When you're young, you become friends with pretty much anyone around your age you interact with. When you're older, you adjust your personality in order to keep your friends around. There's something authentic about preteen friendship that you don't get before or after.
it's actually revealed at the beginning that chris dies. when older gordie is in the truck reading the newspaper, it says that chris died in the restaurant. it's easy to forget though because you get so immersed in the movie.
I absolutely love this movie. I was born in '84 and I remember watching it for the first time a couple years after it came out, when I was like 5 or 6, and it's been one of those movies that's always been in my life ever since. It's amazing how you have a different perspective of it from when you watched it as a kid to when you watched it as an adult. The one thing about this movie that I love now as an adult that I didn't notice when I was younger, is the symbolism of the tree house. In the beginning of the movie, they were inside of it being kids, laughing and joking, but at the end they were standing outside of it, quiet and humbler. Possibly representing the lost innocence. Showing how much they changed in a short amount of time, even older Gordy stated how much smaller the town seemed when they got back. Man, I love everything about that movie!
It's a magic trick similar to the one in *The ...* -- in that other movie that's famous for having a shocking ending that makes you realize in retrospect that all the relevant information was in front of you the whole time.
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Fun Fact: In the original Stephen King novella, 'The Body,' which Stand By Me was based on, the town of Castle Rock where the four kids live is actually located in Maine, and is the same Castle Rock that is the location of several other Stephen King stories, such as The Dead Zone, Cujo, Needful Things, and The Dark Half. It is one of the three main towns in Stephen King's mythology, along with Derry (the location for 'IT') and Jerusalem's Lot (the location for 'Salem's Lot.') The film 'Stand By Me' changed the location of Castle Rock from Maine to Oregon, both of which have a city named "Portland."
Harrison Ford Was Proud Of River Phoenix“He played my son once, and I came to love him like a son, and was proud to watch him grow into a man of such talent and integrity and compassion,” Ford said, Ford also got him the part for him to play young indian jones in the last crusade, so it already happend , Ford and him stared in the mosque cost together,
You're so right...great casting. RIP River Phoenix Will Wheaton still around, though not at the heights he hit in this movie, or as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek TNG. Everyone has a Corey Feldman fave flic. The difference between young Jerry O'Connell and Jerry today... is mind blowing. I remember watching him in his TV series, "Sliders", and thinking..naw...can't be the same guy... and decades later in movies like Joes Apartment or Jerry Maguire...just reinforce the change. (He's a very prolific voice actor in superhero animation. ) Keifer, well...i think almost everyone knows what he's done, or doing...especially amongst us Canuckleheads 😎 As for Richard Dreyfus...the mans a legend...i think You guys should react to ALL of, his, movies. 😊
I had three friends that were like family. This movie brought them back. Life was easier back then. Gordie the inspiring writer and his friends went on a trip to find a classmate who was killed. The trip had them face misadventures and after that some went their separate ways. My daughter asked me why I get emotional over the movie. My three friends are dead.
The talk about friends as you're walking into town is so true people you thought would be the friends rest your life in school you drift away from people from high school you never see after graduation or when you're younger their age you have friends used to stay the night at their houses but they move away or you quit being friends later in life you find you have very few clothes dependable friends
Everything that happens to the kids as they turn into adults in the movie happened basically in real life to the actors Gordie grew up to be a writer Wheaton is a well known blogger Vern had a normal life wife and kids like O’Connell Teddy couldn’t get past his childhood trauma to find success as an adult like Feldman Chris dies at a public place like Phoenix and is still the only one who has died
One of my favorite films. And, imho, one of the best coming of age movies, and stories, ever. The depiction of kids at this age is one of the most accurate i've ever seen.
This was actually going to be called The Body (the same title as the Stephen King story) but Rob Reiner saw Kiefer Sutherland teaching River Phoenix the song Stand by Me on guitar and changed the title.
What's sad is that no one who does these reaction videos today remembers River Phoenix. Everyone today knows his younger brother, Joaquin Phoenix, but River seems to have been forgotten by a generation that grew up after River's death. After 'Stand By Me' he was most known for his Oscar-nominated role in 'Running on Empty,' his portrayal of young Indiana Jones in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' his acclaimed performance in 'My Own Private Idaho,' and the ensemble heist film 'Sneakers' with Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier. River was considered the best young actor of Generation X and one of the most promising young actors in Hollywood, but his death in 1993 from a drug overdose outside of The Viper Room in Hollywood cut his life and career short.
Can it really be considered 'forgetting' if they grew up after his passing? If they'd been around for his time in films, that would be absolutely justified as 'forgetting'.
The mosquito cost , he stared with ,Harrison Ford , Ford Was Proud Of River Phoenix“He played my son once, and I came to love him like a son, and was proud to watch him grow into a man of such talent and integrity and compassion,” Ford said , and he also get him the part off young indiana jones , lot off us remember how good he was , if ppl think joaquin phoenix is a good actor, trust me river was even more extraordinary!
I remember reading that Billy Bob Thornton, who lost his brother when he was a kid, said he could never trust happiness after losing his brother. I'm gonna get older and eventually lose my brothers..it's gonna suck. Respect to the old folks out there dealing with losing so many family members and friends..
