@@fyfyi6053 You mean other than stealing multiple nuclear weapons, smuggling them into the United States, and then detonating it on American soil. Not to mention threatening to detonate another one if their price isn't met. Were you in the bathroom for that part? Get the small soda next time, not the large.
Yeah, I think that's what may have tripped them up. That and they seemed to have missed the intentional comedic aspect of the film. I won't judge them on that, especially if they didn't look at the genre beforehand, and just assume that it was meant up be a straight up action or action-drama (or they looked it up and it's genres wasn't proper placed). There have been a few movies that I didn't "get" the first time I'd seen it, as I'm sure many of us watching and commenting have as well 🤷🏾♀️...
@@AshLee92490 I’ve known relatives that are a part of their generation who seem to misinterpret genres similarly. The biggest issue I see causing this is expectation, and/or preconceived notions, rather than letting the film be what it is. Individuals who do this are more likely to experience disappointment. Tangential is that some seem to not comprehend the “everything but the kitchen sink” foundation of some filmmaking: multiple genres in a film. Riding the wave of the experience is partially, or totally, lost.
@@agresticumbra There's that, but there's also the different perspectives of both the age/generation of the viewer and the time when the film was made. An action comedy today would be very different from an action comedy of the early 90s. No different than someone from an older generation not understanding the comedy of today's films. Or, like I said, sometimes people simply misunderstand a movie's intention the first time around. It happens. This is literally their first time watching it. They thought it was meant to be simply taken as an action film, so that's how they took it, but missed not only the comedic aspect of the action part of the film, but the romantic comedy aspect of it as well. Also, this film is kinda different from other James Cameron films and not really what one would expect from such a director...
To be fair, the plot wasn't confusing at the beginning. They straight-up said they were smuggling in MIRV missiles early in the movie. You guys just talked over it, so you missed the exposition. That's not really the movie's fault. That's just a side effect of being on a reaction channel where part of the job is commenting as you watch instead of just watching. Also, I feel like you've gotten so used to trying to predict where a movie is going -- instead of just, y'know, reacting to it -- that you got hung up on what you thought the movie was going to be, got confused when the movie wasn't that, and then blamed the movie for not doing a good job of being the movie you thought it was going to be (without ever realizing that it wasn't trying to be that, it was something else). I think your "boredom" for the first half came from the fact that you weren't really watching the movie, you were in your heads and trying to figure out how the movie was going to turn into the movie you thought instead of the movie it actually was. Also, you seemed a little salty about True Lies having a husband and wife spy relationship in it, like it was a rip-off of Mr. And Mrs. Smith or something. I'll point out here that Mr. And Mrs. Smith came out in 2005 and True Lies came out in 1994. So, if anything, Mr. and Mrs. Smith ripped off True lies. Tbh, I don't think it did; the husband and wife spy team is a trope that gets reinvented every so often, but between these two movies, True Lies came out over 10 years before Mr. and Mrs. Smith. As for the opinion that they should've dropped the beginning and the end and just focused on the husband and wife relationship and him "messing with her," that would be a completely different movie. That's like watching The Terminator and saying, "You know what would've been better? If they'd gotten rid of all the robot and future war stuff and just focused on Sarah's life as a waitress and her love story with Kyle." Yeah, that would be a movie too... but a completely different movie. And, no offense to anyone but, I trust James Cameron's instincts and whatever story he wants to tell WAY more than I trust the instincts of two RUclipsrs who've never made a movie. I mean, "scoreboard," right? This would be like me trying to tell Steven Spielberg how to make his movie better by totally making it a different movie.
Kristen is not only a national treasure, but also a scientific anomaly. We prefer she does not movie alone, we gather more data when she does solo examinations but the partner always grounds her in the fact that they're watching a film..... ...it is valuable information.
What is it with people looking for realism in action movies nowadays? This movie is not supposed to be realistic in any shape or form, it's supposed to be cool and fun, which it absolutely is. People nowadays watching action movies be like: "Oh noo are you kidding me?! That's sooo unrealistic! Boohoo!". It's so annoying.
Pals, please stop trying to "solve" the movies you're watching and jist watch them 😋 Also, Steph, not everything is sexist, try chillin out and actually watching the movie 😇
Seriously! lol It's a very entertaining film with a hilarious script. When they were trying to figure out the plot I was like "just enjoy the freakin movie!"
A lot of reaction channels, especially CinePals and Reel Rejects, try to figure out the plot. Maybe because they live in LA and some of them are actors or work in the business in some capacity and feel as if they need to analyze the film or streaming show they are reacting to like a dvd/blu ray commentary to impress a Hollywood exec who might by chance catch the reaction. It's really annoying when they do but the moments they react as if they're not on camera and just enjoying the film or streaming show as fans, they can be quite enjoyable and entertaining.
@@clausvonthunderclaws8706 almost the worst. there's another channel where the Woke reactors spent the entire movie trying to be offended at a scene they heard was "controversial" but they couldn't figure out which scene it was...
Sexy woman being sexy - offensive, sexy woman being physically abused - insult man's hairline, mousy woman being neglected - she's the best, mousy woman embracing her sexuality - cringe, daughter stealing from dad - it's fine, he's not very attentive. No sexism that I can see 🤷♂
As far as comedy, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies and Last Action hero is Arnie at his peack comedic self. Twins was fine but those three are like his best comedic performances for me. So many great lines from those films.
@@gawainethefirst Oh yeah, Tom Arnold lol, I mean I guess both? Though I remember seeing Tom Arnold in a few films but none really stand out to me, not as much as this one. And I mean films where he plays a big part, not like in Dumb & Dumber and he’s basically just a cameo or has one line.
Jamie Lee is great in this, but I wouldn't say "carrying the film" by a far stretch. She and Arnold have great chemistry in this. And all the supporting characters are excellent in this.
They decided early on to not like Arnold because his character was lying to his wife and going to extremes to figure out if she was cheating -- part of the COMEDY of this action-comedy, not to mention a significant part of his character arc -- and then became so fixated on that judgement that they projected it onto everything else in the movie. Literally every other person I've ever talked with about this movie -- as well as every reactor I've seen react to it -- has commented on how great the duo of Arnold and JLC was, how great their chemistry was, etc. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone suggest that JLC carried the movie.
She didn't carry the film at all! lol No idea what this girl was talking about. Everyone was excellent in this. Schwarzenegger was great and this is probably in his top 3 performances ever. Tom Arnold and Bill Paxton were hilarious scene-stealers. You'd think every actor not named Jamie Lee Curtis was terrible according to her.
I have the feeling that all the stuff relating the wife being about to cheat on her husband somehow hit home and made them (especially the one in the left) being on defenssive mode 🤣
I’ve watched probably 1000 reactions and this is the first I’ve ever watched that I had to force myself to finish. Thank You Kristen, I’m sorry your partner is so insufferable. I hope you’re able to freely enjoy on your own sometime…free of judgment. All the best.
Its very rare that I will skip out on a reaction midway...and even rarer that i will actually use the dislike button... But holy shit this one was painful!
I do enjoy Kristen doing reactions. She's smart and has a great sense of humor. But the other annoying one who is bored being here? Just ruined this reaction to a Great movie...
@@danholmesfilm She definitely disconnected herself from the movie when Tia Carrere's character gets slapped twice by her "boss". Her instinctive reaction was to make a nasty comment on the man's looks, as if that mattered at all within the context of the scene. That was a classic b*tch move, to be honest. You could tell she identified with Carrere's character (I guess because she's sexy and hot). I bet that had the villain been a hot actor she would've allowed it and not said anything after the slapping (and maybe she would even have found it kinda hot).
@@georgezee5173 Steph did disconnect from the film after that. She kept talking about the stunt doubles which told me she checked out from the film. To say Jamie Lee Curtis was the highlight of the film tells me she truly lost interest after those two slaps. Don't get me wrong, she was great but the highlight? Nah.
@@georgezee5173 No, as women, we were and still are jolted by the slaps. The looks of the victim and villain have no baring, given the circumstances. However, I do wish that Kristen? would have directed her ire at the villain/character rather than the actor and his hairline. He and his hairline are just fine.
Mine is "You knew about that?... Ok, let's take Franklin, it's a lot faster" - not cuz of the line itself, but bc of the moment & interaction between them both.
I have to be quite frank here, this is quite possibly one of the most off-putting reactions to this movie I've ever seen. I feel bad for Kristen here, because it really wasn't her fault since it looked like she was genuinely trying to just enjoy the movie.
