I love the General's character in this. John Mahoney plays him brilliantly, but he's also very well written and not the stereotype the military man could have been. He makes rational decisions the whole way through, and instead of keeping the one remaining piece of the giant for research, he gives it to Hogarth.
@@lapelcelery42 It also show's how a breakdown in communication often leads to people doing things they would never do otherwise. He's a very stern, serious, but RATIONAL person like you said, and that's what sells his character. You see it from the moment Mansley calls him that he doesn't play games, he wants the truth, and he'll deal with the consequences of said truth. Immediately doubted Mansley upon new information, confirmed it with his own eyes, and honestly, just instills a patriotism in everyone, whether you're from the US or not. Just the line "Make sure he stays here, like a good soldier" makes me go "YEAAAH! FUCK YOU MANSLEY!" I absolutely love his character.
One of my favorite things in this movie are the subtle references to Hogarth's father, and the reason for his absence. Hogarth has a pilot's helmet, and an adult size leather pilot's jacket. And on his nightstand, there is a photo of a pilot getting into a jet fighter. The implication is that Hogarth's dad was a fighter pilot, and he was killed in the Korean War. It adds to the anti-war theme of the film that a robot soldier befriends a lonely boy who lost his father in a war.
It also adds another layer to the "it's bad to kill, but it's not bad to die" line, because that's likely what his mother had to tell him when his father died and he was too young to understand. Kids his age don't usually think about that sort of thing, but he had to because of what happened to his dad
I wonder if that element was a hangover from Pete Townshend's version of the project. He was the one working on the film before Brad Bird became attached, as a musical based on his album version of the book, and he retained an Executive Producer on the finished film too. The pilot father who died in the war is a common trope, but it directly appears in Townshend's most famous work Tommy, and it's a departure from the Ted Hughes book.
"You are who you choose to be" "Superman" I'm not a crier, but this one gets me in my soul. Now contrast that with "I can hear the bald," which just might be the funniest thing George has ever said.
@@joshgreiner2599 I was not ready for this level of feels. I mean, even Pixar needs a good 15 minutes to set up those feels. This one just hits you outta nowhere with this little throwaway line.
*"WHERE'S THE GIANT, MANSLEY?!?!!"* - One of my favorite line reads in any animated film. Not only is this a great story, it's got some really good performances in it. And the cinematography (or whatever the animated equivalent is) ain't too shabby, either. The scene of the giant falling out of the sky reflected in the pick-up windshield is Grade-A shot composition.
I love how this movie takes a drastically different approach to what mainstream movies don't. This movie doesn't portray the US Government/military as inherently heroic or beneficial. Granted, the general and the army were misled by Mansley; but both parties are clearly the villains in this movie, and it's all because of the dangers of Cold War-style fear born from propaganda and nationalism.
@@theeternalshade2981I don't think that's true about them being villains (Except Mansley, obviously). They're painted as real people. The General is a decent man who makes reasonable calls throughout the film given the information he has, and is the first to understand that the Giant is harmless once he has the data. When everyone else is celebrating being saved, the General is instead saluting the Giant, and when they recover the screw at the end the general doesn't keep it for research, he gives it to Hogarth because the Giant was his friend.
Brad Bird pitched this film as "What if a gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a gun?" after his sister was murdered through gun violence. This movie makes me all kinds of emotional.
@@codybishop7526 gun violence has been going down for years. It's just covered more in the media now. I think school shooting have stayed consistent though.
Can't believe this has this many likes for being made up. This was a book in 1968, and then a musical in 1989. The screen production that this became started in 1991, and Brad Bird wasn't brought on to direct until 1996 when Turner & Time Warner merged.
“Prune juice, large” popular line said by. Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn), on Star Trek: The Next Generation; the line itself was said by Worf, in the show’s iconic ship’s(USS Enterprise), ten forward(bar/lounge/commissary) and when he uses any starfleet replicator unit.
@@MrGBH Worf didn't drink Prune Juice until he was on the Enterprise. Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) first introduced him to it and asked his adoptive parents why they had never given it to him on Earth.
Glad you guys enjoyed this! Perhaps now you can understand why a lot of us were upset at how Ready Player One absolutely missed the whole point of The Iron Giant.
Correct. It was never intended to have a sequel. Which is one of the things we all talked about in the beginning of production. Now....WB OWNES it...they can do whatever they want with it. But if they did, it would be without ANY of us from the crew. So it would be a very VERY different feel of movie than the one we did. And very much like ready player one...where it really is the OPPOSITE of the actually character and movie AND message. Thanks for getting that. :)
but if you remember, The Iron Giant wasn't IN the game. he was a mod created by another player. just like how there are mods for Fallout 3 and 4 and that turns Liberty Prime (a giant robots that goes on a rampage near the end of the games) into TIG. there is one for GTAV and xenoverse as well. and ofcourse, it wasn't TIG at all, but a suit, a costume, worn by a player.
Was looking forward to this, did not disappoint - between tears and belly laughs, a beautiful movie. "I can hear the bald" had me rolling George, one for the ages!
