Michael Douglas has repeated stated in interviews that 'Falling Down' is, personally, his favorite movie. He put ALL of himself into it and he considers it his best work
@vincecommando7575
10 ай бұрын
He definitely convinced me that didn't hold back in this movie. What an amazing character and interesting story as well. Hollywood seldom ever tells these types of stories anymore.
@dustandroktwok1447
10 ай бұрын
@@vincecommando7575 This movie would never get made today.
@In_Orbit
10 ай бұрын
@@vincecommando7575 Movies before the 2000s were so much better. Can't wait for this superhero and constant remakes phase to finally end.
@joeymac3777
10 ай бұрын
@@In_OrbitThat's what happens when no one has any originality anymore.
@SurvivorBri
10 ай бұрын
@@In_OrbitI don't think this "phase" is going to end in our lifetime.
@Cookieboy70
10 ай бұрын
It's interesting how Robert Duvall and Michael Douglas character basically experience the same life (loss of having your daughter, dealing with shitty people) but Robert Duvall's character is able to stay positive and retain a grasp on his mental health, while Michael Douglas goes into a complete free fall of darkness.
@jackmeowmeowmeow2177
10 ай бұрын
I see it as how the people around you will affect you when you are vulnerable. Duvall’s character has people who care about and support him, meanwhile Douglas you see from the mother and wife an attempt to distance and isolate him instead of helping or supporting him which is ultimately what lead to his downfall of mind. (His stresses are ignored and invalidated by his wife leading to his frustration and outbursts.)
@dre3k78
10 ай бұрын
@@jackmeowmeowmeow2177 Well we dont really know the whole back story of Douglas's family life other then the video tapes that were shown. He seemed to be very threatening towards his wife and kid....why would they want him around? He clearly had anger issues. Also Duvall didnt have people around him who cared about him other then his partner....the rest were idiot cops and criminals he had to deal with.
@jackmeowmeowmeow2177
10 ай бұрын
@@dre3k78 idiot cops who still went out of their way to involve him with everyone, even if it was usually on the butt end of a joke like the desk prank, a wife who even though she was difficult, understood and respected him (shown near the end) it also helps that Duvall’s character is still employed and has that stability and purpose as a cop. All we see from the people around D-fens was people saying how angry and horrible he was. They gave up on him or ignored his problems, then when he lashed out they blamed him even more and isolated him from likely the person who kept him together, his daughter, who loved him despite his troubles (ending scenes) we only really understand one perspective, the mother who clearly was disconnected from him prior to his snapping. (Videos show them arguing and her pouring fuel on the fire: “you’re scaring her!” When he was just loud a bit, what scared the daughter was the parents fighting for seemingly no reason, not d-fens being mad.) In D-fens story, no body is the good guy really, its a shattered family due to financial and social stresses. Made evident by what he shares in the end, he got lost his job and purpose, his greatest skill of creating missiles is basically pointless if no one will hire him, his wife blames him and doesn’t support or try to help him in any way, his mother is equally as useless in terms of helping his mental health.
@alexanderpavlovic8370
10 ай бұрын
@@dre3k78 I can see your perspective, but why would the daughter be so excited to see him when he shows up?
@dre3k78
10 ай бұрын
@@alexanderpavlovic8370 He is still her father and she loves him but she is barely old enough to fully understand what has been going on in their parent's relationship.
@markminter6312
10 ай бұрын
The older you get, the more this movie resonates.
@lukedraper4100
8 ай бұрын
Was 11 when this came out n understood it back then it still works to this day just sucks I'm Australian
@kongvinter33
Ай бұрын
@@lukedraper4100 if it makes you feel any better, Australia is the USA of Asia. hehe
@Jordashian93
10 ай бұрын
One of the best movies of the 90's and probably Michael Douglas' best performance.
@Andy2481
10 ай бұрын
Wall Street 1987 was prob his best. Either that or Falling Down.
@jamesfrench7299
10 ай бұрын
With William Foster he immerses himself into that role so much you forget it's Micheal Douglas. I don't think he achieved that in any other movie he did.
@Jerzeejaylive
8 ай бұрын
I’d say this or The Game. Incredible.
@jamesfrench7299
8 ай бұрын
A rollercoaster the first time you watch it until you know the ending. Micheal Douglas couldn't look more his usual self if he tried.
@00Spiral007
10 ай бұрын
"Now you're gonna die! Wearing that stupid little hat!!!" is maybe the most memorable line from this movie to me lmfao
@lelouchlives8930
3 ай бұрын
Probably the funniest line in the movie.
