He also felt he wasn't "good enough" for her mother, which shows how much he actually DID care about the both of them. It's subtle, but it's there. That's just great storytelling. I saw this movie in theaters, and loved it!
Yes we talked just like this as kids in the 70's. I also had my first drink of alcohol at 9 and smoked a fine Cuban cigar at 10 years old. The 70's was a very different world. Lol.😂
AHH the good ol' days. I was 10 when this came out. I remember my dad given me my first taste of Carling Black Label in those old short keg style bottles. I miss the 70's.
Tatum O’Neil still to this day holds the title of youngest Oscar winner at 10 years old for Paper Moon (1974). Everyone should check it out. An excellent dramatic comedy.
I was 11 when this came out, and I don't know who laughed more, me or my mom! And yes, we did ride trail bikes back then, and there was no helmet law. Things were very different.
I saw this in the movies when I was 8. I played softball for a few years and I loved this movie. Nothing in it was shocking to me as a child because this is how life really was back then.
I played little league in 1975 with the boys . I also was the only girl on The team . The best player by a landslide) , and the pitcher . This movie has been my favorite since its release ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The 70’s were Amazing and Real AF !! The Greatest decade to be a kid !!!☑️
When you grow up as a latch key, never home till the streetlights came on, parents had no idea where or what you were doing, looking out for yourself kid, we grew up fast, could smell bullshitter a mile away, and we did not put up with crap from anyone...including adults. No one was to be trusted, except family. We are a much different breed than what we have growing up now.
Yes, things were different in the ‘70s 😂. Definitely rode a motorcycle since they had sizes that were small enough for kids. Mostly rode bikes, though.
11:45 That actor is Vic Morrow who tragically died on the set of the Twilight Zone movie in 1982. During a helicopter scene, he and two child actors were killed when the helicopter crashed on top of them. The incident led to significant changes in safety regulations for film production.
I saw this in the theater when I was five. My favorite character was Lupus. It remains one of my favorite childhood films, for it exudes determination for greatness out of nothing, for let's face it, they weren't called the Bad News Bears for nothing. It one of the most realistic ending I ever saw. They lost. But instead of cowering, the great Lupus said, "JUST WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!"
Kelly Leak is played by Jackie Earle Haley who would have a successful acting career. "Damnation Alley" 1977 , "Breaking Away 1979", "The Watchmen" 2009. The opposing coach was played by Vic Morrow, who in 1982 was killed, along with two child actors, in a helicopter accident while filming "Twilight Zone: The Movie" Kelly Leak's motorcycle is a Harley Davidson Sprint, a rebranded, inexpensive Italian motorcycle, in an effort to combat Honda.
Pretty cool that the kid on the dirt bike would grow up to become Rorschach in the Watchmen. He took a turn playing Freddie Krueger in the remake from a few years ago. Saw this in theaters as a kid. Little Tatum O'Neal wound up winning an Oscar at 10 yrs old when she acted with her dad in Paper Moon.
Vic Morrow who plays the villain in this, was a great actor, had worked with Elvis in King Creole, with Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier in Blackboard Jungle. He was the hero Sgt Saunders in the TV series about World War 2, "Combat" from 1962-1967, which made him a household name. His life was cut short in a terrible helicopter accident some 6 years after this movie.
So glad to see a young guy watch this movie and *not* be offended by the rampant non-political correctness! It was a great comedy that poked fun by being politcally incorrect. Like 'Airplane' and other films of that era. Thanks FT!
Yes, things were very different. I can remember my sister and I riding loose in the back of our parents' pickup truck...on the freeway. The speed limit was 65 or 75!😊
This and Dazed and Confused are the two best representations of growing up in the 70s. Bad News Bears and Bad News Bears 2 are the only movies Chris Barnes was ever in. He played Tanner. If you notice that even though Tanner has a mouth the other kids could care less and threw shit right back at them. The redeeming quality for Tanner is his loyalty. He was the only player who didn't want to quit and he would stand up for his friends no matter what size the other guy was. Hell he fought the entire seventh grade.
Talking of Walter Matthau... "The Fortune Cookie" (1966), "The Front Page" (1974), both directed by the legendary Billy Wilder, and "The Odd Couple" (1968) are some of the best movies Matthau did alongside Jack Lemmon. All of them are GREAT... but the truth is that the filmography of both actors is FULL of legendary films you should add to your list of "must-see movies": "Some Like it Hot", "The Apartment", "Days of Wine and Roses", "Irma la Douce", "The Out of Towners", "Avanti!", "The China Syndrome", "Missing", "Charade", "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", "The Sunshine Boys", "Fail Safe", "Strangers when we meet"... and many more!
