whos this Nick Fury everyone in the comments keeps mentioning? probably some indie movie character that no ones heard of, thats probably why neither of us thought of him as a good guy with an eye patch. yep.
I thought you guys had seen them , but iv just looked through your past posts and looks like you have not so that would be why the character didnt come to mind for you, my apologies dude
The jet is a Harrier and is a real military aircraft. It’s specifically designed for vertical takeoff and landing. It also uses a f*ck ton of fuel according to Cameron. The actual jet was used in only a few scenes for that reason. Most of the scenes at the tower were life sized mock-ups and models.
Don’t forget the infamous “Pepsi Points” commercial that came out shortly after this movie, just because how popular the Harrier sequence was in the film.
Harriers are some of the most amazing aircraft ever built. I once watched one fly sideways down the runway. The movie exaggerates some of the maneuverability. In the James Bond movie The Living Daylights on takes off from within a building.
Its amazing that it works, but as in function its not really a good plane. Its performance is incredibly hampered just for the ability to performer a vertical take off and landing.
There was some sort of celebration for the Queen of England that took place by the Thames. At one point, a couple of Harriers a hovered over the water and "bowed" to the Queen.
@@creaturecore13 I wouldn't say it was a bad plane with the bonus of VTOL, more that it's a great plane that lacks supersonic speed. 40 years of services proves it had it's uses.
@@ukcroupier The plane might have killed more friendlies then enemies in its use. Its just not a good plane. It is heavy, has small amount of fuel storage, small payload, not as fast as other jets, not as nimble, not as good in close combat as other jets. It does nothing good except crash on its own killing our troops. The only thing it does is take off vertically. Once its in the air it is beat out by everything else we have. Its first model had half the planes crash outside of combat. Just because we used something since 1985 doesnt mean it was actually useful to the marines. It means someone got a hell of a kick back. The A10 is the plane troops want watching their back in close combat not the harrier. In air to ground or air to air just about every other plane is better.
Yes, they can take off like that. It's called a VTOL - Vertical Take-Off and Landing. That particular one is a Harrier, made by the British. Fun fact: James Cameron really wanted to use a real Harrier for the shot, but the jets melted the road almost instantly. They had to surface the highway with the same stuff they surface aircraft carriers with. That patch of road is still there.
The US Marines used to fly these when I was stationed at Kadena AB in Okinawa. It was one loud beast, but beautiful to watch when it did short takeoffs and landings.
@@AreeyaKKC I never was any good with the specific markings. I recognise it's a Harrier, but I have no clue beyond that. I will believe that this one is US manufactured, but it was originally British-designed.
My favorite joke in this whole thing was "I remember the first time I was shot out of a cannon", yet neither of you seemed to get it. It was a joke about her helmet.
The dance is iconic! Also, Jamie Lee fell for real! Arnold stood up to go help her, but she got back up, and they continued with the scene. This movie is so funny. Also, love watching teen Eliza Dushku already being a badass.
From what I have read, she and James Cameron did plan on her falling, but they didn't tell Arnold, so his reaction is genuine. But that may be apocryphal.
You guys were laughing through the entire movie -- the way it's supposed to be. I have to admit, this is one of my favorites. Arnold is perfect, Tom Arnold is perfect, and Jamie Lee is perfection personified. And a bonus final act from 'Faith' of Buffy fame. Wish more reacters would do this one.
A lot of the shots were miniatures, CG, or full size mock-up set pieces, but they did get a couple real harriers for some of those shots. When he takes off from the highway to go save his daughter, they're using one of the real fighters. It's an actual stretch of in-use highway but they had to re-pave it with a different material that wouldn't melt under the heat of the jets. When they were done, there was no reason not to leave it that way, so because of this shoot, there's a permanent stretch of still-driveable highway in Florida that can withstand the heat of VTOL jet exhaust.
So, the one question always asked is “how did they know where to find him in the hotel?” But, what a lot of people miss is, there’s a seemingly “throw away” line that Tom Arnold’s character says about setting up a suite under the name Harry Ranquist, just before he goes in and talks to Juno at the museum. So it was (most likely) still that same suite that they used since it would have already been there, and unused for anything other than a cover story. Since the terrorists had the name it was reserved under, they would have easily been able to find out where he was, especially if they were watching the room.
Yep, that and Harry pulls agents off the surveillance of the terrorists to follow his wife, meaning there's no longer anyone watching what the bad guys are doing, so they can follow him unhindered. Its a daft film, but its not illogical.
It's a shame Hollywood didn't throw him some more roles like this. He has great comedic timing for sure and can act decently well enough. I assume the fallout from the Roseanne marriage was mostly why he didn't, but I don't know that for sure obviously.
My inlaws split up before this came out. Wife's dad took us to see it, and he absolutely lost his shit at the ice tray line....because that's what his wife did to him.
"Have you killed people?" "Yea, but they were all bad." "Are we going to die?" "yep" I love the part where Dana steals the key. And her reaction to seeing her dad flying the Harrier.
26:47 Why is it shooting? Strangely enough, that is actually realistic. When it falls on the back end, the momentum is enough to cycle the action. And since this weapon has a fixed firing pin, that means a shot goes off, even if the trigger is not pulled and the action cycles again. These days, most submachineguns have an internal safety to prevent that from happening, but older models often had this flaw. And, yes, the AV-8B can take off vertically. However, it would have literally melted the road, the cars, and anybody in the vicinity.
From what I remember reading and seeing, only the VERY first run of uzi smgs would go off when dropped, and even then it would only be a single round per drop, it wouldn't runaway on full auto like that. This is almost certainly a later model, which would have absolutely had a drop safety. But it makes for a funny scene. Although she is standing directly in line with the way it's tumbling, which is kind of scary.
@@Journeyman.71 perhaps I'm remembering wrong, then. But I was pretty sure I saw a presentation on why that was particularly unrealistic for the model being shown.
@@jasonthedave6140 just my opinion but I hate the mission impossible movies because they're not mission impossible. The point of the mission impossible force was to go in undetected and get out, not blow everything up and then get out. Name those movies something else and it's fantastic with me
The Harrier really can take off, fly and manoeuvre like that, although the amount of fuel needed is immense. Its the reason that British aircraft carriers didn't have catapults for some time. They are now no longer in service with either the Royal Navy or Royal Air Force, however the US Marines still use them as does the Spanish Navy. They were the inspiration for the current F35.
To add when it comes to fuel cost its not really much more to hover than it is to fly forward as the power / throttle is not changed much during the hover any more than it would in horizontal flight only the direction of the thrust nozzles, what really limits its ability to hover however is water as it uses water to cool itself while in hover. sure they can take of vertically when light but with a full load out and full of fuel they where not able to take of vertically meaning they needed a short run way take off and the ramp at the end of carriers helped, upon return they would always land vertically after having expended enough fuel to be light enough to land
I think they're switching to a VTOL F-35. even with Catapults I don't think they have enough room on their carriers for most standard fighters to take off.
@@EQINOX187 It absolutely is more fuel costly to hover. Below stall speeds, you aren't getting ANY lift from conventional flight surfaces and you need drastically increased thrust in comparison to counteract this (literally fighting gravity at that point). This can easily be seen in the disparity between the weight of its full loadout and the maximum weights for V/STOL loadouts being significantly lower. For VTOL operation itself the loadout weight needs to be below the total thrust of the engine so that it can actually gain altitude. Short takeoff/landings and conventional flight allow for weights 5 to 10,000lbs above max engine thrust and you don't need full power to maintain minimum or cruising speed. If you think this is bunk, please perform the following test. Go out to your car, disengage the hand brake/put it in neutral. See if you can put enough force into pushing it to get that sucker rolling. Manage it? Good job! Now pick your car up.