Lovely reaction - when this came out, I was just emerging from a very similar childhood, so watching it there was this strange double effect of feeling like looking in the mirror and at the same time the distance of nostalgia - it's been a while since I've seen this, and it's still unexpectedly resonant - and your comments afterwards were quite powerful and insightful - along w Back to the Future, this may be one of the defining films linking the 80s w 50s childhood nostalgia, that link that was so central to 80s culture, that tied mainstream figures like King, Spielberg, and also Reiner
So glad to see you do this one. My mom was the 1st King fan in the family and I soon (sooner than she would have liked since I read The Shining at age 9 after sneaking it when she loaned it to my 17-year-old brother) By the time this came out Momma and I would watch every interview available on the 3 networks at the time. Being 15 myself the story hit home with me a lot. Growing up a King fan I have LOTS of tidbits. 1) In a King interview we watched he mentioned the leech scene being a bit close to home. He showed a scar on his arm. He laughed and said he would not show the other scar inferring the tighty-whities was where it presides. 2) the kid being hit is a staple for him in his stories like here and in another popular King's work. In both stories the kid is knocked out of his shoe. This is from an incident buried deep in him. He was out playing with a friend as a small child and came back in shock. His friend had been hit and killed in front of him. Being like 5 years old, his little mind could not handle it so he could not really communicate about it. He blocked it out due to the trauma (if I remember correctly, but I may be wrong, please forgive if I am) But as you can tell, it never went away. Whenever I see this movie it reminds me SO much of the mother I lost in 2002. I miss her every day, but you guys gave me a nice smile remembering being bonded with Momma over King's work. This movie came at a time that really linked that bond to her through the original story then the movie being a favorite of us both. Thank you for those smiles as if she were here with me watching you both discovering it for the 1st time.
As kids you can look at summer vacation as lasting forever, and then it's back to school after Labor Day. As an adult you struggle to find a few hours to escape just that little bit.
Growing up, my brother and I had friends like this. Out of the 8 of us only I, my brother and one other still talk to each other, one we don't see anymore, and 4 others have passed away already. My brother and I were the oldest of the group.
I remember someone saying that to me, at some point in your life you went out to play with your best friends for the last time who never judged you and you didn't know it at the time.
With age though, comes the fear that time is running short. That's a fact, but at times we still perceive that feeling. Perhaps that's why we are more cautious and judgmental to others. When you're a kid, you feel immortal, and you'll never get old. Time had a completely different meaning then. This concept is explored thoroughly in another Stephen King movie "Hearts in Atlantis." (rest in peace Anton Yelchin - what a performance)
With what you in the ending about friends, really makes sense now, that I have lost so many friends as an adult. I know that’s not about the movie,but you just made something click within me so now it makes more sense to me. I did really enjoy watching you both reacting to the movie. Stand By Me has always been one of my favorite Stephen King movies.
Great reaction to a well done movie with a great cast. Kiefer Sutherland, much like his old man, can play a great hero or a great villain. He just becomes his character so well and it is almost alarming sometimes how easy it is to believe that he is his character. I don't think he gets enough respect for that. I don't think it is bitterness and anger that make us so hesitant to form friendships, I think it is fear based on past pains. "I think this person's cool, but what if they don't like me? What if they're like the other ex-friends I have who found out I like geeky things and then don't want to be my friend anymore because they're so cool and I'm not?" and a thousand other varieties of the thought process that we use to talk ourselves out of taking risks with others. Once we leave high school our friend groups diminish by around half. As time goes by and our surviving friendships from youth diminish or end due to marriage or job relocation or armed forces obligations or whatever we find ourselves feeling more and more alone and often hating feeling like we're exiled and yet too scared of not being found worthy enough to try to form new friendships. Now this just may be my experiences, but I see truth in them when I observe and listen to others of my generation, and those younger than I am (I'm 55 for reference). My closest friends through my life were Beth, who I became friends with when I was 8 and she was 6, and James, who became my friend when we were 11. James now lives three to five states away from me, so we don't get to visit except maybe once a year at most, and Beth died on the table three years ago during an operation to try to repair genetic damage to her heart. And I basically became a ghost after that, just drifting. Experience Rating 0/10, Not Recommended for anyone. So cherish your friendships and make time for them so you never have to regret that you hadn't seen your bestie for ten years, and now you'll never get the chance to see them again.
One of the few movies based on a Stephen King story that did the King story justice. The King story was a novella titled "The Body" which was in a compilation of 4 novellas called "Different Seasons" and was the first Stephen King book I ever read (some 40 years ago now...). That's what hooked me on Stephen King. It also contains the novellas "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" which was made into the movie "The Shawshank Redemption," and "Apt Pupil" which was made into a lesser known movie of the same name. I really related to The Body, because me and my friends were a lot like that at that age.
Yeah this is a great movie I remember I believe my dad show it to me whenever they had Blockbuster and I just good memories when your kids and it gives me good memories. I do believe will his acting performance was really authentic because his parents really did fought off screen and I think he dealt with a lot of abused as a child so those are real tears and if you want to know more I believe the girl from Blossom her podcast they have an interview together girls❤
7:10 🎶 "A knight without armor in a savage land... Paladin, Paladin, where will you roam?" 🎵 They were singing the theme-song to HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (1957 - 1963), a popular Western TV series starring Richard Boone.
