The Reel Rejects - THE IMPOSSIBLE (2012) DESTROYED ME!! MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

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I've heard a lot of good things about. I am the one of the channel who hasn't seen it. So it's a solo one today. And that is for the movie, The Impossible. I know it's about a tsunami. I know it stars a young Tom Holland. I'm very much looking forward to it. But guys, what do you think about this movie?

Leave your thoughts in the comments down below. Did it affect you? I hear this is a strong film. Whatever that means, powerful, dramatic, moving. Tell me what you think about it. What's an impossible thing you've had to overcome? That's a more YouTuber question. Anyway, guys, listen, go ahead, leave a like on this video

that would be very much appreciated. Be sure to subscribe, click that notification bell. To get notified when we get our reaction up on this channel, that piqued to our interest because we got a lot in the can that we have already shot. Also, big thank you to Preper for helping to set it down these highlights. Lastly, massive thank you to all who have joined us at our Patreon, becoming super sexy rejects over there.

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Let's just watch it. God damn right. Wow. What a film. What a powerful film. Oh my god, it's a real family. Those are real names, too. Oh, I want more.

Whoa. That's my favorite Tom Holland performance. Man, I gotta blow my nose. I got such a headache. Boy, I got such a bad headache. But, you know. you know what doesn't give me a headache. These guys.

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I did not catch that at all in the credits. that's not surprising what I wanted to dare it is Jesus Christ's been looking all over him I was trying to find the trivia I wanted to read the trivia and then I'll talk about this movie if you guys are listening to this on Apple and Spotify please rate this video just watch the impossible uh the 2012 movie I heard that it was about the tsunami and I was like okay I imagine there's probably going to be a few emotional moments in here but I was not

expecting to be as enveloped in the experience I didn't really know what part of me was actually wondering if it was just going to be a bit of a tedious being totally honest. I was kind of wondering if it would be a bit of a tedious drama. Okay, maybe there's tsunami attack and then it gets a little dull afterwards. But that film had me engaged for many a reason that I will go into. But I wanted to look at the trivia really quick here. All right, here we go.

I haven't read any of this yet. The scene where the tsunami hits the resort can only be filmed. the ones. It would have cost too much money to rebuild the set. What? What does that mean? How do they film it then? How to... I don't understand.

Many of the extras were actual survivors of the tsunami. That's really cool. I mean, not cool that they are survivors of the tsunami, but the fact that they actually use real survivors of you just, again, I did not under, I don't know what it's like to be in a

situation like this, but a registered to me as feeling authentic. According Naomi Watts, the producers of the film heard an interview on Spanish radio where the family told their story of surviving the tsunami and decided to make a film based on it. Well, that's really, that's really neat.

They were Spanish, right? That's a bit I don't know, I don't really. I guess they could be. Well, the one thing I liked about it, too, I thought was really cool, because I could see this being one of those movies that is accused of whitewashing. is that

it's not one of the trivia facts here maybe it's here somewhere but I haven't gotten there yet but one of the things that I thought was kind of neat about it is that they put a good amount of emphasis too on it was the actual people

who lived there who immediately went to go help the tourists you know this is like a lot of people died and we didn't really focus on the people who lived there and so much of their homes and many of those lives were probably taken as well and they put so much focus here on they went to go help the tourists the people

visiting i think that was something kind of beautiful actually man the performances are so good i don't know what that has to do with the whitewashing but it is it i don't know i didn't really think about the that there might be a whitewashing thing thrown out here i bet there was though unless Naomi watches Spanish and i don't know that it took a year to put together the 10 minute sequence a recreation of the moment the wave came crashing down the luxury hotel Whoa. Whoa. So they really did that shit?

Did they really? That's fucking wild. The crew film partially on location at the actual resort since rebuilt, where the Belon family was a holiday when the tsunami hit for the tsunami destruction scenes, a scale model of the resort was used. They really wanted to capture, they wanted to be true to this. The filmmakers had a sense of integrity here.

The real family that the main characters are based, aren't in fact Spanish, but live in Japan at the time of the tsunami. Ah, it makes a lot of sense. For the underwater scenes, Naomi Watts was strapped in a rotating chair. While filming, Watts couldn't hold her breath any longer, and she gave the stop sign. Instead of stopping, the chair started spitting the other way around. Whoa. Later's revealed that it was a technical error, and Watts stated that she felt very scared and hated the chair for that reason.

