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    Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
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  • @jackspry9736
    @jackspry9736 Год назад +650

    RIP Warren Oates (July 5, 1928 - April 3, 1982), aged 53
    RIP Harold Ramis (November 21, 1944 - February 24, 2014), aged 69
    RIP Ivan Reitman (October 27, 1946 - February 12, 2022), aged 75
    RIP John Candy (October 31, 1950 - March 4, 1994), aged 43
    You will be remembered as legends.

    • @jonathanbirch2022
      @jonathanbirch2022 Год назад +46

      Rip Bill Murray’s career, 1976-2022

    • @jwil4905
      @jwil4905 Год назад +14

      @@jonathanbirch2022 Ouch.

    • @hodell82
      @hodell82 Год назад +3

      All greats!

    • @richardvehlow3341
      @richardvehlow3341 Год назад +31

      also Bill Paxton was a bit role/extra in this movie. RIP.

    • @08c6vette
      @08c6vette Год назад +19

      Oates was gone less than a year after Stripes was released.

  • @hillelhalevi
    @hillelhalevi Год назад +241

    This movie never gets old. It's a classic.

    • @user-mu2mp8ll6c
      @user-mu2mp8ll6c 3 месяца назад +4

      Darn right

    • @C-130-Hercules
      @C-130-Hercules 3 месяца назад +7

      That's a fact Jack

    • @C-130-Hercules
      @C-130-Hercules 3 месяца назад

      Actual Footage ruclips.net/video/ZB52NEPJxUs/видео.htmlsi=rQeqRsF7xVFrpiu0

    • @timreding4364
      @timreding4364 2 месяца назад +2

      "That's the fact, Jack!!"

  • @srsusansummers3070
    @srsusansummers3070 3 месяца назад +25

    Army brat here my father was a drill Sargent. We were raised as recuits. I remember my mother told him once these are your children not your recruits. I miss him everday.

    • @Contractnik
      @Contractnik 23 дня назад +2

      Bless him for serving our nation -- and your family for serving along with him. My son is about to enlist. GO Army.

  • @scotthill9648
    @scotthill9648 3 месяца назад +19

    “Hey, we’re walkin’” 😂

  • @sammartinuzzi2996
    @sammartinuzzi2996 3 месяца назад +32

    To all of you comparing the movie to your days in the military… Thank You for your service. You have my admiration.

    • @kennyfreeman8470
      @kennyfreeman8470 3 месяца назад +1

      Thank You ...i was inducted at Fort Knox and met the man that ask Bill what kind of under wear he wanted lol

    • @MichaelKingsfordGray
      @MichaelKingsfordGray 3 месяца назад +1

      @@kennyfreeman8470 No soldier would type "lol".

    • @benjammin4247
      @benjammin4247 2 месяца назад

      Thank you for your support!

    • @deirdre108
      @deirdre108 2 месяца назад

      Thanks for that! But you can really thank my draft board--lottery #66.

    • @BOHICA_
      @BOHICA_ Месяц назад +1

      You are welcome. Enjoy your freedom!

  • @deandynamite1672
    @deandynamite1672 Год назад +127

    I miss the 80's! Some great years!

  • @pfzt
    @pfzt 3 месяца назад +11

    The older i get the more i realize how unique Bill Murray was/is. The ultimate relatable und likable guy from next door, could be your older brother or beloved fun uncle but in this cases with enormous screen presence and star power. You just want to watch him doing no matter what and wait for that famous smirk.

  • @dangolfishin
    @dangolfishin 3 месяца назад +33

    "Are either of you two homosexuals?"
    "No, but we are willing to learn"
    😂😂😂

    • @Contractnik
      @Contractnik 23 дня назад +1

      Priceless comedy. "Is there a special school you send us to?"

  • @jond1965
    @jond1965 Год назад +18

    John Candy. As in every movie. Was priceless

  • @4700_Dk
    @4700_Dk Год назад +16

    This was filmed at Ft. Knox in 81. I went through Ft. Knox and watched this movie in 82.

  • @libertarian4323
    @libertarian4323 Год назад +75

    "Soldier, I've noticed you're always last." "I'm pacing myself, SGT"
    Describes my time in the military perfectly!

    • @johnnydev9318
      @johnnydev9318 3 месяца назад +1

      Actually, I have doubts that you would get away with talking so ironically (or whatever it's called) in real army life.
      There's a lot of artistic licence being taken here, which is understandable

    • @libertarian4323
      @libertarian4323 3 месяца назад +2

      @@johnnydev9318 This movie is based on actual events. They just can't say so because the EM-50 project and subsequent raid on Czechoslovakia was top secret during the Cold War.

    • @therealsapdad1942
      @therealsapdad1942 3 месяца назад

      That's cuz it's a movie

    • @coffeedonutsandhomer653
      @coffeedonutsandhomer653 3 месяца назад +2

      Reagan era Army wasn’t so bad. I got out before the never ending wars started…😅

    • @jamesalbrecht1631
      @jamesalbrecht1631 2 месяца назад

      Likewise.😅

  • @451whitworth4
    @451whitworth4 Год назад +93

    I love how all the recruits look 30+ years old

    • @onlythewise1
      @onlythewise1 Год назад +5

      i know time to retire

    • @ChrisStavros
      @ChrisStavros Год назад +14

      You'll notice this a lot if you watch older movies. Both the actors/actresses are older and the characters are as well. The themes and stories in general are about adult and middle-aged people, sometimes even the elderly.

    • @bridgecross
      @bridgecross Год назад +16

      Harold Ramis was 37 years old!

    • @bermanmo6237
      @bermanmo6237 Год назад +11

      The army was desperate for recruits. If you recall this film was made in 1981, the Vietnan War was not that long ago. I read the recruitment standard was lower to get recruits. I am sure it was like the real life. Ironically, the US Army today have issues attracting recruits.

