The follow up to this must be Coming to America. Eddie kills it in that one. There's a small callback to this one, which makes it the perfect Eddie follow up movie.
Don Ameche's "Fuck him!" as his brother has a heart attack is one of the best F bombs in cinema. Always something really funny about a nice old man playing an A-hole 🤣🤣🤣
@@meminustherandomgooglenumbers I believe that is related to his use of the N-word in the bathroom scene. He requested a small crew and apologized to everyone. Great guy.
"They set him up!" The cop who 'finds' the PCP is played by Frank Oz, puppeteer, director, and voice of Yoda, Miss Piggy, and other Muppets He cameos in many of John Landis' comedies, so always keep an eye (or ear) out for him 😉
You were close in your analysis of the market scene. They didn't buy shares at the beginning. When it hit 142 they started selling short, they were promising to sell shares they didn't yet have. Everyone thought it would keep going up so they jumped on them. Then when the price crashed they bought up the shares to cover the ones they had already promised to sell for around $100 more than they werenow buying them
Thank you so much. For the first time since watching it as a child in 1988, l finally understand what’s happening. It all makes sense now. I just didn’t know you could sell shares you don’t actually own. Sounds very financial risky. Unless you have inside info. Cheers again.
@@Paul77ozee They're called "futures" and the agreements to buy or sell are futures contracts, which are legally binding agreements to buy or sell at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future. Our boys are legally bound to purchase at $32 and to sell at $146.
@@Paul77ozee anyone can do it, you just have to have enough money in the system for them to allow you to. thats why the group all gave their life savings to do the scam.
Actually, what Winthorpe and Vallentine did was short the stock- They essentially borrowed the stock owned by someone else, when it hit a high point before the real crop report came out, they sold it, which started driving the price down. When the crop report came out the stock went into a free fall. At some point they started to buy the stock back at a lower price (they have to end with the same number of shares they started with). At the end of trading they return the shares they borrowed plus a percentage of the profits. They did exactly what you are suppose to do with stocks-buy low and sell high... they just did it in reverse-selling high then buying back low. Shorting stock is extremey risky in most cases because it requires predicting ACURATELY what a stock is going to do on a certain day. They of course (illegally) used insider information and knew exactly what the stock was going to do.
Out of curiosity, I like to check the dollar figures mentioned in older movies on an online inflation calculator. Here are some of the equivalents from this 1983 movie. The Dukes made an extra $347K in the car on the way to work at the beginning of the movie. In 2024, that would be $1,061,562 Billy Ray's starting salary was $80k. In 2024 that would be $244,741. The vase he broke cost $35k ($107,074), was insured for $50k ($152,962), netting them a profit of $45,888. "42 Grand in T-bills" = $128,488. $394million in '83 would be $1.2billion now.
I don't know how much you know about politics, but the short curly haired baggage handler on the train was the future US Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken.
The other baggage handler was Tom Davis. He and Al Franken were a comedy duo called "Franken & Davis. Both of them were writers for SNL in the early years and would appear in a few sketches.
The trading scene: Dan & Eddie knew the $ of FCOJ would drop once the real report came out so they waited for the price to rise due to the huge amount of Duke buying then sold short @ $140. Then at the bottom they covered their shorts at $30, pocketing the -$110 per contract. Also, this was done using leveraged futures contracts, not stock, so they could buy something like 8x their actual cash value in contracts, massively amplifying the gain. Hope that helps & thanks for the fun review. Your laugh is amazing. Cheers!
2:38 That's actually the old location of the Rocky statue, at the Spectrum arena, which is now torn down. The statue is now next to the steps he ran up at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
"We only had 3 channels, so we did not watch it". Signing here as "laughing in Finland", when I grew up Finnish TV only had 2 channels, YLE 1 and YLE 2, and everyone watched those because you got what you saw. Later we got a third channel, MTV 3 (nothing to do with music channel; stands for "advertisement television"), and it was the first and only commercial channel. Much later we got "Nelonen" (channel 4), which was also commercial. Also sometime in the 90's we got cable TV's for those with munah, so they could watch classics like MTV (the real deal this time), Eurosport, some subchannel of the NBC and some obscure European channels.
When I was a child (around 1980) we only had 3 channels in Germany, with the first two sharing the program for half the day. When the private channels came along at some point, a completely new world was revealed and today with cable television, I have almost a hundred channels. If I also had satellite television, the number would be many times higher, which is of course a joke compared to America.
