The Seventh Seal (1957) AMAZING MOVIE, REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING
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We wanted to continue to check out some really famous old movies, The Seventh Seal was named 8th greatest film of global cinema of all time in 2010 by Empire Magazine, do we agree? watch our reaction to Ingmar Burgman's (one of the best directors of all time) incredible film.
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The very fact you lads are having such an in-depth discussion after seeing this film proves its worth.
Proves the film is still worth watching after all these years!!
I recommend “whatever happened to baby Jane” and “a clockwork orange”
the British and 'Clockwork' have a looong complicated history...I guarantee neither have seen it
C.O. was shot in the same location as aphex twins come to daddy
Your foreign films playlist so far has been amazing! The fact that you guys choose such classic films from global cinema and are open to critiquing and discussing them is what makes me truly love and respect this channel so much!!!
Also, Tom needs to clean his room. It seems like it gets messier with every new video. 😂😂
You guys are a credit to your generation. You are so open-minded and receptive. The films of that period, which includes Italian neo-realism and French New Wave, were not afraid to tackle big issues, and to see you discussing the issues raised by them has been a real joy. From about that same period, there's an Indian film, by another master, Satyajit Ray, called "The World of Apu" (from The Apu Trilogy) that gets me every time. The final scene is one of the most moving in cinema.
I couldn't agree with you more. These guys are doing a tremendous job and even if I don't agree with what they say, I still can agree that they have the artistic sensibility to be enthralled by what next film they watch will be fun.
I’m honestly shocked you picked such a classic! Great choice and great reaction! Now I KNOW you’re true cinephiles
This is a great film! I highly recommend "Hour of the Wolf" as a Bergman followup. It's, yes, another horror film, but it's not particularly terrifying, just psychologically disturbing and mysterious.
oh man... the scene with the annoying child is truly horrific. I love The Hour of the Wolf!
I think the Japansese film "Seven Samurai" one of the greatest movies ever made. You guys should try it!
Seven Samurai and Harakiri
100%
Love the format of this channel. Feels so rare these days to have no clickbait, quiet thoughtful commentary. Please keep it up!
The Seventh Seal is a terrifying work of genius. The truest horror is a quiet whisper in a cold wind, while shadowy figures move strangely in the distance.
I’m so glad you’re watching a Bergman film! The man was a one of a kind, too many great movies to mention 👌🏼
Again, great discussion. The theme about how to cope with fear of death is well developed and the imagery is astounding at times especially the dance with Death. Curious for your input on another one of Bergman's work, 'Fanny and Alexander.'
You guys should check out more Bergman films, he can do no wrong. A true pillar of art-house cinema.
Thanks for reacting and reviewing this film. I had seen it when I was young, too young to fully understand and appreciate it. I love listening to your discussion as you talk through and process your own feelings and reactions to what you've just seen. I recently recommended you watch Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" from 1982, and now I suggest it even more strongly. It's fascinating to see how Bergman developed his talents over decades. Keep up the great work, guys!
Holy heck you guys are going for the GOATs of the GOATs.
I’ve watched this movie several times in my life. It gets even deeper as you age. As does Wild Strawberries.
I love Bergman's films; i wrote my final paper for my film studies class back in the '80s on him. The "Fanny och Alexander" 4 part series is often part of my winter holiday movie viewing (at least the first part).
I get home from work pretty late. It's so nice to log onto my computer, check out TH-cam, and see you've uploaded a new reaction. You guys end my day on a high note.
You seem to have missed one of the better lines from the squire right after the Flagellants went by: "It's amazing what people will believe even in these modern times."
What’s amazing is that many people consider (rightly) The Seventh Seal as one of the best films of all time and I don’t even think it’s in Bergman’s top five.
What a wonderful reaction. I'd not heard of this film at all, so I'm glad I tracked it down to watch before watching your video. I agree, a simply masterfully crafted film. Thank you for turning me on to this one!
The same director made a film called Persona which is also great, I've seen two times this year and got two different experiences, recommended!
One of two Bergman's films I still have to watch (I found the dvd this year, very cheap), the other one is 'Hour of the Wolf''....
loving shaun's hatred of suspiria. it sustains me.
