"Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?" "A picture of me?" "No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!" One of the most underrated films of all time! This is Robert Downey Jr.'s favorite film of his own, plus the chemistry between him and Val Kilmer is amazing.
Gay Perry is one of my favorite characters in anything ever, and I'll always be sad this didn't become a Poirot-style series of films where Perry, Harry and Harmony solved crimes together. But the fact the film is so good as a standalone is enough.
13:43 Truly one of the greatest lines in Cinematic History: "Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on a corpse?" 🤣 16:55 Another Classic Moment. 😂 17:35 Who wants to bet on how long it is before Simone introduces a video with "Welcome to...Ike, Mike, and Mustard"?
I always loved Harmony correcting his grammar because "feel badly" has ALWAYS been one of my biggest pet peeves--I correct everyone!! I couldn't believe when she came out with that!
If you are wondering about the Chapter Titles they are named after books written by Raymond Chandler, who set the standard for the LA based private detective hero in the 40s/50s.
Love love love the humor in this movie. Between "who taught you grammar", "stop multiplying", and the time-traveling monkey, it's nonstop laughs. The rapid fire dialogue is too good.
This is in my top 5 of all time. It's just a comedy-action-drama masterpiece. Blends genres so perfectly, snappy dialogue, great characterization. Just blows my mind every time I watch it.
This will go down as my favorite movie of all time. When I look at movies, I look at wherever is the best chemistry, dialogue, and plot dynamic, and this movie crossed all marks on the board for me.
If you haven't yet ... watch Grosse Point Blank. It lives in the same corner of genres even though it doesn't quite match up to this one. Still a great movie, highly recommended.
The little bit about the drunk/high actor breaking into a house wearing the costume from his films is a reference to one of RDJ's misadventures that got him arrested. IIRC after a costume party in his neighborhood he broke into a neighbor's house (he was so wasted he thought it was his) and fell asleep on their bed. At the time I think it was reported that he was wearing a Wonder Woman costume (it's been 20+ years so I could be wrong about that part of it).
I joined a hot dog eating contest because one of the other contestants never showed up. I sat there calmly eating like 4-5 hot dogs while the other contestants were stuffing themselves and i got a free t-shirt at the end.
Black only wrote the first Lethal Weapon. He submitted a script for the second but it was rejected as being "too dark" (Riggs died at the end of his script). The only part of his script they used was the stilt house being pulled down scene. He had nothing to do with 3 or 4.
Because the film is partially based on a novel (I think the actual murder mystery comes from the novel but the characters story are original) there is a credit for the actual physical final screenplay and a separate credit for conceptualizing the story elements. It's all Writer's Guild stuff. Let's say I read an article about beet farmers and come up with the story of Joe the beet farmer and how he saved his beet farm, i tell you the idea and you write a screenplay and the final credits are "based on a article by whomever", "screen story by me" and "screenplay by you". If I read the article and come up with the screen story and write the screenplay I get both credits.
A few quick points: 1. The phrase "kiss kiss, bang bang" was a derogatory description of generic action movies associated with once-famous critic Pauline Kael (but pre-dates her). 2. This movie is freaking brilliant, and helped revive RDJ's career after his ... difficulties. Many suspect RDJ asking Shane Black to do the third Iron Man was payback. 3. After seeing this I could never understand why Michelle Monaghan didn't become a bigger star.
@@nicholascross3557 Heard that too, don't really know. I usually see Kael cited as the source because she used it for a book title, but that's definitely wrong.
@@DavetheGrue "The original main title theme to Thunderball was titled "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", which was written by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse. The title was taken from an Italian journalist[who?] who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang". Barry had thought he could not write a song about a vague "Thunderball" term or the film's story, so his song was a description of the character James Bond." Wikipedia. The article also notes that the song was not used in the film when released and indeed went pretty much unherad until the later re-release of the soundtrack album on CD in the '90s.
This is such a criminally unknown gem! I discovered the DVD is a bargain bin, and absolutely LOVED it!! And I had such a crush on Michelle Monaghan after seeing this!
This is my number one favorite comedy. I love everything about it. The writing and acting is brilliant. The roulette scene is such an original and creative visual gag that fantastically satirizes a trope we’ve seen so many times.
