THE FUGITIVE is DAM Good!!!!
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Original Movie: The Fugitive (1993)
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The train crash scene was famously (at the time) made by crashing a real train, no CGI. After filming, instead of cleaning up the wreckage, the locals turned it into a movie museum that you can visit today.
Today the scenes of action movies are so boring, pure CGI, they look like a video game, that's why I miss the 80s and 90s, that in the absence of that technology they had to film the scenes in a real way like the train crash in this movie and I remember in Demolition Man and Lethal Weapon 3 exploding and demolishing real buildings in scenes of those movies and in Face Off and Speed crashing and exploding real airplanes. Times that will never come back, filming in that way is too expensive for today and with CGI they prefer to go easy and less expensive. That's why these old movies are relics of a way of filming that no longer exists.
However some of it is miniature, since they only had one shot at the real thing and it didn't go quite how they wanted.
The train is also a riff on Indiana Jones, with the big stone rolling after him.
What's left of the train can be visited outside Dillsboro NC.
I came here to say something similar. My grandmother lived in Bryson city North Carolina. A few places around town are in the movie including the restaurant she worked at during filming, Nabers. They also had several versions of the bus that was hit by the train on display for a long time.
This is one of those movies that, when you're surfing channels looking for something to watch, you stop on; even if it's half over. 💪🏽😍🤩
Lol, agreed. This and Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, The Mummy. AMC practically thrives on it.
Don't be such a pessimist - it's not half over, it's half beginning
@@TheIronDuke9 I see where you're going, but it being half over means I missed part of it, which is a bummer. 👍🏽😁
I’ve done that several times!!
It's a really great film until the final act. It kind of falls apart at the end with the silly fight between Nichols and Kimball.
"I didn't kill my wife!"
"I don't care!"
Perfect example of how an antagonist doesn't have to be a villain.
And the fact that, because they're at a loud dam, they have to yell their lines at each other, gives the mundane dialog a lot of much-needed punch.
Kimble must have the same lawyer as Andy DuFrense
Haha
Dufresne. ^^
Kimble should have exercised his right to remain silent. He's a fool.
@@docsavage8640 they still had the recording of his wife saying 'Richard, he's trying to kill me'. That was pretty harsh evidence. You have to wonder though with all the power and wealth Devlin Macgregor had, if Kimble's lawyer wasn't paid off.
☠️☠️
Julianne Moore was originally supposed to have a much larger role in the film as a love interest for Kimble who would aid him. It was decided that as Kimble was still mourning his wife and searching for her killer, it sorta would demean that if he so quickly hooked up with another woman, and so the role was made much smaller
That’s cool! I thought she was gunna help him or something!!! Glad they cut that out
Good call, that would've been so dumb.
That does make sense, given how important she seems for a few minutes.
Interesting, thanks! Psychologically, it would've fit, in terms of people often attempting to escape intense emotions, including grief, with distraction. But this movie was already 130 jam-packed minutes, so, in addition to keeping Kimble's motivations and character a bit more straightforward, I can see why it got cut.
Kinda wastes Julianne Moore, though. I'm happy to see her in anything, but she didn't really get to spread her wings here, which is always a shame. Ah, well!
She’s still pretty high in the credits. At the time i wondered why that was.
"Care to revise your statement, sir?"
"What?"
"Do you want to change your bulls*it story, sir?"
One of my absolute favorites. Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones were top game
The "I don't care" line was invented by Tommy Lee Jones. The original line was something else (Jones would try and appease Ford's character instead, since he had a gun pointed at him), but Jones thought it would better fit his character to reply: "I don't care". Which kind of summed up his personality and mission a lot better. He wasn't there to put Ford on trial. He was there to catch a fugitive.
