FIRESTARTER Movie Review **SPOILER ALERT**
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ค. 2022
- Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph spoil Firestarter - a 2022 American science fiction horror film directed by Keith Thomas, from a screenplay by Scott Teems, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
Premise: A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind.
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Cast:
Zac Efron as Andrew "Andy" McGee
Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Charlene "Charlie" McGee
Sydney Lemmon as Victoria "Vicky" Tomlinson-McGee
Kurtwood Smith as Dr. Joseph Wanless
John Beasley as Irv Manders
Michael Greyeyes as John Rainbird
Gloria Reuben as Captain Hollister
Cinematography by Karim Hussain
Edited by Tim Alverson
Music by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies
Keywords: ending explained, reaction video, trailer, Peacock, Universal Pictures, The Vigil, The Quarry, Thelma, Halloween Kills, Possessor, Random Acts of Violence
Joseph, please never stop pointing out terrible hair and makeup! Those things take me out too!
Amen ❤
Zac Efron is now a dad in movies??? I feel so old.
When Nick said Morgan Fairchild I was like what???? 😳 I even screamed to the TV noooo it’s heather locklear 😂
Lol I thought so!
Thank god, I wasn't the only one 🤣
Five minutes later and I was still laughing about "Riverfoot".
This is the comment I was looking for. 😂😂😂
! And I also love your username, Sassafrass Winnebago!! ☺💞
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Gaining abs from laughing at Joseph genuinely calling this character 'ol' Riverfoot' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Genuinely so appreciative of you two and the amount of great content you put out every week. When I see a bad horror movie now I have an amount of excitement that I get to see your review after.
Love your chemistry and passion, keep up the wonderful work!
OOOOMMMGGGG !!!! 😲 WAIT, I just fell back onto my headboard and let out the longest wheeeeeze of a laugh and actual tears came out when you said "OL' RIVER FOOT" 😳😭😭😭😭😭😭 Joseph? Stop...it !!! You are killing me ! 😭 OOOMMMGGG...and then Nick's face and disappointment/shame ! You guys are the absolute BEST !!!! 👍💯❤️❤️❤️
Apologies for being off topic - NOW I KNOW WHY I LURVE when Nick pronounces the movie titles!! He reminds me of the way Catherine O'Hara enunciates her words on Schitt's Creek!! Love it 🤣🤣 That being said: Always enjoyed the book/story of Firestarter over Carrie and disliked both movies. Only watching this version for two main reasons. 1) Gloria Rueben used to party with us in the late 80's on our Island of Montserrat (beyond sweet/cool) and it was just before she gained recognition as an actor. 2) Lord help me with Michael Greyeyes as Rainbird!! Was always pissed that he was never in Dances with Wolves but he made up for that as Sitting Bull in Woman Walks Ahead and Blood Quantum. Beyond adore him. Zac can run off in a bush somewhere. Still looking like he's about to break into song/dance from High School Musical. Then he wonders why he's not taken seriously? Anyhoo....great review as always. ❤❤
Tangerine Dream did an excellent score for the original movie.
Lmao Joseph’s reaction to Nick putting his hand up had me hollering lol
I was on the fence, but now I know not to spend my money or time😂, appreciate the help and entertainment you guys provide!
I love Keith David -- a vocal legend
Ooff I won’t see it…too bad the trailer almost had me!
Thanks you two for the great analysis as always and very entertaining!
Your content is getting addictive haha!
"Riverfoot" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had an intense feeling this movie was gonna be like this, but was really hoping i was wrong lol thank you so much for so many awesome reviews that ive been binge watching! Lol thanks guys! Edit: wasnt john carpenter supposed to direct this movie first? And im also kind of surprised zac effron took this movie on with how the screenwritting and story ended up.
I read the book in 1983 when I turned 12, then saw the original movie the following year when it hit cinemas. The original movie is much better at eliciting sympathy because the relationship between dad and Charlie was more believable. The old couple were more empathetic and even the bad guy - Rainbird - had a completely different motivation for trying to catch Charlie. He wasn't part of the experiments Charlie's father and mother undertook - he was fascinated by looking in people's eyes as he killed them to see if he could determine when their soul had left their body. There was more time spent with Charlie as Rainbird pretended to be her cleaner when she was being held at the Shop (the secret government dept) - this was so well done in the original movie. Now of the characters/relationships were explored enough to make you care any deeper than a superhero cartoon. Thanks for a good review! Just found your channel - will subscribe and look for more reviews from you.
