The Reel Rejects - MAJOR PAYNE (1995) MOVIE REVIEW!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:15 This video is sponsored by Liquid Ivy. All righty guys. It's a classic one. Jeez, Aaron. I'm trying to say the thing. Say the thing. If you're listening to Apple or Spotify, I'm paying Aaron for two hours

Starting point is 00:01:30 and we got 21 minutes. I'm going to get every minute out of you, Aaron. I don't care what we filled this with. We just watched Major Pain today. And Aaron, what was your expectations before going into this comedy? My expectations were a zilch,

Starting point is 00:01:50 a zero. And you know what? They exceeded them. They exceeded them. They met. they became an expect. They met them and they did so adequately. I liked it.

Starting point is 00:02:05 I thought it was fun. I definitely see why people liked this movie. It had heart, you know, even though that Major Payne was definitely on the outside, this caricature of this tough and military guy. There was heart there. There was like a layer of real character there underneath all of the, not satire, but this like S&L-esque exaggerated character and seeing him play against these kids

Starting point is 00:02:31 who also had their own individual things going on but primarily Stone and Tiger yeah it was it was a nice fun movie I like the music I think that is there two no they're not a random shit yeah Damon Wayne's really made this movie he was hilarious from start to finish you would think that the stick that he was doing

Starting point is 00:02:51 would get old but it strangely didn't I laughed through from start to finish. And for a movie to be almost 20, almost 30, Jesus, almost 30 years old, it came out in 1995, the year I was born. Yeah, for still to hold up, it's just a testament to the quality of the writing. Because, you know, we go through movies that are of their time. You know, each decade has their own genre of humor that kind of sticks with and or plays with. And sometimes it works in future.

Starting point is 00:03:24 Sometimes it doesn't. And this, for the most part, worked. Yeah, I thought all the acting was really good. I really liked the girl who played Hillary. I could not remember her name. Do you remember that girl's name? Do, of course, I committed it to memory. They don't remember her stone, major pain, and tiger.

Starting point is 00:03:40 And that's pretty much it. But, yeah, I was thoroughly entertained. I don't think it's like the greatest comedy I've ever seen, but it's fun. You know, it's harmless. it was what's her name Karen Parsons Karen Parsons

Starting point is 00:03:56 yeah she's still fine yeah she's still hot damn I know getting off track but damn hot damn woman woo yeah it had to let out of a lot more

Starting point is 00:04:11 than expected I got a theory for you you have a theory I was just having a random guest when I was watched so I was like all the posters for major pain uh he's turned profiled right looking over at us that way yeah he is rational like it's a very

Starting point is 00:04:27 specific kind of poster and then i started looking at all the other posters i started looking on like okay is this the original poster and it is the original poster and my theory is they had some maybe some marketing thing where they didn't really want the gold tooth showing yeah because they might be unappealing for audiences to look at it and they might not want to see it and get the wrong impression might scare them might scare them with a black man with a gold tooth might offend military people and I want a different direction you did yeah I went with the black thing about the military maybe both it could be both it could be both all right so here before there's a okay I MDB has five facts one of them is really long so

Starting point is 00:05:13 I'm gonna get my thoughts first okay and I want to go through these facts I got you for 17 more minutes here and counting i've been having to go to the bathroom the last 40 minutes oh really but oh my god hold it in oh god because every minute with you counts for this two hour your bowels okay uh yeah i'm with you i i i thought it would be a little bit more like heightened spoof satire i mean there's there's that uh spoof satire element throughout obviously with like making fun of drill sergeants and specifically the kind of like drill sergeants that you would see in cinema. I don't really know what a real drill sergeant's like. I know the riffing on real drill sergeants, but my only associations with movies. And this movie is like making fun of that

Starting point is 00:06:01 type in a movie. If you're like, what if you took this guy and you put him in this scenario? And I thought they did a really fun job with that. And to liken it to like a comedy today, I would kind of like it a little bit more to like weirdly you don't have you seen you don't miss with the Zohan Adam Sandler actually never seen it well while it's like a super silly film Adam Sandler really did like Israeli military training for it really bulked up for this film about this lethal Israeli military man who comes to the states to become a hairstylist but he really got buff for it and he did all the actual training and everything like they really did all that And I got the impression that they kind of did the same thing here that while it is a comedy, they still had them go through rigorous training.

