The Reel Rejects - SCHINDLER'S LIST (1994) IS HEART-WRENCHINGLY POWERFUL!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MASTERPIECE!! Schindler's List Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/REJECTS #rulapod Schindler's List (1994) Greg's Reaction:    • SCHINDLER'S LIST (1994) MOVIE REACTION! FI...   Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ With 2025 Hanukkah celebrations underway, Coy & Aaron return for one of Steven Spielberg's most seminal pieces of cinematic history, giving their Schindler's List Reaction, Recap, Analysis, Breakdown, & Spoiler Review!! Aaron Alexander & Coy Jandreau dive into Steven Spielberg’s masterwork, a haunting and profoundly human portrait of courage, survival, and moral awakening during the Holocaust. Aaron & Coy explore the film’s most impactful and emotionally devastating moments: the liquidation of the Kraków ghetto, the girl in the red coat, Stern and Schindler’s evolving partnership, the horrors of Plaszów labor camp, the creation of the list that would save over a thousand lives, and the heart-wrenching final scenes that have brought audiences to tears for decades. They also reflect on the film’s stark black-and-white cinematography, John Williams’ haunting score, and Spielberg’s precise, unflinching direction — all contributing to a cinematic experience that honors the real people behind this history. Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Follow Coy Jandreau:  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This video is sponsored by Rula. More on them just a bit. Let's watch Schindler's List for the first time. In three, two. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Yeah, let's talk about Schindler's list. You know, I did all the intro outro, which means I got to cue you up first.

I'm sorry because I know it's not going to be easy, but Aaron? Man, that was, you know, we've watched a lot of movies here on this channel over the years that have been here. And I can without a doubt say that was the toughest reaction that I've ever had to do. It was an important movie to watch. not only for life but you know to be able to experience that and get like a larger feeling or at least some semblance of understanding i know it doesn't fully capture the gravity of the situation but i feel like they did a great job of showcasing the weight of what that time was like within a three hour span and you know you saw as we were both mad as hell for most of this movie yeah but to be able to come out on the other side with a sense

of some semblance of catharsis and and a sense of gratitude and scope for how oscar schindler's effect in his his change of heart really was able to cause so many lives to be able to be saved and make the best out of a bad situation even our change of heart like i mean i was mad them for like most of it yeah and then like i realized the impossibility of the situation so even even just in in the storytelling skill of how we felt yeah and you just kind of said earlier in the movie about stephen spoberg's ability to makes you have the sense of wonder and and these feelings of of grandeur and really root for people and i feel like that same ability to feel skews both ways or as a

able to be as a pendulum that swings in clearly all directions of horror and loss and anger, but he can create such feelings of sentimentality and joy and catharsis. And I feel like he did an amazing job directing this film and showcasing that full spectrum, even though a lot of it was on the darker, angrier, sadder, frustrating side of it. To be able to come across and come get to the other side was, I don't know if rewarding is the right word, but it did feel a sense of release getting to see that people were able to live by the end of this um but yeah that's home feeling coming out of the experience coy how about you um i i am overwhelmed um i i you know i'm doing this for quite a while and watch you know so many movies but uh there's something just so extra

brutal and unrelenting and painful and this movie is just so hard to watch and even think about like I don't want to pretend that I want those images in my head while also acknowledging that I know how important it is to honor them

so I don't like movies that I don't know the word like is incorrect I don't often watch movies that put me in this space just because I try not to add

too much darkness to the world in my own life so like I used to think I didn't like horror movies because I was like why would I add that to my brain I have over the last few years found merit and horror movies certain horror movies and things and this is real horror. And so I had avoided

this movie. Just because I knew the, the, I didn't even know what the list was, but I knew Nazis, I knew Spielberg made it. So I knew it wasn't going to be a romp. Right? Like, that's all I knew. Same. So I had avoided it. But I,

and a lot of ways I'm glad I did because I think I needed to be grown. You know, I'm glad this came out the same year's Jurassic Park. What a, what a one, two. Um, but like, you know, I was, I was five. So I'm glad I didn't watch this in my teens. I don't think I would have grasped the depth of it.

I'm glad, you know, maybe not even in my 20s. Like, this is when I needed to see the movie. And it was so infuriating. And I, in part, feel like I needed to see it now just because of the way the world is going. And I know that's a lot of people think it's hyperbolic. I know a lot of people who are like, oh, it's overused. and I literally had someone on some social media yesterday they responded to one of my comments

and someone said don't bother talking to this guy they're literally tweeting Nazi rhetoric and the person responded like oh no not the dreaded N word and I was like we have fallen so far and so to have that happened yesterday in my real life and then to watch this to realize like the flippancy of the imagery and the ideas and the acceptance of, of, you know, even this being, like I said, during it,

this having to be brought back into pop culture because of the backsliding scares me. So my main takeaway, before we get to the patron questions, is I think anyone that finds this acceptable to even think that this term is fine, needs to be like clock worked orange with this you know like there needs to be more um education clearly isn't cutting it anymore so like i just feel like there's such a horrible world um that we've escaped you know that we we left behind and i just never want to see any people have to um

face this again so what an experience uh but yeah uh i think those are all my my just jumble of thoughts all right well yeah so agree with everything you said um and you know i'm also very impressed uh with the the the arc of leum nison filmmaking wise very impressed as i said during it that spielberg is able to create awe and wonder and then on the other side create horror and trauma like he's so good at emotion he's so good at you know filmmaking so i just want to give those flowers. The writing was also incredible because it did set

enough things up to really have some sense of positive at the end even though like obviously it's just it's really impressive that was even the

ability to feel positive after that so that's commendable but man what a brutal experience what a beautiful brutal experience and we're about to get

other questions before we do one final time for the video fuck on EOS oh also on the other side that's the negative it's positive.