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is one of my favourite movies, and criminally underrated (edit: or perhaps under-known... anyway!). The snappiness of the dialogue is so great. Glad you enjoyed it so much! :D
Yeah the character of Gay Perry was very new at the time. As a gay guy still in the closet at the age of 20 the movie actually had an impact on me. There were no really good gay examples out there, only the stereotypes everybody made fun of or hated..... When I saw this movie in cinemas it was the first time I saw a gay guy who was funny and cool, and more or less pretty normal (RDJ plays the loser after all). The audience roared with laughter, my best friends loved the movie, not a single word about "that icky gay guy"....I can still remember when the penny dropped and I thought "maybe... just maybe.. people can accept it and everything will be fine, maybe it isn't the end of the world after all" . Don't let anybody ever tell you that representation in media can't have an impact on people. Brilliant movie, brilliant writing casting and acting. It might sound weird but I'm just grateful for Shane Robert and Val for making this movie, made the life of this young adult just a bit easier. Glad you had a great experience as well!
I love 💕 stories about how much a movie or TV show can affect someone in real life, and resonate with them! Thank you very much for sharing this! Sincerely! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
The movie's title comes from the title of a collection of movie reviews by film critic Pauline Kael. She said that "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" is essentially what the appeal of movies boils down to. It was also the tentative title to the theme song for the 1965 James Bond film, "Thunderball".
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a guilty pleasure of mine. I have always maintained that it is a weak script, it just is made great by the performances of Davis and especially Jackson.
This is one of my all time favorite under-the-radar comedy films. I've still never figured out why it's not better known but once anyone sees it it becomes a favorite.
So glad you watched this!! It's one of my favorite movies. Since you enjoyed this, another movie you might want to try is Lucky Number Slevin. Also a very clever script with great actors and great acting and directing.
It still completely baffles me how the guy who wrote and directed this and The Nice Guys, also wrote and directed The Predator. Hopefully he has a return to form with Doc Savage.
This is one of my all-time favourite films, so having a little personal tale attached to it is kinda cool. I work for a skydiving company in Australia and a couple of years back literally on Christmas Eve (just for the Shane Black tie-in), I get a call from our marketing team to contact someone and make a booking for a VIP customer called Michelle Monaghan. I laugh "what, THE Michelle Monaghan?!" to which I get "I dunno, but here's the details - they're expecting your call". So I call the number and sure enough, it's her. I get it all done professionally, we have a pretty cool, casual conversation for about 10 minutes regarding everything she needs to know (I play it like I don't know who she is just to make it easier), we wish each other a Merry Christmas and that was that. I'm sure she didn't think anything unusual of the experience or that I even knew who she was, but that's because she had no idea at all that I spent the entire time struggling to not end each sentence with "You slept with Chook Chutney".
She seems like she might be the kind of person to laugh at the reference. At least once. But, I admire you being able to not get starstruck and mess with her experience. I would probably gush. I never can handle meeting famous people.
@@scotthewitt258 she did seem very cool, very laidback. I'm pretty good at keeping it together - if I can hang out backstage and talk to Dream Theater for about half an hour, or spend an afternoon with Coheed & Cambria helping them through a meet & greet session without losing my shit, I reckon I can do anything. 🤣
Surprised there’s no mention of the fact that this was the start of rdj’s comeback. This was the movie that got him the iron man role. Shane black directed iron man 3, probably as a thank you.
Oh my god. No lie, I was yesterday thinking "if there was one movie you could get them to react to what would it be" and I came up with this. Love this movie so much.
I am so incredibly glad that I saw this in theaters. What a darn hilarious gem! (It also was a part of RDJ's career revival, and why Shane Black would go on to direct Iron Man 3 down the line). Throw in Shane Black's later film, The Nice Guys, and you have a great double feature as that one feels like this movie's sibling.
Well, I already loved him in Gothika and Tropic Thunder, but it was THIS movie that made me put him on rank #1 of my all time favorite actors list. Where he's still currently sitting.... (Just fyi, I watched Tropic Thunder before this one)
This didn't do anything to the MCU. All this did was revive Robert Downey Jr's acting career. Jon Favreau encouraging Robert Downey Jr' to portray Tony Stark the way he did, is what launched the MCU.
