"The world don't give a d about how sensitive these kids are, ESPECIALLY the young black kids. You ain't doing these kids a favor by patronizing them. You're crippling them. You're crippling them for life."
The scene where Yoast's daughter gets involved in a hate crime while staying with the Boones is extremely chilling, as is when Boone explains to Yoast the tough reality of what his own family go through every day.
I remember watching Remember the Titans in high school. One of my teachers was also the assistant football coach, and near the end of the school year, he showed us his all-time favorite football film.
...okay, this makes SO much more sense! I remember getting dragged to a sports movie as a kid, and HATING it! And for the longest time, I thought it was Remember The Titans, and was annoyed at how many people praised it! Nope! Turns out my clock was about 6 years off, and the snorefest I went to see was We Are Marshall. Now I feel stupid.
Will Patton performance was so underrated, he was like one of the best supporting actors in both this and Armageddon. I always cry in both of these movies also thanks to him
This was THE sports movie of the 2000's. You likely saw this as a kid either when you were in school and the teacher would wheel in that big ass tv for the day or you saw it on tv. For me, it was in school and on cable when my parents first had it installed. This is probably the only other sports movie I liked other than The Longest Yard remake (which I couldn't believe I enjoyed a 2000's Adam Sandler movie).
My wife has always been a big Adam Sandler fan but had never seen Longest Yard. I showed it to her recently and now it’s her favorite Adam Sandler movie
My dad was a high school coach, so has bought damn near every football movie ever made. I saw this one the day it released on VHS, and it became my favorite sports movie of all time.
I love this movie. We watch it pretty much every Fall and it can still get me to tear up a little when I hear "this man is my brother." I went through a surgery that had complications. When my family found out, the first thing I said to them was "Coach, I'm hurt, I'm not dead."
So glad to see that you included this movie in Disneycember this year. Thank you for giving it a chance. I have loved it ever since my whole class watched it together in middle school. I don’t even like sports movies that much but I still love this one! Very cool to hear your thoughts about it! Denzel Washington was most definitely a perfect choice for the coach!
This was a movie that got my whole third grade class back in the 2000’s to sit and watch completely attentive. No whispering, no kids not paying attention.
I don't think Sunshine was meant to be gay. I think he was just Californian which people just figured he was gay and he was smart/snarky enough just to mess with everyone that got uncomfortable around him. This is one of my favorite movies, not just sports. I'm hoping History Buffs does a video on it to go over how much was exaggerated. I know that they did have to go undefeated and did, and Bertier's story is pretty darn close.
Dude. That’s been bugging me since I played God of War Ragnarok earlier this year. I could never place that voice. Turns out I grew up with it. Huh. Who knew
The trend of Disney making a bunch of sports movies based on real stories has always been one of my favorite little phases of Disney. Million Dollar Arm, McFarland USA, and Remember the Titans have always been my favorite. McFarland being my personal favorite because it’s about a bunch of Mexican kids running cross country and I used to be a cross country runner in high school.
As someone who else ran track and cross country in high school, I was completely surprised a studio would make a movie about cross country. I still like the movie, but not as much as Remember The Titans.
I made a joke about McFarland USA regarding the daughter’s birthday celebration, saying “even in a real story, they found a way to make a Disney Princess.”
Remember the Titans and Cool Runnings were my two favorite Disney sports movies. Never seen the other two you mentioned, so now I know what to put on my "to watch" list.
I don't remember the titans, but I do remember the black girl at the game with the coach's daughter asking her mother if all white girls were crazy screaming. That was funny. I remembered that scene so you don't have to.
I'm also not a sports guy, but man, I adore this movie. Watched it for the first time in like 3rd grade at summer camp, and didn't expect to like it at all, but I remember going home and asking my mom to get it for me on DVD so I could watch it again at home. Classic. I need to give it a rewatch soon.
The reason that Yoast confronts the referee is because of his young daughter. Children can perceive injustices that adults tend to overlook, and he wants the future to be different for his daughter moving forward.
"You call this game fair, or I'll go to the papers. I don't care if I go down with you, but before God, I swear I'll see every last one of you thrown in jail."
