One subtle thing: the kids are 12 when the movie takes place in 1959, so they were born in 1946, at the end of WW2. There's an unspoken chance that the dads all had PTSD (it's explicit with the one dad who stormed Normandy), and the moms went through the Depression and wartime shortages/rationing, and that's why the adults suck.
My family was on the other end of this: my uncle was born just before the war and my mom was born just after the war (1946). In between, they were locked up in an internment camp (Manzanar). Well, as it turns out, not everyone mentally handles losing all your things and your freedom for the "crime" of being Japanese American and my maternal grandfather had to get some serious treatment, including electroconvulsive therapy. He wasn't exactly a happy, loving father after those experiences.
@@TheYakusokuHave you visited Manzanar? It’s a stark piece of land on rte 395 in California. I’ve visited annually since 2020. The work done on capturing facts and artifacts is really good and the exhibits are thoughtful and heartbreaking.
These kids were amazing actors, and this movie never fails to make an impression. RIP River Phoenix. Oh and of course, that train bridge scene is intense and iconic.
"I never had friends later on like the ones I did when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?" A very astute observation. Sadly, many of our childhood friends can drift away over time, possibly due to changing personalities, or differing interests.
@@DavidGowers sure. I still am in touch with several of my teen and childhood friends, but you`re right, is not the same. Everybody has a very different ways to see life.
All of the child actors were fantastic in this movie, especially River Phoenix as Chris. The part where he confesses to Gordy about the milk money always breaks my heart. Who knows what he could have accomplished had he not died so tragically young?
I just learned recently that he was Joaquin’s brother. I don’t know if River would’ve acted into adulthood but it would’ve been cool to see since most child actors don’t act anymore once they grow up
@@nsasupporter7557 River Phoenix was already a big name in Hollywood; he was a world class actor in the adult roles he had done by this point for example My Own Private Idaho; Dogfight; Sneakers. He was acting right up until he died at 23.
The symbolism of the train and the boys walking down the tracks to see a dead body at the end is so simple and so powerful. You can't stop the march of time.
That scene where Chris tells Gordie what really happened with the milk money, it just breaks my heart because River died so young and you wonder whether or not he was acting. Another scene where he makes me feel like this is in one of his final films 'My Own Private Idaho', he sits with Keanu Reeves at a campfire and he tells him that he has feelings for him and he hugs him. The dialogue was written by River himself in that scene and he displays such sheer vulnerability and tenderness. All i can think of is how he must've been is such emotional strife with being just a kid in messed up, crazy Hollywood. I just hope Keanu or Wil Wheaton gave him some comfort and happiness in that time :'(
As I watch young reactors watch these older films, I am always struck by how much freedom we had as kids in the 60s. My mother said goodbye to us in the morning, and were on our own till dinnertime. As I watch I am a little surprised to remember that the parents let their kids explore life on their own, but grateful that they did.
My parents were that way in the 80s. My dad would flat out tell me to go outside and do something instead of sitting around the house and I would just go find my friends and come home for dinner.
We were like that into the 80's and even the 90's. It was a great way to grow up, I will cherish it and I'm thankful to have Boomer parents who made us feel we could go anywhere and do anything. Absolutely wonderful times.
I was born 2000 and grew up in Germany. It was still the same for me luckily. Outside playing all day and had to be home when the street lights went on
My generation was free to roam too. I remember playing on the railroad tracks beside the Ohio river there was a gang of us . Two of the boys jumped into the water …between the tie off dock and a coal barge . There was about two feet of space the barge slowly moved ..we didn’t even notice it moving just noticed the two feet of space seemed to be a foot of space . Those boys almost drowned that day . We were sled riding between some homes then decided the snow is deep enough let’s slide ride down the terrace in front of the house and drop off the ten foot high retention wall into the snow below that will for be a soft landing . My sister broke her nose . I at the age of seven walking by my self to a friends house about seven blocks away found a pile of magazines neatly stacked behind a nice mailbox ,I saw them when I started to cut through this strangers yard. They were hard core porn magazines. I had no idea what I was looking at . I squatted besides those magazines thumbing through trying to figure out what I was looking at. We spent most days at the public pool in the summer. We walked it was a good four miles. No sidewalk no guardrails just a line of us walking on a busy twisty rd . Sometimes on The way home after baking in the sun and playing and being I’m sure dehydrated the walk back was hard. At times a friends parent would drive by and offer us all a ride sometimes we got in the car with strangers. Five kids between 6 to12 . one day I ended up a new friends house it was a fun house the parents never had rules and the mattresses were on the floor we would play wrestle and stack them up and see how far we could jump. There was no furniture in the house . I knew the house was not normal but it wasn’t until I saw my friends uncle peeing in the corner of the room against the wall. I told my older sibling where I was and what I saw and my 11 year old sibling looked horrified I was even in that house. Didn’t I know not to go in that house?! Everybody knows that house was a bad house. People glamorize free roaming kids back in the day are delusional dangerous jagweeds . My parents were good parents most of their friends and family members let their kids just go like they did us. It was my older siblings whispering in my parents ears about what we should and shouldn’t be allowed to do that put a end to our free wheeling ways. By the time I was ten it was over. They needed to know where I was going and with who and what t8me to be back. My siblings saved me from many dangerous situations and from making many stupid mistakes. So mark Murphy you are a silly silly person.
Explanation for the castor oil and egg. Castor oil is an old remedy for an upset stomach, it will make you throw up. Conversely, swallowing a raw egg will prevent you from throwing up. Since Davy drank an entire bottle of castor oil, the egg could only do so much for so long, especially since he was eating a bunch of sugary pies (they looked like blueberry pies, too, and berries are quite acidic, so that could've also broken down the egg's protein). He essentially created a time bomb in his guts.
@@michaelkrull3331 Older generations were much more concerned with bowels for some reason. It seems like a lot of health issues were ascribed to being constipated, which I guess was a belief from before modern medicine.
i just realized they foreshadowed chris's eventual death twice. the first one on the newspaper and the second one when ace was about to use the knife on him
I saw this in the theater when I was 11. Only a year younger then the main characters. So it kind of felt like I was one of them. I cried a bit. It would have been nice to have such close friends at that age to literally stand by me as I got bullied in school that year. Fortunately I quickly learned to stand up for myself and others and have never put up with bullies ever since.
One of the most powerful, impactful, coming of age movies ever made IMO. And that ending, where the Narrator talks about how Chris dies, hits so much harder because the movie does such a good job of drawing you into the story it's telling that you forget you read that headline about Chris at the start. Speaking of which, that part always gets the tears flowing for me. Not just because of River having died 7 years after this came out, but because River did such a great job of bringing Chris to life and making him feel so real, making us feel like he really was just a kid with a strong moral centre who just wanted to help but, was always looked down on and thought badly of just because of his family. Chris was the kind of guy who, had he lived a full life, could have changed the world, even just the world around him directly, which would have sent ripples of change outwards...and what little I know of River's life, he was much the same kind of person despite his addictions.
At the end when Narrator Gordie starts speaking about Chris, we see his figure fade out of frame right as we're told how he died. It's a visually very impactful way to show how a person's death is final, and definitive. Also, very Stephen King-like in a way, so it really fits the movie. Rob Reiner is such a tremendously gifted director.
