I love how the title card comes around 15 minutes into the movie. You don't even realize there's been no credits because you're having so much fun watching it.
I was thinking about that introduction and how good it is as I watched TBR's reaction. It achieves SO much narrative exposition while still being extremely entertaining. Like you said, it's so engrossing the titles are a bit shocking lol.
I think the baby "sawing toothpicks" is the baby version of the phrase "sawing logs" denoting that someone is sleeping and their snores are like the sound of a saw working hard.
"This is so chaotic!" "That was one of the best scenes!" The yodeling chase might be one of the funniest sequences ever put to film. From the moment Holly Hunter starts yelling until they get the huggies back is such pure cartoon insanity that I can't stop laughing.
I don't even like dogs that much, but that shot of all the neighborhood dogs running together through the stranger's house - with that low camera angle & yodeling music - makes me giggle uncontrollably.
"And when there was no crawfish, we ate sand" "YOU ATE SAND?" I also love when he walks in to propose, he just offhand says "Hey Kurt" to the guy getting his picture taken. Kills me.
Love the “YOU ATE SAND??” line! “Don’t print that, son. If his mama reads it, she’s just gonna lose all hope” And “Well, sometimes I get the menstrual cramps reeeal hard” round out my three favorite lines in the movie.
Now me & Bill were patrolling down nine mile... Bill Roberts? No, not that mother-scratcher. Bill Parker. Anyway, we're approaching the wreck, and there's a spherical object resting in the highway, and it's not a piece of the car.
My mother and I loved this movie. We would watch it every year. Until our VCR broke and we never upgraded to a digital copy. My mom is still trying to figure out why the dogs were running through the house and chasing after Hyde in general.
I just had a flashback to when my mom recorded "Gleaming the Cube" off HBO for me except she used my dad's VHS Tape with the Super Bowl on it. Dad still hasn't gotten over that incident 40 years later!
as I'm sure others will mention, the coens basically conceived of this as a live action looney tunes cartoon, with nic cage as a hybrid bugs bunny and wile e. coyote. between this and their first film blood simple, they basically defined their two main modes (darkly comic neo-noirs, screwball adventures, and sometimes mixtures of the two) for decades to come.
It's the Coen Brothers movie that is closest to a Sam Raimi 'Evil Dead' flick - and is a tribute in many respects. The respective film careers of the Coen Brothers and Raimi are (famously) intertwined.
@@Johnny6666 oh yeah the camera throughout is incredibly raimi. in fact i don't think they ever had shots/sequences this manic again, even in their later chase scenes and action sequences. (this movie is obviously super-choreographed too, just a different vibe.)
The reason H.I. and Smalls the bounty hunter have the same tattoo is because he’s meant to represent what H.I. could have become if he hadn’t of been saved from his life of crime by Ed’s love. I also love the detail that when H.I. shoots him in the hand that fire comes out of the wound instead of blood. Dude is just that evil.
@@lampad4549 Then what other narrative purpose would them having the same tattoo serve that the scene had to highlight it, specially with H.I. being the one to reveal it?
I think of it not so much as alternate future, as a dark force that he's released into the world. The whole movie works on cartoon logic, but the bounty hunter is the closest thing to being supernatural. He sees him in his nightmares and almost seems to manifest him into being, and in the end, he has to destroy him.
Good catch, but I always thought the flaming hand thing was because that's where he kept the matches for doing the match trick thing he did. Also, the team of John Goodman and William Forsythe is amazing!
"That sumbitch." The banjo, the witty one-liners, and casting alone. The Coen bros. sure know how to make a movie. Simon Pegg said it best that this movie is a live action cartoon.
The biker from hell was played by Randall "Tex" Cobb. If you ever get to watch the movie Uncommon Valor (1983), another Vietnam POW escape movie like Rambo 2, starring Gene Hackman. Cobb's in it and gets into a little fight scene with Patrick Swayze before Swayze became popular. A must watch!!
My cousin went to high school with him out in Abilene I think, also I watched the fight when Larry Holmes beat him so badly but he never went down, made Howard Cosell retire from covering boxing if I remember correctly, Tex one tough mfer
There are many theories about Smalls and the matching tattoos. I think Smalls represents Hi's criminal nature. There is a scene when John Goodman says that what Hi is saying goes against his _real nature_ and then there is an immediate cut to Smalls's motorcycle, so I take inspiraton from that. Also, Hi dreams of Smalls and says he is pure evil and that somehow he feels he brought him into the world. Hi blowing him up in the end (and somehow flying 20 feet in one blow) I took as him overcoming that crimninal streak within him. Other theories are that Small's is Hi's father (or a brother separated from him in childhood) or that he is what Nathan Jr,. would have become if raised by Ed and Hi.
“Give me that baby, you warthog from hell!” is one of the all-time great lines. Okay, next up, I’d recommend Blood Simple, True Grit, or Miller’s Crossing.
