The Reel Rejects - From Beginning To End... WARRIOR (2011) ABSOLUTELY WRECKED ME!!

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Starting point is 00:00:42 I don't know if this is a video I'll ever watch back because I it's been a while since I've like from beginning to end it was weird

Starting point is 00:00:54 early on I found myself getting emotional and i was like no i'm not gonna let my i'm like it's gonna be weird if i just like cry this early on at a certain point it's like this movie just is destroying me um from beginning to end um but yeah the the ending there

Starting point is 00:01:15 of the of how like the fighting represents such as not just the physiological side obviously but the psychological side of these brothers who are both broken and hurt and the decades of this resentment, the trauma, the unspokenness, the silence. And in so many ways, this is what they know best and with their upbringing, which hints at remarkable amounts of violence and trauma, this is strangely the way they know how to talk to each other.

Starting point is 00:01:49 It's not going to be through words, you know. to and when Tommy it's like he finally hears his brother in that moment like that tap out it's just breaking through every single one of the defenses all the pain all the anger all the guilt and for the first time in this entire story he's allowing himself to be vulnerable wow it's fucking me up it's allowing himself to be vulnerable he's leaning on his brother um both literally and figuratively walking out of the cage with him and uh yes that's just um it's not physical some emotional it's not about victory either it's it's about as as the movie seemed to hint at at the very beginning of this film that it would be

Starting point is 00:02:48 about forgiveness it's about reconciliation you know um these two guys stepping out of that ring and towards something new it was so strong from beginning to end and listen uh i understand that i i do my best to be very honest about my opinions and i like to be up front nowadays about things that yeah something might be happening and i'm very particular about what i choose to divulge because i don't want my life to be come a reality show and I don't also want my life as much as I'm willing to cry I don't think there's anything wrong with crying okay it's kind of weird when you're a guy and you know some people will criticize you as a guy for crying on camera but I could show anger I could show shock

Starting point is 00:03:41 I can show enthusiasm I can show everything but the second you start crying it's a it's a different subject and I am okay with crime because it's just like any other emotion and I find that I needed this movie today and I found like a catharsis with this film I found a true experience where perhaps there's people who cannot relate with some of this stuff of course like there's elements I can't relate with but there's plenty of elements I do relate with and there's stuff that has happened in my personal life and in my life and the last thing I'm going to want to do is you know divulge information where i'm suddenly broadcasting personal information in order to drive home how much i connected with so much of this movie all i'll say is there's a lot that i really

Starting point is 00:04:33 connected with very early on especially and and perhaps that's why i texted my brother is there's stuff with our father in particular that i found it's what he is with that was the scene that i was like this is going to be an insanely hard movie to get through of uh because after the scene finished it was like two scenes later like god damn i'm still thinking about this one scene i was still cry uh it was when patty first goes to see brendan interrupts his night and yeah there's a very specific memory in my life where it reminds like I got a hard flash and it made me as an individual question resentment harboring and you know when he does relapse and you start thinking about sir I feel like I'm giving some clues here to my life but I don't want to get

Starting point is 00:05:31 too detailed is that there's the feeling of that's why i respect the movie it's so multi-layered there's so much complexity and it's like you get why these brothers are the way they are and then when a dad is trying so hard and then he relapses after trying so hard you're like damn maybe i should have been nicer along the way of And because he is ultimately a human being, the dad. And of course, everything with, I'm going to move on. Everything with the performances of Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy. Like I sort of just came into this movie wanting to watch Tom Hardy.

Starting point is 00:06:24 Like I didn't really, I didn't know Nick Nulte was in it. And or I did and I forgot. I knew Joel Edgerton was in it, but I wasn't really here to watch the Joel Ledgerton performance, and I found that I didn't just walk away with a good movie that was starring Tom Hardy. I found a film that was very personal, wasn't misery porn, and wasn't something that was trying too hard. Like, it felt very genuine and natural, and it feels, it swells, everything about it

Starting point is 00:06:55 really seemed to hit in a very real way. We're circling back to, I am just talking right now. So it seemed to hit in a very, like, real way. And I find it fascinating how, like, this movie's, you know, it's more than a decade. It might be a couple decades at this point. But, you know, of the MMA trajectory, it's so much more popular now more than ever. I don't know what impact this movie had. But in terms of, like, psychologically flushing out your characters, this was one of those movies

Starting point is 00:07:28 where you really feel like writer, director, actors, of course. both really knew every single bit of history with these folks like so much of this movie is unspoken moments between characters with sometimes getting clear about what happened in the past other times not and it's like that i love this stuff about the past with them as kids and then uh and nick nulte because it's not like this one thing happened it was a lifestyle of trauma it was an entire upbringing of being domesticated in such troublesome hard complex times where there's hatred and then there's love and then there's hurt but you want to forgive but you can't and then there's blame and you got to move past blame and everyone's trying their best because everyone's a goddamn

Starting point is 00:08:19 human being and then seeing like the two paths they ultimately went down but how it all dovetailed back like there's this sense of like a movie magic and destiny at the same time because it's kind of like an insane story. You know, it feels like there's a bit of a fantasticalness to it, but the movie does such a good job at portraying the realism of the emotions and the actors and everyone on board, just like the relationships are so well fleshed out that whatever there's movie magic moments that feel like swelling or whatever, like sports movie shit or even like this ending.

