Pump Up the Volume (1990) -🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review
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"Talk hard"
Bout time someone reacted to one of my favorite movies of all time. More people need to react to this.
Slater said this was his favorite movie
It's the teenagers' job to shout about the problems, it's the adults' job to figure out how to fix them.
Screaming into the darkness is all we had before Podcasts...
"It's fun to burn things!" - it was on this day that I learned Emily and Ralph Wiggum are kindred spirits
14:00 The first step in fixing a problem is acknowledging that you have a problem. I think this is one of the main points of this film. Happy Harry isn't screaming into the void. He's saying that there are problems, and we should stop downplaying those problems or pretending they don't exist.
Well said. And this is one of the reasons why free speech is so vital.
Without it you can't even admit and acknowledge the problems that exist.
The scariest thing about this movie is .. when i was young, I was like, HHH is definitely relatable and that I was just like him in many ways .. and watched it over and over, and had the incredible soundtrack. Then I watched it again like 15 years later when I had a teenage daughter, and I SOOO related to the parents. I honestly think that is what the true genius of this movie is.
This would make a good Double Feature with Heathers.
Heathers!
Our love is God. Let's go get a slushy.
Definitely
Eskimo! It’s the answer to everything.
As corny as it sounds, this movie changed the course of my life at age 13. I went into radio and broadcast technology and never looked back. And it all started with this movie and a small pirate FM radio station in my parents attic.
Hell yeah! *Applause* I wish more ran with inspiration like you did.
Not corny at all! Absolutely awesome and inspirational to hear!
I, too, saw this movie as a teen and thought to try my hand at a pirate radio station. But I didn't think I had a voice for radio, or a clear message; I was just a drunk, drug-addled teenager. Years later I found out about a project called PirateBox, where you could anonymously share music, files, chat, and other things with this inexpensive, modded router that one could place almost anywhere. Sadly, the project died off a few years ago.
Maybe it could be revived with the use of an SBC, like the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W or something? It was an interesting social experiment.
This was my introduction to Leonard Cohen at 13 years old. Thank you for finding it and watching it. I stream it at least once a week.
Everybody knows
This movie was a very influential in my high school days. It showed just how corrupt a school system could be. My school had a revolt of over 200 students walking out of class cause of the way the staff treated us. I really loved this film. Thank you so much for watching. My love to the both of you!!!!! You are wonderful.
I will always thank this film for introducing me to Leonard Cohen's music as a child...
2:43 This film introduced me to Leonard Cohen, and for that I am eternally grateful.
A reaction to this movie makes me so happy. It's so forgotten I did not think it would happen. This movie IS my teen years!
This movie totally encapsulates the Gen X middle/high school experience.
I was in high school at the time, and I was very much like Mark (sat alone, reading a book at lunch, socially awkward, shy, etc). I exorcised my demons with comic books, RPG's, Grunge music, and computer games, rather than a pirate radio station, but it was still damn hard to see the end of the fucked up tunnel that was my teenage years. This movie spoke to me, and so many others like me, on a visceral level.
Fortunately, I made it out the other side, but I remember those that went Mr Serious' route, and I still think about them, thirty odd years later.
Awesome reaction y'all!!!
I have this one on DVD!! Now y’all gotta do Legend of Billie Jean, The Wraith & The Heavenly Kid
Christian Slater has been in some great movies, including this one. Try “The Legend of Billie Jean”, “Kuffs”, “Heathers” and “Murder in the First”.
Have you done Gleaming The Cube?
This is one of my favorite movies when i was a teenager. For the messaging in it. One of the hidden gems of movies.
Does nearly get the credit its due in my mind.
One of my favorite films during my teenage years. As someone who wore a “Question Authority” pin all the time during high school and early 20’s, this was a very impactful film to me. The soundtrack specifically helped shape my taste in music (along with the music of “Singles”)
I loved this and empire records.
Great reaction. Growing up in the 90s, this was always one of my favourites. So happy to see more people finally discovering it.
