Stand By Me | Full-Length Reaction
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This is set when I grew up. The best time to be young IMO. People still had their troubles just like now, but the kids were more protected from it. There was one boy in my class who's toddler brother was snatched from their home. We all called it a kidnapping, but there was never any ransom or such. He had a particularly hard time growing up with that loss hanging over the family. His dad was the local dentist and you never knew what to say to him. I remember him always looking sad.😥 We just had girls in my family, but lots of cousins out in the country. We wouldn't think twice of taking a BB gun and .22 out in the woods and shooting at whatever. We didn't kill anything but would make our own "targets" out of rocks and such. The only time I remember breaking the law as a teen (other than the drinking, pot smoking and various other drugs that just weren't a real big deal at the time) was in a friend's jeep, top off and the guys went to knocking over mailboxes. Stupid. Mike got hung up and pulled him out of the jeep. Flat onto his face. Broke both his jaws. They were wired shut all summer. He had the coolest mom & dad and the look of sheer disappointment on his dad's face walking into the hospital. I can still see it in my mind. I think that was a big reason we never did anything like that again. Disappointing Mike's dad was worse than a beating. I still buy Pez for my grandson and we eat them watching movies. They have it at WalMart. I now want to send childhood-Frank some Pez. He talked about the deer. I love the TWD shout out ❤️ Different Seasons by Stephen King contains this story (The Body), Rita Haworth & The Shawshank Redemption & Apt Pupil. All made into great movies. Such a good read. Different times ✌️💖😊 Frank? Call your buddy. Time is fleeting... truthfully
Pam Copling
2025-09-03 04:22:21 +0000 UTCI was like 25 when this came out. So you aren't that old. But we did start reading King at about the same age. My Grandma (that lived with us) bought "Carrie" when it came out and I would sneak in and read it when she was asleep or not home. I was hooked. The first movie of Carrie is my favorite "horror" film they have made of his work. But my favorites overall are this one, Shawshank & Green Mile. ✌️💖
Pam Copling
2025-09-03 02:27:48 +0000 UTCI was 11 when this movie came out (yeah, I’m kinda old, lol) and having just started reading and loving Stephen King, this film became an immediate staple. It holds a special place in my heart, I love it so much. Thank you for watching and sharing with all of us! 🩷
Michele
2025-09-01 17:08:51 +0000 UTCThe Green Mile is also based on a Stephen King story. People think he’s all about horror, but there’s a surprising tenderness to a lot of King’s work.
Susan B
2025-08-31 07:22:43 +0000 UTCI really like that Chris and Gordie didn't resort to the gun when asking for his hat back. They easily could have, maybe it didn't cross either of their minds as an option, but it shows a healthy level restraint. Neither of them went immediately to violence and threatening. There are certain items I would react scarily to someone trying to steal from me but I didn't see that here. There wasn't a whole lot of outward toxicity from these two. Also watched this when I was a kiddo in the early to mid 2000s. I remember loving it, especially the song Stand By Me (can't help but sing along), but I totally forgot it was placed in Oregon. I love when my home state is mentioned in anything. I saw Marshall from HIMYM wearing an ill fitting OSU shirt and just about lost my everloving shit. That is my hometown, it RARELY gets mentioned. Charlie Day in Always Sunny went through a phase of wearing different states shirts and I got very excited when I saw Oregon.
Senobia
2025-08-31 06:46:56 +0000 UTCRiver Phoenix wrecks me 💔
melskmelsk
2025-08-30 23:33:55 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this film when I was about 10 on holiday and had my grandma track this down because I loved it so much. It's such a wonderful film full of looking back at yourself and your experiences of growing up and friendship. One thing I love, as this is a Stephen King product is that Teddy hated the ending of Gordie's story, much like everyone's views on his stories endings, which is a running theme in some adaptions now, if you come across them. The Mist is incredible for the ending change for this reason! So many young actors in this went on to do amazing things. Poor River though. Seems like none of thee young men had it easy with what Feldman came out with later in his career.
AngryGreen
2025-08-30 18:34:13 +0000 UTCThis was based on a Stephen King novella called "The Body," similar to Shawshank being adapted from the novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." I see a lot of his novel "IT" in this film and its characters, especially the nostalgia of childhood and the friendships built at that formative time in your life. IT is one of my fav books; I reread it every couple of years. The 1958 storyline is my favorite. I love the kids so much.
