I grew up in a midsized Texas town and graduated from HS in 1977, just like the main characters in the movie. I knew every character in this movie. It’s pretty accurate. We had some good times back then. Great soundtrack!
There were never any hazing rituals in our school, but I too graduated in 76, and the rest of this film is practically a documentary. The cars, the girls, the cruising, the hangouts, weed,and the keg partying in the woods was all spot on. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸
There was a summer when I was in college (Mid-90s), and I watched this movie literally every day. It is so much fun and relatable to being a bored teenager in the sleepy suburbs.
The redhead is Marisa Ribisi. Her career was just starting to take off around this time, but it stalled. Her brother is Giovani Ribisi, who’d become a recognizable teen actor on TV. You know him as the medic in Saving Private Ryan who gets shot while they attack that machine gun post, then asks for more morphine and dies.
Notice how you never actually see Mitch throw a ball (despite being the pitcher)? When he auditioned for the role he said he could throw a ball but he never actually did before. Also, the girl with the voice you recognized was Joey Lauren Adams.
We called it initiation and haseing when I first entered high-school. It was common in most cities from the 1960s to around 2005 when haseing got so bad, that in some cities kids died... then it became an illegal activity nationwide... but yes, this was common... you had 3 choices, run and hide, fight and probably lose and get hased anyways... or just get it over with. It usually only lasts the first and sometimes the last week of each school year... but only seniors could hase, and they could only hase freshmen.... no one else. It was literally a senior freshman thing, but yes. It was very real. I escaped hasing, and I refused to hase when I became a senior... it was just crazy it was even a thing.
This was Matthew McConaughey's breakout role. Originally, his role of Wooderson was supposed to be smaller, but it was expanded because Shawn Andrews (Kevin Pickford) had trouble getting along with most of the cast, and writer-director Richard Linklater had to break up a fight between Andrews and Jeremy London, who played Pink. If this story is true, it's really cool - McConaughey was a film student at the University of Texas, and he had a friend at the Hyatt Hotel who was a bartender, so he and his girlfriend at the time went to the hotel to party. Also at the bar that night was casting director Don Phillips. McConaughey went over to talk to him, after the friend told him about Phillips casting Sean Penn in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," and the rest is history.
@DannyBedo You should have known it wasn't Jennifer Tilly because like Kurt Russel, Kevin Cosner, and Steve Martin she has.never been young! 'Least not any of the movies I ever seen any of them in!
The movie was made in 1993, However it was 1976 AUSTIN TEXAS… 🤗👍. Geez I was 10 years old in 1976, I remember drinking out of the water holes, coming home from playing when street lights went on and we did use the safety belts. Good Fun Celebrating the 1776 Fourth of July bicentennial
Yes, freshman initiation was a real thing in my school district in the '80s. My sister was a junior with a lot of senior friends who came after me during freshman initiation. I was thrown in a creek (storm sewer) after school, so despite being soaked from head to toe with muddy, gross water, I was one of the lucky ones. The same shenanigans were present my freshman year of college as well, but with the fraternities and sororities. I was a metal head and punk kid, so I didn't go for the whole "Greek system". During my teaching career in the '90s through the 2020s our school worked hard to thwart freshman initiation. Some kids were being driven miles out of town, abandoned and left to walk home. (We live in Alaska.) It got to the point that we had police officers explain how certain types of freshman initiation actually qualified as crimes such as kidnapping and assault. Athletes who were caught participating in "hazing" underclassmen were banned from their team for a season.
This is based on the director's hometown. Nassau Beach Texas near the Johnson Space Center outside Houston. Thus the moon tower. The movie was actually filmed in Austin Texas.
Great movie it was fun watching with you. I bought my first car in 1985 for $400. It was a 1974 8 cylinder Dodge Dart. To this day that was my most reliable vehicle. When I sold it it had almost 200,000 miles on it and the guy that bought it from me put another 60 on it when he sold it boy they don't make cars like that anymore
In the mid to late ’70’s, my mother decided she wanted the neighborhood kids to hang out at our house, so she bought a foosball table, a video game system (before there was even Atari) an awesome stereo and a lot of great rock cassettes. The next door neighbors had a pool table, so we were set for entertainment. Mom was cool!
