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The joke is that NASA wanted Kubrick to film a fake moon landing for them, but he was such a perfectionist that he insisted on filming it on-location so they had to actually do the moon landing just to appease him.
Fun fact: When Spielberg called John Williams to ask him to score Schindler's List, he took a walk, called Spielberg back and said "You need a better composer than me for this project." Spielberg replied "I know, but they're all dead."
@@OnTheEdgex23 Every composer is heavily inspired by others. Just because you read a little trivia that some of his work is basically a copy of Stravinsky or Holst does not make him any lesser. To begin with, that stuff usually stems from the use of temp music, which is a problem with the industry, and if anything, with the director. Not the composer's fault.
Bay rhymed "money" with "money" five times in a row. And it was awesome. Also, when he said "Eye of an eagle" the eagle in the background also exploded.
So, the story about A.I. is actually interesting. Stanely died before he could finish directing it and Speilberg took it over to finish his friend's last project. However, the two style clashed.......only because each person was trying to do the other's style. Stanely wanted to do a Speilberg-style movie, and Speilberg wanted to make it an homage to Stanely. In the end, it became a convoluted mess but that's because two directors tried to do the opposite of their strengths. That said, if you look at is as that......two friends trying to mimic each other's style and one doing it to finish the other's last work.......it's a great a movie.
It would be so much easier to take you guys serious if you could be bothered to do SOMETHING right. "Spielberg" being misspelled as "Speilberg" tells me everything that I need to know.
@@DGARedRaven as long we understand what the person try to say, its all good really. Plus, i didnt even realise he spell it wrong to begin with but we just breath and read like nothing happend
Also the part where he rhymes 'Motherfucking Money' with 'Motherfucking Money' three or four times before ending the scheme with 'I don't give a fuck'.
Disclaimer: The following message is a personal opinion and as such is not to be taken as an attack on anyone's taste, but only an example of someone stating their dislike for the person. Great isn't a word anyone should use when describing Michael Bay, unless it's followed by "waste of money, time, studio space, and industry specialist work". He is the Nickelback of movie directors. If he were a biscuit, he'd be a chocolate covered McVitie's Digestive. Looks interesting at first, but when you really bite into it, it's hard, bland, and covered by a bit of something enticing to fool you into thinking it's good.
@@LongandWeirdName And yet he'll be remembered for putting out some good movies, and you won't. Use that shit as incentive to go get whatever your dream is done, brother/sister/non-binary sibling.
Zach portrayed 10 people in ERB: Albert Einstein Doc Brown Sherlock Holmes Ebenezer Scrooge Stephen King Egon Spengler Voltaire Walt Disney Alexander the Great Wayne Gretzky
I’ve watched this battle countless times and I only just realized this: Spielberg references Hitchcock’s movies in his line. This is a continuation of his line “learning from your movies to become a much better director.” He’s using Hitchcock’s movie titles to make his verses better. ERB’s raps go so fucken deep man! That’s why I love them
Can‘t believe I watched 37 minutes of a breakdown of a 4 min ERB video ... that‘s how good, smart and entertaining Knox is. I enjoy those ERBs even more than before due to understanding and appreciating more of it! Thanks Knox! Greets from Berlin!
FYI, here's a list of all the movies referenced by name in Spielberg's verses: 1. Duel - A 1971 TV thriller starring Dennis Weaver as a traveling salesman who gets relentlessly pursued by a trucker trying to kill him. It was Spielberg's full-length directorial debut. 2. Psycho - Hitchcock, 1960. Starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Suspense film centered on murderer Norman Bates, inspired largely by real-life serial killer Ed Gein. 3. Jaws - Spielberg, 1975. Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw. A giant shark terrorizes a coastal community in New England. 4. Lifeboat - Hitchcock, 1944. Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix. A story about survivors from a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat. 5. Always - Spielberg, 1989. Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman. A romantic fantasy drama film about a firefighting pilot who dies, and then has to mentor a new pilot who also falls for the dead pilot's girlfriend. Also notable for being Audrey Hepburn's final movie role. 6. Vertigo - Hitchcock, 1958. Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak. A detective with a fear of heights is asked to investigate the strange behavior of a colleague's wife. 7. The Terminal - Spielberg, 2004. Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci. A foreigner is trapped at JFK Airport for months due to an invalid passport and a civil war in his home country. 8. Murder! - Hitchcock, 1930. Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring. A mystery involving the death of an actress, and the implication of another actress who cannot remember committing the crime.
I loved Duel. Such a low budget, simple psychological thriller. First saw it as a matinee played on a local UHF station back in the mid 80s. Meant to change the channel, having never heard of the movie prior, but got sucked in and watched the whole thing.
this reaction 30%: the usual amazing breakdown 60%: Knox feeling old and telling us to go watch movies 10%: Knox getting hyped aboit Michael Bay lmao def one of my fav reactions and ERBS much love
“I’ll make you love me, I’m the bomb” is a reference to Dr.Strangelove, which was alternatively “How I stopped worrying and love the bomb”. Super insightful reaction as always!
Next time you watch this pay attention to the visuals of Hitchcock while other people are rapping. Everyone else is checking their watches and shuffling their feet but Hitchcock is listening intently and politely.