    • @onlythewise1
      @onlythewise1 Год назад +1

      @@bermanmo6237 Vietnam days used the draft dork , why some left to live in Canada the draft forced you to serve just like Russia doing

  • @elta6241
    @elta6241 Год назад +67

    Warren Oates is a fantastic actor. His piece in Blue Thunder is just brilliant acting.

    • @LesterMoore
      @LesterMoore Год назад +1

      I really enjoyed his acting as Deputy Sam Wood in the Film "In the heat of the night."

    • @donarthiazi2443
      @donarthiazi2443 Год назад +1

      _'was'_

    • @jimbarrofficial
      @jimbarrofficial Год назад

      The Brinks Job

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 Год назад +1

      And Dillenger

    • @spencerhensley5495
      @spencerhensley5495 Год назад

      Sad he passed away so early not even a year after Stripes came out. I am sure he had many more great roles yet to come.

  • @Weebs82589
    @Weebs82589 Год назад +41

    RIP John Candy and Harold Ramis

  • @2ndarmoredhellonwheels106
    @2ndarmoredhellonwheels106 Год назад +13

    1978 I was in this same room during reception prior to basic osut training for most 19delta at fort knox ky.

  • @AdamSternberg
    @AdamSternberg Год назад +192

    I love how everyone gets a complete buzz cut except the two stars of the movie LOL

    • @trex2092
      @trex2092 Год назад +29

      What about the "don't touch me" guy from Texas.

    • @x5992
      @x5992 Год назад +20

      I think only John Candy got a real boot camp cut. The rest just a short hair cut. I went to Navy boot camp in 2002, everyone got the same shave.

    • @johnallen9439
      @johnallen9439 Год назад +18

      It's all psychological. The haircuts are all suppose to be the same along with the uniform which makes everyone look the same. It strips you of your individual identity.
      The first lesson you learn is that everyone is equally worthless. You will learn individuality is nothing and teamwork is EVERYTHING !
      This is one of the most important and fundamental part of the process to build you into a solder. Strangely enough for all of their demands for "Equality" women are exempt from this time honored and valuable tradition.

    • @FreedomFighter2112
      @FreedomFighter2112 Год назад +10

      Yeah kind of fake

    • @williamscanlan9681
      @williamscanlan9681 Год назад +11

      I was in the Army from 89 to 91. Basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO ("Ft. Lost in the Woods" as we called it"). When we got our first haircut we were asked "Quarter inch or an eighth of an inch?" Well, I thought, "let's take it down to the minimum." So they left on one-eighth of an inch. To add insult to injury, we had to PAY for those haircuts! Good times. : - )

  • @jackstecker5796
    @jackstecker5796 Год назад +513

    The most annoying thing is, once you learn to march in step, you do that skip thing to get in step, and you keep doing it the rest of your life.

    • @connyjohnson855
      @connyjohnson855 Год назад +38

      I left the (Swedish) army in 1988 and I still do it today when I'm out walking with my wife...it's nuts...

    • @jeffburnham6611
      @jeffburnham6611 Год назад +16

      Why would that be annoying? Do you also stand next to someone, extend your arm out to the side to make sure your 40" from them? LOL

    • @joandar1
      @joandar1 Год назад +10

      @@jeffburnham6611 No social distancing is six feet of two meters, arms are not yet that long, LOL.This is the new COVID Army rules after CCP decided make a new designer virus.
      John, Australia.

    • @k.chriscaldwell4141
      @k.chriscaldwell4141 Год назад +11

      So true. More annoying is the habit, nearly beat in to us, to NEVER walk between a running vehicle (tanks) and another vehicle or obstacle. I still, all these many years later, subconsciously avoid walking next to running parked cars in parking lots. It’s nuts.

    • @williamcurtin5692
      @williamcurtin5692 Год назад +9

      @@k.chriscaldwell4141 Must be like asparagus stink, not everyone picks it up. My favorite part of Army afterlifei s no longer hearing "Get down and give me twenty". Although by the end of Basic, we deliberately incurred 50 to reply to our Hawaiian SDI, when he asked us, "What you say, Company?", "Don Ho sucks!!!" (Tiny Bubbles was our loathed marching song).

  • @johnbertrand7185
    @johnbertrand7185 Год назад +51

    Love, love, love this movie! Saw it 4 years before I joined in 1985. What's made it better since is that a lot of this stuff really kind of happens in the military. Also, my old unit's patch is in this scene at 0:46. Its the one to the left of the door top middle, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (2 ACR) The others are: left 3rd ACR, right 194th Armored Brigade, and bottom middle 11th ACR.

    • @susieferenzi3805
      @susieferenzi3805 Год назад +1

      That's Ft Knox Kentucky, I did a summer cycle back in 1985 myself.

    • @projectdelorean3133
      @projectdelorean3133 4 месяца назад

      11th ACR and 101st Here. *Salute

    • @donrohde3009
      @donrohde3009 3 месяца назад

      Thank you for your service

    • @BLACKTHUMB01
      @BLACKTHUMB01 3 месяца назад +1

      1st Cavalry Division. First Team!

    • @garretthurt6577
      @garretthurt6577 3 месяца назад

      I went to Knox and ended up in F-troop 2/2 ACR. 90-92.

  • @georgemallory797
    @georgemallory797 Год назад +22

    I was a caddy in 1981 when this came out, so Murray was ALREADY our God. We used "that's a fact, Jack," a lot.

  • @bossfan49
    @bossfan49 Год назад +40

    Candy's face when he gets hit with the duffle bag. 🤣

  • @lastcommodore2071
    @lastcommodore2071 Год назад +91

    I still remember watching this movie in the theater in '81 and how we young impressionable kids loved to quote from it afterwards.