There’s an 1981 movie called FAST TIMES AT Ridgemont HIGH, Sean Penn👍Judd Reinheit of Beverly Hills cop, amoung a few more FANTASTIC movie and Music 👍👍👍
That sound in the beginning that tips you off to sweet emotion by Aerosmith is made by an instrument called a vibraslap. Interesting fact in that sing right before the vocals come in the vibraslap breaks and it sounded so unique that they decided to leave it in the song.
There was a bowling Alley not too far from my high-school where some of the kids hung out after school. Hazing was not allowed in our school, but that didn't stop bullies from bullying people.
I went from Jr High to High School in summer 1995 in small town TX, and small town TX is the location of the film. The high school initiation/hazing depicted in the movie was still totally legit back then, but things did start to change with the times. By the time I got to woodshop in '96, it was illegal to make paddles or bats, like they were doing at the start of the movie. I connected most with Mitch in this movie as I was a nerdy baseball player that loved music, was awkward around girls, and floated between groups. To me, this is a very personal movie, even though it takes place almost 20 years before my experience. Besides, that soundtrack, the cast, and the vehicles are amazing.💕
I graduated in '87 from an open-campus style high school. The traditional hazing then was selling freshmen discount pool tickets, and elevator passes to them on the first day as a welcome gesture. Every building was one floor and there was no pool. And no, I didn't fall for it. 😄
The girl with the big red curly hair is the sister of actor Giovanni Ribisi. He played Phoebe’s brother on Friends, the one she carries the babies for.
Damn! Thanks I never knew that. Watching in slow mo you can really see him hit it with the follow through when he broke that paddle and spun around. Just folds in half!! OUCH
6:48 "Is This On The Last Day Of Being A Senior?" Actually, James, I think that this was an example of the seniors hazing the freshmen on their first day of being a freshman
this is pretty close to accurate, i remember my oldest sister letting me hang out with her friends and her friends at a wooded park trail they use to hide in the woods where they had bonfires and drank and were in cover from the police by all the woods. the outfits and hair and music is exact . people use to hang out and have fun, no cell phone texting , actual conversations and rarely any guy fights never any girls fighting like today. those were the days.
Cole Hauser, the tall guy with the red curly hair is also one of the friend group in “Good Will Hunting”. He also now, with dark hair, plays Rip in the Kevin Costner show, “Yellowstone”. Ask you wife. 😂
I first watched this with my parents when it came out. Mom graduated in 75 Dad in 78. They said it was pretty damn accurate. Maybe not the exact same type of hazing . But yeah.. opened up a whole new world to me to hear a bunch of stories from them. One of my favorite movies. Love your channel James.
The cast and soundtrack on this movie were fantastic. Still crush on Joey Lauren Adams, Mila Jovavich and Parker Posey. 1963.5-1972 is easily the best era of American automotive design.
Really liking your reactions & greetings from a South Dakota neighbor! I had siblings who were in school before, during, & after this time period. There was hazing, although I never heard about anything like the paddles. Mostly it was seniors humiliating freshman. You would've seen more stuff like what the girls went through then what the boys went through. By the time I was an 8th grader (1989), it had been toned done a bit more. I had to propse to a senior girl, they blondfolded us and had us eat dried skin (Wheaties) & eyeballs (peeled grapes), stuff like that. It happened at the end of spirit week, and how bad you got it depended on how much you participated in the themes they had each day of the week (like opposite day (where you dressed as the opposite gender), school colors day, inside out day (where you wore ALL your clothes inside out), etc. We all went to school in a small farming community in central South Dakota, my 8th grade class had 4 people in it, 2 girls & 2 boys. The population of the town the school was located in was around 35 at the time, just to give you an idea. Our high school closed down after I graduated 8th grade so I ended up going to school in a larger nearby town (30 miles away with a population of around 1,200 at the time). My freshman class had 42 in it, and we got hazed there too, so I actually got freshman hazed twice. As for the statement "full moon every night" Pink mentioned they built the tower when they were working on the power plant, I'm assuming so they could work night and day. So they meant that the lights at the top of the tower gave off enough light so that it was like having a full moon every night.
You say you've seen KISS in concert?? A movie I HIGHLY RECOMMEND for you to watch would be Detroit Rock City. It's a great movie that'll make you laugh!!
