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@NoStar-xm4ql

Жыл бұрын

Brother where is the review of Avatar the way water 💧

@ItsShaz1

Жыл бұрын

:)

@rocknroller7034

Жыл бұрын

I'm not crying........ I swear.

@gregwodzynski941

Жыл бұрын

I would love a Maverick reaction.

I swear that baby's expressions are freaking miraculous!

@akviperkitty6

Жыл бұрын

They're just so pure and genuine.

"The bones tell me......the bones tell me nothing" My favorite line from the village wizard.

@MagicalMaster

8 ай бұрын

Ignore the bird! Follow the river! Is better.

My favorite line is, "I dwell in darkness without you, and it went away? " also that Val and Joanne were married for several years.

@0okamino

Жыл бұрын

As I understand it, they kept a good family relationship even after their divorce. I wish I wasn’t pointing that out as something unusual, but it unfortunately is.

@thoso1973

Жыл бұрын

@@0okamino Yes, Joanne Whalley is in the documentary 'Val' about Val Kilmer's life and career via home footage shot by Val. They seem to be on good terms today, though they had a pretty nasty divorce.

I love that a lot of this is Eric, Rick, and Calvin react to Aaron react to Willow. It’s such a wildly different experience. It’s like they’re doing what we do. 😂

I shared Eric's burst of nostalgia when the Willow theme kicked in. That was one of the soundtracks to my childhood.

@pjny21

Жыл бұрын

Such an underrated soundtrack.

@AFTepes

Жыл бұрын

Me too! When I watched recently the movie I felt the hit!

It's 7 in the morning and yet I'm ready to go.

Oh my goodness at 33:14 ... "Guess she liked watching him handle that big monster, huh?" The fact that the innuendo was clearly unintended makes it pure gold. Also, Madmartigan would have cleaned up in the fantasy world version of OF.

This is one of the best adventure movies of all time ❤️ I named my beloved cat after this film, she lived for 18 years. Thank you for reacting to this lovely nostalgic fun movie 🍿👍

@brentflynn4881

Жыл бұрын

I named my first dog Willow, and she lived to the same age!

What's funny, is that the bird that the High Aldwin made from the rock to "guide" them...did exactly what it was supposed to. Guide them to where Elora belongs. Which, in her helpless state, is wherever she would be safest and most loved...which would've been right there in the village with Willow's family. They killed the dogs, so nobody knows she's there, and nobody ever came looking. It's pretty clear that, for whatever magic exists in the world, there's little to no "tracking" or "finding" magic. Otherwise Bavmorda wouldn't have needed the dogs or anyone to look for the baby. Nor would she have had to seize all the pregnant women, she could've just used magic to find the mother. Had Willow just stayed, Bavmorda would've plain been screwed. Her only real option then would've been scorched earth of all the lands, and that would not have worked in her favor. It would've spread her military power far too thin, leaving her vulnerable to counterattack from enemies that otherwise she could defeat one nation against the other. Any one of them she could destroy without difficulty, but a multi-front war against all of them, would've had her defeated. Her real advantage was in keeping the other kingdoms from uniting. But if she goes scorched earth in order to ensure finding Elora (because she can't just kill her...the ritual is necessary to prevent Elora's inevitable reincarnation), she forces everyone into uniting against her indirectly. And that war, she can't win. So...yeah, had they actually followed the bird as intended, instead of obeying the High Aldwin's hurt pride...the good guys would've won by default.

@MagicalMaster

8 ай бұрын

Maybe, but the dogs already got there. They took a while but they were fairly accurate. And who's to say that the next time the dogs wouldn't have been followed? Granted we did only see one bunch of the vicious beasts so that might have been all of them.

Madmartigan literally catapults himself to his friends aid, while that wonderfully heroic theme plays on the background, how can you not have fun watching this movie?

Thank you for the reaction. Unrelated but lets watch Legend soon!

@crankfastle8138

Жыл бұрын

Tim curry is legendary in that film.

There is something so beautifully simple about this movie. Its a straight forward plot but it is such a work of art and passion project, its amazing and I'm so glad that this got a show/sequel.

I love that the top 5 heroes in this movie are not only a little person like Willow but an old lady, haha.

@lucascoval828

Жыл бұрын

It's a pretty unique group now that you mentioned it. Especially in an adventure fantasy tale that borrowed from Tolkien.

The look on Aaron's face at the "I stole the baby" part is amazing!

A: Why does the Queen look like a nun? E: She's an evil queen A: Ok makes sense.. checks out LMAO

They had a crew that did nothing but get shots of the baby. That's why they're all so perfect - lots to choose from.