Wil Wheaten mentioned recently how the characters storyline paralleled the actors. In the story, the boys all grow into certain roles, and the same is said for the actors in the movie. The most eerie being the character and actor of River Phoenix. He died too young, as does his character in this movie. xo
I was 13 when this was released and grew up in rural Oregon so this film is extremely special to me. this and the goonies were my childhood films. great job.
Saw someone point out on another reaction that all these actors sort of mirrored their characters in adulthood: Jerry O'Connell is a family man, Corey Feldman has uh, struggled to adjust, Will Wheaton is a writer who has cut contact with his parents, and River Phoenix died tragically early.
13:00 I walked across a train bridge like this several times when I was young. The tracks are quite wide and the ties are pretty close together so you'd be hard-pressed to fall. Also, it was after trains stopped running in my neck of the woods so the danger was significantly diminished. 28:44 This moment is especially tragic since River Phoenix died so young. It gets me every time. 😢
I was badly bullied as a kid, so Chris saying that he wanted to go somewhere nobody knew him resonated with me a lot at the time (even if it was for a slightly different reason).
This movie has a special place for me. My best friend and I, we used to have sleepovers and would sprawl out on her floor and watch this and breakfast club, we were best friends for about 12 years before she was shot and killed. So i watch this and think of her, and you are right, it hits different now, back then it was just an adventure.
Yeah, glad I got to experience a rather free childhood with great friends. Sad how it's so hard to have friends like that later on in life, and how it really isn't an adventure like it used to be. Fuck I really gotta try to cultivate more deep friendships with whom I can try to have adventures. Definitely gotta get more adventurous in general.
One thing to note: the movie takes place in Castle Rock, a town that Stephen King sets a lot of his Novels in. Novels such as Cujo, Needful Things, etc. Sorry, I'm a book nerd 😅. Such a great movie with even greater actors
I’m 51 years old. I saw this in the theater when I was a kid, with 3 friends. I remember laughing when Chris was crying about the stolen lunch money, because a snot shot out of his nose. I’ve watched it many times since then, and Ive cried at the end every time...Including now.
Funny I catch this reaction now: I drive a truck for a living, and just yesterday I picked up a load in Brownsville, Oregon (where the majority of this was filmed), and on the way to Reno, Nevada, I drove past the railroad bridge over the lake!
This movie, and the novella "The Body" it's taken from perfectly model three themes Stephen King includes whenever he does stories about kids ... especially kids in the '50s and '60s. He's got his good kids, some of whom are obviously "good," but others who may be regarded as "bad" or outcast, but we know on some level are basically good. Then he's got his bullies, who Stephen King hates with a passion that makes their portrayal deliciously evil and detailed. Finally, he's got the adults who are usually some combination of strict and neglectful ... which is sort of consistent with the Baby Boomer / hippie generation's view of their parents' generation as hypocritical and corrupt. It's a pattern King comes back to often, but this is one of the best examples.
I was 13 or 14 when this movie (the same ages as the actors & I'm the exact same age as Will Wheaton) and I guess the 80's were a different time because even though this movie was rated R kids my age still went to the theaters in droves without our parents to see this movie. Then again the 80's was the last decade when kids just left the house in the morning and the only rule was be back at least in front of the house when the streetlights came on so even though this was an adult (that would've been our parents age) recounting the summer of 1959 it was still relatable to preteen and young teenagers.
certainly one of the best movies ever, but my perspective has since changed on it. I watched a podcast with Wil Wheaton (Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum), who plays the main character Gordie, had a similarly abusive childhood as his character. he went into some pretty deep, heavy details. hearing him discuss the way his own parents treated him & then watching this film afterword certainly changed how I saw it. How difficult that must have been for him. I don't believe the tears he had at the end of the film when he was telling Chris that his dad hated him was acting. hearing what Wil was saying about his own real life, it seems like that was a genuine moment for Wil. that wasn't acting, that was authentic heartbreak. Still an incredible film, just a different vibe now. special shout out to River Phoenix's campfire breakdown scene as well. such emotionally mature performances from these young kids.
Also directed by Rob Reiner: This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally. . ., The American President, A Few Good Men, The Princess Bride, Misery, and The Bucket List. The mom in this was also the mom in Footloose and Gremlins. The dad was in Total Recall and Starship Troopers. The tall guy who threatened Lardass played The Swamp Thing in the film & TV series and a bad Hulk on TV.
I watched this for the first time myself the other day and what suprisingly really got me was finding out that Chris dies trying to help someone else 😭 I wasn’t expecting to cry tbh but that got me
Thanks for this one. You girls are great. I think this one really hits for guys because it is a good representation of what we, and life are like. Your childhood friends and the adventures had are probably the fondest. We we close. We busted ba--, um, chops. We grew apart. We've lost some. This one will always hit me in the feels. For another 80s movie with a young ensemble cast including the other Phoenix brother, Joaquin (Leif), I recommend "Space Camp" (1986). Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Tate Donovan, Kate Capshaw and Tom Skerritt star.
There is a coming of Age movie for girls that is similar to this movie called Now and Then that is very good. Stand by Me is based on the Novella, The Body.
This movie came out 2 years before I was born. I watched it for the first time when I was around 4. It was my favorite movie. I didn't grasp many of the themes in the movie then, but it has remained my favorite movie. I always love watching new folks discover it.
This is one of my all-time favorite classic movies. I first saw it maybe 15 years ago and I still quote it to this day. I had such a crush on Kiefer Sutherland too, lol. Was very fun to see you two watch it for the first time. If you're looking for another slightly older movie you may not have seen to check out sometime, I really recommend Secondhand Lions. Wonderful acting talent in that one, and it makes me laugh and cry every time I watch it ❤
Every other few weeks to a month to a few months I'll surf RUclips for Stand By Me reactions because it is hands down one of my favorite movies of all time couldn't be happier to see these two covering it
I've seen this movie so many times and just noticed that Gordon's son says "My dad's weird." answering the question he asked Chris while they were on the tracks. Another great movie with a very young John Cusack is Better Off Dead.
I was 12 when this movie came out, same as the boys in the movie. (Yes, I'm old lol.) It thought me to never, ever, walk on train tracks - if I didn't already know that - and it made me deathly afraid of leeches because of that particular one that feasted on the main character's nether region. o.O Luckily leeches aren't much of a thing here in Sweden, or I might have never gone outside again. xD
One thing that took me a while to recognize, was the fact Ace was gonna stab Chris in the neck or at least cut him there, and thats how he ends up dying later in life.
Dolores Claiborne is an an excellent Steven King adaptation with little recognition. Great but devastating story said to have been specifically written with Kathy Bates in mind.
