I Watched *THE POLAR EXPRESS* For The FIRST TIME And This Was AN INSTANT CLASSIC To Me..
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I had a good day today. Spent part of the day getting Christmas decorations out. And going to start decorating the house tomorrow.
I've got a bottle of water getting cold in the fridge, and planning on drinking it while watching your new reaction commentary this evening.
Hope that you're having a good day! 😊
#bingers The Maze Runner Trilogy
#Bingers since it's that time of year, How about Jim Carey's the Grinch, or if you prefer the full title, how the Grinch stole Christmas
You should do Aquamarine cause almost every young adult grew up with it #Bingers
I have my big yeti filled with ice water ready for the movie!
I don't care what anyone says, this movie was, and will always be amazing. This is my favorite Christmas movie hands down.
Also, that Hot Chocolate song? If you didn't church clap during that then reevaluate your life please and thank you.
I do agree this movie is amazing, but honestly not my favorite. My favorite Christmas movie is Home Alone 2, the story, the emotion, the characters. Everything about it is perfect.
I love the hot chocolate song! In middle school I had a group project that involved making a medley and a music video and I choose it to be my part of our group’s medley.
Oh, the uncanny valley. So rough. But hey, we're all different. 👍
I am also such a big fan of this movie. I am such a fan that when my son was 14, he is now 28, the DVD of this movie was my Christmas gift from him that year.
@@JamesASharp What do you mean by uncanny valley?
I was a teacher's aide for a kindergarten class and right before Christmas, the teacher showed this movie and while the kids were distracted I went and put big jingle bells on a ribbon in all of their coat pockets. It was really cute and the kids loved it. We made hot chocolate and the whole 9 yards.
Did you sing the song for the hot chocolate? :D
That’s really cute! I’m an aide for a 2nd grade LLD classroom and we always watch the Grinch and the kids turn themselves into Who’s. Christmas is always big in elementary schools.
This is so precious
i’m 18 now and i miss being in Elementary and having winter break parties before we leave and watch this movie, drink hot chocolate and wear pjs, i miss that feeling so much
That's so cute!
This is the only movie where it makes sense for him to be so confused with names, because literally none of these children have names😂💀 Baby Barbara is literally "Hero Girl" on the character list
Lol and the only name we know is his own name!!
Yeah literally hero boy and hero girl, the funny thing is I made an illustrated book once and I called one of the characters hero girl because I hadn’t chosen a name for her yet. While I got round to it eventually the polar express never did lol.
I did a Twitter Commentary a few years back and landed on the following names for the characters:
"Hero Boy" - Tiny Tom
"Hero Girl" - Uncanny Valerie
Unlikable Nerd Boy - Mandark (They have the same voice actor! Uh... do not look up what that same voice actor/'s been up to...)
Poor Kid - Jack McSadSack
Santa Claus - President Christmas Snow (A buddy pointed out how much Santa looks like Donald Sutherland in this. Plus all the adult characters are weirdly stern.)
That One Steven Tyler Elf - NOOOOO!!!!!
Well there is Billy and Santa
In the subtitles the kid with the glasses is named “ know-it-all” buahaha
So I read a fan theory about how the boy actually fell asleep to his dad reading him a bedtime story. Hanks is actually voicing like 5-6 characters in this movie, maybe more which makes sense as dads read in different voices for different characters. The train is the choice of whether he believes or not. Goes more into detail but it makes a lot sense this way!
He did lose his marbles tho maybe that was significant
@@aleahdodson1889 Wow. I've been watching this movie for 10 years and just now realized that. Good on ya.👍🏽
You were right at first, Tom Hanks was Woody, and he's the narrator. Tim Allen was Buzz. Lol. I find it hilarious that you corrected yourself when you were right, thus causing yourself to be wrong. 🤣🤣🤣
😂 leave me alone you bully
@@BillyBinges Me? Bully you? What? 😲 I'd never bully the man who keeps me hydrated and entertained. 😁
I was looking for this comment 😂
@BillyBinges not sure about the dream unless you feel asleep in water .
