Zero hitting that guy with a shovel, proving he can now read, and running tf out of there is a 10/10 moment

@p-__

Ай бұрын

My farts are better than Alex's farts.

@trinaq

Ай бұрын

"D-I-G. What does that spell?" "Dig!" Absolutely love it.

@SvanTowerMan

Ай бұрын

That was the moment I enjoyed most watching it as a kid.

@CRCharacter

Ай бұрын

Literally incredible, best part of any movie ever

@87alsjth

Ай бұрын

YES.

"I can fix that" dude is still the smoothest operator I have ever seen

@trinaq

Ай бұрын

Seconded, Dule Hill has amazing charisma, loved him in "Psych!"

@p-__

Ай бұрын

My farts are better than Alex's farts.

@honestlyali28

Ай бұрын

i doubt that ​@@p-__

@rosyreverie

Ай бұрын

All I can see is Gus from Psych when I watch this movie

@RedKingdom28

Ай бұрын

Best movie

So the thing about the Yelnats curse is that Zero's ancestor, Madam Zeroni, had made a deal with Stanleys Great great grandfather, if he carries his pig up a mountain every day, and makes it drink from the water, it'll grow big, so that he can give it to this girl he likes, and at the end of the deal, he would need to do the same for her, but after realizing the girl didn't really care who she married, he broke the deal, and went to America, ending up in the now cursed Desert of Green Lake, being robbed by kissing Kate, two people whose lives were ruined. During the movie, Zero gets badly hurt and Stanley carries him up the thumb mountain, and since Zero is a Zeroni, Stanley just completed the deal that his great great grandfather didn't, so not only does the treasure get found and Kate and Sam are both avenged, but the Yelnats curse was lifted and they were allowed to find what was legally theirs, if Kate never robbed Yelnats, the curse never would've been lifted for either of them. And the "Sploosh" that Stanley and Zero found in the boat is actually peaches, Kate gave Sam peaches, in exchange for him fixing the school house when needed, and Sam sold onions for some time, so not only were Stanley and Zero technically saved by Kate and Sam, but Sams onions flourished on the same mountain that Yelnats (supposedly) died on, and the curse would be lifted, almost as if they were connected And the best part is that the Yelnats do also realize how to make their shoes smell better... Peaches and Onions, you cannot tell me it was NOT fate, the intricate details of this movie is what I feel should've made this a classic amongst ALL households

@izzysanchez2883

Ай бұрын

Thank you for this!

@toasthead

Ай бұрын

you forget that the mountain is also the same mountain that stanleys great grandfather took refuge on after being robbed

@aaronratliff1240

Ай бұрын

MatPat: WHO ARE YOU AND DO YOU WANT A JOB???

@notme8232

Ай бұрын

@@aaronratliff1240 I mean, these were all explicitly explained in the book, not THAT impressive.

@Terdacol

Ай бұрын

Not the first Stanley, it was Elya. The first Stanley was his son

The reason the counselor was out to get Zero, its because he enjoyed having control over the kids emotionally, but Zero gave him nothing. We see in the scene were they are in a circle, that he says Zero won't talk to him and when he does, he gives him a sarcastic answer... So it was an Ego thing. Like "Its not that I'm a bad councelor, you are just a bad patient".

@Siimplybella_

Ай бұрын

But I never thought he really had emotional control over any of the kids seeing the way they liked to disrespect him.

@MisaelMatute76

Ай бұрын

@@Siimplybella_ But at least they interacted with them. I'm sure he felt he could "fix" them...

@Siimplybella_

Ай бұрын

@@MisaelMatute76 that's true, I always thought the reason he picked on zero wasn't exactly because of emotional control but because he wouldn't entertain him, I agree with what you said about the ego thing, unlike the other boys, zero didn't entertain his stupidness. So I do kind of agree with you in a sense, it's all about his ego imo

@N2Deep00

Ай бұрын

That would make sense the way y'all put it. Because all this time, it always got on my mind why he single out Zero most from the rest of boys. So the shovel smack felt good like McMurphy choking out Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

@MisaelMatute76

Ай бұрын

@Siimplyhyuka You probably explained it better, but yes that's the idea. He hates getting ignored, at least the others give him a reaction, even if it's not positive.

Holes is probably one of the closest book to movie adaptations I’ve seen

@Yayisaday

Ай бұрын

Honestly apart from a few aspects change it’s really close to the book

@Toasted_bread37

Ай бұрын

Damn, didn’t think about it

@amiroquet7476

Ай бұрын

And it's genuinely good. Like it's a damn masterpiece

@themoviecritic1092

Ай бұрын

LITERALLY!!! I remember watching the movie so much and I loved it. When I read the book just for fun, I was surprised how close the movie was to the book. It's unironically one of the best book-to-film adaptations

@space_pirate_calamity

Ай бұрын

@@Yayisaday And they actually had a good reason for what they changed. The only example I can think of is that Stanley starts out the story overweight and slims down over the course of the book. The crew didn't want to subject a child to that drastic of a weight fluctuation in the short filming time, so they chose not to include that plot point.

"I'm of tired digging, Grandpa." "That's too damn bad." I always crack up at that scene. I love that Sigourney Weaver took the role of the Warden at the request of her child, who was a fan of the book.

@tylerslater1246

Ай бұрын

“I’m tired of diggin Grandpa”

@p-__

Ай бұрын

My farts are better than Alex's farts.