    • @markhammar3977
      @markhammar3977 Год назад +6

      Ghostbusters too.

    • @goodbar440
      @goodbar440 Год назад +5

      Boom shakalaka Laka Boom Shakalaka Laka

    • @claudiocorleone7856
      @claudiocorleone7856 Год назад +3

      Video for me . The good old days!

    • @ObamaFromKenya
      @ObamaFromKenya Год назад +3

      @@goodbar440 that’s the fact jack

    • @crtinde
      @crtinde Год назад +3

      What sort of training soldier ?
      bwwwwARRRMY TRAINING, SIR !

  • @alvexok5523
    @alvexok5523 Год назад +9

    I love these wacky early 80s comedies. Stripes, Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, and Fletch are the funniest. And, can't forget Trading places

  • @tomjones2202
    @tomjones2202 2 месяца назад +7

    Wow,,, 1981 where have the years gone!!!

  • @timcairns30
    @timcairns30 Год назад +49

    Having gone to Fort Knox for basic training and training in the barracks they lived in, it was a great feeling of nostalgia knowing they filmed it there. Just a shame all those buildings have since been torn down.

    • @thomascaggiano2450
      @thomascaggiano2450 Год назад +4

      I was there in Oct 91 for basic. Watching this the memories came back.

    • @petebarton5738
      @petebarton5738 Год назад

      A 13 4 '84

    • @WritersBlockWill
      @WritersBlockWill Год назад

      @@thomascaggiano2450 We were there at the same time. Alpha 2/13!

    • @thomascaggiano2450
      @thomascaggiano2450 Год назад

      @@WritersBlockWill cool. Sgt Block was the D.I. when i was there.

    • @michaelmcdougal6728
      @michaelmcdougal6728 Год назад +2

      I was there in Basic Training in May 1985 in the same area of those barracks. Sang that same cadence while marching. My Drill Sergeants were not laid back. Bring back memories for sure.

  • @lewistasso8866
    @lewistasso8866 Год назад +58

    I loved the way the hair shaving was "optional." Only poor John "Ox" Candy had a regulation haircut.

    • @trex2092
      @trex2092 Год назад +7

      My boot camp hair cut was a LOT shorter than Candy's.

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector Год назад

      They gotta let the lead actors keep some of their hair so they can still look "cool" enough to bang the hot actresses

    • @kuhnhan
      @kuhnhan Год назад +5

      @@trex2092 Same here. There was no option.

    • @jmowreader9555
      @jmowreader9555 4 месяца назад +5

      At Fort Dix it was optional. You had a choice of a "short" haircut which was the standard buzz cut, and a "long" haircut which was compliant with AR 670-1. I suspect they did that because at Dix a "warm" day was below freezing. The Commanding General also demanded that soldiers be allowed to eat dessert because he wanted us to have the calories in it to keep our energy levels high, and there was no problem with that.

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb 3 месяца назад +1

      @@jmowreader9555 Not in summer it wasn't. Humid as Louisiana, sweat dripping off the bill of my cap just walking...

  • @ElectoneGuy
    @ElectoneGuy 2 месяца назад +2

    One of the greatest comedies ever filmed.

    • @davegunning1443
      @davegunning1443 2 месяца назад

      Let’s be fair, it’s one of greatest first half of a comedy movie ever filmed 😂

  • @jamesfrost7465
    @jamesfrost7465 Год назад +20

    Dang 1981..... I remember going to the theater to see this one. That was 1981? Damn time flies .

    • @seanpettigrew6314
      @seanpettigrew6314 Год назад +2

      If it makes u feel any better this movie came out 20 years before I was born

    • @jamesfrost7465
      @jamesfrost7465 Год назад +1

      @@seanpettigrew6314 Heh heh thanks, good one.

    • @seanpettigrew6314
      @seanpettigrew6314 Год назад +1

      @@jamesfrost7465 lol

  • @SnowyNightFlyer
    @SnowyNightFlyer Год назад +159

    0:48 John Candy sitting there like he owns the place. God, I miss him.

    • @GrnXnham
      @GrnXnham Год назад +12

      Haven't seen this movie in years. I had completely forgotten that John Candy was in it! RIP John

    • @ThunderAppeal
      @ThunderAppeal Год назад

      Oh, did you know him personally?
      No, I didnt think you did.
      So please just stfu.
      Thanks.

    • @Big73Bang
      @Big73Bang Год назад +8

      Crazy thing is, if you had been in the US Army at a basic training post, EVERYONE there is accurate! Those are exactly the people you'd see in real life!

    • @lewistasso8866
      @lewistasso8866 Год назад +5

      Ahhh-hahaha!! So right. He was "The King of Cool" in that scene.

    • @charlesivey100
      @charlesivey100 Год назад +1

      @Big73Bang: I thought the same thing the first time seeing this movie in the theater. I was wondering if the writers were going through basic training with me.

  • @nachopza3037
    @nachopza3037 Год назад +22

    These comedians make me laugh even when I’m in very bad mood. I will hear me laughing with them in heaven.

  • @specialed8156
    @specialed8156 Год назад +126

    Just the cast itself was gold

    • @fredhammer6413
      @fredhammer6413 Год назад +2

      Casts are usually made of plaster or fiberglass.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Год назад +3

      @@fredhammer6413 Please don't bring your family issues into this discussion.

    • @fredhammer6413
      @fredhammer6413 Год назад

      @@randymillhouse791 ; no , you’re confusing “caste” with “casts”. One it a hierarchy of social status in India, the other is to assist in mending broken bones.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Год назад

      @@fredhammer6413 Thank you. I made an error. But at least my caste is not "untouchable."

