Being a lone person, sometimes there is something very soothing in rewatching your vídeos. It may be something about your friendly, approachable personalities and the not too loud of a tone. It certainly has something to do with how honestly nice you both seem to be. So, thank you for these small pleasures.
I rewatch these all the time .. or when im sleeping out hal awake and hungover ..its so nice just to relisten .. only thing is i wish they had a bl k background because im chronicly sensitive for bright light and i watch them on my ipad .. Search for black screens and than watch on smal size video..morning and night almost everyday ... They deserve a 1000 times more subs man
I never realized this was a Del Toro film. The man sure knows how to create original and amazing monsters. If they ever make an Alien film where a facehugger gets dropped into a zoo and you need to produce, say, and elephant-xenomorph hybrid, this is who you need call. I'm still so very disappointed that his 'At the Mountains of Madness' film adaptation has not yet happened.
So am I - still waiting for del Toro's Mountains of Madness. I think Prometheus discouraged him from directing it, but I think I'd rather have seen del Toro's version
Just a thought, but maybe the guy who had the pole through him inside the nest, was the minic doing the same thing that she did to the bug when she pinned it to the board. Maybe it wanted to watch him suffer, the way the bug was suffering when it was pinned to the board. That may not be it, but it's the first thing that came to mind when I saw that scene.
I found this video, because I legitimately just remembered this movie that I had only ever heard about and seen from browsing the local blockbuster as a kid, and catching a bit of one of the sequels on TV. And I am really surprised that no other big reviewers have talked about this movie. I will definitely say, that you guys definitely are a cut above. I was expecting really crappy quality review but you guys definitely have something going on. Glad you're still keeping it up!
I love Mimic warts and all. The likable characters and creepy atmosphere make it a film on the high rewatch value. I wasn’t a big fan of the second film and I enjoyed the third film quite a bit. It’s a shame Del Toro didn’t make the film as he wanted but I still see enough of his vision to call it great.
The Mimic and The Relic are two different movies, based on two different sources materials, one a short story and the other is a book, The Relic is more about the ignorance of western culture about natives superstitions and legends, meanwhile Mimic is about playing god, releasing a new species to the world without caring about the consequences (something that already happen around the world countless times), hell, the archaeologist believed that the Kothoga was just a myth a legend, he should have asked for the samples of the plants that he was giving him to drink before drinking it.
@@theretrosavage The Relic is also, if you ignore the fact that actually are two books, not one, they mesh the two into one movie, and Stan Winston did a way more intimating creature than it was describe in the book, the Kothoga in the movie really inspire fear, in the book, is a book is more like a lizard gorilla, the two books have the same title, The Relic, but the first one have the subtitle The Lost Idol, and the movie also preserves the message of the first book, western society ignorance over natives myths, the archaeology that goes to the Amazon jungle to find this mysterious tribe dismiss their legends, even that he participate in a ritual that would make him a monster, and dismiss the plants with the fungus infected with the retrovirus that would make him a monster. And for the Mimic is a very good movie, back when I first seen it and now, but I would prefer that Guillermo del Toro had more freedom and see the darker ending that he wanted, and the low budget sequels couldn't get it right.
This is my first video I've seen from you guys, and I was pleasantly surprised. I don't like review channels in general but you guys managed to keep my attention for an hour without any scripted lines or over the top jokes, easily one of my favorite reviews.
I watched this movie yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised how good it was. I will have to check out The relic. I also liked Ticks and Graveyard shift. There's a newer movie called Animal which was pretty good also.
Funny the dark alternate ending ended in the direct to DVD sequels, were the species goes out of control, what they destroyed in the first movie was only one of the colonies, not all, but because they were very low budget, they actually expand of the extension of the treat.
i was excited to check my youtube subscription feed to find out that you guys reviewed mimic, mimic was the first horror movie I was intrigued in enough to want to watch it a second and third and dare i say it a fourth time.
Great review, guys. This is actually my favorite Del Toro film. I look forward to your review of The Relic. Very underrated monster movie with a cool looking monster by Stan Winston. Ironically what works in Mimic doesn't work for The Relic. The lighting is bad.
I know the theatrical version isn't what Del Toro envisioned but it was still a awesome movie. I just bought this movie at my local pawn shop for a $1, money well spent. :-)
Enjoyed The Relic more than this film. Sorvino was kind of miscast and the setting looks like it was in the same city as Seven. Creature designs were fantastic and the train cart sequence was fantastic.