I was 4 when this came out. I played T-ball the next summer. There were coaches like all of them in the league, but us kids just wanted to play ball! And when we weren't, we played pick-up games in the neighborhood. It was a great time. And YES, we trash talked our friends all of the time using some of the same language.
Parents took kid's sports way too seriously back then. The movie is very accurate in that regard. Parents yelled at their kids, slapped their kids, parents got into fist fights with other parents. You would never see that nowadays. These days it's all about kids having fun, getting exercise, learning, and positive feedback. It was a different world back then. I'm 55, I experienced it first hand, but I still look back fondly on those times.
While this video is pretty much "just starting" the movie portion... I want to say something real quick: I was 9 in 1976, and saw this movie in theaters. These kids literally show what it was like to be that age, in that era. I was on a baseball team, but not having a real parental figure, didn't understand the rules, and since none of the "coaches" gave a damn enough to explain them either (I guess that was supposed to be the parent's job?.... but mine was in the ground a few miles away).... I ended up quitting it. Same thing went with Boy Scouts. No one helped, so "to hell with them". But it made me independent. Self reliant. I've been that way ever since. Still, fantastic movie, and I'm glad to see you watching it!! Edit: 30:15 - getting slapped by a parent/guardian/teacher, even in public, was acceptable back then (ask me how I know!). Plus, the father was actually right, "He could have killed that kid" had that ball hit him in the head, even with a helmet on. They were nowhere near as protective as they are now. I'm not defending the father's actions "by today's rules", just saying how it was "back then". Different eras, you know. Hell, I remember one time getting my ass beat at school by a teacher, then PRAYING she didn't call my grandmother to tell her why, because then I'd get my ass beat AGAIN when she got home! Why? Because *I* was in the wrong. The teacher was trying to maintain order in the classroom (so I got my butt spanked there), and when it was reported to my grandmother that *I* was the instigator (read: Class Clown) of the disruption, I got it at home, too. But that's the difference between Discipline and Abuse. It was never out of malice, it was to make me a better person. Respect authority, societal norms, and all that.
The attitude, aggression, language fiestiness is what puts this classic over the top, not ta mention the classical music of Carmen and every pre teen boys crush Amanda, ❤saw this in the theater and laughed so much 😄
RIP Walter Matthau. His work with Jack Lemmon (Grumpy and Grumpier Old Men and Odd Couple 2) are legendary. But if you watch OC 2, watch the original from 1968. You won't be disappointed. It's a classic comedy. You might recognize some of the dialogue.
That was a fantastic reaction! Fantastic commentary. (As usual). I love this movie, and also reactions to it! It really is a time capsule....and yet somehow remains fresh. The fantastic acting definitely helps. Matthau could have just phoned it in, instead he gives you this three-dimensional character. Tatum O'Neal, she's the youngest Oscar winner ever for her previous movie, "Paper Moon", when she was only 8. Fantastic movie! Put that on your list! She did that, then did this one.
Yes.... trust me, things were exactly like that in the 1970s ! It was a wild, free, and easy time. During the summers, we lived at the beach, and kids dated in Jr. High ... at 15 ( I could buy beer because I looked 18 the legal age back then ), and I dated a 21 year old girl one summer✌️😎 It was a simpler time, so different than it is today... everyone seemed so relaxed, and they weren't spending extra time playing P.C police and looking out their back door and around the neighborhood as a matter of fact, we didn't even lock our doors back then, and we lived just outside the inner city. ( The same inner city the I bought two houses in later in life that started going downhill in the late 80s early 90s so we sold the house and moved to the lake and back to simpler times for awhile anyway... )
The shrink comment was awesome in that that's what low self-esteem people did instead of deflecting their issues onto the rest of society like the generations after Gen X. That's why we were mature, job working, drinking adults at 16..and we weren't scared of the world nor needed a safe space. The only timeouts we had was our dad's taking time out to whoop our a$$es!. Respect for your elders. Lol
I forgot how funny this movie was. I think I saw it a year or two later but in the theater. There were these Summer Movie clubs during the daytime where you could watch a few movies for next to nothing and they would show all kinds of stuff. If memory serves the sequel was really good too.
I would give the movie a 5/5, favorite character Tanner. I like that he’s scrappy and doesn’t back down. I would recommend Rudy, The Replacements, and the original The Longest Yard since I haven’t seen the remake.
