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As a suggestion would you or you and the lady with you together on See Jane Go Tv react to the Television Series on Paramount called Yellowstone. It truely is a Break Away Hit. And you have time to catch up before the next season is released.
I've never posted a reply here, but that's exactly what I was thinking when the video started. Damn! Great work.
The intro skit had me shouting
WOLVERINE!!!!!.😅👍😋
Enjoyed this in HS when it came out.
Hey bro the beginning of this video is awesome. Funny as hell.
It about time one of the CZcams reactors react this strong 80s classic
Yeah! It's a great movie
@@JVsGalacticAdventures It is not a great movie. It is pure cold war propaganda. There was never any chance of the Soviets or Cubans invading. We're the invaders, the occupiers, the murderers. We have been doing it since the US/Mexican war.
Great intro! This movie had a star studded cast with Patrick Swayze ( Ghost, Dirty Dancing ), Charlie Sheen ( Major League, Two and a Half Men ), C Thomas Howell ( The Outsiders, E.T. ), Jennifer Grey ( Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller's Day Off ), Lea Thompson ( Back to the Future, Some Kind of Wonderful ). Some of the movies you should consider watching is: The Outsiders 1983 ( This one also has a star studded cast ), and Taps 1981
Yes, "The Outsiders" had Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell and Darren Dalton (all reunited in this film) plus plenty of other budding young stars.
After The Outsiders, Swayze did "Uncommon Valor" which is definitely worth a watch. Then this. And then mostly macho films, with an occasional romantic drama thrown in. He was very good.
Lea Thompson was also in Howard the duck, based on the comic book series from marvel comics, and george Lucas was the producer of the film
Definitely Taps.
Powers Boothe, Tombstone.
@@DougRayPhillips Outsiders also had Tom Cruise
When this movie came out, I was 16 - the very age that some of these characters were. It was the height of the Cold War and a lot of us thought there was a good chance that something like this was going to happen - after all, we'd had a war every few years (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam) and it was about time for another one, we thought. This film was visceral for me, especially since I had a brother just two years younger. I am now 53 ears old and this will always be a special movie for me. Great career boosters (Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Lea Thompson, C. Thoams Howell, Charlie Sheen, Powers Booth.)
Watched this in the theater when it came out. I was 19 or 20 and back then we were almost expecting something like this to actually happen. Thanks for showing a lot of the same emotions that we all showed. This is why the original version will always be better. It resonated. The new one doesn't.
I really liked this movie. Can't believe this was actually a possibility
@@JVsGalacticAdventures It was at the height of the cold war between U. S. and the USSR. A lot of kids at the time grew up thinking that nuclear war was just around the corner, with biological war running a distant second. It wasn't really discussed or even really worried about. It just was. There's a whole lot of surviving the apocalypse fiction from the 80s and some of it is surprisingly good.
@@jeffandrhondaweaver477 back in the 80's, a group of us late teens and early 20 year olds actually contemplated heading to the mountains to hole up should the threat of Nuclear War come to fruition. We even had an exit plan, and a place to hole up deep in the Medicine Bow National Forest of WY.
@@cleekmaker00 Haha, I just shared my experience that after seeing this movie my friends and I all had bugout plans, a place to meet up, and we all knew what we were expected to bring! We even had plans for how we'd get back to get the horses. We would actually go on Red Dawn camping trips. 😂😂. It's good to know we weren't the only ones that took it so seriously! I was over in the Black Hills. 😂😂.
Yes, a lot was expected to happen in the 80s! While different timeline, especially the Soviet Union going underground and hiding. They’re waiting for the right moment to come out of hiding💯💯 jus my theory
This movie came out the summer before my senior year in high school. It's important to remember this came out before the end of the cold War when the fear of nuclear war was still big. I lived in very rural middle of America not far from where the movie was filmed. After seeing the movie I, along with all of my friends, made bugout plans. We had a designated place to meet up if anything should happen and we all knew what we should bring with us if we could. We would even go on Red Dawn camping trips. Of course, they were mostly fun, but we did take guns (we always took guns anyway, lol) and sometimes we packed out on horseback.
Yes, we were a bit dumb and naive, but the movie really resonated with us and because of the filming location the movie looked like home to us.
I saw it when I was 13 on VHS it made a prepper out of me ,I had a go bag made up that Very weekend after seeing it
Classic film. I remember when Red Dawn 2012 came out, it did not live up to my expectations. Red Dawn 84 is a classic❤️
THAT INTRO HAD ME CRYING OF LAUGHTER😭😭
Hahaha thanks!!! It was fun to make. Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏾
@@JVsGalacticAdventures loving your reactions lately🔥🔥
This is why we have the 2nd Ammendment, its not just for hunting or when you are being robbed. There may be a time we have to fight an Army whether it be Foreign or Domestic.
