Blame WB not even bothering to market this movie properly. Not to mention it was opening against box office successes like The Sixth Sense and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace during the summer of 1999. It had no chance.
Even when I'm trying to hold back, I still get a lump in my throat. I swear dudes identify with seeing such a pure act of selflessness in service of those we care for.
The Iron Giant was one of those films that wasn’t advertised that well during its own theatrical run but managed to punched well above its weight. And hell, it still holds up super well today, in fact.
This kinda reminds me of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Hastily turned into a theatrical movie, it didn't have great marketing and so despite being critically acclaimed, in animation and for taking the story of Batman in a new, unique direction while being a tie-in to the animated series with some neat lore drops, it failed at the box office and led to no other animated DC movie being released in theater's.
The General voiced by the late, great John Mahoney is one of my favorite minor authority figures in animated films. He is willing to hear out civilians who know more about the situation and can recognize the Giant isn’t a threat. “WHERE’S THE GIANT, MANSLEY?!?”
John Mahoney also voiced Preston Whitmore from Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He has a knack for voicing sophisticated experienced men who still have kindness in their hearts despite their age and status (e.g. being a soldier or a millionaire).
The General is a unusual and good character. Listens to people. Gets the Giant is not a threat. And when the missile is coming he looks death in the face and makes Mansley stay.
"Superman" It's impossible not to tear up when you hear that scene. This is one of the greatest films ever made, and it deserved so much better at the box office.
It's like seeing that into the spider-verse scene where stan lee is talking to miles...Whole bunch of grown adults in that theater weren't even trying to hide the fact that we sobbed.
Honestly, the whole box office thing is a scam to see who can make it to a billion. The fastest iron Giant would have had anyone given it a fraction of a chance. Like what was the reasoning that this did not make it to a billion dollars? This movie could have made a billion dollars in a second. But oh no, this doesn't make money these. This was an original idea too by the way and Hollywood is lacking those so much nowadays. Treasure planet was an original idea that Disney came up with and the other day won't ever go back to that. But don't let some half-baked piece of s*** go to a billion dollars and top of the box office food chain and make records well. These ones well. Things like treasure planet Atlantis the Lost Kingdom, ant iron, Giant sitting, absolute obscurity and hated upon when their first released. They do gang cult followings later but the sad part of it is is almost no one knows what the f*** these movies are unless someone tells you about them and then even sadder. Still they're nowhere near in any type of media. They have no presence for selling t-shirts. They have no presents for selling backpacks or anything like they don't even try to create any merchandise thing. Have they done that? They might be able to get some f****** money off of this franchise. But no we don't want to create stuff that people will actually enjoy
@@colincarroll7218 Ugh Treasure Planet is most definitely not an original idea. Still, it came out at the worst time possible: between Star Wars Episode 2 and OG Spiderman.
@@ledichang9708 , yeah it's not an original idea, but I great movie. I saw Treasure planet for the first time some months ago and was really impressed by it's quality.
One of the best things about this movie is how gentle it is, without being patronizing. The whole bathroom scene with the disconnected hand is also one of the few well done extended poop jokes in animated history. The subtle hint that Hogarth's father was a (EDIT) pilot who was killed either in WW2 or Korea. And that ending...words can't describe it. It's just phenomenal.
Sputnik was launched in October 1957. Korean War ended in July 1953. It is stated that Hogarth is 9 years old, so he was born in 1948, 3 years after WW2 ended. I would guess he died in the Korean War & that his father may have in fact been in both wars. The mother is likely mid/late-30's so the timing does seem to check out.
Basically, it's the beloved DC Animated Universe all over again, it being timeless to kids AND adults. Not even He-Man/She-ra and X-Men/Spider-Man: The Animated Series are like that these days. Anyways, I thought Hogarth's dad was a fighter pilot?
@@michaelandreipalon359 oops, guess you're right. It's weird because Hogarth's helmet is much closer to a tanker's helmet than a pilot's. But the photo of his dad does show him climbing into a plane's cockpit.
Using the CAPS system, many of these features had that rich and crisp 2D look. Later they switched to full 3D animation, but also re-opened the ink & paint animation studio. So now we have both. With modern technology, many animators can now create an intermeshed overlay of different styles, giving them a pretty large toolbox from which to create with.
The message and excution of this movie's message is so simple but heartfelt. People have a choice in their life, do not have to be what they think they were designed for nor do they have to define themselves from their mistakes or past either. Someone with an addiction is not an addiction. A person with a history of screw ups is not a screw up. An iron giant maybe capable of great destruction is not a gun toting nuclear weapon of destruction from outer space. You get the picture. Thus why many really empathize with that scene. There are some figures, real and fictional, who inspire us to become who we want to be by our choices.
The guy directed The iron Giant, The Incredibles 1 and 2, Ratatouille, and one Mission Impossible (I keep forgetting which one, I havn't seen it). Brad Bird is a movie super star and we don't talk enough about him.
