The Blob (1988) - re:View
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Jay and Mike dive into the underappreciated 1988 remake of The Blob! Starring that guy from Entourage, that girl from Saw, the homeless guy from that other movie, and a bunch of other people you kind of recognize but don't know from where. It's The Blob!!!
Louisianian here: graveyards are often close to normal places here. We have to put them on the same higher ground as our buildings so the floods don't dig them up.
Just recently moved to Louisiana, definitely noticed it.
Hell yeah Louisiana
It's why you people have so many mausoleums. It not fun having the swamp the dredge up a couple corpses, then have them float on by you in the streets; Expecially when you're are going to brunch after church or something like that. Kinda ruins the old appetite right?
That is horrifying to imagine;
a muddy, swampy flood carrying dead cadavers as it streams down a street or something
@@violentjiggler in 2016 there was a really bad flood here. Many roads were blocked by stone caskets that were unearthed and spat onto the streets.
In reference to the color discussion - when the blob initially emerges it appears to be translucent. If we assume this is its natural state, then any color change thereafter must be acquired. Therefore I believe we can conclude the later reddish/pink color it assumes later is actually the flesh and blood of its victims, not some inherent quality of the blob itself.
@@SparkY0 I'd pay full price even if that was the only scene in the movie.
Which makes it more horrifying. But really, I don't consider the people consumed as "victims" (as that gives more of a slasher film implication), but rather, prey. The blob is singular in its purpose, to consume.
That was always my thought as well, even when i watched it way back when....
Thats what i assumed aswell
I was thinking the sema thing
Wife: what are you watching?
Me: two film nerds review a 90-minute, 20-year-old horror movie remake that I've never seen for 45 minutes... It's one of my favorite channels
"20-year-old"
I've got some bad news for you.
@@gsofficial The bad news is that he thinks 1988 was 20 years ago.
@@glitchedoom, what is your pfp
@@VEE0034 Pokemaniac sprite from Pokemon Red/Blue.
Two and a half years later, have you seen the blob yet? It's one of my favorite creature features ever. You should watch it.
“Starring Steve McQueen and an exciting cast of young people” is still one of the great movie taglines!
Steve was 27-28 at the time though.
I saw the original...
Surprisingly..I like it..for a movie of that time. McQueen seems stuck out , like he's from the future tho. His demeanor..or acting style just seems out of place. He's ahead of his time, in terms of his performance.
The original movie taught Steve McQueen to take cuts of movie profits instead of direct payouts since he lost a lot of money by not taking a cut from The Blob.
@@baconair They made sure to differentiate between Steven McQueen and the exciting young people.
@@baconairThat's why you shouldn't develop a smoking habit, and you should moisturize
Imagine making a whole series of sequels, costing and exorbitant amount of money, but you end taking so long that the entire industry collapses before you finish
lol avatar 2 has to already exist and be super bad
If Avatar 2 sucks, then how are Avatar 3 and 4 gonna work?
@@KizaruB Exactly. If 2 never comes out nobody can get fired for 3 and 4.
@@KizaruB Poorly
@@Luminousreign You gotta admit, though, making four monster budget movies at once to kill your career is one hell of a power move.
They talk about the Blob’s colour... one thing they didn’t get into was how it was just no colour and then got pink and then darker and darker as it consumed human flesh.
What a horrific thought. Love the thought that went into that detail.
Yeah, that was my thought exactly
I was thinking this too. It's full of ooey gooey people flesh.
@@bleepbloop101010101 tasty
It's quite a horrifying detail.
You could see the hurt in Jays eyes after Mike joked about his outfit
@@wesscotchdog9078 jays based
Looks like the edge from u2
Doomer Jay
*Mr Kitty - After Dark starts playing*
@@Carlosdreamur That's not based at all
@@Ammoniumbicarbonat seems like you don’t know how to spot a based person lol
My favorite thing about the original is when the nurse throws a random liquid at the blob and doesn't hurt it so she screams something like "NOTHING CAN STOP IT!!!!!"
