Firestarter - The Cinema Snob
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2022
- With the new version coming out, The Cinema Snob reviews the original 1984 adaptation of the Stephen King novel.
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Bring back 80s Dan
only if you'll do it as 80's Dan
Brad, from one cat lover to another, I'd really love it if you'd do a Snob review of the following films:
The Cat From Outer Space
Cat's Eye
Sleepwalkers🤞
@@peterkrug4124 sleepwalkers is the weirdest funniest and disturbing Stephen King movie I love the Ron Perlman death scene my cat will sit in front of the TV when ever I put it on and watch it closer then I do
This could've been the origin of Stephen King's first superhero.
They stupidly say that in the remake.
Nah that was carrie
@@Melvinshermen They could do a super-villain team up!
They weren't the bad guys though
I remember the magazine ads for the sequel. They came with perfume strips that were supposed to smell like burnt things. They were so strong we pulled them from our magazine racks and sent them back.
So… Friday The 13th The Series?
Laughed really hard at that "seems legit" i don't know why. Brad's delivery is something
@@OfficerHotpants like with the beard and the glasses? lol
Oh I like this movie with its themes of revenge. And of course the end is quite epic with the running fire and her throwing fireballs. And this is before the era of CGI so all of it was real and amazingly no stunt people were hurt. Now this reboot we shall see. I'm sure they're going to CGI this one up though.
dude cgi is amazing! i love what is possible and i think this movie will be amazing!
@@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816 cgi sucks and awsome bad ass practical effects rules speciely from the 1980s rules and owns crappy cgi to 100000000000000000000 procent just look at classic movies like the thing from 1982
@@markusforsberg6741 It never ceases to amaze me what kind of trivialities humans can turn into an ideology.
Well, with CGI there's no risk of actually hurting any of the stunt people.
Ummmmmmm, yeah, I think the remake is a vote against CGI. Just saw it, and ................. it was bad. Of all the movies you would think would get a full FX treatment, a movie called FIRESTARTER would be at the top of the list.
"What if it exploded?" has got to be my favourite "bit" form any show ever. Answering the tough questions!
The "Burt Russell" and "... stand up please" remarks require a reward for greatest low-key jokes of all time. Brad, pure gold.
Jed Bartlett really had the best campaign people of all time if they were able to quash the stories about his involvement with the Shop, his actions in Cambodia during Vietnam, and all that Stillson business in the 80s.
5:54 Those are the actions of a man who has had his pants lit on fire more than once and knows exactly how to deal with it.
51 year old here. Your classic video game jokes were all on point. You make an old man happy.
Hey Sir, I'm 47. I collect vintage video games and play newer ones.
We are not old, Until we allow it to occur :)
Cheers to you and fight the aging by laughing at the cinema Snob :)
P.S.
Notice that both Coleco games mentioned were, originally meant to be played with peripheral controllers.
And hooray for the VECTREX, nice to see it get a rare shoutout!!
The Snob is definately the reviewer with the biggest treasure chest, full of references, from dozens of different subjects!!
Fun for the whole family ;)
@@steveharvey2102 Cheers!
I am pretty much the same age as Drew Barrymore and I absolutely love this movie. I'm a huge Stephen King fan. The music by Tangerine Dream made it especially haunting too.
I need to rewatch this one. I remember shaking my head at the 'Drew Berrymore Rampage' scenes after watching the fleeing extras (who weren't on fire) run around the same set screaming their heads off. Like the government hired The Tramps AND The Three Stooges...
Lloyd is so perfect ♥️
Lloyd got the 1st Literal Pop(but real an EXPLOSION) of the Review, While still tagging his own show! Well done Lloyd, well done indeed! 😎😉 🐱
Lloyd is adorable 😍. I love Siamese cats 🐈. They're so chatty.
Great score. Great effects. Great actors particularly Scott and Barrymore. Yeah the new feature will have a tall order to top this when its released.
Definitely
What about...great Scott?
One of the most rewatched movies of my high school years!
