(Sorry for the re-upload, we had a problem with TH-cam suppressing us the first time) Thanks for watching guys! This is obviously one of my favorite movies. If you want, I will try my best to watch the 2012 remake....but only because I love you.
Fun fact: During filming, some paratroopers were blown a mile off course. Dressed as Russians. Holding AK's. One actor had to convince the population he wasn't an actual soldier.
In today's world they'd be swarmed by Che Guevara shirt wearing shitheads offering them a mocha latte and a ride to every local conservative home and business they know of.
That's one of those movie moments where you just wonder what the fuck he was expecting to happen. As if it's normal for people in Russian paratrooper uniforms to drop in with weapon crates. What else could it be?
6:16 Fun fact: In Sweden during the cold war only local police districts where allowed to keep records of private citizens that owned guns and in the event of a military attack the police had standing orders to burn those records at once.
Considering how crazy leftist the country has turned, I wouldn't be surprised if it's illegal for the police to even touch those records, much less destroy them...
no I kinda agree. There is one scene that surprised me, well maybe two but I'm with Brandon on this one. Let's just leave that remake alone. It REALLY tarnishes this movie.
@@John_Conner222 especially give the fact that the enemies were supposed to be Chinese the studio went bankrupt and was bought out by Chinese investors and the Chinese were changed to north koreans in post production
When I was in Desert Storm, we used to spray paint Wolverines on burned out T62, T72(rare to us in our AO), and BMPs. Then we’d take photos of us doing the Wolverines pose with Republican Guard berets on.
THAT WAS YOU!?! My gramps was called out of retirement and sent over there as part of Operation Desert Hell, fighting the oil fires and cleaning up the battlefields of dead Iraqis. He has photos of burnt out tanks with "Wolverines" spray painted on them.
I got my mom hooked on war movies with Enemy at the Gates. When we sat down to watch Red Dawn, she asked my dad if he'd seen it. "Seen it? I could quote you the dialogue!" was his reply
I was born in 1967. This is not a movie. It's a training film. In the 80s it was not IF the soviets were coming. It was WHEN are the soviets coming. We were contingency planning before we knew it even was a thing. We all knew where our parents guns were and where the ammo was. We dug hides out in the woods. Some of those hides were super unsafe, but it was the 80s and nobody cared about that.
Nothing in the 80s was sexier than Lea Thompson covered in dirt, lying on her stomach ripping up bad guys with an RPK. She just had the kind of face that looked sexy when her hair was an absolute mess.
"Unless you're homeschooled." I laughed out loud. Most homeschoolers I know would be picking off the Commies from the tree line. "Time for a field trip, kids."
My favorite scene is when they're panning across the town. Showing the devastation after the initial invasion. They pan down the backside of a vehicle with a bumper sticker that reads, "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands." They keep panning down until you see a gun, in the hands of a dead civilian. Just the gun and hand in shot. Then a military boot comes up and steps on the hand. They then pry the gun out of the dead hand. It was so bleak, I loved it.
3:29 "Wolverines beat the Grizzlies." poster in the background. Its kinda symbolic ain't it? The "Wolverines" represent the kids in this movie who become American guerilla freedom fighters. The "Grizzlies" which represents the Russian Bear. So in essence its the Wolverines vs the Bear. I've seen this movie so many times over the years. Always cool to notice stuff like this.
"In the early days of World War III, guerrillas - mostly children - placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so 'that this nation shall not perish from the earth'." "Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone." I watched this again not too long ago with a Russian friend, Dmitry. He liked the movie quite a lot for the way the Soviets and their allies were portrayed as the enemy, but not monsters. I saw it in the theatre when I also was 16 and feared it wouldn't live up to my memories, but I need not have worried. I think the T-72 was a M8A1 tractor chassis with a fibreglass dummy turret moulded and set on top of the hull. The story with the CIA is the tanks were being shipped to the studio in LA in a train flat car from where they were made when they were seen by passing CIA agents. They followed the train to see where it was going, and trailed it to the studio.
@John Doe because Hollywood didn't want to offend china and opted for a North Korean enemy since its a work around to china but makes the whole plot laughable..
@5:10 - The event you briefly mentioned is known as the San Ysidro McDonalds massacre, which happened on July 18, 1984, roughly a month before Red Dawn's theatrical release. The film was in the final stages of post-production at that point, so when the real-life McDonalds massacre happened, the filmmakers/studios/whoever, decided to cut that McDonalds scene from the movie since the real life event was still fresh in everyone's minds.
actually it was made for a Spielberg film however that movie ended up being rated R as it contained some other questionable material. so TECHNICALLY wrong but correct as THIS was [to my knowledge] the 1st released PG-13 film.
they ought to have tossed an AK and a bag of mags over the fence. me and my brother said that we'd of done that for our old man when we watched it in the Pine Cone Theatre back in the 80's.
I preferred how that was handled in the new movie. A man telling his kids to save their country, rather than the original selfish risk your lives because I was wronged.
@BrandonHerrera - Fun Fact (Supposedly), about the Rebel Yell whiskey : Billy Idol said in an interview that he got the idea for the song Title "Rebel Yell" while at a party with other 80's rock stars in like 1981-82 or so.... Eddie Van Halen had a bottle of Rebel Yell and Billy helped in finishing off the bottle. He later proceeded to write lyrics for that kick ass song, using Rebel Yell in the other context.
I just went to watch Red Dawn again after watching this, it was literally just on there! How come Netflix can leave garbage up for years but they have one of my all time favorite movies on there for only like two months
If I remember right, they built fiberglass mockups of the T-72 hulls and turrets and mounted them on U.S. Walker Bulldog tank chassis. That was what freaked out the F.B.I. who came by to ask where they got them.
