the fact that they used bearded dragons, some of the goofiest, most docile and friendly lizards around, for the deadly yellow spotted lizards is hilarious
@@scapetnt270 More likely youtube deleted it, They do that to my comments all the time cause of how aggressive I get when I'm pissed. Transphobes are way too full of themselves to delete a shameful comment they always just double down and act like they're being persecuted for "spitting facts"
Oh, you forgot to mention... Hector finds his mom. He got a cut of the treasure and used it to hire a PI to find his mom. It was honestly the sweetest moment in the movie.
@@EvilDick1995 No. She lost track of him, went looking for him, and couldn't find him. It says at the end: "Turns out? She'd been looking for him too."
The scene that gets me is when the Warden makes Dr. Pendansky destroy Zero's files and Pendansky says, "Nobody cares about Hector Zeroni", and Stanley comes in and tells Pendansky, "I do".
My favourite part about movie reptiles is that they're always something super docile and pet shop variety, they might as well have had kittens running around that desert
Yes exactly, I read this book in the 3rd grade and also had it read to our class by my teacher, when the movie came out years later, I was still able to say the lines-seconds before they came out of the character’s mouth. Word for word, as you said.
The only detail that I believe would've completed the adaptation was showing how Stanley began as a really chubby kid and turned into a lean boy by the end working out the whole digging thing
@@laurencottle397 They intentionally left that out because having Shia gain and then lose that much weight that fast for filming would be horrible for his health. One of the only acceptable reasons for cutting out important parts of an adaptation
I love how anytime Zero throws hands you completely buy it. He's like a foot shorter than Zigzag, but his approach and execution of the choke was so nicely done the viewer just accepts it.
Having read the novel a few times through, I interpret the random holes scattered throughout the desert to be from the Warden's ancestors digging for the chest of money before the foundation of Camp Greenwood. It wasn't that Zero was digging holes for no reason, those holes had been there for 100 years or so.
the book suggests that the Warden or her family actually were the ones who dug the weird holes on the outskirts of the lake when Stanly was on his way to Zero, after he ran away. also the book made it seem like that song he sung was like a family song his mom sung to him when he was little and sick and he sung it to zero because he was sick.
Yeah and also his great great grandfather climbed a completely different mountain. I think Bionic Pig didn't realize because he didn't scale a giant mountain with a pig haha, it was a more sloping mountain wherever Great Great Grandfather was from lol
@@Kyrridwen420 Yes I know, I just meant pig was insinuating that it was the same one the OG great great grandfather went up, but that was a completely different mountain. The one Stanely went up was the Kissin Kate great grandfather not the pig stealin great great grandfather
This film is actually one of the most faithful adaptations of a book, the film follows the book almost one to one, (one difference being Stanley being overweight at the start of the book, the filmmakers did think about getting Shia to pack on the pounds but they decided against it because they didn't want to put a child's health at risk just for a character role)
Stanley’s great great grandfather didn’t climb gods thumb with the pig. He lived in another country when that happened. Stanley great grandfather survived kissing Kate Barlow by climbing gods thumb
No he’s talking about his other grandfather that was robbed in the desert by Kate Barlow. Remember? He’s the one who found refuge on gods thumb. The one whose treasure is found buried in the same desert
While the whole deal with Madame Zeroni may sound weird to you, as someone who comes from a country where people still tell stories about withches an other mystical creatures, these can get absolutely weird. I'd say this type of soft magic deal is the only kind of plot device that can be used as ridiculously as you want whithout it ruining the consistency of your story.
There's still a section of pennsy dutch people who believe in hex/hexen, or spiteful witches, and they go to brauchers (Christian folk healers) to have their misfortunes lifted if they believe they've been hexed. I don't do that sort of braucherei but it's not uncommon! My "coworkers" who specialize in hex removal and reversal use mirrors and scrying tools, it's wild.
Holes is actually unironcally so good. And it kind of touches on a lot of deep real issues like the prison industrial complex and class issues and stuff
Yes! One thing Pig didn't touch on here is that it's heavily implied in the book/film that the reason Green Lake dried up was from the evil of racism and lynching Sam. So when some of that evil was corrected, the rain came finally returned.
also kid bootcamps, I havent heard much about them anymore but back in the day I remember watching movies or reading stories about how abusive they really were, with kids like dying there and committing suicide.
@@sleepygirl8005 Very true! I remember looking up "schools" like Elan that used to exist and was filled with a lot of messed-up stuff (and something else damning, is "schools" and detention centers like them were still around back when Holes was in theaters). 0_0
A scene from Psych Sean: this reminds me of that movie with Sigorny Wiever Gus: allien? Sean: no. The one with holes in it. Gus: alliens? Sean: no. The one where Shia LaBeouf was in. Gus: Shia LaBeouf was in Alliens?