The vibe of this movie confused me a bit the first time I saw it, but it gets better with every viewing. One of the more lighthearted Coen movies, and definitely one of the funniest. Hi and Ed's chemistry is so great, and Gale and Evelle Snoats are a legendary duo.
What a classic (yet underrated) comedy gem! I loved during the Huggies chase scene, as HI ran through the random house, he had quick comments to the family members in every room... "Pardon me" "What's on tv" "Smells delicious " 😂
The Coens have an intimidating filmography and it's crazy to try to pick a favorite, but Blood Simple and Miller's Crossing have long remained at the top of my personal list.
When you find out that Glenn & Dot were swingers, you realize when Glenn stated early on that there was "something wrong with his semen." that all of their children were by different fathers.
I immediately hit that like button. One of the quirkiest, funniest movies of all time. Nick Cage's face when Holly Hunter is sobbing "I love him so much!"... 😂😂😂
“Well no, unless round is funny” 😂 this movie has SO MANY iconic quotes but this is the one that’s stuck the most in my family for some reason. It never gets old!
The biker guy is Randall "Tex" Cobb, who was a professional boxer and survived 15 rounds against Larry Holmes. Loved his semi-mythical character. Coen Bros. just know how to tell a story uniquely. Love their movies. Thanks for reacting!
This movie is my personal favorite comedy movie. I was 22 when I first saw it and the "Huggies" chase made me laugh until I cried. Even now, watching you laugh at that scene made me laugh. The yodeling and banjos just makes it so much better. The bad dude, Randall "Tex" Cobb was a boxer of the brawling variety. He was an actor of note in many things. I remember seeing him in a very important episode of "Miami Vice" ( Down For The Count) a few months before this movie came out.
That chase scene with the diapers screams Sam Raimi influence big time. Makes sense due to the fact the Coen Brothers and Sam were all living together around that time.
My brother knows this entire movie by heart- we still quote it to each other when anything comes up that reminds us of a scene. There are many poetic lines wrapped in a "silly movie" and even parts open to deeper interpretation (like why Smalls and Hi have the same Woody Woodpecker tattoo).
It's taken a long time to realize it, but considering how many times I've seen this and how often I think about scenes and dialogue from it, Raising Arizona is my favorite movie ever made. I'm so happy you two liked it so much!
Me and my friends have seen this film so many times we could recite it by heart. When me and my wife got married, one of our friends officiated it, and ended the ceremony with "Okay then." It was perfect. One of my top three favorite comedies ever (the others being Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Ghostbusters). And continuing with the Coens, you HAVE to see Miller's Crossing. Seriously. No one ever talks about it, and it's the greatest film ever.
This is in the top 3 of my favorite movies of all time. I saw it on hbo while recovering from major abdominal surgery and the laughter was literally excruciating but I couldn’t stop watching it nor stop laughing. What a Catch-22! I LOVE this movie.
This is my favorite Nicholas Cage roll and one of those rare films that I can watch over and over without ever tiring of it. I live in Utah, and when I first saw it in the theater and Cage delivers the last line, "Maybe it was Utah," the whole audience erupted in a roar of laughter.
The cinematographer is Barry Sonnenfeld, who got his start with the Coen Bros., and he went on to direct The Addams Family (1991), The Addams Family Values (1993), and Men In Black (1997). His style lends itself to extreme close-ups, long tracking shots, and quick cuts. Raising Arizona is really my favorite Coen Bros. film, and my favorite Nic Cage films.
This movie has my favourite comedy piece of dialogue ever: Evelle “Balloons! These blow up into funny shapes and all?” Clerk “Well, no…..unless round is funny”
I can't believe how hard I laughed watching your reaction. "Riley! You take that diaper off of your head, you put it back onto your sister!" Gotta be one of the all-time funniest lines in any movie. I think I'm gonna have to see your full-length reaction to this one. Normally I just prefer the edited version, especially if it's a film I've already seen many times, like this one. I am a life-long Coen Brothers fan. I wish I could tell you what to see next, but it's hard to be sure what you'd like the most. So I guess I'll recommend "Miller's Crossing" which is an old-timey gangster film that was the one they made right after "Raising Arizona". I love this movie, but "Miller's" sits comfortably among my all-time favorites like "Back to the Future" and "Goodfellas". Also, one of their more off-the-beaten-path movies is "The Man Who Wasn't There" starring Billy Bob Thornton. It doesn't get talked about as much as some of their films, but it's another favorite of mine. I'm delighted by your reaction, so glad you enjoyed it as much as you did. And I agree, Hi's dream at the end was definitely premonitory. But I don't think they had to move to Utah to make it come true!
Great reaction! It felt like I was seeing it again for the first time. Not many reactors do this one. I really hope you do Blood Simple. It was their first, and nobody ever reacts to it! It remains one of my favorites, too. (A bit of bias, since it was filmed outside Austin, TX.)