@@dark5fate I think it might either be more an aspect of Hitchcock's character itself or a subtle nod to a (theoretical on my part) shift in mentality and expectations placed on a director over the years. You can see this in a bit of the overlap between their careers and relative rises to prominence: Hitchcock was one of the earliest directors from a time when there were less "moving parts" involved in filmmaking. When Hitchcock started, there weren't as many animatronics, CGI, pyrotechnics, fancy/dramatic camera tricks, and color wasn't yet a thing, if memory serves. This meant that filmmaking required fewer specialists, but special effects had to be both more simplistic and creative in different ways, leading to directors who had less scheduling concerns and the ability to be more patient with what they did. On top of this, it's important to note that by the time Hitchcock retired, he was in his 70s or 80s, which may also explain his calm, polite demeanor. Spielberg and Kubrick both started after various technological fields were on the rise and each took it a different way: Spielberg used the advancing technology for better special effects, while Kubrick leveraged his perfectionism to create film techniques that are still used today. Tarantino started a bit after them, but between the three of them I think it's safe to say that filmmaking became a more complicated affair due to various specialized equipment, training, and personnel needed for higher budget films. This would mean more people to manage, more restrictive timetables, and higher stress on everyone involved as expectations became higher. This is especially true for Kubrick, who apparently was notoriously obsessive about not just everything being perfect, but also about not falling behind schedule. Michael Bay? Well, Bay's first experience with filmmaking was as an intern under George Lucas *and* Spielberg during production of Raiders of the Lost Ark, an experience that inspired him to become a director. Remember that this movie's considered one of the greatest films ever made and the sometimes wild special effects and action scenes in the Indiana Jones movies and it *might* become a bit more apparent where Michael Bay's obsession with showy explosions/effects and other over the top action comes from.
So the A.I. story, Kubrik wanted to make a Fairy Tale, but he didn't think he could write a happy ending, so he asked his friend, Spielburg, to direct it, but steven said that he couldn't do it. The two would try to get the other to direct the movie back and forth until Kubrik died, and Spielburg made the movie as an act of respect for his friend.
Additionally info about the movie. Spielberg was criticized for that ending but the fact was that it was Kubrick that wrote it that way, In the end Spielberg did his best to Honor his friend vision for the movie.
@@shiinoticc2282 "A.I. is the worst waste of potential since the Ninja Turtles". He's talking about the movie. ERB I guess didn't know the full story about AI's production and blamed the... err so-so quality of said movie on Spielberg.
Kubrick really can’t write a happy ending, only bittersweet. All 3 of his best movies: 2001; A Space Odyssey, the Shining, and A Clockwork Orange all lack happy endings.
3 billion dollar dream machine, Spielberg is the co-founder of Dreamworks. And AI was written by Kubric but he died before he could finish it so Spielberg, a friend of Kubrick, finished the movie as a homage.
In life Hitchcock never wanted to meet Spielberg, which people take as disrespect. But people forget Hitchcock also praised him for being the first visionary of a new generation who's eye left behind the "proscenium stage", the front facing stage from theater which carried over to film, both in how the filmmakers would shoot due to being educated in hundreds of years of theater, and how the sets were designed. Very high praise when you consider how difficult it was to crack the code to seperate theater acting and staging from film to fully explore the medium.
127 is because he was a perfectionist, but there's an exact reason why. In Shining he wanted a certain emotion out of Shelley Duvall, and she was just incapable of doing it. So He made her do the scene over and over again until she started crying. Then he made her redo once more, and she literally had the exact expression of desperation on her face he wanted from the beginning. Some say it was 127 times XD
Kubrick was so abusive to Duvall on set. He even had Nicholson be cruel to her on set to force method acting out of her. And I didn't think the 127 takes on the stairs scene was in doubt.
Dunno mate, just because he had an exact reason doesn't justify his actions. You can love a movie all you want, but he went way to far for just a movie.
That scene when Jack is on the stairs and says he wants to bash her brains in he felt in that moment he really wanted to because they had done it so many times. Angelica Huston, who was dating Jack at that time, was there and said Duvall wasn't as bad as people act like she was and a lot of that was Kubrick's hubris. She feels ultimately Duvall carries the movie more then Jack does.
@@Marsonis2ya nothing makes a movie better than having your actors actually FEEL the emotion instead of pretending they do Nothing beats the real thing
"I'll make you learn to love me, Im the bomb" is a reference to Kubrick's only comedy that he did. Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
@@TheMyrmo An excellent choice and, now that i think about it, a super influential one. Like in Airplane its the same thing. Leslie Nielson got that gig cuz the director wanted a dramatic actor to play the whole movie completely straight
I don't think I've ever heard anyone point out how Michael Bay's rhyming scheme is a callout to him not giving a fuck and still being good and enjoyable. Good pick up.
A suggestion, once you finish the reaction , you could listen to the whole thing from start to finish, to get a better feeling of the flow of the battle, as that is more difficult to do when you need to stop a lot. They normally have 3 min or less so it would not be too bad for the length of the video and I think it would be cool! Love the videos anyway!
I Absolutely agree with this. (With the ERB's at least.) Even if it's a 6 min long one, I'd stay tuned at the end, to see your expression/ secondary reaction, to hearing it all again but in the flow of battle, as stated. *I actually think you'd get alot of new subscribers, people that would probably skip til the end & watch the stop-less video/reaction, but still more peeps none the less!
You can see just the pure jubilation on Knox's face the whole time Michael Bay is on screen, love it!. Also would love to see Houdini vs Copperfield sometime. it's such an underrated battle.
"Close Encounter of the Turd Kind, but there won't be a pretty ending this time" The original ending of Close Encounters was different - Spielberg changed it because he wanted it to be happier. Also, Kubrick's 127 times line is a reference to him holding the record for most number of takes for a single scene with The Shining - he did 127 takes of the scene where Shelly Duval is walking backwards up the staircase with a baseball bat.
@@michaelwestmoreland2530 It was a method of mentally breaking Duvall in order to get a more authentic performance. I'd say it worked quite well - she was captivating in that film.