Billy, the one that said “Christmas doesn’t work out for me” means his parents never have enough money to get him presents, he was poor and because he never got things on Christmas he didn’t believe in Santa which is why he was on that train. Billy started to believe once he saw his name on the present.
I love watching this movie every year around Christmas time. And this year is even better because it's my daughter's first Christmas and I can't wait to enjoy it with her. Unfortunately she will not be watching this premiere tonight but I will be showing her tomorrow. She absolutely love watching Billy. Every time Billy says get yourself some water she reaches for her bottle. I can't wait to show her tomorrow.
It’s gonna be my baby’s first Christmas this year and I’m so excited 🥰
Fun fact: Josh Hutcherson from The Hunger Games (Peeta or as we know him on this channel: David) did the motion-capture to get the cgi for the main boy and it’s funny cuz the character actually somewhat looks like him when he was little so uh there’s some baby David trivia for you 😂😂😂
Not baby David💀😂
He’s mo-capped by Peeta, voiced by Juni from Spy Kids, and grows up to be Tom Hanks, if this ain’t the ultimate kid idk who is
@@sweetstars4all he needs to know the iconic role baby David played in our childhoods 😭😭😭
@@akorn9943 a mega fusion of actors who raised us 😌
When I was a child my grandparents read this book to me and gave me a bell they swore was broken but they kept because it was “pretty”. I believed for years that I was the only one that could hear it. I still have that bell.
Precious 😭
This movie hits hard for me, Christmas has been emotional for me as I never quite can capture the spirit I used to have when I was 10- I started slowly feeling less of it every year but this movie never fails to make me want to believe in the spirit of it again or to almost make me cry
How have you managed to capture how I feel so perfectly
agreed :) just watched it this year and I always cry at the end because of the feeling it gives me
As a kindergartener I remember watching this movie in class, jingle bells being passed around, and drinking hot chocolate. Still one of my most favorite memories from childhood.
Omg someone else said the were a kindergarten aide and they did this for the kids
@@aleahdodson1889 hm.
This is such a good movie and the song Believe by Josh Groban is absolutely wonderful.
The Grinch who Stole Christmas (Jim Carey) #Bingers
Disney's a Christmas Carol #Bingers
Rise of the Guardians #Bingers
The griiiinch 😍
The guardians yesss
It's funny because Rise of the Guardians is technically an Easter movie lol
Also… this was the first 3D movie I saw in the theater. You had grown adults trying to “catch” snowflakes in the theater. 😂 The animation was amazing back then.
Hahaha same, me (5 at the time) and my brother (7) were absolutely mind blown by the snow flakes
@@johnballard1427 well don’t I feel old.. I was 18..:
Write What You Know: The main protagonist (also named after the author, Chris) is from Grand Rapids, Michigan, also the hometown of the book's author. In one scene, the train passes by Herpolsheimer's, which was (until the 1980s) a Grand Rapids department store that was known for its lavish Christmas displays.
-Not only that, but the author recalls playing on the real Pere Marquette 1225 as a child. (At the time it wasn't operational, so it was brought out at football games for that purpose)
-Also the entire story was Based on a Dream of a magical train one Christmas Eve when he was in-story Chris's age (around 9 or 10).
My library at my elementary school used to decorate a room like the polar express, and our librarian would dress up as the conductor. He would lead us to the room with an old oil lamp, and then read us the Polar Express. Then, they'd put on the movie and give us hot chocolate and candy canes during the hot chocolate song. Some of my favorite memories as a kid, and this movie will always have a special place in my heart.
Woody's in the Polar Express, Buzz is in The Santa Clause, and Jessie's in Klaus.
#bingers please watch Klaus!
The Last Holiday with Queen Latifah please! An underrated seasonal gem. #bingers
YES!!!!!!!!!! Totally underrated, and so worth watching.
OMG PLEASE. One of my fave movies!!
PLEEAASEEE!!
This movie is definitely a classic and a must watch every year. Also "When Christmas Comes to Town" is definitely on my top 5 list of christmas songs.