@@thork6974 Yeah, that was an advertising misfire really. They wanted another feel good blockbuster like Pirates of the Caribbean and Brad Bird/Damon Lindelof didn't do that, they made another commentary on the corrupting influence of power and how human nature can warp perceptions. It's not what people signed up for when they went to see it. It did end on a (relatively) high note though. I mean compared to Iron Giant.
@@ZazuYen The advertising got me in the theatre at least. But then the very first scene, the 'video diary', absolutely stinks of last-minute reshoots and second-guessing, and it kind of never recovers from there.
This is partly because even mediocre 2D animation looks a heck of a lot better than the bad 3D animation that a lot of stuff has today. Which is not to say that this is mediocre by any stretch, just that bad 3D animation is especially bad.
@@TheLionPear Yeah, but like... I'm saying you think it would have improved - but I guess that's what's cool about animations, it's not really about the technology. Comic books haven't "improved" in that sense - what quality is there to improve on? It's the story and the style that bring these things to life.
I randomly saw an advance premiere of Iron Giant in a film festival I had a pass for. Had no expectations, but it was a free way to fill an afternoon. It was in a massive old theater with a THX sound system, but it was barely 1/3 full. This screening remains one of my cherished magical and sentimental moviegoing experiences. I walked out of that theater into the sunshine feeling stunned and verklempt. When it was released to cinemas a few months later, I told all my friends to GO SEE IT. I had to share that feeling. I never understood how this film failed so utterly at the box office, but I worked for several years at a video store, and recommended it to many parents who had no idea it existed. It makes me happy to see here in this comment section that so many others have similar emotional connections to this great film. ♥
I don't think ET or Iron Giant ripped anything off to be honest. The "boy and his pet monster" genre has been going strong since humans first domesticated wolves.
Hey! Yeah? You're right in the middle of the.road..YEAH?! .. alright.... I laughed so hard at this that I hurt myself. My siblings & I quote that scene all the time. Plus there's a lil bit of easter egg on the newspaper if you pause it in time. Also the best touch is how the chair sets down perfectly gently, but not in some non-believable manner.
I can't describe how happy I am that you did an episode for this movie! It's my favorite childhood movie and still holds up today. The comedy in this episode was hilarious and when you acknowledged that there isn't anything really bad to say about this movie, it just put a huge grin on my face. Thank you!
First time I saw The Iron Giant was when I was in my 20's, it was a Sat morning and I randomly found it on TV - I magically turned back in to my kid-self watching (good) 'Sat morning cartoons' - glued to the TV until it was over.
This film deserved to be a box office smash. It was never promoted properly which was a travesty. One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking animated films ever, and still my favourite Vin Diesel performance. 'You are who you choose to be. ' 'Superman...' 😭😭
I remember seeing a sneak preview of it in the theater with a bunch of school age children. That last shot in the arctic of the Giant's smiling face brought the hugest shouts of "yay!" from those kids. It was wonderful.
2:10 In Ready Player One's defense, the Iron Giant is not the actual character, but a player using its form. Additionally, said player ends up using the Iron Giant to perform a helpful self-sacrifice.
And in the book I don't think it was the Iron Giant used for that, since the book focused more on 70s/80s nostalgia, not 90s. I want to say the book used Leopardon, Spider-man's giant mech from the Japanese series, but might be mistaking things, it's been a while.
Alternatively, considering that in-universe, every Iron Giant model is identical to one-another (evident in the scene where he broadcasts his dream), you could interpret that that may not be the Iron Giant we are fond of, but another one of his species. Though it is interesting and cool to see Iron Giant in battle *without* him utilizing his battle form (even tho that's actually not him like you said). I know he's a pacifist in the movie, but in a scenario where he has to fend off actual evil, this is so far the most accurate portrayal.
Real ones remember the commercials on late 90’s Warner Bros animated films like Scooby Doo on Zombie Island where we got those epic trailers narrated by the great Peter Cullen!
This movie should have made more money at the BO. When I was a kid, I used to watch it almost every week because it aired so often on cable TV. We all loved this movie in my community and cried at the end every time
Brad Bird not only directed The Iron Giant, but he was also a producer and writing consultant during the "Golden Era" of The Simpsons. That man basically raised me.
The Costco chicken bake line. I'm dying. Awesome trailer, ya'll. You bring me joy every week. And putting in one more request that ya'll do What we Do in the Shadows.
I love this movie so much that on my first trip to Iceland, I actually visited the glacier he landed on and took a picture of my Pop figure version in the snow up there.
Dig deeper. Iron Giant based on the 1968 book The Iron Man - but curious that Johnny Sokko (Japanese TV series 1967-1968) also had a young boy in charge of a giant robot that was armed to the teeth and meets the same demise. This has the flavor of Disney's Lion King (Simba) ripping off Japan's Kimba.
Ah yes, the official Screen Junkies Favorite ❤🎉😂 I thought of this with that new robot movie that came out- The Wild Robot. I already got my popcorn ready for the Honest Trailer on that one 🍿
Iron Giant being an antagonist in games and movies works perfectly with The Iron Giant movie. There are thousands of Iron Giants conquering planets, the one in the movie got reset and trained. Iron Giants are basically Viltrumites, a random Iron Giant fighting superman makes perfect sense.
