1917 MOVIE REACTION!
Added 2023-03-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTCQueen Boomer broke up with me for 10 minutes because I made her watch this. I wanted to do a more dramatic movie reaction for a change. I also figured this would be a good movie reaction to honor British troops. Let us know in the comments if you want to see more reactions to dramatic movies!
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I have watched this reaction a few times now, a great movie, the river scenes were filmed in my home region, including the waterfall he went over called Low Force and I have stood on the very bank where he climbs out (sans dead bodies of course!). You commented that the scene was beautiful, the location was also used in Season 2 of netflix the Witcher, it's even more beautiful when you see it!
Steven Iceton
2024-06-19 23:36:36 +0000 UTCgood review/ video, just signed up today to Patreon and glad to see all the content on here and be a part of that. Was a hard watch at times seeing Queen B getting upset and emotional especially the stabbing scene, is a very good film. Would be good to see you guys watch if possible some of the British true crime series there have been, in relation to famous British killers, there was the Long Shadow which was on ITV / ITV X last year, on the Yorkshire Ripper murders, 7 part series very well made and as the story develops, its kind of a crazy true story if you know nothing of the case and how it played out. There are also some other ones of this nature. The best one on Jack the Ripper was done for British TV in 1988 I think, with Michael Caine!
Dave L
2024-06-02 21:28:11 +0000 UTCThe guy who's brother he was looking for at the end was Richard Madden also played Robb Stark in Game of thrones.
Gary Mcatear
2023-12-13 13:03:04 +0000 UTCI'm five months late to the party on this, but this reaction alone makes me glad I upgraded my subscription to watch movies. While the misery and brutality of the First World War is pretty common knowledge, it's easy to underestimate the scars that losing 800,000 young men in four years left on British society for generations. In the 1960s and 1970s it was common to see gaggles of elderly spinsters keeping each other company as they went to play bingo or have a day trip together; they'd never married because there simply weren't enough men to go around. My own Great-Aunt Becky, who died in 2010 aged 100, remembered until her dying day the time a Zeppelin bombed our hometown in 1916, and she watched from the doorway in tears as her older sister's fiance - a soldier named Leonard Parkes who was on leave that week - ran along the street extinguishing the gas-lamps while the bombs rained down, then scooped her up in his arms and carried her inside. Leonard returned to the Western Front the following week and was dead within a fortnight. Becky's older sister ended up as one of those spinsters who never married. And of course, even aside from the war poets like Owen and Sassoon, the war left a permanent mark on English literature: the Lord of the Rings is nothing less than a colossal, lifelong effort by Lieutenant John Ronald Reuel Tolkien to process his experiences in the war, from the sight of no man's land (the Marshes of the Dead) to the constant sense of his own impending death (the love between an immortal elf and a mortal man was conceived as a metaphor for his own marriage, as he expected his wife to be alive many decades after he, a mere mayfly, was killed on a battlefield). And the sense of cosmic injustice inherent in the line "many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life; can you give it to them?" A sentiment that acts as a dark moral to the awful scene in this film when Blake rescues the German pilot from his burning plane and pays the ultimate price for his humanity. It didn't even end in 1918: the cemetery in my hometown has graves for a number of girls aged 12 and 13 who were employed in deactivating live shells in the early 1920s, and died when the munitions exploded on the line. I do feel for Callie, because the stories of that era are a bottomless pit of horror, but in remembering and re-telling them I do feel like we pay the dead a small crumb of honour.
Ian Richards
2023-09-02 23:38:33 +0000 UTCAhhh I know its harsh Queen B but you do need to see it to appreciate the sacrifice, life can be shit but hey we can all make it better now
Jay D
2023-04-18 23:20:04 +0000 UTCReact to Dead Man’s Shoes
TravellingBlade
2023-04-17 09:17:15 +0000 UTCMore of these serious type film reactions please!