What I like about this channel (and Double Toasted) is the little racial gags that you don’t get on other film TH-cam.
“Keith David” not be confused with “David Keith” is funny and it’s refreshing when race discussed on film TH-cam isn’t just a white presenter wanting more “diversity” or the counter argument of everything being too “woke”.
Zac could still get it any day of the week. 😍
Who?
Omg. You guys now have 12k followers! Wooooooot!
The "Riverfoot" took me out 🤣🤣
I'm embarrassed over that one.
I have such remake fatigue ... I have been blocking this out of my mind but because you two are reviewing the film ... I am here. .... I do not remember the baby "firing" up in the original LOL! ** I will look up the soundtrack - because I am a Carpenter fan. Thank you!
Ryan Armstrong was just too adorable. Even when she goes psycho mode in the end I just couldn't get over how adorable she is. Kids are just not scary, especially not a girl that cute. It's almost like having a movie about a squirrel with evil powers, how are you suppose to be scared of that? I did enjoy it more than most probably but I can see why people didn't like it. But I'm not sure people really expected much, you could tell by the trailers it wasn't going to be that scary and probably a bit cheesy.
Love when Joseph roles his eyes..🤣
“Riverfoot”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️y’all
“Riverfoot” 💀
Thanks for doing this video. I really didn’t want to watch it but wanted to know what happened
Rainbird saves Charlie? That's quite a difference from the book and previous movie. Anyway, glad I didn't go to theaters to see this. The imdb parents guide says the girls acting is the scariest thing about the film. Thanks for the review guys.
“Old river foot”😳 Joseph said that with such confidence 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Riverfoot took me out I'm dying laughing!!! 😅😂🤣
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explosion is now a trigger word. Alright let's replace it with boom surprise!
Riverfoot. LMFAO
not “old riverfoot” 😂😂.. Funny thing is your review made me revisit watching the 1984 version. I actually remembered liking it as a kid, I thought the effects were fascinating back then. Now i’m older and the movie is lukewarm at best, but it’s nostalgia. I for sure am not interested in watching the remake, but your review was worth it for the hilarious spoiler info ( which I guess isn’t really a spoiler if it’s basically a carbon copy huh)🤔 .
Hoping they remake this again in the future
Remakes should be illegal unless they are more than 60 years old.
Zac Efron looks like he's the hottest thing about this film. Been seeing mixed reviews. Fyi knew it was Heather Locklear as the OG mom- you threw me when you said Morgan Fairchild lol.
I'd watch a movie about ol Riverfoot
Love u guys
Waterfoot in a movie called firestarter...omg I died
Let’s do this.
King's texts are part of the wider King Universe
I soooo love y’all…when Nick waved his hand in front of your face-your reaction was fuckin hilarious/priceless 🤣🤣🤣
It was Heather Locklear that played the mother
I thought the mom was portrayed by Heather Locklear? I remember reading and enjoying the book.
was this movie before or after the new chin of zac’s?
Lols! All that for $75?
I’m at 14 and I’ve loled at least five times.
"pushing" is an X-Files reference lol
They called it pushing in the original 2
Ryan Keira Armstrong gave me strong Bailee Madison vibes (bridge to terabithia and good witch) and performed well but I agree she's a little too mature for the age they wanted.