Meaning, there'll be a lot of blue-on-blue.
Yes sir. All enemies foreign or domestic. United we stand …divided we fall.
All right, but you people bring that on a extremis. Shoot in schools, working places, public places, always on un-armed innocent people or for racist reasons. So far for "domestic".
When this movie came out the Cold War was still going. Freaked out A lot of people!
This was great man, much Respect🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Its still going today dude, wake up.
Robert was all used up. He went out with his boots on, like a God damn man.
I think Robert stood in front of the chopper because he lost respect for even his own life and had nothing left but anger. Crazy that no one else STILL hasn't reacted to this movie! When I first saw it, it was the moment when Jed was trying to keep Matt alive (or in denial) that did me in. I LOVED your reaction! Subscribed!
I was really surprised when i searched for a Red Dawn reaction and yours was the only one. This was one of the best movies from the 80's.
This is the most important film every American should watch. I saw this as a kid and we watch it every Thanksgiving after dinner. It's a very scary and possible reality. Whether it be Russia, China, or even our own government. It's always important for us to prepare. Don't go crazy, of course, but keep it in the back of your mind. All this political crap is petty BS. I pray that we never have to see anything like this, but if it were to ever happen, lets pray for each other and fight back with a vengeance. May God bless this nation and everyone of us.
I think you just started a thanksgiving tradition in my house. Thanks for the wonderful idea. And yes of course we will fight back. We’re Americans. 🇺🇸
@@yankees29 Always.. and if there is ever a time something like this happens and we meet on the field, I got your back. WOLVERIENS!!!
So glad you reacted to this one. This movie sometimes feels like it was forgotten. Especially since the (poorly executed from what i hear) remake.
One thing the remake did better, was an explanation on how the kids leveled up, so to speak. O thought the remake was ok. But the original is a must watch classic.
Fun Fact, in the remake, China was supposed to be the invading force. Then the Chinese Government complained that they didn't want to be portrayed as the villains, so it was changed to North Korea.
I really identified with this movie. I had just graduated from an American high school on an air force base in England. We actually talked about stuff like this all the time.
22:30 those are Spetnaz, Russian Special Forces
43:06 I think like you said he had given up and was thinking he had no way out and even if he did all his family was dead so there was no point being an Orphan, he and Danny (The kid that made it out) were the youngest being only 15 or 16
As they're dying, Jed says, "Daddy will be here soon."..
Wolverines!
Wolverines!!!
*Wolveriiinesss!!!*
The Wolverines were my actual school mascot growing up, which always made this a bit special for me when I saw it.
There is a iconographic significance to them being called wolverines. Wolverines kill bears. And the Russian symbol is the Bear.
@8:09, a coworker of mine is from Vietnam. Her dad was a military officer for South Vietnam during the war. He was put in a camp like this after the American withdrawal from that country.
Eventually he got out and took his family to America. They were boat people when I see this scene I can’t help but tear up thinking of what he must have went through.
just saw this movie today and it was a tear jerker
The emotional stuff and the family stuff is based on real stories of Russian partisans fighting the nazis and dealing with reprisals against their families. Kids as young as 15 fought as guerillas in WW2
In the film, all the Russian tanks, vehicles, and aircraft weren't real. They were made and built just for the movie. During filming, the CIA got reports that there were Soviet tanks roaming around American streets during the time of the Cold War. While two tanks were touring Los Angeles, the crew were actually followed by two CIA agents who wanted to know where in the hell did these Soviet tanks came from and why they were there. A lot of confusion going on.
I think the helicopters were swedish that they added stuff to and the tanks and APC were also european stuff with props
There was also problems with the paratrooper scene. Some of them got blown of coarse wearing soviet uniforms and carrying fake guns. Lots of 911 calls that day. This movie holds a special place in my heart. I was a kid living on an army base in Germany with my dad guarding the wall when it came out.
@@jackburton3701 Actually, the helicopters were built off of French Puma helicopters.
@@jonathansmith8672 AH. Thanx.
LOVE THE ORIGINAL.
Robert death was his final heroic stand against his oppressors. In a moment of pure bloodlust with nothing left to lose. He just wanted to go out in the blaze of glory.
“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” ~ Admiral Yamamoto of the Japanese Navy during WWII.
Great reaction! I remember seeing this on TV a lot when I was a kid. Great acting by Swayze and the actor from Alien.
Thanks! I really liked the movie. Got me in the feels 🙂😢
John Hurt?