This is the first time I've seen someone come up with the idea that Helen and her friend might be deliberately playing Harry; most people go with the idea that it's not an affair it just looks like one.
You guys take movies WAY too seriously! lol This film is basically an action screwball comedy. It's all played for laughs. And EVERYONE is great in this film, not just Jamie Lee Curtis.
That’s probably my biggest issue with the channel… when certain reactors are on and they completely miss the point and want to serious it out or find a deeper meaning. In a POPCORN FLICK
I'm liking some of the reactions to this channel less and less, mostly the ones with the girl on the left. The most recent reaction this channel did I actually enjoyed the most is Collateral because at least that was a very serious movie with a lot of actual genuinely humorous moments, so you had to both take the film seriously but also there was a lot of moments of refreshing relief. True Lies isn't meant to be that type of movie, it's basically a comedy and they were over-analyzing the film way too much. The one on the right is rather likable, though, and she was part of the Collateral reaction. Glad the one on the left wasn't in that reaction! lol I feel like the lady on the right was trying to enjoy the movie but girl on the left was making her cringe too much with all of her negativity. I'm all for constructive criticism, but at the very least, a critic should at first understand what type of film they're watching then go from there.
I have a revelation for you guys also --- stunt doubles are used even MORE in today's movies and TV shows. And in dangerous scenes in which stunt doubles are not used, those scenes are typically ALL CGI. Who knew? (Yes, that last question was sarcasm...lol) Also, this movie came out a decade before 'Mr. & Mrs Smith', so it was actually 'M&MS' that was paying homage to this movie, not the other way around.
The problem is, you can tell it's not Arnold, like, VERY MUCH. You're not supposed to notice that much, it's distracting. There are moments like that in T2 too. I guess Cameron didn't care that much.
@@SCharlesDennicon Exactly. I do feel like these two reactors missed a LOT in this movie -- don't get me wrong -- but she was right on when she said that Arnold's stunt double was obvious. A lot of times -- even in James Cameron films -- they'll put a mask on the stunt double that makes them look at least a little like the actor if their face is going to be visible. In T2, e.g., you get examples of both. In one of the motorcycle stunts (when he's jumping down from the overpass in the LA river), the stuntman is wearing a mask that looks like Arnold and it looks pretty convincing (though you can KINDA tell). In another motorcycle stunt (where he grabs John Conner off of the dirtbike), he's not wearing it and you can totally see that it's a stuntman. In several shots in True Lies, you could see the stunt double's face and hairline clearly enough and for long enough that it was super obvious it wasn't Arnold. The issue, ofc, isn't that we all think actors do their own stunts, it's that normally filmmakers hide it better. There's a reason that any character in a movie or TV show who gets thrown, falls down stairs, or whatever ALWAYS lands with their arm covering their face. And, at least in the pre-CG days, masks and wigs were used a lot if the face was going to be visible. They didn't do that here and, when you notice it, it takes you out of the action for a moment and reminds you that it's just a movie.
@@SCharlesDennicon He's also not a super agent, and Harriers can't fly like that, and with the amount of bullets flying around everyone would have been dead within 30 seconds.... it's an action movie, you're supposed to suspend your disbelief. This was also shot on film.... in 1994. It was much harder to pick out faces at lower resolutions which is why they often didn't bother trying to hide the face or shoot angels that wouldn't catch it. And then it cam out on home video (VHS being the standard) and there was no shot you were going to notice a stunt mans face. Everything is in 4k now (or at least 1080p) and faces of stuntmen are digitally replaced by the actors face when their face might be seen.
Steph... not always. But it seems like once she's decided, not a thing will change her mind, no matter how amusing it gets. Kristen really did seem like she wanted to like this but it was like she didn't feel comfortable enjoying it when Steph was obviously not.
These two girls are so bizarre. They kept being chatty and distracted, and then seemed confused and unable to keep up. I think they affected their own experience with the movie.
It does depend on who they’re watching with. Kristen is really great but has a horrible memory. Steph is pretty awful no matter who she watches with, though. She’s your classic “virtue signaling, presentist Snowflake” with a huge double standard. Notice some of her early comments for example, like poisoning his cake cause he was late. Really? Calling the terrorist “suave” for stealing that motorcycle And condoning theft from her father’s friend simply because Harry doesn’t show her “the proper attention”?
Yep it pretty much sums up every single reaction of theirs. They just can’t stop talking non stop during the movie and then they don’t understand half the plot
What a fascinating reaction by two girls who seemed borderline offended by the premise of the film, despite what they said in the end. You can tell they were bothered by the whole thing, and that a film like this can't be made in today's climate anymore.
Yeah i didnt really enjoy their reactions to this, its such a great movie and the whole time they talked about how much arnold was a jerk for lying and all
@@theshadowfax239 yeah but they didn't know that yet. They instantly gave her a cop out. And even if she wasn't cheating, she was lying. It's okay, women never hold men to the same standards that they hold themselves lol, nothing new.
@@haissem8 I remember being so hyped to see it. My mom got it as soon as it was on dvd. After watching it. we were like “that’s it?” lol. Shit was so average. Even by the standard of those times, the action was meh. That cheating scandal really pumped that movie up.
It's probably because there was no reaction. Like 90% of this movie went right over their heads. I'm still not convinced they realized they were watching a comedy.
Hey ladies. You need to work on your reactions. Seriously. how was the exposition confusing? This movie is as straightforward as possible. It doesn't hide anything with its story. Stop breaking out in conversation every time a scene plays. This is a great fantastic and funny movie and you seem to be disconnected from it because a woman got slapt twice And because you can't " Make a movie like this anymore". Come on. Pay attention and take the movie in. This movie is a gem and you young ladies clearly missed it here. Recognize a good movie when you see one. Especially the woman on the left.
I didn't get it,and i watched this movie a few times since it came out,not good for the dog sure,unhygienic ok,but still kinda funny, my kids tried to do the same when baking cookies.😅
Yeah, I didn't get that either, and not sure where that came from. Kristen is so oblivious, I think she just agreed, even though she had no clue either.
Yeah, that moment was confusing to me. I mean, she's a wife, dancing for her husband, alone. She might not have known it at that moment, but it was still him. How is that so "cringey"? And it freaked them out so much. Most of the time, the woman on the left looked like she was enjoying the movie as much as a root canal. I've seen several reactions to this movie, but this was the most bizarre. They should probably stick to reacting to whatever type of movies they actually enjoy (if any), because this one was a buzzkill. 👎
Cringe can be good, too. The Office was 90% cringe jokes and it was all funny. The dance is cringe too because of how awkward it is, but it's also a funny and enjoyable scene when you're not watching people yell and disfigure their faces like these 2 are.
I've seen a lot of reactions to this, and have noticed that when Helen's affair is revealed, at least 3 or 4 women get confused and try to find excuses or alternate explanations. Men, it's a pretty consistent, "Who's this *expletive* banging, and how will Arnold kill him?" Which is also not the exact truth, but it's closer.
I just watched Maplenuts react to this and the female was pretty cool with it, lol. But seriously, I do recommend their channel. I give it a Cringe-ability factor of 1.5
After viewing a good number of reaction videos, I have come to the conclusion that Steph doesn’t find a lot of stuff funny. This is one of the funniest action films of all time and I don’t think she even chuckled once.
Ithink shes just not into some 80's and 90's humor. They both laughed at some lines in FAST & furious 4 in their recent review. I m tryin to push a great CAPRA film - Mr deeds goes to town and a wonderful script and story THT def would test these young people who would be shocked at what people went thru in tough times. One of my FAVE G cooper films too
Hats off to Jamie Lee Curtis for giving us an iconic dance scene with no rehearsal, no choreography and totally improvised using music of her choice. My favorite scene of the movie
@@NoctemAeternusMusic this channel would be way better off if they got rid of the "I pretended to be into movies for years (for $), yet in my 30s I can't "get" comedies or the Friday the 13th movies" Afterbuzz trash, and actually hire women who...dare I say it...actually like (and more importantly respect) movies in general.
When Schwarzenegger shouts "Give me the God damn page" he hit the wrong prop glass window & smacked the real window! 😂😂 You can see Tom Arnold pause in shock!
