Jacob's Ladder Review - Off The Shelf Reviews
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2020
- Re-uploaded - Gary and Iain review and discuss, Jacob's Ladder (1990) by Director, Adrian Lyne. Starring, Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña and Danny Aiello .
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Ian and Gary are the most underrated movie reviewers on youtube and deserve way more subs! Ive listened to some of the reviews over ten times and they never get old! - Thanks for the awesome content and happy new year guys
I agree. They’re much better than those pretentious UA-camrs who think they know how to critique a film.
Also agree.
I find their reviews as entertaining to watch as RedLetterMedia which is very high praise from me.
Absolutely, you guys are fantastic. Your experience in film editing and detailed analysis of movies and games really helps me relive the moment like no other. I look forward each week to see another review and find myself re-watching some multiple times. Please keep it up, you guys are golden!
I have rewatched many of Gary and Iain ‘s reviews. Their love of films and horror and science fiction in particular is evident. They are truly special. 🙂🙂🙂🙂
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What an incredible touching and comprehensive review of this movie. I have NEVER seen any reviewer approach this movie with so much respect and love. I had tears in my eyes by the end of the review, seeing Gabe come to take Tim Robbins to heaven... THANK YOU for such a wonderful time , just sitting back and listening to two great guys talk about one of my fave movies.
That scene where Danny Aiello speakes of letting go, and seeing that the demons are really angels helping you along the way . . . I don't give a shit what anyone believes, it's irrelevant because his performance there is so goddamn sincere, I tear up just thinking of it.
Nice to see this review return. I miss that sofa :(
So well said!!!
This is for sure one of the best psicological horror experiences, the cinematography, score and performances are great to impulse the sense of surrealism and the film manage to keep you with an uneasy feeling, i agree is an underrated film that deserve most recognition
I've always loved this movie. When it came out in 1990 it was trashed by critics and (perhaps because of bad marketing) a box office flop also... just like The Thing (1982), JL became a cult classic after 2 decades.
We never truely appreciate what we have until it is gone. Such as good practical effects and original ideas
This movie is f'kin amazing (Tim Robbins best performance, closely followed by Shawshank). I was 15 the first time I saw it and it blew my mind. I still have it on VHS 😂
I feel like this and Angel Heart are the perfect double feature. Also, just so you guys know, William Hjortsberg’s publisher FINALLY released the long awaited sequel novel to Falling Angel/Angel Heart. The new novel is called Angel’s Inferno and it’s pretty damn good. Give it a read.
It's funny you say that because I always considered Angel Heart and this companions as well.
You sir are not only right about this and Angel Heart . . . YOU ARE DAMN RIGHT!
I was actually coming on here to comment that "Jacob's Ladder" and "Angel Heart" are 2 of my absolute favorites and go well together. Wonderful review. Nice to see this under-rated gem get a little love!
@@TheShootingShark it’s such an underrated noir classic. I so wish it had more recognition. Great book too.
This is awesome ☺️
I didn't think he was dead the entire time. I think he was somewhere in a fever dream and a realm of reconciling his soul to move on and as things get more surreal the further away from life he moves. I cry every time at the ending. Screw anyone who is disappointed by it. This movie is so deep and cryptic. I love it.
A review of legend for shelfers, often pulled, I believe.
Thanks for the tenacity Iain and Gary.
Happy new year to you and all your following
OTSR 👊
Great to see this review back- cheers guys. OTSR 🤙🤙
One thing that is interesting is that Jacob experiences different forms of the afterlife when he dies and comes back. Purgatory, his life with Jezebel where everything is confusing, Heaven when his son is alive and he's with his family, and Hell when his picture is stolen and he's brought down to the famous corridor scene. Eventually he chooses heaven where Gabe is waiting for him. Beautiful
Great review young men this film changed the way I looked at life and everything in between,RIP Elizabeth Pena.
So happy to finally see this review up, I feel a rewatch coming up! Been a weird year, but I'm glad it's led to here!
Arguably a top 10 horror film that has aged very, very, well. The pathos and atmosphere are nearly perfect. Every emotion is earned. Elizabeth Peña, Tim Robbins, and Danny Aiello have never been better. In fact I’d say the latter 2 deserved awards recognition that year.
Great review that boys to a great movie, seen it many times and Tim Robbins gave imo an Oscar worthy performance as Jacob Singer.