@devlinallistair-zx5by
9 ай бұрын
The quintessential example of "leveling up" as he goes from bat, to knife, to guns to rocket launcher. Love it.
@paulg123
10 ай бұрын
In 1993 when this movie came out and I just moved to Los Angeles, I couldn't relate to this guy at all. 30 years later, I feel so much empathy for this man it's scary. Great movie. Great performance. *** I want to strongly recommend the 1997 movie BREAKDOWN with Kurt Russell. An excellent action/thriller. ***
@victor75208
10 ай бұрын
I saw this movie when I was in my late teens and thought he was cool and didn't take shit from anyone. Now looking at this review I realized he's a shitty person. 🤷
@moeammo7003
10 ай бұрын
In 2023 we can all relate with him!!!
@brotherrandyll4093
10 ай бұрын
Yes, Breakdown was a great movie.
@supastar25
9 ай бұрын
Breakdown is so awesome
@chrisgrove7829
10 ай бұрын
Ah this was reportedly Michael Douglas’s favorite acting gig. This movie has a lot to say. Both Douglas’s character and Prendergast have been compared as being kind of put upon in life, but Prendergast chooses to role with it in a healthier way than Foster who kind of loses his ever loving mind in the process. He definitely has anger issues, but we’re kind of strangely with him up until a certain point. That point tends to vary from each individual viewer:)
@charlize1253
10 ай бұрын
The movie is a fascinating character study of narcissism: Michael Douglas never understands that anything he does is wrong because, in his mind, he has justifications for everything in which he's always the victim and the world is treating him unfairly. Terrorizing your wife, violating court orders, leaving your car in the road, to a narcissist it's all justified if you had a bad day
@chrisgrove7829
10 ай бұрын
@@charlize1253 That is so true. Well said:)
@contemporaryconundrums93
4 ай бұрын
@@charlize1253Nah man, you just a cuck. Didn't know your bitch wife's boyfriend lets you use the Internet
@lelouchlives8930
3 ай бұрын
It's because he's always calling out the BS in society even though he goes about the wrong way (violence.)
@gutz1981
10 ай бұрын
Society has a tendency of pushing someone to the edge and beyond. He was not fit to be a husband and full time father, but taking his daughter away 100%, what else did they expect this guy to do once he lost his job? The point is, even the least deserving people need some hope, some reason to try and do better. There are those people who do slip throw the cracks, and stomping on them while they are down is not the answer. I mean his daughter was happy to see her daddy, so he never hurt her, so what would have been wrong to allow some form of visitation?
@obscillesk
9 ай бұрын
I like thinking of Falling Down, Office Space, and Fight Club as an informal trilogy about the crushing weight of corporate existence
@okeefe757
10 ай бұрын
Robert Duvall's female coworker, Rachel Ticotin was Arnold's true love interest, Melina in Total Recall.
@gregall2178
10 ай бұрын
I think they may have recognized her from Con Air ;-)
@okeefe757
10 ай бұрын
@@gregall2178true
@jaypee9575
10 ай бұрын
Oooooooh.. that's where I recognize her from.
@tg925b
10 ай бұрын
Fun fact nobody asked for - young female employee at the burger joint was played by Deidre Pfeifer, Michelle Pfeifer's younger sister.
@Acer0980
10 ай бұрын
It's very much a zeitgeist movie about 90's America from the pov of a person who was born during the post war golden era and whose dreams of a prospering America has been subsequently beaten down by corporatism, consumerism, multiculturalism etc and who is now questioning whether all those sacrifices he made were worth it. He believes that he has done everything right - served his country, worked all his life, payed his taxes etc and now he is unemployed and living with his mother. He doesn't know what went wrong in his life and after all this time snaps. It's a great character study and Michael Douglas plays him beautifully. The movie never really revels in itself either, never glorifies his actions. There is never a sense of cathartic release when he does something, it just gets more and more violent, depressing and dark. The dream of breaking the wheel and lashing out at society might seem nice in your head but in reality it is not some exhilarating action movie with witty one liners and whatnot but just mindless brutality that pulls you deeper and deeper beneath the surface of insanity. Phenomenal movie all around.
@TigiHof
10 ай бұрын
A big thumbs up for this perfect summary! So there actually are intelligent KZitem comments, thanks for that!
@mmmpotstickers8684
10 ай бұрын
"...I mean, I wouldn't want you people in my backyard either." That's comedy!!
@DefunctGames
10 ай бұрын
If you're looking for a "Guy Is Fed Up With Society and Grabs a Gun" movie that is slightly more uplifting (in a satirical way), check out "God Bless America" starring Joel Murray (Bill's brother) and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. It's basically the exact cross between Office Space and Falling Down.
