I spent 30 years in Corrections and I love this movie, not just because it's a true masterpiece, but unlike Shawshank, the cops were the good guys - except for one - and the prisoners were the bad guys - except for one. This should have won Best Picture in 1999. This movie will be around forever and thankfully Michael Clark Duncan will always be remembered.
@@StoryMing On the other hand, Stephen King carefully shields us from what they did do to deserve a place on death row, so that we _can_ like them. In our culture these days, we're fed a narrative, often an inaccurate one. It's not surprising we carry that gullibility (because I liked them, too) into our appreciation of fiction.
@@StoryMing Del is likable, I admit. But he did rape a woman, kill her and then burn down a building to cover it up, which promptly killed more people. So, it's perhaps more accurate to say that the prisoners all deserved to be there, except one. And all the guards deserved their position, except one.
For those of you who are curious about why they're all on death row: Arlen Bitterbuck, the Native American guy, was on death row for killing a man in a drunken brawl over a pair of boots. Eduard Delacroix, the Cajun guy, was on death row for raping and killing a woman, and then burning the building she was in to hide the body. The fire ended up killing more people. William "Wild Bill" Wharton was a serial murderer who was on death row for killing three people during a robbery, one of which was a pregnant woman. John Coffey was on death row after being wrongly convicted of the murder of two young girls.
Wild Bill Wharton also killed the 2 little girls that Coffey was wrongly blamed for. We see this when Coffey holds hands with Paul (when they came back from healing Melinda) and uses his powers to let him "see" how it all unfolded and thereby proved his innocence.
At my damn theater it wasn't crying it was bawling....AND my wife read a book a week at minimum...that book she had to pick up and put down for a damn 5 week period. In 20 yrs only other book in well over a 1000 was a Dean Koontz book I can't remember and damn sure ain't asking her in 2021
I saw this on ... must have been dvd at that time, maybe vhs rental, but I remember knowing that he must have had powers from the way he said, “I tried to take it back” when he first came to the mile. I thought, “Oh, that’s a very specific way to say that. He must mean take back the hurt. We are clearly being misled by that wording.” But watching now I can’t believe how far into the movie it is before we really see anything supernatural. That is crazy risky to shift the tone so far in. I love it!
@@83gemm He also said "I couldn't help it" before he said "I tried to help it, but it was too late". Then later after he takes Paul's UTI he says "I helped it, didn't I help it?" before he says "I just took it back is all" - that was when I knew what he had tried to do for the girls before they found him. The part where he says "give him to me, there might still be time" explains the "but it was too late" he opens with at the beginning, because just as with the girls if they had waited too longhe would be trying to work a healing on a corpse rather than a living thing.
Tom Hanks was arguably THE DOMINANT popular award winning actor of the 90’s. You don’t need to make any apologies for watching a lot of Tom Hanks movies.He closed out the 90’s in fine shape with The Green Mile.
As a retired sailor, it is great to have a channel where the host talks like a normal person. Fifteen mice were used in the movie. Each spent months being trained to do different tricks.
15?? Imagine having the job “Mouse Trainer” and making money off of it. That sounds like a good time 🤣 But thank you! I’m glad you enjoy my talking haha
You’re astute to notice the humanity of the prison guards. It’s sad to suggest that “it was a different time” back then, but it was. They were good men who had a hard job. And in spite of that they still treated their inmates with dignity.
@@tfpp1 ...not in the US. Our culture is increasingly judgemental, angry, and vindictive. More and more people WANT others to suffer. _Suffer._ Woe to those in positions where others can hurt them and get away with it.
I think the saddest part of the Green Mile is that it was inspired by the story of George Stinney Jr. the youngest person executed in America. Same set up but he didn’t have magic powers.
I’ve seen a good amount of emotional flicks, but this one is by far my favorite one... Everytime I choose to rewatch it I just can’t keep myself from crying... Seeing them cry before it happened and just hearing John Coffey say “Don’t put me in the dark” just as he was about to go, it’s just to much for me... R.I.P Michael Clarke Duncan; in my opinion one of the best😢💪🏾
I was already strung out by then - the bit outside Del's cell before they march him to the chair is just too emotional, the talk to the mouse, Paul and the other guards feels completely real.