It’s very impressive in person…also exceptionally loud. Ear-drum shatteringly loud…but very impressive to see something that big and heavy move that way.
Thank you for reacting to one of my favorite movies! Fun facts: The tango in the beginning with Arnold and Juno was the inspiration for the actress who played Juno (Tia Carere) when she was on the US Dancing with the Stars. When you both laughed at the joke with Tom Arnold saying about the ice cube trays from the freezer, it was a statement for Tom’s divorce with Rosanne Barr. I got to meet and ask him about it! 🤣
I'll keep repeating myself: Arnie in this is wayy scarier while glaring (in particular the look while seeing Simon in between Helen's legs) than as the Terminator!
"Spy boss with eye patch" was actually a trope in the 70s and 80s ("Archangel" on Airwolf comes immediately to mind). Most of this movie is really a send up of late 70s and 80s spy movies l.
A few notes - Good character with eye patch - Odin VTOL - Vertical Take Off and Landing is the term for planes that can do that Other good Arnold comedies - Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Red Heat (which is kind of action/comedy like True Lies was) Other Jamie Lee Curtis films that are a must watch - Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda (both comedies)
This is one of my favorite Arnold movies. The chemistry between him and Jamie Lee was perfect. Jamie Lee's dance was great! We've been dying for a sequel. Here's a title idea: More True Lies: The Taskers.
This film was a pleasant surprise when I saw it in cinemas. The original was a French comedy and is also good. Jaime Lee smashed this role out of the park.
La Totale with Thierry Lhermite et Miou-Miou. I hadn't realized at first that this was an adaptation of that French movie and it is one of the very ones where the American version is actually better than the original.
The story of this movie is interesting. It is an adaptation of the French movie "La Totale!" From Claude Zidi, a legendary french comedy director. The plot is pretty much the same, sans the atomic bomb and harrier jet. Claude Zidi came to a US film festival in LA and made english subbed versions of his movie. Some time after that, Arnold's Brother in law watched the movie and loved it, he invited Arnold over to watch it and he also loved it. And he said that he would love to do an american version of it, but that some parts needed to be reworked to have more dynamism and action. He knew that at the time, Cameron's project of shooting a Spiderman movie was nowhere and got canned. So he called Cameron, talked about his idea, and Cameron accepted directing it. Since Cameron couldnt make a MARVEL movie he still put a Nick Fury look a like character in the movie (the agency boss with the eye patch). Cameron contacted Claude Zidi to buy the rigths to the movie adaptation, Ge sold it for a symbolic 1$ and instead negotiated a % on the movie incomes. It is unfortunate that this is the ONLY comedy ever directed by Cameron, cause man is it absolutly brilliant.
Je ne me souviens pas trop du film La Totale mais j'ai le vague souvenir qu'il y a avait bien une bombe atomique mais elle n'explose pas. Bien vu de la part de Zidi d'avoir négocié un pourcentage des recettes à la place. Pas folle la guêpe ^^
I was driving down to the southern U.S. for a wedding years ago, near a military base and every half mile there was a harrier jet hovering, all in a line. It was some kind of exercise but it was cool and scary at the same time. I forget how many there were, I think maybe 7 or 8, but it was definitely something I’ll never forget.
When she’s doing the sexy dance, she actually fell and that was Arnold’s real reaction 😂 he went to check on her but she got up so fast he went back into character
The problem is this movie came out in 1994, any other year and it's probably one of the highest grossing films of the year but it unfortunately never stood a chance of really catching fire because Forrest Gump came out 9 days before and movies like Shawshank Redemption, Dumb & Dumber, The Crow, The Mask, Ace Ventura, Legends of the Fall and Pulp Fiction also came out at the beginning/end of the year so it just got lost in this golden year of cinema.
"You can take the spy out of the spy place..." and "That's why you never carry guns while walking near stairs" are my favorite quotes of the day. Thanks, Simone.
This was such a joy to see in the theater. I don't think anyone expected what they got, but everyone seemed to love it. This is by far my favorite Tom Arnold role. He nails this character in every way.
The musical theme you asked about at the beginning of the movie is the Mission Impossible theme. Arnold's boss who looks like a bad guy is Charlton Heston aka Moses from The 10 Commandments, Judah Ben-Hur from Ben-Hur and George Taylor, the main character from the original Planet of the Apes. The planes are British Harrier jump jets. They are designed for vertical takeoff and then transitioning to normal jet plane flight. They were extremely effective in the Falklands war between Great Britain and Argentina. On a side note, Bill Paxton has a normal sized penis. It is not abnormally small.
It is impossible to detonate an atomic bomb with an explosion or any other kind of damage. In order to set off such a bomb a multitude of small charges within have to detonate in a predetermined order in predetermined direction with an accuracy of less than a microsecond. If this procedure does not happen exactly as planned, the plutonium core is not compacted into the size needed to set off the fission chain reaction but instead it is just blown to bits.
I still can't hear that line in his delivery. "Battery Aziz" has 5 syllables, but he only says 4. Its always sounded to me like "Batteraziz", or "Batterahry", I thought he was speaking arabic or something. I had no idea what he was saying until I turned on subtitles one day
My brothers and I are all in our 30s and this was one of our favourites growing up. When we all catch up, one of us yelling “Give me the goddamn page!” still gets us laughing.
36:02 - Ah'nuld's comedies certainly were unique. Practically none of them were "misses" but some were more batshit than others. Ones to try: THE LAST ACTION HERO - one of Hollywood's first forays into meta-humour in a blockbuster film. Very high concept. Directed by John McTiernan! KINDERGARTEN COP - probably the funniest Arnold comedy, but also easily one of the darkest film he's ever been. It goes in really violent places. TWINS - this one's dated a lot, but its a fascinating cast and concept. JUNIOR - this one is absolute batshit. Strangely watchable, but also just very weird and uncomfortable (and designed to be). JINGLE ALL THE WAY - really good kids movie (but not actually safe for kids to watch). How much you enjoy it as an adult really varies on how much you buy into the premise. COMMANDO - not intentionally a comedy, but boy its laugh-out-loud funny in hindsight. A must see.
Add RABBIT TEST to the list -- another funny/weird/WTF? movie he made with Danny DeVito. Oh, and THE VILLAIN! :D It's one of Arnie's first non-bodybuilding movies, from before he learned to act. He's totally wooden, but it *works* for his character (a painfully earnest and stoic Western sheriff) and is a crack-up. The actual star of the movie is Kirk Douglas, who's playing a cartoonish Western movie villain. In all seriousness, this is basically a live-action Roadrunner movie, and it's wonderful. :)
I lived in Marathon, FL when this was filmed- that's the area with the bridge that's out, etc. BTW, Jamie Lee Curtis did the 'hanging from the helicopter' stunt herself! It was wild to see. Also, yes, the Harrier actually flies like that- it's a precision aircraft and can hover, move sideways, etc. It's amazing to see - the only thing is it's loud.
A 90s classic action film. They don't make them like this anymore! I saw this in theaters at the age of 14. What an experience. Oh and it's based on a French comedy, those are the other writers. Cameron took their film and rewrote it. Also, those Harrier jets really take off that way. They can hover.
yes Harrier II was the only fighter at the time that can take of and land vertically, and it is an incredibly difficult manouver. Italy still uses them on their "aircraft carriers". The scene near the skyscraper stretches the capabilities of the fighter waay too much, that plane can hover but it is not an helicopter.