@erikjohnson3859
10 ай бұрын
The people who don't sympathize with him AND the people who do sympathize with him both worry me. And yes, I recognize that contradiction. People worry me.
@tastyneck
10 ай бұрын
Exactly.
@dre3k78
10 ай бұрын
Yeah i think that was the overall theme of the movie.
@derekdecker555
10 ай бұрын
Yup I think if this movie has a message it’s that people are mostly awful. He’s awful, everyone he meets is awful, most of the cops are awful and they’re all being awful to each other.
@tastyneck
10 ай бұрын
@@derekdecker555 YUP. We empathize with him in the beginning because we've all been frustrated by similar things. But he's also an unreliable narrator and you realize he's not a victim of society. He's the cause of his own victimization and he's estranged from his family for a very good reason. It's weird that people are saying he's a victim about this character and comparing him to the Joker. They're both clearly sociopaths. If anything, they're victims of the lack of mental health services we have and are not sympathetic in any way outside of that, at least to me. Nobody but themselves caused them to snap. We just didn't do enough to prevent that.
@t.c.thompson2359
10 ай бұрын
I sympathize with him about being screwed over by his job, I don't for anything else he does. He is just entitled, and was to up his own ass to see he was being lied to.
@freebirdallen
10 ай бұрын
(1) Falling Down is one of my favorite movies! I missed watching it at the cinema but had it on VHS. (2) Rachel Ticotin who played Sandra was the female corrections officer in Con Air & Melina in the original Total Recall (3) I work as an over the road truck driver & I will get on the cb radio to say clear a path I'm going home. (4) I think many of the scenarios were portrayed quite accurately. Law enforcement used to downplay domestic violence cases until someone was badly hurt or killed.
@enginy5
10 ай бұрын
Someone already commented about Det. Sandra's actress, Rachel Ticotin. But you may have also recognized Michael Douglas' mother, Lois Smith, she is in several other known movies like Minority Report or Twister.
@iMatthew98
10 ай бұрын
"Take some shooting lessons asshole" Great line!
@robertoliver7368
10 ай бұрын
I watched this movie as a kid... Bill reminded me of my father, except that my father wasn't as intelligent or kind.
@TukaihaHithlec
10 ай бұрын
Him yelling at his wife on the VHS got super uncomfortable super fast.
@adamromero
10 ай бұрын
Fatal Attraction is another iconic Michael Douglas movie, not too many reactions to that considering how popular it is. 🐇
@quwykxz
10 ай бұрын
Because it not that great of a movie, just overrated. While there are good actors in it, and they give fairly good performances, the overall movie is mediocre at best, yet too many peoiple treat it as some icoic film, and it's just not.
@Snipergoat1
9 ай бұрын
Ooh or "War of the Roses" another one in the "Be careful where you stick your dick" category although less of the "She may be crazy" type and more of the "You may make each other crazy" type. He and Kathleen Turner had crazy good on screen chemistry. That pretty much carried their movie "Romancing the Stone"
@madmark1957
10 ай бұрын
The female cop you recognised is Rachel Ticotin who was also in Man on Fire with Denzel Washington, which you reacted to.
@tofersiefken
10 ай бұрын
"I'm the bad guy?" That line destroys me every time.
@jimtatro6550
10 ай бұрын
Michael Douglas won an Oscar for best actor in Wall Street, he wasn’t even nominated for this movie and to me it’s a better role. In fact, I think it’s his greatest role ever.
@lennyvalentin6485
9 ай бұрын
Oh and by the way, speaking of how this is a really dark movie: Prendergast actually alludes to the possibility his wife might have suffocated/murdered their daughter. So yeah, pretty dark.
@Ducky9976
9 ай бұрын
The irony is this is how the world is now and this was made in the 90’s.
@Buskieboy
10 ай бұрын
The order taker at Whammyburger was played by Dedee Pfeiffer, Michelle Pfeiffer's younger sister and she was so funny! A favourite scene for me!
@FrancisXLord
10 ай бұрын
Ah, back when Joel Schumacher was thought of as a very good director, and not just the man who made Batman & Robin. Another good Schumacher film, that I don't believe I've ever seen a reaction to, is The Client (1994), you may want to add it to some thriller poll at some point.
@aussiebladerunner
10 ай бұрын
The female cop is Rachel Ticotin. You’ve seen her in Man on Fire recently and was also in Toal Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
@Vincent8190X
9 ай бұрын
Iron Maiden made a song about this movie. A Man on the Edge. It's how I figured out X-Factor songs were movies.