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Starting point is 00:10:46 That's Hewled.com code rejects. Fuel your body, even on the go. You'll love it. I am running late to my meeting. They can wait a couple of minutes. but yeah i appreciate how there's a consistent subtext within the dialogue like on surface the dialogue on just the writing side the dialogue is just so um well thought out like there's personality there's metaphors there's um uh um little god like idioms and like random

Starting point is 00:11:17 phrases that characters say that feels so attuned to characters and these little beats in in certain moments like something as simple as like the principle coming down at the end moment being like you are you have see like impressed by that and the way they keep cutting back to that and how all this like global support keeps happening for them it's not really about subtext of dialogue but that thing of like global support consistently happening and yet none of that really it matters but it's not as important as this little isolation of what's going on in the ring between these two and and of course we've seen it in the sports movies of you know what what's really being taken out during the ring and or like what happens

Starting point is 00:11:59 you get onto the field um this though leads with that first and foremost and and that's what makes the fighting rewarding like they don't really try to like oversell you on the coolness of mama but they really show you the history with the fighters um and it's core of the movies of family drama So I think it does a great job with, you know, like these random moments of history that carry tension, hesitation, some forced politeness, you know, the resentment. The weight of the past is just constantly carrying over. And the body language over dialogue, the body language over words, and both with Tom Hardy, like Tom Hardy is like a showcase of these kind of things, right? I think that's the thing with Joel Edgerton is that I've seen like some good Joel Edgerton work

Starting point is 00:12:53 and I'm kind of used to Tom Hardy being the spotlight star and being the heavy and the gravitas and he is insanely amazing in this film but Joel Edgerton was the one that surprised me because I didn't walk in expecting to watch a Joel Edgerton performance a show and Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton do a lot with their eyes they do a lot with their posture they do a lot within the silence

Starting point is 00:13:12 like the emotion so much of the emotions is how they carry themselves and just like little subtle things and the freaking traps the shoulders on tom hardy are i love it because there's so much like when repression happens it tends to go into your shoulders and i love that we just like bulk the shit out of his shoulders like i know it's refining i don't know if there's an actual like metaphor for that but it's i kind of i was kind of reading into it um but yeah the the character motivations are also really well defined i like the the odds that it places you at of like you know um of who do you

Starting point is 00:13:47 root for in the end and both of their wise and goals are just so clearly fleshed out and while you know it's going to crescendo to them fighting in the ring together it doesn't feel like an annoying predictable thing and it's not about you know it's going to be a crazy versus match you know because the immediate

Starting point is 00:14:03 fights that they're in throughout that journey are so compelling and so gripping and so different than that so the buildup of how Tommy wins and how he fights and the build up of how Brendan wins how he fights when that comes to a you've gotten to know not just who they are emotionally internally as characters with how they move

Starting point is 00:14:21 physically the music and sound design is incredible i'll say the editing too they really know how to there's a visceralness to it where it wraps you up in the frenzy but you could always tell what's going on no matter how chaotic it is because handheld can get a little bit self-indulgent but i think they use it just right and they have they have just the right moments where they go insanely stylistic with their with their editing and cinematography and I feel like this movie just looks so damn good and the music is

Starting point is 00:14:52 swelling. It's not just background. It's kind of like a guide to your soul. You know, it stirs the emotions. It helps you connect with the characters more of what they might actually be feeling. The parallels they draw, the contrasts, you know, the mirrored scenes that they

Starting point is 00:15:08 do throughout like of this entire journey. Like it's a subtle mirroring between the brothers and using the cages a metaphor i think is actually pretty smart and yeah because they're not just action they're they're um their they're they're emotional payoffs is what i'm getting at and it becomes a place for them to express what they can't say and the the nuances of the marriage the nuances of every of like how we don't get like some cliche dialogue exchange with nick nulte ever how in spite of everything the brothers still come together in the end and it's kind of a selfless moment for nick nulte to just

Starting point is 00:15:44 see his sons make amends like he got his boys are back together and he's so tight and that's what matters to him in that moment more than anything else i thought this was one of the most powerful things i have watched on this channel one of the most personal things i have ever connected to um because this movie hit like a like a goddamn freight train and um i i'm glad i got to be here to share it with you i'm not going to come back to talk some more because i've me i forgot i have two meetings back to back so i got to go to both of those but thank you for being here hey if there's anything i ever want anyone to do uh or helping courage here it's to feel your feelings that's what we like to ask how are you feeling and uh this movie got me to freaking

Starting point is 00:16:30 feel my feelings i'll tell you that much i've been a little bit of a walled-up guy the past couple days and this movie really got me like holy crap it was cracking a damn of of so many things and especially with some recent reconnections and and honest conversations I've been having in the past couple months, this movie came at the exact right time. Like, I put it off for a very long time and never seen the trailer or didn't know how this would play out. But this was undoubtedly like a goddamn experience.

Starting point is 00:16:59 I'm never going to forget. Thank you, Reject Nation for your support. Follow us on Patreon, support the channel that way, RejectNationshop.com. Yeah, I've got to go. but I love being here and yeah I'll say it I love you guys thank you now I love my brother too

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The Reel Rejects - From Beginning To End... WARRIOR (2011) ABSOLUTELY WRECKED ME!!

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