@Tentoir if I was casting, I would think Vin Diesel as Gorbachev, Kevin James as George HW Bush, and maybe Adam Sandler as Jimmy Carter. Not sure tho since that's off the top if my head.
The post credits scene takes place in hell, Reagan goes to the devil and says “I should be in heaven”, the devil responds “it’s okay, you can just wait for it to trickle down to you”
Daily reminder: The stereotype of the homeless vietnam vet in the 1980s was CREATED by Reagan, as he was instrumental in the closing of America's then-robust mental health services and asylums which were treating war vets who came home from that carnage completely broken inside. Once the mental health institutions were shut down, they had no where to go, and in classic American tradition, our country ignored them until they died off, often from hunger or exposure. "ThAnK yOu FoR YoUr SeRvIcE" indeed!
Mental Health Systems Act of 1980: Signed by President Jimmy Carter, this act emphasizing on deinstitutionalization. but we'll just cherry pick our facts the way the Ghay lefties love to do.
Shortly after Reagan's death, I got "hired" as a research assistant for one of my dad's acquaintances, who was writing a book about Reagan's "leadership." Two things rapidly became obvious to me: one, that I was never going to see a dime for my efforts, and two, that the book was, if it ever actually got published, going to be 100% fiction. Surprisingly, despite still being a die-hard Reaganite, my dad was supportive of me quitting the project on the grounds that I wasn't being paid.
My favorite part of the movie was when Ronald Reagan said to Gorbechev "It's Reagin' time" and reaged all over the place, causing Gorbechev's birthmark to glow neon green and emit foul odor
In Fargos second season they have Reagan going to campaign events and giving speeches and the things he says are so absurdly ridiculous and yet I had to google if it was true or an exaggeration because that’s how absurdly ridiculous he was in real life. For example, him equating playing a soldier to actually serving as one. 🤦♀️🙄
@@marquisdelafayette1929 Or the "enlightened" dream he supposedly had that inspired the "Star Wars" missile defence system, going to Ed Teller (a somewhat shady person, but actual astro- or nuclear physicist) and saying: "Ed, your going to like this..."
Gotta love the terrible filmmaking of "we understood the genre conventions but not why they exist" of putting Reagan's attempted assassination at the start despite it being effectively irrelevant to the broader themes, tragedies, or failures of his life.
As a note on Nancy Reagan, she was not just a person with agency; she was a person who used her agency for evil and was one of the greatest two villains of the Reagan presidency, after only her husband. She is one of the ones who pushed the war on drugs and the silencing on AIDS the hardest. Contrast this to Ladybird Johnson, who literally stepped in vociferously to STOP the firing of an outed gay man who worked for Lyndon, who caved to her, despite himself a homophobe. A tale in two different kinds of class acts.
There are so many better first ladies. Betty Ford was open about her struggles with substance abuse, she supported abortion rights, raised awareness about breast cancer and opened up her own clinic after leaving the White House. Rosalynn Carter was an advocate for mental health and women's rights, she supported the Equal Rights Amendment and of course was super active in the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity.
@TrocaTheNero And who could forget Eleanor Roosevelt who criticized her husband for signing the executive order that lead to the Japan internment camps. In fact, she went on to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!
I won't see it. I was a young adult during the Reagan years. Then, he was unforgivable for his mishandling of the AIDS crisis, forcing me to sign up for the draft (as if we'd send battalions to Moscow) and the fact that I was educated yet unemployed from 1982-1984 and the job I landed in '84 paid so little, I needed to work 2 additional part-time jobs just to make rent. Today, because of Ronnie, I cannot afford to send my kids to a good school. As we say here in NYC: F**k you, you f**king f**k! Great video as always, Pat. Reagan was the worst. Edit: Fixed dates of unemployment. I'm old, my memory is garbage.
Before Reagan, US was a decent, normal place. The work week was shortened to 35. The environment was taken seriously. It was improving slowly. THen Reagan ruined all that. Pple started having to wrok 60 hours a week. Pple like Rush Limbaugh, etc. were growing apace. I got out and never looked back.
This is NOT a defense of Reagan, but you are mis-remembering your history. Carter was the one who implemented the draft-registration requirement (Presidential order 4771, in July of 1980). Also, I'm not sure where the other commenter heard that we used to have a 35-hour work week prior to the 80s, but that has never been true. This might be confusion over the ATC strike (they were demanding a 32-hour work week and a pay raise, if I recall). The US work week has been 40 hours since the FDR years.
@danbongard3226 And so you are correct, Professor. Strange, I distinctly remember the draft registration coming from Reagan. Oh well, one less pint in the ocean that was Reagan's failings.
Reagan was the first governor to call in troops to attack student protestors in 1969. This led to other conservative governors doing the same until it culminated in the Kent State Massacre. I am sure the movie missed that.
You’re right on Ronald Reagan. The first time I voted was for Jimmy Carter when he ran for his second term. I lost many friends to the crisis that Reagan infamously ignored. Nancy Reagan’s “just say no” anti-drug campaign for school aged children was seen as the most dismissive and passive aggressive First Lady moves I ever saw and I seen quite a few in the position.
That was my first time voting as well! I remember walking down the street crying when Carter lost (I was living in southern Louisiana at the time). I spent the 80s (as a dirt poor single parent) alternately enraged and terrified. I knew from the promo poster this movie was nothing but a fawning fluff piece (of shit)… Ronnie & Nancy were monsters, and the damage they did has yet to heal.
Her "Just Say No" nonsense demonized addicts and set back our understanding of how addiction works by decades. Somehow her psychic friends never bothered warning her I guess.
If that Wizards of Waverly Place guy is in this movie then he’s definitely going to have a long career making movies with Kirk Cameron and Kevin Sorbo.
Let's get real for a minute. If Reagan were running today against Trump, Trump would call him, "Shaky Reagan," or, "Forgetful Ronnie." and Trump supporters would howl with laughter and high-five each other. Then Trump would print up, "Shakey Reagan," T-Shirts and sell them for 49.99 and sell a million of them.
@@HunnysPlaylistsyour big mistake here is assuming trump has any since if loyalty to basic morality, he’d be willing to sacrifice his firstborn if it meant more power.
My mom worked as a staffer for Reagan during his first election campaign. She's told me it's her biggest regret, having not been able to see through his lies despite meeting him, and it's why she's never fallen for another Republican candidate.
It takes a big person to admit they were fooled. It's way too easy to conflate it with being stupid, when it just makes you human. Good on your mom for learning.
Arguably one of the greatest forces of evil in the world. All the people who have suffered and died and will continue to do so due to the policies he enacted, espoused, and spread through the world.
I would've opened the movie with footage of riots/social decay, the Iranian revolution, Angolan civil war, Japanese car ads, and a dark synthwave backing track, over one of Reagans speeches about morality and values.
@@rickkroll Lame? The movie should be dedicated to the millions of people he killed across the world. Would you make a Bush Jr. movie entirely centered around gay marriage and ignore the "global war on terror"? No, because that would be fucking stupid. Take it from a Lebanon, the legacy of Reagan and Bush Sr. is well remembered by us, about as well as we remember the invasion by Israel and Civil War America and Israel funded.
@@harvest44492it should be dedicated to both. He was responsible for the elimination of lgbt people across the country too. Unless you're saying they aren't important too
A propaganda film painting Reagan in the most sweetest light I'm not surprised. Did the movie at all address how he ignored the HIV/AIDS crisis his inaction on it, and how he even refused to speak publicly about it for a very long time.
Conservatives always complain about "woke Hollywood" being political in their films for... *checks notes*... having women and people of color in them... But then, anytime conservatives get a chance to make a movie, it's the most directly political, biased, blatant, in-your-face, on-the-nose propaganda trying to pass as "art", that we've ever seen.
Yeah, this sounds about right. Growing up, I only heard about Reagan from my die-hard conservative mom who only told us 2 stories. Thr first was that she first got into politics as a kid when her own mom (my grandma) said that she should cheer for Reagan instead of Carter and that she apparently hasn't changed her stance since then. The second was (now that I actually know the story) a bizarre retelling of the Star Wars debacle where he actually knew that it wouldn't work and that it was secretly a ploy to get the Soviet Union to blow their budget and collapse so that they could finally stop communism once and for all. She tells both like they were some reflections of his golden character, but they didn't appeal to me then, and they don't appeal to me now that I know how many other policies he bungled. Now we have a movie that does almost the same thing minus the space part? Not a snowflake's chance in Hell it would be a good movie.
Vice was actually the good version of doing a movie about a polarizing political figure because it actually addressed the things Dick Cheney did. Which is to say it acknowledged that he was a horrible man with few redeeming qualities.
Nancy who supposedly removed the solar panels from the White House because they interfered with her astrology isn't someone I would easily sympathize with. What a cast.. all the actors who attended the RNC this year.
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356Are you gonna be replying in every negative comment toward Ronald Reagan? How much do you need to suck this dead guy off?