Ngl, after watching so many of Doug's reviews (both Nostalgia Critic and others) I was fully expecting him to say "so I finally watched it and...eeeh, it was alright!" At this point it's been ingrained into my mind that he will most likely have a still positive but significantly less ecstatic opinion on highly beloved movies, so to find out that he fully agrees with the public consensus on this one was quite a shock.
6:45 Uh, no actually he isn't. The real guy who he is playing, Ronnie Bass, is straight and married, honestly I think Sunshine (The dude's nickname) just did that to screw with them and also show he can fight as it does result in the teammate he kissed attacking him, with Sunshine fighting him off. Everyone wrote him off as a pretty boy wuss, so he proved them wrong.
Yeah, it's even mentioned in the film that they think some of Sunshine's mannerisms are wussy--his Tai Chi, for example. But Sunshine is able to use these skills to be nimble enough to avoid being sacked, and even the referees are on his side.
It's not a surprise that he would think it's one of the most memorable scenes in the movie and two guys kissing isn't you'd see in a sports movie "based on a true story"
This is back when Disney make amazing films that are not based on fairy tale stories and theme park rides, but actually took chances with contemporary literature.
I feel like this a pretty important movie for a specific age group, as it was probably one of the first films they saw that showed racial tensions with this level of maturity and honesty.
Its always amazing seeing these older films tackle subjects like prejudice in such a real way and portray prejudiced people as good, but flawed people instead of strawmen made to be taken down. It's oddly refreshing to see media tackle prejudice as a character flaw and something that people can learn to grow out of. I never saw this movie for the same reasons Doug never, but when friends put it on, I loved the characters and the drama and the relationships forming. I cannot applaud for how real this film feels, especially with how a lot of modern media tackling prejudice is so unlikably exagerated, forced, and ham-fisted they get.
I was with Doug until he mentioned the music. Partly because I'm biased since my dad was the music supervisor for it and other movies he's reviewed or the music editor for one. So, as the daughter of one, I feel like saying that while it's true the music can be a bit much in films, it also feels like it could be empty, I think.
That footage of the students in training was real. The studio actually put the actors through a summer football training camp so they could all play the game for real to make later scenes more realistic.
The cast kinda had actors who just started out but then later became huge stars. This film came out the right time for me. I was just starting my football career, and i was in love e this film and showed it to all my teammates. They came to ke after practice and said, "Yeah. That film was great!!!"
I’m one of those people Doug mentioned that loves listening to the musical score by itself. The musical score was composed by Trevor Rabin and in my opinion, Remember the Titans is one of his very best musical scores (he also did Armageddon and National Treasure to name a few). Fun fact, Trevor Rabin was once the guitarist of the band Yes (of “Owner of a Lonely Heart” fame).
I don't have anything to add here except I just want to say Merry Christmas, Doug, and to all the people in the comment section. May the spirit of the holidays wash away the sadness and frustration of the rest of the year.
I wasn’t interested in this movie but as a reward for Honor Roll students we got to skip class to watch this in the auditorium. Blew my mind and is still one of my favorites
On the twenty third day of disneycember, the critic gave to me. 23 Football games 22 Lego Space Battles 21 Cartoon Rabbits 20 Guinea Pig Agents 19 ghostly friendships 18 resurrected musicians 17 Mars missions 16 Alien invasions 15 Will Friedle sitcoms 14 Red Queens Ruling 13 scary parodies 12 meteor showers 11 Princesses sailing 10 Sandwiches 9 teens screaming 8 Jedi masters 7 cat and mouse adventures 6 Futuristic Officers 5 FUNNY SUPERHEROES 4 gliding spider-men 3 New Emotions 2 Nostalgic Mutants and A Tarantino movie
This is a truly great film. They don’t make movies like this anymore. I’m not much of a sports fan but here it’s brilliant and keeps the story moving. Miracle is good film as well and if Doug hasn’t seen it, go see it. It’s a great movie
7:42 I get that but it's well executed. Even as the credits roll and the black players (and maybe Ryan Gosling's character) point as his grave and show him respect.
