To be fair, this movie was marketed, and relied, on the star power of two of the biggest sitcom stars of the day. People mainly wanted to see Will and Martin flexing their comedy chops against each other on the big screen, with some classic 90s action and explosions as icing on the cake. The cop side of the story was secondary.
Actually nobody expected much out of this movie for the exact reason that they were sitcom stars. The TV and cinema worlds were much farther apart than they are today in terms of talent and quality and respect, and two icons of saturday morning TV seemed like the wrong people in a 90's action flick. But this was carried on its quality alone and people re-evaluated both stars' capability.
@@JakkFrost1 Keep Bad Boys name out your goddam mouth...Always thought Will was not as talented as people would have believed. Will was special, he could hack onto literal Alien systems. STarPower for sure, but talent hmmm???
@@blacklite911 Exactly! It was so much fun & they had great chemistry together. Also loved Joe Pantoliano in these films as well. Always loved that Will had that surprise cameo on Martin's show wishing him a happy birthday, that was so cool to see as a fan of both them & their shows at the time.
This mlvie was awesome! BB2 would been good if it woujd been about 60min shorter. Third one was shhht, havent even bothered to watch the fourth one... 🙄
I got a cell phone a year before this, and I was a teenager. My dad had a phone (one of those car-installed phones which you can also carry into the house) years before that.
Cell phones were a thing, but minutes were expensive AF. I had a Motorola around this time, but it was mostly for show.😂 A few years later they'd become more affordable and they really hooked people with the "free nights and weekends" deals.
When they were talking about the club I just realized that the club Limelight I went to as a kid is like the blueprint for all movie club sceness since. Sort of like how when people think of Dracula the widows peak look from the 30s is what I imagine in most peoples minds eye. 👴
How old are they, anyone actually knows? It’s interesting how they watch at 90s movie but with the values and mind set of 2024. Makes me realize how old I am lol
@@lightup6751 I don't think they've ever mentioned it. Some people on the internet are super secretive about their age. I don't get it, especially if it's a reaction channel where community interaction plays a role in the channel's success.
_"They had cell phones back in the 90s, right?"_ Some people had them in the early to mid 90s, but they were expensive, huge and didn't stay charged for very long. They weren't popular among the public until the late 90s and around 2000. Bad Boys was released in 95.
@@earthien someone I knew had one of the first mobile phones. He used it for work and had it in his van. It had a huge battery pack that came with it, like a suitcase. You absolutely couldn't carry it on your person. My first phone was a big black motorola thing with an antenna like you mentioned. I could just about get it into a large jacket pocket.
Mark Mancina, who wrote the score for Speed, also wrote the score for Bad Boys. So yes, that's why the opening credits seems so over-the-top bombastic.
I can't believe Simone's "take the shirt off, it's slowing you down" comment got my aviation enthusiast self halfway into thoughts about what the aerodynamics of fabric are and the drag coefficient might be while running... before realizing what she really meant. Sigh.
May I just say you two are by far my favorite reactors. Simone is so sweet, and George is a bad ass. It brings me so much joy watching your reactions to the movies and shows that I love. Keep doing your thing guys!
@@biggary9602 aww bless you, you thought you had an opinion that other people shared. Just as in most life situations (I’m assuming) you’re on your own.
You have to keep one giant thing in mind: this movie created the 'Baystyle'. The beautifully cinematic slow-mo and artistic style that later became a trademark of Bay films, (like them or not,) all originated here. There wouldn't be films like Armageddon, The Rock, etc. It was all due to his extensive music video background, and I know people 'hate' on his movies because it is the 'cool' thing to do, but he did have some absolutely amazing cinematography when he didn't overuse it. Because of this movie, the entirety of Hollywood, and what was capable in movies, was changed forever.
A lot of the hate is justified but Bad Boys 1 and Armageddon, Armageddon especially, are genuinely excellent movies. It's his best movie if you asked me, I'd put Bad Boys 1 in 2nd place and then Transformers 1 in 3rd.
This helped Will Smith become a major film star. Director Michael Bay followed this up with the action spectacle The Rock, while Will Smith followed this up with Independence Day. The leading ladies are played by Theresa Randle and Tea Leoni. The sequels are absolutely worth watching as well. Captain Howard is played by Joe Pantoliano. Another 90's comedy to watch is Major Payne
The switched names isn't a joke... it was a plotpoint. If you go in expecting to laugh every time it affects the plot when it's not trying to you're always going to be disappointed. Bay likes to add dynamics to his action and his plots by making multiple problems build on each other, it's great at building tension and keeping the pace and depth up. Having to put up a facade to keep a traumatized witness from walking to help catch the killer of her friend and the real Mike's friend, while being hounded on by IA and possibly have a mole, it comes at you from all sides. The Mission Impossible series often tries to do something similar, although it doesn't quite become as dynamic as Bay films.
I love the classic action movie trope where you can tell which cars they're going to blow up simply by the fact they're 1-2 body styles older than anything current for the filming year.
I remember Michael Bay saying that the script was so awful that he told Will Smith and Martin Lawrence to just improvise the dialogue. Also, Bad Boys II is one of the rare occasions where the sequel is just as good as, if not better than, the original. Y'all better watch it!