The parents were totally useless, the mom when she's getting attacked by Rainman she tries to hit him with something from behind, misses him completely. Then she knocks picture frames off the walls, all of them miss him and I'm like umm really? So you can't shoot knives at him or something that can do damage? Uhh the dad gets home and notices frames on the floor and he just looks dumbfounded not disturbed at all by that. Oh and let's not forget she sets her mom on fire and she gets icecream and a movie for it lmfao. Then she tells the dad it was suppose to be him and I'm like ok so I know where you get your aim from. The fact that she had no net, tv or anything and wasn't suppose to be depressed was laughable, I'm here like umm she has nothing else to do but think about how different she is cause she's bored to death. I also didn't get the bullying, she was dressed like the other kids, she wasn't slow, she was social enough so the bullying made no sense and then she didn't even get a chance to set his hair on fire or nothing, I would have prefered that over her blowing up the bathroom lmao. When the mom is killed there's ZERO emotions from her husband, he's just like let's go, leaves her body to burn and everything lmao. Then he pushes the old ass man to drive him mad far, giving him a dollar making him think he has a hundred dollars and I'm like umm bruh you have at least $75, I remember and yet you give him a dollar? Lmao. I also said the same thing Joseph said, I wouldn't ever be broke, I'd push someone to give me mad money, a house, car... all of that. New identities, everything, like c'mon. The acting was so dry, the dads push thing was sooooooooooo corny, especially the neck crack without anything really happening. His corny self talking about... cracks neck, give me your gun and they were like umm how about no lmfao. Then to have her leave with her mother's killer just didn't sit right with me at all. The best part was when the scientist or whatever she was, told the girl.... if you burn me you burn your dad too and she was there like... oh ok and burned both their asses lmfao. I had the exact opposite feeling than Joseph before I watched it. I was like blah how good could it be if Zac is in it? Lmfao and sure enough it was so blah.
The Shop
Pyrokinetic abilities
Why did they even remake that!?! 🥴
Omg I watch the original last night and Drew was a terrible child actor hahaha and George C Scott was ham but it was freakin' funny lol Thank you guys. Love your channel💖
Whenever you guys review a bad movie, you can guarantee that the review is going to be far more entertaining than the movie was. I read the book in the early 90s and saw the movie on cable in the 80s. I bought the movie on DVD a year ago, and remember thinking, after a rewatch, how badly it had aged. I saw the remake last night, and I was really hoping that someone was going to make a decent movie adaptation, and I was seriously wrong. At least they finally cast a Native American actor (Michael Greyeyes, very good In Blood Quantum) to play Rainbird this time. My general feeling about the movie is that the story seemed so rushed and most of the story wasn't explained very well. Finally, thank you Nick for making my day by saying Morgan Fairchild played the mom in the O.G. movie, and thank you Joseph for making me LOL by calling Rainbird, "Old River Foot". I had tears in my eyes, and they were not bloody ones .
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I think I watched half hour or so, of 1984's original FS - and I never saw it again! I switched to Cujo (1983, with Dee Wallace) and finished that! Now, I feel may be it was the mother played by Heather Locklear *or* David Keith? Kind of Disney-ish and not enough Stephen King dread !LOL!
I love how the first 2 minutes of this is just describing the 1984 version🤣
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Y'all got Morgan Fairchild confused with Heather Locklear? Ooo chile
You know he's not eating pancakes 😆
I found the second half of the movie entertaining and agree it is better than the 80s movie. But definitely left a lot to be desired
not Riverfoot lol...The synth scores were the best things about both movies for me.
Why are they remaking everything?
Such a great question
Thanks for the heads-up on this..... Just the trailer alone, it seemed like BAD acting all around.
I wanted to like this movie so bad. But it was just terrible.
I'm done. lol
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What on earth was the point remaking an already very average movie if you ain’t gonna improve/do something all that different with the material. A mess!!
They really need to stop making movies with children like just refer to them off screen. For example
“ my daughter starts fires and that is a problem”
Let’s stop with child actors
Nah
Thst would really hinder storytelling.
WTF did they do with the storyline?!
The original wasn't that great but the special effects were still better
Sorry guys, but I have to step in here. Stop saying Telekinetic powers. The word you are looking for is Psychic powers or Psionic powers. Telekinesis is only one aspect of Psychic powers. The Firestarter girl has Pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire using Psychic abilities.
Whatever her powers are, the movie is bad.
@@fishjellyfilmreviews Oh, I 100% agree.
Terrible script
I think you are both giving this dreadful film more credit and attention than it deserves. This remake is a dreadful and insulting mess and it contains cat torture. I found it to be a cheap looking, amateur hateful abomination and it will easily be my choice for worst film of the year.
I thought we were pretty clear that we didn’t like it 🤷🏾♂️