I have to comment on the "junkyard dog" Chopper. Everyone was afraid of the rumors, but the dog is a Golden Retriever. It's the LEAST scariest dog EVER. And the number one most popular dog for a reason. 🐶
This isn't a specific criticism of you guys (I see these comments any time childhood from 1950-1990 is depicted in media) but it does make me laugh how people will be like "it used to be safe for kids back then" watching a story in which the four protagonists are actually in grave danger pretty much the entire film (they carry a loaded gun while walking on railroad tracks, in the wilderness, miles from home, for 2 full days with minimal food and water, culminating in a fight in which a knife and a gun are both brandished.) It is basically a miracle that they all survived the trip. Personally - I think parents today (and I am occasionally guilty of this as a parent myself) are too overprotective but that is because the world is safer today for children than it was in the 50's and 60s and is definitely way safer today than it was in the 70s-90s.
I love this movie for many reasons, not the least of which is that I was literally twelve, going on thirteen the summer it came out. Also, King is one of my favourite authors and we share a birthday.
I never thought there a reaction about this movie,this movie is one of my favourite during my childhood era,my story quite same as this,it just our group little bit bigger around 14-18 person,went do same thing like that,suck by leeches,swallowing bugs,mosquito bite are normal among us,climbing trees,hiking,fishing,many more,eventhough we all broke we happy we share that time,what i remember most during lunch everbody brings a plate of food from their house,some walking some riding bicycle,sharing eating together under shady tree,remembering those memory made me cry nowadays not just it hard to find those day todays but thinking there also someone we know who is no longer around us..that why this movie is so close to me..
I still miss River Phoenix. He was my favorite actor during this time through the late eighties. Joaquin was acting at this time too but I didn’t know who he was. Also, in the book, at least Chris and maybe Gordy got beat up very badly by Ace and his goons when they got back to town.
The bridge with the train. I walked across that a few months ago. they actually have Written on one of the pieces of wood " still looking for the comb".
Wasn't included in your eclipse but the very beginning he's sitting in the truck and there's a newspaper about Chris Chambers death and I thought that's what you were referring to when during the middle you said I hope he doesn't die at the end
Looking back when i was a kid.... It was usually good times. I was raised in a country area called the Lower Kaimai's in New Zealand. After school most days i would go home and make fried eggs (with real butter) and toast sandwiches for me and my mate, who was also my neighbour, We would go up in the bush behind my place and make little huts throughout the bush. And if we got hungry, we would delve into our Sammie's kept warm by the tinfoil wrapped around them. You see i always supplied our food because my mate's mum was strict and would never let the kids eat before dinner. Between my friend and my place was a river with 3 swimming holes. The lower swimming hole closest to our houses had swing ropes and we spent a lot of time there with us and my mate's sisters swimming all times of the year even winter. (We don't have leaches here so no worries.) One thing about us was we never got bored. Even when it rained, we still found something to do. I will say that me and my mate were not good boys all of the time, often we would pinch milk powder from my mate's landlords open shed and the landlord always knew it was us lol. If the Neighbour's were making hay, we would usually be over there helping out. Let's just say that i enjoyed my youth a lot, and without a doubt if i could go back and relive it , I would jump at it. without even having a second thought. Love your reaction to stand by me.... such a nostalgic movie and another great Stephen King novel.
See you two bopping to all those late 50s tunes. Another movie with a whole lot of oldies in the soundtrack (that also has a veritable who's-who in the cast) that you two should do a reaction to should be "American Graffiti". It was the film George Lucas was well known for just before "Star Wars" came out.
I was their age when I first watched this film. And it's still my favourite film because I've never related to anything as much as this does to being a kid. Every 12 year old should watch this by law.
I don't know what you are talking about with the innocence of children. I was teased and bullied all through school, from day three of kindergarten, when I sat in the wrong seat because I missed day two where our seats were assigned. And the main instigator bullied me until halfway through 2nd grade when he moved away. Though the bullying continued until I graduated and never had to see any of those dirtbags again.
They were all great in this film, but the one actor who stood out for me was River Phoenix. It so sad that he died so young, I'm sure he would have been a big star. His brother, Joaqin Phoenix, made it big and mentioned his brother River when he accepted his award. Strange that in this film we see River fade away at the end.
It IS amazing, that the greatest Stephen King stories turned movie are the, NON-horror ones. (Ya, some of the horrors are good, but they don't touch films like this, or Shawshank. Or Green mile.
Speaking of Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile, the director of both of those movies (Frank Darabont) also directed the dramatic Jim Carrey movie “The Majestic”… but it was a flop unfortunately
LOL. Viewers of this movie always prove Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) right. Will Wheaton (Gordie) is the guy everyone forgets is in this movie. Will plays himself right in The Big Bang Theory. Kiefer Sutherland also plays a real punk (and I'm being nice) in the movie A Time To Kill. It a fantastic courtroom movie with Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson.
I'd recommend the movie "Now and Then" which is from the 90s, and considered to be the female Stand By Me. No one reacts to this, but it's a great movie.
They really dropped the ball when they didn’t have Ace, or any one of the gang, wearing Gordie’s brothers hat at the end. And at gunpoint, Gordie demanding and getting his hat back.