14:34 You should watch the movie Ransom from 1996. In one scene, Mel Gibson drives by a gas station and it's only like $1.18 or something. In New York City! 😲
We had places like that in the 90's. Skating rink was the main teen hangout. Very lax rules. They yad air hockey and arcade games. Bowling alley has pool. There's also this restaurant that has a lot of young people... which you see on the first season of In the Heat of the Night. That season was filmed in my town. You could sometimes get alcohol undersge there. Some abrs wouldn't ID either.
Yeah. The hazing and stuff happened. The dance team at our high school had 'air raids' and stuff but it wasn't messy. There weren't any squirting of condiments or anything. I don't know what all kinds of hazing for both guy groups (sports) and girl groups (dance, cheerleader, etc.) went on in more private scenarios, though, but I've heard stories. We didn't have the paddling stuff, though. I think that may have happened at one time like in the 70s or earlier but we didn't see it in the 80s. I know that it was a common project in shop class to make a paddle, though.
Written and directed by Richard Linklater and set somewhere in Texas. Matthew McConaughey's first line on film ever was, "Alright, alright, alright." One ex-bf had a '57 Chevy. It was painted the color of toothpaste. Granted, the color looked better on the car. While I wanted (still do) a VW Thing painted like Ben Grimm, AKA the Thing. I don't recall any hazing growing up. I even joined a co-ed frat and no hazing. One time, the in-house brothers and sisters went grocery shopping. I met them at the store. I tagged along back to the house. In the trunk, because there was no room in the car. One girl was freaking out, "I don't want to get pulled over, I don't want to get pulled over." All they could hear in the cabin was my disembodied muffled voice, "I chose this." That's my almost-hazing story.
We had these rituals at our high school lol. Freshman were paired with a senior. We had a senior/freshman day we’re the seniors dressed up as babies and we had events sanctioned by our school and I also went to an all girls catholic h.s. Nothing too humiliating just fun games and that evening if the freshman parents agreeed, the seniors took us out that Friday and treated us to dinner
Thanks for your reaction. You're right, this movie had an amazing soundtrack (I still have the original soundtrack CD of it). Have a nice day, and I'll watch what else you have on your channel.
The redhead is Cynthia Ribisi, sister of more famous Giovanni Ribisi (not sure if you've seen any of his movies yet 🤔). She's very cute, but not in a lot of movies.
Yes Pink made the right decision for that paper. That car you said was a SS Camaro was 70' Chevelle SS ! My high-school was exactly like that except not as heavy w/ the hazing ✌️🙂 In 76' I would've been a Freshman like Mitch
@AwesomeUSMovies Yes, sir, they were "clean mean and not too far between" ( from another classic movie ). My favorite class in school was roaming local junkyards looking for parts ! Wednesday was another cool school day: Home room attendance then 1st period (Get called down to the guidance counselors office by a friend who helps out "wink" down there ... now its Dunkin Doughnuts time (2nd period)... then racketball at the court club for a couple of hours (periods 3 &4) after that all you could eat Pizza Hut Wednesday(lunch time)work that off with a few games of pool (after noon classes) then a drive across town for the skill center auto class ... just another Wednesday in late 70's high school ✌️🙂 ( The best years of our lives ) OK... maybe not the best but Lotsa Fun !
18:00 You: "Ive beer to an NSync comcert. I was deaf." Me: Say What?! You: "Just from the girls screaming, not the band." Me: "Yeah, that makes more siense." 😂
Its hard to figure how you can be so surprised or confused by 'hazing rituals'. Maybe they didn't exist in your town but they are quite common. They were meant to be humiliating and tolerated by a certain segment of society. They are quite commonclubs, schools, fraternities and sororities, the military, etc
That's crazy to me. I'm pretty sure all "Hazing" has been barred from all universities including charges against those who continue using these barbaric rituals.
@@AwesomeUSMovies I’m not approving of the practice but you seemed confused and unaware of it. Whether or not it’s been banned I expect it still exists. Now that we’re talking about it I can’t help but suggest that maybe you add ‘A Few Good Men’ to your list of of reaction movies. Then we can discuss ‘Code Red’.