I love every film by the Coen Bros. “Raising Arizona” is a personal favorite. It’s early Coens and it was actually the very first Coen film I saw. My sister and I watched this movie over and over again!
Wow, you guys nailed everything that's great about this movie in your post-film remarks. And Sam made me feel even better about the ending! I never thought about that: the first dream had come true, so why not the second? When Daniel said "That was one of the best scenes I've ever seen" (right after the big supermarket chase scene), I vividly remember feeling the same exact way when I first saw it, what a sequence. It never gets old that sequence! PS: 10:47 - Look at the graffiti on the door. That's the recall code from "Dr. Strangelove". 🤠 A little nod to Kubrick! PSS: 80s Nicholas Cage is the best! "Valley Girl", "Birdy", this movie, "Moonstruck", "Peggy Sue Got Married", "Vampire's Kiss", and DEFINITELY "Wild At Heart". All classic Cage. There's a poll for you right there!
PSSS: Frances McDormand is the lead actress in "Blood Simple" (their first movie). Totally different character! And for Holly Hunter, this was her first movie, the very next year she knocked it out of the park in "Broadcast News". And then got the Oscar for an amazing performance in "The Piano". But she'll always be Ed to me! :)
@@gregall2178 I didn't forget The Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was a piece of crap and Cage is hardly in it, and it's nowhere near as essential as the other ones. I didn't include the crappy movie where he was on the rowing team either. If I was going to recommend a supporting role for Cage in a Coppolla movie, it would Rumble Fish, not the lame, crappy, completely glitzy and forgettable Cotton Club. I want them to watch a good movie, not a crappy (and over-long) one that Coppolla only made because he needed a hit after a bunch of box office failures. There are so many Cage performances and Coppolla films that you watch WAY before a piece of nothing like The Cotton Club. What a joke. In one eye and out the other that movie. I mean, Elizabeth McGovern: you watch Ragtime, not friggin' The Cotton Club! LOL
SO happy to see you react to this. This is my favorite comedy. It has such a sweet heart at it's core. And happy to see you back to a Cohen Brother's film. Please check out Blood Simple next.
Love it. Got my first on screen movie prop from this movie. The blue thermos HI is using to soak his hair with that guy talking about finding a head in the road.
This was my first exposure to The Coan Brothers. I was on board just watching the scenes on TV's Sneak Preview (gives me age that I grew up watching Roger Ebert and Gene Sisko)
Hy's second dream is one of the few movie scenes that consistently can reduce me to tears EVERY DAMN TIME I watch it. There's a scene in Minority Report that hits me just as hard, so maybe I'm just a sucker for prophetic visions.
This movie is such a hilarious film. I showed this movie at the theater I worked at in HS. The theme just gets stuck in my head. Some mornings I wake up yodeling. Lol
18:00 -- the baby was "sawing toothpicks," a play on the expression "sawing logs," which meant "sleeping very soundly." The "sawing logs" sound was the snoring.
I have seen this movie hundreds of times since I was a kid...Like me and my sisters knew every line...It is sooo under the radar...I think besides the movie Valley Girl, it was the first movie I saw Nick Cage in. Great reaction, you guys didn't miss a thing!
"Do these turn into all funny shapes??" "Well, nah..not unless Round is funny." LMFAO Fantastic Movie! Classic Comedy that still plays in our household and our kids even know very well. Thank you for doing this!!
I read that for the Coen’s first film, Blood Simple, they wanted to cast Holly Hunter, but she was unavailable, doing a play in NYC. She recommended her roommate, Frances McDormand, changing the trajectory of the Coens and Frances, personally and professionally.
A detail that's curious: the lone biker of the Apocalypse is named Leonard Smalls. Of Mice and Men, which is wrapped in lost dreams, features the character Lenny Small who dreams of raising rabbits, but he...well... Smalls's first act in RA is killing a rabbit. There are other curious connections/explanations with Of Mice, but...
I started your video thinking I had seen every Coen brothers' movie aside from Blood Simple but apparently I've never seen Raising Arizona and had to stop your video to go and watch the actual movie. God it's good, it's very much a Coen brothers film. Anyway I finished it and immediately came back here to watch your review. That's twice I've watched a whole movie just so I could then watch your reaction to it lol
Randall tex Cob is good in this & the Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy. 48hrs franchise is great. As far as the Coen brothers movies go this is funny but, my favorite is Miller's Crossing, which is extremely underrated. You two are great & I know you put in a lot of hard work to do this so thanks a bunch and keep up the great work
@@johnnyboy7144 There are a bunch of movies that get no love & for some reason that's one of the top of that list & to me is the best of the Coen brothers movies. Gangster, funny and dramatic......what else could you ask for??? Thanks for the backing Johnnyboy714
I love this movie. You're right, Holly & Nic were so great, you just go along for the ride with them. She's always wonderful. He often is. It's still my favorite Coen Bros movie.
