Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: CLASS OF 1999

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  • The best way to deal with juvenile delinquency? Killer robot teachers of course! It's the futuristic (sorta) sci-fi action movie "Class of 1999"!
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  • @TheBrandonTenold
    @TheBrandonTenold  2 ปีที่แล้ว +377

    Ah, for the good old days when 1999 was THE FUTURE!

    • @mycahdulin774
      @mycahdulin774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ah for the good old day when 1960 was the future

    • @joeblaster8770
      @joeblaster8770 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      With a cover like that why didn't you make a GI Joe reference?

    • @infinymagnus
      @infinymagnus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Or when the Decepticons sieged Autobot City in 2005

    • @billybowers5850
      @billybowers5850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah. I got this movie as part of the Lionsgate 8 Movie Pack and I love it. And don't diss Pam "Foxy Brown" Grier.

    • @franciscomeza8905
      @franciscomeza8905 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks dude, I haven't seen this one in some time.

  • @bigbossman2810
    @bigbossman2810 2 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Speaking of movies set in the future: You should do Soylent Green since it is set in the year 2022.

    • @tuckerbowen4626
      @tuckerbowen4626 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And we now have all these foods claiming to be made from plant matter. Hmm...

    • @julion89
      @julion89 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Soylent green is people
      Aaarrrrgggghhhhhh

    • @puppiesarepower3682
      @puppiesarepower3682 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dam.

    • @RobinJohnstonphotography
      @RobinJohnstonphotography 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well they didn’t quite predict how grim it would be

    • @residentpotato6023
      @residentpotato6023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I’m ready to eat some soylent green, with Biden’s damned inflation I haven’t eaten in 3 days.

  • @S4ns
    @S4ns 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    1999 was 22 years ago?
    Holy crap, I graduated high school in '99.
    Holy crap, I'm old.

  • @scythemouse
    @scythemouse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    The guy who played the robot coach actually got to BE a Terminator in The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

    • @MrDj232
      @MrDj232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I honestly can't remember a single thing that happened in that series. Unless the terminator girl had sex with John Connor, but I'm pretty sure that was just a robot chicken bit.

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Patrick Kilpatrick. He's been on Star Trek DS9 and a bunch of cult movies.

    • @JohnDoe-wq5eu
      @JohnDoe-wq5eu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MrDj232
      Yeah I do find it funny that that's the only thing I remember the most as well is that robot Chicken sketch. It's pretty clear they sanitized that series pretty bad it just didn't hold up as well as it could have had it been anywhere else like sci-fi or somewhere where they could have had some decent edge to it.

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MrDj232 What I remember about that show was that's where my crush on Lena Heady began.

    • @DemonKingBadger
      @DemonKingBadger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@robwalsh9843 also seen him as a villain on Walker, Texas Ranger and Criminal Minds

  • @s.b.4875
    @s.b.4875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    I especially loved how the guards at the school were literal swat police officers, and checked to see if you had weapons in your pockets or in your car. The setting of this movie really gave off a mad max style to it. The gang cars, and motorcycles especially was what reminded me of that.

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If school shootings do get worse, THAT'S where things will end up.

    • @RedSiegfried
      @RedSiegfried 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah, I mean now you have to go to the airport and buy a ticket to get that kind of treatment!

    • @s.b.4875
      @s.b.4875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@louisduarte8763 if they ever make a third one, because the first one just left us with us wondering, what the hell happened next? Or a remake for that matter, I’d love to see them again. Just in our present time. The armor would probably be way different too.

    • @dansmith1661
      @dansmith1661 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Stevie Wolfe Road Warrior or the titles named Mad Max? Road Warrior was severe oil shortages that would eventually lead to nuclear war.

    • @thermonuclearcollider4418
      @thermonuclearcollider4418 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@s.b.4875 They actually made a third one - sort of. "Class of 1999 Part 2: The Substitute"

  • @spiderlime
    @spiderlime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    let me get this straight: a cross between mad max, the breakfast club and the terminator? this is probably where the 80's couldnt recognize themselves anymore

    • @TheBrandonTenold
      @TheBrandonTenold  2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      A movie so 80's it only could've came out in 1990.

  • @Canadamus_Prime
    @Canadamus_Prime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Malcom McDowell will appear in anything, won't he? At least when he does he usually brings an entertaining performance.

    • @demonkingbadger6689
      @demonkingbadger6689 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      John Saxon is probably the king in that. But, it is pretty close.