Will
2023-04-09 21:24:29 +0000 UTCLoved your reaction to this, so genuine from you I love that I feel we can share some experiences with you from across the pond or indeed anywhere in the world, you guys are awesome I hope to have a relationship like you guys have one day. Anyway yeah I would love the occasional more dramatic movie, it breaks up the normal stuff nicely, and it makes your channel more well rounded all the better for it I believe, like in all life the lows give the highs meaning, a world of just sunshine and rainbows would be nothing special.🙂
Jack Callister
2023-03-13 06:03:39 +0000 UTCI’m so glad I saw this in the cinema when it came out, it was the greatest cinematic experience I’ve ever had. That final run will always stay with me, did you know that when he bumped into that guy and fell over that it wasn’t intentional and of course with it being a one shot movie they just kept rolling…
Jack Callister
2023-03-13 05:58:57 +0000 UTCThe Lee Enfield holds 10 rounds in two 5-Round Stripper Clips (For that model) Loaded from the top down rather than removing the magazine.
Daniel Heywood
2023-03-10 00:30:36 +0000 UTCWhen you watch dramatic films, can you turn the main light off please?
Daniel Heywood
2023-03-09 23:08:31 +0000 UTCAnother great movie to watch is ‘The Imitation Game’ about the mathematician and cryptoanalyst Alan Turing who oversaw and developed the code-breaking device to decrypt the German Enigma machine.
Kim Cornwall
2023-03-05 12:44:18 +0000 UTCGreat movie we owe those men a hell of a lot.
Mark Parker
2023-03-04 23:41:58 +0000 UTCI'm not typically a fan of war movies, but I did enjoy this one. Perhaps because it's not a war film in the general sense, it's just a story about two lads trying to save a brother, and by extension, 1600 other men. Neither of them chose to be in the war, they were just victims of circumstance, but did their best to be brave and do the right thing anyway. I liked the character development of William. From being someone who was unhappy and reluctant to complete the mission, to someone who did everything he could to complete it, to honour the memory of his friend. I knew from about 15 minutes in, what was going to happen, though, but that's not to take away anything from the story itself.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2023-03-04 02:11:43 +0000 UTCThis WAS based on a true story that Sam Mendes's Grandad (Alfred Mendes) told him about the war. 19:20 They used Jack Russells for the vermin in the trenches, they're good dogs for getting rabbits out of warrens or other small animals 37:15 He shouts "Nazi B**tards" but WWI Armistice was on 11th November 1918 and the Nazi Party wasn't founded until 20th February 1920, they probably would never have heard the name. 44:47 They may have been near Ypres, Belgium, a lot of action went on there I always remember, when we were taught about WWI, there was a poem we read called "Dulce et decorum est" (It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country) by Wilfred Owen, it pretty much perfectly sums up the decrepit souls that the war left, it's main subject was the mustard gas. 1:12:03 Yeah, the Lee-Enfield fired . 303-calibre ammunition with a rimmed cartridge carried in a 10-round box magazine. 1:20:55 "Asseyez Vous, Monsieur" she says, "Sit Down, Sir" I love how they end the movie as it began, with him resting under a tree The guy at the beginning who gives them the flare gun and whinges about them going over is Andrew Scott who played Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes series and the priest in Fleabag. I would really recommend "Hacksaw Ridge", with Andrew Garfield about Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who, as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refused to carry or use a weapon or firearm of any kind. Doss became the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor. It's a pretty amazing movie, although if you watch it with QB she might leave you based on her reaction to this but, based on her reaction, I think it's one she would REALLY gel with.
PsYcHoKiLLa
2023-03-03 22:07:54 +0000 UTCDunkirk would be good.
Ash X
2023-03-03 21:43:55 +0000 UTCGreat reaction guys. It's an emotional movie. My fave fact about it is that when Lance Corporal Blake is dying, the actor Dean-Charles Chapman begins to get more and more pale: but the director and the cinematographer both claim that the actor went white automatically and it wasn't make up. Talk about good acting! I would love you to react to Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan and They Shall Not Grow Old by Peter Jackson (of LOTR fame), which colourises First World War footage.
Ash X
2023-03-03 21:41:00 +0000 UTCThere are many cuts in the movie, often when someone goes past the camera or you go from an outside to an inside shot. The reference to one cut is when he gets blasted down the stairs and it cuts to black. That is the only traditional cut in the movie. The rest are 'hidden' cuts.