I was a little kid. And while kids at my Grade school were nice to me, I still got picked on occasion. But when we changed schools for Jr. High, I rarely saw them just because the school was so much bigger. But I would bump into my friend Dave. He was always nice and we'd ask each other how things were. I remember when I started High School, I bumped into Dave He greeted me. But came from a rough family. His father was extremely abusive. Even in Grade school, he was already drinking alcohol... Heavily. When I saw him in H.S., he was doing heavy drugs. Still a nice kid and was nice to me. But I could tell his brains were fried. He wasn't present. Years later, he would die from an overdose. Nobody was surprised. He largely mumbled and barely able to walk by his Senior year. I'm sure teachers just passed him in classes. They knew his story and what was happening to him. Like how you two remembered childhood friends, there is nothing like it when you get older. There is no cool, rich, pretty (well, sometimes) kids. We're all the same and just want to be friends.
You can't easily run on a train bridge because there are huge gaps between the ties. Which was shown in the movie. Your foot/leg could easily drop between them mid-run resulting in a serious injury. Then you're REALLY in danger should a train begin approaching at that point.
This a 1950’s timeline classic movie This kid is Jerry O’Connell, River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, & featuring - Kiefer Sutherland. Well and think about this one of boys from the house you saw is related to Verne & Chris’s brother is the one along side Ace the character in the movie, and the other things that where interesting about this movie….is that in alphabetical sequence order in this part…. when the dog goes after Wil Wheaton Gordie’s character in real life that was the real anger coming out of Corey Feldman cause his life was very hard one when he was growing up his parents didn’t really raise him like the way he raised his kids over the yrs and that anger came from his home life from how much anger and resentment he had towards his dad and mom which where probably not there for him the way he needs them and then River Phoenix didn’t have a good relationship with his family either and from what I was told by the facts that he had really been through a lot of suffering and a lot of pain from his turbulent issues from his family history and died of an drug overdose.
People can never watch a video all the way through can they. Nope, gotta get my kneejerk correction out without giving them a chance to correct or in this case acknowledging that 80s stars are not common knowledge to people in their 20s/early 30s
RIP River Phoenix. I've seen this film hundreds of times and that ending always breaks me❤
No matter how many times I see this movie, nor how many reactions I watch...every time...😢
"I never have friends later on like I did when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone." Most powerful line in the whole movie.
When you're young, you become friends with pretty much anyone around your age you interact with. When you're older, you adjust your personality in order to keep your friends around. There's something authentic about preteen friendship that you don't get before or after.
Its so true, life was the best at that age for me, then as you age you drift apart, it only I could stay between 12 and 16 years of age my whole life
it's actually revealed at the beginning that chris dies. when older gordie is in the truck reading the newspaper, it says that chris died in the restaurant. it's easy to forget though because you get so immersed in the movie.
Perfect casting , perfect narrating by Richard Dreyfuss, perfect soundtrack and music , one off the most perfect movies ever made ,
"Oh, Charlie Sheen".....A little bit of me died when I heard this comment...lol.
That’s 2 reactions now I’ve heard someone say that 😂
@@NikkieTwix Some of these young reactors sometimes get confused when watching older movies. lol
I spit out my water when she said sheen lmao this film has a great soundtrack 🙏
I absolutely love this movie. I was born in '84 and I remember watching it for the first time a couple years after it came out, when I was like 5 or 6, and it's been one of those movies that's always been in my life ever since. It's amazing how you have a different perspective of it from when you watched it as a kid to when you watched it as an adult. The one thing about this movie that I love now as an adult that I didn't notice when I was younger, is the symbolism of the tree house. In the beginning of the movie, they were inside of it being kids, laughing and joking, but at the end they were standing outside of it, quiet and humbler. Possibly representing the lost innocence. Showing how much they changed in a short amount of time, even older Gordy stated how much smaller the town seemed when they got back. Man, I love everything about that movie!
It always amazes how few reactors catch that Chris died in the beginning of the movie...
I never even noticed till reactions and I saw the movie a million times since I was like 9 years old.
It's a magic trick similar to the one in *The ...* -- in that other movie that's famous for having a shocking ending that makes you realize in retrospect that all the relevant information was in front of you the whole time.
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Yes, I mean *The Sixth Sense* (1999).
As the eldest of six kids there's one lesson that's never been proven false to me. Treat children like they're learning, not stupid.
Fun Fact: In the original Stephen King novella, 'The Body,' which Stand By Me was based on, the town of Castle Rock where the four kids live is actually located in Maine, and is the same Castle Rock that is the location of several other Stephen King stories, such as The Dead Zone, Cujo, Needful Things, and The Dark Half. It is one of the three main towns in Stephen King's mythology, along with Derry (the location for 'IT') and Jerusalem's Lot (the location for 'Salem's Lot.') The film 'Stand By Me' changed the location of Castle Rock from Maine to Oregon, both of which have a city named "Portland."
Classic. RIP River Phoenix
I like to believe that Harrison Ford would have wanted River Phonix as the next Indiana Jones
Harrison Ford Was Proud Of River Phoenix“He played my son once, and I came to love him like a son, and was proud to watch him grow into a man of such talent and integrity and compassion,” Ford said, Ford also got him the part for him to play young indian jones in the last crusade, so it already happend , Ford and him stared in the mosque cost together,
You're so right...great casting.
RIP River Phoenix
Will Wheaton still around, though not at the heights he hit in this movie, or as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek TNG.
Everyone has a Corey Feldman fave flic.