Melissa
2025-08-30 18:33:46 +0000 UTCMy line was "Suck my fat one, you cheap dime store hood." lol I was 9 when this came out so I also had to wait a couple of years to see it on VHS. LOVED Running On Empty. Should try to get that in a movie poll so Frank can watch it with us someday. That and Mosquito Coast. " I think about you when I go to the bathroom." LOL
Ellen Noir
2025-08-30 17:59:59 +0000 UTCRIP, River Phoenix. I always get a little sad when I see him on screen.
Ellen Noir
2025-08-30 17:54:01 +0000 UTCI love this movie so much, I hope I manage to watch the whole reaction today 🤩
Stefan and Erin S
2025-08-30 17:18:59 +0000 UTCBetween 84 and 95, Rob Reiner directed this, Spinal Tap, Princess Pride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men, and The American President. What a heater. It's funny, because none of those are like, flashy director-y films... but boy did he know how to make good ones.
Chris
2025-08-30 16:18:18 +0000 UTCI still remember being upset that when this movie came out my older brother was allowed to see it, but I wasn’t (good call of course, I was 8!). A few years later when I saw it on VHS, it became a lifelong fave. Fun fact: the next movie that director Rob Reiner made was “The Princess Bride.” River Phoenix was such a gifted young actor, and his untimely death hit hard. I think his best performance (and a beautiful film) was 1988’s “Running on Empty”, where he played another deeply sensitive soul, earning him an Oscar nomination at age 18. To this day, whenever my brother or I do or say something frustrating, disappointing or stupid to the other we’ll shake our heads and say, “Seven cents, Vern?” 🤣
Philly Therapist
2025-08-30 15:37:55 +0000 UTCI grew up with this movie, and it’s always been a favourite. My childhood was very different to the kids shown here as I went to boarding school in the UK from the age of 8, but my school friends and I loved this film and watched it countless times (I remember we even started doing the ‘2 for flinching thing’). Even though life in an English boarding school in the 90s was very different to life in 50s America, something about this movie really resonated with us.
Laura Dawson
2025-08-30 14:37:33 +0000 UTCAs many may know I was born in America first generation in 1945 after my family was liberated by the red army in Norway we moved to Alaska. My parents generation fought in those wars and their parents spot in the first world war, we children that were born from those two generations of trauma had parents filled with trauma. As a newly minted American to immigrant family, it wasn’t difficult for me to be “American“ but the generational children of America coming out of the second world war were known as the “greatest generation.“ Because the US was the last to enter the war and fought hard battles, but we also as a nation had the oligarch’s like Ford motor company that built tanks for the Nazis that history is never taught that the US played both sides of the war. Because we didn’t suffer as much devastation outside of Pearl Harbor and where the first to drop the only two nuclear bombs, our economy boomed as we recovered from the crash of 1930 and the great dust bowl our nation expanded with many immigrants, and because my family was blonde hair blue eyed we did not suffer the indignities of so many immigrants in that time. We entered into the industrial revolution and things changed drastically for many for better or worse. We immigrant children born in the US had different perspectives and struggles to overcome than the children that were born many generations here. There was such a great heaviness to the generational Americans that had come home from back to back war the fall of our economy in the 30s and then the new deal that created Social Security, highway programs our nation expanded you could always feel it the children whose families were so much like this movie the ones that made their money off the war and lived in grand and beautiful homes that had maids that were barely out of Jim Crow the kids, whose fathers worked in the auto industry, coal mines, steel factories, whose mothers had gone to work to help the nation build bombs, a.k.a. “Rosie the riveter.“ Stepped in his shoes of the men who went off to war, but when their husbands came back home, had a taste of independence that their husbands did not understand and gave rise to many families whose husbands with posttraumatic stress disorder would be on their wives who had a taste of independence and had to be “put back into their place.