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    I like them French fried potaters.
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  • @adgato75
    @adgato75 3 месяца назад +282

    Billy Bob is an incredible actor in this. John Ritter was an absolute sweetheart and is sadly missed.

    • @fredfinks
      @fredfinks 3 месяца назад +6

      Supposedly Billy bob modeled his character on Angelina Jolie's dour moods when they were together

    • @Kristen_kiki
      @Kristen_kiki 3 месяца назад +9

      @@fredfinksthis movie is years before they met.

    • @fredfinks
      @fredfinks 3 месяца назад +3

      @@Kristen_kiki Billy bob has a kinda clairvoyance power. The hillfolk would gather and drink like shamans of the forest. Theyd call it moonshining, or shining for short.

    • @Ernwaldo
      @Ernwaldo 3 месяца назад +5

      Billy Bob Thornton is an incredible actor. Period.

    • @DonRoccoRicardo
      @DonRoccoRicardo 3 месяца назад +6

      Billy Bob created the character "Karl" based off of two men with mental disabilities that he knew growing up.

  • @rexbo5029
    @rexbo5029 3 месяца назад +238

    Give Dwight Yoakam (big county music singer) some love! What a fantastic "bad guy"! GREAT CAST, underrated movie!

    • @Indiana_Jones-Z
      @Indiana_Jones-Z 3 месяца назад +15

      Great singer & actor! I actually drove to Nashville, TN from Indiana to see him live in concert about 10 years ago. My buddy and I were about 15 ft. away from him. It was awesome!

    • @t0dd000
      @t0dd000 3 месяца назад +14

      The movie was popular and won at least one Oscar and was nominated for others. Not underrated.

    • @nealm6764
      @nealm6764 3 месяца назад +7

      "Dating Dwight Yoakam is like eating a dirt sandwich!" - Sharon Stone LOL!

    • @t0dd000
      @t0dd000 3 месяца назад +2

      This is probably the only film I have warmed up to Yoakam as an actor. He just doesn't seem to have much range. He was great in this though.

    • @HonRevPTB
      @HonRevPTB 3 месяца назад

      You're high on crack, he's outstanding!!!!!!! ​@@t0dd000

  • @ML-dz5ix
    @ML-dz5ix 3 месяца назад +69

    Sling Blade isn’t just the most perfect Southern Gothic movie ever made, it’s absolutely one of the most perfect movies ever made. Glad y’all were able to see it.

  • @scorpiouk5914
    @scorpiouk5914 3 месяца назад +113

    I can't speak for the rest of the US, but in the southern states, this movie was promoted by word of mouth. I had co- workers in 1996 telling me, "You have to see this movie". They weren't wrong.

    • @NandR
      @NandR 3 месяца назад +2

      Yep. My cousins were always sayin "what you kill Jessie fer" and "french fried potaters"

    • @GulsCult
      @GulsCult 2 месяца назад +3

      That's how my wife and I heard about it. And at first I thought the person who told me about it was wrong another Billy Bob Thornton starring in it, because he's unrecognizable in it! A classic.

    • @joeblow8206
      @joeblow8206 5 дней назад

      Forrest Gump started the same way

    • @GulsCult
      @GulsCult 4 дня назад

      @@joeblow8206 Forrest Gump made 25 million on it's opening weekend alone. And that was in 1994. It's the 4th highest right behind ET. That word of mouth travelled lightning fast.

  • @williambryan3346
    @williambryan3346 3 месяца назад +188

    The first time I saw this movie, I didn’t realize that Doyle was played by Dwight Yoakam. He has such a natural talent for acting in this, that I didn’t even recognize him.

    • @scorpiouk5914
      @scorpiouk5914 3 месяца назад +4

      I did. And even though I love his music, I hated his character and was happy when Carl ended him.

    • @paullanier3597
      @paullanier3597 3 месяца назад +12

      His character was a horrible person but also had some of the most hilarious and memorable one liners ever.

    • @adgato75
      @adgato75 3 месяца назад

      @@paullanier3597 Like midgets and antique furniture.

    • @konowd
      @konowd 3 месяца назад +7

      Dwight Yokum is a very good actor, and John Ritter did a terrific job in this as well

    • @youteo3596
      @youteo3596 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@konowdI personally think Dwight was a better actor in panic room than whatever the hell his name is Jared leto?

  • @CathleenMJennings80
    @CathleenMJennings80 3 месяца назад +135

    If it makes you feel better, EVERYONE was doing the Sling Blade impression haha

    • @caseymoe816
      @caseymoe816 3 месяца назад +27

      Still do, mmmph.🤨

    • @johnglue1744
      @johnglue1744 3 месяца назад +10

      @@caseymoe816Hahaha yep every time I have biscuits of french fries my friends and I do it.

    • @andrewpetik2034
      @andrewpetik2034 3 месяца назад +8

      ​@@johnglue1744
      'I'd like some biscuits and mustard'.....mmm-mmmph!

