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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!! (Patreon)

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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!

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Jason Dolan

FUCKY YES finally i feel like i just won the Schmittwheel

David Wilkins

Yes, it’s been on my list for the Wheel, and it’s good to be able to mark one off.

Florian Meier

Great Reaction Guys !!! Waited for this Reaction and i loved it !!! Friedkin is such a great and Wild Film Maker ... Like French Connection this Film is sooo good and the Car Chase is Perfect !! Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and to Live and Die in LA... 80's Action Classics are the Best !!! Speaking of French Connection, please watch French Connection 2 !!! I recommend also Willem Dafoe in "Mississippi Burning" with a incredible Gene Hackman !!! Must Watch

Chris Bruneau

Agreed! Its been my pick for at least SIX months!!!

Marcus Cato

Everything after that car chase was absolutely BONKERS! I had a bit of a hard time following that first hour, but man that 2nd half. I had no idea you guys have done Manhunter. Looking forward to circling back on that one.

Backlog Andy M.

Manhunter is one of my favs. First saw it in (1989) i loved Dan and Sams reaction.

Paul Cox

Wish I could say I had a very long history with this movie, but I only saw it for the first time four years ago, and watched it for the third time tonight with Daniel & Sam. It truly does get better with every subsequent viewing!

Paul Cox

Also, this was the first time I clocked that the actor playing the doctor Chance talks to after getting laid out by Cody at the hospital also played Costner's dad in Field of Dreams.

Chris Bruneau

Soooo glad you liked this! Its one of my all-time favs because it has such an original story, plus it has one of the greatest car chases ever filmed. just a masterpiece!!!

Brad P

If something felt disorienting about the climax of the car chase, it might be due to the fact that Chance and Vukovich are actually the only car going the correct way on the freeway and the dozens of vehicles coming at them are the ones going in the wrong direction. Friedkin said he filmed it this way to add to the chaos of the scene. The studio was nervous about releasing a film where the protagonist meets such a brutal, shocking end so they pleaded with Friedkin to come up with an alternate "happy ending". Friedkin did it to make them happy but refused to actually use it and stuck with the original. This video contains the alternate ending along with some commentary from the filmmakers. https://youtu.be/x6B7UiTcRvM?si=ZQzkkIiuOS1oXfsV

Samolina Pilchard

“We might have a car chase here..” oh boy are we! I was wondering if you were going to recognize the director from the style of the chase and the similarity to the one in the French Connection. Another Friedkin movie I recommend is Sorceror (1977). Trivia- Jane Leeves- Daphne from the TV series Fraiser - plays the girlfriend of Master’s girlfriend and who drives off with her at the end of the movie.

David Wilkins

Funny, I’ve watched this several times, going back to the theatrical run, and never made the connection to Jane Leeves. Rather an opposite of Daphne, and that might have helped me lose the connection.

David Wilkins

Great one, and a really good time watching it again with you guys. I still like the theme song. It got considerable airplay back in the day, along with another song from the soundtrack. The group Wang Chung got a lot of mileage out of that album. You might also like Friedkin’s film ‘Sorcerer’ (1977), with Roy Scheider (Jaws). It’s a tense story about a group of guys being paid to move a load of nitroglycerin through the jungles of South America.

Jay Davis

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" ...with a full length reaction to one of my favorites!

Tyler Foster

Note that Sorcerer is a remake of an equally great film called The Wages of Fear (1953), so this would be one, like The Manchurian Candidate (1962 and 2004), or The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 and 1999) where it would be fun to see you react to both the original and the remake.

ED209

This was Willem Dafoe's first hit. Prior to this he had a leading role in the independent film The Loveless playing a biker. That movie was Kathryn Bigelow's (Point Break/Zero Dark Thirty) directorial debut. After a few small parts he then played another biker as the lead villain in Walter Hill's (The Warriors/48 Hours) very fun 1984 film Streets of Fire which was a big flop at the box-office unfortunately. Then L.A. in 1985 followed by Platoon in 1986. In 1988 he had his first success as the main star playing Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ. From then on he cemented himself as one of the most exciting actor of all time. Director Friedkin didn't want to hire movie stars for the film, he wanted new faces so he looked at young stage actors throughout the country. One such actor who auditionned for Chance was Gary Sinise. He was a very respected theatre actor in Chicago where he had co-founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company which still exists today. He didn't get the part but he thought that his friend and fellow Chicago actor William Petersen could have what Friedkin was looking for and recommended him to the director. At the time Petersen had only really worked in theatre and had only one film credit to his name (a bit part in Michael Mann's Thief which had been filmed in Chicago). I've wondered if Sinise ending up as Mac Taylor in CSI NY was a way for Petersen to pay forward Sinise for giving him his big break (Petersen wasn't just the star of CSI, he was also one of the producers).

Michael SCH

As usual, a great reaction. Looks like most of Friedkin's major films have been covered except for Sorceror (1977) so I mirror others opinions that that should be the next Friedkin movie to react to. If you want to more Friedkin after that, I'd recommend Cruising, The Boys in the Band, Bug and Killer Joe. After that, you can take your pick. I have an unrequited love for Jade and Blue Chips but I know these are typically ranked at the bottom of his filmography; Jade has a pretty good car chase, though.

Brian Anthony

Thank you for reacting to this..one of many reasons this channel is a goldmine.

24fps_

I guess the lesson is, when you pay with counterfeit money you get counterfeit killers...

David Wilkins

Yes, and I do like the original very much. I ignored watching the Friedkin version until about 8 years ago, because I’ve traditionally had a low opinion of U.S. remakes of foreign originals. But I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, and it’s in fitting with the subject of Friedkin movies. And I think it’s better than a lot of his lesser known works.

David Wilkins

Bug is one of those VERY effective, under the radar movies. But I also wonder how it would play in the “format” of reaction. Absolutely one of the best depictions of mental illness. It made me a Michael Shannon fan, and Ashley Judd surprised me playing against type. I feel the same way as you about ‘Jade’. A lot of people trash it, but I think it has a lot going for it.

Backlog Andy M.

When i first saw it in the late 80s the car chase was wow. But Chance was WTF! i heard when Wiiliam Peterson ran on top esclators. They didnt have permission to do that in the airport. It was spur of the moment!

Paul Cox

I was like "Is that Daphne? That can't be Daphne!" the first time I saw it, and lo and behold it was.

Brian Anthony

I don’t think the Schmitt’s have been that in shock since the Rolo Tamasi scene lol