Ok. Being in football through middle school and high school when this came out, this was THE football movie. Everyone was motivated by this movie to play harder the way 300 motivated my generation to hit the gym, it’s THAT influential.
This is my favorite sports film of all time because it's not just a movie about Football, it's a movie about unity. There's been great films about Racism but none hit me in the feels as much as Remember the Titans. Denzel's speech at the Gettysburg cemetery is one of the greatest moments I've ever seen in cinema.
My dad is insufferable to watch movies with. TV in general. He’ll put something on and then immediately start browsing channels on the guide while the movie plays in the corner, and whenever there’s a commercial he immediately changes the channel, often missing good chunks of the movie before he flips back. For as long as I’ve known him there’s only two movies where he will watch undistracted, and not change the channel at all: The Incredibles, and Remember the Titans. I could say a lot about how much I love this movie and why it’s so good, but I think that anecdote says all I could say.
I remember in middle school the gym teacher was a HUGE fan of this movie. Like he watched it multiple times and knew the lines. And one time he was subbing for the health teacher and instead of doing the class plan he just had us sit and watch Remember the Titans until the bell rang lol. Good times.
Saw this for the first time at AIT at Fort Jackson (AIT is where you're sent after basic training to learn the job you'll do in the Army). They'd rent movies and let us watch them on Sundays and after starting basic in January at Fort Knox Kentucky, which was absolutely brutal, sitting there with a Coke and a Snickers with females (Knox was one of the last training posts that wasn't coed) it felt like I was on vacation. Also played ball in high school where we went undefeated my junior year so I really identified with this film. Like the characters we trained in summer. We'd get three weeks off after school let out, then it was two weeks straight of 12 hours a day lifting weights, running hills and stadiums and pulling truck tires. Even though it was summer in the south (Nashville) they'd crank the heat up as far as it would go in the weight room. I didn't think "Sunshine" was gay, I thought he was just messing with people but that's maybe because he's the character I identify with since one I'm very pretty, two I'm always on the outside wherever I go and have to fight for my place, and I showed up to summer football camp with long hair one year. The coach was not happy at all.
I remember seeing this during my school years, I should rewatch this again one day to jog my memory back, Sports movies aren’t my thing but movies like this are great gems.
I should probably give this film a rewatch. First saw it in seventh grade in school, but I definitely need to see it again seeing how everyone loves it.
This is the film that redefined the Disney Live Action film. If you remember during the late 90s, Disney had a streak of their worst Live Action movies. You name it, you got Jungle to Jungle, Mr. Magoo, Meet the Deedles, I'll be Home For Christmas, Inspector Gadget. This lead to the termination of Joe Roth and had Peter Schneider head the division. This is one of the first projects under his wing, and not was a hit with critics and audiences, but schools around me show this film in History class to teach civil rights. This is the film that Saved their live action department.
Fun fact: My high school enjoyed using this movie to get their teachings across. Film class, health class, social studies--all the teachers found something of teachable value with this film.
I loved this movie ! Watched when I was kid, teenager and adult ! It’s amazing , I remember when I was a junior in high school! Our English teacher had to write a 5 page paper on any character at the time I didn’t like writing so thought it would be a challange , but I decided to do it on Louie Lastik played by Ethan Suplee , because I was and still am the fat guy I felt for his characters self doubts soo much. And he had so many moments as a side character I was able to write the 5 page paper no problem . Felt proud of it ! So yeah the character writing is definitely more towards 3 dimensional!! Thanks for finally covering this movie Doug! Merry Christmas!!!
I watched this once in high school and I was so ready to be bored but this movie kept my interest and even though I haven’t seen it in almost 20 years, there’s still so many scenes and dialogue that still stick with me
For the longest time i didn't have much of an interest in sports, let alone football. I watched this movie a long time ago and loved it, but it never really changed my interest in the sport. Something changed in about the last ten years where now not only do I have an appreciation for football, but i have my own dedication and Fandom for certain teams. Maybe it's the spirit of teamwork, or having people of other backgrounds coming together to support the team. It's a feeling that we are all there for the same reason And that really brings people together
Everywhere we go, people wanna know
Who we are, so we tell them…
WE ARE THE TITANS!!!