    • @Cookieboy70
      @Cookieboy70 3 месяца назад

      You shouldn't have done that. He's just a boy, poor little feller....

    • @treetopjones737
      @treetopjones737 3 месяца назад +5

      Who doesn't "likes 'taters" ?😄

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 3 месяца назад +142

    RIP, John Ritter, 1948-2003
    RIP, JT Walsh, 1943-1998
    RIP, Mickey Jones, 1941-2018
    RIP, Brent Briscoe, 1961-2017.

    • @reservoirdude92
      @reservoirdude92 3 месяца назад +24

      JT Walsh was a hell of an actor. His performance in Breakdown is an all time great villain role.

    • @charliea1224
      @charliea1224 3 месяца назад +16

      Also RIP to the great Col. Bruce Hampton and the great Vic Chestnut.

    • @johnhawk1089
      @johnhawk1089 3 месяца назад +6

      Vic Chestnutt was a talented artist. He was the guy in the wheelchair.

    • @LLentium
      @LLentium 3 месяца назад +2

      RIP Vic Chesnutt too.

    • @Tr0nzoid
      @Tr0nzoid 3 месяца назад +5

      Karl's boss Rick Dial died as well. He was a furniture store manager when Thornton cast him.

  • @gishgali8354
    @gishgali8354 3 месяца назад +40

    Don't worry TBR, everyone in the country was doing this impression for a year after the film came out.

    • @StCerberusEngel
      @StCerberusEngel 3 месяца назад +5

      I still do it. I'm pretty good at it too. Always gets a good reaction.

    • @Britcarjunkie
      @Britcarjunkie 3 месяца назад +2

      Even on South Park! 🤣

    • @michaelolivares2509
      @michaelolivares2509 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@StCerberusEngelme too..mmm hmmm...

  • @susanliltz3875
    @susanliltz3875 3 месяца назад +88

    Yes Billy Bob wrote it and won an Oscar for it!!!!

    • @van8ryan
      @van8ryan 3 месяца назад +7

      Yep, though they had to categorize it as BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY as Thornton had already written a one-man play on it and a short film called SOME CALL IT A SLING BLADE (even though both only were the first twenty minutes where Karl's telling his backstory; the film follows the events after he's released).
      Apparently, Karl was based off both a boy Billy Bob'd known in childhood and his mannerisms were based off a patient where Billy Bob used to work as a janitor.

  • @shesemerald2011
    @shesemerald2011 3 месяца назад +12

    John Ritter was one of my favorite actors from childhood until adulthood. RIP

  • @johnmaynardable
    @johnmaynardable 3 месяца назад +98

    I moved out to Los Angeles the year this came out to pursue my career as an actor. The first regular job I got was working as a messenger delivering items all over the city and mostly for the entertainment industry. One of our major customers was Miramax Pictures. About a month after I saw this movie I had a package to deliver to Billy Bob Thornton at one of their offices. A secretary pointed at a door and when I knocked on it BBT opened the door. I just looked at him and said "You". I told him I saw this film and loved it. When he found out I was an actor he told me to bring my headshot to him next time I came by. I pulled a headshot out from my clipboard and handed it to him. He was impressed and my resume impressed him further. We ran into each other several times after that, once when he was with Laura Dern, and he was always very nice.

    • @DonRoccoRicardo
      @DonRoccoRicardo 3 месяца назад +6

      Headshots sure is purdy. I always thought that.

    • @vincentjoyce5100
      @vincentjoyce5100 3 месяца назад +6

      I did the messenger thing too but mine was mostly legal. Met Johnnie Cochran.

    • @positivelynegative9149
      @positivelynegative9149 3 месяца назад +3

      How is the acting career going? 🤔

    • @johnmaynardable
      @johnmaynardable 3 месяца назад +4

      It went fine. I have since retired.

    • @Gutslinger
      @Gutslinger 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@@johnmaynardableStrange coincidence for me to see the name Laura Dern. Earlier today, I was listening to an old Western Radio drama for the first time called, "Have Gun Will Travel". The voice of a featured character sounded like Bruce Dern to me. Whom I only really know from the classic John Wayne film "The Cowboys".
      I was googling him earlier today, and also saw that he was Laura Dern's father. I vaguely think I remember reading comments about that on reaction videos to the Cowboys, but I must've forgot. I didn't know her by name, and didn't know her outside of Jurassic Park.

  • @shanedoe3935
    @shanedoe3935 3 месяца назад +41

    Doyle was played by country singer Dwight Yoakum. At the time this came out, apart from John Ritter, he was the most famous cast member.

    • @owen1213
      @owen1213 3 месяца назад +8

      Don't forget about Robert Duvall even though he only had one scene

    • @shanedoe3935
      @shanedoe3935 3 месяца назад +4

      @@owen1213 Right. I always forget his cameo!