I love that, for most of this movie, there isn't really even an antagonist. Tommy Lee Jone's character isn't a bad guy. And if we didn't know that Harrison Ford was innocent, Jones would actually be viewed as the protagonist. The fact that both characters are portrayed in a sympathetic light, and both of them are likable was well executed. It would have been easy to have a cliche of an merciless, villainous, corrupt cop coming after him. Or, and perhaps worse, a cop that was complacent or unintelligent. But Tommy Lee Jones, while certainly driven, is none of those things. And Jones' performance was incredible; he stole this whole movie, and how good does your performance has to be to steal the show from Harrison Ford?
>>>The "I don't care" line was invented by Tommy Lee Jones.
That line wasn't invented.
I said it in 1982.
@@voodoochile333 I copyrighted that line in 1981. 😂
The original line was “That’s not my problem!”
@@SciTrekMan That's interesting. Saying it's not his problem is basically the same sentiment, but for some reason it sounds more like an asshole thing to say. "I don't care" is somehow more to the point but sympathetic. I can't describe why it's better but it is. That's why Tommy Lee Jones is such a damn brilliant actor.
This movie (actually the TV series) was inspired by the Sam Sheppard case in Bay Village (a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio) in 1954. He was tried and convicted in the Cleveland newspapers even before the trial started, but he was eventually acquitted in 1966. The case was a circus in the courtroom. He died in 1970.
What a great share! I lived in Cleveland for a time and was familiar with that case. So few know, awesome trivia tid bit!!
Probably the best example of making a movie from a TV series I've ever seen!
I was born in Bay Village (technically Lakewood hospital)shortly afterwards. It was the one thing that made our little town famous.
Cleveland in the house.
There was a good TV movie made about the Sheppard case in the 70s starring George Peppard.
Often goes under the radar, but U.S Marshalls is a sequel to this.
but it's nowhere near as good as this one
@@dynamicdave2647 Its not as good but its still an oklay film.
@@dynamicdave2647 I agree. I loved it, but this movie is an instant classic.
Btw, get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol.
Wow I never knew that. Need to watch that soon, thanks!
@axelfoley1406 Haha, this gunologist here is recommending a sidearm that's not a 1911. Where'd you get your degree, Professor?
lol "I just loved him as Two Face in Batman" is a wild statement to hear about Tommy Lee Jones when watching this.
Yeah... I was sitting here thinking: I hope TLJ never sees this video. :D
If you listen, she says “I just loved him as Two Face in Batman Forever.” Forever is the key part I don’t think you caught. It’s a film from 1995, and you guessed it. TLJ plays Two Face.
@@thebluesmurfdude i think everyone knows that, he just famously hated that role
@@danholmesfilm Yup. ^ This.
@@thebluesmurfdude lol I hope nobody is thinking I thought he was in the Nolan films or something. I'll spell out the funny part: he's been in a TON of far better movies, so referencing that one is...a choice.
If you ❤️ this Harrison Ford movie, you'll love him in "Presumed Innocent". One of the most intellectually stimulating "who done it" movies ever!
That film was an inspiration for Batman The Long Halloween comic! Along with Godfather :)
Also the amazing (first act of) Witness
I really liked him in Frantic too!
If you really like Harrison Ford then you should watch Regarding Henry.
Witness (1985) is awesome. More reaction channels should feature that movie.
final episode of tv's The Fugitive ,where one armed man is caught was TV's biggest audience of its time.
Stories like this are reminders of why you never voluntarily agree to an interview by the police. And if you're under arrest, you shut up and request a lawyer. Anything important about your case, you share with your attorney and no one else.
Cops will take the most innocent thing you say and use it against you. Their job is to get busts, not find out the truth. The DA's job is the same.
"I don't care" being one of the classic lines of the 90s but also a great statement about rule of law
Well, it's utterly irrelevant at that time.
@@docsavage8640 But it's important. He's not supposed to care.
@@docsavage8640 But not now.
This movie did a great job of condensing the original show into a really well paced story.
Also, I still quote the “I don’t care” line from this so often. His delivery of it is one of my favorite in any movie 😂
Thanks for another great reaction!