Road House (1989) Patrick Swayze as a bouncer who gives good life lessons.
I was thinking about reacting to that one! Thanks for the suggestion
I grew up near where this was filmed alongside navajos and Apaches and we locals that know the terrain so well an invasion would be a joke.
Thanks for doing an incredible job on the reaction to Red Dawn. Personally I've been waiting for this, and I very much enjoyed watching it. I don't know why more people are not doing reactions to it, I think it's a timeless movie that was really well done, especially for its time. I will say there may be 2 difficulties in getting views on this one here - 1: Your channel primarily revolves around Disney/Cartoon/Fantasy movies, which means likely that many of your subscribers may not be so much into the type of movie like Red Dawn - that being the biggest hit, and 2 that by now, Red Dawn is likely mostly forgotten by most that go on You-Tube hunting for reactions to movies. I'd say don't let any of that bug you, you did a great job on the reaction, and I for one really appreciate someone finally doing one for the movie! Cheers mate :)
RW propaganda deserves to be forgotten.
The highschool I went to had the wolverines as a mascot and on noncompetitive marching band years they would always end the halftime show with the theme of Red Dawn and all the students would shout WOLVERINES with the first in the air
I was thinking about the opening scene in this movie today. It really stuck with me. Horrifying and realistic
@@JVsGalacticAdventures with all the threats of ww3 that have been going around over the last couple of years, it's actually starting to make sense to have talks with family and friends about what to incase of invasion/nuclear strike.
Sad it's come to this.
My college mascot was Wolverines
This is probably the best reaction video I’ve seen to date. Thanks for the great content JV.
Man in the High Castle - Alternate ending to World War II, where the Nazi and Japan conquered most of the world. With North America divided between the Greater Nazi Reich along the east coast and the Japanese Pacific States on the west coast. With a neutral zone between the two powers.
So many ppl go into this movie expecting a cheesy 80s action flick, but its actually a brutal drama of what an insurgency is often like.
@22:08, fun fact this Spetnaz officer is played by the late actor and bodybuilder William E. Smith. If you ever watch Conan the Barbarian, he plays Conan’s father.
Prior to acting Smith was an intelligence analyst and interpreter for the Us Air Force. He spoke fluent Russian as well as 3 other languages.
So as a child of the cold war I saw the movie the day after, then mad max the road warrior, then this movie, you had this darkness throw at all the times. I remember being 13 watching this and thinking ok this is the Future so I got my mom to buy me a 22. And a shotgun from a pawn shop and spent a lot of time in the woods getting ready. You can't understand how dark everything felt at times as a kid in the 80s
One of my cousin’s sons likes the remake over this. I just laugh and tell him “Cousin you are too young to remember the Cold War. This movie felt pretty damned real back then.”
One of my favs as a kid!
Robert was buying time for his friends to get away.
If child soldiers can learn how to fire RPGs and AK-47s I'm probably sure a bunch of good old boys have a pretty good grasp on how weapons work.
Growing up in the 80's this was a real fear for us. Still a great movie.
WOLVERINES!!
fun fact Red Dawn 1984 is the first movie to get a PG-13 rating also the kids got real militia training and that's why they shoot so accurate
3:40 caught me off guard there💀💀👴🏻
@15:43, JV you have to remember growing up where they did in America all of these kids already knew how to handle weapons. So learning how to handle larger military weapons wouldn’t be too difficult.
It’s just prior to this they only shot at things that couldn’t shoot back. So their tactics were not the smoothest but it appears they got a lot of practice.
WELL DONE🤩
Thanks for letting me "re-watch' this again. I'm glad you liked it. It's been a favorite of mine as well.
Harry Dean Stanton(RIP) was one of the best character actors I've ever seen. Deep portfolio, including
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.
Speaking of "The Green Mile". Stephen King's GOAT with Tom Hanks will give you a good cry. Have lots of tissue.
JV, loved your reactions, Yes I still remember this movie from way back in 84, it was always one of my favorites and most of the actors went on to great careers . Patrick Swayze & Jennifer Grey would reunite in "Dirty Dancing" 1987 classic. Lea Thompson would move on to Back to the Future & Charlie Sheen would be in Platoon & many more... Wolverines!
This movie turned me into a along with the fact I live in hurricane and tornado country into somewhat of a prepper. I'm ready to rock within an hour.
Thank you for reacting to an iconic 80s movie!
Just rewatched this last night with my wife. I saw it in 1985 on HBO when I was 17. Despite being an 80’s kid my wife never saw it.