@@michaelwestmoreland2530 he didn't think she was a good enough actor to realistically portray the fear, and mental health diminishing trauma that what happened in the hotel would in his opinion cause someone who goes through it, so he made her retake scenes like that, verbally and mentally abused her, made all of the other actors act like assholes to her, and never so much as said "good job" or anything he just antagonized her, also by the time she was done filming the 127 scenes she was literally fucking bleeding, her hands had started bleeding, because all Stanley told her was to go up the stairs backwards, he didn't tell her that Jack was gonna slowly creep up the stairs towards her with that creepy ass look on his face, so she was scared as hell, and that's why her hands were bleeding, because she was so terrified she was gripping the bat really tight until it dug into her hand,
KnoxHill, this was the most incredible reaction video ive ever seen. It added so much quality and research that I didn't even know about ... and I've watched this one like 100 times.
That "Squee!" following Hitchcock's "I'm the master - " is also used repeatedly in the infamous Shower scene score, where it sort of "illustrates" the multiple stabbings; the very soundtrack of Alfred :D
I love how you always stop the video every one or two second but your inner child came out when Michael Bay appeared and you just let it roll. That was great haahhah
The "old time movie" violin sting ("I'm the master of suspense") _originated_ with Hitchcock's Psycho, at the infamous shower scene. Followed up, naturally, with a "Wilhelm scream".
You know, Spielberg didn't put the happy ending in A.I. It was actually something Kubrick wanted because he always wanted to make his own happy fantasy movie. Spielberg wanted to cut it out, but felt it would be disrespectful to Kubrick's vision.
The sample at the start of Kubricks verse is "Also sprach Zarathustra", the iconic soundtrack from 2001: A Space Odyssee. "Learn to love me I'm the bomb" is a reference to Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to love the bomb. Ultraviolence is what Alex and his droogs call raising hell in Clockwork Orange. Dual is Spielbergs debut movie.
I just love that each had a dig at Bay, Spielberg about the amount of Oscars, Hitchcock about Megan Fox's acting in transformers, a Bay movie, Tarantino about selling out like Bay and Kubrik about how shit Bay's TMNT was. Oh and Knox, it amused me you paused to mention the Bald Eagle in the background, but then didn't notice that Bay then blows it up XD
The 127 times line from Kubrick is in reference to the fact that he argued with and made the actress Shelley Duvall act out the baseball bat scene exactly 127 times in Shining.
Do vlad the impaler vs dracula, stan lee vs jim henson, and then you can do these 2 short ones together, einstein vs stephen hawking and batman vs sherlock homes, both in one vid
The cool subtle choice is that they modeled the order of directors off of the evolution of Hip Hop, from the old school to the breakout 90s hit makers to the lyricists to the super artsy dark material to the sellout money makers.
Fun fact: the toilet in Psycho was the first toilet ever shown on the big screen. Love your stuff- you have become my favorite rapper and my favorite rap commentary channel.
Too many Cavalcade battle reactions in a short period of time may give you a slight case of serious brain damage. What’s next? You’ll start requesting Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge?
You should react to Artists x TMNT since you love the turtles. But it's unfortunately a short one, so you can squeeze another one for us like Bob Ross x Picasso (the flow in this one is straight fire).
Great to see your enjoyment with this one. I enjoy all your ERB reactions, but I really appreciated the uncensored joy when Bay showed up. And yes, The Rock is the greatest action movie ever made.
Kubrick’s A.I. Reference is that he was originally set to do the film before he passed away and Spielberg took it over out of respect for one of his heroes/inspirations in the industry.
I would've figured it was Tarantino by the fact that in his first scene in the battle he's sitting in a chair with the name "Quentin Tarantino" printed right on it...
27:34 - Its a joke, not a theory: “The US hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing, but he was such a perfectionist he had it filmed on-location.”
What a reel reaction! Enjoyed your analysis as always, I love how Alfred was the only person to diss Micheal Bay twice (“More horrible than Megan Fox’s acting” & “Damage panderers”) I love how you also recognized Alfred’s amazing flow, also I like how Bay lost and kamikaze’d since he makes less than all four directors (even the dead ones) As for more erb requests I’ll suggest “Shakespeare vs Dr. Seuss”, “Houdini vs David Copperfield”, “Robocop vs Terminator” “Richard Pryor vs George Carlin” and “Captain Kirk vs Columbus”
The line, "every single frame a painting" is a cool double as it is a reference to the movie "Barry Lyndon" which is inspired by Renaissance paintings and also it is a shout out to the brilliant film editing channel "Every Frame a Painting".
Another week, another comment. I'm about to sound like a broken record, but you should definitely break down Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs. Great beat, awesome back and forth, and the puns are absolutely great! Please check it out.
Brain: Let's go to bed now Pinky. Pinky: What are we doing tomorrow, playing a pizza accordion? Brain: No Pinky, we are going to take over the world. Pinky: Oh right, narf, well good night.
Kubrick's line "I'll make you learn to love me. Im the bomb" is a reference to his film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
"Dr. Strangelove" on the bomb bar from Kubrick. Also "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" was a Spielberg movie with Robin Williams as Dr. Know. Just know I learn more here than I could ever teach. Keep up the great work.
I just found you today and so been binge watching alot of your past videos. And just now when you said “it’s Friday...” made me think of the Tom McD line abt why other rappers won’t drop their songs on Friday bc it’s his day and therefore the song will be buried
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I don't know, I've already gave up on the suggestions. Lucy Camp, Lexii Alijai, La Chat and Savvy Rae.
3.7 billion dollars is his total net worth. Sir Issac Newton vs Bill Nye!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that you got this one out of your system I'm going back to pushing Stan Lee vs Jim Henson. 😁
Do iiiiit!
Kpop reaction request: BOBBY - U MAD. INSANE RAPPING TRACK. ITS A MUST WATCH
Gotta do the presidential battles- Hillary vs trump savage
The joke is that NASA wanted Kubrick to film a fake moon landing for them, but he was such a perfectionist that he insisted on filming it on-location so they had to actually do the moon landing just to appease him.