This was the Coen's second film and is such a great movie. There's not a wasted moment in here. As you said, Holly Hunter and Nic Cage work very well together in this. Trey Wilson played Nathan Arizona (Sr.) and did a great job, too. He's also very good in Bull Durham. Unfortunately he died at age 41. Your next Coen Bros. movie should be Blood Simple, their first. Excellent noir movie. Frances McDormand is in that, too.
The bathroom where the brothers were doing their hair- and where the biker drove through the door- had POE with OPE written under it. A subtle reference to Dr Strangelove and the recall code.
Even though he seems perfect for their movies, and he kills it in this flick, the Coens didn't make another movie with Cage because he adlibbed too much, and they are sticklers for adhering to their scripts and direction.
Evelle is played by William Forsythe, which even if you were a Forsythe fan, it's plausible you wouldn't recognize him as Evelle in this fantastic film.
I love how the title card comes around 15 minutes into the movie. You don't even realize there's been no credits because you're having so much fun watching it.
I was thinking about that introduction and how good it is as I watched TBR's reaction. It achieves SO much narrative exposition while still being extremely entertaining. Like you said, it's so engrossing the titles are a bit shocking lol.
"Balloons! Hey, these blow up into funny shapes at all?"
"No...unless round is funny."
I think the baby "sawing toothpicks" is the baby version of the phrase "sawing logs" denoting that someone is sleeping and their snores are like the sound of a saw working hard.
...but scaled down for a baby...
"This is so chaotic!"
"That was one of the best scenes!"
The yodeling chase might be one of the funniest sequences ever put to film. From the moment Holly Hunter starts yelling until they get the huggies back is such pure cartoon insanity that I can't stop laughing.
Best scene
I don't even like dogs that much, but that shot of all the neighborhood dogs running together through the stranger's house - with that low camera angle & yodeling music - makes me giggle uncontrollably.
I laughed so hard I was begging for it to stop as it felt like I was in an unending sit up contest
Oh hell yes!! This movie is hilarious throughout. The diaper robbery/chase is still one of the funniest sequences in a movie ever.
Not unless you think round is funny
*Imagine how difficult filming and, later, editing that chase must've been.*
Hell yes indeed
Agreed 100%!!!
"Son. theirs a panty on your head". And now next on your list the Cohen brothers masterpiece, Millers Crossing.
"And when there was no crawfish, we ate sand" "YOU ATE SAND?"
I also love when he walks in to propose, he just offhand says "Hey Kurt" to the guy getting his picture taken. Kills me.
Love the “YOU ATE SAND??” line!
“Don’t print that, son. If his mama reads it, she’s just gonna lose all hope”
And
“Well, sometimes I get the menstrual cramps reeeal hard”
round out my three favorite lines in the movie.
"Don't forget to throw the bouquet Ed!"
Now me & Bill were patrolling down nine mile...
Bill Roberts?
No, not that mother-scratcher. Bill Parker. Anyway, we're approaching the wreck, and there's a spherical object resting in the highway, and it's not a piece of the car.
I decided to make my own crawdaddy, but without the water. And it was just like makin’ popcorn. 😂
@@gumbomudderx7503 M Emmet Walsh. Awesome.
"Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."
This was my favorite movie as a kid. My mother recorded it off of HBO for me.
My mother and I loved this movie. We would watch it every year. Until our VCR broke and we never upgraded to a digital copy. My mom is still trying to figure out why the dogs were running through the house and chasing after Hyde in general.
I saw it in the theater, I was 16 and I knew walking out that the Cohen brothers were going to be monumental...
I just had a flashback to when my mom recorded "Gleaming the Cube" off HBO for me except she used my dad's VHS Tape with the Super Bowl on it.
Dad still hasn't gotten over that incident 40 years later!
@@crigarsha but now pops can get any super bowl. Anytime. Anywhere. Online. The circle of life is evergiving.
Based mom.
Saw it in theater in '87 and it had the crowd rolling. Was up for anything the Coen Bros had to offer after that.
Dam that's cool..i wish I could travel to the 80's as an adult and get to see these iconic movies in the theater..I was only a few yrs old
I saw it in the theater too! Must have sat right behind you 😊
+1 same here, saw it in theaters, my first Coen brothers film. It was funny in a way I didn't know existed :)
Yep me too. It was pure magic
Same. At 18.
as I'm sure others will mention, the coens basically conceived of this as a live action looney tunes cartoon, with nic cage as a hybrid bugs bunny and wile e. coyote. between this and their first film blood simple, they basically defined their two main modes (darkly comic neo-noirs, screwball adventures, and sometimes mixtures of the two) for decades to come.