27:51 - a lot of folks have missed it, but the Amtrak cargo worker on the left is Al Franken. Originally a 'sketch writer' for "Saturday Night Live", eventually became a US Senator from MN in the late '00s!
One of my favourite movies - from one of my favourite reactors :). LOVED in the beginning how you kept commenting on the woodwork. And you gave the most detailed description of the stock exchange than any reactor I've seen that's watched this. Great job! :). If you liked this - you'll love Secret of My Success. Would love to see your reaction to it.
27:48 thats the weird guy from Airplane! That made a hat, a broach and a teridacle with the newspaper. And the guy in the monkey suite is James Belushi, Jim's brother.
- Released in 1983; directed by John Landis; written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. - Don Ameche (Mortimer Duke, the one with the mustache) was reluctant to say "F*** him!" when Randolph collapsed to the ground at the end. He would only do one take of it, and apologized to everybody for saying it. - Wall Street actually passed a rule about insider trading based off of this movie. It's called the Eddie Murphy Rule. - Both Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy (Randolph Duke) had career revivals after this movie, Ameche in particular - he would win an Oscar for Supporting Actor two years later for the film "Cocoon." - Received one Oscar nomination for Best Original Score (Elmer Bernstein), but didn't win its category. But Jamie Lee Curtis and Denholm Elliott (Coleman) won the BAFTA, the British version of the Oscar, for supporting performances, and the writers received a nomination as well in Britain. - The idea for Trading Places started because writer Timothy Harris had a regular tennis game with two upscale, snobbish brothers who would bet on anything and everything. - Originally, the roles were going to go to Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, based on the success they had with their 1980 film Stir Crazy. Pryor set himself on fire during a drug binge, and Eddie Murphy was suggested as a replacement. Dan Aykroyd got the role because of his chemistry with John Landis. Many thought Aykroyd was ridding John Belushi's coattails during their time together on Saturday Night Live, and weren't sure if he could carry the role on his own. Similarly, Jamie Lee Curtis was known for horror movies, and the studio didn't think she could do comedy, so they almost passed on her. - G. Gordon Liddy (yes, the same man involved in Watergate) was offered the role of Clarence Beeks, and almost did it, until he found out about the gorilla scene. Reportedly, he found it as beneath his dignity. British actors John Gielgud and Ronnie Barker (from the comedy duo The Two Ronnies) were considered for Coleman; Gielgud was reportedly a little old, and Barker didn't want to travel too far away from his home in the UK. - John Landis wanted a classic "Golden Age" actor who wasn't known for playing villains for the role of Mortimer. Originally, Oscar winner Ray Milland was suggested, but he failed a physical and couldn't get insurance, so they passed on him. Landis then thought of Ameche, but was told he was dead. Landis contacted the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) for confirmation, and they said Ameche didn't have an agent, and his royalty checks were sent to his son in Arizona. However, a Paramount Pictures secretary found Ameche in Santa Monica. It was Ameche's first film in about a decade.
@@sharpgirl72 There are a few I have in mind. Top 5 choices for now: 1. The Departed (it's my favorite movie) 2. Parenthood 3. Rat Race 4. Fargo 5. The Sting Others I'd consider: On the Waterfront (B&W, but it's still great); Chicago (imo, the best movie musical ever made, but *because* it's a musical, I'm not sure how the edit would work); No Country for Old Men; In the Heat of the Night; Fences
James, it's always a pleasure watching you react to these movies. If memory serves me, Don Ameche apologizes before he dropped his F bomb. Great reaction as always.🖖🏾👊🏾✌🏾
I have watched the full movie several times and watched reaction to the movie probably 20 times by now, but you are the only person who explained the whole stock market thing which I never understood until now. Thank you
The two guys that worked with the ape used to be writers on SNL. The shorter of the two, Al Franken, went into politics, wrote several books, including Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.
Now you have to do Coming to America. There is a reference to this film in it although that film has nothing to do with this one, just what they call an Easter Egg
I think it was different in the stock market scene: They first sold without having anything, as the accounts only have to be balanced at the end of the day, so they bought again later in order to balance their account. Unfortunately, my theory didn't understand why they needed the money from the butler and the whore.
James - Yes, this IS a Christmas movie. Not exactly your "traditional" kind of Christmas movie.... but definitely a Christmas movie. Much like Lethal Weapon, Gremlins, and Die Hard. It takes place around Christmas, and has some Christmas themes to it... so it counts.