The ending still makes me tear up at 32. I will never forget how my brother and I would always get the same movies at the video club and one day my dad got tired and went on his own and brought us this one which the shop keeper recommended. We loved it. I lost my dad already so the memory is even more meaningful now.
I laughed way too hard at “Too orange” haha! Great joke. Also Tin Diseal! Haha! This movie will always have a special place in my heart. That Power Plant on + off switch is pretty stupid. Thank you for being so kind to all the people who still love this film. Myself included!
Felt like a broken POS for a long time but having my 3 year old nephew say "Uncle Agga is Superman" has helped me more than any antidepressants I've been prescribed.
It might just meet me, but it felt like they were going to make a sequel to it 1 day. At least with the reveal that the giant was still alive at the end.
the flying scene is just so good too. The sound of the jet boots, both Hogarth's and the giant's exhilaration and the perspective shots on the mother. Beautiful film!
Screen Junkies being basically completely unable to make a joke at this film’s expense proves its a phenomenal film. I really wish i wasn’t freshly born when it released cuz I would’ve loved to see this in theaters. I genuinely can’t believe this flopped, it’s an incredible movie
Going up against The Phantom Menace meant that's where the family money was going. WB failed it by that scheduling choice, and also by how they marketed it.
I have watched this movie dozens of times. It was my absolute favorite when I was a kid. There will never be I time I dont cry when the giant says "Superman".
“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH HARDWARE I BROUGHT DOWN HERE?! YOU JUST BLEW THREE MILLION OF UNCLE SAM’S DOLLARS OUTTA YOUR BUTT!” Still easily my favourite line from the film.
This movie is in my top 5 movies ever list. I've loved it to death since I was a kid and still love it to this day. There was a point in time where I knew the whole thing line for line because I watched it all the time. The ending will make me cry every time. Truly the epitome of a 10/10 movie.
Remember when Cartoon Network would do 24 hour marathons of this movie? Back when Cartoon Network was still a good channel. Pepperidge Farm remembers, and so do I.(Meh, even that joke is dated...Good lord I'm starting to feel my age....) Also, I laughed way too hard at the "Tin Diesel" joke. Just caught me way off guard with it.😂
People get onto that scene in ready player one, but i feel like they forget its not the iron giant, its basically a glorified skin in a game, and you know if you played a game with the iron giant you'd be attacking stuff and shooting lasers. You dont become the iron gaint cause ya look like him.
And let’s be honest, Bumblebee Movie is just Iron Giant. Don’t repeat the same mistake of letting it flop at the box office like Iron Giant though, Transformers One is epic! And I’m not just saying that because I am the voice of Soundwave! Go see it in theaters!
Yeah, it's weird of them to shame/criticize Annie for working extra hours when she's a WIDOW in 1950s America. I, myself, am the youngest of two children of a widow and the scenes of Hogarth being home alone while his mom worked late reminded me of my own youth when my mom and later sister worked late, and having to learn how to prepare meals for myself or played video games and watching B-Movies in the dark.
Ah yes... I was 6 or 7 years old, living in recently liberated post communist country and my parents used to take me to a VHS rental store by the supermarket every Friday, to get some movies for the weekend. Once I found Iron Giant, I used to get it every single week for several months and watch it over and over. I would like to think it shaped me a little bit.
I really appreciate these loving reviews. Iron Giant, Godzilla 2014. Even Pacific Rim. Nerding out over something great always brings a smile to my face 😊
I love that movie, and never understood why it's not more popular. Fun to watch that there's really not much fun to say about it, since it's just sweet and well made.
I love The Iron Giant; it's got some fancy animation and a deep story, which I know is like E.T., but it's about a robot and not an alien itself. Also, good joke about Jennifer Aniston, who voiced Annie, playing Rachel in Friends. 👍
Showed my absolutely favorite line of all movies!!!! "SCREW OUR COUNTRY I WANNA LIVE!!" Expresses the foolishness that is ignorance. Said launch the missile now, then got it brought to his attention "Where's the Giant Mansley?!" LOL LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣
Infuriating how they did the exact same thing with Mask of The Phantasm. The movie gets high praise nowadays but back then no one knew it was coming out.
I always thought the primary message of this film was never shoot at the massive and kind robot because it might just be a world conquering super weapon.
When Honset Trailers cannot make fun of a movies plotline, you know it's a masterpiece
The last time they admitted to liking a movie this much was Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
@@ethanreuter7908 The last time they left the movie title alone was Mortal Kombat.
@@ethanreuter7908 the 1995 one, they didn't make up any name for that one...I don't remember about the 2021 version, not a fan of that one anyway
I remember watching this with my four year old son and sobbing 😂.
The last time they were so thrilled by the movie was Fury Road.
Everyone cries when they hear the Giant say “Superman.” It’s really, really hard not to tearbend.