That random liquid is an extremely corrosive acid. Anything else would've melted away, but the Blob just absorbs it.
I'm aware of the fact that it was acid that she threw on it, I'm questioning the strength of an acid that would be readily available or even the most corrosive of acids in general. I'm also making light of the cheesiness of her scientific findings that nothing can stop it after such diligent and all-encompassing research into just what could possibly stop it.
@@bunnygrill Well at that point, no one's ever seen whatever this thing is before. And she's right there in the same room with it, in her shoes I'd panic and say pointless things like that as well.
@@bunnygrill also, if it wasn't a strong enough solution to melt the vessel she stored it in, then why should it melt an extraterrestrial life form that has to survive the irradiated environment of interplanetary space?
@@DistractedGlobeGuy Acids usually don't melt glass for one reason or another. But there again, at that point in the movie, those two characters don't even know that it comes from space. Literally all they know about it is it's a lethally dangerous organism (if you can even call it an organism), and it's got to be stopped by any means at their disposal.
Like every 50s husband, the ‘58 Blob theme song *slaps*
Dark 😆
@@raydonahue1978 ☪️🧕👏👳
@@raydonahue1978 is this a racist dogwhistle?
@@matheuspinho4987 okay so it is
UNlike this joke *Mike turns to camera with blank expression*
With the beanie and pins on the jacket, Jay looks exactly like a kid at my old high school who had a “Kill List”
Check his spotify for KMFDM!! ⚠️⚠️⚠️
The kid w a hitless in my school looked like a cartoon nerd. His father was a small town doctor no one went to. When my gf told me she found his hitlist (went thru his briefcase when he left class, yes she was a bitch and yes he carried a briefcase), I was pissed cuz he totally could've done it.
Mike not being able to read his own handwriting is one step further in his dementia story arc.
Set up and pay off!
"Hey look, there's the Blob. Let's go in to a room and talk about it for an hour." Hey, isn't that literally what you guys did?
Steve Mcqueen was 27 when he played a teenager, but yes he looked 40.
Don't smoke kids.
Everyone from that whole era was middle aged as soon as they turned 22
@@maxrobe im 30 and i still get ID,eed for smokes lol
Im going to have to be 50 before i look 25 :P
@@zetetick395 LOL, That's true.
@@NostalgiNorden i didnt think 30 was old enough to be a grandpa but ok :P
But apparently im a smoker who looks 10 years younger then i am, just sayin lol. Its probably more of a genetics thing and how you carry yourself.
I can't believe that Jay didn't bring up that the Lord Zed guy was in Repo Jake with the best line ever.
"Fuck the script! These girls can't read!"
You Jimminy Cricket bastard!
Rip Axelrod. What a voice he had
Haha, yeah!
And of course the immortal put-down line: "Jimminy Cricket prick bastard!!" 🤣
Speaking of "that guy" being in this movie, Flagg's boss at the garage who loans him a socket set is played by Beau Billingslea. A lot of people may recognize his voice as the English voice of Jet Black in Cowbow Bebop.
They did some interesting research on this; they reference the script notes, Google street map scene comparisons, seemingly ind-depth set piece analysis. Mike and Jay are better reviewers than what they project themselves to be, but I'm always impressed at the nature of how they look at things; it's genuinely curiosity-informed topics of research, which always produces more unique results than simple recitation of published facts.
For the first few minutes, I'm never quite sure just how sarcastic they're being (or not being). Once they ease into the review, though, the genuine admiration does shine through.
Not bad for a bunch of hack frauds.
@@CarrotConsumer I don't think it's reasonable to expect a spontaneous bout of research or multiple viewings for a review of a new release, be it good or middling. I hate to break it to you so late in the game, but re:View segments and HitB new reviews are intentionally different for a myriad of reasons.
@@CarrotConsumer Nobody with a brain cares.
@@CarrotConsumer The only thing worse than their wonderwoman review is the Wonderwoman 1984
The remake should be called 'What About Blob?' and star Bill Murray.
