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  • @larindanomikos
    @larindanomikos 4 місяці тому +31

    Yes. River Phoenix was Joachim's brother. He was extremely talented. Died in his early twenties from a heroin overdose. Very tragic.

    • @opalviking
      @opalviking 4 місяці тому +7

      He passed away on the sidewalk outside of the Viper Room in Joachim’s arms. While Johnny depp watched. The 90s were fucked

    • @timd.3837
      @timd.3837 4 місяці тому

      It was lethal levels of Cocaine and Morphine that he had in his system per his actual autopsy. Sadly, nearly everyone in Hollywood went through a cocaine phase during the 1980's & 90's. Yes, heroine was also a normal component of their lifestyles, but it was typically the cocaine that did them in, even John Belushi who was doing a combination of cocaine and heroin the night of his death. I'm glad I was never a part of those party scenes, and thus never got into the drugs.

    • @slowetho8636
      @slowetho8636 3 місяці тому +2

      @@opalviking AND the whole phone call between a crying joaquin holding his dying brother and the police was broadcasted on the news like right after it happened. 90s were indeed insane

    • @micheletrainor1601
      @micheletrainor1601 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@opalvikingjohnny got rid of the club after that.

  • @Jahani31
    @Jahani31 4 місяці тому +19

    Rest in peace River Phoenix, man. Such a great actor gone too soon. My favorite movie with him is My Own Private Idaho with Keanu Reeves. They were best friends in real life and River's death put Keanu off drugs and affected him deeply. I knew you'd like this

  • @Serai3
    @Serai3 4 місяці тому +26

    The four of them were real kids. Gordie is Stephen King's stand-in, and Vern, Teddy, and Chris were real guys. Chris did become an attorney, and died just the way the story says he did. Rob Reiner says the reason the movie strikes so close to the heart is that when casting, he looked for kids who already embodied the characters they would play. Corey Feldman was an angry kid, River Phoenix was wise beyond his years, Jerry O'Conell was hyper and good-natured, and Wil Wheaton was depressed and exploited by his parents. (For that great scene where Chris breaks down and weeps, Rob took him aside and told him to think of a time when an adult betrayed him. Given that his parents were members of the Children of God cult when he was little, I have a horrified certainty that I know what he dredged up for that scene.)
    Stephen King says that when he went to a pre-release screening, he had to go out into the hall afterward by himself and cry, because the film hit the mark so deeply.
    Another Stephen King banger is "The Dead Zone", starring Christopher Walken. :)

    • @EL_Duderino68
      @EL_Duderino68 4 місяці тому +4

      I did not know all that. Thanks.

    • @amrys_argent
      @amrys_argent 4 місяці тому +6

      Wil Wheaton has spoken of just how little of his breakdown over "my father hates me" was acting. Heartbreaking.

    • @Subxenox15
      @Subxenox15 2 місяці тому +1

      Wil Wheaton's parents resisted him acting but let him follow his passion. They were always there every day of shooting and they didn't spend all his money. Wil turned into a little bitch boi though because Hollywood fame corrupts almost everybody. He had good caring parents, but he painted them in a negative light because they treated him like a regular kid instead of a famous actor.

    • @Serai3
      @Serai3 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Subxenox15 Wow, NO. That is not true at all. Look up "wil wheaton on traumatic child abuse", and watch the interview where he lays it all out in detail. (There are numerous other interview clips where he talks about it as well, but that's the longest and most detailed.) Read "Still Just a Geek", where he annotated his earlier book with the TRUTH about what he went through. It's horrific. He did not want to do any of it. Seriously, you really need to get up to date on this.

    • @Subxenox15
      @Subxenox15 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Serai3 I watched the interview. I don't think we have the same definition for "horrific"...He said his parents never physically abused him, and what he called mental abuse was not actual abuse...The entire thing is a He Said She Said situation, he says one thing, his parents say another.

  • @amurmurmur609
    @amurmurmur609 4 місяці тому +23

    I know why the narrative struck you as it did. You are a human being with a compassionate heart. That is all it takes for this movie to reach someone.

  • @CharlesVanNoland
    @CharlesVanNoland 4 місяці тому +9

    This is one of my all-time favorite films from when I was a kid.