I love that song!
This commentary was wonderful and hilarious! A couple of things:
1) The illustrator/author of the original (amazing) book is Chris Van Allsburg. He is all-around awesome. He is also a Rhode Island School of Design alumnus and that is why Santa’s North Pole city looks a lot like an industrial New England city. One of the things I like about this movie is how they kept that detail.
2) The reason this movie looks… Like This… is because it was from that weird era of “Oh motion-capture is going to change animation forever!” I’m very glad that they since realized that mo-cap looks very off-putting unless you have an actual human animator go in and revise it later, like mo-cap is the “sketch”.
3) A friend of mine called this “Snowpiercer for Kids” and another friend called it “Bioshock: Christmas Edition”. I can’t argue with either. 🤣
Every Christmas I watched " Polar Express" the message and inspiration behind the movie always ✨ hits home even when we know Santa is not real, it still sends a positive vibe. Also "Treasure Planet " as well is God to watch on a holiday. One of the most top underrated Disney movies. Sends out a wonderful message & amazing music as well.
Treasure Planet is honestly one of THEE best Disney animated movies of the early 2000s. It's disrespectfully underrated.
One of my favorite Christmas movies!! Definitely a classic🎄❤other Christmas classics I recommend are This Christmas, National Lampoon Christmas Vacation, The Preacher's Wife (with Whitney Houston), The Best Man Holiday, and Barbie Christmas Carol👀👀 #bingers
Yes!!! Best Man and Best Man Holiday!!! #bingers
"never ever let it cool" is a horrible rule for hot chocolate. All those kids just scalded their throats from gulping down a whole cup of piping hot chocolate in 2 minutes.
Their tastebuds never had a chance 🤣
You do understand the concept of suspending disbelief, right?
The design of the steam locomotive in the movie is actually based off of a real-life steam locomotive, the Pere Marquette 1225! But it has a different whistle than the one in the movie. Here are some hints:
- The serial number 1225 is actually a nod to 12/25, or Christmas Day!
- And the train whistle you hear in the movie is a nod to the same train whistle heard in another Robert Zemeckis movie, Back to the Future Part 3!
I'm still surprised to say that this is one of my favorite Christmas movies. (Special shout out to all of the incredible Chris Van Allsburg books.) I went to see it with my step-grandfather, and it is a very cherished memory.
Hands down one of my favorite Christmas movies. I don’t know why it gets so much hate.
It might be because of the creepy animation, but that does not make me hate it at all.
@@jediconnor9349 I guess because I saw it when it originally came out in the theater in 3D the animation doesn’t bother me so much. Must be the nostalgia factor.
@@incubaby876 by 2021 standards, it still looks great to my eye
Aha it gets hate? It’s my favorite Christmas movie 💜
@@stoneydrey3418 Same.
Definitely looking forward to watching this commentary reaction.
This is one of my must-watch holiday movies that I have to watch at least twice during the season.
I highly recommend the 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". #Bingers
#bingers You should definitely watch Krampus 2015 by director Michael Doherty. It’s a Christmas horror movie that me and my family watch every year and I gotta say, it’s probably the creepiest yet also funniest horror movie I’ve seen. I think you’ll like it, Billy! Love your reaction, too! The Polar Express was my childhood Christmas movie!
There’s an explanation for why you found the animation creepy! Animators call it the “uncanny valley”. It’s when the animation _tries_ to look exactly like reality, but it doesn’t quite look real, and so the brain is tripped out like “it doesn’t look like a cartoon and it doesn’t look like a real thing, so what the fuck is it?!” 😂
But anyway, do you know what Christmas classic I think you would DIE over?
_The Muppets Christmas Carol._ Its the ultimate hilarious and heartwarming (and CREEPY and DARK!) Christmas classic. 👻🎄 #Bingers
11:59 "Okay, come through with the vocals homeless boy!" Im losing it 🤣
Alan Silvestri wrote the music for The Polar Express. He's the same guy who wrote the score for the Avengers.