Bro...
See "Zombieland", for how that could work...
There have been a couple scripts for it, but Bill Murray has exercised his might to keep it from happening.
Well, there is a podcast that parodied the idea and mostly had fun with it.
"What About Blob" would be about the accidental birth in the fat folds of Dom Deluise during that fateful bus ride.
Had no idea MovieBob was so famous back in the 80's.
Jesus 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"That's a fairly small amount of McDonalds for an average-sized person, I'd say?"
-Diabeto regarding a picture of 20 nuggets, 4 burgers, and 4 drinks.
Consoom
Consume Product, then wait for More Product.
zing +2
Rich Evans: gets a bulletproof vest
Mike and Jay (whispering): it's learning...
When talking about a piece of paper and a pen you managed to perfectly pronunce three words in swedish.
"In hindsight, I'm glad they didn't put it in."
Agreed. Also that they didn't add the joke.
Damn! Quality on top of quality, it's almost like you can mean things in text if intended. Thanks for this
Honestly, I could go both ways. About the joke, too.
Del Close, who played the priest and was a dear friend of mine, actually did ad-lib that line, or so he told me.
„We‘re not gonna talk about the Original!“
*proceed to talk about the Original
'We're not going to talk about Judy at all'
Oh hold on, wrong episode ;)
In fact, we're not gonna talk about the original at all!
They are basically expected to talk about the original whenever they cover a remake on ReView.
Ha! Yeah, those guys ... Honestly, I love both of them.
I also love both versions of The Blob.
I prefer the original; I wish they’d discussed it more. But I’m glad they talked it about it for at least a little bit.
When I was a little kid this movie horrified me to no end and gave me mad raving nightmares. It's been one of my favorites ever since. I'd say the body horror is easily on par with The Thing if not more so. Sure the thing dog was ridiculously terrifying, but come on, here we have a half-digested kid screaming in agony. The scenes presented in this video still gave me some of those good old chills.
Same here! The "sink scene" was probably the scariest for me. It's a horrifying concept! It consumes and grows, and it kills anyone that is unfortunate to get too close to it in the most gruesome ways! That movie was horrifying! I was about 9 when I saw it, and it took me months to recover! It was so scary! It's a great horror movie! In my opinion, it's not recommended for kids, even if you're with adults!
"We're more reliable than James Cameron"
That is such a low bar tho, Jay.
He’s too focused on making marine biology documentaries no one will care about because they’ll be completely outdone by British tv nature documentary makers when they’re only half trying half a year later.
James Cameron does what James Cameron does......
@@Popcultureguy3000 Honestly whoever does Planet Earth could probably just film themselves taking a dump with their iPhone and it would be an Emmy-worthy documentary masterpiece
@@LilNewo Is that from South Park?
@@Popcultureguy3000 he doesn't even care about the documentaries-those are just an excuse for him to get thousands of other people to work on getting him to his choice of exotic vacation spots. Honestly, I can totally respect that.
Back in the 50's people in movies were standing and talking, sitting and talking, sometimes one person was standing and the second one was sitting ... and talking, and drinking coffee.
;)
Now I see why George Lucas was such a fan of that era of movies.
And smoking cigarettes...
It’s nice as a director because you can do one long shot and take a nap until it’s done.
@@taterboob There are lots of dynamic films from the past, but you'll have to look outside of Hollywood for that.
@@taterboob Check out The Night Of The Hunter.
Can't believe they didn't shout out "toxic waste guy" from robocop. He was the most recognizable "that guy" IMO
I'm suprised they didn't mention the Sheriff deputy was played by Paul McCrane. Who was the famous radioactive waste man at the end of Robocop.
Also the kid that gets "bobbed" at 27:52 looks a lot like him in that scene.
Took the words right out of my mouth ! After all, he's got form with flesh-melting goodness !
Monty in Fffffffaaaaaaaaaammmmme!