@chriskelly3481
10 ай бұрын
I remember seeing this movie as a kid when it first came out and being BLOWN AWAY!!! It is dark, and sad, and lonely and FUNNY... It made me appreciate the existential meloncholy of getting old as a teen.
@TheKidsHaveGrownNowWhat
10 ай бұрын
Did you catch the title “Falling Down” is a reference to “London Bridge is falling down…my fair lady?” It’s funny to think about those lyrics and how they correlate to the plot of the movie. Bill’s life is falling down. And all of the ladies in the movie - his ex-wife, his daughter, his mother, Sondra - they were about the only fair people in the movie. The music box/snow globe that Bill bought for his daughter was playing “London Bridge Is Falling Down,” and James Newton Howard threw an Easter egg into his film score by interweaving the song into the film score at one or two points. Also, when the Nazi store owner turned against Bill, made him spread his legs and told him to put his hands behind his back, Bill said, “I can’t. I’ll fall down.”
@HABO2210
10 ай бұрын
25:19 he told him the truth. Thats the whole point of the movie, a social commentary on all western absurdities that lead us to the breaking point
@adamromero
10 ай бұрын
The police lady is Rachel Ticotin who is in Total Recall, Con Air, and Man on Fire.
@westernman7032
9 ай бұрын
Falling Down is one of my all-time favorites. I wish I could see it again for the first time.
@silafuyang8675
8 ай бұрын
One of the best movies ever made. Unique message.
@bluegypsy71
10 ай бұрын
Interesting fact: Elizabeth Wilson played his mother and also has a role as Dustin Hoffman’s mother in The Graduate
@Swordsfor200Alex
10 ай бұрын
TBR - There is a little known gem of a movie starring Michael Douglas & Albert Brooks from 2003 called “The In-Laws”. It’s a hilarious action comedy with some surprising stars in it. I don’t want to give anything away but in my opinion I think you would both love it. It’s a reaction virgin - no one has done it yet. Would love to see your smiling faces react to it. 🙏🏻
@sabrinapittsley2304
10 ай бұрын
“Get some shooting lessons, asshole,” gets me every time I watch this movie. 😊
@buffmaloney
10 ай бұрын
Is this the longest discussion you have done after a movie? Shows just how impactful this movie is.
@magnumpi8097
10 ай бұрын
Whenever I just miss out on a breakfast menu at a drive thru I think of this movie lol
@sspsfivefivefive
10 ай бұрын
The actor who plays the guy in the surplus store also played Chef in Apocalypse Now.
@OnceAndFutureDrengr
10 ай бұрын
45:48 That is a lot of attempts at distancing...Sam! Blink out an SOS if Daniel is secretly just like D-FENS!
@BM-hb2mr
10 ай бұрын
17:37 thats the lady from the movie " Man on Fire" she was the lady that helped Denzel and she was the onenthat worked at the Newspaper Newspaper
@BlondeManNoName
10 ай бұрын
This is a great movie to watch on a very hot summer's day. I still remember it well!
@AustinFoss00
10 ай бұрын
"John Doe" wasn't referring to his signature. It refers to an unidentified male. "Jane Doe" means unidentified female.
@Renegade2786
9 ай бұрын
This film show you how you could have a really bad day, but still have whyte privilege to get away things that black people and other people of color wouldn't get away with. D-Fen attacked a store owner, shot a gang member in the leg in front of witnesses, hold a fast food restaurant at gun point, cause a golfer to have a heart attack, fire a rocket launcher in a busy street, and not get arrested and taken to the police custody immediately. Yet a black man protesting in the street gets arrested immediately and gets put into the police car. 17:30 - 17:35 She was in *Total Recall* as Douglas Quiad's girlfriend and the Mexican journalist from *Men on Fire*
@kingsnake23
10 ай бұрын
Michael Douglas nailed that role. He was a badass.
@spddracer
10 ай бұрын
If Grand Theft Auto was a movie.
@stephenle-surf9893
10 ай бұрын
Office space snaps! Nailed it right there 👌 kids 👏!
@shainewhite2781
10 ай бұрын
This movie was also the inspiration for JOKER 2019, where one particular bad day turns a person psychotic, where that person gets sick and tired of all the shit he has put up with for far too long.
@bobcobb3654
10 ай бұрын
Joker was a pretty blatant rip-off of Taxi Driver and King of Comedy. And the character was mentally ill the whole time, it wasn’t a “one bad day and snap” story.
@parcaleste
10 ай бұрын
I was about to suggest you guys to check on the series The Leftovers, but then you said you want to watch something light. So I'll suggest it again when you've had too much fun. :D
@DeanTheLaughingMann
10 ай бұрын
The director of this movie, Joel Schumacher, would go on to direct Batman Forever soon after, followed by Batman and Robin.
