It's why making a drug (or anything really) illegal doesn't really work as people will find a way if the masses really want it, but it does create and empower organized drug syndicates.
My grandmother did that. Always complained about how awful homemade liquor tasted, endless stories about the rancid shit they would drink during those years. On one occasion my Mom asked if it was so bad, why did they drink it? Grandmama looked shocked that the question needed to be asked and said, “Well, we HAD to have our cocktail!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@karlmortoniv2951 It really is disgusting as hell. When I was younger (15-18) I'd make homemade wine/ciders. Fucking terrible tasting. I'd have to plug my nose and dilute it with other flavors to get it down. But it sure did get you wasted. I drank a bottle of it one night and woke up on my living room floor with the worst hangover I've ever had. I threw up ramen (which I apparently ate a lot of) all day long. Not sure of the alcohol percentage, but it had to be pretty high, because I drank a 5th of whiskey one night and didn't even get that wasted. The smell alone makes me cringe now. I turn 21 in a couple days and I'm very excited to never have to rely on homemade booze ever again.
"There were some great moments in this film, somebody's death, the other death..." Not a single word for the shootout in the Station? That scene was the most commented at the time, and not only because it was a hommage to Sergei Eisenstein's classic movie Battleship Potemkin.
I don't think the guys have really explored anything much before 1980 sadly. Psycho, Casablanca and 7th Seal I think are the only ones...so understandably they have little to no knowledge of film history and how and why certain things are the way they are. In some ways I envy them that they will get to see some iconic cinema for the first time but equally I fear coming from this era inevitably many of those seminal films will not have the same impact that they did to those of us who grew up in a completely analogue world. I re-watched the latest restoration of Battleship Potemkin last year and I still am affected by the history, the editing and the imagery. Putting everything in context is important and these guys do sometimes try to do that to make allowances for the look or tone of a film but without proper knowledge of all that has gone before it and knowledge of actual history of the time being portrayed and indeed the time a film was made means they can only judge things from a narrow perspective. They are still entertaining though to watch ;-)
Director Brian DePalma is known for his hyper stylized approach that references the work of other directors such as Hitchcock. The scene with the baby pram on the steps was his tribute to the Odessa Steps scene in the classic Russian silent movie Battleship Potemkin th-cam.com/video/VMWMq4AEyjU/w-d-xo.html.
@James Cricket It's possible to just know things about filmmaking. Anyone who has studied film knows who Sergei Eisenstein is, knows about Battleship Potemkim, and knows countless films reference the Odessa Steps sequence. Being an internet prick isn't the only option, mate.
Remember, this movie was not just a product of its time, it was also paying homage to the TV show that ran in the 50’s & 60’s. This accounts for a lot of choices made in the film, from the performances to the score to the lighting…
When this came out I got excited and very keen to check out the show but was, inevitably, somewhat let down. Even taking into account TV budgets and the show not having Sean Connery, it seemed some kind of moviemaking miracle that this movie came out of that show. Should I give it another look? Robert Stack makes Kevin Costner look like an exciting dude to hang with.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 I was asking if I should give the TV show another shot. The only time I hear about it any more is as the inspiration for the movie.
@@mohammedashian8094 Which is why he can always play the most Scottish Russian (well, Lithuanian) in history in Hunt for Red October and no one gives the slightest shit, too.
I would recommend you to watch Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning, where there is similar dynamic between hardcore "cop" (Hackman) and "rookie" cop (Dafoe)
@@JulioLeonFandinho I see your point. The main reason that I made that comparison was almost the same dialog between Hackman and Dafoe, as dialog that Connery and Costner had....what are you willing to do?!? :D
Cinema Rules, the house where Eliot Ness lived, 2022 W. 22nd Street, before we left Chicago, we lived a block west and three blocks south of that house. In fact, when the car is taking Ness' family to safety, there is a steeple in the background. It's St. Paul's church. Three blocks from where we lived. Really enjoy your reviews. Stay safe and healthy.
YOU GUYS NEED TO SEE SCARFACE!!! It would be really interesting to see how you guys react to such an Iconic film, very brutal but it also has one of the most quoted lines in movie history, you will know the line when you hear it.
I absolutely adore this movie, and the Morricone soundtrack was the first one I ever bought (along with "Glory"). One of the first that made me cry me eyes out too. The DePalma film that goes hand in hand with this one for me is "Carlito´s Way".
"I don't care that you almost died on a bean" "If you were born in this time you'd be a doorman" You guys are so much fun 😄 In my opinion this is the perfect movie - it looks good, sounds good, well acted, written, directed, great dialogue. I'm glad you guys liked it.
That is possibly my favorite Sean Connery film. Not his best. For me he'll always be Dan'l Dravit from The Man Who Would Be King... but in Outland, especially in the raquetball court scene... he reminded me of my dad. It's basically just "High Noon" in space.
Really? That's pretty cool but Kevin Costner was the best choice. Harrison was much older and Mel Gibson just doesn't fit the bill of a Ness character.
@@Saturnia2014 There were saying Costner was too mild well Gibson would have been the badass Ness they would want lol. I know Ford was older but he would struck the right balance between Costner and Gibson.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 Ford might have been interesting but I still think that Costner was the right choice for the role given that Ness had to be the naive idealist who slowly gets schooled on the reality of Chicago by Connery's character and that was Costner's speciality when it comes to acting.
Other great Sean Connery's movies and characters you will enjoy : ,The Man who would be king, The name of the Rose , the Hill, The Hunt for red october, The Offense
Tom mocking trying to get Capone on tax evasion when that's exactly how he was put in prison lol and he's a teacher :O lol I'm here for a meaner Shaun though :D Glad he survived his near death green bean experience :D
Body Double is good but it has some weaknesses. I like the scenes in the beginning where the main character gets a claustrophobic attack in the tunnel, and the times where he’s spying on the woman in the opposite building. It’s far from being de Palma’s best movie but I would still enjoy it, if I watched it again.
