The airport was a set, at the time, it was the biggest single movie set ever built! They built it in a disused US airforce hangar! It was 3 levels high. Apparently 40 national retail chains volunteered to build replicas of their outlets to take advantage of screen exposure! Such is the influence of Spielberg!
@@marimo.santoryuLirtzie is the account name. In case you haven't already found her. Literally the only two I know of who have, which blows my mind because this movie is so touching and so inspiring.
The guy that this was inspired by was stuck in the airport for 18 years from 1988 to 2006 until he got sick. They actually paid him $250K for the rights to his story but decided against using it.
@@kentclark6420 Yes and no. They got the idea from him but other than being stuck in the airport, not much of the movie is accurate to his story. The movie is a far more entertaining story. I don't think they would've had to pay him if they hadn't already.
@@TheOldKevin I can see your point. Paying him all that $ just for the basic concept of the script seems overdone. Unless he had done all those things in the movie. And that set! if somebody had told me that was all a set, I wouldn't believe it. How could a movie make a profit after building essentially a whole terminal?
I have not seen anyone react to this one or really even hear people talk about this movie when referring to Tom Hanks movies. I LOVE this movie and use to watch it as a guilty pleasure movie as a kid/teen. Really glad you did The Terminal!!
If you'd like to see Stanley Tucci play a full on villain, I recommend seeing The Lovely Bones. He turned in a stellar and disturbing performance in that film.
He had such a stellar performance that I still, to this day, refuse to watch that movie again. Only watched it once. Don't want to watch it again. Truly disturbing character. Makes my blood boil and makes me sick to my stomach.
I'm a former Army and used to travel extensively into and out of so many airports. There are some fabulous airports around the world but in the states there's only one that I was always happy to spend time in. It's Reagan National Airport in DC. The reason is they have a wonderful bookstore in that airport. I'm a voracious reader and I always found books I saw nowhere else there. Great stopover.
i know of a certain fast food establishment that had to close as the result of a slip and fall . floors were wet but the sign they had up said “bathroom closed for cleaning” and not specifically “wet floor”
This is the movie that made me fall in love with Diego Luna. When I saw him in Rogue one, I was so happy! He is such a good actor and this is such an amazing, heartwarming story
Try to find the series, "Bosom Buddies" where Tom Hanks co-stared as one of the two title roles...two men dressing as women to live in a women's apartment building. Terribly funny!
The clarinetist for the soundtrack - Emily Bernstein - was absolutely amazing! It is unusual for a soloist to be listed in the credits but Ms. Bernstein was, as her performance was so noteworthy. Sadly she passed away shortly after this movie.
Oh WOW! No one EVER reacts to this one and it's literally one of my favorite movies of all time! Awesome, dude, thanks! Hopefully this reaches the heart of many other people!
I had a 12 hour layover at LAX. I bought food from every store, I slept at an abandoned gate, I bought pamphlets from Buddhists just so they would stop asking me, and I wondered around checking out all the VIP areas. So I connect with this movie.
i get taken asside almost every time i fly, the plate in my head sets off the detector and i have a lump on the top of my head so they think im smuggling something under my scalp. its getting better at my local airport because they know me i fly out atleast once a month
Fyi, the airport at PDX (Portland) is set up as a destination in and of itself. Inside the terminal, for people with layovers, there's a movie theater (with the movies on a constant loop, but with listed showtimes, too), restaurants and fine dining, shopping, bookstores, drugstores, coffee shops, pubs. I don't recall if there's a bowling alley, but it would be in the right spirit. You have to have a boarding pass, but people schedule long layovers intentionally, just to explore. So, yeah, the airport is a place to go and hang out. (Plus the carpeted floors are big and pretty empty at night, so with the right shoes you can practice dancing.)
Robin Williams was in a similar movie in the 80s called Moscow on the Hudson. He played a Russian visiting America when he decides to defect and stay in America.
Before 9/11, I used to love airports. People were always hugging each other: People coming home or leaving family. Also, my father used to travel for work. And as a little girl, we used to go to the airport to see him off.
Such an underrated movie. The movie is loosely based on a real person that lived for 18 years at an airport in France. He took ill and was taken from the airport I think in 2006 or 8. He returned to the airport again to stay there and passed away there last November from a heart attack. He was well loved by the staff at the airport through the years. Prior to his death his family was found during his first stay at the airport and asked for assistance and they said they believed he was where he wanted to be. I tend to believe that too seeing as how he returned so he could breathe his last there. Yes, it I find it incredibly cool that Zoey Saldana played a trekkie in this movie, accepts the proposal by doing a Vulcan salute and then goes on to play Uhura in Star Trek and dates a Vulcan, Spock. Really well cast!