    • @Jeremy-ql1or
      @Jeremy-ql1or 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@demonkingbadger6689
      Actually, Eric Roberts is the undisputed king of Will Appear in Anything. Go look at his imdb page.

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I love how there's this collection of respected and educated Brit actors like Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Tim Curry and Bruce Payne among others who said "Fuck it" and just made a career in American B-movies.

    • @Estorium
      @Estorium 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Don't forget Lance Henriksen

    • @wimvanderstraeten6521
      @wimvanderstraeten6521 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Estorium And Michael Madsen.

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I remember this being on Cinemax alot. Kind of a "Robocop meets Dangerous Minds" movie.

    • @UlshaRS
      @UlshaRS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Except when the drone asks for the pass and shoots the offender the CEO is actually happy about it in this one.

  • @Diresilence
    @Diresilence 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "One million mega bites" Good ol' 90s, when that was considered "Lol, can you imagine that?"

    • @SuperSwordman1
      @SuperSwordman1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tell me about it. I got 4x that hooked up to my PS4 and I'm pretty much out of room

    • @jekw23
      @jekw23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It took me way too long to work out if that equaled a terabyte. Even when I did I still doubted myself and had to google it. I was right but ………that was not the most productive ten minutes of my life.

    • @genesismultiverse4896
      @genesismultiverse4896 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Dude imagine how many Optimus prime brains we could put in that

  • @OverlordOfCats
    @OverlordOfCats 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    If you want a movie set in 2022, I’d recommend Soylent Green (1973)

    • @richardgadberry8398
      @richardgadberry8398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Isn't that people?

    • @heedmywarning2792
      @heedmywarning2792 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@richardgadberry8398 Nah, chicken. Everything is chicken. BTW, do you have any relatives that are about to pass? Would you classify them as spicy or mild?

    • @zakofrx
      @zakofrx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Look into the death trailer brought out this year..
      You can be killed anywhere you want, a park full of kids etc..
      You get suffocated in a space age pod while you watch the world go by and then they bury the whole pod..
      And don't forget the old women who used the excuse of being depressed to get medically killed becsue they would only allow her to see her family if she was going to die..
      So becsue of covid rules she killed herself just so she could see her family..

  • @ShinGallon
    @ShinGallon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I was HOPING you'd do the "tried to kill me with a forklift" reference, and sure enough, my wishes were granted.

    • @genesismultiverse4896
      @genesismultiverse4896 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thanks robotic genie
      Robotic genie: your welcome

  • @grimdolo918
    @grimdolo918 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "Been spendin' most their lives
    Livin' in a robot's paradise"

  • @UlshaRS
    @UlshaRS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Really love the staging when the teachers are in robo-arm mode. The positioning is obviously to hide the practical prosthetics effects but it's extremely well done, putting their arm out of shot but not twisting their body so much it takes you out of the scene.

    • @Newsystuffs
      @Newsystuffs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Certainly helps that the effects artists actually shot those scenes themselves. This movie really feels like a feature-length demoreel for Eric Allard and his many hats as animatronics creator, pyrotechnician, effects supervisor and second unit director.

  • @187mrsmith
    @187mrsmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    One of the more underrated b-movie horror films this was actually all around a good film in my opinion

    • @lukedudley5030
      @lukedudley5030 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I enjoyed it too but I was only 15 when I watched it :-)

    • @jbellflower83
      @jbellflower83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well, as good as a rediculous, over the top bad movie can be.

    • @gertpacu3926
      @gertpacu3926 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      YES!! This one and Return of the Living Dead Part 3.. Two of my favorite movies from the early 90s.

    • @kaioh187
      @kaioh187 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like this movie.

  • @FearlessSon
    @FearlessSon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Oh, my father worked on this film! He was one of the set designers. When I was a kid, he took me to an old building they were dressing up for a scene once.
    He tells the story to this day of how he had gotten a hold of a copy of the script and approached some of the producers during a shoot. He wanted to know why a script that seemed so awful was being made into a movie and asked them about it. They said they were actually well aware it was an absurd concept with an absurd script, but they were targeting niche audiences who were into this kind of thing and expected strong direct video sales from that group. An absurd script was part of the appeal that target was into, and prior experience suggested that they wouldn't have much critical acclaim or mainstream popularity but the budget-to-profit ratio was good enough that they were confident it was worthwhile to make. So that theater-bomb return was expected, the video release was always the end goal.
    My father hadn't really considered it from a pure marketing perspective, but it was a well-enough paying gig so he didn't really have any complaints after that.

