The Untouchables (1987) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2022-07-17 15:03:01 +0000 UTC
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The guy Capone beat with the bat is the guy Sean Connery beat at the post office raid
Wayne Kryka
2024-10-21 04:01:30 +0000 UTCEchoing everyone else. Midnight Run rocks.
Tyler Foster
2022-07-24 16:14:24 +0000 UTCHe was great in Starman and of course American Graffiti when he was just a babe.
softshoes
2022-07-23 06:23:26 +0000 UTCIf you want another old timey crime film starring Kevin Costner watch The Highwaymen from 2019, co-starring Woody Harrelson.
JDelwynn
2022-07-19 20:55:20 +0000 UTCMidnight Run is excellent. I only saw it in the last year myself.
Drzergberg
2022-07-19 01:43:05 +0000 UTCIt's on our list, I promise! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-07-19 01:19:22 +0000 UTCAbsolutely. Midnight Run is a sleeper great from DeNiro. Doesn't really get mentioned among his most famous movies, but it's definitely one of his best.
Gary Giaimo
2022-07-18 23:10:44 +0000 UTCI'll play 2 of the same broken records, DJ style. Yes, "Midnight Run" please. š
Mr. Writhms
2022-07-18 21:55:07 +0000 UTCI'm sorry to be a broken record as this is my 3rd or 4th time but please watch Midnight Run for another great DeNiro film. Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, Dennis Farina and John Ashton all gave amazing performances. What a cast!
Angel Pagan
2022-07-18 20:47:49 +0000 UTCAl Capone died in prison.
Vwlss Nvwls
2022-07-18 18:29:15 +0000 UTCCharles Martin Smith is an amazing, and high underrated actor. Everything he is in, he is as good or even better than his role in this movie. I recommend "Never Cry Wolf" for a really good starring role for him.
Vwlss Nvwls
2022-07-18 18:28:35 +0000 UTCYes, the guy he hit with the bat was the one asking for the warrant at the Post Office. And in that Post Office raid, you could see all the cases and barrels of liquor below as they waked in, the whole place was filled with them.
Vwlss Nvwls
2022-07-18 17:09:41 +0000 UTCSince I was about 12 and saw my first Brian DePalma film, Dressed to Kill, he has been my favorite director. I absolutely love this movie, and it really shows off DePalma's style, where ever thing in a scene can mean something, along with those wide overhead shots. I saw this movie the year I graduated high school. I went to visit my mother, and we saw a lot of movies that summer including this one, Raising Arizona and The Secret of My Success. It was a great movie summer.
Vwlss Nvwls
2022-07-18 16:30:15 +0000 UTCYou didn't mention the best Brain DePalma film, Blow Out w John Travolta
Ken Veader
2022-07-18 15:39:34 +0000 UTCThe accountant, Oscar Wallace, was actually based upon the real life Frank Wilson, Wilson was the real life accountant who built the case that put Capone away. Wilson also wore glasses and was balding, like Wallace. Wilson did not die young, like Wallace. Wilson went on to have an outstanding, long, life in law enforcement and as the chief of the Secret Service. Here's his biography... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Wilson
Erwin Quiachon
2022-07-18 11:36:18 +0000 UTCGreat reaction as always. I saw 'Things to Do In Denver When You're Dead' suggested above and if you're looking for more Andy Garcia, this is the movie that stands out when I think of him. Fun gangster movie you watch mainly for the memorable characters. Walken is incredible, though he rarely isn't. My only warning is there is a character that didn't age well. It's another one of those movies with made-up slang as well, like 'Brick'.
Entape
2022-07-18 08:32:31 +0000 UTCNess technically met Capone when he was among the group of federal agents who escorted Capone from the Cook County jail to the train station from where he was taken to the penitentiary. Only time they were have known to have any in person interaction.
Donna Castellano
2022-07-18 02:18:07 +0000 UTCWhile I enjoy this movie, it's based on a lot of exaggeration in the book Ness co-wrote with a professional author. To be fair, Ness didnāt appreciate the skewing of the facts by the coauthor but he was in debt at the time and allowed it to go through. That book is primarily where we get these āfactsā about Ness vs Capone. He did work to disrupt Caponeās business and he and his men did get offered bribes which earned them the name āUntouchableā. The accountants/agents, ones outside of Nessās people, who worked for the Treasury Department and the IRS are the ones who truly brought him down. But the myth proved so popular; the general public bought into it over the truth. āWhen the legend becomes fact, print the legendā kind of thing. The film, which most others set in this period do as well, furthers the false idea it was illegal to drink alcohol at all during Prohibition. The Amendment only forbade the manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor, not the consumption. You could buy ingredients at the stores and legally mix and drink your own alcohol at home. When they raided speakeasies, it wasnāt about people actually drinking the liquor, it was about the sale of it. They even classified some kinds alcohol as āmedicationsā so you could buy it at the pharmacy legally. All Prohibition was about was tax stuff. Money. Thatās why it passed as an Amendment in Congress. It definitely wasnāt because it was a massively popular idea among the American people at the time.