33:50 - basically, the boys sold shares that they bought at $29 for $142 (some fluctuation in the middle, of course). That's a good spread! They at least quadrupled their investment plus what they got with leverage.
Jamie Lee Curtis‘s mother is Janet Leigh, who was the star of the Alfred Hitchcock movie psycho. Her father is Tony Curtis, who was in some like a hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.
No Sir, they did not have any stocks at the beginning. They just had the capital from the savings of Ophelia and Coleman, and the fee the Dukes were going to give to Beeks. They used this money, only after the stocks had plummeted and they could buy cheap, and sell high since they had made those "future"-contracts at high price. Dan knew the game and with the insider knowledge + the false info to the Dukes, was able to capitalize big time, even with the limited finances of what they had.
No need to buy options at the beginning. They started selling options at around 140 that would be covered by an equal number of shares that they would buy at much lower bids later. Settling at the end left everyone with the difference between the bought and sold prices. So they were covering sales at 140 with sales purchases of a sliding value down to 29. They could easily handle margin calls with the cash they came in with and their profits from every sales that they had made. It's a lot like going light on a poker bet.
Almost got the stock story perfect. They sold stocks they didn't own, then when the price dropped, they bought back the stock they sold before the day's end. The cash they had was proof of leverage.
They made their money by short-selling. They short-sold in the 140s, before the crop report came out, and bought back in the 50s, and pocketed the difference.
Bryan Cranston in the pilot episode of Breaking Bad paid homage to Dan Aykroyd's scene in this movie by pulling the trigger of a gun on himself to no effect, only for it to go off when he throws the gun away.
Thanks for explaining what actually happened at the Stock Exchange. I've seen this movie many , many times, but never bothered to figure that part out.
Oh man, I was so proud I pulled that one out of my hat. :-) I'm sure you're correct and I'm wrong. I don't google things like that. It just ruines movies for me.
Please watch Coming to America next because there is a connection to this movie. And it’s another Eddie Murphy film you will love it. Great reaction. Have a good one.
What I like about this movie is how there’s no character growth for Winthorpe but at the end of the movie you like him even though he’s the same snobby elitist you hated at the start.
I have been to Tanzania quite the few times in my past. I have also met people from Kameroon. I can assure you, they did not speak like Eddie in the train sequence. Would you believe, they spoke English rather clearly? They were also not obsessed with beef jerky.
What they did wasn't illigal at the time this was made it directly led to a law about what they did, pretty sure you explained it right but these are futures contract so the locked price to sell it was established on the floor just at s future date
One correction on the stock trading. I don't think they bought any ahead of time; they were short selling. Also...now that you've seen this you should watch Coming to America.
Thanks for the stocks talk at the end. I still dont fully get it, and that's mostly because it's not relevant in my day to day to need to know it. If i ever have the money to invest, I'm sure I could understand. I do like this movie. It's such a good payoff at the end, while being very entertaining throughout.
3:15 - he finished Harvard and works in a major company. Of course he can open his door. He can also shave himself and pick his clothes. But then Coleman is left without a respectable and profitable job. Did you noticed that Louis was waiting patiently while Coleman, without much hurry, was putting on his gloves? This will maybe help explain my point better: A European tv show crew visited a private residence of a wealthy family in India. They were shown around the house (not large, but posh) and at the end they were introduced to 9 house workers. Family itself was just 4 people: parents and 2 young kids. So they were asked: do you really need full time 9 people working for you? Surely 4-5 would be more than enough for a house and family this size? To which the wife replied: in India, large amount of people working for you is a matter of pride. Of course we can do with less employees, but the fact that we hire 9 people means there are 9 families in the city that do not go hungry and have a roof over their heads.
Hi James. Have you ever heard the term, "a patron of the arts"? A patron is someone who supports artists and their endeavors. Patreon is the name of the platform that supports UA-cam creators. The people who subscribe to your Patreon page are therefore your patrons. They are not called patreons. I apologize for sounding snotty about about this, especially since you are such a nice guy, but it just drives me crazy. Believe me, plenty of UA-cam creators get this wrong as well. I am one of your patrons and I very much enjoy your content. I hope you continue to grow your channel.
Thanks for the clarification. It's actually a word association trick used in marketing. You keep saying the word as many times as you can to get the user invested in the word even if being used incorrectly this is a sound marketing practice.