Yep, I was super skeptical about bad boys for life but they did a great job with continuity and showing the characters grow. Lots of fun stuff in there
@BennyBlancoNL I'd say Marcus is the bad one because he's a veteran cop who still gets queezy when he sees a dead body. Mike is the worst cop, he doesn't wear gloves at a crime scene(same thing with Marcus) and he's quick to pull his gun on people.
@@MrDman21 They're with the narcotics department. They deal with drugs and drug dealers. Homicide deals with dead bodies. The only reason they're on the case is because it started with the stolen drugs. If the bad guys had stolen money, gold, or something other than drugs, they wouldn't have come into contact with the dead body.
The Bad Boys Theme by Mark Mancina is SO good (no, not the song from 'Cops'). It plays at several points during the movie, but they seem to have edited it out to avoid coypright strikes (fair enough). It's a great workout song. Edit: it's playing in the first scene, while they argue over the food.
This one was a very 90's movie, nobody thought much of two sitcom protags in an action movie back then so it was lucky to get made (+the studio expected it to fail), and it was before Michael Bay was an established director or really found his style. But not only was this a massive success, I think it's one of the movies that did the 90's formula the best. One thing I love about Bay movies is that an action scene is never one problem, there are always multiple problems stacked on each other, and he goes the extra mile for stuntwork and practical fx. Like that guy running away from the car on the bridge didn't have to be in here, he wasn't a character, it was a dangerous stunt, but it just adds something to the chase. Bad Boys 2 though is where this series really becomes legendary. It's a genuine action classic through and through, a lot funnier, and is probably the reason Bay for all his faults will always have a great legacy in action.
Funny you mention that the music reminds you of Speed, because it's the same composer and the theme to Speed sounds almost identical. One of the best scores of the 90s for sure.
The dynamic between Mike Lawry and Marcus Burnett and the other 2 cops is similar to Crockett and Tubbs vs Switek and Zito from Miami Vice only less antagonistic 😄
LOL When he was saying he was surprised that Mike had such a fancy car for a cop, it immediately made me think of those expensive cars Crockett got to drive because he was undercover.
About the intro and titles, ahh... it was the 90s, man. And it was another blockbuster-type production by Don Simpson & Jerry Bruckheimer. These two, either as a pair or on their own, made: Top Gun, The Rock, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Armageddon, Beverly Hills Cop, Con Air, Pirates of the Caribbean, Enemy of the State, National Treasure, and the list goes on.
I love this movie. I used to record random lines/scenes onto a small "court" recorder and randomly play them in class in middle school. Also, that really tall guy on the computer is John Salley who used to play in the NBA for the Pistons and Bulls among other teams. And "we outa f***ing road" is my favorite line.
I'm sure you're Patreon's told Simone but just incase the security/concierge at Mike Lowrey's apartment complex was the same actor who played Willy owner of Willy's Place in Buffy.
45:00 From what I can tell, this movie is generally rated higher than the 2nd film, but everyone has their own favorites. However, George might want to keep an eye out for a big reference to Jackie Chan's Police Story (1985) in the sequel.
I think the only reason the second film is rated lower is that full-on Michael Splosion Bay fatigue had already set in by 2003. This came out before almost all of his movies - Mortal Kombat, Armageddon, for example . Well, that and what I mean is Bad Boys 2 fully embraced the bay - everything was ridiculous whereas this first movie was a bit more raw and relied less on explosions and car chases and stuff and more on drama. Personally I prefer the original but I wouldn't rate 2 more than like .1 stars lower.
@@LudusAurea I also think BB2 is at least half an hour too long and does go a bit overboard on the gory side of things. That was unnecessary in my opinion. BB1 was indeed Bay's first full movie after his music video phase and you can clearly see that in this movie. For me still his best, just slightly ahead of "The Rock".
Everyone had a crush on brunette Tea Leone. Also, industrial metal music was weirdly mainstream at the time so all the club scenes in movies were blasting it
"My shit always works sometimes" is one of the best movie lines alongside "16% of the time it works every time" (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) and "Doctors say he has a 50-50 chance of living but there's only a 10% chance of that" (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad).
The story I heard that taught me everything I ever needed to know about M. Bay was something like... He invited friends over to watch a movie. After about 10 to 20 minutes of the movie being thought provoking and building up characters, Bay stopped the film, apologized to his guest and put on something that had a car chase in the opening cinematics. The man is a 12-year-old Ricky Bobby in an adult's body.
I enjoy watching Michael Bay’s first three movies as a triple feature because they escalate the risk from “Bad Boys” being a risk to a few people, “The Rock” being a risk to a city and “Armageddon” being a risk to the whole world.
I once went to a sudden death where we estimated he was dead for 2 weeks during a heatwave (35+ celsius) No one could be in the room more than a few seconds. Had to call the fire department who wore their self contained breathing apparatus. When they attempted the pick up the body all the liquids broke out and spilled everywhere. They don't pay those restoration company employees enough. Bodies smell like rotting flesh combined with feces (everyone evacuates when they pass)
This movie came out when Martin Lawrence (Martin) and Will Smith (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) were both on hit sitcoms. For both of these guys this was the first big movie that they headlined!
