FILMMAKER MOVIE REACTION!! Oblivion (2013) FIRST TIME REACTION!!
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Another movie with Tom Cruise in a scifi genre..I'm digging it!
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oh man, the fountain is a trip
Should definitely watch the patriots if you liked the last samurai
The fountain? Awesome, I love Aronowski's work so much. The Fountain is one of my all time favs.
U called it right..it looks like the mandalorian sime they used the san techniques...wrapping the sets with a screen and projecting background images creating accurate light atmosphere...u rock!
kingdom of heaven
I worked on this film! The lighting looks great because we used projections rather than green screen. So all the clouds/light was actually there on the day. Everything you see, the actors also saw while filming. Much like Mandalorian.
That’s awesome!! Working on this set must’ve been fun!!
@@JamesVSCinema it was definitely a unique experience. I didn’t work on the whole show, just the parts they filmed in New Orleans (St Francisville actually). We filmed the scenes in the floating apartment, desert clone fight and interior/exterior Morgan Freeman hideout. I worked with props. It was so fun!
Also Tom Cruise is a class act. Said hello and thanked everyone for working hard. He did this every day.
@@slaid3876 That's so cool. Can't imagine how amazing it must of been to work on this film. Also, how gratifying it must be to see it on the big screen. Also, I forgot to mention, but you certainly did a fantastic job. The probs in this film are fantastic and some of the best looking in any modern sci-fi film. I especially love the very sleek and streamlined white aesthetic of the drone and the gun.
@@JamesVSCinema Here is a doc on how they made it as wel.
ruclips.net/video/zvm0CN3tQFI/видео.html
This is really cool. Kudos, this film is visually stunning.
The sounds of this movie are my absolute favorite, especially the drones.
You are not the only one dude, Olga Kurylenko is just breathtaking. BTW, It's a good thing you mentioned "The Mandalorian" because that clean look you are talking about is the same technology they used in the Disney series. They used the same virtual set which uses LED screens instead of your usual green screen background. The difference is that with the virtual set, they can achieve natural lighting without using VFX and can also benefit from avoiding film location trips.
That’s for that!! Loved that they used that here too!
It wasn't quite the same. It wasn't LED screens, it was all front projection, but it was absolutely the predecessor for "The Volume" used in the Mandalorian. There's some great BTS footage for this movie: ruclips.net/video/eyHwDizJ-xE/видео.html
For lots of Olga, check out the STARZ series Magic City.
@@JamesVSCinema See Timothy Snow's reply below. It wasn't *quite* the same as in The Mandalorian, but a similar overall idea.
Well sort of. What they used here is a very early precursor of what they used on the Mandalorian. The wrapped scrims around the house set and then they went up the mountains in Hawaii and shot 360 degree footage of sunsets etc and played THAT footage back with projectors onto the scrims. It was not interactive in any way. They could design sets with it. It just provided real atmospheric lighting. What they did on Mandalorian is orders of magnitude beyond that. Using Unreal Engine to create real time lighting and interactive projections to match motion camera moves. So when the camera moves left, the projected scenery moves right. Mando's tech is freaking 3 levels beyond next level.
Director also did Tron Legacy, unique visual and good use of CG.
Also, they used Vray as render engine, which is mostly used for car/industrial commercial, giving it a different vibe.
Oh word!!
and also the grat claudio miranda
Hey I worked this project. Was really dope watching you react so positively. As an artist we rarely get to see how people feel about our work, so thanks for making this one!
An insanely underrated movie. If you watched this on a laptop, then you have comitted a most grievous sin. I would highly recommend watching the behind the scenes. There is far less CGI than you'd think, and as others have pointed out, they are using the same tech they would later use on the Mandalorian.
The advertising for this movie really hurt it. First, they advertised it as an action flick which it is clearly not. Second, they were not gonna ignore Morgan Freeman in the advertising so they ruined the first plot twist.
The poem they keep repeating is Babington's Horatius:
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods,
Great movie!!!!
I notice this about a lot of movie reactors. Almost all of them seem to be watching movies on a laptop. That kills so many movies.
Very underrated. He has a lot of underrated movies.
Laptop? Plasma or Imax. Do not settle, life is short.
If you like this soundtrack put "Tron Legacy" on the pool and you'll see...
Oh my gosh I love tron legacy, it was my favourite film when I was younger and I used to rent it out of the library all the time!
