FIRST TIME WATCHING: Whiplash (2014) REACTION (Movie Commentary) *RE-UPLOAD* 

This movie has one of the most perfect and intense endings ever... stops in the right second! What a ride

This movie is just my tempo. ❤

Degree in music, jazz drummer and vocalist, I have played EVERY SINGLE song in this movie. Jazz bands can be like this, the relationship between the drummer and the conductor, is tenuous at best. The band needs both equally, and if they arent on the same page, get ready!!! Fyi, caravan is written by Tito Puente, it is Latin jazz.

“At least he’s nice to kids” This made me realize, he is Gordon Ramsey. Gordon is extremely harsh on the people he believes have potential, but it is out of a desire to push them to their potential .

This is one of my ALL TIME favorite film! I remember it knocked me out of my seat when I first watched it. That ending is something. Before watching this I really didn't care for jazz music either but I found myself craving it and really loving it. Thank you for reacting to Whiplash!

I was lacking a multicultural credit for my degree, so I took "History of Jazz," and it was an awesome class. We had to watch a jazz film for our final, and I chose "Whiplash," because I'd always heard it was good, but never wanted to watch a movie about jazz drumming on my own time, lol. Best final ever. What a good movie.

In the "not my tempo" scene, I don't think Neiman was off-tempo at all. I think Fletcher deliberately put him under stress JUST to see if he'd get better. The way Fletcher sees things, only one of two things can happen: Neiman can improve, and Fletcher gets what he wants, or Neiman breaks, in which case Fletcher would be satisfied knowing that Neiman will never be great and he can stop wasting time on him. That ties in with the folder thing: Fletcher may've taken it specifically to see if Neiman would rise to the occasion. See, the main reason he recruited Neiman wasn't because he was good, it's because he had the potential to be great. Neiman improved noticeably between his first and second time meeting Fletcher, which told Fletcher that Neiman wasn't JUST good, but could be shaped into something extraordinary.

Characters like Fletcher don't come along very often. It's subjective, but it would be fair to say he could cause a visceral reaction the way Ordell Robbie did in Jackie Brown. I was terrified of that guy even though he never jumped off the screen to come at me. There are antagonists, and then there are Ordells and Fletchers who are living, breathing embodiments of trauma.

From the beginning fletchers plan was to make him into the greatest drummer in fact he actually was on tempo but did that to make him practice harder

JK Simmons took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie.

If you want to see J.K. Simmons as a villain watch the HBO series OZ.

the visual storytelling in this movie is so well done

Awesome movie - way scarier than most horror films!

JK Simmons played the ruthless leader of the Neo-Nazi inmates on the show OZ for six seasons, and it's a movie like this that proves he can still show off that dark energy with his acting.

your reaction to the ending really gave me a big smile love the vid helping me relax when my parent has an important operation tomorrow

At the end Fletcher wins. Andrew fell right into Fletcher's hands. Andrew threw away any chances of a happy life at the end. He broke up with girlfriend and he distance his family. Andrew should have seen the signs that Fletcher was a coldhearted man. When Andrew got in the accident, Fletcher didn't stop him from playing and he didn't take Andrew the hospital. Fletcher lied about his student's death. Fletcher knew his teaching caused the student to suicide.

I had a french teacher like this from ages 13 to 14 who knew my family history of grandparents who spoke french & until the age of 5 or 6 I was close to fluent, then due to little exposure lost what I knew & honestly became disinterested until & even during I was forced to study it in early high school. My brother was the most academic of the family who basically aced that school and she thought I was a carbon copy of him but I've always been less academic but far more streetwise. She took it as a personal affront & would criticize my exam grades openly in class. Then once during a time when my parents were going through issues & my father was actually in a mental facility I missed an exam by 2hrs, I didn't know what to do & just went home in shock because I knew how serious it was. Next class she had me walk to the front of the class, berated me in front of everyone & then forced me to miss all my other classes (which I found out she had talked to the teachers of and recommend they breach me on the school honor code) and complete the 90min exam whilst she sat there as 2 other classes came and went & laughed as she made degrading comments the whole time. This was a very strict Anglican Grammar School. A few years later she came out as a lesbian & went on to become a lay preacher. I'm pretty sure she was just lashing out due to how she felt victimized & stifled at the time, and all she could fall back on was the hubris of producing high-level students. My parents split up the following year, I knew it was all falling apart. I'm not majorly successful now but I'm living okay. I'm half tempted to reach out to that teacher & see if she even feels bad about me or any other students she must have traumatized.

I'm glad you watched and reacted to this movie. When I first watched whiplash it was very intensive and had an intensive ending for sure. Jk Simmons played fletcher so well and it gives the message that good teachers should not push their students to a breaking point. I had good teachers in high school and in college that weren't like fletcher at all thank goodness. Good video and reaction for sure @Caped Informer. Sucks you had to reupload it but things happen.