    • @TheBrandonTenold
      @TheBrandonTenold  2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That's cool your dad worked on it, but I just want clarification on one thing: he actually went to the producers & said ' this killer robot teachers vs. future punks movie is kinda absurd'?

    • @FearlessSon
      @FearlessSon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@TheBrandonTenold That's about the gist of it. I don't think he was coming at them as a critical pushback or anything (he wasn't really in a position to do that,) he just wanted to get clarification about *why* the heck they greenlit *this* particular movie when the script was, well, like it was. Reading it left him scratching his head.

  • @Liowen
    @Liowen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "I wouldn't want this video to get flagged."
    "This footage flagged by Toho."
    ....you know it is only a matter of time.

  • @Iruleyoufail
    @Iruleyoufail 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Not too long ago I bought Class of 1984 on Blu Ray which I loved and I bought this movie blind not knowing if I was going to like it and to my surprise this movie has become one of my favorite movies of all time.

  • @robwalsh9843
    @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I was genuinely surprised they filmed this in Seattle instead of Vancouver.

    • @danheidel
      @danheidel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was an old school that had been shut down, so it was cheap to film there. This movie had always amused me since I used to live a few blocks from where it was filmed and the whole thing is full of locations I recognize.

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@danheidel Do you know of any other films that were shot there?

    • @kf7721
      @kf7721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is basically Seattle now.

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kf7721 LOL actually this Seattle is much cooler. The real place is much more depressing.

    • @TheBrandonTenold
      @TheBrandonTenold  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If they had filmed it in Vancouver, they probably would've tried to pretend it took place in New York or LA.

  • @natp8387
    @natp8387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Sadly movies like this never get the love they deserve. Nowadays people are TRYING to make movies like this and failing miserably!

  • @shadowleon659
    @shadowleon659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Great and criminally underrated sci fi horror thriller film.

  • @martincann5052
    @martincann5052 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This film really gives me the vibes of something 2000AD might have published in the 80s.
    That's a compliment, by the way.

  • @tisko102
    @tisko102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Man I saw this movie for the first time as a kid. For years I couldn't think of what ot was called, until I bought one of those 10 in 1 Horror movie packs of weird and B movies. And this was one of them and when I finally got to the end part when the Teens fight the teachers I jumped up and shouted holy shit. What an awesome movie

  • @RedfishCarolina
    @RedfishCarolina 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    That haircut on Stacy Keach is so astoundingly hilarious

    • @henrykujawa4427
      @henrykujawa4427 ปีที่แล้ว

      With his eyes, I was surprised he WASN'T one of the robots!

  • @demh7823
    @demh7823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "Class of 1984" featured Michael J. Fox in a supporting role.
    "Class of 1999" features a guy who resembles Eric Stoltz, who was the first actor to play Marty McFly in "Back to the Future", before the role was recast with Fox.

    • @turntheblueiris4626
      @turntheblueiris4626 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep, credited as Michael Fox and the token Brit in that one was Roddy McDowall

  • @johnmcgregor8372
    @johnmcgregor8372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    As a member of the class of 1999 I can say this move is as accurate as a documentary.

  • @AgentofLADON
    @AgentofLADON 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I gotta side with the robot teachers as the true protagonists. Those students are out of control and killing each other already.

    • @varanid9
      @varanid9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yup. The movie should have ended with the robots blowing up the entire school with everyone in it, then, the final scene shows them headed for the next school. The End ?

    • @AgentofLADON
      @AgentofLADON 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@varanid9 If I remember right the third movie in the series mixes 1984 and 99. A vigilante teacher using weapons built by Megacorp.

    • @thebrownbaldy
      @thebrownbaldy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The 2nd film starred Sasha Mitchell from Step By Step

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Robo-spanking. That's how they disciplined unruly kids in my day.

    • @teddyfilli3079
      @teddyfilli3079 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah it's hard to feel bad for alot of these characters deaths to be honest especially the first one. The student with the gun was going to shoot a teacher (he didn't know it was a robot).

  • @timberry4709
    @timberry4709 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    18:01 - - Should have used a Dalek "Exterminate" voiceover.
    Cody kinda sounds like he's channeling Michael Pare from "Streets of Fire" (where Michael's character's last name was Cody!).

  • @MissAshley42
    @MissAshley42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I caught this late one night on cable. What a weird movie. It basically pits two competing slippery slope predictions for the future against each other. I'm not sure what the takeaway is supposed to be, if anything at all!