The difference between young Jerry O'Connell and Jerry today... is mind blowing. I remember watching him in his TV series, "Sliders", and thinking..naw...can't be the same guy... and decades later in movies like Joes Apartment or Jerry Maguire...just reinforce the change. (He's a very prolific voice actor in superhero animation. )
Keifer, well...i think almost everyone knows what he's done, or doing...especially amongst us Canuckleheads 😎
As for Richard Dreyfus...the mans a legend...i think You guys should react to ALL of, his, movies. 😊
This, Goonies and The Breakfast Club are some legendary movies…
The 80s are FULL of legendary movies! Not just those
Goonies sucks
@@imkool51391 dude shut up! It’s one of the most classic movies of all time.
Adam sandler sucks
@@imkool51391I think you spelled amazing wrong
And Corey Feldman is in this and goonies!!
River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O' Connell, Keifer Sutherland, John Cusack...great cast...even Richard Dreyfuss narrating.
I had three friends that were like family. This movie brought them back. Life was easier back then. Gordie the inspiring writer and his friends went on a trip to find a classmate who was killed. The trip had them face misadventures and after that some went their separate ways. My daughter asked me why I get emotional over the movie. My three friends are dead.
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It’s not Charlie Sheen it’s Corey Feldman from the Goonies , the lost boys and gremlins. 😂
The talk about friends as you're walking into town is so true people you thought would be the friends rest your life in school you drift away from people from high school you never see after graduation or when you're younger their age you have friends used to stay the night at their houses but they move away or you quit being friends later in life you find you have very few clothes dependable friends
Everything that happens to the kids as they turn into adults in the movie happened basically in real life to the actors
Gordie grew up to be a writer Wheaton is a well known blogger
Vern had a normal life wife and kids like O’Connell
Teddy couldn’t get past his childhood trauma to find success as an adult like Feldman
Chris dies at a public place like Phoenix and is still the only one who has died
Yea thanks for your morbid response
You're welcome . The factual parallels are amazing since they coincide to each character / actor accurately @@ericromero6121
As a kid, Steven King went swimming with his friends in a leech infested swamp.
All time classic movie. One of my favorites growing up.
One of my favorite films. And, imho, one of the best coming of age movies, and stories, ever. The depiction of kids at this age is one of the most accurate i've ever seen.
This was actually going to be called The Body (the same title as the Stephen King story) but Rob Reiner saw Kiefer Sutherland teaching River Phoenix the song Stand by Me on guitar and changed the title.
Love when y’all watch my childhood classic favorite movies. Thank y’all
What's sad is that no one who does these reaction videos today remembers River Phoenix. Everyone today knows his younger brother, Joaquin Phoenix, but River seems to have been forgotten by a generation that grew up after River's death. After 'Stand By Me' he was most known for his Oscar-nominated role in 'Running on Empty,' his portrayal of young Indiana Jones in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' his acclaimed performance in 'My Own Private Idaho,' and the ensemble heist film 'Sneakers' with Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier. River was considered the best young actor of Generation X and one of the most promising young actors in Hollywood, but his death in 1993 from a drug overdose outside of The Viper Room in Hollywood cut his life and career short.
Can it really be considered 'forgetting' if they grew up after his passing?
If they'd been around for his time in films, that would be absolutely justified as 'forgetting'.
@@TimedRevolver Well, forgotten by posterity, I mean.
The mosquito cost , he stared with ,Harrison Ford , Ford Was Proud Of River Phoenix“He played my son once, and I came to love him like a son, and was proud to watch him grow into a man of such talent and integrity and compassion,” Ford said , and he also get him the part off young indiana jones , lot off us remember how good he was , if ppl think joaquin phoenix is a good actor, trust me river was even more extraordinary!
I remember reading that Billy Bob Thornton, who lost his brother when he was a kid, said he could never trust happiness after losing his brother. I'm gonna get older and eventually lose my brothers..it's gonna suck. Respect to the old folks out there dealing with losing so many family members and friends..
Lovely reaction - when this came out, I was just emerging from a very similar childhood, so watching it there was this strange double effect of feeling like looking in the mirror and at the same time the distance of nostalgia - it's been a while since I've seen this, and it's still unexpectedly resonant - and your comments afterwards were quite powerful and insightful - along w Back to the Future, this may be one of the defining films linking the 80s w 50s childhood nostalgia, that link that was so central to 80s culture, that tied mainstream figures like King, Spielberg, and also Reiner
I saw this movie in the theater and loved it! I'm still a fan of theses actors today!
I have never seen you two both simultaneously be so mesmerized by a movie.
So glad to see you do this one. My mom was the 1st King fan in the family and I soon (sooner than she would have liked since I read The Shining at age 9 after sneaking it when she loaned it to my 17-year-old brother) By the time this came out Momma and I would watch every interview available on the 3 networks at the time. Being 15 myself the story hit home with me a lot. Growing up a King fan I have LOTS of tidbits. 1) In a King interview we watched he mentioned the leech scene being a bit close to home. He showed a scar on his arm. He laughed and said he would not show the other scar inferring the tighty-whities was where it presides. 2) the kid being hit is a staple for him in his stories like here and in another popular King's work. In both stories the kid is knocked out of his shoe. This is from an incident buried deep in him. He was out playing with a friend as a small child and came back in shock. His friend had been hit and killed in front of him. Being like 5 years old, his little mind could not handle it so he could not really communicate about it. He blocked it out due to the trauma (if I remember correctly, but I may be wrong, please forgive if I am) But as you can tell, it never went away. Whenever I see this movie it reminds me SO much of the mother I lost in 2002. I miss her every day, but you guys gave me a nice smile remembering being bonded with Momma over King's work. This movie came at a time that really linked that bond to her through the original story then the movie being a favorite of us both. Thank you for those smiles as if she were here with me watching you both discovering it for the 1st time.