I did not know this but now that you mentioned, it does carry that Looney Toon vibe! Thanks❤
It's the Coen Brothers movie that is closest to a Sam Raimi 'Evil Dead' flick - and is a tribute in many respects. The respective film careers of the Coen Brothers and Raimi are (famously) intertwined.
@@Johnny6666 oh yeah the camera throughout is incredibly raimi. in fact i don't think they ever had shots/sequences this manic again, even in their later chase scenes and action sequences. (this movie is obviously super-choreographed too, just a different vibe.)
Except Cage said he definitely had Woody Woodpecker in mind.
The reason H.I. and Smalls the bounty hunter have the same tattoo is because he’s meant to represent what H.I. could have become if he hadn’t of been saved from his life of crime by Ed’s love. I also love the detail that when H.I. shoots him in the hand that fire comes out of the wound instead of blood. Dude is just that evil.
That's a reach
@@lampad4549
Then what other narrative purpose would them having the same tattoo serve that the scene had to highlight it, specially with H.I. being the one to reveal it?
I think of it not so much as alternate future, as a dark force that he's released into the world. The whole movie works on cartoon logic, but the bounty hunter is the closest thing to being supernatural. He sees him in his nightmares and almost seems to manifest him into being, and in the end, he has to destroy him.
Good catch, but I always thought the flaming hand thing was because that's where he kept the matches for doing the match trick thing he did. Also, the team of John Goodman and William Forsythe is amazing!
I thought they were just brothers
"That sumbitch." The banjo, the witty one-liners, and casting alone. The Coen bros. sure know how to make a movie. Simon Pegg said it best that this movie is a live action cartoon.
I remember the first time seeing this movie. That fight with John Goodman legit had me in tears. When he raked his hands on the ceiling 😂😂
Especially if you've ever lived in a trailer park.
I remember my brother once lifted his baby up into a ceiling fan
Cage and Goodman screaming constantly during the fight is too funny! And the cuts to Evelle🤣🤣🤣
This is my all-time favorite movie. Glad to see you watching it 😃
"Gimme back that baby, you warthog from hell!!!" Love that line
"Ghost Rider!?"😂😂😂😂I almost fell out my chair laughing.
The biker from hell was played by Randall "Tex" Cobb. If you ever get to watch the movie Uncommon Valor (1983), another Vietnam POW escape movie like Rambo 2, starring Gene Hackman. Cobb's in it and gets into a little fight scene with Patrick Swayze before Swayze became popular. A must watch!!
Fantastic film. Definitely a must see.
Randall Tex Cobb was also in Ace Ventura
Tex Cobb lived part time in Nashville and my father was his dentist!
My cousin went to high school with him out in Abilene I think, also I watched the fight when Larry Holmes beat him so badly but he never went down, made Howard Cosell retire from covering boxing if I remember correctly, Tex one tough mfer
And Cobb was a legit fighter, hence the swinging kick.
I've always loved the dream at the end of the movie especially with the music
“Oh, Frances McDormand!”
😂😂 Surprised?
She’s been married to Joel Coen for nearly 40 years and has been in 8 of the Coen Brothers’ movies.
Her little cameo in Hail Caesar is too funny 📽
There are many theories about Smalls and the matching tattoos. I think Smalls represents Hi's criminal nature. There is a scene when John Goodman says that what Hi is saying goes against his _real nature_ and then there is an immediate cut to Smalls's motorcycle, so I take inspiraton from that. Also, Hi dreams of Smalls and says he is pure evil and that somehow he feels he brought him into the world. Hi blowing him up in the end (and somehow flying 20 feet in one blow) I took as him overcoming that crimninal streak within him. Other theories are that Small's is Hi's father (or a brother separated from him in childhood) or that he is what Nathan Jr,. would have become if raised by Ed and Hi.
Cohen bros never disappoint, and Cage is a national treasure.
I see what you did there... well done.
@@tgreg99 You beat me to it.
Not a Cage fan, but this was for me by far the best role and performance he's ever done.
“Give me that baby, you warthog from hell!” is one of the all-time great lines.
Okay, next up, I’d recommend Blood Simple, True Grit, or Miller’s Crossing.
I consider this as one of my favorite Coen Brothers films! Lots of funny quotes as well!
Do those balloons blow up into funny shapes?
I always felt a connection between this movie and _No Country For Old Men._ They seem so similar despite the latter being an adaption from a book.
@@wjrasmussen666 no. Not unless round is funny.
Well OKaaay then.
The vibe of this movie confused me a bit the first time I saw it, but it gets better with every viewing. One of the more lighthearted Coen movies, and definitely one of the funniest. Hi and Ed's chemistry is so great, and Gale and Evelle Snoats are a legendary duo.
What a classic (yet underrated) comedy gem! I loved during the Huggies chase scene, as HI ran through the random house, he had quick comments to the family members in every room... "Pardon me" "What's on tv" "Smells delicious " 😂
🤠 This and "Young Frankenstein" are my two favorite comedies of ALL TIME! Thank you for this reaction! 👍
I like your taste! I would say the same.