Why would you? Wow. That's sad. Tom Holland's feature film debut That's impressive The real color of the kids ball was yellow Not red this film's a liar Maria Miller said it was the biggest lie in the film

If that's the biggest lie in the film I can imagine that a lot of this was probably Surprisingly true Naomi Watts was nominated As rightfully so Man was she great Wait, Best Actress and Austro-inimic performance was the only one in the category, not in the Best Picture Nominated Year. Oh, this one was not nominated for a bet.

If it did not get nominated for Sounders-I, I'd be shocked. The opening scene is a point of view. Well, look at that later. I'm just trying to see, like, the shorter ones. This is one of the Blacklist, 2010 Blacklist, a list of the most liked unmade scripts of the year. I always love hearing a story like that when a script is, uh, Like, this is great, but it's never going to get made. And then it eventually gets made.

Oh, that's really great. Okay. All right. This movie's PG-13? I really thought it was rated R. I guess it's the handling of the nudity and the violence that hopes with it all. Yeah. All right.

Let's talk about the actual movie. I'm semi-like multitasking at the same time right now, because my mind is just fixated on shit. I was obviously very moved by it. Well, one thing that I thought was really, one thing that I thought was really, one thing that I thought was really interesting about the script. The first thing about the scripting of it all was the dialogue choices were,

I felt like this is how, how would I put it? How would I put it? there's like a the movie has so much emotional impact and just the right amount of sentimentality and yet when they had these dialogue scenes i would i would feel like these this is still like what they would talk about in the moment you know they want to do a bunch of this backstory stuff it was one of those films where it was so focused on the immediacy of the situation and you're kind of being plucked into the lives of what these characters

are experiencing and what I I loved all that that whole speech about the like the stars and that they're dead but you can find a bright light and it's like talking about the things that are impossible and you know I love me a good bleak dark harrowing movie and and this is that but it's also really contrasted with this family's resilience to keep enduring and not lose hope in the face of hopelessness on the name of love and and there was that kind of shit that just kept breaking me from beginning to end because this is such a heroic tale but it's about these just regular people it's a it's it's an extraordinary story about ordinary people ordinary people are ordinary people who do things extraordinarily well is that the

quote i don't even know that applies to the situation right now but but that's what was great is it's fun it's fun i made it like a little crack about this is more spider man than spider man because to me this is capturing more of why we really would love a peter parker because they're doing all the literally the things that most people would probably not want to do and making these choices like saving the little daniel boy uh in the face of times where you were a lot of times in these survival stories at least the fictional i was ones you're kind of just looking out for yourself but about aiding each other and not losing faith. And again, the word of endurance is the thing that just keeps standing in mind.

And I love how there was such a, there's a bit of that Hollywoodness in the beginning. You know, like, hey, we're going to have a great trip today. You know, we're going to ain't nothing if you guys say walk hard. Ain't nothing bad going to happen today, do we? And you're just setting up the fact that something terrible is going to happen. But you needed that. You needed that juxtaposition. you needed that switcheroo to kind of plop you into what it must have been like to be a tourist vacationing at this wonderful immaculate resort and then have one of the most devastating things ever happened to you and because a lot of people died in this event and then and if you were lucky to survive it's like what injuries that you sustain afterwards the trauma that you had to endure so like as much as it was a bit of like a Hollywoodism in the way it was written you know I still thought it was necessary to get there

And by the time you get to the tsunami, but the actor was just so consistently great that it was so believable from beginning to end. And by the time you get to the tsunami incident, like even the way that's captured in that perspective where it just hits you suddenly, it's not this big, giant buildup, like a roll in Emmerich movie. You're not watching the day after tomorrow where it's like thunder in the sky or whatever. It's just a couple of things with the blender and, oh, a couple little noises. And it hits you. I'm not the most, to put you into the, again, it's, I love a movie that focuses on POV. And the movie did such a great job on knowing how to intercut between, not intercut, but cut around depending, and gestate with certain characters on certain point of views for an extended period of time. Like, there was times where I was going, oh, this is Naomi Watts's movie.

Oh, this is Tom Holland's movie. Oh, this is Eva McGregor's movie. You know, the way they would cut around to the characters and let you stay in their perspective, I thought, uh the direction of this combined of course with incredible acting man i'm one with the homework like that's the kind of questions that i always try to find more to the trivia on that's usually not an ib like i would love to know the trivia on that like Naomi watts that she sit down with the real maria and how many how long she talked with her for how much of the conversations you have to really get in her mindset into hey let's talk about this moment and what were you

going through and how therapeutic might have been for maria to have been able to talk through that with her was it therapeutic was it difficult to resurrect these conversations and resurrect these memories and what it must have been like for maria to see that as naomi watts is portraying it those kind of sequences you know um those it got my mind pondering and but at the same time you know this film has such great visual storytelling because you're relied so much on an actor's performance and body language expression it's not heavily reliant there's a It's not really exposition heavy or they take the time to reflect on a memory and to talk about the past. There's something kind of inspiring to me.