    • @michaelfletcher9640
      @michaelfletcher9640 2 месяца назад +1

      Robert Duvall is definitely the most famous person in this film... ❤

  • @wwk68tig
    @wwk68tig 3 месяца назад +9

    This is the first reaction I've come across of Sling Blade...........you two hit it out of the park, as always. Thanks for sharing.

    • @kendo7964
      @kendo7964 3 месяца назад

      There is only about 5 reactions on RUclips for it.

  • @jannaromine5908
    @jannaromine5908 3 месяца назад +4

    So happy someone finally reacted to this one...thank you!

  • @usuallyadam
    @usuallyadam 3 месяца назад +11

    This film hits different, been one of my all time favorites for many years and so many people don't even know it exists.

  • @charles7836
    @charles7836 3 месяца назад +80

    Maybe I just don't see the obvious, but I've always had a hard time seeing Billy Bob in this film because Carl was such an authentic and original character. He truly brought him to life.

    • @laraq07
      @laraq07 3 месяца назад +17

      You don't watch the movie and see Billy Bob. You see KARL.

    • @charles7836
      @charles7836 3 месяца назад +6

      @@laraq07 There you go. That's it exactly.

    • @rickygoff3199
      @rickygoff3199 3 месяца назад +2

      Facts 100

    • @murrayroodbaard207
      @murrayroodbaard207 3 месяца назад +4

      The best actors are actors who can 'disappear' into characters so you don't even see the actors anymore.
      Some very respected actors are, in my opinion, highly overrated because they basically always play variations of themselves and they never challenge themselves.

    • @michele36618
      @michele36618 3 месяца назад +2

      Me too. It took me years to see it. He transformed into that character

  • @ItchyGoomie
    @ItchyGoomie 3 месяца назад +10

    Seen an interview where Dwight Yoakam said that his mom hated him playing that character. Dwight is a great musician and actor

  • @suprchickn7745
    @suprchickn7745 3 месяца назад +12

    Dwight Yoakam blew me away when I first saw this. I'm not sure I've seen more organic acting and you absolutely hate him by the end. Great film!

  • @van8ryan
    @van8ryan 3 месяца назад +35

    During the time when Miramax bought the movie, Thornton was battling with studio heads over his cut of the film, which he was getting tons of notes over. Frustrated, he actually was given Martin Scorsese's number and called to ask him to watch SLING BLADE and suggest any cuts.
    Two weeks later, Scorsese called Thornton back and said, "Don't make any cuts. Your cut is fine, but there's another reason. Nobody knows who you are yet, and once they find out you know what you're doing, they'll never stop giving you notes. This will be your ONE time you will get to make your movie EXACTLY how you want it."
    Thornton was depressed by the advice, but after directing three more films since SLING BLADE, he said Scorsese was exactly right.

  • @jeffpatton2866
    @jeffpatton2866 3 месяца назад +5

    My favorite movie of all time. The scene where Carl says goodbye to Frank always gets me. I agree that Carl doesn't even look like Billy Bob Thornton.

  • @thorazine666
    @thorazine666 3 месяца назад +64

    The Film that made Billy Bob.
    Brilliance.

    • @waterbeauty85
      @waterbeauty85 3 месяца назад +5

      that's exactly what I was about to say.

    • @FrankOdonnell-ej3hd
      @FrankOdonnell-ej3hd 3 месяца назад

      don't need it anymore but what a great drug it is⚛😀

  • @CitizenScorn
    @CitizenScorn 3 месяца назад +5

    Thank you so much for sharing this experience with us. I used to watch this A LOT back in the day. I haven't seen it in years, and even though this was edited (duh), you still provided those scenes that made me tear up all those years ago, and it happened again today lol 😢. It's a CLASSIC. I'm so happy you both got to see this and let us join you ❤ Keep up the great work on the channel and in life 😉 ❤

  • @indridcold3762
    @indridcold3762 3 месяца назад +36

    This one has stayed with me ever since I first watched it in 1998. It really shows you that Billy Bob has range as an actor and the story is amazing. Also Dwight Yokum showed here he has some acting chops.

    • @rickwestic746
      @rickwestic746 3 месяца назад +2

      Dwight Yokum acted in the series Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton

    • @scipioafricanus5871
      @scipioafricanus5871 3 месяца назад +1

      Billy Bob was amazing in "A Simple Plan"

  • @user-cs4fg1rm5k
    @user-cs4fg1rm5k 3 месяца назад +4

    The 90s was filled with hundreds of small movies like this. It was a great decade for films. Check out all the good films that came out in 1994 alone. The great Daniel Lanois should get credit for setting the mood with his music.

  • @psychorook
    @psychorook 3 месяца назад +2

    I joined a band in the early 2000s. They all spoke like Carl to each other. I hadn’t seen the movie so that was my first assignment!
    This movie is a gem. The characters are diverse and cool. RIP to Col. Bruce Hampton.

  • @quasiscorner2589
    @quasiscorner2589 3 месяца назад +10

    Dwight Yokam should have won and academy award for his role.