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector Год назад +1

      I like how the two lead actors get to keep a civilian-looking haircut, but everyone else gets nuked

  • @RobertDV88
    @RobertDV88 Год назад +18

    Elmo (Judge Reinhold) is out of step the whole time 😆😆😆

  • @benjaminlucas1635
    @benjaminlucas1635 Год назад +59

    Id say that Hulka was mighty laid back acting for a drill instructor.

    • @robertmorris8997
      @robertmorris8997 Год назад +18

      Drill Sergeant.
      NOT Drill Instructor.

    • @OldMusicFan83
      @OldMusicFan83 3 месяца назад +6

      I’d say while he’s not as intense as he could be, he conveys authenticity and gravitas of an old SFC of the era. I went in in 84. Hulka reminds me of the old Vietnam guys I trained under. My recruiter looked just like him in fact

    • @Antiwoke1
      @Antiwoke1 3 месяца назад +2

      The DI’s I had at MCRD in ‘75 would eat hulka for lunch. 😂

    • @kleetus92
      @kleetus92 3 месяца назад +1

      @@OldMusicFan83 Arlee Arney has entered the chat...

    • @yam83
      @yam83 3 месяца назад +2

      He has a quiet intensity.

  • @TheStapleGunKid
    @TheStapleGunKid Год назад +30

    I love how it ends with Do Wah Diddy Diddy as the cadance. It worked out so well the Sgt was totally cool with it. It would have been great if they did the entire song.

    • @kuhnhan
      @kuhnhan Год назад +8

      I was in the army, at that time. Believe me, that would never have happened.

    • @TheStapleGunKid
      @TheStapleGunKid Год назад +3

      @@kuhnhan That's too bad. Like I said, it actually sounded pretty good as a marching tune.

    • @RobertoDuranSamaniego
      @RobertoDuranSamaniego Год назад +1

      What are you guys talking about? This is exactly how it was in the Army.

    • @FlyinZX10R
      @FlyinZX10R Год назад +1

      I was in the chair force.. we used to March to some song that went “if you want a date tonight, you could ask our sister flight! They’ll show up in combat boots” …. I don’t remember the rest but we had to keep it down low.

    • @jamescarter5417
      @jamescarter5417 Год назад

      Had a drill sgt in AIT who used to march us to proud mary

  • @spencerhensley5495
    @spencerhensley5495 Год назад +21

    I had a big bunch of people to watch this movie with me on my 23rd birthday and we all laughed and laughed. Sure it’s unrealistic but that’s part of the fun. I would have been honored to be on the set of this classic. According to Judge Reinhold all of the actors in “the platoon” were told stories by Warren Oates about working with him on The Wild Bunch and I would have considered it an honor among those fine men who got to hear those stories. Warren Oates in spite of his tough exterior really seemed like an awesome dude RIP.

    • @davemoss9505
      @davemoss9505 3 месяца назад +2

      I like Warren Oats. He's steel cut!

    • @spencerhensley5495
      @spencerhensley5495 3 месяца назад

      @@davemoss9505Agreed. Seemed like a great actor and great human being. Sadly he refused to seek medical help before he died so we lost him at the young age of 53 not even a year after Stripes came out. Still he left behind an impressive filmography in any event. And a legendary one at that.

  • @Americanpatriot-zo2tk
    @Americanpatriot-zo2tk 3 месяца назад +1

    If anyone is interested especially the opening things were filmed in Louisville Kentucky which is where I live.

  • @francisclause4668
    @francisclause4668 2 месяца назад +3

    I LOVE THE CHARACTER FRANCIS!!!! U THE MAN!!!!

  • @BlackJaxxx
    @BlackJaxxx Год назад +10

    LOL, the look on Psycho's face at 1:01 :)

  • @richardstorm4603
    @richardstorm4603 Год назад +8

    This is the most realistic basic training/boot camp movie EVER. This is my word. And as such is beyond contestation.

    • @paulheitkemper1559
      @paulheitkemper1559 Год назад +2

      *Full Metal Jacket has entered the chat.

    • @richardstorm4603
      @richardstorm4603 Год назад +2

      @@paulheitkemper1559 Please. 😎Full Metal Jacket is the most UNrealistic basic training/boot camp movie EVER. Do you seriously believe that Marine, drill sergeants would hit, choke, and torture their recruits like that? No, they wouldn't. How do I know? Well, I visited a Marine recruiter shortly after this movie was released, and he personally promised me that this would never happen if I would join the Marines. And he said that Full Metal Jacket was just a silly movie and that I shouldn't judge the Marines off of a silly movie. Why would he lie?

    • @paulheitkemper1559
      @paulheitkemper1559 Год назад +3

      @@richardstorm4603 hehe

    • @rickworkman4608
      @rickworkman4608 3 месяца назад +1

      My MP was better looking and wore a bikini full time.

  • @lard_lad_AU
    @lard_lad_AU Год назад +6

    Bill Murray's facial expression in the thumbnail 3:07 sums up how everybody feels on their first day at boot camp

    • @hollywoodmkx
      @hollywoodmkx Год назад +1

      I was too tired to think that way. Stayed up three days straight.

  • @richardabela2090
    @richardabela2090 2 месяца назад +1

    I am so happy I have purchased some these good old movies on my iPhone and I will watch them with my son when he is older!And I I feel a lot better now seen every minute of this movie!👍😁😉😀😃😄🙂😊

  • @stevewright2972
    @stevewright2972 Год назад +16

    My Brother was in The Navy. They shave every recruit as bald as an Eagle. RIP Harold Ramis. RIP John Candy.

    • @tomdonelson385
      @tomdonelson385 Год назад +2

      This is the style of haircut I prefer and have had for many years.

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector Год назад +2

      Which makes no sense, because Navy dudes with tenure have pretty relaxed cuts that look not much different than civilians

    • @j.w.matney8390
      @j.w.matney8390 Год назад +1

      They left Bill's and Ramis' hair too long. My haircut in boot camp was like Candy's.

