My friend watches THE ROCKETEER for the FIRST time || Movie Reaction
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Today, Matt is showing me The Rocketeer for the first time.
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To this day, I feel this movie is hugely underrated. Not enough reactors are watching this film. Thank you, guys!
yeah, and way too movies no one does, or very rarly, some some of my favorite childhood 2nd, 3rd tier movies almost never get done :> Wish more did some like ladyhawke.
Agree!
I hereby start a petition to have Matt Cosplay as the Rocketeer :P WE NEED TO SEE THIS!!!
Cosplay is only part of it.... I need them to do a film!
The one wordless scene where the FBI agent and the gangster finds themselves as allies and just smile. That is iconic to me.
"I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American, and I don't take no orders from no two-bit Nazi."
BEST. LINE. EVER.
The Count of Monte Cristo is a must see after Matt said he's never seen it!
Note... before you jump in, you should be aware that it has nothing to do with Dracula making sandwiches. 🤔
My great grandma used to show us this movie all the time. The planes in the beginning of the movie were owned by her uncle and cousins a long time ago. She used to tell us that every time we watched the movie and would show us an old photo album of her family with the airplanes. One year for Christmas she got each of us a model plane that my grandpa made by hand along with a vhs copy of the movie
Thats is so good memories
I saw this in the theater when I was 10 and the audience erupted in applause when Paul Sorvino said "I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American"
Also, the old guy in the diner that got hit by the spoon also played Johnathan Kent in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and absolutely nailed his role
THIS was the superhero movie of my childhood. Great soundtrack, nostalgia, Americana, and a super cool looking suit.
Same! I must have watched it at least fifty times growing up. Plus, Jennifer Connelly became my eternal crush thanks to this movie.
The Rocketeer is based on the comic book series from the late Dave Stevens. As mentioned prior to the start of the film, Joe Johnston, who also directed 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,' got the job for the first Captain America film by demonstrating that he could efficiently portray period piece films such as 'The Rocketeer' and 'October Sky,' with the former specifically showcasing that he could helm a special effects-laden superhero film.
I like that you just mentioned James Bond and then didn't realize Timothy Dalton played James Bond. 🤭 (You should watch 'License to Kill' --it is one of the better Bond films).
Jennifer Connelly's character Jenny Blake, was changed from "Betty" in the comics, itself based on Bettie Page. The comic had some risque content that Disney was trepidatious about the association, wanting the movie to be aimed at a younger audience. Apparently, they also didn't want to pay Bettie Page for the use of her likeness.
The actor you recognized but could not place as Howard Hughes is Terry O'Quinn, from such awesome films like 'Blind Fury,' though most probably know him for his prolific role on the TV series 'Lost.'
The line I recall from the movie most is "It wasn't a lie, Jenny, it was 'acting!'"
I’m gonna say I’m gobsmacked. Disney was even on board with this considering how risqué the comic was.
It was originally going to be made through Disney's Touchstone Pictures, but changed during production when Disney thought they could better use it as a 'Disney' title to license a bunch of merchandise and had the writers excise all the adult content from the story. Well, I dunno... a couple things might have snuck in, still. 🤫
Sadly, the movie was considered a bomb when it came out, but had had a pretty good following since.
Disney Junior, crazily enough, aired a revamped cartoon version of The Rocketeer where the main character was a 7-year old girl a couple years back.
Howard Hughes is a real person he made aviation history and unfortunately is one of the 1st documented sufferers of OCD. He served as the basis of Tony Stark in the comic books and Used as the basis of Howard Stark in Captain America The first Avenger. You might want to Check out the Aviator a movie based on his life.
Another underrated gem: The Phantom with Billy Zane! "The Ghost who walks!" Based on a golden comic strip series, from the same time as Mandrake The Magician, Flash Gordon Dick Tracy, Tarzan, Modesty Blaze and Brenda Starr!
Timothy dalton aka prince barin in Flash Gordon, and former James Bond
'The Rocketeer' movie reaction showed up on home page and I am extremely hyped. It is super nostalgic, and the perfect cast. This is my most watched superhero film of my childhood. More people need to experience this film. I'm excited for you Holden.💖
GREAT choice today, lads!