Aaron: “I guess she liked watching him handle that big monster.” Eric “And all those men.” Me: “Giggity!”

52:06 Sorsha's story got cut a bit in editing, there was a scene where she discovers how her mother betrayed her father and imprisoned him in the stones at Tir Asleen. There's a great video compiling cut scenes at =eQxZpnBY1Qs

My first introduction/familiarity with _Willow_ was though the THX/Lucasfilm reel that used to be played at your local Fry's and Best Buy and from the ILM documentary where they went into detail on the Raziel Metamorphosis scene but for a while I didn't get a chance to watch the film until it came out Disney+ and for a fantasy film from Lucasfilm that are synonymous with the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises respectively, especially the former this was a very enjoyable fantasy film. From the music by the late James Horner, to the acting from Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Kevin Pollack, Pat Roach, Patricia Hayes, Jean Marsh, to Ron Howard's directing and the visual effects of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the film when it came out in 1988 was ahead of its time along with the fact that this film besides being filmed in Wales was also filmed in New Zealand, so this film predates Peter Jackson's _The Lord of the Rings_ trilogy and without _Willow_ we wouldn't have gotten LOTR and having several other movies filmed in New Zealand, so you can have Willow to thank.

I love how Kael is so intimidating that even after being stabbed multiple times, having his face pummeled, getting IMPALED on his own sword, and then getting chucked off a castle, there's a moment where you're kind of expecting him to get back up.

@vegvisir9276

Жыл бұрын

if they made it today it should definitely be Undertaker or Kane from WWE to play Kael

I read on reddit someone complaining that the series was not grimdark like the movie was. LIKE HOW IS WILLOW GRIMDARK? It's the most funny high fantasy I've seen that doesn't make itself look ridiculous.

@DoremiFasolatido1979

Жыл бұрын

Yeah...I don't get the grimdark thing at all. But the show is absolutely lacking in the charm that the movie has. Also...I don't know how, but Warwick's acting has gone completely in the toilet. He sounds like he's just mechanically reading from a script, and not trying to be a character at all. I haven't made it through the second episode. Tried multiple times. Tried watching some reactions to eps 3 and 4 to see if maybe they improve. Nope.

Kaia calling for willow at the end always get me. So incredibly believable you can feel everything she is feeling is amazing how charismatic Kaia is.

Lmao Aaron shaking his head NO about Mad Mardegan being given the baby. You could see his Dad hackles were raised 😆

The balance of terror & humor in this movie is still _SO_ spectacular. Seeing you guys cracking up to so many of the iconic lines and classic moments was such a delight. Also, I can't believe we got another perfect Aaron moment at 33:25 with the Eborsisk's head exploding. Queen Bavmorda remains one of the scariest sorceresses in any movie for me. After the pig scene, there's something about seeing her catch the acorn and stop it from turning her to stone that I always found deeply frightening as a display of her power right at a moment you expect her to be undone. Even while some of the visual shots are dated, the scenes where they still look amazing really speaks to the technique and technological innovation that went into it from ILM. I really hope that the series manages to capture some of this magic again.

@DoremiFasolatido1979

Жыл бұрын

Oof...got some bad news for you...

@PierceArner

Жыл бұрын

@@DoremiFasolatido1979 Oh?

When this came out, It thrilled my fantasy loving heart. I was right at an age to fall in love with Madmartigan and Sorcha, they were cast and written to appeal like the vigorous and feisty Indiana Jones-Marion and Han Solo-Princess Leia adventure-romances. And yet when Willow came home to his wife Kiaya I realised that while Madmartigan and Sorcha were fun, they felt kind of hollow to me in comparison to Willow and Kiaya. While I kind of already intellectually knew that personality > appearance, This film really drove that home in my gut.

Oh gosh, Aaron is right: you guys really need to react to RETURN TO OZ. The Wheelers were so scary!

I just discovered this year that Eric (actor Gavan O'Herlihy) is also the missing Chuck Cunningham from Happy Days, who went up into the attic and was never seen or spoken of again in Happy Days. This lead to the Chuck Cunningham syndrome trope in hollywood if I remember correctly.

I was intrigued with what the ”You said SIX!“ timestamp meant in the intro. LOL! I love Aaron.

Watching this I realized just how much of the movie I had forgotten. I guess I haven't watched it since the early 90's. So it was quite fun to re-watch it with Blind Wave.