Red Dawn (1984) offers insight into something, where a 9 year old me (I saw it when it came out in theaters and I was easily the youngest person in there) took note of something that has stuck with me forever, and it was just 4 numbers.... 4473. When I initially read the translated caption, my first thought was "do those things really exist?" 16 year old me found out, they most certainly do. I didn't have the internet back when I was 16, and one day while in the public library, I started looking into firearm laws. It was the very nature of a child who read encyclopedias for fun, thought most fiction was garbage, and then picked up his first copy of 1984, which was VERY hard to read, due to the fact that you had to WANT it. There was nothing fun about it, and then, to have the anticlimactic ending it did.... it was a warning, not a book for conspiracy theorist entertainment. At 18, my position on firearms was cemented. All gun control laws are unconstitutional. They never serve any benevolent purpose. Back during 1984, the Brady Bill was not yet a reality, but it was about to become one. Background checks also became a thing in my childhood. So, all those times I had looked at the 5th Amendment, and saw "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...", a background check does all those things, without even accusing a person of any crime. The assumption of innocence until guilt is established is curtailed wholesale by background checks. That became the subject of my senior year history essay, and lo and behold, I failed it, until I took that paper to the Principal, who reversed the grade, put the History teacher on leave, where he ultimately was fired, and an equally bad history teacher was put in his place. I have spent my entire 48 years of life dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and truth, and to my credit, it made me miserable. The truth doesn't always set you free. Sometimes, it makes you aware, just how shackled you truly are, in spite of the fact that you can't see the shackles, that doesn't mean they are not there. Good video, and yeah, I'm watching the remake next.
Exactly. Wish I could send you a photo of the picture on my wall that says! " THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE, EVEN IF YOU NEVER CATCH UP WITH IT" 🌹💔🙏..🕊...🗡🛡👑 It Depicts to Seagulls flying above and Ocean Beach towards the Sunrise...💕🇺🇸 All The Best to You and Your Family! From Jinx the WOLF🐾🐾🐾... .. .
Uploaded 2hours ago Brandon: Red dawn is on Netflix at the time of upload. Netflix: Hmmm how about Olympus has fallen, Bushwick, Doomsday preppers. Ect
Bushwick, for all of its flaws, was very well filmed in my opinion. I liked the angles and everything and they took risks with the main characters that I genuinely respected.
6:14 Fun fact, in Sweden during the cold war only local law enforcement where allowed to keep records on who where registered gun owners and if war broke out they had standing orders to burn those records at once.
This movie was filmed in and around Las Vegas, New Mexico, my hometown. The school in the beginning was Memorial Middle School, and I was in the 6th or 7th grade. We got to watch the parachute drop. One of the paras hit the side of the school gym and broke a leg, another was dragged across a field into a barbed wire fence, and others waaaay missed the drop zone because it was windy that day. My house is in one scene where they are panning looking from the hill above. In your video it is about 5:23 or so. We got to watch a lot of the filming and I know where most of the sets were located. It was a really fun time!
Dude I love how instead of putting a stock photo up on screen, he just goes and gets an actual RPK machine gun that's lying around his livingroom...! This guy has ALL the cool stuff.
The last time I was this early, my dad was still here! He left 3 years ago to buy a kalashnikov. Come home dad... I miss you... and I want the kalashnikov...
I was little when this movie came out in the 80s. It was also in heavy HBO rotation later on. Absolutely loved it despite its cheesiness. As I got older I became way more appreciative of how the showrunners tried to replicate the look of Soviet equipment I still recall the older Battle of the Bulge movie with American tanks simply painted grey and a balkenkreuz slapped on, and they go, "Now we got a Panzer!" Even as a little kid I identified those as American tanks because I had built models of them. For Red Dawn, they tried to make it look like real Russian stuff, even the tank in the gas station scene. The ZSU-23 in the convoy. The Mi-24 Hind-A. A lot of effort. Years later when my dad got me a model of an Mi-24 Hind with the double bubble canopy, I was confused, because when I saw "Hind" I imagined the boxy canopy looking ones from Red Dawn. Actual early Hind models had those canopies. When this was out, at Toys 'R Us, there was an A-Team brand AK-47 toy. Because I recognized the gun from Red Dawn, I pestered my dad to get it for me. This was the 80s... Toy guns were made to look like the real stuff. Black plastic for the "metal" portions and brown for the "wood" handguard and all. Very cool stuff back then.
@State of Wyoming homeschoolers kept schooling to stay on track with graduation at age 16 so they can complete college at 22. They be like that. Not me though.
@@thomassteele1728 I homeschooled after Jr. High, but while I was in Jr. High we had classrooms that looked just like that...I wanted to see parachutes come in... My dad actually took me to see Red Dawn in the theater when I was a kid...he had a thing for movie sound tracks and he had a mix tape with a bunch on it. Man, this brings back memories
WELL DONE🤩 1. Thanks for letting me "re-watch' this again. I'm glad you liked it. It's been a favorite of mine as well. 2. 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 andChong's Up in Smoke. It was when the boys went to jail and he was an inmate but the footage was cut.
Among other things that'd be a waste of an RPG. Shits heavy and you can't carry that many of them. If they ran into an american armoured column later come to relieve the state, their commissars would berate the shit out of them for wasting an RPG rocket on a bunch of schoolkids as they are machine-gunned to death by the oncoming abrams
@@maxspinks2181 I'm pissed off because I don't remember if it was a Challenger 2 or an Abrams but there was a tank in Iraq that was mobility-killed and pounded for several hours straight with even RPG-29s and only the driver got wounded. Modern armor is very resilient against the more common shoulder launched "grenades" and rockets but the big boy missiles are still effective. However, like I mentioned above infantry can still pose a danger to tanks even with the cheaper AT weapons, although you can't easily get through the armor you can easily damage its sighting, tracks, etc and at least make the tank unable to fight properly. Hence why a tank can be considered "killed" without having to fully penetrate the hull.
Brandon Being a man of a certain age I can say that I was 19 when the original Red Dawn came out in theaters and as a gun nut, I fucking loved it !!! I have not seen the 2012 version yet and I would love to hear what you have to say about it BEFOREI watch it. Keep up the good work. Thanks, John
Most of my stuff gets transferred through one dealer the balloon goes up I'm breaking in and torching their filing cabinets. The funny thing now would be when the soldier got to the store and realized that each form was at least 1 firearm he would shit himself call Col Bella explain it to him and they would just walk out and surrender
I was preaching and ranting about that 4473 scene and showing it to people (from a VHS copy none the less) before I could even buy a gun, I knew how dangerous those forms actual were to our freedoms and safety as you teenager. #akgnotificationsquad
I love these one scene in SEAL Team, when they were hunted by Russian Spetsnaz, reached safe territory. Sonny turns to the Spetsnaz, raised his M249 and screamed: "Wolveriiines!" "Hey didn't you watch Red Dawn?! Swayze's best movie!"