I didn't, but only because I knew there was no way that was the end of a Hollywood animated movie for kids
@@offthewallscrazy
Cry a river
@@DeadDogInc well when you put it that way
When he said "I am NOT a gun" 😭
“You are who you choose to be.”
Genuinely one of the most beautiful animated masterpieces. The Iron Giant wasn't a gun; he was a Superman😭🦸
Amen 🙏🏽
He was robot bro, a robot with no emotions
I go, you stay. No following.
Suuuuuuperrrrrmaaaaaannnnn
@@valentinarmenta4982bro didnt watch the movie💀
I have never been able to understand how this was a failure at the box office, because it's still one of the best animated films ever.
Blame WB not even bothering to market this movie properly. Not to mention it was opening against box office successes like The Sixth Sense and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace during the summer of 1999. It had no chance.
Being great artistically doesn't mean much for success : compare that to movies based on those other iron giants called "transformers"
@@armelior4610 Unfortunately.
@@jbvader721 Like Cats Don't Dance. ❤
Gotta love when corporate shoves a stick in their own movies' bike spokes.
Don't remind me of how Transformers One opened...@@armelior4610
This film still causes grown men to weep at THAT scene. It deserved so much better.
THAT scene is really all you need for a psychopath test. If you don't cry, you go on a watchlist.
"Superman." 😭
Even when I'm trying to hold back, I still get a lump in my throat.
I swear dudes identify with seeing such a pure act of selflessness in service of those we care for.
Oh just wait. I'm sure they will ruin it with a sequel to cash in on the immense nostalgia.
Watched it with my kids six months ago for the first time in 20 years - even knowing that line was coming, I still choked up.
The Iron Giant was one of those films that wasn’t advertised that well during its own theatrical run but managed to punched well above its weight. And hell, it still holds up super well today, in fact.
This kinda reminds me of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Hastily turned into a theatrical movie, it didn't have great marketing and so despite being critically acclaimed, in animation and for taking the story of Batman in a new, unique direction while being a tie-in to the animated series with some neat lore drops, it failed at the box office and led to no other animated DC movie being released in theater's.
The General voiced by the late, great John Mahoney is one of my favorite minor authority figures in animated films. He is willing to hear out civilians who know more about the situation and can recognize the Giant isn’t a threat.
“WHERE’S THE GIANT, MANSLEY?!?”
That was one of my favorite parts too.
"SCREW OUR COUNTRY, I WANNA LIVE!!!"
Funniest line in the whole movie.
I didn't realize it was "Frasier's dad" until now but I totally hear it
John Mahoney also voiced Preston Whitmore from Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He has a knack for voicing sophisticated experienced men who still have kindness in their hearts despite their age and status (e.g. being a soldier or a millionaire).
The General is a unusual and good character. Listens to people. Gets the Giant is not a threat. And when the missile is coming he looks death in the face and makes Mansley stay.
"Superman" It's impossible not to tear up when you hear that scene. This is one of the greatest films ever made, and it deserved so much better at the box office.
It's like seeing that into the spider-verse scene where stan lee is talking to miles...Whole bunch of grown adults in that theater weren't even trying to hide the fact that we sobbed.
Honestly, the whole box office thing is a scam to see who can make it to a billion. The fastest iron Giant would have had anyone given it a fraction of a chance. Like what was the reasoning that this did not make it to a billion dollars? This movie could have made a billion dollars in a second. But oh no, this doesn't make money these. This was an original idea too by the way and Hollywood is lacking those so much nowadays. Treasure planet was an original idea that Disney came up with and the other day won't ever go back to that. But don't let some half-baked piece of s*** go to a billion dollars and top of the box office food chain and make records well. These ones well. Things like treasure planet Atlantis the Lost Kingdom, ant iron, Giant sitting, absolute obscurity and hated upon when their first released. They do gang cult followings later but the sad part of it is is almost no one knows what the f*** these movies are unless someone tells you about them and then even sadder. Still they're nowhere near in any type of media. They have no presence for selling t-shirts. They have no presents for selling backpacks or anything like they don't even try to create any merchandise thing. Have they done that? They might be able to get some f****** money off of this franchise. But no we don't want to create stuff that people will actually enjoy
@@colincarroll7218 Ugh Treasure Planet is most definitely not an original idea. Still, it came out at the worst time possible: between Star Wars Episode 2 and OG Spiderman.
@@ledichang9708 , yeah it's not an original idea, but I great movie. I saw Treasure planet for the first time some months ago and was really impressed by it's quality.
Eh, the 'Superman' didn't get me..... 'You stay, I go. No following' on the other hand. Cry like a baby... each time.
“…Brad Bird worked through his sister’s violent death…” WHAT?!? And you just throw that casually around?
Yeah I had to look that up, I had no idea.
@@hellomark1 Me too
The pitch he gave the studio was "What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun?"