This is the first movie that actually made me cry. I remember seeing it on Cartoon Network when I was around 8 or 9, 20 years ago, and I didn't understand how people could be moved to tears at a movie. But it totally got me ugly crying, even made my mom shed a tear. I showed this movie to my nephew a few years back and he totally hated Mansley. He ranted about him for the rest of the day but loved it nonetheless. I do not understand how this movie flopped, it's a masterpiece.
@@emeraldas1013 This happens to a lot of movies. If they can't shoe horn it into a genre to sell it, they just don't bother. This happened to several movies I love, like The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension where the studio was asking the actors how it should be marketed. Despite almost no marketing, it still became a cult classic.
@@JoeXTheXJuggalo1 I read the book in fifth grade and was traumatized. Thirty-five years later I can still nearly quote the scene where his little brother dies.
Fun fact: old-school transformer stations really were that easy to turn on and off, though the fence would keep out anyone unauthorized. Said fence was already smushed by the giant, though. The reason for the ease of shutting it down is so you could easily shut it off if there was an accident.
I nearly spit my drink out when I saw this thumbnail. I swear you all deserve some kind of award for these. They're consistently and hilariously on point. 😎🤣😎
this film crushed me as a kid. the iron giant, Ferngully and Atlantis just have similar themes while also showing that a little understanding goes a long way.
I'm crying with you ALSO THE scene where the signal shows his dreams was never in the original. It was a deleted scene. It was a drawing concept they never created. Once they made the new version they added it.
I was looking for this comment. I’ve been watching this movie pretty much annually since it came out, dozens of watches, and I had never seen that scene.
Thank you I remember seeing this movie when I was little then again when it got added to Netflix several years ago but when this scene cam on I was confused. But guess they added it on some special edition. I was going to say I have been watching this movie for 20 something years and I never saw this before.
Ok omg I thought I was losing it. I’ve watched this movie so many times and that was the first time I saw this part, I thought I was going crazy or it was some Mandela effect! Thank you for clarifying!
I remember seeing the concept art, and wishing they added it. I was so glad to see it in the movie, even though I was a little sad that it has been changed.
I think the movie is better off without the added scene. I know there's plenty of scenes hinting at the Iron Giant's kill mode, but that scene fully confirms it long before the dramatic twist moment...
Fun fact, in the original draft of the script the Iron Giant doesn't come back and is destroyed forever, but they realized that ending would likely traumatize many children, so they changed it to the ending we got.
Glad you two liked it as much as pretty much everyone else. The movie bombed in theaters and became a cult classic with its video release, and eventually through word of mouth just became classic movie. I had MANY issues with Ready Player One, but one of my biggest was that they essentially turned the Iron Giant into the gun it didn’t want to be. Seeing him being used as weapon in a different movie felt like an insult to The Iron Giant.
I never had a problem with that because its not the iron giant itself, its basically just a mech being controlled by one of the characters. Now if they summoned the iron giant instead of controlling it and it still willingly participated in the fight then that would irk me
i feel like this movie should be required viewing for, like, 4th or 5th grade. it's an incredible movie, first, but also that moral of "you are who you choose to be" is so important. if the iron giant could be made as a weapon of war but choose to help people instead, a kid whose parents are trying to make them into a shitty person can choose to be kind instead. and then there's the whole "don't automatically attack what you don't understand" thing....ugh. this is just such a good movie.
I remember when this first came out, and I decided to see it on the big screen. The theater was almost empty, but I enjoyed the heck out of Iron Giant and told my friends to go see it.
So funny you chose to open with the prune juice line! The voice of the government doofus guy is played by Christopher MacDonald, who also played Richard Castillo in the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" which was the episode where Worf has prune juice for the very first time!
I love that Brad Bird used the same animation and writing team from this movie to create “The Incredibles.” You can see the characters all look like they could exist in either world. Shoot, Mansley is just a tall freckle-less Syndrome. 😂
As a kid, I was obsessed with this movie, so much so that my mom hates it, and when we ever decide to watch a movie, I always go, "I know what we should watch..." to which she looks at me and goes "No." This is my favorite movie, and it never ceases to make my tear up, knowing damn well it has a happy ending.
I'm sooooooo glad many people recomended this film to you and so glad that you reacted to it as well. This is by far my favorite animated movie of all time. It has everything, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry and all the messages that the film have, to every kid at the time (and maybe now) hit pretty hard. As always, great video! We here to support you work ❤️❤️
Mansley was voiced by Shooter McGavin. I think if you'd reflect, Percy from "The Green Mile" would be your most hated villain. Or at least above Mansley.
I think Commodus from Gladiator might be my most hated cinematic villain. An overgrown spoiled brat who would slaughter a man's whole family out of pure spite - man did I hate him, and Joaquin Phoenix knew just how to play him to make your skin crawl whenever you saw him.
You go from being mesmerized by the Iron Giant’s potential destructive power when he misses the ship to seeing how it’s really just our choices that make us who we are.
George, I think the intro you asked to be explained is referencing that prune juice is a Warrior's Drink (Worf ordering prune juice on ST:TNG and ST:DS9).
We read "The Iron Giant"* and "Charlotte's Web" in the same year at school. In retrospect, it seems at least possible that the teacher really didn't like us :). * the book's actually called "The Iron Man"
I watched this with my daughter when she was little. At the end when he says 'Superman' and then, boom! My daughter said what's happened and I was too choked up to answer! Probably my favourite animated film and it still gets to me.
