The Reel Rejects - GET HARD (2015) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:00 Thank you to Acorns for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. Anyway, guys, and Andrew. How are you excited? I'm super excited. Let's do it, buddy. Can't wait. Can't wait. Let's get hard.

Starting point is 00:01:19 All right, well, first order of business. We've got to think prep or fray down these highlights. That's the kind of movies that be a pain. It's down. Make sure they're visiting. on youtube so thank you so much people think we censor out of our own volition of choice yeah we we do that because we we're a christian household here no we we do it because they'll block it or we'll get demonetized it's awful it's awful so sometimes it's one word

Starting point is 00:01:50 it's have seen it if i've hosted a community posts one second one second sometimes a misunderstanding there's a blur having a Euro trip age restricted whole image blur pain in the yeah youtube doesn't know it's weird yep anyway we watched get hard get hard uh the 2015 comedy uh first time rewatching this since it has to be since 2015 Andrew had never heard of this before I am so glad you got to experience this so Andrew what are your thoughts well my thoughts really quickly are if you want cool teas like these rejignation shop.com but yeah

Starting point is 00:02:33 this is honestly one of my favorite parts about being on this channel is not only do I get to express myself in front of you guys and obviously with you and everyone else on the team but I get to see stuff that I've never seen or never heard of and I really enjoyed this not only because Will

Starting point is 00:02:50 Farrell's character like he had such a stereotype about him about Kevin Hart's character I thought that was hysterical like judging a book by its cover but i like how they had to develop a friendship even if it was on false pretenses at first and then once the truth unfold and all that but again even even before the whole truth came out i like how again they elevated each other and you know they bettered each other and i thought their interactions throughout the film were hysterical i got to imagine like you said during the reaction there's got to be hours hours of outtakes because there

Starting point is 00:03:27 must have been so much improv between the two of them like you could just tell you could tell to some of the moments where they were really going at it it was just so much fun to watch the energy the freneticness between the two of them it was just great i i thought too the plot was uh you know i was probably saying before but i still thought it was interesting as a little bit of trading places in there although it was albeit it was a little bit different than that but you know taking down this big corporation and all but again it was a little bit different but i actually would was rather engaged in the store. I mean, obviously the characters are what I found to be the most engaging, but I was actually engaged in the plot as well. You know, this guy is completely, who I

Starting point is 00:04:07 personally couldn't connect with at first, because he's this rich, rich multi-millionaire with this gorgeous, voluptuous woman that he gets to look at all the time in the most incredible luxury bras and panties I've ever seen and he's just got an incredible life and he gets completely wronged and we know as an audience right away that he's innocent but I like the journey of just like his training going through Darnell and we know that Darnell again they've both uh I like the contrast to because we know that Will Ferrell is he's completely been wrong and also to Darnell he's pretending to be something that he's not against that's what i'm talking about with the false pretences so it's interesting to see those two clashes uh those two characters clashing with each other

Starting point is 00:05:03 but i think uh you know that's why sometimes opposites attract so well and this is not these two are not characters or even like these two actors are not a tandem i would think would work so well but i thought like their chemistry and their interactions just really were so were so organic and just really worked together so well and I really enjoyed this. It was so much fun. But again, I really liked the storyline as well, how it unfolded. And I did say one time, too, like as much as I was enjoying all the comedic bits and everything like with the prison stuff, which actually made sense too, because once we got to the, is it a caporetta, is that what it's called? Caporetta.