I work in a lot of industrial buildings, waterworks, concrete mazes not unlike the insides of that dam. So I quote "There's no way out of here." a lot.
It's so difficult to describe how iconic so much of this movie was at the time, some of these scenes, the train hitting the bus, the dive off the dam, Tommy Lee Jones list of houses were borderline definitive of filmmaking at the time.
And by using a group of experienced supporting actors... in rewatching this film, we see those folks shine, keeping the pace high when the Stars are not on-screen. Outstanding work.
@@emwa3600 A couple things bothered me; the way they portray the Chicago cops as total ignoramuses grated on my nerves. In my experience it's the Feds who are the real assholes. Local cops aren't all idiot-dunces like they were portrayed.
The team that plays the Marshals, with Tommy Lee Jones and Joe Pantoliano, was so good in this movie there was a spinoff made called US Marshals.
37:45 Sykes gave himself away by saying "Do you see him in the pictures? I told you I don't know him!" If he really didn't know, he wouldn't remember if Kimble was among the guests on some random fishing trip. He knew Kimble isn't in the pictures, because he knew exactly who Kimble is, and who were present on the trip. You can see how Gerard gives him a look when he says that
Skyes is played by the legendary Andreas Katsulas. My other favorite performance from him is in Star Trek: The Next Generation where he played Romulan Commander Tomulak. His episodes where he appears are definitely worth watching.
This filmed in 1993 in my old neighborhood. I remember one morning, me and my older brother were going to school, and we stumbled upon a filming location, and we saw Harrison Ford himself coming out of a house and getting into a car and driving off.
That's a cool memory.
Kimble's lawyer is played by Dick Cusask, father to both John and Joan Cusack, and also to a brother who plays the audio technician working on Kimble's phone call to his lawyer at the US Marshals HQ.
Also Bill Cusak, he was on Gerard's team, I think he did the call tracing/recordings.
Tommy Lee Jones’ acting job as Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard was liked so much Sam Gerard’s character got his own spin off movie called “US Marshals.” Tommy Lee Jones reprises his role. Also Robert Downy Jr and Wesley Snipes are in it.
US Marshals is really, really good and well worth watching in its own right.
@@richardzinns5676 Yeah, and the same actors are in.
Ahh, the great Andreas Katsulas (One armed man)...aka G'kar from Babylon 5. What a great actor he was.
Also...Chicago dies the Chicago river green for St. Patrick's day...have been for over 50 years.
Also a major Star Trek TNG villain, the Romulan Commander Tomalak
Everyone forgets, but at the time Tommy Lee Jones was just a B-list character actor and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor which launched him into the stratosphere. He also improvised most of his lines, and probably deserved a second screenwriting Oscar for making Sam Gerard such a powerful character.
Before The Fugitive TLJ was mostly just known for playing the villain in Under Siege.
@@joemckim1183go back before that to “The Park is Mine”, first movie I remember seeing him in.
@@c1ph3rpunk Now that I think bout it I also saw Tommy in the movie JFK. But The Fugitive is the movie that made him a guy that could have his name above the titles.
He was a powerhouse in The Coal Minor's Daughter and was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in that movie - that's when he made his mark as an important actor on par with Robert Duvall
@@TheIronDuke9 Yeah he was definitely on the map as far as being acknowledged for his ability as an actor. But still he was a character actor until the early 90s.
There's a story that the TV show had an alternate ending that was never shown. In the ending that was shown, the real killer has been found, and Dr Kimble and the detective are walking on the beach. The detective and him talk for a while, him saying it must be nice to finally have his name cleared, then the detective walks away, leaving the Dr. to walk off alone as the sun sets.
The alternate ending is supposedly the same, except that after the detective leaves, Dr. Kimble removes his prosthetic arm and smiles. The story goes that the producers had the episode screen tested, and the test audience were so outraged they decided to never show it or even talk about it again.
