The Reel Rejects - ARMAGEDDON (1998) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:35 give us a five-star rating. Five-star. Five stars. You know, like this video, comment, do all the things. Oh, my God, I cried at the end. Like, a little bit of tears came out. That was just very moving. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:01:48 It was very moving. I agree. Like, wow, I adore this movie. I freaking love it. it was so exciting so well written the thing at the end like oh my god when dad stays behind and then like when he's like i just like to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man i know i'm like oh my god and when is the guy chips or whatever his name is the kid comes like his ex-wife and the kid like give me a break the way they wrapped stuff in a bow in this movie was just it was beautiful and i

Starting point is 00:02:28 freaking loved it and I feel like it's starting another movie right now but um oh my god okay so tell us the juice I got the juice I got the juice in all forms I thought

Starting point is 00:02:41 wow this movie yeah for real this movie was great on all accounts and it's funny watching this movie in the year of 2024 yeah because you know we live in the age where there are so many different kinds of movies,

Starting point is 00:03:00 but the main thing dominating the box office is comic quick films, right? And I feel like everybody's in this phase where either you really love Comic Quick movies or you really don't love them or you're like tired of them. But this isn't an age where this is just the pure blockbuster, like in the most unadulterated form. But the thing that made these things so powerful, what makes this movie so powerful,

Starting point is 00:03:23 is its blend of stakes and characters. I feel like this movie's, two and a half hours, but it breathed by like that. The fact that this movie is able to have these distinct characters that we get the chance to know and love with their distinct personalities and motivations for why they're going on this mission and then watching them overcome the odds over and over and over again during a movie that is both well shot, well acted, and just has a great sense of scope. It's just incredible from start to finish.

Starting point is 00:03:53 I think this movie is extremely good. And yeah, I couldn't agree more with Tara. I loved it. I was moved in multiple points in the movie. I was worried. I was on the edge of my seat, literally. And I just think that this movie is one of the best action movies I think I've seen because, yeah, I've just haven't been moved by an action movie like that. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:20 In some time, you know, I feel like we become so accustomed to knowing the, the rigourable. a role of like how these movies go but I think even in knowing or having an idea of how it's going to go it's not about the destination it's about the journey and the emotional investment within that journey and having a movie take its time to develop the people that we're following is so crucial within a film I think it's this this happy marriage between this heightened plot and the investment in which the people that we're going to that's what movies are all about for me you know you need granted i think character is like foundational but in order for a movie about plot to be this heightened experience you need to have both of those things in tandem with one

Starting point is 00:05:07 another and i think this movie excelled uh in in every category of that and yeah i just i i loved it i have a couple minor things that i would like would have liked i think that um one some of the editing it was like a little hard to understand or see what was happening sometimes between certain scenes and I had one more thing I think I can't think of the second thing right now

Starting point is 00:05:36 but yeah that's pretty much the only thing but that's such a minor detail in all of the other stuff I enjoyed I absolutely had a blast with this movie Tara yeah I mean it's like a beautiful marriage between a movie that has all of the Brockheimer like Michael Bay things of explosions and

Starting point is 00:05:52 cars falling over and we have people in space and these like underdog characters mixed with like NASA really smart you got to where we're going to put the underdogs in this scenario that they're not used to but they're going to come through like it's that like that's that the kind of typical like America like we're going to save the world kind of a thing mixed with all of this heart all of this emotion and that is actually hard to do you you have seen us you've seen me if there's a movie that I don't really like the most thing that I complain about it doesn't have enough heart there wasn't enough there for me to get emotionally invested they took us from the beginning in getting us emotionally invested when you see Bruce Willis and

Starting point is 00:06:40 you see Ben Affleck and they're having this fight and it's like five words and they bring in all of these callbacks I'll give you five words they'll give you five words and they're budding heads and then we find out that, like, you know, Liv Tyler is his daughter. Just him, like, trying to shoot him with a gun and missing, it just sets up, like, the love he has for his daughter, but also how he effed up in many ways, and we see kind of their relationship grow,