It's one of my all-time favourites! Got the soundtrack on my phone and a tattoo on my arm. Really hope you enjoy it, Holden 🤞
Note after watching;
Matt, favourite line in our house that was always quoted was 'You steer, I'll push' anytime anything ever needed moving 😂
when you really think about it "The Rocketeer" was an early taste of what a Live Action Iron Man could be and look like...so you can say this movie was the first seed to be planted for such an action to finally happen for Iron Man to be created on the big screen.
I feel like RoboCop was the first seed to be planted.
@@jp3813 uh...no way
@@jason42080 I remember critics & audiences comparing Iron Man to RoboCop back in 2008. I think Richard Roeper even refers to Tony Stark as "GlobalCop".
@@jp3813 ugh first off who flew with a jet pack first on the screen and had a helmet that was somewhat pretty close to an Iron Man design that would be The Rocketeer in 1991...we didn't see Robocop get his jetpack 2 years later in that horrible Robocop 3 movie..so the first seed planted would be who now?
@@jason42080 No one here even said that The Rocketeer didn't contribute. But there's no denying that Iron Man was often compared to RoboCop. Especially due to the villain suiting up as a giant robot. Apparently, Jon Favreau himself named RoboCop as one of the inspirations for the film. And it looks like no one involved in the production even mentioned The Rocketeer.
I love pulp hero movies…The Phantom with Billy Zane, The Shadow with Alec Baldwin (I know ppl hate it, but it’s one of my favorites) and this The Rocketeer…childhood classics haha
All three (yes all three!) are fun, pulpy, energetic films that will forever hold a place in my heart.
The filming of "The Laughing Bandit" was a clear callback to Errol Flynn and his most famous film, "The Adventures of Robin Hood".
Errol Flynn was also rumored to have been a Nazi sympathizer…
yeah the castle set is identical. Danny Kaye's "The Court Jester" also parodies that and also has that identical set/location
Since you really enjoyed The Rocketeer and also have a special appreciation for Speed Racer, I think you'd really enjoy Dick Tracy (1990). Based on the comic strip. It's set in a very stylized world like Speed Racer and has that 30s Rocketeer feel to it. Great reaction by the way. Looove this movie!
Holden and his 30s voice, highlight of the review.
You were good kid, real good. You're ready for the pictures.
Director Joe Johnston originally worked at ILM and ALSO designed (and helped to build the costume) Boba Fett for The Empire Strikes Back!
Timothy Dalton. He played James Bond 1x. The Living Daylights
He did 2. He also did License to Kill. Lazenby was the only one to do Bond once on Fim. (as Barry Nelson did Bond in a TV version of Casino Royale)
@@cuffzter i stand corrected!
The “hundred percent American” line plays cheesy today, but when I saw this movie in the theater in opening night in 1991 -just a few months after the First Gulf War when patriotism was at a fever pitch- the audience erupted in cheers. That memory elevates that line into the stratosphere to me. Beyond that, the whole showdown scene is my favorite because I like the escalation and the twists. “Relax, Frankenstein. You ain’t bulletproof.”
I don’t know if you caught it, but Sinclair saying “Happy Valentine’s Day” isn’t just referring to the gangster’s name, but also to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, when several mobsters were gunned down by a rival gang.
Leave it to Holden to drop the James Bond trivia but then immediately after not recognize Timothy Dalton. We all love you Holden! Never change...
Great choice, right in the childhood nostalgia feels! For me the line is Lotho and his voice going. "Where is it....the rocket." Adorable foster, love the name Olive.
This film is nostalgic for me because I was already a fan of the character from the back-up stories in the Starslayer comic.
Back in 1991, I was 11.
This was one of my favorite films.
On top of that, it was based in an comic book series from the 1980s
by the late Dave Stevens.
Inspired by Saturday Matinee serials and comic strips of the era.
The director, Joe Johnston also directed Captain America:The First Avenger
(2011) which was the same flavor.
Great cast here.
Bill Campbell (Cliff) & Jennifer Connelly (Jenny) were a real offscreen couple at the time
and did have that quintessential archetype of pairings similar in that era of Hollywood.