That's quite a bit of Hollywood lore ya got there! 😉
Statistically speaking, he had an excellent chance of survival from jumping off the dam. When you account for the physics and anatomy of a human there was no way he could die being the protagonist. The odds are better than a camera man.
"NOT COSMO!!" 😂 That's Joey Pants, Joe Pantoliano, probably a top 5 all-time character actor.
He was great in the underrated Wachowski film "Bound".
@@cluster_f1575That’s an amazing film. Loved it.
It's clearly Ralph Cifaretto.
@@definitelynotanAIchatbot "But Tony, she was a whoo-ah."
Tommy Lee Jones was so good in this movie they made a spin-off movie just for him called US Marshall’s.
According to several people involved with the film, the original script was awful and the cast essentially did rewrites all the way through the filming process (including changing the villain). Somehow they turned that into one of the best movies of the early 90s and one I just bought on 4k this year when a steelbook was released.
I've always felt like the team's previous film--- "Under Siege"--- had to have had some improv goin' on (especially with Gary Busey in the mix). And that is in no way an insult (especially with Gary Busey in the mix)... :D
Tommy Lee Jones improvised most of his lines. He deserved an Oscar for writing for making Deputy Girard such a powerful character.
I wish actors would still do that because writing in Hollywood has gone right down the tubes. Between the illogical, poor plotting and character development and the woke/feminist garbage, I don't even bother to go to the movies anymore.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Sounds like you'll be missed.
:D :D :D
Great 90's quotes besides "I Don't Care":
“You Can't Handle The Truth!” (Jack) "Show Me The Money" (Jerry Maguire) "There's No Crying In Baseball" (Hanks) "It's Naht A Toomah!" (Arnie) "D'Oh!" (Homer)
"I'm your Huckleberry" (Val Kilmer)
@@BrokeSpike 💯 Great one 👍✌
Tommy Lee Jones is a beast in this.
And US Marshall. Imo
Academy Award, right?
The guy that calls him Wyatt Earp wasn't far off lol
Indeed! He won Best Supporting Actor for this role.@motorcycleboy9000
He's great in one of his first roles in Rolling Thunder also.
Ford sprained his ankle jumping from the bus.
Way worse - he tore knee ligaments. Then the stubborn dude refused surgery until they wrapped. That's why he's running with a limp all movie long.
@@d112cons Damn, I once tore *one* ligament which made my knee blow up like a balloon for two weeks and I couldn't move.
I don't recall _any_ other movie where you find yourself rooting _both_ for the senior criminal investigator _and_ the guy he's pursuing. I mean, they're both legitimately good people.
42:20 OMG It's the Janitor! 😲
What janitor, what are you talking about? Ohhh, THE Janitor! Yes, sure, sure!
@@ExtraSqueaky from Scrubs
@@ExtraSqueaky Dr. Jan Itor.
THE FUGITIVE is actually based on the real case of Sam Sheppard. Sheppard was a doctor with a beautiful family. In the early 50s his wife was murdered. Dr. Sheppard was arrested, tried, and was found guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison. After 10 years he got a new attorney, a young F. Lee Bailey ( old timers will recognize the name) and was granted a new trial. Bailey took the prosecution's case apart and Sheppard was found Not Guilty. He tried going back to medicine but had lost much of his skills. He remarried but that ended in divorce. He worked different jobs and did some professional wrestling. He died in his late 40s an alcoholic. There was a TV movie made in the 70s, GUILTY OR INNOCENT THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE. The TV program, The Fugitive, starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimball, first aired in 1963. The series ran for 4 years. One of the most watched programs at the time was the last episode where the one arm man is finally caught. Interesting to note that the TV series coincides with Sheppard's new trial. It was a sad ending for Dr. Sam Sheppard.😢
Nice summary about Sam Sheppard. You are right- "The Fugitive" with David Janssen was an extremely popular TV show and I remember seeing the finale with the one-armed man.
in 1997 DNA evidence finally absolved him - too little, too late. RIP
@@jollyrodgers7272 Thanks for the heads up. I recall hearing something about that. My memory is not as sharp as it used to be.