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356honestly you just sound like such a bummer. I hope this is just a weird internet thing for you because you seem like such a drag to be around if this is just you
Ironically, this movie seems to resemble the type of propaganda the Soviet Union produced. And don't forget that the outsourcing of American jobs really started happening under Reagan's watch.
@@jeffmoser4034not that it was a paradise but it’s funny that people always use it as the standard of “bad” when America has always had the same problems and failures except worse
It makes perfect sense that conservatives would make a biopic of Reagan that does nothing but glaze Reagan. If they actually acknowledged his flaws, they'd have to contend with the fact that Reagan was just a polite Trump.
Even the one or two decent things about him had less than noble reasons. He was a promoter of stronger gun laws and assault weapons bans... but only because he got the business end of John Hinkley's bullet, and he didn't want to see black people toting around military-grade rifles of doom.
@@davidgreenwood6029Your theory might have some merit if it wasn't so easy to find out who made this film with a simple Google search. It was a conservative circle-jerk.
@@davidgreenwood6029 The big names in this film are Kevin Sorbo and Dennis Quaid, who are definitely on the conservative end of the spectrum. Let's not forget that there are plenty of conservatives in Hollywood.
Hercules became a prick only employed by Christan fundamentalists, Xena continued getting actual roles. Lawless seems like a cool lady from what I've seen.
@@VerityFraser Oh, you should see that episode where he talks about how he thinks he saw a ghost. He was just driving at night with his girlfriend at the time and they just happen upon some lady taking a nightly stroll and just thought she was a ghost. The episode with the psychic that tried to verify Sorbo's experiences, well nothing concrete came about that lonely woman in a white dress taking a nightly hike. All I got from Sorbo is that he's way too superstitious as well as being a prick.
Also, when Reagan said, "Tear down this wall!" it was not the Soviet government that tore it down. It was the people of Berlin. I wasn't living in Germany until two months later, but I have friends who were on top of that wall with hammers and pickaxes.
I love it when people make a statement that absolutely everyone knows and acts like it is insider knowledge. Of course the Soviets didn't destroy the wall but they did refrain from shooting the people who did. When a government based on terror stops shooting, they are done.
Unironically, one of the things that radicalized me was taking a modern history class and learning about how terrible Reagan was and how obviously detrimental his policies were and still are.
Surprising that learning history and being educated makes people not want to be conservative. Maybe that's why conservatives do everything in their power to keep the populace as under educated as possible... 🤔@@JohnnyWaymore
John Hinckley Jr is so funny to me, bc he tried to assassinate Reagan just for Jodie Foster’s (who, by the way, is a lesbian) attention, and then recently said people’s obsession with Sydney Sweeney was a bit creepy. Like out of all people to say that, him being it is hilarious
His obsession with her started when he was 19 and she(aged 12 at the time) played a child character who Hinckley really, REALLY liked. At least he was obsessed with her even when she was 18 and he was 25. Take what you will from that.
I lived through the 80's, through the Reagan era. It was bad. In the late 70's things had started to thaw with respect to the USSR, there were movies coming out of Russia which indicated that within Russia attitudes were changing. Then the Reagan administration came in and the politics reverted to 1950's anti commie rhetoric and suddenly you have the specter of mushroom clouds and nuclear annihilation hanging over everyone.
None of that is true the Soviets were not about to negotiations or hostility. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Read a book stop lying. You people are tge worst
Gee, I wonder if the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan and ramping up it's nuclear weapon arsenal had anything to do with that? Nope! Communists good, evil capitalists make them look back for no reason!
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 it's a propaganda film so it's not 'truth', that's what a propaganda film is. I should know, I researched propaganda at University. So either you're part of the propaganda machine, or you've fallen for it, which makes you gullible.
I work actually work at a movie theater in Utah and the amount of old people going is staggering. I don’t think I’ve seen a single person under 60 go into it
I snuck into it last night after a couple other movies, and the thing that stuck out to me was how deliberately it follows the tenants of fascist propaganda outlined by Umberto Eco. Reagan never has any personal struggles or significant failings throughout; he starts the film strong and ends the film even stronger. By contrast, the Soviets are framed simultaneously as an existential force that nearly took over the entire country, but also so weak that it could be stopped by one B-list actor running for office and giving some strongly-worded speeches.
I didnt realise u meant ion voight for a second lolDennis quaid is the father of Jack quaid who plays hughie on the boys , but it's extra funny cause the movie looks like something the company vought would make
With respect to Reagan, a movie that spent like a decade in development hell, but The Firing Squad and Disciples in the Moonlight *probably* edge out for the spot of worst this year.
My local small-town theater (it only plays one movie per weekend) was going to show the Firing Squad, but they swapped it out at the last minute with the Reagan movie. Kinda disappointed because the Reagan movie was really boring, and the Firing Squad looked funnier.
In 2016 Will Ferrell was seriously considered for the role of Reagan. But had to back out due to to outcry. Even if Ferrell is "hit and miss", I'm sure he would have been better.
As an LGBTQIA+ man myself, I think an objective, non politically biased look at Reagan's life would be a really interesting film. this isnt that... its propaganda. Its PR to cover up all of his objectively bad policies. it lies about objective facts and fabricates the truth. The history of the Reagan years is genuinely interesting, like him or not he's one of the most influential characters in American history, he's responsible for the aids crisis that could be a movie on its own. its such a boring piece of propaganda. also love your content! just found your videos through this, keep it up!
@@Ardvards I love how gay men pretend that if Reagan had only spoken out about AIDS, they would have stopped having anonymous sex at bathhouses and rest stops. In reality they would have done more of it.
@EddieHenderson92 To be fair, if you were in a minority that had only recently started getting some degree of public acceptability and civil rights- and these were won by aggressive protests in the face of government surveillance and many other legal/social risks- and someone started telling you about a disease that just so happens to affect mostly people like you and just so happens to sound like something out of a horror film written by some whackjob fundamentalist about people like you, you'd be skeptical (to say the least) too. Public officials, especially Reagan and his administration, were still trying to ignore and mock AIDS long after gay men (and others) had embraced reality and began fundraisers, awareness campaigns, etc.
Gen X-er here. I lived through the Reagan presidency. He was awful. The '80s as a whole were awful in a lot of ways. I'm glad you and a lot of Gen Z folks got the sense to see through the nonsense a lot of people my age try to foist on you.
Lol whatever. Typical leftist misfit thinking. The 80s were freaking awesome and these kids will never know the freedom and prosperity we took for granted.
Seeing Kyle MacLachlan cgi’d into his younger self in Fallout was okay in my book because, despite how uncanny it was, it was only for like 4 seconds max. The same cannot be said about Reagan, where the *main character* gives me that same uncanny feeling for almost the *entire movie*
It might be too early to call Reagan the worst movie of the year. After all, The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh has a documentary called 'Am I Racist?' coming out soon....
They don't care, they just reclaim the insult, like how MAGAs like to call themselves "deplorables" or how Weird Al Yankovic went with that moniker after fellow college students tried to insult him with that name.
I know it’s unlikely but part of me is hoping that we can get another biopic of Reagan that actually shows how much of a shitty president he was where he’s played by Bryan Cranston.
It would also be really cool if the first half focused on Ronald Regan, while the second half gradually focused more on Nancy Regan, when she has to cover up his Alzheimer's. Too bad Jessica Walters is gone. I bet she could have been a really good Nancy Regan. I can imagine her saying, "just say no" with the same racist and classist tone as Nancy did.
It's a shame this movie didn't have a competent team behind the production. A Reagan movie directed by Ron Howard, like Frost Nixon would have been amazing. Reagan wasn't the best president but he was unique and had a interesting personal story, and his presidency coincided with one of the most tension filled and jubilant times of American history. A director that can handle nuances could make a great movie with that material without making Reagan into the Hero he wasn't.
This movie seems tailored made for my Republican parents. They loved President Reagan so much, they named my sibling after him. I even remember his funeral being a massive family event where we and a bunch of like-minded friends came over to watch the news coverage of his funeral procession on live TV. I personally couldn’t care less about him since I’ve heard more about his botched handling of the AIDS epidemic in America.
When I was initially forced fed the trailer for Reagan in a TH-cam ad, I googled it to learn more. The film is based off a book called “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism” by Paul Kengor, who is the executive director of the Institute for Faith and Freedom, a HUMONGOUS conservative think tank. As soon as I saw that, I was like, “yeah, this is gonna be one big jerk off to Reagan. Not gonna see that.” 🙄
I bet they didn't spend any time showing Reagan supporting every death squad and fascist government in Central and South America. Support that directly led to the immigrant "crisis" at the southern border conservatives/fascists bitterly hate today.
Any mention of his time as the president of the Screen Actors Guild, where he was such a bad negotiator, he set back actors getting residuals for years?