Great choices!
Add maybe His Girl Friday
Blood Simple is the Coen Brothers first film. An odd crime thriller that introduced their unique film style to the world.
Odd = Classic.
The Coens have an intimidating filmography and it's crazy to try to pick a favorite, but Blood Simple and Miller's Crossing have long remained at the top of my personal list.
You should definitely watch Blood Simple. It’s strangely underrated in the Coen canon.
When you find out that Glenn & Dot were swingers, you realize when Glenn stated early on that there was "something wrong with his semen." that all of their children were by different fathers.
I immediately hit that like button. One of the quirkiest, funniest movies of all time. Nick Cage's face when Holly Hunter is sobbing "I love him so much!"... 😂😂😂
“Well no, unless round is funny” 😂 this movie has SO MANY iconic quotes but this is the one that’s stuck the most in my family for some reason. It never gets old!
The biker guy is Randall "Tex" Cobb, who was a professional boxer and survived 15 rounds against Larry Holmes. Loved his semi-mythical character. Coen Bros. just know how to tell a story uniquely. Love their movies. Thanks for reacting!
This movie is my personal favorite comedy movie. I was 22 when I first saw it and the "Huggies" chase made me laugh until I cried. Even now, watching you laugh at that scene made me laugh. The yodeling and banjos just makes it so much better. The bad dude, Randall "Tex" Cobb was a boxer of the brawling variety. He was an actor of note in many things. I remember seeing him in a very important episode of "Miami Vice" ( Down For The Count) a few months before this movie came out.
I saw Raising Arizona and Evil Dead 2 back to back on video years ago. I almost died laughing that day.
That chase scene with the diapers screams Sam Raimi influence big time. Makes sense due to the fact the Coen Brothers and Sam were all living together around that time.
An absolutely brilliant movie with some phenomenal performances all around. I love this one! :)
Yay! I’m so glad you two are reacting to this gem of a film! Lol
Flat out one of the greatest comedies of all time.
🤠 I agree. Thanks for replying to my comment also. 👍
That intro made my night thank you guys LOL 😂🤣
This song still plays in my head from time to time 😅
Bad news, no Sudden Impact, GREAT news though, Raising Arizona with the Cage!!
Holly Hunter should be in a movie every year. She’s just brilliant.
My brother knows this entire movie by heart- we still quote it to each other when anything comes up that reminds us of a scene. There are many poetic lines wrapped in a "silly movie" and even parts open to deeper interpretation (like why Smalls and Hi have the same Woody Woodpecker tattoo).
It's taken a long time to realize it, but considering how many times I've seen this and how often I think about scenes and dialogue from it, Raising Arizona is my favorite movie ever made. I'm so happy you two liked it so much!
That ceiling scrape is my favorite part of this film.
One of my all time favorite movies!!!! H. I. Mcdonough!!!!
YES!!
One of my favorite Coen Brothers films!
Ok then!
Me and my friends have seen this film so many times we could recite it by heart. When me and my wife got married, one of our friends officiated it, and ended the ceremony with "Okay then." It was perfect. One of my top three favorite comedies ever (the others being Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Ghostbusters).
And continuing with the Coens, you HAVE to see Miller's Crossing. Seriously. No one ever talks about it, and it's the greatest film ever.
This is definitely a movie that every time you watch it, it gets better.
This is in the top 3 of my favorite movies of all time. I saw it on hbo while recovering from major abdominal surgery and the laughter was literally excruciating but I couldn’t stop watching it nor stop laughing. What a Catch-22! I LOVE this movie.
This is one of the best movies ever. Easily in my top five and always a watch anytime. Great reaction.
This is my favorite Nicholas Cage roll and one of those rare films that I can watch over and over without ever tiring of it. I live in Utah, and when I first saw it in the theater and Cage delivers the last line, "Maybe it was Utah," the whole audience erupted in a roar of laughter.
Trey Wilson (Nathan Arizona) also starred in “Bull Durham” as the manager of the Durham Bulls. Sadly, he died in 1989 at the age of 40.
Confuse him with Barry Corbin
He was also in "A Soldier's Story" and Ivan Reitman's "Twins".
The cinematographer is Barry Sonnenfeld, who got his start with the Coen Bros., and he went on to direct The Addams Family (1991), The Addams Family Values (1993), and Men In Black (1997). His style lends itself to extreme close-ups, long tracking shots, and quick cuts. Raising Arizona is really my favorite Coen Bros. film, and my favorite Nic Cage films.
I love this film. Such a great comedy.
Two more Cohen films to watch,
"Hudsucker Proxy" and the amazing, "Miller's Crossing".
This movie has my favourite comedy piece of dialogue ever:
Evelle “Balloons! These blow up into funny shapes and all?”
