Most Underrated Stephen King Film? "Christine" Classic Movie Review

I was trying to figure out you know how did they do that back cuz it doesn't look like CGI it shows like all the dents bumping out and like reforming itself yep so I thought that was really interesting well they destroyed 20 cars in the making of this movie you couldn't even be if you were 17 year old guy and you didn't even have a car you weren't even in the game but then the teacher comes and then the teacher grabs the bully and like that's something you cannot do today [Music] hello welcome to the real generation gap my name is Shane schm I'm Fred satelli and today we reviewing John Carpenters Christine before we dive into this review please make sure to give us a like comment and subscribe and let's get right into it this movie once again had everything romance monster car right really cool cars fantastic soundtrack all solid rock and roll all oh that's debatable but I mean I like I like the soundtrack but I think that a lot of the songs were probably a lot cooler back in the day and now I see many of these songs that were used like the opening song Bad To The Bone right that's like for some reason I get like Calis commercial or something in my head like it's just yeah I think you're right about that right I think they did use that didn't they just like a corny old person song now which I'm sure when it first came out they're all corny old person songs I'm sure when it first came out though I'm like oh this is a bad song this is a like a cool song Exploded the number one I mean it was it was really I mean it made a superstar out of George Thor good overnight and uh it was certainly appropriate for this movie yeah you know I picked this movie because it's not really a hot rod movie mhm but a demon car mhm and there was there was a car culture in America that you can't even imagine imine when I grew up everybody had these cars they were on the street big giant Cadillacs and Lincoln and super heavy heavy Mopar Big Blocks all over the place and kids in high school had these cars absolutely you should have seen the parking lot my you know the blue car that the blue Dodge Charger that was a that that car was the coolest car in the movie in my S was that right my home room teacher had that car yeah Mr Gro drove to school and a Dodge Charger that itself is kind of a commentary on at least the economy of today cuz when I was in high school if you had a car which was cool your parents were either rich and they bought you a new car or you kind of had like some 1990 something Toyota Civic or oh that's so sad yeah no one really had cool cars you know maybe the the one rich kid had a cool car but not really not many kids had cars and if you did it wasn't the coolest thing ever but it was cool that you had a car for me everybody had a car so that's very you couldn't even be if you were a 17-year-old guy and you didn't even have a car you weren't even in the game yeah and that's kind of where the movie starts with uh Ernie right he he doesn't have a car yeah he's the nerd kid his cool friend has the cool car yeah and he falls in love with this really piece of garbage car uh for a story I like where it starts where the the coolest jck kid is friends with the nerd like right they don't have to build a relationship we start they're friends already you could tell they have chemistry they have a history um I really like that for a starting of a story cuz you know typically we're so used to seeing the jock speeden up on the nerd well see in previous reviews you didn't realize the community right everybody picked on that kid he got bullied but look who his friend was he survived it didn't he and boy did he he turned into a demon himself I think the movie maybe had a little bit uh it was a little corny at times you know but it's a movie about a killer car it was a corny time yeah I just wanted you to see it I want everybody else to see it and my friends that are my age when I told them that I was going to review this movie they all pump their fist you know they're oh dude that's so great yeah that oh I love that movie the thing that goes right hand inand with that was how loose employment was okay here's the kid once to work at the garage where they had the car and did you notice the garage that guy had this great big garage and he rented space to guys yeah to make a living yeah I he this is a really these guys are making a living they're not fooling around here you watch yourself and and when I was growing up I had a guy called me sunny boy you'll see sunny boy you'll see and I had to make my bones too I had to work hard and and prove myself as a mechanic and everything so I could identify with that character that way when you were the low man on the totem pole in fact when I at one point one of the older guys at the shop he said look Fred you're the kid you're always going to be the kid as long as you work here you got to change jobs you got to become a journeyman now you got to go someplace tell them that you have a year or two experience now and instead of $3 an hour you went $5 an hour cuz this guy's never going to give it to you because you're the kid yeah so I did I went somewhere and they said yeah we could use a guy like you prep guy you know not you know you're not an expert yet I couldn't do the chassis or do the welding MH but yeah and then when I went to that job there was an old guy there who I did him a couple of favors working overtime you know helping him through some stuff and he said all right you did this for me he he said you did this