If I'm gonna explore a distant planet, I want to take Ellen Ripley.
That was exactly my response too ! but i added "Young Ripley" ;0)
Good response haha
Wouldn't hurt to also have Sara Connors on your side as well just in case.
Me, I'm taking Chuck Norris with me.
That was my pick also.
This film is way underrated. I agree with you mate, the vibes are bang on.
Yessir!
agree
God it's so fucking gooood!! My favorite scenes are when Jack is setting up the drone as a bomb - the camera panning around him and the drone, switching back and forth between that and Morgan, and close ups of Tom. SO GOOD! And obviously the scene at the end, "How can a man die better, than facing fearful odds? In the ashes of his fathers - and the temples of his Gods." So. Fucking. Good.
Oblivion is great movie and I think is gaining more respect as time goes by.
My man going on about how it's another Tom Cruise movie, but secretly hiding the fact it's another Olga Kurylenko movie just by sheer "coincidence"
😂😂😂
@@JamesVSCinema VANILLA SKY!!! Nobody saw it because it came out the same year that 9/11 happened, but its one of the best movies ever and has Tom Cruise.
Ya beat me to it 😂
"This is me battling my procrastination."
LOL. I have always thought of writing a self help book, titled "Dealing With Procrastination... Tomorrow"
and the first sentence would be, "I thought about writing this for more than 20 years, you think I'm qualified?"
That’s actually really damn good 😂
My family motto is "Never do today what can be done...tomorrow".
@@brettcoster4781 Never put off 'till tomorrow what can be done the day after.
@@brettcoster4781 😂
The soundtrack was done by M83, one of my absolute favorite bands out there. Check them out if you dig the soundtrack
Yeah they're the best I've been putting people on them for years so disappointing they aren't more mainstream
For whatever reason bits of the soundtrack remind me of Mass Effect, which is on point considering it's a scifi video game with similar visual design.
i LOVE this film. so underrated. i want to play a game set in this world
Previous reaction: "who is she? She is so breathtakingly beautiful! Who is she?"
Now: "So, I'm going to watch Oblivion. Oh yeah, there also is that actress I really liked in Death of Stalin... but it's purely coincidental."
:D
Simping part 2
@@Krondon-SSR Sometimes, it's okay to simp. :D
>.> *gulps*
Better not tell him about Hitman then. Lol
Olga appear in 007 Quantum of Solace, is a Bond girl.
This was a satisfying theater experience
oh man, i soo wish i had seen this in theaters, i can only imagine. not only for how spectacular it looks. the amount of bass the sounds those droids make xD
The visuals and the sound effects, especially those of the drones, were amazing in our Cinerama theater!
I can tell you who I'm not taking on a mission to space: Matt Damon. Never turns out well...
Or turns out amazing. Really depends on from which side you look at it .
I'm telling you, no Tom Cruise journey is complete without Rain Man. Love to see you react to it.
Also Jerry Maguire
Imo rainman is hoffmans movie
@@n0body550 You're definitely right. I show this film to Special Education Instruction classes. Cruise is 'all of us' who grow over the movie and Hoffman is LD persons who are still capable of function (varies by person). The film is a fanstastic example of empathy and acceptance. Not Cruise's best performance, Last Samurai or Magnolia take that cake, but perhaps the best film he is in.
I just watched Rain man, god it was so good! Every single word, specially how Tom reacts to his brother like he wants to kill him all the time.
For me Jerry Maguire is the better one. Both are amazing.
I saw this film while it was in theaters. Not bad at all. Great reaction bro.
Edge of tomorrow and now this??? James really getting into the good Tom cruise stuff now
"That's Jaime Fookin' Lannister" - Bronn of the Blackwater.
😭😭😭
When I was watching "Blackhawk Down" in a re-watch not too long ago, I said the same thing out loud 😄
I forgot that Melissa Leo was in this as the teleconferenced supervisor. She transforms herself into so many characters in so many movies! She was memorable in "Winter's Bone," which starred Jennifer Lawrence before "The Hunger Games" made her famous. It certainly led to her casting in that series.
In the infamous words of Weird Al Yankovich :
"I think I'm a clone now. There always seems to be two of me arou-ound!"
Still now, this movie is so underrated and undiscovered. Such a musically and cinematically beautiful movie with some beautiful philosophy in it as well.