Starting point is 00:06:51 I imagine even Damon Wayans probably did like a decent amount of actual research because one of my favorite things about it was it did start off where I had that same feeling like, okay, this is funny now, but this is just going to get annoying watching this one note. And then they managed to make major pain become a real character through the course of the film. And they never had to go too far, which I really liked where he gets way too soft by the end or some shit. It was believable. Yeah, and then they had some surprising, heartfelt, nuanced moments where there could be a little bit of a serious scene with major pain there. And you could believe the serious scene, despite how heightened this character is. There's some good visual gags throughout. I mean, Aaron and I were joking about this kind of relationship shit is the thing that's not believable.

Starting point is 00:07:36 And we'll get ridiculed today for, you know, falling in love with the man who would probably be a really abusive kind of. lover, but it's a stupid, silly comedy. What does it matter? I do think that, yeah, overall, the end goal of the movie is to make you laugh, and I laugh quite a bit. It wasn't like I was laughing a little bit, and then suddenly I stopped. Like, this was a movie that one of my, I think my biggest laugh actually came from the Orlando Bloom is Tiger at the end when he was doing the Michael Jackson Day.

Starting point is 00:08:02 Like, that shit was cracking me out. That's like towards the very end of the film. So, yeah, I thought it was a really fun movie. And I could see how this is one that could probably feed into a lot of people's nostalgia who grew up on it, but this is us discovering it. And normally I kind of separate myself going, yeah, there's like a nostalgia film. And then there's this, this is today as a new viewer, it's like whatever. I thought it would be more annoying. For some reason, I've seen this poster for so much of my life, never seen a clip or a trailer. And I always thought it might be a bit

Starting point is 00:08:31 of an annoying film, even though I've liked the Wayans family and like almost everything I see them in. So I don't know why. I watched my wife and kids. And, uh, I've watched Wayne's brothers as well, both those shows. And then while the movies, and I've seen some of their sketches from In Living Color. And I've seen a good amount of their movies as well. And Damon Wayans is one who went off into being a director. He's directed scary movie one and two. I did not know that.

Starting point is 00:08:59 Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. He's directed a lot of the ones that saw Marlon and Sean Wayans. He's directed a good amount of them. Huh. Yeah, so he's kept in the family. Right, right. Let me before I'm really wrong.

Starting point is 00:09:10 I think I'm just going off memory here. I could be wrong because there's so many, there's so many Wayans brothers that I'm probably, I'm wondering if I'm wrong about that. There's a big Wayne's brother's family. No, no, I'm wrong. Keene and Ivory Wayans is the one I'm thinking of. Keene and Ivory Wains, yeah.

Starting point is 00:09:28 No, Keene Ivoryne is the one who went off and directed. My bad. Okay. It's glad I clearly because once I started saying, I was like, don't wait a minute. I think I'm off about that. This is the last Boy Scout. But yeah, I've seen the sketch.

Starting point is 00:09:40 in living color. I forgot that he's not the one I'm off director. What did Keenan and Iry Wayans do? He was, I think he was in living color. We got 13 minutes, Aaron. I'm going to look over what Keen and Ivery Wayans do. He's done a lot of stuff. I know he used to do more stuff in the 90s being on camera, but not as much. Yes, he's the one who's like directs white chicks.

Starting point is 00:10:01 That's right. My bad. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay. It's the last. Yeah, okay. Glad we are here.

Starting point is 00:10:08 Where is it? The director. Director. Little Man, white chicks, scary movie, scary movie, too. Oh, they brought back in living color. That's right. I forgot about that. They did?

Starting point is 00:10:18 Yeah, look. Oh, shit. I forgot they did that. Actually, I didn't forget. Clearly, they didn't last. I did not know that. But yeah. And I think Damon wins has a kid who's also called Damon Williams, right?

Starting point is 00:10:32 Yeah, Damon Wayne Jr. Yes, yes. He was on a new girl. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. There's a lot of Wayne brothers. There's a lot of what's a big. Wayans family.

Starting point is 00:10:41 Wayansman's the next generation of Wayne. There's just the ones you know about. That's true. All right, Aaron, we got 11.5 minutes left. I'm going to look up how many Wayans. What is the size of the Wayans family? That's not the way to ask the question. But let's see if this Google knows what I'm talking about.