Steph, you aren't a smart as you think. Also, if you're calling a movie sexist while overlooking the fact that the wife was seriously considering cheating on her husband then you're biased and your husband might want to reconsider his marriage. Trying to guess the plot and talking so much you can't hear what's going on is why you 2 missed most of what was going on.
any dude marrying a mid from Cali is living the meme of 20 guys in a line, with the first 19 about to bang out a chick, and the 20th guy is a simp with flowers trying to "wife" her up.
@@-M0LE The person who is at-fault for cheating is the person that cheats, full stop. Man or woman, if you are unhappy in a relationship, you communicate like a goddamn adult and leave that relationship. Stop trying to justify terrible behavior. People who cheat always have an excuse for the actions they know are wrong and it's pathetic.
Yeah as if True Lies was nominated for an Oscar and they're on the judging panel. That's why it's difficult to watch these classic 90s action movies with women. They start searching for somekind of a deeper meaning in it lol
Kristen, how could they be playing him when he dropped in to SURPRISE his wife. She didn’t know he was coming so Helen’s conversation with her coworker wasn’t premeditated. Girl, you gotta take what the movies giving you and not make up your own plot along the way, k? lol!
LOL I think that plays into the fact that they desperately tried to convince themselves that Helen could do no wrong, so she didn't want to think that Helen was sneaking around on Harry.
30 years later. Can you believe it? A lovely piece of work by the great James Cameron. The first-ever $100 million budget in film history and an remake of a French short film from France called "La Totale!" (1991). Bigger than average and that worked like a charm. It's exactly what it's suppose to be. The laughs and thrills are on the same level. Arnold personally wanted Jamie Lee Curtis at top billing as the lead actress. Because her character meant as much to the story as her husband's did. The studio changed their tune pre-release and did put her name with Arnie's. She also won a Golden-Globe for her performance. The late Bill Paxton in his 3rd film with both Cameron and Schwarznegger, him as Simon the fakea** was quite the performance. Also the late, great Charlton Heston as the boss of the Omega sector resembled classic Nick Fury (homage to Marvel). Prior to this film, Cameron was originally involved with Spider-Man becoming a film which had the industry losing their minds. There was gonna be a True Lies 2 as one of Schwarzenegger's last films in a planned retirement from the lime light. It was cancelled because of 9/11 and all the things that affected Hollywood films in the aftermath. Cameron & Schwarzenegger would reunite for the direct sequel to T2, Terminator:Dark Fate (2019). True Lies was a short-lived tv series, one season (2023) on CBS. I wasn't into watching it because nothing was more awesome than the movie itself.
love how they are unable to see the obvious that she is having an affair then once they get it they are more critical of the man for the lengths he goes to to find out if his wife is cheating but not upset with the wife for cheating in the first place😂🙄
I don't say this about any other Arnie movie but I genuinely think Tom Arnold and also Bill Paxton stole the show in this movie. They were both absolutely amazing as supporting cast.
It's always fun to watch young people watch an 80s or 90s classic. Why do they feel that it's their job to judge the movie. James Cameron directed. Hello?!? And also Jaby. You need to keep an eye on the editing. This movie is a comedy, and almost all of the comedy was removed. Ladies, your review of Armageddon is still my favourite. This one however fell short.
True. I saw this at cinemas when it was new, not sure about the resolution used then, but yeah, nobody noticed. Good thing i dont have to watch this new butchered 4k AI crap. I have a good authentic HD version in my collection.
Lying to her husband and sneaking around with another man… “I feel so sorry for her” commmmme oooooon. He lies about his job to protect his family. It’s slightly different
I gotta say it. Steph watched this film through a judgemental lens which only highlighted her cluelessness about action comedies. And to assume this original classic from 1994 ripped Mr & Mrs Smith off (2005) displays her confident ignorance that usually comes with this generations unearned arrogance. She gives off FALSE feminist vibes.
The reactions on this channel are getting worse. There’s always at least one clueless or annoying person now on every reaction. Seemed like I was going to have to add racist as well to that list, but she stopped herself!
You didn't put in the reaction: “Battery Aziz”, which is the most iconic funny moment of the movie, all the reaction RUclipsrs have put it in their videos, except you :(
@@johto Or maybe he is a very young editor, and does not know about these classic moments of famous movies and passes them by in the editing, and thinks it is just another scene and that is one of the most famous and hilarious moments of True Lies, it is impossible not to include it in the video reaction, the same as the scene of the punch to Bill Paxton by Arnold, that if they put it luckily.
Tom Arnold "Gibb" was in the middle of a divorce from sitcom star Roseanne & the petty story about stealing the ice cube tray from the freezer was apparently based on what she did to Arnold irl 🤯🤣
I can say that I can confirm that! I actually met Tom at a local comic con that I went to, and he said ask him any question. I asked him about that specific line, and he said yes it’s true.
My favorite scene that got cut was Jamie Lee dancing for Arnold. When she went to swing on the bedpost and she slipped off, that was actually a blooper. James Cameron thought it was hysterical and kept it in the final cut. This is the movie most people walk through a room and see it is in, then stop to watch.
Oh man i hate that people are forced to watch this version, this new 4k "AI enhanced version" thats the default available. Its so "weird", cause the AI actually screws the faces of the actors making bogus details, eyes and faces look weird, overall color grading not original, no real film grain left etc. It did not look like this at the cinemas ! Glad i have a "non fked up" version. Good movie nevertheless.
Windows like the one in the interrogation scene, really exist. They spall, but they don't shatter no matter how hard or often you hit them due to the laminate between the glass layers.
yea Not enough of these young Reactors have seen much of C HESTON, a few have seen OG Planet of apes & BEN HUr like Cassie and Cine binge. that duo- Simone & george loved it & the fantastic chariot race
The only thing embarrassing and cringe about this movie is the reaction. Thankfully my generation doesn't get second hand embarrassment, I eat up the cringe these 2 put out.
The younger generation are either to soft to react to older movies or they are too scared to act like they enjoyed it so they don’t hurt someone feelings. I am so glad I was born and raised when people actually knew the difference in tv land and real life , back when we could watch a comedian and not get offended by everything. Then again I knew this country was in trouble when college students had to go to counseling because of a Presidential election. Gen x proud. ❤
@@Lilith6416 I started watching a reaction to Predator some months ago and it was a young couple reacting and early in the film the wife/girlfriend (don't recall if they were married or not) asked "Where are the female soldiers?" It was exactly in that moment that I stopped the video and never looked back to that reaction! LOL
Mr. and Mrs. Smith came out in 2005, 11 years after True Lies so they couldn't pay an homage to it. Also, did you notice on the computer what was on the screen? It was Windows 95, windows was brand new and we didn't know what they were just yet.
The whole point of this movie is called true lies. Basically, everyone in the film is lying about who they really are from harry arnold schwarzeneggar's character. To helen play by jamie Lee curtis. To simon, play by the late bill paxton, everyone is lying in this films
That actually was Arnold on the horse. In fact, Arnold had a near-fatal accident on set during the horse riding scene, when his horse got startled and ran out of control. Schwarzenegger managed to slide off the horse, but did this near a 30-foot drop-off. His personal stunt man saw what happened and was able to grab him before he went over the ledge.
That wasn't Arnold on the horse in the shot she called out. Arnold was on the horse in some shots but, in the shot she was referring to, that was clearly a stuntman with a totally different face and hairline. Often in movies, they'll use a mask and wig to make the stuntman look more like the actor if their face is going to be visible at all but they didn't in this one and you can clearly see the stuntman in at least two scenes (one on the horse, one when he's running in the snow). Don't get me wrong, these two missed A LOT in this movie, but she was right on about the stuntman being obvious in several shots. James Cameron is weirdly inconsistent with that, btw. In T2, e.g., in the shot where Arnold jumps the motorcycle off the overpass into the LA river, the stuntman is wearing an Arnold mask and it looks pretty convincing (though you can kind of see the edges of the mask not connecting properly if you look closely). But, in the same sequence, when Arnold's character pulls John Conner off the dirtbike and onto his own chopper, the stuntman isn't wearing a mask and you can clearly see that it's a stuntman. I mean, they had the mask, so I have to assume it has to do with how much visibility the stuntman needs for a particular stunt, but it still seems weird that sometimes they cover it better and sometimes they're just like, "Whatever. Hopefully no one will notice."
When they did the press interview for this movie, Jamie Lee Curtis said it took 5 months of working with a personal trainer and dietician to get her body into that shape for the movie.
