were not in Naliboki in May of '43," he said, echoing some politically correct historians who believe that the partisans did not arrive in the area until August of that year. "But," he added, "even if it were true, which I know it's not, the 128 people are in no way close to the millions of people that the Polish people herded towards the Germans so they could be extinguished. I believe it's just consistent Polish antisemitism, and the Poles are sloughing off their own crimes of being an enemy of the Jews during World War II" The Bielskis would continue crimes, like bilking a Polish Holocaust survivor. Aron Bell, the name Bielski chose when he moved to the US in 1951, the 80-year-old and his wife Henryka stand accused of a bizarre plot - kidnapping their neighbor, Janina Zaniewska, 93, putting her in a nursing home in a remote area of Poland and stealing her life savings of $300,000. Not this time because he was caught, but for murdering innocent villagers, they were never held accountable. On May 8, 1943, a massacre of Poles that lived in the village of Naliboki took place. Partisan Soviet Bolsheviks committed this atrocity, members of the so-called Bielski-Otriad, which formed a Jewish partisan unit operating in the Nalibocka Forest. As a result of this treacherous attack, 128 Polish civilians were killed in cold blood.< See: Defiance, the Bielksi brothers, heroes or bandits? Does it make a difference when they serve a purpose in Hollywood?

[@mena94x3]

*hell

[@alancarter41]

Excellent reaction. My wife is Ukrainian and was born when it was part of the Soviet Union. She really identified with the partisans and told me all Soviet children were taught to be partisans in school, learning to use weapons and make improvised bombs. And now she has relatives actually living that reality in Ukraine.

[@ZapRowsdower47]

This is the difference between soft city kids and hard country, glad im a country boy 💪🏽🇺🇸💪🏽

[@kimmypfeiffer9130]

i'm glad i'm a country girl...

[@rubenlopez3364]

This scenario even if unlikely is one of the main reasons the 2nd amendment exists, were one of the few countries were the average citizens are well armed enough to fight back for a bit and cause chaos to the enemy

[@orangeandblackattack]

The one part of the invasion I didnt see working well was them coming up thru Texas. There are too many armed citizens and military bases..it would have been a longer battle in real life.

[@bad-people6510]

@yt45204 My nearest depot of weapons and ammo is about five feet to my left. It's not likely to be seized by a hostile force before I can get to it.

[@paulcarfantan6688]

@yt45204 You should be glad, since that means he won`t ever be handed divorce papers :)

[@rickpat-x9u]

to those that say this can't happen.... *FIND VIDEO OF ONLY 200 MEXICANS RUSHING BORDER IN EL PASO & GETTING THRU AN ENTIRE UNIT OF NATL GUARD TROOPS, NOT CAUGHT UNTIL WELL INSIDE USA---- NOW WHAT IF THEY HAD BEEN ARMED & FIRED FIRST?* This year, both FBI DHS Dirs, before Congress, said over 100 on "Terror Watch List" have crossed border and still at large in USA, & estimate cartels have shipped over 10,000 guns & explosives thru the drug routes during "border crisis"

[@TheNichq]

One of my favorite movies of all time. Anytime its on TV, Im watching it.

[@mikefetterman6782]

Keep in mind that in many rural areas in the 1980s, it was mandatory that at age 12, all boys (and girls interested in hunting) take a gun/hunter safety course. Teaching all the dangers and responsibilities of gun ownership, and many of them had already been hunting legally since they were able to walk. This was one of the main reasons why we were never attacked by foreign forces knowing that most of the citizenry was armed and knew how to shoot.

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

Better than the remake by far. The RPGs in this movie sounds like the Katyusha rockets

[@johto]

yeah, and of course slower and all those fireball explosions, but that looks better in a film than the real thing usually.

[@Billy-zv6gv]

Those good ol' folks yelling one of Our Country's "National" Anthems with their last words was so inspirational then! & now! Thank you for sharing these great memories! 🩸♥️🤍💙🎵

[@joemaxwell3902]

*sigh* That wasn't the National Anthem. FFS....🤦‍♂

[@jowbloe3673]

@@joemaxwell3902 - An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, . . . (Wikipedia) Didn't say *National* Anthem, but I would certainly say that *America the Beautiful* is an anthem of America.