“ We children at this age of 12 and 13 had to deal with older brothers and sisters who had a step into adulthood faster than normal and were much like the bullies like Ace and also to do good the ones who expired to be higher class from middle class. The black soldiers, the Navajo codebreakers who helped the war effort did not get the G.I. bill opportunity to go to college like they were supposed to or even VA benefits. and the younger ones that has 12-year-old and 13-year-olds had to help raise and protect from dysfunction, poverty, or indifference, the world back, then was changing so rapidly that just observing around you, you can feel it so thick in the air and as a years past, our nation continued to bully the nations we rebuilt during the land lease program like the UK, France, Germany and yet my heart still breaks for Russia for they lost over 20 million humans along with other nations such as Poland, but it was Russia than known as the USSR that defeated Germany and were turned away and not even allowed to join the rest of the nations in rebuilding. The whole world turned its back on Russia and in the 90s after the fall of Gorbachev and Reagan, having the German wall, torn down, made promises to them USSR that if they became a democracy instead of communist, we promised that NATO would not move 1 inch towards the Russian border. Russia broke up and was Balkanized and hardship for that entire nation along with many many other nations was horrible. Not only did the US and the rest of the NATO Nations break their promise and created the EU and start taking up land and country after country into their fold in 80 years the US and the EU consumed from 12 nations now to 32 the very last stand the Ukraine. The Ukraine was part of the USSR. They are like brothers. They are mixture of Ukrainian and Russian people. They were to stay neutral because like any nation, Russia, even though very weakened and pillage by consumerism and capitalist fell into a deep and horrible space in the 90s up until the 2000s. when Putin came in and drugged the drunk poverty, sticking crime ridden, oligarchic nation off the ground and with the help of others created a constitution created jobs programs did what it took to rebuild their mighty nation that had been historically for thousands of years in empire. They no longer wish to be an empire and have not wanted to be for over60 years. They just wanted to be respected and be included in NATO that was never to be. The late Senator John McCain, along with Lindsey Graham set forth on many missions of war from Vietnam forward. When John McCain, who was captured by the Vietnamese and held in Hanoi Hilton and tortured etc., came out of that place as one of the most deadliest Warhawks, our nation has known. The damage the US has done to the world through the land lease program through the international monetary fund through our regime, change wars of the past 70+ years, kept gobbling up nation after nation so that we could remain the youngest empire and hegemony. The saddest thing is is this nation was built on colonization and the decimation of the indigenous nations that lived on this continent, who now are confined to reservations with the one exception the Lakota/Dakota people who never struggle a bargain with US government. They are a nation within the US. They hold a seat on the UN council, and of course MONEY may or may not remember Dakota access pipeline that went through their territories where Obama could have stopped those Tarr sands oil from going through their nation and underneath the large river system that fed seven states and they look out of people called upon all of the nations to stop this agree terrorism done to them, but Obama stated let it play itself out. Turtle Island was decimated many were killed. This is 2014/16 as the UN ambassador to the Lakota people demanded the world pressure the US to stop the pipeline because they knew it would leak and poison the water. No one stood up for them with the exception of every indigenous nation living on reservations and Alaskan indigenous peoples who do not live on reservations, but under our state Constitution on their own land and have their own corporations, healthcare system, and many other loss that protect their rights as indigenous Alaskans with much help from the great senator Mike Gravelle. The Alaskan constitution does not recognize reservations. What I enjoyed the most about this movie was the music and feeling 12 years old again and having an understanding of perspective from my own optics as a child of immigrants coming out of the war and watching this nation grow, my heart is heavy because of the corporate sellout of our constitution in Bill of Rights under the law created 15 years ago called citizens United. It allows for corporations to be recognized as people and their money as speech, which then allows for venture capitalist corporation such as Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street to then purchase your utility rights, buy up entire towns of homes. There isn’t anything in the US that isn’t owned by these three venture capitalist corporations Smedley Butler was a general who after long service in the US military wrote a book called “war is a racket.“ Was very prescient, all wars are bankers wars, international bankers. Before 1913 we had no tax or IRS it wasn’t until the US created. The federal reserve that those two organizations came in to play. Watching our nation fight one war after another to the point now, where we our nation is financially backing a genocide and cannot be prosecuted for it because we do not belong to the Rome statute. Our nation is being hollowed out from the inside, fold off piece by piece and all those dreams and all the struggle for those of us across the world who want peace must do everything in our power locally and within our states to put peace in the demands for peace in the forefront. They keep us distracted, fighting one another putting us against each other. Both parties do it. There is no difference between the two and as I