Sounds legit.
100% truth
Makes sense
true
definently what happened 👍
Fun fact: When Spielberg called John Williams to ask him to score Schindler's List, he took a walk, called Spielberg back and said "You need a better composer than me for this project." Spielberg replied "I know, but they're all dead."
John Williams is one of the best composers of our time tho
@@MindScape06 Did you even read the comment you're responding to after two years?
"Our time"@@ShaCaro
@@MindScape06he’s a hack that ripped off more famous composers
@@OnTheEdgex23 Every composer is heavily inspired by others.
Just because you read a little trivia that some of his work is basically a copy of Stravinsky or Holst does not make him any lesser.
To begin with, that stuff usually stems from the use of temp music, which is a problem with the industry, and if anything, with the director. Not the composer's fault.
Bay rhymed "money" with "money" five times in a row. And it was awesome. Also, when he said "Eye of an eagle" the eagle in the background also exploded.
To be fair, half of the rhymes were "motherfucking money" while the rest were "Milk money", "silk money" and "guilt money".
He may not have any skills, but, damn it all, he's got a style he's not ashamed of!
"Bay rhymed "money" with "money" five times in a row" - maybe check your rhyming knowledge. syllables
It’s because it’s all about the motherfucking money
charisma trumps all
So, the story about A.I. is actually interesting. Stanely died before he could finish directing it and Speilberg took it over to finish his friend's last project. However, the two style clashed.......only because each person was trying to do the other's style. Stanely wanted to do a Speilberg-style movie, and Speilberg wanted to make it an homage to Stanely. In the end, it became a convoluted mess but that's because two directors tried to do the opposite of their strengths. That said, if you look at is as that......two friends trying to mimic each other's style and one doing it to finish the other's last work.......it's a great a movie.
It would be so much easier to take you guys serious if you could be bothered to do SOMETHING right.
"Spielberg" being misspelled as "Speilberg" tells me everything that I need to know.
@@DGARedRaven lol, okay.
@@DGARedRaven 😂
@@DGARedRavenare you trolling or are you just that much of a grammar baby
@@DGARedRaven as long we understand what the person try to say, its all good really. Plus, i didnt even realise he spell it wrong to begin with but we just breath and read like nothing happend
Alfred Hitchcock made a cameo in every film he directed. Stan Lee appearing in the MCU movies is him paying homage 🤟
I seen a lot of Alfred Hitchcock movies and I never saw him doing a cameo. By the way, Physco wasn't his best movie.
@@jamesfowler5100 according to Wikipedia he had cameos in 40 of his 54 movies
@@jamesfowler5100 He did but most are all very easy to miss.
The best part is that Michael Bay did not throw stabs at anyone but he just flaunts at how great he is.
Also the part where he rhymes 'Motherfucking Money' with 'Motherfucking Money' three or four times before ending the scheme with 'I don't give a fuck'.
I like the fact that when he slams into the ground you can see the other four visibly flinch they step back like oh sh*t
Disclaimer: The following message is a personal opinion and as such is not to be taken as an attack on anyone's taste, but only an example of someone stating their dislike for the person.
Great isn't a word anyone should use when describing Michael Bay, unless it's followed by "waste of money, time, studio space, and industry specialist work". He is the Nickelback of movie directors. If he were a biscuit, he'd be a chocolate covered McVitie's Digestive. Looks interesting at first, but when you really bite into it, it's hard, bland, and covered by a bit of something enticing to fool you into thinking it's good.
@@LongandWeirdName And yet he'll be remembered for putting out some good movies, and you won't.
Use that shit as incentive to go get whatever your dream is done, brother/sister/non-binary sibling.
@@LongandWeirdName why is Michael Bay bad?
"Helicopter drop in, Micheal Bay style." This statement gets a lot more ironic given what happens later in this ERB.
I thought the same thing 😂
@@MortiefiedBear Like he said it, and I had to pause the video laugh for about a minute. It was so funny to me.
@@muse6815 For a second I thought - "Has he seen this before?"
That's not irony....that's foreshadowing
@@MortiefiedBear you a Samantha Gill by chance?
There are two types of white guys in the world: those that look like NicePeter and those that like EpicLloyd
TIL all white guys are bald
But what of the 1% of white people who look like beloved ERB guest Zach Sherwin?
@@ArunaUtd shhhhh, don't let our secret out.
This is correct.
I like EpicLloyd and I don't look like NicePeter.
Zach portrayed 10 people in ERB:
Albert Einstein
Doc Brown
Sherlock Holmes
Ebenezer Scrooge
Stephen King
Egon Spengler
Voltaire
Walt Disney
Alexander the Great
Wayne Gretzky
I’ve watched this battle countless times and I only just realized this: Spielberg references Hitchcock’s movies in his line. This is a continuation of his line “learning from your movies to become a much better director.” He’s using Hitchcock’s movie titles to make his verses better. ERB’s raps go so fucken deep man! That’s why I love them
Not only that, but he always lists a movie of him first and then a movie of Hitchcock
Duel/Psycho
Jaws/Lifeboat
Always/Vertigo
Terminal/Murder!
Can‘t believe I watched 37 minutes of a breakdown of a 4 min ERB video ... that‘s how good, smart and entertaining Knox is. I enjoy those ERBs even more than before due to understanding and appreciating more of it! Thanks Knox! Greets from Berlin!
Really we didn't. See that it was . That long. Pretty cool.
I second this! (both the knox part and location)
Kubrick's line about Ninja turtles was another call-out for Bay since he produced the newer tmnt movies.
Which sucked imo
And Hitchcock’s mention of transformers too
@@chrisriley2321
Not to me. Keep Michael Bay for the money-making strategy, but don’t let him in the director’s seat.