My favorite Ahnold film ever. The action scenes so over the top, I'm actually surprised they did have him reload, mimicking his old bubblegum action movies, but still having a neat story. Jamie Lee Curtis is the perfect choice for this role. Extremely sexy, but a great enough actress that she can play the frumpy housewife who can become sexy, without looking like a sexy woman pretending to be frumpy.
Simone: She looks pretty good for a middle aged woman. Me: No. She looked amazing for any women. And I'm not even into Jamie Lee Curtis. Also that jet was a harrier. They can take off just about anywhere.
@@BigBoss-zi5ss oh yeah i was never a fan of her face ( she's nots hugly) but her body.... my god, i meet a woman like that even what i said, i would seduce her. Like paxton
The plane Arnold's character is flying is an AV-8 Harrier, a fighter/strike aircraft built specifically to hover, take off and land vertically. Otherwise known as a VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off and landing). There is also a new variant of the F35 that does this.
The juxtaposition of Jamie being a totally sexy and beautiful and awkward and regular house wife all at the same time is a big part of why this works so well. And that includes the dance move. Though no where near as awkward as Elaine dancing on Seinfeld 🤣
I think Kindergarten Cop is Arnold’s funniest film, but this is right up there as among his best for comedic gold. You guys should do Twins as well. That’s another one Arnold is truly funny in.
Your Shaun of the Dead and True Lies reactions were the two movies that made me decide to try your Patreon this past month! Keep up the amazing work. And don’t forget what you do matters. It gives so many of us a break/distraction from pain and other things like life. Love to you both! 🍿
This is my 2nd favorite James Cameron film only behind The Terminator. It's actually funnier than most pure comedies. It's one of Arnie's best performances. Jamie Lee Curtis actually won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy Film. And Tom Arnold was hilarious. The actor playing the villain hit all the right comic notes, too.
Great reaction ! Don’t know if someone told you that but it’s actually a remake from a french movie called La Totale. The director is mentioned as a screenwriter with James Cameron.
Did u know Jamie Lee Curtis really did fall in that dance scene and Arnold broke character. U can see in that split sec him wanting to get help to help Jamie but say back down when she got up and continued dancing. The crew thought it was too funny to leave out. Also, u should see Jamie Lee Curtis in House Arrest. Best 90's comedy ever!! Also, Jennifer Love-Hewitt was in it as well. I believe it was her debut movie.
Oh my gosh, I don't know what was more humorous, you two laughing at the scene or the scene itself? Great reaction guys! I was literally stomach laughing
I remember back when they were filming this movie in downtown Miami there was a harrier being held up by a crane in downtown Miami. All we knew was they were filming a movie and Arnold Schwarzenegger had something to do with it. That wasn't a model of the bridge blowing up, they built a new 7 Mile bridge to key West. They blew up the old bridge, section of it.
I remember seeing pictures of the Harrier on the building in the entertainment news. The end result was a showcase of innovative visual effects at the time.
34:29 - the film is very faithful to the French movie "La Totale!". The embellishments from Cameron are basically the action sequences - the gunfights, horse chase, Harrier-jump jet sequence, the nuclear weapons plot are all his additions. The original film has all of the other elements though - a guy who works as a spy, but his family isn't aware, the wife being seduced by a used car salesman who lives in a trailer park, the spy making his wife do a fake mission, the seduction scene in the hotel room, it's all there. The nuclear weapon threat is actually a plot to launch a missile at a football stadium in Paris. James Cameron gets top marks though for translating French farce humour to ultra-violent American slapstick and also for getting to do his trademark 5th Act mega-action beat i.e. using a fighter aircraft to attack a building. But the plot twists, character arcs and premise is all lifted directly from the French film.
That was one of my fav movies when I was a kid. FYI, the aircraft that Arnie piloted is known as the Harrier Jumpjet... One of their trademark moves is definitely the hovering thing, but not sure how much exaggeration they add into the movie...
2:33 Speaking of that music, you guys should react to Scent of a Woman (1992) starring Al Pacino. I personally think that Eraser (1996) makes for a good Arnie double feature w/ this film. Also, check out James Cameron's The Abyss (1989), preferably the special edition.
Be honest, would you rather watch the movie you watched, or one where they go to couples counseling? There is a reason movies don't always follow conventional logic, because people want something to take them out of reality for a couple hours.
The tango song is Por Una Cabeza. Iconic and widely used in films. Th jet they use toward the end is the Harrier. Vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL). They were designed to be like that.
the guy with the eye patch is Charlton heston he won the oscar for best lead actor in 1959 for Ben Hur, he also played Moses in The Ten commandments both are 2 of the greatest films of all time, true epics. you also saw Heston in tombstone.
It really was jamie lee curtis hanging from the helicopter. She didn't want to do that stunt at first, so james cameron actually did it himself to convince her it was safe. It worked. She did it. And yes, there are jump jets, which are vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles (VTOL).
I'm glad the bit made it when Tom Arnold says "You know, I think she might be telling the truth." Always cracked me up as much as anything in this movie.
I highly consider True Lies to be Arnold’s last great film to date. I remember sneaking into the theater to see this alone as a 12 year old. As for the hotel/horse chase sequence, the hotel I believe is actually the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles that was also used for the final act of In The Line of Fire.
This movie ruled my world as kid when it came out. would watch the making of and all the behind the scenes stuff that was available along with the movie none stop and it still hasn't got old, crazy good : D
Sorry kal, I don't buy it... You were in your thirties in 1978, And you'd have us believe you were a child when this came out?? I mean... maybe something happened in the Crises? But.. still Sus ;)
This movie came out when I was in HS. He Cameron released it on 35mm and 70mm film. We drove across town to see it in 70mm. I would liken it to IMAX of the time. 3x the size of regular experience. Everyone begged for a sequel at the time.
A bit of trivia when Arhnold punched the window of the SUV, he accidently hit the wrong window. He punched though the real glass not the candy glass. Tom Arnold's reaction was real in that scene
You two should definitely watch James Cameron’s most underrated gem of a film: “The Abyss”. Specifically the directors cut. James Cameron’s directors cuts are always better than the theatrical cuts.
I disagree on the director’s cut of the Abyss. It’s a bit long-winded compared to the theatrical cut, the special effects aren’t as good, and it has a cheap substitute for Alan Silvestri’s score in the parts that are added in the director’s cut.
Oh that was amazing, I never thought you'd be reacting to one of my favorite movies! Always liked the mix of action and comedy, it worked so well with the story and the actors so I can understand why you laughed so much despite there being an actual action side to the movie. The awkward dance is priceless to be honest.
Arnold and Danny DeVito comedy: "Twins"; Arnold at Christmas: "Jingle All the Way"; another good Arnold comedic drama: "Kindergarten Cop"; thank you for sharing your reactions with your RUclips viewers.
26:45 While it's a bit exaggerated for the movie, that gun continuing to fire as it bounces down the stairs actually is very possible. Open-bolt designs like the Uzi can and will "run away" when in full-auto, meaning that even if you aren't still holding the trigger back the gun will keep firing, especially if something is bumping the back of the gun. It's more unbelievable that the gun still had ammo for the entire fall down the stairs. 28:10 Correct. Nukes are actually really hard to set off, hitting it with a normal explosion won't do anything except destroy it and spray some radioactive debris around the area. 30:35 That's a Harrier jet...they are one of the few planes that can perform a vertical take-off and maneuvering like that, but it's insanely inefficient to do (burns a crazy amount of fuel). If y'all want another great (though far less humorous) movie about nukes, look up Crimson Tide (also from the mid-90s).
iirc they tried the whole Uzi falling down stairs causing it to fire on Mythbusters to absolutely no avail. Even with a very unsafely modified Uzi it was basically impossible to recreate the scene 'for real'.