👍😆. So glad you enjoyed. My favorite is the little boy, because it didn’t take crap from nobody.🤩 The girl is Tatum O’Neal the daughter of the late Ryan O’Neal, who passed away on my birthday December 8. He is in a funny movie with Barbra Streisand. Called WHATS UP DOC, 1972 I believe too hilarious😆 he was the love of FARRAH FAWCET . Ryan also started in a movie with Tatum, called PAPER MOON, she won an Oscar for. What can I say about Walter Matthau? He has a few movies that he’s hilarious in overall this movie reminds me of our childhood in the 70s.♥️
Good sports movies you should check out are Rush (2013), Ford vs. Ferarri, The Pride Of The Yankees, Brian's Song, 42, Bull Durham, Miracle, Slap Shot, Major League, Moneyball, A League Of Their Own, The Longest Yard (1974), Rollerball (1975), Field Of Dreams, Eight Men Out, Rudy, Hoosiers, The Replacements, Million Dollar Baby, The Natural, Heaven Can Wait (1978), The Hustler, and it's sequel The Color Of Money.
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19:52 That kid on the motorbike is Rorschach from the 'Watchmen' movie I'm assuming you've already seen. If not, then you should definitely check it out. One of the better superhero movies out there.
This was a classic for kids of the 80s. Yeah, this is what it was like. Kids on dirt bikes roaming for miles. As far as racial slurs😂 it was no different to us than anything else demeaning. Everyone was going to get beat down for something. Race only became a issue when it became easy trigger word. Truth we knew was some people were a-holes. They hate just to hate 😒 getting smacked around by parents was the norm. After ww2 the boomers expected white picket fences. They got that but their kids the parents of genx wanted that and more. They wanted kids white picket fences free love and left alone. That meant we could just run free and no one wanted to go home. Parents were rough. Some worse than others. It was ok because we had each other. Your friends became family.
Pretty honest movie ... AMF Harley, Indian,bull taco and enfield were available in 150 or smaller 👍 You would ride around at 12 years old with a fullface helmet...🤷😉 Great Reaction Enjoy ✌️🤠
About effing time the greatest sports movie was done by a major reactor. Keep to the 70s. How about Alan Pakula's Paranoia trilogy? (Klute, Parallax View, All The President's Men) or Easy Rider? Midnight Cowboy? The Graduate? Bonnie & Clyde? M*A*S"H 1970. THE MOVIE? French Connection? Patton? Blow-Up? Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid? Woody Allen flix? Michael Ritchie films? Bogdanovich films? Friedkin films? The original Nutty Professor? The Monty Python films? Stick to the late 60s - 70s films. I guarantee you won't go wrong.
Being a kid in the 70’s-early 80’s was great! Back when America wasn’t overly sensitive, politically correct, and drowned in laws. The last great generation of kids!!!
Love this movie soo much...i miss those times... everyone didn't get butthurt over stupid shit every 3 seconds... BTW.. Matthau does not have a bad movie.. he's great in everything.. If you haven't seen The Odd Couple it's worth the watch...
Today people try to deflect their emotional problems onto the rest of us who didn't sign up for coddling them. Don't worry...the 4th turning is 70% over and common sense is coming back with members of 2nd wave Gen Z. I've seen these new high schoolers start working, realizing that inflation has sapped parents dry. Buy your own stuff. Sounds familiar, right? 1979 to 1985 we did exact same thing. Lol
I grew up in the 70’s and played on a Little League team. When this movie came out I was 10-11 and related to this film really well. Not only did I know kids like this I was a kid like this. You can’t look at a movie from 1976 though the lens of 2014. Just understand when we all saw this movie in 1976 nobody thought anything about it. This is way more realistic because it was made in that time. If told me then we would look at this like it was politically incorrect we would say what the he’ll does that mean?
Not that far from the truth(no beer) back in the 70's on the teams i played on, with a dad coach and of course his son would be the pitcher, fun times...
My Mother took my three cousins, my little brother and myself to see this in the theater... She actually stood up halfway through and screamed "THIS IS A PG MOVIE!?!?!?" My cousins and I still laugh about it
18:26... Tanner kills me. 🤣😂🤣😂 A PG-movie that would never be considered 30 years later. Instead, a completely unnecessary soft remake bombed at the box office.
Personally was never really a fan of the kids sports movies but that's me. Adults acting like kids though: Necessary Roughness / Slap Shot / even Wildcats while not great has amusing moments.