Clerk “Well, no…..unless round is funny”
Also, Holly Hunter is a Queen. Broadcast News. Always. The Piano. O Brother Where Art Thou. And so many more. She's such a talented woman
She's incredible in Saving Grace.
I can't believe how hard I laughed watching your reaction. "Riley! You take that diaper off of your head, you put it back onto your sister!" Gotta be one of the all-time funniest lines in any movie. I think I'm gonna have to see your full-length reaction to this one. Normally I just prefer the edited version, especially if it's a film I've already seen many times, like this one.
I am a life-long Coen Brothers fan. I wish I could tell you what to see next, but it's hard to be sure what you'd like the most. So I guess I'll recommend "Miller's Crossing" which is an old-timey gangster film that was the one they made right after "Raising Arizona". I love this movie, but "Miller's" sits comfortably among my all-time favorites like "Back to the Future" and "Goodfellas". Also, one of their more off-the-beaten-path movies is "The Man Who Wasn't There" starring Billy Bob Thornton. It doesn't get talked about as much as some of their films, but it's another favorite of mine.
I'm delighted by your reaction, so glad you enjoyed it as much as you did. And I agree, Hi's dream at the end was definitely premonitory. But I don't think they had to move to Utah to make it come true!
One of the greatest comedies of all time!!! Nicholas Cage's greatest performance hands down.
Great reaction! It felt like I was seeing it again for the first time. Not many reactors do this one. I really hope you do Blood Simple. It was their first, and nobody ever reacts to it! It remains one of my favorites, too. (A bit of bias, since it was filmed outside Austin, TX.)
I love every film by the Coen Bros. “Raising Arizona” is a personal favorite. It’s early Coens and it was actually the very first Coen film I saw. My sister and I watched this movie over and over again!
Wow, you guys nailed everything that's great about this movie in your post-film remarks. And Sam made me feel even better about the ending! I never thought about that: the first dream had come true, so why not the second? When Daniel said "That was one of the best scenes I've ever seen" (right after the big supermarket chase scene), I vividly remember feeling the same exact way when I first saw it, what a sequence. It never gets old that sequence! PS: 10:47 - Look at the graffiti on the door. That's the recall code from "Dr. Strangelove". 🤠 A little nod to Kubrick! PSS: 80s Nicholas Cage is the best! "Valley Girl", "Birdy", this movie, "Moonstruck", "Peggy Sue Got Married", "Vampire's Kiss", and DEFINITELY "Wild At Heart". All classic Cage. There's a poll for you right there!
PSSS: Frances McDormand is the lead actress in "Blood Simple" (their first movie). Totally different character! And for Holly Hunter, this was her first movie, the very next year she knocked it out of the park in "Broadcast News". And then got the Oscar for an amazing performance in "The Piano". But she'll always be Ed to me! :)
While he wasn't the lead, you forgot The Cotton Club ;-)
@@gregall2178 I didn't forget The Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was a piece of crap and Cage is hardly in it, and it's nowhere near as essential as the other ones. I didn't include the crappy movie where he was on the rowing team either. If I was going to recommend a supporting role for Cage in a Coppolla movie, it would Rumble Fish, not the lame, crappy, completely glitzy and forgettable Cotton Club. I want them to watch a good movie, not a crappy (and over-long) one that Coppolla only made because he needed a hit after a bunch of box office failures. There are so many Cage performances and Coppolla films that you watch WAY before a piece of nothing like The Cotton Club. What a joke. In one eye and out the other that movie. I mean, Elizabeth McGovern: you watch Ragtime, not friggin' The Cotton Club! LOL
SO happy to see you react to this. This is my favorite comedy. It has such a sweet heart at it's core. And happy to see you back to a Cohen Brother's film. Please check out Blood Simple next.
I quote this movie endlessly
“I don’t know they were jammies! They had Yodas and shit on em!”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Trey Wilson stole this classic!
Love it. Got my first on screen movie prop from this movie. The blue thermos HI is using to soak his hair with that guy talking about finding a head in the road.
This was my first exposure to The Coan Brothers. I was on board just watching the scenes on TV's Sneak Preview (gives me age that I grew up watching Roger Ebert and Gene Sisko)
Hy's second dream is one of the few movie scenes that consistently can reduce me to tears EVERY DAMN TIME I watch it. There's a scene in Minority Report that hits me just as hard, so maybe I'm just a sucker for prophetic visions.
I remember watching this in theater on original release and the whole movie theater just roaring with laughter throughout.
I'm glad Samantha mentioned "Raising Hope", one of the funniest tv shows.
This movie is such a hilarious film. I showed this movie at the theater I worked at in HS. The theme just gets stuck in my head. Some mornings I wake up yodeling. Lol
I just love him so much😭😭😭
18:00 -- the baby was "sawing toothpicks," a play on the expression "sawing logs," which meant "sleeping very soundly." The "sawing logs" sound was the snoring.