It's a remake of a French comedy. The writers of that were also credited for the screenplay here. The original movie pretty much ended with the fight on the island (where the machine gun tumbles down the stairs). Everything after that is pure Cameron.
Sorry but she didn’t. She did do the stunt and she has won many awards. However, this year was her first ever Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Loved this movie and the reaction to it. I first watched this one as a youngster! Such an awesome goofy movie. Each of the people in this all did such a great job. Glad you guys watched this! :D
I vote 'Mattress' as the male-gendered term for 'mistress'. Also, I love how JC grants Simone's wishes this movie, a la showing the dogs, the horse not jumping, etc.
Fun fact: This is the very first film to be made on a budget of $100 million. And it’s finally getting a Blu-ray release this year, although through a 4K bundle release.
Harrier jets (capable of vertical take offs and landings) first flew in 1967. I guess these two are way too young to know about technology that old, but I would have thought they'd have seen one in some other movie.
Twins, with Arnie and DeVitor is funny, yes, but the main gag of them being twins wore out pretty fast for me. If you haven't seen it yet, watch 'Last Action Hero'. That one was really hilarious IMO.
Last Action Hero is criminally underrated because of how poorly it did in the box office. Very smart comedy for it's time. Can't go wrong really with the earlier Arnold comedies in general though. Kindergarten Cop and Twins are also good.
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whos this Nick Fury everyone in the comments keeps mentioning? probably some indie movie character that no ones heard of, thats probably why neither of us thought of him as a good guy with an eye patch. yep.
Samuel l jacksons character in the marvel movies dude
*whoosh*
I thought you guys had seen them , but iv just looked through your past posts and looks like you have not so that would be why the character didnt come to mind for you, my apologies dude
@@gibonater69 I think that statement was under the influence of "sarcasm"
What about Steve the pirate?
The jet is a Harrier and is a real military aircraft. It’s specifically designed for vertical takeoff and landing. It also uses a f*ck ton of fuel according to Cameron. The actual jet was used in only a few scenes for that reason. Most of the scenes at the tower were life sized mock-ups and models.
!what! you mean they hired a real one for some scenes?
@@adriansue8955 They did
@@adriansue8955 They hired three, two to fly in front of camera, one as a camera mount.
@@adriansue8955 James Cameron loves spending gobs of money, studios love throwing it at him and he also loves showing off cool real life tech.
Don’t forget the infamous “Pepsi Points” commercial that came out shortly after this movie, just because how popular the Harrier sequence was in the film.
Harriers are some of the most amazing aircraft ever built. I once watched one fly sideways down the runway. The movie exaggerates some of the maneuverability. In the James Bond movie The Living Daylights on takes off from within a building.
Its amazing that it works, but as in function its not really a good plane. Its performance is incredibly hampered just for the ability to performer a vertical take off and landing.
They are earth shatteringly loud so you certainly can’t have a conversation anywhere near one that is hovering.
There was some sort of celebration for the Queen of England that took place by the Thames. At one point, a couple of Harriers a hovered over the water and "bowed" to the Queen.
@@creaturecore13 I wouldn't say it was a bad plane with the bonus of VTOL, more that it's a great plane that lacks supersonic speed. 40 years of services proves it had it's uses.
@@ukcroupier The plane might have killed more friendlies then enemies in its use. Its just not a good plane. It is heavy, has small amount of fuel storage, small payload, not as fast as other jets, not as nimble, not as good in close combat as other jets. It does nothing good except crash on its own killing our troops. The only thing it does is take off vertically. Once its in the air it is beat out by everything else we have. Its first model had half the planes crash outside of combat. Just because we used something since 1985 doesnt mean it was actually useful to the marines. It means someone got a hell of a kick back. The A10 is the plane troops want watching their back in close combat not the harrier. In air to ground or air to air just about every other plane is better.
George: "Trying to think of one good character that has an eye patch. Can't think of any."
Kurt Russell: "Call me Snake."
I think you'd have to do some work to call Snake a good guy.
I thought he was dead?
@@hgman3920 - Nice! 😄
Snake... Pliskin? I thought he was dead ;)
Odin > Thor
Simone: "You can't put a guy in with an eyepatch and say he's a good guy."
Nick Fury: "Am I a motherfucking joke to you?"
I was about to type these things!
Sorry Odin, they are just simple Humans... 😜😂😂
@@Naranuru depends which Odin, marvel Odin fair. Mythological Odin not so much.
If you didn't read it in Samuel L Jackson voice...
Well he wasn't until it was "revealed" to due to a cat-scratch... 🙄
That “Just Kidding” edit was amazing😆
You totally got me.
Yes, they can take off like that. It's called a VTOL - Vertical Take-Off and Landing. That particular one is a Harrier, made by the British.
Fun fact: James Cameron really wanted to use a real Harrier for the shot, but the jets melted the road almost instantly. They had to surface the highway with the same stuff they surface aircraft carriers with. That patch of road is still there.
The US Marines used to fly these when I was stationed at Kadena AB in Okinawa. It was one loud beast, but beautiful to watch when it did short takeoffs and landings.
That's a US one made by Mcdonnell Douglas.
@@AreeyaKKC I never was any good with the specific markings. I recognise it's a Harrier, but I have no clue beyond that. I will believe that this one is US manufactured, but it was originally British-designed.
@@Nick-pu3of my country had some but they all retired now. Thai navy had them for a couple years.
That is such a fascinating piece of trivia about the road! Thanks for sharing 😃
My favorite joke in this whole thing was "I remember the first time I was shot out of a cannon", yet neither of you seemed to get it. It was a joke about her helmet.
I LOVED that line! :D
The dance is iconic! Also, Jamie Lee fell for real! Arnold stood up to go help her, but she got back up, and they continued with the scene. This movie is so funny. Also, love watching teen Eliza Dushku already being a badass.
Oh wow. I can't believe I didn't realize that was Eliza Dushku!
I play in a dance band and I talked the director into getting the waltz from that dance because of this movie.
Jamie Lee Curtis also did that car stunt herself. That's why she's screaming so authentically, she's was scared to death lol
From what I have read, she and James Cameron did plan on her falling, but they didn't tell Arnold, so his reaction is genuine. But that may be apocryphal.
@@Chasmodius it seems you're right! Only poor Arnold was out of the loop. Great physical comedy!
You guys were laughing through the entire movie -- the way it's supposed to be. I have to admit, this is one of my favorites. Arnold is perfect, Tom Arnold is perfect, and Jamie Lee is perfection personified. And a bonus final act from 'Faith' of Buffy fame. Wish more reacters would do this one.
Such a perfect blend of comedy, drama and action, and such a fine demonstration of Arnold's capabilities as an actor. The man's often underestimated.
30:35 the scene is obviously exaggerated but yes, those plane can do a vertical takeoff without a runway. Burns a shit load of fuel though.
A lot of the shots were miniatures, CG, or full size mock-up set pieces, but they did get a couple real harriers for some of those shots. When he takes off from the highway to go save his daughter, they're using one of the real fighters. It's an actual stretch of in-use highway but they had to re-pave it with a different material that wouldn't melt under the heat of the jets. When they were done, there was no reason not to leave it that way, so because of this shoot, there's a permanent stretch of still-driveable highway in Florida that can withstand the heat of VTOL jet exhaust.