Starting point is 00:11:02 Come on, Google. Come on, AI. I should have said how many members are in the Wayans family? Ten siblings. Damn. see five brothers and five sisters that's a shit little kids look at that look at that their poor mother keenan ivory shan marlin damon and dain and dwayne who's the hell is dwayne he's like i want no part of this family business who is dwayne wayans oh shit he's a real human being

Starting point is 00:11:34 it's been a long time since i've seen white chicks but did that movie have heart do you remember kind of because what makes me think of that is you know this movie had that balance of him being a caricature and over the course of the movie developing heart and being like a real guy well to some extent

Starting point is 00:11:52 but I'm like watching it and he has these scenes where he does is like his bits you know like the little engine that could and like the whole dancing aspect of thing that one scene but you know it doesn't feel like how they would try to do comedy in the 2000s

Starting point is 00:12:08 It still felt of the 90s, but it wasn't overbearing. No. Still in that realm of like, okay, this is still entertaining. It's still funny rather than trying too hard to be like, how you get it? We're doing a bit. Well, here's what I think would have helped elevate this movie from being like a good comedy to a masterpiece of a film. I'm here to tell you how this could have been maybe the greatest movie ever made it. I don't mean to over sell.

Starting point is 00:12:38 but I think I can deliver the goods. What they could have done is, A, I think they could have had a little more of those nuanced serious. It doesn't have to be serious, but not go for like, go for the laughs when you're just cutting to the kids when they're by themselves. That way we can really get to know the children so you have a contrast when you cut to major pain where you're kind of in a different type of like wacky world. And then you're in a world with the kids where you get a little bit more of getting to know

Starting point is 00:13:08 personality is where they come from, why they're here, why they are the way they are like that. The whole thing with the kid and his stepfather comes in like pretty late into the movie and kind of getting an inkling of that for the character arc probably would have helped serve the narrative a little bit better, you know? And I feel like that one ingredient would have helped flesh all this out because this whole thing about the games. I'm like, I don't really know what the, I know the games, it's more than just like a trophy. There's got to be a deeper meaning to it than that, you know, but why? All right, Reject Nation, so today I want to share something with you that has been a wonderful addition to my health and fitness journey that I discovered during the holidays.

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Starting point is 00:15:19 So stay hydrated, stay healthy, and let's keep crushing those health and fitness goals together in the year 2024. And I think if they had, and I thought this movie at times was a little bit at odds of wanting to just be that wacky comedy because there's three screenwriters here. So I thought at times it was at odds of wanting to be the wacky comedy that as advertised. and then oh but you know we really do want a little more hardened to be kind of like kindergarten cop or something i don't know one of one of those movies where you get more nuanced to one to so you're more connected to the kids yeah and and i think that was the missing ingredient because i'm like i don't really know who the the kids personality is that well you really know like three of them you know tiger the guy the one is the douche who leaves them

Starting point is 00:16:01 and then the main guy right and but everyone else even has like a camaraderie and stuff Like, I think there were, I felt like there was like missing scenes or stuff that they just rewrote or cut out where if we got more of, I guess what I'm talking about is like, whenever you're cutting with them, that's where you really get a start growing the heart for it. So you care more about major pain connecting with them, you know? And then I think they could have perhaps dialed back a tiny, tiny bit towards the end. Like, just get an inkling more of who major pain is. lot. I'm not saying a lot. But when they have these opportunities, when he's bonding with Hillary, whatever her name is, he's bonding with the girl from Fresh Fitz of valor, if you got a tiny bit more of like beyond the military. Yeah. And something from his childhood. Yeah, I'm not saying

Starting point is 00:16:55 you have to go like deep psychoanalysis or some shit, but the movie was obviously wanting to go in that terrain. I think the movie wanted to. Like, that's why they have the book about emotional nurturing, being an adult male role model, reading a psychology book. They have, like, these, when he first argues with Hillary, when they first have a blowout, just dropping, like, these adjectives of, like, real

Starting point is 00:17:15 psychoanalysis term, you know? So I think the movie actually wanted to sort of explore that, and they were kind of, I don't know, it's the 90s. I don't know how shit worked back then. So maybe they were told to, like, you know, temper it, hold it back, be more fun, you know, I have no idea. But,

Starting point is 00:17:31 I do think more of the the heart wanted to be there kind of throughout and they were kind of told not to or they were told to edit it out because especially with like Damon Wayans being a co-writer and like the main thing I love from him while most people love like in living color or the other things he's done some people even really liked him in the lethal weapon show the the I know for my wife and kids mainly like specifically this Wayne's brother I know for my wife and kids which is a very heartfelt show about family. And it was really funny and I really liked it. And I think that this movie is actually shining a lot when they are doing more of the stuff with Hillary.

