Real teachers react to Mr. Holland's Opus

Join real teachers JC and Simon as they react to the 1995 movie "Mr. Holland's Opus" starring Richard Dreyfuss. They will break down the movie from a teacher perspective, and let you know how realistic and/or effective Richard Dreyfuss is as a teacher.
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[@adriennerobinson8984]

That black student he was teaching in the marching band wasn't Cuba Gooding Jr but actor Terrence Howard.

[@the_teachers_lounge]

OMG, we clearly have no idea! Thanks for the fact check!

[@phillychick4196]

@@the_teachers_loungesmh goodness gracious. I can’t stand when white people do that

[@phillychick4196]

You talked through the whole thing and that made it so much less fun.

[@stevenprice8253]

...and the student you identified as Forest Whitaker was his brother Damon (but they look A LOT alike , so you are forgiven for that one).

[@HuntingViolets]

@@phillychick4196 Generally, my feeling is that reactors have to react, but I think you have a point here.

[@wendellnelson1118]

Wish you had listened to more of the dialogue.

[@kimwatchesstuff]

Thank you for pausing for that long thought. I was beginning to worry you guys were missing important dialogue talking over the movie.

[@kd2mill]

I respect the fact that this is your channel, but I honestly don't see how you could follow the movie talking over the dialogue so much. Much of the characterization is in the dialogue. The interaction between the characters is the point of the movie. Maybe you could limit your reactions between scenes?

[@ManInQuestion98]

I agree. They missed really profound statements by Mr. Holland a few times and never addresses them. Like his reasoning for teaching Rock music, which I think was his best line as a teacher in the whole movie.

[@Loulizabeth]

Remember this is a reaction to a film so this is their reaction to this movie. Different people react differently to movies. Don't get me wrong I'm similar to you and I couldn't watch a film like this, unless I'd watched it many, many times before. But I have friends who would watch a movie like this, and I'm sure lots of others would too. It's up to us to decide whether we watch it with our friends, or choose other activities to do with those friends, and simply find others to watch films with that'll watch films in the same way we do.

[@darensparks]

​@@LoulizabethNon sense they didn't react to this film in any way. All they did was ramble on and on it was horrible. If these two were in a theater doing this the audience would throw them out the fire escape door.

[@craigreid7178]

This was one of my all-time favorite movies. Richard Dryfus should have won an oscar for this. It is done so authentically and truly captured the spirit of the era - one that I grew up in and was in high school. BRAVO!

[@aliciasaracino1233]

Wow, you two talked through the whole movie.

[@janetnwonderland]

Yes. All of our school buses are yellow.

[@jflaugher]

Every single school bus in the United States is painted the exact same color - a hue officially known as "National School Bus Glossy Yellow" - but it wasn't always that way. A century ago, kids were transported to school by all kinds of random vehicles.

[@melenatorr]

As you listen, you'll hear that the movie takes place in Oregon, all the way across the continent from New York.

[@brooklynamortegui1665]

You guys literally don’t stop talking. How can you properly react to a movie if you can’t shut up and pay attention?

[@cog4life]

One of my all time favorites!!! 😊😊😊😊🙌🙌

[@nikolatesla5553]

I was intrigued by teachers reacting to a film about teaching. But you two made this a non-stop gabfest. There wasn't a moment in the movie that you two weren't laughing and talking over the film. Your good nature is appealing if it didn’t overwhelm the movie.

[@TheEsoteric]

Poor reaction. You're too busy talking to each other and not paying attention to what's going on and being said.

[@d.t.nelson8805]

Not Cuba Gooding Jr. It is a young Terrence Howard (Roadie in the first Iron Man)

[@emilysmith259]

I love this movie~ Being an American, I can definitely answer some of your questions. Yes, all school busses are yellow. Why? Because they are all obnoxiously easy to see and identify and in theory, easier to avoid in a collision. The high school in the movie is a real high school in Vancouver, Washington. (different name of course) Not all high schools are that big but ones that serve a larger population can be. The music room specifically was larger than most because it needed more space. It had to have good acoustics for instruments, choir practice and also provide room for desks. During the parade, you asked if someone was driving a motorized bathtub. Yes. Yes they were. Here in the Pacific Northwest (I am from Portland, Oregon) there is/was a popular parade addition called the Portland Rainmakers- clowns who rode in motorized bathtubs or walked with inverted umbrellas and squirted the audience with water guns.

[@HuntingViolets]

The Rowena subplot could have been removed and I don't think the movie would have lost much (her singing was lovely, though).

[@eatsmylifeYT]

I just saw this and I think the two of you would enjoy watching (if you have not seen it yet) and reacting to "Freedom Writers" about a teacher who inspires her students to read and write and become interested in what the future brings.

[@HuntingViolets]

Didn't he see Holland was teaching rock and roll and then it's the next school year before he mentions it or what is going on here?

[@dennisgarcia3901]

Are you crazy pictures by today's standards? The teacher wouldn't have been created by the standards of his day.

[@jamesrose6751]

Love this channel guys...keep it up 👍🏻

[@joemckinley754]

Fantastic movie. Very brave to dump on it.

[@andrewriley6862]

I love the channel. I have another suggestion, a movie called "Blast from the past " It is a very funny movie starring Brendan Frasier, (The Whale...The Mummy...etc.) It does have a very small amount of teaching where a former Cal Tech professor is homeschooling his son. I know that is a bit of a stretch, but I think it still counts, and that you will love it. You guys rock.

[@HuntingViolets]

_Sliding Doors_ is very good.

[@KimberlysCreative]

Her name is Glenne Headly

[@marksterner7532]

Way too much banter and nowhere near enough attention being paid to the film. You talked over way too much of the movie's dialogue!

[@loridicola627]

You guys are not even really watching the movie. You're just talking and talking and talking.

[@darensparks]

They were absolutely insufferable. They thought it was a video about their inane ramblings not the movie.

[@HuntingViolets]

Although I don't have a movie for you to watch, I'd be curious what your thoughts are on Will and Ariel Durant.

[@jamesrose6751]

Hey Simon...did I detect a "sip"

[@starlightloungebar]

This is so funny. Best yet 😂😂😂

[@daryn78912]

Can you not talk so much please? How can we listen to it over you??

[@RichardLevinge]

Lobe this movie!

[@kbob9625]

Pause the video. Literally talking over key moments.

[@ericksantiago9168]

The movie is amazing and you are making jokes. Worst reaction ever.

[@hgijanto]

I appreciate your insights into this film, and I am now a subscriber. To those who say you talk too much, please understand that as KZbin viewers, you are not here to watch the MOVIE; you are here to watch the reactors react to the MOVIE. If you want to watch the film, watch the film.

[@tonymendez1181]

You guys talk too much.