Right every character had a knock against Michael Bay in some way
@@Tacoaloto which is why he said "I've heard enough from all of you"
Knox: Literally breaking down "Psycho"
Also Knox while doing so: "Someone in my family is getting murdered right now." 💀😂
Ha, i didnt connect that, funny...
4th wall double
Bars
Eh?
Did anyone notice, when Michael Bay dropped from the helicopter everyone stepped back except Hitchcock he didn't even flinch
Good eye! I hadn’t noticed that.
The other directors: Oh no, this guy!
Hitchcock: ....who's this poser?
@@sdsign4229
Richer than you’ll ever be, Hitchcock.
Bay has made some good movies, and I won’t deny it. You’ve got to take the good with the gnarly.
It’s because he is the master of suspense, so he expected it
FYI, here's a list of all the movies referenced by name in Spielberg's verses:
1. Duel - A 1971 TV thriller starring Dennis Weaver as a traveling salesman who gets relentlessly pursued by a trucker trying to kill him. It was Spielberg's full-length directorial debut.
2. Psycho - Hitchcock, 1960. Starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Suspense film centered on murderer Norman Bates, inspired largely by real-life serial killer Ed Gein.
3. Jaws - Spielberg, 1975. Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw. A giant shark terrorizes a coastal community in New England.
4. Lifeboat - Hitchcock, 1944. Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix. A story about survivors from a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat.
5. Always - Spielberg, 1989. Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman. A romantic fantasy drama film about a firefighting pilot who dies, and then has to mentor a new pilot who also falls for the dead pilot's girlfriend. Also notable for being Audrey Hepburn's final movie role.
6. Vertigo - Hitchcock, 1958. Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak. A detective with a fear of heights is asked to investigate the strange behavior of a colleague's wife.
7. The Terminal - Spielberg, 2004. Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci. A foreigner is trapped at JFK Airport for months due to an invalid passport and a civil war in his home country.
8. Murder! - Hitchcock, 1930. Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring. A mystery involving the death of an actress, and the implication of another actress who cannot remember committing the crime.
Thank you for that, some of the movies idk
I loved Duel. Such a low budget, simple psychological thriller. First saw it as a matinee played on a local UHF station back in the mid 80s. Meant to change the channel, having never heard of the movie prior, but got sucked in and watched the whole thing.
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If that's in the exact order then they alternate back and forth between a Spielberg film and Hitchcock film. That's pretty damn cool
I love the fact that they managed to have Quentin Tarantino mention feet in his rap...because of COURSE he's going to get weird about feet.
Absolutely. I caught that immediately. Super clever.
? What about feet ?
@@RavenMacy He's got a fetish lol see all the barefoot scenes in his movies, notably salma hayek's in his mouth.
@@RavenMacy apparently Tarantino has quite the foot fetish
@@DelcattiyI have more of an ankle grab one. Odd thing to mention but I thought I’d throw my hat in the ring.
Tarantino underrated line about stubbing his toe in the shower - we all know he loves himself a good foot and toe
this reaction
30%: the usual amazing breakdown
60%: Knox feeling old and telling us to go watch movies
10%: Knox getting hyped aboit Michael Bay
lmao def one of my fav reactions and ERBS much love
ANYONE who thinks Michael Bay isn't bringing the heat, just remember that he took Knox's breath away.
🤣🤣🤝
I thought you’re Pfpwas hitler for a sec lol
@@KnoxHill Legit you're the only reactor I've seen that was this happy to see Michael Bay 🤣
@@sdsign4229yeah
@@KnoxHillactually rose to the rock was a sports illustrated swimsuit shoot Micheal Bay did, but also a double for the Rock as well
“I’ll make you love me, I’m the bomb” is a reference to Dr.Strangelove, which was alternatively “How I stopped worrying and love the bomb”. Super insightful reaction as always!
I just love that after every director uses Bay as bad standard, then comes Bay himself and rhymes money with money
Bonnie and Clyde vs Romeo and Juliet is one hell of a battle.
I'll second that
I third this so hard
Agreed!
4th that
It wasn't a battle. It was Julliet being a GOAT
Next time you watch this pay attention to the visuals of Hitchcock while other people are rapping. Everyone else is checking their watches and shuffling their feet but Hitchcock is listening intently and politely.
Is there a deeper reason than that he was just that type of man?
He's also the only one who's not flinching when Bay lands ^^
@@Radolus555 I don’t know much about Alfred but maybe they’re just saying older directors were more professional ? I dunno.
@@dark5fate I think it might either be more an aspect of Hitchcock's character itself or a subtle nod to a (theoretical on my part) shift in mentality and expectations placed on a director over the years. You can see this in a bit of the overlap between their careers and relative rises to prominence:
Hitchcock was one of the earliest directors from a time when there were less "moving parts" involved in filmmaking. When Hitchcock started, there weren't as many animatronics, CGI, pyrotechnics, fancy/dramatic camera tricks, and color wasn't yet a thing, if memory serves. This meant that filmmaking required fewer specialists, but special effects had to be both more simplistic and creative in different ways, leading to directors who had less scheduling concerns and the ability to be more patient with what they did. On top of this, it's important to note that by the time Hitchcock retired, he was in his 70s or 80s, which may also explain his calm, polite demeanor.
Spielberg and Kubrick both started after various technological fields were on the rise and each took it a different way: Spielberg used the advancing technology for better special effects, while Kubrick leveraged his perfectionism to create film techniques that are still used today. Tarantino started a bit after them, but between the three of them I think it's safe to say that filmmaking became a more complicated affair due to various specialized equipment, training, and personnel needed for higher budget films. This would mean more people to manage, more restrictive timetables, and higher stress on everyone involved as expectations became higher. This is especially true for Kubrick, who apparently was notoriously obsessive about not just everything being perfect, but also about not falling behind schedule.