You held it together remarkably well through that, most reactors that I have watched were sobbing and shaking at the end of this film, and it's interesting how just about everyone is shocked when John Coffey's supernatural powers are revealed, even when they knew in advance that it's a Steven King story!
One of these movies... As close to the book as possible. Nothing more than a Masterpiece. Great Story, Great acting from start to the end. Even Stephan King who was on the Set a lot was impressed. One of the best adaptations of his stories ever.
Yeah, Del told Paul and Brute before he went to the chair that they were good men. He recognized that they took care to treat those in the mile as human beings despite their crimes and their death sentence.
I CANNOT express to you how much I loathe Percy. This movie makes you feel so many different emotions, it's truly a masterpiece. A great reaction once again, Sammy!
there's a line from one of my favorite old tv shows. One of the characters who is immortal says, "one of the biggest parts of living forever is boredom". This is a one-of-a-kind movie for sure.
So, a guy named Paul tells a story about a miracle man named J.C. - who is an empath, a seer & has a gift for healing and then dies for someone else's sin after blessing people with LIFE...
What I don't like about this movie is they left out the side story that was in the books. The old Paul was bullied in the residence by a modern version of Percy. But in a twist his lady friend was the one with a relative in the state government and she stopped him.
I agree Percy was the most hateable character of all. Wild Bill was a murderer, and very unlikeable, but his motivation for the robbery was probably for money and not for fun. Even the girls, as vile as the murder was, were probably a crime of opportunity. In the book, it was a nice night out, so they had asked permission to sleep on the screened in porch instead of in the house. I bet it was an act of impulse. Percy, on the other hand, was a straight up sadist. He couldn't hurt people out in public because he would have gone to prison, and he was too cowardly. He could have had a cushy desk job, but he purposely chose to work with vulnerable people he could hurt with impunity. He knew exactly how to hurt people the most, like telling Del there was no Mouseville. He hit John Coffey and Del with the baton because they couldn't hurt him back, but when he NEEDED to put himself on the line to save his coworkers from Wild Bill, he chickened out.
I'm throwing TWO of my favorite movies: A League Of Their Own - LADY BASEBALL Mystery Men - regular ppl trying to become super heroes (All Star cast AND THE ORIGINAL MOVIE WHERE THE SONG ALL STAR CAME FROM)
two stellar movies for you. "Powder" starring Jeff Goldblum and "Shine" starring Geoffry Rush. both these movies are POWERFUL stories. Shine alone won several awards it was so good
Same, I only watched it that first time as a teen and then wasn't able to re-watch it since. Then RU-vid became a thing. Then reaction videos became a thing and that format made me able to see it again with the "filter" of the reactor absorbing the full frontal effect it had, when I watched in full by myself xP.
I give you great respect for actually being aware of the time period in which this movie took place. I have seen reactors saying that Edgecmb should go get antibiotics for his Uti and that medication wasn’t available until late in WWIII. others ascribed racial issues to the story that were not germane to the story at all. And actually listening to the dialog between Coffey and Edgecomb at the end that told exactly why Coffey not only wanted to die, refusing the offer to turn him free and why he forgave the guards for doing what they had to do.
You'll probably tear up upon further viewings when you know what to expect. It gets me every time. The original novel was first published serial-style, in a series of small paperbacks that were published once a month (8-10 in all, I think). We were really in suspense waiting for each new installment to come out. The actor playing Percy, Doug Hutchison, also played Eugene Tooms in two excellent early episodes of "The X-Files." He's a great actor. Old Paul was played by legendary character actor Dabs Greer, who appeared in hundreds of movies and TV shows over the years and finally got a real A-list role here.
There’s a movie called “Powder” that came out four years before “The Green Mile” (in 1995). It’s a much less known movie , but has “some” similarities , and is really good. Anyone who’s a fan of this movie , would probably enjoy “Powder”.
Do you see John's plan now? The "imbecile" was so far ahead of the jailers it's almost comical. John's statement while sitting in old sparky, "I'm sorry for what I am" is so poignant and sad. Thank you for giving this movie the respect it deserves and an insightful, coherent, lengthy review of its impact on you.
@@OGBReacts I’ve personally seen this myself five or six times, but I must’ve watched at least a dozen RU-vid reactions, too, and ev.er.y. time it gets me. So much truth and beauty… truly a masterpiece.