Yes, the smell of death really is quite unique. If you ever smell it again, you just _KNOW_ that something died around here. (We had a cat that liked to play with its "food". It didn't actually eat the mice and birds, just play with them. Every once in a while one got away underneath a shelf or something. You never know they're there, until ... .)
The first and second film are the last we get of classic Martin Lawrence before the stroke. The humor for his character and the dynamic changes as a whole. But damn seeing it here really makes me miss him at this stage.
In the nineties every local big three station, in a Metropolitan area, had a news chopper. If they were big enough, they had two, possibly three. Also, because police used cb radio technology, every outlet also had police scanners in those helicopters.
Yes, the same music composer that did Speed did the same music for bad boys and twister. He did great composing music in the 90’s. His name is Mark Mancina. I want the same style for my films when I start doing mine. It just has a great style that keeps you intensely in the film
Still a great piece of 90s Michael Bay action. The chemistry between Mike and Marcus is great, but as far as buddy cop movies go, "Running Scared" from 1986 is my all time favorite. Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines are great in that. I highly recommend it.
*The Original Score for "BAD BOYS" (1995) was written by Mark Mancina, who was in the 90's in Hans Zimmer's "Media Ventures"-Team. He co-worked on Hans Zimmer's Original Scores for films like Tony Scott's "DAYS OF THUNDER" (1990), Tony Scott's "TRUE ROMANCE" (1993) and "THE LION KING" (1994). He wrote the Original Scores for "SPEED" (1994), "ASSASSINS" (1995), "TWISTER" (1996), "CON AIR" (1997, co-written with Trevor Rabin), "SPEED 2 : Cruise Control" (1997), "TARZAN" (1999, co-written with Phil Collins), "TRAINING DAY" (2001), "SHOOTER" (2007)...* ⬅🎸🥁🎻🎹🎺🎶💿🔊🔥
Hey, y’all were the reason I signed up for Patreon 2 years ago, and for those who have $4 a month to spend it’s worth it just to support them in some small way. Voting in polls is cool and being in a small community of (usually) kind and intelligent people is nice.
What the hell are you talking about George? The majority of the films Will Smith has done were comedies. Also discussing what he's better at, you've literally seen his performance in I Am Legend. He's won a freaking Oscar for King Richard and his performance in Pursuit of Happyness wihich you've no doubt havent seen was amazing. You talk like he's a bad actor.
This is a great movie. Two guys with tremendous rapport on camera. All movies like this have their start with one film…48hrs (Eddie Murphy & Nick Nolte)
Not only Michael Bay, it is a Bruckheimer produced film. A lot of 90's and 2000's action films from Bruckheimer had similar pacing and stunts. Lots of fire and explosions.
This is a fun buddy-cop movie with lots of Michael Bay-ism... dramatic camera angles and movements. The chemistry between the two leads is really what carries the whole film, leading to... (counting in my head) ... three (?) sequels (i believe). Tea Leoni is drop dead beautiful and her career took off after this, doing multiple TV shows as the lead... and I believe she was briefly married to actor David Duchovney of the "X-Files" tv series. This was one of Michael Bay's earliest movie projects, mostly only done tv commercials and music videos prior to this.
Given that Nokia 2110 released in 1995 cost 1000-1200 dollars (2070-2480 dollars today) plus the plans being very expensive it's not that surprising people didn't have cellphones. They were a luxury item.
This whole franchise is great. Michael Bayham in full effect for the first 2 movies and even with the different directors of the other 2 movies they have the same vibe as the ones directed by Bay.
So about the cellphones. Yes cellphones existed in the 90s. But they where still very expensive and still not the most reliable. Most people were still using housephones and payphones. It wasnt till 2000s where cellphones became affordable and reliable that they started to become a household item. But even then, it wouldn't be till the mid to late 2000s where it be weird for someone not to have one.
This is really a Proto-Michael Bay movie. Tgis was his first Feature, and up until this he was entierly a music video and commercial director. It has all of his hallmarks, but it is so wild how restrained it is, in comparison to many of his kater movies.
Wow. You guys couldn't tell that was drugs being stolen in the first scene? "Packages of coffee"? lol. Protected by a cop.. You crack me up. 20:42 Yes, there were cell phones. However, they were NOWHERE near ubiquitous. That didn't really start changing until the 2000s.
Lethal Weapon and the Bad Boys series were similar at the start. Bad Boys continues with some of the best action around without really advancing the character arc.
10:42 never thought of it that way. That’s a good backstory. 24:09 when I first heard that my question was “do you want them to just waste the rest of the animal? At least they made it into something tasty”. 33:20 I think at this point she knows that he’s Marcus.