The Harrier jump jet was developed for a post nuclear war scenario where runways were damaged or destroyed.
Those planes make incredible noise, especially during the VTOL phase.
Does anyone even still use those? The RAF and FAA retired their fleet like 10-12 years ago.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t there are still a handful of harrier jump jets in the US military, most in the marines, but most have moved on to the f35b.
So, the one question always asked is “how did they know where to find him in the hotel?” But, what a lot of people miss is, there’s a seemingly “throw away” line that Tom Arnold’s character says about setting up a suite under the name Harry Ranquist, just before he goes in and talks to Juno at the museum. So it was (most likely) still that same suite that they used since it would have already been there, and unused for anything other than a cover story. Since the terrorists had the name it was reserved under, they would have easily been able to find out where he was, especially if they were watching the room.
@@-M0LE That's Jim Cameron for ya! He never adds anything unless it shows up again later. Everything in his stories are connected.
Some people really over think stuff lol
Yep, that and Harry pulls agents off the surveillance of the terrorists to follow his wife, meaning there's no longer anyone watching what the bad guys are doing, so they can follow him unhindered.
Its a daft film, but its not illogical.
I guess Harry was just too distracted by his wife to think about the terrorists still trying to hunt him down.
@@jp3813 who wouldn't be distracted by Jamie Lee curtis
I loved Tom Arnold in this movie, before this I only knew him as Roseanne's husband, but he really delivered on his comedic lines in this.
Easily his best movie.
It's a shame Hollywood didn't throw him some more roles like this. He has great comedic timing for sure and can act decently well enough. I assume the fallout from the Roseanne marriage was mostly why he didn't, but I don't know that for sure obviously.
There was a movie called the stupids that i neglected to watch from around this time period
Tom Arnold's peak for me was this movie and 9 Months.
My inlaws split up before this came out. Wife's dad took us to see it, and he absolutely lost his shit at the ice tray line....because that's what his wife did to him.
"Have you killed people?"
"Yea, but they were all bad."
"Are we going to die?"
"yep"
I love the part where Dana steals the key. And her reaction to seeing her dad flying the Harrier.
26:47 Why is it shooting? Strangely enough, that is actually realistic. When it falls on the back end, the momentum is enough to cycle the action. And since this weapon has a fixed firing pin, that means a shot goes off, even if the trigger is not pulled and the action cycles again. These days, most submachineguns have an internal safety to prevent that from happening, but older models often had this flaw.
And, yes, the AV-8B can take off vertically. However, it would have literally melted the road, the cars, and anybody in the vicinity.
From what I remember reading and seeing, only the VERY first run of uzi smgs would go off when dropped, and even then it would only be a single round per drop, it wouldn't runaway on full auto like that. This is almost certainly a later model, which would have absolutely had a drop safety. But it makes for a funny scene. Although she is standing directly in line with the way it's tumbling, which is kind of scary.
@@Chasmodius That wasn't an UZI. That was a MAC-10 (possibly 11).
@@Journeyman.71 the MAC-10 in particular was not drop-safe, I seem to recall, which would make it even less ridiculous.
@@Journeyman.71 perhaps I'm remembering wrong, then. But I was pretty sure I saw a presentation on why that was particularly unrealistic for the model being shown.
@@Chasmodius Extremely unlikely, but, not impossible. To confirm the weapon: www.imfdb.org/wiki/True_Lies#MAC-10
The music Simone was asking about in the beginning is the theme for Mission Impossible.
Which they should definitely watch...
yeah it hurts
Patrons, you know what to to!
@@jasonthedave6140 just my opinion but I hate the mission impossible movies because they're not mission impossible. The point of the mission impossible force was to go in undetected and get out, not blow everything up and then get out.
Name those movies something else and it's fantastic with me
@@claytoncourtney1309 honestly, it's a fair critique. I still love them though.
The Harrier really can take off, fly and manoeuvre like that, although the amount of fuel needed is immense. Its the reason that British aircraft carriers didn't have catapults for some time. They are now no longer in service with either the Royal Navy or Royal Air Force, however the US Marines still use them as does the Spanish Navy. They were the inspiration for the current F35.
To add when it comes to fuel cost its not really much more to hover than it is to fly forward as the power / throttle is not changed much during the hover any more than it would in horizontal flight only the direction of the thrust nozzles, what really limits its ability to hover however is water as it uses water to cool itself while in hover. sure they can take of vertically when light but with a full load out and full of fuel they where not able to take of vertically meaning they needed a short run way take off and the ramp at the end of carriers helped, upon return they would always land vertically after having expended enough fuel to be light enough to land
And they VERY loud!
The UK did pretty well with them in the Falkland Islands war.
I think they're switching to a VTOL F-35. even with Catapults I don't think they have enough room on their carriers for most standard fighters to take off.
@@EQINOX187 It absolutely is more fuel costly to hover. Below stall speeds, you aren't getting ANY lift from conventional flight surfaces and you need drastically increased thrust in comparison to counteract this (literally fighting gravity at that point). This can easily be seen in the disparity between the weight of its full loadout and the maximum weights for V/STOL loadouts being significantly lower. For VTOL operation itself the loadout weight needs to be below the total thrust of the engine so that it can actually gain altitude. Short takeoff/landings and conventional flight allow for weights 5 to 10,000lbs above max engine thrust and you don't need full power to maintain minimum or cruising speed.
If you think this is bunk, please perform the following test.
Go out to your car, disengage the hand brake/put it in neutral. See if you can put enough force into pushing it to get that sucker rolling. Manage it? Good job!
Now pick your car up.
That plane at the end is a Harrier jump jet. It takes off vertically. It's real.
It’s very impressive in person…also exceptionally loud. Ear-drum shatteringly loud…but very impressive to see something that big and heavy move that way.
That same Harrier was the one destroyed by the Hulk in The Avengers during the fight in the helicarrier.
@@stefanlaskowski6660 that's actually an F35B.
We had them at an airshow here for a demonstration. Those jets are cool but they do no favors for the tarmac they take off from. They wreck that shit.
@@zimvader25
First flight of a F35 was in 2006.
They used a 1:1 modell of a McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
Thank you for reacting to one of my favorite movies! Fun facts:
The tango in the beginning with Arnold and Juno was the inspiration for the actress who played Juno (Tia Carere) when she was on the US Dancing with the Stars.
When you both laughed at the joke with Tom Arnold saying about the ice cube trays from the freezer, it was a statement for Tom’s divorce with Rosanne Barr. I got to meet and ask him about it! 🤣
That is hilarious about the ice cube trays. I always thought that was a weirdly funny line.
I'll keep repeating myself: Arnie in this is wayy scarier while glaring (in particular the look while seeing Simon in between Helen's legs) than as the Terminator!
"Spy boss with eye patch" was actually a trope in the 70s and 80s ("Archangel" on Airwolf comes immediately to mind).
Most of this movie is really a send up of late 70s and 80s spy movies l.
Not to mention our old friend Nicholas J. Fury.
Also, the original Nick Fury was an old white guy (even once played by David Hasselhoff!) so this is probably a nod to him also.
Don't forget the Nick Fury.
Nevermind Fury, Snake Pliskin ftw
@@PorterJustPorter Interesting. He reminded me more of Agent 7 from the old Hanna Barbera cartoons.
