The Reel Rejects - THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) MOVIE REVIEW! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:30 Touchables. Wow. Yes. All right. I love that. I definitely think that it's fun to watch a movie that inspired so many movies you love. It's very obvious Brian De Palma is a icon to hip up because man oh man did I hear samples and references. And like to me that was fun because Scarface is obviously one of the most quoted songs in like all of rap. And I didn't realize just how much also the Untouchables was. It definitely was a Western in a more. modern sense in a lot of ways and that was a lot of fun um i love when a gangster movie feels like there's actually stakes in tension this absolutely accomplished that uh what do you think man uh i loved it but first of all if you guys are feeling untouchable uh why don't you rate us on apple or spotify we would so appreciate and also if you want to look as cool and sexy as coy and myself reject nation shop dot com i really loved it i actually have never seen scarface i know shocking um so i got to get around to that i would love to see that movie one day um but is there anyone else in the channel that hasn't seen scarface

Starting point is 00:02:30 I don't wonder? That's such a... Yeah, we got to figure that out. John was the only one that hadn't seen fight clubs. Maybe you can solo a Scarface. Like, there's some movies that might have to be solo. Yeah, but, no, I really liked it. I think you made a great point.

Starting point is 00:02:42 There were definitely stakes in this because, again, the only history I know to this is Prohibition. Al Capone, income taxes. That's literally all I knew. I didn't even know who Elliot Ness was or any of the Sean Connery's character or the other guys. So I love that they, again, having said that, I don't know what actually happened in life with those characters and all that. So I love the stakes we got and also the amount of misleads

Starting point is 00:03:05 we got in this film. Because I mean, just from a, well, yeah, well, also too, not only with the baby, but like in that scene too, that was such a beautiful scene in terms of, again, just paranoia and mislead in all in one because I literally had no idea what was going on. I thought she was going to leave the baby there for a second. I thought she might be evil. Yeah, that's what exactly. I'm like, I was just so like in a suspenseful paranoid state of my. mind like what is going on but again from everything we'd gotten up to that point like brian de pama just so beautifully set the mood up to that point and i thought that film uh the film just executed so well in that um but like you said too a great job of uh feeling like a western in uh in the

Starting point is 00:03:48 30s you know what i mean and uh i loved all the costume designs uh the aesthetics the production design incredible incredible and also too i love when we get uh into period pieces like this and little simple meticulous things I love to when it comes to the sound design like guns firing it actually sounds like it's from the 30s too I'm like very I'm very sticky with little things like that and they nailed it but yeah I think the heart for me of this film

Starting point is 00:04:16 was like you said I loved all the performances from De Niro he scared the shit out of me by the way from the opening that that opening scene again he didn't actually physically do anything but his prowess you could see how much he was holding it within him like just when he got cut a little in the look he gave to the finger it's okay like that like knowing that less has caused more absolutely in one scene yeah and the score keeping you tense but also like I love that it had a theme because a lot of movies don't have themes as as strong where

Starting point is 00:04:43 like you're so clearly aware of it but how they use the theme at different junctures and now each time they use the theme it was to elicit a different emotion yeah yeah no I completely agree I love the music in this it was fantastic but um what I was saying was that that scene like I thought he was going to take the what was it the razor I think it was the reserve to not was beautiful yeah no no I totally agree with you but I thought he was just going to cut the throat or something but yeah I think it was just as smart to hold it in and wait for the baseball bat scene yeah I mean because if you've done it at the top the whole movie would have just been like oh this violent someone holding back violence is so much scarier than

Starting point is 00:05:21 someone being violent because then you're desensitized and then it builds instead of being like you know desensitized and just experiencing it over and over again by the time we got the baseball bat like I was like oh man a baseball bat is a symbol of the metaphor of like his speech but it's so clearly going to be used for violence but who yeah and to your incredible point I was like because I was expecting it in that first scene it didn't happen and then the next scene I was like okay I think he's going to do it until and I but then I didn't think it was going to happen because we've seen so many misleads up to that point but then when we saw the guy that when they had been read it was like now I know it's for sure going to happen but again I kept on getting

Starting point is 00:05:55 the mislead and his confidence and him smoking a cigar the arrogance of it okay now it's for sure happening. But again, I just thought he was giving one of his team speeches. Like, we're all good. And then like, boom, now it's letting out. But that was smart of them to hold back on that. Very brilliant. He did, he was phenomenal. I loved seeing a young costner. It was interesting. Like you said, not seeing him so stoic. I liked his arc in that. Like, and again, it was building up too with all the wise words and speeches that, uh, um, Sean Connery gave him. I mean, sorry. Yeah. Yeah. That Connery gave him like, what are you prepared? And he said that line to him quite a few times. Like, what are you prepared to do? if you want to deal with these guys, we're going to have to go a little bit outside the law here. You can't be by the book.