  • @meganbrick6266
    @meganbrick6266 Місяць тому +1

    The scene where Chris talks about the teacher never fails to enrage me and break my heart at the same time

  • @timothydeweese6931
    @timothydeweese6931 4 місяці тому +8

    Oh, yes. The ending got most of us.

  • @HaraQuinn
    @HaraQuinn 4 місяці тому +4

    rip River Phoenix.. so depressing. everytime i see any of the short list of movies he managed to be in, it makes me tear up at what an INSANELY amt of talent he had. It kills me wondering where he'd have been today if he never passed.. Talented brothers River and Leaf (Joaquin) Phoenix woul'dve been together.

  • @RenfrewPrume
    @RenfrewPrume 4 місяці тому +4

    I love this movie: it’s so well done and hugely nostalgic for me. I grew up in the sixties, in the east, but the music, the kids, and their hijinks are exactly right. This is how it was. We never went on an overnight adventure like that, but we played in the woods and went on 5-mile bike rides starting at age 10. It was a different world. The bridge incident really gets me. We had a trestle, only about 50 yards long, but our big dare was to climb down the wooden girders and hold on as a freight train passed overhead. Sometimes they could be 100 cars.

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  4 місяці тому +1

      Bet that trestle was 1 heck of an adrenaline rush!

  • @scruffyjanny555
    @scruffyjanny555 4 місяці тому +3

    Another great reaction, dude! Glad you liked this one, and glad to see your channel is gaining more traction. You deserve it!

  • @davidhart6291
    @davidhart6291 4 місяці тому +4

    Wonderful reaction & analysis! I really think Stephen King is one of the most underrated authors of our era, dismissed as “just a horror writer”. His insight into deep issues of the human experience is pretty profound. Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, this movie, all attest to this. His magnum opus, The Dark Tower series, may or may not ever get the treatment it deserves on screen (it certainly didn’t in the 2017 movie debacle), but is one of the most epic tales I’ve read in quite a while.
    Loving your content, Sir!

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  4 місяці тому

      King has such an incisive quality to his work. I will give The Dark Tower a go; appreciate you watching!

  • @DonRoccoRicardo
    @DonRoccoRicardo 4 місяці тому +3

    Talk about "gone too soon"... River Phoenix was wise beyond his years. He's the Gandolph of the story....

  • @ThiagoDragon
    @ThiagoDragon 4 місяці тому +2

    One of my favorite childhood movies... I only understood some themes after my childhood. The thing about some friendships simply change, some drift apart... it's life.
    The acting is so natural, the boys were great.
    Not to be that person, but I think River had the potential to be as big as his brother Joaquin nowadays. He still did some really amazing work, like this movie.

  • @dannyp-ufc8883
    @dannyp-ufc8883 4 місяці тому +2

    I watched this during lockdown for the first time. A couple of scenes really caught me off guard and had me tearing up 😂

  • @opalviking
    @opalviking 4 місяці тому +3

    As a life-long SK fan, this was an amazing adaptation of his novella. If you want to jump into reading SK’s catalog, ANY short story collection is a great place to start.
    And then you should read any movie adaptation you’ve ever seen already.
    His horror has so many flavors

    • @opalviking
      @opalviking 4 місяці тому

      There’s about 70 adaptations of SK’s work for the big screen. Lots to watch! Lots to NOT watch for how bad they are lol

  • @dogtagduke7125
    @dogtagduke7125 4 місяці тому +4

    One of the best movies ever made.

  • @cerealfibre6938
    @cerealfibre6938 15 днів тому

    Richard Dreyfuss said in another movie "Valentine. I love that name."😊😊😊😊😂😂😂😂

  • @JohnSmith-fm3pn
    @JohnSmith-fm3pn 3 місяці тому

    The Sandlot ( 1993 ) is alot like stand by me . The narration by one of the kids when older , a dog , even barfing . A nerdy kid , chubby kid , cool kid , a crazy kid . Another great summer movie set around small town 50s/60s America

  • @donnastupka7507
    @donnastupka7507 3 місяці тому +1

    I so enjoyed your reaction to this!😁❤😁

  • @siwelify
    @siwelify 4 місяці тому +1

    The Stephen King short story is very good and the movie does a really good job of capturing the feel of it. It's in the same collection of Short Stories as Shawshank Redemption and another story that was made into a movie called Apt Pupil. The book is called Different Seasons and is an excellent read.