It's so bold. the cajones
I skipped that reaction cuz I don’t care for the film (though I actually really enjoyed the remake). I’m on my way to watch the reaction now if it means that I get to get my hate on!
How can you not know the Muppets? I'm devastated... The Muppet Christmas Carol is one of my favorites! Lol
Naw. Muppet Treasure Island is where it’s really at!
@@ethanhval9593 That's my second favorite Muppet movie. I love them all though..lol
You lads really are charting uncovered reaction channel territory, huh? Keep up the great work!
Great reaction + review on the symbolism and philosophical sense of this film, lads. Don't limit your Bergman experience to just this one, watch his others. I recommend Persona.
Love the discussion you guys had after :)
Keep it up with the film classics, lads! They're worth it and it makes the channel unique. And now you can also enjoy watching Death play Bill and Ted for their lives with games of Twister, battleship and clue😛
Incredible movie, but you missed the first 6 seal movies. 👀
Bergman made a lot of great films. And he often used the same cast. Max Von Sydow and Gunnar Björnstrand were his two main actors, while the blonde actress who played Mia (Bibi Anderson), and Liv Ullman, Harriet Anderson, Gunnil Lindblom and Ingrid Thulin. All great actors. Check out The Magician, Fanny and Alexander, The Silence, Through A Glass Darkly, Sawdust and Tinsel and so many more. Fanny and Alexander has a great twist at the end.
This movie it's from the 50's. REALLY aged well
I’m so glad you liked it. I hope you end up watching more Bergman. I’m a huge fan of this film and him.
If you take a film class in college /university you will usually end up watching and analyzing this film next to Citizen Cane to get some great insight into storytelling and using the tools of film to tell multi-layered stories with one good superficial story, a deeper philosophical tale and an openly interpretive story that can be considered indefinitely by not giving you answers but posing thoughtful questions.
Okay - you guys are the best!
Fellini next?
Or Orson Welles - Citizen Kane?
It's honestly one of the best films ever made. Well, imo that is. It's so brilliantly written. I aspire to that kind of skill in writing.
The screenplay is written as a medieval morality play. The characters are representative of the different classes of people,
You guys are great reviewers and your reactions are super entertaining. This movie is exquisite. I love it.
I rate the Seventh Seal a 10/10 and it is #6 on my top 10 foreign film list and has been there for more than 25 years.
I would suggest watching Persona, Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander. I feel those are Bergman’s few best movies. This is an interesting introduction into his catalog.
Lads, you are entering an amazing world, Bergman's world. I'm excited to see you guys reacting to more of his movies. This was a very good reaction. Oh, the cinematography is by the legendary Sven Nykvist. By Bergman, i think you guys would like Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, Persona, Through a Glass Darkly, Hour of the Wolf, Wild Strawberries and The Virgin Spring .
Thank you both again. How I enjoy your intelligence, youth and enthusiasm. Through you I rediscover my own joy in these great films.
I officially just watched every video on this channel and it was worth it, I need more please, it's so entertaining and those close ups of your faces are everything I need.
Can you please react to The Devil's Advocate
Love you guys, hello from Mexico
Hey guys, congratulations on 30k subscribers. You deserve it and it's been a fun ride so far. I can't wait to see what else you have planned.
Great to see some subtitled movies on a reaction channel, it's fairly rare; good reactions and discussion. Some favourite subtitled movies I would also recommend are: Cinema Paradiso, The 400 Blows, Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources, Tampopo, Force Majeure, Incendies, Untouchable, Amelie, and Delicacy; plus, 71 into the Fire, and City of Life and Death, if you happen to be in the mood for a war film. Just some possibles to check out.
"How's it hangin', Death?" - Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Again can I just say, I SWOON over Shaun's singing voice!!!
Btw, if you're into great, great great old black and white movies, that still hold up today storywise, i'd suggest a few.
Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa from 1954.
The OG of action movies assembling a gang to do a job.
It's 3 and a half hours but you really don't see the time pass because it is so entertaining and the action scenes still hold up today.
12 Angry men.
A 1957 courtroom drama (well actually a jury deliberation drama).