I could see two versions where someone might not like so much about the dialogue in certain key scenes. But to me, I thought the dialogue was really apt for what they want to portray here. You know, at the end of the day, this is about flopping the audience into the experience of this real stark. impactful nature disaster uh with emphasizing the emotional dramatic weight throughout but everyone's so good in it my mind's spinning my headache has not got away at all if you if you only have listening to this apple spotify i felt a pretty big migraine and i'm just trying to stay focused here uh the the the the i guess if i were to rank performance man it's really this is Tom Holland's debut role

and while I do would ultimately go to me it's like a toss up between Naomi Watts and Tom Holland is who's the lead in this movie like who do you guys consider the lead in this film because I could see it be Naomi Watts

but in a lot of ways to me it was Lucas Lucas to me felt like this the central character and I thought that was such an interesting narrative choice some stuff you could kind of like stuff at the hospital I wonder how real that was with

oh my God they're right there just look over your shoulder if you just pay attention you can see them towards the end but it fucking works on you when it goes down that path it works man you know you're just getting frustrated and you're aware it's a movie but damn i'm just so caught in the moment that i'm like i don't care some stuff you got to you got to have some of that dramatic um for a situation that i'm sure was way more dramatic and real life uh but i thought overall this movie had very strong direction It was engaging from beginning to end. The ability to focus on the human aspect instead of the disaster actually helped elevate the everything about the disaster wasn't about just going through like the psychological experience.

I thought the balance of it was so grand where you could the after effects of the disaster are the enemy of the story of the story. And it's like the, like the antagonist of the story is, like the, it's so interesting when you think about it because the, you know, of course it's not one of those movies where there's a clear-cut antagonist, you know, or you're dealing with there's another tsunami coming and we got to, we got to go after. The antagonist of the story is all the obstacles they got to overcome and, and also overcoming hopelessness and enduring your faith against that. like that is that those are the antagonistic qualities you're dealing with here and to me the disaster elements that maybe perhaps made great trailer moments i i think were sorry guys my head is so pounding um i think the disaster elements um just resonated throughout and i never lost sight of the horror of that because when you think about the disaster elements of the spectacle of it The only way that really stays effective is a investment in your characters and you want to see what this really does do as a turmoil. And the way they would still show once in a while, like, oh, they're traveling on the road and you're seeing like these dead bodies or you're seeing like people, you know, in agony shouting stuff out or the physical deterioration or the symptoms, like the prolonged effects. I felt the disaster elements were kind of nonstop or even when, you know, Naomi Watts and the village people are like dragging her after they rescued her. You could just hear the scraping against her legs.

Like those, the spectacle of the disaster stuff still permeated throughout the film. I felt like it was still very much alive because you can only do the tsunami one time. I mean, the sequence of surviving in the flood one time. and I thought that that that spectacle that they probably pitch you on still was there in just different ways and I found that really impressive and man it just plays on your emotion because this movie there could be like tragedy porn and and this movie to me was not that it it had it was a bit structurally predictable at a certain point when you would go from you know tragedy and hope but overall because like a lot of times a hopeful thing happened that means in like I don't know 30 seconds we're going to get something really tragic or something to be really worried about you know so we kind of do that so like there's certain writing books I think Robert Mickey I don't it doesn't exactly obey this but there's like the I forget the name of that Robert McKee book is but you know some people say that every scene if it starts off positive has to add negative or every scene that starts off negative has to end positive you know some type of simple way of understanding an arc of a scene so you can kind of see some kind of see some

of that predictability within the structure. But like when they saw Daniel at the hospital, he's going to go back and something terrible is going to be with the mom. Or after he finds Swedish boy, he's going to go back. He's going to be something terrible because that's the tragedy hope, tragedy hope, tragedy hope. But overall, I wasn't always hyper aware of it. And even when I was, it worked.