@bobcobb3654
10 ай бұрын
Having rewatched this a couple of years ago for the first time in 20 years, it’s disturbing that anyone finds Michael Douglas’s character relatable. The entire story is a man reacting to frustrations that happen while he is on his way to at least confront and at worst harm his ex and/or his child. He doesn’t have change to call his ex (even though she says the law told him not to), so he harasses a Korean grocer and tears up his merchandise. He’s too late for breakfast at a fast food joint, so he pulls a gun and threatens the staff (teenagers and minorities, of course). He’s mad that the road to his ex’s house is being worked on, even though it wasn’t being worked on the day before (How does he know that?), so he fires a f’n rocket launcher, endangering who knows how many people. The whole movie he is a psychopath. We’re watching a stalker thriller through the stalker’s point of view. Like Duvall’s character told him “Guys like you always say you don’t know what you’re going to do until you do it.”
@masterelmstreet5886
10 ай бұрын
WRONG!
@masterelmstreet5886
10 ай бұрын
Another guy who lives in a bubble with no empathy. The guy is a victim. Clearly.
@bobcobb3654
10 ай бұрын
@@masterelmstreet5886victim of what? He’s not in his car going to work. He’s trying to get to his ex’s house, even though she took out a restraining order against him. Every subsequent action in the film is predicated on that fact. He says “You know, she doesn’t want me at the birthday party. I don’t like it, but it’s better than getting arrested, so I’ll just send the kid a card and call it a day,” the events of the movie don’t happen.
@jeffburnham6611
10 ай бұрын
Everyone always misses the fact that he has the squirt gun. When he was sitting on the couch watching the VCR tape of the birthday party, he had the squirt gun in his hand. This was a very dark movie, but even though you have to feel for the guy for everything going wrong in his life, I still don't understand his reasoning for wanting to commit suicide by cop. He hadn't worked on a month, so his company likely isn't paying for it anymore, nor does he have the funds to pay the monthly premiums.
@bobcobb3654
10 ай бұрын
Or that’s his justification. End of the day, he’s looking at 1 count of assault for the grocery store, dozens of counts of reckless endangerment for the burger joint, another assault/manslaughter charge for the golf course, a murder charge for the pawn shop, and assault on a public servant for shooting Duvall’s partner. He chose suicide by cop as opposed to life in prison.
@bbwng54
10 ай бұрын
Excellent discussion as usual. You two are my favorite reactor couple!- keep up the good work!
@jamezmcc
10 ай бұрын
Haha I was laughing at the start when you two were talking about Office Space and needing just an entertaining movie after all the recent serious reactions 😅😂
@YogDodoth
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, police lady is Rachel Ticotin (she was Melina in Total Recall)
@rubroken
10 ай бұрын
That IS Los Angeles, I know many of the places where they shot this movie. It isn't Los Angeles in the darkness portrayed. Great movie, great script, great acting
@jimykoro
10 ай бұрын
imagine there would be a second one. would be so great
@theaikidoka
10 ай бұрын
OK, Sam laughing at 28:48 really made me chuckle. You two really are so compatible in your sense of humour.
@timdanner2596
10 ай бұрын
I saw this in the theater when it was released in 1993, and as we were walking out after the movie ended my friend said the same thing about the movie being really dark.
@Hugovika
10 ай бұрын
Awesome movie! Douglas is also terrific in Basic Instinct.
@planreview
10 ай бұрын
I saw this movie when I was going through a nasty divorce. When I put a framed Falling Down poster in my office, it sure got my coworkers’ attention. And, no…I didn’t snap like the movie character.
@vincecommando7575
10 ай бұрын
Thank so much for reacting to this movie. Poor Michael Douglas just can't catch a break in this movie. He just runs into one jerk after another. I love the phone booth scene the best. This movie is on my top ten list of classic movies for sure.
@CERULEANSPIRAL
10 ай бұрын
I have to admit I was a little nervous listening to you talk about how you think you'd identify with this protagonist, lol. But as soon as you guys started comparing it to Office Space and talking about how you're glad to get away from depressing stuff I figured it might be safe to watch, lol.
@CERULEANSPIRAL
10 ай бұрын
Also- if you haven't seen it yet, definitely watch The Game. Another great Michael Douglas movie- different vibes but still intense and good.
@paulcochran1721
10 ай бұрын
Great movie. As much Duvall's movie as Michael Douglas'.
