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Breakdown (1997) - re:Visit

🕑 Added 2025-02-08 16:00:54 +0000 UTC

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JS

Ended up watching Red Rock West after Breakdown for a similar neo-western thriller vibe. Had never heard of it before, and it's not even available to stream but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Funnily enough, J.T. Walsh is also central to the movie as well.

Michael Matzat

How about the gigantic futuristic flop „postman“ with Kevin Costner saving the future by delivering mail? I don’t think I have ever seen it, but then again barely anyone has.

Peepeepeter

You guys should watch “knock off” starring Jean-Claude Van Damme for a revisit, it sounds stupid on paper and was one of the most creatively directed action movies I’ve seen in a while, with one of the best rickshaw races committed to film!

Michael Falcone

Falling Down

Nathan Tipton

Okay

TheSingingBush

Gay

StarMan2112

You guys should do a review on “She-Devil.”…. A perfect dark comedy!

Top Hat Monkey

I remember seeing this one in the theater with my ex-, and remembering how good it was. I always wondered why it wasn't a bigger hit.

Space Pug Pirate

i watch this once but i can't believe i was around 17! wow. renting VHS tapes! god what a great time to be alive.

TheSingingBush

Walker Texas Ranger AIDS episode review

Dylan Thunderbuckus

The Road to Wellville is a largely forgotten 90's movie. I've not seen it since the 90s so I have no idea if it still holds up overall but it was a pretty ridiculous movie.

Aliciasheesh

The first one that came to mind for me was Arlington Road. Another “yuppy nightmare” movie. I saw it once in the the theater, liked it at the time, then haven’t thought about it since.

Blargh O'Mally

You guys should look up Dead Heat. Seems right up your alley for fun schlock that most people have forgotten.

Andrew Stickman

Does “the edge” starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin count as a 1997 yuppie horror?

Tommy McMaster

I figured if the forgotten films of the 90s they were looking for like breakdown, nick of time would be a great follow up to that series. Another Hitchcockian thriller with a big star out of his element.

Adam Atom Ant

You have Emilio Estevez vs Mick Jagger. It's amazing already. Then you tack on Jonathan Banks and Sir Anthony Hopkins. You can't lose.

Michael Matzat

Holy shit that free jack trailer. 😄

Einat

Talk about A Perfect World (1993) please

Adam Atom Ant

I'd like to see a Re:Visit of either Small Soldiers or Free Jack.

DonMac

To see some more forgotten '90s thrillers, just look for most of the movies Michael Douglas starred in during that decade.

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

I also do not have that Criterion blu ray at all.

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

Duel is somehow still an underrated movie. People talk about it, but not enough. The Quick and the Dead is also a great shout-out!

Scottie Wottie

For so long I have been mixing this film up with Ransom. I legit thought Mel Gibson dropped a semi on the kidnapper from off of a bridge

BENJAMIN SHULTZ

Cars being a metaphor for sex?! Can you imagine if David Cronenberg made that movie? That doesn’t seem like something Jay would have the Criterion blu ray of at all.

Chloe

Folks! (1992) directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Tom Selleck Side note: that Disturbed credit needle drop is gold

Hooty

Johnny Mnemonic!!!

Jimmy Rode

This thumbnail is art.

Count Sqwueekula

Holy crap, I was just trying to remember this movie recently. I would randomly see it on HBO way back when as a kid. This and Robot Jox were super formative to my movie tastes as a child, so thank you RLM for bringing such films back to mind.

DonMac

'Sneakers' is my favorite computer hacker movie, another genre that was big in the '80s & '90s. I never even heard of the NSA when it came out, but now that aspect makes the movie seem a bit ahead of its time.

Northwind

The Road Killers (1995) starring Christopher Lambert, Craig Sheffer, David Arquette, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren), Christopher McDonald and Adrienne Shelly. It's a similar plot to Breakdown. Available on Apple TV titled as "Roadflower." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadflower

JTruts

That's too bad, Stargate is solid and doesn't feel as Bruckheimer as the rest.

JTruts

My sister and I watched this on VHS all the effin time, great great movie with a solid script and wonderful cast. My voice is my passport... Verify me.

Jordan C Farrell

I remember being 13 and went to see High School High and it was just after the rating system changed to 14a here in Canada. Sufficed to say I was devastated.

Sarah Lockwood

What about Bob?! Classic in my family but most people don’t even know it exists.

DonMac

Nice breakdown of 'Breakdown' - but now I'm confused on what the difference is between "re:View" and "re:Visit". I had thought that re:View was for good movies and re:Visit was for bad movies, but now they seem almost interchangeable.

Fluxotronic

I was a video store junkie in the 80s and 90s, I'd watch absolutely everything no matter how obscure and terrible (Biggles Adventures in Time, anyone?) but somehow I not only missed this film, I didn't even know it existed before you guys posted. I watched it last night before watching your vid and loved it.

Michael Matzat

The first two I remember. I imagine non of this would fly today. Leaving your annoying black gf to be with the white woman you tipped 2 million to, haha. Powder seems like a Scientology movie. Have not checked but I feels like around that time there were a few. Maybe that would be a fun topic. Scientology funded movies. I don’t remember assassins and The River Wild at all.

Alexander Birtles

I always felt like Breakdown and U Turn, also from 97 were the rival redneck trouble films, in a similar dynamic to Dante's Peak/Volcano, Armageddon/Deep Impact.