Finally, someone reacted to this underrated classic.
OGBReacts did react to this film.
@@Madbandit77 That's another great small reaction channel!
Personally, I think this movie really resonates with teenagers because your teen years is when you really start to not only recognize the injustice in the world but actively want to improve it. The frustration comes when teens feel like they aren’t getting any help in righting the wrongs they see. Especially when they’re talked down to by parents who have just accepted the wrongs as “part of life”. And in this movie, a voice appears that’s saying what the kids are feeling and they gravitate towards it. But the adults don’t like this new voice because it’s forcefully pulling the parent’s heads out of the sand and making them see what they’ve been ignoring for so long, so they feel they have to silence the voice. Just my take.
Also, a bit of trivia for you, the blond teacher that gets fired is the same woman who played Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors and the evil principal was one of the bad guys from Superman 3.
MATTHEW: Have you ever seen SLC PUNK?
EMILY: ...No.
INTERNET: Oh you gon' *LEARN TA-DAY.*
Even though this came to DVD I'm pretty sure the music rights have kept this from being released on physical media. But this movie has become underrated despite predicting podcasting 20 years before the technology existed.
I genuinely believe this movie was a touchstone towards the ascent of Grunge. Including the very intense angst.
Wow, I have not thought about this movie in a very long time. I have not seen anyone else react to it.
Maybe follow this up with 'Heathers'?
I've never hit the like button so fast. This is one of my favorite movies, and no one reacts to it. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I’ve been seeing a therapist for about five years. It has helped so much.
I owned this movie when I was in high school and watched it dozens of times. It had a huge impact on me!
This was quite an impression maker on me when it came out, being around that age. Even if we didn’t have the solutions, we still wanted our screaming into the void to be heard, just on the chance that maybe something more than an echo would come back. Also, damn… that soundtrack!
My high school self was also thinking that I didn’t really need yet another crush on an actress, but here comes this movie with Samantha Matthis. I had no choice but to relent to such insistence.
Same, my little black heart grew considerably when I saw her for the first time, 34 years ago.....jeez.
Loved the movie. I always recommend it as a window into the world :)
I remember when this movie came out, I was about 19-20 and I loved it. I can't help but cringe every time that jackass teacher goes off about "your permanent record" because I actually had an incident added to my permanent record with items confiscated from me kept in a bag attached to the file with a note. I only found out two years later when I was sent to another school and when my records got there it was still attached. The guidance counselor at the new school looked it over, shook his head in disgust and threw it in the trash. Up until that point I never took the whole "permanent record" threat seriously. After that I did but only a little.
Allan Moyle didn't make a lot of movies, but angsty teens were his specialty. The one he made for my generation was called Times Square. To me at 16 in 1980, it was a revelation. Nicky Morota played by Robin Johnson blew my mind and became my hero. I was really excited when this one came out and actually saw it in the theater. Absolutely loved it.
I love "Times Square". It deserves a bigger cult following than it has, due to Tim Curry and the film's soundtrack. It's also a subversive LGBTQ romance.
@@Madbandit77 Absofuckinglutely! I do wish we could get some reactors on that shit. I request it all the time.
I love this movie, I saw it as a 30 year old and it brought back all of my teenage angst.
I was 15yrs old when this came out. And LOOOOVED and LIVED the kids point of view. Seeing it a couple of decades later. There was the obvious nostalgia. But then getting and agreeing ALSO with the adults point of view as well(most of em really). Anyway. Glad you liked it. It's one of my favorites of all time.
one of the great things about this movie is that it exemplifies how the teenage experience is almost universal. at that age, we had more questions than answers and that made it difficult to relate to each other in a deeper, more meaningful way. sometimes it's a movie and points that out, or somethings, like Nirvana, it's music that allows us to relate, to understand that we're not alone in the world. that's the beauty of art. it can answer the questions that we're dying to answer.
Everyone talking Heathers, but hear me out about Gleaming the Cube and The Wizard...