9:37 The ketchup on saltines brought back memories I have managed to forget for decades. Mom used to make us 'cracker pizza' when we were very poor growing up. Saltines with ketchup, then warmed up and eaten. Sometimes we could buy the plastic containers of powdered 'Parmigiano' cheese and lived in luxury. Crackers and ketchup are free, just walk through a fast food lobby and grab some, but the shaky cheese was deluxe.
One time, I was in an airport and was waiting for a connecting flight. Either it was bumped flight or a delay or perhaps just a long layover. But I sat down for a while and was facing the area where people would usually walk to get from one gate to some other gate. I saw someone who had all sorts of bags and things in their hands. They were in a rush, so they were walking briskly. I watched them, since they stood out a bit. I wished I had a video camera for what was about to happen, since I was positioned so perfectly and it was something that would be hard to recreate. I don't recall if they had their boarding pass in a shirt pocket or if they held it in their hand near that area. But as they were rearranging bags a bit, while still walking briskly, the boarding pass fluttered up over their shoulder and in the most cinematically perfect flutter down to the ground behind them, it rocked back and forth, with that slightly arc'd U shape, rocking to my right, but tipping upward a bit, which slows it down, and then it rocks back to the left, and so on, until it lands gently onto the ground. The person didn't notice that they just lost their boarding pass, and they were in such a rush that it would be a pain for them to come back and find it, if they would even suspect that they dropped it along the way once they would reach the gate where it would be needed. I quickly got up and walked the tens of feet to get to where the boarding pass landed. I don't think there were a ton of people walking at that moment, so I don't think anyone in that main hall really noticed this, and most people waiting for a flight probably had other things drawing their attention. I picked up the boarding pass and kept it in plain sight; if anyone was watching this, it needed to be clear that I was not trying to claim it was mine or anything. I realized I didn't know the name of the person who dropped it, and I didn't care to shout in the airport in hopes of getting this stranger's attention. So I just walked more briskly than they walked, knowing I could outpace them, and thus catch up eventually. I kept my eyes on them as I grew closer. As I was getting less than 10 feet away from the person, I saw that they were slowing and moving in such a way that I suspected that they were entering the panic mode of wondering where their boarding pass was. I could tell they were checking pockets or anything that might have it. The person suddenly came to a standstill, as they realized they clearly didn't have it anymore. This was so perfectly timed, because at that point, I was close enough that them stopping allowed me to reach them within 1-2 seconds. As they turned, I extended my hand out with their boarding pass and said something like, "you dropped this". They were relieved, took it, and continued on their way (I don't recall if there was a thank-you, but I'll assume the best). I was then able to go back to other things one does in an airport. It was such a simple moment, but I was happy to play a part in it, and I really can't imagine a more picturesque flutter of a boarding pass.
It’s based on a true story too! Well, loosely. But I recommend looking up Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the inspiration. Atrocity Guide here on RUclips did a thorough video about him if you were interested
Around the 19-minute mark, he couldn't take her out for a few reasons. She said they could go out and catch a cab...that means going where he's not allowed. But yes, money would be another factor.
Such an underrated movie that caught me by surprise. He couldn't go out because he was stuck in the Terminal. She talked about catching a cab and grabbing dinner lol
I'm pretty sure I read that the interior of the airport terminal, shops and all, was constructed in a studio soundstage (Like you said, it would be next to impossible to shoot a movie like this in a large, active airport)!
weirdly this is one of my favorite childhood movies. like 8 year old me would watch this on repeat. And yet , you are just now educating me that this is a Speilberg movie. I just probably didn't recognize that name. I haven't seen this in a very long time so it was a joy to see your reaction!
This movie is a less isolated version of Cast Away. They are both about a man being almost completely alone, this one just doesn't have the life survival aspect to it, but still has the emotional survival aspect. And in both movies Hanks is simply brilliant.
2:20 I am Indonesian and I just love neighbouring country's airport Changi Singapore. I don't mind legally stranded in Changi for days, really this airport is that awesome.
You're not likely to die from the x-ray machine, but the trouble is while with medical x-rays they record the dose you got on your files so you aren't ever accidentally over your safe limit for yearly dose. By going in those machines you're not getting a medically controlled dose to a particular part of your body but an unknown amount of rays off record. Radiation damage is cumulative and if you get enough small doses too often or too much at once that's when problems start occurring.
Btw The Big Bang Theory is considered “ Friends “ for nerds ! It would be great if you watch TBBT after watching friends, I think you can give a fresh perspective of comparison.