  • @EdwardNieto
    @EdwardNieto 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm in the hospital recovering from surgery. Even though I'm in a hospital room, these videos make me feel at home. Thanks for the upload, man. I recently found your channel a few weeks ago. My vocabulary has stepped up since I've been tunning in. Cheers!

    • @cerealkilller
      @cerealkilller 4 місяці тому

      Wishing you a speedy recovery.

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  4 місяці тому +1

      hope you have the speediest of recoveries 💙 I am grateful to watch these movies with you. much obliged!

  • @Otokichi786
    @Otokichi786 4 місяці тому

    What got me was the incomplete OST CD. I went line by line in the credit crawl to find out what had been left off. I went to an Indie comics/records/movies bookstore and searched for the missing tracks. I assembled a custom "movie sequence" music CD that runs 40 minutes. When I saw "Stand By Me" the first time, I flashed back to my life in the sugar plantation town of Aiea in Territorial Hawaii, which had the look and feel of this movie. The town was a quarter mile down the road, with a post office, community center, bank, and pool hall with a huge Koa tree out front. We walked or biked everywhere and our Boy Scout troop hiked into Halawa Valley for a weekend campout. We drew water from Halawa stream and treated it with Halazone (Sodium Hypochlorite) tablets. The days were long, the Summer hot and humid.

  • @EL_Duderino68
    @EL_Duderino68 4 місяці тому +2

    Great reaction to a great movie. Kudos man.

  • @philpaine3068
    @philpaine3068 Місяць тому

    The only thing in this movie that doesn't ring true is the fact that the location was switched from Stephen King's native Maine to Oregon, probably for technical reasons in filming. Nothing wrong with doing that except that so many of the characters have French names (Lachance, Duchamps, Cormier) which are common in Maine but rare in Oregon.
    To me, the signature scene is when the deer crosses the tracks, and Gordie says that he didn't tell it to anyone until the moment he wrote the story as an adult.
    The acting, of course, was brilliant all round. The character of Chris was based on a real person, and in fact it was the death of this person in real life that inspired King to write the story. His portrayal by River Phoenix was mind-bogglingly sensitive and powerful. His death at an early age deprived the world of a great actor. Wil Wheaton went on to fame in Star Trek, Corey Feldman to success in several films followed by a troubled life (much like the character he played here), Jerry O'Connell starred in several successful TV series, Kiefer Sutherland followed his father's footsteps into stardom, and John Cusack, already a success before this film, went on to a solid career in film.

  • @michaelcoffey1991
    @michaelcoffey1991 4 місяці тому +2

    @Mr. Valentine. You really should go down the rabbit hole of Rob Reiner films they are almost all classics. One of my 5 favorite films with kids as the main story, your reactions never cease to be as fun as your reactions. Looking forward to you tackling a AFI top 100 or top 200 list one day. as always I look forward to your next adventure

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  4 місяці тому +1

      I will be watching the Wizard of Oz in august! Going to start tackling the top 100. thank you kindly!

    • @michaelcoffey1991
      @michaelcoffey1991 4 місяці тому

      @@MrValentineReacts No reactor Id want to see take that journey more then you. Your very welcome just doing my part as a fan/sub

  • @opalviking
    @opalviking 4 місяці тому +1

    This was the first time that the original single was released twice and hit #1 twice.
    No remix necessary

  • @Dej24601
    @Dej24601 4 місяці тому +1

    If you haven’t watched the Japanese film “Yojimbo” you may enjoy it when thinking about that phrase about a knife and gun fight.

  • @DonRoccoRicardo
    @DonRoccoRicardo 4 місяці тому +1

    Every time I watch this movie, my allergies kick in full effect. Damned grass and pollen....

  • @jonilore
    @jonilore 4 місяці тому +1

    Enjoyed this well-done review. Always quality from you. Thanks.

  • @ThistleAndSea
    @ThistleAndSea 3 місяці тому

    This is such a great story and great adaptation. Thanks for sharing it.