I was around 10 when this movie came out, and like Eric we also got it on VHS tape to watch at home... I must have seen this movie a good 2 dozen times when I was a kid. Haven't watched it in probably over 30 years, so this was a fun nostalgia trip for me.

getting an ad break the exact second Eric's finger hit the desk after he said "I sometimes turned the movie off right here" was the funniest timing

I love this movie, never expected a series, but was excited, and i have been let down, but as they say it wasn't made for me and us who loved the movie, it was made for the new generation, still not sure why continue then, when you could have made a spinoff/new original story.

47:50 She spilled the spell reagent on herself instead of anointing the baby with it, so when the ritual completed she was banished into the Netherworld instead.

This is such a nostalgic film for me too. I can't believe that I was 2 when this film came out!!! I also can't believe that Warwick was only 17 when he made this. I loved your reaction, it made me smile throughout. Also, saw an interview with Warwick Davis and his daughter about the series because Warwick's own children play his character's children in the series too.

As an 80’s kid I hear this soundtrack and instant chills! Transports me right back. Such a quotable film! I’ve watched this movie at least once a year. Those rat-dogs were so scary as a kid.

Film is such a guilty pleasure. Watched it myself a couple months ago, in preparation for the series. 👏🏼👏🏼

I recently watched this myself. Cool movie.

Wait, did I hear Biggles Adventures in Time in that list? Love that movie We saw Willow when it first came out and it was so much fun.

@kartaan

Жыл бұрын

Had to run it back myself to confirm Biggles. Disappointed that Ice Pirates but no Nate & Hayes. (Because those two movies were a "this week this, next week that" pairing at our house.) Somewhat shocked by the lack of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

Fun Fact- after filming the movie, Sorsha and Madmartigan got married in real life. Joanne Whaley and Val Kilmer stayed married about 8 years.

Now that you've watched the film, you may want to watch/react to the THX WOW! demo montage (runs about 8 min long), which combined footage from the Star Wars & Indiana Jones trilogies and Willow. It was originally released only on a demo laserdisc for stores to show off surround sound systems, but you can find it online if you look. There's also a neat documentary, "Soundtrack!", included with it that goes through the process of film sound from set to final version (and while it primarily focuses on a scene from Last Crusade, there are several scenes from Star Wars with the on-set audio such as David Prowse's voice under Vader's helmet).

Kilmer was injured in the scene with the cage. The rigging holding it up gave when he fell out of the bottom and the entire cage fell on his foot. He had a limp for the next few days of shooting and you can see it in some of the scenes. He’s trying to hide it but you can see it in his steps, there is a slight hesitation. Also the scene with Willow in the boat is longer but it was cut from the movie because it would cost too much to edit. You find Willow on the island with his hair soaking wet but there is no reason for it to be wet. The scene is a wild storm and his boat being attacked by a giant fish and it explains what happened to the fourth acorn, he has four but only uses three and it’s never explained in the Final Cut of the movie. He drops the fourth one in the boat while fighting the giant fish, causing the boat to turn to stone and sink. The scene is on the copy of the film released in one format and only that format, I’m not sure if it’s blu-ray or laserdisc

"You are great" Perfect :)

I was 16 when it came out.. saw it in the cinema.. Then on VHS, Laserdisc, DVD.. Always loved it..

The General's mask looked like he was wearing Castle Gray Skull 😂🤣 and the evil Queen killed herself. If she hadn't spilled the blood on herself, everyone would be dead eventually. She was so powerful. She was also dressed like Mumra from Thunder Cats. 😂 My favorite was the baby! ❤ The cutest baby in a movie to date! The baby in Baby's Day Out comes close but this little lady was so expressive. Her little red curls 😍

And you have to love that this is how Val Kilmer met his wife(Sorsha). Still married to this day.

I just watched this movie for the first time after my adopted baby brother was taken away from my family by the birth mother and really stupid court shit, despite us clearly being a better home for him. We haven’t heard about him since. Needless to say this movie made me unbelievably emotional.

Random note: in Pathfinder tabletop rpg the fighter class iconic named Valeros designed is based on madmartigan and the armor he wears at the castle.

I adore this film, was raised on it. I'm unsure if I will be trying out the TV series, but I'm so happy you guys reacted to this gem!

@DanielGonzalez-vo5ni

Жыл бұрын

If it has Madmartigan I might watch it if not it better get some damned good reviews to jump to the top of my backlog

Rool and Franjean are sorely underrated fantasy sidekicks, lol

Lucasfilm used a lot of sound effects from Star Wars and Indiana Jones for this, still worked well.

Life's Too Short. Comedy TV series, written by Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant, fictionalised but about and starring Warwick Davis (Willow). Ricky and Steven feature, with all sorts of cameos. Liam Neeson, Johnny Depp amongst others. Absolutely hilarious and outrageous, well worth a reaction.