for me he goes what can I give you and I said hey we're just two guys working and he said you don't want any money and I said no not from you and he said all right then I'm going to teach you how to weld and boy did he that's cool I weld everything in the shop together you know when they came in Monday morning the junk pile was all welded together you know cool so it's kind of like the movie too cuz he's like he gets you know he gets into the the shop and he's going through this guy's junk pile and he's like hey like you got to start sweeping around the shop you know I'm not going to charge you but like you got to put in some sweat around the shop he says put some toilet paper on the rooll right yeah and I I had a I had an intimate relationship with my local junkyard okay you know and that's how it was everything was a lot looser and you pointed out a real good thing when the guys had a fight in shop class yeah I was going to get to that that was my favorite scene talk about it so so there so there the bully is picking on the nerdy kid this is before he gets Christine and he gets cooler but the bull is picking on the nerdy kid he's got a switch knife um and everyone's like Put The Knife away then the The Jock comes to back up his nerd friend and uh he sends some other kid he's like go get the teacher or whatever so anyways the bully ends up you know picking on them pushing them around and stuff but then the teacher comes and then the teacher's like lecturing the bully I forgot what he says but basically the teacher grabs the bully and like that's something you cannot do today yeah look smartass right I mean I don't know if your teachers grabbed you and stuff back in your day in high school and like they were they were they more physical with you guys or well let me put it to you this way my my autoshop teacher was named Frankie Stella okay and they called him the bear but you didn't okay and when guys got in fights cuz this that's that's like this a side of the school where you would get in a fight M right like you go out in the back yeah and uh when was going to happen he said to one kid he goes go ahead you just go out there get a few blows in and I'll come out and break it up get a few blows in get get it started right I go so you could never do something like that now but it was a big difference I feel like now they're not even allow I mean I could be wrong I feel like but now they're not even allowed to intervene you know they're not allowed to even touch kids fighting they're supposed to you know right they call the police yeah exactly so it was kind of cool that they portrayed that and uh of course the the the bully had his two cohorts and they picked on the weak kid MH but once the demon car came into his life yeah the demon car went after those guys and I another small detail I like about the demon car is when it's in Demon mode like it's its windows are tinted right and when it's like Christine the pretty car it's got clear windows that's another thing I want to bring up back in back in the 60s when I had my first car there was no such thing as tinted windows and you you rolled your windows down you wanted people to see you in the car yeah you were in there you're you're on the you know you're on your big bench seat you got this some guys used to sit in the middle in the middle of the bench and and drive with their hand their left hand on the wheel like they're in the middle of the car can you imagine that trying to show off or peacocking a little bit oh you were the king of that you know this you know and uh you would run ride around you know down up and down Main Street or around the park or something like that and you wanted people to see you in your car now this whole like weird gangster thing with the black windows I don't get it Gangster it's not gangster it's a privacy thing I don't want you to look inside my car I don't want you to see me what kind of weird paranoid Punk stuff is that not paranoid you are the the hero if I'm just chilling in my car I don't want people to be able to see me why is that gang that's sad that's sad why is it sad oh man privacy what if I'm picking my nose people to see me I go home brushing my hair I don't want people to look at me oh man what if I'm you know getting ready what if I'm changing between jobs or something now here this privacy little tiny girls drove these cars so you get like 110 lb cheerleader driving a great big Buick full-size Buick elector with a 455 Wildcat Engine with giant velour seats she's driving to school it's her father's car oh go ahead kid take the car it wasn't like you had to be a big strong man you know whatever all these kids all had this they had luxury cars you know I had one friend who he had a Cadillac in school like that he said if it's not a Cadillac I wouldn't drive it you know and that was a that was a cliche then yeah is it's funny too cuz Cadillacs are like bottom of the barrel now I feel like oh it was the Cadillac was the Cadillac of cars back Cadillac no one wants to Cadillac yeah but it was just when I say the school parking a lot you had to see some of the stuff you know big heavy big block Mopars and all that kind of stuff kids had it GTO here was a kid who fell in love with a really piece of junk car MH but it had a big backstory yeah big backstory as in it's alive and uh somehow it possesses its owner and turns them evil right or corrupts their mind but um I didn't find that that interesting but uh I I did like the special effects for the time like where the the car uh heals itself I thought that was