@SilkBuckets

Ай бұрын

A meme for the ages

@osmanyousif7849

Ай бұрын

Why excUSE ME?

@BabyGirlTiny

Ай бұрын

My sister stay quoting that to this day lmfao

Sam also said his onions act as repellent for Yellow Spotted Lizards, hence why none of them attack Stanley and Hector in the treasure hole, because they ate from the spot Sam picked from. The same mountain climbed is also where Stanley 1 found refuge after Kate robbed him. A lot of clever foreshadowing.

@nemesis2345

18 күн бұрын

Mountain was also called "Thumb of God"

@shadowstar8619

8 күн бұрын

It looks like the onions made the lizards not only averse to biting whoever was eating them or otherwise smelled like them, but also made them a lot more docile than usual. After all, the first time Stanley had a close encounter with a yellow-spotted lizard, it actively chased him and tried to jump on him before Mr. Sir shot it. When Stanley and Zero were in that pit with the treasure chest, the lizards were just crawling on them or sitting on them.

My favorite thing about the movie was how the stories intertwined. The boat that Zero seeks refuge in the middle of the desert belonged to Sam, the preserved peaches he and Stanley ate were giving to Sam by Kate, the onions that saved them were most likely from the same place Sam harvested the ones he sold, and at the end, when the kids are surrounded by yellow-spotted lizards, they don't get bitten because, as Sam claimed earlier in the movie, the lizards hate his onions.

@ENemy_SHpotted

9 күн бұрын

ok that last note about the lizards and the onions? yah I knew EVERYTHING ELSE about the plot lines and the connections but that one is news to me. thank you sir.

I think it's brilliant that what stopped Stanley's treasure from being stolen in the end wasn't just that it had his name written on it, but that Zero was able to read it.

@scorne414

Ай бұрын

Poetic justice, it was perfect.

@JaviGSombra

Ай бұрын

And before that it was venomous lizards.

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

Same here 😅

@nohemitrevino1177

Ай бұрын

And if Stanley never taught Zero how to read, none of this would've happened

@guardianv5846

Ай бұрын

I like how they found the chest in the book. Unlike every other hole digging scene in every movie/show they didn't just dig straight down until thunk they found it. They actually gave up cuz they couldn't find it, but they were digging in the dark so they never realized that instead of uncovering the top they had uncovered the side of it and it was just sticking out the side of their hole. It wasn't until zero mentioned the fact that Stanley's last name is the reverse spelling of his first name that they actually found the chest.

There's actually only one significant difference between the book and movie: In the book, Stanley was overweight, and being sent to the camp made him lose all of it to where he was super skinny. They chose not to do this because forcing Shia LaBeouf to lose all that weight on the quick schedule they were on would've caused significant damage to his adolescent body.

@Lucario1121

Ай бұрын

They didn't try to give him a fat suit ?

@untitled6880

Ай бұрын

​@@Lucario1121 Out in the blistering hot desert? Avoiding heatstroke's my guess

@kira_calamari2431

Ай бұрын

Better that way honestly, forcing anyone to lose all that weight especially where they were filming would have been torturous

@planetoii

Ай бұрын

The weight thing doesn't even make sense unless all the boys are skinny. But Armpit still exists.

@grey8288

Ай бұрын

​@@kira_calamari2431Its common for super hero movie actors to severely dehydrate themselves for shirtless scenes to make their abs look better. Just for a few shots. Hollywood encourages being cruel to the body, which is why a case like this is so refreshing.

"Hey doc, I broke my neck falling off the roof" "Ok, when was your last period?" bruh too accurate

@blackdynamite_5470

Ай бұрын

Who let You out of the shadows GothGirl? Back to the coffin in the dungeons

@funcats1999

21 күн бұрын

the Creator Alex really did have female friends growing up because his reviews are so wonderfully not sexist or homophobic. I'll give him credit and for due dilligence but also agree the 'buttheads' era of how boys vs girls are socialized can play out one's insight into the female experience beyond one's own as a male. and many men 'raised by their mom' do not come out the same as men who valued their female friendships as humans and people they admire.

@bloodink9508

17 күн бұрын

Which I believe is more to do with possible contraindications with medications that would potentially be prescribed. But it's still a wierd ass question.

@_SillyNick_

15 күн бұрын

Is this a restart reference??

@joebungus3447

14 күн бұрын

@@funcats1999”sexist or homophobic” grow a pair soyboy🤡

i think you forgot about the fact that stanleys dad fixed his shoe odour problem and then collaborated with sweetfeet and they like live together now

@alexisd6106

Ай бұрын

They don’t live together, they were over at the house to see the new commercial together.

@ENemy_SHpotted

9 күн бұрын

@@alexisd6106 zeros mom married sweetfeet i think

I loved how at the end of the movie when Staley and Zero are about to leave the camp, it starts raining. 9 year old me sobbed it’s was so beautiful

@greatgolfer23

Ай бұрын

This is the exact moment after the Sheriff requested that the camp be taken over by the state, which by default removes it from the possession of the Walker family, thus lifting the curse of no more rain on the lake that came with Sam’s murder.