LOL when Razel was revealed in her human form, I ALWAYS thought it would be better if she had ended up that old, because muskrats have a shorter lifespan than humans, and she was translated to human after aging as a muskrat.

As a redhead, I fully support the ginger love!

Always rewatch Willow when I see it on. Def a nosyalgic fav that still holds up ok. :) I'm old, so the one Brownie looking like Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley / Happy Days makes me always picture them as Lenny & Sqiggy Brownies lol.

I am another in the 'watched the VHS tape til it broke' camp for Willow. It and Laydhawke were my two favorite movies for a chunk of my childhood.

Interesting you guys mentioned return to Oz. Jean Marsh playing Bavmorda also played the Headless Queen in OZ 2.

This film is why I'm named after a tree. My mum went into labour whilst watching willow so they decided I should be named after a tree

I didn’t think I watched Willow until I recognised one of the scenes from this reaction. But now i vaguely remember seeing this movie a very long time ago, i just didn’t know it was from willow at the time. 😂

Mad Morrigan!!!

@DanielGonzalez-vo5ni

Жыл бұрын

I did used to think Mad was a descriptor of his character instead of part of his name

I STOLE THE BABY! HAHAHAHAHA

Also the village chief/elder is from Master of the Universe.

I want to thank you guys for playing the movie I feel if you watch the it before the series 😊 don't you think? Marry Christmas and happy new year also be safe.

Believe it or not, in the old days, when they coudln't spare the pitch, and didn't have stores of oil, fortresses would dump giant cauldrons of boiling oatmeal on the besiegers. It would still stick, and splatter effectively, even if it wasn't easily ignited.

I own and enjoy the novels (the first has Lucas as a co-writer with Chris Claremont and the second two just have "Story by".) The books really feel like Elora's story (I really like both the nature of her relationship with the villain and the way her powers work), and the world is fleshed out and aside from some high elves, very little of the races/cosmology feels cribbed from Tolkien (with a greater focus and development brownies, trolls, nelwyn and rynn {bipedal otterfolk} as their own peoples, rather than the standard humano-centrism of most fantasies with non-humans as outliers.) In particular, Franjean and Rool have distinct personalities and voices beyond being comic relief. They do however, feel like a massive disconnect (the prologue is one year after the movie and then it picks up twelve years later with most of the original cast having been killed off in a cataclysm.) Willow is older, harder and a conventional dwarven battle-wizard calling himself a much more badass name. (The TV series so far has really kept to the idea that his magic is as much deception as it is spellcraft.) The books are far darker and more serious: the brownies still roast people, but its themes are a lot more about hard choices and the difficulties of uniting instead of dividing than "believe in yourself" and "plucky group of friends face down evil."

Something that took (far too) many viewings to realize... Willow mostly fails when he tries to us use the magic of others, the acorns end up useless, and it takes him close to a dozen tries to restore Fin Raziel. But what magic does work? His own. The acorns have a story telling purpose even in their failure.

The “dragon” is an Eborsisk. Named for Siskel and Ebert, movie critics from back then.

I recently watched the Val documentary, which was sad and artistic and interesting for anyone who grew up watching Val Kilmer. He's a fascinating person for sure. 🙂

I'm feeling old right now too. The movie came out when I was 14. Just watched 10 minutes and I don't remember anything... (I just watched the first 6 episodes of the new Willow series) I have to watch the Willow movie again first.

So - does this mean that some of you have not seen Legend (Tom Cruise and Tim Curry) or The Last Unicorn (Jeff Bridges and Mia Farrow) either?

@DarthK1tteh

Жыл бұрын

Eeep "The Last Unicorn" was my favourite movie as a little girl! (Only child here, father was also an only child) One of the first DVDs I bought when that became a thing lol. I remember we rented it from the video club back in the days of betamax 😅

40:06 There ya go, Aaron. That’s what Calvin was talking about last episode.

Saw this in the theatre when it first came out. The scene when Val Kilmer rolls down the hill in a giant snowball is still one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen. My sister and I couldn't stop laughing. Her kids were embarrassed and kept telling us to be quiet lol. It still cracks me up when I see it now. As far as them trying to recapture my childhood nostalgia, I wish they would stop. For some reason they keep getting it wrong and I want to remember the older stuff for the genuine works they were. Even with the outdated CGI, they hold a special place and cannot be reproduced or recreated. We need new ideas instead of remakes of the old.

I STOLE THE BABYYYYY!!! I STOLE THE BABYYYYY!!!

the dogs are like if the rats from Princess Bride had manes.

You have to realize how fucking fast the midwife was to get away like that.

