The Reel Rejects - BLAST FROM THE PAST (1999) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:26 Message privately with everyone. This video is brought to you by Astopro. We are looking forward to this, and without further ado, you got anything else you want to add? No, I just want to know that I am able to hit play and I'm capable person, but I don't know. Is that this button? That's that button, but we're going to wait one second to hit that.

Starting point is 00:01:44 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to make sure I knew. That's the button. Anyways, let's get going with Blast from the past. By the way, if you guys are listening to us on Apple or Spotify, If you don't mind dropping a rating, we would appreciate it. Also, if you want to look cool, are you wearing one? No, you're not.

Starting point is 00:02:03 But if you want to look cool like me at least, rejectnationshop.com, make sure you go help support the channel. Roxy, would you think of blast from the past? I think it's so cool that like Sissy Spaceic, Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walkit, like, we're all in this sick movie that I absolutely love. And if it wasn't for real rejects, I never in my life would have watched. Like that is the true joy of this channel is that I continuously find movies that I love. Like that was to me just the best.

Starting point is 00:02:40 I was smiling ear to ear. I love the tone. It wasn't like it felt like a comedy the way that Princess Bride feels like a comedy where it's like not like ha ha ha, you know, but it's like that is so enjoyable and endearing and sweet with like this love. through line and I'm a lover love shipper ships also values and family and wow I just really like that yeah for sure and this is a good point there's so many films too that I mean obviously it's first time reaction on all these but that I'd never would ever dream to watch and then then we get to watch him here I'm like oh my god I love this movie so much and I'm with you uh it was it started off on an interesting tone you got obviously the Cold War and then you got uh it's a it's a little bit

Starting point is 00:03:28 dark and eerie time at that point, you know, the Cuban Missile Crisis and all that. And then obviously, you know, the whole family bonding dynamic in the fallout shelter and then him coming back up and it being the fish out of water, which I thought Brandon Fraser, Frazier, sorry. I don't know if I'm right. Whichever way it is. Brandon Fraser just did such, I mean, I think it was just such a difficult job as an actor. So difficult.

Starting point is 00:03:54 Like really selling that you've been stuck in this fallout shelter for 30. 35 years or whatever it is and just like seeing everything for the first time and having that joy on your face like being in an elevator being in a hotel seeing the ocean the sky like but he was selling it in a way that and they kept being like what's up there and it's just our everyday life it reminds you as a person like yeah look up and and I love seeing everyone's reaction like it's the sky it's though yeah like we because we take these things for granted we see them all the time so but i thought it was a good message to like actually enjoy and live in the moment as well like to enjoy these things because we don't we only have a limited time here on this earth um so i appreciated

Starting point is 00:04:36 that but again i love brandon fraser's performance uh and i think the heart of the film yeah it was the family dynamic i love that the the chemistry you know you really felt the history dynamic obviously we had to do the uh what's the word i'm looking for the uh where we do a time exchange from 35 years from the beginning. Jump forward? Yeah, jump forward. Thank you. The time lapse and all that.

Starting point is 00:04:59 But I think the chemistry between Brandon Frazier and Alicia Silverstone was, they were so. I didn't even name her at the beginning. She's a star. You were saving it. She was fantastic. Yeah, she was great in this film. But their chemistry was so good. I like too, like we see at the very beginning, like he was about to get fleeced by

Starting point is 00:05:17 that card shop owner or whatever. I like seeing right away. She's got a conscience. she's a good human being and like she's like no no no that has worth so much more and she didn't even care that it was going to cost her her job I mean it wasn't the greatest job in the world but that's not the point it was just to show us she's a good human being she's got good morals and she's got a conscience and I liked seeing that right away in her but again it was the reactions from her and even Dave Foley who I liked in this film as well I liked seeing the reactions to

Starting point is 00:05:46 seeing him like just display things for the first time like why is he behaving like this like that's that was the fun part in this film too and actually seeing the relationship develop which I thought was done in a very fun genuine endearing and organic way I think that sometimes when I watch Brendan Fraser in the past it makes me so sad that there were so many years that we didn't get him just because of the experiences he had and how he stepped away for a while because I just think he is like unbelievably talented he had this innocence about him but was still so engaging and endearing and not annoying ever just this bright sunshine you know somebody you aspire to be like and i even love little things with them explaining like what a gentleman or a lady is you know