That mission in MW2 was literally called "Wolverines" lol. They made references to Aliens and Airplane in the first one as well. Makes me want to find those old disks and pop them in lol.
...saw this when it first came out...wasn't a teenager (as Brandon says he was)...in fact, at the time, I was a Special Forces weapons guy, working in a teamroom with other weapons and commo guys...and we loved it. In fact, one of our number was a collector, and was known to spend entire paychecks on whatever he could get his hands on. And, yes, he was single. Anyway, he'd already spent a ton down at Bragg (we were at Ft. Devens) for a Vietnam bring-back SKS in beautiful condition (we surmised at the time that it was a wall-mounted trophy, but a great shooter as it turned out), and later bought at least one Valmet and two AKs, one a Mahdi. We loved all the cheating the movie company had to do to at least try to get beyond the fact that even movie arsenal companies didn't have examples to film. As to the vehicles, we'd been seeing ZSU-23/4's showing up in the news (Afganistan, don'cha'know), and so they had to include a mock-up of one of those beasts. All in all, a great movie. I remember at the time that some peacenick Lefty movie reviewer, perhaps writing for the Boston Globe, dubbed this flick "the most violent movie of all time". A point of pride, I'd say. Anyway, it holds up down the nearly 40 years since its release. I wonder what the folks in Ukraine would say about it.
6:10 My Dad paused this movie the first time that he, my brother, and I watched it to lecture us about the government and why we shouldn't trust them, I didn't trust them before, why the fuck would I trust them now?
I knew that when I was 14. My Dad called me into the kitchen and handed me a form to fill out. We had to get something new to get hunting licenses that year, a FOID card. My first thought was this was against the Constitution. Illinois still has the FOID card, as they don't have to know what guns you have, just that you do.
Just makes me think of the old 60-70s ww2 movies and shows where the Germans use clearly American vehicles just with iron crosses painted on them. Given I know Ramel had a couple battalions or captured tanks, but damn not that many.
Old westerns from the 50s & 60s, set in the Civil War, but using Trapdoor Springfield, or Winchester 73 rifles and SAA Colt revolvers. Movie is set in 1863, but they're using guns from 1873!
The “Russian” equipment was actually Egyptian military Russian equipment that the USA bought from them for testing. At the time the USA had very good relations with the Egyptians. The AK-74 were Egyptian Maadi’s.
You are correct my friend, lots of the vehicles that were used were Enemy training Vehicles, used at Fort Carson, Colorado, for mock war games and simulated battles, They had to get special permission to use them in movie, the vehicles are not Hollywood mock ups but genuine Russian built equipment, All the uniforms and guns are all period correct, well most of them, but they did such a great job with this movie, Ive been to the town where they filmed lots of this movie , in New Mexico, we found the exact locations where lots of scenes were shot, and most of the extra's used in the movie were from the town.
@@brooksbrown580 There was a gun magazine at the time that had pictures of the equipment and told about the way it was purchased and used. It stated that the people who made the movie had access to it.
Do the a full length Red Dawn video, if I can sit through a full length Paul Harrell video I can absolutely watch 3 hours of red dawn AK's. Also do the 2012 cause rants get views
This movie shaped my childhood, it came out 7 years before I was born. My friends and I still pretended to be wolverines both with our G.I. Joes and in our back yards with our air soft guns. Still one of the greatest movies ever made, it still amazes me that there are kids/people above the age of 12 who still have not seen this amazing piece of cinematography. Anyway, love the series, love the channel, am really enjoying learning more about AK’s. Thank you brother!
This was so freaking sick, this movie was my JAM! I was 14 when it came out. This was a great video Brandon, thanks for sharing it with a whole new generation, I just subscribed.
@@timesthree5757 It was originally China, but Sony threw a shit fit because they wanted to market the film to the Chinese too. So they had to reshoot every scene that now has the "Koreans" and every "Korean" that had a speaking role who already had to go through a language course on Chinese, had to go through another course on Korean
(Sorry for the re-upload, we had a problem with TH-cam suppressing us the first time)
Thanks for watching guys! This is obviously one of my favorite movies. If you want, I will try my best to watch the 2012 remake....but only because I love you.
Repost?
Why the re-upload?
James C. Clinton yeah
Do it!!! I dare you..
Dew it
Brandon: *grows out his hair and looks like a male model*
Donut: *grows out his hair and looks like a dirty hipster hobo*
He is a dirty hipster hobo
Donut looks like pre perm post malone and brandon looks like jesus
Sometimes we just need a little dirty hipster hobo in our lives
He's more like florida man.
Not "dirty hipster hobo"
More like "i've been deep undercover for _way too friggen long_ and i forgot what sunlight smells like".
"Everything wrong with Red Dawn 2012" - Do it.
This
Josh peck, Hollywood Chinese pandering -done
That video would probably be longer than the actual movie.
I got fucking livid when they killed off one of the brothers.
Aka cursed movie reviews
Immediately liked for the "Hey everyone. Donut here."
accurate
Facts!😂😂 🍩
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Fun fact: During filming, some paratroopers were blown a mile off course. Dressed as Russians. Holding AK's. One actor had to convince the population he wasn't an actual soldier.
I'll bet they had a few anxious moments, as soon as the locals found them! LOL
In today's world they'd be swarmed by Che Guevara shirt wearing shitheads offering them a mocha latte and a ride to every local conservative home and business they know of.
@@missingthe80s58 a ride in a prius
Uh, and they dint get lit up ?
If I saw paratroopers landing, I might get into trouble. 🙄
Not crates, containers of Soviet Weapons.
Teacher: Hey whatcha doin buddy
Russian paratrooper: *Your free trial of living has ended*
TheRussianBadger “your free trail of life has expired”
Bye bye lil sebastian
That's one of those movie moments where you just wonder what the fuck he was expecting to happen. As if it's normal for people in Russian paratrooper uniforms to drop in with weapon crates. What else could it be?