@@justinhowlett2417💯
The mighty mighty Titans
Love this movie, it's so inspiring.
"I don't care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other."
This film needs to be rewatched now more than ever.
Don’t be that guy
@@trapez77that guy who what?
Dont be what guy? @@trapez77
Some individuals well you can’t like or respect usually it goes hand in hand
lol
“Are you blind? Don’t you see the family resemblance?
That’s my brother”.
I loved that line
Truly. Beautiful writing
Left side!
@@jensenrogers6611 STRONG SIDE!!!!
@ Strong side!
"The world don't give a d about how sensitive these kids are, ESPECIALLY the young black kids. You ain't doing these kids a favor by patronizing them. You're crippling them. You're crippling them for life."
One of my favorite lines!
Shady!!!
The scene where Yoast's daughter gets involved in a hate crime while staying with the Boones is extremely chilling, as is when Boone explains to Yoast the tough reality of what his own family go through every day.
It was cool seeing known actors now being up and coming stars back then from Ryan Gosling, Hayden Panettiere, and Donald Faison
It's great seeing how famous Ryan Gosling has become.
Ryan Gosling was really good in Fracture(2007) with Anthony Hopkins.
@@Omar-wq9dz It really is, Kate Bosworth also appears as Ryan Gosling's girlfriend, though she might not be as well known as the other three actors.
Dude, Donald Faison is also in Clueless the movie and TV show.
@@lainiwakura1776and the T mobile
Commercials.😂
I remember watching Remember the Titans in high school. One of my teachers was also the assistant football coach, and near the end of the school year, he showed us his all-time favorite football film.
This movie made me a fan of Denzel Washington, I remember watching it on Disney channel, and was amazed by his performance!
Sunshine wasn't actually gay. He was messing with their expectations of masculinity. They just assumed he was
Nah he was metrosexual
yep, I saw him as a blue eyed calefornian that liked to mess with people.
Exactly, he just kissed Gerry to get back at him for calling him a fruitcake. But once they settled their beef, they were cool with each other.
...okay, this makes SO much more sense!
I remember getting dragged to a sports movie as a kid, and HATING it! And for the longest time, I thought it was Remember The Titans, and was annoyed at how many people praised it!
Nope! Turns out my clock was about 6 years off, and the snorefest I went to see was We Are Marshall.
Now I feel stupid.
As well u should. Shame on u for confusing this masterpiece with We Are Marshall. (Also I'm 100% kidding)
@@Sovreign071 Ah, that makes sense. "Titans" is one of the best sports movies, and hardly anyone remembers "Marshall" anymore.
Dude ditto! That’s the piece of crap I saw
Marshall was AIGHT. This is commonly top 3 sports movie ever next to Rocky.
We are Marshall checks out, atrocious film
"You're smiling. Why are you smiling?"
"Because football is fun?"
@@douglashirschman462 Fun, sir!
Will Patton performance was so underrated, he was like one of the best supporting actors in both this and Armageddon. I always cry in both of these movies also thanks to him
"I'm having zero fun, sir."
This movie, along with Cool Runnings and Miracle are some of Disney best sports movies
This was THE sports movie of the 2000's. You likely saw this as a kid either when you were in school and the teacher would wheel in that big ass tv for the day or you saw it on tv. For me, it was in school and on cable when my parents first had it installed. This is probably the only other sports movie I liked other than The Longest Yard remake (which I couldn't believe I enjoyed a 2000's Adam Sandler movie).
Oh hey, that’s exactly how I saw it. 6th grade, my teacher put it up on this big projector when we were learning about the civil rights movement.
My wife has always been a big Adam Sandler fan but had never seen Longest Yard. I showed it to her recently and now it’s her favorite Adam Sandler movie
My dad was a high school coach, so has bought damn near every football movie ever made. I saw this one the day it released on VHS, and it became my favorite sports movie of all time.
Will you teach me to football?
When I was a kid, whenever I heard the song, "We Are The Champions," I thought it was, "We Are The Titans". And I thought it was based on this movie.
Man, when he started with that tone, my first thought was, “omg am I going to have to hate Doug?!” 😂
“Left side! Strong side! Left side! Strong side”
I love this movie. We watch it pretty much every Fall and it can still get me to tear up a little when I hear "this man is my brother."