I love this movie. Hopeful and bittersweet Funny you should mention traveling when you were under 18 and had to check in with someone. I guess to show my age, in the mid 90s....I traveled from CA to TX by myself when I was 13-14 to visit my brother. My parents just put me on the plane and my brother was there to pick me up. No sense of security other than that lol. This was pre 9/11 when you could literally watch someone walk onto the plane from the gate and not have to leave them basically at the entrance of security
fun fact: this is inspired by the true story of someone that ended up stuck in the french Charles de gaulle airport for 18 years (!), likewise for having fallen in a legal loophole (basically lost his travellng papers and should have been sent back to his country of origin, but he was exiled from it and thus couldnt return, and he has no citizenship status anywhere else)
If you enjoy Tucci and his range of acting and want to see him as a real dark villain you might want to watch The Wannsee Conference from 2001. Stellar cast beside Tucci aswell.
This is partially based on a true story of a guy who spent 18 years at an airport in France. Also the entire airport set was built at an airport hangar, just damn! With exterior shots filmed in Montreal apparently.
One of my favorite comedies about Hollywood has Catherine Zeta Jones in it (as well as Billy Crystal, Julia Robert's, John Cusack and Seth Green)... so worth a watch
Not a horror story, just an observation. Why is it when your layover is 2 hours or more you fly out of the gate right next to the one you arrived at? Of course the flip side is also true that when your layover is super short you have to race to the other side of the airport. That's the worst.
My airport horror story: I was returning from a trip and because my small local airport doesn't have a lot of direct flights, I had a connecting flight at a larger airport. The flight from the connection airport to home was literally 35 minutes. Well, they cancelled that 35 minute flight. There were no other flights until the next day. I didn't have a change of underwear or any toiletry items because they were on my checked luggage and they wouldn't bring us our luggage. I travel with a change of clothes in my carry-on on the way to a destination ik case my luggage is delayed, but not on the way home because, well, I'm going home! The airline would not provide toiletries or a hotel, and all the shops were closed. All the restaurants were closed. I found a vending machine with sandwiches, but it wouldn't work and the airport employee wouldn't help. There were no rental cars available so I could drive home. It was literally a 90 minute drive! I went on Expedia and found a rental car off site, and ordered an Uber. RIGHT as the Uber pulled up, I got notification that the car wasn't available. So, I sent the Uber away and offered to pay her but the app wouldn't allow it. It made my Uber passenger rating go down. So, I ate some pretzels that were on my backpack and found a corner of the airport to sleep in. First and hopefully last time sleeping in an airport. I could have rented a hotel room, but I would have gotten even less sleep by the time I got to the hotel, got checked in, then woke up in time to get back to the airport and go back through security.
I love the airport. I just like to sometimes visit the airport to watch the planes and see the operations. I guess I just had very good experiences with flying when I was little, because I was flying long flights multiple times a year for the first 5 years of my live.
"The Terminal is based on this gentleman: Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian: مهران کریمی ناصری, pronounced [mehˈrɒn kæriˈmi nɒseˈri]; 1945 - 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized. His autobiography was published as a book, The Terminal Man, in 2004. Nasseri's story inspired the 1993 film Lost in Transit and the 2004 film The Terminal. He returned to living at the airport in September 2022, and died there of a heart attack in November 2022." - Wikipedia
I'm surprised that you didn't get that the airport staff was EXPECTING him to simply leave. That's WHY they released him back into the terminal, they don't want to deal with problematic immigrants so they either make up a BS appointment to see an immigration judge (that they don't expect the immigrant to show up for) or they simply release them. That's why they asked "why's he still here?" The thing where they walked him to the front door and told him the guards would be late, they wanted him to leave.
That is not a real airport, but one of the most amazing sets ever built. That long pull back shot was likely a skycam shot. Camera and gimbals suspended on basically a zipline. Then just pull the camera up the line all the way through the set.
@kentclark6420 it's insanely impressive. 600 ft long and like 250 feet wide. They used an old aircraft hanger. This shows them building the thing. It's enormous. The camera cranes look small in the set. Luckily movie sets are very fake. Sure the frame is steel but none of it has to take weather, the walls are all cheap and just plywood dressed. They have a LOT of corners they can cut as it just has to look real not be real. ruclips.net/video/118GmArZW04/видео.htmlsi=ocz8XKFG15kLpiey
@@mycroft16 Still very impressive! The ability that Hollywood has always had in making sets and costumes is amazing! And all the stunts. Remember the old MGM musicals and lavish designs? And the last scene of Magical Mystery Tour when the Beatles walk down those crazy steps? Incredible scene! And it was also made in an old airport hanger.
@kentclark6420 Yeah I do remember those old MGM movies. They built some crazy stuff for some of those. Or the Goonies... they built the pirate ship and water tank in the cave on a Soundstage for real. All just 2x4 supports and plaster carved and painted. I also love when they make super detailed miniatures and combine those with live action and you can't tell.