  • @NWAWskeptic
    @NWAWskeptic 3 месяца назад +6

    Thornton has amazing range. This, his role on Fargo season 1 and his role in A Simple Plan….fantastic in all.

    • @crobarus
      @crobarus 2 месяца назад

      A Simple plan is another great movie that gets no respect

  • @reservoirdude92
    @reservoirdude92 3 месяца назад +54

    I adore everything about this beautiful film, but Jim Jarmusch's cameo as the Frostee Cream employee with that ridiculous paper hat is one of my favorite cameos in a film 😂
    Also, ain't Dwight Yoakam great in this? He's pretty undervalued as an actor, I think.

    • @sluglife9785
      @sluglife9785 3 месяца назад +4

      I never knew that was Jim Jarmusch.

    • @devlinallistair-zx5by
      @devlinallistair-zx5by 3 месяца назад +5

      Right up there with Tom Waits in Mystery Men

    • @reservoirdude92
      @reservoirdude92 3 месяца назад +2

      @@devlinallistair-zx5by Tom Waits in ANYTHING is great haha

    • @DonRoccoRicardo
      @DonRoccoRicardo 3 месяца назад

      What is a Jim Jarmusch? I didn't know it was a cameo...

    • @ghostofyourmom
      @ghostofyourmom 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@DonRoccoRicardo One fabulous indie writer/director.
      DOWN BY LAW
      DEAD MAN
      GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
      NIGHT ON EARTH
      MYSTERY TRAIN
      All amazing movies, and only a few listed. He's directed several more in recent years.

  • @seventhsonmedia
    @seventhsonmedia Месяц назад +2

    Thank you for watching this film. My best friend had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he loved movies more than anyone I've ever known, and it was the last one we watched together before he passed. He was a hell of a guy.

  • @MessOfThings
    @MessOfThings 3 месяца назад +4

    I cant say it enough, watching the best reacting to the best, then realizing that theres still almost twenty minutes of amazing discussion. 🎉

  • @johnmonk66
    @johnmonk66 3 месяца назад +6

    In an outtake blooper from Armageddon, Billy does the SLing Blade impression talking about the meteor

    • @joelleet936
      @joelleet936 2 месяца назад

      There’s an outtake/interview from Mr. Woodcock where Billy Bob does the Carl voice and Jon Heder does Napoleon Dynamite and they have a conversation 😂

  • @kubwell3856
    @kubwell3856 3 месяца назад +6

    Great reaction to an underrated and forgotten film. You two are the cutest! ❤

  • @joeyrogers7017
    @joeyrogers7017 3 месяца назад +50

    Billy Bob steals the show, but Dwight Yoakam is good, too. Billy Bob stars in Sling Blade with Lucas Black and a country music star. Eight years later, Billy Bob stars in Friday Night Lights with Lucas Black and a country music star.

    • @jh5131
      @jh5131 3 месяца назад +6

      Yoakam is great, a world class jerk in this

    • @joeyrogers7017
      @joeyrogers7017 3 месяца назад +2

      Absolutely that's what makes his performance so great.

    • @scipioafricanus5871
      @scipioafricanus5871 3 месяца назад

      @@jh5131 But Linda know not to talk to him, when he is _hurting._

  • @lucashoward1905
    @lucashoward1905 3 месяца назад +8

    This was filmed near my hometown in Benton, Arkansas. This movie made some of the places featured very popular. There is even a “Slingblades Diner”.

  • @bryanlawrence6234
    @bryanlawrence6234 3 месяца назад +4

    Finally, someone reacting to this great flick. Thank you.

  • @texaspatriot4215
    @texaspatriot4215 3 месяца назад +4

    So glad you guys watched this amazing film, so many reactors on here do the same movies over and over when there so many amazing movies that are never covered, thank y'all for this.

  • @beatmet2355
    @beatmet2355 3 месяца назад +2

    Thanks for reacting to this, I don’t know if anyone else has covered this movie.
    The actor playing Doyle is Dwight Yoakum who is also a country singer and songwriter. And Robert Duvall is great in everything.
    I watched the commentary and most of the actors aren’t “professional” actors, but they were actual residents of the town this was shot in.

  • @CerebralAptitude
    @CerebralAptitude 3 месяца назад +5

    this movie is a hidden Masterpiece and to me it is the number one most underrated movie in the history of Cinema

  • @jameswinburn6843
    @jameswinburn6843 3 месяца назад +1

    Billy Bob got the idea for the screenplay when he mugged at himself in the mirror. He had changed his face just by flexing his facial muscles and the result was so amazing to him that he thought, "I've got to write a movie for this character". Slingblade was the result. It's still hard to believe Carl is actually Billy Bob Thornton.

  • @deankh55
    @deankh55 3 месяца назад +20

    The fact that Karl was happy and had a good life for the first time was so wonderful to see. But to know he was willing to give it all up for Frank to have a good life was incredible and showed who he really was.