I went through a surgery that had complications. When my family found out, the first thing I said to them was "Coach, I'm hurt, I'm not dead."
“Hey Lois, remember the titans”
I understood that reference!
Teen titans, go~ teen titans
Remember the Alamo.
Sorry wrong film!!!
”That’s worse than the time we saw remember the titans.”
*cuts to Kronos eating the gods*
So glad to see that you included this movie in Disneycember this year. Thank you for giving it a chance. I have loved it ever since my whole class watched it together in middle school. I don’t even like sports movies that much but I still love this one! Very cool to hear your thoughts about it! Denzel Washington was most definitely a perfect choice for the coach!
I love the Mama Joke scene in the locker room
This was a movie that got my whole third grade class back in the 2000’s to sit and watch completely attentive. No whispering, no kids not paying attention.
I don't think Sunshine was meant to be gay. I think he was just Californian which people just figured he was gay and he was smart/snarky enough just to mess with everyone that got uncomfortable around him.
This is one of my favorite movies, not just sports. I'm hoping History Buffs does a video on it to go over how much was exaggerated. I know that they did have to go undefeated and did, and Bertier's story is pretty darn close.
Sunshine is metrosexual
Yeah, as I recall the real-life Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass even said "I was not that flamboyant" when giving interviews years later.
@jordancampbell8597 yeah I just thought he was a Californian hippy and he was messing with people
I couldn't have said this any better. 💯
Not sure how much you'd enjoy a deep dive. The real coach Boone was eventually fired for abusing players. In the '70s. Thats dome real abuse.
Fun fact: Ryan Hurst, the actor who plays Gerry Bertier also plays Thor in God of War Ragnarok
Was he the player who became paralyzed by the truck?
@jordanhunter3375 yes
@@adhamwashere5320he's awesome as Thor in that game!
Christopher Judge is in this film?! Man, now I've definitely gotta see this. Personally I know Chris more from Stargate SG-1 as Teal'c.
Dude. That’s been bugging me since I played God of War Ragnarok earlier this year. I could never place that voice. Turns out I grew up with it. Huh. Who knew
The trend of Disney making a bunch of sports movies based on real stories has always been one of my favorite little phases of Disney. Million Dollar Arm, McFarland USA, and Remember the Titans have always been my favorite. McFarland being my personal favorite because it’s about a bunch of Mexican kids running cross country and I used to be a cross country runner in high school.
As someone who else ran track and cross country in high school, I was completely surprised a studio would make a movie about cross country. I still like the movie, but not as much as Remember The Titans.
I made a joke about McFarland USA regarding the daughter’s birthday celebration, saying “even in a real story, they found a way to make a Disney Princess.”
Remember the Titans and Cool Runnings were my two favorite Disney sports movies. Never seen the other two you mentioned, so now I know what to put on my "to watch" list.
@@annienunyabiz6627 If you want a good sports movie rec Miracle is excellent! Highly recommend
WHat did you think of "INVINCIBLE"?, about Vince Papale joining the Philadelphia Eagles despite NO football experience from high school or college?
Very happy to say I met the real Coach Boone. He was very clear that the kissing scene never happened.
Remember the Titans and not just the teenage ones.
But they're in Highschool. Doesn't that make these Titans Teen Titans too?🤔
@bl3343 Just without superpowers or martial arts training or even alien biology.
My 8th grade English teacher showed us this movie. It was so good that I went home and rented it.
I don't remember the titans, but I do remember the black girl at the game with the coach's daughter asking her mother if all white girls were crazy screaming. That was funny.
I remembered that scene so you don't have to.
I'm also not a sports guy, but man, I adore this movie. Watched it for the first time in like 3rd grade at summer camp, and didn't expect to like it at all, but I remember going home and asking my mom to get it for me on DVD so I could watch it again at home. Classic. I need to give it a rewatch soon.
The reason that Yoast confronts the referee is because of his young daughter. Children can perceive injustices that adults tend to overlook, and he wants the future to be different for his daughter moving forward.