Even the author of the original book, Ted Hughes, wrote it to console his children over their mother's (Sylvia Plath) suicide
Damn... Now I've got this strange translucent liquid pouring out of my eyes
One of the best things about this movie is how gentle it is, without being patronizing. The whole bathroom scene with the disconnected hand is also one of the few well done extended poop jokes in animated history. The subtle hint that Hogarth's father was a (EDIT) pilot who was killed either in WW2 or Korea. And that ending...words can't describe it. It's just phenomenal.
Sputnik was launched in October 1957. Korean War ended in July 1953. It is stated that Hogarth is 9 years old, so he was born in 1948, 3 years after WW2 ended. I would guess he died in the Korean War & that his father may have in fact been in both wars. The mother is likely mid/late-30's so the timing does seem to check out.
@@Transit_Biker thank you for coming in and checking that math, that's kind of what I thought. Glad to see someone else appreciated that detail.
Basically, it's the beloved DC Animated Universe all over again, it being timeless to kids AND adults. Not even He-Man/She-ra and X-Men/Spider-Man: The Animated Series are like that these days.
Anyways, I thought Hogarth's dad was a fighter pilot?
@@michaelandreipalon359 oops, guess you're right. It's weird because Hogarth's helmet is much closer to a tanker's helmet than a pilot's. But the photo of his dad does show him climbing into a plane's cockpit.
This, Treasure Planet, Titan AE, and The Prince of Egypt belong to a very special era of animation.
Right up there with Cats Don't Dance and Atlantis. 😍
Road to El Dorado.
The Legend of Simbad
Using the CAPS system, many of these features had that rich and crisp 2D look. Later they switched to full 3D animation, but also re-opened the ink & paint animation studio. So now we have both. With modern technology, many animators can now create an intermeshed overlay of different styles, giving them a pretty large toolbox from which to create with.
@@MichaelRainey Both? Both.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure Hogarth's mom has to work so much because she's a single mother in the 1950s and needs the money
Yes, that's what I always thought too.
"Tin Diesel"
Screen Junkies outdid themselves again😂
For me it was the Russian bot part.
That and the "Enormous Trashcan" line had me clamping a hand over my mouth to not wake my family. XD
The message and excution of this movie's message is so simple but heartfelt. People have a choice in their life, do not have to be what they think they were designed for nor do they have to define themselves from their mistakes or past either. Someone with an addiction is not an addiction. A person with a history of screw ups is not a screw up. An iron giant maybe capable of great destruction is not a gun toting nuclear weapon of destruction from outer space. You get the picture. Thus why many really empathize with that scene. There are some figures, real and fictional, who inspire us to become who we want to be by our choices.
Him: "...Superman..."
Me: *sobs*
The guy directed The iron Giant, The Incredibles 1 and 2, Ratatouille, and one Mission Impossible (I keep forgetting which one, I havn't seen it). Brad Bird is a movie super star and we don't talk enough about him.
Ghost Protocol is what you're referring to.
And yet, Tomorrowland crushed my hopes and dreams
@@thork6974 Yeah, that was an advertising misfire really. They wanted another feel good blockbuster like Pirates of the Caribbean and Brad Bird/Damon Lindelof didn't do that, they made another commentary on the corrupting influence of power and how human nature can warp perceptions. It's not what people signed up for when they went to see it. It did end on a (relatively) high note though. I mean compared to Iron Giant.
*haven't
@@ZazuYen The advertising got me in the theatre at least. But then the very first scene, the 'video diary', absolutely stinks of last-minute reshoots and second-guessing, and it kind of never recovers from there.
It's crazy how this animation looks better than 99% of the animations done today. This movie had heart - you can't fake that.
Such a shame we'll never see it again
Movies were made with soul and passion, today most movies are just products from big corporations
It was better than 99% of animation done back then too.
This is partly because even mediocre 2D animation looks a heck of a lot better than the bad 3D animation that a lot of stuff has today. Which is not to say that this is mediocre by any stretch, just that bad 3D animation is especially bad.
@@TheLionPear Yeah, but like... I'm saying you think it would have improved - but I guess that's what's cool about animations, it's not really about the technology. Comic books haven't "improved" in that sense - what quality is there to improve on? It's the story and the style that bring these things to life.
A minor correction: Hogarth's mom wasn't a workaholic. She was just struggling to make ends meet, being a single parent.
Iron Giant is adorable and you will quote everything he says.
... I understood that reference.
TFS FTW!
I read that in Nappa's voice, then Super-Kami-Guru's, and finally 16's
@@SomeRUclipsTraveler"I am hilarious and you will quote everything I - BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS KILL GOKU."
I randomly saw an advance premiere of Iron Giant in a film festival I had a pass for. Had no expectations, but it was a free way to fill an afternoon. It was in a massive old theater with a THX sound system, but it was barely 1/3 full. This screening remains one of my cherished magical and sentimental moviegoing experiences. I walked out of that theater into the sunshine feeling stunned and verklempt. When it was released to cinemas a few months later, I told all my friends to GO SEE IT. I had to share that feeling.
I never understood how this film failed so utterly at the box office, but I worked for several years at a video store, and recommended it to many parents who had no idea it existed. It makes me happy to see here in this comment section that so many others have similar emotional connections to this great film. ♥
It was the lack of advertising. There just wasn’t any.
