FAR AND AWAY (1992) Movie REACTION!

[@Croweyes1121]

One of my favorites. It was an honor to edit it. Hope all of you enjoy it!

[@chadatchison145]

Good job on the edit, it flows very smoothly, and a joy to watch.

[@Croweyes1121]

@@chadatchison145 Thank you so much, that really means a lot.

[@singlechristiancowboy]

Here, here!

[@scottbarkley496]

Amazing job 👏

[@Croweyes1121]

@@scottbarkley496 Thank you. Super happy you enjoyed it.

[@arwiviv]

Tom is one of the most underrated actors of all time. He's awesome.

[@positivelynegative9149]

I think City Slickers (1991) is a must for you. 🤠

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

I concur, both of them.

[@DaleKingProfile]

This was when they were married. The scene where she looked under the bowl he was supposed to be covered under there but they decided to lose the covering without telling her so they got a genuine reaction

[@sheryldalton8965]

The spineless little fraction of a man is Ron Howard's brother. He was the town sherrif in "the missing". Their dad was the telegraph operator.

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

Hello, Clint Howard was terrific in " Apollo 13 " & " Ed T.V. ".

[@bubhub64]

​@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710...and as Balok, the Tranya drinking bald headed alien kid in the original Star Trek. Clint Howard also had a small role as a boxing ref in the excellent movie Cinderella Man, also directed by Ron Howard.

[@raybernal6829]

And Clint Howard was awesome in The Andy Griffith Show as Leon eating his peanut butter sandwich 😊

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

" Gentle Ben " on television too.

[@tempsitch5632]

Austin Powers. Waterboy. He’s had a great career.

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

Hello Madison K. Thames, one of my favorite Irish movies is " Waking Ned Devine ". It features actor Ian Bannon who accompanied Sean Connery in " The Hill " and was in that terrific Western Story " Bite the Bullet ".

[@jollyrodgers7272]

Ron Howard directed a lot of great films; among my favorite are this one, as well as COCOON (1985), PARENTHOOD (1989) and APOLLO 13 (1995). There is no Irish Anti-defamation Organization - everyone picked on the Irish, especially themselves - Which reminds me of what my Irish grandfather used to say, "The difference between Shanty-Irish and the Lace Curtain Irish is the Lace Curtain Irish take the dishes out of the sink before peeing in it."

[@mikligardur9104]

I always liked this movie. Watch it many times in 90s.

[@andygossard4293]

As an Oklahoman, I appreciate this movie, but also I thought it was underappreciated for a film that depicted Irish immigration in that era, pretty accurate to history.

[@hissatsu4937]

I almost lost it at the end when I first watched this cos I definitely thought Joseph was dying. I was like, are you really gonna do this to us now? He finally gets his land and his woman just lose all of it in the end. I'd say this is one of my favorite Tom Cruise movies. Definitely worth a watch for anyone, fan of Tom Cruise or not. Btw... forgot to say the score is fantastic and the soundtrack with Enya's Book of Days playing in the credits was perfection.

[@RoberinoSERE]

One of my favorite movies most people never saw. It's a gem.

[@MrLovegrove]

I'm glad you finally found a movie that has a scene with Tom Cruise running. 😊

[@michaelm6948]

As we enter a presidential election year, if you would like to pursue a political theme, in the sense of "Mr. Smith goes to Washington", without partisanship, and unlikely to lead to ugly political divisiveness- I highly recommend " The Last Hurrah". It's one of John Ford's last films. It deals with the urban political culture made by Irish immigrants, and how it is fading out after WW2. It stars Spencer Tracy, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine, Donald Crisp, Jeffrey Hunter. An excellent film.

[@Realmediamashup]

I’ve never seen a reaction to this masterpiece- God bless you.

[@torbjornkvist]

What's most remarkable with this movie is the radical change it makes towards the end, when Tom Cruise leaves the train to join the wagon trail towards the west. The film goes from a rather conventional adventure story into a fully fledge Western movie. The camera is lifted up and places the horizont on the lower half of the picture, the landscape goes wide and the action broad. It's as if the American production team finally found their roots and lifts the movie. Fantastic.