I waited all week for this one and it was TOTALLY worth the wait! I love this movie. My sister recommended it to me and I went in totally blind. I fell in love with it. I'm normally not a fan of narration but Robert Downey jr was so charismatic that I couldn't not love it. You both knocked it out of the park with this one ❤
Yep, based on part of a story. Most novels require a 3 part mini-series to cover the material. A novella or novelette makes a good 2 hour movie. Sometimes even just a short story, such as Enemy Mine.
You guys should check out Brick. Another fantastic neo-noir film that came out on the same year as Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Its Rian Johnson's first film. The same director who did the Knives Out films
Yes! One of my top 5 movies ever and what I consider the funniest RDJ movie ever made. The jokes come so fast that it makes laugh even after dozens of viewings. “Who taught you math?”
2:05: "Screen story and screenplay? What's the difference?" I'm not an expert, but as I understand the process anytime that a writer submits a pitch for a film to a studio, they'll present what's called a treatment, which is a summary of the basic plot with story beats worked out. From there, the studio will either hire said writer to move forward on writing a shooting script (Screenplay), or they'll purchase the treatment from the writer and hire another party to write on the script (which itself may go through multiple drafts written by a possible succession of writers). Generally speaking (again as I understand it) anytime there are two separate parties responsible for the treatment and the script, the first party will be given a "Story By" credit and the second will be given a "Screenplay credit". In the case of "Kiss, Kiss Bang, Bang" (from what I gather) writer Shane Black was responsible for both the treatment and the shooting script and for whatever reason he was given the credit that he was.
It seems to me this movie is very underrated. I had never heard anything about it, and one day I picked it randomly because I wanted something to watch, and I was very (positively) surprised by it. It is innovative in many ways, hilarious and not predictable at all.
I watched this in the theater on my 25th bday with friends and had no real expectations other than I knew Shane Black from writing Lethal Weapon 1 and knowing RDJ and Val Kilmer from other movies (although it was really the first movie I actually saw RDJ in!). My whole body was aching after the movie ended because I hadn't laughed that hard for ages and the dialogue is some of the best ever. All 3 leads have a superb chemistry and this was Downey Jr's "comeback" if you will and paved the way for him to land the Iron Man role. Needless to say, I've had a huge huge crush on Michelle Monaghan ever since...(wo could blame me...?)
Shane Black is just addicted to his running gag throughout multiple movies of having characters fall over and it's so funny when you notice it. It happens like eight times this movie and in The Nice Guys lmao, he just can't help himself.
Great reaction - the phrase Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was initially used by legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael as the title of one of her best collected review books; it refers to everything we want from The Movies, all rolled into 4 (or 2?) words - for other great, hilariously convoluted, classic screwball comedies dressed up as noir, see Big Sleep, Long Goodbye, Big Lebowski, and Inherent Vice
I remember around the time when Iron Man 3 came out, and people used it to showcase how MCU directors had no control over their movies - because of the "Marvel humour". It was so much fun to realize that none of those people could ever have watched Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Because Iron Man 3 is pretty much exactly what I expected from a Shane Black superhero movie. With sleigh bells on. 😀
yesssss, so glad you guys liked this one so much. such an underrated film, the cast is just a big ball of chemistry. also i would definitely watch the hell out of a gay perry tv show lol.
I LOVE this movie so much, it's a shame it's so underrated. It's easily one of my favorite comedies and this is also my favorite Val Kilmer performance.
It highly depends on how things were negotiated or how the rigths were obtained, it can be credited differently in each movie, but for this movie you can think about screen story like the first draft and the screenplay is what actually got filmed. Like sketch-final product kind of thing.
I think the dialogue in this is maybe the best I've heard in any movie. The coolest thing for me is a random coincidence. I've been a lifelong fan of the whole noir detective genre, but had never read anything by one of the grand Masters who pioneered it. Raymond Chandler. I found a book of Chandler's short stories, and read it the same week I saw this movie for the first time. It took me until the 3rd chapter of the movie to realize that each chapter was the same name as one of the stories in the Chandler book. It's a nice little extra that Shane Black threw in that I don't think a lot of people would ever catch.