Even though 90% of the movie is in one single room, clever use of camera and compelling characters keep this movie riveting from start to finish.
The 1957 Kubrick film (and my favorite of his), Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas.
A film loosely based on a real ww1 story, the action and ensuing court drama is mesmerizing.
Fantastic, fantastic movie.
It’s “The Magnificent Seven” with swords instead of guns. Literally. 😎
(And yes, three hours and you do not ONCE look at your watch.)
I don't think Paths of Glory holds up very well. It's very clunky and obvious.
Instead I would suggest The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed. A great sardonic mystery thriller set in post-WW2 Vienna.
One of my favorite foreign (non-English) movies of all time, if not so, one of the best movies made in general...
'The Seventh Seal', a film, which with each viewing, provides for a greater Revelation to its symbolism. Melancholy & measured in pacing & knowing full well Death will have its way, shouldn't Plague one's mind with respect to this masterpiece on how to play chess as only a Knight
First Bicycle Thieves and now the Seventh Seal. Cor! I myself actually never saw it, even though I knew about it for ages. After the excerpts you've shown I will have to change that. I'll remove it from my "I HAVE to see this, because it's an absolute classic" - list and put it in the "I WANT to see it, because it looks much better than I ever imagined"-drawer.
I was nine in 57 when it first came out. I did not see it. Only in my college years in the in the late sixties, did I take a "History of Film" Class. We screened this film, Then moved on to another Bergman gem.. "Wild Strawberries"
Really good, thoughtful discussion.
I'm glad you did a Bergman.
You capture very well the existential side of Bergman: death is a fact, the devil and God are ideas. And human suffering is also a fact.
You also spot the wonderful humor in Bergman. The humor is *dramatic* because it's always part of a contrast: some humans view things this way, some that, and that generates contrast from drama (differing points of view).
Bergman worked in theater his whole life! She he staged many great plays (and some operas). He sometimes uses theater as a metaphor--as he does in THE SEVENTH SEAL with the traveling players.
If you want to see something interesting, master of low-budget filmmaking Roger Corman filmed THE MASQUE OF RED DEATH in England in Eastmancolor. And it's really his colorful take on THE SEVENTH SEAL. With Vincent Price and loosely based on Poe.
Not the kind of horror you've been watching, but very rich.
And Corman's low-budget films like LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and A BUCKET OF BLOOD are amazing horror-comedies. Each was made in a FEW DAYS!
You may have seen some of the musical remake of LITTLE SHOP....It started in black-and-white: with a cameo by Jack Nicholson as a masochist.
Yes, I just mentioned Masque of the Red Death in another comment. Definitely a relationship between the two films. And Masque is a beautiful colour film.
I am so happy you watch this 🎥 Such a good movie.
You definitely need to watch Billy Wilder’s movies collection. He was a great director and writer.
I bought the Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set from criterion and holy shit was it a worthy investment.
Lovely video, guys! Your reactions are so intelligent and honest, and I love this film as well! I would LOVE to see your reaction to Fanny and Alexander, Bergman's greatest masterpiece, in my opinion.
Waited to watch this movie before I watched this review. This was a movie that had me saying “wow” at the end.
Wonderful! I love that you are branching from your Horror collection and tackling these classics!
So fun fact, the last shot with Death leading the others over the hill was not planned. After they finished filming, the director saw a good shot and told people to put on robes and go over the hill. Totally impromptu and without the actors.
Really enjoying your channel guys!
I recommend The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). Its a very good film.
I haven't seen this film, but the second half reminds me of _The Masque of the Red Death,_ the Roger Corman film based on the Edgar Allan Poe story.
Bergman - in my humble opinion - was the best filmmaker. Period. May I recommend: Cries & Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Persona.
Definitely one of the greatest and probably my favorite director ever. I don't know, his movies speak to my like no other movies, I don't know exactly why that is. But anyway, I am always blown away by his craftsmanship. Other movie directors that I would put together with Bergman as being the greatest are Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky and maybe also Stanley Kubrick
1. Bergman
2. Kubrick
3. Tarkovsky
4. Bresson
5. Welles
Great analysis, very thougthfull, this is the reason for watching such films. Cool!