This movie uses some shots that are staples in Michael Bay movies like the spinning camera, and the shot when they get out of the car at the airport which Edgar Wright used in Hot Fuzz. Bad Boys 2 introduced the world to Meghan Fox in a dancing scene
"I feel like Will Smith has the biggest ears." There was an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where the George and Louise Jefferson had a cameo appearance and Louise made a joke about Will Smith's big ears! lol
41:28 fun fact about that scene Michael Bay paid 25 grand off of his paycheck for the movie which was a quarter of his fee just to shoot that scene as in his words the line producer was a complete ass with no faith in the movie and wouldn't let him do it, he felt this scene needed to be in as it's were the audience claps he wasn't wrong one of the best scenes in the movie Imo
9:24 as part of an internship I did, we visited the state morgue/ME's office. The smell stuck in my nose and on my clothes all day, and while I can't recall what the exact smell was like from my memory now, I know I'd recognize it instantly if I ever smelled it again.
@9:20 Yeah. The smell of death is really difficult to describe because it hits all at once, but is a mix of so many awful things that it's like they're competing. Your brain will pick out one scent, usually sulfur, but very quickly it will register that there's more than that, and you'd think the combo would smell like garbage or sewage, but it is somehow distinct, and almost worse. And before anyone asks, no I'm not in forensics nor caused a need for a forensics team; I've volunteered at a wolf refuge, and that refuge had an area called the bone pit. Let's just say the ravens and the flies loved it. Fortunately the smell didn't travel far... 🤢
Passenger 57 is a Wesley Snipes movie
Great movie
"Always bet on black!"
I was looking for this comment.
@@MrDman21Always.
A really underrated movie with a scary villain.
To be fair, this movie was marketed, and relied, on the star power of two of the biggest sitcom stars of the day. People mainly wanted to see Will and Martin flexing their comedy chops against each other on the big screen, with some classic 90s action and explosions as icing on the cake. The cop side of the story was secondary.
And that’s what we got, it was awesome!
Actually nobody expected much out of this movie for the exact reason that they were sitcom stars. The TV and cinema worlds were much farther apart than they are today in terms of talent and quality and respect, and two icons of saturday morning TV seemed like the wrong people in a 90's action flick. But this was carried on its quality alone and people re-evaluated both stars' capability.
@@billbill6094 it was a gamble, for sure, but you didn't actually contradict anything I said, you just added more detail.
@@JakkFrost1 Keep Bad Boys name out your goddam mouth...Always thought Will was not as talented as people would have believed. Will was special, he could hack onto literal Alien systems. STarPower for sure, but talent hmmm???
@@blacklite911 Exactly! It was so much fun & they had great chemistry together. Also loved Joe Pantoliano in these films as well.
Always loved that Will had that surprise cameo on Martin's show wishing him a happy birthday, that was so cool to see as a fan of both them & their shows at the time.
Bad boys 2 is double the comedy triple the action
It's also twice the length and thrice as obnoxious.
Half the script
And yet somehow worse.
It’s soooo much better!!! Definitely top 5 ridiculous action movies.
This mlvie was awesome! BB2 would been good if it woujd been about 60min shorter. Third one was shhht, havent even bothered to watch the fourth one... 🙄
Cell phones were just becoming popular when this was released. This was still the pager period. Lol
Damn iam old lol
@@morbidangel2424 we all are
I got a cell phone a year before this, and I was a teenager. My dad had a phone (one of those car-installed phones which you can also carry into the house) years before that.
Cell phones were a thing, but minutes were expensive AF. I had a Motorola around this time, but it was mostly for show.😂 A few years later they'd become more affordable and they really hooked people with the "free nights and weekends" deals.
So your parents were rich then.
Tall guy is John Salley - NBA player from the 80s and 90s
I just now noticed ironically he played for the Bad Boys Pistons and he's in Bad Boys
He also played for the MIAMI Heat.
@earthien Oh yeah! He sure did
I realize how old I am when I see these guys ask questions about the 90s. I was in college back when this came to theaters. 😂
When they were talking about the club I just realized that the club Limelight I went to as a kid is like the blueprint for all movie club sceness since. Sort of like how when people think of Dracula the widows peak look from the 30s is what I imagine in most peoples minds eye. 👴
I can't tell if they are in their late 20's or early 30's.
How old are they, anyone actually knows?
It’s interesting how they watch at 90s movie but with the values and mind set of 2024. Makes me realize how old I am lol
@@lightup6751 I don't think they've ever mentioned it. Some people on the internet are super secretive about their age. I don't get it, especially if it's a reaction channel where community interaction plays a role in the channel's success.
_"They had cell phones back in the 90s, right?"_
Some people had them in the early to mid 90s, but they were expensive, huge and didn't stay charged for very long. They weren't popular among the public until the late 90s and around 2000. Bad Boys was released in 95.
Yeah, they were grey bricks with five-inch antennas.
@@earthien someone I knew had one of the first mobile phones. He used it for work and had it in his van. It had a huge battery pack that came with it, like a suitcase. You absolutely couldn't carry it on your person.
My first phone was a big black motorola thing with an antenna like you mentioned. I could just about get it into a large jacket pocket.
@@earthien no that is earlier. Bag phones were already dead. Pagers were big. Small phones were getting popular.
@@earthienthat was early 90s, late 90s and early 00s had some of the smallest phones there ever had been
@@Dularrexactly what I was about to say
Mark Mancina, who wrote the score for Speed, also wrote the score for Bad Boys. So yes, that's why the opening credits seems so over-the-top bombastic.