I don't understand how they said that this was a paying homage to Mt Mrs Smith put this came out well before that movie even just like 1 1 yrs before Mr and Mrs Smith even came out if anything that movie paid homage to true lies
Mainly due to fact that: A)they’re vapid B)they don’t know what “chronology” is C) they only know about ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ because it was the film that broke up Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
Jamie Lee Curtis actually did the helicopter stunt. She initially didn't want to do it. To convince her it was safe, director James Cameron did the stunt first. That apparently did the trick. Her expression was genuine.
Steph, no one watches reactions for your film making "insight", most people just watch behind the scenes stuff, with all the ACTUAL information they'd want. People watch reactions for the REACTIONS. I know, crazy, right?
To be fair to older movies, they were shown in a lower resolution back then ( i first saw this movie on VHS connected to low res old TV). So it was less obvious when stuntman were used and they didn't really try to hide it. Now these movies are shown in HD/4K and you can clearly tell it's not the actual actor.
They still would have been full resolution and 20 feet tall on a theater screen. I personally think it's in part people no longer getting lost in a movie. Add to that, they're reacting and needing to add content, and a touch of feeling the need to show what they know about movie-making to continue to feel good about their SAG cards.
I think she was implying that only white people would be crazy enough to let a dog lick a spatula then go back to frosting a cake meant for humans with it.
don't bother. it was an attempt at a joke by her that wasn't funny to begin with based on a barely a stereotype that "white people" are permissive with their animals. you literally didn't miss anything worth a mention, except that in the US, the only racial comments gen Z will make is about white people
Mr. and Mrs. Smith wishes it was True Lies.
Yea, homages don’t work in reverse……
True Lies: 1994
Mr. & Mrs. Smith: 2005
The biggest problem with this film r the bad guys.
u have villains that never do anything evil.
MMM yeah and TL came out before that so re: 'homages' - yeah - no
@@fyfyi6053 You mean other than stealing multiple nuclear weapons, smuggling them into the United States, and then detonating it on American soil. Not to mention threatening to detonate another one if their price isn't met. Were you in the bathroom for that part? Get the small soda next time, not the large.
Amen
"They're trying to set up the B plot too late into the movie" Oh this isn't a B plot this is the A plot sneaking up on you.
Ya, misinterpreted all over the place.
Yeah, I think that's what may have tripped them up. That and they seemed to have missed the intentional comedic aspect of the film. I won't judge them on that, especially if they didn't look at the genre beforehand, and just assume that it was meant up be a straight up action or action-drama (or they looked it up and it's genres wasn't proper placed). There have been a few movies that I didn't "get" the first time I'd seen it, as I'm sure many of us watching and commenting have as well 🤷🏾♀️...
@@AshLee92490 I’ve known relatives that are a part of their generation who seem to misinterpret genres similarly. The biggest issue I see causing this is expectation, and/or preconceived notions, rather than letting the film be what it is. Individuals who do this are more likely to experience disappointment. Tangential is that some seem to not comprehend the “everything but the kitchen sink” foundation of some filmmaking: multiple genres in a film. Riding the wave of the experience is partially, or totally, lost.
@@agresticumbra There's that, but there's also the different perspectives of both the age/generation of the viewer and the time when the film was made. An action comedy today would be very different from an action comedy of the early 90s. No different than someone from an older generation not understanding the comedy of today's films. Or, like I said, sometimes people simply misunderstand a movie's intention the first time around. It happens. This is literally their first time watching it. They thought it was meant to be simply taken as an action film, so that's how they took it, but missed not only the comedic aspect of the action part of the film, but the romantic comedy aspect of it as well. Also, this film is kinda different from other James Cameron films and not really what one would expect from such a director...
@@AshLee92490 as I said, expectations, preconceived notions. 😎
Bill Paxton nailed his role to perfection . That man was insanely talented and much underrated . What a great actor he was
"Dickless!" so good : D
He's actually been "killed" by Arnold twice. Terminator 1 & True Lies
@@saltymisfit6566 Also, the only one to be killed by a xenomorph and predator.
@@williambanks2223I think technically you can count his death in Edge of tomorrow too
I like to imaging he really was actually also a spy and also great at bluffing cowardice to hide his cover.
Tom Arnold using a lamp post as cover always gets me 😂😂😂
And then he checks himself to make sure “everything” is OK. 😂
@@gawainethefirst , "Oh thank God!" 😂
He's amazing in every scene he's in.
Kisses lamppost 💋😂
Especially when he blow kisses his groin. 💀
To be fair, the plot wasn't confusing at the beginning. They straight-up said they were smuggling in MIRV missiles early in the movie. You guys just talked over it, so you missed the exposition. That's not really the movie's fault. That's just a side effect of being on a reaction channel where part of the job is commenting as you watch instead of just watching. Also, I feel like you've gotten so used to trying to predict where a movie is going -- instead of just, y'know, reacting to it -- that you got hung up on what you thought the movie was going to be, got confused when the movie wasn't that, and then blamed the movie for not doing a good job of being the movie you thought it was going to be (without ever realizing that it wasn't trying to be that, it was something else). I think your "boredom" for the first half came from the fact that you weren't really watching the movie, you were in your heads and trying to figure out how the movie was going to turn into the movie you thought instead of the movie it actually was.
Also, you seemed a little salty about True Lies having a husband and wife spy relationship in it, like it was a rip-off of Mr. And Mrs. Smith or something. I'll point out here that Mr. And Mrs. Smith came out in 2005 and True Lies came out in 1994. So, if anything, Mr. and Mrs. Smith ripped off True lies. Tbh, I don't think it did; the husband and wife spy team is a trope that gets reinvented every so often, but between these two movies, True Lies came out over 10 years before Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
As for the opinion that they should've dropped the beginning and the end and just focused on the husband and wife relationship and him "messing with her," that would be a completely different movie. That's like watching The Terminator and saying, "You know what would've been better? If they'd gotten rid of all the robot and future war stuff and just focused on Sarah's life as a waitress and her love story with Kyle." Yeah, that would be a movie too... but a completely different movie. And, no offense to anyone but, I trust James Cameron's instincts and whatever story he wants to tell WAY more than I trust the instincts of two RUclipsrs who've never made a movie. I mean, "scoreboard," right? This would be like me trying to tell Steven Spielberg how to make his movie better by totally making it a different movie.
You are 100 percent right.
I think reaction videos should pause when commentating. Just my 2 cents
Also, I love how these two have ZERO clue who Eliza Dushko is too!! 😅 bless their under 30 hearts!!! 🌹
Kristen is 33
I assumed Kristen knew her because she made a comment about how young she is, she just didn't mention Eliza's name.
Hahaha very true. They have no idea and they seem to not understand comedy either
Kristen is not only a national treasure, but also a scientific anomaly. We prefer she does not movie alone, we gather more data when she does solo examinations but the partner always grounds her in the fact that they're watching a film.....
...it is valuable information.
@@wren7195 Are you an alien?
What is it with people looking for realism in action movies nowadays? This movie is not supposed to be realistic in any shape or form, it's supposed to be cool and fun, which it absolutely is. People nowadays watching action movies be like: "Oh noo are you kidding me?! That's sooo unrealistic! Boohoo!". It's so annoying.
Thank Nolan and his Dark Knight crap.
Pals, please stop trying to "solve" the movies you're watching and jist watch them 😋
Also, Steph, not everything is sexist, try chillin out and actually watching the movie 😇
They're the worst
Seriously! lol It's a very entertaining film with a hilarious script. When they were trying to figure out the plot I was like "just enjoy the freakin movie!"
A lot of reaction channels, especially CinePals and Reel Rejects, try to figure out the plot. Maybe because they live in LA and some of them are actors or work in the business in some capacity and feel as if they need to analyze the film or streaming show they are reacting to like a dvd/blu ray commentary to impress a Hollywood exec who might by chance catch the reaction. It's really annoying when they do but the moments they react as if they're not on camera and just enjoying the film or streaming show as fans, they can be quite enjoyable and entertaining.
@@clausvonthunderclaws8706 almost the worst. there's another channel where the Woke reactors spent the entire movie trying to be offended at a scene they heard was "controversial" but they couldn't figure out which scene it was...
Sexy woman being sexy - offensive, sexy woman being physically abused - insult man's hairline, mousy woman being neglected - she's the best, mousy woman embracing her sexuality - cringe, daughter stealing from dad - it's fine, he's not very attentive.