Great selection! That was a fun watchalong with you. Great editing job too!
Fun fact; that sheriff that Tommy Lee Jones dresses down would later go on to play a US Marshal on the show Justified, a show I highly recommend.
I've watched The Fugitive a lot and loved Justified. Never put 2+2 together til now. Thanks!
And the cop who gets shot by Sykes was played by Neil Flynn, the Janitor from Scrubs. Scrubs included that in one of their episodes where JD recognizes the Janitor while watching The Fugitive, but the Janitor denies it was him until the end of the episode.
Nick Searcy also plays Tom Hanks buddy in Cast Away.
He also plays the lead fake state tropper in "Days of Thunder" when Cole's truck & trailer gets pulled over after his first win and he gets groped by the nicest trooper I've ever seen.
@@joemckim1183 He is also the abusive husband in Fried Green Tomatoes.
Girl, you're awesome. I was watching your old videos and I realized why I like your reactions: it's because you're an actress and you're very expressive ❤
The best part about the St. Patrick's day scene is they just filmed it during the real thing, basically on a whim. Those aren't extras - that's the real parade, Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones really did walk in the middle of it, and all the camera men were blended in the crowd (with permission, of course).
And yes Chicago dyes the river green for St Patty's!
Props to Ames for the perfect recreation of that iconic key scene!
This is only a movie, but it’s still a reason that you never talk to the police without a lawyer.
Fun fact - much of the dialogue was improvised/written day-by-day by the cast, especially Jones and Ford. This is one of those happy accident movies where despite production chaos it all worked out perfectly.
And partially why the sequel and an attempts to adapt this film again sucks.
Tremendous effort to condense 120 tv episodes into two hours. Kudos to everybody. Glad you got to experience this.
I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out, and it was so much fun. Everyone was laughing, cheering, gasping, and yelling at the screen at pretty much the same time, which definitely made it a very enjoyable experience.
Do did I.
My favorite Ford movie not counting Indy or Star Wars.
You should watch " Pressumed Innocent " with Harrison Ford.
This is exactly why you always have a lawyer present when you are being asked questions by the police.
Oh how I miss the 90s!
Movie after movie, so many good cinema experiencs on a Saturday afternoon followed by rushing to the stores to buy the soundtracks, from Howard's The Fugitive to Mancina's Speed & Bad Boys, Goldsmith's Total Recall, I could go on and on.
These days very few movies leave me wanting to buy the soundtracks, in fact I think there's been a switch from standout music tracks to accompanying music tracks so it's like the music helps the movie along but simply doesn't stand out on it's own (at least for me anyway)
I love the music in this, such a great infusion of orchestral and jazz
And the movie itself, such great acting, a superb script (at the time there was a pre-release feeling that it might fail because it was a resurrected script from a long forgotten TV show)
And now your wonderful reaction, talk about on the ball, you read a lot of the hints and small elements, fantastic stuff thank you and thank you again!
The actor playing the sheriff in the beginning who blows off the marshals ends up playing a marshal in the TV series Justified!
Me: I see a guy with my gun that says he's innocent, doesn't shoot me, says" I'm innocent",
Jumps off a Hydroelectrical damn.
I am going to tend to believe him.
TLJ met Jim Carey on the set of Batman. The first thing TLJ said was “I cannot sanction your buffoonery!” That quote comes to me every time I see TLJ.
Edit: corrected dumb mistake
Do you mean TLJ?
@@evilpenguinmas yes, I do. What a dumb mistake. Thank you.
Did you witness him say that or did you just hear about it?
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 There are several interviews where Jim tells the story. I didn't make it up. Lol
Sometimes I rewatch this classic. Sometimes I just pull up John Mulaney randomly describing it beat for beat in the middle of an unrelated joke.