@seanleon2766
10 ай бұрын
I love this film. 😊
@petequesada2936
10 ай бұрын
Any other comedies on the slate? : ) Having lived in So Cal as well, I'm sure you two can relate to the local scenes and situations.
@lightyagami1752
10 ай бұрын
One of my favourite movies ever, and even more relevant today when the majority demographic(s) start feeling increasingly marginalised.
@the98themperoroftheholybri33
10 ай бұрын
Wow I wish aspirin was $3.40
@whiskeysk
10 ай бұрын
oh, we've had so many sad and dark movies lately, let's watch Falling Down for a change!
@joeblow9374
10 ай бұрын
getting fired pushed him over the edge. the start of outsourcing to India through the new internet.
@brianvernon249
10 ай бұрын
After many viewings, I still can’t tell if that is just the groundskeeper & his family or the actual plastic surgeon & his family.
@deg6788
10 ай бұрын
34:34 the : I would have got you ....get me everytime😢
@viazon
10 ай бұрын
If you're a fan of the Foo Fighters and if you've never seen it before, check out the music video for their song Walk. Might look a bit familiar.
@kidd522666
10 ай бұрын
the economically viable guy out front of the bank with the sign was wearing the same outfit as Dfens
@burkeiowa
10 ай бұрын
I one time told my friend about a movie where a guy was just trying to get home. The movie was After Hours (1985). My friend introduced me to this movie, thinking it must be similar, since it's a guy just trying to get home. But this one does have the guy who is trying to get home being psycho, while the other movie has a guy facing lots of challenges like Del and Neil encounter in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. But After Hours is still considered a dark comedy.
@michaelblaine6494
10 ай бұрын
This is the channel I most looked forward to the reaction to this. This shows my age but I saw this opening night when I was in 7th grade and saw it at least 2 more times that month. It had the unfortunate distinction of opening the same day of the first(and mostly forgotten) attack on the WTC. One horrible thing and one good thing that day,they have nothing else to do with each other I just can’t think of one without the other. Anyway you guys are awesome
@keithbrown8490
10 ай бұрын
We have all had bad days but the Douglas character does take it beyond what we all would like to do get back at the crap that hits us !
@AbeVicious
10 ай бұрын
Don't think I've ever seen anyone react to this. Underrated for sure. Think about it
@TD-mg6cd
10 ай бұрын
Barbara Hershey: The cop is trying to find a crime that he can do something with, but she is describing what she thinks her ex MIGHT do. He is trying to help but the law won't let him. Too many times lazy cops try to mitgate actual crimes out of existence. This one is doing his best.
@kpasstenceBETA
9 ай бұрын
This movie represents the toxicity of bad behavior and the path it leads, hoping that it leaves the viewer with a feeling of the benefit of positive attitudes under multiple circumstances
@mypl510
10 ай бұрын
One of the most overlooked movies of the 90's that deserves more recognition.
@Gort-Marvin0Martian
10 ай бұрын
Totally agree!! One crazy film. Be safe.
@warrennicholsony.fernando4513
10 ай бұрын
Agreed. If you look at society today, this film should've won an Oscar for Best Picture.
@andrewjacksonbr
10 ай бұрын
Well, this is a great film that unfortunately took root in America’s subconscious zeitgeist.
@adamh8876
10 ай бұрын
It was very looked at the time.
@vincecommando7575
10 ай бұрын
If more people today saw this film. It would completely blow their minds.
@bdog1323
10 ай бұрын
30 years later I'm STILL waiting for that movie Under Construction to come out. Looked explosive. 😁
@dubbleplusgood
10 ай бұрын
It actually came out the following year but unfortunately, it bombed.
@bdog1323
10 ай бұрын
@@dubbleplusgood No wonder the roads still aren't fixed in this country yet.
@chuckleezodiac24
10 ай бұрын
@@dubbleplusgood you *#*(&! you beat me to it!!
@Big_Bag_of_Pus
10 ай бұрын
I thought it *did* come out, and was an underground smash.
@MessOfThings
10 ай бұрын
Make it.
@LibertarianJRT
10 ай бұрын
"I'm the bad guy?" Such a powerful character study. So many people can relate to how he feels.
@charlize1253
10 ай бұрын
The movie is a fascinating character study of narcissism: Michael Douglas never understands that anything he does is wrong because, in his mind, he has justifications for everything in which he's always the victim and the world is treating him unfairly. Terrorizing your wife, violating court orders, leaving your car in the road, to a narcissist it's all justified if you had a bad day
@burgcarli929
10 ай бұрын
@@charlize1253This is a man having everything taken from him. This is not a character study in narcissism. He lost his marriage, daughter and job. Under those circumstances, who wouldn't snap. Let's face it, society doesn't care about men. They say, suck it up and deal with it. We never say that to women.