Michael Bay? Well, Bay's first experience with filmmaking was as an intern under George Lucas *and* Spielberg during production of Raiders of the Lost Ark, an experience that inspired him to become a director. Remember that this movie's considered one of the greatest films ever made and the sometimes wild special effects and action scenes in the Indiana Jones movies and it *might* become a bit more apparent where Michael Bay's obsession with showy explosions/effects and other over the top action comes from.
Bro is just🗿
So the A.I. story, Kubrik wanted to make a Fairy Tale, but he didn't think he could write a happy ending, so he asked his friend, Spielburg, to direct it, but steven said that he couldn't do it. The two would try to get the other to direct the movie back and forth until Kubrik died, and Spielburg made the movie as an act of respect for his friend.
Additionally info about the movie.
Spielberg was criticized for that ending but the fact was that it was Kubrick that wrote it that way, In the end Spielberg did his best to Honor his friend vision for the movie.
Bruh the ai reference was micheal bays ninja turtle movie where he used mokaps and ai
@@shiinoticc2282 "A.I. is the worst waste of potential since the Ninja Turtles". He's talking about the movie. ERB I guess didn't know the full story about AI's production and blamed the... err so-so quality of said movie on Spielberg.
Kubrick really can’t write a happy ending, only bittersweet. All 3 of his best movies: 2001; A Space Odyssey, the Shining, and A Clockwork Orange all lack happy endings.
@@maxrichards3881 TBH the books for all 3 were the same, IIRC.
3 billion dollar dream machine, Spielberg is the co-founder of Dreamworks. And AI was written by Kubric but he died before he could finish it so Spielberg, a friend of Kubrick, finished the movie as a homage.
In life Hitchcock never wanted to meet Spielberg, which people take as disrespect. But people forget Hitchcock also praised him for being the first visionary of a new generation who's eye left behind the "proscenium stage", the front facing stage from theater which carried over to film, both in how the filmmakers would shoot due to being educated in hundreds of years of theater, and how the sets were designed.
Very high praise when you consider how difficult it was to crack the code to seperate theater acting and staging from film to fully explore the medium.
127 is because he was a perfectionist, but there's an exact reason why.
In Shining he wanted a certain emotion out of Shelley Duvall, and she was just incapable of doing it. So He made her do the scene over and over again until she started crying. Then he made her redo once more, and she literally had the exact expression of desperation on her face he wanted from the beginning.
Some say it was 127 times XD
Kubrick was so abusive to Duvall on set. He even had Nicholson be cruel to her on set to force method acting out of her.
And I didn't think the 127 takes on the stairs scene was in doubt.
Dunno mate, just because he had an exact reason doesn't justify his actions. You can love a movie all you want, but he went way to far for just a movie.
That scene when Jack is on the stairs and says he wants to bash her brains in he felt in that moment he really wanted to because they had done it so many times. Angelica Huston, who was dating Jack at that time, was there and said Duvall wasn't as bad as people act like she was and a lot of that was Kubrick's hubris. She feels ultimately Duvall carries the movie more then Jack does.
@@ichbinnichtdererste going way "too far" is how masterpieces are made. Pressure makes diamonds
@@Marsonis2ya nothing makes a movie better than having your actors actually FEEL the emotion instead of pretending they do
Nothing beats the real thing
Btw Knox, as someone pointed out, Bay rymed "Money" like 5 times in a row and finished with "I don't give a f*ck"
epic
I mean, that was the start of a new rhyme scheme, which he ended with "nuts".
@@RaistliniltsiaR tbh, king
"I'll make you learn to love me, Im the bomb" is a reference to Kubrick's only comedy that he did. Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
What I love about that movie is that, while it is a comedy, all of the actors play it completely straight.
@@TheMyrmo An excellent choice and, now that i think about it, a super influential one. Like in Airplane its the same thing. Leslie Nielson got that gig cuz the director wanted a dramatic actor to play the whole movie completely straight
@@EzioHanitore And then he got typecast for straight comedy, like Naked Gun.
@@AlexanderAzarov They don't make comedies like they used to man
Glad i grew up in the 80s. Airplane! And hot shot! Are my jam😂
I don't think I've ever heard anyone point out how Michael Bay's rhyming scheme is a callout to him not giving a fuck and still being good and enjoyable. Good pick up.
He may not have any skills, but, damn it all, he's got a style he's not ashamed of!
@@sdsign4229 plenty of skills
This battle is so well thought out. It's like a long-ass intricate set-up of amazing bars for the overarching punchline of Michael Bay's part.
A suggestion, once you finish the reaction , you could listen to the whole thing from start to finish, to get a better feeling of the flow of the battle, as that is more difficult to do when you need to stop a lot. They normally have 3 min or less so it would not be too bad for the length of the video and I think it would be cool! Love the videos anyway!
This
Good suggestion
Agreed, it's cool and all to analyze but holy sheeet. This dude is stating the most obvious things it gets really annoying at times
I agree... love the dissection. But WAYYY tooooo much stoping.
I Absolutely agree with this. (With the ERB's at least.) Even if it's a 6 min long one, I'd stay tuned at the end, to see your expression/ secondary reaction, to hearing it all again but in the flow of battle, as stated. *I actually think you'd get alot of new subscribers, people that would probably skip til the end & watch the stop-less video/reaction, but still more peeps none the less!
You can see just the pure jubilation on Knox's face the whole time Michael Bay is on screen, love it!.
Also would love to see Houdini vs Copperfield sometime. it's such an underrated battle.
"Close Encounter of the Turd Kind, but there won't be a pretty ending this time"
The original ending of Close Encounters was different - Spielberg changed it because he wanted it to be happier.