Great reaction, I read the story about 35 years ago, it was a novella (short novel). Stephen King wrote many short stories and novellas that were great that were adapted to movies. Shawshank was a novella, Green Mile was a serial novel (each of 6 paperback books were released every month over 6 months), I remember having to wait each month for it to be released to read the next part, it was murder. One of the reasons both Shawshank and The Green Mile were so good was because of the director Frank Darabont. If that name sounds familiar it’s because Frank Darabont was responsible for the Walking Dead adaptation for TV. The Walking Dead was a comic book series that Frank Darabont was enthralled with, Frank and the comics creator Robert Kirkman shopped the Walking Dead around many networks before AMC committed to making the series. Funny fact, the guys brought the idea of the series to HBO, HBO turned it down because they thought it would be too gory for their network. A few years later HBO would start a new series based on a series of novels called Game Of Thrones, a very family friendly, non violent story, lol. The last movie that Frank Darabont directed of a King adaptation was The Mist, I suggest you react to it, it’s not anything like Shawshank or The Green Mile, it’s a definite, tried and true, Stephen King horror story, but it’s very good. Stay cool 😎 and… \m/ Stay Metal \m/
For years, I've had an interesting (at least I think so) theory about the ending of this film. Adult Gordie (Richard Dreyfus) is finishing the story, typing on an IBM PC. In those days hard drives were extremely uncommon, and prohibitively expensive, so almost everyone saved files to 5.25-inch floppy disks. Any unsaved work was lost if you shut the PC off. You'll notice, he finishes the story, smiles, and then turns off the PC without saving -- which means the document is gone. What I like to believe is happening in the scene is that Gordie was writing the story of what happened on that trip just for himself. He didn't save it, because he never intended to publish it or show it to anyone else. He mentions something similar earlier, when he says he kept the encounter with the deer just for himself, and never told anyone. I have zero idea if my interpretation of the final scene is true, but it sure does make sense to me.
I was thirteen when this came out and it's been a favourite ever since. Hilarious, heart-warming, and heart-breaking. Throw in an awesome cast and a really fun throwback soundtrack and you've got yourself a Classic.
Having been born in the 70’s, and growing up in a small mountain town, the comments on the distance they traveled brought a smile to my face. As a kid, I road my bike all the way to the next town over to hang out with friends. Riding a 20-something mile distance, while admittedly excessive, was very much a thing we did for those important arcade meetups.
The ending is kinder than what was in the book. Other than the narrator, all the kids died. Still, it was an excellent Stephen King story (though i think this might have been one of the books he penned ad Richard Backman
I've had friends who are girls really like love and really hate this movie, so IDK how well girls can relate to these characters. But to be fair, my childhood wasn't exactly like this. Dealing with tough life lessons is the important part.
yea...the boys play fighting & talking about each others mothers, trash talking is something that most boys can easily relate to. I don't know about the newer generation as much. Its funny that girls think that guys don't show sad emotions ....we do....just not in front of them.
A lot of girls by this age already have a ton of responsibilities and aren't really allowed to play like this anymore. It can be hard to relate to something that was taken from you early. And if they are younger, then they probably never got to play outside like this at all, even before they started being told they were too old and had to learn how to keep house and cook/etc. Even ones that didn't have chores, this was also the age you start learning that men see you different now and some of them are willing to act on it.
Girls may not be able to relate in certain areas. In some areas, girls can. Even during the reaction Stella says “I had this exact conversation growing up” when Gordie asks if he’s weird.
I’m very excited that this Saturday _Apollo 13,_ is coming up next, this film is a classic and I am hopeful that you and Hailey will get to react to _Forrest Gump,_ and _Saving Private Ryan,_ all classic films starring Tom Hanks along with reacting to _Schindler’s List, Pan’s Labyrinth, Silence of the Lambs, ET, Back to the Future, Pride & Predjudice, Little Women (2019), Hook, Labyrinth, The NeverEnding Story, Breakfast Club,_ and _Dead Poets Society._ In addition, hopefully you girl will resume doing your horror film reactions to the films you haven’t reacted along with reacting to some Animated movies.
That "small Oregon town" is Brownsville, Oregon. I go there for work every couple months and see most of those places where the movie was shot. I know the tree-house is still there and the locals kind of roll their eyes when you ask about the movie. The town has a festival based on the movie and most of those buildings you see in the street shots look generally the same to this day.
The "Lardass" story in this is King talking about his reactions from fans about his work - "What happens after the end?", "I liked your book except for the ending", etc.
When you're a child, your choice of friends are largely decided by whoever lives closest to you, around your age. That's really down to your parents choices in where they live, and where they send you to school. As you go through your teenage years into adulthood, you gradually find yourself, and find your own path in life. As such, you connect with people from all over the place, with common interest to you. With that, as the years go by, your connections with childhood friends / enemies and acquaintances dissolves into history over time.
14:24 this is the best part of the movie for me. those kids where comped over other footage. there is a footage of train passing by. then the kids run on the empty track without train behind. its cleverly done. today if you roto someone and add it to footage it would take less than 20-30 min. back then someone had to take each reel frame cut out the kids around, stick it to trains reel one by one and then take one more over exposed reel of that then take the over exposed reel frame, tone down the exposure and again take the picture. so that it's rarely able to see the cutout around kids. and this had to be done for all frames. it was a solid 40-45 seconds clip so over 1000 frames would need to be done same using same method.
Interestingly enough, Shawshank Redemption was a novella included in the same King collection as this story originally titled The Body. The collection was called Different Seasons!
When I was a child back in the early 70s a movie that was often shown on TV on lazy Sunday mornings was To Kill Mocking Bird. It is a film similar to this in that it covers some very adult themes but is told from the eyes of children and like this movie, the friendships are very real and therefore the movie was quite captivating to young 6 year old me even if I didnt understand what the courtroom drama was about.
This movie was my jam as a 90s kid. My Dad (RIP) had the soundtrack on CD and we spent a day recording my favorite songs (omitted maybe 4 songs out of the 20ish that were on it) onto a cassette tape, along with a bunch of Pink Floyd. I rocked that tape for most of the 90s in my bedroom. WHENEVER YOU'RE IN TROUBLE WON'T YOU STAND, BY ME, WHOAAAH STAND, BY ME, WHOA STAND NOW, WON'T U STAND, STAND BY ME........ Burned into my soul. Thanks Dad
My only beef with this highly accurate screenplay from King's story was relocating from Maine, famous for their blueberry pies btw, to Washington for some unknown reason. The movie even looked like Maine. One of my favorite things about living in Maine was connecting places in his books to their actual locations.
When SK was promoting this film, he showed one of his leech scars on his arm. He refused to say where he had any other leech scars. I think the saddest part is that the three boys playing characters with bad home lives were cast because they were close to their characters. Corey Feldman says this character is closer to himself in real life than any other character he's played.
Rita Hayworth and the shawshank redemption and the body were both long short stories from the same book of just 4 Stephen king stories The sandlot reminds me alot of this movie . the treehouse , the dog , a group of young kids , the narration and the old school soundtrack
"The Body" is a novella included in Different Seasons, a King book with 4 novellas. One of the other novellas is Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which obviously became The Shawshank Redemption. Another of the novellas was Apt Pupil, which was made into a movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro, but it was not as successful as Shawshank or SBM. The fourth novella - The Breathing Method - is likely unfilmable, based on its content.
I highly recommend The Girls should react to _The Goonies_ directed by Richard Donner which also featured Corey Feldman along with Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, and Ke Huy Quan. In addition hopefully they react to some Christmas movies such as Home Alone 1-2, Elf and Gremlins.
whenever i watch a reaction to a river phoenix film, it hits me all over again that we lost him much too soon. cannot even imagine what level his career would be at right now had he kept on a better path. hope you’re resting in peace, sir.
i don't think this movie would've have had the impact it did if it weren't for those talented kids. kudos to rob reiner for directing them well and playing up their strengths. absolute classic, still one of my faves, and awesome soundtrack.