I know I've got good taste when even a box office failure that I love against all those stuck up unloving movie critics turns out to be by a future great director ... I have no doubt Mimic is primed for cult status just like 1982's The Thing, all the hallmarks of a great underrated classic is there : box office failure, unloved by critics BUT loved by audiences who watched it, great atmospheric cinematography, great creature effects, really good actors, lots of great scenes (kids getting killed by bugs, mystery man turns out to be giant roach, underground abandoned bus as a refuge etc) .... Also, the criticisms it received all sounds very vague, like critics are just following the first influential critics to denounce it without really knowing why, its just a brainless trendy thing to do for these hypocritical bunch of people .... Of course Mimic will be appreciated for what it is, a true masterpiece of the horror genre....
With Gary on this one; was really digging this movie for the most part, right up until the phoney American-ised ending that just felt forced. Not one of Del toro's best, but his visual stamp and style is all over this that takes it a notch above most B-movie monster movies.
I like to imagine how you'd arm up to go in and exterminate them, if there were hundreds/thousands underneath your city. Teams of dudes with low-light gear, shotguns, flamethrowers, trident-type weapons to defend when they get close...and of course some serious armor.
36:12 I dont buy the timeline but if they didnt have lungs and they were smaller for the most part as like children with pretty looking shells, beetles like Deltoro wanted and then towards the nests you have like big giant versians of them, that would have been not only believable but scarry as fucking shit. Immagine all these like headlines of how the streets are unusually clean of rats and some of the abbandoned parts of the sewers are a hiding spot. A ten year timeline with reserchers being awear that some of them have servived and the thing that atracts peoples attention is part of a building colapsing on a nest so the city government is pissed and they blame the reserchers. No lungs bullshit but some of them getting highly inteligent for bugs and cultivating pits of larva and cocoroaches by stealing suggar and fruits from usually nasty places combined with shit, then releasing beetles to eat that pit up and utilising a special smell to atract those beetles to them as well as going back in to the beetles pit and spraying all over it. The big creature opens its wings and releases gass the beetles stick to it then it batmans them shut and puts the beetles to sleep. Later from the beetle shells the bugs are hammering and rubbing little pieces and then sticking them together in to masks which resemble childrens faces. The how story is people reserching thses things get kidnapped serching for a child, after being dragged away and a trail of bodies leads away they find themselves in the real main nest. The bugs are keeping them locked up with doors out of scrap so they leave to do what ever it is that they do but the humans escape and whisper as they find their way around. Theres a child stuck to a wall having been eaten up he can not speak and people think hes dead, when a cop tries to pull him free however the kid bleads out releasing a small swarm of those things. Resercher says, we must go that would have alerted them. They get out but theres a set of big guardian bugs who great them hopping down from the walls. Its an abandoned building, some of the group servive and make contact with the police but by the time the cops get there the bugs come out in force so only two or three people servive. They arrive in real time only to whitness news reports of giant bugs hunting people around the city. One in times square grabbing a random person. The days a long and slow as they wait for more information as bugs keep hunting and resources keep getting spent to hunt the sewers but a report comes in about bugs inside abandoned buildings just having a nest out in the open but on the 4th floor whoere noone gave a damb what that weird thing was from a distance. There really is a lot of potential here
I’ve only seen this once but I remember not being impressed with Sorvino‘s performance; she somehow managed to win an Oscar but I don’t get it; By the way, not for this film
I'd really like to know a person whose been in a test audience. 9/10 they make a terrible choice. I think a rare good change to the end was Scott Pilgim. Can't think of another right now.
This is 1997 remember...consequently the effects are limiting..plus you have Weinstein's intervention! So..all in all, a great B grade movie. love me so Dutton and Brolin anyway. Plus I like DelToro as a director.
Yeah yeah, had a telegram this morning, sayin my wife was dead. I dropped what I was doing and cried till my eyes were red. 😂 loved this movie when I first saw it. Alternate ending sounded cool though the long coat guy they see at the end could have just disappeared old horror film tropes can work.
My fave one is the second movie were the lone insect are killing all the male teachers of a school so it can mate with the only female teacher it's bizarre but I love the movie
Being a lone person, sometimes there is something very soothing in rewatching your vídeos. It may be something about your friendly, approachable personalities and the not too loud of a tone.
It certainly has something to do with how honestly nice you both seem to be. So, thank you for these small pleasures.