Starting point is 00:05:45 Capoeira. Campoara. I don't even know if I'm saying it right. I kind of rush saying it. whatever it's called. But I actually thought it worked as I know it wasn't completely grounded with him taking out all these bodyguards and all. But again, everything that had been building up, all the animosity, all that fuel had been raging through Will Ferrell's character throughout the film. It made sense that he was actually able to do all this. So I'm like, you know what? As much as I wanted them to start investigating a little sooner, that payoff actually worked for me. You know, with everything that we had building up to. it before that and I understand now why they took their time with it getting the payoff we did because I didn't know where that was leading

Starting point is 00:06:25 to and that's why I made that comment during the reaction but now seeing where it led to and then that yacht scene was like okay that worked for me there but how do you feel take your breath take your breath don't don't rush it in

Starting point is 00:06:41 listen to communication we watched we I don't know why I said we watched the the runtime of this is a hundred minutes which at first when i saw that i went that's a little long for a comedy you know normally they're like 85 90 minutes and while i i think that perhaps there might have been a moment or two that overstays it's improv welcome you know because that tends to happen some of these comedies where yeah we get it they had a lot of jokes that they weren't

Starting point is 00:07:13 i'm sure they're way longer even and they had to trim it down this is where they kept it too so There's like a couple of moments where it feels like it's overstaying. I think, though, the runtime is earned because if you break down this movie, like the first act is character set up. And then the second half is delivering on the promise of the premise, which is about this guy who's going to go to prison, totally and over his head. He's terrified. And then he gets help from this guy who does the car wash to get ready himself to be a hard prisoner. and then the last third is about clearing the name but what they really do if you break it down in two halves the first half while they have some heart with with kevin heart which by the way

Starting point is 00:07:59 there used to be this vegan fast food place i hear called a heart house and it was uh owned by kevin heart delicious shut down was that the one you're uh was that on highland yeah do you remember that place it's shut down and it's shut down only a couple months ago and it really bones me out because that place was delicious. Anyhow, the first half is more about the straightforward comedy. Like I really hit me at a certain point. Like damn, we've been here for a solid 45 straight minutes or something like that where it's only the premise of what they promise in the marketing of Kevin Hart training this guy to get hard. And then the last half becomes more about the friendship more about them when you start to see of how much will feral is

Starting point is 00:08:50 trusting him and kevin hart is beginning to care more than looking at him as a as a means to an end i thought the runtime is so well earned and the character arcs are actually well done i i like how at first like the dovetail is nice because it starts off like the first shot as will feral just crying he is crying he looks incredibly weak and then kevin hart poses himself as this tough dude to him and then by the time he gets at the finale during the whole fight scene kevin hard's the one who's freaking out and scared and terrified the whole time and will feral he's strong and embodied and i love the irony of how everything that kevin heart taught him while under an entire huge lie ultimately did bring something out of him that allowed him to find the strength. So in the journey

Starting point is 00:09:42 of getting the goal, you do see the changes that happen along the way. And I like, I miss the days of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, who became a huge duo from Anchorman. That was their first one. And a lot of what they tend to do, there tends to be some type of backdrop of society commentary. You react to the other guys here. And that deals a lot with like, you know, know the uh ponzi schemes corporations and then this has systematic inequality racial commentary as well like it's not i want to call it like politically charged it is a part of the dna and it's part of the sensibilities that will feral adam mackay do gravitate towards and you see that as well with what adam mackay has ventured off into with drama you know from doing the oh my god

Starting point is 00:10:31 i'm forgetting all the names of the movies the big short which was about the housing market lapses and then you did the he did the the one that christian bail won the oscar for what the hell was that the cheney one uh vice vice and then he did the one don't look up you know like there's the political commentary is a big part of what they do and i thought this was a great blend of it to to not have it really be a focus but it's definitely there you know and i i love both these guys a lot and it's interesting to especially because Will Farrell has kind of seemed like a constant. He doesn't really feel like he's changed all that much,

Starting point is 00:11:13 whereas Kevin Hart has become this sort of reckoning. He's become this elite force where he's, it's like the rock is this bona fide wrestling action star and he's best friends with Kevin Hart. And Kevin Hart is this massive entrepreneur with crazy businesses and arenas. And this is a time when I felt like Kevin. Kevin Hart was very relatable, even as being famous. Now he's, I feel like there's a bit of a distance now with Kevin Hart.