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I'm in the chair. First up, thank you to Adrian Propolita. Hey, Coy and Aaron, I remember reading Schindler's list for the first time and how much that book affected me, so I was a little worried the movie wouldn't live up to my expectations,

but it actually exceeded them. Could you please name other adaptations that you think are as as good, even better than the source material. Thank you for a lighter question that I was afraid of a start. That gives me some comfort that I can actually answer this one.

Thank you, Adrian. Any off the dome? I got a few. That are as good or better than the source material? No. I think Fight Club actually exceeds the book and I love the book. I think Fight Club is an incredible book.

The ending of the movie actually works for me better than the book, but they're both exceptional, but I think the book is actually a little bit better. I personally enjoy some of the swings that like comic movies have taken. taken from their source material because I think the mediums are very different.

Not like a certain one off the dome, but I think as a medium comic movies and comics, I like that they're separate. And I think sometimes the comics can't exceed them. But Fight Club is probably my biggest one. The only thing I can think of as far as source material that apparently that exceeded is the boys. Oh, yeah, yeah. I would agree with that.

I think the boys does exceed the books. There's got to be more. I'm just like my brain is blanking from all that. because most of the time it's the other way around yeah but yeah fight club and and certain comic book movies thank you great question i as soon as we're done i'm gonna think like 20 because i this is a thing i think about all the time but none are coming to the head right now uh next up fellow reject i've been going to therapy since i believe around 2012 and admittedly in the past couple of months i've haven't been as consistent as i like to be and with that i tend to fall into like old

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Thomas Allman. Hey, Coy and Aaron, after watching such an iconic movie and powerfully disturbing movie, can you think of any other great powerful movies you know you can only watch once one of mine is casualties of war um i'm not a big war movie guy um so i i'm sure there are many in that genre um as this sounds like it might also be uh any movies that you can only watch once uh i remember seeing boy in the strap pajamas in high school and i want to really mess me up um that's tough movie i know i probably i probably wouldn't watch again unless it was for the explicit purpose of showing somebody else would probably be Green Mile which will be coming at some point on this channel maybe already out by the time this comes out who knows

and what's another one that the book color purple is pretty rough but as far as movies go Sing Sing was also pretty rough that one got me I like that movie that movie fucked quality flick

no no it is I was sobbing in fear oh my god yeah um this one I will not watch again. Yeah, I probably would never watch. I don't think I'll even, I don't even think. I wouldn't show anybody this movie. Yeah, I don't know.

It was a really well-made movie, really important movie. Man, I don't want to experience that again. No, but while honoring it. Yeah, those are the ones that come to mind in this particular point in time. It's funny, I can usually hang. Like, I like Requiem for a Dream. A lot of people only watch that once, and I'm like, yo, there's a lot of insane imagery that makes, I like that some movies can feel like a punch in the gut.

Like, I think that's nice. Yeah. In a dark way. But, like, I don't enjoy, like, saw, like, torture porn stuff. But Requiem has a different darkness to it. So, like, this has got to be the pinnacle for me. Not a lot of others come in mind. But the great question, because there's got to be others.

Next up, Resonance Z. This might be a watch-long that I might have to miss because after seeing it once, I don't really want to watch it again. Understandable. Great film, but also too much of a gut punch to see again. Question, however, do you believe the movie should be your question? wiring for school or is it too much i actually go ahead first i know my girlfriend recently said she watched this in school and i'm like damn but i guess it took them like four days to watch this one

movie which you know maybe me is more palatable trying to watch it in four chunks or than sitting in an entirety but um yeah i feel like if you're in a history class and you know you guys talking about war war two and um everything that was happening in germany i feel like this is probably an important one to watch even though obviously isn't exactly a fun time. Now there was the actual events of what happened, but I would say it is important.

Yeah, and then giving other context. Also, surprisingly, yeah, Hitler was not in this movie at all, which is interesting. I'm technically about that. But yeah, what do you think? I think I learned a lot in high school

and like I remember a lot of the Nazi stuff we learned because the images and I remember um like we learned about concentration camps we learned about horrors and a lot of the images stuck with me

I don't think I was mature enough for this movie then but if those images stuck with me these movie images might um I think if people are are drifting a certain way this should be shown like I I can see this being something where like you know if

troubled youth are starting to act a certain way this should be shown you know so like I think it would be a case by case I don't know if it should be like required viewing on the curriculum but well I'm glad you said that I feel like especially now this should probably be required viewing given the the

divisiveness of how certain things are viewed in our country that's kind of what I'm leaning towards is like depending on the way things start going yeah I think it's already yeah it's already starting to go there so I think that with that in mind seeing how horrible things can get and seeing in real time what people will justify in the name of what they perceive as good for their country. Yeah.