"You call this game fair, or I'll go to the papers. I don't care if I go down with you, but before God, I swear I'll see every last one of you thrown in jail."
Ngl, after watching so many of Doug's reviews (both Nostalgia Critic and others) I was fully expecting him to say "so I finally watched it and...eeeh, it was alright!" At this point it's been ingrained into my mind that he will most likely have a still positive but significantly less ecstatic opinion on highly beloved movies, so to find out that he fully agrees with the public consensus on this one was quite a shock.
6:45 Uh, no actually he isn't. The real guy who he is playing, Ronnie Bass, is straight and married, honestly I think Sunshine (The dude's nickname) just did that to screw with them and also show he can fight as it does result in the teammate he kissed attacking him, with Sunshine fighting him off. Everyone wrote him off as a pretty boy wuss, so he proved them wrong.
Yeah, it's even mentioned in the film that they think some of Sunshine's mannerisms are wussy--his Tai Chi, for example. But Sunshine is able to use these skills to be nimble enough to avoid being sacked, and even the referees are on his side.
@@jordancampbell8597 "Ref! Unnecessary roughness! That's a penalty!"
"On the quarterback? Are you kidding me, Coach?"
It's not a surprise that he would think it's one of the most memorable scenes in the movie and two guys kissing isn't you'd see in a sports movie "based on a true story"
This is back when Disney make amazing films that are not based on fairy tale stories and theme park rides, but actually took chances with contemporary literature.
I remember watching this film in high school and I love the song like eagles y’all it’s so inspiring
I feel like this a pretty important movie for a specific age group, as it was probably one of the first films they saw that showed racial tensions with this level of maturity and honesty.
I constantly forget Ryan Gosling was in this movie
I didn’t realize that until my last viewing of the movie.
Dude I forgot till seeing the comments in this video.
God this film and its cast are fantastic
@@jessedellross3245 same! It's so good!!
I dunno how. He looks almost exactly the same as he does now.
@@kdusel1991 And Wood Harris.
The heart of this movie's narrative in my opinion is the growing friendship between Gerry and Julius.
Its always amazing seeing these older films tackle subjects like prejudice in such a real way and portray prejudiced people as good, but flawed people instead of strawmen made to be taken down. It's oddly refreshing to see media tackle prejudice as a character flaw and something that people can learn to grow out of.
I never saw this movie for the same reasons Doug never, but when friends put it on, I loved the characters and the drama and the relationships forming.
I cannot applaud for how real this film feels, especially with how a lot of modern media tackling prejudice is so unlikably exagerated, forced, and ham-fisted they get.
I was with Doug until he mentioned the music. Partly because I'm biased since my dad was the music supervisor for it and other movies he's reviewed or the music editor for one. So, as the daughter of one, I feel like saying that while it's true the music can be a bit much in films, it also feels like it could be empty, I think.
I mean…he did say for this movie. Also, there are some movies that don’t use a musical score for a good reason.
@@thefirstbourne149 fair
The music that plays in the final play and victory, “Titans Spirit” has been a favorite of mine for years and always gives me goosebumps every time.
That footage of the students in training was real. The studio actually put the actors through a summer football training camp so they could all play the game for real to make later scenes more realistic.
I generally don't like sports movies, but I remember really enjoying this one. And there are some future superstars in it too.
I put this movie on before every gameday and it never failed to get me fired up!
My absolute favorite movie of all-time. Thanks for finally taking a look at it and giving it the love it deserves.
"Oh sh*t, the high school team is 4-0? Those are my brothers!"
If you haven't reviewed Miracle yet you gotta if you liked Remember The Titans.
This is a classic in our home. Love it. Quote it all the time.
Finally!! I've been waiting for this to be covered under Disneycember for so long
Sunshine wasn't gay lol
He was Metro. He also got married and several children.
We didn't know that in the 2000s. We never saw him get with a girl. Even had Donald Faison tell some white girls to not get their hopes up😂
The cast kinda had actors who just started out but then later became huge stars. This film came out the right time for me. I was just starting my football career, and i was in love e this film and showed it to all my teammates. They came to ke after practice and said, "Yeah. That film was great!!!"