No sexism that I can see 🤷♂
I think this is one of Arnold’s best films, if not THE best. It’s got everything, and the humor is on point. It’s great
As far as comedy, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies and Last Action hero is Arnie at his peack comedic self. Twins was fine but those three are like his best comedic performances for me. So many great lines from those films.
@@MetastaticMaladies which Arnold? Not that it matters, because for me, your statement works for both of them.
@@gawainethefirst Oh yeah, Tom Arnold lol, I mean I guess both? Though I remember seeing Tom Arnold in a few films but none really stand out to me, not as much as this one. And I mean films where he plays a big part, not like in Dumb & Dumber and he’s basically just a cameo or has one line.
Eh... I think the Sixth Sense was his best movie.
@@cashewnuttel9054Bruce Willis was in a Sixth Sense not Arnold
Interesting to see womens reaction to the "cheating" part, tells a lot 😏
Jamie Lee is great in this, but I wouldn't say "carrying the film" by a far stretch. She and Arnold have great chemistry in this. And all the supporting characters are excellent in this.
They decided early on to not like Arnold because his character was lying to his wife and going to extremes to figure out if she was cheating -- part of the COMEDY of this action-comedy, not to mention a significant part of his character arc -- and then became so fixated on that judgement that they projected it onto everything else in the movie. Literally every other person I've ever talked with about this movie -- as well as every reactor I've seen react to it -- has commented on how great the duo of Arnold and JLC was, how great their chemistry was, etc. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone suggest that JLC carried the movie.
@@johnplaysgames3120ikr I
That was a massive face palm moment
She didn't carry the film at all! lol No idea what this girl was talking about. Everyone was excellent in this. Schwarzenegger was great and this is probably in his top 3 performances ever. Tom Arnold and Bill Paxton were hilarious scene-stealers. You'd think every actor not named Jamie Lee Curtis was terrible according to her.
I can't believe you guys edited out the scene where Arnold knocks the two dogs out. That's my cat's favorite scene.
ok you made me LOL
@@kingbrutusxxvi now That is a good way to make a Point, and a laugh! ✌️
You guy's inability to just let a film be a little bit silly and fun is really a vibe kill.
Suspension of disbelief. Give it a try.
@@MindsWide yea this was a pretty awful reaction
I have the feeling that all the stuff relating the wife being about to cheat on her husband somehow hit home and made them (especially the one in the left) being on defenssive mode 🤣
@@georgezee5173 lmao, valid
I’ve watched probably 1000 reactions and this is the first I’ve ever watched that I had to force myself to finish. Thank You Kristen, I’m sorry your partner is so insufferable. I hope you’re able to freely enjoy on your own sometime…free of judgment. All the best.
Im giving a like for Kristen as well
She would have reacted great on her own.
Its very rare that I will skip out on a reaction midway...and even rarer that i will actually use the dislike button...
But holy shit this one was painful!
To be clear, the movie is great, the reaction...
I'm more critical than most, and I don't see why so many people are being fussy about their reaction. It was fine. Lol
I do enjoy Kristen doing reactions. She's smart and has a great sense of humor. But the other annoying one who is bored being here? Just ruined this reaction to a Great movie...
Man, they really didn’t get it, huh?
girl on the left is miserable and holding kristen back on this one lol
@@danholmesfilm She definitely disconnected herself from the movie when Tia Carrere's character gets slapped twice by her "boss". Her instinctive reaction was to make a nasty comment on the man's looks, as if that mattered at all within the context of the scene. That was a classic b*tch move, to be honest. You could tell she identified with Carrere's character (I guess because she's sexy and hot). I bet that had the villain been a hot actor she would've allowed it and not said anything after the slapping (and maybe she would even have found it kinda hot).
@@georgezee5173 Steph did disconnect from the film after that. She kept talking about the stunt doubles which told me she checked out from the film. To say Jamie Lee Curtis was the highlight of the film tells me she truly lost interest after those two slaps. Don't get me wrong, she was great but the highlight? Nah.
@@georgezee5173 No, as women, we were and still are jolted by the slaps. The looks of the victim and villain have no baring, given the circumstances. However, I do wish that Kristen? would have directed her ire at the villain/character rather than the actor and his hairline. He and his hairline are just fine.
The one on the left was treating it like some kind of documentary
I'm sad they cut out my favorite line, when Simon makes Jamie Lee Curtis put her head in his lap, and Tom Arnold replies, "Maybe she's sleepy." 😄
"What kind of sick bitch takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer?!" - Tom Arnold (this was about his ex Rosanne)
mine is "I remember the first time I got shot out of a cannon." it always gets me.
Mine is "You knew about that?... Ok, let's take Franklin, it's a lot faster" - not cuz of the line itself, but bc of the moment & interaction between them both.
@@darchon5 lol yea Tom Arnold was just so good in this
Or the "If not for me, do it for your country?" line 😆 Paxton's character is hilarious 🤣
I have to be quite frank here, this is quite possibly one of the most off-putting reactions to this movie I've ever seen. I feel bad for Kristen here, because it really wasn't her fault since it looked like she was genuinely trying to just enjoy the movie.
Yes, the one chick is literally the reason there’s passport bros in the US.
This is the first time I've seen someone come up with the idea that Helen and her friend might be deliberately playing Harry; most people go with the idea that it's not an affair it just looks like one.
they totally missed he a sort of super secret agent of the omega sector and his wife didnot know anything about it
You guys take movies WAY too seriously! lol This film is basically an action screwball comedy. It's all played for laughs. And EVERYONE is great in this film, not just Jamie Lee Curtis.
That was hard to listen to,well one of them was↖️
That’s probably my biggest issue with the channel… when certain reactors are on and they completely miss the point and want to serious it out or find a deeper meaning. In a POPCORN FLICK
@@nando5666 Ikr. True Lies is not exactly trying to disguise what it is. It's story is about as straight forward as can be.
@@michaelblaine6494I’m just done with the “pretty faces”. Let’s just get reactors who love Cinema.
woke... I unsuscribed
I've never before seen someone totally miss a comedy like that, especially when it's completely over the top like this.
I’ve been seeing it a lot more and more lately with younger generations. People are either too afraid to laugh or comedy is just a lost art.
Are you surprised?
they're woke feminists
@@TonyDracon Here’s the incel
I'm liking some of the reactions to this channel less and less, mostly the ones with the girl on the left. The most recent reaction this channel did I actually enjoyed the most is Collateral because at least that was a very serious movie with a lot of actual genuinely humorous moments, so you had to both take the film seriously but also there was a lot of moments of refreshing relief. True Lies isn't meant to be that type of movie, it's basically a comedy and they were over-analyzing the film way too much. The one on the right is rather likable, though, and she was part of the Collateral reaction. Glad the one on the left wasn't in that reaction! lol I feel like the lady on the right was trying to enjoy the movie but girl on the left was making her cringe too much with all of her negativity. I'm all for constructive criticism, but at the very least, a critic should at first understand what type of film they're watching then go from there.
I have a revelation for you guys also --- stunt doubles are used even MORE in today's movies and TV shows. And in dangerous scenes in which stunt doubles are not used, those scenes are typically ALL CGI. Who knew?
(Yes, that last question was sarcasm...lol)
Also, this movie came out a decade before 'Mr. & Mrs Smith', so it was actually 'M&MS' that was paying homage to this movie, not the other way around.
Also all shots where they aren’t facing camera is a different stand in actor
The problem is, you can tell it's not Arnold, like, VERY MUCH. You're not supposed to notice that much, it's distracting. There are moments like that in T2 too. I guess Cameron didn't care that much.
Jamie Lee Curtis did most of her own stunts in this movie. She did the helicopter on the bridge stunts.
@@SCharlesDennicon Exactly. I do feel like these two reactors missed a LOT in this movie -- don't get me wrong -- but she was right on when she said that Arnold's stunt double was obvious. A lot of times -- even in James Cameron films -- they'll put a mask on the stunt double that makes them look at least a little like the actor if their face is going to be visible. In T2, e.g., you get examples of both. In one of the motorcycle stunts (when he's jumping down from the overpass in the LA river), the stuntman is wearing a mask that looks like Arnold and it looks pretty convincing (though you can KINDA tell). In another motorcycle stunt (where he grabs John Conner off of the dirtbike), he's not wearing it and you can totally see that it's a stuntman.