I loved this movie so much. I was a kid that thankfully only stuck to one or 2 gifts growing up, but my parents did so much to go above and beyond to make it look like Santa visited. I thank them so much for that. One year all I wanted was a bell from Santa, so they made all my gifts bell themed or decorated with bells. And they gave me a silver bell that matched the one in this movie and added a snowman top to it. This movie was everything to me.
The other little boy didn't *have* to be in the back by himself; he CHOSE to be away from the others because he's a poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks-- he doesn't feel he fits in with the others.
I remember watching this during December in elementary school. We'd all go in our pajamas and told to bring snacks for class. We'd get hot cocoa and push all the desks to the side so we all could sit in the middle and watch the movie. It was magical and no matter what anyone says its too nostalgic to dislike.
What a perfect Christmas classic, and of course gotta love Tom Hanks 😊 the main character is from where I'm from. This is a good movie to give someone Christmas spirit 😊
I like the idea of this movie, but certain characters always really creeped me out. If those were gone and it was just a sweet Christmas adventure story in this animation style I probably would watch it every year. I try watching it again every now and then but am always disappointed.
My entire 5th grade class went to see this film when it was in theaters in 2005. That was very nice and better than the entire middle school after you had the permission slip signed to see Eragon in theaters.
#Bingers
Some out there Christmas films to watch:
Scrooge (1970 film),
It Happened on Fifth Avenue,
Also you can never go wrong with the classic It’s a Wonderful Life.
A famous film music composer named Alan Silvestri was the music director for this movie. The only song him and his orchestra didn't play was Rockin On Top of The World, which is by Aerosmith.
#bingers Rise of the Guardians 🌟
The book was definitely a better childhood memory than the movie was. Not that this is a bad movie, just the book is better.
The book is one of the greatest illustrated books of all time. Chris VanAllsberg is incredible!
there's a book? 😱
@@19Rena96 Yes, it was published almost 20 heats before the movie, in 1985.
It was a book??
It's all the extra padding the movie has to do, I think. It's done well but the book has such a simplistic grace to it.
nah, i died in my dream and immediately woke up😂. There was this other time I died in my dream and stood there as an astral projection watching people crowd the scene of where my body was and then woke up from my sister calling my name.... So yeah, that's a myth.
The fact that you made a Twilight reference in a Christmas movie is EVERYTHING 😂😂
Even if you’re not a Twilight fan it has forever impacted your life😂
Also- Love Actually is an interesting Christmas movie along with Love Hard! #Bingers
YES!! LOVE HARD!! One of my new top favorites. Haha
I’m cryingggg not the “colored section” of the train Billy out of pocket 😭😭😭
I know idky I said that for a childrens movie 😂
The year this came out my son, nephew, and niece watched it. They all wrote a letter to Santa asking for a bell from the reindeer. It took me 2 weeks to find three bells the right size, and color that actually rang. Had me going crazy.
Fun Fact: the main character's name in the move is Hero Boy. His name isn't mentioned throughout the entire movie, however, in the original book, his name is Chris
Bruh this movie will forever be iconic you can't convince me otherwise
I like your glasses and my husband would LOVEEE your shirt (he's obsessed with Nightmare Before Christmas)! "I am standing right in front of you, why are you yelling?" FACTSSSS hahahaha. You're right, Tom Hanks voiced Woody and he also voices the conductor (and they used his likeness for the conductor's appearance!) Yes, TIM Allen voiced Buzz lol. BABY THOMAS JEFFERSON, I CACKLED. Fun fact for this movie, Tom Hanks actually voices the main boy, the main boy's Dad, the conductor, the hobo, and Santa Claus! "Come through with the vocals, homeless boy" HAHAHAHAHA.
I remember it being polar express day at my school then we’d bring our pjs and blankets sometimes even pillows then out teacher would make hot chocolate and we would watch the polar express and eat cookie and drink hot chocolate and do whatever we wanted for the rest of the day then it was Christmas day
I love your reactions! I'd literally die of happiness if you react to a ghibli movie! Like Spirited away (2001) or Princess Mononoke (1997) The animation is CRAZY #bingers
OMG YES! Or Howls moving castle
#bingers plz watch just friends- its a christmas movie (kinda) 😂
Can never go wrong with a ryan reynolds movie
Where can I watch this ?