    • @j.w.matney8390
      @j.w.matney8390 Год назад +1

      @@80s_Boombox_Collector Still has to be short in the back and clear around the ears.

    • @mkl62
      @mkl62 2 месяца назад +1

      Don't worry. They won't scalp you. They'll leave some to comb. But you won't have time to comb it.

  • @Blackwater_House
    @Blackwater_House Год назад +12

    I was an Officer of the Crown (Civilian) embedded in an Australian Army Unit and the Company Sergeant Major called Me Out for a Parade of Three of his soldiers.
    I was his example of a Good Haircut.
    Told his Three Soldiers to disappear from his sight until they too had Good Haircuts.

  • @jpd9355
    @jpd9355 26 дней назад +1

    I remembered going through basic training. I sure do miss being 18 with my head shaved and running around. It made me a better citizen.

  • @jmua8450
    @jmua8450 Год назад +3

    I love Elmo sitting behind Winger trying not to bust out laughing. .

  • @gregory593
    @gregory593 Год назад +69

    I love this movie, but it made basic training seem so much more laid back and fun than it actually is. When I went through basic in 1990, I was like: Why isn't this like Stripes? This sucks.

    • @marks.3303
      @marks.3303 Год назад +9

      It wouldn't be too funny if it was realistic. That's what Full Metal Jacket is for.

    • @dangonpoop
      @dangonpoop Год назад +3

      Me too. Until the last couple weeks. Then the drill sergeants eased up and showed some personality.

    • @stevefreeman9265
      @stevefreeman9265 8 месяцев назад

      I saw it 2 weeks after basic training all of us looked at each other and said too bad basic wasn't that laid back

    • @k.r.baylor8825
      @k.r.baylor8825 3 месяца назад

      The Army of the late 1970s was much different than it was ten years later, when it headed to the Gulf War as a professional fighting force.

    • @patrickgriffitt6551
      @patrickgriffitt6551 3 месяца назад

      I went through in 1970. It isn't supposed to be laid back. It's supposed to get you ready for high stresses and minimal time to prepare.

  • @tim9323
    @tim9323 Год назад +4

    4:43 John Candys Face Priceless!

  • @bermanmo6237
    @bermanmo6237 Год назад +12

    Hulka was not a bad guy. He seemed like he really care about his recruits. He is also more old school. Does not believed in going easy. Going easy does not prepare you for the rigors of like. He actually respected him at the end of the movie.

  • @winstonwolff
    @winstonwolff 3 месяца назад +14

    Who else really misses John Candy? He made so many smile. He died at 43. 😢

  • @howardcohen4845
    @howardcohen4845 3 месяца назад +3

    Man I wish I could go back to those days 😪

  • @JLange642
    @JLange642 Год назад +16

    Sooo many rising stars in this classic! Back when movies were great and comedy could be clean!

    • @Big_Bag_of_Pus
      @Big_Bag_of_Pus 3 месяца назад

      A lot of the comedy in this movie is not "clean."

    • @JohnnyPerth
      @JohnnyPerth 3 месяца назад

      😂

    • @fredoswego
      @fredoswego 3 месяца назад +1

      I think you're forgetting the nude shower scene.

    • @spencerhensley5495
      @spencerhensley5495 3 месяца назад +1

      I wouldn’t describe Stripes as being clean unless of course you watched it on TV where it was certainly much cleaner. But it is a great movie no debate there.

  • @edwardcatton1047
    @edwardcatton1047 3 месяца назад +1

    " HEY!, ONE OF THESE MEN MIGHT SAVE YA LIFE ONE OF THESE DAYS?, then again?, maybe one of us Won't!!!, LOVED IT!.

  • @ogiecruz8063
    @ogiecruz8063 Год назад +17

    Watched this on VHS with the whole family back in the 80's

  • @JesusGarcia-cs9wl
    @JesusGarcia-cs9wl Год назад +43

    I loved this movie so much back in 81'.
    I joined the Army a few weeks later. 😀
    It wasn't anything like the movie. 😧

    • @curtisburga943
      @curtisburga943 Год назад

      What, you didn't get naked with sexy MP's that looked like PJ Soles and Sean Young?!

    • @John-kr7iz
      @John-kr7iz Год назад

      still in?

    • @JesusGarcia-cs9wl
      @JesusGarcia-cs9wl Год назад +7

      @@John-kr7iz
      No...that was over 40 years ago.
      Did 8 years then got out. Good experience. But unlike Stripes,
      Nothing funny about it.

    • @John-kr7iz
      @John-kr7iz Год назад

      @@JesusGarcia-cs9wl yeah i can relate

    • @edmondlau511
      @edmondlau511 Год назад

      Where did you go for basic and AIT?

  • @DucatiPaso750
    @DucatiPaso750 Год назад +103

    This movie was originally supposed to be "Cheech & Chong Go To The Army", but Chong didn't like not having the creative control and they backed out. Instead we got Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, and the rest of these guys and it was still hilarious!!

    • @HueyRocks23
      @HueyRocks23 Год назад +11

      That's funny. Cheech Marin actually went to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft and met Canadian-born Chong.

    • @timf2279
      @timf2279 3 месяца назад +11

      Much better movie without those clowns.

    • @kratoswar7667
      @kratoswar7667 3 месяца назад +4

      cheech and chong were not funny at all. And which one was it who said they didnt even smoke weed? very obvious and not funny cant stand that they are like the faces of it

    • @davemoss9505
      @davemoss9505 3 месяца назад +6

      Cheech and Chong would have been a crappy movie. Compared to the cast here those guys are bush league.

    • @johngray0
      @johngray0 3 месяца назад +4

      They should've made both versions.