So it Goes same
I rewatch these all the time .. or when im sleeping out hal awake and hungover ..its so nice just to relisten .. only thing is i wish they had a bl k background because im chronicly sensitive for bright light and i watch them on my ipad ..
Search for black screens and than watch on smal size video..morning and night almost everyday ...
They deserve a 1000 times more subs man
These guys are class acts! I've given them the label of "British Half In The Bag" lol without the mr. Plinkett back story
I never realized this was a Del Toro film. The man sure knows how to create original and amazing monsters. If they ever make an Alien film where a facehugger gets dropped into a zoo and you need to produce, say, and elephant-xenomorph hybrid, this is who you need call. I'm still so very disappointed that his 'At the Mountains of Madness' film adaptation has not yet happened.
So am I - still waiting for del Toro's Mountains of Madness. I think Prometheus discouraged him from directing it, but I think I'd rather have seen del Toro's version
Just a thought, but maybe the guy who had the pole through him inside the nest, was the minic doing the same thing that she did to the bug when she pinned it to the board. Maybe it wanted to watch him suffer, the way the bug was suffering when it was pinned to the board. That may not be it, but it's the first thing that came to mind when I saw that scene.
I found this video, because I legitimately just remembered this movie that I had only ever heard about and seen from browsing the local blockbuster as a kid, and catching a bit of one of the sequels on TV. And I am really surprised that no other big reviewers have talked about this movie. I will definitely say, that you guys definitely are a cut above. I was expecting really crappy quality review but you guys definitely have something going on. Glad you're still keeping it up!
Nice, fair review of my Patreon request, thanks guys. Had a hard time choosing between this and Arachnophobia.
I love Mimic warts and all. The likable characters and creepy atmosphere make it a film on the high rewatch value. I wasn’t a big fan of the second film and I enjoyed the third film quite a bit. It’s a shame Del Toro didn’t make the film as he wanted but I still see enough of his vision to call it great.
Relic was a tasteful Amazon prime recommendation back in the day, now I really have to see mimic! And it's a Del Toro film!? Mind blown! 🤘
and usually kid deaths are quick shots or not much is seen. in this you heard and saw alot
K9vendetta The wolf of mordor Watch 1993's The Untold Story.
My thoughts exactly. I mentioned this to one of my friends the other day when he mentioned this film.
Is it just me or the scene of dead cockroaches looked like diarrhea?
The Mimic and The Relic are two different movies, based on two different sources materials, one a short story and the other is a book, The Relic is more about the ignorance of western culture about natives superstitions and legends, meanwhile Mimic is about playing god, releasing a new species to the world without caring about the consequences (something that already happen around the world countless times), hell, the archaeologist believed that the Kothoga was just a myth a legend, he should have asked for the samples of the plants that he was giving him to drink before drinking it.
The mimic decent film
@@theretrosavage The Relic is also, if you ignore the fact that actually are two books, not one, they mesh the two into one movie, and Stan Winston did a way more intimating creature than it was describe in the book, the Kothoga in the movie really inspire fear, in the book, is a book is more like a lizard gorilla, the two books have the same title, The Relic, but the first one have the subtitle The Lost Idol, and the movie also preserves the message of the first book, western society ignorance over natives myths, the archaeology that goes to the Amazon jungle to find this mysterious tribe dismiss their legends, even that he participate in a ritual that would make him a monster, and dismiss the plants with the fungus infected with the retrovirus that would make him a monster. And for the Mimic is a very good movie, back when I first seen it and now, but I would prefer that Guillermo del Toro had more freedom and see the darker ending that he wanted, and the low budget sequels couldn't get it right.
Is that starship troopers clip a hint for next weeks review? ;)
Happy Anniversary, Mimic!
"I'm Ed Winchester." You just earned yourself a nostalgic like, my friends.
This is my first video I've seen from you guys, and I was pleasantly surprised. I don't like review channels in general but you guys managed to keep my attention for an hour without any scripted lines or over the top jokes, easily one of my favorite reviews.
For me they interweave behind the camera and in front. It is a nice way to hear about some classics.
I watched this movie yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised how good it was. I will have to check out The relic. I also liked Ticks and Graveyard shift. There's a newer movie called Animal which was pretty good also.
the husband is actually the next evolution of mimic where it can now make a photocopy of whatever it ate
I think the back story of the disease and the cockroaches would have been nice. They gave like five minutes for it.