Body Double (1984) is good fun too, great score by long time De Palma composer Pino Donaggio. For more classic '80s De Palma; Scarface (1983) and Casualties of War (1989). For more '80s Costner; No Way Out (1987) and for more '80s De Niro; Midnight Run (1988).
Call Sosa on that giant telephone suitcase of his and tell him Omar says he's sorry, between the wash from the rotors and the rope around his neck he can't speak loud enough.
Everyone's suggesting Scarface, Carrie and Carlito's Way here but De Palma's one, too often forgotten film is Blow Out with John Travolta. Great thriller where De Palma shows his ability to create suspense because eventhough he became a big name with crime films and Mission Impossible, in the beginning he was very good thriller director who was a big time Hitchcock fan. Of course you get those moments of suspense in his later / well-known works too, as you can probably see in this film, but to actually experience his directing ability with horror or suspense scenes, you need to watch his earlier (or minor) works.
I was in high school when my dad and I saw Blow Out in the theater. It was really good and some bits have stuck with me nearly 40 years later. At the time, though, I kept getting hung up on the obvious references to the source material of Teddy Kennedy and Chappaquidick.
I watched Blow Out less than a year ago, and it was still great to watch. I watched Dress To Kill in the cinema shortly after its premiere, also a great movie. Yeah, de Palma was very inspired by hitchcock when he made his suspense movies but the plots are very original. He also did a great job with the adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie
Yessss, one of my favourites! Sean Connery’s best role for me (a very deserving Oscar win too) and De Niro is an excellent Capone. Such a good soundtrack too!
Even checking out of this world full of holes and bleeding out, Connery’s character was like, “What are you PREPARED to do?!?” That is how you win an Oscar, folks.
One of the greatest movies ever made a true classic The Untouchables directed by Brian De Palma starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García and the incredible music score by the amazing Ennio Morricone. Thank you guys for reacting this masterpiece👍👍👍
DePalma films to check out are Scarface, Carlitos Way, Mission Impossible, Dressed to Kill and for crying out loud please do the horror movie CARRIE 1976.
Carlitos Way has gotta be my favourite De Palma film a great slow burn . I've got to mention his follow on film after Carrie . The Fury (1978) a forgotten gem of a film from the period of psychic horror/thrillers.
Miller's Crossing by the Coen Brothers is a most excellent prohibition era gangster movie. I highly recommend. The Danny Boy scene alone (you'll know it when you see it) is worth the price of admission alone.
I love how you guys were laughing at the tax evasion thing when it’s actually how they got Capone. 🤣 Edit: there I fixed it. Al Capone didn’t commit tax invasion. Only an evasion lol.
My father, born in 1920 and now deceased, grew up for a time in chicago during these times. he actually played with some of capone's relatives children and he said you could hear machine guns at night on occasion.
I loved that Sean Connery line was roughly that the first rule of Policing was get home alive and he gets shot on his door step and eventually dies in his home.
I'm glad how well Elliot Ness was portrayed in this film. Unfortunately, Hoover took most of the credit for taking down guys like Capone and the notorious bank robbers of this era.
Hoover had a good excuse for doing that - not that it necessarily explains why he took all the credit. His effective agents wouldn’t be effective for long if they took public bows for doing good work all the time. The best law enforcement people aren’t in it for the fame.
Brian DePalma made some of the best movies of the 70’s-80’s, check out Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Body Double and especially Blow Out (John Travolta’s best performance imo).😎
"Dressed to Kill" may not be a good choice to do a reaction video to, in current year. Didn't Dressed to Kill, Body Double and Blow Out all 3 star the same female lead?
Elliot Ness is a fascinating dude because after he got Capone he really fell off and did some real shady stuff that got him a lot of heat as his career went on
@@SansMerci1013 I honestly can't remember now, but I think this movie was my introduction to Andy Garcia. Immediately committed his name/face to memory. LOOOOOOVE him.
I rent one my flat to a 30 years old consultant at PCW. We went for a beer into a clandestine bar during lockdown. I told him it reminded me Prohibition times. He said prohibition what ? I said Intouchable, the movie ! He kept his quizzical look and I realized I was old
I love this movie. Super quotable and lots of interesting choices. Totally get your criticisms but I feel like Ness is supposed to be super corny and earnest, specifically to be the one character you believe is incorruptible. That's why Costner works, because he plays that better than most. He'd annoy the crap out of me in reality, but I suspect so would Malone.
Movies were already getting gritty and cynical by the 80's, so this movie was a throwback even when it was released. By that I mean the heroic, good-will-always-triumph spirit that it portrayed was a direct throwback to the TV series of the same name, which was basically a hagiography of Elliot Ness. Of course the real Ness was a deeply complex and troubled man. I love Brian DePalma, and I loved this film. Everyone always talks about Scarface, but that movie is just so over-the-top and cheesy that I don't think it was ever meant to be taken as seriously as people tend to do. I think The Untouchables is better both as a drama and as popcorn entertainment.
I remember the pre-production news from this. I thought Connery was playing Ness and was so pissed off when I found out it was Kevin Costner. I was like, who the hell is Kevin Costner. Turned out that De Palma knew what he was doing. He gave Connery the best role and created a movie star with Costner.
I've never really been a De Palma fan, but he's probably best known for this film, Carrie, Scarface, and Blow Out. Of the ones I've seen, I think Blow Out is the best.