No matter how many times I've seen that movie, the scene where Sam died in front of Kate made me cry. I remember seeing it in 5th grade lol. It was the best. I loved when we got to read books AND got to see the movie after we finished in English class
This movie is perfect for people who like gradual hints and a final big reveal that ties the story together and leaves no loose ends, imo more movies need to be like this
The mountain that Stanley's ancestor climbed was not the same mountain though, it was in a different country. I think the point is that Madam Zeroni's spirit or whatever understood the significance and because of that lifted the curse.
It’s because the deal his great great grandfather had made with Madam Zeroni was finally finished, but by proxy with the descendants of Zeroni (Zero) and Stanley (the descendant of the great great grandfather) carrying him up the mountain.
It's a different mountain to the one his ancestor climbed in 'the old country' (most likely Latvia I think?) But it's the same mountain his other ancestor climbed in the old west parts of the stories which are set in the US. 'Gods thumb' was the mountain they climbed so that's how it's tied into the family history twice 🤙
I don't think Madam Zeroni specified to the curse which mountain she wanted to be carried up. Also, I like to imagine that there was no intervention from Madam Zeroni's spirit or whatever, just that the curse was given a set of rules "Yelnats must bring Zeroni up mountian" and followed it like a computer follows coding. Stanley Yelnats and Zero were related enough to the two people mentioned in the curse's coding that the curse recognized them as the two people mentioned in it's script and lifted the curse.
I was in 5th! My teacher read the book to us and the movie came out later that year so we took a field trip to see it. I think it was probably the first book I was actually sucked into and couldn't wait for more.
You know something? I didn't think too much about one scene when I was a kid, but now it's a really good scene. The last scene with Kate Barlow was her sitting at Sam's boat in the middle of the desert and she says "it's so hot, Sam; but I feel so cold...". That meant that she felt hollow inside and then Sam (as a hallucination, obviously) appears and kneels next to her and says his iconic line "I can fix that". That clearly meant that Sam is the only person that could make her feel whole again. Tragic, but good writing. 👍👍
20:37 I had the same thought, but after hearing you say it. I realized that the first Stanley didn't climb Gods Thumb, since he was climbing before he came to America from some other place. Stanley just climbed some mountain that also had water at the top. The first Stanley only had to climb Gods Thumb once, after he was ambushed by Kissing Kate Barlow.
@@HartxStarr hence why not exactly. Sure you can problem dig through some reports concerning incarceration and find that reasoning behind then sentencing, but cases like these are normally solved in the same day by witnesses or cameras seeing the shoes fall on Stanley's head or seeing who actually took the shoes.
I sing that song literally all the time. It's the equivalent of elevator music inside of my brain, I would have definitely ended up singing it to myself collapsed on the ground after carrying someone nearly my size up the side of a cliff face. No thoughts only Madame Zeroni's bop.
Funny story; My dumb ass thought they were real and when I was about twelve maybe, I saw a lizard just minding it's business on a log and in my head it looked like a yellow spotted lizard, later that day I learned it was just a normal lizard and yellow spotted lizards don't actually exist. I don't think I've ever jumped that high in my life.
Yeah i like this movie! Shia Leboeuf as Stanley, Izma as the fortune teller, Sigourney weaver as the camp boss. I don't know the others actors but they played their part really well especially Zero :D This kid is so cute, kind and smart; he's so brave to climb a mountain too! I was so glad that he found his mother at the end, it was a touching scene.
I forgot how the whole killing Sam cuz not white is sorta historically accurate lmao. Damn Disney, can't even be mad this time shit happened like that.
“Suggest a nickname for me in the comments,” he says, struggling with with names like Razor and slice and sitting under a bright neon light with the nick name BIONIC PIG glaring.
@@thomaschapais-roy6020 I am. The movie came out in 2003, I was 13 at the time. I remember doing either in the later grades of elementary or early grades of middle school.
The mountain Stanley and his great-grandfather climbed was an entirely different mountain than the one in Latvia, where Elya Yelnats originally lived before moving to America like Madame Zeroni suggested. Also in regards to Zero holding on to the spade part of the shovel, Zero is still a kid. He was in a stressful situation where his only friend almost died. Stanley had that song sung to him as a child. That song has been in his family generations. He felt it was appropriate to sing since he survived the same way his great-grandfather did. History repeated itself. No food, no water, but he found salvation. Stanley was relieved.
My sister had to read this book in high school, and she wouldn't stop talking about how much she loved it, when the movie came out she probably watched it everyday
3:15 Him: *says the words "I can fix that"* Me: *laughs a little before crying* (legit I actually started crying how dare you remind me of that precious man!)
This is one of those movies I haven’t seen in over a decade, but I watched it so much that I remember every beat, scene, and can paraphrase the lines... so good!
i had TONS of bearded dragons (the lizards used for the spotted lizards) for pets, and back when i started watching this movie i had the sweetest lizard called Clutch. i'd laugh every time i watched this movie, i'd look at my goofy ass lizzie hanging from the bottom of my arm or sunbathing on my head. while the movie is trying to make the exact same type of lizard look terrifying. bearded dragons are the sweetest lizards ever
In my eyes growing up I saw Zero as the best digger because he never wasted time running his mouth complaining and paying attention to others. He focused on his task and got it done 💯. I liked his character for that. Antisocial, totally capable but just needed a helping hand, I related hard as a kid.