@@AwesomeUSMovies Interesting. Funnily enough, I was involved in marketing at my last job but didn't use this technique. Too late now because I've retired! I now have more time to watch your videos!
oh if you do the wolf of wall street bring in the wife or children. its wholesome. also, do you have an advisor to help you with all the massive amount of pop culture, tropes, and memes that exist in media?
Make sure to check out my 2nd channel youtube.com/@awesomeshows
I hope you do “Coming to America” next!
Yes Yes
You absolutely, REALLY NEED to watch "Coming to America"!!
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Personally, I don't think it's nearly as good as this one, but it's very much worth watching for one particular scene!
For no reason connected to this film whatsoever.
The follow up to this must be Coming to America. Eddie kills it in that one. There's a small callback to this one, which makes it the perfect Eddie follow up movie.
"It was the Dukes. It was the Dukes" Eddie Murphy getting choked out gets me every time.
Cut to Dan cleaning his shotgun and Colman bringing more 🤣🤣🤣
Chocked ?
@@tempsitch5632 thank you grammar police. Adjustments made.
Dan's scream always gets me
Don Ameche's "Fuck him!" as his brother has a heart attack is one of the best F bombs in cinema. Always something really funny about a nice old man playing an A-hole 🤣🤣🤣
I heard he wouldn’t even say it unless he was allowed to apologize to everyone on set beforehand? 🤔
@@meminustherandomgooglenumbers I believe that is related to his use of the N-word in the bathroom scene. He requested a small crew and apologized to everyone. Great guy.
If I remember correctly, he said ahead of time he would only do one take, and not one more.
@@LordVolkov fair point!
He was a decent man and a pro.
"They set him up!"
The cop who 'finds' the PCP is played by Frank Oz, puppeteer, director, and voice of Yoda, Miss Piggy, and other Muppets
He cameos in many of John Landis' comedies, so always keep an eye (or ear) out for him 😉
Richard Hunt, who was Scooter, Statler, Janice Beaker and Sweetums was also the stock broker at the end of the movie.
I always remember his cameo in An American Werewolf in London playing someone from the American embassy.
@@d.-_-.b Another great John Landis. Frank showing up is so random 🤣🤣🤣
You were close in your analysis of the market scene. They didn't buy shares at the beginning. When it hit 142 they started selling short, they were promising to sell shares they didn't yet have. Everyone thought it would keep going up so they jumped on them. Then when the price crashed they bought up the shares to cover the ones they had already promised to sell for around $100 more than they werenow buying them
Spot on!
Thank you so much. For the first time since watching it as a child in 1988, l finally understand what’s happening. It all makes sense now. I just didn’t know you could sell shares you don’t actually own. Sounds very financial risky. Unless you have inside info. Cheers again.
@@Paul77ozee They're called "futures" and the agreements to buy or sell are futures contracts, which are legally binding agreements to buy or sell at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future. Our boys are legally bound to purchase at $32 and to sell at $146.
Futures trading is a lot closer to gambling than traditional investing. You really can end up losing your shirt.@@Paul77ozee
@@Paul77ozee anyone can do it, you just have to have enough money in the system for them to allow you to. thats why the group all gave their life savings to do the scam.
21:03 the guy at the Pawnshop is Bo Diddly, famous blues guitar player. You might remeber him from the Nike "Bo knows" commercials with Bo Jackson.
If you haven't seen it, next movie should be "Coming to America". Another great Eddie Murphy comedy that has a tie in with this movie.
Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche were heartthrobs during the golden era of Hollywood. You should check out their early films.
"Man, if we wanted bubbles, we had to fart in the tub"!
If we wanted jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub.
The actor who plays Coleman (the butler) also played Marcus Brody (the museum curator and friend of Indy) in the Indiana Jones movies
Oh yeah, good catch
Denholm Elliott
Actually, what Winthorpe and Vallentine did was short the stock- They essentially borrowed the stock owned by someone else, when it hit a high point before the real crop report came out, they sold it, which started driving the price down. When the crop report came out the stock went into a free fall. At some point they started to buy the stock back at a lower price (they have to end with the same number of shares they started with). At the end of trading they return the shares they borrowed plus a percentage of the profits. They did exactly what you are suppose to do with stocks-buy low and sell high... they just did it in reverse-selling high then buying back low. Shorting stock is extremey risky in most cases because it requires predicting ACURATELY what a stock is going to do on a certain day. They of course (illegally) used insider information and knew exactly what the stock was going to do.
“I… am a Chainbelt in Kung-Fu. Bruce Lee was my teacher.” 😂🤜🏾🫷🏾
Karate men bruise on the inside!
