My brother works for the glass union in the city fixing the glass on skyscrapers make a shit ton of money like 55 an hour....anyways they use to crack glass on purpose at the end of the day so they had more work smh but hey thats how it is lollol
Pruneballed yeah it minimizes the fact that he literally killed multiple workers. Great. Edit: coming back to this comment over 3 years later, I wish he had more rockets and went to town hall too!!!
Some goes for them telling you that a face covering would stop a virus getting through,... that's bullshit along with so much else we've been told. The Great Reset plan is really what it's all about.
I like how Douglas' character immediately shielded the kid when the bazooka randomly fired. He was protecting someone innocent, that was his first instinct.
he is not a bad guy. he has He is a man whose life is falling apart because of his mental problems and that is why he is depressed. I love this movie. its so 90's.
I love the fact that he's carrying a bazooka and is about to blow up the whole construction site, yet he is still mindful of and worried about the safety of the kid next to him!
Ah yes, the M-72. I still remember the first time I fired it live. Can still do the checks for it. Ill never forget any of that stuff, and it seems like its gonna come in handy in the "closer than I would like to see" Future.
"Are you telling me the street fell apart in 2 days? See, I don't think anything is wrong with the street. I think you're just trying to justify your inflated budgets." I always think of this scene whenever i see them tearing up perfectly good streets in the summertime.
Yeah, I'm driving through Missouri, a perfectly fine strech of highway is being fixed, I drive into Arkansas and their roads have been total shit for 20 years.
John Dana It's not like we as workers would go around finding things to do. We follow orders. There's politics involved in this thing. An alderman might cut a deal with a construction company or a union and get government money that way. Whenever you see a construction worker do something you don't like just think that he is the last person you blame.
I just love that nothing would have happened if some random kid hadn’t been around to show him how to use a bazooka AND he never loses his paternal side first asking “how do you know about this” then telling the kid to stand back (even though that kid knows more about the weapon than he does). It’s just the perfect portrayal of a good guy snapping.
Have you watched the movie?😭 DFENS wasnt a "good guy that snapped", he was a deeply mentally unwell individual, that was a threat to his wife and kid, that snapped. He has some legitimate grievances throughout the movies runtime, but he pretty quickly turns from antihero to villain when we found out all the underlying causes for his rampage. I mean he says it best himself "I'm the bad guy?"
@@PT4403 first comment got it right. I watched this movie as a kid in the 90's and again as an adult and DFENS was a good person who was pushed too far. Maybe someone else could have handled it better. But at the end of the day he was a decent person who couldn't handle society's decline and what it put him through Watch the movie again, he lashed out at some people for being petty and annoying but he does not hurt innocent people. Even in this scene, he was trying to make a statement not trying to hurt the construction worker. He just couldn't use a bazooka being a average white collar guy
You’re Are you doing wrong with the string yeah I was wrong he ask you a question I ask you a question the story I got a question do you are you a question he have to go to
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." -the killing joke
This movie is sick and twisted, but it has a grounding in reality. He is insane, but he says the things we think. He is a product of society and snapped. This film is grossly under recognized.
Might sound like a Braveheart moment to some, but this guy murdered his way across LA out of frustration and rage. He wasn't freeing anything but his own blood-lust. Every 'self defense' shooting he did was the result of situations he created. How many times could have 'walked away', only for him to escalate? Talking back to an armed person shouldn't be a death-sentence. Had he called in sick to work that day, none of those people would have died. Not a hero, just another mad-dog needing to be put down. Good movie, folks just get the wrong message.
@@pirobot668beta Nah, you apparently did not watch the movie at all. He lost his job weeks ago. And he decided to NEVER duck and cover again when he gets threatened or lied to. Just fighting to the very end at all times.
@@pirobot668beta I don't believe in a wrong way of interpreting a piece of art. You may think they are interpreting it wrong but that's just your choice, other People can think otherwise.
Tom tonka He knows kids aren't to blame... They aren't the reason society is like this. He's like Gordon Ramsay. He knows the waiter isn't responsible for the chef's food being shite, so he complains to the chef. And every person he comes across in this film is a piece of society he's sick of. And children aren't that because they have no control over most of society. He's good to them so he can make them see that society is good. If he's terrorising them, they'll grow up like the others... People who are selfish, people who are greedy and people who want everything... Even his fellow man has had enough and takes it out on others. So, he's gives it all back. But children? Some of them are brats but that's usually out of their control. They don't pick how they were raised, how they were born, what family they got into. He sees that lots of people are the problem but kids aren't one. He can learn from them and also teach them. That's what the movie means. Give people a break. It ain't always their fault. Go to the guilty ones... A big metaphor definitely. Also, he recognises that some people are beyond redemption. And others are like minded... The words full of people. Different kinds of ones. The good, the bad and the ugly.
I was 8. Dad smuggled one home from when he was in the Vietnam war. He also knew how to make home made RPG's to go in it and we would take off to the country and have some fun.
@@michaeldorsey9231 Some controversy is a bit different from FBI and military issuing urgent warnings ahead of the movie and cities deploying police units for several theatres. Different times i suppose.
People have become way too easily influenced, I'm not saying that everyone was gonna exit Joker and instantly shoot up a store, but media has a bigger influence on the public than ever before and can turn people toxic
Dom, I don't think you know what a psychopath is. He's definitely unhinged from frustration and stress and all he wants to do is relieve that stress by seeing his daughter. The point is that he does not have to confront these people. He could simply walk on. However, he chooses to act; chooses to indulge in his frustrations. He's the anti-hero and we sympathise with his pain and yet we understand that what he is doing is wrong but justified.
Dom Trussardi 1) He has no remorse because he believes that those who wronged him were deserving of retribution. However, he showed concern when he saw blood on that little girl's hand later in the film and moved to shield the boy after misfiring the bazooka. 2) I have no counter to this. Everything that happens in the film is because of this. However, it can be explained as a cathartic release of frustration. 3) You will have to elaborate. All he wants is to do is see his daughter. He's a lunatic and definitely unhinged mentally but not for nothing.
Since you mentioned it, you probably recently watched the film with mum and dad or something. Stuck in your brain, see a character that has the same socks as another guy in another film "Hey that guy looks like another guy lol" Yeah same socks right? What about underwear? they got the same underwear? maybe same pocket pouch?