Just watched it again in preparation for the upcoming remake. I feel it still holds up as a suspenseful thriller! Good performances, amazing score by Tangerine Dream, and incredible fire effects!
Ditto!
one year after this movie came out, i jokingly asked d.b. how she created all of those fireballs in firestarter. her answer - 'that's my little secret.'
My day is always good when Brad uploads a new movie review!
Lol I love the drive the nose bone into the brain. There's no bone in the nose, it's made up of cartilage . There's also no way to get any significant amount of it into the brain.
That said, ramming the nose upwards and squashing that cartilage to bits is an excellent self defense move as it causes a lot of pain, and the eyes to tear up making it hard to see. As a bonus it interferes with breathing......
What?
Errrr that's what I hear.....
The upper half of your nose is made of bone.
I remember this movie being on TV a lot in the mid to late 80's. I always loved the climax. As a 5 year old I wanted to be Drew Barrymore so bad, because I thought she really had the ability to start fires with her mind, (lol) and because she played a few different roles in Stephen King's Cats eye which was my favorite movie at that age. As for the remake, I'm not thrilled that we're getting yet another unnecessary reboot of something from the 80s but I'm not surprised. I'll definitely be skipping it, to me Drew will always be "Firestarter " and is one of the reasons I will rewatch it whenever I happen to catch it on. I've read nearly all of Kings books yet for some reason, I've never gotten around to reading Firestarter.
I swear the trailer was banking off the part she goes LIER LIER PANTS ON FIRE
I remember them using this government agency the Shop on the movie Lawnmower Man.
I always liked this one. While the book was better, George C. Scott was one of the creepiest performances I'd seen.
Yes!
Then Charlie grew up to be an Angel and set Demi Moore on fire.
Congratulations, Lloyd and Brad for being on cameo!
I only saw this movie once like over 2 years ago.
0:12- Well, THAT escalated quickly. Thanks, Lloyd.
1:19- To be fair, it was released in theaters around the same time as E.T.
When David Keith showed up, I knew you would play that classic Independence Day '83 clip.
11:01- So THAT'S why my package from the mail came late today. DAMN YOU, GEORGE C. SCOTT!
13:12- At least the NES will be released the following year.
14:56- Yeah, I had the same feeling during Scott's scenes with Drew Barrymore.
16:38- Damn, Lloyd went all Michael Cimino on that horse.
I still think you should do The Burning that was an awesome slasher flick!
I want Lloyd to do more "what if it exploded" segments.
David Keith was a "pusher" one of the common supernatural abilities in King's stories - even through Doctor Sleep! I love that he got poor "Pimp of the Year" Antonio Fargas to drive the cab for cheap...My fave scene is when Charlie blows up Moses Gunn trying to escape in the jeep. If you pause the video/dvr just when the fireball is coming, you see a very wacky black dummy in the car with its head on backwards! After it blows up and the car flips in the air, you see the dummy hanging out of the car. Poor mannequin!
This is the most 70s 80s film I've ever seen.
You’ve never seen Breakin’? Saturday Night Fever? Taxi Driver?
@@wilcee238 Two of those are actual films from the 70s, this one is supposedly 1984.
that quitters inc. reference hit me hard, I just read that story
Did you see the movie adaption as well? One of the short stories in Stephen Kings Cats eye? Personally I think it's better than the book.
If Carpenter had directed this movie, it probably would've starred Keith David in some capacity.
On that note, has there ever been a movie that starred Keith David AND David Keith?
Imagine Lethal Weapon, but instead of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, it's David Keith and Keith David.
Keith David would’ve probably played Doctor Pynchot. Keith David would make a good Curt’s in a Dreamcatcher remake.
Art Carney in this movie when he picks them up at first in the truck looked so much like my dad I was like oh my god i thought it was him for a second.
My friends and I rented this on my thirteenth birthday, along with “Trading Places”, and “The Philadelphia Experiment” (this is so long ago that we had to rent a VCR to watch the films on, because my family didn’t own one yet). We loved the film so much that we watched it over again at least twice that night! It inspired us to create our own superhero team. My character had the David Keith “push” power!