Ash X
2023-03-03 21:38:41 +0000 UTCIf you enjoyed this Boomer then please do Dunkirk
CD DC
2023-03-03 21:04:32 +0000 UTCEmpire of the Sun would be a good one to watch, released in 1987. It was Christian Bales second movie I believe, he's about 10 years old and turns in a great performance. Great reaction on this one by the way 👍
Jason Rusby
2023-03-03 20:16:12 +0000 UTClol
Cotton
2023-03-03 16:53:34 +0000 UTCWatch the green mile if you have never seen it before Amazing film
Andrew Bojas
2023-03-03 11:19:31 +0000 UTCCallie has a good soul and a kind heart, she's a lovely human being!
Simon Cross
2023-03-03 07:10:56 +0000 UTCSuch an intensely evocotive movie which as you say is enriched by the continuity of the shot. But now sir you must watch The Little Mermaid as your penance for putting the good lady through such a harrowing ordeal as agreed (you said yes to it ..we all heard you !! )
Toast
2023-03-03 01:50:40 +0000 UTCI saw an interview with the director I think it was, and there is 1 cut in the movie but Ive no idea where in the movie it is other than the day to night
Craig McCulloch
2023-03-03 01:11:15 +0000 UTCAlso 1917 is partially based from true stories from the directors grandfather Alfred Mendez who the movie credits at the end
Moixy Playz
2023-03-03 00:05:04 +0000 UTCA powerful film, only saw it myself for the first time recently. A few rolled down my cheeks for sure.
Steve
2023-03-02 23:47:02 +0000 UTCBy the way I believe he left his rifle behind because he ran out of bullets
Moixy Playz
2023-03-02 23:30:34 +0000 UTCI enjoyed that, how about Full Metal Jacket sometime? In the meantime you can give Queen B a break by watching some animation. There's a good one about bunnys call Watership Down. She'll like that.
Martin Nercessian
2023-03-02 22:16:04 +0000 UTCsuch a great film, the part that really got me in the feels was when Mckenzie tells him to fuck off at the end, and then the guy outside tells him well done. so many great shots symbolising the needless cutting down of life in its prime, like the cherry tree scene and the cows that were shot. what an horrific war.
The Everything Guy
2023-03-02 22:04:21 +0000 UTCFury is another good war film
Ben
2023-03-02 22:01:21 +0000 UTCI couldn't watch this as a reaction video, I need it on the big screen so I can immerse myself in it, and my grandad was there so I find it very emotional, I like watching reactions to war documentaries though, Jeremy Clarkson has made a couple of good ones, I think you reacted to the first one???
Mark Jones
2023-03-02 21:24:58 +0000 UTCI'd suggest 'Let Him Have It' (1991). Brilliant film based on the true story of Derek Bentley, one of the last people to be hanged in England and innocent of the crime he was accused of
Rob Walters
2023-03-02 21:13:28 +0000 UTCI much prefer your comedy reactions I must admit. I think because you have such an infectious laugh 😂
Lee Organ
2023-03-02 21:09:23 +0000 UTCSchlinders List is the war film to watch 👌🏻
Ian ‘Flinty’ Flintham
2023-03-02 20:29:00 +0000 UTCKingsman and kingsman golden circle are also two really good movies
Ollie
2023-03-02 18:59:07 +0000 UTCa great choice of movie to react to. Staying with the war theme you should react to Dunkirk next
Ollie
2023-03-02 18:48:10 +0000 UTCDean's an hell of an actor. The first time I saw him was actually in a play on the West End (Billy Elliot). He's a multi-talented guy. He was in GOT too.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2023-03-02 18:30:38 +0000 UTCIf you want to watch an uplifting movie, with George Mackay in try the "The Best of Men". It tackles a serious subject, but has some comedy moments as well,
Ian Harris
2023-03-02 18:30:22 +0000 UTC2017 is such a moving movie.
Ian Harris
2023-03-02 18:26:19 +0000 UTCCan't wait to watch this! I hope hot Fuzz is coming down the pipeline 👀
Cain Culley
2023-03-02 17:01:49 +0000 UTC