I love how D Fens not only tries to keep the kid from getting hurt but also seems somewhat relived when nothing happens. And when it finally does blow up he looks kind of shocked that the kid takes pleasure in it. It's not just funny, but also gives us a different perspective of him.
It's implied that this construction work is valid. The guy at the front is sitting down, but he's just there to make sure people don't walk into the construction zone or fall into any holes. He only says that there's nothing wrong after he sees the gun. He's just telling him what he wants to hear to calm him down.
Being fair, if people did what he did when that happened, the bankruptcies and closings of Sears and Toys R Us would've resulted in the extinction of the entire united states, given how much damage just *one* disgruntled guy was able to cause XD And those were way worse, since they lined the pockets of the vulture capitalists who bought the companies to strip them for parts and intentionally make them fail, rather than just being contractors.
The fact that this kid thinks it’s all a movie terrifies me because after he got home he must’ve found out about all the killings of the “D-FENS” and remembered he literately helped him blow up the sewer
@@josefengelhardt2767 The golfer killed himself from old age, Golf Cart was too far away get his pills in time too. Oh and the Golfer just tried to kill him so in a way it's self defense lol
How do you know CGI was not involved ? CGI was created in 1972 and the first film to use it was in 1987 “ flight of the navigator “ and this movie came out in 1993 . So again how do you know CGI has not been used ?
This is such a fantastic movie, the way Michael Douglas portrays the character of a man on the edge is how we all feel sometimes. All the obstacles that come his way he negates them how he sees fit.
I love this movie. It's the quintessential story where a character says and does what every sane, law-abiding citizen is thinking and wishing they could do but of course won't.
Shit 23 yrs later im an adult and this movie has more meaning to me than when í was 10 yrs old........ And here in San Francisco they are always doing FUCKING CONSTRUCTION tearing up the streets in the same area when I know damn well there is nothing to fix
Right because you know the intimate details of the project and the needs of all of the parties involved? I swear every time the road gets worked on or a pipe bursts or a traffic jam occurs everybody magically becomes an expert on the matter.
It's what happens when a politician stays in office way too long. They always become corrupted and start using public funds to hire a 'friend' that has a construction business in exchange for campaign money in this example. People like Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi who've been in Congress 30+ years make me sick. They gain too much power and blackmail freshman Congressmen who really want to make changes.Term limits, ban lobbyists and make it mandatory public servants cannot be Masons or belong to a 'secret society'. I bet 80% of corruption would be done with immediately.
Patrick King I mean who wouldn't like to blow something up with an M72? Or be Clint Eastwood? Does your comment insinuate every black man wants to be Tupac? Because their are good and bad sides to those admirations.
Now a days kids get their military knowledge from games like COD but I forget this was made in the early 90's so it's still amazing how that kid is teaching him how to use that rocket launcher.
Brandon Rea This weapon was made back in the 70's when a major multi-theater Soviet advance was expected. These weapons were designed to be used by virtually anyone.They are like the panzerfaust that the Germans designed in WWII. Literally,anyone could use it. The LAWS was an American version.Look at the clip again,if you would. This thing is stupid simple.
We have reserves in our army for that reason and in the US theres mandatory training for all weapons gear and tactics so "highschool dropouts" are made into warriors, these weapons where made stupid simple so they could be made on a assembly line in case of Russian invasion and because there made on a assembly line it needed to be simple
There disturbing thing is how many think that this movie justifies violent insurrection rather than being a study of mental illness and failure in the modern world. No, not everyone does have a breaking point.
@@capitalb5889 ...You sure about that? Modern society sucks. It fails because those in control have ruined it, and it leaves the individual with no power but almost all of the blame. The individual is kept down and depressed with little to no knowledge on how to live except on how to go into debt and become a wage slave. It is our right and our duty to break it into pieces that can be put back together in a more worthwhile and responsible way. It is even worse if you don't have a way to reach as high as some others, and then the.platform that one stands on becomes unstable, and any ladder they have to reach up to is then removed or taken higher.
William didn't really care about the kid. The reason he told him to back up was because William was pretending to be an filmmaker trying to fire a rocket.
Classic! Literally just made the same comment word for word on an earlier clip. Definitely feel him at times. Was even talking about this movie to my parents the other day. Unforgettable and more and more understandable the older I get.
There is also a very statement about how genuinely nice William is to the kid and his genuine concern for his safety after he fires early. Also, I wonder if the kid ever found out he assisted someone in blowing up a job site possibly killing several people
Does anyone notice that the rocket launcher is aimed like at the ground when he goes to shoot it? Or does the missile actually 'heat-seek' like the Nazi said it did?
They don't arm as soon as they launch (intended to prevent the shooter from being blown up from incidents exactly like this) therefore it probably bounced then continued on
The M-72 LAAW is unguided, if it did that (more than likely would just embed in something IRL) it would be the result of it just bouncing off shit down there until it hit something front on. Though I'm not sure if it works like an RPG does. An RPG will detonate the first thing it hits. There are some humorous anecdotes about ANP guys taking the caps off RPGs to have them ready to go and american soldiers put them back on when they aren't looking. There's also reports of people running without the caps on the striker of the RPG and then tripping, the RPG slides striker first into a curb, and no more ANP.
The kid knowing about how to handle a M72 LAW is the equivalent of today’s generation gamers knowing about guns more than the normal non-gamer civilian
?. In the audience, Steve Austin, a man barely alive .. people keep saying, Second Coming... and wrath of... and then they want evidence that Jesus is in you...
I like that he's crazy and angry enough to cause mass hysteria and menace the city, but still has enough compassion to instantly try to shield the kid when he accidentally fires the rocket launcher at the ground
@@meowcow21 William didn't care about anyone but himself. He says that he has rights but so did Mr. Lee, Rick and Shelia, The Golfers, The Family at the Plastic Surgeon's house and even Beth and Adele. William had the mindset that if he can't be happy, no one can.
My landlord just told everyone in my building to move their cars out of the parking lot so it can be restriped. The lot was milled and paved less than a year ago, and new stripes were painted as part of that project. Now I know how D-Fens feels.
Living in the UK, where utility companies seem to take delight in digging holes in roads every 50 yards, I can so relate to Bill Foster's utter frustration.