Please do a review of The Hitcher (1986) with Rutger Hauer. Such an underrated movie and one of his best performances. They have not made a Blu ray for it but you can watch it on UA-cam.
Happy New year! Thank you for the consistency and hard work, this is one of my favorite channels and the only one where I can rewatch videos over and over.
Kisses to you guys and the family 🎇🍸❤️
7:37 20:35 forgot about something? :D Happy New Year, blokes :D
I literally just watched this movie for the first time in my life just 5 days ago high off my ass. What a trip that was
I'm tripping on DMT right now...maybe I shouldn't watch this review....naaaah life is an experience! Imma wallow in the chaos!!!!
@@deadskrillaskrit2078 have a good time! Life IS an experience! Hope you enjoy yourself!
@@DLeuther14 thank you mister David
I feel that would be intense asf
From my viewing/repeat viewings : Jacob dies in a state of (drug induced) confusion and terror, coupled with regret/guilt about the death of his son. His visions from that moment on eventually lead to a point where he understands the circumstances and causes of his death, and is then led to a point of absolution for his guilt. And it’s a very painful journey for him. He has to not only reconcile the matter of his betrayal and death, but also his (self perceived) guilt for his sons death, and fantasies of infidelity.
To truly appreciate this movie you also have to take in how right the score for this utterly underrated masterpiece is... it's beautiful.
One thing especially younger viewers probably almost can't envision is the fact that when you've seen this movie alone in 1991 you'll be left alone with your thoughts and questions after the watching experience. If you type in "Jacobs Ladder 1990" in google you've get 266.000 hits but back then your questions remained unanswered. I was 14 years old when I first watched the movie and I found my personal answer in the assumption that the dying Jacob Singer needed a answer to what just happened when his comrades turned at each others and he was deadly wounded. What a unpleasant but yet marvelous experience this movie was.. scared me for life and many thanks I appreciate it.
Nightmare version of Home Alone, that IS McCauley Culkin ... Damn!
A really intelligent and sensitive review... I have had many arguments with friends over the ending. I LOVE it - same as you guys. I think some people feel robbed by it - "and he woke up and it was all a dream" type of ending. But I don't agree at all, it's much more meaningful than that - the ending is totally consistent with everything in the film, it's not like it's been tacked on. Everything is there.
Imagine the original Team Silent reuniting to do an HD Jacob's Ladder video game
Happy new year you guys! Looking forward to more reviews next year!!! :)
Thanks for the upload on my birthday boys! Much love bros
*Turn up!*
The ending of the film wasn’t a twist it was the point.
IKR. The ending is literally in the title.
This one of my all time favourite films. There have been many imitators of this films, like Hellraiser:Inferno, Hellraiser:Hellseeker, Session 9 (which I haven’t seen and need to see), Stay (another film that I haven’t seen and need to see), and Triangle (which was really good), but it was actually Angel Heart which was the first to do it.
One of my all time favorites! Fantastic review as always, lads
This movie is so amazing and Off The Shelf Reviews reviewing it brings it home how much seeing it really meant. The eeriest part of the film to me was always the palm reader at the party. She gave me chills even before I knew or was cognizant of what the ending would be. I agree the chiropractor was amazing and the scenes w/the deceased son was so moving. Not sure if anyone ever drew a parallel between this and the original Carnival of Souls. Both these films felt so impactful in their respective explorations and such and I saw them both in 1990 or 91 and Carnival had been re released not long before that. Also you guys did amazing reviews of George Romero's Night/Dawn/Day Dead films! Thanks for your great work! Stay strong, stay safe, and happy new year!
Great work lads, Happy New Year !
Thanks for all the great uploads this year Happy New Year to you both and all the subscribers here’s hoping 2021 is better 👍🏻
Parody film: Jacob's Bladder
Wow, i got chills when i realized yall were gona review it.
Thanks guy and gleðilegt nýtt ár :)
I just recently subscribed & I'm sooo glad I did. Keep up the gr8 stuff..... Luv it!!!!
I believe this is the best Jacob's Ladder review on youtube! Great job guys! Just finished watching this movie, it's a really great movie and I love the ending!
You're a wizard Gary.
I'd love to see a true full directors cut of this brilliant film, there's at least another 20min that's cut.... Adrian, if you're reading.....DO IT!
Only seen this once when rented. Must give it another watch. Happy New year guys. Have a good one
The one among only a very few films that truly sent me genuine chills down the spine. Fantastic review guys, solid as concrete. Keep up your good work for 2021!