The music, the quotes, the actors, ICONIC. To answer your question about rituals, yes we did. We all wanted to enjoy summer, so all violence happens the first day of high school. First day freshman year in 05 my first lunch break a girl got her nose broke by another girl who a full softball pitched a sealed plastic bottle sprite at her face. Senior boys jumped, trash canned, and insanely bullied freshman, especially if they were athletes. Girls just tried to look their best but random acts of violence definitely happened regardless. When there’s 3,000 kids in a single grade, a massive hierarchy ensues. That’s why I joined the wrestling team instead of football because never got bullied 😂
The Paddling has nothing to do with the school. Nor does the cheerleaders hazing the freshman girls. It was just a small town thing. Like a right of passage. Nothing to get butt hurt about. Everyone would just play along. Like the big brother messing with the little brothers. Just 8th going into 9th. Spanking the baby outta them. Hey it could be worse lol
If you want to see another good movie with an incredible music and cars check out "Hollywood Knights." Early carriers of Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer and Fran Drescher.
The one part of this movie that has always stood out to me, and stayed with me the most, is the part when Cynthia breaks out her "every other decade theory", and says that the 50 sucked, the 60s were awesome, and the 70s went back to sucking, so maybe the 80s would be back to awesome. I just can never get over just how monumentally and colossally WRONG she was...the 1980s were HORRIBLE to be young, ESPECIALLY compared to the 1970s.
Except it was not her "the decades swing back and forth" theory...it was the "every other decade" theory...so I still don't think she gets even partial credit.
Hi James Yes that is what it was like in 1976 Buffalo NY. But the strangest thing that we had to do was 7th 8th and 9th grade. In swim class all boys had to swim naked. The girls shared school bathing suits.
Have you watched American Graffiti yet? I don't think I've seen it on your channel. If you enjoyed this, you gotta watch American Graffiti! It's the same exact premise as this movie but set in the early 60s.
If you like cars you'd like _American Graffiti_ . Directed by George Lucas. Oh, and like this film, the sound track is like another character in the film. That's all I'll say.
I grew up in a midsized Texas town and graduated from HS in 1977, just like the main characters in the movie. I knew every character in this movie. It’s pretty accurate. We had some good times back then. Great soundtrack!
There were never any hazing rituals in our school, but I too graduated in 76, and the rest of this film is practically a documentary. The cars, the girls, the cruising, the hangouts, weed,and the keg partying in the woods was all spot on. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸
I was in Jr High School in the early 80s, and the high school kids did terrorize us. Nothing too vicious, but enough to keep you on your toes.
I graduated in '73 and I agree with you.
You know what I love about movies? I keep getting older, they stay the same age...
funny
😂
(Yes they do!)
Yes They Do, Hah-Hut!
There was a summer when I was in college (Mid-90s), and I watched this movie literally every day. It is so much fun and relatable to being a bored teenager in the sleepy suburbs.
The redhead is Marisa Ribisi. Her career was just starting to take off around this time, but it stalled. Her brother is Giovani Ribisi, who’d become a recognizable teen actor on TV. You know him as the medic in Saving Private Ryan who gets shot while they attack that machine gun post, then asks for more morphine and dies.
Notice how you never actually see Mitch throw a ball (despite being the pitcher)? When he auditioned for the role he said he could throw a ball but he never actually did before.
Also, the girl with the voice you recognized was Joey Lauren Adams.
In high school my friends and I quoted this movie constantly, sooo much nostalgia! And awesome soundtrack!
We called it initiation and haseing when I first entered high-school. It was common in most cities from the 1960s to around 2005 when haseing got so bad, that in some cities kids died... then it became an illegal activity nationwide... but yes, this was common... you had 3 choices, run and hide, fight and probably lose and get hased anyways... or just get it over with. It usually only lasts the first and sometimes the last week of each school year... but only seniors could hase, and they could only hase freshmen.... no one else. It was literally a senior freshman thing, but yes. It was very real. I escaped hasing, and I refused to hase when I became a senior... it was just crazy it was even a thing.
This was Matthew McConaughey's breakout role. Originally, his role of Wooderson was supposed to be smaller, but it was expanded because Shawn Andrews (Kevin Pickford) had trouble getting along with most of the cast, and writer-director Richard Linklater had to break up a fight between Andrews and Jeremy London, who played Pink.
If this story is true, it's really cool - McConaughey was a film student at the University of Texas, and he had a friend at the Hyatt Hotel who was a bartender, so he and his girlfriend at the time went to the hotel to party. Also at the bar that night was casting director Don Phillips. McConaughey went over to talk to him, after the friend told him about Phillips casting Sean Penn in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," and the rest is history.
Also Andrews and Jovivich fell madly for each other causing issues on set. Were married and divorced the same year.