@Valzahd
10 ай бұрын
@@burgcarli929 Let's not turn this into a competition for who has it worse. Society screws everyone over in one way or another. As a whole we should stop demanding everyone, man or woman, to follow some strict unwritten rule book for how their gender should behave.
@lizd2943
10 ай бұрын
But his rage is why he lost his family in the first place.@@burgcarli929
@omegashinra7672
10 ай бұрын
@@burgcarli929 You're completely wrong. He's literally shown on video verbally abusing his wife and forcing his crying screaming child to do stuff she doesn't want to. There's a restraining order for a reason, he didn't just become a crazy person throughout the movie, he was a fucking headcase before the film even starts and it's explained and shown pretty clearly throughout the film that he's a psychopath. I have no idea how people like you miss something so obvious.
@MrDrokkul
10 ай бұрын
When D-Fens stops and questions "I'm the bad guy? How'd that happen?" it's kind of heartbreaking.
@vigorousera
8 ай бұрын
I haven't seen this movie since seeing it in theaters, but that was the one line that stuck with me.
@thaik56
10 ай бұрын
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profondly sick society". - Jiddu Krishnamurti
@adamromero
10 ай бұрын
I love this quote
@raisedonfiction
10 ай бұрын
This is why they serve all day breakfast now
@samantha_schmitt
10 ай бұрын
Omg 😂
@wibli
10 ай бұрын
LOL
@motorcycleboy9000
6 ай бұрын
It fuckin is 😂😂😂
@Sorcerers_Apprentice
4 ай бұрын
Pretty sure they have all day breakfast now because sane people sent letters, emails and phone calls to the fast food companies saying "we want all day breakfast, we will pay you $$$", NOT because some crazy person held up a fast food location with a gun and complained.
@harvey4512
4 ай бұрын
I Live in UK They Serve Breakfast at Mcdonalds until 11
@user-vf3wk2nw9d
10 ай бұрын
The sneaky laugh after the “now you’re gonna die wearing that stupid little hat” at 27:34 got me hahaha
@MikeB12800
10 ай бұрын
The actress that plays the detective, Rachel Ticotin was in Man on Fire. She was the reporter. She also co starred in Total Recall with Arnie. She was also in Con Air (the prison guard on the plane) as well as many other movie and TV roles.
@nw2861
10 ай бұрын
Wasn't she also a police in Predator 2? the pregnant partner of the main actor.
@DocuzanQuitomos
10 ай бұрын
@@nw2861 They look alike, but the actress in Predator 2 is Maria Conchita Alonso
@bikko3089
10 ай бұрын
He was the mother of the mexican police character in Lost (sorry forgot the name)
@daltonio6001
10 ай бұрын
@@bikko3089Ana Lucia
@w1975b
10 ай бұрын
@@DocuzanQuitomos Maria was in an Arnold movie, The Running Man. So both Rachel and Maria were co-stars for Arnold.
@clayjohanson
10 ай бұрын
Such a good movie - an amazing depiction of the decline and fall of an average person’s life, but also of the decline (and fall?) of society. As you pointed out, there are very few good people in this movie.
@ottokaare5925
10 ай бұрын
He wasn't an average person
@insaneconqueror5421
10 ай бұрын
He was clearly mentally disturbed before his curtain call.
@x_mau9355
10 ай бұрын
You clearly don't know what pressure of society does on some people. And maybe less on others.
@robeson1070
10 ай бұрын
@@ottokaare5925 No, he wasn't. And the society around him absolutely wasn't set up to either prevent him from losing his mind in the first place, give him less reasons to go as far down that dark path as he did, or stop him absent Duvall's, also, extra-ordinary character.
@lukedaley17
10 ай бұрын
The greatest film from the late Joel Schumacher and a great performance from Michael Douglas.
@jkhoover
10 ай бұрын
Uhm, Batman and Robin??? Helloooooo???
@jesseowenvillamor6348
10 ай бұрын
@@jkhooverThat's a fun movie
@derekchant7875
10 ай бұрын
The lost boys
@jannathompson2262
10 ай бұрын
A Time to Kill was pretty good too;)
@brianvernon249
10 ай бұрын
I just learned this fact. Thank you. Never paid attention. And to think he was Halston’s assistant.