This is one of my top 10 movies of the 1980s and favorite films of all time. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin Smith, Billy Drago and Robert DeNiro all great. Connery totally deserved his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and I think the film should have got even more recognition than it did. It got nominated for 3 other awards, but mostly in technical categories, but I totally think it was worthy of a Best Picture nomination. It's the perfect entertaining film. I've always thought Kevin Costner was vastly underrated in this film and had one of the best arcs for a film protagonist. He started off as naive and idealistic and slowly changed into jaded and pragmatic. People always say the movie should have had a tougher lead, but that would have totally defeated the purpose. Ness got pushed around and mocked early on, then got tougher as the film progressed. Had he started out tough, the payoff of him taking down Capone wouldn't have been nearly as satisfying.
Yep, The Untouchables was a TV show first, portraying Elliot Ness and his pursuit of Al Capone. The actor that originally played Ness was actor Robert Stack, who'd later in his career go on to being the host and narrator of the TV show, Unsolved Mysteries.
Not low at all. When most reactors see Robert Stack, no one really knows who he is. I'm just saying who Robert Stack is. Both The Untouchables and Airplane! his characters are excellent.
@@scottjo63 No no, that was one of his lines in Airplane, when he was trying to ease Striker down, and then he yells at him, "Pull up! UP!! You're too low, dammit!!!"
Ah great movie. Wasn’t Mamet a writer on the script… highly recommend his House of Games and Glengarry Glen Ross. Also well worth reading up on Frank Nitti and his life after Capone (he’s the assassin who didn’t really get thrown off a building)
Ness was an interesting man.. A bit of an alcoholic later in life, he ended up in Cleveland as the head of the police.. He retired during the infamous Kingsbury Run Killer case, which is a really bizarre case if you’re into that kinda stuff.. The killer actually pose his final 2 victims on Ness’ front lawn, and apparently that was enough for Ness who retired soon afterwards.. The killer was never caught..
Capone was also admired for his charitable activities, which led some people to think of him as a modern day Robin Hood. In the 1930s, he funded a soup kitchen with money he generated from bootlegging. The kitchen served meals to over 120,000 people, and provided the only meals that some unemployed Americans had during the great depression........Legend has it that after one lavish meal he left the server a 500 dollar tip....Enough to buy a car back then.......
Prohibition lasted 13 years (1920-1933). Al Capone really was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years. He served just over half of that and was released early to a hospital. He had syphillis and had deteriorated a lot in prison.
My father grew up during Prohibition...there's some tales there, to be sure!!!! My granpa was making "spirits" in the kitchen sink, and the maid didn't know and drank it, and they had to keep her locked in the house til she sobered up so no one would know, for one. When we were growing up, my parents wouldn't even keep cooking sherry in the house. He watched this movie and loved it, except for the part where Ness threw the guy off the building...said it was completely out of character for Ness, lol. I loved the movie myself. Ness and his men didn't get the credit they deserved. He was obviously a hero to my dad.
But, think about it. Prison was so harrowing, criminals legit committed suicide, by their own hand or by cop/posse rather than go back to prison. Now, we have people singing songs about how they don't care about going to prison because it's nothing to them. Hmm...wonder if being on an old fashioned chain gang would change their tune, haha
Every time people wondered if Donald Trump was a little "gangster-like", I would compare his news appearances to Robert DeNiro's Capone talking to the newspaper reporters: "They got this whole 'tax-evasion' thing, because they know they got nothing..."
Important to remember it's only a movie. No Untouchable was ever murdered. There were more than 4 Untouchables. In the movie the guy Eliott Ness throws off the building is Frank Nitti, in real life Nitti went on to take over from Al Capone and died in 1943 from suicide.
19:33 Do It !!!!! Supreme Chancellor: You did well, Eliot. He was too dangerous to be kept alive. Eliot Ness: Yes, but he was an unarmed prisoner. I shouldn't have done that, Chancellor. It's not the Untouchable way. Supreme Chancellor: It is only natural. He kill Malone , and you wanted revenge. It wasn't the first time, Eliot. Remember what you told me about Capone and his Ouftis !
Prohibition lasted for 13 years from 1920-1933. Tax evasion is how they REALLY convicted Capone, the biggest mistake is Frank Nitti (the guy in white who killed both of the Untouchables who died) was sentenced to tax evasion alongside Capone, but only had an 18 month sentence(as opposed to Capone's 11 years), and took over the gang after his release, not dying until 1943.
The Untouchables is a movie that I love with great scenes and memorable performances but yea it's a little bit cartoonish. I call it a sort of epic commercial "Hollywood" gangster movie. But not in a negative way. The sweeping music, over the top performance by Deniro, the action, the humour, Depalma knew what he was doing. And I thank him for it. You guys are right, I would have wanted more scenes with the Untouchables just talking with each other, arguing. Like we didn't know enough about Stone. But Depalma is more of a "let the images speak for itself", he's a visualist, not a dialogue guy. So many great shots in this movie. The scene with the baby was on another level. About Kevin Costner, he was sort of mild but in many ways he fit the role as the sort of young innocent cop way over his head at his job. Mel Gibson was considered for the role pf Eliott Ness. And he probably would have brought a much forceful performance for sure. Would have been interesting. Depalma movies you should check out are Blow Out, Sisters, Obsession, Dressed to Kill.
I Envy your youth as you have so many of the top 100 top 500 movies to see for the FIRST TIME still. This is a killer movie and the cast is insanely deep. Glad you both "got it" and liked it
Might I recommend Sleepers? Seeing this reaction made me remember that one. Great film (and great book as well). Based on true events (the rare occasion that the person who wrote the book and the screenplay is the person who experienced the events himself).
The scene with the pram bouncing down the steps, later parodied in one of the Naked Gun movies, was a reference to the Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin (1925). NOTE: Sergei Eisenstein (the director of said film) invented montage in film, which is part and parcel of every film today.