@D415h4n34

Ай бұрын

I definitely cried in the theater at this part too

@Luvinmydejah97

Ай бұрын

It was almost like a cleansing of all the evil that went on

@rcengineer

Ай бұрын

This just occurred to me but it almost perfectly mimics Rime of the Ancient Mariner with that part

@_SillyNick_

15 күн бұрын

I think it’s because “Maddam Zeroni” said that, “If u forget to carry Maddam ZEROni up the hill, you and ur family will be forever cursed..” and when Stanley and Zero got to the top of Gods Thumb, Stanley started singing the little song like, “If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs..” and it’s the fact that Zeros last name WAS ZERONI, I think that THATS why at the end, it started raining, and his dad found the cure to stinky feet. Meaning the “Curse” went away cause Stanley carried a Zeroni up the roof.

Pendanski resents Zero because he can't control him. He can't make him talk. Pendanski just likes the power, he's not actually a doctor.

@christopherb501

Ай бұрын

Nobody who willingly signs onto a place like this does so when they DON'T want power over helpless individuals.

@WhitneyDahlin

Ай бұрын

I completely agree with you. I love how this kids movie covers dark and serious topics in a respectful way and does it well. It doesn't treat kids like they're too stupid to understand these darker topics. It presents them in a way that kids can understand in a great story. The movie is absolutely fantastic too in the music in this. The music in the movie does not get enough love it's one of my favorite soundtracks of all time. And I just feel like now a movie like this would never be made. The book would have never been written. It just seems like they dumb kid shows down too much now.

@WhyUBully957

Ай бұрын

In the books it’s more of Pendanski encouraging Zero to talk and be more social. (I’m not even halfway into the vid rn so idk I might delete this)

@YourpookieRy

Ай бұрын

@@WhyUBully957No in the book he’s just as bad

@WhyUBully957

Ай бұрын

@@YourpookieRy It didn’t feel that way to me

so 10:15 for all you wonderin the peaches were spiced and sealed so they should theoretically last forever and also zero drank one that wasn't sealed properly which is why he faints when climbing the mountain (this was only in the book)

@hannahhogue1399

9 күн бұрын

my dyslexic ass read that as farts and i was so confused for a second 😆

This was one of my favs... it's not necessarily a masterpiece, but it does all the basics correctly: 1. Characters that feel real and that you actually care for 2. Interesting A and B plotline 3. Perfect bridge between all the plotlines and therefore a happy and reasonable resolution 😀

@trequor

Ай бұрын

There are at least 3 distinct plotlines. And the structure of the story and how all three weave together is masterful

@michaelwells529

Ай бұрын

No, it is a masterpiece

@okinweginwhable

11 күн бұрын

It's a good lesson to learn for writers. It doesn't need to be overcomplicated or break the rules to be a fantastic story. To quote RedLetterMedia: "Solid. Fuckin'. Script."

Fun fact. Most of the yellow-spotted lizards in the movie are actually just bearded dragons with spots painted on them lol. There are a few CGI ones, but the practical ones are literally just beardies. I mean I get why they went with beardies. They're usually pretty passive animals that make really good pets and are easy to handle. Perfectly safe for child actors to work with.

@melodyandalexx

Ай бұрын

I know. As a beardie owner myself, I love the fact that they used these. I don't see many beardies in films or TV, so this was amazing!

@MoonyCat

Ай бұрын

I thought it was so funny when I saw this movie how they were all just painted beardies. Possibly the chillest reptiles around

@ARandomPersonWhoWatchesYoutube

Ай бұрын

Bro the CGI ones were so goofy 😭😭😭

@j-train13

Ай бұрын

Which is honestly kind of upsetting because none of them were yellow

@BFMC3

Ай бұрын

"Most" 💀

"Holes", both the book and the movie, was peak storytelling and no one can convince me otherwise.

@tyler93539

Ай бұрын

*ATLA has entered the chat*

@almessasorrow4950

Ай бұрын

Both are peak, but holes had a good live action adaption, Avatar didn't​@@tyler93539

@Komori152

Ай бұрын

@@tyler93539**glazing**

@jakecathey7061

Ай бұрын

its good but stop doing tricks on it @@tyler93539

@Plainxia

Ай бұрын

Facts

It's worth noting that it was actually Zero's case that had him almost immediately sentenced to Greenlake. By the time that Stanley's case was finished and he was sent there, Zero had already been there for months.

@ratking7523

8 күн бұрын

so a plot hole?

@IgniVellex

8 күн бұрын

@@ratking7523 Not really, he just didn't explain it well. It makes perfect sense when you think about it.

Holes: Absolute masterpiece of storytelling Tunnels: Interesting premise that devolves into increasingly insane conspiracy theories involving puritan mole people and hollow earth

@kaligraphy3605

Ай бұрын

holy shit i completely forgot about Tunnels. i did a book presentation on it!

I love the fact that Zero picked up a billiard ball ready to fight. You know that kid grew up in the streets going for a blunt object.

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

I know right 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@VocalFox

Ай бұрын

Right?? Bruh was ready to throw down and end it.

@greatgolfer23

Ай бұрын

He wasn’t gonna let go of Zig Zag when he was choking him no matter what the other kids around were saying, the fight was over but he wasn’t stopping. It took Pendanski firing a shot in the air for him to stop. Zero’s way of fighting was for life or death

@supersasukemaniac

10 күн бұрын

​@@greatgolfer23I mean Zero's entire life up to that point was all about survival.

@pyropulseIXXI

5 күн бұрын

is a circle/'spherical object the bluntest object or are blunts the most blunt object?