Oh, I hear you, and I’ll take all three of those, please, and thank you very much.
This one really spoke to me growing up. I was only a kid when it came out, but I was a high school freshman when I found it at Blockbuster 6 years later. I had just moved to Los Angeles, with a new school system, and those were notorious days for education falling apart due to politics. And dealing with all of Malcom's ideation at the time, this movie just hit different.
Has that school part really changed forgotten worse?
@@sydIRISH No idea, honestly. I'm not having kids, so I don't have a dog in that race anymore.
I knew I was old when I heard Pearl Jam on the classic rock station.
Yeah, especially when a band pops up on a classics station, and you remember a time before that band existed (or even just before they became well known), it’s really time to just accept it. I had to as well.
26:05 Good point about the "Changing of The Guard" musically in the early 90's (and most decades I suppose). For me it was more about Alice In Chains, since they were a bit more rooted in Metal, whereas I feel like Nirvana's sound originated more in Punk (at least early on). Great Reaction, Y'all. I was sixteen when this came out and it will never get old.
One of my favorite movies, great music to it and the story was quite relatable in so many ways...
Surprised that you didn't point out the sympathetic teacher was played by Ellen Greene, as much as you loved Little Shop of Horrors. Maybe her regular speaking voice threw you?
Highly recommend The Legend of Billie Jean.
I loved this movie. Glad to see others enjoy it too
Great Soundtrack!!
Oh shit, it just hit me. Samantha Mathis and Christian Slater are also in Broken Arrow together. I NEVER put it together until now, after all these years.
Ok, back to your regularly scheduled program!
They were an item for a while.
Oh I was so in love with Christian Slater back in those days. This movie really resonated with teens at the time. Just wanting to be heard.
Quite the writer/director, after Empire Records came the truly sublime classic New Waterford Girl, also a 100% must see in spite of being a more low key affair
Love this movie, staple of my childhood
Huh, Haven't seen this is an age. I used to think Christian Slater was a Jack Nicholson wannabe, so I didn't appreciate his movies when I was younger and it's interesting to see this as an adult. He definitely seemed to gravitate towards the rebellious themes, including the more recent TV series, Mr. Robot.
formative movie for me. my mom confiscated my vhs copy when she realized i was watching it with other sixth graders. she didn't want to deal with any upset parents, which is fair, but . . . i just taped it again from hbo at my dad's house so i could keep sharing it to fight what i saw as undue censorship.
I loved this movie when it came out. I got to see it at the Seattle International Film Festival before they completed the credits. It blew everyone away. It's still a favorite.
Starring my cousin Christian. (Actually, have no idea we're related, just same last name. LOL ) So glad I went to a small high school in the early 80's in a mostly rural area where the school staff and the students had more of personal connection. Every teenager experiences some kind of angst and feels like they need to express themselves in one way or another, but they still need some kind of guidance to keep them from going too far and imploding that will affect their futures. Young people tend to think of the now and not the big picture of their futures.
31:26 Watch 'Talk To Me' with Don Cheadle. It's a biopic of 1970's controversial DC radio DJ Petey Greene. He was a ex con who became a radio DJ and outspoken social activist from the mid 60's till his death in 1984.
Christian and Samantha Mathis. This. Ferngully. Broken Arrow. When they work together the result is a classic.
Damn I remember watching this in Hobart Barracks NAAFI cinema, Detmold, Germany back in 1990 when I was in the Army. Christian Slater seemed to be everywhere in those days. This is a great film but I really enjoyed his debut as a 15 year old side kick to Sean Connery in the medieval who-done-it 'The Name of the Rose' from 1986, which is a very underappreciated film IMHO. Oh you may want to look up his other seminal High School flick 'Heathers' from 1988 too.
Always loved this one. If you want another amazing Christian Slater movie you can watch either The Name of the Rose or Murder in the First. Both of those have other actors you should be very familiar with.
A movie came out four years after this one that also tried to tackle similar issues and was similarly prescient, if not quite as good as Pump Up The Volume: S.F.W. (1994). Largely forgotten but definitely worth watching.