Also great is Jake Gyllenhaal's impression of Harrison Ford as Richard Kimble. The video is called "Jake Gyllenhaal Answers Ellen's 'Burning Questions'."
I love this movie. It was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid when I first saw it. It was also one of the first movies to leverage the loyalty-to-betrayal of his friend becoming one of the antagonists. It was really upsetting to littler me! I thought he had a loyal friend that would help and protect himmm 😭 It devastated me when I was a kid watching it with my mom when we rented it. But it was also a big part of why we all wanted Harrison Ford to prevail, and also a big part of what makes his success still tragic. But I know we were all proud of his other friends for publicly sticking up for him and helping him when he needed them. LOVE THIS MOVIE! So glad you had fun with it, and thank you for sharing your viewing experience!
The cop shot on the elevated train also plays the Janitor in 'Scrubs'
The Train crash was filmed in Dillsboro, North Carolina (Vaguely near Asheville). The little river there, visible in a few shots, is called the Tuckasegee. The bus and train wrecks remain there to this day. Very cool place to visit.
The dam is the Cheoah Dam, about an hour away.
Another great Harrison Ford movie you’d enjoy is Frantic. It’s a thriller, mystery set in Paris, directed by Roman Polanski.
This was the first Harrison Ford movie i saw on VHS!
It's one of my favorites!
Tommy Lee Jones took home the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as US Marshal Sam Gerard.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Keaton, Michael J. Fox, Patrick Swayze, Alec Baldwin, Nick Nolte, Kevin Costner, and Michael Douglas were considered for Richard Kimble.
Jon Voight and Gene Hackman were considered for Sam Gerard.
lol, my first Harrison Ford movie was Star Wars, ( Hans Solo) the original, in the theatre as a kid in the 70's. lol
Would've been a very different movie if Michael Jay Fox had been cast as Kimble. All the other options both (except for maybe Arnold) Kimble and Gerard, would've done admirable jobs as well though.
I am curiously jealous over your foaming at the mouth for Harrison and his beard! I knew you were a hearbreaker! Ha!
Joey Pants is great in everything. Two films he has small roles in that are great from the 80's - Midnight Run with De Niro and Running Scared (Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines). I highly recommend both.
"WHERE DID HE GO ?" "HE DID A PETER PAN RIGHT HERE !!!!" HILARIOUS !!! 🤗
I bet TLJ improvised that line also. He stole every scene he was in.
Someone who take the Hippocratic Oath seriously.
One of my dad’s favorites and therefore one of mine. Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious in this film. Besides his “I don’t care” line, I get a laugh every time I think of him saying “hen house, cat house” and that Harrison did a Peter Pan haha
Right!!!
Dam good. Glad to see you diving into the dad jokes.
You should go back to watch the 60s TV series the movie was based off of... It's more episodic, where he is wandering the country and every episode he shows up in a new town, often where there is some medical emergency where he uses his doctor skills to save a life - and of course when the agents show up they either cover for him or the like, knowing that Richard is a good man.
“I am so stoked!” That’s why I like watching your reactions. Ive seen dozens of your vids and you always get so stoked. Just wish you could have seen them on the big screen.
I love the look to the camera that you gave when you talked about your mother keeping her gallbladder in the cupboard, It really made me laugh. I think we all have things that our parents do they're a little bit crazy it makes us human.
Great reaction. A couple of tropes from the original tv series. One, Kimble always dyed his hair (he was played by handsome David Jansen) Two, he always had a slight limp, (Jansen tore a ligament the first season and had the limp for the rest of the series run) three, he always hitched and was picked up by a woman.
They actor from Office Space is Richard Riehle. Tom Smykowski is the character. He was in one of my all time favorite Indie Movies called "The Man from Earth". It all takes place in a little cabin where a University professor lives. He's been there for ten years and just received tenure at the school. Now he decided to leave. His colleagues show up to throw him a going away party, but are there really to find out why the hell he's leaving. The whole thing takes place in one house as all these professors sit around discussing the situation while drinking whiskey. It's brilliant. It's the best kind of sci-fi.