Yeah it was gonna be this gritty reimagining of The Professional with a black boy in Padme Amidala's place, but instead they turned it into Kindergarten Cop with the foreign guy from Jingle all the Way. Can't remember his name...Arnold Dukenschlaagen? Schlongenbangin? Crappenhausen? Suckkatactin? It'll come to me...
Here's a fun fact: people that agree with numbers 1 and 2, or people that live they lives based on numbers 1 and 2, are being dominated by a spirit of Pride. Aka, a fallen angel in them, acting as them, through them, for them during those moments.
It's God's way of telling you that you're wasting your time and money on a modern college "education". Go to trade school or become and apprentice. Learn how to build or fix things. You'll always find work.
We had the same corrupt crap in Erie where for over 8 months a construction company was “fixing” a rather small part of interchange road. It took so long that local tv media did a segment on it because their vans had to go through it every day and they thought something was up. Next day construction ends.
I know plenty of areas where they constantly dig up the road, put lights up everywhere and do nothing. This scene is very accurate to how many companies opperate and certain industries fabricate work to keep themselves employed. If you look at Asian culture and see how efficent they have certain systems and industries that make our look like a joke. Everyones knows they are being taken for a ride. I cant wait to leave this demoniac world, maybe the next one i take birth on the people will be a bit nicer :)
You know, im from Germany and interestingly i know frmo "insiders" that this is exactly how things work her ein Germany, but in Germany you have much more contruction sides, we have very often traffic jams on the "AUtobahn" because of that. Its a very well known thing amongst many how corrupt things are in that regard, so no "inside" information necessarily required though. People often dont get how much truth there is in movies, much more then in news quite often.
The trick is to 'get it' when you are in high school. I managed to 'Not Have Kids'....and had an interesting life. When I was young, I was terribly afraid I'd get a job at the Ford plant and be the guy who put on the left rear tire for 25 years...and died. As it was, I was a fireman so to have the time off to build an ocean going sailboat...I've been a tug boat operator, business owner, general lay-about etc and am now 75 and retired with a wife of over 30 years keeping me company. Corporate America is a damn trap....and I avoided it. -Veteran '66-68
This was a GREAT film!! Construction scene, the "McDonald's " scene,punching foul mouthed jerk in car, etc..very UNDERappreciated film..Great job,Mr.Douglas👍
I think of this scene every time I'm in traffic, get to where the roadwork is, and think, "What are they doing? There was nothing wrong with this road."
You know, im from Germany and interestingly i know frmo "insiders" that this is exactly how things work her ein Germany, but in Germany you have much more contruction sides, we have very often traffic jams on the "AUtobahn" because of that. Its a very well known thing amongst many how corrupt things are in that regard, so no "inside" information necessarily required though. People often dont get how much truth there is in movies, much more then in news quite often.
Unions do their absolute best to prolong jobs an long as humanly possible to keep the overly inflated jobs of its workers. They’ll tear up the road, leave it as is for months, then come back and fix it over months when it shouldn’t take more than a week. In countries without unions an entire 3 lane highway bridge that needed to be replaced was deconstructed and a new one was constructed properly and safely in less than a week. Without unions it’s amazing how quickly jobs get done
You know, im from Germany and interestingly i know frmo "insiders" that this is exactly how things work her ein Germany, but in Germany you have much more contruction sides, we have very often traffic jams on the "AUtobahn" because of that. Its a very well known thing amongst many how corrupt things are in that regard, so no "inside" information necessarily required though. Since Germany is a colony of the US, this is not surprising. People often dont get how much truth there is in movies, much more then in news quite often.
25 years later and I'm still waiting for the release of Under Construction. That film must have some serious post-editing.
I seriously thought you were the kid until I saw the kid is named Valentino. Damn you got me there lol
@@flufferusgoobus I hear yah :D
@@nocturnaljoe9543 anybody knows who the boy grew up to be like?
Lmao
Visit Montreal, Canada ! ...LoL
The kid is easily one of the most likable characters in the movie.
He was in Boyz in the Hood as the class clown trying to bully Trae
@@DMalltheway I knew it was him. I love that movie boyz n the hood
Without question
@@DMalltheway "I aint from Africa..im from Crenshaw mafia"
@@DMalltheway From a likable kid to a bully. Very sad. 😂
That kid is great, so calm and collected.
I know him and the kid work well together . lol.
Merle Dixon he was in boyz-n-the hood but he wasn't lil ricky he was the kid tray fought in the class room over all humans originated from Africa lol
Andy Petrovich its a shame call of duty didnt exist back them otherwise we could have sparked the videogame causes violence debate all over haha
My brother works for the glass union in the city fixing the glass on skyscrapers make a shit ton of money like 55 an hour....anyways they use to crack glass on purpose at the end of the day so they had more work smh but hey thats how it is lollol
Andy Petrovich yep one of the best parts of this movie.
I just love how the kid just casually walks up to a guy with a rocket launcher and teaches him how to use it like this isn’t his first time lol
He saw it in a movie
@@AtticTapes14 Maybe in True Lies
From WATTS PARK 😂g
And he says “cool!” with a smile!
The kid lives in Early 90's Los Angeles, he's seen worse.
I really like how he protects the kid after he fires it.
Pruneballed yeah it minimizes the fact that he literally killed multiple workers. Great.
Edit: coming back to this comment over 3 years later, I wish he had more rockets and went to town hall too!!!
@@THESLlCK lol 😄
He was a good guy, just stressed
No reason to put the kid in danger. Kid wasn't the one who did him wrong.
@Arcadi Moral Good Suggestion
Imagine how disappointed the kid was when he realized the movie never came out
What do you mean?
It must have been all over the news.
Someones gonna get r/wooosh’ed if they responds saying its a movie
Frank Chance for real tho
its a movie, thats the end to it
@@bigounce5893 who cares
“Pardon me but that’s bullshit”.... iconic line
Agreed! I use this line ALL the time!
that should be the phrase of the last decade
Some goes for them telling you that a face covering would stop a virus getting through,... that's bullshit along with so much else we've been told. The Great Reset plan is really what it's all about.
😂 no its not
I like how Douglas' character immediately shielded the kid when the bazooka randomly fired. He was protecting someone innocent, that was his first instinct.