Oh yes, the movie that saved RDJ carrer. Mel Gibson, who worked with Shane Black in Lethal weapon, convinced him to cast RDJ in the movie. Some say he also insured the movie, because no insurance company would accept him after his drugs problem.
Great reaction to yet another Shane Black masterclass in witty dialogue. 'Broken' the end credits tune was written and performed by RDJ too, he's a very talented singer.
'Look up "idiot" in the dictionary...y'know what you'll find?' 'A picture of me?' 'No, the definition of the word "idiot," which you fucking are!' This is one of the greatest exchanges in cinematic history. 😆
The movie was unceremoniously dumped in theaters by WB at the time, despite overwhelmingly positive audience reactions from festivals. It found its audience over the years on video. I would also recommend 2 other Shane Black scripted films, The Last Boy Scout with Bruce Willis and the Long Kiss Goodnight with Gena Davis and Sam Jackson. Black had written a sequel to Lethal Weapon that was scrapped...the story apparently had a cargo plane full of cocaine explode over LA causing chaos. The script appears to be unobtainium online.
They do have great chemistry, you should see them in Due Date, although they don't share a lot of scenes together, i think he and Zach Galifianakis' chemistry was impeccable, and it was directed by Todd Phillips which is a bonus.
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"Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?"
"A picture of me?"
"No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!"
One of the most underrated films of all time! This is Robert Downey Jr.'s favorite film of his own, plus the chemistry between him and Val Kilmer is amazing.
Love that line!
"I'm pretty sure that dog is from Gilmore Girls" is perhaps the most Simone has ever Simoned.
Paul Anka?
😆Ya
At least it wasn't another "Friends" rant.
One of the MOST underrated movies out there. The dynamic between Kilmer and Downey Jr. was fantastic!
Not so much underrated as it is undiscovered by many. I think very few who have seen it rate it poorly.
You have to check out the German dub. Kilmer is SO funny in it with his deadpan delivery.. 😅
This and Lucky Number Slevin.
@@rabid_si Good one! 👍
How high should its rating be to not be underrated?
Perry just casually ducking the thrown glass _without looking_ is one of the coolest things ever.
My favorite joke is when Perry gets shot and then his ringtone is "I Will Survive" 😂
Gay Perry is one of my favorite characters in anything ever, and I'll always be sad this didn't become a Poirot-style series of films where Perry, Harry and Harmony solved crimes together. But the fact the film is so good as a standalone is enough.
13:43 Truly one of the greatest lines in Cinematic History: "Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on a corpse?" 🤣
16:55 Another Classic Moment. 😂
17:35 Who wants to bet on how long it is before Simone introduces a video with "Welcome to...Ike, Mike, and Mustard"?
I always loved Harmony correcting his grammar because "feel badly" has ALWAYS been one of my biggest pet peeves--I correct everyone!! I couldn't believe when she came out with that!
If you are wondering about the Chapter Titles they are named after books written by Raymond Chandler, who set the standard for the LA based private detective hero in the 40s/50s.
Love love love the humor in this movie. Between "who taught you grammar", "stop multiplying", and the time-traveling monkey, it's nonstop laughs. The rapid fire dialogue is too good.
The little girl who plays young Michelle Monaghan is actually Ariel Winter from Modern family (Alex, the younger sister).
This is in my top 5 of all time. It's just a comedy-action-drama masterpiece. Blends genres so perfectly, snappy dialogue, great characterization. Just blows my mind every time I watch it.
This will go down as my favorite movie of all time. When I look at movies, I look at wherever is the best chemistry, dialogue, and plot dynamic, and this movie crossed all marks on the board for me.
If you haven't yet ... watch Grosse Point Blank.
It lives in the same corner of genres even though it doesn't quite match up to this one. Still a great movie, highly recommended.
When it comes to just raw comedic writing and this is right up there with Edgar Wrights stuff.
Such an underrated film with some stellar performances and a plot that keeps you guessing all the way through.
This is easily one of my favorite movies. The dialog is fantastic, and the casting is perfect.
The little bit about the drunk/high actor breaking into a house wearing the costume from his films is a reference to one of RDJ's misadventures that got him arrested. IIRC after a costume party in his neighborhood he broke into a neighbor's house (he was so wasted he thought it was his) and fell asleep on their bed. At the time I think it was reported that he was wearing a Wonder Woman costume (it's been 20+ years so I could be wrong about that part of it).