6:24 I always find it funny that Conservatives refuse to acknowledge George H.W Bush when talking about the Cold War. He was the last president during the Cold War era and they still say Reagan was the last Cold War era president even if he was the second to last president in the Cold War era. No, Reagan didn’t let the Berlin Wall fell (The Germans demolished it from both sides) and no, Reagan did not end the USSR. The USSR was already slowly falling apart due to the many reforms by Gorbachev, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the many other nationalist movements inside the USSR. Also, the director of this movie directed a lot of kids and family films including the Infamous Bratz movie from 2007 and some straight to television Disney films like the Suite Life movie and the Even Stevens Movie.
Chernobyl did more to dismantle the Soviet Union than Regan ever did. I think $900 Billion in clean up costs and the biggest national embarrassment to happen ever is much more consequential than "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" (Also if anyone reading this hasn't seen Chernobyl on HBO, you should watch it. It's amazing.)
I consider it a good thing, because no matter how bad a video game movie might be, it's always going to be leaps and bounds better then any conservative "movie"
@@eddienothing9610What is "beta" supposed to mean? Who among the acting community wouldn't want a role in a Star Trek series? I would say, good for Jack.
@@3baxcb Something many conservatives would classify that character. That whole alpha-beta thing is just juvenile nonsense to me. Also, he's Superman. Love Jack
Funny story, I work at the movies in South Carolina and oh boy whenever I cleaned the theater after it just finished i literally walk in and see 50 white boomer crying. Yes literally crying. I hate living in the south wtf
I will come in defense to the man. The ending was really sad. They had clips of Nancy Reagan at his funeral, it was so sad you could see the pain in her face. Then having to tell him he couldn’t do what he loved anymore was so sad. Yes, it was sad and I don’t blame him for crying. Do me a favor and perhaps watch the movie to understand. It wasn’t him crying because his, “Beloved President” died. It was just sad.
I work as an usher at a movie theater, and I overheard someone saying everyone needs to see this movie because of what’s going on now. Another said it was an awesome movie. Another group applauded at the end of it as if it was the greatest movie ever. I almost guarantee you the reason all these conservative movies are coming out is to get their base excited to go vote in the election. Also, there were no young people in the Reagan theaters, only boomers, and most showings we had had 70 or more people in them.
@@jamesbest9038This is a problem with America. As we see here y’all are mad because a fellow American wasn’t shot and killed? This should he classified by treason. No matter who you are and what you believe this is just wrong. You should be ashamed. I really don’t care what you believe politically but I feel like you should have remorse for a fellow American. You are too worried about dividing the American people between political bands rather than coming together as one under the title of American. There is a reason why there is a saying, “United we stand, dividing we fall.” I will pray for y’all and the American people. God Bless. 🇺🇸
Let’s talk more about the drug war. People seem to have forgotten how many people it’s killed. (Hint: more per year than in Gaza) and incarcerated more than authoritarian regimes. I know, you’re having fun. Drug war is such a downer. Enjoying your content, BTW. 😊
@@KeeperOfSecrets-42069 $8000 every second of every day, all year in America alone ($250B), conservatively. It’s a gift to the fascist militarized police. A tank and grenades for every backwater Sheriff’s Department. Worst thing since 1930s Germany, but nobody notices.
i work at a small local movie theater in an area that has a lot of retirement communities. i was ringing up this elderly white guy and his wife for tickets to reagan yesterday, and as i entered in their tickets the man said, very confidently, "oh, i wouldn't be surprised if the theater was almost sold out!" with a big smile on his face. then i pulled up the seat selection screen and there was literally one person in there
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356Yeah right. By 1980, the Soviet Union was in decline by the time they had their "fourth" premier at the helm in 1984, the country was in no shape plotting some kind of takeover of the U.S. The movie being reviewed is a movie that is both an insult to biographical films as a genre and ironically an insult to its subject.
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 No, Russia was going to fail anyway. It just didn't have the economic output to keep up. Still doesn't. They're behind Italy now.
@@MrPolandball Two main reasons. The entire decade saw high inflation. And the Volcker plan instituted during Carter's term to stop inflation was 100% followed by Reagan, because it worked. Neither of those guys solved the problem. Volcker did. The second reason was the hostages in Iran, for which Reagan got credit, even though he turned around and illegally sold arms to them and didn't spend a second in jail for it. He wasn't a good president. He had Alzheimer's during his term. The US labor movment died under his watch, and wages have stagnated ever since.
Let's not forget that Hinkley almost killed press secretary James Baker with a headshot. Put the guy in a wheelchair with permanent brain damage the rest of his life. He officially died of his wounds, although it took years. So, I don't think I have a lot of sympathy for Mr. Hinkley.
Hey Pat. Can I call you Pat? This scathing review was just what my day needed, haha. The rare win for the TH-cam algo. Great sense of humor and delivery. I've subscribed!
I don’t know why so many have such a favorable view of Reagan. His economic policies were terrible he cut funds to help disabled and elderly, he is by far one of the worst presidents in our lifetime and he would be the worst if Donald Trump wasn’t a president.
The rich like him because he was on their side and cut their taxes, poor conservatives like him because they've been taught to see any well-spoken (at least by their standards)/economy-oriented/vaguely fatherly/Republican guy as a hero and basically a divine king. And they're stupid.
The people who have a favorable view of him are not firing on all cylinders. They have difficulty separating fact from fantasy, and are shockingly easy to scam.
I actually work at a movie theater that is showing this movie and I fuck you not the only people who come to this movie are either the elderly or people who wear MAGA hats... that was my first red flag.
So it’s red flag for someone to disagree with your beliefs. You know good and well if there was movie about a democrat president you would be the polar opposite. Pray for America because people like you can’t trust when someone has different beliefs than you. Of course this was targeted to a Republican audience. That was the point. Everybody knows that. Nothing should be surprising.
Really? The only good thing? You forgot he played a key role in defeating one of the largest and most brutal empires in history. He reduced inflation by 60% and unemployment by almost 50% Median income adjusted for inflation went up over 10%.
@@jeffmoser4034 The soviet union was already falling. If anything, Afghanistan was the nail on their coffin. As for the rest, I'm surprised you mention inflation because when Clinton arrived, he was trying to fix the 12 years of republican dominance. Reagan made christians be whiny hateful pricks.
Casting was well done. Ronald Reagan was a bad actor, so they got a bad actor to play him with Dennis Quade. Best part of this movie, they asked Bob Dylan to be on the soundtrack, he gave them a song criticizing the privatizing public property.
Shut up dude. Dennis Quaid is an amazing actor. He's won many awards and has been nominated for countless awards including emmy's and has been named by many news outlets as "one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination."
@@tonyilias2561IDK if I've ever seen a Dennis Quaid stan in the wild before lol. He's a decent actor who was much better in his earlier work (90s-2000s). Seems like the nominations stopped around 2011 and I think only the guardian (lol) called him that, but go off. Due to his strong political affiliations, he'll prob be in Kevin Sorbo type films /TV shows, so I wouldn't be waiting on that Academy Award for him.
@@Kristi__xo I would call the 90s to 2000s his middle years. I first noticed him in Breaking Away, and he was a staple in the 1980s in movies like The Right Stuff, Interspace, Enemy Mine, and Great Balls of Fire.
I went to go see it at my local 4DX cinema, it was amazing. They sprayed us with liberal tears, blew cigar smoke from under the screen, and some tumbleweed rolled by. Edit: Maybe using the word 'us' was exaggerating a bit.
I work at a movie theater and this movie has unfortunately been really popular here. Every time there’s a showing we get a wave of obnoxious, self-entitled boomers coming to see it. The theaters we showed it in also always end up being the messiest.
People like you who sacrifice their sanity for people like me to laugh at stupid people doing stupid things need more awareness🙏🥺 I thank for your service 🫡
Saw the movie because my parents wanted to see it. Told them it was "nice" and "a love letter to Raegan". We had a good evening together so I didn't want to be any meaner than that, but goodness that movie was the cringe.
@@IstasPumaNevada oh I totally agree, and I do! But there's also a time and place for getting more into the weeds on things and I just didn't think it was the right setting to do that.
I'm old enough to have lived through the Reagan era and I must say that I have good memories of good 'ole Ronald Reagan. Like when he died, for example.
Obviously the movie downplayed how he banned open carry in California because of the Black Panthers, his first wife Jane Wyman who divorced him because of his views, how Margaret Thatcher was far more domineering in their relationship between the US and the UK, and how he rebuffed Israel from entering Beirut so Mossad withheld intelligence about a possible attack that lead to the Marine barracks bombing in 1983.
I lived the through both Reagan Administrations, and I will not be watching the movie. This is especially evident now that Kevin “ Full of Crap” Sorbet appears in it.
I voted for the first time in 1980 (for John Anderson, actually) The night of the election was horrible. My roomates and I started drinking as the results rolled in. I then lived through the entire 8 year disaster of RR's presidency. I never understood his appeal, I never found him persuasive or charming or anything else his supporters called him. Did the movie even mention his first wife, Jane Wyman? I was disgusted by the hypocrisy of the "family values party" electing our first divorced president, after castigating Jimmy Carter over his "lusted in my heart" comment. In case it is not clear, I despised RR.