Starting point is 00:06:33 And I was so frustrated, admittedly. I was so, like, when he didn't shoot him on the edge, I was like, okay, I might be done with this character. And I get by the books and all that stuff. It's just I don't identify with those choices. So it was so rewarding. And I get that's why they kept pushing the limits of the audiences, like, you know, acceptability of him being such a squeaky clean boy. And like, when the Joker, and it's funny, because you were making Batman,

Starting point is 00:06:58 references to a movie, but I just thought he looked like the Joker. So we both have our own narrative of Batman, but like, it felt so earned because they milked it. And my only negative with the movie is there were like probably two extra beats of unreality

Starting point is 00:07:14 in a movie that felt so grounded that I felt like were a product of the time. And I will never judge a movie for being a product of the time, but my, my only negative of my experience of the film of like the scream if I'm rolling off the thing and they're just happening to be you know a thing held there that's my like you get one but then when he shoots him and his hat flies off

Starting point is 00:07:33 I'm like all right well now like yeah if it's a one two punch of a little bit over the top but again 87 so like I don't make I don't think it's a bad movie I think it's like a four like this is like an American classic but if I'm going to give a critique it's just that there were a couple of those where I was like okay little much yeah but that's of the time yeah for no for sure um and then also, too, I agree with you. I would also say, too, in regards to the heart of the film, as much as I loved all the performances

Starting point is 00:08:03 got to be Connery. He was just the performance he gave. I've heard the name Malone so much I had no idea, like, just in passing and I assume this is the iconic, you know what I mean? Oh, Malone. You're right. That's a name in pop culture that I never you put it together. Yeah. Because he would have a performance. Yeah, he was amazing.

Starting point is 00:08:19 I just love again his, he was just basically he was the wise member of the team, if you will, like the father of the team. again, I love the biggest thing, too, with me in regards to the team. I love the family dynamic, the camaraderie. They were so good. I think all four characters were so perfectly well, perfectly casted. I, uh, the only thing I didn't love was that they kept calling him Irish and he's so

Starting point is 00:08:39 clearly Scottish. And then they had an Irish cop. They cast an Irish cop to make it like, oh, they must know each other from back in the day or from the old country. And I'm like, but they don't even live near each other. The Scottish is an Irish. But, you know, what are you going to do? That said, I really do think the element of paternal energy.

Starting point is 00:08:55 and wisdom and all that, like Connery is a legend of this time, and my main exposure to him is Indiana Jones and James Bond, obviously, and those things. To me, this was actually my favorite of that archetype. Obviously, he's not as paternal and bond, but, like, that paternal dad energy in Indiana Jones is incredible. Like, there's a reason he's known in love for it.

Starting point is 00:09:15 But I thought here, adding that little bit of steadfastness, like, he was always the guy that knew what to do the point of like the panning shot of your he knew to reassure Andy Garcia because his overconfidence was clearly his nerves he knew to say certain things to Costner to make sure he was ready to do anything but then he also knew to physically uh encourage the stomping and all in one scene with one pan back and forth you've got great set design you great your wardrobe design you've got incredible performance you've got all four of the character's main arc shown and that set up an action scene that felt more deserved because then you got a badass moment from a character that you didn't think could be badass, but that Connery knew would be badass. So in one scene, you see that Connery is so wise he even knows who to tell what to, but also you get a mislead for the Andy Garcia moment

Starting point is 00:10:04 that sets up later, and you get a moment that's going to set up the third act for Cosmer. Yeah, no, absolutely. And right away from the first scene where he's on the bridge, like he captures you right away his charisma, his charm. And I'd love to read the freaking hysterical light, he says to Kevin Cozner, he's like,

Starting point is 00:10:22 wait, how do you know I am who is in? No one admits to being a treasury. They're not who they're like, yes, I love it. Also, just him spinning a baton is such like old-timey cop. And I don't think I've seen a baton twirl. Like, there's such an authority to that old-timeness that he had. Yeah. And obviously, it was saddened that he passed in the film.