I joined a hot dog eating contest because one of the other contestants never showed up. I sat there calmly eating like 4-5 hot dogs while the other contestants were stuffing themselves and i got a free t-shirt at the end.
Good way to dispose of a body, turn into hot dogs and hold a contest
One of my favorite movies. It is amazing to see it catching on and having more people enjoy it and talk about it.
Black only wrote the first Lethal Weapon. He submitted a script for the second but it was rejected as being "too dark" (Riggs died at the end of his script). The only part of his script they used was the stilt house being pulled down scene. He had nothing to do with 3 or 4.
Hidden gem. I saw this in the theatre and it was perfect.
This is Robert Downey Jr.'s favorite movie that he's done and I'm so glad so many people are finally checking it out.
Because the film is partially based on a novel (I think the actual murder mystery comes from the novel but the characters story are original) there is a credit for the actual physical final screenplay and a separate credit for conceptualizing the story elements. It's all Writer's Guild stuff. Let's say I read an article about beet farmers and come up with the story of Joe the beet farmer and how he saved his beet farm, i tell you the idea and you write a screenplay and the final credits are "based on a article by whomever", "screen story by me" and "screenplay by you". If I read the article and come up with the screen story and write the screenplay I get both credits.
A few quick points:
1. The phrase "kiss kiss, bang bang" was a derogatory description of generic action movies associated with once-famous critic Pauline Kael (but pre-dates her).
2. This movie is freaking brilliant, and helped revive RDJ's career after his ... difficulties. Many suspect RDJ asking Shane Black to do the third Iron Man was payback.
3. After seeing this I could never understand why Michelle Monaghan didn't become a bigger star.
Have not fact-checed this but I heard that the phrase originated in Italy and was their nickname for James Bond, Mr. kiss kiss, bang bang.
@@nicholascross3557 Heard that too, don't really know. I usually see Kael cited as the source because she used it for a book title, but that's definitely wrong.
@@DavetheGrue "The original main title theme to Thunderball was titled "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", which was written by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse. The title was taken from an Italian journalist[who?] who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang". Barry had thought he could not write a song about a vague "Thunderball" term or the film's story, so his song was a description of the character James Bond." Wikipedia. The article also notes that the song was not used in the film when released and indeed went pretty much unherad until the later re-release of the soundtrack album on CD in the '90s.
3. Yeah, I don't understand it either. She is great in everything.
This is such a criminally unknown gem! I discovered the DVD is a bargain bin, and absolutely LOVED it!! And I had such a crush on Michelle Monaghan after seeing this!
This is my number one favorite comedy. I love everything about it. The writing and acting is brilliant. The roulette scene is such an original and creative visual gag that fantastically satirizes a trope we’ve seen so many times.
13:44 It's "Why in PLUPERFECT hell." Not pooperfect. As in "had peed" on the corpse. It's another grammar & syntax joke.
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is one of my favourite movies, and criminally underrated (edit: or perhaps under-known... anyway!). The snappiness of the dialogue is so great. Glad you enjoyed it so much! :D
Yeah the character of Gay Perry was very new at the time. As a gay guy still in the closet at the age of 20 the movie actually had an impact on me. There were no really good gay examples out there, only the stereotypes everybody made fun of or hated..... When I saw this movie in cinemas it was the first time I saw a gay guy who was funny and cool, and more or less pretty normal (RDJ plays the loser after all). The audience roared with laughter, my best friends loved the movie, not a single word about "that icky gay guy"....I can still remember when the penny dropped and I thought "maybe... just maybe.. people can accept it and everything will be fine, maybe it isn't the end of the world after all" . Don't let anybody ever tell you that representation in media can't have an impact on people. Brilliant movie, brilliant writing casting and acting. It might sound weird but I'm just grateful for Shane Robert and Val for making this movie, made the life of this young adult just a bit easier. Glad you had a great experience as well!
I love 💕 stories about how much a movie or TV show can affect someone in real life, and resonate with them!
Thank you very much for sharing this! Sincerely!