@@sharpgirl72 but he wouldn’t know that, cuz he’s just a big Barry White looking MoFo.
Did u notice who was in the jail cell with Eddie Murphy? It was Gus from Breaking Bad.
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Giancarlo Esposito
Why can’t anyone give the actor’s actual name, instead of just telling us what else they’ve been in?
No not Rudy’s dad but rather Marla’s dad in The league of their Own 👍🏼 Coming to America is gonna make sense when u get to it
Love that you're one of the few reactors who actually understood the ending.
"Distinguished Gentleman" - another Eddie Murphy 90s comedy about con men and Washington politics. Underrated film; Murphy has a lot of fun in it.
The duck hunt scene always gets me...
@@thejamppa "Must have had a heart attack...."
Out of curiosity, I like to check the dollar figures mentioned in older movies on an online inflation calculator. Here are some of the equivalents from this 1983 movie.
The Dukes made an extra $347K in the car on the way to work at the beginning of the movie. In 2024, that would be $1,061,562
Billy Ray's starting salary was $80k. In 2024 that would be $244,741.
The vase he broke cost $35k ($107,074), was insured for $50k ($152,962), netting them a profit of $45,888.
"42 Grand in T-bills" = $128,488.
$394million in '83 would be $1.2billion now.
I don't know how much you know about politics, but the short curly haired baggage handler on the train was the future US Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken.
The other baggage handler was Tom Davis. He and Al Franken were a comedy duo called "Franken & Davis. Both of them were writers for SNL in the early years and would appear in a few sketches.
The trading scene: Dan & Eddie knew the $ of FCOJ would drop once the real report came out so they waited for the price to rise due to the huge amount of Duke buying then sold short @ $140. Then at the bottom they covered their shorts at $30, pocketing the -$110 per contract.
Also, this was done using leveraged futures contracts, not stock, so they could buy something like 8x their actual cash value in contracts, massively amplifying the gain.
Hope that helps & thanks for the fun review. Your laugh is amazing.
Cheers!
2:38 That's actually the old location of the Rocky statue, at the Spectrum arena, which is now torn down. The statue is now next to the steps he ran up at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Oh I thought they moved it from there too
It was the prisoners who stole Winthorpe's clothes as why he didn't get them back. This was a great reaction
Glad you enjoyed
"We only had 3 channels, so we did not watch it". Signing here as "laughing in Finland", when I grew up Finnish TV only had 2 channels, YLE 1 and YLE 2, and everyone watched those because you got what you saw. Later we got a third channel, MTV 3 (nothing to do with music channel; stands for "advertisement television"), and it was the first and only commercial channel. Much later we got "Nelonen" (channel 4), which was also commercial. Also sometime in the 90's we got cable TV's for those with munah, so they could watch classics like MTV (the real deal this time), Eurosport, some subchannel of the NBC and some obscure European channels.
When I was a child (around 1980) we only had 3 channels in Germany, with the first two sharing the program for half the day. When the private channels came along at some point, a completely new world was revealed and today with cable television, I have almost a hundred channels. If I also had satellite television, the number would be many times higher, which is of course a joke compared to America.
I remember when 4th and 5th channel came. And oh the miracle when Music TV came available thru cable.
27:51 - a lot of folks have missed it, but the Amtrak cargo worker on the left is Al Franken. Originally a 'sketch writer' for "Saturday Night Live", eventually became a US Senator from MN in the late '00s!
And his old comedy partner from the SNL days, Tom Davis.
17:00 That clothespin is across the street from City Hall, currently in front of the Penn Medicine building.
What Dan put in his Santa coat that you didn't recognize was a hunk of Salmon.
What??? yuck in his coat
@@AwesomeUSMoviesand then he ate it, beard hair and all, on the bus! 🤢
One of my favourite movies - from one of my favourite reactors :). LOVED in the beginning how you kept commenting on the woodwork. And you gave the most detailed description of the stock exchange than any reactor I've seen that's watched this. Great job! :). If you liked this - you'll love Secret of My Success. Would love to see your reaction to it.
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
@@AwesomeUSMovies Awesome! I know you'll love it :)
27:48 thats the weird guy from Airplane! That made a hat, a broach and a teridacle with the newspaper.
And the guy in the monkey suite is James Belushi, Jim's brother.
A Pterodactyl??
Another vote to say Coming To America has to be one to follow this!
- Released in 1983; directed by John Landis; written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.