Ah I knew I recognised that guy from somewhere.
I read that Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont even referred to him as "the melty guy".
The worse this month goes the funnier the intro gets
@Laughing Jay Rushmore dog whistle
@Laughing Jay Rushmore And there are no honks at dusk
@@YukiGibson oh look, the dog can type.
I have to assume they were being extra clever. I mean I knew Jan6 was coming but I didn’t think it would be that crazy
@@vorbo01 How many n-words have you already typed today?
Thanks for reviewing this film. The Blob "1988" is one of the few remakes that surpasses the original by miles and is a lot of fun to watch.
Other than, you know, the other ones they mentioned; the Thing, the Fly, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
@@adamcraig919 most of those were remakes of 50 monster movies and I think its infinitely easier to make them better because, as Jay and Mike state, those movies are insufferably boring.
The only one that holds up somewhat is the fly because the entire film revolves around the scientists failed experiment. Theres no random scenes where a kid learns how to whistle from an ice cream man.
@@dugonman8360those movies were boring because they inserted long talking scenes, where the kids who went to the drive in cinema could make out during.
@@thecappeningchannel515 I know, it still doesn't excuse terribly paced movies. I would love to love those 50 monster movies if they weren't ungodly boring.
Love this movie. Had nightmares over the dude getting sucked into the sink as a kid.
OMG ME TOO!!!
I know, right? This movie damn near traumatized me when I saw it! It took months, if not longer to get over it! I've only seen it once, and I want to see it again now! I was only about 9 years old when I saw it, and _that_ scene alone was absolutely horrifying! I became paranoid of sinks, drains, and vents for awhile! I'd also be looking up at the ceiling all the time, especially in the dark! It made me afraid of dark again! This movie worked! This movie was great! Horrifying, but great!
Drains were scary back then
Good.
Wassup Sonny Jim
I watched this staying over in my cousin's room in a sleeping bag on the floor, and I was probably about twelve (around 1992). It kept me awake, not really because it was scary (it did scare me though), but because my little mind kept going back over all the details of the story. Looking back, I think I was caught up in the rollercoaster while the movie was on, and the real magic came after when I reflected on it. That factor was magnified when I rewatched it a couple of times, and every time after that, I get a kick out of how well put together it is, and of course the details that I forget about over time.
Great movie, and I really enjoy these re:Views, thanks guys : )
Man, you guys are great. The part when you guys are discussing the graveyard next to the football field and how you guys just naturally did research just to satisfy your own interest in the film. I admire the passion.
Yeah, I found that wierdly entertaining actually, love it!
That original Blob song is fucking incredible.
I grew up only seeing the 80s one... had no idea the tone of the 50s one was goddamn Scooby-Doo hijinks.
That song with the 80s footage would be great.
Composed by Burt Bacharach, one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Jay's flabbergasted reaction to Mike talking about "making words with motion" is hilarious
The main memorable thing about this movie was the kids actually getting killed. I watched horror a lot growing up and I was just use to the kids never dying and was floored when it happened here.
That and Halloween 3 came to mind
If you haven't seen it, watch "Alligator." My first time seeing that happen growing up.
Jaws
But that is realistic. The Hollywood trope of 'kids don't die' needs to be consigned to history. It's just a dumb relic of the 50s 'duck and cover' films that convinced people that hiding under a school desk will prevent kids being vaporized by atomic bombs.
The boy, Brodie, with the kite who was killed in Silver Bullet made that movie so much darker for me.
When Mike pulls out his notes he needs a little pair of half-moon reading glasses
and another pair of different glasses on his head.
About time this movie got some recognition for how awesome it is.
I like how Mike's rewrite is just him making it more like a Monty Python sketch.
It's a living stomach this movie traumatized me as a kid
Same!
I hope your stomach is living too bro. May need to see a dr
"That guy" from Tim and Eric (Robert Axelrod) was also in two Best of the Worst movies, Alien Private Eye, and as the main antagonist in Repo Jake. In Repo Jake he had what Mike called the best line of all time, when he's instructing a porn director on what to film.