👍👍👍👍👍👍
The movie's title comes from the title of a collection of movie reviews by film critic Pauline Kael. She said that "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" is essentially what the appeal of movies boils down to. It was also the tentative title to the theme song for the 1965 James Bond film, "Thunderball".
I loved this when it came out! Nobody else did. Nobody I knew. So then I knew what kind of friends they were.
Considering how much you guys love Shane Black, I hope The Long Kiss Goodnight enters the polls next
To complete the Shane Black journey, you two HAVE TO watch The Last BoyScout and The Long Kiss Goodnight, both underrated classics!
Yes!!! The last boy scout is great.
"Touch me again, and I'll f****n' kill ya."
last boyscout for sure
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a guilty pleasure of mine. I have always maintained that it is a weak script, it just is made great by the performances of Davis and especially Jackson.
Two more of my favorites.
This is one of my all time favorite under-the-radar comedy films. I've still never figured out why it's not better known but once anyone sees it it becomes a favorite.
"Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on the corpse?"
and
"Who taught you math?"
are two amazing lines! 😂
Who taught you spelling? 😉
@@MarcosElMalo2 Ups, sorry, my german is better then my english, I promise! Fixed it, thanks!
So glad you watched this!! It's one of my favorite movies. Since you enjoyed this, another movie you might want to try is Lucky Number Slevin. Also a very clever script with great actors and great acting and directing.
Agree, Lucky Number Slevin! 🙂
It still completely baffles me how the guy who wrote and directed this and The Nice Guys, also wrote and directed The Predator. Hopefully he has a return to form with Doc Savage.
Predator is like multiple Rambos fighting an alien. #FormulaFlick
Wait. What? Shane Black is doing Doc Savage?!?!?
This is one of my all-time favourite films, so having a little personal tale attached to it is kinda cool. I work for a skydiving company in Australia and a couple of years back literally on Christmas Eve (just for the Shane Black tie-in), I get a call from our marketing team to contact someone and make a booking for a VIP customer called Michelle Monaghan. I laugh "what, THE Michelle Monaghan?!" to which I get "I dunno, but here's the details - they're expecting your call". So I call the number and sure enough, it's her. I get it all done professionally, we have a pretty cool, casual conversation for about 10 minutes regarding everything she needs to know (I play it like I don't know who she is just to make it easier), we wish each other a Merry Christmas and that was that.
I'm sure she didn't think anything unusual of the experience or that I even knew who she was, but that's because she had no idea at all that I spent the entire time struggling to not end each sentence with "You slept with Chook Chutney".
She seems like she might be the kind of person to laugh at the reference. At least once.
But, I admire you being able to not get starstruck and mess with her experience.
I would probably gush. I never can handle meeting famous people.
@@scotthewitt258 she did seem very cool, very laidback.
I'm pretty good at keeping it together - if I can hang out backstage and talk to Dream Theater for about half an hour, or spend an afternoon with Coheed & Cambria helping them through a meet & greet session without losing my shit, I reckon I can do anything. 🤣
My Friend Flicka is an old movie about a boy and his horse--Harmony refers to a woman as "my friend, Flicka"
I’m sure they named the girl that just to make that lame joke.
Surprised there’s no mention of the fact that this was the start of rdj’s comeback. This was the movie that got him the iron man role. Shane black directed iron man 3, probably as a thank you.
Glad you guys got around to this. Always happy to see you do movies that have a strong following even if they don't win a poll.
I'm glad this movie exists so that Val Kilmer isn't just the incredible Doc Holiday. Gay Perry is a legend.
Oh my god. No lie, I was yesterday thinking "if there was one movie you could get them to react to what would it be" and I came up with this. Love this movie so much.
More people need to watch this movie. It's perfect. And RDJ and Val Kilmer were so good together
I am so incredibly glad that I saw this in theaters. What a darn hilarious gem! (It also was a part of RDJ's career revival, and why Shane Black would go on to direct Iron Man 3 down the line). Throw in Shane Black's later film, The Nice Guys, and you have a great double feature as that one feels like this movie's sibling.
So which one of The Nice Guys is actually Gay Perry?
The real movie that launched the MCU, as it revived Robert Downey Jr's career
Well, I already loved him in Gothika and Tropic Thunder, but it was THIS movie that made me put him on rank #1 of my all time favorite actors list. Where he's still currently sitting....