I haven’t seen anyone else mention this, so I’ll shout out my own personal GOAT for the movie - it’s another John Williams score 😍 I love the score for this movie so much, and the Spielberg/Williams partnership never fails in my book!
I have been taken aside for them to check my can of Vienna Sausages, they didn't find anything because well I didn't have anything, but then afterwards, there I was with a open can of Vienna Sausages that I couldn't seal back up, so I ended up munching down those sausages and threw the can away and went on my way.
Dunno what else to say that other commenters haven't already said, I mean, THANKS for doing this wee gem that so many people don't do because of 'the numbers'. This and Tom's Larry Crowne are cool bookends for each other, I hope ya check it out, even if just on yer own time... no big roller-coaster scenes, just everyday life meanderings... ish.
6:25 I've been to Japan with very little Japanese language skills and it was a little bit scary and frustrating at times but at the same time I knew that in the biff cities you can always find someone who speaks at least a little English. It's different for him though, he would have a very hard time finding someone who speaks Bulgarian.
Since you are going Spielberg films, I hope you will consider put some films in Patron polls that have almost never reacted: Amistad and Bridge of Spies. Then we might actually get reaction of these gems.
Have you ever seen Life of Pi? Definitely a must watch one of these days. Friends is a classic show and would be popular I would think, since it has so much nostalgia.
The airport was a set, at the time, it was the biggest single movie set ever built! They built it in a disused US airforce hangar! It was 3 levels high. Apparently 40 national retail chains volunteered to build replicas of their outlets to take advantage of screen exposure! Such is the influence of Spielberg!
that is awesome
Wait, I thought it was a mall
Not just replicas, but some of the stoes were equipped fully functioning with registers, and in the matter of Burger King, working stoves.
of all the foreign actors who have tried to speak Bulgarian, Tom Hanks seems to do the best. He almost sounds like one of us!
His father in law was born in Greece, but brought up in Bulgaria. First time I saw this I lost it at the мамка му line
I didn't know there were that many Bulgarian movie parts
also heard his wife his half bulgarian and fluent in bulgarian, so he had the right support to learn :p
His father in law in Bulgarian
Name 3 other actors that have tried...
So glad to see someone react to this! It's criminally underrated!
You're like the second reactor I have seen reacting to this. Even people on a Tom Hanks deep dive seem to somehow miss this one.
No way, i've been looking for a youtuber who reacting to this movie. Who is the other one?
Bro I love the terminal I wish more people reacted to it it’s so good !!
@@marimo.santoryuLirtzie is the account name. In case you haven't already found her. Literally the only two I know of who have, which blows my mind because this movie is so touching and so inspiring.
@@Junie-er8zuIt really is.
it's an incredibly underrated yet excellent movie.
"International Man of Misery."
"You mean Mystery."
"No, Misery. He is SO in love, he's miserable."
This is such a charming film, particularly as he went through all of this for such a simple reason...to complete something in memory of his father.
I remember seeing this years ago as a kid and LOVING it! Had no idea it was Spielberg. Thank you for reminding me of this awesome feel good movie!
The guy that this was inspired by was stuck in the airport for 18 years from 1988 to 2006 until he got sick. They actually paid him $250K for the rights to his story but decided against using it.
Damn i'll sell them my story, hell i'll make one up, lol
They used it for the movie, didn't they?
@@kentclark6420 Yes and no. They got the idea from him but other than being stuck in the airport, not much of the movie is accurate to his story. The movie is a far more entertaining story. I don't think they would've had to pay him if they hadn't already.
@@TheOldKevin I can see your point. Paying him all that $ just for the basic concept of the script seems overdone. Unless he had done all those things in the movie. And that set! if somebody had told me that was all a set, I wouldn't believe it. How could a movie make a profit after building essentially a whole terminal?
I have not seen anyone react to this one or really even hear people talk about this movie when referring to Tom Hanks movies. I LOVE this movie and use to watch it as a guilty pleasure movie as a kid/teen. Really glad you did The Terminal!!
22:37 I'm from Poland, it's very similar language and he just said: "Easy, easy". Translate from: "Spokojnie, spokojnie"😉
If you'd like to see Stanley Tucci play a full on villain, I recommend seeing The Lovely Bones. He turned in a stellar and disturbing performance in that film.
He had such a stellar performance that I still, to this day, refuse to watch that movie again. Only watched it once. Don't want to watch it again. Truly disturbing character. Makes my blood boil and makes me sick to my stomach.
He is basically a full on villain in this one
The behind the scenes stuff is pretty interesting, particularly how they completely constructed the airport terminal from scratch.