I LOVED this movie back in the day, I think I was just the right age for it. Never knew it was del Toro either, neat!
Off The Shelf til I die, son.
I had to smile seeing you were wearing a Daryl Dixon T-shirt, as this was Norman Reedus' first role as an actor in this film.
That dark alternate ending sounded good. Would liked to have seen it.
Funny the dark alternate ending ended in the direct to DVD sequels, were the species goes out of control, what they destroyed in the first movie was only one of the colonies, not all, but because they were very low budget, they actually expand of the extension of the treat.
If either of you read this just know how much you are appreciated and inspired some of us.
I always confuse Mimic and Relic. You should do a review of the Relic.
i was excited to check my youtube subscription feed to find out that you guys reviewed mimic, mimic was the first horror movie I was intrigued in enough to want to watch it a second and third and dare i say it a fourth time.
Great review, guys. This is actually my favorite Del Toro film. I look forward to your review of The Relic. Very underrated monster movie with a cool looking monster by Stan Winston. Ironically what works in Mimic doesn't work for The Relic. The lighting is bad.
The dude is on the pole because the bug mimicked her pinning the smaller specimen of the bug.
She pins the bug, the bug pins the dude.
Awesome review, I didn't know this film had such a troubled production.
5:08 Honestly they should of just got Lance Hendrickson. Hes good a killing roaches
10:46 They were dealing with some freaky turtles last week
I know the theatrical version isn't what Del Toro envisioned but it was still a awesome movie. I just bought this movie at my local pawn shop for a $1, money well spent. :-)
Wow. I did not know that this version of the film is not what del torro had in mind. I love this movie. I think it is very underrated.
Fucking made my nights sleepless when i was a kid. And I thought it was a moth.
I really really like your commentary review
Enjoyed The Relic more than this film. Sorvino was kind of miscast and the setting looks like it was in the same city as Seven. Creature designs were fantastic and the train cart sequence was fantastic.
Miscast? How?
I hated this movie when it first came out....and now I know why!
YEAHHHHH!!!!!! I was searching for a review of this movie just last week! Yayyyy I'm so psyched!!
Do "No Country For Old Men" !
I sort of quite liked this as a kid. The clicking freaked me out ha! Very similar vane to Species
really good review! keep it up OtSR
I know I've got good taste when even a box office failure that I love against all those stuck up unloving movie critics turns out to be by a future great director ...
I have no doubt Mimic is primed for cult status just like 1982's The Thing, all the hallmarks of a great underrated classic is there :
box office failure, unloved by critics BUT loved by audiences who watched it, great atmospheric cinematography, great creature effects, really good actors, lots of great scenes (kids getting killed by bugs, mystery man turns out to be giant roach, underground abandoned bus as a refuge etc) ....
Also, the criticisms it received all sounds very vague, like critics are just following the first influential critics to denounce it without really knowing why, its just a brainless trendy thing to do for these hypocritical bunch of people ....
Of course Mimic will be appreciated for what it is, a true masterpiece of the horror genre....
Bruh..... I love that original ending. it's so dark and I felt like it would've fit the movie better
Doug Jones was Long John #2
Great review guys I never knew that much about this film
I want the original dark ending, dammit!
Relic is a great movie
You guys should do Virus with Jamie Lee 🙂
I was worried you'd miss the shit room outburst 😂
32:53 replayed this part 5 times xD dude that was hilarious.
Jeasus Christ that was horrifying
Can you do an old favorite shows called "Primeval". It's really tacky with ok CGI but it's alot of fun for monster movie fans.
You should review Splice.
Read the short story it is based on called "Mimic" interesting as they are everywhere.
I prefer 1 and 3,
This movie looks good! Great review as always guys!
cocoroachesarent actually that resiliant beetles are the creatures that can actually survivenukes
you guys are awesome. keep up the good work. you should review hardcore Henry.
With Gary on this one; was really digging this movie for the most part, right up until the phoney American-ised ending that just felt forced. Not one of Del toro's best, but his visual stamp and style is all over this that takes it a notch above most B-movie monster movies.
“Phoney Americanized” stfu
I like to imagine how you'd arm up to go in and exterminate them, if there were hundreds/thousands underneath your city.
Teams of dudes with low-light gear, shotguns, flamethrowers, trident-type weapons to defend when they get close...and of course some serious armor.
I actually had a dream last night that my company was sent down into the sewers to exterminate them.