(Just fyi, I watched Tropic Thunder before this one)
I love this movie despite that.
This didn't do anything to the MCU. All this did was revive Robert Downey Jr's acting career.
Jon Favreau encouraging Robert Downey Jr' to portray Tony Stark the way he did, is what launched the MCU.
And, two or the four {Shane & RDJ} worked together again in the MCU! In a film I like more than people think I should.
I waited all week for this one and it was TOTALLY worth the wait!
I love this movie. My sister recommended it to me and I went in totally blind. I fell in love with it. I'm normally not a fan of narration but Robert Downey jr was so charismatic that I couldn't not love it.
You both knocked it out of the park with this one ❤
Thanks!
thank you adam! ☺️
@@CineBingeReact no thanks needed. That was my 6 year old son that gave you that Superchat. Love your videos though.
One of my favorite underrated parts is the "Captain Fuckin Magic" as the guys last words lol
Shane Black needs to come back around and make a third buddy cop movie.
I just have to say that, aside from her expression, Simone looks outstanding in the thumbnail!
Yep, based on part of a story. Most novels require a 3 part mini-series to cover the material. A novella or novelette makes a good 2 hour movie. Sometimes even just a short story, such as Enemy Mine.
You guys should check out Brick. Another fantastic neo-noir film that came out on the same year as Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Its Rian Johnson's first film. The same director who did the Knives Out films
Yes! One of my top 5 movies ever and what I consider the funniest RDJ movie ever made. The jokes come so fast that it makes laugh even after dozens of viewings.
“Who taught you math?”
Such a good film!
2:05: "Screen story and screenplay? What's the difference?"
I'm not an expert, but as I understand the process anytime that a writer submits a pitch for a film to a studio, they'll present what's called a treatment, which is a summary of the basic plot with story beats worked out. From there, the studio will either hire said writer to move forward on writing a shooting script (Screenplay), or they'll purchase the treatment from the writer and hire another party to write on the script (which itself may go through multiple drafts written by a possible succession of writers). Generally speaking (again as I understand it) anytime there are two separate parties responsible for the treatment and the script, the first party will be given a "Story By" credit and the second will be given a "Screenplay credit". In the case of "Kiss, Kiss Bang, Bang" (from what I gather) writer Shane Black was responsible for both the treatment and the shooting script and for whatever reason he was given the credit that he was.
You're absolutely right. I'm actually writing a screenplay.
This, together with The Nice Guys and The Other Guys, forms my favorite crime comedy triple.
This film is a hidden gem. I love this film.
The dad at the end was the same actor from the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.
This is an amazing movie, i never understood why more people don't talk about it because everybody seems to love it when they do see it
Great film & a DynamicDuo of Iron-Man & Batman. Now you need to see Black's THE LAST BOY SCOUT & THE GOOD GUYS
We're being beat up by the inventor of Scrabble!
16:41 Love that Pazuzu is just hanging out in the corner.
When you see the name Shane Black on a movie, it's almost guaranteed to be set at Christmas time. 😆
It seems to me this movie is very underrated. I had never heard anything about it, and one day I picked it randomly because I wanted something to watch, and I was very (positively) surprised by it. It is innovative in many ways, hilarious and not predictable at all.
I watched this in the theater on my 25th bday with friends and had no real expectations other than I knew Shane Black from writing Lethal Weapon 1 and knowing RDJ and Val Kilmer from other movies (although it was really the first movie I actually saw RDJ in!). My whole body was aching after the movie ended because I hadn't laughed that hard for ages and the dialogue is some of the best ever. All 3 leads have a superb chemistry and this was Downey Jr's "comeback" if you will and paved the way for him to land the Iron Man role. Needless to say, I've had a huge huge crush on Michelle Monaghan ever since...(wo could blame me...?)
Shane Black is just addicted to his running gag throughout multiple movies of having characters fall over and it's so funny when you notice it. It happens like eight times this movie and in The Nice Guys lmao, he just can't help himself.