Starting point is 00:06:35 it's non-judgmental it's about people who make other people feel comfortable what a beautiful way of looking at that or like why you have table manners which i've always thought a complete BS but he says to show somebody else that you it's about them you know it's not about you you being hoity tooty, I just loved, I think his parent were really beautiful people and all the books he read and the shows he watched and being down there and not being distracted by the horrors of the world. He just was, he had such beautiful things to share. Yeah, no, for sure. And it's interesting, too, like how he might have been raised had they not gone down in that fallout chair, the type of human being he might have been. So,

Starting point is 00:07:19 again it sucks that he had to been raised down there but i think he ended up turning out to be a better human being for it uh of course yeah yeah and also too i i like the fact that obviously they ended up together so like now she's going to help balance him out because he is such a fish out of water and they ended up together so i think that was just so adorable and sweet uh as well um completely yeah i like that i felt and i know some people are going to get mad i mean that's fine but i felt like a lot of this was an allegory for religion. Obviously, we know that they think that they're the God, the father, the mother, but the son and the mother.

Starting point is 00:07:57 But what I thought was so cool is that, like, to me, the message of, and obviously you and I are Jews, so different than Christian, but, like, to me, the message of Jesus' is the fact that he's friends with sex workers and poor people and his whole message is love everyone. you know, fill the world with love. And the fact that when they come up, they think that they are these religious figures. And the point is love everyone.

Starting point is 00:08:26 And I love that Brendan Fraser's character is like, when he goes and Alicia Silverstone's like, Slot, whatever. And it's like, he's just like, he sees people. And he just, his first instinct is just to love everyone, no matter what their, their classes, like as he's skateboarding around the homeless people or whatever. and I feel like he not of course he's not Jesus but like I think that's what it's supposed to be

Starting point is 00:08:53 if they are the idols the people that you are coming from the ground and you're thinking that they are the sign sent for you then what a great sign somebody who just loves everyone and he hears that this guy's gay and he's like word yeah love everyone yeah that's a great point and also too you could see when he was like rollerblading by the homeless guys like you could see that that sad look of that he had for those guys. But not judgment. Just sad. And also too, like when he was, when he came over to Alicia Silverstone's place after he'd

Starting point is 00:09:24 been with the woman, the woman who was speaking French to him too, he's like, you know, I gentlemanly left. I forgot what the line was. He said, I politely left because I was somewhere I would rather be. Yeah, exactly. But no, that's a great way of looking at it. But yeah, overall, great, great film. I love the chemistry between the two of them.

Starting point is 00:09:43 So strong. So strong. I think, again, that was. was the strong point for me. But again, the whole concept, I just think it was just a brilliant concept in general. We're going to have this family. We're going to have this plane drop down on this house. They're going to go down into a fallout shelter. During the Cold War. This is the time to set it. They're going to be down there for 30, 35 years. And then he's literally going to come out, be a fish out of water, not know anything, like just be amazed by everything. I just think it's such a

Starting point is 00:10:10 cool concept, an interesting concept, rather. But yeah, I, I, I, really the pacing was really well done too because at first i'm feeling like have we been down here for a long time like it's a little slow getting into it but i really liked spending time with these characters and seeing what their life was like in this bunker you know i yeah wow i really i'm like taken aback by this movie because i feel like an old geezer sometimes but you ever watch a movie like this and you're like why don't they make movies like this anymore right right where it's just like the the beauty of it all and the messaging of it like just find beauty in the little things love everyone treat people with kindness no matter where they come from like you know i just think