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Ennio Morricone's music in this movie is really fantastic :)
Ennio Morricone's music is always fantastic. :D
From the beginning notes, yes it was
It almost make the movie.
Morricone, De Palma, & Mamet; a dream team of artists.
He did The Thing if I remember right
Rip Sean Connery, the BEST Bond and Indiana Jones" father.
There can only be one... Highlander reference...
“I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. “Let my armies be the rocks and the trees, and the birds in the sky.”” RIP Mr. Connery
Welcome to the Rock
The only Bond. And Dan'l Dravit, Esq.
"You call this archaeology?" "Get outta there, dad!" R.I.P. Mr. Connery :(
Prohibition lasted 13 years, but everyone was bootlegging and making "bathtub gin"
the tv series Boardwalk Empire goes in depth into how extensive the bootlegging operation was
It's why making a drug (or anything really) illegal doesn't really work as people will find a way if the masses really want it, but it does create and empower organized drug syndicates.
My grandmother did that. Always complained about how awful homemade liquor tasted, endless stories about the rancid shit they would drink during those years. On one occasion my Mom asked if it was so bad, why did they drink it? Grandmama looked shocked that the question needed to be asked and said, “Well, we HAD to have our cocktail!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Moonshine really got its heyday. There’s a silver lining.
@@karlmortoniv2951 It really is disgusting as hell. When I was younger (15-18) I'd make homemade wine/ciders. Fucking terrible tasting. I'd have to plug my nose and dilute it with other flavors to get it down. But it sure did get you wasted. I drank a bottle of it one night and woke up on my living room floor with the worst hangover I've ever had. I threw up ramen (which I apparently ate a lot of) all day long. Not sure of the alcohol percentage, but it had to be pretty high, because I drank a 5th of whiskey one night and didn't even get that wasted.
The smell alone makes me cringe now. I turn 21 in a couple days and I'm very excited to never have to rely on homemade booze ever again.
Sean Connery death scene is one of the best in film history absolutely brilliant and deserved the Oscar he got for the part.
"There were some great moments in this film, somebody's death, the other death..." Not a single word for the shootout in the Station? That scene was the most commented at the time, and not only because it was a hommage to Sergei Eisenstein's classic movie Battleship Potemkin.
Thank you. Was coming down here to write "You guys weren't impressed with..." Thank you. That entire sequence is spectacular.
I don't think the guys have really explored anything much before 1980 sadly. Psycho, Casablanca and 7th Seal I think are the only ones...so understandably they have little to no knowledge of film history and how and why certain things are the way they are. In some ways I envy them that they will get to see some iconic cinema for the first time but equally I fear coming from this era inevitably many of those seminal films will not have the same impact that they did to those of us who grew up in a completely analogue world. I re-watched the latest restoration of Battleship Potemkin last year and I still am affected by the history, the editing and the imagery. Putting everything in context is important and these guys do sometimes try to do that to make allowances for the look or tone of a film but without proper knowledge of all that has gone before it and knowledge of actual history of the time being portrayed and indeed the time a film was made means they can only judge things from a narrow perspective. They are still entertaining though to watch ;-)
Director Brian DePalma is known for his hyper stylized approach that references the work of other directors such as Hitchcock. The scene with the baby pram on the steps was his tribute to the Odessa Steps scene in the classic Russian silent movie Battleship Potemkin th-cam.com/video/VMWMq4AEyjU/w-d-xo.html.
"such as Hitchcock"
and also done in Naked Gun 33⅓ - The Final Insult
@James Cricket Does one need to google The Odessa Steps
@James Cricket It's possible to just know things about filmmaking. Anyone who has studied film knows who Sergei Eisenstein is, knows about Battleship Potemkim, and knows countless films reference the Odessa Steps sequence. Being an internet prick isn't the only option, mate.
@@thatllputmarzipaninyourpie3117 ..........
"Got him?"
"Yeahh, I got 'im."
"Take him."
David Mamet, ladies & gentlemen.
Such an awesome scene
Talented writer
Remember, this movie was not just a product of its time, it was also paying homage to the TV show that ran in the 50’s & 60’s. This accounts for a lot of choices made in the film, from the performances to the score to the lighting…
When this came out I got excited and very keen to check out the show but was, inevitably, somewhat let down. Even taking into account TV budgets and the show not having Sean Connery, it seemed some kind of moviemaking miracle that this movie came out of that show.
Should I give it another look? Robert Stack makes Kevin Costner look like an exciting dude to hang with.
TV Eliot Ness.....Robert Stack
@@karlmortoniv2951 No. It doesn't work anymore. imo.
@@karlmortoniv2951 which one the TV show or movie?
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 I was asking if I should give the TV show another shot. The only time I hear about it any more is as the inspiration for the movie.
I love that Sean Connery is such an icon that he can be the most Scottish Irish man on film and no one comments on it
It’s Because he’s Sean Connery so he has a pass regardless of any nationality he plays
@@mohammedashian8094 Which is why he can always play the most Scottish Russian (well, Lithuanian) in history in Hunt for Red October and no one gives the slightest shit, too.
He's also the most Scottish Egyptian Spaniard ("Highlander").
"Where's Nitti?"
"He's in the car."
One of the most satisfying revenge killings ever filmed
@@SansMerci1013 True. If only it had happened like that in real life though.
when it comes to gangster movies from the 80s, once upon a time in america is unrivaled
I think it’s the best gangster film ever. Blasphemy possibly 😂
So long as it’s the directors cut. The theatrical cut is a bit of a mess. 🥴
Yes, I recommended it too hahaha! That movie is untouchable!
Definitely the Director's cut
@@titovalasques So true.