"fuck the script, these girls can't read!"
I'm sick of explaining it's a whale throwing up
@@cognacmccarthy1796 Alien Private Eye is a hot, hot movie. I didn't see the end because I was crying too much. I give it two kisses and three wet mouths.
If this movie was made today, it would have a one word verb as its title - something like "Consume". I can already imagine the crappy DVD sleeve.
Consoom, starring MovieBlob.
I remember watching the kitchen scene when I was a kid and the guy's skull collapsing going down the drain physically made me feel ill. It was such a great horror film.
I still can't forget that today
"As of January 4th I couldn't ask for a better year." - Mike 2021
Talking of “that guy”s, the melty face man from Robocop is also in it.
Dr. Romano!
And Art LaFleur! I'll always know him as McNulty from Trancers.
More like Melty-Man , cause his whole body melts
oh yeah, wasn't he the sheriff deputy?
Here's a name some '80s movie buffs might recognize: Pons Maar. He plays the theater manager, and also played Foo in _The Golden Child_ and Saurod in _Masters of the Universe._
Less overt but kind of a funny setup: When Paul asks Meg about her plans for the evening it immediately cuts to Flagg foreshadowing she wouldn't be spending the evening with Paul.
I swear, Mike and Jay should direct terrible trailers to hypothetical movies.
id buy that for a dollar.
I loved his idea for The Boy vs Anabelle
But then they'd just be one of the many hacks making trailers for current movies.
Frank Darabont understands the appeal of lore. He's like a fusion chef. All he's doing is putting the additives in that you crave to the flavours you asked for. A touch of action, a hint of romance, a hefty pinch of comedy. It might not win any Michelin stars, but, you'll defo have a queue every day.
"Disgusting Blob..."
Come on Jay, you couldn't cut to Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters?
Feels more like a Mike edit.
Needed the crystal filter skull vodka
Frank Darabont is what Stuart Gordon could have been if he ever had more than $3 to make a film.
Rip, he was too good for Hollywood
@@invaderHUNK Hell. I hadn't heard. RIP to one of my favorite directors, he really understood how to be effective on that $3 budget.
I would've liked to have seen a big budget Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs Lovecraftian combination.
The most famous forced perspective scene: "here's looking at you, kid" at the end of Casablanca. They used a miniature airplane and midgets as the runway crew to make it seem like a full sized plane.
That seems significantly more difficult than just getting an existing plane and normal sized actors
@@headphonic8 It wasn't the plane that was the problem necessarily, but the airfield, which was a soundstage. Not enough room for a full sized plane to make the background look convincing.
I made the mistake of watching parts of the Blob as a kid while we were doing ceiling repairs, so you could see the pink insulation. Sleep did not come easy that night.
When I was about 9, I saw the entire movie, during the day too, with my family. Let's just say it damn near traumatized me! I was paranoid of sinks, drains, and vents! It took months for me to get over it! I only saw it once too, and I'm curious to watch it again, decades later! _That_ movie was a horror film! Nothing else I saw as a kid came remotely close! I'd look up at the ceiling a lot, and for awhile, it made me afraid of the dark again! That movie worked!
I saw the original Blob when I was really little, and it scared the shit out of me!
My dad brought this home on VHS for my 8th birthday and i watched it with a few of my frends at my party.
Honestly ill never forget it.
I am from Abbeville, It's pronounced "Abby-ville". It's pretty cool hearing and seeing the name of my hometown in one of these reviews.
I love how surprised Jay is everytime he sees paper
*The guy who made a giant CARDBOARD table with every character of Friday the 13th 4 & 6.
@@baraka92 I’ve been trying to find it but I can’t. Could you link it
I have been a big fan of the original Blob since I first saw it on PBS as a kid. When they remade this movie, there was a documentary about it on HBO or something before it came out, and they talked about a lot of what they were going for, like how the Blob starts off as white and becomes more pink as it consumes blood and meat. Apparently, some of the special effects guys from the original visited the set while they were working on the special effects and gave their approval, saying the 1988 crew pulled off stuff they dreamed of doing on the original, but didn't have the tech. Good stuff.