@mynameisnotearl4383
10 ай бұрын
Fallen down is one of those movies that doesn’t get talked about ENOUGH
@randalthor741
10 ай бұрын
This is a great movie, but yeah, it's dark. I think it's really intentional that there are plenty of moments when you're kind of on D-FENS' side, but there are also plenty of moments when it's really clear that he's very much the bad guy, and not a typical movie bad guy, but the kind of bad guy that anyone could be unlucky enough to run into in real life. I think you're supposed to somewhat identify with him, while also finding him scary and unsettling. It blurs the line and makes his line about "I'm the bad guy? When did that happen?" hit harder.
@mapesdhs597
10 ай бұрын
"There but for the grace of God go I." That is indeed the strength of the film, enabling the viewer to ponder as they find themselves sympathising in the early parts of the film, could that happen to anyone? To me? On the bell curve of ability to cope with the stresses of urban living, the two main characters represent the opposite ends of that curve. It's become a very applicable movie, the combination of a character dealing with severe personal/life problems and a society that has degraded to a state of extreme indifference.
@deg6788
10 ай бұрын
He wasn't the bad one ..😢
@Wis_Dom
10 ай бұрын
@@deg6788 Yes, he was. The shop owner didn't deserve any of his racist remarks, or to have his store destroyed and property stolen.
@charlize1253
10 ай бұрын
The movie is a fascinating character study of narcissism: Michael Douglas never understands that anything he does is wrong because, in his mind, he has justifications for everything in which he's always the victim and the world is treating him unfairly. Terrorizing your wife, violating court orders, leaving your car in the road, to a narcissist it's all justified if you had a bad day. The exact archetype of the guy who takes out his frustrations by beating his wife and kicking his dog.
@anonymes2884
10 ай бұрын
For sure IMO, we're meant to understand and at least initially even sympathise with "D-Fens" and even by the end I sympathise with him in the sense that he clearly had mental health problems and needed help (as his wife had no doubt tried to tell him many times). But by his own admission he crosses a line. It's not OK to kill people because they get in your way, _even_ when they're shitty racists. It's not OK to terrify and endanger a restaurant full of innocent people because _you_ want breakfast, _even_ when the manager is being an officious, jobsworth dick. Etc. A disturbing number of commenters here seem to see themselves as - or maybe even _aspire to be_ ?? - "D-Fens" when to me we're _clearly_ meant to identify with and/or aspire to be _Prenderghast_ who _also_ has a bad run in life (except as far as we see it's through absolutely _no_ fault of his own) and yet _still_ treats those around him humanely and doesn't lose himself to a narcissistic sense of entitlement.
@XmycekX
10 ай бұрын
Sam's face as she says "this is definitely not a comedy" was pure gold. Most I've laughed in a while 😂
@rickardroach9075
10 ай бұрын
Nah, people are afraid to laugh nowadays. They’re so worried about offending people. 🤷♂️
@chriskelly3481
10 ай бұрын
It IS a comedy!!! 😂 A dark, dark, DAAARK comedy. 😁
@JayCity10
6 ай бұрын
No life is forever, so laugh.
@bodine57
10 ай бұрын
While one always recognizes Robert Duvall in a movie, it's amazing how easily he falls into so many different kinds of characters. One of my all-time favorite actors!
@bbwng54
10 ай бұрын
Agree- one of the great actors of his generation!
@dr.burtgummerfan439
10 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the Harrison Ford story. "I thought he was supposed to look like a bellboy."
@chermebrownsauce8049
10 ай бұрын
Duvall and Hackman, two beasts!
@jamesfrench7299
9 ай бұрын
One scene and line of him always stuck to mind. He says this is my office in Colors when describing his tan 1980s Chevy Impala.
@ericlewisauthor
10 ай бұрын
What's scary is I feel more and more like this guy every day.
@Slosher52
10 ай бұрын
Yep, terrifying realization as you get older. As a kid I thought the guy was just plain nuts (which he still is).
@hadoken95
10 ай бұрын
@@Slosher52 I've noticed both in watching my parents and myself as I get older it's like we (humans) just get more intolerant of things that are 'different' than what we expect - we just start becoming unadaptable and rigid. Like our brains are getting solidified.
@tanjabuchholz5314
10 ай бұрын
That's when you start to make changes in your life and routines to save your sanity. There's no reason to suffer - tweak your life/career/habits to avoid stressors as much as possible. Life's too short not to be happy. If there's a will, there's a way!
@Scottyo74
10 ай бұрын
I am 49 and somedays I take a day off and tell no one and just go to the park. haha
@jasonm8017
10 ай бұрын
@@Dave-hb7lxvery insightful, everyone is their own worst enemy
@PHARRAWAY
10 ай бұрын
can you guys do La Bamba
@SPECTRA_87
10 ай бұрын
I think "I'm the bad guy?" is one of my favorite movie quotes of all time. At least top 3.
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