I've watched this movie so many times, but some how, watching a dude on youtube explain the story that I've heard of plenty of times still feels new and refreshing. The nostalgia is kicking in ahah.
Sam and Kate were honestly so sweet? Like I didn’t see the movie or book but from what you described they seemed so cute together. Kate literally turned into a badass after Sam was killed and shoot the Sheriff in COLD BLOOD for him. Like honestly good for her! Also Sams whole “I can fix that” thing was just ✊😔. They deserved better goddamn
i did an oral on this is senior year as one of my favourite books and movies from my childhood. it was so good unironically? especially with all the iconic actors and storylines
Only a few problems with this movie really. 1 is ofc the bearded dragons as lizards lol, 2 is the fact Stanley starts fit and stays like that rather than starting chubby and getting skinnier throughout (but there’s not much they could do about that tbh) and 3 is I swear it says in the book that holes are dug in lines and very organised and makes a specific point that farther out they’re all over the place? Idk, it looks better all over the place anyway Also lack of the scene with mr sir and the warden in her cabin and the nail polish thing
Such a classic movie with so many great actors. I can’t believe they got Jon voigt, sigourney weaver, and EARTHA KITT (queen)😳 They don’t make em like this anymore 😪
the holes Stanley found out in the desert while looking for zero weren't made by zero, they were the holes the warden dug with her grandfather looking for Kate Barlow's treasure
i watched this in school after i read the book for english and after i always looked back on it as "man this is a good movie" then rewatched it and whent "huh this is still realy amazing" a book movie that captures the spirit of the book
What was her last performance before that? All I’ve ever seen her do is cameos. If it was 20+ years before we were born, then she’s the lady that voiced Yzma.
@@mxsscoast_7036 You should really read up about Eartha Kitt, I don’t think the point was when her last role was. The point is that she is a legend and voicing Yzma is just a very small part of her career. She was a fantastic singer and dancer and sings the original Santa Baby that most people are familiar with. She was able to have an amazing career in a time when it was harder for a woman of color to do so.
@@brisolo8586 More than not. Just saying when I’m talking to people my age, I’m gonna use references I’m sure they’re familiar with. Like calling Julie Andrews “the grandma from the Princess Diaries” or “Mary Poppins.”
When I was in 3rd grade, our teacher read this to us, and then we went on a field trip to watch it. I remember being lowkey obsessed with it. I wanted to be one of them lol. I remember helping with yardwork because I wanted to dig holes. I also remember the old website had a thing where your IP address would get assigned a nickname, but I can't remember at all what mine was.
I remember having to read the book in middle school English class. The movie had came out right around the same time. (2003) The year before that (2002) we had to read Tuck Everlasting and a movie had came out for that one as well. So our class got to read the book and watch the movies for both.
I honestly can't tell if BionicPig really doesn't know who Eartha Kitt is or if that was just a gag to trigger boomers and Batman fans. Edit: God's Thumb and the mountain Madam Zeroni made pigman hike up everyday are two different mountains. Idk I just always assumed the curse broke cause it was flexible and Madam Z only ever said "the mountain" not it's name, so...fine print I guess?
Okay. I haven’t watched the movie in a long time.. but I just realised that the deal with Madam Zironi was null and void after the girl didn’t accept the pig. So the curse technically never should have happened
Literally read this book in like fourth grade as assigned reading because my teacher knew the movie was coming out so we read it just in time to take a field trip to see the movie. Best class assignment ever.
the fact that they used bearded dragons, some of the goofiest, most docile and friendly lizards around, for the deadly yellow spotted lizards is hilarious
Same with people using ball pythons in movies as ‘scary snakes’, always cracks me up
@@Clown_the_Clown what the actual fuck?
@@scapetnt270 wtf happened here
@@_plg he said that trans people weren’t actual people, and supposedly deleted his own comment once he realized no one agreed with him.
@@scapetnt270 More likely youtube deleted it, They do that to my comments all the time cause of how aggressive I get when I'm pissed.
Transphobes are way too full of themselves to delete a shameful comment they always just double down and act like they're being persecuted for "spitting facts"
Oh, you forgot to mention... Hector finds his mom. He got a cut of the treasure and used it to hire a PI to find his mom. It was honestly the sweetest moment in the movie.
I never thought it was that sweet. Didn’t she abandon him in a park?
And about how Hector is the one who stole the shoes and threw them on Stanley.
@@EvilDick1995 No. She lost track of him, went looking for him, and couldn't find him. It says at the end: "Turns out? She'd been looking for him too."
@@EvilDick1995 It's implied she was prostituting herself and got arrested which is why she never came back.