That’s what a real alpha does protect the weaker
He's a sigma here@@timtim8644
Well he’s a father after all
he is not a bad guy. he has He is a man whose life is falling apart because of his mental problems and that is why he is depressed. I love this movie. its so 90's.
I love the fact that he's carrying a bazooka and is about to blow up the whole construction site, yet he is still mindful of and worried about the safety of the kid next to him!
Laws rocket launcher, Martin S.
@@gregoryjenkins8645 M72 LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon)? That's technically classified as a 'grenade launcher'.
@@TheAngelOfDeath01 I like how the kid knows how to use one
He was a sane man in an insane society.
Ah yes, the M-72. I still remember the first time I fired it live. Can still do the checks for it. Ill never forget any of that stuff, and it seems like its gonna come in handy in the "closer than I would like to see" Future.
"Are you telling me the street fell apart in 2 days? See, I don't think anything is wrong with the street. I think you're just trying to justify your inflated budgets."
I always think of this scene whenever i see them tearing up perfectly good streets in the summertime.
it's the same system still today
And of course, who would know that better than a defense contractor like D-FENS
Yeah, I'm driving through Missouri, a perfectly fine strech of highway is being fixed, I drive into Arkansas and their roads have been total shit for 20 years.
This is what happens when you elect a bigot like Trump
They don’t do shit to the street in our town. Instead they built a fuckn waterpark
I used to work construction and yes sometimes we fixed things that weren't broken. other wise we would be out of work.
Dario Gomez I knew it, I fucking knew it. In the past 2 years they have been tearing up my neighborhood at least 4 times and fixing it.
Yup, all a big scam. Also if the city does not go through the entire budget they get less the following year because they expect the same results
Hector Diaz Same in my area seems like every year they fix a street that doesnt need fixing.
Dario Gomez Thats called a union job scam right? Where they fix what isint broken job for the construction guys to be able to keep their jobs
John Dana It's not like we as workers would go around finding things to do. We follow orders. There's politics involved in this thing. An alderman might cut a deal with a construction company or a union and get government money that way. Whenever you see a construction worker do something you don't like just think that he is the last person you blame.
I just love that nothing would have happened if some random kid hadn’t been around to show him how to use a bazooka AND he never loses his paternal side first asking “how do you know about this” then telling the kid to stand back (even though that kid knows more about the weapon than he does).
It’s just the perfect portrayal of a good guy snapping.
Have you watched the movie?😭 DFENS wasnt a "good guy that snapped", he was a deeply mentally unwell individual, that was a threat to his wife and kid, that snapped. He has some legitimate grievances throughout the movies runtime, but he pretty quickly turns from antihero to villain when we found out all the underlying causes for his rampage. I mean he says it best himself "I'm the bad guy?"
@@PT4403 first comment got it right. I watched this movie as a kid in the 90's and again as an adult and DFENS was a good person who was pushed too far. Maybe someone else could have handled it better. But at the end of the day he was a decent person who couldn't handle society's decline and what it put him through
Watch the movie again, he lashed out at some people for being petty and annoying but he does not hurt innocent people. Even in this scene, he was trying to make a statement not trying to hurt the construction worker. He just couldn't use a bazooka being a average white collar guy
Everybody has felt like him at times in their lives , but just never crossed the line.
Line?
What line??
You’re Are you doing wrong with the string yeah I was wrong he ask you a question I ask you a question the story I got a question do you are you a question he have to go to
@@tragaston9397 can you translate this into english?? FFS!!
@@crazypete3759 probably someone who doesnt speak English using Google translate to make comments kinda like how us americunts do the same thing
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." -the killing joke
I can just imagine someone trying to rob a bank in front of this kid and he's like, "What movie you filming?"
It’s the opening scene of “The Dark Knight”.
Ya like it?
Where u get that kawaii pfp?
"Payday 2 the Movie"
"Oh so that's why you have all those clown masks"
"Yeah"
@@federalcasemaker years pass later and he joins the PayDay Gang.
@@Infamouschef_ What doesn't kill you makes you a little stranger.
*This dude should be the main character in GTA 6 lol*
actually a great idea
He would fit better in saints row
A-TAC instead of D-FNS
Yeah actually that's a great idea for the story someone like him with his personality.
I actually remember him being in a tony hawk game
I have empathy for this guy more and more as I get older.
More of us feel like that
This one is on my watch list
"Under Construction" is my favorite movie. I wish they'd made a sequel.
Who would have been the protagonist? An equally screwed up sibling?
I think the sequel was called "Falling Down". Or was that a prequel?
'Under Construction 2' is still being made.....
You're welcome.
@@balrog322 Chris Rock. After being slapped and this happens after it.
What year?
This movie is sick and twisted, but it has a grounding in reality. He is insane, but he says the things we think. He is a product of society and snapped. This film is grossly under recognized.
He snapped all right, too bad he was so pathetic he had to let his daughter see himself get shot in public
Might sound like a Braveheart moment to some, but this guy murdered his way across LA out of frustration and rage. He wasn't freeing anything but his own blood-lust.
Every 'self defense' shooting he did was the result of situations he created.
How many times could have 'walked away', only for him to escalate?
Talking back to an armed person shouldn't be a death-sentence.
Had he called in sick to work that day, none of those people would have died.
Not a hero, just another mad-dog needing to be put down.
Good movie, folks just get the wrong message.
@@pirobot668beta Nah, you apparently did not watch the movie at all. He lost his job weeks ago.
And he decided to NEVER duck and cover again when he gets threatened or lied to. Just fighting to the very end at all times.
@@pirobot668beta I don't believe in a wrong way of interpreting a piece of art. You may think they are interpreting it wrong but that's just your choice, other People can think otherwise.
Antihero and a great one at that.
He is good with kids.
Tom tonka He knows kids aren't to blame... They aren't the reason society is like this. He's like Gordon Ramsay. He knows the waiter isn't responsible for the chef's food being shite, so he complains to the chef.
And every person he comes across in this film is a piece of society he's sick of. And children aren't that because they have no control over most of society. He's good to them so he can make them see that society is good. If he's terrorising them, they'll grow up like the others... People who are selfish, people who are greedy and people who want everything... Even his fellow man has had enough and takes it out on others. So, he's gives it all back. But children? Some of them are brats but that's usually out of their control. They don't pick how they were raised, how they were born, what family they got into.