I'm 41 grew up on this movie. Seen it 100 times over the past 30 years. Love more now as an adult of course. My friends brother died breaking up a fight got stabbed. It's sad and it does happen. This is definitely one of my favorites. Great reaction.
I never thought there a reaction about this movie,this movie is one of my favourite during my childhood era,my story quite same as this,it just our group little bit bigger around 14-18 person,went do same thing like that,suck by leeches,swallowing bugs,mosquito bite are normal among us,climbing trees,hiking,fishing,many more,eventhough we all broke we happy we share that time,what i remember most during lunch everbody brings a plate of food from their house,some walking some riding bicycle,sharing eating together under shady tree,remembering those memory made me cry nowadays not just it hard to find those day todays but thinking there also someone we know who is no longer around us..that why this movie is so close to me..
It's nice to see Stephen King get his due as a master of characterization and the filmmakers keeping that in the movies for the most part. I remember as a kid, King was regarded as the supernatural horror guy and that the more grounded stuff was sidelined. It's telling that the source novellas, "The Body", and "Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption" were collected in the same book titled Different Seasons as they didn't fit his prevailing work at the time. "Apt Pupil" was also made into a movie but it doesn't hold up to the other two. Thanks for your reactions! Subscribed and liked!
@6:45 - I think the average walking speed of a healthy human is around 2.5 mph, on the low end. That would get you there in about 8 hours of walking. One way, of course.
Really look forward to you getting to Misery in your Stephen King movies to see your reaction to the acting tour de force from Kathy Bates. If you want to see how great Richard Dreyfus (the writer here) can be you could add Close Encounters of the Third Kind to your Sci-Fi list. Thanks again ladies.
I saw this n 1986 when i was a young kid, this movie made me wonder what i'd be getting up to with my friends when i was 12? I watched it with my Dad, and he said 'This movie takes me back to my childhood. Now i'm grown up i can see the movie from another perspective, this now reminds me of me watching this with my Dad. A cherished memory indeed. It's one of those movies that can be shared by Father and Son, like a passing of torch from one generation to the next. Cheers.
I agree that although it has kids as the main characters, you have to be an older to get the full value of this story. Some elements of the story underline it. For instance, Gordie learning the difference between myth and reality with the junkyard dog. A kid watching this movie would not likely understand what Gordie meant. When I was a kid that age, there was a dog that lived on the other side of the block. He was the terror of the neighborhood. By the time I was in high school, i had become friends with the guy who lived there with his parents. So I got to see the dog up close and pet him. I remember thinking "THIS is the dog we were all afraid of?" when I first pet him. The collection this story comes from, Different Seasons, has three other really good stories. One of them is Shawshank. The other two are good in more disturbing ways. One or them, Apt Pupil, was made into a movie. The last story, The Breathing Method, was never adapted into a movie. That's too bad because it's my favorite story out of that collection.
I think this is the type of movie that both a young man and an older man can watch and appreciate simultaneously. Especially a young man from the 80's and an older man from the time depicted in the movie. But this is really another case of a timeless story making its way onto the silver screen.
I'm still friends with 2 guys I've known since Kindergarten. Small town. Small School. Adult friends come and go but the 3 of use built a real bond growing up together.
That's awesome. Unfortunately I've mostly fallen out with most of my old friends. Sometimes we might get together etc, but mostly we don't talk much anymore.
This was one of the movies that was in the lineup that my brothers and I watched together back in the heyday of the VHS rental era. Y’all were right, at the age of the kids in the movie, friendships were everything.
Great review! Stephen King has always been able to write kids, especially how they deal with the adults in their lives. "Hearts in Atlantis" is another excellent example.
I LOOOVED that you ladies reacted to "Stand By Me".... timeless 80s classic.............. another great one w/ the same vibe as this is ( The 90s tween/teen sleepover CLASSIC "Now & Then" ) has basically almost the same storyline... starts in 90s and looks back to the early 70s but there's no actual dead body in it. Still totally worth a watch in my opinion..... PLUS it's not really a movie I see reactors reacting too?? so you ladies might be the first??
yeah as you mentioned already as well this movie at least from what I got was kinda about the innocence of friendship and being on that crossroad where you leave that innocence behind when entering adult hood. And for me there even is some truth to that last sentence because today friendships are so complicated and most of the times difficult to manage. Back in the day you only had to go around your neighborhood, ring the doorbell (or like one of my friends stand in front of my parent's bedroom window at 8am and scream for me to come out and play) and ask If your friends can come play. Usually there was always someone to play with and then you'd experience adventure after adventure day in and day out. Now at 23 meeting my friends always involves tight schedules and planning sometimes months ahead, then there's no „experiencing adventures" anymore because it's not seen as appropriate for our age to do unresponsible things and you'll get called childish. As kids you could just talk about nothing all day, get your mind off of things etc, now you talk about jobs, money, what your plan for the future is, moving in with your partner, relationship problems, university, work, grades and stuff like that. I find myself being happy and feeling fulfilled whenever we don't talk about these things and instead talk about fun things like movies, tell stories that happened to us and just random stuff.
Thanks for this one, ladies. One of my favorite movies and I practically know the lines by heart. We passed around the book in elementary school and watched the movie 100 times. Lol I had a huge crush on River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton. ❤❤❤❤ 👏👏👏
One subtle thing: the kids are 12 when the movie takes place in 1959, so they were born in 1946, at the end of WW2. There's an unspoken chance that the dads all had PTSD (it's explicit with the one dad who stormed Normandy), and the moms went through the Depression and wartime shortages/rationing, and that's why the adults suck.
My family was on the other end of this: my uncle was born just before the war and my mom was born just after the war (1946). In between, they were locked up in an internment camp (Manzanar). Well, as it turns out, not everyone mentally handles losing all your things and your freedom for the "crime" of being Japanese American and my maternal grandfather had to get some serious treatment, including electroconvulsive therapy. He wasn't exactly a happy, loving father after those experiences.
@@TheYakusokuHave you visited Manzanar? It’s a stark piece of land on rte 395 in California. I’ve visited annually since 2020. The work done on capturing facts and artifacts is really good and the exhibits are thoughtful and heartbreaking.
"and that's why the adults suck"
That's a heck of a way to put it.
@@Divamarja_CA I have not been there myself. I just know about it from second/third hand stories.
@tigerburn81 They do, though.
To this day, "I've never had friends like the ones I had when I was 12" still makes me cry my eyes out
Amen brother same for me
It's the next bit - "Jesus, does anyone" that hits me hardest.
I repeated that line when I spoke at my childhood best friends funeral. 😢
@@davejennings9460 I don't even know you or your friends, but allow me to cry along with you 🫂
@@DavidGowers Right?! Cuz you're just thinking inside "Nope, no one does"
These kids were amazing actors, and this movie never fails to make an impression. RIP River Phoenix. Oh and of course, that train bridge scene is intense and iconic.
dude i swear we watch all the same reactors. i see your comments on every vid
His brother Juaquin turned out to also be brilliant.
I just drove past that train bridge yesterday: even took a pic of it.
"I never had friends later on like the ones I did when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?" A very astute observation. Sadly, many of our childhood friends can drift away over time, possibly due to changing personalities, or differing interests.
And even when you can manage to keep those friendships alive and intact your whole life, the friendships themselves change due to growing up.
@@DavidGowers sure. I still am in touch with several of my teen and childhood friends, but you`re right, is not the same. Everybody has a very different ways to see life.