Her death is one of the few scenes that sticks with me from this movie. Just how she laughs and leans back is such a bittersweet moment. She won in the end, she got her revenge (and Sam did too since the lake dried up), but in exchange, it was her life that she traded with, and its truly sad. The same with Sam

@elizabethclarke4981

Ай бұрын

Very true but on the bright side they can be together in the afterlife

@msjkramey

Ай бұрын

Nah, nobody won there. That was the point. Stanley and Zero/Hector were the ones in the end because they were able to grow a friendship and cooperate despite generational trauma. The best revenge is to live a good life

@graygreysangui

Ай бұрын

She was a lost soul the moment Sam died. That's why she could rob others and murder the men who had the inclination they could get something from a pretty woman. Stanley Yelnats I is proof she didn't kill all men. But as much as she was out for revenge, her life was going to be suffering. That's the point of revenge: it consumes everything. There aren't any winners.

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

Same here

@ChanceValentine2

Ай бұрын

Start diggin Trout....

this is genuinely like the best story ever written honestly, every single detail that could possibly be considered ties back to everything else and every connection you make on your own feels so satisfying. this must have been a nightmare to write to make everything connect together like this

@Gliese710_

18 күн бұрын

It’s definitely one of my favorite books, and one of my favorite Disney movies.

@caillou4049

9 күн бұрын

Louis Sachar is a genius (he was the author of the book)

This is the most perfect book to movie adaptation. Practically Perfect In Every Way. “I can fix that.” When Dule did that line on Psych I lost it. So smooth.

@okinweginwhable

11 күн бұрын

Even as a kid, I knew there was something special about Sam. Smooth, indeed!

The reason the curse was lifted was because Stanley carried Zero up the mountain. The first Stanley was supposed to carry madam zeroni after she made him memorize the song but her never did. That’s why the curse was there in the first place. Remember? If only if only the woodpecker cries…. Or something like that. When Stanley now, carried zero up the curse was lifted and he was finally lucky again and found the treasure chest. Edit: it wasn’t about friendship @14:40

@Window4503

Ай бұрын

And he gave him a drink, which the first Stanley was supposed to do with Madame Zeroni

@samanthakoller533

Ай бұрын

That part was really yadda yadda’d over in this video. I know it’s really difficult to explain it coherently because it’s so interwoven.. but the fact that they were cursed because he never carried madame zeroni up the mountain and Stanley/zero breaking that is 🥺 And they find zero’s mother! Who had been looking for him too!!

@MissSimone02

Ай бұрын

"If only, if only" the woodpecker sighs "The bark of the tree was as soft as the skies" While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely He cries to the moon "If only, if only"

@Zedrapazia

Ай бұрын

When I realized that as a kid I was super amazed for weeks to come. Good memories!

@trent_king

Ай бұрын

Sugar, I'm sure he knows all of that already😂

It’s ironic how he keeps saying it’s not a Girls Scout Camp where as at the end it becomes a Girl Scout camp

@confuzedduk1008

Ай бұрын

Woah… who coulda thunk it

@DeathnoteBB

Ай бұрын

Foreshadowing!

@belleofbrightside97

Ай бұрын

Holes is like "Foreshadowing: The Movie"

@malloryweeks3306

Ай бұрын

As long as the girls eat lots of onions

@vedwalker3974

Ай бұрын

I believe that's a brick joke.

I still love the song/rap they all sing at the end of the movie. Gonna pop my DVD in later.

in my senior year of high school (2008) i played Stanley in our production of Holes. it was the best time of my life

Fun Fact:When Sam tried sell the onions the customer was the author of the book, Louis Sachar

@MASTEROFEVIL

Ай бұрын

100th like

@user-zf4kv9ou2i

Ай бұрын

Nice

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

Same here 🎉🎉🎉🎉

I always loved the backstories running alongside the main story, especially Kissin' Kate Barlow, who could easily have a movie of her own. The scene where Sam and Mary Lou are lynched always breaks my heart. 💔

@p-__

Ай бұрын

My farts are better than Alex's farts.

@AdamIshak01

Ай бұрын

I’ve always waited for a mini series or prequel or sequel to this just exclusively of Kissin Kate Barlow.

@LoganTheOne27

Ай бұрын

Kissin Kate Barlow is my favourite of how sweet and innocent love can change anybody’s life

@cloeshay87

Ай бұрын

They were shot in the movie IDK about the book, not trying to be mean saying that because either situation is tragic

@LoganTheOne27

Ай бұрын

It should start when she was a kid and her inspiration to be a teacher and should have at least 5 episodes

I love your representation of "the thumb". Don't think you mention it but when I saw the drawing of the mountain the old neurons fired... real attention for detail that doesn't go unnoticed!

"this movie can be shockingly dark" YEAH APPARENTLY

I think this book did a really good job of taking the circumstances that kids were actually in, and cranking it up to 11. Like, adults who don’t believe you (judge, police) People who make you do nonsensical stuff, and won’t tell you why, even when they obviously have reasons (the warden) And people who just hate you for no reason, and seem to hate the concept of children in general, despite working with kids (Mr. Sir) Like, idk, I feel like it works to make people feel seen, like this is what they are going through)

@moodycowcrafts4862

Ай бұрын

I mean with all the documentaries about the ‘betterment’ camps they’ve had/are still having in America for “troubled youths” that discuss what it was like in them it plays very straight, except unlike the camps in the documentaries, that get the parents to pay for it, it’s government enforced

@Nerd_with_internet_access

Ай бұрын

@@moodycowcrafts4862 that’s a really good point, I wasn’t really thinking about that, I more so was referring to what the average kids goes through. But you did make a good point that this sort of thing does actually happen. Thanks for adding for adding your input!

