Run Lola Run (1998) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2025-03-20 20:30:09 +0000 UTC
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Just got my ticket to a 4K screening of Memories of Murder at the Academy Museum. Never seen it on the big screen. Its part of their new Bong Joon Ho exhibit. Playtime should be seen on the big screen, was lucky enough to see it in 70mm.
Birdie Num Num
2025-03-29 20:23:56 +0000 UTCIncidentally, the Amazon Prime version of this actually is in German with English subtitles. Amazon mis-labels it as English with german subtitles. A couple of years ago I was searching for this, and I couldn't find it anywhere in the original German. Finally I gave up and bought it on Amazon thinking "Better than nothing". Was very pleasantly surprised when they started speaking in German and English subtitles showed up.
TGrimace
2025-03-23 02:16:24 +0000 UTCA Very Long Engagement is one of my favourite foreign (French) films, from the director & the star of Amelie, set during WW1
Odd Thomas
2025-03-22 16:05:50 +0000 UTCI love this movie and the soundtrack.
Vwlss Nvwls
2025-03-22 01:41:27 +0000 UTCAs for other foreign films that would be worth watching: I am pretty sure you noted that you've seen Parasite in one of the spin wheel posts, so I will again recommend the director's earlier movie, Memories of Murder (2003). This is a great mystery/thriller that will remind you of Fincher's Zodiac -- could easily be one of your all-time favorites. In addition to that, I would also recommend some other films by Park Chan Wook, the director of Oldboy, namely The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). The first one is a twisted crime/romance/thriller, and the latter is very similar to Memories of Murder (and even features the same actor, Hae il Park, who has a key supporting role in MoM and stars in DtL). You guys watched Crouching Tiger, so another good one in that vein would be Hero (2002), which is incredible. I recommend the director's cut, which has some key translations changed in ways that people have said better fit the original intent. For more of a filmmaker you've already watched, director Spike Lee has a remake coming out soon of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low, which is one of Kurosawa's films that was set in contemporary Japan rather than samurai era, and is a great tense drama/thriller that I think would be really cool and surprising for you. Speaking of remakes, many have seen Christopher Nolan's 2002 film Insomnia, but I vastly prefer the haunting Norwegian original from 1997, starring Stellan Skarsgard in one of his most haunting performances. Skarsgard is also in the remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and it would be cool for you two to react to either or both the original and the remake. You saw Mathieu Kassovitz as an actor in Amelie as Amelie's photo-collector boyfriend Nino. He is also a filmmaker, and he directed the incredible black-and-white thriller La Haine (1995), starring Vincent Cassel, who you saw as The Night Fox in the Ocean's sequels. Cassel is also in a popular French action/horror movie called The Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), which is very cool and features some great martial arts action. Martial arts action leads to more Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Donnie Yen movies. The original Police Story would be an obvious Jackie Chan pick, and Sammo Hung is in a great war martial arts movie called Eastern Condors, which Hung also directed. Yen, well, John Wick 4 isn't exactly a foreign film, but he's great in it, as he is in the Shanghai Noon sequel Shanghai Knights (also not foreign, but more Jackie Chan). Another slam dunk on a lot of YouTube channels: the 2022 Telugu phenomenon RRR, which attracts many viewers from India. Last but not least, if I were to mention some obscure movies that will almost certainly never make the wheel, but which I love, there's Jacques Tati's PlayTime, a strange, Where's Waldo-esque series of vignettes in a commercialized Paris where everything looks the same. Hard to describe, an acquired taste, but a great film. I also like Proof (1991) and The Dressmaker, by Australian director Jocelyn Moorhouse, and most obscure of all, the funny, strange little Japanese gem Fish Story (2009), about a punk record and the end of the world.