Maybe even common place?? Back Then?. Child Abuse - Common Place ? Your absolutely correct that is a negative reinforcement. There are other ways to teach a child lessons. All The bad language, fights, beer drinking & the occasional smak the kid was all bad behavior, back then. How do you base your information? Talking to adults from the Era? Watching documentaries ? Reading books & bio's from that time ? Because it wasn't common place. Majority of children would never swear in public to adults especially parents , myself and friends had too eat soap & i had to chew it. Majority didn't smoke at those ages, let alone drink beer. There would have been parents coming off the bleachers.Scolding the coach and taking their kids home. Elementary - Jr High through High School never seen, or heard , no rumored of children riding motorcycles on a playing field, public parks, parking lots. Those actions did happen just as today, only now it's purse grabbing from motorcycles, swearing at their teachers & faculty with threats, fighting in schools & outside the building and it has advanced from fist to wrenches, pipes and more... Watching the movie in the theater with my family, There was gasping & auws. No one expected the swears. Two families actually left. It was controversial. Search for news clippings. I'm sure there were teams like that, but it wasn't common place for back then.
This was a movie I saw in the theater, and it was the first time I ever saw kids acting like kids....being assholes and obnoxious and mean. And I was a kid, and really appreciated it. I loved it.
Collectively,every one of the child actors in this movie should have gotten an Oscar...This movie will never get old no matter how many times I watch it...
The overture is heroic and the Chanson du Toreador expresses the struggle and disappointment which the Bears go through as they try to become better ball players.
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The coach did care about Amanda. He just wanted her to think he didnt cause he thought he wasnt good enough for her
He also felt he wasn't "good enough" for her mother, which shows how much he actually DID care about the both of them. It's subtle, but it's there. That's just great storytelling. I saw this movie in theaters, and loved it!
Yes we talked just like this as kids in the 70's.
I also had my first drink of alcohol at 9 and smoked a fine Cuban cigar at 10 years old.
The 70's was a very different world. Lol.😂
When what passed for a happy ending was Rocky losing the match, and the Bears losing the playoff! 🤣 (both in '76).
AHH the good ol' days. I was 10 when this came out. I remember my dad given me my first taste of Carling Black Label in those old short keg style bottles. I miss the 70's.
'70s
Tatum O’Neil still to this day holds the title of youngest Oscar winner at 10 years old for Paper Moon (1974). Everyone should check it out. An excellent dramatic comedy.
I remember that movie 🎥!
What’s amazing is 48 years later, parents still take youth sports more seriously than their kids. NOTHING has changed.
Yeh, been there done that with my boy for 4 years. i am a former teacher and I have seen it all with parents.
I was 11 when this came out, and I don't know who laughed more, me or my mom!
And yes, we did ride trail bikes back then, and there was no helmet law.
Things were very different.
A politically incorrect American classic. Walter Matthau should have been nominated for Best Actor, he was marvelous.
That's what we need more of less overly PC. Saw this in the theater as a 10-year-old kid. It never gets old.
Oh having a 10 year old girl as your best player is very non pc.
I saw this in the movies when I was 8. I played softball for a few years and I loved this movie. Nothing in it was shocking to me as a child because this is how life really was back then.
I played little league in 1975 with the boys . I also was the only girl on The team . The best player by a landslide) , and the pitcher . This movie has been my favorite since its release ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The 70’s were Amazing and Real AF !! The Greatest decade to be a kid !!!☑️
When you grow up as a latch key, never home till the streetlights came on, parents had no idea where or what you were doing, looking out for yourself kid, we grew up fast, could smell bullshitter a mile away, and we did not put up with crap from anyone...including adults. No one was to be trusted, except family. We are a much different breed than what we have growing up now.
Aaww the good old days ❤️❤️❤️
"Can we go swimming? No don't jump in Engelburg you'll flood the valley" 😂😂
Took me a while but when I got it.....damn he roasted him
@TimCarter. No He Said.......
"Don't Jump in you'll flood THE VALLEY"
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@jamesconnolly1201 that's what I thought
A lovely follow-up to this is Breaking Away. Jackie Earle Haley (Kelly Leek) is fantastic and subtle.
I was thinking the same thing. Flix, watch "Breaking Away" when you can!
I always forget he was in that movie but I agree it's a great watch.
I had such a crush on him when I was 13😂
Yes, things were different in the ‘70s 😂. Definitely rode a motorcycle since they had sizes that were small enough for kids. Mostly rode bikes, though.
Mini Bikes!!!
Mini bikes were so much fun.
yeah, we called them dirt bikes and rode them everywhere.
@@chuckleezodiac24 DIRT BIKES!!!
Great for travelling between woodsy areas.