@@filmandfirearms Well... not a war crime, I hope. But then again, *SOVIETS*
@@somewhat_sinister The soviets are still humans, this movie was made for propaganda purposes, doesn't make it the worst movie tho.
6:16
Fun fact:
In Sweden during the cold war only local police districts where allowed to keep records of private citizens that owned guns and in the event of a military attack the police had standing orders to burn those records at once.
Someone should've faked an invasion lol
In where
Considering how crazy leftist the country has turned, I wouldn't be surprised if it's illegal for the police to even touch those records, much less destroy them...
Hasn't Sweden already been invaded?
@@DesertFernweh I'll simply refrain from commenting on that :p
Brandon doesn't want to do something?
*Entire comment section*: dO ThAt ThInG yOu DoNt WaNt tO dO!
no I kinda agree. There is one scene that surprised me, well maybe two but I'm with Brandon on this one. Let's just leave that remake alone. It REALLY tarnishes this movie.
@@John_Conner222 especially give the fact that the enemies were supposed to be Chinese the studio went bankrupt and was bought out by Chinese investors and the Chinese were changed to north koreans in post production
When I was in Desert Storm, we used to spray paint Wolverines on burned out T62, T72(rare to us in our AO), and BMPs. Then we’d take photos of us doing the Wolverines pose with Republican Guard berets on.
That would be great.
THAT WAS YOU!?! My gramps was called out of retirement and sent over there as part of Operation Desert Hell, fighting the oil fires and cleaning up the battlefields of dead Iraqis. He has photos of burnt out tanks with "Wolverines" spray painted on them.
that's fuckin awesome
Brandon Herrera sounds way less gay than "Blake Masters".
We love you AK guy!!
Trump sure pickin' some watered down America.
I got my mom hooked on war movies with Enemy at the Gates. When we sat down to watch Red Dawn, she asked my dad if he'd seen it. "Seen it? I could quote you the dialogue!" was his reply
nice, but enemy at gates.... that is pure crap
Enemy at the gates is awful
"Avenge me, boys....AVENGE MEEE !!!"
@@crash406 Gravity falls?
@@dragonstormdipro1013 ha ha
First ten seconds of the movie: *oh boy do I love warcrimes*
😂😂😂 I LOL’D way to hard
It’s only a war crime if you lose.
@@Michael_Veritas
Lol 😂
Like Iraq and Afghanistan
Being a Russian, I am yet to see a Soviet movie demonizing Americans. That makes us better than you in my book.
Well the winner picks what a war crime is.
"And not just mag dump in to trash" I feel personally attacked
Same... if you can’t hit the Dasani water bottle in 1 shot, then 30 will do the trick.
@@JoshdaKnight i think i actually shat my pants how hard i laughed
Mag dump into trash gang represent
He couldn't miss with that one. Each and every one of us has done it at least once, ha-ha!
I was born in 1967. This is not a movie. It's a training film. In the 80s it was not IF the soviets were coming. It was WHEN are the soviets coming. We were contingency planning before we knew it even was a thing. We all knew where our parents guns were and where the ammo was. We dug hides out in the woods. Some of those hides were super unsafe, but it was the 80s and nobody cared about that.
Until November 4th 2024 it was still a training film.
@@fergusferguson4782 High five brother.
We dug hides ,many in Ga
LOL same age and yeah, big help my dad was a prepper Vietnam Vet who believed there was no such thing as too many guns.
This video wasn’t long enough. I like it when he nerds out.
Yeah me too... I would also like to see him do a gun builder reacts of the newer red dawn movie even with all his criticism and glory for it.
Agree do red dawn 1984 part 2
same
It's cute when he does that thing ;)
Same
Brandon Herrera: should I do a 2012 red dawn review.
Me: emperor palpatine voice: Do It
“Dew It”
Do it!!
eh, screw it.....
Wait there is a 2012 red dawn
Blyat movie fine
Do it brandon!!
" 16 year old me was in love with this movie".Dude 48 year old me is in love with this movie.
I am 13 and I never saw it and I am in love with it.
Nothing in the 80s was sexier than Lea Thompson covered in dirt, lying on her stomach ripping up bad guys with an RPK. She just had the kind of face that looked sexy when her hair was an absolute mess.
@@largol33t1 Jennifer was sweet too ;)
"Unless you're homeschooled."
I laughed out loud.
Most homeschoolers I know would be picking off the Commies from the tree line.
"Time for a field trip, kids."
As a homeschool graduate I can confirm this!
Me to.
the ones still alive get dim mak- ed
@@noahboyd57 I used to know one of those kids.
That’s the spirit
Actual title: “Gun builder reacts to Red Dawn”
Correct title: “Brandon Fanboys over Red Dawn for 10 minutes”
"All that hates gonna burn you up kid."
"It keeps me warm."
Great movie, one of my favorites and Patrick Swayze's hair is on freakin point.
AK Guy: I dont want to watch 2012 Red Dawn
palpatine: Do it
DEW IT
My favorite scene is when they're panning across the town. Showing the devastation after the initial invasion. They pan down the backside of a vehicle with a bumper sticker that reads, "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands." They keep panning down until you see a gun, in the hands of a dead civilian. Just the gun and hand in shot. Then a military boot comes up and steps on the hand. They then pry the gun out of the dead hand. It was so bleak, I loved it.
“He’s probably seen it more times than he’s told you he loves you”
Guess my dad loves watching red dawn
*More* times than. Not less than. Means zero is a low bar to beat.
@Robin G. Banks yeah...hippies dont count.
Jzpelaez there fixed it, just re typed this comment form the vid that got taken down
guess my dad watched it once
5:02: RAMIREZ, TAKE YOUR TEAM AND SECURE THE BURGER TOWN
RAMIREZ! WE’RE MOVING RAPTOR TO THE FREEZER! GET HIM A LEMON-LIME SODA WHILE YOU’RE AT IT!
RAMIREZ, ORDER ME TWO NUMBERS NINES, A NUMBER NINE LARGE, A NUMBER SIX WITH EXTRA DIP. AFTER, DO MY TAXES AND SOLVE WORLD HUNGER.
RAMIREZ! IM HUNGRY!