Starting point is 00:11:46 Whenever we see him, I think he's an inspiring guy. I love listening to him in interviews. I love listening to him in podcast because his personal development and words of wisdom, I think, are so profound. You can learn so much about how to better yourself and be a, especially in the workplace, the work field and how to be, he's had some big failures along the world. way some that were very public and he's learned from them so there's so much inspirational about him and this brought me back to with kevin hard of oh yeah that that version of kevin heart the relatable guy

Starting point is 00:12:18 where even when i listen to his stand-up now i don't feel as connected to him as as i once did i don't know how people feel with him now i don't know if they just find him like simply funny i've i've checked out some of the netflix originals he's been on the films and i'm like it feels like he's it doesn't feel like him anymore it just feels like he's playing a type where like I know this guy is this dude who's this like massively successful guy so to to see

Starting point is 00:12:43 this role with him and to see of course the chemistry between him and Will Ferrell I thought was really really fun I think they I would love to see them team up again because they they brought two very different comedic styles yet

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Starting point is 00:14:58 Like, because improv for me is a very tough thing to do and watching these two go at it. It was like, oh, this is great. And I will say to character-wise, I really enjoyed, to your point as well, I like how they brought something out of each other that they didn't know they had. Like with Will Ferrell's character, literally the first shot we see of him, crying understandably so he's just been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Whether you've done a crime or not, that sucks, especially if you didn't do the crime. And then with Kevin Hart, he's trying to project himself into something that he's,

Starting point is 00:15:28 not. But then by the end of the film, he's actually, albeit he's using the object that we don't want him to destroy or anything, but he is fighting back against guys who are two, three, four times his size. So I appreciate that about his character, that he's willing to put his life on the line for someone. Yeah, that he did offer to pay him $30,000. But I think they made it clear in the film and I kind of pointed it out, although you did say to me, no, he's got money. I was like, yeah, but I feel like his assets would be frozen when they're going to send him to jail. So at this point, I feel like that was none of a

Starting point is 00:16:02 of a factor and he wasn't going to get paid anyways until he cleared him, which I don't think was his motivation was like, hey, this is my friend. I want to take care of him. These guys are three, four times my size and I'm going to do what's right and I'm going to help my friend here get clear to this case. And I appreciate

Starting point is 00:16:18 that. I like that character arc for him. Yeah. It was a great character arc. This is a really funny movie. And Will Ferrell's racial comedy, I think, has influenced me. because that's my favorite kind of racial comedy where clearly will feral's the dumbass and it's exposing that type of thought process that people have the nightivity where especially when they think they're not being racist you know like those are my favorite kind of racial jokes and i i i i think it's

Starting point is 00:16:48 because he's did that in like acre man too he's done it a bunch of stuff but it's like really awful display here in the sport of it between they really they really are like this is this is a comedy like you haven't even heard of this movie and this is playing on tbs and so it made me wonder if the movie's got him bigger over time and this is the kind of film that i feel like maybe might get bigger over time even though it's been like nine years it's kind of overlooked right like the fact you even heard of this surprises me when you asked uh for us to react to it today as like the dewey cox movie yeah you're like no that's walk hard i don't like wait what's it get hard i don't know what that is I would love to know, can you look up

Starting point is 00:17:28 what the, if it, what the box office was on? I was actually going to do all that for you. I would like to know if it actually made a profit because, yeah, that was a, that was a fun-ass film, dude. That was so fun. Yet hard. We got a couple things I got to look up for you. I love it like, because it feels expensive.

Starting point is 00:17:46 It's always interesting watching these movies that take jabs at the elite and then you're like, yeah, but you spent millions, millions of dollars. I also thought, too. a nice twist with Allison Bree's character. I did not see that coming as well with her in cahoots with her father as well. So I thought that was cool. All right, let's see. I wish they did

Starting point is 00:18:06 utilize Craig T. Nelson a little more because his first scene was really funny. I thought his first scene was a lot of fun. And I saw why they cast him especially for being able to be that straightforward, play it straight, like play it straight, play it