I had a sweet 74 yz80 when I was probably 13-16. Those were good times...
The 70's were exactly like that. Lol
11:45 That actor is Vic Morrow who tragically died on the set of the Twilight Zone movie in 1982. During a helicopter scene, he and two child actors were killed when the helicopter crashed on top of them. The incident led to significant changes in safety regulations for film production.
Yup.
I saw this in the theater when I was five. My favorite character was Lupus. It remains one of my favorite childhood films, for it exudes determination for greatness out of nothing, for let's face it, they weren't called the Bad News Bears for nothing. It one of the most realistic ending I ever saw. They lost. But instead of cowering, the great Lupus said, "JUST WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!"
In 1976 I 12 years old and was playing in the Central Falls, Rhode Island little league. And yes the 70's were like that
My childhood, so glad i was a kid in the 70's
'70s
Same here.
Kelly Leak is played by Jackie Earle Haley who would have a successful acting career. "Damnation Alley" 1977 , "Breaking Away 1979", "The Watchmen" 2009.
The opposing coach was played by Vic Morrow, who in 1982 was killed, along with two child actors, in a helicopter accident while filming "Twilight Zone: The Movie"
Kelly Leak's motorcycle is a Harley Davidson Sprint, a rebranded, inexpensive Italian motorcycle, in an effort to combat Honda.
Pretty cool that the kid on the dirt bike would grow up to become Rorschach in the Watchmen. He took a turn playing Freddie Krueger in the remake from a few years ago. Saw this in theaters as a kid. Little Tatum O'Neal wound up winning an Oscar at 10 yrs old when she acted with her dad in Paper Moon.
The remake really sucks. It has no heart.
Jack Earle Haley . The kid on the motorcycle,has been in many movies. Watchmen,Shutter island,Nightmare on Elm Street.ETC...Awesome actor.
Vic Morrow who plays the villain in this, was a great actor, had worked with Elvis in King Creole, with Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier in Blackboard Jungle. He was the hero Sgt Saunders in the TV series about World War 2, "Combat" from 1962-1967, which made him a household name. His life was cut short in a terrible helicopter accident some 6 years after this movie.
So glad to see a young guy watch this movie and *not* be offended by the rampant non-political correctness! It was a great comedy that poked fun by being politcally incorrect. Like 'Airplane' and other films of that era. Thanks FT!
Yes, things were very different. I can remember my sister and I riding loose in the back of our parents' pickup truck...on the freeway. The speed limit was 65 or 75!😊
This was the 70s. Remember going to movies watching this and feeling, yeah about right
This and Dazed and Confused are the two best representations of growing up in the 70s. Bad News Bears and Bad News Bears 2 are the only movies Chris Barnes was ever in. He played Tanner. If you notice that even though Tanner has a mouth the other kids could care less and threw shit right back at them. The redeeming quality for Tanner is his loyalty. He was the only player who didn't want to quit and he would stand up for his friends no matter what size the other guy was. Hell he fought the entire seventh grade.
Agreed 100%.
Actually amend that: it specifically captures 1976.
Tanner also developed a great friendship with Timmy Lupus in the sequel.
Talking of Walter Matthau...
"The Fortune Cookie" (1966), "The Front Page" (1974), both directed by the legendary Billy Wilder, and "The Odd Couple" (1968) are some of the best movies Matthau did alongside Jack Lemmon. All of them are GREAT... but the truth is that the filmography of both actors is FULL of legendary films you should add to your list of "must-see movies": "Some Like it Hot", "The Apartment", "Days of Wine and Roses", "Irma la Douce", "The Out of Towners", "Avanti!", "The China Syndrome", "Missing", "Charade", "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", "The Sunshine Boys", "Fail Safe", "Strangers when we meet"... and many more!
I saw this in the theater when I was 7. What could be more perfect?
I saw this movie in 1976 when I was nine years old and just started Little League. It warped my fragile little mind.😂
I was 4 when this came out. I played T-ball the next summer. There were coaches like all of them in the league, but us kids just wanted to play ball!
And when we weren't, we played pick-up games in the neighborhood. It was a great time. And YES, we trash talked our friends all of the time using some of the same language.
Parents took kid's sports way too seriously back then. The movie is very accurate in that regard. Parents yelled at their kids, slapped their kids, parents got into fist fights with other parents. You would never see that nowadays. These days it's all about kids having fun, getting exercise, learning, and positive feedback. It was a different world back then. I'm 55, I experienced it first hand, but I still look back fondly on those times.