Donna Castellano
2022-07-18 02:11:08 +0000 UTCthey did another Untouchables series in the early 90s, with Tom Amandes as Ness and William Forsythe as Capone. It was great. Only 2 seasons, sadly. I thought I'd hallucinated that version for years because I never saw it for purchase or streaming anywhere. Then suddenly a couple years ago, they released a Blu-ray set of both seasons. I bought that sucker fast. Still a good version.
Donna Castellano
2022-07-18 01:05:03 +0000 UTCI love this movie so much. It just goes to show that we still need justice. Even what's going on in the world today politically, we still need righteous folk. And I don't mean fake righteous folk. I mean, like legit heroes.
Philip Davetas
2022-07-18 00:33:11 +0000 UTCAnother reason they went the tax route it brought the court case into the Federal realm where his corruption wasnāt as powerful
Jason Mangen
2022-07-17 23:17:54 +0000 UTCThank you!!
Ellie Miller
2022-07-17 23:15:04 +0000 UTCIn trying to curb alcoholism they created prohibition and gave us the devastation of organized crime causing untold misery.
Jason Mangen
2022-07-17 23:14:54 +0000 UTCTry and track down the Untouchables tv series starring Robert Stack from the 1959. Itās where I learned about being a cop
Jason Mangen
2022-07-17 23:12:39 +0000 UTCI love him in BLACK RAIN and INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
Philip Davetas
2022-07-17 22:39:23 +0000 UTCAndy Garcia is in all 3 of the ocean movies. Oceans 11 oceans 12 and Oceans 13 those three movies Are full of stars
Rick Rodriguez (PicoMan Photography)
2022-07-17 20:32:52 +0000 UTCCapone's brain rotted from neurosyphilis. Delightful.
Jen Barnes
2022-07-17 20:20:48 +0000 UTC"DID HE SOUND ANYTHING LIKE THAT?" What a great line. This film definitely has its moments. The intro score is unforgettable and the guy who plays Nitti was perfectly fucking cast. Glad you guys liked it so much! For a mostly undiscovered Andy Garcia gem, could I recommend: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)? Him, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, and a bunch of others you'd recognize. Super underrated gangster flick.
Uncle 'Traveling' Matt
2022-07-17 20:00:55 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, like that you guys appreciated all the touches in this film. Filled with real life characters, like Capone, Ness and Nitti. And you have seen the character Frank Nitti very recently in another film. In this movie he killed Malone and was thrown off a roof, but in real life he died later and rose through the ranks and became the leader of the Chicago mob. He was the leader of the Chicago mob in the movie you just saw recently, Road to Perdition. In that movie, Frank Nitti was played by Stanley Tucci. Also there was a 1950's TV show called The Untouchables with Robert Stack as Elliot Ness and his adventures against the Mob. Not saying this is the movie version of that TV show, because Ness's unit was known as the Untouchables as a matter of historical fact, not because of the TV show.
Mike LL
2022-07-17 19:44:32 +0000 UTCGreat reaction like always. Ennio Morricone scored this film, you guys might remember him as having done some work you really loved in the Man with no Name trilogy.
Joseph Tamburo
2022-07-17 19:22:59 +0000 UTCDeNiro and Connery are amazing! Connery deserved his Oscar, but I think DeNiro should have gotten it too.
Michael Rhine
2022-07-17 19:03:43 +0000 UTCThe scene in the railway station was actually an homage to a famous scene in the 1925 Russian film by Sergei Eisenstein called Battleship Potemkin. In the scene the Russian troops marching down the stairs shoot a mother with a baby in a stroller and the stroller begins rolling down them as people get shot around it. Look for a clip on YouTube.
Michael Rhine
2022-07-17 18:52:09 +0000 UTCLol
Liz Booker
2022-07-17 18:49:49 +0000 UTCDon't tell them that. If this isn't considered a De Niro film they'll watch Cape Fear too!