Sucks that they never kept that theme in all the movies
*Mancina
I can't believe Simone's "take the shirt off, it's slowing you down" comment got my aviation enthusiast self halfway into thoughts about what the aerodynamics of fabric are and the drag coefficient might be while running... before realizing what she really meant. Sigh.
😂😂😂
May I just say you two are by far my favorite reactors. Simone is so sweet, and George is a bad ass. It brings me so much joy watching your reactions to the movies and shows that I love. Keep doing your thing guys!
Bad Boys II is just the most epic of mid 2000s action films
It is just another throwaway movie. No one cares. No one rewatches it.
@biggary9602 lots of people care and re-watch it... That's why they were able to reboot it.
@@biggary9602 aww bless you, you thought you had an opinion that other people shared. Just as in most life situations (I’m assuming) you’re on your own.
But the question is: do you watch it before or after Point Break?
You have to keep one giant thing in mind: this movie created the 'Baystyle'. The beautifully cinematic slow-mo and artistic style that later became a trademark of Bay films, (like them or not,) all originated here. There wouldn't be films like Armageddon, The Rock, etc. It was all due to his extensive music video background, and I know people 'hate' on his movies because it is the 'cool' thing to do, but he did have some absolutely amazing cinematography when he didn't overuse it. Because of this movie, the entirety of Hollywood, and what was capable in movies, was changed forever.
A lot of the hate is justified but Bad Boys 1 and Armageddon, Armageddon especially, are genuinely excellent movies. It's his best movie if you asked me, I'd put Bad Boys 1 in 2nd place and then Transformers 1 in 3rd.
@@LudusAurea Bad Bays, The Rock, Transformers, and Armageddon would be my order
*"CON AIR" had also some of the Michael Bay-aesthetics in it...* ⬅🎬📀📺 🤔
@@LudusAurea I also liked The Island and Ambulance.
@@DieHard0 “Bayham”
This helped Will Smith become a major film star. Director Michael Bay followed this up with the action spectacle The Rock, while Will Smith followed this up with Independence Day. The leading ladies are played by Theresa Randle and Tea Leoni. The sequels are absolutely worth watching as well. Captain Howard is played by Joe Pantoliano. Another 90's comedy to watch is Major Payne
If you have to ask what Passenger 57 is then I suggest consider watching it for the channel. I think you'll enjoy it.
The switched names isn't a joke... it was a plotpoint. If you go in expecting to laugh every time it affects the plot when it's not trying to you're always going to be disappointed. Bay likes to add dynamics to his action and his plots by making multiple problems build on each other, it's great at building tension and keeping the pace and depth up.
Having to put up a facade to keep a traumatized witness from walking to help catch the killer of her friend and the real Mike's friend, while being hounded on by IA and possibly have a mole, it comes at you from all sides. The Mission Impossible series often tries to do something similar, although it doesn't quite become as dynamic as Bay films.
I love the classic action movie trope where you can tell which cars they're going to blow up simply by the fact they're 1-2 body styles older than anything current for the filming year.
You have to know a lot about cars to just tell that without being told.
I remember Michael Bay saying that the script was so awful that he told Will Smith and Martin Lawrence to just improvise the dialogue.
Also, Bad Boys II is one of the rare occasions where the sequel is just as good as, if not better than, the original. Y'all better watch it!
Nah, the sequels are too good. This one is a mess and it makes it even better.
Yep, I was super skeptical about bad boys for life but they did a great job with continuity and showing the characters grow. Lots of fun stuff in there
And then there was "Bad Boys: Ride or Die".
"Bad cop, worst cop." Yep, George pretty much summed it up 😄
Who is a bad cop ?
@BennyBlancoNL I'd say Marcus is the bad one because he's a veteran cop who still gets queezy when he sees a dead body. Mike is the worst cop, he doesn't wear gloves at a crime scene(same thing with Marcus) and he's quick to pull his gun on people.
@@MrDman21 You may be an idiot....
@@MrDman21
They're with the narcotics department. They deal with drugs and drug dealers. Homicide deals with dead bodies. The only reason they're on the case is because it started with the stolen drugs. If the bad guys had stolen money, gold, or something other than drugs, they wouldn't have come into contact with the dead body.
Enemy of the state is another good will Smith movie
The most underrated movie on the reaction interwebs... I haven't seen anyone react to it.....
yes!
A much better film than either Bad Boys movies (the original Bad Boys w/ Sean Penn not included).
Yes! Underrated movie, and with the same likeable Smith. It's also the unofficial sequel to Coppola's 1974 psychological thriller "The Conversation".
The chase scenes are like the opening credits for the Naked Gun movies.
Now you have to watch Passenger 57.
100%%
Always bet on black.
@John_Locke_108 ✊🏿
Just like Charley Murphy said about Wesley Snipes “in the 90s, he was the blackest MF on the planet!”.
Agreed.
Passenger 57 was Okay-ish. But I would strongly recommend "Drop Zone" also with Wesley Snipes.
I LOVED Drop Zone. Probably saw it 15 times.
@@jasonthedave6140 I own it on DVD. 80's and 90's were the best years of my life.