  • @clintmorrison5863
    @clintmorrison5863 3 месяца назад +3

    I saw this when it came out in the theater. I had no idea what it was about or who was in it. My friend and I didn't realize it was John Ritter until halfway through the movie. Still one of the best movies I've ever seen.

  • @rickwelch8464
    @rickwelch8464 3 месяца назад +4

    Saw the thumbnail and I think I audibly said "F yes!" Top reactors doing a top movie thank you for making my Thursday much better!

  • @raymondmoore5476
    @raymondmoore5476 3 месяца назад +17

    SO thrilled you watched this movie. Talk about a under rated movie. I have no idea how it is not far more well known. I Love this movie!!!!!!

    • @nsasupporter7557
      @nsasupporter7557 3 месяца назад +1

      It was nominated for 4 Oscar’s! It’s not underrated at all. Would everybody please stop throwing “underrated” around mindlessly so much, it’s annoying as hell

  • @Bringmethehorizondude
    @Bringmethehorizondude 3 месяца назад +8

    Love, hate, sacrifice, and ultimately redemption. This movie is an absolute masterpiece. And I think it’s because it feels so grounded in reality that it resonates so profoundly. The hero is quiet and flawed, the bully is loud but ultimately a coward, and the innocent simply exist best they can.

  • @happydog6537
    @happydog6537 3 месяца назад +4

    If you wanna watch another movie with a similar vibe, and even some same cast members. That was filmed in the same time by Robert Duvall. He directed and wrote a movie called the apostle. As you saw, he made a cameo in sling blade and Billy Bob made a cameo in his movie. But it has that similar southern sweet town vibe. The apostle Robert Duvall says it’s his favorite movie that he ever made really good movie. If not for the channel for you guys if you like that sweet vibe, it’s the same thing and accepting southern town. Like you said just sweet.

  • @USCFlash
    @USCFlash 3 месяца назад +9

    YES!!!! FINALLY SOMEONE REACTS TO SLING BLADE!!!!!!!

  • @spinin1251
    @spinin1251 3 месяца назад +4

    "The most emotionally evolved person in the movie." Yes, that seems right. Probably in part thanks to being locked away for years and for having time for reflection on what he did and what happened in his life. Many people don't get a chance to think about things, properly assess their lives, and see the situation they are in objectively. Many people are at least a little trapped in their own existence. He had developed some distance to life and was the only one able to know and see what's really happening around him and who's who and what's what in the new world he found himself in. He understood everyone, including himself, better than anyone else did, and better than some of them even knew themselves.

  • @steverelaford48
    @steverelaford48 3 месяца назад +27

    Finally! Someone reacting to Sling Blade!

  • @carriesmith742
    @carriesmith742 3 месяца назад +3

    22:07 my husband got called to drive 15 miles to help my best friend's husband who claimed his mower "just stopped" in the middle of mowing. He drove all the way over there and he had indeed ran out of gas. Luckily my husband knew the guy had no common sense and went to the gas station with his gas can to bring gas with him before he went over there.

  • @jean-paulaudette9246
    @jean-paulaudette9246 3 месяца назад +3

    The 'water's cold/water's deep' gag was one my dad used to tell with his brother on fishing trips. Basically one guy's bragging that he's so long it reaches the water, and the other one-ups it by saying how deep it goes down.

  • @thepoisonmonkeys
    @thepoisonmonkeys 3 месяца назад +20

    Seeing old videos of Billy Bob slipping in and out of Karl during interviews is stunning. He is a genuine genius actor.

    • @TimedRevolver
      @TimedRevolver 3 месяца назад

      He's not so good at it anymore. Apparently getting old makes it harder to shift into 'Karl face'.

  • @danieljohnson2005
    @danieljohnson2005 3 месяца назад +5

    Isn’t it amazing how using a nickname can totally change your perception of someone? You hear the name William Robert Thornton and you think he must be some kind of English aristocrat, maybe the 43rd earl of some place. But then you hear the name Billy Bob Thornton and you start imagining a character out of The Hills Have Eyes.

  • @GastonBoykins
    @GastonBoykins 3 месяца назад +4

    Sling Blade is in my Top 5. Perhaps #1. Thank you for reacting to it.

  • @amberlamps8709
    @amberlamps8709 3 месяца назад +6

    Karl was so close to having a good life, but he sacrificed it for that boy. this movie rules.

    • @aer71367
      @aer71367 2 месяца назад

      I know!! He gave up everything for Frank and his mom!

  • @happydog6537
    @happydog6537 3 месяца назад +3

    It’s an emotional movie because it’s so real and it’s so sweet. And it’s actually how we wish we treated each other. Like the song lyrics says darling you’re so damn sweet don’t forget the milk. Great soundtrack for this movie too. So glad you enjoyed it. This movie isn’t for idiots.