I was at the edge of my seat at the End... what an intense Movie

You say you didn't expect a movie about band to be like this.... in the late 1970s my college band director told us the only excuse for missing a rehearsal was a death certificate. And he wasn't joking. He once got super mad at our percussion 101 class so he threw some drumsticks at us, and stormed out of the room, turning the lights off as he went. We sat there for a good 20 minutes before anyone had the guts to get up and leave. Now, he genuinely wasn't sadistic, and out of the classroom he was a nice person. But when he was on the podium you were, as he put it, notes on a page that he expected to hear. And he didn't spare your feelings much if you got it wrong. That was just the old school way.

This was the first movie i saw witth J K Simmons and that movie alone made him my favourite actor

fun fact: 90% of the drumming scenes were miles hands. He learned drums specificly for this role

Saw this movie on a whim on a rainy Saturday with no reference …. GREAT MOVIE

Still haven't actually seen this. But it's my firm belief that everything is better with JK Simmons

As a jazz fan my mind was blown at the theatre when it came out!

This movie gave me 'Nam flashbacks. Conductors are absolutely like this. Btw, chocolate in popcorn is actually really good. I was skeptical until I tried it.

Reminded me of my all time favorite military commander - we shared the same style of leadership that is how you build strong leaders.

Really Fletcher the villain won, in an interview with the director, he revealed that basically in the end Neiman had the same fate as Sean Cassey the trombone guy who committed suicide, Andrew fell into the obsession of the perfect musician sacrificing everything to achieve it, making once he ends his life, Fletcher will simply look for another student to make him the "perfect musician" this repeating the cycle...

This was pretty-much my band director in middle school, who apparently used to be a rather accomplished musician for the U.S. Navy, played with Elvis, Sammy Davis Jr. etc., but was a washed-up abusive drunk by the time he came to teach kids.

Amazing movie and great sports drama analogy. The numerous changes to Simmons role could only work for a character who loves music more than the people that create it.

This movie was intense. Hands down one of my favorite late night, first time watches from my college days. The other being “Predestination” with Ethan Hawke.

Wanna be scared by Simmons again? One word: Oz.

Finally someone who included the dinner scene.

I watched this in theather and everybody was quite and shook AF.

Stellar movie. 👍

love this movie.

I loved how you laughed at so many parts I laughed at in this movie. 27:10 especially lol.

I say, best movie of the past 20!years. Each character in the movie, u will love hate understand not understand, cheer for, reject, etc. Nieman goes from his equal, a man, who he tries to end his career, to a student he wants to destroy, to a guy he calls, man, to calling him Andrew, to giving him the smile, the guy who never gets discouraged!!

Have you seen Only The Brave with Miles Teller and Josh Brolin? It's a great movie. Seriously, a great movie. You need to do a reaction if you haven't seen it. I love your reactions.

Did Farmers replace the rental car? 🤔😂

Wow... Truly intense... I've always learned quickly and looked to the next level without prompting...a mentor of this nature ?..nope...perhaps some people need this type of push...perhaps there are occupations that need to be battle ready for situations..I don't know...perhaps I would never absorb this type of training...I thank God I've never needed this experience... Yep..just wow !... 🌿🌿🌿

The girlfriend was Supergirl 🦸‍♀️

Great movie

He won an Oscar, bum budum bum bum bum bum.

Whiplash es una pelicula emitida por Isat channel latinoamerica que este canal ya no existe desde el 29 de febrero del 2024

Whiplash

Playing in perfect 400 hard to master

The point of the breakup scene isn’t that he’s missing out on a cute girl or that relationships take up too much time, it’s that his ambition is more important than hurting someone’s feelings. He’s shown to be callous. The question he asks himself later….is his lack of empathy worth the opportunity cost or did he just trade her in for a shot at mediocrity. Maybe besting Fletcher, rather than besting himself, turned out to be his only goal. If so then it wasn’t what he set out to do and probably wasn’t worth it.

I highly recommend u watch dead poets society. It’s a beautiful movie

Surely him playing the drums at the end for so long woulda made the band look bad as it didn’t fit in at all ? Also wish we had of seen more of their reaction to his crash as the fact he came in even after that shoulda shown them the commitment he had, don’t get how they allowed him on stage

Only the Brave is one of Tellers best films!

JK is killer in anything I've seen him in. Even if the movie wasn't all that, he is always fun to watch act.

Fletcher did nothing wrong.

Hard to watch but amazing acting 😬❤️

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So much gaslighting in this. Classic example of psychological abuse

Please watch sin city

My biggest problem with this film is the utter lack of joy of creating and playing music. Being a mediocre drummer in a working band, I find the bliss of tuning into the muse to be the absolute essential. No one in this movie even seems to like music...

love love love this movie

If I hear any sticking I'm done