Starting point is 00:10:42 But I love that moment that we set up earlier, the foreshadowing for with the record player. And that he was luring again, that's his intuition. Obviously, he could not have had any idea that that the villainous-looking guy. to a gunfight. Yeah, exactly. We, we couldn't have known that, but still, I loved his character so much. And again, I loved the way he worked with the group. It was just so, they were so good together that, again, we were so emotionally invested in all four of these characters that, unfortunately, when two of them get taken out, you know, it means something. And for such limited screen time, the family of Kevin Costner, reaffirming that, like, he's invested because

Starting point is 00:11:18 the 10-year-old dying, the scene with the kid, the baby, and then like all of those things, are because he's such a family man. And I love that that kind of validated his squeaky cleanness for me. It also upped the stakes for everything because kids in danger is such a harrowing, terrifying thing. And then you make it a baby in a stroller. Like that whole scene was higher even than our natural instinct because Costner was the one involved. And we saw, too, just to add to your point, what happened in the first five minutes?

Starting point is 00:11:43 A little girl got blown up. So it's like, you know that like the stakes are high and that anybody is untouched. Not to get, I really wasn't trying to be on punch. Untouchable. Yeah, I wasn't trying to be punny there. But, I mean, the point is, like, anybody could get off in the film. So the point was, like, including children. So, like, I was very fearful of his children. I was fearful of the little baby and that that was going down the stairs there. I mean, so, like, the film had me on edge. It was a master class in suspense, which is what Brian Del Palma does. I mean, that's why the first mission impossible. It's not to the same level in terms of the most recent with Christopher McCrory, but I still love how That film is, and I still appreciate it so much. Having said that, this film was fantastic. I loved it so much. I agree with you on the critiques that you had as well.

Starting point is 00:12:31 They're small, but I just try not to be all puppy dogs and rainbows. Of course, of course. Yeah, no, we've got to be honest, too. But, yeah, overall, fantastic film, really good. I'm going to get to the trivia in one sec. Do you have anything else you want? Last thought I want to share is that I really liked that every character got their payoff moment before they died, like movies like to give that due.

Starting point is 00:12:50 and that way when you get to the frame at the end, we're connected to a level that when we see the four of them, like you had a moment which felt deserved that you're like, oh, I miss them in a way. So I thought it was really well cast, really well delivered and definitely special. And I'll say to one other thing, I kind of mentioned it a little bit during the reaction. Like, yes, we know

Starting point is 00:13:06 the history. Al Caboan's going to get, you know, income tax. That's how he gets busted and all that. I still thought the film did a great job of making you feel in the moment like every, it's helpless. How are they supposed to stop this guy? I think they captured that in a very, you know, you know, broad sense, you know, like, I don't know how they're supposed to, like, this guy is

Starting point is 00:13:24 literally impossible to beat. He's got the cops paid off. He's got the jury paid off. He's got the judge paid off. Like, what do you do here? And like, but it makes the sense of victory all the more satisfying that when we get there, it's like, that felt impossible, but so satisfying in the end. And like you said, the two characters who we did lose, it was not in vain. And my actual last thought, I love that, you know, there is a sense of reverence for like gangsters and Capone and all those things. I think opening the film with violence that is unacceptable, because some violence can feel

Starting point is 00:13:55 cool. It's nothing cool by blowing up a kid. So I think that it was really smart to make one of the most notorious, but also kind of revered gangsters, that unlikable, even though he was played so cool. Like, De Niro did such a good job. It'd be easy to make this character too likable. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:10 No, that's absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Trivia us. Some trivia. Okay. An envelope is dropped on the desk of Elliot Ness in one scene. It is assumed to be a bribe, but the amount inside is never revealed. In real life, Al Capone promised Elliot Ness two $1,000 bills would be on his desk every Monday morning if he turned a blind eye to his bootlegging activities, an enormous amount of money back then, more than $30,000 today. Ness refused the

Starting point is 00:14:43 bribe and in later years struggled with money. He died almost broke at the age of 54. Wow. A man of integrity right there. No, I mean, that's why they played him like that, but man, I mean, that's probably literally why he didn't do anything until that one moment. That's incredible and sad. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:00 Could have taken the easy way. Could it taken. Okay. In real life, Al Capone, knowing that killing a prohibition agent would only lead to more trouble than he or his outfit could handle actually had a nonviolence order to his men concerning the untouchables. While Capone did repeat it. attempt to buy them off.

Starting point is 00:15:19 He never once attempted to kill Elliot Ness or any of his men. You got to do that in this movie. I mean, if you don't do that, it's going to feel kind of... Yeah, it's got to be hollowedized. Yeah, exactly. I mean, we were talking about that during the movie.