  • @TetsuoVI
    @TetsuoVI 3 месяца назад +3

    You two are awesome. For some reason this movie isn't as popular as I feel it should be and it says a lot about you folks who not only gave it a chance, but were also moved by the thoughtfulness and understated beauty of this film. Great job as usual.

  • @MrRondonmon
    @MrRondonmon 3 месяца назад +20

    *Trivia tidbit* Billy Wilder once told Billy Bob Thornton that he was "too ugly" to be an actor, and that he should write a screenplay for himself, where he could exploit his "less than perfect" features. After this movie launched Thornton's career, he publicly discussed his conversation with Wilder, which was at a cocktail party where he was working as a waiter. He got a call from Wilder, who invited him over to his house. Wilder said he didn't recall their conversation, but was glad that he heeded his advice. As a gift, Wilder gave Thornton a paperback copy of this movie's script with his autograph, and a personal message inscribed on it.

    • @treetopjones737
      @treetopjones737 3 месяца назад +8

      Well if the acting thing didn't work out, he could get work as a mall Santa.😄

    • @DonRoccoRicardo
      @DonRoccoRicardo 3 месяца назад +5

      I'm straight as the day is long, but I don't think Billy Bob is "ugly"... He bagged Angelina Jolie in her prime.... He's either laying mad pipe, or has an award winning personality if he is ugly.

    • @rollomaughfling380
      @rollomaughfling380 3 месяца назад +1

      @@DonRoccoRicardo He's had a very difficult personality, due to mental health issues, and so has she. I had a friend who was their EA and weed dealer back in those days. From everything he told me, it was a very tough job.

    • @MrRondonmon
      @MrRondonmon 3 месяца назад +1

      @@DonRoccoRicardo They way you or I "think" isn't the way a great elite Hollywood Director of the golden age of Hollywood would think. They saw great faces as MONEY, like Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Clark Gable. So, in his honest opinion, he didn't have a leading man face, so he did not say you can't make it, he said you need to find "your niche. Does he have a Robert Redford, Brad Pit type face? No, of course not, it matters not who he had on his arm, hell many ugly men get pretty ladies. That can be money, or animal magnetism or just bad taste, who knows. But a great Hollywood director told him the truth, get yourself your own "Hunchback of Notre Dame type roll, after you become famous them you can "make it big" but he does not have a leading man face.

    • @michaelcullen5308
      @michaelcullen5308 3 месяца назад

      If you're going to copy/paste from IMDb you should give credit.

  • @geneaikenii1092
    @geneaikenii1092 3 месяца назад +7

    This is a great picture. My favorite Billy Bob Thornton film. Love you guys. Keep em coming. Shoutout from East Tennessee.. Peace and love, guys. See you on the next. Later..

  • @joerich1629
    @joerich1629 3 месяца назад +5

    It’s an absolute masterwork of cinema. Incredible emotion without manipulation of the audience. Glad you guys enjoyed it!

  • @EShelby2127
    @EShelby2127 3 месяца назад +2

    Speaking of Robert Duvall, "The Great Santini" and "Tender Mercies" which are not on the radar for many, but great films, where he plays two very different characters.

  • @candybanks8717
    @candybanks8717 3 месяца назад +1

    Along with The Sixth Sense, one of my all time favorite child performances. And Dwight Yoakam?... amazing! That's exactly what guys like that are really like. One of the best films of the '90s. Billy Bob was unbelievable. Iconic.

  • @arsbadmojo
    @arsbadmojo 3 месяца назад +3

    I'm sure others have said it, but if you can find the clip of Billy Bob Thornton appearing on "Inside the Actor's Studio" he talks about this; the way he had to position his jaw - and at one point transforms into Carl for a few seconds. I saw it many years ago and it remains one of the most striking things I have ever seen.

  • @BigHatMatt
    @BigHatMatt 3 месяца назад +25

    Carl's Priorities: Funds < Freedom < Family < Flowers < Fixing Things < Friends < French Fried Potaters < Frank
    Edit: Sorry Melinda! I originally forgot flowers 🌺

  • @mikeduplessis8069
    @mikeduplessis8069 3 месяца назад +4

    Thornton and Ritter had worked on a Sitcom together 1992-95. The worked again on Bad Santa in 2003.

  • @treetopjones737
    @treetopjones737 3 месяца назад +2

    Because of the hairstyle John Ritter called his character "pineapple man"😄

  • @susanliltz3875
    @susanliltz3875 3 месяца назад +45

    Thank you David for picking this one !!

  • @susanliltz3875
    @susanliltz3875 3 месяца назад +10

    Oh I’m So Glad You Loved It!!!!
    Yes Billy won a well deserved Oscar for this!!!

    • @charles7836
      @charles7836 3 месяца назад

      I agree. Well deserved. And I haven't looked up the answer to their question; did he actually write it as well?