He sees that lots of people are the problem but kids aren't one. He can learn from them and also teach them. That's what the movie means. Give people a break. It ain't always their fault. Go to the guilty ones... A big metaphor definitely. Also, he recognises that some people are beyond redemption. And others are like minded... The words full of people. Different kinds of ones. The good, the bad and the ugly.
So is Kevin Spacey
dopey statment big cuh real spill
He is a father
Tom tonka of
“Pardon me but that’s bullshit” absolute class act, the man.
that's such a wholesome moment - they even have matching haircuts
I don’t see it
@@BunnyVapor they both have flat tops
I also love how his first instinct was to protect the child when he nd’ that rocket launcher
@@BunnyVapor You are Blind !
Imperial HWY and Main in south LA
I love how the kid, a 12 year old frikin' kid, instantly knows how to prime a bazooka.
I was 8. Dad smuggled one home from when he was in the Vietnam war. He also knew how to make home made RPG's to go in it and we would take off to the country and have some fun.
They aren’t rpgs or bazookas the are m72 laws
snipergames 456 thanks now quit that nuke town death match n do some homework
Curi0u50ne tf I was just making a joke, I don’t even play call of duty dude. I’m a Vietnam war buff, my favorite war in American history, calm down
@@snipergames4565 favorite war?
*This movie in 1993* : no one cares.
*The Joker in 2019* : medias screaming that deranged individuals will go crazy watching this movie.
That's not wholly true; if you check out the film's Wikipedia page they list some controversies it was linked to.
@@michaeldorsey9231 Some controversy is a bit different from FBI and military issuing urgent warnings ahead of the movie and cities deploying police units for several theatres.
Different times i suppose.
The media spouted the same crap in 1993!
Yeah Joker and Taxi Driver have nothing on Falling Down
People have become way too easily influenced, I'm not saying that everyone was gonna exit Joker and instantly shoot up a store, but media has a bigger influence on the public than ever before and can turn people toxic
Love this guy. He is kind compassionate and he is a real hero.
He's not a bad guy, he just lost it.
Oldeuboi It's the people around him. You notice everywhere he goes someone wants to have a confrontation with him.
Dom, I don't think you know what a psychopath is. He's definitely unhinged from frustration and stress and all he wants to do is relieve that stress by seeing his daughter. The point is that he does not have to confront these people. He could simply walk on. However, he chooses to act; chooses to indulge in his frustrations. He's the anti-hero and we sympathise with his pain and yet we understand that what he is doing is wrong but justified.
Dom Trussardi
1) He has no remorse because he believes that those who wronged him were deserving of retribution. However, he showed concern when he saw blood on that little girl's hand later in the film and moved to shield the boy after misfiring the bazooka.
2) I have no counter to this. Everything that happens in the film is because of this. However, it can be explained as a cathartic release of frustration.
3) You will have to elaborate.
All he wants is to do is see his daughter. He's a lunatic and definitely unhinged mentally but not for nothing.
Dom Trussardi Fair enough. He's a complex and interesting character in a great film. Thanks for being cordial. Cheers!
That's the whole premise of the movie.
Remember that nerd from The Polar Express? This is him now. Feel old yet?
I dont get why people think The Polar Express is the best movie ever. Its pretty boring in my eyes
But YOU like it so it must do something to stimulate your little peanut sized brain
You're a gamer I see, why not play the Polar Express video game? its on the ps2 and stuff. Unless you already have.
Since you mentioned it, you probably recently watched the film with mum and dad or something. Stuck in your brain, see a character that has the same socks as another guy in another film "Hey that guy looks like another guy lol" Yeah same socks right?
What about underwear? they got the same underwear? maybe same pocket pouch?
Saw this joke a few years ago, feel old yet?
Always loved irony of this scene the mans a laid off gov defense worker
And a child has to show him how to use a military weapon.
Weaver: So true!!
Great irony
Well fighting wasn’t his job
More ironically, he was former Army too though likely a POG.
Yea and the fact that he complains about city workers milking the govt
I love how D Fens not only tries to keep the kid from getting hurt but also seems somewhat relived when nothing happens. And when it finally does blow up he looks kind of shocked that the kid takes pleasure in it. It's not just funny, but also gives us a different perspective of him.
The fact he worked all his life and lost his job being considered "not economically viable" while these builders sit doing nothing
If he kept his cool for just a few more years, then they could've put him back to work in the farce against terror. DFens!
It's implied that this construction work is valid. The guy at the front is sitting down, but he's just there to make sure people don't walk into the construction zone or fall into any holes. He only says that there's nothing wrong after he sees the gun. He's just telling him what he wants to hear to calm him down.
Being fair, if people did what he did when that happened, the bankruptcies and closings of Sears and Toys R Us would've resulted in the extinction of the entire united states, given how much damage just *one* disgruntled guy was able to cause XD And those were way worse, since they lined the pockets of the vulture capitalists who bought the companies to strip them for parts and intentionally make them fail, rather than just being contractors.
Where I come from, I always see one guy digging a ditch and 4 others leaning on shovels talking.
Story of my life!
The fact that this kid thinks it’s all a movie terrifies me because after he got home he must’ve found out about all the killings of the “D-FENS” and remembered he literately helped him blow up the sewer
when he realized he was technically an accomplice in a murder: *oh no*
DFens never killed anyone?
Nah the kids would have been like "cool".
@@zacarribuffet8882 he killed the surplus store owner and the golfer that's two people he killed
@@josefengelhardt2767 The golfer killed himself from old age, Golf Cart was too far away get his pills in time too. Oh and the Golfer just tried to kill him so in a way it's self defense lol
2:24 How to shoot a great sequence without any CGI! 💯✌️
Yeah just use a real rocket launcher, then you wont need any CGI
yeah film nowdays is so lazy. like marvel and ff.
How do you know CGI was not involved ? CGI was created in 1972 and the first film to use it was in 1987 “ flight of the navigator “ and this movie came out in 1993 . So again how do you know CGI has not been used ?
@@iamasmurf1122 you could tell if it was
@@frenchshrimp6108 Correct
This is such a fantastic movie, the way Michael Douglas portrays the character of a man on the edge is how we all feel sometimes. All the obstacles that come his way he negates them how he sees fit.
Douglas thought years ago in an interview that the movie was ahead of it's time. He was right; it's aging really well!