Love your channel, guys!
Great reaction to The Seventh Seal. Check out Bergman’s “The Virgin’s Spring” as well, which served as a huge inspiration for Wes Craven’s first feature film “Last House on the Left” (also worthy of a reaction, or maybe do a double feature ;-))
Bergman's films are amazing. So many worth watching.
Watching this in first-year film school in the late 90s was a revelation.
Minds. Blown 🤯 great reaction guys!
Glad you guys are watching arthouse movies. Bergman has MANY more great movies, if you love this you should get stuck in. Persona, Summer With Monika, and Wild Strawberries are my favourites, if you want to get really depressed Cries and Whispers is a great shout.
The Argento disrespect is wild
RIP, Max Von Sydow. Long live Emperor Ming! Lets not forget he was in Dune, Dreamscape, Judge Dredd, Minority Report, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Beautiful reaction. Would you consider reacting to 1949's The Third Man?
Watched this in the '90s and through it was amazing. It's a miracle that you guys are watching a film that your parents weren't even around when it came out.
You know what would be a really awesome foreign film to react to? Ran by Akira Kurosawa.
It's always so fun to watch you guys at the beginning when you don't know what kind of treat you have in store. Based on how much you've loved Come And See and The Seventh Seal, I think you'd both enjoy Stalker by Tarkovsky.
If y’all want keep on with the foreign films, I’d like to recommend Das Boot (1981). It follows a German U-Boat and its crew during the waining days of the Battle of the Atlantic. One of the very few films where you root for the “bad” guys.
Great to see reactors doing films like this and Bicycle Thieves.
Also, the clue had me in stitches:)
The sign of a good film. It made you both discuss it
The review is exactly how I came around to this film years ago. I watched it, thought it's good, bit weird, theatrical style ... and then when me and a mate were discussing it later, all the ideas in it, it dawned on me - this is a serious piece of work by someone very intelligent.
I'd like to recommend Excalibur (1981). It's also full of heavy themes. A beautifully filmed and highly entertaining film as well.
You NEEEEED to watch The Passion of Joan of Arc....incredible film. I’d recommend Throne of a blood as well, it’s Macbeth told as a samurai tale...amazing visuals and acting!
I'm stoked that you guys are venturing off into other regions of cinema. Although i find some of Bergman's films to be hit or miss, it goes without saying that Seventh Seal is a work of art.
I applaud you for getting through the whole thing and enjoying it. I'm a bit older than you both and have tried on at least 3 occasions throughout my life to watch this and just can't. I don't know if it's the language or imagery but I just can't sit through it.
I just watched it for the 1st time today. Nice to hear you guys discuss the themes and thoughts and meanings of it.
My people!
I discovered this channel today, and I’m enjoying it immensely. As someone who’s been watching and loving movies for 50 years, there are so many to recommend, both old and new. The trick is to suggest titles you’ve probably not already seen.
So, here goes nothing!
The Grapes of Wrath
The 39 Steps
Stagecoach
City Lights
Moonstruck
Night of the Hunter
Babette’s Feast
In a Lonely Place
Seven Days in May
Chinatown
East of Eden
Cool Hand Luke
Joyride
In the Heat of the Night
Nashville
On the Waterfront
The Vanishing (Dutch)
Milk
White House Down
In Bruges
Freaks
Stalag 17
Sunset Boulevard
Dodsworth
Warhorse
Secretariat
Breaking Away
Paper Moon
The Last Picture Show
Probably my favorite film along with Lawrence of Arabia. You guys might also be the first Seventh Seal reaction video too! Awesome!
Love being introduced to new movies through you guys!
Fabulous film. He absolutely brings out the best in characters. Max Von Sydow was already a phenomenal actor way before Emperor Ming.
First film that you guys have watched which I had not already seen!! Guess I have to watch it now!
Whenever I've mentioned this film to friend's I've mentioned it's quite funny and they've always thought I was making a shit joke 🤣
9.9 for me. I'm glad you liked The Seventh Seal because I feel like it opens the door to his other masterpieces nicely. His films go beyond the traditional mechanics of film making effortlessly, always playing with the human condition seamlessly. I've always thought of Ingmar Bergmann as a much more dialed in less wish-washy Jean Luc Goddard.