Yeah, this is an important one to show. Yeah, I'm going to go that way, too. I'm going to say yes. All right. Jay Rushden question. What is your favorite World War II movie? Savan Prevarian. Save and Prevarian.

I think's fine, too. Pretty great. Yep. What's that one that's like a video game kind of like Wolfenstein? There's like a werewolf Nazi. is it Overlord maybe yes I think that one's pretty that's not my favorite that was pretty badass good I really liked I really liked Hawksaw Ridge oh that movie's incredible yeah yeah I think Sabre Ryan's comfortably like the one but hacksaw Ridge is really solid um yeah it's called Overlord then

okay yeah I remember that being a fun one yeah and gloria's bastards is pretty great it is also a great one it's also really really good I'm more likely to watch that for like a good time than save it Prevar Ryan 100% you know In fact, I kind of want to watch that now after this because I feel like I need to see some Nazi scalped. Spilberg also does Dave in Private Ryan. Yeah, yeah. Contrast in films in World War II. Yeah, what a filmmaker.

All right, last up. Nicky, Sun Risa. Hey, Coy and Aaron, this is a tough watch, but so important. I'd be in the right head space to watch this one for sure. Apparently, Steven Spielberg needed to call Robin Williams in between takes to give his spirits up. Oh, a lot of beautiful little detail to know. Question, what's your favorite performance?

and most memorable scene from the film whew I mean Ray Fines is terrifying Ray Fines is terrifying The two scenes that come to my mind is the one at the end where I talked about it

Because I got It's a weird feeling Because I was conflicted Because in one hand I'm like It's crazy seeing how much remorse Has come from him At the beginning of the movie

And you know He saved these people And the ones Comforting him Because they have kindness In their hearts because they're not monsters. But on the other hand,

I feel like the people that have been persecuted should not be the same people that are comforting the person that's been part of the larger thing of persecution. Maybe his wife should have been the person comforting him.

But it's sweet on the other hand. It seems conflicting for me. But... Asterix, can I chime in? Can I offer a thought? Yeah. I think there's comfort and comforting someone. You know what I mean?

Like, especially if you're like someone that has gone through something, I don't feel like anyone felt obliged. you know what I mean like so I don't feel like it's one of those situations where it's like oh they're obligated to like help this guy it felt like they all needed comfort and that was something they could do and that ties into like making the ring and like this was their way like they if they wanted to yeah so it didn't it didn't feel like a negative to me okay in that way okay I feel you um yeah because I've for sure been in that situation where I felt like I wanted to cover somebody yeah i think it's one of those things i want to chew on some sure but i definitely understand where you're coming just my two cents no and then uh that scene was also very affecting but i want to hear your other one uh the other one that was thinking of when uh the rabbi was saved because the gun

kept that was crazy that was such an intent scene because they're holding on it for so long yeah those are probably my two most memorable to come off the top i think the um the woman in the basement oh that one too that one really affected me like i i i that was one of the few times i felt like i had to look away i was really affected by it um i would say the what we thought was going to be gassing scene them all thinking the same yeah um there were so many scenes that are just playing in my head like them being ushered onto trains yeah um the the cuts between like you know live in the good when i hated schindler for being okay with partying while atrocities were happening i thought there would be nothing that would

helped me feel like he did anything good i thought i thought he was so bad nothing could so that when i actually felt any sort of remorse for him i was impressed so like those i mean that's not a scene but that that that journey um and because of the scenes of like you know joy while there were horrors those scenes and hit me and that arc was illustrated really powerfully and without words by showcasing the girl in the red jacket man yeah from her walking through all of the war and horror to then her not you see her not be able to make it and her on the cart was just... That one bit of color? Yeah, that one really is the thing that I think

really changed. I think shooting it black and white and having the flames in color was a cool bookend, but also like we saw these images in black and white, so that's what the photography was at the time. And there were shots where, you know, he was standing in front of people and those faces looked the same. Like, those looked like the images I have from the history

books. So I think doing the black and white was really smart for like that connection, but then also to like allow for that 1974 just happened. Like, That dude just died. Like this was just now. So I think it was really important to transition to color for that.

So I really like those details. Yeah, I agree with that. All right. Well, this concludes the most difficult watch I hopefully will ever do for this channel. Likewise. But very important. And I'm really glad to have seen it.

I really hope that our silence wasn't misinterpreted as anything but respectful reverence for the people that went through this. And I appreciate you guys for watching this with us. And hopefully it is in turn helping you be a better person and thinking of things and appreciating things. So I'm going to go work out and then eat a salad. I want to just appreciate living and also got to get this rage out of my body because my bones hurt.

So I'm going to go figure out what to do to get through this. So appreciate y'all, Reject Nation. We'll see you soon for the next one. do something good Stay kind Do something good Yes Yes

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