Charlie Sheen! 😂
As kids you can look at summer vacation as lasting forever, and then it's back to school after Labor Day. As an adult you struggle to find a few hours to escape just that little bit.
35 now and to this day I still book holidays off work in the late summer just to recapture that childhood feeling.
Growing up, my brother and I had friends like this. Out of the 8 of us only I, my brother and one other still talk to each other, one we don't see anymore, and 4 others have passed away already. My brother and I were the oldest of the group.
I remember someone saying that to me, at some point in your life you went out to play with your best friends for the last time who never judged you and you didn't know it at the time.
With age though, comes the fear that time is running short. That's a fact, but at times we still perceive that feeling. Perhaps that's why we are more cautious and judgmental to others. When you're a kid, you feel immortal, and you'll never get old. Time had a completely different meaning then. This concept is explored thoroughly in another Stephen King movie "Hearts in Atlantis." (rest in peace Anton Yelchin - what a performance)
Top 5 SK adaptation, it’s a masterpiece in my opinion. R.I.P. River Phoenix 😢
As a preteen, Stand By Me and The Lost Boys were my favorites in the 80s! Thanks for the reaction.
Kids can walk and be safe. All the places you call flyover country have tens of thousands of little towns that look no different than this movie.
GREW UP WITH THIS ONE AS AN 80s NUGGET. FINE FILM.
In the book , this story is called : The Body. There are 2 great books by him called " Skeleton Crew " & " Different Seasons ".
I"m not sure I've ever had friends like this as a kid. But I love this movie and it's story.
With what you in the ending about friends, really makes sense now, that I have lost so many friends as an adult. I know that’s not about the movie,but you just made something click within me so now it makes more sense to me. I did really enjoy watching you both reacting to the movie. Stand By Me has always been one of my favorite Stephen King movies.
Great reaction to a well done movie with a great cast.
Kiefer Sutherland, much like his old man, can play a great hero or a great villain. He just becomes his character so well and it is almost alarming sometimes how easy it is to believe that he is his character. I don't think he gets enough respect for that.
I don't think it is bitterness and anger that make us so hesitant to form friendships, I think it is fear based on past pains. "I think this person's cool, but what if they don't like me? What if they're like the other ex-friends I have who found out I like geeky things and then don't want to be my friend anymore because they're so cool and I'm not?" and a thousand other varieties of the thought process that we use to talk ourselves out of taking risks with others. Once we leave high school our friend groups diminish by around half. As time goes by and our surviving friendships from youth diminish or end due to marriage or job relocation or armed forces obligations or whatever we find ourselves feeling more and more alone and often hating feeling like we're exiled and yet too scared of not being found worthy enough to try to form new friendships.
Now this just may be my experiences, but I see truth in them when I observe and listen to others of my generation, and those younger than I am (I'm 55 for reference). My closest friends through my life were Beth, who I became friends with when I was 8 and she was 6, and James, who became my friend when we were 11. James now lives three to five states away from me, so we don't get to visit except maybe once a year at most, and Beth died on the table three years ago during an operation to try to repair genetic damage to her heart. And I basically became a ghost after that, just drifting. Experience Rating 0/10, Not Recommended for anyone.
So cherish your friendships and make time for them so you never have to regret that you hadn't seen your bestie for ten years, and now you'll never get the chance to see them again.
One of the few movies based on a Stephen King story that did the King story justice.
The King story was a novella titled "The Body" which was in a compilation of 4 novellas called "Different Seasons" and was the first Stephen King book I ever read (some 40 years ago now...). That's what hooked me on Stephen King. It also contains the novellas "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" which was made into the movie "The Shawshank Redemption," and "Apt Pupil" which was made into a lesser known movie of the same name.
I really related to The Body, because me and my friends were a lot like that at that age.
The really good King movies are usually the ones with no monsters.
Stand by Me. Misery. The Shawshank Redemption. The Green Mile.
This movie encompasses what life was like for kids growing up in the 50's and 60's. We were wild and free and formed long lasting friendships.
Although I was born in the 90's, the way this film depicts childhood friendship is so universal it feels nostalgic
Yeah this is a great movie I remember I believe my dad show it to me whenever they had Blockbuster and I just good memories when your kids and it gives me good memories. I do believe will his acting performance was really authentic because his parents really did fought off screen and I think he dealt with a lot of abused as a child so those are real tears and if you want to know more I believe the girl from Blossom her podcast they have an interview together girls❤
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🎶 "A knight without armor
in a savage land... Paladin, Paladin, where will you roam?" 🎵
They were singing the theme-song to HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (1957 - 1963), a popular Western TV series starring Richard Boone.