This movie ain’t King Lear or Hamlet. But it still hits just as hard today as it did then. The director really captured the zeitgeist of the times. Now thinking about what is going on in the Ukraine it hits even harder.
I found out yesterday that Ukrainian forces are writing “Wolverines” on the burned out frames of destroyed Russian tanks and trucks.
Life imitating art!
One of my favorite movies
Just found your channel and subscribed after watching your reaction to Red Dawn. Loved it. I have a couple of suggestions for you if you haven't seen them yet. Sneakers from 1992 with Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley. And Executive Decision from 1996 with Kurt Russell and Halle Berry. It's a pretty good action drama.
Canada was invaded in this movie too. Time for the Canadians to shine
This is classic 1980’s American cinema. When i was a kid we all wanted to be Wolverines. Lol
The cast had an 8 week training camp with real Green Beret and real weapons to learn their military skills. Also, I remember reading at the time that the plot for the movie was taken from actual CIA and war college studies of actual US weaknesses. 😳. We took it seriously!!
I saw this in theaters. We had to sneak in because my mom wouldn't buy us tickets. So, we got tix to some PG movie that was playing at simply crossed into the Red Dawn theater. This was back in the days when parents would drop you off at a movie and come back 3-4 hours later to pick you up.
basic training lasts at most 8 weeks. You get to learn to operate all kinds of weapon systems in that period of time. Not terribly unrealistic to a bunch of kids that are used to being in the woods and can observe the tactics of their enemy.
Man, the skit at the begining. Rad as heck
One thing I try to keep in mind about these teenagers is that they don't go to school, they don't go to work. 24x7 they are trying to learn how to use the weapons, learn about tactics. Full time. IN a life threatening situation. So that may be how they were able to level up a bit quicker than would be expected.
Thank you for not being afraid to share your emotions.
This is quality. The intro is quality. It’s quality.
Director John Milius is best known for Conan the Barbarian but my favorite of his movies is The Wind and the Lion. After RED DAWN Hollywood banished him. Years before Cancel Culture or getting Woke became known he was the first to get cancelled.
Why did he get banished? Red Dawn is amazing?
@@JVsGalacticAdventures Many in Hollywood considered him to be a very far-right winged person and his personality rubbed liberals of Hollywood the wrong way. There is an excellent documentary called MILIUS playing on YOU TUBE now with interviews with many of his fellow directors talking about him and his career.
@@keithbrown8490 This was the first movie to get pg-13 rating. Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom had a magic heart removal, this has splatters of a little blood. Deserved PG but Milius was not liked in Hollywood
Gritty, tough movie. I was 11 when this came out, and while I was younger than the students in the movie, this felt like a real possibility. Me and my friends would talk about what we’d do if the Soviets invaded. This movie freaked a lot of people out, but it is really entertaining and well done.
A lot of reactors just stick to the big titles, very few branch out into new territory, so thank you, because this is an amazing film and it's realistic and it stays relevant.
(I think sometimes reactors see kids on 80s movie posters and assume "this is a kids movie". But "kids movie" back then just meant: Kids as the lead actors.)
Haha, sniper in the intro didn't know the enemy was right behind you.
THANK YOU! One of my all time favorites. Another one with some of these same young actors is The Outsiders. You’d love it !!
LOVED the skit. Great job :) Yes, make more reactions, lol.
I saw this movie when I was a teenager and it probably warped my psyche. It was the Cold War and everybody half-expected it to get hot, and this was the way I wanted to go out. Thankfully it hasn't come to that :)
The remake could have been good if they'd used the Chinese communists as the bad guys but China's a huge market for movies, so I believe they decided to go with North Koreans instead, which was stupid.
Awesome reaction! You should see the Australian version of Red Dawn called “Tomorrow, When the War Began!” It’s really good.
Amazingly timely movie 7/13/2022.
Legendary intro 😂
Hahaha thanks
One of the quintessential movies of my youth. Still holds up.
In regards to the time jump, in the beginning of the movie they showed the football score. Football season in highschool starts in August. Then when you were talking about the time jump, it went to November. So it actually was about 3 or 4 months. They could have become more proficient with the firearms by that time.
@33:45, throughout the movie you can see Colonel Bella begin to be disillusioned with the concept great Socialist Revolution. He was a true believer in Communism spreading across the world.
But as he told his Soviet counterpart “I’m usually on the side of the insurgence (I.e. freedom fighters) but now I’m like you a policeman (or invader) “
In that moment he was aiming the rifle at Jed and Matty was the first time he saw one of them face to face. He could see that not only were the wounded, he saw that they were just a bunch of kids.
That scene where the planes are bombing the hills.... That was cool.