LAST BOOF RAMIREZ, MAKE IT COUNT!
Brandon: " but I'm not going to talk about this all day..."
The rest of us: YES, DO IT, WE'RE STILL ON LOCKDOWN, I MEAN CURFEW!
In some places both.
Some of us have been free the entire time ;-)
3:29 "Wolverines beat the Grizzlies." poster in the background. Its kinda symbolic ain't it? The "Wolverines" represent the kids in this movie who become American guerilla freedom fighters. The "Grizzlies" which represents the Russian Bear. So in essence its the Wolverines vs the Bear. I've seen this movie so many times over the years. Always cool to notice stuff like this.
If it was intentional, that was some serious low-key genius.
Are you sure it's not the California bear? It seems to be going commie lately.
a: DO IT
b: you could have made this video 25 mintues long and covered every gun and shot of a gun and i still would have watched it
it honestly felt very short
I would have totally watched a 3 hour video that dissects every single detail of the movie
Yes 2012 remake, especially the availability of the actual weapons by then
I needed to grab my inhaler after watching his reaction to the 4473 scene. Fuck that was funny.
True.. ?? Not real funny.??. Could happen tomorrow...!!!!!
"...they couldn't get THIS..." The Moment when you understand that Brandons business is based on a childhood-memberberry of Red Dawn.
Brandon: *sees walther ppk instead of blyatful makarov*
Brandon: “You have committed an unforgivable sin”
"In the early days of World War III, guerrillas - mostly children - placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so 'that this nation shall not perish from the earth'." "Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone." I watched this again not too long ago with a Russian friend, Dmitry. He liked the movie quite a lot for the way the Soviets and their allies were portrayed as the enemy, but not monsters. I saw it in the theatre when I also was 16 and feared it wouldn't live up to my memories, but I need not have worried. I think the T-72 was a M8A1 tractor chassis with a fibreglass dummy turret moulded and set on top of the hull. The story with the CIA is the tanks were being shipped to the studio in LA in a train flat car from where they were made when they were seen by passing CIA agents. They followed the train to see where it was going, and trailed it to the studio.
Tony Stroppa I can imagine the heart attack by them when they see all the AK’s.
Tony Stroppa also saw the film. Hell of a ending.
100% agreed. If we ever get invaded, Red Dawn (the original) is my playbook.
@@josie4065 be ready to use that playbook on domestic enemies PDQ.
@John Doe because Hollywood didn't want to offend china and opted for a North Korean enemy since its a work around to china but makes the whole plot laughable..
@5:10 - The event you briefly mentioned is known as the San Ysidro McDonalds massacre, which happened on July 18, 1984, roughly a month before Red Dawn's theatrical release.
The film was in the final stages of post-production at that point, so when the real-life McDonalds massacre happened, the filmmakers/studios/whoever, decided to cut that McDonalds scene from the movie since the real life event was still fresh in everyone's minds.
Yay, get to watch this for the second "first" time!
#AKGSecondfirsttime
#AKGsecondfirstnotificationwatching
Same
VOTE (Mail In Ballots) for a review of the 2nd bastardized Red Dawn
“Probably seen it more times than he’s ever told he you loves you”... so like three times
Make it one
You guys got told you were loved? Dang, I missed out
"if you actually shoot at targets instead of mag dumping into trash." I feel attacked
For all those curious, Red Dawn 1984 (the good one) is free on TH-cam. Not sure for how long. Probably a month.
First PG-13 movie ever- the rating was made for this movie.
actually it was made for a Spielberg film however that movie ended up being rated R as it contained some other questionable material.
so TECHNICALLY wrong but correct as THIS was [to my knowledge] the 1st released PG-13 film.
I thought it was raiders of the lost ark that was the first one? I may be wrong tho
It was temple of doom
Tilley Hat-Man -Temple of Doom was PG
Pacmaneatsall 9 -Raiders of the Lost Ark was PG
I know there are no firearms shots in the scene, but leaving out the Harry Dean Stanton "AVENGE ME!!!" bit is criminal man.
th-cam.com/video/W6qWnmb_22s/w-d-xo.html
Best scene in the film.
they ought to have tossed an AK and a bag of mags over the fence. me and my brother said that we'd of done that for our old man when we watched it in the Pine Cone Theatre back in the 80's.
I preferred how that was handled in the new movie. A man telling his kids to save their country, rather than the original selfish risk your lives because I was wronged.
@@icecold9511 It wasn't him that was wronged. It spoke to the larger sense. BAH! They are saying the same thing.
Isn't that Brett from the Alien?
When the leftists tell you "we're not going to take your guns" show them the form 4473 scene..
Check out US state department memorandum nr 7277. That's literally the plan.
@Steve Campbell it's literally in print right here drive.google.com/file/d/1n9uPvC5jYJASXyPe54061g4y-ZR5KUtu/view?usp=drivesdk
Just read it.
I actually LOL'ed at this 🤣
@@linusdn2777 can't. You need access 🤷♂️
@@JC-11111 request access
@BrandonHerrera - Fun Fact (Supposedly), about the Rebel Yell whiskey : Billy Idol said in an interview that he got the idea for the song Title "Rebel Yell" while at a party with other 80's rock stars in like 1981-82 or so.... Eddie Van Halen had a bottle of Rebel Yell and Billy helped in finishing off the bottle. He later proceeded to write lyrics for that kick ass song, using Rebel Yell in the other context.
Brandon: "it's on Netflix as of this recording"
Netflix: "Yeah about that"
I don't remember seeing it on netflix in recent memory, how long does Brandon bank his videos? XD
@@Angel-gr7de It was for a while, idk i think they just took it down this month.
It was on Netflix literally yesterday and then this video got uploaded and now its not.... Brandon's fault? I'm gonna say yea...
F
I just went to watch Red Dawn again after watching this, it was literally just on there! How come Netflix can leave garbage up for years but they have one of my all time favorite movies on there for only like two months
Father: "Son, It's time to Watch Red Dawn. You are old enough."
Son: "Yes, Father."
do you have cameras in my house? that is literally what happened
Growing up in far northern California in the 80's, this was basically scripture.