Follow that Bird has a great soundtrack and that was my favorite song. Killer reference, Brad. Love that movie.
I just watched this the other night, along with The Miracle Mile...love those Gr80's movies!!!
Great movie, saw as a kid. Terrific score by Tangerine Dream. I had no clue who they were but later found out that they were a Prog Rock band. This was when I was a little bit older. I was downstairs in the front room putting together a puzzle. Me and my brother had a BeetleJuice and a Karate Kid Part 3 puzzle. These were poster art puzzles that we got for Christmas, I think it was. I was putting together the Karate Kid Part 3 puzzle. I think my mom was watching her soaps on TV in the kitchen. I think it was either All My Children or General Hospital. Right before a commercial break, I heard a piece of the score from Firestarter. Don't even bother telling me about the plot point cause I don't remember. And plus, I'm a kid. I'm not gonna sit through a soap opera. But I heard a piece of the score right when the program was going to a commercial break. And it was pretty odd hearing that as background music on a soap opera. I completely stopped what I was doing and said to myself, "Hey, that's from Firestarter." They never do things like this. It was always original music done by a composer. It was crazy.
I thought they were krautrock?
Speaking of David Keith being an X-Men character, doesn't he look uncannily like Tyler Mane as Sabretooth in the '00 movie?
Watched this on Showtime and saw Tangerine Dream did the soundtrack. Awesome movie.
Those fireballs are REAL physical things that happened !! Good times
If my son was there he’d say ‘This Sucks’!!!! ‘I want my cell phone and my PlayStation 5 with 200 games downloaded and an internet connection ASAP and bring some soda and pizza’! Yea if he acted like that he would probably stay for a week. He’d treat the scientist’s like maids.
Saw the film for the first time last Christmas. Very fun film, and a great Snob episode!
I know nothing of George C Scott beyond that scene in "A Star is Burns". So every time Brad mentions him, or he's on screen, I can only hear, "AHH, MY GROIN!"
I would love for you to do the sequel if only to showcase how many rings McDowell acts around the rest of the cat, while at the same time looking like he's having a good time hamming it up.
Would love to see the snob review George C Scott in Hardcore (1979)
I just watched this for the first time last night. I liked it and I’m excited to see the remake
Always loved this underrated Stephen King adaptation. Speaking of which, King himself softened on the film afterwards and besides, it was because of this he cast Drew Barrymore in Cat's Eye (1985).
To be fair, King pretty consistently hates any adaptation of his work by default when he's not the one making it. Then after he sees the proper critical response he either reneges on it or doubles down.
I remember this when it first came out. It was an amazing film. Gosh I miss the 80s.
3:18 the gift that truly keeps giving.
immediate thumbs up for the Quitters Inc reference
How plastered do you think George C. Scott was in this movie? That's what really caused him to explode, all the alcohol fumes around him.
I've always loved this movie as a kid but then again I haven't seen it in probably over 25 years.
This is the best “what if it exploded?!” episode yet
so good!!! p
It sounds really weird to hear The Thing was considered a flop back when it came out when its one of the best horror movies of all time.
LMAO, I love the ColecoVision references!
I demand an entire episode hosted by Lloyd.
He's the best thing on the channel.
He used to have his own show.
This is one of the amazing adaptations by Stephen King, great review Snob, take care
In general Steven Kings novels have been well adapted into movies and miniseries. Some may be better than others, but most are at least memorable.
@@tiffanysandmeier4753 Facts
HHHHAAAAA... you said Captain Trips! 🤘
Now I'm totally going to check out *Tangerine 🍊 Dream's discography.*
Beavis: FIRE!
yass queen!
3:02 Some Days You just can't get arid of a Little Drew Barrymore.
Yes I like the musical score by Tangerine.
my fave Tangs soundtrack is The Sorcerer, from their mid-70s/80s heyday.