I'm a former Army and used to travel extensively into and out of so many airports. There are some fabulous airports around the world but in the states there's only one that I was always happy to spend time in. It's Reagan National Airport in DC. The reason is they have a wonderful bookstore in that airport. I'm a voracious reader and I always found books I saw nowhere else there. Great stopover.
The airport that was use for this movie was the international airport of Montreal-Mirabel. It's an airport that was close a few years before.
i know of a certain fast food establishment that had to close as the result of a slip and fall . floors were wet but the sign they had up said “bathroom closed for cleaning” and not specifically “wet floor”
This is the movie that made me fall in love with Diego Luna. When I saw him in Rogue one, I was so happy! He is such a good actor and this is such an amazing, heartwarming story
I really like this movie. A "small" story but very beautiful and the execution is of course quite beautiful.
I'm so happy you did this one..I always thought it was an amazing story!
This is a fantastic film. You are right Thor, heart felt.
Try to find the series, "Bosom Buddies" where Tom Hanks co-stared as one of the two title roles...two men dressing as women to live in a women's apartment building. Terribly funny!
I love airports! I watch planes, watch people, and walk around. It takes hours for me to get bored ❤️
all of the flipping letters on the arrivals and departures board reminds of the boards at Frankfurt airport
The clarinetist for the soundtrack - Emily Bernstein - was absolutely amazing! It is unusual for a soloist to be listed in the credits but Ms. Bernstein was, as her performance was so noteworthy. Sadly she passed away shortly after this movie.
Excellent thanks for the reaction!
Oh WOW! No one EVER reacts to this one and it's literally one of my favorite movies of all time! Awesome, dude, thanks! Hopefully this reaches the heart of many other people!
I’ve watched that Burger King scene so many times. It’s like food ASMR.
Thank you! Finally some of reactors did the reaction to this movie. One of my favorites. Great movie. Great reaction. Please keep up the good work :)
Thank you so much!
Such a quirky movie. When Tom Hanks was getting pelted by the coin machine "it's Vegas bro, it's Vegas!!" 🤣
I had a 12 hour layover at LAX. I bought food from every store, I slept at an abandoned gate, I bought pamphlets from Buddhists just so they would stop asking me, and I wondered around checking out all the VIP areas. So I connect with this movie.
I slept over there, once, too. I found a row of seats like Tom Hanks, and laid out.
Catch Me If You Can is one of my favorites too :) And yes, you should definitely do "Friends".
Yes to Catch Me If You Can and a Big No to friends.
OMG! I can't believe that I'm watching The Terminal on Netflix right now! Plus this video is uploaded 1 hour ago!! Well done, mate!
i get taken asside almost every time i fly, the plate in my head sets off the detector and i have a lump on the top of my head so they think im smuggling something under my scalp. its getting better at my local airport because they know me i fly out atleast once a month
Fyi, the airport at PDX (Portland) is set up as a destination in and of itself. Inside the terminal, for people with layovers, there's a movie theater (with the movies on a constant loop, but with listed showtimes, too), restaurants and fine dining, shopping, bookstores, drugstores, coffee shops, pubs. I don't recall if there's a bowling alley, but it would be in the right spirit. You have to have a boarding pass, but people schedule long layovers intentionally, just to explore.
So, yeah, the airport is a place to go and hang out. (Plus the carpeted floors are big and pretty empty at night, so with the right shoes you can practice dancing.)
definitely get the catch me if you can vibes too, such a good movie that one too.
Robin Williams was in a similar movie in the 80s called Moscow on the Hudson. He played a Russian visiting America when he decides to defect and stay in America.
Before 9/11, I used to love airports. People were always hugging each other: People coming home or leaving family. Also, my father used to travel for work. And as a little girl, we used to go to the airport to see him off.
Such an underrated movie. The movie is loosely based on a real person that lived for 18 years at an airport in France. He took ill and was taken from the airport I think in 2006 or 8. He returned to the airport again to stay there and passed away there last November from a heart attack. He was well loved by the staff at the airport through the years. Prior to his death his family was found during his first stay at the airport and asked for assistance and they said they believed he was where he wanted to be. I tend to believe that too seeing as how he returned so he could breathe his last there. Yes, it I find it incredibly cool that Zoey Saldana played a trekkie in this movie, accepts the proposal by doing a Vulcan salute and then goes on to play Uhura in Star Trek and dates a Vulcan, Spock. Really well cast!
Finally someone reacted to this masterpiece. I cant believe how few people have actually seen it. It's sooooo heartwarming and good
9:37 The ketchup on saltines brought back memories I have managed to forget for decades. Mom used to make us 'cracker pizza' when we were very poor growing up. Saltines with ketchup, then warmed up and eaten. Sometimes we could buy the plastic containers of powdered 'Parmigiano' cheese and lived in luxury. Crackers and ketchup are free, just walk through a fast food lobby and grab some, but the shaky cheese was deluxe.