The scene that gets me is when the Warden makes Dr. Pendansky destroy Zero's files and Pendansky says, "Nobody cares about Hector Zeroni", and Stanley comes in and tells Pendansky, "I do".
I think the funniest thing is that the spotted lizards are just bearded dragons with paint on their backs lol
Yes! Lmao
Funny part is, bearded dragons are as sweet as lizards get. Docile by nature n all
I think the funnier part are that some are cgi
Ikr
My favourite part about movie reptiles is that they're always something super docile and pet shop variety, they might as well have had kittens running around that desert
What is impressive is that this movie adapts the book almost perfectly, almost word-for-word.
Yes exactly, I read this book in the 3rd grade and also had it read to our class by my teacher, when the movie came out years later, I was still able to say the lines-seconds before they came out of the character’s mouth.
Word for word, as you said.
The only detail that I believe would've completed the adaptation was showing how Stanley began as a really chubby kid and turned into a lean boy by the end working out the whole digging thing
@@laurencottle397 They intentionally left that out because having Shia gain and then lose that much weight that fast for filming would be horrible for his health. One of the only acceptable reasons for cutting out important parts of an adaptation
@@emackenzie yeah but I don't mean it like that, they could've maybe cast a chubbier actor but I understand how it could be an issue anyway
@@emackenzie actors don't always actually gain weight for rolls prosthetics have been used many many times for weight differences.
I love how anytime Zero throws hands you completely buy it. He's like a foot shorter than Zigzag, but his approach and execution of the choke was so nicely done the viewer just accepts it.
“WELL THAT’S TOO DAMN BAD”
Is the best line in the movie😭😭 I think about it a lot
i always laugh it’s too good 😭
and "excuse me?"
OH MY GOD I SAY THIS ALL THE TIME AND TOTALLY FORGOT IT WAS FROM THIS MOVIE
You keep digging
“You’ll thank me one day”
She did thank him one day though tbf 😂😂 however brief her victory was.
Having read the novel a few times through, I interpret the random holes scattered throughout the desert to be from the Warden's ancestors digging for the chest of money before the foundation of Camp Greenwood.
It wasn't that Zero was digging holes for no reason, those holes had been there for 100 years or so.
Thank you lol I was gonna mention this but you got it covered
the book suggests that the Warden or her family actually were the ones who dug the weird holes on the outskirts of the lake when Stanly was on his way to Zero, after he ran away. also the book made it seem like that song he sung was like a family song his mom sung to him when he was little and sick and he sung it to zero because he was sick.
Yeah and also his great great grandfather climbed a completely different mountain. I think Bionic Pig didn't realize because he didn't scale a giant mountain with a pig haha, it was a more sloping mountain wherever Great Great Grandfather was from lol
@@WeBAD3 it was the grandfather from the old West that climbed the same mountain not the older one
@@Kyrridwen420 Yes I know, I just meant pig was insinuating that it was the same one the OG great great grandfather went up, but that was a completely different mountain. The one Stanely went up was the Kissin Kate great grandfather not the pig stealin great great grandfather
@@WeBAD3 I have seen this movie a million times and I thought it was the same mountain. That's crazy
This film is actually one of the most faithful adaptations of a book, the film follows the book almost one to one, (one difference being Stanley being overweight at the start of the book, the filmmakers did think about getting Shia to pack on the pounds but they decided against it because they didn't want to put a child's health at risk just for a character role)
Stanley’s great great grandfather didn’t climb gods thumb with the pig. He lived in another country when that happened. Stanley great grandfather survived kissing Kate Barlow by climbing gods thumb
No he’s talking about his other grandfather that was robbed in the desert by Kate Barlow. Remember? He’s the one who found refuge on gods thumb. The one whose treasure is found buried in the same desert
@@treemarie213100 No he said Stanley’s great grandfather climbed gods thumb with a pig. The guy who carried the pig was the great great grandfather.
Was looking for this comment. Glad someone else figured this out
Yeah I think the curse broke because he sang the song on a summit. It didn’t really matter WHICH mountain…
@@johann392 Same, I didn't want to have to type up a speech for a video made four months ago.
For some reason I imagine Sam's force ghost giving a nod and an approving look when they climb out the lizard hole unscathed thanks to the onions.
“I can fix that” 😭😭 Sam and Kate deserved better
😥
Yeah.
Agree
I try to figure out which line is best..."I can fix that" or "As you wish"....🫠🫠🫠
I love how it's the "As you wish" of Holes
While the whole deal with Madame Zeroni may sound weird to you, as someone who comes from a country where people still tell stories about withches an other mystical creatures, these can get absolutely weird.
I'd say this type of soft magic deal is the only kind of plot device that can be used as ridiculously as you want whithout it ruining the consistency of your story.
Yeah, old countries like that with their own systems of mythology, magic, and witchcraft be like that sometimes.