Great reaction - the phrase Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was initially used by legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael as the title of one of her best collected review books; it refers to everything we want from The Movies, all rolled into 4 (or 2?) words - for other great, hilariously convoluted, classic screwball comedies dressed up as noir, see Big Sleep, Long Goodbye, Big Lebowski, and Inherent Vice
I love this movie soooo much. I'm so glad you guys watched it and enjoyed it! It deserves more coverage
I remember watching and loving this movie in 2005 and I always wondered why it wasn't more popular, especially having such a geat cast and funny plot.
If you liked this PLEASE DO Grosse Pointe Blank. It has a kinda similar vibe to this film, I love both so much
I remember around the time when Iron Man 3 came out, and people used it to showcase how MCU directors had no control over their movies - because of the "Marvel humour".
It was so much fun to realize that none of those people could ever have watched Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Because Iron Man 3 is pretty much exactly what I expected from a Shane Black superhero movie. With sleigh bells on. 😀
This movie and Children of Men are the most underrated ever imo.
yesssss, so glad you guys liked this one so much. such an underrated film, the cast is just a big ball of chemistry. also i would definitely watch the hell out of a gay perry tv show lol.
I LOVE this movie so much, it's a shame it's so underrated. It's easily one of my favorite comedies and this is also my favorite Val Kilmer performance.
It highly depends on how things were negotiated or how the rigths were obtained, it can be credited differently in each movie, but for this movie you can think about screen story like the first draft and the screenplay is what actually got filmed. Like sketch-final product kind of thing.
I saw this at a film festival and it was so good, I got back in line to see it again. Such a smart funny intriguing picture.
Glad to read that I'm not the only one who noticed that thumbnail.
I love this film so much. It's so crazy but I like that.
Always love your reactions; and your thumbnails are the best.
I think the dialogue in this is maybe the best I've heard in any movie. The coolest thing for me is a random coincidence. I've been a lifelong fan of the whole noir detective genre, but had never read anything by one of the grand Masters who pioneered it. Raymond Chandler. I found a book of Chandler's short stories, and read it the same week I saw this movie for the first time. It took me until the 3rd chapter of the movie to realize that each chapter was the same name as one of the stories in the Chandler book. It's a nice little extra that Shane Black threw in that I don't think a lot of people would ever catch.
Oh yes, the movie that saved RDJ carrer. Mel Gibson, who worked with Shane Black in Lethal weapon, convinced him to cast RDJ in the movie. Some say he also insured the movie, because no insurance company would accept him after his drugs problem.
Great reaction to yet another Shane Black masterclass in witty dialogue. 'Broken' the end credits tune was written and performed by RDJ too, he's a very talented singer.
One is the screen story, and the other is the screen play.
Love to see more people reacting to this. Such a good movie.
I still can't get over that Hawkins from Predator has been at the helm at some of my favorite films, including this amazing gem :)
'Look up "idiot" in the dictionary...y'know what you'll find?'
'A picture of me?'
'No, the definition of the word "idiot," which you fucking are!'
This is one of the greatest exchanges in cinematic history. 😆
Scary Friend is the voice of Liara in the Mass Effect games.
This movie is so very entertaining. Glad you guys liked it.
Saw it in the theater. This is such a perfect movie. Always a favorite. No idea why it did so poorly in release.
love - Love - LOVE this movie.
The movie was unceremoniously dumped in theaters by WB at the time, despite overwhelmingly positive audience reactions from festivals. It found its audience over the years on video. I would also recommend 2 other Shane Black scripted films, The Last Boy Scout with Bruce Willis and the Long Kiss Goodnight with Gena Davis and Sam Jackson. Black had written a sequel to Lethal Weapon that was scrapped...the story apparently had a cargo plane full of cocaine explode over LA causing chaos. The script appears to be unobtainium online.
The “I’m going to be an actress” girl is Alex from Modern Family.
Checkout Kilmer in ''Top Secret,'' from the team that made 'Airplane'
I never expected to love this movie so much when I first watched it.
One of my favorite movies.
Very underrated secret movie pearl. Nice to see, that you found it!
One of my favorite movies
Michelle Monaghan has something about her, besides just being attractive...I feel like everyone should like her
They do have great chemistry, you should see them in Due Date, although they don't share a lot of scenes together, i think he and Zach Galifianakis' chemistry was impeccable, and it was directed by Todd Phillips which is a bonus.
When people talk about Shane Black, they always bring up Lethal Weapon. But he always get overlooked for Predator.