The Love Bug 1968, Goosebumps 1&2 and Dreamworks Dinotrux!
Ahhhh The Terminal.... aka Castaway in an Airport. lol
One time, I was in an airport and was waiting for a connecting flight. Either it was bumped flight or a delay or perhaps just a long layover. But I sat down for a while and was facing the area where people would usually walk to get from one gate to some other gate. I saw someone who had all sorts of bags and things in their hands. They were in a rush, so they were walking briskly. I watched them, since they stood out a bit. I wished I had a video camera for what was about to happen, since I was positioned so perfectly and it was something that would be hard to recreate.
I don't recall if they had their boarding pass in a shirt pocket or if they held it in their hand near that area. But as they were rearranging bags a bit, while still walking briskly, the boarding pass fluttered up over their shoulder and in the most cinematically perfect flutter down to the ground behind them, it rocked back and forth, with that slightly arc'd U shape, rocking to my right, but tipping upward a bit, which slows it down, and then it rocks back to the left, and so on, until it lands gently onto the ground.
The person didn't notice that they just lost their boarding pass, and they were in such a rush that it would be a pain for them to come back and find it, if they would even suspect that they dropped it along the way once they would reach the gate where it would be needed. I quickly got up and walked the tens of feet to get to where the boarding pass landed. I don't think there were a ton of people walking at that moment, so I don't think anyone in that main hall really noticed this, and most people waiting for a flight probably had other things drawing their attention. I picked up the boarding pass and kept it in plain sight; if anyone was watching this, it needed to be clear that I was not trying to claim it was mine or anything. I realized I didn't know the name of the person who dropped it, and I didn't care to shout in the airport in hopes of getting this stranger's attention. So I just walked more briskly than they walked, knowing I could outpace them, and thus catch up eventually.
I kept my eyes on them as I grew closer. As I was getting less than 10 feet away from the person, I saw that they were slowing and moving in such a way that I suspected that they were entering the panic mode of wondering where their boarding pass was. I could tell they were checking pockets or anything that might have it. The person suddenly came to a standstill, as they realized they clearly didn't have it anymore. This was so perfectly timed, because at that point, I was close enough that them stopping allowed me to reach them within 1-2 seconds. As they turned, I extended my hand out with their boarding pass and said something like, "you dropped this". They were relieved, took it, and continued on their way (I don't recall if there was a thank-you, but I'll assume the best). I was then able to go back to other things one does in an airport.
It was such a simple moment, but I was happy to play a part in it, and I really can't imagine a more picturesque flutter of a boarding pass.
Like right out of the scene in Vegas Vacation when Sid Caesars's winning Keno ticket falls in slo mo to the floor.
It’s based on a true story too! Well, loosely. But I recommend looking up Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the inspiration. Atrocity Guide here on RUclips did a thorough video about him if you were interested
I wonder if that man is still stuck.
@@celiashen5490 He died last November, actually
@@that-possum-guy3209 Did he ever get out?
Around the 19-minute mark, he couldn't take her out for a few reasons. She said they could go out and catch a cab...that means going where he's not allowed. But yes, money would be another factor.
19:29 I can't imagine he would get in trouble. He more that did his job with all of those signs.
Such an underrated movie that caught me by surprise. He couldn't go out because he was stuck in the Terminal. She talked about catching a cab and grabbing dinner lol
I'm pretty sure I read that the interior of the airport terminal, shops and all, was constructed in a studio soundstage (Like you said, it would be next to impossible to shoot a movie like this in a large, active airport)!
That's amazing! It's so huge and looks like it would take years to construct.
FYI: I used to work for a company that built the airport X-ray machines... The X-rays are much less powerful than a dental X-ray.
Good choice! Tom is just so likable!
weirdly this is one of my favorite childhood movies. like 8 year old me would watch this on repeat.
And yet , you are just now educating me that this is a Speilberg movie. I just probably didn't recognize that name. I haven't seen this in a very long time so it was a joy to see your reaction!
when i was 13 i saw a guy snorting lines in the mens room at Dulles
This movie is a less isolated version of Cast Away. They are both about a man being almost completely alone, this one just doesn't have the life survival aspect to it, but still has the emotional survival aspect. And in both movies Hanks is simply brilliant.
It's 2022 currently and I'm making 20 an hour as a preschool teacher $19 back in that day was a lot today its chum change xD
Wow - cool - its my favorite Tom Hanks Movie.