There's still a section of pennsy dutch people who believe in hex/hexen, or spiteful witches, and they go to brauchers (Christian folk healers) to have their misfortunes lifted if they believe they've been hexed. I don't do that sort of braucherei but it's not uncommon! My "coworkers" who specialize in hex removal and reversal use mirrors and scrying tools, it's wild.
Holes is actually unironcally so good. And it kind of touches on a lot of deep real issues like the prison industrial complex and class issues and stuff
Yes! One thing Pig didn't touch on here is that it's heavily implied in the book/film that the reason Green Lake dried up was from the evil of racism and lynching Sam. So when some of that evil was corrected, the rain came finally returned.
also kid bootcamps, I havent heard much about them anymore but back in the day I remember watching movies or reading stories about how abusive they really were, with kids like dying there and committing suicide.
like the movie bootcamp
@@sleepygirl8005
Very true! I remember looking up "schools" like Elan that used to exist and was filled with a lot of messed-up stuff (and something else damning, is "schools" and detention centers like them were still around back when Holes was in theaters). 0_0
She wasn't just a surprisingly prolific voice actress, Eartha Kitt was also the original singer of Santa Baby :3
Hold up! The version played every year, like the most iconic one?
Holy shit that's something else
also Catwoman
@@BKStarlet08 so could that be why her potion turned her into a cat in The Emperor's New Groove?
@@betterlatethannever4529 lol Disney loves their easter eggs, so it's definitely possible
And Catwoman
A scene from Psych
Sean: this reminds me of that movie with Sigorny Wiever
Gus: allien?
Sean: no. The one with holes in it.
Gus: alliens?
Sean: no. The one where Shia LaBeouf was in.
Gus: Shia LaBeouf was in Alliens?
Hilarious 4th wall break!
For those who didn't know: Sam is Gus from Psych.
@@vauni98 I love Gus even more now
I love Psych
and Gus played Sam lmao
*Shawn
I never understood why there are such different spellings for the same name
No matter how many times I've seen that movie, the scene where Sam died in front of Kate made me cry. I remember seeing it in 5th grade lol. It was the best. I loved when we got to read books AND got to see the movie after we finished in English class
"Holes is a good movie, you like the movie Holes Steven?"
"N-"
"LIAR!"
"Look at me when I'm talking to you, son!"
*proceeds to stare directly without moving for three hours straight*
“Who voices ezma” BOI! That’s Eartha Kitt! The first catwoman as well! You better put some respect on her name!😂
and vekus from my life as a teenage robot
i was just thinking that, so offensive 😭😭😭
This movie is perfect for people who like gradual hints and a final big reveal that ties the story together and leaves no loose ends, imo more movies need to be like this
That's what I love about the book. It has all sorts of connections and hints that ties the story together.
The mountain that Stanley's ancestor climbed was not the same mountain though, it was in a different country. I think the point is that Madam Zeroni's spirit or whatever understood the significance and because of that lifted the curse.
It’s because the deal his great great grandfather had made with Madam Zeroni was finally finished, but by proxy with the descendants of Zeroni (Zero) and Stanley (the descendant of the great great grandfather) carrying him up the mountain.
@@juliusweiss5447 and singing the pig lullaby to him!
(I read that during the near end of the book although I don't know what chapter that was)
It's a different mountain to the one his ancestor climbed in 'the old country' (most likely Latvia I think?) But it's the same mountain his other ancestor climbed in the old west parts of the stories which are set in the US. 'Gods thumb' was the mountain they climbed so that's how it's tied into the family history twice 🤙
Stanely's family came from Latvia, so it was a different mountain that he took the pig up to.
I don't think Madam Zeroni specified to the curse which mountain she wanted to be carried up.
Also, I like to imagine that there was no intervention from Madam Zeroni's spirit or whatever, just that the curse was given a set of rules "Yelnats must bring Zeroni up mountian" and followed it like a computer follows coding. Stanley Yelnats and Zero were related enough to the two people mentioned in the curse's coding that the curse recognized them as the two people mentioned in it's script and lifted the curse.
Ah yes, bearded dragons, the most terrifying and vicious of lizards.
Can attest, my beardie tears into bugs like there's no tomorrow.
dude i remember watching this in 3rd grade! Fucking awesome movie!
but WHYYYYYYYYY
same
I was in 5th! My teacher read the book to us and the movie came out later that year so we took a field trip to see it. I think it was probably the first book I was actually sucked into and couldn't wait for more.
Hey good to see you dude!
@@goodnightosaka cool to see you again too man
When you realize you felt alot of heart when Zero got to see his mom while thinking "who TF is this?" Is a perfect story
The warden's great grandfather was Trout Walker. Thats why she wanted the treasure.
"Sorry, Princess! Your treasure is in another prison!".
"That's too damn bad"
I like when authors play supporting roles in their adaptation of their books
As a child of the desert, the rock climbing thing isn't completely unbelievable
I second this as another child of the desert.
Just thinking the same thing! LOL
Fr
desert people*
Yeah no same although I have cut the fuck out of my hand trying to grip a rock shard
You know something? I didn't think too much about one scene when I was a kid, but now it's a really good scene.