pretty cool I was trying to figure out you know how did they do that back because it doesn't look like CGI it shows like all the dents bumping out and like reforming itself yep so I thought that was really interesting well they destroyed 20 cars in the making of this movie that's cool and what they did what they did to have it repair itself was they had Hydraulics inside the car that pulled everything in MH so when you saw a dent go in when they made the movie they showed it in reverse so the dents that were getting sucked in and the bumper that was getting crushed in it was getting pulled in with hydraulics and then they just ran the film backwards so the once perfect car that they they created this thing where it destroyed itself then you showed it backwards and that was a real great way to do that and the best moment of that was when the car was really destroyed when the hooligan smashed up the kid's car MH you know they wanted to get revenge on him when went in the garage and beat up his car at night the next day he went in and when he saw the destroyed car he knew that the car could fix itself yeah and he said he looked back at it and he said show me show me yeah and all a sudden the headlights came on and the tires inflated and so that was all stuff that was done in Reverse right and all of a sudden the crumpling all the crumpled stuff the windshield cleared up yeah you know and it was all nice now one of the things that was that was in that regard that was kind of Dopey was the police came and said how did you fix this car so fast my thing was he said this car wasn't involved it's obvious the car doesn't have any dents or scratches or anything it's you got the wrong guy yeah but he said oh it was just a lot of hard work like He restored the car in one day so I thought that was kind of like a they could have played that a little different I feel like there's no internal struggle with them realizing the car is alive they kind of all just accept that real quick and easy including the cop right after a while something's wrong here yeah they're not like there's no way the the car is alive they all just like oh it's the car right something's wrong something's wrong here there's the cop talking to him in the scene right now it's when the car decided to go after the three holigans the bullies because now the kid with the nerdy kid he had tape on his glasses but now he didn't anymore he didn't have glasses you notice he had a high roll he he start right he starting to have that kind of a shirt and everything he was becoming he talking back to his parents yeah you know wasn't humble anymore he's becoming possessed when the car went after the three guys that destroyed it m to me that was just like a Charlie Bronson Death Wish thing you know like how he went after those people that attacked his family right now the car was going to get those guys in a gruesome gruesome way yeah and he really did and the scene where they you know the gas the gas station wasn't even a real gas station Hollywood they just built that and blew it up yeah but cuz the movie was made in Los Angeles County you know but yeah but when they had the thing where the car was completely engulfed in flames and was still chasing that kid and then when it ran him over and he was just laying there smoldering in Flames that was the real that's when you knew it was the car from hell so did you notice that the color of Christine's exterior changes slightly throughout the film uh that symbolizes her moods did you notice that I I really didn't um it's be more vibrant red when it's more when it's more of a Sinister possessed State that's what I found well I like what you pointed out that when there was no driver and it was just the car out on its own the windows were all blacked out right and then when AR was was in gangster mode as you would say yeah yeah all of a sudden it became you know but overall I thought it was going to be kind of a one of those like boring long dragged out 80s movies that there are plenty of like PR's honor that just never ends um but uh this movie actually moved at a much better Pace than I expected PR's honor is a masterpiece yeah this this moved along pretty good um so I I actually enjoyed it more than I thought it would did you did you make a kill count how many people did it get no I didn't yeah seven it killed seven people yeah okay you recommended this overall what do you what do you rank this film uh I give it a six six yeah I I I love it and I know lots of people who do but um it doesn't really you know it doesn't push any boundaries there was no big social commentary there was nothing much to think about and that's what it's just a fun movie it was a really fun movie that you could you know just watch and relax and fall asleep in front of or whatever kind of a date movie yeah I give it a six as well it's like one of those movies like I didn't hate the passing of time while I was watching it mhm but I wouldn't go back to watch it again right well I've watched it multiple times great movie in it in its kind mhm thanks again for watching the real generation gap my name is Shane schmeer I'm Fred stily and this has been a review of Christine thanks again for watching the real generation gap please give us a like comment and a subscribe give us a comment on what you think is the best Stephen King movie did you like Christine have you seen Christine are you going to check out Christine um have you ever had a car that has given you spooky Vibes and check us out on Spotify or any other place that you find podcast thanks again