This movie.....too underrated!! Beautiful cast with Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel and most of all Christopher McDonald playing probably one of the best villain bullies I know! And the Duck & Cover PSA video is priceless!
Absolutely loved this movie growing up. Had it on VHS along with a little action figure of the giant. It was so well made and a film that I can look back on fondly rather than cringe at a bad childhood movie like a lot of them.
This is definitely my favorite 2D animated movie of all time. That "Superman" and pieces coming together at the end are just incredible. Great storytelling at its best.
This movie is genuinely one of my favourite movies of all time. It´s such a beautiful depiction of a "gun with a soul" who chooses to be something else. The Iron Giants battle with it´s own nature as a war machine, which he very nearly loses, followed by his choice to save not only Hogarth but the entire town by sacrificing himself is something that makes me cry every single time I watch this movie. Truly a masterpiece of a movie with an amazing message!
@George: "Prune juice, large!" is a Star Trek reference. Worf (Klingon, warrior race) was once introduced to prune juice and it became his favorite drink. This is how he would order the drink from a replicator.
Brad Bird created this after his sister was shot and killed by her husband. He pitched the idea to Warner Brothers as "What if a gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a gun?"
When I was a child... I watched a film called "Voyage Into Space" which was pieced together from a Japanese TV show "Johnny Sakko and His Giant Robot" and it TORE MY HEART apart how it ended (with a very similar scene to this film) ... and when I first saw this film (in my thirties) ... oh god, oh god, oh god ... the emotional flashback and PTSD from my childhood came flooding back. I have always had a HUGE soft-spot in my heart for this film ever since the first time I watched it. I was bouncing out of my theatre seat during "Ready Player One" when the Iron Giant made his appearance... and cried when the Giant sacrificed himself in THAT film as well.
Awesome reaction again guys! the "Superman" bit at the end always gets me. Here are some films I like to put out there from that more or less era: -The Frighteners - Michael J Fox -TITAN A.E. - Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore (animated) -Ransom - Mel Gibson -The Ghost and the Darkness - Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas
I was totally unaware there was a deluxe version of this film. The whole dream sequence showing where he came from was not in the theatrical release. And BTW, Percy from “The Green Mile” usually wins polls on ‘most despicable movie villain’…
This movie is such a phenomenal hidden gem. I love the silent storytelling inherent in the opening where as soon as Earth launches its first ever satellite, a giant world-killing robot is sent to destroy us. Such a great movie.
15:30 wait? I've never seen that scene before? It must've been cit out of our version om the disc 😠 Also I noticed recently that Hogarth's dad was a pilot (Hogarth's helmet and a photo next to his bed) so his dad probably died in a war :(
It's kind of ironic that this movie uses Superman to an effective, emotional degree, while the actor that voiced Mansley voiced Jor-El, Superman's father, in the animated series, just about 3 years before this movie came out.
I like that George noticed the parallels the end of The Dark Knight Rises has with this. Now I'm picturing Batman saying "Sssuuupermaaannn..." as he flies off with the bomb.
This movie always got me to cry as a kid. This and The Fox and The Hound. I stopped watching both of them for years because I just couldn’t handle it. Even today it still gets me choked up and teary eyed. It’s just so damn good. It’s such a classic and I’m glad more people are finally seeing it for the wonderfully great movie that it is.
Everything about this movie is legendary. The animation, the music, the backgrounds, the characters, the list goes on. I did not grow up with it, so It took me a while to see this film but I instantly fell in love with it. Such a masterpiece of animation! Every character is great, but I really love hogarth, and Kent. The rivalry of those two make the movie. So glad more people are discovering this wonderful film🥰
Another movie that is suprisingly emotional which I can't suggest more highly is Train to Busan. I would love for yall to watch it and hear your reactions. One of my favorite movies of all time!
Great pick! This is one of my all time animated favourites. I was in animation school around the time this came out and we’d use it for reference for it’s great animation. So well made, and it has a lot of heart and humour.
Awesome seeing folks watch this movie. This came out right before my 3rd grade school year. My dad & mom had split up that summer. It was a confusing time & this film was there for me. One of the best stories ever told. You are who you choose to be 🖤
It’s so cool from a psychology perspective to watch these two un-ironically take the stance of villains of the film. To miss so greatly the meaning snd message. 😢
This is the Signature Edition. WB gave Brad Bird enough money to add two scenes for the Blu-ray that he always wanted included in the film that were cut for budgetary constraints. One was a short scene between Dean and Hogarth's Mom to establish their relationship so it doesn't come out of nowhere at the end. The other scene was the Giant's dream that Dean witnesses when the Giant projects it into the TV.
Vin Diesel is the voice actor of Iron Giant. The same man did the voice of Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy & play as Dominic Toretto in Fast & Furious.
"Maybe that's, like, the combination for the worst villain possible when you give someone who is confident but incorrect, and then give them power." Yeah, so glad we haven't had anything like *that* happen in recent years.
"Duck and cover" did actually have some logic to it, at sufficient distance the pressure wave from an A-bomb would blow in a room's windows. So if you were under a desk you'd be safer from flying shards of glass. You could then theoretically evacuate to a safe distance before the radiation hit lethal levels.
