The Reel Rejects - OBLIVION (2013) MOVIE REACTION!! First Time Watching!!

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Starting point is 00:01:25 We would not. And if you're listening to us on Apple or Spotify, give us a five-star rating leave a like leave a comment do all the things you know how it goes um so we just got done watching oblivion oh wow yeah i mean how do you feel now i feel good yeah i feel really good that was a very good movie um yeah from its art direction to its music to just the story overall it was really well made um tom cruise was great in it so all the supporting cast it was a story that was understandable accessible get sci-fi and have semblance of being abstract and i like the message behind it um i like the subversion even in the

Starting point is 00:02:13 color schemes the story telling the in the color scheme with the white and cleanness you know normally associated with like something like angelic and and or holy or good and then you see these people that we perceive to be other than human and the They, when we do finally see them, they're all militaristic. They're all in black. And we see Jack, who starts off as this guy in a white suit. And by the course the movie goes, it becomes dirty. It becomes gray.

Starting point is 00:02:42 It becomes darker. And that contrast is highlighted in that one scene where he's going back to the base. And his partner, who we perceive to be the person he was with, trying to do the missions and whatnot. She was in clean, pristine white. he was in gray she was in gray and black and i just i thought it was overall really strong um yeah it did have elements that were a little predictable for me but i don't think predictability is necessarily a bad thing i think just because something has familiar beats it's all about how it's executed yeah the fact that it's doing it and for me the way that it was executed still worked

Starting point is 00:03:21 and was still effective so i walked away really enjoying this one because what parts do you think that you you had already called out that she was his wife she was wife the clone thing right um yeah so two big things i guess two big things but also the fact that the the scarves the scars were not what we perceive them to be i i had a feeling that it was one of those stories where the thing that we're calling others actually the good thing and it's about this guy waking up to the truth of what the situation he's actually found himself in so i so i think i kind of put that together fairly early, but those three big things are kind of what I surmise. But again, it's about the way it's executed rather than the fact that they're doing it. I thought the way

Starting point is 00:04:07 that they did it and the way they utilized it in the story was really effective. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I thought the set design was really great and it was just such beautiful shots. It just looked like art when you were looking at it, which was awesome. But I think like, you know, the heart of the story where it's like love will always like kind of lead the way. Yeah. that especially at the end that even though he is 52 and not 49 his wife said to him when they were at the lake she's like you are you or when they were up at the tower that it doesn't matter what number he is right that he arrives there which is why i thought maybe when he was about before he blew it up i'm like you want to release one because that is you it's a clone of you and if he if they still have the same

Starting point is 00:04:55 memories right you're still going to know her as your wife um but i like that this i mean where it began is like and then where it ended it was like love and his the lingering memories that he had of her and like dream of us it's like that's what took him to the ending place where he he ended up and ended up making the human race survive because of it because if he had not had that connection with his wife they I don't believe that the scabs what do we call them scabs scavenger scabs yeah scabs that the scabs would have survived because they wouldn't have survived without jack harper but jack harper strongest pull is his wife and his dreams of his wife and that's what helps him helps to save humanity that it's like if he didn't have that really strong love and something

Starting point is 00:05:54 that he desperately probably wanted to go back to and obviously dreamed of even when he was with Fick that I don't think that the human race would have been saved. He probably just would have been operating with, right? Just think of it. He didn't have that one memory of his wife. He'd be operating with Vick. They'd be on these, all these towers. And I don't know, the weird alien takes over. Yeah, I loved it. I mean, I love Tom Cruise in like literally everything. He's just, I just, I just love him but um all the acting was really really great and the fact that it looked like art was amazing and they used a lot of practical effects yeah and when he goes up to the drone it's practical there's not a lot of stuff like even when they're flying in the ship and the drones and stuff it

Starting point is 00:06:41 doesn't look like overly cg which i like there's there's obviously some special effects in here you know shooting and explosions and stuff but they used a lot of practical juice which i liked and the locations were awesome like that sand location i don't know where they went the lake location awesome um i i didn't see it all coming like you called the drone thing i maybe like when you're like oh there's going to be like thousands of them in the wall and i was like oh yeah oh because i'm sorry the clone thing clone thing i meant to say clone the clone thing well because morgan freeman said it like yeah thousands of them came so i figured they were all coming from the big ship yes um but but But I thought you called it out prior, or we said that when we saw 52.