Good suggestion.
I had just graduated high school when this movie came out. In so many ways I identified with Mark/Hard Harry. Due to my nostalgia, I give it an 8.5.
I didn't see it if you said anything, but one of my favorite performances was Ellen Greene as Ms. Emerson, the writing teacher. This was the first film I saw with her AFTER I saw Little Shop of Horrors...and I was stunned that Audrey was playing such a cool teacher.
Samantha Mathis was one of my teen crushes, I was 15 when this movie came out. And if asked who my all time biggest celebrity crush was/is, it's still her.
4:40 now you have to watch SLC Punk
Very nice reaction, "TALK HARD!".
how did no one notice that Ellen Greene, Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors is Christion Slater's teacher in this movie?
This has always been a guilty pleasure movie for me.
loved this movie as a teen. Leonard Cohen is now on my playlist because of this movie. I start my day at work with everybody knows
I live 20 miles from that actual high school. Did a video there showing the way it looks today. Very cool moment.
also had a radio show in college (big shocker there)
Truly twins 😆
Thank you for reacting to this! So few do. I also first saw it when it came out in my early teens, and many times after on VHS. A personal favorite.
Something else like this? I may have to think about something specifically like this, but a few other things that came to mind. Since we're on Christian Slater, he and Kevin Bacon, in what I think is his greatest ever performance, alongside a great ensemble cast, starred in another personal favorite of mine that I feel is largely underappreciated and forgotten, which is "Murder In The First", which is supposedly based on the true story of the trial that brought down Alcatraz! The director, Marc Rocco, son of character actor Alex Rocco, unfortunately died fairly young, but had made a few other good flicks too. Also, for a change of pace, Christian Slater later had a movie called "Kuffs", which is a much more light hearted comedy/action that's a real fun watch.
One more for now, and I'm not exactly sure how it's related, or why I thought about it, but I did, and it's another personal favorite from the end of the 80s, with Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper, called "Flashback"! Also kind of a comedy/action, but with maybe a little more social commentary and heart to it. Highly recommend!
A buddy sent me this on dvd when I was deployed in’10-11 afghanistan. I won’t say it made the year better, but it was a nice reprieve.
Rated "R" is usually a box office magnet for teenagers. I saw it, as soon as it came out on VHS. The staff at our local video rental place weren't too picky on ratings.
11:00 It isn't so much that everyone needs to see a psychiatrist. The problem is that most people don't know how to handle their shit.
Around 1960, Cognitive Behavior Therapy was developed. It is an evidence-based therapy that has been shown to be as effective as medication. It was inspired by ancient Greco-Roman stoicism.
Greco-Roman stoicism is not the John Wayne "bottle it up" crap kind of stoicism. In Greco-Roman stoicism (and CBT) you carefully examine your thoughts and emotions, and look for logical errors.
My favorite example is the waxed car: Imagine you have a nice car that you've just had waxed. A bird comes along and craps on it. You get angry and think "birds are always crapping on my car". But if you think about it logically, birds are not always crapping on your car. If birds WERE always crapping on your car, then your car would be buried under a mountain of bird shit.
Once you understand the flawed logic that is making you emotional, you can search for ways to deal with it.
Here's an example from my own thoughts/emotions: Trump supporters angered me. They angered me because they made me afraid. My fear was based on the fact that they have done dangerous things, and I worried what other dangerous things they may do to get what they want while completely disregarding everyone else. There's nothing I can do to force them to change. I can pay close attention to what they say, and perhaps have calm conversations with them and help them see that the world is much larger and far different than their narrow focus allows them to see. I can support political candidates that aren't Trump supports OR political candidates that treat Trump supporters as inhuman. If that fails, I can make plans to bug out of the United States.
Now, I don't get angry at Trump supporters. I'm concerned about them, and I'm concerned for them, but I'm not angry and I don't see them as idiots or sub-human.