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well, the cyberpunk genre is often considered to be a commentary on corporate domination, government corruption and society in decay.
      But honestly, I think the intention of this movie was to have street punks against pseudo-Terminators while blowing a lot of stuff up lol

    • @TheBrandonTenold
      @TheBrandonTenold  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@robwalsh9843 "But honestly, I think the intention of this movie was to have street punks against psuedo-Terminators while blowing a lot of stuff up" Yup, and that's when the movie's at its best in my opinion.

  • @richmcgee434
    @richmcgee434 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    13:50 Gaming trivia fact: Battledroids was the original name for the game that became Battletech and spun off into Mechwarrior and endless other tabletop and electronic games. FASA changed the name after discovering Lucas was possessive about the word droid and had a lot more money to pay lawyers with.

  • @corneiliousjones
    @corneiliousjones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "Bloodstains...purple stuff...hey look sunny D" omg had me rolling dude! Great vid!
    Stay snarky, BT!

  • @geardog24
    @geardog24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Scary thing is we might actually get robot teachers in the future. 😨 🤖

    • @varanid9
      @varanid9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hopefully, they'll be as homicidal as the ones in this "film", LOL!

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Or SWAT teams guarding school entrances.

    • @KingJonathanThe1st
      @KingJonathanThe1st ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@louisduarte8763 that’s going to happen

    • @soknightsam
      @soknightsam ปีที่แล้ว

      Pretty sure some of the teachers now a days Are robots

    • @tarzantabi7845
      @tarzantabi7845 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the same way they are already making AI girlfriends

  • @toddpeterson5904
    @toddpeterson5904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    For some reason I want the Old Guy from the creepy Six Flags commercials to ram through the school fence and come out as one of these androids, stabbing people with colorful metal flags

  • @SwaggyG_2102
    @SwaggyG_2102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    4:26
    "As if kids bringing guns to school is going to be a problem in the future!"
    Yeah, especially in the year this movie is set in. I don't see anything bad happening there!

    • @thebrownbaldy
      @thebrownbaldy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The foreshadowing is strong here

    • @angusmacfrankenstein7227
      @angusmacfrankenstein7227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hell, this year, some kids are grinning along with the rest of their families, all of them stroking their oiled semi-autos on Xmas cards!

  • @jjj-sl2ok
    @jjj-sl2ok 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I find funny that They didn't name this "class of 2000", like for some reason "1999" was just about right, futuristic enough to not be cliche.

  • @wimvanderstraeten6521
    @wimvanderstraeten6521 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I'd say that this is a cross between Westworld and The Blackboard Jungle.
    BTW: you should definitely do an Albert Pyun cyberpunk movie someday.

    • @scockery
      @scockery 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      MOTHERBOARD JUNGLE

    • @JnEricsonx
      @JnEricsonx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I vote for Nemesis. That actually was playing in the theater near me, but I couldn't get to go see it. Which sucks because when I finally saw it on cable, I would have LOVED to see that in theaters.

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@JnEricsonx Nemesis is a legitimately good shoot 'em up. I always forget how great the action is in that movie.

    • @JnEricsonx
      @JnEricsonx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@robwalsh9843 And then they did the sequels and changed from actor to actress, and I guess the budget dropped. And hell, Thomas Jane is in the first one!

    • @PictureProductStudio
      @PictureProductStudio 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robwalsh9843 Also one of The Matrix was inspired by. In this particular case the agents are very similar.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It's quite amazing how we thought the future would be in the 1970s and 80s. Just look at the movies that are set in 1999 or the year 2000. So so very wrong and of course dated. Although I don't recall hearing Prince's song, 1999 all that much in 1999.

    • @harmsc12
      @harmsc12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I heard it all damn year.

    • @Tony_Cardoza
      @Tony_Cardoza 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's funnier when they make movies now based on the 70s or 80s and get everything wrong. They are dealing with stuff that already happened yet they still mess it all up.

    • @scottmacgregor3444
      @scottmacgregor3444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There's actually a term for "the datedness of something that was once meant to seem futuristic. "
      Zeerust.
      Buck Rogers and all the 50s and 60s raygun science fiction is a good example.

    • @ferdonandebull
      @ferdonandebull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They were not “conceiving the future” based on anything. They were just telling a story .
      What is funny even today the safest place a kid can be is at school..

  • @bigbossman2810
    @bigbossman2810 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I remember renting Class of 1999 on VHS back then. It was a very entertaining movie for sure.
    The lead actor, Bradley Gregg also played in Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Phillip (the guy that made puppets).