It really bothers me that Dennis Quaid participated in a film that _venerates_ Reagan's indefensible promotion of the Hollywood Blacklist. How any actor in the modern age could enegage in Blacklist apologia is beyond me. Really disappointing. The Blacklist was worse than I think most people assume.
When the Soviet records were opened, we all saw the extent to which they had infiltrated the US govt and Hollywood. It also proved that the US Communist Party was financed, controlled, and spied for the USSR.
Heck yeah, from a video essay from Shanspeare, now here to my favorite bad movie reviewer, I’m listening good tonight, thanks for keeping me sane while I work on an unhinged art request that’s melting my sanity lol
I'll never understand the constant praising of Reagan by conservatives. As a gay man myself, it absolutely disgusts me that he just completely ignored the AIDS epidemic. That along with his economic policy as well as funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan makes him easily one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.
Funding comes from Congress, not the executive branch... and the biggest cheerleader for funding the Mujahideen was Charlie Wilson, a democrat house member from Texas who forced money down the throat of the CIA that they neither wanted nor asked for. Funny thing, facts are.
Itll make a lot of money just because of current red hats. It backs everything they love about 45 even if fabricated and exaggerated. I see so many parallels in just watching this video.
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The movie isn't a flop. It's just waiting for the ticket sales to trickle down.
It’ll take more than forty years
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Brilliant!
That's funny!
@@Slangry Trickle down the drain that is.
Kevin Hart as Ronald Reagan and The Rock as Nancy Reagan.
How about Bret Hart as Ronald Reagan.
This is the only Reagan movie I'd watch
@Tentoir if I was casting, I would think Vin Diesel as Gorbachev, Kevin James as George HW Bush, and maybe Adam Sandler as Jimmy Carter. Not sure tho since that's off the top if my head.
DO YOU SMELL WHAT THE THROAT GOAT'S COOKING
Somebody get this person a job in Hollywood
The post credits scene takes place in hell, Reagan goes to the devil and says “I should be in heaven”, the devil responds “it’s okay, you can just wait for it to trickle down to you”
That's awesome
Camera cuts to 103-year-old Jimmy Carter pissing on Reagan’s grave
I love it!
Also, I just got word from Stephen Colbert's show that Carter finally managed to cast a vote for Kamala! Yay!
Congrats to Jimmy Carter living long enough to see this movie flop
Where’s Jimmy’s movie?! Do we have to wait till he’s in the ground?
And hopefully long enough to vote for Kamala
Jimmy Carter is the Ringo Star of US presidents.
@@russellharrell2747 A completely different, the opposite of Reagan. A good man. The Repugs blocked him at every turn.
@@Snarl_Marx Why Ringo Starr?
Daily reminder: The stereotype of the homeless vietnam vet in the 1980s was CREATED by Reagan, as he was instrumental in the closing of America's then-robust mental health services and asylums which were treating war vets who came home from that carnage completely broken inside. Once the mental health institutions were shut down, they had no where to go, and in classic American tradition, our country ignored them until they died off, often from hunger or exposure. "ThAnK yOu FoR YoUr SeRvIcE" indeed!
Remember, it's all in America's best interest (sarcasm btw. That was part of his budget cutting that is still being felt 40+ years later)
And now they still lose to the politics of an open border deferring Vet's care to illegals.
I really thought that was just some joke off king of the hill not a real thing 😳
Mental Health Systems Act of 1980: Signed by President Jimmy Carter, this act emphasizing on deinstitutionalization. but we'll just cherry pick our facts the way the Ghay lefties love to do.
Why didn't Barry boy fix it?
Shortly after Reagan's death, I got "hired" as a research assistant for one of my dad's acquaintances, who was writing a book about Reagan's "leadership."
Two things rapidly became obvious to me: one, that I was never going to see a dime for my efforts, and two, that the book was, if it ever actually got published, going to be 100% fiction. Surprisingly, despite still being a die-hard Reaganite, my dad was supportive of me quitting the project on the grounds that I wasn't being paid.
dont worry, you're being paid, it's just trickling down! Twenty years is not nearly enough time for the money to go all the way down
Can't believe they expect you to be a sell-out for free
Yea, gonna call BS on that. Lie harder on here.
My favorite part of the movie was when Ronald Reagan said to Gorbechev "It's Reagin' time" and reaged all over the place, causing Gorbechev's birthmark to glow neon green and emit foul odor
In Fargos second season they have Reagan going to campaign events and giving speeches and the things he says are so absurdly ridiculous and yet I had to google if it was true or an exaggeration because that’s how absurdly ridiculous he was in real life.
For example, him equating playing a soldier to actually serving as one. 🤦♀️🙄
@@marquisdelafayette1929 Or the "enlightened" dream he supposedly had that inspired the "Star Wars" missile defence system, going to Ed Teller (a somewhat shady person, but actual astro- or nuclear physicist) and saying: "Ed, your going to like this..."
😂😂😂😂
Little did Reagan know that Gorbachev was activating his mutant superpowers he got while visiting Chernobyl
I both hate and love that I knew where the comment was going after the first three words.
Gotta love the terrible filmmaking of "we understood the genre conventions but not why they exist" of putting Reagan's attempted assassination at the start despite it being effectively irrelevant to the broader themes, tragedies, or failures of his life.
As a note on Nancy Reagan, she was not just a person with agency; she was a person who used her agency for evil and was one of the greatest two villains of the Reagan presidency, after only her husband. She is one of the ones who pushed the war on drugs and the silencing on AIDS the hardest.
Contrast this to Ladybird Johnson, who literally stepped in vociferously to STOP the firing of an outed gay man who worked for Lyndon, who caved to her, despite himself a homophobe. A tale in two different kinds of class acts.
Beautifully put
There are so many better first ladies. Betty Ford was open about her struggles with substance abuse, she supported abortion rights, raised awareness about breast cancer and opened up her own clinic after leaving the White House. Rosalynn Carter was an advocate for mental health and women's rights, she supported the Equal Rights Amendment and of course was super active in the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity.
@TrocaTheNero And who could forget Eleanor Roosevelt who criticized her husband for signing the executive order that lead to the Japan internment camps. In fact, she went on to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!
According to her daughter’s memoir, Nancy Reagan was abusing pills, and “just say no” may have been her weird way of dealing with her own addiction.
Nancy also had a psychic she took advice from. She wouldn't even get out of bed until the lady told her her future. She was nutty.
I won't see it. I was a young adult during the Reagan years. Then, he was unforgivable for his mishandling of the AIDS crisis, forcing me to sign up for the draft (as if we'd send battalions to Moscow) and the fact that I was educated yet unemployed from 1982-1984 and the job I landed in '84 paid so little, I needed to work 2 additional part-time jobs just to make rent. Today, because of Ronnie, I cannot afford to send my kids to a good school. As we say here in NYC: F**k you, you f**king f**k! Great video as always, Pat. Reagan was the worst. Edit: Fixed dates of unemployment. I'm old, my memory is garbage.
Before Reagan, US was a decent, normal place. The work week was shortened to 35. The environment was taken seriously. It was improving slowly. THen Reagan ruined all that. Pple started having to wrok 60 hours a week. Pple like Rush Limbaugh, etc. were growing apace. I got out and never looked back.
Honestly the more I read into Reagan and his legacy, the more I wish Hell was a real place.
This is NOT a defense of Reagan, but you are mis-remembering your history. Carter was the one who implemented the draft-registration requirement (Presidential order 4771, in July of 1980).
Also, I'm not sure where the other commenter heard that we used to have a 35-hour work week prior to the 80s, but that has never been true. This might be confusion over the ATC strike (they were demanding a 32-hour work week and a pay raise, if I recall). The US work week has been 40 hours since the FDR years.
A lot of people seem to forget Regan started the who maga movement, Trump just stole it and took it to a cult level
@danbongard3226 And so you are correct, Professor. Strange, I distinctly remember the draft registration coming from Reagan. Oh well, one less pint in the ocean that was Reagan's failings.
Reagan was the first governor to call in troops to attack student protestors in 1969. This led to other conservative governors doing the same until it culminated in the Kent State Massacre. I am sure the movie missed that.
Ah yes, the most common trait among "freedom loving" American conservatives: _"Rules for thee and not for me"_
Rest in piss Reagan won't be missed
Good
@@DarkZerol Boo Hoo
@@EddieHenderson92 There, there, don't cry there kid.
You’re right on Ronald Reagan.
The first time I voted was for Jimmy Carter when he ran for his second term. I lost many friends to the crisis that Reagan infamously ignored. Nancy Reagan’s “just say no” anti-drug campaign for school aged children was seen as the most dismissive and passive aggressive First Lady moves I ever saw and I seen quite a few in the position.
That was my first time voting as well! I remember walking down the street crying when Carter lost (I was living in southern Louisiana at the time). I spent the 80s (as a dirt poor single parent) alternately enraged and terrified. I knew from the promo poster this movie was nothing but a fawning fluff piece (of shit)… Ronnie & Nancy were monsters, and the damage they did has yet to heal.