The older I get, the more this movie resonates.
kinda scary... right?😒
What's wrong with that virus ?World went apart in two weeks ?
What are you, a bot? The same comment for every clip of this movie.
I’m 21 and I fully resonate with him throughout pretty much the entire movie.
Whats wrong with the street?
I don't know
so why are you here?
I don't know
I knew there was nothing wrong how bout I give you something to fix
_"You cannot invade the mainland United States... every child knows how to use anti-armor weapons."_
--Isoroku Yamamoto
The Hitler-Jugend also had know how too use this stuff, but finally...
This resonates so well lmao
I love it! 🤣🤣🤣
@@blockmasterscott Nobody knows what is in civilian hands, I wouldn't be surprised if someone doesn't have a nuclear device ion their garage
This no longer applies to the U.S
I love how the kid is just going along with this whole thing!
Unironically knows how to operate a M72 because of television.
You mean Valentino D harrison??
Not gonna lie if somone was realy like this probably a great stress reliever lol
It's because he thought is was not real.
I love this movie. It's the quintessential story where a character says and does what every sane, law-abiding citizen is thinking and wishing they could do but of course won't.
Too many people believe you can get the system to work again from the inside.
@@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773 And too many people think to work it from the outside will work.
Yeah they do but only ends becoming a part of problem and destroying property
you might wanna check what sane and law-abiding means
Shit 23 yrs later im an adult and this movie has more meaning to me than when í was 10 yrs old........ And here in San Francisco they are always doing FUCKING CONSTRUCTION tearing up the streets in the same area when I know damn well there is nothing to fix
Right because you know the intimate details of the project and the needs of all of the parties involved? I swear every time the road gets worked on or a pipe bursts or a traffic jam occurs everybody magically becomes an expert on the matter.
It's what happens when a politician stays in office way too long. They always become corrupted and start using public funds to hire a 'friend' that has a construction business in exchange for campaign money in this example. People like Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi who've been in Congress 30+ years make me sick. They gain too much power and blackmail freshman Congressmen who really want to make changes.Term limits, ban lobbyists and make it mandatory public servants cannot be Masons or belong to a 'secret society'. I bet 80% of corruption would be done with immediately.
Now all you need is a rocket launcher & you can get your revenge. On the.. street repairs. Stupid street.
This is what every WHITE man want to do be a real life Clint Eastwood lmao
Patrick King I mean who wouldn't like to blow something up with an M72? Or be Clint Eastwood? Does your comment insinuate every black man wants to be Tupac? Because their are good and bad sides to those admirations.
Imagine if he answered the kid "Falling Down" lmao
😂😂😂👍👌
Damn, missed oppotunity
I literally thought the same exact thing as I was watching this scene. I actually thought he was going to say just that .
Wall Street
Then he just looks right in the camera and winks lol
"I'll give you something to fix" 😄
Gets me every time lol
"Cool, man!" That kid is the best
Now a days kids get their military knowledge from games like COD but I forget this was made in the early 90's so it's still amazing how that kid is teaching him how to use that rocket launcher.
+Lone Wolf It's really not that difficult. Read the instructions. These weapons were made to be operated by high school dropouts. Scary,huh?
+Clark Liberty Or Maybe It Needs A Simple Firing System Like A Gun To Be Light Enough To Be Fit In A Backpack Instead Of Lock On Or Something Heavy
Brandon Rea
This weapon was made back in the 70's when a major multi-theater Soviet advance was expected. These weapons were designed to be used by virtually anyone.They are like the panzerfaust that the Germans designed in WWII. Literally,anyone could use it. The LAWS was an American version.Look at the clip again,if you would. This thing is stupid simple.
We have reserves in our army for that reason and in the US theres mandatory training for all weapons gear and tactics so "highschool dropouts" are made into warriors, these weapons where made stupid simple so they could be made on a assembly line in case of Russian invasion and because there made on a assembly line it needed to be simple
I think he learned it from Rambo.
Rest In Peace Joel Schumacher, and Thank You for directing this classic!!
And "Flatliners" - another masterpiece IMHO, Marcus
He make batman and robin though.....
@@keith3761 Every bright light casts an equally dark shadow.
@@keith3761 the studio push him to make that movie, Is not his fault.
@@parjok7537 More like the toy companies
The smile on the kid's face is just excellent. It makes the whole scene.
@hey it's pete ok
This movie never gets old - classic
This is by far one of the most underrated movies. Every man has a breaking point.
There disturbing thing is how many think that this movie justifies violent insurrection rather than being a study of mental illness and failure in the modern world.
No, not everyone does have a breaking point.
@@capitalb5889 ...You sure about that? Modern society sucks. It fails because those in control have ruined it, and it leaves the individual with no power but almost all of the blame. The individual is kept down and depressed with little to no knowledge on how to live except on how to go into debt and become a wage slave. It is our right and our duty to break it into pieces that can be put back together in a more worthwhile and responsible way. It is even worse if you don't have a way to reach as high as some others, and then the.platform that one stands on becomes unstable, and any ladder they have to reach up to is then removed or taken higher.
Not underrated either
@@capitalb5889 Yes, everyone has a breaking point. Read about wars and what people were capable of doing to survive under extereme presure.
@@capitalb5889 Yeah well some people think Tony Montana in Scarface is to be admired too, even though he gets killed at the end.
The way responded with "yeah it's alright" after he asked his thoughts on the film always make me laugh
Me too! This kid was a natural talent. Just finished watching my DVD of this...for...how many times? .
I think he was asking if he liked the name
I like how after he fired the shot the kid kinda 'protected' him and went "WATCH OUT"
I like to think bro actually walked onto the set of the movie while it was being filmed
William didn't really care about the kid. The reason he told him to back up was because William was pretending to be an filmmaker trying to fire a rocket.
This was one of the BEST movies ever made...
So underrated this move
Yes
Not even close?
Classic! Literally just made the same comment word for word on an earlier clip. Definitely feel him at times. Was even talking about this movie to my parents the other day. Unforgettable and more and more understandable the older I get.