    • @Samurai_Stoner
      @Samurai_Stoner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I knew I knew his face but couldn't place it, ty 👏

    • @thetxaggie6575
      @thetxaggie6575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He was also in Stand By Me as River Phoenix's older brother

    • @getschwifty9531
      @getschwifty9531 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He had one of the most visually uncomfortable deaths I've seen in a horror flick.

  • @AlextheKaijuFan
    @AlextheKaijuFan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    At 13:55, what's pretty coincidental is that on top of you making the Battle Droids joke, Phantom Menace came out in 1999. This movie is called, "Class of 1999," it predicted them.

  • @carltonstaples7423
    @carltonstaples7423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Hey Brandon, since you're doing killer robot movies here's some recommendations:
    *EVE OF DESTRUCTION - Gregory Hines manhunt a female Terminator with a self-destruct nuke.
    *CHOPPING MALL - Jim Wynorski on haywire mall security robots; plus with Kelli Maroney, Barbara Crampton & Dick Miller.
    *DEADLY FRIEND - Wes Craven on a brain dead girl next door Kirsty Swanson with an android chip goes batshit crazy in the neighborhood; plus, the coolest kill with a basketball and a WTF ending.

    • @jairoukagiri2488
      @jairoukagiri2488 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Took me a while to find Chopping Mall but I finally got the Zombies Ate My Neighbors reference at least.

  • @sfighter0085
    @sfighter0085 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The first "Brandon's Cult Movie Review" of 2022, and wow was it a blast.
    I gotta say, this looks like hell of a fun movie. The Action, the effects, and even the cheesy dialogue make this movie one I should keep an eye out for.

    • @TheBrandonTenold
      @TheBrandonTenold  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It is a fun (if derivative) b-movie.

    • @arieljacobsegal
      @arieljacobsegal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheBrandonTenoldlooks interesting if cheesy. I saw Stacy Keach play Macbeth on stage in 1995. This is a..different role

    • @jeremyfrost2636
      @jeremyfrost2636 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@arieljacobsegalDude's got range.

  • @xraypunch5959
    @xraypunch5959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love how this movie turns into a 2-Player CO-OP side scrolling shooter at the end.

  • @robertstuart480
    @robertstuart480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I can't stop laughing at the "ball gag and nipple clamps" comment. You are awesome, Brandon!

  • @kai_plays_khomus
    @kai_plays_khomus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Man, I would have loved to attend a school like that - the "school zone" looks pretty much like the music festivals I used to visit.

  • @jamilabubakar5811
    @jamilabubakar5811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That scene where the kid gets pulled through the wall has been stuck in my head for years. I could never remember what movie that scene was from until I saw this today. Thank you, Brandon. I finally have closure.

    • @lolajaramillo4620
      @lolajaramillo4620 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There’s another scene like that with a police officer, or someone like that in the 1988, ‘The Blob’ movie.

    • @babarshah9038
      @babarshah9038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That police officer death in the Blob was an original death scene. They copied that scene cleverly in this movie and was suggested by a makeup artist to actually do that pulling kid through wall scene in this movie. The same artist had worked in the Blob . Honestly this scene has been stuck in my head as well since childhood .It has totally screwed With my mind till today.Was shocked when I first saw it at the age of 10 in 1992. The first time I watched this movie.Two more movies have the same death scenes . One is Thirteen Ghosts and another is the found footage movie Pyramid which came out in 2014.

    • @petertapola8097
      @petertapola8097 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@babarshah9038 Creepshow 2 came out the year before and it had a similar scene (in "the raft") .

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I remember that Simpsons episode Bart was like, he's like some unstoppable never giving up guy.

  • @FumblsTheSniper
    @FumblsTheSniper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I definitely remember seeing this on one of the fuzzy channels late at night. Along with gems like Species and an episode of Bleach on Adult Swim which I still remember vividly.

  • @user-jj6lk6gj2w
    @user-jj6lk6gj2w 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    One of the best movies I ever saw. In Russia, it was a hit in Video Markets (with one-voice dub, it was fantastic). In Russia it isn't a cult classic. It is the true classic. Alongside Commando, Last Action Hero and other movies that Americans don't appreciate. How can you laugh at such fantastic movies?

    • @graemesmith6721
      @graemesmith6721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm an American, and I love Commando and The Last Action Hero!

    • @thetowerofbabble6307
      @thetowerofbabble6307 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because it’s not that great of a movie? It’s definitely a cult classic, but not a “true” classic. Just because it’s considered a “true” classic in Russia, doesn’t mean it is elsewhere.

    • @graemesmith6721
      @graemesmith6721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thetowerofbabble6307 It's a classic there. That's all that matters.