watch the boomers, I gave birth to the oldest Gen X children and have Gen Z grandchildren, and I don’t know what number or letter they call. My great grandson are now facing the decline of their nation as authoritarianism, totalitarianism and fascism has gripped the heart of this nation at a level that we are so surveyed that the words I am speaking now can help me put in prison without charge for the rest of my life. President Obama abolished Habius corpus by doing so he condemned us citizens to the fate of George Bush Senior, Junior and gave rise to a pretend Democratic Party that goes along with war and everything it used to not stand for. The Democratic Party was never the same once they assassinated, JFK, RFK, MLK,Malcolm X, Fred, Hampton, the Black Panther party, Hugo Chavez, and so many true leftist. I pray for your generations that somehow you will see your way past these divide and conquer methods and propaganda that leads to us fighting one another instead of looking up and joining together before it’s too late and the techno Democrats who survey everything we say think or do finally put the steak in the heart of our constitutional rights. I have great hope for this generation and the young people because you do not have to play by these globalist and New World order multi trillionaire agenda. In my day, the fight was in the 60s we almost won. We made great strides forward, but were infiltrated, assassinated, and many went to sleep gave up. But somewhere in that past fight, your generations will find great and Rich methods of how to resist and create a sub culture that is not dependent upon the wins of these insane global entities that our government has allowed and open armed invited into the your political ring to use the US as their homebase to wrap up for a very sophisticated but not impossible fight to come. I’m sorry I wrote a book here. I’ve lived a very long life and seen such beautiful things traveled outside. My nation lived amongst people that I love danced with, sang with, eight with lived life with as a guest, even though my blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin and home Horican represented to their nations, the great oppressor. We cannot help where we are born or what culture we were born into but the one thing we can always hold onto is that we are all human beings with great gifts to offer one another and if BRICS can sustain and grow, and the use of this nation can help nurture worldwide unity in peace we may stand a chance yet. The one thing living an old long life is that nothing stays the same it’s ever changing and hope and determination are the greatest tools you will ever possess. My apologies to anyone who may be offended by anything I may have said, but it was just my life experience and the things that schools don’t teach you. They white wash at all because they don’t need you to realize how unique and wonderful you are and in your uniqueness, and your differences is the greatest quality in united in a single purpose of sustaining humanity and holding space for acceptance in peace yet have strong boundaries interpersonally, and in the largest scope of internationally. Go get them kiddos. The world is yours to shape, but it will take mighty effort. Co-ops, mutual aid, community gardens, neighborhood after neighborhood working together to establish the blueprint the Black Panther set out when they created what we now know as school lunch/breakfast programs I offer that many should study what a beautiful 21 year-old Fred Hampton child of Chicago created peace with KKK members that worked together only when he demanded they denounce and no longer practice there white supremacist ways. It was so powerful that the head of the FBI at that time who helped assassinate our great leaders of the 60s killed Fred while in bed with his beautifully pregnant wife in order to stop his movement. Study that party history study how he worked listen to their words read and if there’s any movie that has been made that hasn’t white washed the situation I would suggest those who are heading into this new unknown future of AI and the surveillance state and the Elon musk‘s of the world and their technocrats. It will be the leaders of the 60s and the movement we created then the can be a template for your new movement and the goals that you are willing to dedicate your life to creating will be the only chance I see where change can come. I believe in you all, but it takes more than being behind a keyboard and it takes you to be proactive stealthy and committed to be the change you want to see in the world. The odds may seem against humanity only if you look through the prism of it’s too far gone to change and fall into nihilism. There are 8 billion people on this planet, who all live and breathe and love and want peace just the same as we do. The owner is on the US citizens because we are living in the belly of the beast that is on its last legs of empire, striking out against every nation can with tariffs, sanctions, war we are the change, even in my rattled old bones. I can still feel hope I can still feel a great shift in the energy that is beyond the perception of what this world would have you believe reality.Go forward and make it happen! Much love to you all.
Laura Thate
2025-08-30 12:25:57 +0000 UTC