This is actually the director of Batman and Robin who made this and this was probably his best movie
There is also a very statement about how genuinely nice William is to the kid and his genuine concern for his safety after he fires early. Also, I wonder if the kid ever found out he assisted someone in blowing up a job site possibly killing several people
Does anyone notice that the rocket launcher is aimed like at the ground when he goes to shoot it? Or does the missile actually 'heat-seek' like the Nazi said it did?
it shot into the pipes underground
They don't arm as soon as they launch (intended to prevent the shooter from being blown up from incidents exactly like this) therefore it probably bounced then continued on
Omg jmw I watch all your vids I am subbed do more convenient stor rp
The M-72 LAAW is unguided, if it did that (more than likely would just embed in something IRL) it would be the result of it just bouncing off shit down there until it hit something front on. Though I'm not sure if it works like an RPG does. An RPG will detonate the first thing it hits. There are some humorous anecdotes about ANP guys taking the caps off RPGs to have them ready to go and american soldiers put them back on when they aren't looking. There's also reports of people running without the caps on the striker of the RPG and then tripping, the RPG slides striker first into a curb, and no more ANP.
Didn't expect too see you here
The kid was also in the movie “Boyz n the Hood” at the beginning
I ain't from Africa ur from Africa
U African booty skrecther lol
@@biIIybob858 It's a line that the kid says in "Boyz n the Hood."
That could be any black kid. They all look the same anyways
Uzochi Okeke LMAO
You are correct, it’s a young Ricky
The kid knowing about how to handle a M72 LAW is the equivalent of today’s generation gamers knowing about guns more than the normal non-gamer civilian
That kid is from boyz in the hood he knows guns lol
He never cocked it tho
figure that out all by yourself? look at the big brain on you
That's just wrong
@@StayBased1
True but some are more accurate, and also they can just learn how to use it.
What a lovely kid, so full of life ahead and enthusiasm to help another guy out.
Instead of "Under Construction," he should have said "Falling Down." Breaking the fourth wall, and all that.
+Finn McCool "Under Construction", a classic 90's action flick title lol.
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, lol.
his catch phrase would have been, do you have a hammer?
Honestly that would have been clever.
?. In the audience, Steve Austin, a man barely alive .. people keep saying, Second Coming... and wrath of... and then they want evidence that Jesus is in you...
The crew cut, brief case, nerd glasses, pocket protectors, all really enhanced the character's appearance.
psychopath's are always way more fun to hang out with then normal people !!
“Falling Down” one of the top ten Greatest films ever made..
Hi Ray - Schumacher's "Flatliners" belongs on your list too
@@TomCheer9 definitely. Don’t forget Schindler’s List and Jurassic Park!
Well, not that high.
I saw an interview where Michael Douglas said that this is his favorite movie of all of them. This is my favorite as well.
I like that he's crazy and angry enough to cause mass hysteria and menace the city, but still has enough compassion to instantly try to shield the kid when he accidentally fires the rocket launcher at the ground
He's a mad man. Not a monster
@@meowcow21 William didn't care about anyone but himself. He says that he has rights but so did Mr. Lee, Rick and Shelia, The Golfers, The Family at the Plastic Surgeon's house and even Beth and Adele. William had the mindset that if he can't be happy, no one can.
@@josefengelhardt2767 this clip disproves the idea that he only cared about himself.
@@meowcow21 i think William was pretending to be an actor since the boy told him "what's the movie you're making?"
HE is not crazy, he became normal. tax slaves are the crazy ones. You ve understood nothing.
“What’s the name of the movie you’re making?”
“Falling Down. You like it?”
“Yeah it’s alright.”
Alright? I love it.
*"Under Construction. You like it?"
That would have been so Meta!
yh its amazing
That would have been just as funny.
"What's the name of the movie you're making?"
"Falling Down. You like it?"
Gotobar 1313 Yea its alright
I like that, but maybe the director didn't want it to be too wink wink
"Standing Tall" sounds better lol
"where are the cameras?"
michael douglas then looks directly at the cameraman and points
Lol, I was almost waiting for him to say that.
My landlord just told everyone in my building to move their cars out of the parking lot so it can be restriped. The lot was milled and paved less than a year ago, and new stripes were painted as part of that project. Now I know how D-Fens feels.
....and people think Joker is the first movie about a man who is completely failed by society.....
That’s not a knock on Joker, mind you.
@Picolas Cage how? R u gen z? They just past being babies.
Taxi Driver did it even earlier
Taxi driver or the king of comedy
society doesn't owe anyone anything - if it helps you great, if not, too bad.
Ah yes you should never knock joker.
1:47 that’s the most 90’s look group of kids I have ever seen
Uselesstips42O under rated comment
@@tomvideogame1765 underrated*
@@PANZERFAUST90 sorry i m from italy but thanks for the correction
@@tomvideogame1765 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝🇮🇹
@@tomvideogame1765 I'll never teeeeellll....🎶😙😙😙😙
1993 " I saw it on TV"
2019 " I saw it UA-cam"
2020 " I saw it in your saw it saw it it saw
@@TheLegend-nm8ji At least you tried.
2020: I saw it on TikTok
2040: I saw it when the Minneapolis community police department responded to a domestic dispute on George Floyd Blvd.
More like "I did it in a video game"
I often think of this scene when waiting in temporary traffic lights because of roadworks
Dont we all…
"Uh ... Under Construction. You like it?"
"Yeah, it's alright."
" I'll give you something to fix" 😂😂😂
I swear, that sounds EXACTLY like something I would say.
That movie still speaks on so many levels...when you had enough
Joel Schumacher - Hollywood genius - R.I.P.
Living in the UK, where utility companies seem to take delight in digging holes in roads every 50 yards, I can so relate to Bill Foster's utter frustration.
2:23 that wicked shot of the camera following the rocket though
Hope Michael Douglas's co-actor is doing well today, phenomenal clip, perfectly acted
Can't wait for "Under Construction" to come out. Nice trailer.
MrGilRoland har har
Yeah it was gonna be this gritty reimagining of The Professional with a black boy in Padme Amidala's place, but instead they turned it into Kindergarten Cop with the foreign guy from Jingle all the Way. Can't remember his name...Arnold Dukenschlaagen? Schlongenbangin? Crappenhausen? Suckkatactin? It'll come to me...
years later and its still as good as back then at the age of 12 first time i watched it. Its all the way up there with the best movies ever made..
Fun fact: That M72 LAW has the operational instructions printed on it.
So easy a Caveman can do it.
Jokes aside, assuming a caveman capable of reading and understand english.