- Don Ameche (Mortimer Duke, the one with the mustache) was reluctant to say "F*** him!" when Randolph collapsed to the ground at the end. He would only do one take of it, and apologized to everybody for saying it.
- Wall Street actually passed a rule about insider trading based off of this movie. It's called the Eddie Murphy Rule.
- Both Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy (Randolph Duke) had career revivals after this movie, Ameche in particular - he would win an Oscar for Supporting Actor two years later for the film "Cocoon."
- Received one Oscar nomination for Best Original Score (Elmer Bernstein), but didn't win its category. But Jamie Lee Curtis and Denholm Elliott (Coleman) won the BAFTA, the British version of the Oscar, for supporting performances, and the writers received a nomination as well in Britain.
- The idea for Trading Places started because writer Timothy Harris had a regular tennis game with two upscale, snobbish brothers who would bet on anything and everything.
- Originally, the roles were going to go to Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, based on the success they had with their 1980 film Stir Crazy. Pryor set himself on fire during a drug binge, and Eddie Murphy was suggested as a replacement. Dan Aykroyd got the role because of his chemistry with John Landis. Many thought Aykroyd was ridding John Belushi's coattails during their time together on Saturday Night Live, and weren't sure if he could carry the role on his own. Similarly, Jamie Lee Curtis was known for horror movies, and the studio didn't think she could do comedy, so they almost passed on her.
- G. Gordon Liddy (yes, the same man involved in Watergate) was offered the role of Clarence Beeks, and almost did it, until he found out about the gorilla scene. Reportedly, he found it as beneath his dignity. British actors John Gielgud and Ronnie Barker (from the comedy duo The Two Ronnies) were considered for Coleman; Gielgud was reportedly a little old, and Barker didn't want to travel too far away from his home in the UK.
- John Landis wanted a classic "Golden Age" actor who wasn't known for playing villains for the role of Mortimer. Originally, Oscar winner Ray Milland was suggested, but he failed a physical and couldn't get insurance, so they passed on him. Landis then thought of Ameche, but was told he was dead. Landis contacted the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) for confirmation, and they said Ameche didn't have an agent, and his royalty checks were sent to his son in Arizona. However, a Paramount Pictures secretary found Ameche in Santa Monica. It was Ameche's first film in about a decade.
.@EricAKATheBelgianGuy, I want to know what movie you'd like AwesomeUSMovies to react to????
@@sharpgirl72 There are a few I have in mind.
Top 5 choices for now:
1. The Departed (it's my favorite movie)
2. Parenthood
3. Rat Race
4. Fargo
5. The Sting
Others I'd consider: On the Waterfront (B&W, but it's still great); Chicago (imo, the best movie musical ever made, but *because* it's a musical, I'm not sure how the edit would work); No Country for Old Men; In the Heat of the Night; Fences
Excellent!!!!!!! I appreciate it. And as always, love love love the movie trivia.
James, it's always a pleasure watching you react to these movies. If memory serves me, Don Ameche apologizes before he dropped his F bomb. Great reaction as always.🖖🏾👊🏾✌🏾
Ameche told the director "You'll only get one take"
Don Ameche had a radio show way back when called The Bickersons. Funny stuff.
Instant thumbs up, HIM reacting to THIS? Can’t wait
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@ 26:46 ...well that idea fails to Duke brothers in "Coming to America"
I have watched the full movie several times and watched reaction to the movie probably 20 times by now, but you are the only person who explained the whole stock market thing which I never understood until now.
Thank you
The two guys that worked with the ape used to be writers on SNL. The shorter of the two, Al Franken, went into politics, wrote several books, including Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.
Now you have to do Coming to America. There is a reference to this film in it although that film has nothing to do with this one, just what they call an Easter Egg
will do
"That'll do Donkey. . ."
Eddie Murphy was the voice of Donkey in the Shrek movies.
And Mushu the tiny dragon in Mulan.
Oh cool. Have seen Mulan yet.
@@AwesomeUSMovies The animated version is great.
I don't know anything about the more recent live-action version.
A classic Christmas movie 😂
Dan Ackroyd as a filthy drunk Santa 😂
If you ever get a chance you should watch Eddie Murphy Raw
Absolute classic
The actor who plays Coleman, is also Marcus Brody from Indiania Jones.