The father pharmacist reveal had me laughing but they would’ve know who her dad was if they lived in a small town.
I thought so too but I laughed anyway
Not necesarily, i dont remember the relation of everyone i went to school with in an even smaller village, but i guess it depends on how attentive the person in question is. xD
I thought her dad was the preacher for half the movie because they kinda looked the same to me. Not until the end did I realise her Dad was the pharmacist.
"it's learning." Perfect.
It'd essentially be the monster from Dean Koontz's "Phantoms" at that point.
Avatar 6 was the most disappointing thing since Money Submarine
James Cameron and The Asylum sure love their submarines.
but I can bet on a guy screwing an alligator in the money sub.
_money sub_
Money Sub is the baddest motherfucking movie on the planet!
Money Sub.
@@turnerlarson12 Money Subvert Our Expectations
Kids these days… “The waitress” is the magnificent Candy Clark, who played Debbie in American Graffiti, married Marjoe Gortner, and who is the perennial celebrity guest at every car show on Earth!
I just so happened to want to rewatch this video exactly 2 years after it was published. One of the best Re:Views to date!
Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike -- Those "green army sacks" are called satchel charges.
It is ok brother I was saying the same thing.
@@tonyb7615 god damn it, you're right
@@tonyb7615 "Satchel charge" goes back to WW2 or further.
You guys play call of duty too huh?
When Mike takes out his notes I was thinking the line from Waterworld... "PAPER! Have you ever seen paper? Have you ever smelled it?"
"A Quiet Place Part II" uses the same opening plot device of showing a creepily empty town and then revealing everyone's simply at a sporting event.
Oh right!
The deaths in this movie are so memorable in a good scary way
Agreed! I remember getting nightmares for days after seeing Paul's horrifying death. Something about being conscious as a gelatinous monster slowly digests you is just so fucking unnerving to think about.
They really did take a cheesy jello monster from the 50s and dialed that shit to 11. *12* even.
The idea of being digested by a big, chunky blob is HORRIFYING...
This movie gave me nightmares as a kid
@@sn0w241 I think it was the kid getting killed that got me. Kids have generally been off limits but for one to die, horrifically at that, it is even easier to imagine myself in that when I was 10 or so.
I want a montage of all the people who get eaten/digested alive by the titular blob from this film set to the theme song from the 1950's version! That would have made the ending of this re:View episode the best thing ever! (And this still one of the best episodes so far)
A Canadian commercial sort of did that.
"because I can't read my own handwriting, after the fact" - same.
Finally some kindred spirits.
Keep your handwriting melinial proof to avoid cancelation.
Write in cursive.
The guy who played the reverend was actually in the 70's "Beware The Blob!" as well. Also, I think the word they're thinking of is "satchel charge", not "army sack".
Yes that was Del Close the God father of improv !
Nah, its "army bang sack"
@@SSD_Penumbra I think it's a "boom bag"
Yeah but army sack has more flair
Remember to turn the two knobs before you drop your sack in the sewer.
I like how bad effects or compositing don't matter when the film is great: Robocop and Terminator 1 had cheap stop motion, yet they're absolutely thrilling. Even Aliens has bad rear projection (and it already looked bad at the time), but who cares when the scene is great?
But those effects were the only "bad" ones and not considered terrible for their time at all, not to mention both examples are robots, for which stop-motion actually looks appropriate and not jarring at all.
The rear projection looked better in Terminator 2
exactly, a lot of these newer films don't have good writing and they try to make it up with big budget fancy effects; it never works
@@tadpolegaming4510 Definitely. The shuttle crash in Aliens looks ok too, but the platform scene at the end has terrible contrast issues.
The Dick Jones fall with the Wacky long arms.