Guy Pearce is LA Confidential reminds me of the Elliot Ness/Kevin Costner character.
That should be another movie they should analyze and review.
LA Confidential is amazing!
I had the same thought, they should do LA Confidential. Great movie.
@@Saturnia2014 100%!
Yes, you are right! LA Confidential is a must see, good movie and a stylish movie like The Untouchables
Guy in movie: ''We can get him by tax evasion''
Tom: ''I don't think they are going to get him that way''
Me: laughs in mob history.
Sean Connery was so incredible in this film he held every scene he was in just with his presence...
What else would he hold it with? His non-existence?
"This guy needs to die in the most epic way"
Elliott Ness: *Did he sound anything like this* ?
Opening tease: “OMG!!! 😲”
Me: “Lemme guess: ‘Did he sound anything like this?’l. 😁
"Carlito's Way" (1993) is another great Brian De Palma crime thriller; one of my personal favorites.
Yep. One of my favourites. Donnie Brasco is really good too.
Can't go wrong with any Al Pacino film
Hey, my name is Benny Blanco from the Bronx.
@@Jay.McCarty Who?
Carlito's Way is a masterpiece and kind of underrated when it comes to Pacino movies, but easily one of his best performances.
I would recommend you to watch Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning, where there is similar dynamic between hardcore "cop" (Hackman) and "rookie" cop (Dafoe)
On that vein, In The Heat Of The Night is imperative
Mississippi Burning is fantastic
@@JulioLeonFandinho I see your point. The main reason that I made that comparison was almost the same dialog between Hackman and Dafoe, as dialog that Connery and Costner had....what are you willing to do?!? :D
One of my favorites
“1634 Racine...” and then, FIREWORKS for the rest of the movie. Ennio Morricone’s score is so iconic in this film
Cinema Rules, the house where Eliot Ness lived, 2022 W. 22nd Street, before we left Chicago, we lived a block west and three blocks south of that house. In fact, when the car is taking Ness' family to safety, there is a steeple in the background. It's St. Paul's church. Three blocks from where we lived. Really enjoy your reviews. Stay safe and healthy.
YOU GUYS NEED TO SEE SCARFACE!!! It would be really interesting to see how you guys react to such an Iconic film, very brutal but it also has one of the most quoted lines in movie history, you will know the line when you hear it.
'Jew no, I never like him'?
@@porkfrog2785 No, try again.
"How'd you get that scar, tough guy? Eating p*ssy?" No, wait... "You a pig that don't fly straight." No, wait...
Guys you need to watch LA Cofidental. Its a pure classic
Absolutely- one if the best modern Noir films.
YES! It's the best of these type of movies!
YES! That was my thought when I saw they were watching this one. LA Confidential is a great film.
I think LA Confidential and Chinatown are a great double bill.
Good old Billy Drago, always a fun henchman or villain to watch !
Sean Connery was always a favourite of mine, and the mature Connery as a bad-ass was so much fun. He steals this film. As always: watch Event Horizon.
He is such an incredible scene stealer that even steals scenes in movies he isn’t in!
5:38 «What the f*ck is he smocking, a chair leg?» LMAO
Shawn was on FIRE!
I absolutely adore this movie, and the Morricone soundtrack was the first one I ever bought (along with "Glory"). One of the first that made me cry me eyes out too. The DePalma film that goes hand in hand with this one for me is "Carlito´s Way".
The score is almost like another character, viewers need to know why it's so present, De Palma got Morricone and used him to full effect.
Yeah, The Untouchables and Carlito's Way are 2 of my favorite DePalma movies. Also, Mission Impossible and Blow Out are superb.
"I don't care that you almost died on a bean" "If you were born in this time you'd be a doorman" You guys are so much fun 😄
In my opinion this is the perfect movie - it looks good, sounds good, well acted, written, directed, great dialogue. I'm glad you guys liked it.
The best scene in this movie was the baby carriage scene ! 👶
Outland with Sean Connery is amazing too
That is possibly my favorite Sean Connery film. Not his best. For me he'll always be Dan'l Dravit from The Man Who Would Be King... but in Outland, especially in the raquetball court scene... he reminded me of my dad. It's basically just "High Noon" in space.
Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson were considered for the role of Elliott Ness before Kevin Costner was cast.
Really? That's pretty cool but Kevin Costner was the best choice. Harrison was much older and Mel Gibson just doesn't fit the bill of a Ness character.
So?
@@Saturnia2014 There were saying Costner was too mild well Gibson would have been the badass Ness they would want lol. I know Ford was older but he would struck the right balance between Costner and Gibson.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 Ford might have been interesting but I still think that Costner was the right choice for the role given that Ness had to be the naive idealist who slowly gets schooled on the reality of Chicago by Connery's character and that was Costner's speciality when it comes to acting.
One of my all time favorite movies sean Connery was amazing!
Absolutely!
Other great Sean Connery's movies and characters you will enjoy : ,The Man who would be king, The name of the Rose , the Hill, The Hunt for red october, The Offense
1996 "The Rock"
@@1nelsondj "Zardoz" (1974).
It's "The Hunt FOR Red October". You can't very well hunt something you're running away from...
But there can be only one! Highlander (I & II) 🎶🎸⚔️
Tom mocking trying to get Capone on tax evasion when that's exactly how he was put in prison lol and he's a teacher :O lol I'm here for a meaner Shaun though :D Glad he survived his near death green bean experience :D
True. But I wouldn’t expect a Brit to be an expert in American history from the 1920-1940s. Most Americans don’t even know that stuff.
Tom is a teacher? What grade and subject?
I love that opening theme music by Enniio Morricone.
I like “Body Double” by De Palma, it’s a bit ridiculous and lurid, but good.