A few notes -
Good character with eye patch - Odin
VTOL - Vertical Take Off and Landing is the term for planes that can do that
Other good Arnold comedies - Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Red Heat (which is kind of action/comedy like True Lies was)
Other Jamie Lee Curtis films that are a must watch - Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda (both comedies)
More good guys with patch eye: Nick Fury (MCU), Snake Plisskeen (Escape from New York / Escape from L.A.).
"Fierce Creatures" is a follow-up to "A Fish Called Wanda," with the same main cast.
@@edbardof7941 Don't forget Captain Ron!
Is Odin good? I mean in the comic book yeah, but Odin in the myths ain't good... My "good" guy with an eye patch would be Rooster Cogburn.
Don't forget 'Last action Hero'!
Simone got the entire plot from the tagline, good job!
This isn't accurate. If anything she guessed the the premise not the plot, let alone the "entire plot".
The Jamie Lee Curtis scene is iconic and was used in commercial skits and comedy skits for years,and virtually started the stripper pole craze.
This is one of my favorite Arnold movies. The chemistry between him and Jamie Lee was perfect. Jamie Lee's dance was great! We've been dying for a sequel. Here's a title idea: More True Lies: The Taskers.
This film was a pleasant surprise when I saw it in cinemas. The original was a French comedy and is also good. Jaime Lee smashed this role out of the park.
Yea, this was the first movie i saw in theaters where literally it was a packed house. Me & my family had to sit in seperate rows to watch.
La Totale with Thierry Lhermite et Miou-Miou. I hadn't realized at first that this was an adaptation of that French movie and it is one of the very ones where the American version is actually better than the original.
Yeah, she won a Golden Globe for this performance.
The story of this movie is interesting.
It is an adaptation of the French movie "La Totale!" From Claude Zidi, a legendary french comedy director.
The plot is pretty much the same, sans the atomic bomb and harrier jet.
Claude Zidi came to a US film festival in LA and made english subbed versions of his movie.
Some time after that, Arnold's Brother in law watched the movie and loved it, he invited Arnold over to watch it and he also loved it.
And he said that he would love to do an american version of it, but that some parts needed to be reworked to have more dynamism and action.
He knew that at the time, Cameron's project of shooting a Spiderman movie was nowhere and got canned.
So he called Cameron, talked about his idea, and Cameron accepted directing it.
Since Cameron couldnt make a MARVEL movie he still put a Nick Fury look a like character in the movie (the agency boss with the eye patch).
Cameron contacted Claude Zidi to buy the rigths to the movie adaptation, Ge sold it for a symbolic 1$ and instead negotiated a % on the movie incomes.
It is unfortunate that this is the ONLY comedy ever directed by Cameron, cause man is it absolutly brilliant.
Je ne me souviens pas trop du film La Totale mais j'ai le vague souvenir qu'il y a avait bien une bombe atomique mais elle n'explose pas. Bien vu de la part de Zidi d'avoir négocié un pourcentage des recettes à la place. Pas folle la guêpe ^^
Great post. We'll done!
I was driving down to the southern U.S. for a wedding years ago, near a military base and every half mile there was a harrier jet hovering, all in a line. It was some kind of exercise but it was cool and scary at the same time. I forget how many there were, I think maybe 7 or 8, but it was definitely something I’ll never forget.
Was it in North Carolina? My brother was out of Cherry Point.
@@briantieken6718 I was traveling to South Carolina, but I can’t remember if I was still in NC or SC.
When she’s doing the sexy dance, she actually fell and that was Arnold’s real reaction 😂 he went to check on her but she got up so fast he went back into character
I love this movie!! Jamie Lee Curtis is an absolute legend! I'm so glad you guys enjoyed her hilariously awkward dance as much as I did. 😁
Gets criminally overlooked this film, it's absolutely brilliant
Agree. This is one of my fav Arnold movies but it doesn't get as much love, same with Eraser
I think it's because Arnold other titles he's more recognized for that this movie falls under their shadow.
I mean it was a super huge box office smash hit. Maybe it's fallen off the radar but I wouldn't call it underrated.
The problem is this movie came out in 1994, any other year and it's probably one of the highest grossing films of the year but it unfortunately never stood a chance of really catching fire because Forrest Gump came out 9 days before and movies like Shawshank Redemption, Dumb & Dumber, The Crow, The Mask, Ace Ventura, Legends of the Fall and Pulp Fiction also came out at the beginning/end of the year so it just got lost in this golden year of cinema.
It's definitely overlooked, mainly because you can't watch this movie digitally. Like seriously, WTF??? no where online???
"You can take the spy out of the spy place..." and "That's why you never carry guns while walking near stairs" are my favorite quotes of the day. Thanks, Simone.
This was such a joy to see in the theater. I don't think anyone expected what they got, but everyone seemed to love it.
This is by far my favorite Tom Arnold role. He nails this character in every way.
I'll go a little further - this is only good Tom Arnold role.
That cut at 21.06 is one of the greatest things I have seen on RUclips. Great job!
“Just kidding.”
Hats off… so perfectly executed. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
"Talk to your wife. That's a lot easier than surveillance."
This young man has much to learn
🤣
Tell me you're not married, without telling me you're not married. :)
@@arklytte tell me your not intelligent without telling me your not intelligent ☺️ just hope that work for u 😏🤷♂️
@@younggoat1228 Congratulations on the dumbest comment of the day award. You *think* you're being clever...you're really just being a dumbass.
The musical theme you asked about at the beginning of the movie is the Mission Impossible theme. Arnold's boss who looks like a bad guy is Charlton Heston aka Moses from The 10 Commandments, Judah Ben-Hur from Ben-Hur and George Taylor, the main character from the original Planet of the Apes. The planes are British Harrier jump jets. They are designed for vertical takeoff and then transitioning to normal jet plane flight. They were extremely effective in the Falklands war between Great Britain and Argentina. On a side note, Bill Paxton has a normal sized penis. It is not abnormally small.
Details on Paxton!! Pix, vids, phone numbers!!!
It is impossible to detonate an atomic bomb with an explosion or any other kind of damage. In order to set off such a bomb a multitude of small charges within have to detonate in a predetermined order in predetermined direction with an accuracy of less than a microsecond. If this procedure does not happen exactly as planned, the plutonium core is not compacted into the size needed to set off the fission chain reaction but instead it is just blown to bits.
Arnie shrugged his shoulders...you might wanna do some more research to verify your hypothesis...
@@codymoe4986 arnie said he didn't know. Windsaw was not hypothesizing.
"Battery, Aziz!" Still the best line in the movie 🤣🤣🤣
My brothers and I still throw that line around anytime something doesn't work. And anytime it does. Who cares. Too good a line to waste lol
That's my favorite scene
I still can't hear that line in his delivery. "Battery Aziz" has 5 syllables, but he only says 4. Its always sounded to me like "Batteraziz", or "Batterahry", I thought he was speaking arabic or something. I had no idea what he was saying until I turned on subtitles one day
My brothers and I are all in our 30s and this was one of our favourites growing up. When we all catch up, one of us yelling “Give me the goddamn page!” still gets us laughing.
The just kidding part really got me and the look on your faces when Jamie Lee Curtis was dancing was priceless!!!!
36:02 - Ah'nuld's comedies certainly were unique. Practically none of them were "misses" but some were more batshit than others. Ones to try:
THE LAST ACTION HERO - one of Hollywood's first forays into meta-humour in a blockbuster film. Very high concept. Directed by John McTiernan!