@cacklebabygg6156

Ай бұрын

It sounds like the series of unfortunate events, even having a Mr sir in both

@Nerd_with_internet_access

Ай бұрын

@@cacklebabygg6156 omg, I never made that connection, but yeah, I see that. I think I read both of them around the same time, so if nothing else they appealed to the same person.

@Window4503

Ай бұрын

It definitely adds to the underlying tone of cynical foreboding too. All of those examples are realistic and the lack of competent, caring adults is one of the things that made this film stick with me as a kid. You don’t really feel “safe” until the end of the movie.

The thing about Camp Greenlake is that it does the exact opposite of what it's supposed to. You send a good kid like Stanley Yelnats there, having committed no crimes, but later on he's like stealing the water truck and other stuff like that.

@graygreysangui

Ай бұрын

Just like the real thing. The prison industrial complex isn't about rehabilitation; it's about exploitation of labor and encourages violence or reoccurring behavior. There are some people in prison now because it's better than how they were living before and they commit the same crime once released to go back in. Nevermind with having something like that on your record, it becomes a lot harder to get a job, also leading to crime again because they can't make a living. There are videos here on this platform that do a better job than I explaining how Holes mirrors the prison system.

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

Same

@janthran

Ай бұрын

@@graygreysangui troubled teen camps are even worse than regular prisons.

@CrispiOS

Ай бұрын

That's how jail is

@irvinnorris7041

Ай бұрын

You win comment of the video

What I never realized until about a week ago is that Stanley's dad, Stanley, is played by Henry Winkler, the actor who played Happy Days cool guy Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, aka "the Fonz".

I always thought the lizards just didn’t bite them for no reason but now I realize it’s because they ate those onions.

Zero decking the counsellor in the face with a shovel is one of the most satisfying movie moments I've ever seen

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

I know right 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@TheBlueKingdom928

Ай бұрын

AND THE BOOK. IT WAS AMAZING

@bigbearkat2010

Ай бұрын

Personally my favorite part of the movie was seeing the racist, entitled Trout going broke and insane and Kate all but giving him the middle finger as she dies

“I’m tired of this grandpa-“ “WELL THATS TOO DAMN BAD!”

@d333vyn

Ай бұрын

we say this at work almost every day lol

@Kalani_Saiko

Ай бұрын

"Well excuuuse me" *Grandpa spits* "You'll thank me one day" It's funny because the only thing she got was jail time

@thepoleontheroad

Ай бұрын

My experience was feeling sorry for the kid Warden. She was made into this heartless husk of a woman by her own family and the loot she was forced to work for her entire life was literally taken right from before her. Kate Barlow really got the last laugh.

@Kalani_Saiko

Ай бұрын

@@thepoleontheroad Nah but same. Poor kid spent every day she spent at her grandparents' place, digging holes. Honestly, after so many years and at least 1-2 different generations, I'm surprised they even knew what they were digging for. Also, if the parents knew just how crazy the grandparents were, why send her over ALONE? I didn't see them digging and there is NO WAY she was there just for the day in that area.

@ECunningham

Ай бұрын

My family quotes this at any given opportunity, lol

Shoutout to one of the hardest lines in fiction, "Whom did God punish?"

i remember watching this movie a while ago and even watching this video i get chills everytime Zero says “Dig”

Sams boat was the boat that Zero and Stanley took shelter in, also Sam got his onions from the mountain nicknamed “The Hand of God”

@chelle1810

Ай бұрын

It was interesting to think that Sam was buried somewhere under there and that’s where Kate decided to end her life. Beautifully tragic

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

I know right 😊

@illegalmaknae550

Ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@chelle1810that implies kate spent the remainder of her life getting drunk from the drink she made, mourning the loss of sam 😢 thats so sad

@Amm17ar

Ай бұрын

Woah....you dont say!!!

@reillyburnham6400

Ай бұрын

also stanleys ancestor was supposed to carry madam zeroni up a mountain but didnt thats how they got cursed. Stanley carries zero up the mountain breaking the curse

The story between Kate and Sam never failed to make me sad. And the fact that Kate's life was never the same after seeing somebody she loved litreally get shot in front of her is even more heartbreaking

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

I know right 😢😢😢😢

@jongallardo8006

12 күн бұрын

This was kind of dark for a kids movie no?

Holes was one of my favorite movies of all time as a kid. I remember being back in elementary school and having my teacher show us the movie back then too. It's crazy how well its core plot has aged over the years!

The Bastion soundtrack is instantly recognizable, damn that game is good.

This is one of the few movie adaptations that capture the spirit of the book

@p-__

Ай бұрын

My farts are better than Alex's farts.

@themarsman5155

Ай бұрын

Except Stanley isn't fat, I guess that wasn't easy to do in a movie because he loses weight throughout the book

@JohnSmith-jh6ey

Ай бұрын

The author wrote the screenplay

@whiteraven562

Ай бұрын

@@themarsman5155 exactly. They didn't think it would be healthy for Shia to go through such a dramatic weight change as a kid

@sleepyote

Ай бұрын

​@@themarsman5155 Yeah as someone else said, they didn't want to put a kid thru that kind of stress.

i had to do, like, 5 essays on holes in primary school, good book/movie but if i have to explain stanley yelnats's character development one more time i am going to explode

@ruisenor8993

Ай бұрын

Lmao this unlocked a memory I didn't know I still had 😂

@lotus_flower2001

Ай бұрын

Same, but with jack merridew for me. Grade 9, then Grade 11, then Grade 12. Thats what I get for changing schools.