Starting point is 00:18:22 dry, but still find the humor. And I feel like they lost the humor of Craig T Nelson as the movie went like whenever you check back in with him he wasn't there was no comedy to be found so I do feel like we missed some of that there were there were some beats there also the family Kevin Hart's family I thought was a really fun aspect too all this shit with his wife was really it was really yeah you said you sabotaging the she was 30 grand I guess she just wants her husband to like have morals and principles so I could I can understand that but it's like she brought it back around yeah too like you're going to get this guy

Starting point is 00:18:56 killed did you find the box office yeah yeah i did um i also wanted to tell you to alison brie she was in the lego movie as a unicitty okay yeah yeah definitely sooner or something she's in a show i think she's in the show glow yeah she's in the show glow yeah yeah i saw the first few episodes of that okay so really quickly what do you think the budget was for this film guess i'd say 50 40 million okay box office worldwide what do you want to guess worldwide worldwide worldwide i would say like 150 111 million dollars okay 111 8 what did it make in the states in this do you want to take a guess domestic 50 90 million dollars oh made like nothing overseas 21 overseas wow okay so all their money they pretty much broke even like little profit yeah they pretty much broke you rotten tomatoes what's your gues estimate on these kind of movies i would put it like a 55 or something that's for the critics 55 28 what oh my god audience 60. 45.

Starting point is 00:19:58 Really? That surprises me even more. The 28 does not surprise me. The 45 surprises me. Shocking on Amazon Prime, where we bought it from. It's a high rating. Four and a half stars out of 14,000 ratings. And it's got a 6.0 on IMDB as well.

Starting point is 00:20:13 Oh, my God, people. And it's written by the guy who did Men in Black 3. People, come on. Or the director is the writer of Men in Black 3. It's one of those, though, that definitely. Oh, Barry Levinson didn't do Men in Black 3? No, no, no, I mean, the director of this movie is the writer of Men and Black 3. Oh, okay, yeah, sorry.

Starting point is 00:20:30 Anyway, do you want me to do a couple of trivias or nah? I think, I mean, well, yeah, you like trivia. Come on. Will Ferrell stayed in character for all interviews and press releases for the film. What? What is the way would that be? What is the character? Kevin Hart sent out a notice on social media that he would give away tickets to see this film at the 5.30 p.m. showing in Greenville, South Carolina, and addued a man, he extended the offer to two more showings, and he appeared with the fans to express his thanks.

Starting point is 00:20:58 That's awesome. That's great. The gang Crenshaw Kings, which is run by T.I., is based on the real-life gang Crenshaw Mafia. It is currently one of Los Angeles's most violent gangs. Damn, that's a bold choice to do that, to include a real-world element. This was not Will Ferrell's butt in the beginning. He received a blemish, and his butt-double took over.

Starting point is 00:21:20 He used a butt-double? Yeah. why it's not even like a super fit butt or something like that it's that's why we to use a butt though during the prison riot scene will feral stabs a cat poster with a shiv the poster also appeared in the lego movie in which will feral and alison brie both appeared uh that's funny uh yeah i guess that's it oh and will feral and craig t nelson both also appeared in blades of glory forgot to mention that as well oh yeah who's his coach forgot that as well oh man that's

Starting point is 00:21:52 totally don't hit me right now have you seen daddy's home i have not seen dad oh that's a i thought that was the the cop movie that what was the one they're the other guys yeah the other guys i thought that was that i didn't read the daddy's home and daddy's home too i have not do seen daddy's home or daddy's home too have you seen wolf of wall street that i have seen you some of i love that movie i've never seen mr d but i haven't seen i haven't seen the big short is that the one you were just talking yeah yeah that i haven't seen that's one you got to watch the subtitles that's a that's a hard one it's a lot of information anyway guys thank you so much for being here thanks andrew i'm glad we got to introduce this movie to you sure what are you guys thinking of

Starting point is 00:22:29 get hard you agree with this freaking critics and audience reading holy shit that was exceptionally low yeah what the hell this is funny ass shit uh leave your thoughts down below thank you guys so much for being here i'll talk with you guys soon

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The Reel Rejects - GET HARD (2015) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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