Agree, Body Double is great, in a twisted way.
Body Double is good but it has some weaknesses. I like the scenes in the beginning where the main character gets a claustrophobic attack in the tunnel, and the times where he’s spying on the woman in the opposite building. It’s far from being de Palma’s best movie but I would still enjoy it, if I watched it again.
Body Double (1984) is good fun too, great score by long time De Palma composer Pino Donaggio. For more classic '80s De Palma; Scarface (1983) and Casualties of War (1989). For more '80s Costner; No Way Out (1987) and for more '80s De Niro; Midnight Run (1988).
Did they just say that they haven't seen Scarface???😟 That's criminal, I'm calling the police 🚔
FBI, DEA, CIA, ATF, Interpol, and DOD to make sure.
@@victorsos100 yep. Their days of not watching Scarface are numbered
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Call Sosa on that giant telephone suitcase of his and tell him Omar says he's sorry, between the wash from the rotors and the rope around his neck he can't speak loud enough.
Billions of people haven't. But your life is so perfect you can't fathom how everyone hasn't lived it.
Everyone's suggesting Scarface, Carrie and Carlito's Way here but De Palma's one, too often forgotten film is Blow Out with John Travolta. Great thriller where De Palma shows his ability to create suspense because eventhough he became a big name with crime films and Mission Impossible, in the beginning he was very good thriller director who was a big time Hitchcock fan. Of course you get those moments of suspense in his later / well-known works too, as you can probably see in this film, but to actually experience his directing ability with horror or suspense scenes, you need to watch his earlier (or minor) works.
Dressed To Kill is about as Hitchcock homage-y as it gets. Fun fun fun.
A thousand times yes. Blow Out is probably his best film, and one of the best shot and edited films I've ever laid eyes on.
I was in high school when my dad and I saw Blow Out in the theater. It was really good and some bits have stuck with me nearly 40 years later. At the time, though, I kept getting hung up on the obvious references to the source material of Teddy Kennedy and Chappaquidick.
I watched Blow Out less than a year ago, and it was still great to watch. I watched Dress To Kill in the cinema shortly after its premiere, also a great movie. Yeah, de Palma was very inspired by hitchcock when he made his suspense movies but the plots are very original. He also did a great job with the adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie
Yessss, one of my favourites! Sean Connery’s best role for me (a very deserving Oscar win too) and De Niro is an excellent Capone. Such a good soundtrack too!
Even checking out of this world full of holes and bleeding out, Connery’s character was like, “What are you PREPARED to do?!?” That is how you win an Oscar, folks.
Another great movie that all the other reactors have ignored. Great job guys.
The shootout at the train station is the best slo-mo scene in cinema.
the untouchables is good, scarface is great. But my favorite Brian de Palma movie is 1981's Blow Out
Blow out, Dressed to Kill, Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables and Carlito's Way are Brian De Palma's greatest.
One of the greatest movies ever made a true classic The Untouchables directed by Brian De Palma starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García and the incredible music score by the amazing Ennio Morricone. Thank you guys for reacting this masterpiece👍👍👍
DePalma films to check out are Scarface, Carlitos Way, Mission Impossible, Dressed to Kill and for crying out loud please do the horror movie CARRIE 1976.
Carlito's Way is my favourite, an astonishing movie ❤
Save 'Carrie' for Halloween month....
Scarface baby! Scarface!
Carlitos Way has gotta be my favourite De Palma film a great slow burn . I've got to mention his follow on film after Carrie .
The Fury (1978) a forgotten gem of a film from the period of psychic horror/thrillers.
Dressed to Kill creeped me out as a kid
Miller's Crossing by the Coen Brothers is a most excellent prohibition era gangster movie. I highly recommend. The Danny Boy scene alone (you'll know it when you see it) is worth the price of admission alone.
I love how you guys were laughing at the tax evasion thing when it’s actually how they got Capone. 🤣
Edit: there I fixed it. Al Capone didn’t commit tax invasion. Only an evasion lol.
I've heard of tax evasion, but what the hell is "tax invasion"? Sounds like Internal Revenue formed an invading army.
@@miketocci well maybe they have... lol shit I didn’t even realize that typo 😂
Of all the things to get Capone on, that's how they got him finally in real life.
@@alucard624 better than nothing I guess. Besides I think he had syphilis by that point too.
I thought the same thing. The whole time they're mocking the tax invasion thing, I'm thinking 'Okay, they have no idea about Al Capone.' LOL!
My father, born in 1920 and now deceased, grew up for a time in chicago during these times. he actually played with some of capone's relatives children and he said you could hear machine guns at night on occasion.
I loved that Sean Connery line was roughly that the first rule of Policing was get home alive and he gets shot on his door step and eventually dies in his home.
I'm glad how well Elliot Ness was portrayed in this film. Unfortunately, Hoover took most of the credit for taking down guys like Capone and the notorious bank robbers of this era.
Hoover had a good excuse for doing that - not that it necessarily explains why he took all the credit. His effective agents wouldn’t be effective for long if they took public bows for doing good work all the time. The best law enforcement people aren’t in it for the fame.
Yeah, and Ness had a squeaky clean image at the start of his career. So it would make sense to show him that way.
U typed Hoover, not Trump right??
Compare the Ness 'mislead' to the Pervis character from Public Enemies.
Same ol Same ol.
@@versetripn6631 Yeah. Lol
The scene with the baby in the pram is a homage to the iconic Odessa Steps scene in The Battleship Potemkin.
I always forget how much I like the bookkeeper scene with the baby stroller and the stairs. So good.