The late Alan Arkin as Peevy was hilarious.
Timothy Dalton as an villain certainty had a good time and I thought he was great.
Terry O' Quinn as Howard Hughes was perfect casting and I learned at that time,
Mr. Hughes was the inspiration for Marvel's Iron Man.
A summer, popcorn flick that I saw twice in the theaters.
For me, it was all about Cliff in his outfit with the Rocket
pack going into action.
I was into the tie-in stuff like with Pizza Hut and M&Ms.
Also loved playing the NES video game.
My youngest nephew watched the animated series (2019-2020) on Disney Jr.
He didn't know there was a Rocketeer movie, I showed it to him and he loved it.
Another great adaptation of comic-material by Disney is Dick Tracy (1990).
Yeah i really remember that line " I like it ! " i was 15 years old when i watched this in Sweden.
I love that this movie was a testing ground for Joe Johnston for his work later on Captain America: First Avenger.
Fun Fact: the character who invented the rocket in the film is Howard Hughes and his reaction to cliffs escape is more about the model itself. The ‘Hercules’ nicknamed the Spruce Goose was his passion project, meant to serve as a troop/military transport for WW2 but never got to participate in the war. Hughes was determined to see her fly regardless which we see in the final act of the Aviator with Leo DiCaprio
In the comics the movie is based on the inventor of the rocket pack is Doc Savage - never named nor fully shown because Stevens didn't have the rights to use the character, but two of Doc's Fabulous Five, Monk and Ham (also unnamed) fill the role of the two FBI agents in the film. Hughes, being both conveniently dead and very well known (at the time, anyway) both in general and as an aviator/inventor was an obvious replacement choice. Tony Stark was, after all, inspired by Howard Hughes, with Tony's defiance of Congress in Iron Man 2 being based on Hughes' Senate testimony before the Brewster committee in 1947.
I have intense nostalgia for this movie! Distinctly remember going to a specific video store and renting it several times. I was like 5 or 6 and had the biggest crush on Connelly.
This movie is a great sci-fi/action/fantasy and I talk about it enough that my partner bought me a special edition pen (Retro-51 Tornado) and coin set with the licensed iconography from The Rocketeer when it released a few years ago!
The character with the underbite is called Rondo. The makeup is based on the actual face of actor Rondo Houten a graduate of Hillsborough High School in Tampa.
Holden: "You can go to Person"
Matt: "FUCK THAT"😂😂😂😂
Director Joe Johnson also directed Captain America 1st Avenger, and was based off Dave Steven's graphic novel, so I wasnt surprised Holden would like this...and I love it too from childhood watching.
Terry O'Quinn was playing aviation mogul Howard Hughes. 😂
The Hughes Aircraft prototype plane model Cliff held onto on his way out of the hangar was the infamous Spruce Goose. A large plane six times larger than any other plane of the time. It was to be used as a troop transport made primarily out of birch wood which was laminated to make it lighter than a metal plane due to its size. It only had one test flight. 😮
The Rocketeer's suit and helmet were 100% comic book accurate 👍
They shot the airport scenes in my hometown, about 3½ hours north of LA. My friend's uncle was an extra.
" i dont like collecting random shit to put in my house," says the guy who has a giant "Thankful grateful blessed " poster hanging behind him.. um ok
Holden you gotta make a spoof 1930s short with Matt & the rest of the gang! Classic noir black and white shadow play!
I too get "nostalgia" when watching this movie!.......That airport hanger still exists as a Museum too!.....The BULLDOG Cafe set is supposedly still around someplace too!
I'm in my late 20s and I personally love this movie. This is actually one of those few films I truly believe could be made today and could be something special. Honestly I am fine with it as it is. I put this movie in the same league as Flash Gordon for me. Its goofy, fun and entertaining. Glad too see that people are still giving this movie a chance even 30+ years after it's release.
IMO, not enough people watch or react to this amazing film. This is one of my all time favorite movies and I feel it's tragicaly underrated and unseen.
I share Matt’s sentiment about the heavy nostalgia with this movie. The line that stuck with me the most over the years is Jenny’s “I finally did a scene with Neville Sinclair.”