    • @thetowerofbabble6307
      @thetowerofbabble6307 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alright. Was just trying to explain why it may not be popular in America.

    • @graemesmith6721
      @graemesmith6721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@thetowerofbabble6307 I love Commando, because as someone who has played role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons for decades, I see it as an example of a player with a character who is so overpowered he keeps derailing the game master's plot.
      GM: Okay, the bad guys have kidnapped your daughter and left behind a guy who tells you you have to go to a Central American country and kill its current leader so the previous El Presidente can come back and regain power.
      OP player: I kill the bad guy.
      GM: What?
      OP player: I kill him. I'm gonna rescue my daughter.
      GM: OK, you kill him. You run outside to see the bad guys driving away with your daughter.
      OP player: I get in my Jeep Cherokee and chase them.
      GM: They've wrecked the engine. It won't run.
      OP player: I push it so it rolls down the hill.
      GM: OK, you catch up with the bad guys. They beat the snot out of you and put you on a plane with a guard headed for El Presidente's country.
      OP player: I kill the guard, climb out through the front landing gear, jump off as the plane is taking off, then go to find my daughter.
      And so on . . .

  • @666magic
    @666magic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I watch this year's ago when I first subscribed to Netflix. I loved it for its ridiculousness.

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this is like a grimdark version of Disney's recess

  • @CaptianBastard7
    @CaptianBastard7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    From 32k when I joined, to almost 200k...man, may this be a banner year for you!...thank you for doing what you've done bringing us entertainment, joy, GREAT movie suggestions and comfort to those who have been lonely.
    Keep Shredding Brandon... \m/

    • @remliqa
      @remliqa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You upgraded to 200K modem ? Congrats, man! I remember when the 32K modem was state of the art tech.. good times...

    • @TheBrandonTenold
      @TheBrandonTenold  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're very welcome!

    • @TheWarmotor
      @TheWarmotor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's probably the most underrated film critic on the platform. Him and Ralph Sepe are the two I'll watch as soon I've seen that they posted.

  • @davetheheretic295
    @davetheheretic295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So, it's Westworld meets To Sir With Love meets Breakfast Club? Also, why are there futuristic murderbots but people are driving Crown Vics and KLR 650s?

  • @codiak2680
    @codiak2680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As a ten year old watching this movie on late night cable, it really tripped me out especially the full fledged firefight scene between the gangs and the insane Terminator-esque battle at the end.

  • @DisinterestedHandjob
    @DisinterestedHandjob 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    John P Ryan was overlooked for so many awards.

  • @Sigismund697
    @Sigismund697 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The idea of combining Terminator with "How do I reach these kids" movies is something I didn't know I wanted
    Like when the fat girl has to drop out of calculus team because her mom needs her to work to support her 7 siblings the teacher breaks her back with his knee and tells her she'll never get another chance like this if she drops out of calculus

  • @EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV
    @EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I often cheer on the killer robots in movies... but never more than in this one!
    Get those squishy human punks!! :D

  • @iamtamashii4184
    @iamtamashii4184 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you for this. Love this cheesy classic Class of 84 also had a very young Micheal J Fox

  • @drakedarkest1627
    @drakedarkest1627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    4:20 well, mostly due to the auto being band by federal that kids can't bring auto into school. Makes the semi-auto kids smug.

  • @Theokal3
    @Theokal3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Good to have you back Brandon. I can never thank you enough for these review :) it's always fun discovering new cheesy movies with you.

    • @TheBrandonTenold
      @TheBrandonTenold  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I mean, I was only gone for a couple weeks, but thank you!

    • @Theokal3
      @Theokal3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheBrandonTenold Yeah, I realized that after I posted this^^' sorry, for some reason it felt longer than that.

  • @jeffengland2791
    @jeffengland2791 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Darren E Burrows (Ed Chigliak from Northern Exposure), the son of perennial bad guy Billy Drago, was also in this.

    • @dinosoid2000
      @dinosoid2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah he was the older brother that got the drugs shoved down his throat.

  • @IsraelShekelberg
    @IsraelShekelberg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It seems to have perfectly predicted Seattle in 2020.

  • @TheWarmotor
    @TheWarmotor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Always a treat when Big BT drops another cult movie review on us. Thanks for all your hard work, big guy :)

    • @TheWarmotor
      @TheWarmotor 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aw hell yeah, Brandon saw my comment :) That's a pick-me-up for sure.