    • @travisgray8376
      @travisgray8376 3 месяца назад

      Yes Billy Bob Thornton wrote it and directed it himself he was nominated for best actor but only won for best original screenplay

  • @citizenbobx
    @citizenbobx 3 месяца назад +1

    Billy Bob was best known for being a regular on a Burt Reynolds sitcom, Evening Shade. Nothing in Thornton's career up to that point had shown he could do something like Sling Blade, but it became one of those 90's indie phenomena, carrying pretty much that whole cast to accolades and him into the Oscar conversation. It's been thought the only reason he missed out on the statue was because it was same year Jeffrey Rush blew people away with SHINE, another one to recommend.

  • @msmilder25
    @msmilder25 3 месяца назад +1

    fantastic tour de force performance by Billy Bob, won him an academy award for adapted screenplay, and was nominated for best actor, well deserved. Billy and John Ritter were good friends, they worked together on several projects, this film, Bad Santa (my favorite Christmas movie) and the TV series Hearts Afire.

  • @jrobwoo688
    @jrobwoo688 3 месяца назад +6

    Thanks so much for watching this amazing film. Please watch Billy Bob Thornton in the Coen Brothers film noir, The Man Who Wasn’t There.

  • @auerstadt06
    @auerstadt06 3 месяца назад +18

    Chinatown, The Elephant Man, and now Sling Blade. You guys choose some great movies to react to. I wish others would follow your lead and cast their nets a little wider.

  • @troy34bronze
    @troy34bronze 3 месяца назад +5

    The original short Billy Bob made was just the interview at the beginning. Molly Ringwald was in it and you can still find it on RUclips

  • @HonRevPTB
    @HonRevPTB 3 месяца назад +2

    John Ritter and Dwight Yoakem were friends of Thornton's and they had a blast making this, Dwight was great in Billy Bob's show Goliath as well!!!!!!!

  • @kingbrutusxxvi
    @kingbrutusxxvi 3 месяца назад +2

    I used to occasionally do a good Karl impression during "cuddle time" and my wife could not stop laughing. Nearly 30 years since this came out and it never gets old.

  • @jonpevehouse
    @jonpevehouse 3 месяца назад +3

    BBT is also great in A Simple Plan, another underrated thriller. Also has Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda, Gary Cole and Brent Briscoe (who was also with him in Sling Blade and a few other movies).

  • @radioroscoe
    @radioroscoe 3 месяца назад +3

    The musician who kept reciting poetry? That is Colonel Bruce Hampton. Wonderful musician along with his band.

  • @d4mdcykey
    @d4mdcykey 3 месяца назад +2

    This movie is truly timeless. I would HIGHLY recommend another film called 'Daddy and Them', filmed in 1998 right after Sling Blade, and was written, directed by, and starring Billy Bob Thornton. It was not released until 2001 after Billy had some bad beef with Miramax and they shelved it for a few years.
    At any rate, it is one of the best southern humor films you'll ever see and the stellar cast (many who worked for little or nothing because they loved the script so much) is amazing: John Prine, Laura Dern (whom Thornton was engaged to at the time), Andy Griffith, Ben Affleck, Kelly Preston, Diane Ladd, Brenda Blethyn, Tuesday Knight, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jim Varney. I doubt you'll find it on any streaming service because it kind of fell thru the cracks and most have never heard of it, so you might have to get it some other way. It would be fantastic to finally see a Reaction channel experience this hilarious movie.

  • @lessevdoolbretsim
    @lessevdoolbretsim 3 месяца назад +5

    This movie is a masterpiece.

  • @garychambers6848
    @garychambers6848 3 месяца назад +9

    I live in Arkansas.... This whole film was filmed in Benton (And Haskell) Arkansas..... Almost every scene I can take you exactly where it was filmed...... Which is kinda neat ....

    • @GastonBoykins
      @GastonBoykins 3 месяца назад

      I would love to visit the pond location. Those scenes are special to me.

    • @garychambers6848
      @garychambers6848 3 месяца назад

      @@GastonBoykins The scenes were most likely in Haskell at the State Hospital grounds.... I have fished in the "nuthouse ponds " years ago........In 1929, the Arkansas State Hospital purchased 3,000 acres of land between Haskell and Benton, where it built the Benton Unit beginning in 1931. Workers for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed more buildings for the unit in 1934 and 1935. The facility is now known as the Arkansas Health Center.

    • @GastonBoykins
      @GastonBoykins 3 месяца назад

      @@garychambers6848 RUclips didn't notify me of your reply, but I appreciate it. I would love to visit the grounds of these pond scenes before I die, whenever that may be. Thank you.

  • @bobcanada7382
    @bobcanada7382 3 месяца назад +2

    My favorite Sling Blade behind the scenes story: Billy Bob Thornton is good friends with Hank Azaria (of The Simpsons fame). Azaria was playing the heavily-accented Guatemalan houseboy Agador in "The Birdcage," which was filming around the same time as Sling Blade. Supposedly Thorton and Azaria would drive around LA in character, speaking like their respective characters to practice their mannerisms and accents. That would have been fun to see!