Timothy Dalton in this movie was Alex Ross' inspiration for his version of Tony Stark.
24:03 It's always great when someone gets to do it to Holden.
I absolutely love this film! This, mask of zorro, and the Shadow are my top 3 pulp hero films and I wish they’d make more
I had the pleasure to be at the world premiere (through a friend at Disney) at the newly refurbished El Capitan Theater in LA. The "I'm an American gangster" line got big laughs and applause.
I also got to attend the post-premiere party. I thanked Bill Campbell and Jennifer Connelly for a fun and fabulous evening, but I chose not to speak to Timothy Dalton as I was afraid the only thing that would come out of my mouth was "Oh my god you're James Bond!!"
Of my memory is correct, Rocketeer came out the same summer as the first Michael Keaton Batman. Batman got all the press and this very good movie sort of got lost in the mix. Shame. I think this movie actually holds up better than that Batman. Very fun movie! Still laugh at Jennifer Connely’s line “the rockawho?”
Rocketeer was the first "not-cartoon" movie I got hooked on and really loved as a kid. What a nostalgia bomb
That guy the feds bring seacord to is playing aviation legend Howard Hughes
Guys I love you guys, this movie, just like Matt, was a huge part of my childhood growing up watching VHS movies at my grandparents house. Thank you for a great trip down memory lane and finding others who love this movie too :)
Didn’t youse guys know? The Rocketeer’s pants are made of asbestos
Glad you guys gave this movie a shot. It is one of my childhood favourites that I have watched on a VHS tape with hungarian dub at least a dozen times. Plenty of memorable lines and the unforgettable Jennifer Connelly, still 10/10.
Neville Sinclair was based on actor Errol Flynn, who was really suspected of being a Nazi spy.
this was the first movie I remember seeing in theaters. I love this movie it has a special place in my heart!
Sinclair says he'll miss Hollywood and he did, he hit "land" and missed Hollywood.
Fun fact: what you mention is true, but the film is also (jokingly) "blaming" Sinclair for creating the modern form of one of the most iconic landmarks of California XD.
When it was built in 1923, the sign really said "Hollywoodland" to promote a new housing development in the hills. In reality, the "Land" part of the sign was removed in 1949, when all the sign had to be repaired after years of neglect, the local Chamber of Commerce decided it could be a sign of the entire district, not just a development and thus the last portion of the word was removed for good.
The aviation guy was Howard Hughes, Neville Sinclaier was supposed to be Errol Flynn a big film actor rumored to have been a Nazi spy. The big guy with big face was based on a real actor that had a pituitary gland problem that gave him that deformity. He was in a few b movie horrors back then.
"I'll miss Hollywood."
Well, he's not wrong, he missed 75% of the sign! 😏😎
Love this movie! Also, there is a "Rocketeer" boardgame published by Prospero Hall and usually available at Target that is a lot of fun. And you might recognize some of the theme music that was also used in Rebels s2 ep7 "Wings of the Master" (the one with Hera flying the prototype B-wing).
If you’re into retro superheroes… try The Shadow, DicTracy, or the Phantom all from the early 90s. It was in the wave of success that Batman 89 brought. Fun Fact: the Shadow was inspiration for Batman in the 1930s! 😳
This film will always have a place in my heart as I had my first holiday in Los Angeles the same year and went to the Griffith observatory and the Hollywood hills sign. It's such a feel good movie that will always puzzle me as to why it underperformed at the box office. I'm sadly old enough to remember seeing on tv ( by repeats I hasted to add) an old B&W series called " King of the Rocketmen" and from what my fuzzy memory can still remember is there are a lot and I mean a LOT of similarities.
Anyhow thanks to you both for this nostalgia moment.
P.s ......I had Spider-man (civil war) vibes when Holden referred to this film as an "Old film" 😂
I love this movie. So glad you are watching this. Major childhood movie. One of my favorite Timothy Dalton roles. So many good actors Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Paul Sorvino.
this was a BIG movie for me, i grew up watching Indiana jones and old time TV shows shown on daytime like the Lone Ranger so the era was fun the tech was cool, it had james bond and I knew all about the Nazis so I was the perfect audience, and as i look back the music is iconic
He was bond, james bond and Also it looks like Holden is holding Matt's knee 😂
James Bond jet pack was actually a hydrogen propelled which only lasted 20 seconds of flight time. The new ones are called jet suits propelled by actual jet engines, which can last for about a half an hour flight time. Funny enough they’re starting their own races now.