@@chad_01Right, I forgot she was in this.
McConaughey was in Angels in the Outfield too
@@vancelubben5300"How'd I do that?"
The blonde girl with the recognizable voice is Joey Lauren Adams who played with Ben Affleck in “Chasing Amy”.
I 100% thought this was Jennifer Tilly and I feel like I’m in the Mandela effect 😂
@DannyBedo
You should have known it wasn't Jennifer Tilly because like Kurt Russel, Kevin Cosner, and Steve Martin she has.never been young!
'Least not any of the movies I ever seen any of them in!
The movie was made in 1993, However it was 1976 AUSTIN TEXAS… 🤗👍. Geez I was 10 years old in 1976, I remember drinking out of the water holes, coming home from playing when street lights went on and we did use the safety belts. Good Fun Celebrating the 1776 Fourth of July bicentennial
Yes, freshman initiation was a real thing in my school district in the '80s. My sister was a junior with a lot of senior friends who came after me during freshman initiation. I was thrown in a creek (storm sewer) after school, so despite being soaked from head to toe with muddy, gross water, I was one of the lucky ones. The same shenanigans were present my freshman year of college as well, but with the fraternities and sororities. I was a metal head and punk kid, so I didn't go for the whole "Greek system". During my teaching career in the '90s through the 2020s our school worked hard to thwart freshman initiation. Some kids were being driven miles out of town, abandoned and left to walk home. (We live in Alaska.) It got to the point that we had police officers explain how certain types of freshman initiation actually qualified as crimes such as kidnapping and assault. Athletes who were caught participating in "hazing" underclassmen were banned from their team for a season.
One of their female friends, in a small role, was Milla Jovavich. You may know her from “the Fifth Element” and the “Resident Evil” films.
I recommended this to your list because I figured you would love the soundtrack in the old school cars.
This is based on the director's hometown. Nassau Beach Texas near the Johnson Space Center outside Houston. Thus the moon tower. The movie was actually filmed in Austin Texas.
Great movie it was fun watching with you. I bought my first car in 1985 for $400. It was a 1974 8 cylinder Dodge Dart. To this day that was my most reliable vehicle. When I sold it it had almost 200,000 miles on it and the guy that bought it from me put another 60 on it when he sold it boy they don't make cars like that anymore
In the mid to late ’70’s, my mother decided she wanted the neighborhood kids to hang out at our house, so she bought a foosball table, a video game system (before there was even Atari) an awesome stereo and a lot of great rock cassettes. The next door neighbors had a pool table, so we were set for entertainment. Mom was cool!
Love the thumbnail ! 😂
There’s an 1981 movie called FAST TIMES AT Ridgemont HIGH, Sean Penn👍Judd Reinheit of Beverly Hills cop, amoung a few more FANTASTIC movie and Music 👍👍👍
*Judge
This came out my freshman year of Hs. Me and my friends watched this at least twice a month. One of my all time favs and brings back great memories!
That sound in the beginning that tips you off to sweet emotion by Aerosmith is made by an instrument called a vibraslap. Interesting fact in that sing right before the vocals come in the vibraslap breaks and it sounded so unique that they decided to leave it in the song.
There was a bowling Alley not too far from my high-school where some of the kids hung out after school.
Hazing was not allowed in our school, but that didn't stop bullies from bullying people.
I went from Jr High to High School in summer 1995 in small town TX, and small town TX is the location of the film. The high school initiation/hazing depicted in the movie was still totally legit back then, but things did start to change with the times. By the time I got to woodshop in '96, it was illegal to make paddles or bats, like they were doing at the start of the movie. I connected most with Mitch in this movie as I was a nerdy baseball player that loved music, was awkward around girls, and floated between groups. To me, this is a very personal movie, even though it takes place almost 20 years before my experience. Besides, that soundtrack, the cast, and the vehicles are amazing.💕
Great reaction! I love all the old cars too. A really good movie with alot of beautiful cars is American graffiti 😊
So good!
@@AwesomeUSMoviesIf you ever do watch it, you'll see a pre-Star Wars George Lucas and Harrison Ford.
I graduated in '87 from an open-campus style high school. The traditional hazing then was selling freshmen discount pool tickets, and elevator passes to them on the first day as a welcome gesture.
Every building was one floor and there was no pool.
And no, I didn't fall for it. 😄
The girl with the familier voice is Joey Lauren Adams. I think you know her from Big Daddy with Adam Sandler.