My only beef with that scene is why the army would send out a U.S. tank by itself.
If I'm not mistaken, there would be at the very keast a platoon of tanks (4 tanks)
The reason this film didn't get reviewed or people talk about it much is the USA doesn't win, the heroes don't survive, the reality of it was too much for many to accept it. It's a gritty grounded story that because it didn't give a happy ever after failed to be accepted...
It's actually a very good film - done well. The remake isn't a patch on this one...
Thanks for reacting. Red Dawn is an oldie, but a goodie!
The whole point of a movie reaction is it being the FIRST time watching! And Finally a great reaction! 👏🏼 nobody want to see people doing a review on movies they’ve seen already
My entire generation did drills in elementary school for nukes or invasions. We were told everyday we could die and to be prepared. That it would be nukes or Russian invasions or both. And other generations wonder why Gen X are the way we are... Shout out to my Gen X brother and sisters
I was searching for a reaction to the classic 2010 film "Red" and this came up, So close. If you haven't seen it please do, the sequel "Red 2" as well. It has a stellar cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban and Mary-Louise Parker. Catherine Zeta Jones is in the sequel, what more could you ask for.
It's time to get the pig.
Yeah, there's a lot about this movie that's not exactly realistic.
The biggest circle you gotta square is how the hell America could suffer a nationwide sneak attack.
Or that there was a force large enough on this earth to successfully invade, conquer, and KEEP control of a country the size of a continent WHILE dealing with a famine in their own country.
Granted, they DID indeed lose the war, but just that they'd be suicidal enough to TRY something like that.
What kind of movies do you like for recommendations? Also you and failwhale started watching SG-1 at the same time as me so it’s been pretty awesome watching at the same time
Red dawn is my favorite movie of all time
It was harder than you thought but you did good.
Love this movie. Really wish hollywood or netflix or whoever would explore this idea more. With what's happening in Ukraine at the moment, I'm sure we'll see more stuff like this.
Thank you for reacting to this movie. Very good review and I agree with everything you touched on. I would add that I don't know why Powers Boothe doesn't use his smoke grenade on the tank at first so they could all escape.
Best intro. That looked fun :)
Don't worry, in the end Caroline escapes to the city!
It's in my top 5 favorite movies.
8:06 I only get South Park flashbacks now💀💀💀😂
Best documentary ever.
Its very easy to mock the premise. However its based on a 1950s extended period war game which explains it. Consider it like an alternative history story. A bunch of things had to happen to lead to a central american/soviet/cuban alliance
The most unrealistic thing might be the US invasion. There is no way they could hold the US. More realistic would have been nuking the US and invading Europe. But it's still a great movie.
It's important to note, because a lot of people miss it do to the subtitles, but the cuban leader, grew up in the same kind of war the kids did, and was trying to engage in winning over the people instead of slaughtering them, when the kids started fighting back he begin to question what he was doing, he had a family and kids back home, and seeing them at the end thats why he wanted to resign and go home. its not forgivable but i think its important o understand that side of the story as well.
This one makes you take a second look these days.
You got a new subscriber and you got some serious video editing skills.
I actually liked the remake. Though I tend to like most movies that people don't seem to like.
The best scene is the opening but its the same thing
Always a classic
Couple days into the Rvzzia invasion of Ukr41ne today--reading about how citizens are just being given weapons to defend themselves and engage in Guerrilla warfare/defense made me think of this movie. I haven't seen it since I was REALLY young, like it was on VHS and it still made a dent on me big enough to think of today.
If you want to watch the ultimate Cold War horror. "Threads".
Don't say I didn't warn you.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After. The American version. Its here on CZcams. I suggest you watch it.
WOLVERINES!!!!!! I love this movie and I am so glad you are watching it
I saw it when the original came out and I loved the remake.
I heard the kids trained for 6 weeks with green beret with live weapons before shooting the movie with fake weapons.
A lot of the strategy behind what the Soviets did in the movie is explained, but it's often done in an offhanded, blink-and-you'll-miss-it sort of way. They invaded the small town in the middle of nowhere because it sat at the mouth of a mountain pass (so, controlling the town would let them control the choke point) and because there was a US army base nearby that was armed with tanks (you see the aftermath of hte battle with the tanks (you here one of the officers instructing his men to set up a defensive perimeter to defend against the tanks and we see the aftermath of the battle with the tanks the first time the boys go back into town).
Another reason why they invaded middle America right before winter set in is explained by the title card at the beginning stating that their had been a devastating crop failure in Ukraine, the bread basket of the USSR. The Soviets waited until the harvest season had ended in America so they could seize the food for themselves.