Let's go! Jusy rewatched this when I realized it was on Disney+ !
Love seeing you hang out with Matt again😎
The jet pack guy did a lot of work in movies and television in the sixties.
There’s a screen used helmet and jet pack at WDW Hollywood Studios. It’s across from the lake.
Went with parents to see this in the theater. The next day @ the beach my mother said to her friend the woman in that movie was flawlessly perfect. I remember it vividly as my mother never complemented a woman like that before. May I recommend Career Opportunities.
The Pulp Magazine aesthetic is really cool, but difficult to capture on film. Rocketeer and Indiana Jones captured it well, while other attempts like Remo Williams, Doc Savage, and The Shadow weren't quite as successful.
Joe Johnston directed this film. He would later go on to direct Captain America: The First Avenger.
I was 13 when I watched this movie at the theater, and I LOVED it! I've got the same fortunate "problem" that Matt does; I'm blessed with nostalgia bias 🙂
Howard Hughes was a reference. A reference to the real person Howard Hughes 😆
Yes one of my fave movies! Huge fan of dave stevens the creator/artist of the original comics ,met him years ago super nice humble guy (his art work is unmatched check it out)...RIP dave ,also holden the director is the one who directed cap the first avenger and he also is a good artist and was involved in raiders of the lost ark ,rocketeer film would should have been huge in 91 but got crushed by 2 little movies called robin hood and T2
Loooved this movie growing up. Mom recorded it on vhs when it was on TV one time.
We need a new Tshirt that says "Why don't you 3D print it you freakin nerd"
Tell Matt he has excellent taste. This movie is so great
This and Dick Tracy were peak "pulp" action movies of the early 90s. Add in Batman, which had a fairly similar style(I get it's a different type of movie) but I wish we had more of those.
If you haven't watched Dick Tracy, please get to it soon.
One of my all time favorites
Looks like Holden has his hand on Matt's thigh if you didn't know that there was a dog there😅😅
Plz keep both those dogs, they look like they absolutely love each other and you won’t regret having 2 dogs at all, but you may regret not having them both
One of my all time favorite movies!
Prediction... Olive is going to be a foster fail ❤❤
Classic dieselpunk flick
I've never seen this movie but I have a friend that lives like 8 hours away that's a huge fan and I was able to score some of the comics so I'm gifting them to him
I always felt like “Up” borrowed a lot from this movie when it comes to the climax of the film.
This is one of my favorites
One of my favorites, it’s in my collection
One of my favorite superhero films!
OH HELL YEAH! This movie has one of my favorite posters of all time
Movies like this have to make a comeback. Hollywood has lost its collective mind
Okay, but hear me out... A crime noir short film starring Holden and Matt as Private Eye brothers in the 30s...
Then maybe Jena (also characterized) could come hire them to solve a case... And then maybe they go investigating into a speakeasy or something where maybe Prime could be the bartender and Jen is the femme fatale singer... Intrigue, mystery, romance...
_That'd be something I'd be willing to pay top dollar to see, see?_
The aviation guy is supposed to be Howard Hughes . And Neville Sinclair is supposed to be Errol Flynn (Who was accused of being a Nazi spy)
I will be waiting for the sequel you make with baited breath.
When Holden finds a bit he sticks with it lol
David Oyelowo got the rights to Rocketeer and going to produce and Star in a sequel to Rocketeer that will be coming to Disney+.
If Matt is going to be the Rocketeer Holden has to be Peavey.
Another video with the boyz. Let's go!!
Matt I love Maple and Olive 😭 they are adorable
Wasn’t expecting this one
I saw this in the movies! You know, this was an homage to the Commando Cody serials from the 40s? I LOVED those as a kid. One of them was Leonard Nimoy's first acting gig! (Zombies of the Stratosphere)
It took me many years to realize this is base of a marvel comic book