[@blackpowder99]

Yes! this is going to be an awesome reaction. It is a highly overlooked movie,and knowing her taste in movies, she's going to love it.

[@bossfan49]

I can't recall Madison disliking ANY movie shes watched.

[@irishinnj72]

Dad: "You are an especially odd boy." Joseph: "You came back from the dead to tell me that I'm odd?"

[@PatrickPrejusa]

ENYAS BOOK OF DAYS IS ONE OF MY FAVS

[@knight4iam]

Short notice... the STEPHEN KING movie called DELORES CLAIBORNE is a huge Solar Eclipse movie. Perfect for posting on Monday.

[@chefskiss6179]

I loved your enthusiasm during this watchlaong, it was so contagious. If you need another Irish flick, I hope you try The Commitments.

[@Witchfinder.General]

In India they would put the bed in the middle of the room and then each bed post would be in a pot of water, so that no creepy crawlies could crawl onto you as you slept

[@ThistleAndSea]

Good one, Madison! Love this movie. Thanks for sharing it. 🙂

[@Hail_To_The_King]

A masterpiece of Western/period drama is *McCABE & MRS MILLER (1971)* - _''A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town....''_

[@markoconnor995]

Sooners, Madison! Next March Irish season might want to try these classics: "Michael Collins"- with Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts, Aidan Quinn and Alan Rickman. "Molly Maguires"- with Sean Connery and Richard Harris "The Boxer "- with Daniel Day Lewis 💚🇮🇪☘

[@jdworst]

Excited for this one! Only because I like newer films, can’t wait to see more and more of them!! Keep it up!! 😊

[@JLamstudio]

Great movie. This was one of the rare films to be shot on 65mm film, which gave it an epic and expansive look, such as the land race scene. Gorgeous film.

[@jollyrodgers7272]

Odd - Wiki got it wrong, stating it was shot in 70mm (Panavision Super 70), and used the Arriflex 765 camera, which was capable of capturing 100 frames/second (for the land rush slo mo scenes).

[@urborg74]

Book of Days has been a favorite Enya song of mine since the movie released and popularized it. Keep it in my playlists and listen to it periodically still.

[@randall-king]

My wife and I just watched this film for the first time a few weeks ago. I had always thought it was a boring drama. I was surprised how much we laughed out loud through the whole movie.

[@sheryldalton8965]

I love "the missing". Another not well known Cate movie is "the gift". She's the best.

[@lw3918]

You are the only reactor to really delve into older movies, thank you. Try some war movies. "The Great Escape", "Where Eagles Dare", "The Battle of Britain", "Patton", "The Longest Day", "The Big Red One"......most reactors think 90's movies are old.

[@JLamstudio]

Another excellent English film is THE ROAD DANCE that came out in 2021. The locations remind me a lot of the early scenes in FAR & AWAY. Photographed in the old-fashioned pre-wide-screen 4:3 Academy ratio of the earliest feature films, it’s stunning to look at and very powerful. Not too many people saw it here in the States but it needs to be experienced.

[@billykokkinidis]

This movie is like Braveheart mixed in with Titanic. But was released before those 2 movies

[@kermitcook8498]

I'm not a big fan of this movie, but it gets Tom a Western credit. So what kind of spider was it. Wolf spiders are smaller but look a bit like Tarantulas. Grass and Recluse are smaller still, but some would call them big. Fascinating! One more thing. It's said that wherever you are, spiders are never more than a few feet away. I'm guessing it has to do with density and population. I haven't SEEN one in my home in years. Thanks for watching.

[@philipstoddard1502]

I'm not an advocate of punching the livestock, but another instance occurs in Bite the Bullet. Not purely Western but a great turn of the century story. Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candace Bergen, Jan Michael Vincent and Ben (the real cowboy) Johnson.

[@jollyrodgers7272]

Don't forget Alex Karras knocking out the horse with one punch in Blazing Saddles (1974).