  • @garretthurt6577
    @garretthurt6577 3 месяца назад

    I was 12 when this movie came out. My dad was a Vietnam vet and wasn’t too keen on it. It was my favorite movie. 6 years later I joined the Army and went to basic training at Ft Knox, where stripes was filmed. Sat in that very room day one.

  • @maulekuul
    @maulekuul 3 месяца назад +1

    I was in this very room for 19K OSUT basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky in October of 1992, a little over 10 years after this filming. We'd just arrived by bus, from Louisville, at about 4 in the morning. This was the "what the hell have I gotten myself into?" moment.

  • @horacioolvera7360
    @horacioolvera7360 Год назад +6

    Saw this when it came out, I was 15 years old.....still one of the best ever.....

  • @davem5333
    @davem5333 Год назад +21

    You can tell who was the biggest star by their haircut. Biggest names got less cut.

    • @vk4vsp
      @vk4vsp 3 месяца назад

      Apparently, John Candy didn't know before the scene was shot that they were all getting their hair cut. That expression on his face afterward wasn't all acting.

    • @spenser9908
      @spenser9908 3 месяца назад

      Same with Bill Murray having the least amount of marshmallow on him at the end of Ghostbusters.

  • @kevinfleming7038
    @kevinfleming7038 3 месяца назад

    Warren Oats was one of The Wild Bunch. That alone makes him a legend. He was the type of fantastic actor that simply doesn't exist any longer.

  • @tylertilwick6852
    @tylertilwick6852 3 месяца назад

    3:11 John Candy walking out with his shaved hair in his hands always slays me😂

  • @allisongaines3330
    @allisongaines3330 10 месяцев назад +3

    Loved this movie. Never get tired of watching it 😊😊

  • @ChilesRussellTaylor
    @ChilesRussellTaylor Год назад +5

    R.I.P. Warren Oates, John Candy, And Harold Ramis!

    • @cornballsack6271
      @cornballsack6271 Год назад

      shows ya bra no matter how much ones net worth is or how famous one becomes when ones number is up it's time to push up daises.I sure with organ transplants and the best medicine money can buy Rush thought he would live way past 100

  • @JohnThomas-lq5qp
    @JohnThomas-lq5qp Год назад +35

    Took my Army boot camp 51 years ago. As long as you did a halve descent job nobody really broke your balls much. Ten weeks after boot camp was in nice warm sunny Viet Nam.

    • @glennmartin8664
      @glennmartin8664 Год назад +4

      Welcome home, Brother -- glad you made it.

    • @LongTran-em6hc
      @LongTran-em6hc Год назад +1

      We are still using M16s that you guys left.
      Pretty looking rifles.

    • @JohnThomas-lq5qp
      @JohnThomas-lq5qp Год назад +6

      @@LongTran-em6hc I was one of the luckiest draftee. Had boot camp & AIT training 40 miles from my home so got to go home every weekend. Was placed in an assault helicopter company as a field wiremen. Got to play with wires all day long. Never had to fire my weapon. It was locked up in a room entire time in country. We had ass kicking ROK ( Korean Marines ) to protect us. Always wanted to go back to this beautiful country for vacation. We have a Vietnamese couple living next store to us in our row house. They are the best neighbors that we ever had. Very clean and never make a sound. Just hope & pray we never have to send young men & women into any more wars. Seems like nobody really wins.

    • @WungoBungo
      @WungoBungo Год назад +3

      Wow this response was so wholesome. Thank you for your service and thanks for putting such positivity out into the world all these years later.

    • @charlesblanton1008
      @charlesblanton1008 3 месяца назад +1

      @@JohnThomas-lq5qpDon't give this current regime a challenge, they're trying their best to make that happen as it is.

  • @ecamp6360
    @ecamp6360 3 месяца назад

    Actually quite a few comedians in that room. What a great cast.

  • @TheMichaelBeck
    @TheMichaelBeck Год назад +22

    I enlisted in the Army during my senior year of high school and left for basic training on June 16th. I was an M1A1 gunner (19K) and at the time the U.S. Army Armor center was at Ft. Knox where this was filmed. I got off the bus where they did. While standing at attention the weed (what our drill sergeants called us) next to me fainted and landed face first onto the pavement. Then we met our drill sergeants in the same room we did. I spent my first night in a one of those old white barracks. I ran the same obstacle course that John Candy goes off into the woods several times and when BM is trying to sneak away that was my tank motor pool. Basic and AIT was 16 weeks of fun for a kid like me. Like summer camp with weapons and really grumpy counselors. So many good memories. Now, all these years later I'm a licensed drone operator who's been accepted by the Ukrainians to come and teach new operators how to fly drones. Time to go make some more memories. Slava Ukraini!
    Update: The Ukrainian government isn't letting foreigners teach at the drone academies. So, I've applied to join the International Legion. My fingers are crossed. When I enlisted the USSR was always swinging their nuclear peckers around. I've always wanted to kill some Russians. God willing, I'll get my chance. I'll be sure to post a special message from Ukraine just for Colin, the BF2, CoD, I mean EOD puke.

    • @k.chriscaldwell4141
      @k.chriscaldwell4141 Год назад +1

      Ditto. Knox Sept. ‘85 to Feb. ‘86. M60s to M1A1s (19K) Wasn’t as fun as in this film, but it was fun.

    • @IronMikeDyson1979
      @IronMikeDyson1979 Год назад +1

      I did Knox in 99. Never realized it was the same course

    • @gracepierce1024
      @gracepierce1024 Год назад

      mmm will not try to hold the ukranian propaganda thing against you since our current gov is corrupt.

    • @colinkillian9265
      @colinkillian9265 Год назад +1

      Boomer who still thinks it's the 80's and the cold war is still ongoing...