The director, Joseph Kosinski did Tron: Legacy as well. Which also has the very clean look you're noticing here. It's a style of his for sci-fi. The man has a gift for stunning sci-fi visuals.
He also started in commercials which is probably where the commercial vibes came from.
Those insane drones... for me it's the sounds they make. The sound design feels like it is really coming from them, echoing and reverberating.
About the CGI: you should watch a making of. They used back projection for the sky base, that is why it looks a bit like Mandalorian and that is why the lighting looks so cool. the entire surrounding is back projection.
locations are real , vehicles are real , the bike was operational. the plane also moved in all directions. the light at the "house" was from a 360 camera on a mountain that rec 24/7 and the they made surrounting monitors that showed that 360 recording
The Director of this movie was a VFX director before he directed feature films. His only other full feature before this was Tron 2, and the VFX in that was also stunning.
Not only Olga Kurylenko but also his team-mate in this movie Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) played Stalin's daughter in TDOS.
One of the most underrated Movies ever! The Cast, the Music, the Cinematography, the Story, THE ENDING! This Movie is just beautyful!😁❤️
You're slowly working your way through the Andrea Riseborough oeuvre without realizing it. She's truly a chameleon. Hopefully you'll get to Possessor and the series ZeroZeroZero at some point.
Do the Revenant next.
@Karl Zaraiva its like Birdman on Steroids
Has to be one of my favourite sound tracks....adds so much.
Hands down one of the best sci-fi movies so simple yet so big the cinematography the score it was great
I never felt like they needed to flesh out the scavs. Alien with absolutely overwhelming firepower turns up, wipes out humanity and the survivors have to hide under a rock, biding their time. Amazing VFX, but story is just a mishmash of Moon/Terminator/Matrix.
The reason it might remind you of Mandalorian is they used the same technology with that background curved screen thingy
Yes, bout to say this was one of the first uses I can think of that used that tech
in 2013?
Makes sense!!
It's funny that you compared the effects to the Mandalorian. They actually used similar effects. The woman looking out of the window is actually looking at a huge screen with the sky projected onto it. This is why the lighting looks so good because it's actually there and not just added in post. That's why you can see the sky in the reflections around the rooms.
Tech 049 was the only one that found the oasis which is why the other Techs didn't go there.
The sound design in this movie is insane. I absolutely loved the sounds the drones made. They sounded so menacing.
I know a lot of people don't like Tom, and that's okay, but I personally feel that this guy was built for science fiction. Both this and Edge of Tomorrow show how great he can be in this kind of role.
This is such a great story. A very simple one, but one that's delivered almost perfectly. The scene at the end when Tech 52 meets his daughter is so amazing.
The score to this movie is absolutely incredible. I've been a huge fan of M83 for many years now, but their collaboration with Joseph Trapanese knocks this one out of the park. Their "I'm Sending You Away" track is one of my all-time favourite pieces.
Oh, and don't even get me started on how amazing the visuals are.
Is the movie perfect? Hell, no, but it's still one of my favourite science fiction movies of all time. James, I don’t think you’re geeking out at all!
i’ve been watching your reactions since i found your band of brothers videos. absolutely appreciate your commentary and attention to detail so much! i love how you give so much credit to the actors and the people who really designed the entire film to make it the way it is. awesome channel 👏🏼
Thanks for reacting to this brother..underrated sci-fi gold!
Andrea Riseborough (Victoria) was also in Death of Stalin (Svetlana), and she was in Birdman as well (Laura). She's such a chameleon! ✨💛✨
Oblivion is a criminally underrated movie. Especially the soundtrack is one of my favorites. And the visuals are amazing, I love the broken moon in the sky and that shot revealing what looks like a rock ravine to be the gap between the dirt-covered skyscrapers of a city. I agree that it would have been great to get more world-building and lore, it probably would have made for a great limited series.
Funny you mentioned Glados. I always got a lot of Portal vibes from the film, maybe because of all the white aesthetics and rounded shapes...
Gotta say that, not only are you commentating on directing, you're creating your own style. I noticed when the capture went inverted for the reaction. Keep up the good work!
I'm taking Christopher Lee with me. If any actor got the skills to survive on an alien world, it's him.
I mean the man hunted Nazis. He is most definitely the type of person you'd want on your side if your exploring a potentially hostile alien world.