2:20 I am Indonesian and I just love neighbouring country's airport Changi Singapore. I don't mind legally stranded in Changi for days, really this airport is that awesome.
i think this was filmed in the old TWA terminal .
You're not likely to die from the x-ray machine, but the trouble is while with medical x-rays they record the dose you got on your files so you aren't ever accidentally over your safe limit for yearly dose. By going in those machines you're not getting a medically controlled dose to a particular part of your body but an unknown amount of rays off record. Radiation damage is cumulative and if you get enough small doses too often or too much at once that's when problems start occurring.
I think first time he was offered dinner it's because she was suggesting they go out of the airport to a restaurant, and he can't "go out" with her.
Btw The Big Bang Theory is considered “ Friends “ for nerds ! It would be great if you watch TBBT after watching friends, I think you can give a fresh perspective of comparison.
Friends is good, but you should react to person of interest. AMAZING show.
I love this movie. Hopeful and bittersweet
Funny you should mention traveling when you were under 18 and had to check in with someone. I guess to show my age, in the mid 90s....I traveled from CA to TX by myself when I was 13-14 to visit my brother. My parents just put me on the plane and my brother was there to pick me up. No sense of security other than that lol. This was pre 9/11 when you could literally watch someone walk onto the plane from the gate and not have to leave them basically at the entrance of security
fun fact: this is inspired by the true story of someone that ended up stuck in the french Charles de gaulle airport for 18 years (!), likewise for having fallen in a legal loophole (basically lost his travellng papers and should have been sent back to his country of origin, but he was exiled from it and thus couldnt return, and he has no citizenship status anywhere else)
I BELIEVE that Spielberg built this entire airport set
Yup. It was originally an airplane hangar. The behind the scenes stuff for this movie is very interesting.
If you enjoy Tucci and his range of acting and want to see him as a real dark villain you might want to watch The Wannsee Conference from 2001. Stellar cast beside Tucci aswell.
This is partially based on a true story of a guy who spent 18 years at an airport in France. Also the entire airport set was built at an airport hangar, just damn! With exterior shots filmed in Montreal apparently.
I'm an aviation freak who grew up in an aviation family (literally in my blood) and I love plane spotting and going to airshows.
8:55 - Just in case, that’s Zoe Saldana and in 13:42, that’s Diego Luna since you mention the show ‘Andor’.
Thank you for this reaction, Thor :)))
I love this movie. How could one not?
One of my favorite comedies about Hollywood has Catherine Zeta Jones in it (as well as Billy Crystal, Julia Robert's, John Cusack and Seth Green)... so worth a watch
Not a horror story, just an observation. Why is it when your layover is 2 hours or more you fly out of the gate right next to the one you arrived at? Of course the flip side is also true that when your layover is super short you have to race to the other side of the airport. That's the worst.
I feel like you would LOVE the movie Bicentennial man with Robin Williams in the lead ❤
19:29 there's like seven signs, he's entitled to laugh at them at that point
My airport horror story: I was returning from a trip and because my small local airport doesn't have a lot of direct flights, I had a connecting flight at a larger airport. The flight from the connection airport to home was literally 35 minutes.
Well, they cancelled that 35 minute flight. There were no other flights until the next day. I didn't have a change of underwear or any toiletry items because they were on my checked luggage and they wouldn't bring us our luggage. I travel with a change of clothes in my carry-on on the way to a destination ik case my luggage is delayed, but not on the way home because, well, I'm going home!
The airline would not provide toiletries or a hotel, and all the shops were closed. All the restaurants were closed. I found a vending machine with sandwiches, but it wouldn't work and the airport employee wouldn't help.
There were no rental cars available so I could drive home. It was literally a 90 minute drive! I went on Expedia and found a rental car off site, and ordered an Uber. RIGHT as the Uber pulled up, I got notification that the car wasn't available. So, I sent the Uber away and offered to pay her but the app wouldn't allow it. It made my Uber passenger rating go down.
So, I ate some pretzels that were on my backpack and found a corner of the airport to sleep in. First and hopefully last time sleeping in an airport. I could have rented a hotel room, but I would have gotten even less sleep by the time I got to the hotel, got checked in, then woke up in time to get back to the airport and go back through security.
Have you seen Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
@@kentclark6420 yes! Thankfully, my ordeal wasn't THAT bad!
@@deeanna8448 That's good. We can all identify with that movie.
I love that you reacted to this film, based on a true story but so well done.
I love how victor doesn’t take to someone disrespecting his home country
I definitely agree with reacting to Friends 👍
Even try to search a Friends reaction on RUclips. Still a open treasure to jump into
Catherine Zeta-Jones was 35 when she filmed this.
she was a 10 in my book
Awesome seeing this movie get the recognition it deserves.