Starting point is 00:07:29 Yeah, I just, I just called that that was a clone. Oh, he has the exact same trip. What are the odds that this is happening? Oh, right. Yeah, I see what you're saying. I also just think that it was a really sweet moment that we saw his, like the, his human side, his heart side. When he went to go save the clone. the redhead that was 52's redhead yeah and he goes to go why don't you just come to the surface

Starting point is 00:07:59 with me even though he's kind of figured it all out he tries to still save her um which i liked that side of yeah seeing it and the only tell they made me think was a clone is that it's like a trope and sci-fi like if someone has a limited memory doesn't remember their past lives it's typically like oh they're maybe not the original person yeah and we knew it's a high it's a high sci-fi movie as well yeah and we knew that it was 2017 is what he had remembered we're in 2077 so we there has to be some sort of science fiction stuff that we're missing either he's a clone or he was in delta sleep for as long as his wife which he wasn't yeah because they never established that because I was asking that before they that said it I was like he would

Starting point is 00:08:40 look old as hell and that's why I was like we have to wait for that answer and then we figured it out or they would have told us in the beginning that he woke up from cryo sleep but he doesn't have right but they didn't mention that right until we brought the the wife back in and it kind of threw us off when they say in the beginning where they're like, and this is Vic, we were assigned to each other. Yeah. So they make them assigned and I, uh, it's, I don't know. It's just weird. Like the, she is such a rule follower and she's still a clone. I wonder what she did. They didn't show us what she did before. Oh, she was an astronaut just like him. Mm-hmm. Well, hello again, Huel, H-U-E-L, today's video sponsor. Lately, I've been loving talking about Huell because I've used it as an

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Starting point is 00:13:01 It doesn't, it's, it finds that balance between an interesting plot and strong character motivation, but it doesn't over complicate his motivations and his person and his personality and his like desires and interest and whatnot. They find a strong, central. focus that being love for his wife and their chemistry you really buy and believe that he's to love each other and that he's longing and that he's lost and he has curiosities outside of what he's traditionally or or assigned by his higher ups right so i think them finding that central focus and having an idea of the type of story they want to tell really elevated it because you could

Starting point is 00:13:38 have gotten really convoluted with the whole concept of what the movie was and you could have really I don't know it really could have been like expanded or like maybe gotten too complicated between like oh the because I thought it was like a classism movie at first because I said that really on I was like oh yeah the people up here trivia oh yeah the people the people

Starting point is 00:13:58 that are in the sky they have abandoned earth they're trying to steal the resources from the people that are still there and it didn't turn out to be that kind of movie which is a freaking AI thing in the sky just more aligned with galactus kind of going from planet to planet stealing the resources and our main guy and his other astronaut were just the two people

Starting point is 00:14:16 that happened to have utilized to make their goals kind of come to fruition. And as we were watching it, because he was 49, the clone we met was 52. So I'm like, okay, I know that there's thousands of them. So there has to be at least, what, like 51 other versions of him around in the planet that are just assigned to these stations to take over?

Starting point is 00:14:40 Because they said at the beginning like, Yeah, we're the, the skeleton crew. We're like the last of humanity that's still here. But there's no way that just two people can just scout this one area. The planet's huge. So they have to be all over the world doing this. Totally. So yeah, but we didn't explore that.

Starting point is 00:14:59 But it's subtextual. And it's with the revelation of 52. It's between the lines. There are more of them across the planet. Yeah. But the thing is, is they keep them only in their tower lines. like if you were jack harper 53 you'd only be watching your 53 right and the only reason so you'd have no idea yeah and the only reason he got cause because he went past the radiation zone exactly

Starting point is 00:15:24 and i imagine the 52 one wouldn't have a radiation zone of not going to other jack's area as well that's how to keep them all in line exactly right right right which is obviously no radiation yeah like it's a lie freaking wild you know like okay for real for real so the there were 10 days of location shooting in Iceland where the daylight lasted virtually 24 hours um joseph the director wanted to make a film that was very much based in daylight considering that a lot of sci-fi movies like alien and blade runner were shot in near darkness so he's trying to switch it up um so they really disliked joseph and claudio mirando who i assume is an ep or something dislike the extensive use of blue screen