Brian DePalma made some of the best movies of the 70’s-80’s, check out Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Body Double and especially Blow Out (John Travolta’s best performance imo).😎
"Dressed to Kill" may not be a good choice to do a reaction video to, in current year. Didn't Dressed to Kill, Body Double and Blow Out all 3 star the same female lead?
My dad was in the FBI for twenty five years and actually met some of them. This is based on true events.
Elliot Ness is a fascinating dude because after he got Capone he really fell off and did some real shady stuff that got him a lot of heat as his career went on
The Grand Central station scene with the shootout/slow motion pram rolling down stairs is very iconic.
I saw this when i was pretty young and the stroller down the stairs scene was the first movie experience to ever make me sweat with anxiety.
“You got him?”
“Yeahhh, I got him.”
Chills.👏🏾🔥👌🏾♥️
I don't know about anyone else, but I made sure I KNEW who Andy Garcia was after that scene. Hot damn, he is fine.
@@SansMerci1013 I honestly can't remember now, but I think this movie was my introduction to Andy Garcia. Immediately committed his name/face to memory. LOOOOOOVE him.
I rent one my flat to a 30 years old consultant at PCW. We went for a beer into a clandestine bar during lockdown. I told him it reminded me Prohibition times. He said prohibition what ? I said Intouchable, the movie ! He kept his quizzical look and I realized I was old
I love this movie. Super quotable and lots of interesting choices. Totally get your criticisms but I feel like Ness is supposed to be super corny and earnest, specifically to be the one character you believe is incorruptible. That's why Costner works, because he plays that better than most. He'd annoy the crap out of me in reality, but I suspect so would Malone.
Movies were already getting gritty and cynical by the 80's, so this movie was a throwback even when it was released. By that I mean the heroic, good-will-always-triumph spirit that it portrayed was a direct throwback to the TV series of the same name, which was basically a hagiography of Elliot Ness. Of course the real Ness was a deeply complex and troubled man.
I love Brian DePalma, and I loved this film. Everyone always talks about Scarface, but that movie is just so over-the-top and cheesy that I don't think it was ever meant to be taken as seriously as people tend to do. I think The Untouchables is better both as a drama and as popcorn entertainment.
One of the top, lets say 20 Films ever. The actors, the music, great.
You should try "JFK", Kevin is good in this one, this is an amazing movie!
_Suggestions for other movies..._
*▪︎12 Angry Men* (1957)
*▪︎The Warriors* (1979)
*▪︎Logan's Run* (1976)
*▪︎The Breakfast Club* (1985)
I remember the pre-production news from this. I thought Connery was playing Ness and was so pissed off when I found out it was Kevin Costner. I was like, who the hell is Kevin Costner. Turned out that De Palma knew what he was doing. He gave Connery the best role and created a movie star with Costner.
I fell in love with Andy Garcia in this one too. Great cast 🥰
You know it’s a genuine reaction because the thumbnail is them doing the home alone aftershave slap.
I've never really been a De Palma fan, but he's probably best known for this film, Carrie, Scarface, and Blow Out. Of the ones I've seen, I think Blow Out is the best.
I agree! Blowout is superb!
Did you seriously forget to mention Carlito’s Way?
True story, Capone's only living relative is an art teacher in Italy.
“Where’s Nitti?” “He’s in the car.” I live for lines like those 😂
RIP Billy Drago (Frank Nitti). Great script and performances all around. This is not history, just a great movie.
I can't watch that stairway shootout scene without immediately starting to think of how it was parodied in The Naked Gun.
I’ve always loved the scene at the station with the baby and the slide by Andy García.
It's a great scene that's raised to perfect by the Garcia closer.
CARRIE by DePalma is a must watch. First Stephen King novel and movie. This is where the legend began.
This is one of my top 10 movies of the 1980s and favorite films of all time. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin Smith, Billy Drago and Robert DeNiro all great. Connery totally deserved his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and I think the film should have got even more recognition than it did. It got nominated for 3 other awards, but mostly in technical categories, but I totally think it was worthy of a Best Picture nomination. It's the perfect entertaining film. I've always thought Kevin Costner was vastly underrated in this film and had one of the best arcs for a film protagonist. He started off as naive and idealistic and slowly changed into jaded and pragmatic. People always say the movie should have had a tougher lead, but that would have totally defeated the purpose. Ness got pushed around and mocked early on, then got tougher as the film progressed. Had he started out tough, the payoff of him taking down Capone wouldn't have been nearly as satisfying.
Yep, The Untouchables was a TV show first, portraying Elliot Ness and his pursuit of Al Capone. The actor that originally played Ness was actor Robert Stack, who'd later in his career go on to being the host and narrator of the TV show, Unsolved Mysteries.
And Robert Stack playing Robert Stack playing Elliot Ness like in the comedy classic Airplane!
@@scottjo63 LOL!!! "You're too low dammit!!!"
Not low at all. When most reactors see Robert Stack, no one really knows who he is. I'm just saying who Robert Stack is. Both The Untouchables and Airplane! his characters are excellent.
@@scottjo63 No no, that was one of his lines in Airplane, when he was trying to ease Striker down, and then he yells at him, "Pull up! UP!! You're too low, dammit!!!"
Ennio Morricone gives a nod to himself in the score making a call back to Once Upon a Time in the West. Another reason to watch that epic.
For gangster flicks, my favorites are The Untouchables, Road to Perdition, Scarface, the Godfather movies, Goodfellas, and Casino.
Utterly brilliant film from a time when Kevin Costner was a genuine grade 'A' star. All the best.
Ah great movie. Wasn’t Mamet a writer on the script… highly recommend his House of Games and Glengarry Glen Ross. Also well worth reading up on Frank Nitti and his life after Capone (he’s the assassin who didn’t really get thrown off a building)
One of my top 100 movies of all time. Love this movie & if I got my facts right they actually did get Capone on tax evasion
I saw this one at the cinema. I knew immediately Sean Connery would win an Oscar. He was magnificent and has the best death scene ever.