In several shots in True Lies, you could see the stunt double's face and hairline clearly enough and for long enough that it was super obvious it wasn't Arnold. The issue, ofc, isn't that we all think actors do their own stunts, it's that normally filmmakers hide it better. There's a reason that any character in a movie or TV show who gets thrown, falls down stairs, or whatever ALWAYS lands with their arm covering their face. And, at least in the pre-CG days, masks and wigs were used a lot if the face was going to be visible. They didn't do that here and, when you notice it, it takes you out of the action for a moment and reminds you that it's just a movie.
@@SCharlesDennicon He's also not a super agent, and Harriers can't fly like that, and with the amount of bullets flying around everyone would have been dead within 30 seconds.... it's an action movie, you're supposed to suspend your disbelief.
This was also shot on film.... in 1994. It was much harder to pick out faces at lower resolutions which is why they often didn't bother trying to hide the face or shoot angels that wouldn't catch it. And then it cam out on home video (VHS being the standard) and there was no shot you were going to notice a stunt mans face. Everything is in 4k now (or at least 1080p) and faces of stuntmen are digitally replaced by the actors face when their face might be seen.
Steph is annoying poor reactor.
Kristen is great and could see she was trying to enjoy it.
Steph... not always. But it seems like once she's decided, not a thing will change her mind, no matter how amusing it gets.
Kristen really did seem like she wanted to like this but it was like she didn't feel comfortable enjoying it when Steph was obviously not.
The under siege 2 guy is annoying as hell too. Most of them are.
@@haissem8 ah you mean the guy who pretends he hasn't seen the movies.
@@haissem8 I've pretty much stopped watching any reaction with him in it. And the sad thing is that he guest reacts on another channel, too.
@@haissem8 I was going to watch their Under Siege 2 reaction because I really like that movie, but now I'm not sure! lol
Guys it isn't "12 Years As A Slave", it is True Lies action comedy from the early 90s. Relax, smoke a bowl, and then watch.
These two girls are so bizarre. They kept being chatty and distracted, and then seemed confused and unable to keep up. I think they affected their own experience with the movie.
Pretty much. I can’t really stand either of them. They seem pretty vapid. I’ll take a pass on them in the future.
It does depend on who they’re watching with. Kristen is really great but has a horrible memory. Steph is pretty awful no matter who she watches with, though. She’s your classic “virtue signaling, presentist Snowflake” with a huge double standard.
Notice some of her early comments for example, like poisoning his cake cause he was late. Really?
Calling the terrorist “suave” for stealing that motorcycle
And condoning theft from her father’s friend simply because Harry doesn’t show her “the proper attention”?
Dang, you being a bit hard-on Stuffs Her Bra
Talking about where you were born in less than 2 minutes was annoying enough. I turned it off.
Yep it pretty much sums up every single reaction of theirs. They just can’t stop talking non stop during the movie and then they don’t understand half the plot
What a fascinating reaction by two girls who seemed borderline offended by the premise of the film, despite what they said in the end. You can tell they were bothered by the whole thing, and that a film like this can't be made in today's climate anymore.
Yeah i didnt really enjoy their reactions to this, its such a great movie and the whole time they talked about how much arnold was a jerk for lying and all
But when the movie makes it look like Helen is cheating, they are unconcerned and making excuses lol
@@Heller103085 I love this movie too and Arnold is a huge jerk in the movie. The two things aren't mutually exclusive
@@johndarcangelo6893 Because she wasn't cheating.
@@theshadowfax239 yeah but they didn't know that yet. They instantly gave her a cop out. And even if she wasn't cheating, she was lying. It's okay, women never hold men to the same standards that they hold themselves lol, nothing new.
This movie has everything, comedy, romance, action. I love this movie!
Exactly!!!! Subversion at its best
Have you two ever enjoyed anything in your whole life? or is just normal for you to nitpick to pieces everything you see?
I swear only women think mr and mrs smith is anything but an average movie.
One of the few movies I fell asleep to. 1/10.
@@haissem8 I remember being so hyped to see it. My mom got it as soon as it was on dvd. After watching it. we were like “that’s it?” lol. Shit was so average. Even by the standard of those times, the action was meh. That cheating scandal really pumped that movie up.
I like you two really but the person who made the cuts here needs to rethink his work. He cut a lot of the best scenes out...geez....
Blame patreon
It's probably because there was no reaction. Like 90% of this movie went right over their heads. I'm still not convinced they realized they were watching a comedy.
Hey ladies. You need to work on your reactions. Seriously. how was the exposition confusing? This movie is as straightforward as possible. It doesn't hide anything with its story. Stop breaking out in conversation every time a scene plays. This is a great fantastic and funny movie and you seem to be disconnected from it because a woman got slapt twice And because you can't " Make a movie like this anymore". Come on. Pay attention and take the movie in. This movie is a gem and you young ladies clearly missed it here. Recognize a good movie when you see one. Especially the woman on the left.
Harsh, but also true
They seem to have a problem with comedy. I don't know if it's a millennial thing or an intelligence thing but I've noticed it a fair few times before.
Prob busy on their cell phones/IG browsing ect.
The girl on the left needs to cut back a little on the snarkiness and go with the flow more.
"I don't want to bring race into this, but..."
Editor, mute her mic! Mute her mic!
I didn't get it,and i watched this movie a few times since it came out,not good for the dog sure,unhygienic ok,but still kinda funny, my kids tried to do the same when baking cookies.😅
Jamie Lee Curtis opened up a lot of young boys eyes when this movie came out. She immediately became every boy crush in the early 90s.
Funnily enough.. she did the exact same thing for all the dudes juuuuuust a tad older than that back in 85 with "Perfect".. peak JLC.
@@vampyre_with_a_suntan every generation she does something right lol
I was a fan way before then, as my young boy eyes were very much opened to her amazing talent(s) in "Trading Places" of the early 80's. LOL
That would be Sharon Stone.
Well she was pretty solid in a Fish called Wanda as well
Question, what did she mean by “ I didn’t want to bring race into it”? That made zero sense to me
Pretty sure she was going to say it's a white people about the dog licking the spatula
@@clausvonthunderclaws8706Is that a thing white people are known for?
A lot of the reactors on CinePals and the other channels under the same umbrella are just straight-up anti-white.
yeah, it was just a casual generalization against whites.
I wonder if she'd be as comfortable doing the same with non-white races.
Yeah, I didn't get that either, and not sure where that came from. Kristen is so oblivious, I think she just agreed, even though she had no clue either.
Cringe is cringe. The moment someone says that about something, you can ignore them.
Yeah, that moment was confusing to me. I mean, she's a wife, dancing for her husband, alone. She might not have known it at that moment, but it was still him. How is that so "cringey"? And it freaked them out so much. Most of the time, the woman on the left looked like she was enjoying the movie as much as a root canal. I've seen several reactions to this movie, but this was the most bizarre. They should probably stick to reacting to whatever type of movies they actually enjoy (if any), because this one was a buzzkill. 👎
Cringe can be good, too. The Office was 90% cringe jokes and it was all funny. The dance is cringe too because of how awkward it is, but it's also a funny and enjoyable scene when you're not watching people yell and disfigure their faces like these 2 are.
Mr and Mrs Smith... Loooong after this!
I've seen a lot of reactions to this, and have noticed that when Helen's affair is revealed, at least 3 or 4 women get confused and try to find excuses or alternate explanations.
Men, it's a pretty consistent, "Who's this *expletive* banging, and how will Arnold kill him?" Which is also not the exact truth, but it's closer.
I just watched Maplenuts react to this and the female was pretty cool with it, lol. But seriously, I do recommend their channel. I give it a Cringe-ability factor of 1.5
Why can’t the younger generation just watch a movie and just enjoy it because it’s entertainment not turn it into real life feelings. It’s a movie
Cause being w0k3 is cool
True Lies is still the best action comedy of the 1990s.
Demolition Man and The Last Action Hero are on that same list
No lies detected
Let's take a pledge of allegiance: if see their faces on thumbnail of a reaction, we swear we ain't clicking that!
After viewing a good number of reaction videos, I have come to the conclusion that Steph doesn’t find a lot of stuff funny. This is one of the funniest action films of all time and I don’t think she even chuckled once.
They're both clueless. And Steph is always $#%^ condescending.
@@anthonyrotino1359 nothing more annoying and obnoxious than a person who thinks they are smarter than they actually are.