Yes!! PLease react to friends!!! Love your reactions, and friends is my favorite comedy show!! =D
Love from Norway!
I love the airport. I just like to sometimes visit the airport to watch the planes and see the operations. I guess I just had very good experiences with flying when I was little, because I was flying long flights multiple times a year for the first 5 years of my live.
🤩 my favourite TH movie!
its based on real life guy who died lately and he was living in airport 18 years and even died there
Airport horror story: got grounded at Georgia and the last voucher for a hotel was given right in front of me.
"The Terminal is based on this gentleman: Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian: مهران کریمی ناصری, pronounced [mehˈrɒn kæriˈmi nɒseˈri]; 1945 - 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized. His autobiography was published as a book, The Terminal Man, in 2004. Nasseri's story inspired the 1993 film Lost in Transit and the 2004 film The Terminal. He returned to living at the airport in September 2022, and died there of a heart attack in November 2022." - Wikipedia
Was he 'terminally' ill?
I have recommended this to so many reacters but nobody bites.
I'm surprised that you didn't get that the airport staff was EXPECTING him to simply leave. That's WHY they released him back into the terminal, they don't want to deal with problematic immigrants so they either make up a BS appointment to see an immigration judge (that they don't expect the immigrant to show up for) or they simply release them. That's why they asked "why's he still here?" The thing where they walked him to the front door and told him the guards would be late, they wanted him to leave.
That is not a real airport, but one of the most amazing sets ever built. That long pull back shot was likely a skycam shot. Camera and gimbals suspended on basically a zipline. Then just pull the camera up the line all the way through the set.
I thought that had to be a real airport. It seems like it would take years to make that- even a movie set.
@kentclark6420 it's insanely impressive. 600 ft long and like 250 feet wide. They used an old aircraft hanger. This shows them building the thing. It's enormous. The camera cranes look small in the set. Luckily movie sets are very fake. Sure the frame is steel but none of it has to take weather, the walls are all cheap and just plywood dressed. They have a LOT of corners they can cut as it just has to look real not be real.
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@@mycroft16 Still very impressive! The ability that Hollywood has always had in making sets and costumes is amazing! And all the stunts. Remember the old MGM musicals and lavish designs? And the last scene of Magical Mystery Tour when the Beatles walk down those crazy steps? Incredible scene! And it was also made in an old airport hanger.
Not that I meant you would have been around back in the old MGM musical days!
@kentclark6420 Yeah I do remember those old MGM movies. They built some crazy stuff for some of those. Or the Goonies... they built the pirate ship and water tank in the cave on a Soundstage for real. All just 2x4 supports and plaster carved and painted. I also love when they make super detailed miniatures and combine those with live action and you can't tell.
I see you're watching lots of Spielberg, when are you gonna get to Munich?
I haven’t seen anyone else mention this, so I’ll shout out my own personal GOAT for the movie - it’s another John Williams score 😍 I love the score for this movie so much, and the Spielberg/Williams partnership never fails in my book!
My top 5 favorite movies of all time a feel good movie thank you for the reaction.
The entire set for the airport was built for the movie. It does not exist that place.
Finally! Someone reacts to this gem of a movie. Thank you. One of the most underrated Tom Hanks & Steven Spielberg movies.
I love the soundtrack by John Williams. It works so well!
I have been taken aside for them to check my can of Vienna Sausages, they didn't find anything because well I didn't have anything, but then afterwards, there I was with a open can of Vienna Sausages that I couldn't seal back up, so I ended up munching down those sausages and threw the can away and went on my way.
30:10 there's been some people that have found "love" at an airport.
#Mail-order bride 🤣
Dunno what else to say that other commenters haven't already said, I mean, THANKS for doing this wee gem that so many people don't do because of 'the numbers'. This and Tom's Larry Crowne are cool bookends for each other, I hope ya check it out, even if just on yer own time... no big roller-coaster scenes, just everyday life meanderings... ish.
Tbh if I see someone stealing food, I didn’t see somebody stealing the food. Must’ve been something in my eye lol
I didn't see it either. I sneezed when it happened.
6:25 I've been to Japan with very little Japanese language skills and it was a little bit scary and frustrating at times but at the same time I knew that in the biff cities you can always find someone who speaks at least a little English. It's different for him though, he would have a very hard time finding someone who speaks Bulgarian.
Since you are going Spielberg films, I hope you will consider put some films in Patron polls that have almost never reacted: Amistad and Bridge of Spies. Then we might actually get reaction of these gems.
Cool. Haven't seen anyone react to this movie. 👍
Have you ever seen Life of Pi? Definitely a must watch one of these days. Friends is a classic show and would be popular I would think, since it has so much nostalgia.