"OH LOOK AT THE BRONCO! RRRRRRRR" 😂😂😂
I may have issues when it comes to cars. Still investigating
The girl with the big red curly hair is the sister of actor Giovanni Ribisi. He played Phoebe’s brother on Friends, the one she carries the babies for.
Really?
I had NO idea! I can't unsee it now, and Also Adam whathisface was also in Friends as Joey's Evil Roommate-Eddie!
Love, love your Sopranos/Friends shirt!!!!
It trips me out that people dont know what hazing is, yes, we had it at my schools all through the 90s.
Trivia- Ben Affleck actually broke his ankle during the paint scene and they left it the film.
Damn! Thanks I never knew that. Watching in slow mo you can really see him hit it with the follow through when he broke that paddle and spun around. Just folds in half!! OUCH
I wish I had grown up in this time, man
6:48
"Is This On The Last Day Of Being A Senior?"
Actually, James, I think that this was an example of the seniors hazing the freshmen on their first day of being a freshman
this is pretty close to accurate, i remember my oldest sister letting me hang out with her friends and her friends at a wooded park trail
they use to hide in the woods where they had bonfires and drank and were in cover from the police by all the woods. the outfits and hair and music is exact . people use to hang out and have fun, no cell phone texting , actual conversations and rarely any guy fights never any girls fighting like today.
those were the days.
Cole Hauser, the tall guy with the red curly hair is also one of the friend group in “Good Will Hunting”. He also now, with dark hair, plays Rip in the Kevin Costner show, “Yellowstone”. Ask you wife. 😂
The editing is great on this reaction. All the little inserts and stuff. At 19:09 - you're in the truck with the guys. 😆 Love it.
Thanks appreciate you noticing
The cars in this are beautiful!!!!!!
Yes they are!
One of my favorite movies,when it came out on vhs I would watch over and over all night and missed some days of school because of it
I first watched this with my parents when it came out. Mom graduated in 75 Dad in 78. They said it was pretty damn accurate. Maybe not the exact same type of hazing . But yeah.. opened up a whole new world to me to hear a bunch of stories from them. One of my favorite movies. Love your channel James.
The cast and soundtrack on this movie were fantastic. Still crush on Joey Lauren Adams, Mila Jovavich and Parker Posey. 1963.5-1972 is easily the best era of American automotive design.
Really liking your reactions & greetings from a South Dakota neighbor!
I had siblings who were in school before, during, & after this time period. There was hazing, although I never heard about anything like the paddles. Mostly it was seniors humiliating freshman. You would've seen more stuff like what the girls went through then what the boys went through.
By the time I was an 8th grader (1989), it had been toned done a bit more. I had to propse to a senior girl, they blondfolded us and had us eat dried skin (Wheaties) & eyeballs (peeled grapes), stuff like that. It happened at the end of spirit week, and how bad you got it depended on how much you participated in the themes they had each day of the week (like opposite day (where you dressed as the opposite gender), school colors day, inside out day (where you wore ALL your clothes inside out), etc. We all went to school in a small farming community in central South Dakota, my 8th grade class had 4 people in it, 2 girls & 2 boys. The population of the town the school was located in was around 35 at the time, just to give you an idea. Our high school closed down after I graduated 8th grade so I ended up going to school in a larger nearby town (30 miles away with a population of around 1,200 at the time). My freshman class had 42 in it, and we got hazed there too, so I actually got freshman hazed twice.
As for the statement "full moon every night" Pink mentioned they built the tower when they were working on the power plant, I'm assuming so they could work night and day. So they meant that the lights at the top of the tower gave off enough light so that it was like having a full moon every night.
Interesting stuff thanks
You say you've seen KISS in concert?? A movie I HIGHLY RECOMMEND for you to watch would be Detroit Rock City. It's a great movie that'll make you laugh!!
14:34 You should watch the movie Ransom from 1996. In one scene, Mel Gibson drives by a gas station and it's only like $1.18 or something. In New York City! 😲
I don't know if it still happens now, but it did happen into the late 80's!
We had places like that in the 90's. Skating rink was the main teen hangout. Very lax rules. They yad air hockey and arcade games. Bowling alley has pool. There's also this restaurant that has a lot of young people... which you see on the first season of In the Heat of the Night. That season was filmed in my town. You could sometimes get alcohol undersge there. Some abrs wouldn't ID either.