Ingmar Bergmann's film's finally getting seen though I love it!
I avoided this account after/during The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then looking through TH-cam as usual saw the title, so decided to watch. I requested it 4-5 times, so it was good to see. Ingmar Bergman directed and wrote it. The same year 1957, he released another surreal before special F/X were very good. "Wild Strawberries" and The Seventh Seal have the same rating on IMDB. I've owned both of them for about 20 years. Ingrid Bergman, his cousin, started decades before he did, and she got big in 1942 with Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca". Both Bergman's have a lot of great movies in their resumes... ---Good to see your rating, Bergman is in the top 5, maybe top 3 of my directors. Only one is still alive. David Lynch...
Throne of Blood and Aguirre the Wrath of God….two of the best films ever made. Also The Passion of Joan of Arc is a masterpiece, especially with the new Einhorn soundtrack….
Thanks, and am glad you chose this movie! While I don't feel all of his movies are equally good, there many great Bergman films in addition to The Seventh Seal (which is wonderful), from a comedy like Smiles of a Summer's Night (prize winner at Cannes; remade by Woody Allen and by Stephen Sondheim) to dramas like Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers (and many more fine ones: The Virgin Spring, The Magician, Through a Glass Darkly, etc), to a brilliant early 1980s TV mini-series, Fanny and Alexander (the chopped down movie version won 4 Oscars). And there is a beautifully filmed Swedish-language production of Mozart's The Magic Flute that was directed by Bergman, too.
And yes, plenty of parodies have been made of The Seventh Seal, one with Death challenged to a game of badminton..!
If you are wanting to explore great older movies, there are plenty from Hollywood, and if you want to see some English ones, what about an Ealing comedy or two, starting possibly with Kind Hearts and Coronets? And while you may be nervous about some European cinema after a negative experience, what about gambling on a long classic like Les Enfants du Paradis, or instead a Jacques Tati comedy, or maybe a good Fellini movie, or something from the French New Wave (my favourite director of that group is still Truffaut). Or maybe a movie by Akira Kurosawa, whether Rashomon, or Seven Samurai, or Ikiru, or even Ran (his version of King Lear).
Plenty of good more recent movies, too (including Wes Anderson's films), but since you enjoyed an older Bergman classic these are some suggestions that you may enjoy.
You guys have introduced me to so many movies I haven't seen Thank you. If you're thinking about doing animated films watership down (1978) and when the wind blows are great
My top 5 Bergman films. 1. The Virgin Spring, 2. The Seventh Seal, 3. Wild Strawberries, 4. Fanny and Alexander, 5. Scenes from a Marriage.
Another fun "death" movie is "Meet Joe Black". Though at its core its a really messed up romance movie, it has some fun conversations with death and who/what death really is. Plus we see Brad Pitt get creamed by a car.
Having seen almost all of Hopkins' wonderful cinema portfolio (uh hello, Remains of the Day), I love it when one of the daughters asks "Haven't you had enough of us, daddy?", and the way in which he chews out a "...mmmmm... no."
This reaction made me wanna watch it again. I haven't seen The seventh seal since 2012.
Films I recommend for you guys to consider : Baraka, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Hours, Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, Secrets and Lies, Whale Rider to name but a few of my favourites!
Thoroughly enjoying your channel ☮️💜
This film meant a lot more to me in 2020 during the *current plague* than it did when I first saw it in 1978 when I was 24..
Happy to see you watch this classic movie. So good! Och svensk. ;)
For Christmas you guys should watch It’s a Wonderful Life.
This is Ingmar Bergman's master opus on the conflict of man's existential construct and how it conflicts with the finality of death. In fact, I'd say that there are no words that can truly convey to gravity and depth that this film speaks to.
Absolutely love y’all’s reactions!!!!!!!!
Signed up to the BFI Player to watch this film just so I could enjoy your reaction, and I felt similar to you both about it. There's a real sense of urgency for such a slow film, like I guess we'd all feel if we knew we didn't have much time and wanted to do something with our lives. If Death popped up now, I reckon we'd at least put the bins out.