The pig transformation scene always terrified me as a kid, no idea why!

Yes!!!! Love this movie 🥰🥰🥰

Pretty much all the sword play I would do with a whiffle ball bat in the backyard or sliding across the kitchen floor would copy: Madmartigan, Rufio and Luke.

Fun Reaction!! 😄 The pacing was probably intentional, to slow everything down and let us enjoy the world for a minute. As we did. 🖖

Holy Crap, some Ice Pirates love!!!

Sorsha was my first crush

Bavmorda used to scare me when I was a kid.

kids definitely need some hardcore dark fantasy to harden them for life. but they don't need messagey D+ shows.

Aaron drew a tree, that's nice

I assume this was filmed before they watched the series, right?

@swedish_malin

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Patreons get the reactions four weeks before they're released on youtube.

The thing with the troll-to-dragon is that Willow panicked and tossed out the word that basically means "transformation". Which...yeah. BTW, the movie novelization by Wayland Drew is really, really good and has a lot of the little stuff they cut from the movie (there's a faerie maze at one point where they mention what happened to this 'verse's elves, f'rex - it got cut because they didn't think it was relevant to the plot). *Edit:* However, the (now non-canon) novels that take place after are absolute crapola. Just garbage. Also, the morphing effects was the first time they were used in a movie! Second time was in The Abyss.

Val Kilmer married Joanne Whaley i.e. Sorsha after filming the movie.

I hope they react to Zathura and Jumani next year.

Val Kilmer who played Madmartigan and Joanne Whalley who portrayed Sorsha fell in love during the filming of _Willow_ and later married the same year the film came out and had two kids, Jack Kilmer and Mercedes Kilmer unfortunately they divorced in 1996, due to irreconcilable differences but they remained supportive even after they divorce. Jean Marsh who played the evil Queen Bavmorda also appeared in another 1980's fantasy film, _Return to Oz_ (1985) from Disney where she portrayed Queen Mombi also another evil Queen, and like _Willow_ also has a cult following. And Patricia Hayes who played the aging Good Sorceress Raziel also is best known as Urgl in _The Neverending Story_ and appearing in _A Fish Called Wanda_ starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin.

@marcusbierman5310

Жыл бұрын

What was she in a fish called wanda?

@EChacon

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusbierman5310 I never seen the film, but Hayes played Mrs Eileen Coady who was the only eyewitness to the robbery and own three small dogs. Ken (Michael Palin) repeatedly tries to kill her, but each time accidentally kills one of the dogs instead, causing him great distress. But he succeeds when the last dog's death gives her a fatal heart attack.

I'm not a fan of KZread ads, but that was hilarious. When Eric says "I would shut the movie of at this point" and as his finger hit the table it went to an ad. If that was deliberate then hats off to whoever did that. If it was a coincidence then wow!

@DarthK1tteh

Жыл бұрын

interesting... I've never got an ad during a BW video

@garyb8859

Жыл бұрын

@@DarthK1tteh Do you have a adblocker. or KZread premium?

@DarthK1tteh

Жыл бұрын

@@garyb8859 not that I'm aware of... and nope. The exchange rate alone (almost 7:1) means I use/play everything at the free rate.. or not at all :/

@garyb8859

Жыл бұрын

@@DarthK1tteh Just lucky I guess, tho you will miss those serendipitous moments

@DarthK1tteh

Жыл бұрын

@@garyb8859 lol enjoy them for meeeee

Miles better than disney show

Oh damn, Madmartigan was a boss.

22:40 *Rick:* _"His teeth are all fixed."_ 🦷 Yes, *Madmartigan's* teeth were really dirty. But then we see him cleaning them with a twig or somesuch long before now (just before they let him out of the gibbet).

@vegvisir9276

Жыл бұрын

that blackroot stuff him and the baby were eating might have cleaned them too

@DanielGonzalez-vo5ni

Жыл бұрын

"He stole our blackroot"

Princess Bride Yes!

Rool and Franjean rock!!!

18:24 that’s Han and layers theme

@scottalynch

Жыл бұрын

Would that be Princess Layer? LOL

@Tm-dn9ob

Жыл бұрын

@@scottalynch I was typing quickly

Man... Last time I saw this movie, I think dial up was still a thing.

happy holidays blind wave crew and all ..loved the willow reaction and all of them but could you ask aaron not to be the dumb blonde for every reaction...blessed be ..happy new year cheers

Love love love this movie!!😊 Hate hate hate the series!!😢

Bird on a wire with Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn???? Edit: no it was Mel Gibson or was it the guy from The Abyss? Ok NVM