Yeah. The hazing and stuff happened. The dance team at our high school had 'air raids' and stuff but it wasn't messy. There weren't any squirting of condiments or anything. I don't know what all kinds of hazing for both guy groups (sports) and girl groups (dance, cheerleader, etc.) went on in more private scenarios, though, but I've heard stories. We didn't have the paddling stuff, though. I think that may have happened at one time like in the 70s or earlier but we didn't see it in the 80s. I know that it was a common project in shop class to make a paddle, though.
We never had any of this stuff
Written and directed by Richard Linklater and set somewhere in Texas.
Matthew McConaughey's first line on film ever was, "Alright, alright, alright."
One ex-bf had a '57 Chevy. It was painted the color of toothpaste. Granted, the color looked better on the car. While I wanted (still do) a VW Thing painted like Ben Grimm, AKA the Thing.
I don't recall any hazing growing up. I even joined a co-ed frat and no hazing. One time, the in-house brothers and sisters went grocery shopping. I met them at the store. I tagged along back to the house. In the trunk, because there was no room in the car. One girl was freaking out, "I don't want to get pulled over, I don't want to get pulled over." All they could hear in the cabin was my disembodied muffled voice, "I chose this."
That's my almost-hazing story.
It's set in Austin, Texas.
This movie has easily one of the best soundtracks of all time
Fun fact, this movie was filmed in Austin TX. Allendale, Brentwood area
TX hua
We had these rituals at our high school lol. Freshman were paired with a senior. We had a senior/freshman day we’re the seniors dressed up as babies and we had events sanctioned by our school and I also went to an all girls catholic h.s. Nothing too humiliating just fun games and that evening if the freshman parents agreeed, the seniors took us out that Friday and treated us to dinner
Thanks for your reaction. You're right, this movie had an amazing soundtrack (I still have the original soundtrack CD of it). Have a nice day, and I'll watch what else you have on your channel.
The redhead is Cynthia Ribisi, sister of more famous Giovanni Ribisi (not sure if you've seen any of his movies yet 🤔). She's very cute, but not in a lot of movies.
Omg haven't seen this movie in forever!!! Great reaction 💯
Thank you!! 😁
The mom at the end was not the mom with the shotgun
greatest summer movie ever
Such a great movie and so accurate a representation of the times
"Eat a green thing everday"
Surprised you never heard of hazing before watching this movie.
Alright, alright, alright!
Lol 😂 what a movie for James
"Wipe that face off your head, bitch."
I love Parker Posey.
Yes Pink made the right decision for that paper.
That car you said was a SS Camaro was 70' Chevelle SS !
My high-school was exactly like that except not as heavy w/ the hazing ✌️🙂
In 76' I would've been a Freshman like Mitch
So you got to play with the shiny cars?
@AwesomeUSMovies Yes, sir, they were "clean mean and not too far between" ( from another classic movie ). My favorite class in school was roaming local junkyards looking for parts !
Wednesday was another cool school day: Home room attendance then 1st period (Get called down to the guidance counselors office by a friend who helps out "wink" down there ... now its Dunkin Doughnuts time (2nd period)... then racketball at the court club for a couple of hours (periods 3 &4) after that all you could eat Pizza Hut Wednesday(lunch time)work that off with a few games of pool (after noon classes) then a drive across town for the skill center auto class ... just another Wednesday in late 70's high school ✌️🙂
( The best years of our lives ) OK... maybe not the best but Lotsa Fun !
My favourite movie and book James is of mice and men!
That's an amazing book in the movie I think it's just as good I love Gary Sinise!
Super Sport Chevelle you mean James
Loved that!
Never seen it too!
Indeed great soundtrack and stellar cars!
That time US cars rule the world i think.
James, this is a good one,you're sure to get some good laughs. Enjoy my friend.
I liked this movie but I don’t have any idea about what the paddling was about. Was that a Texas thing?
The beginning of Matthew M. He still uses the All Right All Right All Right
Great reaction, Been ready for this one, Alright Alright Alright
Bonus killer soundtrack
Just amazing soundtrack
18:00
You: "Ive beer to an NSync comcert. I was deaf."
Me: Say What?!
You: "Just from the girls screaming, not the band."