Tyler Foster
2025-03-21 16:31:26 +0000 UTCThere are only so many reactions to Run Lola Run on YouTube (although it is easily in the top 10 most-reacted-to foreign films), but I think Sam is the first person that I can remember to notice that the third guy in the final crash is indeed the thief who stole Lola's moped. So, justice for Lola, since that guy's gonna get caught. You are also correct that in one shot of Lola standing outside her dad's bank, a young woman can be seen in the distance approaching Lola, but when it cuts to the next angle, an old woman enters the frame. On the commentary, writer/director Tom Tykwer says that, like Daniel guessed, the movie plays with time, so he felt the continuity error was actually kind of fitting in a way, and left it in. After Lola has won at the roulette table and everyone in the casino is staring at her, the camera passes by a painting on the wall of the back of a woman's head. Tykwer had asked for a painting of Kim Novak in Vertigo, but the artist couldn't remember what she looked like, so Tykwer suggested painting the back of her head instead, and the guy did it in fifteen minutes. The woman's voice on most of the songs throughout the movie is Franka Potente herself. Potente was smoking two packs a day at the time she was making this movie and was exhausted by the running. She knew she was out of shape, but Tykwer also told her not to train, as he didn't want the running to look like it was being done by someone who was used to it. I like the little touch in the cinematography, which is that every scene without Lola or Manni in it somewhere is filmed on cheap digital video. Only scenes where they appear is the film full, beautiful looking 35mm film. Also, I don't know how many people notice, but I also like that the movie plays the "camera whine" noise, which plays before every snapshot montage of characters' future, at the very end when Manni asks about the bag.
Tyler Foster
2025-03-21 16:02:24 +0000 UTCWriter/director Tom Tykwer and Potente reteamed on his next movie, The Princess and the Warrior (2000). Wasn't a cult international hit like Run Lola Run, but I did see it once and liked it.
Tyler Foster
2025-03-21 15:51:20 +0000 UTCAs a German it's great to see you react to this ... Such a Big Hit Back in the 90's and of course the Breakout Role from Franka Potente ... Berlin is a Great City to Visit ;) ... For more German and Franka Potente I recommend "Anatomie" from 2000 ... Also a Big Hit and "Das Experiment" from 2000 with Moritz Bleibtreu who plays "Manni"
Florian Meier
2025-03-21 04:08:19 +0000 UTCI missed it the first time as well. I thought, like you two, it was a random person. It was the odd angle in the ambulance. Plus no hat or uniform to see. :)
Philip Alan
2025-03-21 02:55:13 +0000 UTCOmg how did we miss that! Thank you! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-03-21 02:51:23 +0000 UTCThank you!! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-03-21 02:50:57 +0000 UTCLove this! Thanks for sharing! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-03-21 02:50:35 +0000 UTCThere were a couple of really close runner ups in these polls! We don’t have them on the schedule yet but hope to get to them soon! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-03-21 02:50:12 +0000 UTCOne of my favorites. The short runtime of the film kinda plays into the tight, compressed feel of it all. And yeah, as pointed out already, the patient in the ambulance is the security guard from the bank. His heart problem is hinted at previously.
Guy Gordon
2025-03-21 02:40:01 +0000 UTCHaha yes! Enjoy! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-03-21 02:17:47 +0000 UTCThe person in the ambulance was the security guard. That's why she wanted to stay and hold his hand.
Bill Profet
2025-03-21 01:50:38 +0000 UTCWould love to see a Creepshow reaction. So much fun!
Marcus Cato
2025-03-20 23:13:09 +0000 UTC💯. She is the main reason I love the Jason Bourne movies! and she has so many other great performances.
Greg & Lilian
2025-03-20 22:53:55 +0000 UTCThat was the Bank's security guard in the back of the ambulance, btw! That's why you hear his heartbeat earlier and he grabbed at his heart in the bank while Lola was robbing it. Love this movie! Great reaction! :)
Philip Alan
2025-03-20 21:56:21 +0000 UTCAlso: one of the very few REALLY great German movies and TV shows (Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997), 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint (1998), Who Am I (2014), Run Lola Run, Dark (2017) - imo) - great reaction, I absolutely love it. Thank you so much and greetings from Vienna, Austria!
Anatol
2025-03-20 21:24:38 +0000 UTCFor those who are watching this with the German/European Netflix- or DVD-Version: The frame rate is different. Open the reaction video in a separate window (click the YouTube logo), open the Dev tools (F12) and paste $('video').playbackRate=1.0427 into the Console and press Enter to fit the frame rate.
Anatol
2025-03-20 21:04:45 +0000 UTCThis is awesome! Also... I'm wondering since "Creepshow" was close in the poll against "Fright Night" (85 to 93), will you be posting a reaction to that one as well??
Prof. Writhms
2025-03-20 20:57:52 +0000 UTCVeeeeeeeeeery cool movie. We need more Franka Potente in movies. That is all.
Steve Mercier
2025-03-20 20:55:11 +0000 UTCI gonna have to "run" right home to watch this !!
Chris Bruneau
2025-03-20 20:49:55 +0000 UTC