The duke brothers are actors who were very active back in the 1940s and 1950s
Thank you for the stock explanation. Seen this 100 times but it goes over my head. And I'm going to go subscribe to your other channel. 🙂
I think it was different in the stock market scene: They first sold without having anything, as the accounts only have to be balanced at the end of the day, so they bought again later in order to balance their account.
Unfortunately, my theory didn't understand why they needed the money from the butler and the whore.
Because only rich people get to gamble with money they don't have.
No, it doesn't make any sense. Yes, that's actually how it works.
You missed a very young Giancarlo Esposito, aka Gustavo Fring from Breaking Bad. He was the young guy in the jail cell that Eddie was bragging to.
Moff Gideon in The Mandalorean.
He’s also in “Harley Davison and the Marlboro Man” with Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke.
James - Yes, this IS a Christmas movie. Not exactly your "traditional" kind of Christmas movie.... but definitely a Christmas movie. Much like Lethal Weapon, Gremlins, and Die Hard. It takes place around Christmas, and has some Christmas themes to it... so it counts.
33:50 - basically, the boys sold shares that they bought at $29 for $142 (some fluctuation in the middle, of course). That's a good spread! They at least quadrupled their investment plus what they got with leverage.
GREAT MOVIE! About to watch your Reactions...
Jamie Lee Curtis‘s mother is Janet Leigh, who was the star of the Alfred Hitchcock movie psycho. Her father is Tony Curtis, who was in some like a hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.
No Sir, they did not have any stocks at the beginning. They just had the capital from the savings of Ophelia and Coleman, and the fee the Dukes were going to give to Beeks. They used this money, only after the stocks had plummeted and they could buy cheap, and sell high since they had made those "future"-contracts at high price. Dan knew the game and with the insider knowledge + the false info to the Dukes, was able to capitalize big time, even with the limited finances of what they had.
Coming To America is mandatory watching after seeing this movie.
That one will be coming to UA-cam in the next month or so. Full reaction already available on Patreon.com/awesomeusmovies
No need to buy options at the beginning. They started selling options at around 140 that would be covered by an equal number of shares that they would buy at much lower bids later. Settling at the end left everyone with the difference between the bought and sold prices. So they were covering sales at 140 with sales purchases of a sliding value down to 29. They could easily handle margin calls with the cash they came in with and their profits from every sales that they had made. It's a lot like going light on a poker bet.
I would think a swing like that would draw an investigation..... But yeah.. for comedy.....
That was Gustavo from breaking bad in jail with Billy Ray. 8:59
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Great movie & great reaction James. Keep em coming, I also suggest Coming To America
Yeah Philly!
Jamie Lee Curtis....best part of this movie
she was pretty great
LMAO "lots of boobies everywhere" I love your voice commentary 😂😂😂 Also please make sure to watch Coming to America next
Almost got the stock story perfect. They sold stocks they didn't own, then when the price dropped, they bought back the stock they sold before the day's end. The cash they had was proof of leverage.
The Roche-Foucault watch is real. It really is handmade. The pawnbroker was played by the legendary Bo Diddley.
I know a little bit about watches but I'd never heard of that one.
This film is full of cameos, but for one of the leads in a film i think youd enjoy see Cocoon
The Big Short is a great wallstreet/stock market movie!
They made their money by short-selling. They short-sold in the 140s, before the crop report came out, and bought back in the 50s, and pocketed the difference.
Bryan Cranston in the pilot episode of Breaking Bad paid homage to Dan Aykroyd's scene in this movie by pulling the trigger of a gun on himself to no effect, only for it to go off when he throws the gun away.
Great reaction- now you will get the references when you watch Coming To America :).
Thanks for explaining what actually happened at the Stock Exchange. I've seen this movie many , many times, but never bothered to figure that part out.
Glad it was helpful!
Actually that actor was not Rudy’s dad. I think you saw A League of Their Own. He played the father of Marla who reluctantly left to join the league
Oh man, I was so proud I pulled that one out of my hat. :-) I'm sure you're correct and I'm wrong. I don't google things like that. It just ruines movies for me.
I hope you watch Coming to America for a glimpse of two of the characters from this movie. Good times!
Yup already did. It's over on Patreon. UA-cam edit coming soon
Babylon 5 could be a great show to watch. It’s one of the best sci fi shows, and that’s coming from a Star Trek fan.
Funny thing you mentioned breaking bad on your other channel, someone was in the cell with Billy Ray from breaking bad
Some commented it was the chicken man
Please watch Coming to America next because there is a connection to this movie. And it’s another Eddie Murphy film you will love it. Great reaction. Have a good one.