All of the child actors were fantastic in this movie, especially River Phoenix as Chris. The part where he confesses to Gordy about the milk money always breaks my heart. Who knows what he could have accomplished had he not died so tragically young?
I just learned recently that he was Joaquin’s brother. I don’t know if River would’ve acted into adulthood but it would’ve been cool to see since most child actors don’t act anymore once they grow up
Yes. When he says “I never thought a TEACHER”, it’s like a physical pain in my heart. 😭
@@nsasupporter7557 I think he would have. He was still acting in his early 20s and he had such a gift.
@@nsasupporter7557 River Phoenix was already a big name in Hollywood; he was a world class actor in the adult roles he had done by this point for example My Own Private Idaho; Dogfight; Sneakers. He was acting right up until he died at 23.
@@philipem1000 I don’t even know of any other movies that he did beside Stand By Me
The symbolism of the train and the boys walking down the tracks to see a dead body at the end is so simple and so powerful. You can't stop the march of time.
That scene where Chris tells Gordie what really happened with the milk money, it just breaks my heart because River died so young and you wonder whether or not he was acting. Another scene where he makes me feel like this is in one of his final films 'My Own Private Idaho', he sits with Keanu Reeves at a campfire and he tells him that he has feelings for him and he hugs him. The dialogue was written by River himself in that scene and he displays such sheer vulnerability and tenderness. All i can think of is how he must've been is such emotional strife with being just a kid in messed up, crazy Hollywood. I just hope Keanu or Wil Wheaton gave him some comfort and happiness in that time :'(
As I watch young reactors watch these older films, I am always struck by how much freedom we had as kids in the 60s. My mother said goodbye to us in the morning, and were on our own till dinnertime. As I watch I am a little surprised to remember that the parents let their kids explore life on their own, but grateful that they did.
My parents were that way in the 80s. My dad would flat out tell me to go outside and do something instead of sitting around the house and I would just go find my friends and come home for dinner.
We were like that into the 80's and even the 90's. It was a great way to grow up, I will cherish it and I'm thankful to have Boomer parents who made us feel we could go anywhere and do anything. Absolutely wonderful times.
I was born 2000 and grew up in Germany. It was still the same for me luckily. Outside playing all day and had to be home when the street lights went on
My generation was free to roam too. I remember playing on the railroad tracks beside the Ohio river there was a gang of us . Two of the boys jumped into the water …between the tie off dock and a coal barge . There was about two feet of space the barge slowly moved ..we didn’t even notice it moving just noticed the two feet of space seemed to be a foot of space . Those boys almost drowned that day . We were sled riding between some homes then decided the snow is deep enough let’s slide ride down the terrace in front of the house and drop off the ten foot high retention wall into the snow below that will for be a soft landing . My sister broke her nose . I at the age of seven walking by my self to a friends house about seven blocks away found a pile of magazines neatly stacked behind a nice mailbox ,I saw them when I started to cut through this strangers yard. They were hard core porn magazines. I had no idea what I was looking at . I squatted besides those magazines thumbing through trying to figure out what I was looking at. We spent most days at the public pool in the summer. We walked it was a good four miles. No sidewalk no guardrails just a line of us walking on a busy twisty rd . Sometimes on The way home after baking in the sun and playing and being I’m sure dehydrated the walk back was hard. At times a friends parent would drive by and offer us all a ride sometimes we got in the car with strangers. Five kids between 6 to12 . one day I ended up a new friends house it was a fun house the parents never had rules and the mattresses were on the floor we would play wrestle and stack them up and see how far we could jump. There was no furniture in the house . I knew the house was not normal but it wasn’t until I saw my friends uncle peeing in the corner of the room against the wall. I told my older sibling where I was and what I saw and my 11 year old sibling looked horrified I was even in that house. Didn’t I know not to go in that house?! Everybody knows that house was a bad house. People glamorize free roaming kids back in the day are delusional dangerous jagweeds . My parents were good parents most of their friends and family members let their kids just go like they did us. It was my older siblings whispering in my parents ears about what we should and shouldn’t be allowed to do that put a end to our free wheeling ways. By the time I was ten it was over. They needed to know where I was going and with who and what t8me to be back. My siblings saved me from many dangerous situations and from making many stupid mistakes. So mark Murphy you are a silly silly person.
Those days are long gone
Explanation for the castor oil and egg. Castor oil is an old remedy for an upset stomach, it will make you throw up. Conversely, swallowing a raw egg will prevent you from throwing up. Since Davy drank an entire bottle of castor oil, the egg could only do so much for so long, especially since he was eating a bunch of sugary pies (they looked like blueberry pies, too, and berries are quite acidic, so that could've also broken down the egg's protein). He essentially created a time bomb in his guts.
I thought it was mostly used as a laxative because if a child was misbehaving it was thought they might be out of sorts due to constipation.
@@janleonard3101 Small amounts of castor oil can ease constipation, yeah. But large amounts can mess you up.
My grandma told me her mother made everyone take castor oil once a week. She said it "cleaned you out."
@@michaelkrull3331 Older generations were much more concerned with bowels for some reason. It seems like a lot of health issues were ascribed to being constipated, which I guess was a belief from before modern medicine.
This is from my childhood, i can recite lines when cued. But, its goid to see the girls back.
This is not only one of the best SK adaptations, but it’s also one of the best coming of age films ever. R.I.P. River Phoenix
i just realized they foreshadowed chris's eventual death twice. the first one on the newspaper and the second one when ace was about to use the knife on him
I saw this in the theater when I was 11. Only a year younger then the main characters. So it kind of felt like I was one of them. I cried a bit.
It would have been nice to have such close friends at that age to literally stand by me as I got bullied in school that year. Fortunately I quickly learned to stand up for myself and others and have never put up with bullies ever since.
bless you
One of the most powerful, impactful, coming of age movies ever made IMO. And that ending, where the Narrator talks about how Chris dies, hits so much harder because the movie does such a good job of drawing you into the story it's telling that you forget you read that headline about Chris at the start. Speaking of which, that part always gets the tears flowing for me. Not just because of River having died 7 years after this came out, but because River did such a great job of bringing Chris to life and making him feel so real, making us feel like he really was just a kid with a strong moral centre who just wanted to help but, was always looked down on and thought badly of just because of his family. Chris was the kind of guy who, had he lived a full life, could have changed the world, even just the world around him directly, which would have sent ripples of change outwards...and what little I know of River's life, he was much the same kind of person despite his addictions.
At the end when Narrator Gordie starts speaking about Chris, we see his figure fade out of frame right as we're told how he died. It's a visually very impactful way to show how a person's death is final, and definitive.
Also, very Stephen King-like in a way, so it really fits the movie. Rob Reiner is such a tremendously gifted director.
Wil Wheaten mentioned recently how the characters storyline paralleled the actors. In the story, the boys all grow into certain roles, and the same is said for the actors in the movie. The most eerie being the character and actor of River Phoenix. He died too young, as does his character in this movie. xo
John Cusack was 18/19 years old when he shot this movie!
I was 13 when this was released and grew up in rural Oregon so this film is extremely special to me. this and the goonies were my childhood films. great job.
it says a lot that river phoenix could still stand out when surrounded by good actors giving great performances of their own. rest in peace.