@@anthonyrotino1359 Are you surprised, she is the kind of woman that keeps lurking on that ice drink of hers like an Kardashian.
Ithink shes just not into some 80's and 90's humor. They both laughed at some lines in FAST & furious 4 in their recent review. I m tryin to push a great CAPRA film - Mr deeds goes to town and a wonderful script and story THT def would test these young people who would be shocked at what people went thru in tough times. One of my FAVE G cooper films too
It’s hard for her to smile it’s unnatural for her
Also she’s very anti man immediately
She’s too negative for me
Hats off to Jamie Lee Curtis for giving us an iconic dance scene with no rehearsal, no choreography and totally improvised using music of her choice. My favorite scene of the movie
They did rehearse it. The part where she fell was pre-arranged by Cameron and Curtis. They didn't tell Arnold, so his reaction was genuine.
After five minutes the gal on the left made me leave like stepping into a club and seeing a girl you dated one time and couldn't stand her!
Ouch! That's harsh man 😂
@@horsepower523 but accurate. She kills the vibe of every reaction she does.
Never hit like on a comment so hard.
So I'm not the only one 😅
@@NoctemAeternusMusic this channel would be way better off if they got rid of the "I pretended to be into movies for years (for $), yet in my 30s I can't "get" comedies or the Friday the 13th movies" Afterbuzz trash, and actually hire women who...dare I say it...actually like (and more importantly respect) movies in general.
True Lies came before Mr and Mrs Smith . So who stole from whom?
Like nearly a while decade before Mr and Mrs Smith 😂
Mr and Mrs smith was carried by Pitt and Julie's chemistry but is kind of boring
When Schwarzenegger shouts "Give me the God damn page" he hit the wrong prop glass window & smacked the real window! 😂😂 You can see Tom Arnold pause in shock!
haha thats awesome
I always though that is throwback to Terminator and then Last action hero.. But i didint know that .Pretty funny
Steph, you aren't a smart as you think. Also, if you're calling a movie sexist while overlooking the fact that the wife was seriously considering cheating on her husband then you're biased and your husband might want to reconsider his marriage. Trying to guess the plot and talking so much you can't hear what's going on is why you 2 missed most of what was going on.
She gives me "I've cheated on my men in the past so I'm going to defend her actions" vibes
@@georgezee5173 this!
@@georgezee5173because it was HIS fault she cheated lol
any dude marrying a mid from Cali is living the meme of 20 guys in a line, with the first 19 about to bang out a chick, and the 20th guy is a simp with flowers trying to "wife" her up.
@@-M0LE The person who is at-fault for cheating is the person that cheats, full stop. Man or woman, if you are unhappy in a relationship, you communicate like a goddamn adult and leave that relationship. Stop trying to justify terrible behavior. People who cheat always have an excuse for the actions they know are wrong and it's pathetic.
It is so cute how these two try and pick apart this certified classic.
Yeah as if True Lies was nominated for an Oscar and they're on the judging panel. That's why it's difficult to watch these classic 90s action movies with women. They start searching for somekind of a deeper meaning in it lol
Kristen, how could they be playing him when he dropped in to SURPRISE his wife. She didn’t know he was coming so Helen’s conversation with her coworker wasn’t premeditated. Girl, you gotta take what the movies giving you and not make up your own plot along the way, k? lol!
LOL I think that plays into the fact that they desperately tried to convince themselves that Helen could do no wrong, so she didn't want to think that Helen was sneaking around on Harry.
Sometimes I can't stand this generation, especially they're double standards and lack of a moral compass
They seem to lack souls
That's a take, a lot of prior generations said the same, so the cycle continues doesn't it.
What are you talking about?
They really overthought this movie in trying to figure stuff out instead of just relaxing and enjoying the ride.
30 years later.
Can you believe it?
A lovely piece of work by the great James Cameron.
The first-ever $100 million budget in film history and an remake of a French short film from France called "La Totale!" (1991).
Bigger than average and that worked like a charm.
It's exactly what it's suppose to be.
The laughs and thrills are on the same level.
Arnold personally wanted Jamie Lee Curtis at top billing as the lead actress.
Because her character meant as much to the story as her husband's did.
The studio changed their tune pre-release and did put her name with Arnie's.
She also won a Golden-Globe for her performance.
The late Bill Paxton in his 3rd film with both Cameron and Schwarznegger, him as Simon the fakea** was quite the performance.
Also the late, great Charlton Heston as the boss of the Omega sector resembled classic Nick Fury (homage to Marvel).
Prior to this film, Cameron was originally involved with Spider-Man becoming a film which had the industry losing their minds.
There was gonna be a True Lies 2 as one of Schwarzenegger's last films in a planned retirement from the lime light.
It was cancelled because of 9/11 and all the things that affected Hollywood films in the aftermath.
Cameron & Schwarzenegger would reunite for the direct sequel to T2, Terminator:Dark Fate (2019).
True Lies was a short-lived tv series, one season (2023) on CBS.
I wasn't into watching it because nothing was more awesome than the movie itself.
T2 cost $100. Some say TL cost $120M, but it actually only cost $85M.
love how they are unable to see the obvious that she is having an affair then once they get it they are more critical of the man for the lengths he goes to to find out if his wife is cheating but not upset with the wife for cheating in the first place😂🙄
sometimes i wonder if reactors understand screenwriting or plot development lol 😅
Film went over thier heads for sure.
No, usually not.
Makes you wonder how these channels take off
These two talk so much during the movie that they miss key dialogue then ask each questions they would have known if they was listening.
I also don’t think they realised that this is a comedy.
Tom Arnold is so good in this. It's kind of shocking.
Yeah, he's really good which ticked me off when the girl said he wasn't funny! lol
He’s actually always good in everything
I don't say this about any other Arnie movie but I genuinely think Tom Arnold and also Bill Paxton stole the show in this movie. They were both absolutely amazing as supporting cast.
It's always fun to watch young people watch an 80s or 90s classic.
Why do they feel that it's their job to judge the movie. James Cameron directed. Hello?!?
And also Jaby. You need to keep an eye on the editing. This movie is a comedy, and almost all of the comedy was removed.
Ladies, your review of Armageddon is still my favourite. This one however fell short.
Stunt double is clearly visible, but only due to the film being converted into HD, otherwise in 1994 nobody would have noticed it.
True. I saw this at cinemas when it was new, not sure about the resolution used then, but yeah, nobody noticed. Good thing i dont have to watch this new butchered 4k AI crap. I have a good authentic HD version in my collection.
Lying to her husband and sneaking around with another man… “I feel so sorry for her” commmmme oooooon. He lies about his job to protect his family. It’s slightly different
Agreed. It’s called Top Secret clearance or National Security. His family isn’t cleared to know what he knows.
"Yep, she's got her head in his lap. Yahoo." - James Cameron
I love the deadpan delivery of that too
I gotta say it. Steph watched this film through a judgemental lens which only highlighted her cluelessness about action comedies. And to assume this original classic from 1994 ripped Mr & Mrs Smith off (2005) displays her confident ignorance that usually comes with this generations unearned arrogance. She gives off FALSE feminist vibes.
You picked that up about her too eh
These girls are definitely a product of their time.
“original classic”?!? 😂😂😂
“La Totale!” (1991) begs to differ…
@hhumandr OK, Not so original, yet a classic from a great era nonetheless.
I saw her react to a comedy (don't remember which) and spent the whole time making snarky comments about the male characters.
Nice reaction 😊😊😊I couldn’t stop laughing, They keep telling James Cameron how to make one of his iconic movies. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tom Arnold’s rant at the end about being stuck in the van is probably my favorite end credit scene of all movies
Yes
Eliza Dushku killing it even at such a young age.
She's a talented actress, always has been but there's too much of her in the parts she plays
Bill Paxton as car salesman! You recognized quality in acting. He was brilliant!
Bill Paxton should have gotten an award for how perfectly he portrayed the biggest sleazebag of all time.
The reactions on this channel are getting worse. There’s always at least one clueless or annoying person now on every reaction. Seemed like I was going to have to add racist as well to that list, but she stopped herself!
But she still “thought” that racist thought though, right? Lol!
You didn't put in the reaction: “Battery Aziz”, which is the most iconic funny moment of the movie, all the reaction RUclipsrs have put it in their videos, except you :(
maybe the editor ran out of battery?