  • @timd.3837
    @timd.3837 4 місяці тому

    We all have some "allergy" issues the first time we see this movie regardless as to what time of year it is. Leave it to Rob Reiner to turn a "coming of age story" into a full-fledged emotional journey. All four of the child actors had successful careers, even though River Phoenix's career was cut way too short. The characters of Gordy and Chris remind me so much of me and my best friend before my family moved away when I was growing up. Hell, he even had that same damned crew cut in the 1970's. Everything from the way we talked, to the way we acted, to the way we had each other's backs, and we were in the suburbs of Chicago. It's funny how small-town life isn't all that different from other areas. Just different cultures is about all (I have family that lived, grew up, and still live in small towns - whom I was close with).
    It's funny, because River Phoenix was only a year older than me, and Wil Wheaton is a year younger. I think our generation came through in their characters much more so than that of boys growing up in the 1950's.

  • @MorrisB1971
    @MorrisB1971 3 місяці тому

    River Phoenix probably would have won 10 Best Actor Awards by now. He was that good. Like Leo Heath Ledger awesome 😢

  • @CharlesVanNoland
    @CharlesVanNoland 4 місяці тому

    I forgot to mention that when I was a 90s kid I blasted the soundtrack to this movie in my room more than any other music, save for a few songs I recorded off the radio here and there on cassette - back before MP3s and Napster even existed.

  • @TheATHLETE420
    @TheATHLETE420 Місяць тому

    I still say bull true. One of my favorite lines from my favorite movie

  • @MFuria-os7ln
    @MFuria-os7ln 14 днів тому

    River Phoenix! Terrific! I miss him so much.

  • @6dogs729
    @6dogs729 4 місяці тому

    Always ready to watch a new Stand by me reaction then judge the reaction harshly 😂

  • @katec8796
    @katec8796 4 місяці тому +2

    Love your reaction as always. Could you react to The Night of The Hunter from 1955? One of the great film noir thrillers that not many have reacted to on here but I think you'd truly love and appreciate.

  • @PlaceboEffect5150
    @PlaceboEffect5150 4 місяці тому

    Great reaction. Ive seen this movie 100 times atleast, and it activates my allergies everytime. Must be all the trees in the movie.

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  4 місяці тому +1

      🌴 😢 ❤. those pesky allergens! thanks for watching with me

  • @dogtagduke7125
    @dogtagduke7125 4 місяці тому +1

    If you wanna see a wild coming of age movie, take a look at Boyhood by Richard Linklater. It’s a fictional narrative , but it was filmed over the course of twelve years to capture the same kid actor as he grew up, literally. Same actor the entire movie from like 6 to 18. Drums up a lot of the same feelings.

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  4 місяці тому +1

      you had me at Richard Linklater

    • @dogtagduke7125
      @dogtagduke7125 4 місяці тому

      @@MrValentineReacts I’m excited to see your reaction some day. In due time, of course.

  • @contacluj758
    @contacluj758 4 місяці тому

    My recs for easy movies with a deep touch: "Emperor's Club"; "Full Monty"

  • @timothypanngam2249
    @timothypanngam2249 4 місяці тому

    An early (and funny/silly) movie with John Cusack that I recommend is "Better off Dead" 1985.

  • @paulamoya7956
    @paulamoya7956 4 місяці тому +1

    I adore you ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ You would’ve adored River Phoenix ! One of the greatest .. gone way too soon

  • @traceyharris4310
    @traceyharris4310 4 місяці тому

    I always watch until the end 🙂. I enjoy hearing your thoughts on these movies.

  • @jimb2343
    @jimb2343 4 місяці тому

    I read the book the Body with every voice of actors and Richard Dryfuss. The book ends rough for the boys.

  • @samriebel5752
    @samriebel5752 3 місяці тому

    I’ve never been to the Pacific Northwest, but I have a certain nostalgia for it since some impactful movies were set in rural Oregon in the 80s and 90s for some reason. This one, The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, Free Willy, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (70s), Homeward Bound, River Wild.
    Why did rural Oregon stop being the setting of films after that???

  • @medieval420
    @medieval420 4 місяці тому +2

    1991 What About Bob with Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murry

  • @iAmPimmiCue
    @iAmPimmiCue 4 місяці тому

    Stand By Me is such a good film. I think my favourite Stephen King media is the series Castle Rock

  • @timothypanngam2249
    @timothypanngam2249 4 місяці тому

    Another non-horror Stephen King adaptation. The man is just a great writer no matter the genre.