I’m one of those people Doug mentioned that loves listening to the musical score by itself. The musical score was composed by Trevor Rabin and in my opinion, Remember the Titans is one of his very best musical scores (he also did Armageddon and National Treasure to name a few). Fun fact, Trevor Rabin was once the guitarist of the band Yes (of “Owner of a Lonely Heart” fame).
Cleveland: Creators of the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure end song that became a meme, Yes?
I thought the two sequels set in ancient Greece was a pretty wild direction.
I remember they would play this movie all the time at school. Those were good times. 😀
My friend and I quote Denzel Washington in this movie all the time.
Denzel is based
I don't have anything to add here except I just want to say Merry Christmas, Doug, and to all the people in the comment section. May the spirit of the holidays wash away the sadness and frustration of the rest of the year.
I wasn’t interested in this movie but as a reward for Honor Roll students we got to skip class to watch this in the auditorium. Blew my mind and is still one of my favorites
I remember this one being played regularly at school when I was growing up. Not a fan of sports movies, but this was a really good one.
I never had an issue with the music but fair enough
Now this is a classic!
A 2000s Disney classic.
Indeed!
My favorite Denzel Washington movie.
Mine is Out Of Time(2003). He's also good in The Manchurian Candidate(2004)
Never saw either of them.
They are very good.
Same. Probably my favorite film of all time tied with The Godfather.
@@chasehedges6775 the remake right?
On the twenty third day of disneycember, the critic gave to me.
23 Football games
22 Lego Space Battles
21 Cartoon Rabbits
20 Guinea Pig Agents
19 ghostly friendships
18 resurrected musicians
17 Mars missions
16 Alien invasions
15 Will Friedle sitcoms
14 Red Queens Ruling
13 scary parodies
12 meteor showers
11 Princesses sailing
10 Sandwiches
9 teens screaming
8 Jedi masters
7 cat and mouse adventures
6 Futuristic Officers
5 FUNNY SUPERHEROES
4 gliding spider-men
3 New Emotions
2 Nostalgic Mutants
and
A Tarantino movie
This is a truly great film. They don’t make movies like this anymore. I’m not much of a sports fan but here it’s brilliant and keeps the story moving. Miracle is good film as well and if Doug hasn’t seen it, go see it. It’s a great movie
7:42 I get that but it's well executed. Even as the credits roll and the black players (and maybe Ryan Gosling's character) point as his grave and show him respect.
Ok. Being in football through middle school and high school when this came out, this was THE football movie. Everyone was motivated by this movie to play harder the way 300 motivated my generation to hit the gym, it’s THAT influential.
Sorry you suffered
I remember watching this at my high school. This is something I think every 90s kid should see.
This is my favorite sports film of all time because it's not just a movie about Football, it's a movie about unity. There's been great films about Racism but none hit me in the feels as much as Remember the Titans. Denzel's speech at the Gettysburg cemetery is one of the greatest moments I've ever seen in cinema.
This movie is an emotional and inspiring masterpiece.
I was 15 when this movie came out. I saw it in the theater and fell in love with it immediately.
How has this man never seen this movie before?
Loved this movie as a kid.
One of my favorite movies from my childhood! My dad and I watched it together often!
My dad is insufferable to watch movies with. TV in general. He’ll put something on and then immediately start browsing channels on the guide while the movie plays in the corner, and whenever there’s a commercial he immediately changes the channel, often missing good chunks of the movie before he flips back.
For as long as I’ve known him there’s only two movies where he will watch undistracted, and not change the channel at all: The Incredibles, and Remember the Titans. I could say a lot about how much I love this movie and why it’s so good, but I think that anecdote says all I could say.
Amazing movie with great acting and an inspiring story. Why hasn't Disney made a movie like this for so long?
my 12th grade government teacher went to a TED talk with Herman Boone, she said "I was so disappointed that he didn't look like Denzel Washington"
I remember in middle school the gym teacher was a HUGE fan of this movie. Like he watched it multiple times and knew the lines. And one time he was subbing for the health teacher and instead of doing the class plan he just had us sit and watch Remember the Titans until the bell rang lol. Good times.