@@johto Or maybe he is a very young editor, and does not know about these classic moments of famous movies and passes them by in the editing, and thinks it is just another scene and that is one of the most famous and hilarious moments of True Lies, it is impossible not to include it in the video reaction, the same as the scene of the punch to Bill Paxton by Arnold, that if they put it luckily.
Tom Arnold "Gibb" was in the middle of a divorce from sitcom star Roseanne & the petty story about stealing the ice cube tray from the freezer was apparently based on what she did to Arnold irl 🤯🤣
I can say that I can confirm that! I actually met Tom at a local comic con that I went to, and he said ask him any question. I asked him about that specific line, and he said yes it’s true.
James Cameron really is a master director and screenwriter. And Arnold was top of his game in this performance.
Jamie Lee Curtis actually did that helicopter stunt on her own. Amazing
My favorite scene that got cut was Jamie Lee dancing for Arnold. When she went to swing on the bedpost and she slipped off, that was actually a blooper. James Cameron thought it was hysterical and kept it in the final cut.
This is the movie most people walk through a room and see it is in, then stop to watch.
the way arnold starts to get up and has to reset always makes me laugh. It works as a blooper and still fits the scene, Harry would be concerned.
Worst edit and reaction i have ever seen of this movie.
Oh man i hate that people are forced to watch this version, this new 4k "AI enhanced version" thats the default available. Its so "weird", cause the AI actually screws the faces of the actors making bogus details, eyes and faces look weird, overall color grading not original, no real film grain left etc. It did not look like this at the cinemas ! Glad i have a "non fked up" version. Good movie nevertheless.
James Cameron making a kickass James Bond movie without James Bond.
Windows like the one in the interrogation scene, really exist. They spall, but they don't shatter no matter how hard or often you hit them due to the laminate between the glass layers.
The Boss eye patch is the original Hollywood royalty action hero, Charlton Heston!
yea Not enough of these young Reactors have seen much of C HESTON, a few have seen OG Planet of apes & BEN HUr like Cassie and Cine binge. that duo- Simone & george loved it & the fantastic chariot race
He was cast here because they needed to have a boss that was believable as superior or more alpha male than Arnie also someone who’s Big
It worked imo
Yep he is on the Mount Rushmore of iconic actors. They don’t even flinch because they have no idea who he is LOL
@@michaelceraso1977 Ben Hur is a must watch for everyone. Greatest set scene of the race, ever!
The only thing embarrassing and cringe about this movie is the reaction. Thankfully my generation doesn't get second hand embarrassment, I eat up the cringe these 2 put out.
The younger generation are either to soft to react to older movies or they are too scared to act like they enjoyed it so they don’t hurt someone feelings. I am so glad I was born and raised when people actually knew the difference in tv land and real life , back when we could watch a comedian and not get offended by everything. Then again I knew this country was in trouble when college students had to go to counseling because of a Presidential election. Gen x proud. ❤
@@Lilith6416 I started watching a reaction to Predator some months ago and it was a young couple reacting and early in the film the wife/girlfriend (don't recall if they were married or not) asked "Where are the female soldiers?" It was exactly in that moment that I stopped the video and never looked back to that reaction! LOL
Mr. and Mrs. Smith came out in 2005, 11 years after True Lies so they couldn't pay an homage to it. Also, did you notice on the computer what was on the screen? It was Windows 95, windows was brand new and we didn't know what they were just yet.
The whole point of this movie is called true lies. Basically, everyone in the film is lying about who they really are from harry arnold schwarzeneggar's character. To helen play by jamie Lee curtis. To simon, play by the late bill paxton, everyone is lying in this films
I have seen so many reactions to this movie and i dont think i have ever seen ppl not get it and have the movie go over there heads lol.
I fell in love with Jamie Lee Curtis when I first saw it as a 14 year old boy and nothing has changed 20 years later lol
Yes, this and her awesome job in Trading Places.
That actually was Arnold on the horse. In fact, Arnold had a near-fatal accident on set during the horse riding scene, when his horse got startled and ran out of control. Schwarzenegger managed to slide off the horse, but did this near a 30-foot drop-off. His personal stunt man saw what happened and was able to grab him before he went over the ledge.
That wasn't Arnold on the horse in the shot she called out. Arnold was on the horse in some shots but, in the shot she was referring to, that was clearly a stuntman with a totally different face and hairline. Often in movies, they'll use a mask and wig to make the stuntman look more like the actor if their face is going to be visible at all but they didn't in this one and you can clearly see the stuntman in at least two scenes (one on the horse, one when he's running in the snow). Don't get me wrong, these two missed A LOT in this movie, but she was right on about the stuntman being obvious in several shots.
James Cameron is weirdly inconsistent with that, btw. In T2, e.g., in the shot where Arnold jumps the motorcycle off the overpass into the LA river, the stuntman is wearing an Arnold mask and it looks pretty convincing (though you can kind of see the edges of the mask not connecting properly if you look closely). But, in the same sequence, when Arnold's character pulls John Conner off the dirtbike and onto his own chopper, the stuntman isn't wearing a mask and you can clearly see that it's a stuntman. I mean, they had the mask, so I have to assume it has to do with how much visibility the stuntman needs for a particular stunt, but it still seems weird that sometimes they cover it better and sometimes they're just like, "Whatever. Hopefully no one will notice."
This movie is still the best and so fun for real.
Ya'll are gonna get torched for this reaction. 😂
Mr & Mrs Smith was made over 10 years after this
When they did the press interview for this movie, Jamie Lee Curtis said it took 5 months of working with a personal trainer and dietician to get her body into that shape for the movie.
I don't understand how they said that this was a paying homage to Mt Mrs Smith put this came out well before that movie even just like 1 1 yrs before Mr and Mrs Smith even came out if anything that movie paid homage to true lies
Mainly due to fact that:
A)they’re vapid
B)they don’t know what “chronology” is
C) they only know about ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ because it was the film that broke up Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
Jamie Lee Curtis actually did the helicopter stunt. She initially didn't want to do it. To convince her it was safe, director James Cameron did the stunt first. That apparently did the trick. Her expression was genuine.
She filmed it 3 days before her 35th birthday. Hell of a birthday rush!
When she said, "I'm married to Rambo!", it was a fun jab at Stallone (since Stallone made "The Specialist" in the same year).
I only watch this channel when Kristen's on it ❤
so they both lie but the husband is in the wrong? lol what are you smoking?
1 mintue in; I'm surprised that a woman living in Hollywood(I think) knows the difference between a man and a woman today.
Steph, no one watches reactions for your film making "insight", most people just watch behind the scenes stuff, with all the ACTUAL information they'd want. People watch reactions for the REACTIONS. I know, crazy, right?
It’s a rough listen
To be fair to older movies, they were shown in a lower resolution back then ( i first saw this movie on VHS connected to low res old TV). So it was less obvious when stuntman were used and they didn't really try to hide it. Now these movies are shown in HD/4K and you can clearly tell it's not the actual actor.
They still would have been full resolution and 20 feet tall on a theater screen. I personally think it's in part people no longer getting lost in a movie. Add to that, they're reacting and needing to add content, and a touch of feeling the need to show what they know about movie-making to continue to feel good about their SAG cards.
During the video I was wondering if Steph knew it was supposed to be a comedy. She seemed very serious. 🤔
I did not think it was boring at the start Thomas Arnold was fun at the start and thete was action scenes
This movie was perfect. Such a great time. Don't change a thing. Just great writing and great action.
06:26 Could you explain the race thing for non U.S.A. people? Sorry english is not my native language.
It was going to be another anti white statement but she stopped herself....this time
I asked the same thing, i've watched a few times since it came out but didn't get it either😅
trying to say white people have a strange relationship with dogs
I think she was implying that only white people would be crazy enough to let a dog lick a spatula then go back to frosting a cake meant for humans with it.
don't bother. it was an attempt at a joke by her that wasn't funny to begin with based on a barely a stereotype that "white people" are permissive with their animals. you literally didn't miss anything worth a mention, except that in the US, the only racial comments gen Z will make is about white people
I did not mind the set up in the film and it was perfect blend of action comedy and drama for me
This movie is an American remake of a French one, called La Totale!.
Yes and french movie is better
@@mikulasdug6306 unlikely. But nobody would know that that isn't since nobody's watched it. so you can lie to your heart's content.
So then how about you go watch that and have a croissant and a smile 🥐😊
@@mikulasdug6306 I saw la Totale, and it's good and funny, but it's the rare occasion when a remake surpass the original , True Lies is great