That's the thing is the emotion at the end of the day, no matter what logical, you know, technical, Even for a viewer like myself, that I can be aware of, I would still just be so in the moment regardless that it was the emotion that would be overtaking. And to me, that is what cinema is. That is what movies are. And I think this film just excelled at that so much. I thought it was beautiful. I thought it was a beautiful film. And it brought me to tears nonstop and the, just the focus on humanity, compassion, in the face of this disaster with not a real emphasis on negative behaviors. I'm so used to survival stories. And, I mean, normally survival stories can be often apocalyptic. And you're looking at like, the worst of the worst. I mean, we just saw the movie, like, leave the world behind on Netflix, which is rarely like,

sci-fi kind of film and and um and that has that quality of like look out for your own and the face of the danger like the worst of humanity comes out and it's it's kind of refreshing to see a a survival horror film that feels apocalyptic and it's about um human beings coming together you know because uh i saw some i don't remember where i heard this on uh i think they were saying it was charles darwin who said it that the start of humanity What's allowed human means to progress is I'm probably getting this wrong, but the way I have, the way I have internalized it for all my life has been something of, I'm so focused trying to get the quote wrong, but here's how I interpreted it, or here's how I remembered it at least, is that is love and cooperation. I believe the emphasis is one, cooperation. And I might have applied the word love underneath that because I feel like every emotional. comes down to love or fear and this movie to me shines a light on that the love and cooperation side in spite of all this you know and i'm not someone who is often i feel like i'm so much in

my own bubble a lot of the time that i don't take enough time to like learn about other things around the world enough i try to i really do um it's often very very late at night right before i go to bed where i'm like you know what i'm feeling inspired oh my god i'm in a really dark place now because I decided to learn about some stuff and that I'm just on my phone researching for like hours asking my wife questions because she knows about all this stuff and I don't. And yeah, yeah, yeah, this is great.

This is great. And also like the emphasis on, I don't know, trauma and recovery is another way to put it. And it just kind of reframes the way you, how it would influence the severity of an impact of natural disasters like tsunamis you know it's something that out here i i i'll hear about it's the way i hear about a lot of terrible things that happen but after a while when you just hear about on the news it just becomes the thing you hear about right something that you it becomes information you become numb to hearing about which is terrible

but it's the reality of how a lot of us ultimately respond and this brings you to oh my god yeah it's such like this is so terrible so terrible and i'll be stressing out about how i got i can't get my upload up on youtube you know like oh my god i got to work on the edit for this video i got to get notes on this video i got to get the thumbnail right i got to do all this like my mind was thinking to myself like i have a headache right now but man what was the headache like for them i should just endure this headache as i was watching this movie Oh, man. Yeah, I thought this was a great film.

And thank you guys for being with me and being patient. And, and, you know, it's, it's interesting when you're filming one of these and you're by yourself because it just feels like you. I have such an A, I do have, I was diagnosed. One of the benefits of doing reactions that I think is, like, really awesome is it's, it's allowed me to express everything that goes on internally with me more than I, like, what is my wife? I'm pretty respectful when with other people, if there's like not, not doing this. When's my wife and I, it's kind of like exactly when there's a camera pointed at me, the way we just talk about things, everything is just on our mind throughout the whole time. And I was diagnosed way back when ADHD, PTSD and type 2 bipolar, right?

And it's some random thought that hit me is having the ADHD mind has really been great for me to be here because I am. So many thoughts that go off when I'm watching the movie and it just allows me to express all that. And I feel like in real, this is real life for me. I feel like a lot of time I have to, I have to like hold back because I know people are going to be like, shut up, Greg, I'm trying to watch the movie. And maybe some people feel that already when watching one of our videos. But what I love about this experience is, I'm like, oh, now it's a perfect excuse to get all these thoughts out when I'm watching something for the first time. It's a great time.

All righty, guys. Thank you so much again. Much love. Happy holidays. And, uh, man, it's a Christmas movie. Who would have thought? All right, John, pick a name. Oh, Brian Perry.

Brian Perry. You know what you're getting for Christmas this year? Who? You are going to get a book about the best positions in the bedroom. Oh, yeah. For when you're by yourself. Yes. The karma, the comma self-tra.

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Yeah, geez. It's not one of the positions you're going to enjoy, though. You're going to have a great. Oh, yeah. people are going to be like why is Brian never showing up for work? Oh dude Why is Brian not at Christmas

dinner with us? Ryan never has to leave the house again. Open the present, went to his bedroom and now it's 2025. Someone did such a good job. Yeah, that they don't need to do anything for Brian ever again. You're going to master the art of self-love

with this book that I have personally written and drawn myself. Yeah. And I can't want, specifically custom made for you, Brian Perry. Handbound on the finest paper, on the finest artisanal craft paper that we could find it. Oh, yeah, man. Insert sticky joke. Ha, ha, ha. Hey. Anyway, Brian, much love to you. Merry Christmas.

Hope you have a great new year. And say hi to the mirror for me, buddy. Yeah. See you soon. Thank you.