I have always loved this film. ❤
I have seen this movie hundreds of times since I was a kid...Like me and my sisters knew every line...It is sooo under the radar...I think besides the movie Valley Girl, it was the first movie I saw Nick Cage in. Great reaction, you guys didn't miss a thing!
"Do these turn into all funny shapes??" "Well, nah..not unless Round is funny." LMFAO Fantastic Movie! Classic Comedy that still plays in our household and our kids even know very well. Thank you for doing this!!
*Miller's Crossing* is still my favorite Coen brothers movie. this one is great!
The Coen brothers are kings of the "John Goodman screaming" movie genre.
This is probably my favorite comedy. The fact that it was the Coens' second movie is insane.
William Forsythe and Sam McMurray were also both in Stone Cold (1991), a hidden gem.
THE BOZ!
Made Holly Hunter a star. I saw it in its original theatrical release and LMAO during the whole movie. Every time I see HH, I hear 'turn to the right"
I read that for the Coen’s first film, Blood Simple, they wanted to cast Holly Hunter, but she was unavailable, doing a play in NYC. She recommended her roommate, Frances McDormand, changing the trajectory of the Coens and Frances, personally and professionally.
A detail that's curious: the lone biker of the Apocalypse is named Leonard Smalls.
Of Mice and Men, which is wrapped in lost dreams, features the character Lenny Small who dreams of raising rabbits, but he...well...
Smalls's first act in RA is killing a rabbit.
There are other curious connections/explanations with Of Mice, but...
Thanks, guys. ( I want, baby ! Crying)
I started your video thinking I had seen every Coen brothers' movie aside from Blood Simple but apparently I've never seen Raising Arizona and had to stop your video to go and watch the actual movie. God it's good, it's very much a Coen brothers film. Anyway I finished it and immediately came back here to watch your review.
That's twice I've watched a whole movie just so I could then watch your reaction to it lol
Hi scraping his knuckles on the ceiling never fails to make me laugh.
Randall tex Cob is good in this & the Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy. 48hrs franchise is great. As far as the Coen brothers movies go this is funny but, my favorite is Miller's Crossing, which is extremely underrated. You two are great & I know you put in a lot of hard work to do this so thanks a bunch and keep up the great work
Millers crossing is f**kin Phenomenal, definitely does not get enough love and attention
@@johnnyboy7144 There are a bunch of movies that get no love & for some reason that's one of the top of that list & to me is the best of the Coen brothers movies. Gangster, funny and dramatic......what else could you ask for??? Thanks for the backing Johnnyboy714
@@shawnboyce1663 yes no problem, glad you mentioned the movie because it’s a masterpiece that more people need to see!
This is one of those rare movies that had me roaring with laughter one moment, recoiling in horror the next, and weeping like a baby by the end.
Every once in a while I catch myself humming that "ooooh hoo" tune 😁
I saw this movie when it first came out with my boss. We were quoting it for YEARS.
I love this movie. You're right, Holly & Nic were so great, you just go along for the ride with them. She's always wonderful. He often is. It's still my favorite Coen Bros movie.
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When this was in theaters you knew instantly that both Cage and Hunter were going to be stars.
Hey TBR and Samantha! 'Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?' is a super fun Coen Brothers movie.
This was the Coen's second film and is such a great movie. There's not a wasted moment in here. As you said, Holly Hunter and Nic Cage work very well together in this. Trey Wilson played Nathan Arizona (Sr.) and did a great job, too. He's also very good in Bull Durham. Unfortunately he died at age 41. Your next Coen Bros. movie should be Blood Simple, their first. Excellent noir movie. Frances McDormand is in that, too.
The bathroom where the brothers were doing their hair- and where the biker drove through the door- had POE with OPE written under it. A subtle reference to Dr Strangelove and the recall code.
Sam was so adorable when she said she didn't know where the camera was.
I've always loved this movie and it only gets funnier because I've lived in Arizona for the last nine years
"...sounds like Larry" is one of funniest fucking lines in film history, absolutely kills me every time.
The killer biker is Randall Tex Cobb, also in character in Ace Ventura and Uncommon Valor: third movie about Vietnam War.
Even though he seems perfect for their movies, and he kills it in this flick, the Coens didn't make another movie with Cage because he adlibbed too much, and they are sticklers for adhering to their scripts and direction.
Raising hope is one off the greatest TV comedies of all time. Cloris Leachman plays one of the funniest characters I have ever seen
Evelle is played by William Forsythe, which even if you were a Forsythe fan, it's plausible you wouldn't recognize him as Evelle in this fantastic film.
They could have recognized Him as FBI Agent Paxton from "The Rock."
He has such great chemistry with Goodman.
I always thought that William Forsythe's performance in this movie was underrated. He was damn funny.