Starting point is 00:16:11 in Tron Legacy that for this film they wanted to use real glass mirrors and shiny surfaces for the glass tower set yeah that was definitely conveyed the sky footage was projected on a 500 by 45 foot screen

Starting point is 00:16:28 consisting of 21 monitors and was filmed for three weeks from the summit of a volcano in Hawaii oh my gosh the rooms with the windows were lit by the light from those projections. So the monitors took 10, took 10 technicians several weeks to install and fine-tune the floor level.

Starting point is 00:16:48 So that's, I was going to make a comment on that. So you know when you see them up in their, in their, whatever, their apartment. Low tower thing. And that golden hour lasts for a good 10 minutes in this beautiful shot that I'm like, obviously it's projected behind. And I was curious how they made it look so realistic that it's actually screens and they're replaying

Starting point is 00:17:10 the actual projection that they filmed from Hawaii, which is why it looks so amazing. That's so, that's insane. That's smart. Very, very cool. So the technology was upgraded, which has been

Starting point is 00:17:24 used on every Star Wars show since the Mandalorian. Also was using films like the Batman 2022 and Love and Thunder Thor 2020. So, there you go. uh okay

Starting point is 00:17:39 anywho uh the opening scene when the universal logo appears often the viewer offers the viewer a quick survey of how damage the earth is in the film the tet is in orbit which you saw the triangle thing um the oceans have receded landmass uh the land masses have craters okay got it that's boring trivia let me try to find one more cool one that has a lot of likes tom cruise 50th birthday occurred during filming to celebrate the milestone director Joseph presented him with one of the

Starting point is 00:18:11 futuristic motorbikes from the film he gave him a film I mean a motorbike and Tom gave Joseph a die gas model of the bubble ship in a glass case that's cool that freaking awesome also I misspoke this was not made in 2017 as well 2013 2013 it's amazing for 2013 still it's really really great um let's see if I can find a spoiler and then we will be done with this On drone, 166's exterior, there's a drawing of a scab with Jack's decapitated head lying at his fee with the excise that are using cartoons to show a dead person's head drawn by the scabs. This is seen closely in a deleted scene in which Jack says lovely when he sees it. Oh, she's. Interesting.

Starting point is 00:18:56 That's the fan on the camera. Okay, good. Everything's falling apart. Okay, one last one. While location scouting at the Empire State Building, Tom Cruise and the director witnessed a man. proposed to his girlfriend in the exact same spot where Jack Harper proposes to Julie in the movie

Starting point is 00:19:11 which is why they used that spot probably for good luck I love this movie I thought it was a lot of fun I would love to see I don't know how many other movies Tom Cruise and Joseph have made together maybe more I could have looked that up but you guys can tell us

Starting point is 00:19:28 in the comments you know because I really like the vibe of this whole movie it was a ton of fun loved it love what about you you loved it I had a great time. Yeah. We loved it. We loved it.

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Starting point is 00:19:54 How are you doing, Cadeha? You know, if, if I ever felt like my life was entering an oblivion, I would call you. Because you're an effective team. when you call Kadiyasim. Oh, please elaborate. Because you guys would

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Starting point is 00:20:28 That would not be, there's no eye, ineffective team. Well, ineffective, but you get my point. And so, Cadeja

Starting point is 00:20:36 Cadeha would be up in the control station monitoring all the stuff while you're outside you know finding Morgan Freeman and you know chopping down trees and stuff

Starting point is 00:20:47 and but what we don't know I sure have Tom Cruise is out here cleaning up so we're the mop-up crew he's uh oh yeah you have seen I forgot yeah Joseph Kaczynski man

Starting point is 00:21:00 everything's like sleek and stuff like 10 other movies you've seen all comprised into one Which is not, ironically, it is not like Cajeeha seems because you're one of a kind, you know? There's no five different movies that you are clearly borrowing from, but doing pretty well. So it's, I guess, all right. I guess the question is, I like this movie more than that, but... Who are you?

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