Starting point is 00:07:06 and then we're shoved in this scenario where he has to now go work with the guy that, sure, he was trying to shoot, like, you're not supposed to be with my daughter. But, of course, it's the guy that's closest to him in this working scenario that he probably trusted. the most in a working scenario that of course he would end up going of course you can marry my daughter it's like it's such smart writing and the way that they took us there in the adventure of of bruce

Starting point is 00:07:32 fighting to say i need them to have the day off tomorrow and we get to see his connection with live tyler and and her saying do you think that there's anyone else in the world that's having this moment right now and him saying i hope so because it could be their last day and seeing you know how nutty Buscemi gets with this 100 grand with all the strippers and they go and that that adds to his character the way that they all of those plot points in him getting bushimmy's character getting up there and shooting off the gun you're like he's totally the guy that went to do a loan shark to get a hundred grand spend it on a stripper he goes up there he's obviously losing his mind at the same time he's like we're going to die like he makes sense for a lot of people he's like I had a great seat up here like I thought we were all going to die but but in the end this movie gives us so much hope and so much heart and especially in the montage towards the end when we see all of these states and all of these people cheering because the the meteor missed us and it's announced and we see these kids in slow motion riding on their bikes in front of this fire truck it's very just this classic thing of life and we shouldn't take it. it for granted. That montage makes an audience feel grateful. And that's what this movie makes you feel. And it's nice that we're watching it before Independence Day, you know, where it's like, yeah, there's like people who fought for our country so that we could have, we could live here, right?

Starting point is 00:09:09 And I just feel even though that movie wasn't, it's not about that, it still gives, it gives that impression of being grateful for your freedom and your independence. Right. Notice how those planes were called those names. Freedom and independence. Right. Those are the names of the plane. Right.

Starting point is 00:09:31 See, this is an American mission without saying it's an American mission. Exactly. Like, it's like, hiller. I'll try to look up some very quick trivia for you guys, one second. Let's get on IMDB. What do you think the rating is on IMDB for this? Ooh, take a guess. Based off of my experience, I would say it's a 7.1.

Starting point is 00:10:01 No, no, no, no. Wait. Because I don't people love this movie. Maybe like a 7.58. I would want it to be that. 6.7. I don't know why. This movie is freaking perfect.

Starting point is 00:10:14 Exactly. It's weird people. It's probably just like critics who were like, this one thing, whatever. Nash shows this film during their management training program. New managers are given a task of trying to spot as many errors as possible. At least 168 have been found. I don't care.

Starting point is 00:10:33 They use this for their management training. That's how good this movie is, though, which I think is funny because it's probably mixed with being so realistic because if it was a complete joke, NASA would be like, this is a complete joke where some of it has to be right. Yeah. Meaning, I don't care that 168, we're not, the audience is not NASA people. Give me a break.

Starting point is 00:10:56 That's like 0.5% of the world. I knew this movie wasn't going to be realistic the moment. Eddie Griffin was in blast radius and the guy got killed, but he didn't. I was like, yeah. All right, this is a movie. But I'm down. This is great. Yeah.

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Starting point is 00:12:28 View important disclosures at acorns.com slash rejects. All that being said, I do vouch for them. And so does Dwayne the Asked the Director, Michael Bay. Wouldn't it be easier for NASA to train the astronauts how to drill rather than training drillers to be astronauts, they told Affleck to shut up. The reasoning behind sending drillers

Starting point is 00:12:49 rather than training astronauts is explained in the movie. It is. Yeah, you're in the movie and they explained it very well, Ben Affleck. Did you read the script, Affleck? Oh, my God. Bruce Willis said that he did not care

Starting point is 00:13:01 for Michael Bay's directing style and he refuses to work with him again. What? That is some hot goss. Holy tamale. Wowza, wowza. I love this movie. I don't know what Michael Bay did to you.