Also, Kubrick's 127 times line is a reference to him holding the record for most number of takes for a single scene with The Shining - he did 127 takes of the scene where Shelly Duval is walking backwards up the staircase with a baseball bat.
I thought it was the bathroom scene?
Fucking...WHY? What are you getting on take 127 you aren't getting by take 10?
@@michaelwestmoreland2530 It was a method of mentally breaking Duvall in order to get a more authentic performance. I'd say it worked quite well - she was captivating in that film.
@@michaelwestmoreland2530 he didn't think she was a good enough actor to realistically portray the fear, and mental health diminishing trauma that what happened in the hotel would in his opinion cause someone who goes through it, so he made her retake scenes like that, verbally and mentally abused her, made all of the other actors act like assholes to her, and never so much as said "good job" or anything he just antagonized her, also by the time she was done filming the 127 scenes she was literally fucking bleeding, her hands had started bleeding, because all Stanley told her was to go up the stairs backwards, he didn't tell her that Jack was gonna slowly creep up the stairs towards her with that creepy ass look on his face, so she was scared as hell, and that's why her hands were bleeding, because she was so terrified she was gripping the bat really tight until it dug into her hand,
Fuck I wasn't done typing all the shit he put her through thank God there's a edit feature hold on
KnoxHill, this was the most incredible reaction video ive ever seen. It added so much quality and research that I didn't even know about ... and I've watched this one like 100 times.
the 'screech' on Hitchcock's suspense line is actually the sound used during Psycho's shower scene.
That "Squee!" following Hitchcock's "I'm the master - " is also used repeatedly in the infamous Shower scene score, where it sort of "illustrates" the multiple stabbings; the very soundtrack of Alfred :D
I love how you always stop the video every one or two second but your inner child came out when Michael Bay appeared and you just let it roll. That was great haahhah
Crazy great content as always! Would love to hear the "William Shakespeare vs. Dr. Seus" breakdown. Watsky kills it.
Love ur reactions I be reacting the same way u should def react to Billy May's Vs Benjamin Franklin
Yes, just make sure to skip the Thing 1 and Thing 2 verse, it's unbearable
The "old time movie" violin sting ("I'm the master of suspense") _originated_ with Hitchcock's Psycho, at the infamous shower scene. Followed up, naturally, with a "Wilhelm scream".
You know, Spielberg didn't put the happy ending in A.I. It was actually something Kubrick wanted because he always wanted to make his own happy fantasy movie. Spielberg wanted to cut it out, but felt it would be disrespectful to Kubrick's vision.
The sample at the start of Kubricks verse is "Also sprach Zarathustra", the iconic soundtrack from 2001: A Space Odyssee.
"Learn to love me I'm the bomb" is a reference to Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to love the bomb. Ultraviolence is what Alex and his droogs call raising hell in Clockwork Orange.
Dual is Spielbergs debut movie.
I implore you to eventually get to Boba Fett vs Deadpool. That one’s too good
I just love that each had a dig at Bay, Spielberg about the amount of Oscars, Hitchcock about Megan Fox's acting in transformers, a Bay movie, Tarantino about selling out like Bay and Kubrik about how shit Bay's TMNT was. Oh and Knox, it amused me you paused to mention the Bald Eagle in the background, but then didn't notice that Bay then blows it up XD
"How can you have Tom Cruise in your movie and make it bad?" - The Mummy enters the chat
And Vanilla Sky.
We don't talk about that movie.
Maybe if it was Brendan Frasier it would've been good
@@Vampirecronicler I think you might be on to something with that casting idea
The 127 times line from Kubrick is in reference to the fact that he argued with and made the actress Shelley Duvall act out the baseball bat scene exactly 127 times in Shining.
It was the baseball bat scene where Wendy was backing up the steps, they did that 127 times. You can tell she was very tired and upset.
Many people on set made the fair claim that Stanley drove Shelly Duvall, who played Wendy, insane. Yet she claimed to be okay when the movie wrapped.
Always was a Spielberg film about a firefighter pilot. Starred Richard Dreyfus, John Goodman, and the lady who did the voice of Elastigirl lol
Holly Hunter
which was based on a movie called "A Guy named Joe" About WWII bomber pilots.
Did not know that
Hey, John Goodman!
The children's laughter adds wholesomeness to the content. Didn't mind at all! Kudos to you on great content.
Ok please get this man to 500k he is helping a lot of people including me through these hard times and i just want to say thank you man and keep it up
FINNAALLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY
I’m so happy you finally did this one. There is so many references
Duel was Spielberg's first film. Made for tv film about a man being attacked by an unknown assailant in a semi truck. Good little suspense film
The joy on your face during Bay was the best. 😂
Do vlad the impaler vs dracula, stan lee vs jim henson, and then you can do these 2 short ones together, einstein vs stephen hawking and batman vs sherlock homes, both in one vid
San Lee vs Jim Henson is one of my faves I would love to see know react
@@FiLoRogue Yes Definitely.
Seuss vs Shakespeare
stan lee vs jim hanson is amazing
The cool subtle choice is that they modeled the order of directors off of the evolution of Hip Hop, from the old school to the breakout 90s hit makers to the lyricists to the super artsy dark material to the sellout money makers.
“Helicopter drop in Michael Bay style”
Me - Oh this will be good....
Still here early gang to suggest Julius Caesar vs Shaka Zulu day 691
I personally think it's a little bit one-sided
@@Vis_Maior still wanna see Knox's takes haha
I’ve been recommending that song since I became a fan of Knox
I think he did that one
@@diamondtacos973 no not yet, there hasn't been a Knox Hill reaction for this erb haha
There is still one Blockbuster open, and it's in Oregon. There was even a documentary about it that was put on Netflix of all places.
Lol, that seems petty.
Yes this! This one is hilarious!!
This is one of my favorites, I’m so glad you did it and enjoyed it as much as I do!