Me: "Yeah, that makes more siense." 😂
yep we had an arcade with pool tables and that was in 1985
Dang lucky
Wooderson was 22 years old
So was Matthew
Alright Alright Alright
Its hard to figure how you can be so surprised or confused by 'hazing rituals'. Maybe they didn't exist in your town but they are quite common. They were meant to be humiliating and tolerated by a certain segment of society. They are quite commonclubs, schools, fraternities and sororities, the military, etc
That's crazy to me. I'm pretty sure all "Hazing" has been barred from all universities including charges against those who continue using these barbaric rituals.
@@AwesomeUSMovies I’m not approving of the practice but you seemed confused and unaware of it. Whether or not it’s been banned I expect it still exists.
Now that we’re talking about it I can’t help but suggest that maybe you add ‘A Few Good Men’ to your list of of reaction movies. Then we can discuss ‘Code Red’.
love this movie one of my favs..never saw any high school rituals i grew up in colorado in the 70s ..loved the cars too..cheers..cannabis is the way..
The music, the quotes, the actors, ICONIC. To answer your question about rituals, yes we did. We all wanted to enjoy summer, so all violence happens the first day of high school. First day freshman year in 05 my first lunch break a girl got her nose broke by another girl who a full softball pitched a sealed plastic bottle sprite at her face. Senior boys jumped, trash canned, and insanely bullied freshman, especially if they were athletes. Girls just tried to look their best but random acts of violence definitely happened regardless. When there’s 3,000 kids in a single grade, a massive hierarchy ensues. That’s why I joined the wrestling team instead of football because never got bullied 😂
Austin Texas...
The Paddling has nothing to do with the school. Nor does the cheerleaders hazing the freshman girls. It was just a small town thing. Like a right of passage. Nothing to get butt hurt about. Everyone would just play along. Like the big brother messing with the little brothers. Just 8th going into 9th. Spanking the baby outta them. Hey it could be worse lol
If you want to see another good movie with an incredible music and cars check out "Hollywood Knights." Early carriers of Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer and Fran Drescher.
The one part of this movie that has always stood out to me, and stayed with me the most, is the part when Cynthia breaks out her "every other decade theory", and says that the 50 sucked, the 60s were awesome, and the 70s went back to sucking, so maybe the 80s would be back to awesome.
I just can never get over just how monumentally and colossally WRONG she was...the 1980s were HORRIBLE to be young, ESPECIALLY compared to the 1970s.
She was right about it swinging back forth, though.
Except it was not her "the decades swing back and forth" theory...it was the "every other decade" theory...so I still don't think she gets even partial credit.
Love Matthew McConaugheys Chevelle SS... beautiful car
Milia is on the cover but is really easy to miss in the movie
Hi James Yes that is what it was like in 1976 Buffalo NY. But the strangest thing that we had to do was 7th 8th and 9th grade. In swim class all boys had to swim naked. The girls shared school bathing suits.
OMG how crazy... And adults let this crap happen. Lol
@@AwesomeUSMovies yes I can home and told my father. He said yeah yeah I had to do the same thing just do it.
Have you watched American Graffiti yet? I don't think I've seen it on your channel. If you enjoyed this, you gotta watch American Graffiti! It's the same exact premise as this movie but set in the early 60s.
The black car is a 1970 ss chevelle
This movie was set in Austin Texas.always wished that Carl got his,what a shitty friend.
If you like cars you'd like _American Graffiti_ . Directed by George Lucas. Oh, and like this film, the sound track is like another character in the film. That's all I'll say.
Im guessing they been making paper football's since origami was invented
Maybe
I just noticed your sopranos shirt gabagool over hea!😂
Yeah love it
I'm watching the entire series over on patreon. I'm really enjoying it.
This movie makes me miss my 72' Chevelle Monte Carlo SS😢
I get that
Don't get me wrong, love this movie and soundtrack
we had miner 9er day are first week of high school mostly eggs shaving cream purfume
Mallrats and Chasing Amy
I love this movie❤
I really hope he watches "Superbad" also. It is a similar movie.
Full reaction to that on Patreon
My dad got paddled and they took him out and got drunk after lol
Wow so basically this story
I love love love this movie!!
So glad you enjoyed
Cigs are almost $8 a pack.... & im in a state where theyre cheaper! Working on quitting....
DANG!
great movie
I don't know what that greeser was smoking cause weed usually makes yiu mellow
nice thumbnail 👍🏼
Thanks 😁