Starting point is 00:15:31 I'm kind of curious, which of the stuff isn't... What's as much real? Yeah. But understandable why they would go that. You're adapting Al Capone. Yeah. Albert H. Wolf, the last survivor of the real life Untouchables,

Starting point is 00:15:42 was a consultant on the film and helped Kevin Costner with his portrayal of Elliot Ness. cool yeah very Robert De Niro tracked down Al Capone's original tailors and had them make him some identical clothing for the film

Starting point is 00:15:56 I must have been interesting wow hey it's me Robert De Niro make me just like Capone no that must have been cool to get that call like sure yeah like those outfits and Armani doing it yeah true true

Starting point is 00:16:10 interesting I'll do a couple more according to director Brian DePama and producer Art Linson in the DVD documentary, it was Sir Sean Connery's idea to film the Blood Oath scene between Ness and Malone in a Catholic church. Originally, it was going to take place on the street in the same scene that follows the church scene. Connery felt that a church would be the only safe place in Chicago where the two characters would make such a commitment to fight Capone.

Starting point is 00:16:39 Interesting. I like that. Smart choice. I like that. Robert De Niro insisted on wearing the same style of silk underwear that Al Capone wore, even though it would never be seen on camera. The producers, knowing De Niro's reputation as a method actor, said, okay, and gave in respect. Yeah, I mean, you're not going to be comfy. You're not going to talk to Niro. I don't know. Brian DePama, I did not see this movie, but Brian DePama later modified the battle on the train sequence he planned for this film and used it later in Carleto's way. Oh.

Starting point is 00:17:09 I never saw that film, but I need to one day. Maybe on this show, I would love to. Andy Garcia is a Cuban portraying an Italian who's passing himself off as a non-Italian American. Let's say that 10 times fast. All right, let's get to some spoilers. I'll read two off and we'll call it a day here, Coy. The scene in which Al Capone pulls out a baseball bat at a dinner, pardonee, and suddenly beats one of his men to death, is based on a true incident, which happened on May 7, 1929. two of Capone's most feared hitmen, Albert Anselimi, and John Scalise hatched a plot to kill Capone and take over his gang.

Starting point is 00:17:51 Capone got wind of it and invited all of his associates to a dinner party, including Anselimi and Scalise. In the middle of the party, Capone pulled out a baseball bat, beat both men to death, then shot them both in the head. A conflicting version of the story has Tony Joe batters, Acardo, another Capone hitman, as the man who bludgeoned the traitors to death. That's terrifying. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:19 Again, I even said in that scene, I totally understand he doesn't tolerate failure and they're doing a good job. Yeah, they remixed it well. Yeah, but that, yeah, totally. All right, I'll do one more. Oh, we'll go with this one because this got 379, or 371 likes, so we'll go with this.

Starting point is 00:18:36 Any police officer or federal agents seen drinking alcohol on screen in this movie is killed. I did not pick up on that. Yeah, because we saw one of the untouchables he was drinking. And so did Sean Connery drink. Oh, shit, I didn't even pick that up. Nah, De Palma, you scally bag. Oh, now when I rewatch it, I'm going to look for everyone who's drinking. And you're like, oh, that Irish cop?

Starting point is 00:18:57 Dead. Yes. Excellent work, Brian, De Palma and Co. And whoever picked up on that trivia. Yeah, great call. I mean, it's a classic movie. I'm glad people are, like, bringing those things to awareness so we have to rewatches. Yes.

Starting point is 00:19:10 Well, that is going to do it for our experience with it. Please let us know below. If there's any other trivia, we missed, any fun facts you know that you want to share with us. This has been an incredible experience. Thank you so much for joining us, Reject Nation. We'll be back soon. Much love. Go watch something awesome.

Starting point is 00:19:25 It's time to shout out some of our super sexy patrons for the month. We get the big block going. I think we should do. We should do it. Like, Who's Lion's Style where we're two sports commentators commentating some kind of match that all these people are involved in.

Starting point is 00:19:45 Okay. Does that sound like a good idea or a really bad idea? I know the rest. I've watched so much sports to know. It could be anything. It's absurd. Okay, how about something else? No, John, no.

Starting point is 00:19:56 We commit to the big. Hey, Reggie Rodriguez Jr. Oh, he's going for it. He just bounced the ball straight off his head into the goal. Oh, Alejandra. She's taking her clothes off in the stadium. Oh, we're going to distract the players.

Starting point is 00:20:09 We got a streaker quick. Matthew Arms is out on the field. He's a security guard tackling the streaker. Oh, Jack Forrest, he's taking off his clothes to tag it out of Alejandro. I don't know what's going on. There's like an orgy happening on this football field, right? Football. Oh, yes, it could be any sport.