It's been watched and currently being edited. Comes out next month
Now you must watch 'Coming to America' 1988! You'll see why.
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
What I like about this movie is how there’s no character growth for Winthorpe but at the end of the movie you like him even though he’s the same snobby elitist you hated at the start.
I have been to Tanzania quite the few times in my past. I have also met people from Kameroon. I can assure you, they did not speak like Eddie in the train sequence. Would you believe, they spoke English rather clearly? They were also not obsessed with beef jerky.
Funny
You should check out the film see no evil, hear no evil(1989)for a classic comedy duo
What they did wasn't illigal at the time this was made it directly led to a law about what they did, pretty sure you explained it right but these are futures contract so the locked price to sell it was established on the floor just at s future date
One correction on the stock trading. I don't think they bought any ahead of time; they were short selling. Also...now that you've seen this you should watch Coming to America.
If you watch one of the best shows ever made “24” I’m in for it all.
Thanks for the stocks talk at the end. I still dont fully get it, and that's mostly because it's not relevant in my day to day to need to know it. If i ever have the money to invest, I'm sure I could understand.
I do like this movie. It's such a good payoff at the end, while being very entertaining throughout.
Glad you enjoyed
Now that you've seen this you have to have to have to watch Coming to America
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
Hello from a fellow Iowan. Enjoy your reaction. Movie recomendation staring Jamie Lee Curtis called A Fish Called Wanda. Very funny movie
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
You missed Gus from Breaking Bad in the jail cell
What? He was?
There are 3 Beverly Hills Cop movies and another coming to Netflix this year
If the room at the heritage club is real i know ill never see the inside of it
3:15 - he finished Harvard and works in a major company. Of course he can open his door. He can also shave himself and pick his clothes. But then Coleman is left without a respectable and profitable job. Did you noticed that Louis was waiting patiently while Coleman, without much hurry, was putting on his gloves?
This will maybe help explain my point better:
A European tv show crew visited a private residence of a wealthy family in India. They were shown around the house (not large, but posh) and at the end they were introduced to 9 house workers. Family itself was just 4 people: parents and 2 young kids. So they were asked: do you really need full time 9 people working for you? Surely 4-5 would be more than enough for a house and family this size? To which the wife replied: in India, large amount of people working for you is a matter of pride. Of course we can do with less employees, but the fact that we hire 9 people means there are 9 families in the city that do not go hungry and have a roof over their heads.
Now you can watch Coming To America
To know more about the fate of the Duke Brothers, watch "Coming To America" next 😄😄
Will do
Now coming to America
Yup, already watched it. In the process of being edited. It will come out next month.
Don Ameche REFUSED to use the N word in the bathroom scene. Eddie Murphy really had to convince him
That's really nice to hear. I'm very offended by that word.
Coleman got the best looking woman in the end.
I like your reactions very much; please watch another Dan Aykroyd movie Spies Like Us
My life is a little bit like Winthorpe’s, except without the happy beginning, or the happy ending, or the ladyfriend helper. 🤔
The Dukes make a cameo in Eddie Murphy COMING TO AMERICA
It's been recorded working on editing during
Should be out next month
Hi James. Have you ever heard the term, "a patron of the arts"? A patron is someone who supports artists and their endeavors. Patreon is the name of the platform that supports UA-cam creators. The people who subscribe to your Patreon page are therefore your patrons. They are not called patreons. I apologize for sounding snotty about about this, especially since you are such a nice guy, but it just drives me crazy. Believe me, plenty of UA-cam creators get this wrong as well. I am one of your patrons and I very much enjoy your content. I hope you continue to grow your channel.
Thanks for the clarification. It's actually a word association trick used in marketing. You keep saying the word as many times as you can to get the user invested in the word even if being used incorrectly this is a sound marketing practice.
@@AwesomeUSMovies Interesting. Funnily enough, I was involved in marketing at my last job but didn't use this technique. Too late now because I've retired! I now have more time to watch your videos!
Please next time search for The Blues Brothers . A great Dan Aykroyd ❤
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
If you want to watch a really fun movie with Dan Akroyd, watch Doctor Detroit
Checkout Mel Brooks “Life Stinks” if you enjoyed this film.
Classic!☀️✌🏻
i saw the hack this morning and went to a hotel
oh if you do the wolf of wall street bring in the wife or children. its wholesome.
also, do you have an advisor to help you with all the massive amount of pop culture, tropes, and memes that exist in media?