  • @ShaneH5150
    @ShaneH5150 4 місяці тому

    facilitator of facilitators

  • @medieval420
    @medieval420 4 місяці тому

    1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Richard Dreyfuss

  • @pillowninja2036
    @pillowninja2036 4 місяці тому +2

    I haven't seen many reactors watch Sleepers. it's a really good movie and underappreciated. it has a good cast but it's pretty brutal, still one of my favorite movies.

    • @timd.3837
      @timd.3837 4 місяці тому

      Sleepers is a great movie. Another I would recommend is Dead Poet's Society.

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  4 місяці тому +1

      @@timd.3837 DPS coming soon!

  • @floretion
    @floretion 4 місяці тому

    If you grade movies by how much money they make or popularity alone, Rob Reiner's movies are up there with some of the most successful. However, if you grade them by rewatchability, he's the best in my opinion. Take E.T. for example: huge movie at the time with world-wide sales of games and action figures. Is it cool? Sure. But how often would I want to rewatch it? Methinks every 30-40 years. Same goes for the original Star Wars Trilogy. Now take any of the movies Stand By Me, Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, Misery- I can rewatch any of these every 5 years, a huge difference.

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  4 місяці тому +1

      the rewatch value supremely important to me as well. I used to watch When Harry Met Sally like once a week lol

    • @oliverbrownlow5615
      @oliverbrownlow5615 2 місяці тому

      I think E.T. has great rewatchability.

  • @novahmartin5854
    @novahmartin5854 4 місяці тому

    loved ur reaction! idk where's best to recommend movies, but could you watch "Archie's final project" (my suicide, director's cut)? it's recently been getting some of the recognition (I think) it deserves on tiktok right now but I haven't seen ANY one react to it on UA-cam yet! would love to hear your commentary! :)

  • @Cerridwen7777
    @Cerridwen7777 Місяць тому

    Corey Feldman really was a good actor, its a shame that he didn't get the material that could have advanced him to the next level. Hollywood chewed him up and spit him out, and it's messed up.

    • @MrValentineReacts
      @MrValentineReacts  Місяць тому

      Well put. So preternaturally gifted! The plight of the child actor

  • @torbnymublous4403
    @torbnymublous4403 2 місяці тому

    You are a salvation today. I got click baited in my suggestion box. It was a girl guitar player who was depressed. I thought maybe 🤔 just maybe she broke her fender stratacaster or her amp 😢 nope it was a real depression thing. 😓 never give advice only encouragement. So i did just that but it was too late😱 the UA-cam bots were watching. My suggestion box went from UA-cam reactions into women with lots of emotions. Fearful they may see me i ducked in here. 😱never open that feed 😒 its like Pandora's box. Dont let my drama fool you. It was like Tayler the feinds channel with no commentary or the lost souls level of hell in Dantes inferno. I was about to toss myself out my window like that dude in h.p. Lovecraft's Dagon, fortunately its a 1 story home. So now i won't look like the kid at the end of this film

  • @Comeonkidspellinfun
    @Comeonkidspellinfun 3 місяці тому +1

    Pleasee react to 10 things i hate about You!!

  • @johnniekight1879
    @johnniekight1879 4 місяці тому +2

    Dude. Put the dictionary away PLEASE!!

    • @Serai3
      @Serai3 4 місяці тому +8

      Speak for yourself. I appreciate a reactor that sounds like he reads more than just comic books.

    • @opalviking
      @opalviking 4 місяці тому +4

      Everyone learns random bits of info along their journey through life. Pausing a YT video to google a word won’t hurt you. Research is King

    • @EL_Duderino68
      @EL_Duderino68 4 місяці тому +4

      It's his style man. Why do feel the need to disrespect it? Are you sad?

    • @timd.3837
      @timd.3837 4 місяці тому +3

      I believe this is the first time I have ever seen someone be told to "dumb it down" in my life. It's not exactly like he's pausing the recording and looking up words to use. Clearly, he speaks with knowledge. My suggestion is to expand your own vocabulary, and not insult him for striving to better educate himself. I find his reactions to be quite refreshing and on point.

    • @Serai3
      @Serai3 4 місяці тому +1

      @@timd.3837 What he's really objecting to is having to use a dictionary himself.