KINDERGARTEN COP - probably the funniest Arnold comedy, but also easily one of the darkest film he's ever been. It goes in really violent places.
TWINS - this one's dated a lot, but its a fascinating cast and concept.
JUNIOR - this one is absolute batshit. Strangely watchable, but also just very weird and uncomfortable (and designed to be).
JINGLE ALL THE WAY - really good kids movie (but not actually safe for kids to watch). How much you enjoy it as an adult really varies on how much you buy into the premise.
COMMANDO - not intentionally a comedy, but boy its laugh-out-loud funny in hindsight. A must see.
Add RABBIT TEST to the list -- another funny/weird/WTF? movie he made with Danny DeVito.
Oh, and THE VILLAIN! :D It's one of Arnie's first non-bodybuilding movies, from before he learned to act. He's totally wooden, but it *works* for his character (a painfully earnest and stoic Western sheriff) and is a crack-up. The actual star of the movie is Kirk Douglas, who's playing a cartoonish Western movie villain. In all seriousness, this is basically a live-action Roadrunner movie, and it's wonderful. :)
Raw Deal is a good one too, kind of comedy-action, like Commando.
Commando was meant to be not totally serious at the time, according to the director. It’s pretty clear that’s the case if you pay attention.
JINGLE ALL THE WAY is amazing
I lived in Marathon, FL when this was filmed- that's the area with the bridge that's out, etc. BTW, Jamie Lee Curtis did the 'hanging from the helicopter' stunt herself! It was wild to see. Also, yes, the Harrier actually flies like that- it's a precision aircraft and can hover, move sideways, etc. It's amazing to see - the only thing is it's loud.
The actor playing the main villain is a genius in this movie because he had to somehow be funny and scary for different scenes.
A 90s classic action film. They don't make them like this anymore! I saw this in theaters at the age of 14. What an experience. Oh and it's based on a French comedy, those are the other writers. Cameron took their film and rewrote it. Also, those Harrier jets really take off that way. They can hover.
yes Harrier II was the only fighter at the time that can take of and land vertically, and it is an incredibly difficult manouver. Italy still uses them on their "aircraft carriers". The scene near the skyscraper stretches the capabilities of the fighter waay too much, that plane can hover but it is not an helicopter.
"Guys with eyepatch's are bad guys"
Snake Plissken "begins breathing heavily"
Nick Fury anyone?
@@drakocarrion tomato=tomato
I thought he was dead?
My favorite Ahnold film ever. The action scenes so over the top, I'm actually surprised they did have him reload, mimicking his old bubblegum action movies, but still having a neat story. Jamie Lee Curtis is the perfect choice for this role. Extremely sexy, but a great enough actress that she can play the frumpy housewife who can become sexy, without looking like a sexy woman pretending to be frumpy.
32:10 I laughed throughout this entire reaction, but George's mocking of our 1990's noise cancellation technology had me dying!
Last Action Hero is a must. One of my childhood favorites, especially because I was a Arnold nut as a kid lol.
Another one of my favorite action comedies from the nineties is Grosse Pointe Blank. For more Tia Carrere you could check out Wayne’s World.
Simone: She looks pretty good for a middle aged woman.
Me: No. She looked amazing for any women. And I'm not even into Jamie Lee Curtis.
Also that jet was a harrier. They can take off just about anywhere.
I wasn't into Jamie Lee Curtis BEFORE this movie came out...
She was 34 here
@@BigBoss-zi5ss oh yeah i was never a fan of her face ( she's nots hugly) but her body.... my god, i meet a woman like that even what i said, i would seduce her. Like paxton
Arnie has a bunch of comedies. Jingle All the Way, Twins, Kindergarten Cop. That man is comic gold, even when he's not trying to be.
The plane Arnold's character is flying is an AV-8 Harrier, a fighter/strike aircraft built specifically to hover, take off and land vertically. Otherwise known as a VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off and landing). There is also a new variant of the F35 that does this.
The juxtaposition of Jamie being a totally sexy and beautiful and awkward and regular house wife all at the same time is a big part of why this works so well. And that includes the dance move. Though no where near as awkward as Elaine dancing on Seinfeld 🤣
@@dggydddy59 "...and the thumbs."
I think Kindergarten Cop is Arnold’s funniest film, but this is right up there as among his best for comedic gold. You guys should do Twins as well. That’s another one Arnold is truly funny in.
Yep.
Nah, this was his funniest movie.
@@AdamtheGrey02 “I’m the party pooper,” is the funniest line for sure.
I miss seeing batshit crazy things like this in the theaters. This makes me go WOW! in a very different way than most CGI spectacles.
Your Shaun of the Dead and True Lies reactions were the two movies that made me decide to try your Patreon this past month!
Keep up the amazing work. And don’t forget what you do matters. It gives so many of us a break/distraction from pain and other things like life. Love to you both! 🍿
This is my 2nd favorite James Cameron film only behind The Terminator. It's actually funnier than most pure comedies. It's one of Arnie's best performances. Jamie Lee Curtis actually won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy Film. And Tom Arnold was hilarious. The actor playing the villain hit all the right comic notes, too.
You mean you don't like Titanic? Or as I call it Big Boat Sinking in Ocean: the Kate Winslet Titties Movie?
Great reaction ! Don’t know if someone told you that but it’s actually a remake from a french movie called La Totale. The director is mentioned as a screenwriter with James Cameron.
The "horse in the hotel" scene was filmed in the lobby and elevators of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
A good guy who wears an eyepatch?
What about one Nicholas J. Fury?
Did u know Jamie Lee Curtis really did fall in that dance scene and Arnold broke character. U can see in that split sec him wanting to get help to help Jamie but say back down when she got up and continued dancing. The crew thought it was too funny to leave out.
Also, u should see Jamie Lee Curtis in House Arrest. Best 90's comedy ever!! Also, Jennifer Love-Hewitt was in it as well. I believe it was her debut movie.
Oh my gosh, I don't know what was more humorous, you two laughing at the scene or the scene itself? Great reaction guys! I was literally stomach laughing
I remember back when they were filming this movie in downtown Miami there was a harrier being held up by a crane in downtown Miami. All we knew was they were filming a movie and Arnold Schwarzenegger had something to do with it. That wasn't a model of the bridge blowing up, they built a new 7 Mile bridge to key West. They blew up the old bridge, section of it.
I remember seeing pictures of the Harrier on the building in the entertainment news.
The end result was a showcase of innovative visual effects at the time.
34:29 - the film is very faithful to the French movie "La Totale!". The embellishments from Cameron are basically the action sequences - the gunfights, horse chase, Harrier-jump jet sequence, the nuclear weapons plot are all his additions. The original film has all of the other elements though - a guy who works as a spy, but his family isn't aware, the wife being seduced by a used car salesman who lives in a trailer park, the spy making his wife do a fake mission, the seduction scene in the hotel room, it's all there. The nuclear weapon threat is actually a plot to launch a missile at a football stadium in Paris. James Cameron gets top marks though for translating French farce humour to ultra-violent American slapstick and also for getting to do his trademark 5th Act mega-action beat i.e. using a fighter aircraft to attack a building. But the plot twists, character arcs and premise is all lifted directly from the French film.
THANK YOU very much for all the details on this.
That's fascinating, never heard that before.
That was one of my fav movies when I was a kid. FYI, the aircraft that Arnie piloted is known as the Harrier Jumpjet... One of their trademark moves is definitely the hovering thing, but not sure how much exaggeration they add into the movie...