A classic. I played Little League in the 70’s, and this movie is spot on, except for the beer drinking by the kids at the end.
The earthquake we had last week, i pictured Walter Matthau sitting at the bar, dressed like Huggy Bear😄
While this video is pretty much "just starting" the movie portion... I want to say something real quick: I was 9 in 1976, and saw this movie in theaters. These kids literally show what it was like to be that age, in that era. I was on a baseball team, but not having a real parental figure, didn't understand the rules, and since none of the "coaches" gave a damn enough to explain them either (I guess that was supposed to be the parent's job?.... but mine was in the ground a few miles away).... I ended up quitting it. Same thing went with Boy Scouts. No one helped, so "to hell with them". But it made me independent. Self reliant. I've been that way ever since.
Still, fantastic movie, and I'm glad to see you watching it!!
Edit: 30:15 - getting slapped by a parent/guardian/teacher, even in public, was acceptable back then (ask me how I know!). Plus, the father was actually right, "He could have killed that kid" had that ball hit him in the head, even with a helmet on. They were nowhere near as protective as they are now. I'm not defending the father's actions "by today's rules", just saying how it was "back then". Different eras, you know.
Hell, I remember one time getting my ass beat at school by a teacher, then PRAYING she didn't call my grandmother to tell her why, because then I'd get my ass beat AGAIN when she got home! Why? Because *I* was in the wrong. The teacher was trying to maintain order in the classroom (so I got my butt spanked there), and when it was reported to my grandmother that *I* was the instigator (read: Class Clown) of the disruption, I got it at home, too. But that's the difference between Discipline and Abuse. It was never out of malice, it was to make me a better person. Respect authority, societal norms, and all that.
You would be surprised how accurate this movie was for the mid Seventies. A coach with a beer, that was nothing.
The attitude, aggression, language fiestiness is what puts this classic over the top, not ta mention the classical music of Carmen and every pre teen boys crush Amanda, ❤saw this in the theater and laughed so much 😄
The kid who plays Kelly also plays Rorschach in the Watchmen.
RIP Walter Matthau. His work with Jack Lemmon (Grumpy and Grumpier Old Men and Odd Couple 2) are legendary. But if you watch OC 2, watch the original from 1968. You won't be disappointed. It's a classic comedy. You might recognize some of the dialogue.
That was a fantastic reaction! Fantastic commentary. (As usual). I love this movie, and also reactions to it! It really is a time capsule....and yet somehow remains fresh. The fantastic acting definitely helps. Matthau could have just phoned it in, instead he gives you this three-dimensional character. Tatum O'Neal, she's the youngest Oscar winner ever for her previous movie, "Paper Moon", when she was only 8. Fantastic movie! Put that on your list! She did that, then did this one.
Yes.... trust me, things were exactly like that in the 1970s !
It was a wild, free, and easy time.
During the summers, we lived at the beach, and kids dated in Jr. High ... at 15 ( I could buy beer because I looked 18 the legal age back then ), and I dated a 21 year old girl one summer✌️😎
It was a simpler time, so different than it is today... everyone seemed so relaxed, and they weren't spending extra time playing P.C police and looking out their back door and around the neighborhood as a matter of fact, we didn't even lock our doors back then, and we lived just outside the inner city.
( The same inner city the I bought two houses in later in life that started going downhill in the late 80s early 90s so we sold the house and moved to the lake and back to simpler times for awhile anyway... )
I saw this in the theater when it came out. Enjoyed it. I was nine...had a huge crush on Tatum O'Neal.
A kid having a shrink in the 70s is some heavy sh-t.
This is the most GenX “kid’s movie!” We really had a unique childhood and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
if you’d like to see an old film with A LOT of cameos try “It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World”
One of the greatest Baseball movies ever!!
At least you didn't puss out and bleep certain words.
Trust me I was thinking about it lol the RUclips police don't like it
The shrink comment was awesome in that that's what low self-esteem people did instead of deflecting their issues onto the rest of society like the generations after Gen X. That's why we were mature, job working, drinking adults at 16..and we weren't scared of the world nor needed a safe space. The only timeouts we had was our dad's taking time out to whoop our a$$es!. Respect for your elders. Lol
I forgot how funny this movie was. I think I saw it a year or two later but in the theater. There were these Summer Movie clubs during the daytime where you could watch a few movies for next to nothing and they would show all kinds of stuff. If memory serves the sequel was really good too.
Bro the 70’s were great.
A lot of us grew up too fast back in those days.
Maybe. But when I look around today, I see ppl in their 30s and 40s who never did grow up. Things were made too soft and too protected.