This is my FAVORITE song and movie of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have to comment on the "junkyard dog" Chopper. Everyone was afraid of the rumors, but the dog is a Golden Retriever. It's the LEAST scariest dog EVER. And the number one most popular dog for a reason. 🐶
This isn't a specific criticism of you guys (I see these comments any time childhood from 1950-1990 is depicted in media) but it does make me laugh how people will be like "it used to be safe for kids back then" watching a story in which the four protagonists are actually in grave danger pretty much the entire film (they carry a loaded gun while walking on railroad tracks, in the wilderness, miles from home, for 2 full days with minimal food and water, culminating in a fight in which a knife and a gun are both brandished.) It is basically a miracle that they all survived the trip.
Personally - I think parents today (and I am occasionally guilty of this as a parent myself) are too overprotective but that is because the world is safer today for children than it was in the 50's and 60s and is definitely way safer today than it was in the 70s-90s.
I love this movie for many reasons, not the least of which is that I was literally twelve, going on thirteen the summer it came out.
Also, King is one of my favourite authors and we share a birthday.
I never thought there a reaction about this movie,this movie is one of my favourite during my childhood era,my story quite same as this,it just our group little bit bigger around 14-18 person,went do same thing like that,suck by leeches,swallowing bugs,mosquito bite are normal among us,climbing trees,hiking,fishing,many more,eventhough we all broke we happy we share that time,what i remember most during lunch everbody brings a plate of food from their house,some walking some riding bicycle,sharing eating together under shady tree,remembering those memory made me cry nowadays not just it hard to find those day todays but thinking there also someone we know who is no longer around us..that why this movie is so close to me..
I remember when it came out. I was about the same age as these kids at the time. Pretty important movie for us kids that age. One of my faves.
Great reaction ladies, always enjoy watching movies with you waiting for the next time🎬 HAPPY NEW YEAR.!!
One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's, Great Reaction Ladies
This is a good one, isn't it? Nice job, Ladies! Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
Did you say Charlie Sheen, That is Corey Feldman lol.
Hey we all know it’s actually Macaulay culkin
@@zach4627 lol
I love Everything about yall 😊🍿
thank goodness for the Era of narrated movies ..
can't be matched today
Twenty24 up in dis💯
stay Awesome ⭐️
I still miss River Phoenix. He was my favorite actor during this time through the late eighties. Joaquin was acting at this time too but I didn’t know who he was.
Also, in the book, at least Chris and maybe Gordy got beat up very badly by Ace and his goons when they got back to town.
The bridge with the train. I walked across that a few months ago. they actually have Written on one of the pieces of wood " still looking for the comb".
RIP 🪦 River Phoenix! 😢 Young Indiana Jones! If he had Lived he would’ve been probably the Greatest Actor of his generation! 🙄
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
Ain't that the damn truth
Brothers aka best friends will always have a stronger bond with the more shit they go through together. Even more so than actual brothers.
Thank you 🎉
My favorite pair on Cinepals. Always love your reactions!!
Wasn't included in your eclipse but the very beginning he's sitting in the truck and there's a newspaper about Chris Chambers death and I thought that's what you were referring to when during the middle you said I hope he doesn't die at the end
(Jan 30, 2024)
(Sept 3, 2024)
4:13 4:58 6:19
Junkyard8:24
“Ur dads a looney”9:15
Train tracks9:55
Lard 12:03 14:30
Heart to heart moment
16:25 16:37 16:50 17:13 17:40 18:20
Leeches 20:37 20:50
Finding his body22:00
Walking into sunset25:19 25:40 26:33
'He was stabbed in the throat, he died almost instantly' 😢😢
Every time, after at least a dozen watches since I was 12 years old myself.
Omg your reaction when the gun went off at the beginning was exactly the same as the boys. JESUS
Looking back when i was a kid.... It was usually good times.
I was raised in a country area called the Lower Kaimai's in New Zealand.
After school most days i would go home and make fried eggs (with real butter) and
toast sandwiches for me and my mate, who was also my neighbour,
We would go up in the bush behind my place and make little huts throughout the bush.
And if we got hungry, we would delve into our Sammie's kept warm by the tinfoil wrapped around them.
You see i always supplied our food because my mate's mum was strict and would never let the kids eat before dinner.
Between my friend and my place was a river with 3 swimming holes.
The lower swimming hole closest to our houses had swing ropes and we spent a lot of time there with us and my mate's
sisters swimming all times of the year even winter. (We don't have leaches here so no worries.)
One thing about us was we never got bored.
Even when it rained, we still found something to do.
I will say that me and my mate were not good boys all of the time, often we would pinch milk powder from my mate's
landlords open shed and the landlord always knew it was us lol.
If the Neighbour's were making hay, we would usually be over there helping out.
Let's just say that i enjoyed my youth a lot, and without a doubt if i could go back and relive it ,
I would jump at it. without even having a second thought.
Love your reaction to stand by me.... such a nostalgic movie and another great Stephen King novel.
See you two bopping to all those late 50s tunes. Another movie with a whole lot of oldies in the soundtrack (that also has a veritable who's-who in the cast) that you two should do a reaction to should be "American Graffiti". It was the film George Lucas was well known for just before "Star Wars" came out.
What up, Braw, and Happy Lil Dingdong(tm)~
Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!😊😊😊😊
I was their age when I first watched this film. And it's still my favourite film because I've never related to anything as much as this does to being a kid. Every 12 year old should watch this by law.