Future Boy
2022-07-17 18:41:31 +0000 UTCThey're spaced out on Youtube. Here they often come together and very early, and I love it. All at once means I can watch them whenever I want!
Future Boy
2022-07-17 18:39:56 +0000 UTCI think DeNiro was in this movie quite a bit lol
Liz Booker
2022-07-17 18:03:35 +0000 UTCWhile the film is based on historic events, most of the film is inaccurate or fictional; the raid at the CanadaāUnited States border never happened, and neither did the courthouse or railway station shootouts, Ness did not kill Nitti,(he died by suicide in 1943, twelve years after the trial) and Ness's unit had very little to do with Capone's final tax evasion conviction. The most significant creative liberty of the film is that in real life Capone had the Chicago Outfit actively avoid killing or even physically harming Ness and other Treasury agents sent to Chicago. Although Capone frequently tried to bribe them, he decided that violence against them would lead to greater retaliation from the federal government. Ness and Capone also never met in real life. The scene where Capone beats someone to death with a baseball bat was based on a real incident, and he killed three people, but they were from a rival gang who refused to stop fighting him, not one of his own underlings. Great Reaction, guys... As for Andy Garcia, he's one of my fav...he came up in the 80s with his friend Ray Liotta who was also Garcia's roommate in the same University they attended. Here are some of Andy Garcia films I recommend for future reactions... "When a man loves a woman" (1994) with Meg Ryan "Internal Affairs" (1990) with Richard Gere "Black Rain" (1989) with Michael Dougals "Things to do in Denver when you're Dead" (1995) Christopher Walken
Joe Lazarus
2022-07-17 18:01:45 +0000 UTCDo you mean to put everything out at once? You should space things out a little though out the week. Wow. What an embarrassment of riches you have given us all at once!
Mike LL
2022-07-17 17:27:53 +0000 UTCCharles Martin-Smith is also in "Starman" (1984) which is a really good sci-fi movie with Jeff Bridges. I highly recommend that one. Charles Martin-Smith was also in "American Graffiti" (1973) which is George Lucas's first film and has Ron Howard pre-"Happy Days".
Jeff Mills
2022-07-17 17:16:44 +0000 UTCSo happy you did this video today! That train station scene is the best and one of the best scenes in cinematic history. It is so well choreographed.
Jeff Mills
2022-07-17 16:57:53 +0000 UTCAnother great Kevis Costner film someone recommended is A Perfect World with Clint Eastwood and I gotta recommend the Costner film Revenge directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance), violent film
Ken Veader
2022-07-17 16:49:26 +0000 UTCYes !!! I love this Movie and Especially Sean Connery's Performance as Malone !!! Hope you react one Day to Another Great Kevin Costner Movie " A Perfect World" from 1993 !!! Great Drama with Kostner and Clint Eastwood
Florian Meier
2022-07-17 15:50:25 +0000 UTCOmg you have blessed us š ā¤ļø Nice to get to some Brian DePalma films. (CASUALTIES OF WAR, Carlitos Way, Scarface. Carrie, Mission Impossible 1) Ennio Morricone with the classic score who worked with DePalma a lot. Btw I'm not of the opinion that it's not a Deniro film. Yes it definitely is a Costner film but DeNiro is so good he owns it, like Connery. "What are you prepared to do!?" "Here endeth the lesson" -Malone Edit: Additional comments after watching reaction... Capone died of syphilis not long after getting out of prison, his last year being spent in a hospital. I hope you guys loved your introduction to Brian DePalma as his signature was all over this film. His tilted camera shot, low angle shots. Split diopeter shot (Ness and Malone in church), background and foreground in focus. I hope you can do a string of DePalma films such as the ones mentioned above. He is one of Quentin Tarantinos favorite directors, he was so obsessed with him he kept a scrapbook of all his work, newspaper clippings, for every new DePalma movie that came out and would go see his film day one first screening. "Casualties of War" was DePalmas follow-up to Untouchables, and as mentioned before is Quentins favorite war film. The famous train station scene is parodied in the 3rd installment of the Naked Gun series. I'm actually a fan of Godfather 3, Andy Garcia was a great young actor. Small tiny role in Stand and Deliver, a great Latino film (true story). Andy Garcia tells a funny story about working with Connery on the Untouchables, at a ceremony honoring Sean Connery for a lifetime achievement award. You can find clip on youtube.
Jonathan Patrick
2022-07-17 15:07:43 +0000 UTC