Yeah, I think I like Drop Zone better than Passenger 57, too.
The Bad Boys Theme by Mark Mancina is SO good (no, not the song from 'Cops'). It plays at several points during the movie, but they seem to have edited it out to avoid coypright strikes (fair enough). It's a great workout song. Edit: it's playing in the first scene, while they argue over the food.
I was genuinely caught off guard but also ecstatic when they brought it back for Bad Boys III. Especially in the intro.
This one was a very 90's movie, nobody thought much of two sitcom protags in an action movie back then so it was lucky to get made (+the studio expected it to fail), and it was before Michael Bay was an established director or really found his style. But not only was this a massive success, I think it's one of the movies that did the 90's formula the best. One thing I love about Bay movies is that an action scene is never one problem, there are always multiple problems stacked on each other, and he goes the extra mile for stuntwork and practical fx. Like that guy running away from the car on the bridge didn't have to be in here, he wasn't a character, it was a dangerous stunt, but it just adds something to the chase.
Bad Boys 2 though is where this series really becomes legendary. It's a genuine action classic through and through, a lot funnier, and is probably the reason Bay for all his faults will always have a great legacy in action.
Funny you mention that the music reminds you of Speed, because it's the same composer and the theme to Speed sounds almost identical. One of the best scores of the 90s for sure.
It’s also funny because Michael Bay really, really wanted to direct Speed but didn’t get the opportunity.
Tia Leoni looked like a classic 80's Patrick Nagel fantasy girl painting in this movie ❤
Michael Bay knows how to pick them
ALL the Bad Boy movies are well worth the watch.
2 is my favorite. It has one of the best car chase sequence put on film.
The sequence of Téa walking into the club is signature Bay style summed up in 30 seconds 😂😂😂
It was a visually cool shot though.
The dynamic between Mike Lawry and Marcus Burnett and the other 2 cops is similar to Crockett and Tubbs vs Switek and Zito from Miami Vice only less antagonistic 😄
LOL When he was saying he was surprised that Mike had such a fancy car for a cop, it immediately made me think of those expensive cars Crockett got to drive because he was undercover.
@@drlee2 True 😄
About the intro and titles, ahh... it was the 90s, man. And it was another blockbuster-type production by Don Simpson & Jerry Bruckheimer. These two, either as a pair or on their own, made: Top Gun, The Rock, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Armageddon, Beverly Hills Cop, Con Air, Pirates of the Caribbean, Enemy of the State, National Treasure, and the list goes on.
I always liked how when this movie was made Martin Lawrence was more famous but then will smith became more famous so he became the star
How Wil Smith did the sequels and agreed to co-staring credits.
I love looking at the posters and cast lists and seeing Martin's name first. The man deserves his flowers.
George: "That is a RANcid bathroom".
"Trainspotting": "Hold my pint".
What's Passenger 57?? Well, that's your next movie to watch. It's a Wesley Snipes classic!!
I love this movie. I used to record random lines/scenes onto a small "court" recorder and randomly play them in class in middle school. Also, that really tall guy on the computer is John Salley who used to play in the NBA for the Pistons and Bulls among other teams. And "we outa f***ing road" is my favorite line.
I'm sure you're Patreon's told Simone but just incase the security/concierge at Mike Lowrey's apartment complex was the same actor who played Willy owner of Willy's Place in Buffy.
The way Simone said, “the key” (40:22) is the cutest thing I’ve ever heard.
It's crazy that all 4 of the movies in this franchise are as fun as they are. Great watches all around
45:00 From what I can tell, this movie is generally rated higher than the 2nd film, but everyone has their own favorites. However, George might want to keep an eye out for a big reference to Jackie Chan's Police Story (1985) in the sequel.
Yes. Why not spoil it. 😅
@@BennyBlancoNL You don't know what a spoiler is.
I think the only reason the second film is rated lower is that full-on Michael Splosion Bay fatigue had already set in by 2003. This came out before almost all of his movies - Mortal Kombat, Armageddon, for example . Well, that and what I mean is Bad Boys 2 fully embraced the bay - everything was ridiculous whereas this first movie was a bit more raw and relied less on explosions and car chases and stuff and more on drama. Personally I prefer the original but I wouldn't rate 2 more than like .1 stars lower.
@@LudusAurea Mortal Kombat???
@@LudusAurea I also think BB2 is at least half an hour too long and does go a bit overboard on the gory side of things. That was unnecessary in my opinion. BB1 was indeed Bay's first full movie after his music video phase and you can clearly see that in this movie. For me still his best, just slightly ahead of "The Rock".
This is such a 90s classic.
Everyone had a crush on brunette Tea Leone. Also, industrial metal music was weirdly mainstream at the time so all the club scenes in movies were blasting it
"My shit always works sometimes" is one of the best movie lines alongside "16% of the time it works every time" (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) and "Doctors say he has a 50-50 chance of living but there's only a 10% chance of that" (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad).
I miss action movies from the 90's. They were adrenaline fueled mayhem.
"Does anyone choose to be a cop for the paycheque?" They do in Toronto George.