"The best thing about the original Blob was the theme song" 🤘🤘
Its amazing
I saw ‘58 Blob on tv when I was little. From that single viewing I remembered the theme song to this day.
Never say this again.
This version, with that opening theme. That'd throw audiences off.
Side note: the "bag" explosive is called a "satchel charge", very destructive in a closed space.
@@gsofficial wasn't criticizing or correcting, just giving the technical term to an item that most don't usually see in a movie. Didn't mean to offend
IF Rob Zombie directed a new Blob, it would have to be called "Blob Zombie"
That, or if Rob Zombie became fat
God can you imagine the fuckery of a Rob Zombie Blob film? It would either be lowest tier trash or gd amazing. No middle ground.
go to bed
@@gh0s7sama has Rob Zombie ever done a good remake?
He was going to remake it but never happened
Just insulting Rich Evans for 45 minutes is extremely rude.
Hey! Best of Giant Bomb guy! You rule!
Yeah those twenty seconds when they don't insult him are such a disappointment.
They don't like him because they're jealous gurl
Jay’s sadness after being called a bum made me laugh too much. Empathy 100%
9:02 the character Flagg that Jay mentions is not only the main villain of the Stand but Eyes of The Dragon and the Dark Tower series. He shows up in a lot of King's books and he's one of my favorite villains.
Also he often wears a hoodie with a bunch of pins on it like Jay is in this episode so that's a fun connection.
Misspelled forgotten as "fogotten" at 2:22.
These guys truly are HACKS
Literally unwatchable
I guess you could say when it comes to spelling forgotten,
they...
suffer from agraphia.
OMFG that does it !!!
One thing I noticed is that this version of the blob is how it’s able to adapt on the fly to catch its prey. It’s definitely unlike the original where it just eats people, this blob uses tactics to eat.
Not just that but it’s also possible this one can evolve through it’s one weakness given time and Patience.
The blob truly is one of the most powerful threats put to film, if it’s weakness wasn’t cold then we would be screwed.
Well, the thing is in real life a "Blob" wouldn't be such a big threat...it doesn't have any distinct tissues, organs or sensory receptors. Meaning it can't smell, see, hear us or detect us.
When Mike said "It's learning..."
All I could think of was the blob being amorphous and sloppily thrown into a business suit, clumsily slamming a briefcase onto a desk at a meeting. None of the characters would know it's the blob.
I hate my brain.
Thanks, that image eased my childhood trauma over this movie a little.
@@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 The Blob 2: The Bob
I thought the same thing when the raptors learned to opened doors in Jurassic Park.
@@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 It could travel the world finding people trapped in collapsed buildings. Biden could appoint it to his cabinet as Secretary of the Department of Oozing Under the Door.
Blob goes to prison to serve for his multiple murders. Along the way he learns what it really means to be a Blob.
Jay bringing out the 8 mile look
01:25 - RIP Louie Anderson
This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. I had to check every ceiling after that.
I checked my ceiling during this review
I hated having to use the toilet
I know, right? The "sink scene" was the worst, but the others were horrifying, too! That movie damn near traumatized me as a 9-year old kid! I was so worried and paranoid of the ceiling, the dark, sinks, drains, toilets, bathtubs, and air vents. It took me a few months to recover. That's probably one of the scariest films I've ever seen, and it worked! Amazing film!
rob zombie's the blob is such a bizarre concept that i honestly want to see how he would do it
The blob would grow a face and say fuck.
@@rawrdino7046 His wife
@@CanItAlready same thing
@@tadpolegaming4510 Eww
"We're not comparing it to the 1950s version."
*Proceeds to compare it to the 1950s version in detail*
I'm at the 4m mark, where they switch from not talking about the cheesy effects, boring script, or the strategic drive-in make-out enhancing design of the 1950s edition to not evaluating the musical score of the 1950s edition.
I came here to basically make the same comment you did, so ... well done. 👍
The sack that's a bomb, the term you're searching for is satchel charge.
Beat me to it.
It's even called a satchel charge in the movie.