  • @thebrownbaldy
    @thebrownbaldy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember when this film premiered as an HBO World Premiere film on Friday night back in the day. This is when films were fun and didn't take themselves seriously, just entertained you.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Saw this movie the year it takes place, 1999. Lol! It was on Showtime.

  • @rickyrackey7930
    @rickyrackey7930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’m waiting for a review of Insemenoid. I can’t BEAR the terror.

  • @NGMonocrom
    @NGMonocrom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yeah, Class of 1999 II was _almost_ saved by it's twist in the film. Almost....

  • @dinosoid2000
    @dinosoid2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh Darren Burrows is the brother. His dad is the late great Billy Drago, a legend amongst B-movie villain actors! Seriously has Brandon ever done a Billy Drago movie!?

  • @evildoughboy7773
    @evildoughboy7773 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Terminator meets Dangerous Minds, but where Michelle Pfeiffer plays the Terminator. One part I noticed on slow play was when they blew up one of the robots, you can see an old Polaroid camera as part of the pieces flying away.

    • @MrDj232
      @MrDj232 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      More like Terminator meets One Eight Seven.

  • @clbaker8356
    @clbaker8356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The actor playing the younger brother also played "Old Man" in Near Dark

    • @charlesdavis4887
      @charlesdavis4887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Joshua Miller. Also was in River's Edge as Keanu Reeves little brother.

    • @KBWeeds
      @KBWeeds 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And he played annoying younger brother in Teen Witch.

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@charlesdavis4887 Miller, the son of Jason Miller ("The Exorcist") and half-brother of Jason Patric ("The Lost Boys"), co-wrote the slasher spoof, "The Final Girls".

  • @tylerclifford9436
    @tylerclifford9436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Such a great flick. Thanks for the vid

  • @kyleolson8977
    @kyleolson8977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Kennedy High School is south of Seattle. According to the map, maybe they caught Lincoln High School, but mostly they blocked off Green Lake, Wallingford, and especially Ravenna. They wouldn't be catching bad high school kids. It would be filled with with joggers with dogs, cyclists, college professors & students, and older upper middle class households.
    Not many Pam Grier Robots.

    • @ChrisMaxfieldActs
      @ChrisMaxfieldActs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The main exterior school set was done on a school in Wallingford. I was living just south of there, at the time of filming.

    • @kyleolson8977
      @kyleolson8977 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@ChrisMaxfieldActs It's been so long since I saw this film that I forgot that it was actually shot in Seattle and not Vancouver for Seattle.
      After your comment I had to check IMDb. The High School was Lincoln.

  • @davidhanson4909
    @davidhanson4909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Aah, Tracy Lind, one of my favorite b-movie crushes. Also Ed from Northern Exposure and the kid vampire from Near Dark. Never had a crush on those, though.

    • @scockery
      @scockery 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I shipped Ed and Marilyn on Northern Exposure.

  • @nobbynoris
    @nobbynoris 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Stacy Keach must be the only actor alive who could rock that abomination of a "hairstyle" and yet look decidedly worse once he turns to FACE the camera!

  • @elegantdisarray
    @elegantdisarray 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love that I can always find obscure shit like this on tubi. They've also got the second one, and Class of 1984 👍

  • @theunbearablejuan
    @theunbearablejuan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This sequel baffles me to no end. The original was a fairly gritty and mean spirited film about unruly teenagers and unlawfulness becoming the norm in schools.
    So why not follow it up with ROBOTS?!

    • @StCerberusEngel
      @StCerberusEngel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I think you answered your own question. Why NOT follow it up with ROBOTS?! lol

    • @charlesdavis4887
      @charlesdavis4887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Liked the sequel but the idea of him being the original scientist's son was a odd decision.

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The 80's formula
      Add the following: Robots, ninjas, South American drug cartels, weird multicultural punk gangs, etc.

  • @DeeJayTDubb
    @DeeJayTDubb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I’ve spent the last two weeks watching your videos while I have been sick and I have to say this has been arguably the best time I’ve had while being sick lol yes you need to do a Blaxploitation movie Hell I wish you would do the howling! I just will have to send a Patreon to get this done lol

  • @louisduarte8763
    @louisduarte8763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    16:42 "Oh no! Bullets at point blank range! My one weakness!"
    18:03 Exterminate? What do they think they are, Daleks?
    And if there's a perfect time to review a Blaxploitation flick, it's February.

  • @DakoGuyver
    @DakoGuyver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You know, I don't remember watching this movie, but I really had the feeling that I have watched it before.