I had no idea the dream sequence in this movie was animated. In most versions that entire scene is cut. I've only seen it as a storyboard extra on DVDs
My favorite joke in this movie is one they didn't include. It's when the Giant does the "Cannonball!" into the lake, and the huge flood happens. A moment after they cut away, we see Dean washing up in his chair, before landing in the middle of the road. Cut to the Giant in what was once the lake, looking around confused, before Hogarth yells from the top of a tree that that was awesome. Cut back to Dean, who's still sitting exactly like we left him. A truck stops, and the driver yells out the window. Driver: Hey! Dean: Yeah? Driver: You're in the middle of the road! Dean: Yeah?! The driver is silent for a moment, before srugging and saying "Okay", then driving off.
Okay George killed me with the Dr. Zaius/ Troy McClure reference, well done; glad you all enjoyed this film. One of my favorite animated films, truly a masterpiece.
When I was a kid watching this, I wanted to be like Dean when I grew up. I admired/looked up to him so much lol Also, I LOVE critical roll! Been watching since Campaign 1, love those guys.
I love that the kid who voiced Hogarth is Stiffler’s little brother from America Pie.😂 Also ironic that both these movies have scenes with lax in them.😬
I'm sorry but this was one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. Also the guy who voices the government agent is the same person who plays Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore.
This movie came out when I was 4 and I remember going to rent it from Blockbuster one night and watching it while eating the little cup ice creams. I love this movie so much and I have an iron giant shirt I wear proudly.
Fun fact: while this is one of the last classically hand-drawn animated films, the Iron Giant itself is rendered in CGI. It helps to make him feel slightly alien and out-of-place...
Nice little touch: while all the soldiers and townspeople are watching the Iron Giant flying up to intercept the nuke, the General is saluting him.
I love the General's character in this. John Mahoney plays him brilliantly, but he's also very well written and not the stereotype the military man could have been. He makes rational decisions the whole way through, and instead of keeping the one remaining piece of the giant for research, he gives it to Hogarth.
@@lapelcelery42 It also show's how a breakdown in communication often leads to people doing things they would never do otherwise. He's a very stern, serious, but RATIONAL person like you said, and that's what sells his character. You see it from the moment Mansley calls him that he doesn't play games, he wants the truth, and he'll deal with the consequences of said truth. Immediately doubted Mansley upon new information, confirmed it with his own eyes, and honestly, just instills a patriotism in everyone, whether you're from the US or not. Just the line "Make sure he stays here, like a good soldier" makes me go "YEAAAH! FUCK YOU MANSLEY!" I absolutely love his character.
@@lapelcelery42Absolutely agree, and I didn’t realize it was John Mahoney until just now. He really is fantastic!
That's awesome, I never noticed that!
Even knowing he’s going to be fine I still get emotional when the giant says “Superman” at the end.
That shit gets me everytime😭
Well it’s the choice he makes that does it, not the fact that hes gonna kiss a nuke. Thats why anime are amazing, they got many moments like this
I Cry, like real Ugly cry, each and every time ever since i first saw this movie
Right there with you.
Same here.
Vin Diesel gets a lot of flack, but credit where credit is due, he helped make The Iron Giant and Groot two of the most lovable characters.
His best work is definitely family movies
At least he hasn't gotten canceled or nothing he's just alil odd nothing bad
The CGI and animation didn't play any role?
"Hey we need an actor with a deep voice to do this creature... lets see if Diesel is free."
@@PredatoryQQmber that n the wolverine Movie game all time favorites for me
Lovable characters from the writing, anybody can make a grunt or weird noise. I guess my initial distaste is how much he got paid for these things
One of my favorite things in this movie are the subtle references to Hogarth's father, and the reason for his absence. Hogarth has a pilot's helmet, and an adult size leather pilot's jacket. And on his nightstand, there is a photo of a pilot getting into a jet fighter. The implication is that Hogarth's dad was a fighter pilot, and he was killed in the Korean War. It adds to the anti-war theme of the film that a robot soldier befriends a lonely boy who lost his father in a war.
I have seen this movie a couple times and never picked up on those cues. Nice! Thank you for that, it adds another level of depth to the film.
It also adds another layer to the "it's bad to kill, but it's not bad to die" line, because that's likely what his mother had to tell him when his father died and he was too young to understand. Kids his age don't usually think about that sort of thing, but he had to because of what happened to his dad
I wonder if that element was a hangover from Pete Townshend's version of the project. He was the one working on the film before Brad Bird became attached, as a musical based on his album version of the book, and he retained an Executive Producer on the finished film too. The pilot father who died in the war is a common trope, but it directly appears in Townshend's most famous work Tommy, and it's a departure from the Ted Hughes book.
"You are who you choose to be"
"Superman"
I'm not a crier, but this one gets me in my soul. Now contrast that with "I can hear the bald," which just might be the funniest thing George has ever said.
The little smile just before the nuke hits just kills me every time.
I love that Iron Giant finally got to meet Supes.
@@joshgreiner2599 I was not ready for this level of feels. I mean, even Pixar needs a good 15 minutes to set up those feels. This one just hits you outta nowhere with this little throwaway line.