I'd be down there with a lmg or some other kind of 50 cal weapon
They live review?
I still think you guys need to review The Relic please?
Iain is that a Daryl t-shirt from The Walking Dead?
These creatures would loose against a Xenomorpth.
Bro, how did you guys get the director's picture wrong.
oh, I thought this was The Relic. My bad.
36:12 I dont buy the timeline but if they didnt have lungs and they were smaller for the most part as like children with pretty looking shells, beetles like Deltoro wanted and then towards the nests you have like big giant versians of them, that would have been not only believable but scarry as fucking shit.
Immagine all these like headlines of how the streets are unusually clean of rats and some of the abbandoned parts of the sewers are a hiding spot. A ten year timeline with reserchers being awear that some of them have servived and the thing that atracts peoples attention is part of a building colapsing on a nest so the city government is pissed and they blame the reserchers. No lungs bullshit but some of them getting highly inteligent for bugs and cultivating pits of larva and cocoroaches by stealing suggar and fruits from usually nasty places combined with shit, then releasing beetles to eat that pit up and utilising a special smell to atract those beetles to them as well as going back in to the beetles pit and spraying all over it. The big creature opens its wings and releases gass the beetles stick to it then it batmans them shut and puts the beetles to sleep. Later from the beetle shells the bugs are hammering and rubbing little pieces and then sticking them together in to masks which resemble childrens faces.
The how story is people reserching thses things get kidnapped serching for a child, after being dragged away and a trail of bodies leads away they find themselves in the real main nest. The bugs are keeping them locked up with doors out of scrap so they leave to do what ever it is that they do but the humans escape and whisper as they find their way around. Theres a child stuck to a wall having been eaten up he can not speak and people think hes dead, when a cop tries to pull him free however the kid bleads out releasing a small swarm of those things. Resercher says, we must go that would have alerted them. They get out but theres a set of big guardian bugs who great them hopping down from the walls. Its an abandoned building, some of the group servive and make contact with the police but by the time the cops get there the bugs come out in force so only two or three people servive. They arrive in real time only to whitness news reports of giant bugs hunting people around the city. One in times square grabbing a random person. The days a long and slow as they wait for more information as bugs keep hunting and resources keep getting spent to hunt the sewers but a report comes in about bugs inside abandoned buildings just having a nest out in the open but on the 4th floor whoere noone gave a damb what that weird thing was from a distance.
There really is a lot of potential here
Great review!
Another great review, ive actually never seen this one, please do big trouble in little China xx
what happened to Mira Sorvinos career?
Talia Price harvey weinstein
I think she was blacklisted
I’ve only seen this once but I remember not being impressed with Sorvino‘s performance; she somehow managed to win an Oscar but I don’t get it; By the way, not for this film
Do pandorum review next
they killed a kid in the blob remake!
Yeah, quite gruesomely as I recall. The kid was a little shit though.
Mr G yea I liked megs little brother though.
I'd really like to know a person whose been in a test audience. 9/10 they make a terrible choice. I think a rare good change to the end was Scott Pilgim. Can't think of another right now.
This is 1997 remember...consequently the effects are limiting..plus you have Weinstein's intervention! So..all in all, a great B grade movie. love me so Dutton and Brolin anyway. Plus I like DelToro as a director.
There's no Mira Sorvino but I prefer Mimic 2's ending.
Guillermo del Toro Hype
Yeah yeah, had a telegram this morning, sayin my wife was dead.
I dropped what I was doing and cried till my eyes were red.
😂 loved this movie when I first saw it.
Alternate ending sounded cool though the long coat guy they see at the end could have just disappeared old horror film tropes can work.
Such a great and memorable movie
My fave one is the second movie were the lone insect are killing all the male teachers of a school so it can mate with the only female teacher it's bizarre but I love the movie
I love this movie sooo much!
ever thought about reviewing any frank henonlotter films, such as brain damage, basket case 1, 2 or 3
There's two sequels
*Turn up*
Epic review
You guys had to find something wrong I get it
Review Tremors!
they did ;:)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_(film) Review this one as well guys.
do carlito's angels!.
are yous doing the squeals?
Alien VS Funny Shoes
still better than remakes and reboots
evil-lution
brit eng so weird x.x
That's some serious shit!
The fast show😀👍
Josh Brolin is hot... but not as hot as Gary.
first
Del toro wanted the insect to be an elegant beetle 🪲 which would have looked better than a roach 🪳