  • @daflotsam
    @daflotsam 3 месяца назад +3

    Daniel Lanois provided the soundtrack.
    He's a much respected producer in the music business over the last few decades, having also released is own works as well.

    • @4Topwood
      @4Topwood 3 дня назад +1

      Love this soundtrack and I think it added a lot to the movie. Daniel Lanois is as brilliant as Billy Bob Thornton.

  • @evelynne2846
    @evelynne2846 3 месяца назад +2

    OMG! When I saw that you reacted to this movie, I stopped everything to watch your reaction. This is an outstanding movie and it gets little or no attention. Billy Bob was nominated for best actor, director and screenplay. He won the Oscar for screenplay. This movie shot Billy Bob to stardom. Thank you so much. Yes, and John Ritter is phenomenal as is Lucas Black as Frank. Another great movie that get no attention is The FIsher King starring Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams.

  • @dougadams1052
    @dougadams1052 3 месяца назад +2

    Another interesting fact, Doyle was played by Dwight Yoakum, the country music star. Great acting by everyone.

  • @ajlynch5235
    @ajlynch5235 5 часов назад

    going from an underbite to an overbite from A Simple Plan Billy Bob is so amazing

  • @Easy_Skanking
    @Easy_Skanking 3 месяца назад +1

    Doyle's band has one of my favorite musicians in it. The legendary Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret. He was the one you thought should do slam poetry. Bruce's favorite group of mine was Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit. It was some incredible talent in that band!

  • @NandR
    @NandR 3 месяца назад +3

    My name in navy basic training was Slingblade or Carl Childers. We wore blue utilities, a light blue button up shirt and dark blue pants. I was also balding just like Billy Bob, and we had to have a "high and tight" haircut. My hair looked just like his. And the clothes. And my southern accent.

  • @guyjohnson259
    @guyjohnson259 3 месяца назад +2

    It is indeed "raul' from Panic Room. He's also successful country music legend, Dwight Yoakam. Not a fan of country music but the man's acting talent is undeniable. Wish he'd get more opportunities.

  • @Curraghmore
    @Curraghmore 3 месяца назад +2

    I've always wanted an opportunity to say "It ain't got no gas in it!" in a Karl Childers voice.

  • @DSmith264
    @DSmith264 3 месяца назад +16

    The wheel spin was a great idea. Bound to reveal some great films that would probably otherwise go unappreciated. Nice job, as usual.

  • @calm713
    @calm713 3 месяца назад +5

    "I like them French-fried pertaters, uhm hm."

  • @chadwickvon8019
    @chadwickvon8019 3 месяца назад +9

    Another great classic. Billy bob kills it in this role.. Great reaction as usual y'all.

  • @markplacker5651
    @markplacker5651 3 месяца назад +2

    Slingblade is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Top 20 of all time (to me) its.....perfect.

  • @stressfreepaperchase3215
    @stressfreepaperchase3215 3 месяца назад +4

    David thank you been waiting years for someone to watch this movie.

  • @markgettemeyer1145
    @markgettemeyer1145 3 месяца назад +5

    I didn’t know what time you guys were uploading this and have been checking RUclips since lunch 😅😅😅
    Such a great movie film. The characters are fantastic - especially Doyle and the way he’s portrayed. Thanks for doing this one!

  • @maximillianosaben
    @maximillianosaben 3 месяца назад +3

    25:42 - Oh, they've watched Panic Room together! Can't wait!

  • @Jason_Van_Stone
    @Jason_Van_Stone 3 месяца назад +31

    Every main character, says Carl's name outloud the last time they see him

    • @DonRoccoRicardo
      @DonRoccoRicardo 3 месяца назад

      Oh rearry???? Wow... Such an astute observation.

    • @geniusjohn8280
      @geniusjohn8280 3 месяца назад +3

      I was just about to post that!

    • @ASKMEABOUTMYGARDEN
      @ASKMEABOUTMYGARDEN 3 месяца назад

      ​@@DonRoccoRicardowell..these reactors didn't react to it you rude little twt

    • @donniewynn3277
      @donniewynn3277 2 месяца назад

      So correct

  • @stsolomon618
    @stsolomon618 3 месяца назад +4

    This film won an oscar for best screenplay. Another great film that was written, directed, and produced was Citizen Kane by Orson Welles.

  • @wpmayhew69
    @wpmayhew69 3 месяца назад +2

    Also, Thornton is obviously great in this role, but he has a performance shortly after this that I feel is even better. The excellent and dark Sam Raimi film A Simple Plan (1998), his performance in that is nuanced and tragic, he was nominated for an Oscar I believe.

  • @fredpace7514
    @fredpace7514 3 месяца назад +1

    Country Music legend Dwight Yoakam was amazing as the villain. The little boy also played in “Mudd” with Matthew McConaughey.

  • @Raven5150
    @Raven5150 3 месяца назад +7

    Billy Bob's first movie has john Ritter and john critters last movie was bad santa with Billy bob