Saw someone point out on another reaction that all these actors sort of mirrored their characters in adulthood: Jerry O'Connell is a family man, Corey Feldman has uh, struggled to adjust, Will Wheaton is a writer who has cut contact with his parents, and River Phoenix died tragically early.
13:00 I walked across a train bridge like this several times when I was young. The tracks are quite wide and the ties are pretty close together so you'd be hard-pressed to fall. Also, it was after trains stopped running in my neck of the woods so the danger was significantly diminished.
28:44 This moment is especially tragic since River Phoenix died so young. It gets me every time. 😢
I was badly bullied as a kid, so Chris saying that he wanted to go somewhere nobody knew him resonated with me a lot at the time (even if it was for a slightly different reason).
This movie has a special place for me. My best friend and I, we used to have sleepovers and would sprawl out on her floor and watch this and breakfast club, we were best friends for about 12 years before she was shot and killed. So i watch this and think of her, and you are right, it hits different now, back then it was just an adventure.
Yeah, glad I got to experience a rather free childhood with great friends. Sad how it's so hard to have friends like that later on in life, and how it really isn't an adventure like it used to be.
Fuck I really gotta try to cultivate more deep friendships with whom I can try to have adventures. Definitely gotta get more adventurous in general.
One thing to note: the movie takes place in Castle Rock, a town that Stephen King sets a lot of his Novels in. Novels such as Cujo, Needful Things, etc. Sorry, I'm a book nerd 😅. Such a great movie with even greater actors
Now that White Noise Reacts will be ending, I hope you both create your own channel and continue doing reactions :)
I’m 51 years old. I saw this in the theater when I was a kid, with 3 friends. I remember laughing when Chris was crying about the stolen lunch money, because a snot shot out of his nose. I’ve watched it many times since then, and Ive cried at the end every time...Including now.
It's good to see Phoenix again
Funny I catch this reaction now: I drive a truck for a living, and just yesterday I picked up a load in Brownsville, Oregon (where the majority of this was filmed), and on the way to Reno, Nevada, I drove past the railroad bridge over the lake!
This hit theaters less than a week before I turned 11. Just the perfect movie for a boy that age. It was all my friends and I talked about for weeks.
This movie, and the novella "The Body" it's taken from perfectly model three themes Stephen King includes whenever he does stories about kids ... especially kids in the '50s and '60s. He's got his good kids, some of whom are obviously "good," but others who may be regarded as "bad" or outcast, but we know on some level are basically good. Then he's got his bullies, who Stephen King hates with a passion that makes their portrayal deliciously evil and detailed. Finally, he's got the adults who are usually some combination of strict and neglectful ... which is sort of consistent with the Baby Boomer / hippie generation's view of their parents' generation as hypocritical and corrupt. It's a pattern King comes back to often, but this is one of the best examples.
facts but it's a great formula
@@mrsfahrenheit No argument there. I love it every time.
I was 13 or 14 when this movie (the same ages as the actors & I'm the exact same age as Will Wheaton) and I guess the 80's were a different time because even though this movie was rated R kids my age still went to the theaters in droves without our parents to see this movie. Then again the 80's was the last decade when kids just left the house in the morning and the only rule was be back at least in front of the house when the streetlights came on so even though this was an adult (that would've been our parents age) recounting the summer of 1959 it was still relatable to preteen and young teenagers.
certainly one of the best movies ever, but my perspective has since changed on it. I watched a podcast with Wil Wheaton (Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum), who plays the main character Gordie, had a similarly abusive childhood as his character. he went into some pretty deep, heavy details. hearing him discuss the way his own parents treated him & then watching this film afterword certainly changed how I saw it. How difficult that must have been for him. I don't believe the tears he had at the end of the film when he was telling Chris that his dad hated him was acting. hearing what Wil was saying about his own real life, it seems like that was a genuine moment for Wil. that wasn't acting, that was authentic heartbreak.
Still an incredible film, just a different vibe now.
special shout out to River Phoenix's campfire breakdown scene as well. such emotionally mature performances from these young kids.
I loved y’alls reaction, you’re both so mature and intelligent. Thank you for respecting the film and being so courteous and thoughtful
When verifying that a gun is NOT loaded, always check to see that the chamber is empty as well.
And don't look down the barrel of the gun to see if there's a bullet in the chamber.
@@oliverbrownlow5615 Like Luke looking into the business of Anakin's old lightsaber when Obi-Wan gifted it to him. (Episode 4)
Also directed by Rob Reiner: This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally. . ., The American President, A Few Good Men, The Princess Bride, Misery, and The Bucket List.
The mom in this was also the mom in Footloose and Gremlins. The dad was in Total Recall and Starship Troopers.
The tall guy who threatened Lardass played The Swamp Thing in the film & TV series and a bad Hulk on TV.
I watched this for the first time myself the other day and what suprisingly really got me was finding out that Chris dies trying to help someone else 😭 I wasn’t expecting to cry tbh but that got me
Thanks for this one. You girls are great. I think this one really hits for guys because it is a good representation of what we, and life are like. Your childhood friends and the adventures had are probably the fondest. We we close. We busted ba--, um, chops. We grew apart. We've lost some. This one will always hit me in the feels. For another 80s movie with a young ensemble cast including the other Phoenix brother, Joaquin (Leif), I recommend "Space Camp" (1986). Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Tate Donovan, Kate Capshaw and Tom Skerritt star.
The Explorers!
Vern grew up to marry Rebecca Romijn. Sincerely.
There is a coming of Age movie for girls that is similar to this movie called Now and Then that is very good. Stand by Me is based on the Novella, The Body.
This movie came out 2 years before I was born. I watched it for the first time when I was around 4. It was my favorite movie. I didn't grasp many of the themes in the movie then, but it has remained my favorite movie. I always love watching new folks discover it.
This is one of my all-time favorite classic movies. I first saw it maybe 15 years ago and I still quote it to this day. I had such a crush on Kiefer Sutherland too, lol. Was very fun to see you two watch it for the first time.
If you're looking for another slightly older movie you may not have seen to check out sometime, I really recommend Secondhand Lions. Wonderful acting talent in that one, and it makes me laugh and cry every time I watch it ❤
Every other few weeks to a month to a few months I'll surf RUclips for Stand By Me reactions because it is hands down one of my favorite movies of all time couldn't be happier to see these two covering it
I've seen this movie so many times and just noticed that Gordon's son says "My dad's weird." answering the question he asked Chris while they were on the tracks. Another great movie with a very young John Cusack is Better Off Dead.
I was 12 when this movie came out, same as the boys in the movie. (Yes, I'm old lol.) It thought me to never, ever, walk on train tracks - if I didn't already know that - and it made me deathly afraid of leeches because of that particular one that feasted on the main character's nether region. o.O Luckily leeches aren't much of a thing here in Sweden, or I might have never gone outside again. xD
the song Stand By Me was on the Billboard top ten in two different non consecutive decades
One thing that took me a while to recognize, was the fact Ace was gonna stab Chris in the neck or at least cut him there, and thats how he ends up dying later in life.
Dolores Claiborne is an an excellent Steven King adaptation with little recognition. Great but devastating story said to have been specifically written with Kathy Bates in mind.