[@Elephant2024-wi2li]

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman made three movies together. This one, 'Days of Thunder', and my favorite 'Eyes Wide Shut.' The latter you should definitely watch on this channel. On another subject, Happy Baseball season to you, Madison.⚾ Good luck to the Braves except when they play the TB Rays.🤣

[@contacluj758]

"Legend Of The Fall" and "Quigley Down Under" would be good choices to react to

[@adamsweetz5156]

Oh I can't wait MKT. This will be awesome. Love this movie.

[@samswords9993]

A couple of my wife's ancestors were in the OK land run.

[@rneelymedia9152]

John Williams is the man. I bought the soundtrack CD 4 times because I had friends keep borrowing it and forgetting to give back.

[@justrightpro1]

Enya - Book of Days... been listening to it for probably 30 years

[@michaelwalsh2498]

I saw this at the theater when it came out. I've never rewatched it. Both my parents emigrated from the Connemara Gaeltacht to Boston in the late 1940s. I just can't take the horrible Irish accents in the film. I'll put in a good word for the wonderful "Ryan's Daughter", where Robert Mitchum did a very good Irish accent.

[@edwardsadler3348]

Fabulous reaction

[@totalprocall6894]

This was my favorite childhood movie in the early 90's. This film is criminally underrated imo. The accents received harsh criticism, but i just don't see it! I always thought they were both brilliant...in fact name a more electric chemistry between characters in any film? I probably watched it 100 times as a child, but love it every bit as much as an adult. Two people from different walks of life, learning from, and ultimately needing each other. Also, one of the last films with that true sweeping, epic, western vibe(aside from the also superb "legends of the fall"). Super reaction too! Subbed!!!

[@MadisonKThames]

Thanks for the sub!😊

[@poldebruin1974]

Shannon's house in this movie - Kilruddery House, is in my hometown of Bray Ireland , and it and it's gardens are more impressive than depicted in the film. This movie was much maligned on it's release, but I think it has aged quite well, although it is a strange beast - part western, part historical, action, adventure and romance. A nice bit of light-hearted escapism. Love the reaction again Madison.

[@olaspaz3079]

Great reaction to this terrific movie. A lot of people determined to dislike it for whatever reason but nevermind. Tom's accent was dodgy, but Nicole's wasn't bad, although she should have been posh. ❤️

[@randallshuck2976]

This is a good one. Very grandiose and scenic plus both of them play their parts very well. I doubt that any of my ancestors would relate, but it's a good yarn. Another Kidman movie on the same scale that you might enjoy is "Australia". Kidman is beautiful Hugh Jackman is shirtless through most of it and a aboriginal boy steals the show and narrates. Good reaction to a pretty good film.

[@lindataggart9076]

I havent seen anyone react to this..one of my favorite films

[@kevinfhaney]

If I have a top 10 all-time top 10 favorite movies this movie would be in my top 10

[@Goldstar1113]

Pretty underrated movie.

[@scottbarkley496]

Great movie .. I hope you react to more TOM CRUISE movies

[@sheryldalton8965]

Great choice. Love this movie.

[@randall-king]

Madison: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a man punch a horse in the face.” You need to watch Blazing Saddles.

[@edwardleonetti2492]

IDK if she's seen it but I bet she'll love John Wayne in The Quiet Man if she hasn't seen it yet a real classic

[@Stogie2112]

She has seen it.

[@totomomo18]

A great movie. I also suggest you watch Tom Cruise in The Firm and the first Jack Reacher movie. A great Nicole Kidman thriller is Dead Calm 1989 which also have the awesome Sam Neil and Billy Zain.

[@denroy3]

This movie is drivel.

[@sheryldalton8965]

Dead Calm is an excellent thriller with a great cast.

[@scottdarden3091]

In your intro I was going to comment it's a little bit western, but then you did 😂😂 It is a little. The Oklahoma land grab is something of the true wild west that doesn't get a lot of attention 😊

[@nealrepetti2396]

This movie 🎥 kinda came and went. But for me, I bought it on tape and again on D. V. D . ! I love 💕 this movie. Thanks for showing and enjoying it with us .