I had a Suzuki motorcycle in 1978 when I was nine years old.
I would give the movie a 5/5, favorite character Tanner. I like that he’s scrappy and doesn’t back down. I would recommend Rudy, The Replacements, and the original The Longest Yard since I haven’t seen the remake.
👍😆. So glad you enjoyed. My favorite is the little boy, because it didn’t take crap from nobody.🤩
The girl is Tatum O’Neal the daughter of the late Ryan O’Neal, who passed away on my birthday December 8. He is in a funny movie with Barbra Streisand. Called WHATS UP DOC, 1972 I believe too hilarious😆 he was the love of FARRAH FAWCET . Ryan also started in a movie with Tatum, called PAPER MOON, she won an Oscar for. What can I say about Walter Matthau? He has a few movies that he’s hilarious in overall this movie reminds me of our childhood in the 70s.♥️
Classic.. brought back great memories.. good times and great review!
Arm? Nope. Amanda caught one in the "Girls".
@ 8:52 "that's Kelly leak"
Motorcycles and being a teen in the 70s. YUP!!!! I got more tickets before I had my license than after! LOL
Great laugh. Enjoyed it👏🏻
Good sports movies you should check out are Rush (2013), Ford vs. Ferarri, The Pride Of The Yankees, Brian's Song, 42, Bull Durham, Miracle, Slap Shot, Major League, Moneyball, A League Of Their Own, The Longest Yard (1974), Rollerball (1975), Field Of Dreams, Eight Men Out, Rudy, Hoosiers, The Replacements, Million Dollar Baby, The Natural, Heaven Can Wait (1978), The Hustler, and it's sequel The Color Of Money.
Excellent ideas! Especially Brian's Song. I think I've only seen one reactor do that, maybe two. I think FT would like it a lot.
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Bad News Bears had at least three movies I remember before the remake. You should check them out before the remake. ❤
I remember seeing this movie as a kid in (then) West Germany 🇩🇪. We really enjoyed it!
19:52 That kid on the motorbike is Rorschach from the 'Watchmen' movie I'm assuming you've already seen. If not, then you should definitely check it out. One of the better superhero movies out there.
He was also Freddy Kruger in the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. Don't watch that one!
@@flrrb Yeah that's right. Forgot about that one.
This was a classic for kids of the 80s. Yeah, this is what it was like. Kids on dirt bikes roaming for miles. As far as racial slurs😂 it was no different to us than anything else demeaning. Everyone was going to get beat down for something. Race only became a issue when it became easy trigger word. Truth we knew was some people were a-holes. They hate just to hate 😒 getting smacked around by parents was the norm. After ww2 the boomers expected white picket fences. They got that but their kids the parents of genx wanted that and more. They wanted kids white picket fences free love and left alone. That meant we could just run free and no one wanted to go home. Parents were rough. Some worse than others. It was ok because we had each other. Your friends became family.
Pretty honest movie ...
AMF Harley, Indian,bull taco and enfield were available in
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You would ride around at
12 years old with a fullface helmet...🤷😉
Great Reaction Enjoy ✌️🤠
There is a bad news bears field in Los Angeles
Loved it! Thank You😅
About effing time the greatest sports movie was done by a major reactor. Keep to the 70s. How about Alan Pakula's Paranoia trilogy? (Klute, Parallax View, All The President's Men) or Easy Rider? Midnight Cowboy? The Graduate? Bonnie & Clyde? M*A*S"H 1970. THE MOVIE? French Connection? Patton? Blow-Up? Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid? Woody Allen flix? Michael Ritchie films? Bogdanovich films? Friedkin films? The original Nutty Professor? The Monty Python films?
Stick to the late 60s - 70s films. I guarantee you won't go wrong.
I was 11 when this came out,,,,,,it was FANTASTIC. 🤣🤣🤣🤣💥👍
I was ten when I first saw this movie at a drive-in. It was a double feature with "Paper Moon" (another Tatum O'Neal flick). I liked both movies.
TANNER ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVOURITE !!😋😋😋😋😋😂😂😂
He's Funnier Than Shit In " Breaking Training" Trust Me ---
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Being a kid in the 70’s-early 80’s was great! Back when America wasn’t overly sensitive, politically correct, and drowned in laws. The last great generation of kids!!!
Tanner pretty much, Represents my generation. lol.
Love this movie soo much...i miss those times... everyone didn't get butthurt over stupid shit every 3 seconds...
BTW.. Matthau does not have a bad movie.. he's great in everything.. If you haven't seen The Odd Couple it's worth the watch...