Great reaction, I read the story about 35 years ago, it was a novella (short novel). Stephen King wrote many short stories and novellas that were great that were adapted to movies. Shawshank was a novella, Green Mile was a serial novel (each of 6 paperback books were released every month over 6 months), I remember having to wait each month for it to be released to read the next part, it was murder. One of the reasons both Shawshank and The Green Mile were so good was because of the director Frank Darabont. If that name sounds familiar it’s because Frank Darabont was responsible for the Walking Dead adaptation for TV. The Walking Dead was a comic book series that Frank Darabont was enthralled with, Frank and the comics creator Robert Kirkman shopped the Walking Dead around many networks before AMC committed to making the series. Funny fact, the guys brought the idea of the series to HBO, HBO turned it down because they thought it would be too gory for their network. A few years later HBO would start a new series based on a series of novels called Game Of Thrones, a very family friendly, non violent story, lol.
The last movie that Frank Darabont directed of a King adaptation was The Mist, I suggest you react to it, it’s not anything like Shawshank or The Green Mile, it’s a definite, tried and true, Stephen King horror story, but it’s very good.
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For years, I've had an interesting (at least I think so) theory about the ending of this film. Adult Gordie (Richard Dreyfus) is finishing the story, typing on an IBM PC. In those days hard drives were extremely uncommon, and prohibitively expensive, so almost everyone saved files to 5.25-inch floppy disks. Any unsaved work was lost if you shut the PC off. You'll notice, he finishes the story, smiles, and then turns off the PC without saving -- which means the document is gone. What I like to believe is happening in the scene is that Gordie was writing the story of what happened on that trip just for himself. He didn't save it, because he never intended to publish it or show it to anyone else. He mentions something similar earlier, when he says he kept the encounter with the deer just for himself, and never told anyone. I have zero idea if my interpretation of the final scene is true, but it sure does make sense to me.
Not a bad theory.
I was thirteen when this came out and it's been a favourite ever since. Hilarious, heart-warming, and heart-breaking. Throw in an awesome cast and a really fun throwback soundtrack and you've got yourself a Classic.
Having been born in the 70’s, and growing up in a small mountain town, the comments on the distance they traveled brought a smile to my face. As a kid, I road my bike all the way to the next town over to hang out with friends. Riding a 20-something mile distance, while admittedly excessive, was very much a thing we did for those important arcade meetups.
Riding a bike 20 miles is easier than walking 20 miles...
The ending is kinder than what was in the book. Other than the narrator, all the kids died. Still, it was an excellent Stephen King story (though i think this might have been one of the books he penned ad Richard Backman
This is one of my favourite movies of all time personally hits me with nostalgia as a kid watching this
I've had friends who are girls really like love and really hate this movie, so IDK how well girls can relate to these characters. But to be fair, my childhood wasn't exactly like this. Dealing with tough life lessons is the important part.
yea...the boys play fighting & talking about each others mothers, trash talking is something that most boys can easily relate to. I don't know about the newer generation as much. Its funny that girls think that guys don't show sad emotions ....we do....just not in front of them.
A lot of girls by this age already have a ton of responsibilities and aren't really allowed to play like this anymore. It can be hard to relate to something that was taken from you early. And if they are younger, then they probably never got to play outside like this at all, even before they started being told they were too old and had to learn how to keep house and cook/etc. Even ones that didn't have chores, this was also the age you start learning that men see you different now and some of them are willing to act on it.
Girls may not be able to relate in certain areas. In some areas, girls can. Even during the reaction Stella says “I had this exact conversation growing up” when Gordie asks if he’s weird.
@@lydiaking322 Definitely true. Age is a factor also. As well as blend/makeup and wealth of the family or lack thereof.
I’m very excited that this Saturday _Apollo 13,_ is coming up next, this film is a classic and I am hopeful that you and Hailey will get to react to _Forrest Gump,_ and _Saving Private Ryan,_ all classic films starring Tom Hanks along with reacting to _Schindler’s List, Pan’s Labyrinth, Silence of the Lambs, ET, Back to the Future, Pride & Predjudice, Little Women (2019), Hook, Labyrinth, The NeverEnding Story, Breakfast Club,_ and _Dead Poets Society._
In addition, hopefully you girl will resume doing your horror film reactions to the films you haven’t reacted along with reacting to some Animated movies.
That "small Oregon town" is Brownsville, Oregon. I go there for work every couple months and see most of those places where the movie was shot. I know the tree-house is still there and the locals kind of roll their eyes when you ask about the movie. The town has a festival based on the movie and most of those buildings you see in the street shots look generally the same to this day.
Great reaction. Thanks!
The "Lardass" story in this is King talking about his reactions from fans about his work - "What happens after the end?", "I liked your book except for the ending", etc.
When you're a child, your choice of friends are largely decided by whoever lives closest to you, around your age. That's really down to your parents choices in where they live, and where they send you to school. As you go through your teenage years into adulthood, you gradually find yourself, and find your own path in life. As such, you connect with people from all over the place, with common interest to you. With that, as the years go by, your connections with childhood friends / enemies and acquaintances dissolves into history over time.
14:24 this is the best part of the movie for me. those kids where comped over other footage.
there is a footage of train passing by. then the kids run on the empty track without train behind. its cleverly done.
today if you roto someone and add it to footage it would take less than 20-30 min.
back then someone had to take each reel frame cut out the kids around, stick it to trains reel one by one and then take one more over exposed reel of that then take the over exposed reel frame, tone down the exposure and again take the picture. so that it's rarely able to see the cutout around kids.
and this had to be done for all frames. it was a solid 40-45 seconds clip so over 1000 frames would need to be done same using same method.
Interestingly enough, Shawshank Redemption was a novella included in the same King collection as this story originally titled The Body. The collection was called Different Seasons!
When I was a child back in the early 70s a movie that was often shown on TV on lazy Sunday mornings was To Kill Mocking Bird. It is a film similar to this in that it covers some very adult themes but is told from the eyes of children and like this movie, the friendships are very real and therefore the movie was quite captivating to young 6 year old me even if I didnt understand what the courtroom drama was about.
Beautiful movie. One of my all time faves. RIP River.
This movie was my jam as a 90s kid. My Dad (RIP) had the soundtrack on CD and we spent a day recording my favorite songs (omitted maybe 4 songs out of the 20ish that were on it) onto a cassette tape, along with a bunch of Pink Floyd. I rocked that tape for most of the 90s in my bedroom. WHENEVER YOU'RE IN TROUBLE WON'T YOU STAND, BY ME, WHOAAAH STAND, BY ME, WHOA STAND NOW, WON'T U STAND, STAND BY ME........ Burned into my soul. Thanks Dad
My only beef with this highly accurate screenplay from King's story was relocating from Maine, famous for their blueberry pies btw, to Washington for some unknown reason. The movie even looked like Maine. One of my favorite things about living in Maine was connecting places in his books to their actual locations.
I grew up in the 60's and we did these kinds of long journeys. It was just a different kind of time. We'd get on our bikes and ride for miles.
When SK was promoting this film, he showed one of his leech scars on his arm. He refused to say where he had any other leech scars. I think the saddest part is that the three boys playing characters with bad home lives were cast because they were close to their characters. Corey Feldman says this character is closer to himself in real life than any other character he's played.
The thing about bullies in Stephen Kings stories is that are always cranked up to 11.
Rita Hayworth and the shawshank redemption and the body were both long short stories from the same book of just 4 Stephen king stories
The sandlot reminds me alot of this movie . the treehouse , the dog , a group of young kids , the narration and the old school soundtrack
"The Body" is a novella included in Different Seasons, a King book with 4 novellas. One of the other novellas is Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which obviously became The Shawshank Redemption.