[@t.m.5969]

One of my favorites!!❤ i saw this movie when I was 8 in theatres and fell in love with it

[@stupidsmart-phone6911]

Did you take a picture of the spider? Not to be a one upper so think of this as a cautionary take. If you're ever kayaking and you lose focus and turn back to look in the direction of travel and you a giant spidersaurus strung between reeds in the water, don't break too hard or you'll flip. It would have been better to hit the spider head on abd push it under the kayak or even risk it landing on the kayak. Because when I fell into the lake for a split second underwater with eyes open I thought I saw an alligator snapping turtle. So then I didn't want to touch bottom nor break the surface, but had to do both. After I recovered, all wet, backpack in the water, months later I read about that lake had a case of brain eating amoeba. So, just run over the spider.

[@northshore1000]

To me: A perfect film. I’m not someone into romance movies, but this one got me!

[@stanleyjohnson6046]

I hope you appreciate knowing now the origins of the phrases "toe the line" and "stake your claim"! :) Great movie!

[@otisroseboro5613]

Great Reaction To One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's Sweetheart ❤

[@t.m.5969]

If you love Tom Cruise you gotta try one of his firsts from 1985 Legend the Tangerine Dream score theatrical version is the best this is one where the musuc makes the difference if you love this soudtrack you will love Tangerine Dream sountrack to Legend another funTom Cruise is Interview With the Vampire

[@BeeWhistler]

You never heard Book of Days? Dang… well, good news, she recorded it in English and Irish. And if you’ve never seen a man punch a horse, then you must not have seen Blazing Saddles.

[@williamkerner3758]

Watch the John Wayne version of True Grit. John Wayne, great musical score, by far the more upbeat version. You will like it, I promise.

[@raybernal6829]

As always Madison you are a top tier reactor ❤ Easily my favorite TC movie.

[@markoconnor995]

Thanks!

[@boballen818]

Love this film and so poorly advertised! Great bit of fictionalized history.

[@shawneldridge4465]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 a very good movie and a very good reaction as well, thank you very much for doing this. Enjoyed watching. There is another movie I think you would like if you checked it out and that one is called legend, I believe that it was tom cruise's first movie he did back in 1985 sometime.

[@bubhub64]

You're a corker Madison. What a corker you are! Lol! Anyways, great reaction as always. I can see you thouroughly enjoyed this movie as much as I did when I saw this movie in the theatre when it first came out of all places in Palmdale CA.This is the movie where Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman fell in love, and eventually got married to each other. If you haven't done so yet Madison, another great Ron Howard movie to react to would be Cinderella Man...about the true story of boxer James Braddock during the depression years, starring Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger and Paul Giamatti. Thanks for this reaction which I very much enjoyed. See you at the next one.

[@THOMMGB]

Madison, Yes, this is a good one! And the John Williams score is excellent. Can’t wait.

[@denroy3]

Drivel.

[@ChicagoDB]

I've always hated this film...but I hope you enjoy it.

[@denroy3]

You had taste...it's drivel.

[@bossfan49]

There were better films on the poll... Michael Collins, The Wind That Shakes The Barley... but the people voted for this en masse.

[@michaelwalsh2498]

@@bossfan49Those two films are vastly superior to F&A. Since seeing it at the theater, when released, I've avoided F&A like the plague.

[@bossfan49]

​@@michaelwalsh2498 It far and away from either of tbeir best performances, but when the story and scipt ar bad, not much they can do.

[@aklimar2208]

Ron Howard ... great music ... a love story (actually 2 love stories) ... Willow anyone??

[@Divamarja_CA]

Yellow dye is not TMI! We all get it.

[@irwin3381]

As an Irishman myself living in the south east Ireland, I remember this movie when it first came out . Good movie but the Irish accents were awful lol 😂

[@smedleybutler1969]

Madison you pick the best movies to react too!

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

Great reaction, Madison, I loved watching you knowing what was going to happen. I love this film but then, I'm a hopeless romantic.

[@Sidewalkman1]

Yes!! 😊

[@buckdurant5336]

You like westerns. You ought to watch the modern day western TV series, Justified!!!

[@aklimar2208]

Very sad there was no picture of the spider ...

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

Tom Cruise Irish accent is almost as bad as Michael J Fox

[@MrLovegrove]

As his Irish accent or just him?

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

Just his accent as Seamus McFly in BTTF III

[@MrLovegrove]

@@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons well I didn't vote for him!

