*THE IRON GIANT* is an AMAZING movie! | First Time Watching Movie Reaction

Finally checking out the cult classic 90s film The Iron Giant in all its glory!
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[@knightfallprotocol]

14:49 I think it's implied that Hogarth's mom gave him the "it's not bad to die, and souls don't die" speech after his dad died in Hiroshima. There's a blink and you'll miss it moment where they show his dad's picture on a desk and he's dressed in a army uniform next to a plane.

[@zeph0shade]

I've loved this movie since I was a kid in the early 2000s and I've seen lots of reaction videos to it, and throughout it all I've never heard anyone say that his dad died in Hiroshima. Died as a pilot in WW2 sure, but Hiroshima's involvement in the war was as the site of the first atomic bombing. No American airmen or any other servicemen would have been killed, as the only American troops present would have been the crew of the bomber (the Enola Gay) and they returned home safely. Am I missing something from the movie that implied otherwise?

[@Br0nto5aurus]

Do you mean "implied" instead of "applied"?

[@ManicOnTheBeat]

The Book is different, but the authors sister died due to gun violence so the concept of the movie is if "What If Weapons Had A Soul"

[@BigGator5]

"[in the Giant's mind] You are who you choose to be." "Superman." Fun Fact: Theatrical directorial debut of Brad Bird. Silent Hero Fact: Excluding the yells and groans, the Iron Giant (Vin Diesel) only says a total of 53 words. Automobile Enthusiast Fact: Annie (Jennifer Aniston) drives a 1947 Chevrolet Advance-Design Thriftmaster. Kent (Christopher McDonald) drives a 1949 Chevy Fleetmaster and the car that he borrows is a 1954 Oldsmobile 98. Dean's (Harry Connick Jr.) motorcycle is a 1957 Harley-Davidson. Animated Rant Fact: Brad Bird personally animated the scene where Hogarth (Eli Marienthal) rants to Dean (Harry Connick Jr.) about his problems at a super fast pace after he gives him Espresso. Because the character is talking and moving about so rapidly, Bird had to actually draw at least some part of every in between, the frames in an animated film between the key frames. Movie Magic Fact: First traditionally-animated feature to have a major character, the title character, who is fully computer-generated. In order to better blend the computer-generated Iron Giant (Vin Diesel) into the traditionally animated film, technicians came up with a programme that gave the Giant's lines a slight "wobble" in order to match the natural line imperfections found in hand-drawn animation. The landscape and settings in the film were created using Elastic Reality, the trees and bushes in the woods are all still paintings that go through a software that warps and morphs them giving the perception that they are moving and lifelike.

[@TM2DB]

True story. The ending scene in Iceland was a studio mandated last minute addition because WB was afraid kids would find it "Too Sad" It's not about being pro-gun. It's pro-responsibility.

[@BBFilms88]

Brad birds sister was murdered by the use of a gun. This movie was Brads way to reckon with that…”what if a gun had a soul?”

[@zeph0shade]

I've loved this movie since I was a kid, and as far as a hypothetical sequel, I've been saying something similar for years. Not just about that one screw though. An ideal sequel imo would basically be the story of the giant's reassembly, and what happens in the towns/cities those parts wander through on their way to Iceland.

[@Br0nto5aurus]

14:16 "guns kill" "Guns don't kill. People do." They're weapons, the very concept of which is to kill. They don't have a purpose other than violence. An innocent child can pick up a firearm without intending to hurt anyone, and kill someone accidentally. So yeah. Guns kill. I would expect anyone who owns a firearm to understand their inherent danger. You should know that there are strict safety precautions responsible gun owners use to keep themselves and their communities safe, not just for fun, but because we know guns kill.

[@pricemoore2022]

Amazing reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@BBFilms88]

Also, purdy sure genz feels “that way” since they’re seeing their country fall slowly into fascism…if I had to guess

[@riddlr6358]

So glad you liked the movie. I was one of the animators on the movie. It's not an 'anti gun' movie. It's about choosing the right path for yourself. We ALL....ALL of us. Have the choice of what our lives want to be. We can choose the path of great construction and positives. Or great destruction and the negative. The giant....CHOSE to not be a weapon. Kent....chose the side of the weapon and destruction. "we are who we choose to be" is a question in life we all have to answer for the good or for the bad. Thanks again. All the best.

[@zeph0shade]

Since I saw this movie as a kid I've loved it, it's been in my top 3, but the one gripe I've had almost the whole time (even as a 10-year-old) was that no matter what message the movie was trying to get across, the giant had so much high-tech weaponry that "he should've just shot the missile down instead of flying into it". I'm 32 now, and it's only just recently that I've started realizing that the point was not to be "anti-gun". I've known about the "what if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun" premise this whole time, but only now understanding that it went deeper than "guns are bad". Now I think the point was that the giant had very personal reasons to not only save the town, but also to do it in ANY way that didn't have to involve being a gun again. Because yes, he could've just annihilated the missile from where he stood, but that would've still made him a "gun" again, even if it was to save people instead of killing them. So to him, it was literally better to sacrifice himself than to do anything that only a gun could do. In a way, the movie allows for the possibility that maybe a different giant robot in similar circumstances would have saved the town AND itself. THIS one just wasn't on that path, even if it technically could've done the same.