Between Hogarth saying "I love you" and the Giant saying "Superman" just before the nuke always makes me tear up really fast
My little brother is 28 and still breaks down at the Superman scene at the end :P
*"WHERE'S THE GIANT, MANSLEY?!?!!"* - One of my favorite line reads in any animated film. Not only is this a great story, it's got some really good performances in it. And the cinematography (or whatever the animated equivalent is) ain't too shabby, either. The scene of the giant falling out of the sky reflected in the pick-up windshield is Grade-A shot composition.
I love how this movie takes a drastically different approach to what mainstream movies don't. This movie doesn't portray the US Government/military as inherently heroic or beneficial. Granted, the general and the army were misled by Mansley; but both parties are clearly the villains in this movie, and it's all because of the dangers of Cold War-style fear born from propaganda and nationalism.
@@theeternalshade2981I don't think that's true about them being villains (Except Mansley, obviously). They're painted as real people. The General is a decent man who makes reasonable calls throughout the film given the information he has, and is the first to understand that the Giant is harmless once he has the data. When everyone else is celebrating being saved, the General is instead saluting the Giant, and when they recover the screw at the end the general doesn't keep it for research, he gives it to Hogarth because the Giant was his friend.
Brad Bird pitched this film as "What if a gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a gun?" after his sister was murdered through gun violence. This movie makes me all kinds of emotional.
Its one of those no matter how old it is, its message is absolutely timeless
@@tommyllama4558 Especially in today’s age of escalating gun violence
@@codybishop7526 gun violence has been going down for years. It's just covered more in the media now. I think school shooting have stayed consistent though.
Never knew that, astounding. I'm a clinical therapist watching this over lunch and, dang, the feels. Thanks for sharing!
Can't believe this has this many likes for being made up. This was a book in 1968, and then a musical in 1989. The screen production that this became started in 1991, and Brad Bird wasn't brought on to direct until 1996 when Turner & Time Warner merged.
"Superman."
It's a simple line, but the story gives it so much weight. Damn, I love this movie.
“Prune juice, large” popular line said by. Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn), on Star Trek: The Next Generation; the line itself was said by Worf, in the show’s iconic ship’s(USS Enterprise), ten forward(bar/lounge/commissary) and when he uses any starfleet replicator unit.
People forget he's Russian (Well, from a Russian space colony)
Prune juice the drink of warriors
@@MrGBH Worf didn't drink Prune Juice until he was on the Enterprise. Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) first introduced him to it and asked his adoptive parents why they had never given it to him on Earth.
I think he usually orders "chilled" not large
This is a warriors drink!
"He's kinda like Fresh Cut Grass from Critical Role"
Ha, nailed it right away.
I would love to see George's reaction to FCG's siblings
I heard this and was like ..."oh YEAH! It's exactly like FCG"
She named them after her favourite smells
FCG is Ted Lasso mixed with Iron Giant.
Glad you guys enjoyed this! Perhaps now you can understand why a lot of us were upset at how Ready Player One absolutely missed the whole point of The Iron Giant.
If only people is the US had heard if Leopardon.
Correct.
It was never intended to have a sequel. Which is one of the things we all talked about in the beginning of production.
Now....WB OWNES it...they can do whatever they want with it. But if they did, it would be without ANY of us from the crew. So it would be a very VERY different feel of movie than the one we did.
And very much like ready player one...where it really is the OPPOSITE of the actually character and movie AND message.
Thanks for getting that. :)
but if you remember, The Iron Giant wasn't IN the game. he was a mod created by another player. just like how there are mods for Fallout 3 and 4 and that turns Liberty Prime (a giant robots that goes on a rampage near the end of the games) into TIG. there is one for GTAV and xenoverse as well.
and ofcourse, it wasn't TIG at all, but a suit, a costume, worn by a player.
Was looking forward to this, did not disappoint - between tears and belly laughs, a beautiful movie.
"I can hear the bald" had me rolling George, one for the ages!
This is the first movie that actually made me cry. I remember seeing it on Cartoon Network when I was around 8 or 9, 20 years ago, and I didn't understand how people could be moved to tears at a movie. But it totally got me ugly crying, even made my mom shed a tear. I showed this movie to my nephew a few years back and he totally hated Mansley. He ranted about him for the rest of the day but loved it nonetheless. I do not understand how this movie flopped, it's a masterpiece.
The first movie to make me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows.
The Wikipedia page explains it better, but basically Warner Bros didn't really promote it.
@@emeraldas1013 This happens to a lot of movies. If they can't shoe horn it into a genre to sell it, they just don't bother. This happened to several movies I love, like The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension where the studio was asking the actors how it should be marketed. Despite almost no marketing, it still became a cult classic.
@@Tampahop , The Princess Bride as well.
@@JoeXTheXJuggalo1 I read the book in fifth grade and was traumatized. Thirty-five years later I can still nearly quote the scene where his little brother dies.
Fun fact: old-school transformer stations really were that easy to turn on and off, though the fence would keep out anyone unauthorized. Said fence was already smushed by the giant, though. The reason for the ease of shutting it down is so you could easily shut it off if there was an accident.