You speak the truth
@@AzraelBlackstar Then they proceeded to ruin California.
Upvote in the first two seconds! “Donut here...”
If I remember right, they built fiberglass mockups of the T-72 hulls and turrets and mounted them on U.S. Walker Bulldog tank chassis. That was what freaked out the F.B.I. who came by to ask where they got them.
M48s, more likely; the M41s had five road wheels on either side, while both the M48s and T-72s have six.
“You’re objectively wrong and I hate you” - Brandon Herrera to me
#akgnotificationsquad
"The Elite paramilitary organization, Eagle Scouts" #AKGNOTIFICATIONSQUAD
Yay!!!!!! I belong to an elite organization
I taught my two year old to shout “WOLVERINES!” And it’s the cutest thing ever.
Thats better than mine saying shit all through walmart....... Thanks grandpa
Neit !!!! Two year old boi never cute. Boi ist мужественный. Da.
That's so cool
Aww
Two seems a bit old, but I guess we tend to baby our babys a little.
Red Dawn (1984) offers insight into something, where a 9 year old me (I saw it when it came out in theaters and I was easily the youngest person in there) took note of something that has stuck with me forever, and it was just 4 numbers.... 4473. When I initially read the translated caption, my first thought was "do those things really exist?" 16 year old me found out, they most certainly do. I didn't have the internet back when I was 16, and one day while in the public library, I started looking into firearm laws. It was the very nature of a child who read encyclopedias for fun, thought most fiction was garbage, and then picked up his first copy of 1984, which was VERY hard to read, due to the fact that you had to WANT it. There was nothing fun about it, and then, to have the anticlimactic ending it did.... it was a warning, not a book for conspiracy theorist entertainment. At 18, my position on firearms was cemented. All gun control laws are unconstitutional. They never serve any benevolent purpose. Back during 1984, the Brady Bill was not yet a reality, but it was about to become one. Background checks also became a thing in my childhood. So, all those times I had looked at the 5th Amendment, and saw "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...", a background check does all those things, without even accusing a person of any crime. The assumption of innocence until guilt is established is curtailed wholesale by background checks. That became the subject of my senior year history essay, and lo and behold, I failed it, until I took that paper to the Principal, who reversed the grade, put the History teacher on leave, where he ultimately was fired, and an equally bad history teacher was put in his place.
I have spent my entire 48 years of life dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and truth, and to my credit, it made me miserable. The truth doesn't always set you free. Sometimes, it makes you aware, just how shackled you truly are, in spite of the fact that you can't see the shackles, that doesn't mean they are not there.
Good video, and yeah, I'm watching the remake next.
Absolutely right, thousand miles an hour Sir!
Exactly. Wish I could send you a photo of the picture on my wall that says! " THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE, EVEN IF YOU NEVER CATCH UP WITH IT" 🌹💔🙏..🕊...🗡🛡👑 It Depicts to Seagulls flying above and Ocean Beach towards the Sunrise...💕🇺🇸 All The Best to You and Your Family! From Jinx the WOLF🐾🐾🐾... .. .
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Brandon: Red dawn is on Netflix at the time of upload.
Netflix: Hmmm how about Olympus has fallen, Bushwick, Doomsday preppers. Ect
Or the 2012 Movie
Right sad face
Bushwick, for all of its flaws, was very well filmed in my opinion. I liked the angles and everything and they took risks with the main characters that I genuinely respected.
@@sczufelt33 ending was a little odd/disappointing though...
Go to soap2day.com they have a bunch of free movies and tv show with only one ad. And this isn’t a ad I’m just trying to share.
I mentioned that I haven't seen Red Dawn to my dad and he just looked at me and said. "I failed you son."
right on, gotta fix it
6:14
Fun fact, in Sweden during the cold war only local law enforcement where allowed to keep records on who where registered gun owners and if war broke out they had standing orders to burn those records at once.
At least they had their heads on straight.
@@josie4065 shame they lost them later on.
This movie was filmed in and around Las Vegas, New Mexico, my hometown. The school in the beginning was Memorial Middle School, and I was in the 6th or 7th grade. We got to watch the parachute drop. One of the paras hit the side of the school gym and broke a leg, another was dragged across a field into a barbed wire fence, and others waaaay missed the drop zone because it was windy that day. My house is in one scene where they are panning looking from the hill above. In your video it is about 5:23 or so. We got to watch a lot of the filming and I know where most of the sets were located. It was a really fun time!
The RPGs in this movie sound like the Katyusha rockets
Or the neblewefers aka the screaming Mimi
Really? I thought they sound like my farts.
Literaly 😂😂😂
Starts playing moscow
@@rollastoney Maybe your farts just sound like the Katyusha idk
Dude I love how instead of putting a stock photo up on screen, he just goes and gets an actual RPK machine gun that's lying around his livingroom...! This guy has ALL the cool stuff.
I legitimately aspire to be that way one day.
I love that in the two years or so since you posted this comment he has added an immeasurable amount of more cool stuff to the collection!
The last time I was this early, my dad was still here! He left 3 years ago to buy a kalashnikov. Come home dad... I miss you... and I want the kalashnikov...
I was little when this movie came out in the 80s. It was also in heavy HBO rotation later on. Absolutely loved it despite its cheesiness.
As I got older I became way more appreciative of how the showrunners tried to replicate the look of Soviet equipment I still recall the older Battle of the Bulge movie with American tanks simply painted grey and a balkenkreuz slapped on, and they go, "Now we got a Panzer!" Even as a little kid I identified those as American tanks because I had built models of them. For Red Dawn, they tried to make it look like real Russian stuff, even the tank in the gas station scene. The ZSU-23 in the convoy. The Mi-24 Hind-A. A lot of effort.
Years later when my dad got me a model of an Mi-24 Hind with the double bubble canopy, I was confused, because when I saw "Hind" I imagined the boxy canopy looking ones from Red Dawn. Actual early Hind models had those canopies.
When this was out, at Toys 'R Us, there was an A-Team brand AK-47 toy. Because I recognized the gun from Red Dawn, I pestered my dad to get it for me. This was the 80s... Toy guns were made to look like the real stuff. Black plastic for the "metal" portions and brown for the "wood" handguard and all. Very cool stuff back then.