@AsianAnticsOfficial

Ай бұрын

Please explain how Stanley Yelnats transformed throughout the story.

@enzothepalekid

Ай бұрын

@@AsianAnticsOfficial I was just about to type that

@enzothepalekid

Ай бұрын

Please explain how Stanley Yelnats' character developed throughout the film.

THE THING ABOUT HOLES BEING SO DARK AT TIMES- when I read it for the first time, I was old enough to understand how dark it was but also immature enough to be poking fun at it and wondering, "why are we allowed to read this wtf??" because ZEROS MOTHER ABANDONED HIM, EVERYONE WAS RACIST TO SAM, HAVE YOU SEEN THE TEACHERS???

Oh my gosh!! I remember this! when I was in school we watched this movie in class. I noticed that till this day quote “I can fix that” a lot lolz

I swear, the way that zero says 5:17 “I like digging holes.” is almost in the exact same cadence as “I like turtles.”

@Mary-fj7dq

Ай бұрын

this point made me burst out laughing, oh my gosh

@InvaderTak176

Ай бұрын

"I like money"

@Retrofins

Ай бұрын

"I like trains"

@benhoward2619

Ай бұрын

@@RetrofinsNYYYOOMMMMM-

"Start digging." Kissing Kate Barlow's death scene is one of the coolest moments in the book.

@insanedinosaur

Ай бұрын

Epic username/pfp

7:39 NAH WHY THE ONE ON THE LEFT LOOK LIKE MICHEL JACKSON

Stanley's father in this movie also went on to play the dance teacher in Barry

The thing with Holes (both the movie and the book) is that EVERYTHING that happens is relevant to the plot.

@ghostsuru8429

Ай бұрын

Right? If only Wish had gotten the memo... XD

@RelativelyBest

Ай бұрын

Well, that's how stories are supposed to work, ideally.

Not to mention the BANGING song ( *Dig It* ) that went along with this movie. So good that Disney played it during commercials from time to time

@TheLtbify

Ай бұрын

I’m in my thirties and still crank this in the car when it scrolls through my iTunes 😂

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

Same here 😂😂😂😂

@remy120

Ай бұрын

youuuuu got to goo digg those hoolessss

@pureconception

Ай бұрын

A R M PI to the T! What’s that ya smellinnnn? Doggggg, that’s me. I don’t take showers and I don’t brush my teeth All I do is eat, dig holes and sleep Why my 8 yr old brain thought this was the hardest verse, I will never understand

Gotta say imo this video was perfect. Great job. From the animations to the jokes the way its all editted together. Perfection

This book/film seems so crazy and you didn’t even mention the whole side story with the pig and the mountain.

Hector reuniting with his mom wrecks me every time.

@QuarterLifeJam

Ай бұрын

That moment is one of the most touching movie moments that stick with me. In that scene you knew he never stopped loving his mom and she got herself better for him.

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

Same

@WaffleyTime

Ай бұрын

I love the book

If you thought this movie was insane, the sequel to the Holes book is called Small Steps. You also skipped over the fact that the guy named Barfbag intentionally put his foot near a cottonmouth snake, leading to the vacancy at camp. Fucked up stuff.

@tiberiushazo6326

Ай бұрын

I know my fifth grade teacher read that one to us, but I don't remember it super well. I remember it was about Armpit, and then X-Ray was in it, and there was a girl that Armpit was into, and the only thing I remember clearly is that he tells the girl his nickname was a body part, and he would only tell her the nickname of she touched that body part after he told her. Really weird scene, every now and then I still think about it.

@morbidsearch

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah, it revealed that Armpit was in Camp Green Lake for beating up two boys in a movie theatre for stealing his popcorn, and X-Ray sold dried parsley to people who thought they were buying weed

@emilyglass6625

Ай бұрын

I had no idea there is a sequel to Holes! I should look into that...

@TheCultureshock101

Ай бұрын

Actually I believe it was a rattlesnake. Cottonmouths generally live near the water and, well...

@boadams3207

Ай бұрын

@@TheCultureshock101it was indeed a rattlesnake.

This movie was my childhood for some reason, I found comfort with it and the book

You really took me back with this one. Read Holes in the 5th grade, I think the same year the movie was coming out. It felt like a huge deal. I know Harry Potter preceded it, but Holes is the earliest example I remember of being excited for a story I love getting adapted into a movie.

Funfact: the author who made holes also made the wayside books

@andrewmulert

Ай бұрын

Those books were honestly on a different level and were just pure insanity. I loved them

@kiralink4141

Ай бұрын

Dude no one talks about those books and I remember them being crazy.

@verda_renee

Ай бұрын

Whaaaaat! I was OBSESSED with those books as a kid. 😩

@Bloomkyaaa

Ай бұрын

I dunno what this author was on, but they wrote some bomb ass children books. 🤣

@nathelkaiyeepu8389

Ай бұрын

Those books are like a fever dream unlocked. I used to love those books. “Wayside school is falling down..”

Best part of the movie was how the Warden was cursed to never see the treasure and even after she intercepted the treasure and later begged Stanley to get a glimpse, she still never got to see the treasure. The sweetest revenge.