I nearly spit my drink out when I saw this thumbnail. I swear you all deserve some kind of award for these. They're consistently and hilariously on point. 😎🤣😎
"It's bad to kill, but it's not bad to die." and "You stay. I go. No following." destroy me every time.
this film crushed me as a kid. the iron giant, Ferngully and Atlantis just have similar themes while also showing that a little understanding goes a long way.
I'm crying with you ALSO THE scene where the signal shows his dreams was never in the original. It was a deleted scene. It was a drawing concept they never created. Once they made the new version they added it.
I was looking for this comment. I’ve been watching this movie pretty much annually since it came out, dozens of watches, and I had never seen that scene.
Thank you I remember seeing this movie when I was little then again when it got added to Netflix several years ago but when this scene cam on I was confused. But guess they added it on some special edition. I was going to say I have been watching this movie for 20 something years and I never saw this before.
Ok omg I thought I was losing it. I’ve watched this movie so many times and that was the first time I saw this part, I thought I was going crazy or it was some Mandela effect! Thank you for clarifying!
I remember seeing the concept art, and wishing they added it. I was so glad to see it in the movie, even though I was a little sad that it has been changed.
I think the movie is better off without the added scene. I know there's plenty of scenes hinting at the Iron Giant's kill mode, but that scene fully confirms it long before the dramatic twist moment...
Fun fact, in the original draft of the script the Iron Giant doesn't come back and is destroyed forever, but they realized that ending would likely traumatize many children, so they changed it to the ending we got.
That's a bummer fact. Wish they'd kept it.
If the Iron Giant ever got remade, they should at least go for the original ending.
It definitely makes more sense as a story beat for the giant to not come back, but somehow that last shot is the saddest in the film for me.
Its not ok to kill but its ok to die!
@@fynnthefox9078you mean where he fights the giant space dragon that’s planing on eating the earth?
Glad you two liked it as much as pretty much everyone else. The movie bombed in theaters and became a cult classic with its video release, and eventually through word of mouth just became classic movie.
I had MANY issues with Ready Player One, but one of my biggest was that they essentially turned the Iron Giant into the gun it didn’t want to be. Seeing him being used as weapon in a different movie felt like an insult to The Iron Giant.
100%, yeah! It broke my heart and killed my immersion with that movie.
I haven't seen RPO yet, but I'll imagine it is one of the other robots he fought with, and not 'our' Iron Giant. 😊
RP1 is a cynical cash grab banking on nostalgia. Its a trash movie that embodies the worst of hollywood.
Renting this from blockbuster was one of the best parts of childhood
I never had a problem with that because its not the iron giant itself, its basically just a mech being controlled by one of the characters. Now if they summoned the iron giant instead of controlling it and it still willingly participated in the fight then that would irk me
i feel like this movie should be required viewing for, like, 4th or 5th grade. it's an incredible movie, first, but also that moral of "you are who you choose to be" is so important. if the iron giant could be made as a weapon of war but choose to help people instead, a kid whose parents are trying to make them into a shitty person can choose to be kind instead. and then there's the whole "don't automatically attack what you don't understand" thing....ugh. this is just such a good movie.
I remember when this first came out, and I decided to see it on the big screen. The theater was almost empty, but I enjoyed the heck out of Iron Giant and told my friends to go see it.
So funny you chose to open with the prune juice line!
The voice of the government doofus guy is played by Christopher MacDonald, who also played Richard Castillo in the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" which was the episode where Worf has prune juice for the very first time!
"We are who we choose to be." One of the best lines in any movie ever.
20:01 *"why an I starting to hear Doom BFG Division in the background and it's getting louder and louder?"*
I love that Brad Bird used the same animation and writing team from this movie to create “The Incredibles.” You can see the characters all look like they could exist in either world. Shoot, Mansley is just a tall freckle-less Syndrome. 😂
One is flat, the other is bulgey
As a kid, I was obsessed with this movie, so much so that my mom hates it, and when we ever decide to watch a movie, I always go, "I know what we should watch..." to which she looks at me and goes "No." This is my favorite movie, and it never ceases to make my tear up, knowing damn well it has a happy ending.
Hahaha “I know what we should watch…” I love that
@@zumasa9991 haha, yeah, and I always say it with a smile too.
I'm sooooooo glad many people recomended this film to you and so glad that you reacted to it as well. This is by far my favorite animated movie of all time. It has everything, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry and all the messages that the film have, to every kid at the time (and maybe now) hit pretty hard.
As always, great video! We here to support you work ❤️❤️
Mansley was voiced by Shooter McGavin. I think if you'd reflect, Percy from "The Green Mile" would be your most hated villain. Or at least above Mansley.
@Doug Nading Percy is one of those douchebags
I think Commodus from Gladiator might be my most hated cinematic villain. An overgrown spoiled brat who would slaughter a man's whole family out of pure spite - man did I hate him, and Joaquin Phoenix knew just how to play him to make your skin crawl whenever you saw him.
I'll add Burke from Aliens to the list, and David from Shaun of the Dead (Fake Harry Potter)
Came here to call out Percy too
In any list of "movies that make men cry", Iron Giant is near the top. Such a great movie
Now that you've seen The Iron Giant, you can understand why so many people were really ticked off at how Spielberg used him in Ready Player One.