Starting point is 00:10:51 that there was so even with alicia silverstone's character as you pointed out earlier where she um the first thing she does is like i'm not going to let them get ripped off yeah so you know immediately like this is a girl who even though she says like i only like boots and hair and whatever like she has a a code and she's not going to let people get messed yeah for sure no they were kind of kind of kind of fate they were they were meant for each other destiny they were meant for each other um and also too i thought there was really good character development between the two of them as well i thought they were pretty well fleshed out as the film went along you know um again i wouldn't say i mean we've talked about this already like she was uh you know she had that moral code as you said um i just felt

Starting point is 00:11:38 like he i mean he even i just feel like throughout the film he was he did a good job of just helping her find herself even more so and you know again i'm not going to call her obviously she's not a rotten human being as we know what we saw what she did but just i just helped he felt uh helped her find you know i don't know what the exactly what i'm trying to the best version of herself yeah there you go exactly and i just like she's already good but everybody can work on self-improvement yeah but i think you said too during the reaction like she's very much into toxic behaviors of so i mean it was good to see like That was wild that he was in this too. Yeah, no, this was quite a cast, too.

Starting point is 00:12:16 It was nice to see that she actually met a good human being. Obviously, again, when she found out, when she heard the story that he said, it totally plausible that she would think, like, this man is psychotic and what a crazy story. So totally understandable to call a doctor on that. I mean, any of us heard that story. We would most likely do the same thing. So, I mean, that was, I didn't feel that was personally. I didn't feel that was a betrayal to him. She cared enough about him to, hey, I just want to say.

Starting point is 00:12:43 so you get help and also fear a little bit for her life too. Like he wants to take me underground or whatever he ended up saying. So I could understand her apprehension to the situation for sure. Shout out to Ask the Pro for sponsoring us. So some fun facts about me. I've been seeing an E&T the past couple of months. Got a CT scan down for my allergies and right now I'm trying to find time to get deviated septum surgery. So like many of you, I am someone who's tried pretty much every nasal spray you can think of.

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Starting point is 00:14:56 I mean, he was trying to pass around cards to her that were worth thousands and thousands of dollars just like because he's just a good person at heart. So I only mean something to us because we've made it mean more to us and hold higher value. Yeah, for sure. What do you think? Should we read some fun facts? I got you. Let's see.

Starting point is 00:15:16 I almost grabbed your phone. I was going to say, go ahead. Go for it. Let's see. Okay. We have about 16% worth of fun facts. Okay. What was it?

Starting point is 00:15:27 Blast from the past. Blast from the past. I can't believe I've never even heard of this movie. I've heard of it. I know. You told me that, but I have not. Okay. Well, I am curious also, Hugh Wilson.

Starting point is 00:15:38 So you said that... He directed Police Academy. He directed Dudley Do-Rite the same year. So he directed the same year as this movie. He directed Brandon Fraser in Dudley-Due-Rite. Oh, he did 22 episodes of Frank's Place. That's interesting. Wow.

Starting point is 00:15:56 Okay. Yeah, that he wrote for, too. Interesting. Have you ever seen Police Academy or no? I don't know. I never know until I look something up. You could ask me in a year if I've seen this and I won't know, and then I'll have to look at it and see.

Starting point is 00:16:10 Well, you guys let us know in the case. comments if you want uh roxy and anyone else on the team to do police academy i don't know maybe i've seen it though um she hasn't okay if there's this movie somebody asked me the other day about um after after whatever it was will smith after earth and i was like i've never heard of that never seen it and then i looked at it and i was like oh i saw that i have not seen it but i've heard it was not great um okay what do we got um oh adam's coat that was made by his mother was made from the same fabric that his parents' bed spread is made of. I didn't catch that.

Starting point is 00:16:43 Oh, I did not catch that at all. Interesting fact. That's cool. Oh, this is wild. In 2015, a Mickey Mantle rookie card sold for, you want to guess at an auction? 60. No, no, no. I'm going to go $75,000.

Starting point is 00:16:56 $525,000. Jesus. Oh, my God. I knew those cards were with insane amounts. I would never have guessed that. Oh, my God. Wow. You know what I'm, before you read the next one, you know what I'm still so upset about.

Starting point is 00:17:08 Someone stole when I was a kid. all my Pokemon cards, and those are worth so much now. Yeah, my brother just sold all of mine, and I was like, but those are mine. He's like, but I sold them. And I was like, but those are mine. I think that's messed up. You deserve most of that. I am super with you.