  • @markw.loughton6786
    @markw.loughton6786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A blast from the past, I remember watching this on VHS back in my Jurrasic period lol

  • @TraTranc
    @TraTranc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Aah, blame it to violent videogames and Marilyn Manson, I'm sure it'll be fine."
    And GUNS. Don't forget to blame GUNNNZ!

  • @thepun3721
    @thepun3721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    class of 1999 is midnight hbo gold, i remember they would play toxic avenger after this movie a lot

  • @Dynaman21
    @Dynaman21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lawrence Kasdan was the executive producer? The guy who wrote Raiders of the Lost Arc? Small world.

  • @aidanfarnan4683
    @aidanfarnan4683 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well, I guess I know what i'm adding to my monthy "Insane movie" night.

  • @davidvega462
    @davidvega462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Bionic tetas huh?” I will never stop loving Canadian pronunciation of Spanish. More please sir 😂

  • @qubex
    @qubex 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was born in 1981 and graduated in 1999. I remember watching it a pre-teen and I was keenly aware that I’d be graduating in the Class of ‘99 and that this could be my future… but it felt very unlikely.

  • @Devilsblood
    @Devilsblood 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well this movie came out in 1990 back when there were a slew of terminator knock offs. You should review "Nemesis"
    I did like the film though, there has always been a charm to late 80s and early 90s sci-fi.

    • @Henrik_Holst
      @Henrik_Holst 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nemesis is golden! Never seen any of the 4 sequels though.

    • @milesipka
      @milesipka 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Henrik_Holst Nemesis is awesome, but Nemesis 2: Nebula is surprisingly decent - it is essentially The Terminator meets Predator as we have female bodybuilder Sue Price in Africa fighting a time-travelling cyborg that looks like Skynet decided to copy Predators...
      Or as the fans used to call it the "Predinator".

  • @cactoidpinata
    @cactoidpinata 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for another great review. And thank you for keeping your content so consistently funny, entertaining, and genuine. Please keep up the excellent work!

  • @MichaelGMunz
    @MichaelGMunz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks of that MST3K bit when forklifts are mentioned.

  • @surenotejas3163
    @surenotejas3163 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Let's go brandon, you sir
    Are in a roll!

  • @michaelccozens
    @michaelccozens 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I do like that the apocalyptic war-zone schools of the wasteland Future are actually better equipped than a lot of inner-city schools today.
    Humanity; boldly out-doing our most pessimistic prognosticators since, well, pretty much ever.
    Wait, Stacy Keach was just a weird human? They seemed to be setting-up a "the "human" commander was a secret android all along" Alien-Ash twist pretty heavily. Did they forget?

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think Malcolm McDowell will say yes to any role.

    • @timtheskeptic1147
      @timtheskeptic1147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think he's rethought that after getting more hate mail than the writers of Star Trek Generations.

    • @Dynaman21
      @Dynaman21 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was in the live action Fist of the North Star movie. Clearly he will.

  • @Rothgar59
    @Rothgar59 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    TH-cam; a place where you can watch a killer robot run a drill into someones face, but you have to blackbox a fake nipple.

  • @brandigarza8876
    @brandigarza8876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Blaxploitation films would be awesome! Coffey, Blacula, Cooley High. So many possibilities

  • @jdsim9173
    @jdsim9173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love this movie, some schools are actually this bad

  • @c.t.651
    @c.t.651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was a great little film.

  • @kylecurry577
    @kylecurry577 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is wacky fun! Definitely popcorn material. Sit back with some cold ones 🍻🍺🍻it’s silly & over the top , but somehow slightly entertaining. Oh yeah Ms. Pam Grier 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽HELL YES !!!! Brandon start reviewing Blaxploitation!!!! CAN’T WAIT!!!! Dolemite, Foxy Brown, TNT Jackson , Black Belt Jones , Black Caesar, Cleopatra Jones, etc. Go for it!!

  • @menslady125eif2590
    @menslady125eif2590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Golly, I don't remember hearing about killer robo-teachers when I was 15!

  • @thEannoyingE
    @thEannoyingE 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I never really cared for this one, but Stacey Keach was fun in it.

    • @varanid9
      @varanid9 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's always good, even if, as here, the movie sucks.

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He will always be Papa Titus to me.

  • @Irish1Eric
    @Irish1Eric 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Coolest Canadian ever. Thanks for keeping us laughing

  • @DiegoHernandez-kf9bd
    @DiegoHernandez-kf9bd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My grandparents describing how their daily trip to school was like 3:35

  • @eddstarr2185
    @eddstarr2185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ahh yes . . . the Future of Education. It all seemed so easy back in the day!