Don’t forget anna faris too!! Shes everything in that movie
🎶 FORGIVENESS! Is more than saying sorry 🎶 😆
Anastasia - its on netflix in us :)
#bingers Would love to see the Greatest Showman!! Amazing movie!! ❤️
So many good Christmas movies out there if you haven’t seen them yet I recommend “home alone” and “the muppet Christmas carol”. #bingers
please add the #bingers I want him to see Home Alone and The Muppet Chirstmas Carol too :P
Polar Express is one of the best Christmas movies ever with National Lampoons Christmas Vacation shortly there after.
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation #bingers
One of my faveorite christmas movies alongside the grinch, home alone 2 , this christmas and nighmare before christmas
Two newer movies that are really great are Klaus and Christmas Chronicles #bingers
I think you’ll love them!
Hey Billy! If you haven't watched it, I suggest Jim Carrey How The Grinch Stole Christmas! It's...a very wild ride...#bingers
i watch this movie with my family EVERY christmas eve, it's our little tradition !!! loved watching this old reaction video !! :)))
Hero girl: Baby Barbra
Hero boy: Baby Thomas Jefferson
Billy: Little Timothy
Ned: 8.20 credit score guy
I love the book- still have my bell! and tom hanks was woody, Tim Allen was buzz lightyear
(Christmas Horror Movies)
The Children (I'm not sure on this one being christmas but it was in the genre, Mercy Christmas, Better Watch Out (love it), and conjuring 2 & 3 just because
The princess switch series for #bingers please lmao 😂
One of my favourite Christmas films!
I love the 'When Christmas Comes To Town' scene!
#Bingers Home Alone 1 and 2, pleaseeee 🙏🙏🙏...
The plot is about innocence and faith in the young. On this point, little man in the blue robe is losing his faith, baby Barbara is all about Christmas faith, and little man in the back has never had much faith. Now, I have 4 children. My oldest is 20 and my youngest is 14. My two oldest children have told me that they believed in Santa until just a couple years ago. Belief and faith in the magic of Christmas is essential for every child.
I straight up choked on and spit up my water when Billy said "How funny would it be if the whisper song started to play?" LOL I wish it would have cut to an edit of that added in.
Billy: come through with the vocals homeless boy
Me: 🙄 Billy he’s not homeless 😂
I can't say this enough watch the Ryan George pitch meeting to this its hilarious.
I haven't watch this movies since 2nd grade!!!😁😊
Billy: WAIT, is this Tom Hanks!
Me: wait until he finds out that everybody is Tom Hanks. 😉😅😎🥴🤗🤭
It's so funny 😂 Tom Hanks was the narrator, the conductor, the hobo on top of the train, and Santa Claus! I'm glad Billy caught on 😂
Ever been on the Royal Gorge Route Railroad. It was basically the polar express for me. This was actually the last year me and my family did that. We usually go in November, we didn’t go for three years after my dad died. I think.🤔
#bingers Rise of the Guardians! It works as a Christmas movie even if the time frame the movie is in isn’t at Christmas time. It has santa, sand man, tooth fairy, Easter bunny, and Jack Frost
I watched a video explaining the story of The Polar Express and a theory is the ending is to know if your child is old enough to not believe anymore. You can either believe through the bell and note that Santa is real and our main kid truly went on the Polar Express that night, or if youre old enough to not believe you could see the adventure as nothing more than a dream that the main kid had to convince himself to believe in Santa again. If you listen closely, the Conductor is the boy who grew up still believing while the hobo is him if he continued on his path of not believing.