"Hog Hug," has always had a permanent place in my memory from the day this film released.
You go from being mesmerized by the Iron Giant’s potential destructive power when he misses the ship to seeing how it’s really just our choices that make us who we are.
This was such a favorite of mine as a kid, and it still makes me laugh as an adult. But more than laugh, the message of the story is really touching.
There are only two movies that still make me tear up as a grown man, and this is one of them.
Watch grave of the fireflies
Cannot believe you guys have not seen this one, but it is awesome that you have not so that we get to share your reaction to it! 💯😁
George, I think the intro you asked to be explained is referencing that prune juice is a Warrior's Drink (Worf ordering prune juice on ST:TNG and ST:DS9).
One of those movies that people either love or haven't ever seen. It still gets me choked up.
I don't want a live action adaptation of this but if they ever do then Sebastian Stan for Dean would be perfect casting.
At the time when he voiced him, Harry Connick Jr was a live-action dead-ringer for Dean.
We read "The Iron Giant"* and "Charlotte's Web" in the same year at school. In retrospect, it seems at least possible that the teacher really didn't like us :).
* the book's actually called "The Iron Man"
I watched this with my daughter when she was little. At the end when he says 'Superman' and then, boom! My daughter said what's happened and I was too choked up to answer! Probably my favourite animated film and it still gets to me.
Prune juice is a warrior's drink.
This movie.....too underrated!!
Beautiful cast with Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel and most of all Christopher McDonald playing probably one of the best villain bullies I know!
And the Duck & Cover PSA video is priceless!
Absolutely loved this movie growing up. Had it on VHS along with a little action figure of the giant. It was so well made and a film that I can look back on fondly rather than cringe at a bad childhood movie like a lot of them.
I literally spit my drink all over my computer when I heard “You can hear the bald” 😂😂😂
09:58 “Awww... his sandwich got towed...” George - on point AGAIN with the unconsciously witty MST3K worthy comments!! 🤣🤣🤣
This is one of the most underrated animated films ever. Such a great movie.
This is definitely my favorite 2D animated movie of all time. That "Superman" and pieces coming together at the end are just incredible. Great storytelling at its best.
One of my favorite childhood movies. A classic.
This movie is genuinely one of my favourite movies of all time. It´s such a beautiful depiction of a "gun with a soul" who chooses to be something else. The Iron Giants battle with it´s own nature as a war machine, which he very nearly loses, followed by his choice to save not only Hogarth but the entire town by sacrificing himself is something that makes me cry every single time I watch this movie. Truly a masterpiece of a movie with an amazing message!
@George:
"Prune juice, large!" is a Star Trek reference.
Worf (Klingon, warrior race) was once introduced to prune juice and it became his favorite drink.
This is how he would order the drink from a replicator.
The Giant’s “Superman :)” as he stares down his imminent death will never not give me goosebumps
Brad Bird created this after his sister was shot and killed by her husband. He pitched the idea to Warner Brothers as "What if a gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a gun?"
When I was a child... I watched a film called "Voyage Into Space" which was pieced together from a Japanese TV show "Johnny Sakko and His Giant Robot" and it TORE MY HEART apart how it ended (with a very similar scene to this film) ... and when I first saw this film (in my thirties) ... oh god, oh god, oh god ... the emotional flashback and PTSD from my childhood came flooding back.
I have always had a HUGE soft-spot in my heart for this film ever since the first time I watched it. I was bouncing out of my theatre seat during "Ready Player One" when the Iron Giant made his appearance... and cried when the Giant sacrificed himself in THAT film as well.
Awesome reaction again guys! the "Superman" bit at the end always gets me.
Here are some films I like to put out there from that more or less era:
-The Frighteners - Michael J Fox
-TITAN A.E. - Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore (animated)
-Ransom - Mel Gibson
-The Ghost and the Darkness - Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas
This movie and "The brave little toaster" are super underrated.
I was totally unaware there was a deluxe version of this film. The whole dream sequence showing where he came from was not in the theatrical release.
And BTW, Percy from “The Green Mile” usually wins polls on ‘most despicable movie villain’…
so emotional when the iron giant, flies towards the nuke then saying "Superman" was quite emotional
This movie is such a phenomenal hidden gem. I love the silent storytelling inherent in the opening where as soon as Earth launches its first ever satellite, a giant world-killing robot is sent to destroy us. Such a great movie.
15:30 wait? I've never seen that scene before? It must've been cit out of our version om the disc 😠
Also I noticed recently that Hogarth's dad was a pilot (Hogarth's helmet and a photo next to his bed) so his dad probably died in a war :(
It makes me so happy you know to reference FCG from Critical Role...
It's kind of ironic that this movie uses Superman to an effective, emotional degree, while the actor that voiced Mansley voiced Jor-El, Superman's father, in the animated series, just about 3 years before this movie came out.
I like that George noticed the parallels the end of The Dark Knight Rises has with this. Now I'm picturing Batman saying "Sssuuupermaaannn..." as he flies off with the bomb.