The last scene with Kate Barlow was her sitting at Sam's boat in the middle of the desert and she says "it's so hot, Sam; but I feel so cold...". That meant that she felt hollow inside and then Sam (as a hallucination, obviously) appears and kneels next to her and says his iconic line "I can fix that". That clearly meant that Sam is the only person that could make her feel whole again. Tragic, but good writing. 👍👍
This movie was the god of foreshadowing.
The “I can fix that” in the beginning lol, one of the only creators that can actually make me laugh at an ad read
BionicPig's name would be "Piggy" the very fucking second they find out he's a RUclipsr
Lord of the Flies intensifies
@@IntellectualBadass
*Meat's back on the menu tonight, boys*
I thought the exact same thing lol!
BionicPIG would be the first one sacrificed, @@IntellectualBadass. Why? Why not?
Wait wait wait I got one, "Hogtie"
20:37
I had the same thought, but after hearing you say it. I realized that the first Stanley didn't climb Gods Thumb, since he was climbing before he came to America from some other place. Stanley just climbed some mountain that also had water at the top. The first Stanley only had to climb Gods Thumb once, after he was ambushed by Kissing Kate Barlow.
Elya Yelnats was the one who had to climb with the pig.
Never knew that stealing a random pair of shoes that fell from the sky would actually put you in Court
insert joke about the American legal system
They were a pair of shoes that belonged to some sports athlete from a museum
Not exactly jimmy.
@@fightingmedialounge519 idk people have been jailed for stupider reasons
@@HartxStarr hence why not exactly. Sure you can problem dig through some reports concerning incarceration and find that reasoning behind then sentencing, but cases like these are normally solved in the same day by witnesses or cameras seeing the shoes fall on Stanley's head or seeing who actually took the shoes.
I sing that song literally all the time. It's the equivalent of elevator music inside of my brain, I would have definitely ended up singing it to myself collapsed on the ground after carrying someone nearly my size up the side of a cliff face. No thoughts only Madame Zeroni's bop.
This movie made terrified of lizards for a long time
same
SAME! My mom explained that they weren’t actually poisonous like that and just for the movie, but I had literal nightmares lmao
Funny story; My dumb ass thought they were real and when I was about twelve maybe, I saw a lizard just minding it's business on a log and in my head it looked like a yellow spotted lizard, later that day I learned it was just a normal lizard and yellow spotted lizards don't actually exist. I don't think I've ever jumped that high in my life.
@@Care_oline Hey little tip You eat it it is Poisonous but if it bites it is Venomous
@@liamrichardson6830 they where Bearded dragons painted and they are one of the nicest out of the Lizards
Yeah i like this movie! Shia Leboeuf as Stanley, Izma as the fortune teller, Sigourney weaver as the camp boss. I don't know the others actors but they played their part really well especially Zero :D This kid is so cute, kind and smart; he's so brave to climb a mountain too! I was so glad that he found his mother at the end, it was a touching scene.
Ngl those yellow spotted lizards traumatized me as a kid
I thought they were reeeaal
I forgot how the whole killing Sam cuz not white is sorta historically accurate lmao. Damn Disney, can't even be mad this time shit happened like that.
“Suggest a nickname for me in the comments,” he says, struggling with with names like Razor and slice and sitting under a bright neon light with the nick name BIONIC PIG glaring.
This is one of those movies that absolutely does the book justice. It's so good.
I remember watching this and then getting my little brother stuck in a hole we dug in the ground together
🤣 talk about building character
I think we all tried to dig a hole after reading/watching this. You're a liar if you say otherwise.
“I hope you like holes, I hope you like me” are the exact words I said to the love of my life and now we’re engaged
The book was one of the things we had to read for English class in school.
Same here.
Are you from Canada or is this book just being taught in high schools across the world?
@@thomaschapais-roy6020 I am. The movie came out in 2003, I was 13 at the time. I remember doing either in the later grades of elementary or early grades of middle school.
@@thomaschapais-roy6020 im from South Africa. So i guess its worldwide
They had the book in my class and I would just randomly read it. I think I read it at least twice 😅
The mountain Stanley and his great-grandfather climbed was an entirely different mountain than the one in Latvia, where Elya Yelnats originally lived before moving to America like Madame Zeroni suggested.
Also in regards to Zero holding on to the spade part of the shovel, Zero is still a kid. He was in a stressful situation where his only friend almost died.
Stanley had that song sung to him as a child. That song has been in his family generations. He felt it was appropriate to sing since he survived the same way his great-grandfather did. History repeated itself. No food, no water, but he found salvation. Stanley was relieved.
My sister had to read this book in high school, and she wouldn't stop talking about how much she loved it, when the movie came out she probably watched it everyday
Same lol
You should review FernGully: The Last Rainforest! Major nostalgia vibes (and very..interesting..when viewed as an adult LOL)
Omggggg yeaszzzzzzzzzz
3:15
Him: *says the words "I can fix that"*
Me: *laughs a little before crying* (legit I actually started crying how dare you remind me of that precious man!)