I studied this film in music class in 7th grade. What an amazing film this is.
dang Ryan Goslng always had great hair!
We watched this in social studies sophomore year, definitely a great film for class showings
One of my top 10 fav movies. Thanks for the reminder to rewatch it
I could have swore he did a Disneycember video for this a long time ago when he did all the live-action Disney movies.
I remember watching this game at a Boy Scout event a couple of years ago.
It was a night I never forgot.
Seeing Doug go over how great films like this reminds you why they became classics in the first place.
Saw this for the first time at AIT at Fort Jackson (AIT is where you're sent after basic training to learn the job you'll do in the Army). They'd rent movies and let us watch them on Sundays and after starting basic in January at Fort Knox Kentucky, which was absolutely brutal, sitting there with a Coke and a Snickers with females (Knox was one of the last training posts that wasn't coed) it felt like I was on vacation.
Also played ball in high school where we went undefeated my junior year so I really identified with this film. Like the characters we trained in summer. We'd get three weeks off after school let out, then it was two weeks straight of 12 hours a day lifting weights, running hills and stadiums and pulling truck tires. Even though it was summer in the south (Nashville) they'd crank the heat up as far as it would go in the weight room. I didn't think "Sunshine" was gay, I thought he was just messing with people but that's maybe because he's the character I identify with since one I'm very pretty, two I'm always on the outside wherever I go and have to fight for my place, and I showed up to summer football camp with long hair one year. The coach was not happy at all.
I remember seeing this during my school years, I should rewatch this again one day to jog my memory back, Sports movies aren’t my thing but movies like this are great gems.
Still one of my all time favorites. This movie is so damn good.
I should probably give this film a rewatch. First saw it in seventh grade in school, but I definitely need to see it again seeing how everyone loves it.
I saw Remember the Titans once in high school. From what I remember, I remember being really impressed by it.
This is the film that redefined the Disney Live Action film. If you remember during the late 90s, Disney had a streak of their worst Live Action movies. You name it, you got Jungle to Jungle, Mr. Magoo, Meet the Deedles, I'll be Home For Christmas, Inspector Gadget. This lead to the termination of Joe Roth and had Peter Schneider head the division. This is one of the first projects under his wing, and not was a hit with critics and audiences, but schools around me show this film in History class to teach civil rights. This is the film that Saved their live action department.
Fun fact: My high school enjoyed using this movie to get their teachings across. Film class, health class, social studies--all the teachers found something of teachable value with this film.
This is really one of my all-time favorites.
As a former football player, this is one of my favorite movies of all time
I loved this movie ! Watched when I was kid, teenager and adult ! It’s amazing , I remember when I was a junior in high school! Our English teacher had to write a 5 page paper on any character at the time I didn’t like writing so thought it would be a challange , but I decided to do it on Louie Lastik played by Ethan Suplee , because I was and still am the fat guy I felt for his characters self doubts soo much. And he had so many moments as a side character I was able to write the 5 page paper no problem . Felt proud of it ! So yeah the character writing is definitely more towards 3 dimensional!! Thanks for finally covering this movie Doug! Merry Christmas!!!
Now that you've done this, Dreamworksuary, Twilight Tober Zone, and Bat May, you should do Nickuly/Aprilodeon and June Henson.
You can’t sum up this movie in one comment.
Iconic
Oh guess I was wrong. Remember the titans.
I watched this once in high school and I was so ready to be bored but this movie kept my interest and even though I haven’t seen it in almost 20 years, there’s still so many scenes and dialogue that still stick with me
For the longest time i didn't have much of an interest in sports, let alone football. I watched this movie a long time ago and loved it, but it never really changed my interest in the sport. Something changed in about the last ten years where now not only do I have an appreciation for football, but i have my own dedication and Fandom for certain teams. Maybe it's the spirit of teamwork, or having people of other backgrounds coming together to support the team. It's a feeling that we are all there for the same reason And that really brings people together
My class had to write a report on this movie one year in PE. It was hell, but at least we didn’t have to play floor hockey
This movie has so many great moments and lines, without a doubt one of the greatest movies ever made.
0:41 or what about a football game between prison guards and inmates?