[@terrrell7798]

44:12 for those wondering Jed and his brother did end WWIII, that day on the battlefied in that small town.

[@74vman]

I was like 9 when I saw this in '84. After seeing it I would be playing outside yelling "WOLVERINES!!!!!!!" lol

[@jinyatta4103]

As a young man, I don't know if it was Red Dawn or Howard the Duck that made me love Lea Thompson.

[@batbrick3949]

6:55 And this is a thinly-veiled argument against registries of privately owned firearms.

[@hanng1242]

1. You know John Milius wrote (or was at least one of the writers of) the script because it shows familiarity with American gun laws. 2. It is worse, though. An actual registry isn't needed, because the 4473s must be retained for 20 years. Evidently, Col. Bella knew about this because he sent the soldier to the sporting goods store where the paperwork would have been kept. Obviously, people can move, so one's address on the 4473 might not be one's current address, but it was a pretty good bet that rural Coloradoans would probably shop locally and stick around where they grew up.

[@batbrick3949]

@@hanng1242True. I like how the movie makes this point naturally and without preaching to the audience.

[@blueeyedcowboy8291]

15-18 year old teenagers in 1984, were more like 22-25 year olds in this time period. They damn sure would survive longer than anyone that age from this generation. Not putting them down, it's just how the times have changed. I know, I have 2 teenage boys that know guns and they still wouldn't survive like these characters did.

[@ghostlee6434]

You do know that teens lied about their ages and served in several wars?there is documentation of boys as young as 14 serving in world War 1 and 2

[@joshuacampbell7493]

This is my favorite top 3 movies of Patrick Swayze.

[@kytom89]

This is actually a very well thought out script and an amazing movie. The human dimension of the movie is very moving. And you're ladies' reaction is the best I've seen on this movie.

[@asian-americanwithanopinio8954]

In "The Outsiders' P.Swayze is "Roberts" brother and instead of Charlie Sheen you get Rob Lowe as the third brother.

[@lidlett9883]

This movie literally sums up a true statement made by President Ronald Reagan. "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free"

[@petersabourin1276]

3 years before Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey starred in Dirty Dancing together. A much different film lol.

[@markcarpenter6020]

The fact so many US citizens are armed(combined with our location)is one of the reasons we have suffered so few military invasions in our history.

[@MichaelPallada]

The fact that you guys love guns has nothing to do with you not being invaded. The fact that you're national army is huge, and you have only 2 neighbouring countries (Canada and Mexico) is the reason no one has ever tried to. Take all the guns away from the civilians and you are just as safe from foreign invasion as you are now.

[@markcarpenter6020]

@@MichaelPallada you are incorrect on several points. We have actually been invaded several times in our history by everyone from Brittan to Canada and Mexico (to be fair we have also occasionally invaded both Canada and Mexico). And while our location is the reason we weren't invaded during WW2 documents found after the Cold War stated specifically our population being armed is the main reason Russia considered the idea of an invasion unfeasible. And we don't love guns we respect them. And understand they were both instrumental to the founding of our nation and the last resort in resisting oppression.

[@MichaelPallada]

@@markcarpenter6020 I meant in the last 100 years. After that maybe once, and that wasn't even mainland USA. And you might respect weapons, but there more than plenty of Americans who are more then trigger happy.

[@markcarpenter6020]

@@MichaelPallada actually most people who are trigger happy are illegal gun owners. The only person legal gun owners are likely to use the weapon on is themselves. And I'm also speaking of within the last hundred years. Well mexico barely goes outside that the last time they invaded was just before the 1920s. However there was tension with Canada up till the 1940s. The US even had plans to invade Canada for a time and vice versa. Also the Cold War only ended around 40 years ago. People have a short memory these days it seems. Thank God our founding fathers were smart enough to make owning weapons a right that could not be easily taken away. Besides that doesn't even include the problems of wild animals. Large parts of the US are wilder than people from other countries (and even a lot of people in our country) realize.,.