BTW did anyone else spot the vacuum cleaner made by "Dreck"
It’s still hard to fathom the thing didn’t do well on release. It’s one of my all time favorite movies
0:50 This original casting would've been a bit ironic, considering that there's a scene in the novel where Andy watches "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" being shown on an airplane. "Casting Gag", indeed!
"George C. Scott was great in this." Almost goes without saying for most of his movies.
Brad, i've been watching your videos for years and years now, and i've never left a comment, so i just wanted to finally say, Lloyd is a funny name for a cat.
FIREBALL! ! !
I like how I got an ad in the middle of your ad.
I can’t be the only one who thought the lead was Kurt Russel for a minute?
I held back as long as I could, but part way through I gave in to temptation and had to listen to The Prodigy. I'M A FIYAH STAHTUH, TWISTED FIYAH STAHTUH
Praise the sun Charlie, praise the sun.
Lloyd -> 0:07, 16:19
Man, this movie is FAR better than the "remake"; sure not perfect but has charm and personality(plus the acting is really great)
Even I would love to have seen what John Carpenter's version would be like
Also thanks Brad, now I have "There ain't no road you can't climb" stuck in my head(and Tangerine Dreams)
I wonder if that 2018 movie Freaks was partly inspired by Firestarter.
Lloyd, you rascal!
I can’t say which George C Scott performance I liked more, this, Hardcore, or The Changeling.
Unexplained psychic child! Thanks NC.
Dude, I think that that is Steven King "secret" fetish because ther is an "unexplained psychic child" in like %80 of his books.
@@alchemicmercury oh no. The unexplained psychic child is everywhere. I know, he has his own "shining" universe and that's perfectly fine. But his universe also has a giant turtle and man-eating spider so it all works. Somehow. Cocaine.
@@alchemicmercury pretty much all the books he's written that involve a psychic child are connected to The Shining, so they're not entirely unexplained...they all have the shining in one way or another
I think the only time I've ever watched this movie was on one of the "Encore" channels. Really should give this movie another watch, and maybe find the book it was based off of, mostly to be ready for the remake.
I can't wait to see the remake. Also, the Shop agents suck at catching psychics.
The Segal comment got me bro
17:40 Best Delivered & Most Justified JESUSSSS I Ever heard!! 🤯💥
I'm in agreement that Christine is also one of my favorite Stephen King films. Its also one of my favorite Carpenter films
Same!
They set up Christine for a sequel at the end of the movie
@@makaveli4205 but it never did. And thats for the best because Christine was perfect as is, didn't need a continuation
They’re remaking it for some reason. Given it’s 2022 I won’t be surprised if they gender swap Rudolph Junkins and make Christine an electric car.
Interesting bit of trivia: when filming Andrew's death scene, Drew Barrymore was having trouble crying, so she asked David Keith to give her a spanking before the cameras rolled to help bring on the tears, and he obliged. Keith mentioned that in an interview.
Well, THAT'S not creepy!
@@louisduarte8763 oh, please.
Lloyd did 2 explosions in this! Yay!😆😺💥
Hey, Art Carney helped the Wookies during The Star Wars Holiday Special.
damn near the best line up for a horror movie Fan Boys and Girls
I’ve gotta get the book and movie.
This review was better than the remake. Wish I'd just watched the original movie now.
*Snob:* He was just tired of getting all those magazines he didn't subscribe to.
On one hand, great joke. On the other hand, Rainbird would do that.
Great horse-actor impersonation!
I'm the firestarter. Twisted firestarter
Well now I wanna see a Christine review 😄
Honestly surprised he hasn't done one yet
Considering Martin Sheen is the villain, is this movie set in a timeline where Stilson doesn't use a baby as a human shield?
No
Ah! The movie that inspired a young Michael Bay to get into the movie making industry.
Classic ❤️ i like Mark L. Lester, but Carpenter's Firestarter is something what we need. ❤️
Funnily enough, I always thought this _was_ a Carpenter movie, between the Carpenteresque music, editing and cinematography.