“You would be the rat dead in a dumpster”. That was payback for not enjoying the bean story.
Ness was an interesting man.. A bit of an alcoholic later in life, he ended up in Cleveland as the head of the police.. He retired during the infamous Kingsbury Run Killer case, which is a really bizarre case if you’re into that kinda stuff.. The killer actually pose his final 2 victims on Ness’ front lawn, and apparently that was enough for Ness who retired soon afterwards..
The killer was never caught..
Two of DePalmers best besides the untouchables, are Dressed to Kill, and Blow Out; an amazing intense movie staring a young John Travolta
Capone was also admired for his charitable activities, which led some people to think of him as a modern day Robin Hood. In the 1930s, he funded a soup kitchen with money he generated from bootlegging. The kitchen served meals to over 120,000 people, and provided the only meals that some unemployed Americans had during the great depression........Legend has it that after one lavish meal he left the server a 500 dollar tip....Enough to buy a car back then.......
Prohibition lasted 13 years (1920-1933). Al Capone really was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years. He served just over half of that and was released early to a hospital. He had syphillis and had deteriorated a lot in prison.
My father grew up during Prohibition...there's some tales there, to be sure!!!! My granpa was making "spirits" in the kitchen sink, and the maid didn't know and drank it, and they had to keep her locked in the house til she sobered up so no one would know, for one. When we were growing up, my parents wouldn't even keep cooking sherry in the house. He watched this movie and loved it, except for the part where Ness threw the guy off the building...said it was completely out of character for Ness, lol. I loved the movie myself. Ness and his men didn't get the credit they deserved. He was obviously a hero to my dad.
Frank Nitti's death is fictional. He committed suicide rather than going to jail.
I prefer the fictional death. So satisfying.
True. This was much more satisfying though versus him taking the cowards way out like he did in real life.
That’s just what they wanted you to think.
But, think about it. Prison was so harrowing, criminals legit committed suicide, by their own hand or by cop/posse rather than go back to prison.
Now, we have people singing songs about how they don't care about going to prison because it's nothing to them.
Hmm...wonder if being on an old fashioned chain gang would change their tune, haha
By "jumping" off a building.
The Baby Stroller Shootout is on of the best scenes in movie history... Climax is Stone shooting the guy through his opened mouth!
Prohibition actually lasted for 13 years, from 1920 to 1933.
Every time people wondered if Donald Trump was a little "gangster-like", I would compare his news appearances to Robert DeNiro's Capone talking to the newspaper reporters:
"They got this whole 'tax-evasion' thing, because they know they got nothing..."
great reaction. just funny how you called Nitti getting thrown off the roof.
RIP Sean Connery and Ennio Morricone
Important to remember it's only a movie. No Untouchable was ever murdered. There were more than 4 Untouchables. In the movie the guy Eliott Ness throws off the building is Frank Nitti, in real life Nitti went on to take over from Al Capone and died in 1943 from suicide.
Other De Palma films I love: Sisters, Carrie, Dressed To Kill, Scarface, Carlito’s Way, and the first Mission: Impossible film.
Watching you two watching this was such good fun! Cheers! 'He's Smokin a chair leg!'
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Supreme Chancellor:
You did well, Eliot.
He was too dangerous to be kept alive.
Eliot Ness:
Yes, but he was an unarmed prisoner.
I shouldn't have done that, Chancellor.
It's not the Untouchable way.
Supreme Chancellor:
It is only natural. He kill Malone , and you wanted revenge.
It wasn't the first time, Eliot.
Remember what you told me about Capone and his Ouftis !
"I don't think your gonna get him that way." Well, actually, that is exactly the way they got him.
Prohibition lasted for 13 years from 1920-1933. Tax evasion is how they REALLY convicted Capone, the biggest mistake is Frank Nitti (the guy in white who killed both of the Untouchables who died) was sentenced to tax evasion alongside Capone, but only had an 18 month sentence(as opposed to Capone's 11 years), and took over the gang after his release, not dying until 1943.
The Untouchables is a movie that I love with great scenes and memorable performances but yea it's a little bit cartoonish. I call it a sort of epic commercial "Hollywood" gangster movie. But not in a negative way. The sweeping music, over the top performance by Deniro, the action, the humour, Depalma knew what he was doing. And I thank him for it.
You guys are right, I would have wanted more scenes with the Untouchables just talking with each other, arguing. Like we didn't know enough about Stone. But Depalma is more of a "let the images speak for itself", he's a visualist, not a dialogue guy. So many great shots in this movie. The scene with the baby was on another level. About Kevin Costner, he was sort of mild but in many ways he fit the role as the sort of young innocent cop way over his head at his job. Mel Gibson was considered for the role pf Eliott Ness. And he probably would have brought a much forceful performance for sure. Would have been interesting.
Depalma movies you should check out are Blow Out, Sisters, Obsession, Dressed to Kill.
If you ever watch Kung Fu Hustle, the line "What are you prepared to do?!" makes a cameo
I Envy your youth as you have so many of the top 100 top 500 movies to see for the FIRST TIME still. This is a killer movie and the cast is insanely deep. Glad you both "got it" and liked it
Might I recommend Sleepers? Seeing this reaction made me remember that one. Great film (and great book as well). Based on true events (the rare occasion that the person who wrote the book and the screenplay is the person who experienced the events himself).
The scene with the pram bouncing down the steps, later parodied in one of the Naked Gun movies, was a reference to the Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin (1925). NOTE: Sergei Eisenstein (the director of said film) invented montage in film, which is part and parcel of every film today.