I love this book and its movie adaptation. My sisters and I all read it again a few years ago for our book club and had a good time. I always enjoy your 90s and early 2000s callbacks and things like the projector (it’s actually how I realized I had bad vision, it was hard to see the writing from the projector when my teacher used a red marker, lol) And the joke about the woman going to a doctor’s visit was spot on!

We watched this movie at school like 20 years ago and i could only remember that i was really angry at the adults at that camp 😂 It's cool to see the story again

"I can fix that." "Gus don't be a gooey chocolate chip cookie."

@wells6351

Ай бұрын

😂

@sofiacarrasquillo796

Ай бұрын

under rated comment 🙏🏽

@crazypeopleonsunday7864

Ай бұрын

YES!!!

@codyuntch4850

Ай бұрын

😂 so good.

@Syce429

Ай бұрын

You mean last night gus

This was crazy good at interweaving the stories of past and present, it also blew my mind as a kid. Don't forget the bit at the end when the father discovers that combining onions and peaches cured foot odor and then the major league player, Sweet Feet(original owner of the donated-then-stolen shoes), became spokesman for the product!

@Haley_Halo

Ай бұрын

Don't even try it B-O-T-S

@sam4744

Ай бұрын

nowadays I don't see kids stories intertwining 3 plot lines that all come together in the end. Everything is just flat out explained to you (cough, Netflix Avatar, cough).

@Haley_Halo

Ай бұрын

@@sam4744 I mean this is a Master-class in being insanely intricate so a lot of things couldn't measure up to that level and still be good but you're right; it makes all the modern 'Tell Don't Show' media look ridiculous. I've only seen clips of the ATLA Remake and it was painful just listening to the dialog.

I love that once Stanley fulfils the "promise" of carrying a Zeroni up the mountain, the curse was broken, therefore the treasure could be found, and justice was finally served (for Sam's death).

bro this is so relatable, my 5th and 6th grade we read hatched and holes, such good books that i wouldn't have read

The real brilliance of this is that Kate's treasure was in the Stanley name. They lost it before they ever dug the first hole.

@tee_1999

Ай бұрын

Please explain 😅

@christophercathcart881

Ай бұрын

@@tee_1999 Kate robbed the first Stanley Yelnants and took his treasure chest of stuff that he had from the bank. Kate buried that box which had the Yelnants name on it.

The way this story portrays fate is uniromically so good. Everything ties together so perfectly and I just can't get over it

Hey look it’s my fav KZreadr I keep forgetting exists

@krisward22

28 күн бұрын

Same

When I was a kid, I felt so proud of Zero. I was a good student and very rarely had problems with teachers, but had a lot of friends who struggled with everything and anything in school. So I helped out my friends a lot if they asked for help, but could never help them out when the teachers were passive aggressive towards them during class. If there's any Zero's out there, just know that if an adult ever tells you "You're too stupid to learn something," it's really not true. You'll likely have to work for it harder than most other people, but if you work hard for it, you can do it.

Not long before getting his nickname, Stanley had tried to turn in a fossil that he had found while digging. I figured that's why they went with the name Caveman. They didn't say it outright, but then again, I like it when the author leaves a few little things like that for us to figure out instead of spelling everything out for us.

@tatianahernandez2865

Ай бұрын

"you have to fill in the holes yourself"

@kristoffmcd6745

Ай бұрын

Yup. I think one of them even says "reminds me of one of them cave paintings." or something like that.

Walden Media just happened to be the most nostalgic childhood moment. The third movie in the Narnia series was my favourite movie as a kindergartener and until like i was 7. I still remember it. Love it still. The first time I watched it, i only had a box TV and a Blue-Ray disc insert. Loved them both dearly and wish I still had them.

The example of hanging out with guys is fricken hilarious

Author Louis Sachar has a cameo as a man whom Sam sells onion tonic to, and has the line "My head?" Also, he initially used the name Stanley Yelnats as a placeholder, until he found something better, before realising that it fit.

@p-__

Ай бұрын

My farts are better than Alex's farts.

@kamsismith

Ай бұрын

That's interesting. It's so cool when authors make cameos in adaptations of their own work. I'm aware that there are some who direct it like Stephen King and the author of Perks of Being a Wallflower. I remember back when I was in high school, I read Native Son and the book has been adapted three times for the screen with the first being released in the early 1950s with Richard Wright, the author of the book, playing the main character. It's worth noting the movie was filmed in Argentina instead of the US due to the Jim Crow laws.

@trinaq

Ай бұрын

@@kamsismith Seconded, I always love spotting the author of the source material pop up, even if it's merely for a small or walk on role.

@pi3.14etc

Ай бұрын

​@@trinaqyeah like Alice oseman is in a brief scene in the background as a passenger on the train in heratstopper

@taqresu5865

Ай бұрын

​@@kamsismithChristopher Paolini once wanted a cameo where he was killed in the movie Eragon. It was inspired by time when he was online gaming and his death message coincidentally read "killed by Eragon." No joke, he actually told this story at a book signing I attended.

Holes remains that movie that intrigued my enjoyment for reptiles and poisonous snakes

@p-__

Ай бұрын

My farts are better than Alex's farts.