Two of the happiest memories I have of my dad was when the trailer for this movie came onscreen. The Fugitive was one of my dad’s favorite television shows and I grew up watching reruns of it with him. We were both psyched about a movie adaptation with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. The other happy memory was seeing this wonderful movie with him on opening weekend. We loved it.
25:06 Love when you jumped and said "Smarter". My kind of girl. Love your reactions. It is like your a here, at my side, on my living room, watching "The Fugitive" with me.
Thanks for watching!!!
One of my favorite meta jokes comes from Scrubs. The cop near the end who Sykes shoots on the subway is played by Neil Flynn, who played The Janitor on Scrubs. On the show, a running gag is that he never lets anyone know his real name or anything about his personal life. Then one day, the doctors are watching the Fugitive on tv, and when the others leave the room, JD is the only one to notice him in the train scene. He spends the rest of the episode trying to convince the others (and get the Janitor to admit) that he was once an aspiring actor before working at the hospital.
Absolutely one of the best movies of its time. My late father was a Dr and when we watched this movie he said that with the billions of dollars that are at stake in the pharmaceutical industry, this story is not in the least far-fetched, in terms of the lengths people will go to protect that income stream. Dad died in 1998 and spent his last year railing at the corruption of the whole medical health industry, because of the influence of Big Pharma, which funds over 75% of the training of Doctors and Nurses and other health professionals. He told me of the times he had been offered ‘incentives’ (like holiday pacakages) if he would give certain drugs preferential treatment when writing prescriptions. He said it was so subtle most of the time (just like the fishing junkets you see mentioned in this movie) but sometimes, when attending a dinner and lecture like the one Richard interrupts near the end, there would be an envelope at each dinner place, on every table. Usually it was free tickets to some event, or something similar, so it could be passed off as just like a thankyou gift for attending, but he said it was really just bribery when all is said and done.
Anyone who believes that the heads of the major pharmaceutical companies are all altruistic saints has rocks in their head! They are SO obscenely wealthy they can afford to pay crouts awarded damages and fines in the Billions of dollars with a shrug and just write it off as just a cost of doing business. They make the Mafia look like choirboys.
With all the shit that's coming out about Covid and Boeing every day the world looks much darker and more evil than a Hollywood script.
2:05 Harrison Ford's acting is AMAZING in this. Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for best supporting actor with this film and poor Harrison wasn't even nominated. When Tommy Lee was reciting his acceptance speech he thank this person and that person "...and of course the one man who NEEDS no support, the great Harrison Ford."
My Mom’s favorite movie of all time. And I loved it as well. That music was incredible. Last year, we watched the original series. It was worth it
“Nothing good ever happens on rooftops,” and “Nothing good ever happens in Landry rooms!”
Throwing down truth bombs!! 😂
This is one of my wife and I favorite movies!
Excellent film. The pacing, tension, performances - all top notch.
One of my all-time faves since childhood.
Indeed, Kimble was DAMMED one way or the other, so he figured "What the hell..." 😉
Great script, great direction and great acting. A good old fashion Hollywood action movie!
One of my favorite movies, and pretty underrated. Both Ford & Jones were GREAT. This is my favorite Ford movie after his role in the Star Wars movies and original 3 Indy movies.
saw this when i worked at a grocery store right next to a drive in theater in illinois when it came out. i just stood there and watched it in the dark and was surprised how good it was
Those flashes got you flinching multiple times 🤣
That was one of the most fun Fugitive reactions I've seen. Good job!!😀😀
This is a Chicago movie through and through, starting with Harrison Ford and director Andrew Davis who set/films most of his movies there. (Davis had worked with Tommy Lee Jones and Joe Pantoliano prior to this.)