Starting point is 00:18:10 I think that's when they were definitely showing a little. They're not like a husband and wife, but that's when you start seeing the relationship side of it. And then with Tiger, the father side, the stuff that really shines in my wife and kids. And this is of my wife and kids production. So clearly this is, this is a, that is a theme and a topic. when it comes to narrative storytelling that Damon Wayans himself is very much drawn to. So maybe there was a specific script, and Damon Wayne came in and said, we should implement some of this, or maybe there was an inverse.

Starting point is 00:18:42 I don't know. Either way, I think if they had more of that, it would have helped make the wackier stuff even funnier stuff even funnier. Yeah. You know, and it would have had some actual stakes and investment in the game. Because even the movie, when they're done with the game, they just dissolve too. You don't even get a wrap up on our kids. No.

Starting point is 00:18:57 When I'm like, oh, that's kind of a bummer to me, you know, or even with Hillary. God damn it. Yeah, they did kind of treat them as a bit of an afterthought. Yeah, because they start to do that in the beginning. Like, okay, these are these kids different personalities as he's like giving them their punishment for their acting out or whatever. And yeah, we start to see some of that like the thick kid who's eating the cookies and stuff. I would have liked to see more of him. And like the kid who had his head shaped who had the big ears.

Starting point is 00:19:27 Yeah, I agree that camaraderie would have made things a little bit stronger. And I would have liked to know more about Hillary, too, or whatever hell her name is. And, you know, maybe her relationship with Tiger, you know, and then that adds and plays into their perspective of the whole family thing. Because the way that it ended where Major Payne leaves, it just treated them as the focus for that one scene or that one segment of the movie and then ending it without really seeing where they go. Because some of them are still in the line, like at the end of the movie and just ending it on Major Payne. and not really showing the follow-up of what happens with him and Hillary, what happens with him and Tiger's relationship,

Starting point is 00:20:06 what happens to the team as a whole. I would have liked to see in all of that. And yeah, that's, it's unfortunate, but may, hey, maybe he left on the cutting room floor. Maybe they're like, all right, this is the 90s movie. We've got to wrap it up. Yeah, you got time for none of that. Let's see here.

Starting point is 00:20:21 Okay. I'm going to look at research, I'm speed reading some quick facts here. All right, to research his character, Damon Wayne's endured several weeks of D.I. qualification training learning the requirements of Marine Corps drill instructor as well as other aspects of Marine Corps training.

Starting point is 00:20:36 Viewers can see several small things he does like the cadence of his walk. This is the thing I'm talking about where I'm like I felt like he actually prepared for the role. And that's what I mean. Like you wouldn't just do that for just a wacky comedy. I think there was more care in there that they wanted to implement along with the wackiness. You know, almost unconsciously correcting his cover after berating and getting in the face of each cadet And the list goes on. And the list basically just goes on to say just how much more he stayed in there.

Starting point is 00:21:04 And even improvising, a lot of it was embodying the character. All right. Okay. There's actual accuracy to the uniform he's wearing. One of the kids is the one he says, he says, I'm not your brother. That is actually Deke Williams. That is Damien Wayne's nephew. Oh, cool.

Starting point is 00:21:25 Usually put their kids in there. It's cheap. Cheap, cheap, cheap. Let's see here. Damon Wayne's character was dancing to Pop That Coochie by Two Live Crew in the nightclub scene. Interestingly enough, Wains was having a real-life

Starting point is 00:21:41 feud with two live crew at the time due to a joke he told about the group during his comedy special. Oh, way to rub it in their face. I liked hearing you read Pop That Coochie. That was funny. Hey, Aaron, we got two minutes left. Martin Lawrence was

Starting point is 00:21:58 offered the role of major pain but turned it down because he was making bad boys with slap artist will smith i could have totally seen him as major pain too you'd have been great uh uh let me just go uh no uh was this one uh a minute a half one okay uh be i feel i like the score too i thought the score was was fitting oh check this out in an interview it is true it's good point on the on the score here um in an interview damon wayne said that at the beginning of filming he was advised by technical advisor dale died to method act and distance himself from the kids and the rotc group when the camera was enrolling similar to what louis gauced junior had done in an officer and a gentleman see i think they wanted to make a real movie right you don't make

Starting point is 00:22:51 those choices for that kind of shit that kind of preparation for this pure comedy no i got those inklings of like the filmmaker, the writing that probably had studio notes to, I don't know, just keep it, keep it simple or something. Keep it light. But no, yeah, because they get heavy with the steps, dad coming in, slapping the kid around. I'm like, yeah, it's a rather serious. It's like, serious. It was a dramatic scene.