You morons. Carter is one of the worst presidents in history. Reagan among the best.
@captainamerica3067 what are you on about- never mind I can guess.
the good thing about being from georgia is that everyone loves jimmy carter here lol
@@lilacfields lol
I refuse to ever feel bad for Nancy Reagan
To quote one of the direct consequences of the Regan regime, "She knew what she signed up for."
Her "Just Say No" nonsense demonized addicts and set back our understanding of how addiction works by decades. Somehow her psychic friends never bothered warning her I guess.
Ah yes, the Throat Goat
Especially not when she was also throwing power around. She was in no way, shape or form, a bystander.
@@JABRIEL251 She was in every sense of the term the Bonnie to his Clyde, the Magda to his Josef.
If that Wizards of Waverly Place guy is in this movie then he’s definitely going to have a long career making movies with Kirk Cameron and Kevin Sorbo.
actually sad that he did this, there were some rumors about a new wizards reboot, but I doubt they would ever do it with him.
@@Gustoberg It's already filming
Wait Coop from Megas XLR
Walking out of Borderlands: "Wow, is that going to be the worst movie of the year?"
-The Crow and Reagan each set down their beers.
Let's get real for a minute. If Reagan were running today against Trump, Trump would call him, "Shaky Reagan," or, "Forgetful Ronnie." and Trump supporters would howl with laughter and high-five each other. Then Trump would print up, "Shakey Reagan," T-Shirts and sell them for 49.99 and sell a million of them.
Rickety Reagan
It would suck because Trump would have a correct slogan...
@@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286 If Reagan was running today they'd call him a RINO
Nearly all of his most famous phrases are taken from Reagan, so no.
@@HunnysPlaylistsyour big mistake here is assuming trump has any since if loyalty to basic morality, he’d be willing to sacrifice his firstborn if it meant more power.
My mom worked as a staffer for Reagan during his first election campaign. She's told me it's her biggest regret, having not been able to see through his lies despite meeting him, and it's why she's never fallen for another Republican candidate.
Good for her.
It takes a big person to admit they were fooled. It's way too easy to conflate it with being stupid, when it just makes you human. Good on your mom for learning.
He was an actor and played his role very good.
You're mother has Morality of steel,. It's hard to admit your mistakes, and good on her for working to make up for it.
I think your mom is a hero to me! 😊
Crazy that we used to joke that Republicans treated Reagan like a second coming of Jesus and now theyre literally doing just that unironically
there is no exagerantion or hyperbolic when talking about them
His “trickle down” economics gave us the vast income inequality we enjoy today
It definitely wasn't the sole cause, but it did contribute
Facts
I mean his presidency would’ve not happened if Peanut Man did something more about inflation
Arguably one of the greatest forces of evil in the world. All the people who have suffered and died and will continue to do so due to the policies he enacted, espoused, and spread through the world.
Wrong
An honest movie woulda opened with people at a pride event in 2004 partying even harder when they find out Reagan is dead
I would've opened the movie with footage of riots/social decay, the Iranian revolution, Angolan civil war, Japanese car ads, and a dark synthwave backing track, over one of Reagans speeches about morality and values.
@@harvest44492lameeee i like the spring breakers gaybo event like Cthulu described
@@rickkroll Lame? The movie should be dedicated to the millions of people he killed across the world. Would you make a Bush Jr. movie entirely centered around gay marriage and ignore the "global war on terror"? No, because that would be fucking stupid. Take it from a Lebanon, the legacy of Reagan and Bush Sr. is well remembered by us, about as well as we remember the invasion by Israel and Civil War America and Israel funded.
@@harvest44492it should be dedicated to both. He was responsible for the elimination of lgbt people across the country too. Unless you're saying they aren't important too
@@harvest44492I think it was a sarcastic mate, I don't think he's suggesting a full budget fluff piece on Reagan
A propaganda film painting Reagan in the most sweetest light I'm not surprised. Did the movie at all address how he ignored the HIV/AIDS crisis his inaction on it, and how he even refused to speak publicly about it for a very long time.
Conservatives always complain about "woke Hollywood" being political in their films for... *checks notes*... having women and people of color in them... But then, anytime conservatives get a chance to make a movie, it's the most directly political, biased, blatant, in-your-face, on-the-nose propaganda trying to pass as "art", that we've ever seen.
Not at all. A very dishonest telling of history
@@myfriendscallmepat lol leftards are pathological liars nature, hypocrite
Come on you know this movie was not going to touch that with a 40 ft pole.
Yeah, this sounds about right.
Growing up, I only heard about Reagan from my die-hard conservative mom who only told us 2 stories. Thr first was that she first got into politics as a kid when her own mom (my grandma) said that she should cheer for Reagan instead of Carter and that she apparently hasn't changed her stance since then. The second was (now that I actually know the story) a bizarre retelling of the Star Wars debacle where he actually knew that it wouldn't work and that it was secretly a ploy to get the Soviet Union to blow their budget and collapse so that they could finally stop communism once and for all. She tells both like they were some reflections of his golden character, but they didn't appeal to me then, and they don't appeal to me now that I know how many other policies he bungled.
Now we have a movie that does almost the same thing minus the space part? Not a snowflake's chance in Hell it would be a good movie.
Nobody talks about the Iran-Contra scandal. It was huge at the time and should have brought Ronnie down. Also that he had Alzheimer's.
I think your mom might’ve been one of the producers of this movie
@@thdenwheja756 I'm pretty sure he built the largest middle class the planet has ever seen.
@@diver7799 The largest middle class disparity, maybe?
@@thdenwheja756 Do facts matter to you at all?
Vice was actually the good version of doing a movie about a polarizing political figure because it actually addressed the things Dick Cheney did. Which is to say it acknowledged that he was a horrible man with few redeeming qualities.
Vice was underrated, it was a trip
@@GhostManSpeaks He’s with Kamala now.
Nancy who supposedly removed the solar panels from the White House because they interfered with her astrology isn't someone I would easily sympathize with.
What a cast.. all the actors who attended the RNC this year.
Boon Docks was right, Ronald Wilson Reagan a devil, he has 6 letters in his first middle and last name xD
over rated show
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 not really
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 overrated by who? overrated how? in what way?
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356Are you gonna be replying in every negative comment toward Ronald Reagan? How much do you need to suck this dead guy off?
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356honestly you just sound like such a bummer. I hope this is just a weird internet thing for you because you seem like such a drag to be around if this is just you
It was worth watching this video just to find out that the man who shot Reagan has a youtube channel omfg
May or may not have been distracted for an hour while editing by watching his TH-cam channel
His music is really good too!
Ironically, this movie seems to resemble the type of propaganda the Soviet Union produced. And don't forget that the outsourcing of American jobs really started happening under Reagan's watch.
Russia Russia Russia 😅
What propaganda?
@@curiousgeminiThat’s a bad example to use on this crowd. Most of them think the USSR was paradise.
I honestly just think Soviet propaganda was good compared to American propaganda movies lol @@jeffmoser4034
@@jeffmoser4034not that it was a paradise but it’s funny that people always use it as the standard of “bad” when America has always had the same problems and failures except worse
It makes perfect sense that conservatives would make a biopic of Reagan that does nothing but glaze Reagan. If they actually acknowledged his flaws, they'd have to contend with the fact that Reagan was just a polite Trump.
I don't think conservatives made this movie, I think hollywood liberals made it, not because they actually like reagan, but as a cash grab.
Even the one or two decent things about him had less than noble reasons. He was a promoter of stronger gun laws and assault weapons bans... but only because he got the business end of John Hinkley's bullet, and he didn't want to see black people toting around military-grade rifles of doom.
@@davidgreenwood6029Your theory might have some merit if it wasn't so easy to find out who made this film with a simple Google search. It was a conservative circle-jerk.
@@davidgreenwood6029 The big names in this film are Kevin Sorbo and Dennis Quaid, who are definitely on the conservative end of the spectrum. Let's not forget that there are plenty of conservatives in Hollywood.
@@3dartxsi and crazy john Voight hes a right wing looney
Kevin Sorbo sided with OJ during the trial because he hated his wife 😂. Fun Fact from Lucy Lawless.
Kevin Sorbo has a track record for making moron decisions
Hercules became a prick only employed by Christan fundamentalists, Xena continued getting actual roles. Lawless seems like a cool lady from what I've seen.
But he hates black people dating "his" white women no? Sorbo is pathetic.
To be fair, she did marry a popular producer. She is a real actress though (better than Milla Jovovich or Kate Beckinsale by far) @@VerityFraser
@@VerityFraser Oh, you should see that episode where he talks about how he thinks he saw a ghost. He was just driving at night with his girlfriend at the time and they just happen upon some lady taking a nightly stroll and just thought she was a ghost.
The episode with the psychic that tried to verify Sorbo's experiences, well nothing concrete came about that lonely woman in a white dress taking a nightly hike. All I got from Sorbo is that he's way too superstitious as well as being a prick.