I feel like this film and Charlie Bartlett are the perfect double feature.
Throw in The Breakfast Club and maybe some Heathers to really liven things up and ya got quite a night in store.
This movie was a game changer for me back then. The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain
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Aww. Disappointed we didn't get at least a sliver of the Pixies song in this. Oh well.
Since I didn’t have the _Here Comes Your Man_ single at the time, this movie ended up being the first place I had heard the UK Surf version of _Wave of Mutilation._ I was rather confused, but it just fit the scene so well.
Two more early Christian Slater movies worth watching are Heathers and The Legend of Billie Jean. Though the main reason to watch that one is Helen Slater (no relation).
Do you mean in the movie? He uses a Harmonizer to change the pitch of his voice.
this movie was fucking awesome! that is all!
Gleaming The Cube or The Legend of Billie Jean.
This is a random comment but I hope you see it. Yall haven't finished the beverly hills cop franchise!! You should watch the 3rd one soon! Love the channel ❤
When it was released it was the right movie at the right time!
One of my all-time favourite movies and nobody covers it. You guys Rule! 👍☮❤
I'd really like to see you react to Over The Edge (1979). Similar rebelling against authority, alienated youth vibe.
One of my favorite soundtracks
Oh shit. As a teen Slater stan this was it for me. Also, soundtrack goes hard and I still listen to it.
Other participating actors, whose roles I still appreciate in this, I'm surprised no one brought up (apart from the young, pre-Austin Powers/Idle Hands/Family Guy/Robot Chicken Seth Green as Joey, or Ellen Greene aka LSOH's Audrey / the voice of Goldie in Rock-A-Doodle / Margie in The Professional / Louise in Naked Gun 33⅓ as English teacher Jan Emerson):
Robert Schenkkan (a Government aide in The Manhattan Project / State Attorney Peters in The Bedroom Window) as guidance counselor David Deaver
The late Annie Ross (RIP, aka Vera Webster in Superman 3 / Granny Ruth in Basket Case 2 & 3 / Tess Trainer in Short Cuts) & Andy Romano (RIP, aka JD in Beach Blanket Bingo and other '60s Beach Party films / Admiral Bates in Under Siege) as Principal Creswood and Mr. Murdock, respectively
Lin Shaye (sister of New Line's Founder Robert Shaye - known for A Nightmare on Elm Street / Critters / Loaded Weapon 1 / Dumb and Dumber / Kingpin / There's Something About Mary / Detroit Rock City / Say It Isn't So / Stuck On You / My Sister's Keeper) as a PTA parent
I rented that movie so often back then my father bought me the VHS.
Cool reaction as always Emily & Matthew, you both take care and have a good night
Christian Slater said he always wanted to do a part 2. Make it a dystopian America to where the internet is locked down. And his family find his old recording. Something like that, because Mark would be getting up there. 🤓
Love this movie & gateway to discovering the genius of Leonard Cohen
I delivered to Christian Slater recently.
I have tge Bluray and CD soundtrack. It's great.
I just want to thank you guys for not being thirsty for subs. I've had to drop about a half dozen reactors because the animation for "like & subscribe" would pop every two or three minutes. WITH sound effects. So whatever they were watching or saying was interrupted by their chosen animation begging for people to do what they'd probably already done. Yeesh.
Yes, must show Emily slc punk
it just goes to show
over time nothing changes
it just comes from a different direction
but has the same conclusion
Thank you
Nice, watched this classic a few weeks ago.
Actually the most frustrating thing with the soundtrack album is that it does NOT include Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows but instead a cover version I believe by Concrete Blonde. It also fails to include Hi Mom I'm In Jail. Lol.
Christian Slater and radio. That's about all I remembered from seeing the film. That and I liked it.
You HAVE to do TALK RADIO next. Oliver Stone, 1988. Eric Bogosian just tears that thing in half.
This came out the year I graduated high school and was one of the most important movies of my teens. Another was Heathers, which also starred Slater. Fantastic, fantastic movie.