Whenever I've seen this film, I need to be quiet for a while. This story touches me. A lot. I am an avowed opponent of the death penalty. Always been. Nobody, not even the legislature, should be allowed to exercise the right to end a life. Under no circumstances should revenge and justice end up in the same pot. Ironically, I also work in a prison. A prison in Germany. There we believe in the possibility of rehabilitation. Is this the right way? Is there a right way? It is not up to me to decide. But I feel good doing what I believe to be a meaningful task.
What a movie - The Green Mile is. I watched when it first came out at the Movies - The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, and The Elephant Man are just perfect movies. Movies that want to make you be a better person for seeing them. I can not choose which is the better out of those 3 Movies.....All three movies are just perfect. One of the movies that I have mentioned was a true-life movie as well...
Problem for me with Green Mile is how inaccurate it is, I don't mind a little fantasy in a film, but not when it's trying to be a film about real events, it's like they got it wrong on purpose and because of that I can't watch it again, I wasted enough time watching it the first time.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="959">15:59</a> Tom Hanks is _such_ a good actor. _So_ much significance he can convey just by _urinating_ a certain way.
RIP Michael Clarke Duncan who played John Coffey. He was an amazing actor and I think he should have won the Oscar for this one. At least he was nominated. Instead he lost to James Coburns performance in Affliction. Two decades later, which performance is more memorable?
john coffey was an angel, full stop. and now, michael clarke duncan is too :( i know you said you're going to give yourself a break from tom hanks movies, but i want to suggest another one - a little gem that a lot of people don't know about, and that i've very rarely, if ever, seen a reaction to. it's called "that thing you do". hanks wrote and directed it, and he also plays a supporting role. it's absolutely adorable and i'd love to see what you think of it.
Pandora(Korean Movie) is the only movie I've straight up cried during the finale. This movie is clearly in the top 4 of I'm hurting on an emotional level need to watch funny cat videos to cope.
You remind me so much of my reaction to Percy when I first saw this film! Rarely does a character piss me off so bad. I remember when he finally got shot I had the same response: "..... yep."
You know watching this again with you , took me back again to my very same emotions all over again with you. Thanks again. Your have the Oscar for best REACTIONS,!!!
There was a time when I was afraid of death but after losing ones that you love. I am no longer afraid. I won’t get into why but life doesn’t end here. All I can say is have a open mind. Great reaction and I love this movie. More than one interpretation
Another great reaction! Theres no other movie like it. RIP Michael Clarke Duncan. The big man left us way too early. I know you cant just do Tom Hanks movies but you should definitely do Cast Away next (for your next Tom Hanks movie :)
I saw this movie when it came out at the cinema - and started -re-watching with reactors. And, after all these years - I didn't catch on to John Coffee's initials...
It's not so much that doctor's in the early 20th century wouldn't tell the wife about a fatal diagnosis. It's that they would tell the family of the patient and let them decide whether to tell the patient or pretend he was getting better. I'm told that my mother's family told her mother that she was getting better when the diagnosis had actually been terminal breast cancer. My mother told me once how painful it had been for her to pretend.
I do believe it was told to the men, because "womenfolk" were often considered too weak and delicate to handle "mature" issues. So the male doctor told the male husband, and left it to him how to handle his family and what to share with them. It's part of the whole mindset that women shouldn't have power, because they "can't handle it" like a man naturally can. Just pure sexism. I think one example of this is how there are still today people who refer to a wife by the full husband's name. Such as "Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith", as if she's just an attachment or accessory, not anything worthy of thinking about in their own right.
@@Aeroldoth3 And, of course, you were alive then and saw this personally. I was alive then and my account above corresponds to what I remember. Sometimes the patient who was going to die, male or female, wasn't told he was going to die.
@@winstonmarlowe5254 I can only speak about things I personally witnessed. I was born in 1953, so my "consciousness" begins in the late 50s. But, from that point on, I can speak with some authority.
Another amazing reaction and review. My heart! This movie.... This was a lovely, thoughtful way to begin the busiest day of my week--the emotional wake-up to get me in a leveled-out, recalibrated headspace. Thank you for having so much heart and insightfulness in the films you review. I hope your Tuesday is starting off as well as you've helped mine to
This is my new favorite reaction channel. I've seen a few of ur vids now. Keep up the good wrk! Also Love the name! Pple just don't know about bojangles, the best!