Also, when Reagan said, "Tear down this wall!" it was not the Soviet government that tore it down. It was the people of Berlin. I wasn't living in Germany until two months later, but I have friends who were on top of that wall with hammers and pickaxes.
I love it when people make a statement that absolutely everyone knows and acts like it is insider knowledge. Of course the Soviets didn't destroy the wall but they did refrain from shooting the people who did. When a government based on terror stops shooting, they are done.
Unironically, one of the things that radicalized me was taking a modern history class and learning about how terrible Reagan was and how obviously detrimental his policies were and still are.
You people are delusional and shouldn’t vote at all
There's nothing that makes a radical leftist faster than the true history
A bad actor, in every sense of the word.
surprising that the eductation system would radicalize someone
Surprising that learning history and being educated makes people not want to be conservative. Maybe that's why conservatives do everything in their power to keep the populace as under educated as possible... 🤔@@JohnnyWaymore
John Hinckley Jr is so funny to me, bc he tried to assassinate Reagan just for Jodie Foster’s (who, by the way, is a lesbian) attention, and then recently said people’s obsession with Sydney Sweeney was a bit creepy. Like out of all people to say that, him being it is hilarious
Unfortunately that’s fake. He didn’t say that
More importantly, and creepily, he based this obsession off of Foster's role in the movie "Taxi Driver," where she was 12 at the time.
His obsession with her started when he was 19 and she(aged 12 at the time) played a child character who Hinckley really, REALLY liked. At least he was obsessed with her even when she was 18 and he was 25.
Take what you will from that.
It’s basically the movie Mr Burns made about himself for the film festival.
I lived through the 80's, through the Reagan era. It was bad. In the late 70's things had started to thaw with respect to the USSR, there were movies coming out of Russia which indicated that within Russia attitudes were changing. Then the Reagan administration came in and the politics reverted to 1950's anti commie rhetoric and suddenly you have the specter of mushroom clouds and nuclear annihilation hanging over everyone.
None of that is true the Soviets were not about to negotiations or hostility. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Read a book stop lying. You people are tge worst
Gee, I wonder if the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan and ramping up it's nuclear weapon arsenal had anything to do with that? Nope! Communists good, evil capitalists make them look back for no reason!
Not a shocker that a movie about Reagan would be as awful as he was.
cry about it lol
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 It's already bombed so you're the one who should be crying.
@@lloroshastar6347 people cant appreciate truth
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 it's a propaganda film so it's not 'truth', that's what a propaganda film is. I should know, I researched propaganda at University. So either you're part of the propaganda machine, or you've fallen for it, which makes you gullible.
@@lloroshastar6347 film industry and media is owned by leftards. so dont talk to me about propaganda lol
I work actually work at a movie theater in Utah and the amount of old people going is staggering. I don’t think I’ve seen a single person under 60 go into it
i've never even heard of this movie coming out or being made for that matter
Not sure where you live but it's big here in MO. 😂
This is the firstI’ve heard of it thankfully
@@liloreoinya Really.
@@EndymionDeVere Me too.
That alone should tell anyone the kind of impression the movie failed to make.
I snuck into it last night after a couple other movies, and the thing that stuck out to me was how deliberately it follows the tenants of fascist propaganda outlined by Umberto Eco. Reagan never has any personal struggles or significant failings throughout; he starts the film strong and ends the film even stronger. By contrast, the Soviets are framed simultaneously as an existential force that nearly took over the entire country, but also so weak that it could be stopped by one B-list actor running for office and giving some strongly-worded speeches.
When I found out there wasn't a steamy, love scene between Gorbachev and Reagan, I knew this wasn't the film for a history lover like me.
😂
You are a sicko. You know that?
Oh god - Voight's in it, what a surprise 🙄
And Kevin Sorbo!
@@seanryan3020Goes to show that the casting director didn't have a lot of aspiring actors to choose from.
I didnt realise u meant ion voight for a second lolDennis quaid is the father of Jack quaid who plays hughie on the boys , but it's extra funny cause the movie looks like something the company vought would make
Omg he was in 24,, I was recently rewatching ,,, and the character acts exactly like trump acts ...... so funny I was like omfg
@@darthekul1Dennis Quaid was a huge movie star back in the day. Weird to see him referred to as just "Jack Quad's dad."
With respect to Reagan, a movie that spent like a decade in development hell, but The Firing Squad and Disciples in the Moonlight *probably* edge out for the spot of worst this year.
My local small-town theater (it only plays one movie per weekend) was going to show the Firing Squad, but they swapped it out at the last minute with the Reagan movie. Kinda disappointed because the Reagan movie was really boring, and the Firing Squad looked funnier.
In 2016 Will Ferrell was seriously considered for the role of Reagan. But had to back out due to to outcry. Even if Ferrell is "hit and miss", I'm sure he would have been better.
Bro are you the deaddomain?
As an LGBTQIA+ man myself, I think an objective, non politically biased look at Reagan's life would be a really interesting film. this isnt that... its propaganda. Its PR to cover up all of his objectively bad policies. it lies about objective facts and fabricates the truth. The history of the Reagan years is genuinely interesting, like him or not he's one of the most influential characters in American history, he's responsible for the aids crisis that could be a movie on its own. its such a boring piece of propaganda.
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Thanks friend :)
@@Ardvards I love how gay men pretend that if Reagan had only spoken out about AIDS, they would have stopped having anonymous sex at bathhouses and rest stops. In reality they would have done more of it.
The truth is that many gay men ignored the warnings about HIV/AIDS.
@EddieHenderson92 To be fair, if you were in a minority that had only recently started getting some degree of public acceptability and civil rights- and these were won by aggressive protests in the face of government surveillance and many other legal/social risks- and someone started telling you about a disease that just so happens to affect mostly people like you and just so happens to sound like something out of a horror film written by some whackjob fundamentalist about people like you, you'd be skeptical (to say the least) too. Public officials, especially Reagan and his administration, were still trying to ignore and mock AIDS long after gay men (and others) had embraced reality and began fundraisers, awareness campaigns, etc.
Let’s see here; a movie with John Voight and Kevin Sorbo , pass
Dennis Quade has earned himself a spot on this list 🤢
Don't cry baby.
Gen X-er here. I lived through the Reagan presidency. He was awful. The '80s as a whole were awful in a lot of ways. I'm glad you and a lot of Gen Z folks got the sense to see through the nonsense a lot of people my age try to foist on you.
Lol whatever. Typical leftist misfit thinking. The 80s were freaking awesome and these kids will never know the freedom and prosperity we took for granted.
Did you grow up on another planet? The 80's were awesome dude
@machopkins422 Yeah, if you were white, and a man, and straight, and cis, and rich
@@baraness24 I am shocked a deviant didn't like the 80s. Shocked!
@@baraness24 Your delusional
"Ronald Reagan! The actor? Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!"
5:28 Mad respect for finding a way to work in a trickle down-joke
You know that “trickle down economics “ wasn’t a real thing, right?
Seeing Kyle MacLachlan cgi’d into his younger self in Fallout was okay in my book because, despite how uncanny it was, it was only for like 4 seconds max. The same cannot be said about Reagan, where the *main character* gives me that same uncanny feeling for almost the *entire movie*
Yeah, it really does look horrible. It would be much less distracting (and cheaper! And easier!) if the actor was just a little too old for the part.
It might be too early to call Reagan the worst movie of the year. After all, The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh has a documentary called 'Am I Racist?' coming out soon....
@@ianstratton don’t remind me 😭 I’ve got to watch that with a double feature of Gods Not Dead 5
Cinema is dead
@@myfriendscallmepat Don't forget the aftercare after that self-flagellation.
@@myfriendscallmepatthe end of that sentence almost made me puke.
I saw a tweet saying ‘Reagan’ and ‘Am I Racist?’ Was “barbenheimer for people who think the age of consent is too high”😂😂😂
It’s almost like republicans don’t get that St Ronny wasn’t a compliment
Neither was Bill Clinton
They don't care, they just reclaim the insult, like how MAGAs like to call themselves "deplorables" or how Weird Al Yankovic went with that moniker after fellow college students tried to insult him with that name.
@@MrPolandballat least he left a surplus and low unemployment rates.
@@MrPolandballBill Clinton was removed because of a blowjob, not funding Al Qaeda like Reagan did.
@@normairizarryni don’t forget NAFTA
Its an obvious boomer cash grab.... The cheaper and worse the movie the more profitable
It's Evangelical porn.
Not a boomer and it was a good movie.
The fact ads of it are airing on Fox News should say enough there.
What, like The Producers?
@@EddieHenderson92 Look a whiny christian. May the evil satanic elite be with you.
1:47 - Well, apparently someone liked and subbed and now it appeared in my recommended, so thanks whoever did that and I’ll keep the cycle going!
Republicans desperately trying to rehabilitate their broken party with a crap movie
trump won
They do this every month lol
@@prometheus6499 i didn't know republicans make a movie every month
@@sneezingcat4974 whether it’s a movie or a poor attempt at rage bate they will do anything to hold onto their fleeting relevance
@@prometheus6499 Yep. Once you've built your base of power on ignorance, absurd lies, and fearmongering, you can't really stop.