    • @TheMichaelBeck
      @TheMichaelBeck Год назад

      @@colinkillian9265 Not a boomer, fool. Did you serve? Definitely not or you would at least ACT respectful to those of us who did, "keyboard warrior".

  • @mattmozgiel2111
    @mattmozgiel2111 Год назад +3

    God Bless Warren Oates, if you haven't seen Two Lane Blacktop...he's phenomenal in it. The Wild Bunch, Race with the Devil...brilliant performer

  • @mediocreman2
    @mediocreman2 3 месяца назад

    The late '70s to the late '90s were the golden era of modern movies. They haven't been good since then, and they were excellent before then but an older style.

  • @michaelbruce6190
    @michaelbruce6190 Год назад +5

    I went to OSUT at Fort Knox in 1991 and it was crazy being in the same exact area that this movie was filmed at. The barber shop, the small PX shopette, and the phone booths were exactly the same.

    • @thomascaggiano2450
      @thomascaggiano2450 Год назад +1

      Was there for basic in 91. Good times.

    • @WritersBlockWill
      @WritersBlockWill Год назад +1

      How's it going, Bruce?

    • @michaelbruce6190
      @michaelbruce6190 Год назад

      @@WritersBlockWill what's up man, how are you? You were A 2/13 right? I was B 2/13

    • @michaelbruce6190
      @michaelbruce6190 Год назад

      @@thomascaggiano2450 we were there at the same time I believe

  • @bryancoombesart
    @bryancoombesart Год назад +6

    Pure GOLD of a movie

  • @TheCombatartist
    @TheCombatartist Год назад +29

    I joined in March of 1981 - one of the best decisions I ever made.

    • @rexoates4484
      @rexoates4484 3 месяца назад +2

      October 81 here. 11-B ullet stopper.

    • @jameskearney4100
      @jameskearney4100 3 месяца назад +1

      @@rexoates4484 January 81 US Navy.

  • @nashburnette7247
    @nashburnette7247 Год назад +3

    I completely forgot that
    Night Court's Dan Fielding
    and Miami Vice's Zito
    was in this movie.
    And Stripes preceded both
    of those shows by three years.

  • @Tully241
    @Tully241 3 месяца назад

    This and Private Benjamin were classic army comedies I love to this day! 💙

  • @daveyboy_
    @daveyboy_ Год назад +13

    Ramis got a trim while everyone else gets a brush cut

    • @jwil4905
      @jwil4905 Год назад +3

      Well, Psycho got the modified Moe Howard.

    • @dianapevtsov
      @dianapevtsov Год назад +2

      Apparently because director Ivan Reitman wanted both Murray & Ramis to look a little more attractive since they're the leads.

    • @daveyboy_
      @daveyboy_ Год назад +3

      Where's the realism ? Not wonder Murray has issues nowadays

  • @dinoleite2559
    @dinoleite2559 Год назад +10

    Timeless classic

  • @BonnChnd
    @BonnChnd 2 месяца назад

    In 1979 we sang “Tiny Bubbles” while marching. It’s surprisingly marchable.

  • @TheStuport
    @TheStuport Год назад +8

    I still bust a gut when Sgt. Hulka called John Winger "Mr. Push-Ups" in the movie!

  • @timwright4263
    @timwright4263 Год назад +13

    Bill Murray's best movie. This is where I saw Bill for the first time. As an Englishman, I was totally in awe of this uniquely confident, cocky performer.

    • @dianapevtsov
      @dianapevtsov Год назад +1

      Interesting. I've heard Stephen Fry talk about how cockyness is a prominent component in American comedy, whereas English comedy is more likely to favor more underdog-ish embarrassment, that sort of thing.

    • @timwright4263
      @timwright4263 Год назад +1

      @@dianapevtsov I've seen that clip on RUclips. He mentions Belushi, a good friend of Murray's.

    • @spencerhensley5495
      @spencerhensley5495 Год назад +1

      What About Bob? Is still my favorite Murray movie but Stripes is #2 even ahead of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day.

    • @TheCaptainbeefylog
      @TheCaptainbeefylog 3 месяца назад

      When he was young Bill Murray was chummy with the Krays. He went on holiday to Spain with them and they paid for him to go to an acting school.

    • @timwright4263
      @timwright4263 3 месяца назад +1

      @@TheCaptainbeefylog It took me a minute but, yeah. That fits The Bill.

  • @mygoogleemail2063
    @mygoogleemail2063 Год назад +5

    I miss John Candy

  • @DanWint
    @DanWint 7 месяцев назад +1

    We need a lot more fun like this today in this WORK movie, TV time.

  • @goldilocks913
    @goldilocks913 Год назад +13

    Ah the time when you could say things that annoyed other people and everyone laughed in the end

    • @cornballsack6271
      @cornballsack6271 Год назад +2

      Those times are long gone it's October 20th 2022 everybody is offended by everything!!!!!

  • @davidnewland2461
    @davidnewland2461 Год назад +7

    I'll never forget that first haircut the barbers had a lot of jokes they asked one recruit a black kid with a huge Afro how much hair he wanted to keep he answered "all of it" the barber took his time very carefully cut the Guy's hair when he was done he very carefully lifted the whole Afro off the recruit's head an d laid the whole head of hair in the recruit's lap he said he wanted to keep al his hair and he did. In the end his head was cleanly shorn it's a good memory.

    • @trex2092
      @trex2092 Год назад

      Like shearing sheep.

  • @moriver3857
    @moriver3857 Год назад +2

    Love this movie. It reminds me of my initial Indic in Fort Knox in the 70s. Same memories.

  • @anthonyenos2835
    @anthonyenos2835 2 месяца назад

    I went through Army basic at 35 years old.Its the best thing I ever did it reinvigorated with a can do attitude.It changed me for the better.