@@mittensfastpaw I remember seeing ONE poster in a lobby, which was the only way I knew it was finally being widely released.
Fun fact: The Iron Giant book plot is SUPER different compared to the movie. It has a dragon mixed into the plot.
I've read it-or someone read it to me, I was a kid at the time-and you're right, it is SUPER different.
A gigantic planet threatening alien space dragon, no less!
And the iron giant tricks the dragon by making it fly on the sun repeatedly
The dragon does turn up in Pete Townsend’s concept album version of the story. Fun fact: John Lee Hooker sings the Giant’s parts on the album!
I'm sorry what.
Proud to say I'm a 90s kid who saw this IN THE THEATRES and loved every second. What a masterpiece.
I don't think ET or Iron Giant ripped anything off to be honest. The "boy and his pet monster" genre has been going strong since humans first domesticated wolves.
I've got the book, and it's way different than the movie. The movie is actually better. Classic!
@@MisterBooSky Exactly, the book is completely different. There's a singing dragon from outer space, for starters.
it's not just boys, don't forget Lilo.
They should do the monster and his pet boy next
@@alejandrovaldovinos3546The Good Dinosaur is the closest I can think of to that
The cannonball scene into the lake is my favorite. Never laughed so hard in my life.
Hey! Yeah? You're right in the middle of the.road..YEAH?! .. alright.... I laughed so hard at this that I hurt myself. My siblings & I quote that scene all the time. Plus there's a lil bit of easter egg on the newspaper if you pause it in time. Also the best touch is how the chair sets down perfectly gently, but not in some non-believable manner.
Come on in! It's really, (shivering) really refreshing!
(Giant turns and walks away)
What?! You too?! You.. (trying to breathe) big... BABY!!!
"What if a gun didn't want to be a gun?"
"Deep thoughts with the Deep"
G1 Megatron: "Lol. Lmao."
"what if guns had feelings?"
Thank you honest trailer guy. You did my favourite movie proud.
I'll happily cry manly tears whenever I watch this. Absolute masterpiece, anyone who says otherwise hasn't seen it or doesn't have a heart
I can't describe how happy I am that you did an episode for this movie! It's my favorite childhood movie and still holds up today. The comedy in this episode was hilarious and when you acknowledged that there isn't anything really bad to say about this movie, it just put a huge grin on my face.
Thank you!
"Art!" - some guy who lives in a junkyard probably
He probably also wants to move Coolsville to someplace less conspicuous.
First time I saw The Iron Giant was when I was in my 20's, it was a Sat morning and I randomly found it on TV - I magically turned back in to my kid-self watching (good) 'Sat morning cartoons' - glued to the TV until it was over.
I cannot see that last scene of The Iron Giant without tears, I just can't. Brilliant movie
Holy crap I'm in it! Thank you so much for doing the honest trailer!
A man only cries twice in his lifetime. Once at "Superman...", and once at the end of Jurassic Bark.
Don’t forget the Pokémon movie
I'm more a Game of Tones man
The last conversation gets me: "Hogarth, I go. You stay. No following."
It do be that way.
@djsmith06 "The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of Life that determines who you are." Always gets me.
This film deserved to be a box office smash. It was never promoted properly which was a travesty. One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking animated films ever, and still my favourite Vin Diesel performance.
'You are who you choose to be. '
'Superman...' 😭😭
Vastly underrated masterpiece. Thanks for highlighting it!
This was a terrific Honest Trailer.
...Makin' me miss the Commentaries even more.
I remember seeing a sneak preview of it in the theater with a bunch of school age children. That last shot in the arctic of the Giant's smiling face brought the hugest shouts of "yay!" from those kids. It was wonderful.
I'm not crying. I just have something in my eye.
Shut up, you're crying.
Quit your complaining and stop hiding it.
I swear if they try to remake this one into a live action, I will write a strongly worded letter!
I would actually be delighted! But they best still have Vin and Harry doing their roles, though!
2:10 In Ready Player One's defense, the Iron Giant is not the actual character, but a player using its form. Additionally, said player ends up using the Iron Giant to perform a helpful self-sacrifice.
And those folks he was stomping were card-carrying minions of a cartoonishly-evil corporate overlord.
Even Superman would have been punching them.
And in the book I don't think it was the Iron Giant used for that, since the book focused more on 70s/80s nostalgia, not 90s. I want to say the book used Leopardon, Spider-man's giant mech from the Japanese series, but might be mistaking things, it's been a while.
Alternatively, considering that in-universe, every Iron Giant model is identical to one-another (evident in the scene where he broadcasts his dream), you could interpret that that may not be the Iron Giant we are fond of, but another one of his species.
Though it is interesting and cool to see Iron Giant in battle *without* him utilizing his battle form (even tho that's actually not him like you said). I know he's a pacifist in the movie, but in a scenario where he has to fend off actual evil, this is so far the most accurate portrayal.
Ready Player One is still crap, though.