Other cast members from Chi-town:
Jane Lynch
L. Scott Caldwell (Deputy Marshall Erin Poole)
Mike Bacarella (Deputy Marshall Stevens) aka "Right, no press!"
Ron Dean (Chicago Police Detective)
Joseph Kasala (Chicago Police Detective)
Dick Cusack (Kimble's attorney) John/Joan Cusack's father.
Neil Flynn (Transit cop shot on train) aka Janitor from Scrubs
David Darlow (Dr. Alec Lenz)
Frank Ray Perilli (lying corrections officer...from Office Space)
News reporters Lester Holt and Pam Zekman
and yes, we dye a portion of the river green every St. Patrick's Day.
This movie NEVER gets old.
I loved it!
Remember, at the fund raiser, Nickols handed Richard the keys and said, "Thanks for the loaner". He borrowed Richard's car....called Sykes, from the car phone, gained access to the house, with the keys, so no forced entry.
I went to see this movie in the theater with my dad. I grew up in Chicago, so to see on the big screen many locations I knew and had been to was quite something to my then young mind. Also, I love the fact the movie didn't just stick to the touristy bits of the city but also went into the neighborhoods. You got to see parts of Chicago rarely seen on screen.
Good one, Ames! This was a fun rewatch with you. Thanks for sharing it with us. 🙂
Nothing better than kicking back on a Sunday drinking a beer watching sum good reactions. This is my favorite Harrison Ford movie. Thanks for the reaction, This is my new favorite channel. Keep up the good work.💯
Tommy Lee Jones had been in films since the 70’s, yet this 1993 film is was what really made him a true bonafide star:) He just oozes fast talking Texas Charisma:) and having family there, Texas and fast talking don’t always go hand in hand:)
I think it’s more like it cemented his stardom. He had already made two big moves. The first, Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) propelled him into the limelight and the second was The Executioner’s Song (TV, 1982) where he played convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. This movie won him a prime time Emmy.
@@j.e.anderson6013 Ah, so true. I also loved him Rolling Thunder, and The Park is Mine:)
Dirty laundry gets cleaned in the laundry room and I think that’s a good thing. 😊
This and Godzilla (2000) were my very first DVDs back in 1998/99. I got them for free with my first computer, which was a P2 400mhz with a 2x CD burner.
I had already seen it so I knew it was a banger. Man, I feel old now. I was in high school at the time.
I assume US Marshals is in the future?
"nothing good ever happens in the laundry room"
lol soooo.... I'll just let that one pass
8:44 was the most Canadian thing I've ever heard Ames say 😂
@29:15 That part always brings a tear to my eyes. He’s being hunted, yet he takes the time to save a life. He’s the type of doctor who never forgets his primary role in life.
Joe Pantoliano was excellent as Ralph in the Sopranos. And lets not forget he was in the Goonies as a Fratelli brother.
The interrogation scene was improvised, Harrsiord Ford didn't know what questions he would be asked. His acting in that scene is so good.
Harrison Ford was so good in this. I wish that Indiana Jones movie would have happened that almost came to fruition a few years after this one. Another one you might dig that underrated is one called 'Frantic'. Ford's acting is great in it.
I've seen this movie 16 million times, but all I can think about while watching is the Gorgeousness of your hair!! You are so blessed!!! Great movie though!
Fantastic example of a tv-show made into a film, I adore the tv-show, and they really did well at condensing the idea into a feature film.
Fantastic post-film commentary!!! So well-articulated! Totally agree! Haven't seen this since the 90s and really enjoyed seeing it again!
Andreas Katsulas, the actor who played the one armed man, is also very well known from the classic sci-fi series Babylon 5 as the alien G'Kar.
Massive kudos to Katsulas for his powerful his performance in Babylon 5 despite heavy prosthetic makeup.
The green dye is an annual st patricks day thing in chicago. And yes at the time we did all wonder at some point whether they could dye the water in the chicago river blue the other days. It has gotten much better now, but in the early 90s, raw sewage had a better reputation