Starting point is 00:20:24 It could be changing sports because Jack Forrest just jumped on to the stadium. I said it. I mean, Namari just followed Jack Forrest out with a basketball. and is doing dribbling tricks all around the room. I don't know what's going on here at this special sports arena, but Mike Joyce is here. And he is, he is throwing balls,

Starting point is 00:20:44 multiple footballs. More strikers. And Mike Joyce is also a striker. Kevin Meek is jumping in on roller skates. This just got interesting. It's roller derby now. Oh, and Andrew Tims. He goes in and tackles Kevin Meek,

Starting point is 00:21:00 pounces facing. Yeah, Adrian, too. The hockey puck. That's not what you're supposed to do with a hockey puck in the football game. What are you looking at you hockey puck? Novdip Sidhu, get in there and ride the Zamboni, smooth the field out. There's been so much destruction today. And then Heather Gere ice skates onto the arena, slicing off Nobdip's head.

Starting point is 00:21:22 Oh, no, but that Jacob Neptune swoops in and picks her up for an immaculate lift trick before throwing her in the air. And then Caleb the king covers in front of Jacob. It's naked for some reason. No, more streaker. Oh, I don't know why it's only the woman getting naked. Oh, wait, there comes Olivier Hamlet. He's taking his pants off now. Oh, thank God.

Starting point is 00:21:42 Now it's equal. Now it's an equal opportunity assault fence. I was about to say, because if people aren't witnessing this, they're going to think I'm profiling it. Now we have multiple cultures all naked on the ice. There's so many naked people from everywhere. Kiera is showing up with a bimble to protest against the violence and nudity here on display. Juan Longoria is passing out communion wafers to everyone in the stands.

Starting point is 00:22:08 It's becoming a religious ceremony. And Cliff Rodriguez shows up here. You think he's going to take his clothes off, but he doesn't because he, underneath his clothes, has a priest outfit. We're watching a confession go down. We're watching a confessional. And everyone confesses their sins, thus raising the demon yon wreck from the depths here to claim the souls of all who have gotten naked in front of people in public.

Starting point is 00:22:36 Oh, but the Goat Nation shows up to interrupt this game with a shotgun full of assault because he's a demon hunter. Of course. Joined by his brother Lorenzo Baxter, together they save people and hunt things. And then differently saying shows up with laser beams, superheroes coming in here to save the day and prove that gods aren't real. Yeah, yeah. And then Marco Tunsell shows up in a mix.

Starting point is 00:23:01 suit and proves that science is king above all and cleans up all their ass. Oh, but simply faded. It was like, I got to put a stop to this. He goes to chat, GBT. It tells it its problems. And then, bam, solves the day by everyone just falling dead. Not falling

Starting point is 00:23:17 dead, but then SJ94 enters a special code into the mainframe. Code SJ94 that brings a gas into the room to wake everybody back up. And then what do you know, Justin Martin, as a firefighter comes in going, I think my skills are unnecessary here.

Starting point is 00:23:36 And he just starts hollusing people down. And acts in the dead bodies to make himself feel productive. And then out from the fire hose comes Colin. Fully naked already took his clothes off. More people streaking. More people streaking. And Philip J. Smith, Jr., he shows up with

Starting point is 00:23:51 his wife to be thinking this is where he was supposed to get married that day, but instead fights a bunch of dead bodies traumatizing is soon to be. Marjorie, I think you might be new and you just walked into the room to behold all this chaos you wonder what the hell you just got yourself into by pledging to this

Starting point is 00:24:07 and Jen Smith drives onto the field accidentally because she's in a rush to take her kids to school at 3pm and then it just runs over more decay thinking she's the one responsible for all these bodies but you know who is responsible? Oh look through

Starting point is 00:24:23 the stands it's Melanie LeBlanc she runs out on the field does a jump then the long arm thing from Space Jam and she dunks the ball And then her clothes fall off. Why are only the women getting? This isn't me creating this, guys. This is, we're just commentating.

Starting point is 00:24:41 Public indecency, I didn't ask to see it. I'm saying this woman need to stop just getting it. This is not me creating this for some reason. Your lifestyle choices on me. The woman is just here for sport. We're here for sportsman like conduct. Anyway, that's polo. That's polo.

Starting point is 00:25:00 That's lacrosse. Stay pledged. We love you. And thank you for putting up with all this nonsense.

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The Reel Rejects - THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) MOVIE REVIEW! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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