"unless you home schooled, thats kinda weird."
**sad home schooler noises**
I'm with you.
Home schoolers unite!
@State of Wyoming homeschoolers kept schooling to stay on track with graduation at age 16 so they can complete college at 22. They be like that. Not me though.
@@thomassteele1728 I homeschooled after Jr. High, but while I was in Jr. High we had classrooms that looked just like that...I wanted to see parachutes come in...
My dad actually took me to see Red Dawn in the theater when I was a kid...he had a thing for movie sound tracks and he had a mix tape with a bunch on it. Man, this brings back memories
I was homeschooled, we had shooting everyday at 4
Please do a “Remake” of Red Dawn review, just drink more so you can make it through that trash. LOL #AKGNOTIFICATIONSQUAD
I thought it was good. Or at least good enough. Was it perfect probably not. I can't remember. But people need to not be overly picky and critical.
Alternate title for video: “Homeless Gun builder reacts to Red Dawn”
It’s pronounced “holmless”
Hell yeah lol
AHMC Tech But it’s not, look it up lol
"Homeless man breaks into person's home and makes a video about an amazing classic movie."
You gotta listen closer. “Hi everyone, Dolnut here.” I love him but he talks funny.
WELL DONE🤩
1. Thanks for letting me "re-watch' this again. I'm glad you liked it. It's been a favorite of mine as well.
2. 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 andChong's Up in Smoke. It was when the boys went to jail and he was an inmate but the footage was cut.
"Theyre not gonna shoot an actual rpg at high school kids." Well thats lame.
Among other things that'd be a waste of an RPG.
Shits heavy and you can't carry that many of them.
If they ran into an american armoured column later come to relieve the state, their commissars would berate the shit out of them for wasting an RPG rocket on a bunch of schoolkids as they are machine-gunned to death by the oncoming abrams
@@moritamikamikara3879 To be fair, an rpg wouldnt even scratch an Abrams.
Dustin really? I’ve heard a btr can’t withstand an rpg but of course the abrams is an entirely different vehicle.
@@PeaceManBro I wouldn't go this far, at least if it's not hyperbole
RPGs usually don't hurt Abrams badly, but they definitely damage it
@@maxspinks2181 I'm pissed off because I don't remember if it was a Challenger 2 or an Abrams but there was a tank in Iraq that was mobility-killed and pounded for several hours straight with even RPG-29s and only the driver got wounded. Modern armor is very resilient against the more common shoulder launched "grenades" and rockets but the big boy missiles are still effective.
However, like I mentioned above infantry can still pose a danger to tanks even with the cheaper AT weapons, although you can't easily get through the armor you can easily damage its sighting, tracks, etc and at least make the tank unable to fight properly. Hence why a tank can be considered "killed" without having to fully penetrate the hull.
Brandon: Let's watch Red Dawn.
Me: Okay *Turns on CNN to watch the protests, looting, rioting, and rooftop koreans*
Ahhh roof Koreans.
We need more of them
😥
@@moritamikamikara3879 Roof Koreans Chapter 2: Nationwide Edition
Featuring Roof Koreans and other store owners of other races demonstrating the 2nd Amendment
Coming to a ransacked store near you
7:25 oh the flex. The FLEX. How I wish I could just pull an RPK about of nowhere.
AcTuAlLy iTs A zAsTaVa M78, I’m kidding but we all wish we could just pull AK’s out of nowhere
Brandon
Being a man of a certain age I can say that I was 19 when the original Red Dawn came out in theaters and as a gun nut, I fucking loved it !!!
I have not seen the 2012 version yet and I would love to hear what you have to say about it BEFOREI watch it.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks, John
I love your reaction to the form 4473 reference!!
Most of my stuff gets transferred through one dealer the balloon goes up I'm breaking in and torching their filing cabinets.
The funny thing now would be when the soldier got to the store and realized that each form was at least 1 firearm he would shit himself call Col Bella explain it to him and they would just walk out and surrender
I was preaching and ranting about that 4473 scene and showing it to people (from a VHS copy none the less) before I could even buy a gun, I knew how dangerous those forms actual were to our freedoms and safety as you teenager.
#akgnotificationsquad
care to explain to a non-american?
@@ash_1687
List of all registered firearms.
It could be easily used against legal gun owners.
"AK Daddy roasts the **** out of Red Dawn 2012" please. And I'm sure people will watch 30 min of you just ripping it apart cause hey, memes.
I love these one scene in SEAL Team, when they were hunted by Russian Spetsnaz, reached safe territory.
Sonny turns to the Spetsnaz, raised his M249 and screamed: "Wolveriiines!"
"Hey didn't you watch Red Dawn?! Swayze's best movie!"
When I watched the Mc Donalds picture all I could think of was this: *RAMIREZ, TAKE BACK THE BURGER TOWN!!!*
Yep
Price: Soap no no no no! No! Noooooooooooooo!!!
That mission in MW2 was literally called "Wolverines" lol. They made references to Aliens and Airplane in the first one as well. Makes me want to find those old disks and pop them in lol.
The best part is this was shot In my home town and at the middle school. We got dismissed from class to watch them shoot the scene in the school
That’s cool as hell, I’m also from Vegas
Man thats cool, sad i didnt born in that time...
Cool
@@Chakaflakaflame1The OTHER Vegas.
The first time I yelled it my dad jumped up and yelled “WOLVERINES!!!”
When he said shooters tape for "if you actually shoot targets instead of mag dumping into trash" I felt that.
...saw this when it first came out...wasn't a teenager (as Brandon says he was)...in fact, at the time, I was a Special Forces weapons guy, working in a teamroom with other weapons and commo guys...and we loved it. In fact, one of our number was a collector, and was known to spend entire paychecks on whatever he could get his hands on. And, yes, he was single. Anyway, he'd already spent a ton down at Bragg (we were at Ft. Devens) for a Vietnam bring-back SKS in beautiful condition (we surmised at the time that it was a wall-mounted trophy, but a great shooter as it turned out), and later bought at least one Valmet and two AKs, one a Mahdi. We loved all the cheating the movie company had to do to at least try to get beyond the fact that even movie arsenal companies didn't have examples to film. As to the vehicles, we'd been seeing ZSU-23/4's showing up in the news (Afganistan, don'cha'know), and so they had to include a mock-up of one of those beasts. All in all, a great movie. I remember at the time that some peacenick Lefty movie reviewer, perhaps writing for the Boston Globe, dubbed this flick "the most violent movie of all time". A point of pride, I'd say. Anyway, it holds up down the nearly 40 years since its release. I wonder what the folks in Ukraine would say about it.