Starting point is 00:23:15 Yeah, it was a little serious thing that happened to the movie. It was like a little jarring for it to go like that real and go back to the tone we were expecting that we were used to. But overall, with what we got, the product ultimately delivered was a funny film, and I'm glad we saw it, and we got to experience the nostalgia. A lot of people get a experience. We got 40 seconds left. This video itself will not be two hours, but the recording is two hours. Got to get that.

Starting point is 00:23:43 So was your favorite way in him? Marlon. Wow. He's done the most. Just by quantity, not by quality of an artist. He's done the most. he's bidden more things he's my favorite by that measure i'd be like nicholas cage it'd be a tie between marlin and him because i grew up on him and uh all my wife and kids

Starting point is 00:24:05 he's he's a classic i miss him i wish he'd come back damon we miss you still that stuff when's last thing you saw him in something oh two hours up all right thank you guys so much for being here uh leave a like to subscribe and we'll catch you all soon i got to get him out of here before he charges me more you know Mikhail Lyndon. Hey. Mikhail. Mikhail.

Starting point is 00:24:29 Mikhail. It's a new year in Sweden or Switzerland. I don't know. It's been a couple years. I always forget which one. They sound the same to me. I don't know what they look like. I don't know what you sound like.

Starting point is 00:24:41 I don't know the difference. What is he? Sweden. I think he is Swedish. Wait, did you forget? I was kidding. I was pretty good. It was like, you said both names so many times.

Starting point is 00:24:53 It was like doing the shell game. I was like, where is the P? Yes, he's in Sweden. Yeah, I, yeah. My mind leaning towards Sweden every time, but I constantly question it because I'm like, I don't know what Switzerland or Sweden looks like. And I don't know what the difference is because I don't know what any, I don't know anything about you guys. Sure. And then you've educated us before, but it's all left my dumb American brain.

Starting point is 00:25:15 Once a year, you should come back here and educate us on your culture. Anyway, look, you got to have a New Year's resolution regardless, right? You Swiss must do that. You must have. Celebrates a new year with Sir Sweet. You must have a new year's plans. So here's your New Year's resolution. I'm going to give it to you because I know you probably haven't thought of it

Starting point is 00:25:35 because you guys down in Estonia, never think about it. Right? You're Romanians, man. So what's your shout out is your New Year's resolution. Oh, I knew exactly what's going to be. You are going to buy many mirrors. You're going to set up many mirrors. that way

Starting point is 00:25:54 when someone breaks into your home to try to shoot you you can do the taunting monologue game oh yeah and you can like flip around and be like where am I now and then they're surrounded by mirrors and then they shoot at you and

Starting point is 00:26:10 cracks with you don't flinch that wasn't you they shot they shot the mirror not you and you give a laugh and you step out of frame and leave them to languish hit them over that oh yeah over that No, no, no. In confusion before you hit them over the head.

Starting point is 00:26:24 They hurt them over the head. Yeah, you sneak up on us when you get the drop. But the thing is like, you know, the problem is in these like spy and action movies that you're obsessed with, uh, Mikhail is like, they don't prepare for a scenario. Wouldn't they ever take the time for a training session to learn how? Why is it always they know how to manipulate the mirror situation? But the bad guys don't know how to manipulate the mirror situation. So you got to train.

Starting point is 00:26:49 You really got a train to figure out how the mirror. bounce off each other to be able to properly manipulate and trick the bad guy when they break into your home of how to, you know, just scare them. Yeah, you need to learn the layout. You need to spend a month living in complete darkness. So, you know, the layout just instinctually. And then you need to do a lot of different studies on, yeah, what angles are the best? What looks the most cinematic?

Starting point is 00:27:13 Because the thing is, if you're going to mess with, you know, like a burglar coming in, you can't just do it in a normal, efficient way. You have to taunt them and make it clear that you're the boss and they've messed up by coming into your domain. And please do not, for the love of God, please do not attack until they say, where are you? Yeah, that's the most important part in fact. This year, yeah. There you go, man. Mikhail, seriously.

Starting point is 00:27:42 All right. You're the best Norwegian we know. Best Norwegian, all right. You take care of your Viking sisters and brothers out there and you just let's know how everything's going. and happy to you to you, buddy.

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