Fun fact: the toilet in Psycho was the first toilet ever shown on the big screen.
Love your stuff- you have become my favorite rapper and my favorite rap commentary channel.
You called it! Michael Bay swooping in a helicopter 😂😂🔥
Next ERB should be George Carlin vs Richard Pryor, it is, without a doubt, one of the top tier ERB
Too many Cavalcade battle reactions in a short period of time may give you a slight case of serious brain damage. What’s next? You’ll start requesting Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge?
You should react to Artists x TMNT since you love the turtles.
But it's unfortunately a short one, so you can squeeze another one for us like Bob Ross x Picasso (the flow in this one is straight fire).
Great to see your enjoyment with this one. I enjoy all your ERB reactions, but I really appreciated the uncensored joy when Bay showed up.
And yes, The Rock is the greatest action movie ever made.
Kubrick’s A.I. Reference is that he was originally set to do the film before he passed away and Spielberg took it over out of respect for one of his heroes/inspirations in the industry.
I would've figured it was Tarantino by the fact that in his first scene in the battle he's sitting in a chair with the name "Quentin Tarantino" printed right on it...
Marylin Monroe vs Cleopatra is a great cat fight lol
It’s basically them just calling each other whores for like 2 minutes it’s really not that good in my opinion
@@theanythingguytag3420 We all love the pain of that line
Agreed. They still need a rematch for that one.
@@theanythingguytag3420 that’s why it’s so good
Yes! Please! One of my favorites 😻
And I love how every real director has a stab at Micheal Bay in the verse.
So much so they accidentally summoned him.
27:34 - Its a joke, not a theory: “The US hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing, but he was such a perfectionist he had it filmed on-location.”
"why are we in space?"
ART!
And a legend was born
What a reel reaction! Enjoyed your analysis as always, I love how Alfred was the only person to diss Micheal Bay twice (“More horrible than Megan Fox’s acting” & “Damage panderers”) I love how you also recognized Alfred’s amazing flow, also I like how Bay lost and kamikaze’d since he makes less than all four directors (even the dead ones) As for more erb requests I’ll suggest “Shakespeare vs Dr. Seuss”, “Houdini vs David Copperfield”, “Robocop vs Terminator” “Richard Pryor vs George Carlin” and “Captain Kirk vs Columbus”
I was waiting for this to drop, so let's go🔥 my Friday is made with your ERB breakdowns... Bonnie & Clyde vs Romeo & Juliet pleeease!
For the first time, I noticed that when he says "eyes of an eagle," the bald eagle in the background puffs like it was blown up.
The line, "every single frame a painting" is a cool double as it is a reference to the movie "Barry Lyndon" which is inspired by Renaissance paintings and also it is a shout out to the brilliant film editing channel "Every Frame a Painting".
He didn't do an actual Muppets movie, but Spielberg did help with Dark Crystal that used similar puppet schemes to said Muppets.
Would ET count as a Muppet?
So was Jaws
When you said "I just got an image in my head of Micheal Bay coming in on a helo" Im just sitting here like bro get ready
Another week, another comment. I'm about to sound like a broken record, but you should definitely break down Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs. Great beat, awesome back and forth, and the puns are absolutely great! Please check it out.
Don't spoil there being a surprise competitor man
@@rajisready delete this or he will be spoiled
@@rehanakhund2578 done and edited. Now we need @ExSuPiO1 to do the thing too lol
The staircase scene from The Shining was LITERALLY shot 127 times before Kubrick was satisfied.
Brain: Let's go to bed now Pinky.
Pinky: What are we doing tomorrow, playing a pizza accordion?
Brain: No Pinky, we are going to take over the world.
Pinky: Oh right, narf, well good night.
This is the battle of the directors. They originally wanted Tim Burton but then decided that Stanley Kubrick would be better
Freddy Krueger vs Wolverine has to be next, savage bars all the way through!
100%
Couldn't click fast enough. Thanks for making Friday better! 😎
This is the best reaction i've seen. great break-down of the video.
Keep it up.
The “I’m the bomb” line from Kubrick is a reference to another one of his films “Dr. Strangelove: Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb”
Kubrick’s first bar is super underrated IMO
Babe Ruth v lance Armstrong and Deadpool v boba fett are both amazing!
I love how every single one of them took a shot at Michael Bay or some of his work. 😆
And then he was like "Fuck all you guys talking crap. I'm coming down to yell about how awesome I am."
Kubrick's line "I'll make you learn to love me. Im the bomb" is a reference to his film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
"Dr. Strangelove" on the bomb bar from Kubrick. Also "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" was a Spielberg movie with Robin Williams as Dr. Know. Just know I learn more here than I could ever teach. Keep up the great work.
Every reaction I've watched works so hard to help set up Michael Bay without knowing he's coming.
Yo, this was amaziiiinnng! Can we have a reaction to Vlad Dracula vs Vlad the Impaler? Love your stuff dude. Hello from Hungary
Love how everyone missed the fact that pinky was the smart one an brain was the insane one 😂😂😂
Holy shit! That intro! How have you not been in an ERB? There are so many people you'd be perfect to play!
Even before I watch it, I know I am going to love your reaction to this one! Love your reactions and breakdowns Knox.
Haha!!! I was waiting on the realization.
Sigmund Freud vs Mother Theresa is a criminally underrated one, one of my favorites
React to Cleopatra vs Marilyn Monroe
I just found you today and so been binge watching alot of your past videos. And just now when you said “it’s Friday...” made me think of the Tom McD line abt why other rappers won’t drop their songs on Friday bc it’s his day and therefore the song will be buried
nice shirt bro continuum stuff glad you're continuing stuff dawg!
Honestly, Michael Bay's verse was all flex and no diss, but his energy was just *amazing*.