Christopher Lee would be cool, but I think Brian Blessed would more fun
@@stuartspencer2161 🤣🤣 that would be fantastic. I can just imagine him standing at the door of the ship as its slowly descending to the alien world and then jumping out and screaming "DIVE!!". Also, he's an actual explorer who has gone on expeditions to Antarctica and the jungles of Burma in search of a rare orangutan so yeah would definitely be helpful.
the reveal of them being clones, and the theme song at the end blew my mind like a stick of dynamite
23:47: "what the HELL is *THAT!?* "
Best line I've heard you say so far.
Another great choice. One of those movies I saw once, enjoyed and knew I wanted to go back and figure out more of the world. I'm glad to revisit this through your reaction. Bless!
Bless my friend!
I saw this movie when it popped up on a streaming service just looking for something watch and was blown away. It's a great movie and is completely slept on.
I saw this in theater when it first came out. Remember telling my wife two things, this film is beautiful and I have to get the soundtrack. I still have a few of the songs in rotation on my phone.
This movie is underrated in my opinion. So so good.
This was filmed mostly in Iceland. The scenes showing the sky around the station that they work out of, were real filmed shots from a high-level observatory in Hawaii, which is above the clouds, and then projected onto screens around the set!!!
Wow didn't think anyone would react to this Gem...Awesome Reaction Once Again...
The soundtrack is everything to me❤❤❤❤
Super good!
The drone sound was my text notification for years!
Oh my gosh I love this movie and was really not expecting a reaction to this
One of the best things about this film is rewatching it. You’ll notice all the actor’s subtleties. Like Becca remembered more and had the same dreams as Jack.
Also, I have a fantastic story about seeing this film in theaters, as there was a little boy and his father sitting in front of us. During the pool scene, when she jumps in naked, the boy goes, “Whoaaaaaaaaaa dad…..did you see that pool?!?” We all lost it, including the father.
You know why this reminds you of the Mandalorian? This is one of the first movies to use projection mapping which the Mandalorian uses for everything. That's why the edges are so clean. Everything is lit by the virtual set instead of that weird haloing when you comp out a background
Glad you enjoyed it :D Its one of my personal favs so.
It looks so good because they shot actual footage of the sky and projected it on a screen around the glass house that way all the reflections and lighting would be much more realistic. Mandalorian is similar except their screen as LED. I really
An amazing and underrated sci-fi film. Though the story maybe a bit cliché to sci-fi fans, what sets this film apart is the absolutely amazing visuals. This film has hands down till this day one of the best shots in any sci-fi film in the scene where you see the shattered moon in the sky with all the debris. Also, the design of the robot drones and even the TET itself are absolutely fantastic.
James, you get to see a little bit more of Olga in Hitman (2007).
Freeman's quote at the end comes from a poem:
“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
Next TC movie: Jack Reacher (the first one)! With Robert Duvall, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo and Werner Herzog
The Director had made this from a graphic book, that he wrote.
New to your channel. Good stuff. Loved your reaction when Olga said "im your wife". I also agree that the sound efx for the robot thing is awesome.
Kosinski’s visual style works so well with sci-fi, and while I’m sure Top Gun will look great, it’s a shame he couldn’t get ‘The Black Hole’ or ‘Tron 3’ off the ground.
I saw this movie with my girlfriend two months before she passed away. This movie brings bittersweet memories
I absolutely adore the set design/art design and sound design in this film. So underrated. And upon rewatches, I get serious Death Stranding vibes, one of my favorite recent games.
The Theme Song by M83 and my fellow Norwegian Susanne Sundfør is pure epic perfection!
The same composer who worked with Daft Punk on the score for Tron: Legacy.
The main theme of this score is by M83, primarily Anthony Gonzalez who collaborated with the more “indie electronic” aspect of the score.
Joseph Trapanese helped compose additional music, arrange, orchestrate, and conduct the score.
Joseph Trapanese deserves to get more attention!
this movie’s soundtrack is insane
All will be explained in the 'Making of' videos. You'll love it! The director was also the writer. The house is lit by wraparound screens backlit with footage from 360 degree Haleakula in Hawaii.
Not sure if you noticed, but the brunette girl was Stalin's daughter in Death of Stalin. She was also just in a great horror movie called Possessor
see why the lighting is that good , in the make of the movie. it is true light , short of. i loved it
Have most of these poster including this one working at the movies so many perks like hooking up video games after work
I know you were probably kidding but I would really love a James Vs Games haha.