I don't know what you are talking about with the innocence of children. I was teased and bullied all through school, from day three of kindergarten, when I sat in the wrong seat because I missed day two where our seats were assigned. And the main instigator bullied me until halfway through 2nd grade when he moved away. Though the bullying continued until I graduated and never had to see any of those dirtbags again.
They were all great in this film, but the one actor who stood out for me was River Phoenix. It so sad that he died so young, I'm sure he would have been a big star. His brother, Joaqin Phoenix, made it big and mentioned his brother River when he accepted his award. Strange that in this film we see River fade away at the end.
The look on Kristen’s face when Gordy pulled the leech out of his underwear 🤣
Timeless classic.
It IS amazing, that the greatest Stephen King stories turned movie are the, NON-horror ones.
(Ya, some of the horrors are good, but they don't touch films like this, or Shawshank. Or Green mile.
Speaking of Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile, the director of both of those movies (Frank Darabont) also directed the dramatic Jim Carrey movie “The Majestic”… but it was a flop unfortunately
At 40 this movie hits harder than ever with the last line about friendship.
Charlie Sheen??? That made me laugh out loud 😆
Right! Are you serious?! If that was Charlie Sheen he’d be like 20! 🙄😂
Saw this movie in the theatre on my 12th birthday, October of 86'.
This is a movie everyone should see at least once
River talking about the milk money gets me everytime ,what an actor he already was such a shame
Fun fact: the narrator is Richard Dreyfuss… from Jaws, the Goodbye Girl and Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Hate his politics, but Reiner is a very good director.
LOL. Viewers of this movie always prove Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) right. Will Wheaton (Gordie) is the guy everyone forgets is in this movie. Will plays himself right in The Big Bang Theory.
Kiefer Sutherland also plays a real punk (and I'm being nice) in the movie A Time To Kill. It a fantastic courtroom movie with Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson.
Grew up on this movie :) Broke my heart when River Phoenix died 💔😭😭😭😭
This was such a cornerstone of my childhood 😥😭😭
I still gah at the pie contest! 🤢🤢🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣
I'd recommend the movie "Now and Then" which is from the 90s, and considered to be the female Stand By Me. No one reacts to this, but it's a great movie.
They really dropped the ball when they didn’t have Ace, or any one of the gang, wearing Gordie’s brothers hat at the end. And at gunpoint, Gordie demanding and getting his hat back.
I was a little kid. And while kids at my Grade school were nice to me, I still got picked on occasion. But when we changed schools for Jr. High, I rarely saw them just because the school was so much bigger. But I would bump into my friend Dave. He was always nice and we'd ask each other how things were.
I remember when I started High School, I bumped into Dave He greeted me. But came from a rough family. His father was extremely abusive. Even in Grade school, he was already drinking alcohol... Heavily. When I saw him in H.S., he was doing heavy drugs. Still a nice kid and was nice to me. But I could tell his brains were fried. He wasn't present.
Years later, he would die from an overdose. Nobody was surprised. He largely mumbled and barely able to walk by his Senior year. I'm sure teachers just passed him in classes. They knew his story and what was happening to him.
Like how you two remembered childhood friends, there is nothing like it when you get older. There is no cool, rich, pretty (well, sometimes) kids. We're all the same and just want to be friends.
“charlie sheeeeen!”😂😂😂🤣💀
Charlie Sheen?? I don't think anyone has ever mistaken Corey Feldman for Charlie Sheen before
compare with charlie sheen of major league and then you can see it
I have developed such a crush on Steph ❤❤❤
You can't easily run on a train bridge because there are huge gaps between the ties. Which was shown in the movie. Your foot/leg could easily drop between them mid-run resulting in a serious injury. Then you're REALLY in danger should a train begin approaching at that point.
Yes! another Stand By Me reaction.. ❤ I'm here for it. Also, please react to Disney's 1994 film Iron Will
One Of Favorite Childhood Movies!😵💫😰🫣🥰📽💗
YES! My girls back again!
Too bad they’re not good with knowing their actors lol
She thought Corey Feldman was Charlie Sheen 😂
Steph is professional when it comes to intros
This a 1950’s timeline classic movie This kid is Jerry O’Connell, River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, & featuring - Kiefer Sutherland. Well and think about this one of boys from the house you saw is related to Verne & Chris’s brother is the one along side Ace the character in the movie, and the other things that where interesting about this movie….is that in alphabetical sequence order in this part…. when the dog goes after Wil Wheaton Gordie’s character in real life that was the real anger coming out of Corey Feldman cause his life was very hard one when he was growing up his parents didn’t really raise him like the way he raised his kids over the yrs and that anger came from his home life from how much anger and resentment he had towards his dad and mom which where probably not there for him the way he needs them and then River Phoenix didn’t have a good relationship with his family either and from what I was told by the facts that he had really been through a lot of suffering and a lot of pain from his turbulent issues from his family history and died of an drug overdose.
Ugh not Charlie Sheen. It's the legendary Corey Feldman
Did you watch to the end? That was corrected.
Chill bro
They know nothing about actors or any movies. They are airheads.
@@sweetkiss119 yet here you are anyway....Do something productive with your life besides complain and talk shit
People can never watch a video all the way through can they. Nope, gotta get my kneejerk correction out without giving them a chance to correct or in this case acknowledging that 80s stars are not common knowledge to people in their 20s/early 30s