In response to you pondering about Ukrainians: Inspirational maybe?
Well, some tanks have been grafitied in Ukraine "Wolverines!" style, so I guess they like the movie.
RED DAWN 2012 REACTION.
There, that should put it out there.
6:10 My Dad paused this movie the first time that he, my brother, and I watched it to lecture us about the government and why we shouldn't trust them, I didn't trust them before, why the fuck would I trust them now?
I knew that when I was 14. My Dad called me into the kitchen and handed me a form to fill out. We had to get something new to get hunting licenses that year, a FOID card. My first thought was this was against the Constitution. Illinois still has the FOID card, as they don't have to know what guns you have, just that you do.
Amen brother
I remember being 13 and my dad showed me Red Dawn for the first time; it's been almost 9 years and I still watch it every year around Christmas
One of my favorite movie lines ever is Thompson discussing Texas geography: Wrong commie! It's Houston!
You gotta give them credit for trying so hard. How many times have you seen movies that could have gotten the right guns but didn't bother?
Just makes me think of the old 60-70s ww2 movies and shows where the Germans use clearly American vehicles just with iron crosses painted on them.
Given I know Ramel had a couple battalions or captured tanks, but damn not that many.
@Paul Martin Well I guess bb guns is better than getting another Brandon Lee.
@Paul Martin Thats "water pistols" for todays Socialist-Lucifer-lovin Hollywierd.
Old westerns from the 50s & 60s, set in the Civil War, but using Trapdoor Springfield, or Winchester 73 rifles and SAA Colt revolvers. Movie is set in 1863, but they're using guns from 1873!
@@J-BiRTH Alec Baldwin prefers neither blanks or bb's
I love how the rpg makes a Russian katusha sound
"I don't want to do it ".
Ok,I understand .
Please do a review of the 2012 remake!!!
+1 for the remake!
Do it. Do it. DO IT!!!
Literally my favorite movie. Saw it as a kid and loved it ever since. 52 and yep got it on dvd
The “Russian” equipment was actually Egyptian military Russian equipment that the USA bought from them for testing. At the time the USA had very good relations with the Egyptians. The AK-74 were Egyptian Maadi’s.
I remember reading the Maadis were supplied from Israel from stocks they had captured during the Six day war, War of Attrition, and Yom Kippur war.
You are correct my friend, lots of the vehicles that were used were Enemy training Vehicles, used at Fort Carson, Colorado, for mock war games and simulated battles, They had to get special permission to use them in movie, the vehicles are not Hollywood mock ups but genuine Russian built equipment, All the uniforms and guns are all period correct, well most of them, but they did such a great job with this movie, Ive been to the town where they filmed lots of this movie , in New Mexico, we found the exact locations where lots of scenes were shot, and most of the extra's used in the movie were from the town.
@@brooksbrown580 There was a gun magazine at the time that had pictures of the equipment and told about the way it was purchased and used. It stated that the people who made the movie had access to it.
Maadis were the 'cool' foreign AKs for a while before everyone started buying Romanian.
@@robwalsh9843 yeah, and for the longest time no one wanted Romanian guns.
I was a teenager when red dawn came out. we were all running around yelling
WOLVERINES!!!
Do the a full length Red Dawn video, if I can sit through a full length Paul Harrell video I can absolutely watch 3 hours of red dawn AK's. Also do the 2012 cause rants get views
“I could talk about this movie all day but I won’t” no Papa Kalash, please do
"I have a lot to say... but I don't wanna do it!" Oh yeah dude, let's see it :D
UK viewer here very much saddened to find out that this movie isn't in fact a documentary about what really went on during the cold war.
It was a warning ;)
@@redzeppelin6 Time to make it into a promise. >:)
Lmao, no you wouldnt. One of the character says "the UK is also in the war, but they wont survive for long".
It's an instruction manual for 2021.
I was waiting to see this when he said he was bringing the gun builder reacts series
December 2024 surprise pop-up from the algorithm! Fun classic Brandon nerding out over an 80’s classic!
That voice crack when talking about red dawn (2012) 🤣
“Donut here” had me dying!!
Definitely one of the greatest movies of the 80s! I watch it every chance I get
I'd love to see the Red Dawn 2012 remake reaction, knowing that it would contrast this nicely #AKGNotificationSquad
"You have to use 'that code' because I forgot!"
LOL
Also, the RPGs in the movie probably used a modified Godzilla screech...
Remember a time when we didn’t get scared of China in film? Ha ha, me neither... please face the wall
As a child growing up in the 80s Red Dawn scared me now I am loving this movie again. Thanks Brandon!
"16 year old me was in love with this movie"
Sheeeiiiiit, I still am.
This movie shaped my childhood, it came out 7 years before I was born. My friends and I still pretended to be wolverines both with our G.I. Joes and in our back yards with our air soft guns. Still one of the greatest movies ever made, it still amazes me that there are kids/people above the age of 12 who still have not seen this amazing piece of cinematography. Anyway, love the series, love the channel, am really enjoying learning more about AK’s. Thank you brother!
This was so freaking sick, this movie was my JAM! I was 14 when it came out. This was a great video Brandon, thanks for sharing it with a whole new generation, I just subscribed.
14 year old me loves the shit out of this movie
It was a great time to be a teenager.
I loved the this movie not the 2012 version, cant believe I'm just watching this video now. Great Video young man,
Some say that Brandon Herrera sheds a tear every time the 2012 remake is watched
The 2012 one would've been alright if was china.
@@timesthree5757 It was originally China, but Sony threw a shit fit because they wanted to market the film to the Chinese too. So they had to reshoot every scene that now has the "Koreans" and every "Korean" that had a speaking role who already had to go through a language course on Chinese, had to go through another course on Korean