If you want give 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) a watch, it shares similarities with this movie. And could start a discussion about who is the most loathful character: Guard Percy or Nurse Ratched!
Michael Clarke Duncan was a Fire Rooster in the Chinese zodiac. Also a Sagittarius in the western zodiac. Sagittarius is a fire sign. Let's give it up for his Fire! ❤️🔥
Really loved your reaction, just enough talking to give great input and opinions, but not so much that it took away from the experience. Can't wait to see more of you content
I keep punishing myself I swear by watching so many reactors watching this movie. I still cry my eyes out each and every time. I do cry at a lot of movies, but this one and a really old one called “Imitation of Life” (the Lana Turner one) will cause me to ugly cry/sob with full snot and everything lol. Like I know the scenes are coming and they still hit me so hard like a guy punch to my soul. If you ever get a chance to watch “Imitation of Life”, please do! It’s such a beautiful movie.
Enjoyed your reaction. Stephen King doesn't just write horror movies like The Shining, Carrie or Misery. I read that Hanks found out during the filming that Stephen King's birthday was coming up. He wanted him to visit the Green Mile set so he did go and they had a birthday cake for him. He also got to sit in Old Sparky.
Great movie choice. Really good reaction video. I always cry when john coffee dies. You should check out the shawshank redemption. It is one of my favorite movies of all time. Its also a prison movie.
*Cheers!* To you for addressing DEATH directly! Even more for being honest on how you yourself feel/dont feel on the subject!💞 I was 14/15yrs when this came out but didn't see it till my 20's I remembered it being special but only recently can I say I fully appreciate the depth of this film. Maybe it's just old(er) age catching up and now being the month of my birth haha But that couldn't be it since last year I decided for my Birthday present, I was gonna quit having Birthdays. Okay maybe not fully just the whole adding a number part of it. Cake ? Yes please! 😊
You shouldn't be terrified, of death. We only have to do that once. After that, it's all gravy!..What you should be thinking of is how to make the most of your life, while here, since you're going to be dead a long time.
Nice reaction to a classic and artful film. Smart commentary and honest reactions to what is happening moment by moment. Gotta recommend this films older sibling. The Shawshank Redemption, if you haven't seen it, by chance. Another Stephen King story, written for the screen and directed by Frank Darabont, like Green Mile. Maybe some Martin Scorsese? Goodfellas and/or Casino. Both great gangster films. If you want to keep your Tom Hanks streak alive, Big (Penny Marshall), Road To Perdition (Sam Mendes), also a gangster film, and That Thing You Do, which he wrote and directed are all good, but lesser known.
Thanks so much, I appreciate it a lot! I've seen Shawshank and it IS very well done. Wish I could first react to it though! I've also seen Goodfellas! Loved that movie too. I definitely have some more Tom Hanks films in mind now of course haha
This movie is one of my all time favorites! Whether on Netflix, Amazon Prime movie, Fios or tv I will watch it every time and love it as much as the first. Excellent movie! 💯💖
Awesome reaction!!! I'm completely with you regarding Percy. I can't remember ever despising a character as much as I despised him. And btw, since I was lucky enough to have you react to my top 3 films from my favorite actor, Mr. Hanks, I'll try my luck recommending two of my faves from my second favorite actor, Matt Damon: Good Will Hunting (1997) and The Martian (2015).
The only thing I've seen the actor who played Percy in was two episodes of The X-Files. Both in season one. He played a character called Eugene Tooms. Well worth checking out. Another over-the-top creepy character.
I haven't seen a Sam Rockwell movie on the channel, I don't think. He's one of my favorite actors. Would love to see you check out some of his films, like Moon, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, even Charlie's Angels.
The actor who played Percy actually married a 16 year old girl when he was 51. They even had a reality show about it 10 years ago. So the real life guy is kind of a creep too.
The way you said, "Oh, he is SUCH a fuckin' tool!" 🤣🤣🤣 Correct. SO correct. Percy is one of the worstest characters in literature... And THIS is a movie with Sam Rockwells William Wharton! Written by Stephen King!