Starting point is 00:13:20 You're obviously hurt. That's wild, Bruce. Wow. Okay. Let's read like two more. Because of the patriarch nature of the script and the success of using Top Guns starring Tom Cruise's recruitment material,

Starting point is 00:13:34 the producers persuaded NASA to allow director Michael Bay and his company to shoot in the normally restricted space agent. this included the neutral buoyancy lab remember i told you they used that um a 65 million gallon 40 foot deep pull used to train astronauts for weightless and the use of two 10 million dollar spacesuits the crew was also allowed to shoot in the historic launch pad that went out of service after the apollo one disaster and the parts of the movie were filmed at edwards air force base in california that's that's cool um uh okay michael bay had the actors write their list of demands on the papers from which Bruce Willis read. So that's improv. I love that. I'll see if I can find one very quick spoiler for you guys.

Starting point is 00:14:21 After Rockhound gets Space Dementia, the shuttle crew wraps him in duct tape, which is, in fact, NASA protocol for immobilizing a crazed crew member. Isn't that great? Oh, my God. You got to wrap them up with duct tape. I freaking love that. Listen, I love this movie. I think it should have at least a 7.5. I realize, sure, if you want to be a critic and you want to pick little things apart

Starting point is 00:14:48 or find the 168 things wrong that NASA found, like, give me a break. This movie is wildly entertaining. And like I said, it has heart and emotion and all the right things at the core. It makes you feel stuff while also being on the edge of your seat and you're riding through an adventure. What more could you ask for in a feature film? don't know. I don't know either. Nothing. Yeah. I remember what my other thing was. It was the fact that I was like,

Starting point is 00:15:17 why is he the only one that went crazy? But I think when you kind of elaborate on it, that made a lot more sense. So only one, only one criticism or nitpick, but outside of that I loved it too. Actually, the other, the main guy went a little bit of crazy when he went to get the gun when it's like, and they had to talk him down

Starting point is 00:15:33 even though I get that that was his protocol. He was the colonel. I understand where he was going. He was following like colonel orders. But still, like, When they talked him down, it was like, yeah, listen to the underdogs, man. Like, all those people down here are not up here. Like, let's just do this. He brought him around.

Starting point is 00:15:49 Yeah, totally. Well, we freaking love this movie. Thank you guys for joining us. Do you have any last things you want to say to the peeps? This is great. I hope you guys liked us watching it. I hope you guys love it too. Let us know what is your favorite part or your favorite fact about space or this movie.

Starting point is 00:16:06 Yeah, leave it in the comments what your favorite part is. Don't forget your Rejectation Shop Gear. We love you guys so much, and we will see you on the next one. Bye. Pandemic. Never been a more appropriate video to shut about on. A more appropriate one, because, you know, like an asteroid is almost like a pandemic to planet Earth. Because think about it, even though, even though it is just one, you know, chunk of matter, it causes a chain reaction.

Starting point is 00:16:38 Much like pandemic Jones causes a chain reaction. of goodwill and joyous feelings whenever he comes across our eyeballs in screen form or, you know, whenever you share one of your, you know, plucky and interesting thoughts. So true. So true, pandemic, Jones. And, you know, I wish that we, if we ever had to go into space, I feel like, you know, I would be psyched to have you on the team. I feel like you would keep your cool. I don't think you would get space dementia or anything like that. And plus, I bet you could operate a drill, which is just.

Starting point is 00:17:11 just a good skill to have in life and also in interstellar, uh, asteroid deterrent technology. I can totally see a guy named Pandemic, bringing a gun to space. Absolutely. You know, you're a real wild card, but that's what we like about you. You never know what to expect and you bring that intensity sometimes, too. So we're always on our toes. We're like, I don't want to know, I don't want to rub pandemic the wrong way. Totally.

Starting point is 00:17:36 You know, he might swoop down upon us and, uh, deliver his pestilence. You know, so we try to stay on your good side. Amen to that, sister. Yeah, so don't cut off the oxygen room in space, and we'll catch you on the next one. Love you, buddy.

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The Reel Rejects - ARMAGEDDON (1998) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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