Did you know Billy In high school I would work on a train as an ELF! Lol yes its true I was called "Oreo" lol and kids loved it
#Bingers: how to train your dragon (trilogy), maze runner (trilogy), train to busan, Klaus, the Christmas chronicles, instant family, the other woman
I saw somebody on tiktok who looked just like the nerdy kid with the glasses and it cracked me up. 😂
Also: Nightmare Before Christmas #bingers
You said in the title it was immediately a classic, now you know why is a classic.
#bingers Wish Upon A Star…it’s kind of like Freaky Friday but with sisters. One of Katherine Heigl’s older movies
I am considered a high functioning lucid dreamer. As someone who knows all the time that I am in a dream, I actually can’t die in a dream- fall off a 500 ft fall tower? -Just had the wind knocked out of me. Eaten by a dinosaur?-i materialize somewhere else. However, your fear itself could theoretically kill you I think. You can’t really drown in a dream unless you are simultaneously being smothered by your pillow in real life, but your subconscious could convince you that you are causing you to hyperventilate and then have problems in reality
This is in my top 5 Christmas movies..
Have you watched Noelle(the newer one with Anna Kendrick) yet? If not... #Bingers
Please consider GRUMPY OLD MEN (1993). A great holiday movie. Burgess Meredith is pure comedy gold. Watch the bloopers at the end
#bingers love this movie. Watch it every year for christmas along with many others. But. . .the movie you gotta watch. Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart. A great thriller.
I remember every year at my school it being polar express day then we’d bring our pjs and blankets sometimes even pillows then out teacher would make hot chocolate and we would watch the polar express and eat cookie and drink hot chocolate and do whatever we wanted for the rest of the day then it was Christmas day
“Klaus” on Netflix is one of my favorite Christmas movies. It’s only been out for a few years. I also feel like it doesn’t get enough credit! #bingers
This movie genuinely scarred me as a kid lmfao. (Specifically the part where the girl walked away with that creepy man)
It always breaks my heart that Billy doesn't get the first gift of Christmas. He deserved it so much more than the main character.
Billy: “Ain’t nothing wrong with being a pick-me.”
Me: You picked you first before we could pick you. That’s the difference.
I can't believe the only one kind of being afraid of this movie as a kid cause I thought they were going to fall off on top of the train
This reaction is so funny because watching your confusion every few seconds is so relatable! As a child I was obsessed with this movie but I still could never tell u wtf was going on even now so watching u look like 🤔 is hilarious 😂
#bingers if you like this movie you will LOVE Arthur Christmas from 2011. Thanks for all the happiness you being with your channel all year!
Yes, for sure it is one of my favorite Christmas movies especially when I was a kid.
Plus it would be cool if you could do "The Last Holiday" with Queen Latifah. #bingers
I think you might enjoy that film
Tom hanks is woody and Tim Allen is buzz and this is Tom hanks he voice every adult character in this movie
14:12 SERIOUSLY!!! I've seen this movie countless times, but every time this part comes up, my anxiety goes through the roof. With slippers and rubber boots?? Nooooope.
Your smile in this movie makes me love this like a kid all over again. #bingers Have you seen Klaus?
Oh, Klaus is one of the very best!
10:32 If that's factual, I'd be long dead by now aoifdsjgkaergsdfea. The amount of times I've been shot, kidnapped and murdered, or been in the passenger's seat of a car that's being controlled by no one and crashed? Damn bro.
tell my why when I saw this in theaters I was so amazed by the animation I kept thinking maybe it was real people
10:26 definitely not true, I've died in nightmares before, but I'm still around.. I think
Fun fact though, you know that startling sensation that feels as though you're falling that can happen when you're falling asleep? That's actually your body noticing your pulse dropping rapidly and trying to jump-start your heart again because it can't tell if you're just falling asleep or if your heart is failing and you're dying
Interesting. I hate that feeling where I'm falling in my dream and I wake up wide eyed and breathing hard
"Did Tom Hanks play almost every character in this movie?" YES! LOL Also they used Tom Hanks in a motion capture suit for most of the animation.
I’m glad the final the destination scene ruined rollercoasters for more than just me🤣
Yeeees childhood classic
Nostalgia 😊