I know it’s unlikely but part of me is hoping that we can get another biopic of Reagan that actually shows how much of a shitty president he was where he’s played by Bryan Cranston.
only commies hate reagan
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 only regards like reagan
That sounds EPIC! Make it happen! 😊
It would also be really cool if the first half focused on Ronald Regan, while the second half gradually focused more on Nancy Regan, when she has to cover up his Alzheimer's.
Too bad Jessica Walters is gone. I bet she could have been a really good Nancy Regan. I can imagine her saying, "just say no" with the same racist and classist tone as Nancy did.
So it'll be another bullshit bio pic like Cranston's "Trumbo" was?
It's a shame this movie didn't have a competent team behind the production. A Reagan movie directed by Ron Howard, like Frost Nixon would have been amazing.
Reagan wasn't the best president but he was unique and had a interesting personal story, and his presidency coincided with one of the most tension filled and jubilant times of American history. A director that can handle nuances could make a great movie with that material without making Reagan into the Hero he wasn't.
This movie seems tailored made for my Republican parents. They loved President Reagan so much, they named my sibling after him. I even remember his funeral being a massive family event where we and a bunch of like-minded friends came over to watch the news coverage of his funeral procession on live TV. I personally couldn’t care less about him since I’ve heard more about his botched handling of the AIDS epidemic in America.
There was no aids AIDS epidemic that’s a left-wing lie
Jack Quaid probably was on his hands and knees begging his dad not to do this
Dennis Quaid: Are you sure you don't want to be in the movie?
Jack Quaid: Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just gonna stand over here
When I was initially forced fed the trailer for Reagan in a TH-cam ad, I googled it to learn more. The film is based off a book called “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism” by Paul Kengor, who is the executive director of the Institute for Faith and Freedom, a HUMONGOUS conservative think tank. As soon as I saw that, I was like, “yeah, this is gonna be one big jerk off to Reagan. Not gonna see that.” 🙄
I bet they didn't spend any time showing Reagan supporting every death squad and fascist government in Central and South America. Support that directly led to the immigrant "crisis" at the southern border conservatives/fascists bitterly hate today.
Blessed Stanley Rother is turning in his grave
@@nonamelegend_vapor
I had to go look him up.
Yeah, sad story. No idea how much Reagan's money had a hand in it.
no amount of money would be enough to make me watch this film. thanks for doing that for us. i'm so sorry.
It's tragic that the Will Ferrell comedy about Reagan was shut down due to "public outcry" to make this piece of milqetoast propaganda instead.
Any mention of his time as the president of the Screen Actors Guild, where he was such a bad negotiator, he set back actors getting residuals for years?
6:24 I always find it funny that Conservatives refuse to acknowledge George H.W Bush when talking about the Cold War. He was the last president during the Cold War era and they still say Reagan was the last Cold War era president even if he was the second to last president in the Cold War era. No, Reagan didn’t let the Berlin Wall fell (The Germans demolished it from both sides) and no, Reagan did not end the USSR. The USSR was already slowly falling apart due to the many reforms by Gorbachev, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the many other nationalist movements inside the USSR.
Also, the director of this movie directed a lot of kids and family films including the Infamous Bratz movie from 2007 and some straight to television Disney films like the Suite Life movie and the Even Stevens Movie.
Chernobyl did more to dismantle the Soviet Union than Regan ever did. I think $900 Billion in clean up costs and the biggest national embarrassment to happen ever is much more consequential than "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
(Also if anyone reading this hasn't seen Chernobyl on HBO, you should watch it. It's amazing.)
that’s a crazy filmography 😂 how does that even happen
This looks like fan fiction by people who weren't alive in the 80's.
Hearing Reagan is worse than Borderlands is terrifying to say the least.
Trickle Down Movie-nomics
I consider it a good thing, because no matter how bad a video game movie might be, it's always going to be leaps and bounds better then any conservative "movie"
@@thebagel_lord that's true
Just thinking that Denis Quaid's son is one of the main characters of "the boys" ...😂😂😂😂
And don't forget he's a purple-haired "beta" in the Star Trek universe 😂
@@eddienothing9610What is "beta" supposed to mean? Who among the acting community wouldn't want a role in a Star Trek series? I would say, good for Jack.
And The Boys has done a lot of jabs at 80s American politics and pop culture in a satirical manner.
@@3baxcb Something many conservatives would classify that character. That whole alpha-beta thing is just juvenile nonsense to me. Also, he's Superman. Love Jack
And he’s appeared in a best of the worst episode with RLM.
Funny story, I work at the movies in South Carolina and oh boy whenever I cleaned the theater after it just finished i literally walk in and see 50 white boomer crying. Yes literally crying. I hate living in the south wtf
Then move to California
I will come in defense to the man. The ending was really sad. They had clips of Nancy Reagan at his funeral, it was so sad you could see the pain in her face. Then having to tell him he couldn’t do what he loved anymore was so sad. Yes, it was sad and I don’t blame him for crying. Do me a favor and perhaps watch the movie to understand. It wasn’t him crying because his, “Beloved President” died. It was just sad.
How dirty was that theater compared to the average viewing?
@@bensonk1939 oh it was incredibly Bad. Not even being hyperbolic somehow even worse then mcu fans
I work as an usher at a movie theater, and I overheard someone saying everyone needs to see this movie because of what’s going on now. Another said it was an awesome movie. Another group applauded at the end of it as if it was the greatest movie ever. I almost guarantee you the reason all these conservative movies are coming out is to get their base excited to go vote in the election. Also, there were no young people in the Reagan theaters, only boomers, and most showings we had had 70 or more people in them.
Just another fifteen years or so and they'll be gone.
Of course it won't solve the whole fascism problem, but it can't hurt.
I see no problem with exciting their base to vote. Why do you have a problem with it?
bruh, the dude who shot reagan has a youtube channel????
Yup
Based
The worst thing about Hinklie was his aim.
First him then Crooks.
@@jamesbest9038This is a problem with America. As we see here y’all are mad because a fellow American wasn’t shot and killed? This should he classified by treason. No matter who you are and what you believe this is just wrong. You should be ashamed. I really don’t care what you believe politically but I feel like you should have remorse for a fellow American. You are too worried about dividing the American people between political bands rather than coming together as one under the title of American. There is a reason why there is a saying, “United we stand, dividing we fall.” I will pray for y’all and the American people. God Bless. 🇺🇸
The Killer Mike song about Reagan did a better job of being a biopic than this movie.
"Ronald (6) Wilson (6) Reagan (6)
Ronald (6) Wilson (6) Reagan (666)."
It's such a great song.
Yup!
So that's where all the ignorant Gen Z takes on Reagan came from.
Let’s talk more about the drug war. People seem to have forgotten how many people it’s killed. (Hint: more per year than in Gaza) and incarcerated more than authoritarian regimes.
I know, you’re having fun. Drug war is such a downer.
Enjoying your content, BTW. 😊
And it’s a huge waste of money.
@KeeperOfSecrets-42069 that's what the US does best
Thanks friend :)
Congratulations to Drugs for winning the War on Drugs!
@@KeeperOfSecrets-42069 $8000 every second of every day, all year in America alone ($250B), conservatively.
It’s a gift to the fascist militarized police. A tank and grenades for every backwater Sheriff’s Department.
Worst thing since 1930s Germany, but nobody notices.
i work at a small local movie theater in an area that has a lot of retirement communities. i was ringing up this elderly white guy and his wife for tickets to reagan yesterday, and as i entered in their tickets the man said, very confidently, "oh, i wouldn't be surprised if the theater was almost sold out!" with a big smile on his face.
then i pulled up the seat selection screen and there was literally one person in there
How different, how wonderful the US would have been if Carter hadn't lost. He was ahead of his times.
we'd be speaking russian by now
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356Yeah right. By 1980, the Soviet Union was in decline by the time they had their "fourth" premier at the helm in 1984, the country was in no shape plotting some kind of takeover of the U.S.
The movie being reviewed is a movie that is both an insult to biographical films as a genre and ironically an insult to its subject.
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 No, Russia was going to fail anyway. It just didn't have the economic output to keep up. Still doesn't. They're behind Italy now.
There’s reason he lost, given the fact he’s been compared to Joe Biden of the 70s.
@@MrPolandball Two main reasons.
The entire decade saw high inflation. And the Volcker plan instituted during Carter's term to stop inflation was 100% followed by Reagan, because it worked. Neither of those guys solved the problem. Volcker did.
The second reason was the hostages in Iran, for which Reagan got credit, even though he turned around and illegally sold arms to them and didn't spend a second in jail for it.
He wasn't a good president. He had Alzheimer's during his term. The US labor movment died under his watch, and wages have stagnated ever since.
Hinkley may have been cancelled, but the dude who shot Donald and co at the rally REALLY got cancelled.