Starting point is 00:17:24 Dave Foley has admitted that his performance as Troy was a direct copy of his Riley character from the Step segment in his series, The Kids in the Hall. Did you ever hear it? No. The only thing I've ever seen Dave Foley was I am Pat, I think, or Pat? And what's the movie with Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston, the hero movie? I'm like blanking right now. It's one of my favorite movies ever.

Starting point is 00:17:50 I will think of it. Or you guys will let me know in the comment section. Sorry, continue. All the valuable baseball cards and Adams collection are actually inexpensive modern reprints from the 1980s and 90s. That makes sense. For sure. If I was on set, I'm looking.

Starting point is 00:18:07 While living in the bunker, Calvin, unsuccessful. attempts to explain the game of baseball to a young Adam. When Adam leaves the bunker, he gets to witness a game which he states, now I get it. You have to actually see it to understand. The game he is watching is in fact softball, not baseball. I was actually going to

Starting point is 00:18:24 say that while we were filming or while we were doing the reaction. I was going to say this, I mean, it's technically baseball and softball. I mean, they're very similar, but I was going to say, well, we were reacting, this is softball, not baseball, but I'm glad you got to mention it in the facts. There's not that many facts on

Starting point is 00:18:40 I mean, no, that's kind of wild. For his work clothes, Adam wears a one-piece zipper front cover-all. This was popular among home woodworking and auto hobbyists in the early 60s. It's all kind of just like little tidbits like that. Yeah, it's kind of what we got. It seems like there's not that much on this movie. I also saw, too, the choreographer was Adam Schenckman. He did the, what's that movie called with John Travolveld?

Starting point is 00:19:10 and what's her name uh god i'm blanking today on names and christopher walkin was in michel fife no no no no no no you're thinking greece um i don't know what you're talking about oh we'll look it up afterwards um you guys know which movie it was i think it was 2007 it came out as adam shankman directed it but from the choreography i could see why um i can't think of the movie though right now it's 2007 with christopher walkin and uh and uh yeah Anyways, like I said... In 2007, directed by Adam Schenckman, that isn't hairspray? Hairspray, thank you.

Starting point is 00:19:48 You were talking about hairspray? I was talking about hairspray. Yes. It said he was the director. That movie was the choreographer for this film, it said. I see. So, yeah, and he got Christopher Waka in that. Anyways, like I said, I love this movie, the chemistry between the two leads.

Starting point is 00:20:02 Fantastic. The idea in general. Fish out of water coming into modern times, living in a fallout shelter. I just think it's a wonderful concept. executed to perfection brandon fraser perfect for this film i thought he nailed everything just the wonder in his face and his eyes uh everyone else from the all the uh actors that they got to for reactions to his uh wonder and excitement to all the extras everyone just did a solid job in this film i loved all the dynamics all the relationship the history the family dynamic as well just everything

Starting point is 00:20:33 solid across the board for me i'd probably give this one go like an 8.2 out of 10 what about you Um, I don't know. Don't know. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I thought it was great. I don't know out of 10.

Starting point is 00:20:45 Great out of 10. Yeah, yeah. I like it. I don't know. I hate when right after I watch something and then people hold me to it and then later on I'm like, I love that. And you're like, you only gave it a, da, da, that's a fair point. I think that's a fair score. Okay.

Starting point is 00:21:00 That's great. That's a fair point. Just looking up when in his career this was and all the things he did around this, um, it's just crazy how talented he is. really truly are we talking about uh brand of fraser yeah anyways uh let us know what did you think of this film blast from the past are there other films like this that you would like roxy myself anyone else on the team to react to other brandon fraser alicia silverstone films uh we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments section just please be kind of gentle uh we read

Starting point is 00:21:32 them always yes roxy and i read all the comments we really do yes um but uh yeah we had a great time this was a lot of fun great film and we shall see you guys on the next one later

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The Reel Rejects - BLAST FROM THE PAST (1999) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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