Still pretty easy to use, so easy that a middle east kid can use
I'm afraid the M72 will be fully operational when your friends arrive.
Normalement, un homme des caverne ne sait pas lire...
2:52 funny how he look at the kid, like thinking "this kid is crazier than I am" 🤨
3 things no person should ever do in life:
1. Ask a man his salary
2. Ask a woman her age
3. Be sarcastic with Michael Douglas
You forgot, "Never touch another man's fries."
Or deny breakfast
well you kinda have to ask a women their age because its risky not to know
@@GboiGabe asking woman about her age is rude. You gotta wait for a woman ask your age first then ask her age next or wait till birthday.
Here's a fun fact: people that agree with numbers 1 and 2, or people that live they lives based on numbers 1 and 2, are being dominated by a spirit of Pride. Aka, a fallen angel in them, acting as them, through them, for them during those moments.
" I'll give you something to fix." Classic.
The street near my college is under construction every spring
It's God's way of telling you that you're wasting your time and money on a modern college "education". Go to trade school or become and apprentice. Learn how to build or fix things. You'll always find work.
@@Redpotato2 bet
Richard M Shut up you donut 🍩
We had the same corrupt crap in Erie where for over 8 months a construction company was “fixing” a rather small part of interchange road. It took so long that local tv media did a segment on it because their vans had to go through it every day and they thought something was up. Next day construction ends.
I know plenty of areas where they constantly dig up the road, put lights up everywhere and do nothing. This scene is very accurate to how many companies opperate and certain industries fabricate work to keep themselves employed. If you look at Asian culture and see how efficent they have certain systems and industries that make our look like a joke. Everyones knows they are being taken for a ride. I cant wait to leave this demoniac world, maybe the next one i take birth on the people will be a bit nicer :)
“Now I’ll give u something to fix “ LOL
He's right with the overinflated budgets. 🤔😏
Love how the kids help him out. Classic!
To this day, this little scene has to be one of the best depictions and critique to society...and this could still be applied today....AMAZING
Naam hai mera Fonseca, baby tum hue nahi jaanta
@@sauron2000000 Nka intindi um unico merda ki bu fala, ma pabo tambi
@@ravifonseca8 Jeez, are you not from India?
@@sauron2000000 jeez, are you not from Mordor?
You know, im from Germany and interestingly i know frmo "insiders" that this is exactly how things work her ein Germany, but in Germany you have much more contruction sides, we have very often traffic jams on the "AUtobahn" because of that. Its a very well known thing amongst many how corrupt things are in that regard, so no "inside" information necessarily required though.
People often dont get how much truth there is in movies, much more then in news quite often.
"I knew it was fine, but I'll give you something to fix!" Hahahaha
25 years later is when I understood this movie and about the real world.
The trick is to 'get it' when you are in high school. I managed to 'Not Have Kids'....and had an interesting life. When I was young, I was terribly afraid I'd get a job at the Ford plant and be the guy who put on the left rear tire for 25 years...and died. As it was, I was a fireman so to have the time off to build an ocean going sailboat...I've been a tug boat operator, business owner, general lay-about etc and am now 75 and retired with a wife of over 30 years keeping me company. Corporate America is a damn trap....and I avoided it. -Veteran '66-68
Im feeling more and more like this as each day passes
This was a GREAT film!! Construction scene, the "McDonald's " scene,punching foul mouthed jerk in car, etc..very UNDERappreciated film..Great job,Mr.Douglas👍
Agree completely!
I'll give u something to fix LOL
I wonder how many times in a life time a human being has had to hear "jesus christ man, he's got a fuckin bazooka!"
0.53 I love that the plane goes in one ear and out the other
I have only seen this movie 2 maybe 3 times and all I can think well I watch it is how criminally underrated it is
I think of this scene every time I'm in traffic, get to where the roadwork is, and think, "What are they doing? There was nothing wrong with this road."
Or the vehicles and equipment just sitting there, not moving, not being used.
Just like Vegas, with its perpetual street construction...half the time you don't even see anyone working...
Especially if they've been there for MONTHS! the street/freeway looks exactly the same it did months ago.
You know, im from Germany and interestingly i know frmo "insiders" that this is exactly how things work her ein Germany, but in Germany you have much more contruction sides, we have very often traffic jams on the "AUtobahn" because of that. Its a very well known thing amongst many how corrupt things are in that regard, so no "inside" information necessarily required though.
People often dont get how much truth there is in movies, much more then in news quite often.
Unions do their absolute best to prolong jobs an long as humanly possible to keep the overly inflated jobs of its workers. They’ll tear up the road, leave it as is for months, then come back and fix it over months when it shouldn’t take more than a week. In countries without unions an entire 3 lane highway bridge that needed to be replaced was deconstructed and a new one was constructed properly and safely in less than a week. Without unions it’s amazing how quickly jobs get done
When ever I see construction this scene pops up in my head and he is right! It's nothing wrong with the streets
And the ones that need it the most won’t EVER get fixed
You know, im from Germany and interestingly i know frmo "insiders" that this is exactly how things work her ein Germany, but in Germany you have much more contruction sides, we have very often traffic jams on the "AUtobahn" because of that. Its a very well known thing amongst many how corrupt things are in that regard, so no "inside" information necessarily required though.
Since Germany is a colony of the US, this is not surprising.
People often dont get how much truth there is in movies, much more then in news quite often.
@@liljimmy8248Why is this so accurate…
Awesome! He's like "I'll give ya something to fix!"
“What’s the name of the movie you’re making?”
“Antman and The Wasp. You like it?”
“Yeah it’s alright.”
Hollywood crap
I like how the one guy ran to tell everyone there was a mad man with a bazooka, yet they carried on working.
Legend has it that kid is still waiting for the movie to come out to this day
Cool man.....The expression on Douglas face after he looks at kid, Priceless.
"Joey, we got a goddamn nut here."
lol 🤣.
that's a big nut tbh
1:25
sees him pull out a rocket launcher
*runs really far away into perfect range yelling for other people to come to him*
Jamish Mcquo he's just trying to help him get that multikill.
Potato What a nice man :) very thoughtful
boy:"Cool man"
William: *look at the boy and shake his head* thinking "kids these days.."
I love the kid in that and the rapport between then. Never gets old.