Stay tuned then ;)
Thank you! Finally someone sees what I saw in this movie. It's close to my favorite (not just Tom Cruise) movie. The soundtrack, in particular, is amazing.
that Cabin in the woods location is real. It was filmed over in the June Lake area. That is very near Mammoth Lake in California. I go Camping for a week every year for the 4rth of July for nearly 40 years a couple of Canyons North at a place called Leavitt Meadows , on Hwy 108 near Hwy 395. It's a private campgrounds but my brother in law has a key to the gate.
19:20 "Me fighting my procrastination!" - Dude, saaaame! That makes me feel a bit more encouraged to kick it in the ass more.
Love Love Love this movie dude!!!! Tom Cruise kills at as always. Morgan Freeman is the goat. That twist blew my mind. I love that you highlighted how amazing the CGI was because I always felt so sad that not many people praised it. M83’s soundtrack blew my mind. I’ve been listening to the credits song ever since. Thanks for this.
I thought they went a little heavy-handed with the "Are you an effective team?" thing and it was kind of a dead giveaway that they were aliens.
It's code words to determine if the team is deteriorating (from getting memories back) and needs to be pulled out - i.e. exterminated - and replaced by new clones. It makes sense that's in there, and a hint that something is off.
Thank you for reacting to this underrated gem of a movie.
The tech that made the mandalorian actually came from this movie. The precursor to the “Volume” was made for this film.
It's funny, you mentioned wanting to play Destiny and somehow I'd never really put the two together in my head before (the Tet always made me think of Atlas from No Man's Sky instead), despite this being one of my absolute favourite movies and Destiny being my favourite game. How has that never clicked? 🤦♂️
Jack's house in the sky was a full size set, not CGI. They'd gone to a Hawaiian Volcano and filmed HD sky for ages, morning noon and night.
This was then projected on set so the house was lit naturally when filming. CGI replaced by real world effects.
The thing I really loved about this movie was the coherence and consistency of the TET design aesthetic. Look at any "army" or major organisation in history, their design/iconography is consistent.
The visual design on this movie is fantastic, you can clearly see the director had a background in architecture.
But as others have noted not at all like the virtual sets of The Mandalorian, it was a bit too early for that. It was mostly 'traditional' FX with beautiful on location shots and smart set design. The video backdrops they used on the set of the apartment can be seen as a stepping stone towards 'the volume' as used by The Mandalorian though.
Fun fact: The title Oblivion is a double meaning. The obvious, Oblivion, being complete destruction. And second, Oblivion as in oblivious. Like the characters in the movie.
the drones were amazing. even knowing they're not real the sounds they make with those quick jerky movement.
A lot of what you would expect to be fake, in this movie they did it old school. That's why you feel it. And yes, the soundtrack makes me cry. Having real feelings does not make you weak, it proves that you existed.
I remember seeing "The Making Of..." years ago and ya they did have a special rendering system. I don't recall now if it was HD rear Projection, or the "Madalorian" style of almost enclosed computer graphics. The reflective light in both gave"Heat" to the actors and set...
I think there are a few confusing narrative points in this script, but the movie itself is very underrated. I like a lot of the themes and the visuals. This would have made an excellent mini-series. I want more info on the backstory of civilization of people living on the surface. That could be cool.
Agreed!!
With a little work this could make a great video game premise. ESPECIALLY because, IMO, not enough games have a built in narrative reason WHY you get multiple lives. For that reason I actually think Edge of Tommorow would make an awesoe video game.
Fantastic film. One of my favorite sci-fi entries of the last few decades
Yay! I requested this I'm so pumped!
A friend of mine worked on a Tom Cruise movie and had a little accident on that bike. Its a real fully electric dirt bike.
I would love to see you react to Cloverfield. Just the original though.
10 cloverfield lane is also great imo.
There is also a new one in preparation I heard
Watching James VS Cinema is a physical representation of me losing the battle vs procrastination :D
😂😂😂 my fault in advance
Dude playing like he watching this for Tom Cruise. Ever since Death of Stalin he's been thinking about Olga Kurylenko!
It's a shame you aren't getting the Director's commentary with Tom Cruise and the Making of clips from the old BluRay/DVDs. This film was the ground breaker for the tech which became routine for Mandalorian. Which makes Oblivion a milestone for sets like the Abyss was for objects.
Kosinski is really talented, can't wait to see how the new Top Gun turns out