This movie always got me to cry as a kid. This and The Fox and The Hound. I stopped watching both of them for years because I just couldn’t handle it. Even today it still gets me choked up and teary eyed. It’s just so damn good. It’s such a classic and I’m glad more people are finally seeing it for the wonderfully great movie that it is.
Everything about this movie is legendary. The animation, the music, the backgrounds, the characters, the list goes on. I did not grow up with it, so It took me a while to see this film but I instantly fell in love with it. Such a masterpiece of animation!
Every character is great, but I really love hogarth, and Kent. The rivalry of those two make the movie.
So glad more people are discovering this wonderful film🥰
Another movie that is suprisingly emotional which I can't suggest more highly is Train to Busan. I would love for yall to watch it and hear your reactions. One of my favorite movies of all time!
Great pick! This is one of my all time animated favourites. I was in animation school around the time this came out and we’d use it for reference for it’s great animation. So well made, and it has a lot of heart and humour.
Awesome seeing folks watch this movie. This came out right before my 3rd grade school year. My dad & mom had split up that summer. It was a confusing time & this film was there for me. One of the best stories ever told. You are who you choose to be 🖤
Please watch "The Rocketeer" (1991).
It’s so cool from a psychology perspective to watch these two un-ironically take the stance of villains of the film. To miss so greatly the meaning snd message. 😢
What!! I have seen this movie many times but it is the first time I see the scene with the TV! I didn't even know that there was something like that!
This is the Signature Edition. WB gave Brad Bird enough money to add two scenes for the Blu-ray that he always wanted included in the film that were cut for budgetary constraints.
One was a short scene between Dean and Hogarth's Mom to establish their relationship so it doesn't come out of nowhere at the end.
The other scene was the Giant's dream that Dean witnesses when the Giant projects it into the TV.
You keep making those Criical Roll references, Simone. There are some of us who appreciate your POV.
Vin Diesel is the voice actor of Iron Giant. The same man did the voice of Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy & play as Dominic Toretto in Fast & Furious.
"Maybe that's, like, the combination for the worst villain possible when you give someone who is confident but incorrect, and then give them power."
Yeah, so glad we haven't had anything like *that* happen in recent years.
"Duck and cover" did actually have some logic to it, at sufficient distance the pressure wave from an A-bomb would blow in a room's windows. So if you were under a desk you'd be safer from flying shards of glass. You could then theoretically evacuate to a safe distance before the radiation hit lethal levels.
"Superman"
One of my fave line in this movie. Simple but powerful. Always makes me tear up.
I had no idea the dream sequence in this movie was animated. In most versions that entire scene is cut. I've only seen it as a storyboard extra on DVDs
My favorite joke in this movie is one they didn't include. It's when the Giant does the "Cannonball!" into the lake, and the huge flood happens. A moment after they cut away, we see Dean washing up in his chair, before landing in the middle of the road. Cut to the Giant in what was once the lake, looking around confused, before Hogarth yells from the top of a tree that that was awesome. Cut back to Dean, who's still sitting exactly like we left him. A truck stops, and the driver yells out the window.
Driver: Hey!
Dean: Yeah?
Driver: You're in the middle of the road!
Dean: Yeah?!
The driver is silent for a moment, before srugging and saying "Okay", then driving off.
One of my favorite animated movies of all time. Just a classic.
Simone's reaction to the deer scene was almost a recreation of that girl reaction to the rabbit getting killed in the video game
Okay George killed me with the Dr. Zaius/ Troy McClure reference, well done; glad you all enjoyed this film. One of my favorite animated films, truly a masterpiece.
Don't worry Simone, I didn't think of a lawn when you mentioned FCG. Smiley day to ya! 😂
WHen he says "I'm Superman" at the end i always Ugly cry, it just gets to me.
Most underrated film of all time. Love this movie
The voice of the govt agent is Christopher Mcdonald, who played Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore and Thelma's husband Darryl in Thelma and Louise.
Iron Giant in movie: I don't want to hurt people
Iron Giant in every other crossover thing: GIANT ROBOT GO SMASH!!
Now I'm just picturing the iron giant saying "smiley day to ya" 😅
When I was a kid watching this, I wanted to be like Dean when I grew up. I admired/looked up to him so much lol Also, I LOVE critical roll! Been watching since Campaign 1, love those guys.
I love that the kid who voiced Hogarth is Stiffler’s little brother from America Pie.😂
Also ironic that both these movies have scenes with lax in them.😬
I'm sorry but this was one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. Also the guy who voices the government agent is the same person who plays Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore.
This movie came out when I was 4 and I remember going to rent it from Blockbuster one night and watching it while eating the little cup ice creams. I love this movie so much and I have an iron giant shirt I wear proudly.
4:51-15:22 I’m glad you watched the extended version of the iron giant.
doesn't matter how old ill get, that last "supppermannn" will always make me tear up.
This movie was always so special to me when it came on tv like a rare treat.
Oh my lord this movie takes me back to childhood 😊 so many good memories.
ugggh this is one of my favorite movies, full-stop. i love watching people experience it for the first time.
Another childhood favorite. CineBinge is on a roll!
Fun fact: while this is one of the last classically hand-drawn animated films, the Iron Giant itself is rendered in CGI. It helps to make him feel slightly alien and out-of-place...
The writing for this movie is chef's kiss.