Facts.
I started to tear up. The love they had ♥️
I must say, this film is one of the most faithful book adaptations.
I honestly forgot Gus from Psych is in this movie.
Makes me imagine Shawn hiding somewhere in the bushes playing wingman.
It would be hilariously ironic if James Roday played Trout Walker
This is one of those movies I haven’t seen in over a decade, but I watched it so much that I remember every beat, scene, and can paraphrase the lines... so good!
Fun fact! The dude who played Zero is actually on youtube. He has a pretty small channel
hes a real g
What is it
His name is Khole Thomas
Wait, we not gonna even mention how Zero was the one to steal the shoes. One of the few plot points I remembered from this movie.
The curse, man
The movie came out just when we read it in school. We uaed to listen to the cd on reapet. My mom made yellow spoded lizard bead animals
This is such a cute memory omg
i had TONS of bearded dragons (the lizards used for the spotted lizards) for pets, and back when i started watching this movie i had the sweetest lizard called Clutch.
i'd laugh every time i watched this movie, i'd look at my goofy ass lizzie hanging from the bottom of my arm or sunbathing on my head. while the movie is trying to make the exact same type of lizard look terrifying. bearded dragons are the sweetest lizards ever
"If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs
That has been stuck in my head for about 15 years now.
Bro this is what thats fucking from I hate it
I still say “Well that’s too damn bad!” Whenever I can and it makes me happy and that’s all that really matters, I think.
13:51 “the sam and Mary Lou romance is starting to heat up a little bit.” Lmao Mary Lou is Sam’s donkeys name. The blonde woman’s name is Kate
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
He knows
In my eyes growing up I saw Zero as the best digger because he never wasted time running his mouth complaining and paying attention to others. He focused on his task and got it done 💯. I liked his character for that. Antisocial, totally capable but just needed a helping hand, I related hard as a kid.
This movie's plot lines just continued to unfold and intertwine as I got older.
he didn't even address the whole plot line with ZigZag or that the shoes were stolen by Zero.
2:40 I love bearded dragons so much but having them that close to each other is dangerous
Peta Jones should have been there when they killed the Mule. Breaking my heart Peta. Breaking. My. Heart
I've watched this movie so many times, but some how, watching a dude on youtube explain the story that I've heard of plenty of times still feels new and refreshing. The nostalgia is kicking in ahah.
When you watch the Raycon ad, please remember:
THIS MAN HAS A WIFE AND CHILD.
Seriously?
Wait fr...? I thought he was living alone eating ramen everyday like a college student 😭
@@lemonnugget293 yea he has a wife and a child XD he says it on the coroline video
🤯
@@lemonnugget293 Do you not see the amazing wedding ring?
The Stanley that got cursed was in Europe, he didn’t have to climb gods thumb with the pig
Your name would be Bacon, because you'd be sizzling in that sun.
Or Sizzler
Sam and Kate were honestly so sweet? Like I didn’t see the movie or book but from what you described they seemed so cute together. Kate literally turned into a badass after Sam was killed and shoot the Sheriff in COLD BLOOD for him. Like honestly good for her! Also Sams whole “I can fix that” thing was just ✊😔. They deserved better goddamn
Ngl popped a half chub when he said-
*"I can fix that"*
I was rock solid after the third word
Holes is a perfect movie, with zero plot “holes”
i did an oral on this is senior year as one of my favourite books and movies from my childhood. it was so good unironically? especially with all the iconic actors and storylines
Uh no offense, but this really isn’t the place to talk about your weird sexual exploits with books. Thanks. 🙏
@@juliusweiss5447 best thing I read all day
Sam loves onions, is upset about Pluto, and he craves buttery goodness, SHAWN!
“Misogyny - women is property” BARS
Where?
Sounds like a band name and a song
12:29 bars
On the spitting seed shells into a jar thing: I do it, too, then empty the jar/cup when it's full.
even my grandmother was OBSESSED with this movie til the day she died, my dude.
Only a few problems with this movie really. 1 is ofc the bearded dragons as lizards lol, 2 is the fact Stanley starts fit and stays like that rather than starting chubby and getting skinnier throughout (but there’s not much they could do about that tbh) and 3 is I swear it says in the book that holes are dug in lines and very organised and makes a specific point that farther out they’re all over the place? Idk, it looks better all over the place anyway
Also lack of the scene with mr sir and the warden in her cabin and the nail polish thing
I remember watching this in my 4th Grade class and I definitely didn't pass out on the desk-
Don't even say that! Ugh, the nostalgia!