The story I heard that taught me everything I ever needed to know about M. Bay was something like... He invited friends over to watch a movie. After about 10 to 20 minutes of the movie being thought provoking and building up characters, Bay stopped the film, apologized to his guest and put on something that had a car chase in the opening cinematics. The man is a 12-year-old Ricky Bobby in an adult's body.
I feel like Simone could have played Tea's character in this movie with her irl personality. 😂
Annoying?
@@fanofbioshock2nolastname861 You take that back. Tea is great, and her character asks reasonable things (for an action movie from the 90's).
@@theaikidoka no
I enjoy watching Michael Bay’s first three movies as a triple feature because they escalate the risk from “Bad Boys” being a risk to a few people, “The Rock” being a risk to a city and “Armageddon” being a risk to the whole world.
I quote this movie quite often in my real life. “My shit always works sometimes!” “I was like getting them all in before you guys got here!”
I once went to a sudden death where we estimated he was dead for 2 weeks during a heatwave (35+ celsius) No one could be in the room more than a few seconds. Had to call the fire department who wore their self contained breathing apparatus. When they attempted the pick up the body all the liquids broke out and spilled everywhere. They don't pay those restoration company employees enough. Bodies smell like rotting flesh combined with feces (everyone evacuates when they pass)
This movie came out when Martin Lawrence (Martin) and Will Smith (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) were both on hit sitcoms. For both of these guys this was the first big movie that they headlined!
Simone and George due the "Bad Boys" Martin and Will with Tea Leoni keeping people in line! Super Thanks!
Kim Coates Canadian cameo, how suiting lol.
The “put it back in” may be the funniest thing ever
Yes, the smell of death really is quite unique. If you ever smell it again, you just _KNOW_ that something died around here.
(We had a cat that liked to play with its "food". It didn't actually eat the mice and birds, just play with them. Every once in a while one got away underneath a shelf or something. You never know they're there, until ... .)
“You gotta sound sexy” always makes me laugh..also bad boys 2 is insane, it’s like Miami PD turning into COD tier one operators 😂
Hard To Believe It Will Be 30 Years,Next Year Since This Movie Came Out Time Flies,Nice Reactions Everyone
32:04 put some respect on that man’s name!! He saved Tony Stark!!
i dont know why it was so funny to me when Simone was sipping coffee/tea and then George starts sipping from his giant chalis/mug lol
Mark Mancina. 🎵 CRIMINALLY underrated score, IMO 😅
39:33 - FRANCINE THE RAT -Portrayed by Anna Thomson. She also portrayed Darla in 'The Crow (1994) credited as Anna Levine.
The first and second film are the last we get of classic Martin Lawrence before the stroke. The humor for his character and the dynamic changes as a whole. But damn seeing it here really makes me miss him at this stage.
In the nineties every local big three station, in a Metropolitan area, had a news chopper.
If they were big enough, they had two, possibly three.
Also, because police used cb radio technology, every outlet also had police scanners in those helicopters.
Yes, the same music composer that did Speed did the same music for bad boys and twister. He did great composing music in the 90’s. His name is Mark Mancina. I want the same style for my films when I start doing mine. It just has a great style that keeps you intensely in the film
I was just 11 years old when this film was released in 1995.
Best comment ever .
I was 10. My mom really liked "Lethal Weapon" and wanted to see this. She liked the second one better as well.
We got grandpa over here
Still a great piece of 90s Michael Bay action. The chemistry between Mike and Marcus is great, but as far as buddy cop movies go, "Running Scared" from 1986 is my all time favorite. Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines are great in that. I highly recommend it.
*The Original Score for "BAD BOYS" (1995) was written by Mark Mancina, who was in the 90's in Hans Zimmer's "Media Ventures"-Team. He co-worked on Hans Zimmer's Original Scores for films like Tony Scott's "DAYS OF THUNDER" (1990), Tony Scott's "TRUE ROMANCE" (1993) and "THE LION KING" (1994). He wrote the Original Scores for "SPEED" (1994), "ASSASSINS" (1995), "TWISTER" (1996), "CON AIR" (1997, co-written with Trevor Rabin), "SPEED 2 : Cruise Control" (1997), "TARZAN" (1999, co-written with Phil Collins), "TRAINING DAY" (2001), "SHOOTER" (2007)...* ⬅🎸🥁🎻🎹🎺🎶💿🔊🔥
ultra violent version of the old play, "the importance of being Ernest".
Hey, y’all were the reason I signed up for Patreon 2 years ago, and for those who have $4 a month to spend it’s worth it just to support them in some small way. Voting in polls is cool and being in a small community of (usually) kind and intelligent people is nice.
The thumbnail mash up is exquisite.
George's new word a day calendar word was: bombastic. 😆
Definitely react to Bad Boys 2. The Budget is 10x as big. A lot more Action, Comedy and Explosions 😂😂
What the hell are you talking about George? The majority of the films Will Smith has done were comedies. Also discussing what he's better at, you've literally seen his performance in I Am Legend. He's won a freaking Oscar for King Richard and his performance in Pursuit of Happyness wihich you've no doubt havent seen was amazing. You talk like he's a bad actor.
This is a great movie. Two guys with tremendous rapport on camera.