Real ones remember the commercials on late 90’s Warner Bros animated films like Scooby Doo on Zombie Island where we got those epic trailers narrated by the great Peter Cullen!
This movie should have made more money at the BO. When I was a kid, I used to watch it almost every week because it aired so often on cable TV. We all loved this movie in my community and cried at the end every time
One of the best animated films ever. Between this, "The Incredibles," and "Ratatouille," Brad Bird really is unstoppable.
I had this masterpiece on VHS back in the day. The ending still makes me bawl like a baby today.
“ . . . Superman . . . “
*I’m not gonna cry. I’m not gonna cry*
Brad Bird not only directed The Iron Giant, but he was also a producer and writing consultant during the "Golden Era" of The Simpsons. That man basically raised me.
The Costco chicken bake line. I'm dying. Awesome trailer, ya'll. You bring me joy every week.
And putting in one more request that ya'll do What we Do in the Shadows.
Oh man, I remember seeing this movie in theaters and crying at the end. I love this masterpiece.
I love it too I just wish it didn't have so many poop jokes
This is my all-time favorite animated movie and I cry every time at the end
Man this movie should have gotten more money. I think I'll say the same about The Wild Robot.
And transformers one 🥲
This is why marketing is always will be the most important things for any products.
You know the Wild Robot is going to destroy the Box Office this weekend
@@dieptrieu6564 Well the marketing for The Wild Robot was great but not for Transformers One I can assure you of that.
i mean, iron giant was an original concept. wild robot is a transparent knockoff. i certainly HOPE wild robot doesn't get more money than iron giant.
Finally! The Iron Giant is one of my favourite movies!
I love this movie so much that on my first trip to Iceland, I actually visited the glacier he landed on and took a picture of my Pop figure version in the snow up there.
Dig deeper. Iron Giant based on the 1968 book The Iron Man - but curious that Johnny Sokko (Japanese TV series 1967-1968) also had a young boy in charge of a giant robot that was armed to the teeth and meets the same demise. This has the flavor of Disney's Lion King (Simba) ripping off Japan's Kimba.
Not having movies like this is why kids grow up now and days so messed up
Ah yes, the official Screen Junkies Favorite ❤🎉😂
I thought of this with that new robot movie that came out- The Wild Robot. I already got my popcorn ready for the Honest Trailer on that one 🍿
Iron Giant being an antagonist in games and movies works perfectly with The Iron Giant movie.
There are thousands of Iron Giants conquering planets, the one in the movie got reset and trained.
Iron Giants are basically Viltrumites, a random Iron Giant fighting superman makes perfect sense.
The Greeks and Romans believed giants lived in the mountains.
The Jotun were Norse myth of giants older than the Gods.
He wasn't an antagonist in either game or movie shown here.
The ending still makes me tear up at 32. I will never forget how my brother and I would always get the same movies at the video club and one day my dad got tired and went on his own and brought us this one which the shop keeper recommended. We loved it. I lost my dad already so the memory is even more meaningful now.
I'm 60 and can't even get to the sad part anymore before the tears start flowing.
This and The Secret of NIMH are my favorite animated movies of all time.
I laughed way too hard at “Too orange” haha! Great joke. Also Tin Diseal! Haha! This movie will always have a special place in my heart. That Power Plant on + off switch is pretty stupid. Thank you for being so kind to all the people who still love this film. Myself included!
We are who we choose to be. Choose.
One of only a handful of movies that has ever made me cry.
I'm 35 years old, rewatched it last year and I still got a ball in my throat at the ending.
Damn you for making look up stuff! Worth, IG was awesome, from the days when awesome was what people aimed for.
Felt like a broken POS for a long time but having my 3 year old nephew say "Uncle Agga is Superman" has helped me more than any antidepressants I've been prescribed.
I almost lost it with the Cosco chicken bake part. Trying not to laugh aloud in the open office.
It might just meet me, but it felt like they were going to make a sequel to it 1 day. At least with the reveal that the giant was still alive at the end.
Please say “I’m going to make this pencil disappear!”
the flying scene is just so good too. The sound of the jet boots, both Hogarth's and the giant's exhilaration and the perspective shots on the mother. Beautiful film!
Screen Junkies being basically completely unable to make a joke at this film’s expense proves its a phenomenal film. I really wish i wasn’t freshly born when it released cuz I would’ve loved to see this in theaters. I genuinely can’t believe this flopped, it’s an incredible movie
Going up against The Phantom Menace meant that's where the family money was going. WB failed it by that scheduling choice, and also by how they marketed it.
@@Axterix13 ah true Phantom Menace came out at the same time. I wasn’t alive to see the marketing but with WB’s track record I’m not surprised
This film was decades ahead of its time. Such a shame it was barely advertised.
Please say "I can't believe they got my quote wrong! You had one job Honest Trailer! One job!"
I have watched this movie dozens of times. It was my absolute favorite when I was a kid. There will never be I time I dont cry when the giant says "Superman".