Satchel charge! Short fuse!
I was a week late
@@ItsTiver Me too, Posted my reply before I saw this one.. oh well I used Vernacular in a sentence so It stays :p
90% of the effects aged very well, for me a timeless classic like carpenters the thing or alien. Highly underrated
The stop-motion at the end of The Thing was inexcusably bad.
Everything up to that point was awesome.
"Jay you know your bums, is it because you're dressed like one? "
Jay then killed himself after being so verbally humiliated
Can't be any worse than the time he made fun of the way he dressed, his sense of hygiene, the way he conducted himself, etc.
I could never figure out why my older brother can’t watch any horror film ever. Now I know, he lived through most of the 80’s where horror films were trying to scare you into not having sex, doing drugs etc.. anything you do, there was some gruesome scene. It’s like the “that’s why you always leave a note” guy from arrested development.
My favorite remake. It's really underrated.
When they were talking about forced perspective I was disappointed Mike didn't bring up Star Trek: The Motion Picture's main engineering set. The long horizontal shaft is forced perspective in order to look longer. Take that as you may. Come on, guys. These jokes write themselves!
Appreciation of this makes us lonely people.
I'm still not convinced that Mike is a real Star Trek fan
I'm so glad someone else was shocked about the kid dying in this movie. Because holy sit what a terrifying scene.
Here’s a fun fact! Interestingly enough, the kid originally wasn’t supposed to die. Allegedly, the child was supposed to survive the film alongside the brother. However, there was a conflict with the child’s mother as she wasn’t enjoying her son being a side character. This progressed to the point that she was wanting her son to be more important than the main character. The director got so mad he ended up asking the kid if he would enjoy his character having an awesome death scene to the child actor’s excitement. Because it didn’t change the story, they fit it in last minute of the scene’s production. The mother was unaware of this decision until after the scenes had been filmed.
James cameron making his own boyhood with a scifi twist
The term you're looking for is "satchel charge".
Bag bomb?
FIRE IN THE HOLE
Boom Sack.
@@Kelpyinkpot found in S-mart next to the Boom Sticks
@@Kelpyinkpot I like "boom sack" better.
This movie is absolutely brillant. Gory as hell and well written. Plus stunning practical effects
Why does Jay look like he’s gonna rob a convenient store
Got to make money somehow with the lockdown.
Those taxes are not going to pay themselves.
He's getting ready to spread some superflu and shill for some Nozz-a-la
Yes the 80’s Blob fucking rocks. I never watched it until way into adulthood and was caught way off guard by its quality.
I saw it when I was about 9 years old, and it damn near traumatized me! It took me months to get over it! It scared the shit out of me! I won't even get started on sinks and drains! That movie was nightmare fuel! I need to see it again, since I've only seen It once! I bet it's still pretty damn scary! But, back then . . . Holy shit!
I didn’t see The Blob as a kid but there was a Muppet Babies episode that referenced the old one and scared the shit out of me. Also Ghostbusters 2 gave me the bathtub fear.
This is one of the few movies I probably should not have watched as a kid. I watched R rated stuff a lot and was rarely bothered, but this one had some real nightmare fuel.
"The Blob," "Them," and "War of the Worlds" were movies that defined my childhood, but no one every talks about Them
That's because if you talk about Them the ADL will ruin your life.
This film totally holds up, loved as a kid in the late 80s and can watch it anytime now. Also shout out to the ginger cop w the whopper stache who was AKA the blob man In Robocop when he gets ran over and turned to mush after falling in toxic waste.
I really thought he was going to say "The best use of a snowglobe since St. Elsewhere"
This movie gave me childhood trauma, now I cannot enter rooms alone without checking the ceiling and it has taken me days and days to get the courage to watch my favourite youtubers review this
When reality says “fuck you! it’s January”
RLM comes in and saves us from the insanity.
Fuck You
Theaters are still closed
FOREVER!!!!
TH-cam just scolded me for using the F-word.
Nice