Today people try to deflect their emotional problems onto the rest of us who didn't sign up for coddling them. Don't worry...the 4th turning is 70% over and common sense is coming back with members of 2nd wave Gen Z. I've seen these new high schoolers start working, realizing that inflation has sapped parents dry. Buy your own stuff. Sounds familiar, right? 1979 to 1985 we did exact same thing. Lol
I grew up in the 70’s and played on a Little League team. When this movie came out I was 10-11 and related to this film really well. Not only did I know kids like this I was a kid like this. You can’t look at a movie from 1976 though the lens of 2014. Just understand when we all saw this movie in 1976 nobody thought anything about it. This is way more realistic because it was made in that time. If told me then we would look at this like it was politically incorrect we would say what the he’ll does that mean?
Not that far from the truth(no beer) back in the 70's on the teams i played on, with a dad coach and of course his son would be the pitcher, fun times...
The wild thing is this is how GenX grew up. A kid lighting your cig was normal
It's weird how many baseball movies I like considering I hate baseball.
Cool reaction. Cool shirt.
Great sports movie? North Dallas Forty I believe from 1978 with Nick Nolte and country singer Mac Davis with a great acting costarring role
Yup.
great pick
Now you gotta watch Bad News Bears 2 ✌️😎
My Mother took my three cousins, my little brother and myself to see this in the theater...
She actually stood up halfway through and screamed "THIS IS A PG MOVIE!?!?!?"
My cousins and I still laugh about it
Bad News Bears - Good
Bad News Bears in breaking training - Great
Bad News Bears go to Japan - o.k.
Remake wasn’t good. You gotta watch the second Bad News Bears movie where they get to play in the Houston astrodome
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18:26... Tanner kills me. 🤣😂🤣😂 A PG-movie that would never be considered 30 years later. Instead, a completely unnecessary soft remake bombed at the box office.
Yep, this is how things were in the 70’s. And we loved it. 😊
Except for the child abuse.
Tanner was an alpha male.
Personally was never really a fan of the kids sports movies but that's me. Adults acting like kids though: Necessary Roughness / Slap Shot / even Wildcats while not great has amusing moments.
Watch the next one(s)!!!
The Billy Bob remake is decent but of course they made a lot of changes including having both him and the kids drinking non alcoholic beer
Don’t bother with any of the remakes. They all sucked.
Maybe even common place??
Back Then?.
Child Abuse - Common Place ?
Your absolutely correct that is a negative reinforcement. There are other ways to teach a child lessons. All The bad language, fights, beer drinking & the occasional smak the kid was all bad behavior, back then.
How do you base your information?
Talking to adults from the Era? Watching documentaries ? Reading books & bio's from that time ? Because it wasn't common place. Majority of children would never swear in public to adults especially parents , myself and friends had too eat soap & i had to chew it.
Majority didn't smoke at those ages, let alone drink beer. There would have been parents coming off the bleachers.Scolding the coach and taking their kids home. Elementary - Jr High through High School never seen, or heard , no rumored of children riding motorcycles on a playing field, public parks, parking lots. Those actions did happen just as today, only now it's purse grabbing from motorcycles, swearing at their teachers & faculty with threats, fighting in schools & outside the building and it has advanced from fist to wrenches, pipes and more...
Watching the movie in the theater with my family, There was gasping & auws. No one expected the swears. Two families actually left. It was controversial. Search for news clippings.
I'm sure there were teams like that, but it wasn't common place for back then.
This was a movie I saw in the theater, and it was the first time I ever saw kids acting like kids....being assholes and obnoxious and mean. And I was a kid, and really appreciated it. I loved it.
The kid who gets smacked by his dad is my friend Brandon Cruz, he was the kid on Courtship of Eddies Father too.
Collectively,every one of the child actors in this movie should have gotten an Oscar...This movie will never get old no matter how many times I watch it...
I was 15 in 1976. It was a great year with the Bicentennial. Had a great 1970s vibe! Great review! Can you do the original 1974 Longest Yard! Thanks
Definitely the original Longest Yard is so great!
Oh, and let’s not forget the beautiful and surprising score, Bizet’s Carmen. You don’t usually hear opera in a baseball movie!
I've never been able to listen to Carmen without picturing this movie.
The overture is heroic and the Chanson du Toreador expresses the struggle and disappointment which the Bears go through as they try to become better ball players.
And the sequel made great use of Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture.
If you love Walter Matthau, then you'll love Dennis the Menace (1994). Walter's physical comedy at its peak.