@LoganTheOne27

Ай бұрын

Your farts aren’t that better than Phoenix’s

@The_Official_Goblin

Ай бұрын

This movie has made me love reptiles so much because it kinda shows how cool lizards are, and how chill they can be aswell like literally the most venomous lizard ever and yet they are chill as fuck until you anger them EDIT: Thank you for telling me click clack, I knew there was a word for poisonous bite instead of just being poisonous, but completely forgot the word for it

@LoganTheOne27

Ай бұрын

I agree! Stanley and Zero were there all night chilling with them 😂

@user-pw8zd7ns3p

Ай бұрын

Anything that bites you and injects toxins is venomous. Anything that you bite which secretes toxins is poisonous.

It’s insane how I’ve been watching your videos for years , you’ve posted like 10 videos over the last six months and KZread suggested not one

My parents worked on the holes movie & said Shia was really a nice kid & a great actor it’s sad to see how he turned out

I’m convinced reading hatchet and holes in 4th grade is a universal experience

@still-H3R3

Ай бұрын

I didn't read hatchet in 4th and I only watched Holes in 5th but same thing ig :D

@johngellare3507

Ай бұрын

Over in NZ we never read Hatchet, but we both read and watched Holes. Goddamn great movie.

@CeciliaYang-qf9ds

Ай бұрын

I read it in 2nd, and I lived in freaking china

@Joker_Jay6

Ай бұрын

never read either of them in school I only heard of holes because of disney channel

@sephticus6847

Ай бұрын

Mine were My Side of the Mountain, and A Little Princess. Not quite the same, but definitely a similar vibe. I didn't read Hatchet or Holes until fairly recently, which is a shame because even reading them as a teenager I really enjoyed them.

AND one more thing, the yellow spotted lizards!!! The reason why the lady couldn’t just take off with the treasure is because they were surrounded by these yellow lizards who could kill you if they bit you. Stanley and zero had ate so many onions it acted as a detergent for the lizards. I think the kissing robber lady was also killed by one so it was symbolic, and later Stanley’s dad uses the onion idea to make his sock de-odorizer or something.

@RoseBaggins

Ай бұрын

It was a mix of onions and peaches, symbolizing that Kate and Sam belonged together.

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

I know right 😊

"sigorney weaver can get it" "first in line" got you a new sub my friend, i could not agree more

Bro you brought so many memories with hatchet i loved that book in school and holes was fire asf

6:34 I love so much That scene of zero getting ready to beat a kid with a pool ball, I guess he really enjoyed when he got a shovel instead

@xletragedyx

Ай бұрын

It's like when Roy confronts Jim at the basketball game and Kevin is about to defend him and wipes his brow when it doesn't get violent

I remember seeing this as a kid and liking it but now realising that it was kinda crazy for a kids movie

@p-__

Ай бұрын

My farts are better than Alex's farts.

This movie’s an all time classic

I watched this in a car tv as a kid during my brothers baseball games. The lack of ac in the car made it more immersive.

Sigourney Weaver is fantastic in dang near every role she has ever played. My fave little factoid about this movie is that she almost didn’t do this part cause she didn’t want to be the bad guy. But her daughter (or maybe niece… I can’t remember) told her the book was awesome and that she HAD to do the part.

Pendanski only seems nice when you're not the kids he's talking down to.

@Olibubb

Ай бұрын

Much more insidious than Mr. Sir

@welldamnjackie1320

Ай бұрын

@@Olibubbyeah at least Mr. Sir treated everyone equally bad

@ianfinrir8724

Ай бұрын

You knew where you stood with Mr. Sir.

As an adult I’m like damn these movies we watched as kids were dark af😭

One of my favorite books/movies! I didn't get to watch it before it was taken down by YT, so when I saw the notification that it was back up, I immediately clicked! 🤩

"There is no lake at Camp Green Lake" -- Thank you so much for quoting the book's opening line! That one line is forever seared into my memory as a turning point in how I engaged with books and stories.

The book won the Newberry Medal, the award given for Outstanding Achievement in Traumatizing Kids With Books.

@Taracinablue

Ай бұрын

Lol, yes. The last one I read, upon finishing, I thought, "That was really well-written. I'm never reading it again."

@robertawalsh2995

Ай бұрын

Truth this. 😏

@longiusaescius2537

Ай бұрын

Standard Louis fare

This movie brings back good memories. My dad was working midnights at a certain government facility and me and my two brothers wanted to see this movie very much, so she took us to see the midnight showing. Which was rare because we always had a certain time we needed to be in bed. So it was cool for her to take us and create a memory I still love and talk about

My 2nd period teacher played this movie a few days ago for our no-work day, one of the best days I've had at that school.

10:26 my mind went “Drink cactus juice. It'll quench ya. Nothing is quenchier. It's the quenchiest!”

@espresso_machine76

Ай бұрын

It is indeed the quenchiest

@AarizKhan-sp7le

Ай бұрын

FRIENDLY MUSHROOM!MUSHY GIANT FRIEND!

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

Same

@VocalFox

Ай бұрын

Omg yesssss. I just made a comment that they’d likely be getting drunk from the fermented old juice XD

Seeing Zero deck that mean guy with the shovel and proving that he could read was the pinnacle of my existence.

I used to use holes as my book report every year. I’ve read and watched the movie so many times I can damn near recite it word for word.

This is a film i come back to every few years because its so good

“I’m tired grandpa” “Well that’s too damn bad” gets quoted in my friend group so often it’s insane also the if only song towards the end is almost always in my head to the point I kinda loosely based a dnd character around it. It’s by far one of my favorite movies, also Kissin Kate will always have my heart lungs and kidneys.

@danielramos6325

Ай бұрын

Same