  • @BackwoodsFilms
    @BackwoodsFilms Год назад +5

    Bill Murray -- the original Private Joker.

  • @lindahuff8976
    @lindahuff8976 Год назад +4

    With this cast, it had to be great.

  • @Digmen1
    @Digmen1 3 месяца назад +1

    I like the drill parade scene
    Army Training Sir!

  • @kenhill6077
    @kenhill6077 Год назад +3

    Gen
    Barnecke he owes me money😂😂😂

  • @truthhurts3524
    @truthhurts3524 Год назад +12

    I’ve seen this movie countless times since I was a kid and I always forget Judge Reinhold was in it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @damionkeeling3103
      @damionkeeling3103 Год назад

      Thanks, I was trying to remember his name. Judd didn't sound right.

  • @darrendaigrepont5869
    @darrendaigrepont5869 9 дней назад

    As for the marching scene at the end of this video, I used to work for the Air Force as a civilian. My job was pitching and sorting mail for young airmen in the dormitories. On the way to work, that song would come on, and I would imagine if a group of airmen are marching along with that song...😂

  • @Jerkbeefrow
    @Jerkbeefrow Месяц назад +1

    Ha !!! The Sargent has an UNCLE TOM !!😮😮😅😅😅😊😊😊😂😂

  • @johnbertrand7185
    @johnbertrand7185 Год назад +6

    Funny note, director Ivan Reitman didn't tell the cast that real Army barbers would do their haircuts so their reactions of disbelief are genuine. Because they were top billed, Murray and Ramis avoided being buzzed.

    • @Cadolots
      @Cadolots Год назад +3

      When Ramos dancing, Candy look genuine pissed off lol

    • @SkankHuntForty2
      @SkankHuntForty2 3 месяца назад

      John Candy was not considered top billed at this time? 😮

    • @johnbertrand7185
      @johnbertrand7185 3 месяца назад

      @@SkankHuntForty2 This was his first big movie although he was known from SCTV.

  • @Ben82077
    @Ben82077 Год назад +5

    I remember I had to get refitted for my dress uniform because I lost more weight then I wanted. I went from a 36 to a 34 almost a 32. The tailor said “You’re back.” I said yes ma’am, my body seems to think I need to loose more weight. We talked about it and we agreed to stop at 34.” I went in at 205 came out 189. (Started at, before boot, 230)

  • @ggaggagga4
    @ggaggagga4 2 месяца назад

    "You're a BUM, and you'll always be a BUM!" Too funny... It's so true that when strangers judge us, too often we feel the need to prove them wrong...

  • @theblankyblankness
    @theblankyblankness Год назад +2

    "Blown up, sir"

  • @jeffpierce4626
    @jeffpierce4626 Год назад +3

    My Dad took me to see this when it came out. Started Boot Camp in San Diego, CA 09/14/86. Good times.

    • @lewistasso8866
      @lewistasso8866 Год назад

      Marines?

    • @jeffpierce4626
      @jeffpierce4626 Год назад

      Navy

    • @robertmorris8997
      @robertmorris8997 Год назад +1

      @@jeffpierce4626 RUSSPICKER!!!
      I was a DI across the fence. Seen NTC nowadays? Civilian hellhole.

    • @jeffpierce4626
      @jeffpierce4626 Год назад

      @@robertmorris8997 I've seen the videos. It's a damn shame. Thank you for your service!

    • @robertmorris8997
      @robertmorris8997 Год назад +1

      @@jeffpierce4626 just something I had to do

  • @W.Stryker
    @W.Stryker Год назад +6

    I never got that kind of welcome from a drill sergeant at basic training in Ft.Benning GA in 1995

    • @LongTran-em6hc
      @LongTran-em6hc Год назад +1

      To be fair, you are not Bill Murray either

    • @W.Stryker
      @W.Stryker Год назад +2

      @@LongTran-em6hc that’s fair. I’ll give ya that. But at the same token, I did do a lot of push ups in Basic Training

    • @LongTran-em6hc
      @LongTran-em6hc Год назад +1

      @@W.Stryker I love how army instructors in different countries behave the same
      I got mine forcing me to do push up with a broken arm lol
      Basic training in Vietnam, around 2013-2014, corrected him in the class about anti aircraft artillery. I won't ever do that again.

    • @W.Stryker
      @W.Stryker Год назад +1

      @@LongTran-em6hc we don’t allow that here in the US. What are my were you in?, as if I don’t know already

    • @LongTran-em6hc
      @LongTran-em6hc Год назад +1

      @@W.Stryker I was a student at the time, 12th grade
      In 'Nam we have obligatory military training for everyone around 17-19yo. You know, just in case when you have to throw a few millions conscripts at a war, just like last time.
      Around 4 semesters of regular theory classes at high school/university, and 1-2 months of field training.
      I have broken my arm in an accident prior to that, so normally I am spared when we were out the field, but then I pissed off an instructor, so, well, that's bad.

  • @Mark-sj3xb
    @Mark-sj3xb 8 дней назад

    That Bill Murray smirk at 1:39 is classic

  • @ShannonFreng
    @ShannonFreng 3 месяца назад

    I love the look on Candy's face, as he looks at Ramis, just knowing he's going to say something smartass (03:42)!

  • @curtiswhiteheadjr1322
    @curtiswhiteheadjr1322 Год назад +9

    That’s messed up. John Candy 🕊 is the only one that came close to the fa real indoc haircut. 😏

    • @SwissTanuki
      @SwissTanuki Год назад +1

      He came to Krishna for sure

  • @14DaveHunter
    @14DaveHunter Год назад +3

    Sgt. Hulka was easily respected, right off the bat. Yes, it's a comedy, but no way would I have disrespected Hulka, like Winger does.