Otis is played by Pruitt Taylor Vince, who was also in "Red Heat" and "Identity".
And Angel Heart and Mississippi Burning
Hey you guys did it! Thank you! Love you guys
thx for the review, that was awesome, keep going guys, greetings from Bosnia
I agree, this movie is very under rated. I think that one reason might be that the story line is so interesting-that there might be military experiments going on. I know that I was rooting for Jacob and his friends to get to the bottom of these horrible experiments. When I first saw the movie, I too was disappointed when I realized what was actually going on. Until I decided to watch it again. Once I knew what was going on, I could appreciate the film for what it is. Excellent review, guys, as always!
Happy new year OTSR
One of the best films of all time in my view, and the best review I've seen. Great Work all round!
Ahh the movie that inspired silent hill series and whole bunch of scary movies and games
I didn't know that! Good trivia mister john!!
One of the greatest serious movies of all time... Great review
I am of the opinion that all three (the ones I know at least) deleted scenes should have been kept. A single argument to remove Jezebel's deleted is that it could suggest there are no demons or angels while I think they have a degree of reality even within Jacob's (or anyone dying) mind.
Jezebel is there as the guy she dances with during the party, and the creature from the ceiling. It's like demons really look like in the movie universe with no "mask". She is indeed one of them, she is there when they carry out the operation because Jacob is not moving on. I disagree she is trying to keep him from moving on, she is still trying to move him away from the family and the son, which are the true "issue". She just uses other methods. Again, she would not be otherwise there with a guy that tells Jacob that he is dead.
The hospital rescue scene is also great because the chiropractor assumes a pose of an Angel with the Sword.
The doctor is also an angel I think, just a fallen one that protects Jacob but has kind of lost the plot while the chiropractor is 100% focused and also dislikes the methods of the demons. But they all have the same aim.
HEY! It's back! 😁 Loved this review.
Gary rockin that George Carlin circa 1996 hairstyle.
I need to watch this movie today! 👌
22:36 my thoughts exactly when I saw that...
The ending makes it. Memorable and moving.
I'm glad I stayed up
Excellent review gents. This is a severely underrated film. My second favorite horror outside of the thing 1982
Great to relive the movie with you guys. You pointed out some new things for me.
brilliant film. seriously disturbing. that scene when he's being wheeled through the hospital is just amazing. I also love a scene you didn't mention when the black chicks on the street sing Mr Postman to him. It's really cool. great review lovely guys. p.s. I really miss the DRD play alongs with Iain. They were great. Lots of love from your big gay following x
For those of you who haven't seen the remake, don't bother, its garbage. The trailer was enough to tell you that its a waste of time. Just watch the original and see how it inspired the Silent Hill franchise.
That's out? Show's how much I cared, eh?
Inclusion
I was excited when I first saw a remake for this was coming out. Once I saw it and the different direction it took, I didn't really like it and it was very forgettable.
Just like all remakes
Who the fuck needs a remake of this outstanding film??
yeah, its a wild movie. the way hes walking around in vietnam seeing all the action, and then back in new yrok with a new wife and seeing the demons on the train and throughout his civilian life.
You guys are the shit. Do Stephen King's Carrie Next
You guys need to review Strange Days. Perfect movie for New Year’s Eve. 🎉🎉🎉
I love Strange Days!!!! 🙂🙂🙂
@@avalangrin4904 damn right! Juliette Lewis as Faith, rocking out singing "Hardly Wait", the usually impeccable Ralph Fiennes as sleazeball Lenny Nero, Angela Bassett as Mace, and Michael Wincott as Philo Gant.......superb movie, very very very much underappreciated
@@mistermatix8241 Don’t forget director, Kathryn Bigelow.
@@avalangrin4904 James Cameron too
I loved this movie. I found out a few weeks ago that there was a remake, and I was totally disappointed by it.
Good video, lads! Thanks!
I remember this as a teen. It blew my mind. But did the drugs firefight, etc, really happen? Or did he make it up, survivors guilt? Type of thing????
Happy new year
Oh yes, ive been waiting for this one !
Iain, Gary, been watching a lot of your reviews lately, just wondered if you guy's could review Joel Schumacher's 8MM.