@Russell Reeves most definitely! Suggests that the builder skipped steps 🤪🤪🤪
In case you are not aware of it: "True Lies" is a remake of a French film "La Totale!" from 1991, but with more explosions.
Arnold has some really fun comedies I think you two would enjoy. Twins, Junior, Kindegarten Cop... you can't go wrong
Jaimie Lee Curtis' dance has got to be one of the MOST paused movie scenes ever!
Hmmm... pretty sure that one scene from Basic Instinct just beats it~
@@MikeMozzaro Yes, by a mile! ☺✌🏼
Ahem... Under Siege... cake scene?
Also Jessica Rabbit upskirt while airborne from a car accident. Nothing see, but still paused a lot.
2:33 Speaking of that music, you guys should react to Scent of a Woman (1992) starring Al Pacino.
I personally think that Eraser (1996) makes for a good Arnie double feature w/ this film.
Also, check out James Cameron's The Abyss (1989), preferably the special edition.
Be honest, would you rather watch the movie you watched, or one where they go to couples counseling?
There is a reason movies don't always follow conventional logic, because people want something to take them out of reality for a couple hours.
The tango song is Por Una Cabeza. Iconic and widely used in films.
Th jet they use toward the end is the Harrier. Vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL). They were designed to be like that.
the guy with the eye patch is Charlton heston he won the oscar for best lead actor in 1959 for Ben Hur, he also played Moses in The Ten commandments both are 2 of the greatest films of all time, true epics. you also saw Heston in tombstone.
It really was jamie lee curtis hanging from the helicopter. She didn't want to do that stunt at first, so james cameron actually did it himself to convince her it was safe. It worked. She did it. And yes, there are jump jets, which are vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles (VTOL).
I'm glad the bit made it when Tom Arnold says "You know, I think she might be telling the truth." Always cracked me up as much as anything in this movie.
The one with Danny Devito is "Twins". A good one :) Not that much action. But fun and a "feel good" comedy movie.
I highly consider True Lies to be Arnold’s last great film to date. I remember sneaking into the theater to see this alone as a 12 year old. As for the hotel/horse chase sequence, the hotel I believe is actually the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles that was also used for the final act of In The Line of Fire.
Yes its a Harrier Jump jet, it takes off vertically, used by Marines as close ground support
This is such a fun movie! Probably in my top 3 Arnie films.
This movie ruled my world as kid when it came out. would watch the making of and all the behind the scenes stuff that was available along with the movie none stop and it still hasn't got old, crazy good : D
Sorry kal, I don't buy it... You were in your thirties in 1978, And you'd have us believe you were a child when this came out?? I mean... maybe something happened in the Crises? But.. still Sus ;)
Hi guys, I was wondering : have you considered watching The Last Action Hero, coz I'm pretty sure you would really enjoy it, just saying.
This movie came out when I was in HS. He Cameron released it on 35mm and 70mm film. We drove across town to see it in 70mm. I would liken it to IMAX of the time. 3x the size of regular experience. Everyone begged for a sequel at the time.
A bit of trivia when Arhnold punched the window of the SUV, he accidently hit the wrong window. He punched though the real glass not the candy glass. Tom Arnold's reaction was real in that scene
My favorite James Cameron film is The Abyss. Absolutely stunning.
Also, for great reload scenes, nothing beats John Wick.
nah for me its T2
Love when you guys do comedies and it brings the giggles out of Simone...lol😆 😂
You two should definitely watch James Cameron’s most underrated gem of a film: “The Abyss”. Specifically the directors cut. James Cameron’s directors cuts are always better than the theatrical cuts.
That's one of my favorite movies. Watched the crap out of it on VHS back in the day lol
I disagree on the director’s cut of the Abyss. It’s a bit long-winded compared to the theatrical cut, the special effects aren’t as good, and it has a cheap substitute for Alan Silvestri’s score in the parts that are added in the director’s cut.
I love that movie so much
Oh that was amazing, I never thought you'd be reacting to one of my favorite movies! Always liked the mix of action and comedy, it worked so well with the story and the actors so I can understand why you laughed so much despite there being an actual action side to the movie. The awkward dance is priceless to be honest.
I love the way the weapons just keep getting bigger and bigger until the finale
Arnold and Danny DeVito comedy: "Twins"; Arnold at Christmas: "Jingle All the Way"; another good Arnold comedic drama: "Kindergarten Cop"; thank you for sharing your reactions with your RUclips viewers.
Jingle all the fucking way man. Best Christmas movie in history. "I'm not a pervert! I'm just looking for a turbo man!" "Put that cookie down! Now!"
Arnold and Danny DeVito did 2 comedies together; Twins and Junior. In The latter Arnold plays a scientist, gets pregnant, and gives birth!
The original french movie, La Totale, was fun (i'm french) but Cameron brought it to another level :)
26:45 While it's a bit exaggerated for the movie, that gun continuing to fire as it bounces down the stairs actually is very possible. Open-bolt designs like the Uzi can and will "run away" when in full-auto, meaning that even if you aren't still holding the trigger back the gun will keep firing, especially if something is bumping the back of the gun. It's more unbelievable that the gun still had ammo for the entire fall down the stairs.
28:10 Correct. Nukes are actually really hard to set off, hitting it with a normal explosion won't do anything except destroy it and spray some radioactive debris around the area.
30:35 That's a Harrier jet...they are one of the few planes that can perform a vertical take-off and maneuvering like that, but it's insanely inefficient to do (burns a crazy amount of fuel).
If y'all want another great (though far less humorous) movie about nukes, look up Crimson Tide (also from the mid-90s).
iirc they tried the whole Uzi falling down stairs causing it to fire on Mythbusters to absolutely no avail. Even with a very unsafely modified Uzi it was basically impossible to recreate the scene 'for real'.
@@Outland9000 probably because the gun in the film isnt an uzi.
It's a remake of a French comedy. The writers of that were also credited for the screenplay here. The original movie pretty much ended with the fight on the island (where the machine gun tumbles down the stairs). Everything after that is pure Cameron.
Just so you know : this movie is adapted from a french movie called « La Totale ».
Jamie Lee Curtis won an Academy Award for this role. She did her own stunt with the rescue from the limo with the helicopter
Sorry but she didn’t. She did do the stunt and she has won many awards. However, this year was her first ever Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
@@mariadore7000 Must have been the Golden Globe then, I remember her winning something for it.
Loved this movie and the reaction to it.
I first watched this one as a youngster! Such an awesome goofy movie. Each of the people in this all did such a great job. Glad you guys watched this! :D
LMAO "Just kidding" hahahaha, wow! xD
I vote 'Mattress' as the male-gendered term for 'mistress'.
Also, I love how JC grants Simone's wishes this movie, a la showing the dogs, the horse not jumping, etc.
well the fact is those were dummy dogs that ARNIE smacked together, so no dog had a chance to be really hurt.
Fun fact: This is the very first film to be made on a budget of $100 million. And it’s finally getting a Blu-ray release this year, although through a 4K bundle release.
Harrier jets (capable of vertical take offs and landings) first flew in 1967. I guess these two are way too young to know about technology that old, but I would have thought they'd have seen one in some other movie.
Twins, with Arnie and DeVitor is funny, yes, but the main gag of them being twins wore out pretty fast for me. If you haven't seen it yet, watch 'Last Action Hero'. That one was really hilarious IMO.
Last Action Hero is criminally underrated because of how poorly it did in the box office. Very smart comedy for it's time. Can't go wrong really with the earlier Arnold comedies in general though. Kindergarten Cop and Twins are also good.