I've laughed so hard at the Chris McDonald had to Poop E-I-E-I-O LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same here, that was hilarious, totally caught me offguard lol 😂😂😂
Seriously one of the most underrated movies of all time.
“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH HARDWARE I BROUGHT DOWN HERE?! YOU JUST BLEW THREE MILLION OF UNCLE SAM’S DOLLARS OUTTA YOUR BUTT!”
Still easily my favourite line from the film.
This movie is in my top 5 movies ever list. I've loved it to death since I was a kid and still love it to this day. There was a point in time where I knew the whole thing line for line because I watched it all the time. The ending will make me cry every time. Truly the epitome of a 10/10 movie.
Definition of criminally underrated. Brad birds best movie
Tied with The Incredibles in my book.
Remember when Cartoon Network would do 24 hour marathons of this movie? Back when Cartoon Network was still a good channel.
Pepperidge Farm remembers, and so do I.(Meh, even that joke is dated...Good lord I'm starting to feel my age....)
Also, I laughed way too hard at the "Tin Diesel" joke. Just caught me way off guard with it.😂
How about an honest trailer for Tarzan (1999)
People get onto that scene in ready player one, but i feel like they forget its not the iron giant, its basically a glorified skin in a game, and you know if you played a game with the iron giant you'd be attacking stuff and shooting lasers. You dont become the iron gaint cause ya look like him.
One of my favorite movies since childhood. This and Cat's Don't Dance are timeless classics.
And let’s be honest, Bumblebee Movie is just Iron Giant. Don’t repeat the same mistake of letting it flop at the box office like Iron Giant though, Transformers One is epic! And I’m not just saying that because I am the voice of Soundwave! Go see it in theaters!
I love this movie so much. Thanks for covering it!
Do the Lego Batman Movie before Joker Two comes out!!! I love you guys!!!
"Hey!"
"...yeah?"
"You're right in the middle of the roa-"
"YEAH!?!"
"...alright."
Don't shame a single parent in working class for having to do OT either cause a call out or to actually afford bills
I thought the joke was "how busy could she possibly be at a diner in Mayberry".
@@stevenscott2136 There's always that one guy that argues that bottomless coffee refills means infinite.
Yeah, it's weird of them to shame/criticize Annie for working extra hours when she's a WIDOW in 1950s America. I, myself, am the youngest of two children of a widow and the scenes of Hogarth being home alone while his mom worked late reminded me of my own youth when my mom and later sister worked late, and having to learn how to prepare meals for myself or played video games and watching B-Movies in the dark.
Fantastic editing on this one guys! Gives each moment room to happen
Ah yes... I was 6 or 7 years old, living in recently liberated post communist country and my parents used to take me to a VHS rental store by the supermarket every Friday, to get some movies for the weekend. Once I found Iron Giant, I used to get it every single week for several months and watch it over and over. I would like to think it shaped me a little bit.
"I...fix," "Giant?" "...I...Go. You....Stay. No following." So few words but such emotional impact and a great callback to earlier in the film.
"What you have in your mouth Is ART!!!!" 😅😂
That’s what she said
@@jaquanpowell4605 😆
@@jaquanpowell4605 LMAO 😂😂😂
THANK YOU!
Love that I understand the X-Files/Friends/Fraiser references!
WOAH!!!! I just realized today is Brad Bird’s birthday (the director) and it’s also my birthday!!! 🎊😘🎂🥳🎈
Happy birthday 🎂 🎉🎈✨️
Happy birthday!
Happy cake day!
Now I gotta wonder if ScreenJunkies planned this HT or not.... 🤔
Happy birthday, though! 🎂
@@patrickspencer6550 Ayy, happy birthday 🤗
I really appreciate these loving reviews. Iron Giant, Godzilla 2014. Even Pacific Rim. Nerding out over something great always brings a smile to my face 😊
Let's get another overlooked quality film in here. Honest Trailer for Bubba Ho-Tep, please
I love that movie, and never understood why it's not more popular. Fun to watch that there's really not much fun to say about it, since it's just sweet and well made.
Next The Honest Trailer of The Equalizer Trilogy Please
I love The Iron Giant; it's got some fancy animation and a deep story, which I know is like E.T., but it's about a robot and not an alien itself. Also, good joke about Jennifer Aniston, who voiced Annie, playing Rachel in Friends. 👍
Showed my absolutely favorite line of all movies!!!! "SCREW OUR COUNTRY I WANNA LIVE!!" Expresses the foolishness that is ignorance. Said launch the missile now, then got it brought to his attention "Where's the Giant Mansley?!" LOL LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣
3:56 That's cause WB screwed it in the marketing. Hardly anyone knew it was out back then.
Infuriating how they did the exact same thing with Mask of The Phantasm. The movie gets high praise nowadays but back then no one knew it was coming out.
I always thought the primary message of this film was never shoot at the massive and kind robot because it might just be a world conquering super weapon.
That is also a valid take-away from this movie.
Well that could be a metaphor of don't bring about world ending war because of something you don't understand.
That's a blast from the past. I need to rewatch it.