State of Grace came out the same year
I always liked the ending, Jacob actually died in Vietnam, giving his life for his country and his friends, like so many thousands of others. He can now rest in peace, his suffering is over, the undiscovered country before him. It's okay that he resisted, fought to the last, who wouldn't? But this journey is now over, a new one has begun. Because in the end it's ok. It's okay, all any of us can ever hope for deep down is that death is not the end and one day we will united with those we loved and lost. It's okay...
Great review chaps, may I recommend a couple of films, one of which was also recommended by another subscriber here - Japanese Zombie film " I am a Hero" Influences include Romero, and has a few nods to the video game "Left 4 Dead" it's brilliantly shot I'd put it up there with "Train to Busan". Right up your street I'd say! Also just seen a German Horror / Thriller called "The Golden Glove" based on a serial killer in the red-light district of Hamburg in the 70's. It's genuinely disturbing, the young German actor who plays the killer gives a stunning performance, and a few very funny scenes in there too. Future cult classic for sure. Keep on doing what you're doing fellas!
Great analysis and review - totally agree with you both on everything .... Jacobs Ladder is a masterpiece of horror mystery drama ... a brilliant film.
This is a massive coincidence! I watched half the film last night, watching the second half tonight! So I will return to your review once finished :)
The scene were Jezebels eyes turn black is imo one of the best jumpscares of all time, and that is how you do a jump scare, no loud music whatsoever and it was great. Horror films today are terrible with the jumpscares, the key to a good jumpscare is to not do them often and don’t have that annoying loud bass sound with it.
Let's do this #shelfers! Happy nearly new years! 👊
Hope u guys soon review 3 o’clock high. Happy new year!
happy new year lads
Bergen is a real street here in Brooklyn I’ve been to that stop on the train
another excellent film choice, love you guys!
this movie is a true classic... saw it as a teen in the late 90s... very good movie!!!
You guys are the best
Yet another great review from ots
The couch is back!
reminds me of Rabbit in Your Headlights.
Devil's are really angels, right?
Oh gents!!! About time!!! Awesome
7:37 thank me later 😜
Edit: when talking about Jezebel don’t forget what the meaning to that name is
Yea i caught that too if ur not on a certain level spiritually u are gonna miss what this movie is really about
One of my favorites. I appreciate so much more upon repeated viewings.
nice review, thank you
One of the best films ever made.
Obs: the scare effects of this movie influenced most of the scare effects of "the house of hunted hill" of 99
Oh my goodness! I hope you guys do review ARLINGTON ROAD. That's a rather underrated thriller.
I love this film thank you
Great review of a great movie. Gents, keep-up your great work.
You should do Escape From New York/L.A.
I love your movie reviews.
Maaaan I miss the couch....
Davidson Thompson as the evil nightmare surgeon......oh god. From the horrible journey through the bloodied asylum, to the horror of THAT operating theatre, outdated equipment, squeaky wheels, the uncaring, cold dialogue "you're dead, you've been killed, HOME? this is your home!" the pulling on of surgical rubber gloves......the one scene I ALWAYS remember when someone mentions Jacob's Ladder. Even when I've gone in for surgery, it makes me think of it......shudder, and as for the needle into Jacob's forehead......just no
Last highway review 🚘😎
I remember watching it and hating the ending. Now I know, that I was too young to understand it properly.
I'm going to sit down and watch it properly again.
This film just has the best interpretation of the afterlife, demons and angels... But the question that always bugs me is, who killed Jacob? Did he die fighting Viet soldiers, or US soldiers? If the former, why did he imagine it as the latter? If the latter, why? Was ladder the drug real? If so, how did he find out about it, or did he just make it up based on rumours? Does it even matter or is it a complete red herring?
I believe the actual hallucinogenic scene was real, because he gives a very confused and shocking look at the dude that killed him right before he falls to the ground. Also, at the end of the film, there is a box of text that appears and says something like “During the vietnam war, it was believed that US soldiers were given a very dangerous hallucinogenic to kill eachother” or something like that. So, in my opinion, i believe the whole scene with soldiers convulsing and being catatonic actually happened, and Jacob tries to piece it together in his head after he starts dying.
Watch the movie again. It's clearly depicted.
@@maxxdahl6062 I've seen it at least twenty times over the last twenty years, so why don't you just tell me where it's clearly depicted...
@@greenisnotacreativecolour In the movie. Repeatedly. Multiple times. So I have a feeling you may have watched half of it once.
@@maxxdahl6062 Timecode then? DVD chapter? Just describe the scene? Or perhaps you're just trolling and don't actually have a clue. Actually, I think you only think you understood it.