Another of the novellas was Apt Pupil, which was made into a movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro, but it was not as successful as Shawshank or SBM.
The fourth novella - The Breathing Method - is likely unfilmable, based on its content.
The young actors are phenomenal
Thank you for reacting to this movie! It was a masterpiece. I've requested a lot of reactors about this but no one did.
Another enjoyable reaction from two of my favorite humans. Love the blue jumper Hayley and Stella looking stylish as ever.
I highly recommend The Girls should react to _The Goonies_ directed by Richard Donner which also featured Corey Feldman along with Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, and Ke Huy Quan.
In addition hopefully they react to some Christmas movies such as Home Alone 1-2, Elf and Gremlins.
whenever i watch a reaction to a river phoenix film, it hits me all over again that we lost him much too soon. cannot even imagine what level his career would be at right now had he kept on a better path. hope you’re resting in peace, sir.
i don't think this movie would've have had the impact it did if it weren't for those talented kids. kudos to rob reiner for directing them well and playing up their strengths. absolute classic, still one of my faves, and awesome soundtrack.
I'll take it further, almost no modern movies have genuine friendships like these older films had.
I'm 41 grew up on this movie. Seen it 100 times over the past 30 years. Love more now as an adult of course. My friends brother died breaking up a fight got stabbed. It's sad and it does happen. This is definitely one of my favorites. Great reaction.
I never thought there a reaction about this movie,this movie is one of my favourite during my childhood era,my story quite same as this,it just our group little bit bigger around 14-18 person,went do same thing like that,suck by leeches,swallowing bugs,mosquito bite are normal among us,climbing trees,hiking,fishing,many more,eventhough we all broke we happy we share that time,what i remember most during lunch everbody brings a plate of food from their house,some walking some riding bicycle,sharing eating together under shady tree,remembering those memory made me cry nowadays not just it hard to find those day todays but thinking there also someone we know who is no longer around us..that why this movie is so close to me..
It's nice to see Stephen King get his due as a master of characterization and the filmmakers keeping that in the movies for the most part. I remember as a kid, King was regarded as the supernatural horror guy and that the more grounded stuff was sidelined. It's telling that the source novellas, "The Body", and "Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption" were collected in the same book titled Different Seasons as they didn't fit his prevailing work at the time. "Apt Pupil" was also made into a movie but it doesn't hold up to the other two. Thanks for your reactions! Subscribed and liked!
It's always interesting watching grown women try to understand the culture of young boys. All their behavior made perfect sense to me.😂
A short story by Stephen King called " The Body ".
I'm 42 now, this was my favorite movie on the late 80s. I watched this and Robocop all the time. They came out in the same year.
@6:45 - I think the average walking speed of a healthy human is around 2.5 mph, on the low end. That would get you there in about 8 hours of walking. One way, of course.
Really look forward to you getting to Misery in your Stephen King movies to see your reaction to the acting tour de force from Kathy Bates.
If you want to see how great Richard Dreyfus (the writer here) can be you could add Close Encounters of the Third Kind to your Sci-Fi list.
Thanks again ladies.
I saw this n 1986 when i was a young kid, this movie made me wonder what i'd be getting up to with my friends when i was 12?
I watched it with my Dad, and he said 'This movie takes me back to my childhood.
Now i'm grown up i can see the movie from another perspective, this now reminds me of me watching this with my Dad.
A cherished memory indeed.
It's one of those movies that can be shared by Father and Son, like a passing of torch from one generation to the next.
Cheers.
My father showed me this movie when I was in my mid-teens and I still remember every scene. The only time I had seen him cry.
I agree that although it has kids as the main characters, you have to be an older to get the full value of this story. Some elements of the story underline it. For instance, Gordie learning the difference between myth and reality with the junkyard dog. A kid watching this movie would not likely understand what Gordie meant. When I was a kid that age, there was a dog that lived on the other side of the block. He was the terror of the neighborhood. By the time I was in high school, i had become friends with the guy who lived there with his parents. So I got to see the dog up close and pet him. I remember thinking "THIS is the dog we were all afraid of?" when I first pet him. The collection this story comes from, Different Seasons, has three other really good stories. One of them is Shawshank. The other two are good in more disturbing ways. One or them, Apt Pupil, was made into a movie. The last story, The Breathing Method, was never adapted into a movie. That's too bad because it's my favorite story out of that collection.
17:43 "HE WASN'T EVEN EATING PIE!!!"
😂 It's a Barf-o-rama my friend!
I think this is the type of movie that both a young man and an older man can watch and appreciate simultaneously. Especially a young man from the 80's and an older man from the time depicted in the movie. But this is really another case of a timeless story making its way onto the silver screen.
Great movie
I'm still friends with 2 guys I've known since Kindergarten. Small town. Small School. Adult friends come and go but the 3 of use built a real bond growing up together.
That's awesome. Unfortunately I've mostly fallen out with most of my old friends. Sometimes we might get together etc, but mostly we don't talk much anymore.
I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out in 86. It was a very moving experience.
This was one of the movies that was in the lineup that my brothers and I watched together back in the heyday of the VHS rental era. Y’all were right, at the age of the kids in the movie, friendships were everything.
Every once in a while, I find myself quoting this movie "... sincerely!"
Great review!
Stephen King has always been able to write kids, especially how they deal with the adults in their lives. "Hearts in Atlantis" is another excellent example.
Most people ,including me, miss the name in the newspaper at the beginning.
I saw this movie in the theater with my best friend, we were 12.
I LOOOVED that you ladies reacted to "Stand By Me".... timeless 80s classic.............. another great one w/ the same vibe as this is ( The 90s tween/teen sleepover CLASSIC "Now & Then" ) has basically almost the same storyline... starts in 90s and looks back to the early 70s but there's no actual dead body in it.
Still totally worth a watch in my opinion..... PLUS it's not really a movie I see reactors reacting too?? so you ladies might be the first??
Stella- either looks way younger than she is, or is wise beyond her years.
yeah as you mentioned already as well this movie at least from what I got was kinda about the innocence of friendship and being on that crossroad where you leave that innocence behind when entering adult hood. And for me there even is some truth to that last sentence because today friendships are so complicated and most of the times difficult to manage. Back in the day you only had to go around your neighborhood, ring the doorbell (or like one of my friends stand in front of my parent's bedroom window at 8am and scream for me to come out and play) and ask If your friends can come play. Usually there was always someone to play with and then you'd experience adventure after adventure day in and day out. Now at 23 meeting my friends always involves tight schedules and planning sometimes months ahead, then there's no „experiencing adventures" anymore because it's not seen as appropriate for our age to do unresponsible things and you'll get called childish. As kids you could just talk about nothing all day, get your mind off of things etc, now you talk about jobs, money, what your plan for the future is, moving in with your partner, relationship problems, university, work, grades and stuff like that. I find myself being happy and feeling fulfilled whenever we don't talk about these things and instead talk about fun things like movies, tell stories that happened to us and just random stuff.
Thanks for this one, ladies. One of my favorite movies and I practically know the lines by heart. We passed around the book in elementary school and watched the movie 100 times. Lol I had a huge crush on River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton. ❤❤❤❤ 👏👏👏