Gabriel: _Says he doesn't have nostalgia_
Everyone who has nostalgia : *Impossible...*
Holes, Matilda and Harriet the spy were some of the most nostalgic films for me
I remember in gym class back in elementary school, our teacher would play the Holes soundtrack while we ran laps around the gym
Such a classic movie with so many great actors. I can’t believe they got Jon voigt, sigourney weaver, and EARTHA KITT (queen)😳 They don’t make em like this anymore 😪
the holes Stanley found out in the desert while looking for zero weren't made by zero, they were the holes the warden dug with her grandfather looking for Kate Barlow's treasure
The onion boi, Sam, is played by the same guy who played Gus in Psych.
Man, I first watched holes as a kid and remember being a little spooked, I've watched it a couple more times after and I'm SO nostalgic for this
This is one of my comfort movies even as a 28 year old. Sigourney Weaver with a southern accent makes me smile.
I LOVE her accent! And the kid version of her’s accent is stuck in my head lol
@@Joannefibracs9994 "I'm tired of this grandpa!"
@@heynae2016 "Well that's too damn bad!"
Her walking up to the camera as it pans up from her boots with Moby's 'Honey' playing in the background was bloody iconic 🤙
“…..scuse me?”
i watched this in school after i read the book for english and after i always looked back on it as "man this is a good movie" then rewatched it and whent "huh this is still realy amazing" a book movie that captures the spirit of the book
I cannot believe you referred to Eartha Kitt as "the lady that voiced Yzma" that's such a millenial thing to day 😂😂😂 ily tho
What was her last performance before that? All I’ve ever seen her do is cameos. If it was 20+ years before we were born, then she’s the lady that voiced Yzma.
@@mxsscoast_7036 You should really read up about Eartha Kitt, I don’t think the point was when her last role was. The point is that she is a legend and voicing Yzma is just a very small part of her career. She was a fantastic singer and dancer and sings the original Santa Baby that most people are familiar with. She was able to have an amazing career in a time when it was harder for a woman of color to do so.
@@brisolo8586 None of that explains why a millennial would know who she is.
@@mxsscoast_7036 It kind of does. Do you only watch movies and listen to music from times you were born? I’m a millennial.
@@brisolo8586 More than not. Just saying when I’m talking to people my age, I’m gonna use references I’m sure they’re familiar with. Like calling Julie Andrews “the grandma from the Princess Diaries” or “Mary Poppins.”
When I was in 3rd grade, our teacher read this to us, and then we went on a field trip to watch it. I remember being lowkey obsessed with it. I wanted to be one of them lol. I remember helping with yardwork because I wanted to dig holes. I also remember the old website had a thing where your IP address would get assigned a nickname, but I can't remember at all what mine was.
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this movie. It’s on Disney plus gonna check it out
13:50 Sam and Meary-lou relationship, up thats the donkey, uh cooool..
We have a table for Holes at work. Been talking to customers about it and the book/movie are timeless and fantastic. It’s so damn good!
I remember watching this movie when I was in 4th grade, and the intro scene with the rattlesnake scared the CRAP out of me!
You are slowly transforming from a Joji impersonator to someone who looks like the lead singer of maneskin.
I remember having to read the book in middle school English class. The movie had came out right around the same time. (2003)
The year before that (2002) we had to read Tuck Everlasting and a movie had came out for that one as well.
So our class got to read the book and watch the movies for both.
2021: depression
BionicPig: “I can fix that”
(Ps you should review Good Burger, its dogshit but is super nostalgic)
yes he should
Bump
One bionicpig going in the grinder
Otis: Kurt POISONED the Good sauce
Dexter: *I can fix that*
Ed: welcome to Good Burger home of the good burger! can I take your order?
Good burger is amazing, I love that movie so much. It's super cheesy and stupid, but it's great
Dude how does this man find every movie I’ve ever watched as a child and forgotten the name of and just remind me of it
Holes, the movie we all seen in class before winter or spring break 😂😂😂😂😂
Saw it on the Disney Channel
Fr
The answer to how he carried the pig up the mountain is simple. It was a different mountain. He lived in a different country at the time.
I honestly can't tell if BionicPig really doesn't know who Eartha Kitt is or if that was just a gag to trigger boomers and Batman fans.
Edit: God's Thumb and the mountain Madam Zeroni made pigman hike up everyday are two different mountains. Idk I just always assumed the curse broke cause it was flexible and Madam Z only ever said "the mountain" not it's name, so...fine print I guess?
Eartha Kitt. Ha, did her in the plane bathroom
@@cristina9202 I was about to comment this
Right. And the fact that Zero was Zeroni's direct relative also played a huge part in Stanley finally breaking the curse.
@@fossforus4704 wow really?? Thats crazy i never wouldve guessed
Okay. I haven’t watched the movie in a long time.. but I just realised that the deal with Madam Zironi was null and void after the girl didn’t accept the pig. So the curse technically never should have happened
No, she kept her end of the bargain. He did not.
My first bongs name is Hector zeroni
Still got him, going strong
Literally read this book in like fourth grade as assigned reading because my teacher knew the movie was coming out so we read it just in time to take a field trip to see the movie. Best class assignment ever.