Let's not forget that Hinkley almost killed press secretary James Baker with a headshot. Put the guy in a wheelchair with permanent brain damage the rest of his life. He officially died of his wounds, although it took years. So, I don't think I have a lot of sympathy for Mr. Hinkley.
hes also just a straight up creep if you actually look into qhat jodie foster went through @@bsb1975
Hey Pat. Can I call you Pat? This scathing review was just what my day needed, haha. The rare win for the TH-cam algo. Great sense of humor and delivery. I've subscribed!
I don’t know why so many have such a favorable view of Reagan. His economic policies were terrible he cut funds to help disabled and elderly, he is by far one of the worst presidents in our lifetime and he would be the worst if Donald Trump wasn’t a president.
The rich like him because he was on their side and cut their taxes, poor conservatives like him because they've been taught to see any well-spoken (at least by their standards)/economy-oriented/vaguely fatherly/Republican guy as a hero and basically a divine king. And they're stupid.
The people who have a favorable view of him are not firing on all cylinders. They have difficulty separating fact from fantasy, and are shockingly easy to scam.
ppl like him because he was downright evil and he had no end good end goal either, that's why
I hate that this movie exists, and I am happy that this video exists.
David Henrie (wizards of Waverly place guy) is now a weird tradcath guy in Idaho, he deserves this movie 🥰
nooooo 😭
A movie that sucks harder than Nancy Reagan.
It’s time to stop blowjob shaming.
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@@suburban-vampire Great minds think alike. Also, fantastic screen name.
Hooray, misogyny. It's okay when directed at the right person, don't you know? 🙄
I actually work at a movie theater that is showing this movie and I fuck you not the only people who come to this movie are either the elderly or people who wear MAGA hats... that was my first red flag.
I thank you for your service lol
God help us all
red cap = red flag
It must be like when they release The Chosen episodes in theaters
So it’s red flag for someone to disagree with your beliefs. You know good and well if there was movie about a democrat president you would be the polar opposite. Pray for America because people like you can’t trust when someone has different beliefs than you. Of course this was targeted to a Republican audience. That was the point. Everybody knows that. Nothing should be surprising.
The only good thing Regan did. Inspired a ton of great punk rock/hardcore. That's it.
Really? The only good thing? You forgot he played a key role in defeating one of the largest and most brutal empires in history. He reduced inflation by 60% and unemployment by almost 50% Median income adjusted for inflation went up over 10%.
Rock Against Reagan!
@@Darrylizer1 You mean “Rock against Reason”
Not true. He's also feeding worms and plants!
@@jeffmoser4034 The soviet union was already falling. If anything, Afghanistan was the nail on their coffin. As for the rest, I'm surprised you mention inflation because when Clinton arrived, he was trying to fix the 12 years of republican dominance.
Reagan made christians be whiny hateful pricks.
Casting was well done. Ronald Reagan was a bad actor, so they got a bad actor to play him with Dennis Quade. Best part of this movie, they asked Bob Dylan to be on the soundtrack, he gave them a song criticizing the privatizing public property.
Dennis Quaid deserves an academy award for his role in "The Long Game", where he pretended to care about Mexicans for two hours straight.
Shut up dude. Dennis Quaid is an amazing actor. He's won many awards and has been nominated for countless awards including emmy's and has been named by many news outlets as "one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination."
@@tonyilias2561 Sure thing Dennis
@@tonyilias2561IDK if I've ever seen a Dennis Quaid stan in the wild before lol. He's a decent actor who was much better in his earlier work (90s-2000s). Seems like the nominations stopped around 2011 and I think only the guardian (lol) called him that, but go off. Due to his strong political affiliations, he'll prob be in Kevin Sorbo type films /TV shows, so I wouldn't be waiting on that Academy Award for him.
@@Kristi__xo I would call the 90s to 2000s his middle years. I first noticed him in Breaking Away, and he was a staple in the 1980s in movies like The Right Stuff, Interspace, Enemy Mine, and Great Balls of Fire.
I went to go see it at my local 4DX cinema, it was amazing. They sprayed us with liberal tears, blew cigar smoke from under the screen, and some tumbleweed rolled by.
Edit: Maybe using the word 'us' was exaggerating a bit.
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I work at a movie theater and this movie has unfortunately been really popular here. Every time there’s a showing we get a wave of obnoxious, self-entitled boomers coming to see it. The theaters we showed it in also always end up being the messiest.
That's ok. It would worry me more if more young people would be there.
@@differentboy9697Believe me there was lots of young people both times I have seen it.
People like you who sacrifice their sanity for people like me to laugh at stupid people doing stupid things need more awareness🙏🥺 I thank for your service 🫡
he never had any to begin with lol
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 what is your problem
@@jacobvarney23 im a hardcore anti leftist
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356people are entitled to food water and housing, that must break your brain
@@aTalkingPizza not in this current economy. which you people ruined
Saw the movie because my parents wanted to see it. Told them it was "nice" and "a love letter to Raegan". We had a good evening together so I didn't want to be any meaner than that, but goodness that movie was the cringe.
You’re a saint for that lol
Gotta push back at some point. Saying nothing at all just lets them think you agree with them.
@@IstasPumaNevada oh I totally agree, and I do! But there's also a time and place for getting more into the weeds on things and I just didn't think it was the right setting to do that.
Ronald Reagan? Ronald Reagan THE ACTOR?!?!?
And I suppose Jane Wyman was First Lady!
I actually thought it would’ve been a reasonable biopic, but then I saw that Kevin Sorbo was in it, then I knew what we were in for
I'm old enough to have lived through the Reagan era and I must say that I have good memories of good 'ole Ronald Reagan. Like when he died, for example.
Obviously the movie downplayed how he banned open carry in California because of the Black Panthers, his first wife Jane Wyman who divorced him because of his views, how Margaret Thatcher was far more domineering in their relationship between the US and the UK, and how he rebuffed Israel from entering Beirut so Mossad withheld intelligence about a possible attack that lead to the Marine barracks bombing in 1983.
I lived the through both Reagan Administrations, and I will not be watching the movie. This is especially evident now that Kevin “ Full of Crap” Sorbet appears in it.
I voted for the first time in 1980 (for John Anderson, actually) The night of the election was horrible. My roomates and I started drinking as the results rolled in. I then lived through the entire 8 year disaster of RR's presidency. I never understood his appeal, I never found him persuasive or charming or anything else his supporters called him.
Did the movie even mention his first wife, Jane Wyman? I was disgusted by the hypocrisy of the "family values party" electing our first divorced president, after castigating Jimmy Carter over his "lusted in my heart" comment.
In case it is not clear, I despised RR.
They mention it a little but honestly she’s basically portrayed as a shrill villain impeding Ronald from being successful. Not very nuanced.
My dad voted for John Anderson, so you’re in good company
@@myfriendscallmepat In the 1980's, those metal pin-on buttons with pithy sayings were very popular. I had one that said, "Jane Wyman was right."
It really bothers me that Dennis Quaid participated in a film that _venerates_ Reagan's indefensible promotion of the Hollywood Blacklist.
How any actor in the modern age could enegage in Blacklist apologia is beyond me. Really disappointing.
The Blacklist was worse than I think most people assume.
When the Soviet records were opened, we all saw the extent to which they had infiltrated the US govt and Hollywood. It also proved that the US Communist Party was financed, controlled, and spied for the USSR.
He apparently endorsed Trump earlier this year (2024), so that kinda informs on his decision making.
Heck yeah, from a video essay from Shanspeare, now here to my favorite bad movie reviewer, I’m listening good tonight, thanks for keeping me sane while I work on an unhinged art request that’s melting my sanity lol
Haha this was me last night. What is art if not an occasional drain on our sanity
“Did those dirty reds try to kill my Ronnie boy?!” Being a southerner I can hear my coworker Peggy watching this film and saying that
A Ronald Reagan animated comedy staring and written by Zack Hadle would have been so much better.
TURN ON THE TV HES IN THE WHITE HOUSE ┐(´д`)┌
"Reagan Smash!"
RIP Phil Hartman
@@russellharrell2747And he put far more effort in his depiction of that president than the producers of that movie did.
"Reagan sleepy."
I'll never understand the constant praising of Reagan by conservatives. As a gay man myself, it absolutely disgusts me that he just completely ignored the AIDS epidemic. That along with his economic policy as well as funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan makes him easily one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.
Funding comes from Congress, not the executive branch... and the biggest cheerleader for funding the Mujahideen was Charlie Wilson, a democrat house member from Texas who forced money down the throat of the CIA that they neither wanted nor asked for. Funny thing, facts are.
I look forward to forgetting this movie exists, seeing it listed on Tubi 3-6 weeks from now, cringing, and then watching almost anything else instead.
Itll make a lot of money just because of current red hats. It backs everything they love about 45 even if fabricated and exaggerated. I see so many parallels in just watching this video.
@@Sos4R4y The movie flopped and won't ever make back it's budget so thats a silver lining.
@@pegasusactua2985 I'm genuinely shocked. I thought it would be a hit with the conservatives at least
I want Kevin Hart as Ronald Reagan just because he would have hated being portrayed by a black man.