[@drcornelius8275]

This movie caught the feeling of most of us then..... at least the people I knew. My father was very similar to the one in the camp.... hard, but taught us everything including right from wrong. We were strong, hunters, very patriotic, and wouldn't think twice about fighting for our country. Nothing like kids today...... and people seemed so much more "grown up" at younger ages. I feel sorry for kids today and what they're going to have....

[@technofilejr3401]

As a dude in his mid 50's it sounds like your father taught you well. But according to today's popular wisdom, your father didn't properly teach you to be in touch with your feelings, eat vegan and use the proper pronouns. LOL.

[@josephvandiver6912]

So glad y'all got it. So many reactors trash this movie.

[@reconsoldier135]

If you think the kids in this movie seemed young for this situation don’t forget that 17 year olds can join the US military with their parents permission and then they can be sent into a war zone

[@ghostlee6434]

I was 17 when I joined, my mother signed off on it.

[@jasonbeatty831]

Harry Dean Stanton was incredible in everything he was in.

[@renee7407]

This movie was terrifying at the time, during the Cold War. Always stuck with me.

[@Tr0nzoid]

You appreciated this more than I expected.

[@stevendavis9655]

To all those saying that this was the first film to receive a PG-13 rating, sorry. That is wrong. It was the first film to be released with a PG-13 rating. The first film to receive that rating from the MPAA was The Flamingo Kid. It wasn't released until December of 1984, making it the fifth PG-13 movie released, following this, The Woman in Red, Dreamscape, and Dune.

[@stephenmiller2544]

the dad was played by Harry Dean Stanton, the most underrated actor in Hollywood. he's been in everything from, Alien and Repoman, to Dillenger, and the Avengers, his IMDB credits are pages long.

[@philmullineaux5405]

What a movie, what a director, a Gonzo director from the end of Vietnam, teamed up with milius, Spielberg, Coppola and lucas, continuously! Harry Dean Stanton, made all movies, from silent until green mile!

[@DNulrammah]

In the early 70s, Milinus was a screenwriter. He was the one who added the famous "I know what your thinking" dialog in "Dirty Harry".

[@NarnianRailway]

An Australian series of books in 1990s followed the "Red Dawn" theme with Aussie teens fighting a similar invasion of Australia with the teen girls playing a larger role. The 2010 film is "Tomorrow, When The War Began." A nice movie, dramatic but more limited action with an Aussie perspective. Fabulous and energetic reaction to the awesome "Red Dawn." 🏅 Cinepals !!!

[@Xis-ql5pj]

Us old farts who were teens then, the cold war was real for us. And this was a historical and scholastic exercise of teaching basic warfare tactics

[@kimmypfeiffer9130]

STILL IS! WOVERINES!

[@mrd2581]

This movie is a classic. The 2012 reboot wasn't bad either. Another good one that involves hostile take over is Toy Soldiers 1991 with Sean Astin from the Goonies. Its a really good movie with a lot of child star cameos

[@randallanderson4560]

Will Wheaton was the kid who got killed in that movie, if I'm not mistaken?

[@mrd2581]

@@randallanderson4560 that's correct

[@Ryan_Christopher]

Reboot was terrible. As if North Korea could be an existential threat.

[@goaway152]

he reboot was a comedy... that how bad it was.

[@armynurseboy]

the reboot was horrendous.

[@javelldunn3379]

Because we live here I love that line

[@joshmarsh1]

Jed and Matt's father was played by actor and musician Harry Dean Stanton. Other notable roles of his are in Pretty in Pink and the original Alien film.

[@raybernal6829]

Just an EPIC movie at the time. Reagan's first term was coming to an end and patriotism was at an all time high. I was 21 and loved this movie ... A trivia note Red Dawn was first movie to get a PG- 13 rating. 😊