[@irishinnj72]

The scene where Shannon lifts up the bowl for a "peek." When they rehearsed the scene, they had a sock over Tom's "little friend." But when they filmed the scene they decided to have a little fun with Nicole and they shot it without the sock. Nicole's reaction was genuine, since she wasn't expecting it.

[@kevinfhaney]

If that horse didn't die and he didn't get the green horse he would have never got his land

[@LukeyBoy125]

I'm glad the big spider is dead ,but I can't help but ponder where the bigger one that killed it is hiding ?

[@TruckerMike_FL]

You want a great Irish film? Watch "Michael Collins" with Liam Neeson

[@hichembarrak]

If you loved this movie so much and you're fan of Ireland set movies, you need to watch "Leap Year" if you haven't yet. Now thinking about it, it looks like a reverse journey to Tom & Nicole's in this movie, but with more comedy.

[@bossfan49]

It's like a Hallmark movie.

[@kevinc3427]

Nice.

[@bossfan49]

Fyi they had already been married over a year by the time they filmed this.

[@TruckerMike_FL]

Have you watched Tom Cruise in "Legend" (1985), or "The Outsiders" (1983)? If not then you haven't experienced Tom yet.

[@thewildgoose7467]

This movie gets a lot of flack for being too "Oirish" with people talking about dodgy accents etc. but they're missing the point. I'm Irish going back a 1,000 years and I say that they're taking it too seriously. Just like "The Quiet Man" it's a romantic romp with a nod to myths and legends and is not meant to be a documentary. I worked close to the "Boston dockyard" (filmed in Dublin behind the Guinness storehouse) and the Boston brothel area (filmed in Temple Bar in Dublin) and the set was open to the public when not filming. There were huge tax concessions for filming in Ireland back then and lots of filmmakers took advantage of tax break..

[@baronvonleppe5029]

🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷

[@santiago451]

I've no will to fight ya.

[@EriskoNewso-pz5si]

Try Malice (1993)

[@EriskoNewso-pz5si]

Here

[@fastecp1]

You know what they say about spiders: Where there's one, there's two. The spider that killed him must have been massive 🕷 Have a good night's sleep. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married when they made this movie.

[@Stogie2112]

There’s TWO…..😉😉 Twas the female who killed her mate! Never turn your back on a female….😱😱😆

[@fastecp1]

@@Stogie2112 Thanks, I didn't even notice I did that.

[@Stogie2112]

@@fastecp1….It’s all good. I was in a teasing mood at the time. My inner grammar cop is still locked up….LOL

[@thkempe]

Love Western? Love Nicole Kidman? Watch Cold Mountain.

[@bossfan49]

Western? It's set in North Carolina.

[@thkempe]

@@bossfan49 So it's about 4,500 mi WEST of my location.

[@bossfan49]

@@thkempe Or 23,000 mi EAST of your location. It's a period war drama.

[@thkempe]

​@@bossfan49I would rather not refer to the USA as the Far East.

[@irishinnj72]

As an Irishman, this is one of my all time favorite Irish movie, after "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne and Maureen O' Hara. You should also check out "Black 47" with Hugo Weaving. It's a dark movie about the "Great Famine" of Ireland and how terrible the Irish people were treated by the British and the Protestants.

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

Ideas for a Tom Cruise poll *RAIN MAIN (1988)* *BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989)* *A FEW GOOD MEN (1992)* *THE FIRM (1993)* *DAYS OF THUNDER (1990)*

[@Ragnar6000]

Underrated film , enjoyed the adventure of it back when it was released.

[@aztecgold8997]

❤😊

[@Stogie2112]

Madison, I take it that you won’t be watching “Arachnophobia” any time soon? 😊😊

[@MadisonKThames]

Definitely not😬

[@Hail_To_The_King]

@@MadisonKThames You could consider it exposure therapy

[@Stogie2112]

@@Hail_To_The_King .... Exposure therapy is very overrated.....LOL

[@allanrose3661]

Madison an awesome TV series you would like is Taboo (2017). Takes place in London in the early 1800s and stars Tom Hardy.