All movies like this have their start with one film…48hrs (Eddie Murphy & Nick Nolte)
Not only Michael Bay, it is a Bruckheimer produced film. A lot of 90's and 2000's action films from Bruckheimer had similar pacing and stunts. Lots of fire and explosions.
My favorite part, they sprayed the lock, and then they hit it...with bolt cutters!🤣😂🤣
This is a fun buddy-cop movie with lots of Michael Bay-ism... dramatic camera angles and movements. The chemistry between the two leads is really what carries the whole film, leading to... (counting in my head) ... three (?) sequels (i believe).
Tea Leoni is drop dead beautiful and her career took off after this, doing multiple TV shows as the lead... and I believe she was briefly married to actor David Duchovney of the "X-Files" tv series.
This was one of Michael Bay's earliest movie projects, mostly only done tv commercials and music videos prior to this.
I've been a big fan of this series! So much fun! And I love the theme! The 12-note main motif is just so perfect!
Lmao the store clerk after the ether truck scene is the guy who helped Tony Stark make his armor in the cave 😂
39:08 hes former NBA player John Salley. Yes, sports-ball lol won 4 NBA championships.
Given that Nokia 2110 released in 1995 cost 1000-1200 dollars (2070-2480 dollars today) plus the plans being very expensive it's not that surprising people didn't have cellphones. They were a luxury item.
Bad boys (1995) and bad boys II (2003) are awesome movies but bad boys (1983) needs some love.
This whole franchise is great. Michael Bayham in full effect for the first 2 movies and even with the different directors of the other 2 movies they have the same vibe as the ones directed by Bay.
2:40 tldr it’s Con Air with Wesley Snipes
So about the cellphones.
Yes cellphones existed in the 90s.
But they where still very expensive and still not the most reliable.
Most people were still using housephones and payphones.
It wasnt till 2000s where cellphones became affordable and reliable that they started to become a household item. But even then, it wouldn't be till the mid to late 2000s where it be weird for someone not to have one.
This is really a Proto-Michael Bay movie. Tgis was his first Feature, and up until this he was entierly a music video and commercial director. It has all of his hallmarks, but it is so wild how restrained it is, in comparison to many of his kater movies.
Passenger 57 I think is a movie with Wesley Snipes, If I remember correctly it was a good movie, but there is along time I watch it
Always bet on Black.....
That's an awesome movie & one of Wesley's most memorable movies. I think they'll like that one. "Delviccio, D-E-L....Vecchio!" 😂
Wow. You guys couldn't tell that was drugs being stolen in the first scene? "Packages of coffee"? lol. Protected by a cop.. You crack me up.
20:42 Yes, there were cell phones. However, they were NOWHERE near ubiquitous. That didn't really start changing until the 2000s.
Funny he say the Music is Like Speed - same Composer, George.
Lethal Weapon and the Bad Boys series were similar at the start. Bad Boys continues with some of the best action around without really advancing the character arc.
I can’t believe I haven’t seen Passenger 57 reactions on UA-cam. And Martin Lawrence is still here trying to make sure y’all remember
10:42 never thought of it that way. That’s a good backstory. 24:09 when I first heard that my question was “do you want them to just waste the rest of the animal? At least they made it into something tasty”. 33:20 I think at this point she knows that he’s Marcus.
This movie uses some shots that are staples in Michael Bay movies like the spinning camera, and the shot when they get out of the car at the airport which Edgar Wright used in Hot Fuzz. Bad Boys 2 introduced the world to Meghan Fox in a dancing scene
"I feel like Will Smith has the biggest ears." There was an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where the George and Louise Jefferson had a cameo appearance and Louise made a joke about Will Smith's big ears! lol
2:59 a reason it maybe makes you think of Speed is the music; same composer, Mark Mancina
41:28 fun fact about that scene Michael Bay paid 25 grand off of his paycheck for the movie which was a quarter of his fee just to shoot that scene as in his words the line producer was a complete ass with no faith in the movie and wouldn't let him do it, he felt this scene needed to be in as it's were the audience claps he wasn't wrong one of the best scenes in the movie Imo
Can't wait for part 2. Def the best out of them all
9:24 as part of an internship I did, we visited the state morgue/ME's office. The smell stuck in my nose and on my clothes all day, and while I can't recall what the exact smell was like from my memory now, I know I'd recognize it instantly if I ever smelled it again.
You guys are going to love the second one!
When yall said this was going to be serious I couldn't wait for yall to watch this 😂
@9:20 Yeah. The smell of death is really difficult to describe because it hits all at once, but is a mix of so many awful things that it's like they're competing. Your brain will pick out one scent, usually sulfur, but very quickly it will register that there's more than that, and you'd think the combo would smell like garbage or sewage, but it is somehow distinct, and almost worse.
And before anyone asks, no I'm not in forensics nor caused a need for a forensics team; I've volunteered at a wolf refuge, and that refuge had an area called the bone pit. Let's just say the ravens and the flies loved it. Fortunately the smell didn't travel far... 🤢
Back in the 80's or 90's Roger Ebert actually wrote about action movies often having their climaxes in a "fire and steam factory".