Bort Ward

Not forgotten for me. The first movie I went to by myself at age 14. I remember seeing the commercial on TV and knew I wanted to see it.

neuracnu

One of my first jobs was as a theater usher in a newly expanded multiplex theater. The forgotten films that stick out in my mind from that time: Milk Money (with Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris), It Could Happen to You (Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda), Assassins (with Stallone, Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore dressed like Trinity from the Matrix, cuz the Wachowski's wrote it), Powder (the Sean Patrick Flanery albino-with-magic-powers movie), The River Wild (the Meryl Streep rafting movie), and what will always top the list, George Lucas's own Radioland Murders a film that only ever sold 4 tickets in the week that it ran, two of which asked for a refund.

Manuel Johnen

A tournament duel style western from the director of "The Evil Dead" with a cast this amazing should have been much more fun than it actually was... :/

Jillebean

I've never seen Breakdown, but the premise of a semi-truck thriller immediately made me think of Spielberg's debut movie "Duel" (1971), which I highly recommend if you haven't seen it already! Otherwise, I don't know if it's a "forgotten" film, but I thought Raimi's star-studded, "The Quick and the Dead" was a fun mix of pulp and camp.

Matt Sandwich

I was actually about to type in "Black Dog" as a forgotten 90s movie because I also confused it with Breakdown, just when Jay says it in the video.... I get it. You know all of our comments before we say them. Sheesh.

Andrew Gitomer

fyi the author of the book and screenplay for 'mercury rising' is a bbq youtuber now @CookingWithRy

JTruts

Another great video, going thru some of your older re:Views too. Not to shill other content creators work but another patreon I support released this STTNG theme edit you might get a kick out of: https://youtu.be/dSlGxtOTbbI?si=gdXS__ufmLtyyGPu

Jordan C Farrell

My top forgotten 90s movie is probably Outbreak. And then there’s…Ghost & The Darkness, Drop Zone, Pump up the volume, in the line of fire…great Rewatchables episode in the last one mentioned

Kate HL

I don't think I've thought about this movie in, like, 30 years. Good lord that was a different one.

Michael Falcone

Red Rock West? The Negotiator? Raising Cain? Brainscan?

IndyHannahJones

My mom grew up in Bend, Oregon during the era when Kurt Russell played minor league baseball for the Bend Rainbows.

Paul Randall

Robot in the Family.

Bob H

A Perfect World - second favoritest Costner movie (after No Way Out)

Bob H

"Screenplay by Neil Breen" - you guys are so subtle, i had to check IMDb to verify that that was NOT the case.

Rick Drake

It played on HBO for about two years. It's a great movie, but my dad didn't like it because it didn't use the Tom Petty song. He considered this a real sin, and hated the movie for it. No, I am not making that up.

John Wayne

Yes

Michael Matzat

Is it from 86? It seems to be free on YouTube in a presentation that makes it almost feel legal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwa157Xd3fY

Michael Matzat

I guess “the game” is not a forgotten movie, but it’s a twist on the “yuppie nightmare” trope you mentioned. As in the nightmare being needed to fix the yuppies yuppines.

Precious Roy

Imma post this everywhere: 1992's Sneakers is an absolute lost gem of the 90's. The cast is -stacked- (Robert Redford, Sidney Potier, Dan Aycroyd, River Phoenix, Mary McDonell, David Strathairn, Ben Kingsley, and JAMES EARL JONES), James freaking Horner did the score and it was performed by Branford Marsalis (of the Tonight Show Band!). And it depicts real world hacking in a way that I don't think we'd really see again until Mr. Robot like 20 years later. It's also a perfect heist movie.

Felix Toyka

Arlington Road was great! May I also suggest Highway Heat - solid 90ies movie.

Sara

A "forgotten 90s movies" regular series would cure my depression

John Wayne

You guys should do a re:Visit on The Hitcher, it's very similar to this movie but far better.

GirouxFan

Arlington Road is another 90's movie I haven't seen in a long time. But I remember it being pretty good. Also L.A. Confidential, but that one probably doesn't fall into the forgotten category.

Bill Wilson

Jay mentioned "The hand that rocks the cradle", and I have to point out that Mike didn't jump in to add that John De Lancie was in it. Also, loved the location info about Victorville. The show really be called re:Visit re:Location.

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

Yes! Now I remember Jodie Foster in a black corset and stockings being very charming and funny. Man, either this "forgotten 90s movies" thing is bringing back a lot of prepubescent recessed memories, or I'm hornier than usual today due to Rich Evans Withdrawal Syndrome. Probably both. EDIT: I think my brain made up the corset and stockings. Definitely suffering from REWS.

Youdoyou

I was going to offer up 'The Hitcher' but when looking it up I realized it was an 80's movie - too bad, love that movie.

Youdoyou

Agreed, Jodie Foster is surprisingly charming and funny while both Garner and Gibson had amazing chemistry. Love that movie

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

Now I don't know whether or not it is. I just feel confused. Is Jay being a perv or is every action movie a metaphor for sex? Is the answer to both just "yes"?!?

Manuel Johnen

"Forgotten but huge at the time: Maverick. I don't remember whether or not it was good." It's amazing.

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

Great job transitioning from the cars having sex into the new intro of a push-in (ahem) on a shot (AHEM) of VHS tapes covered with a white substance. Forgotten but huge at the time: Maverick. I don't remember whether or not it was good. Possibly forgotten, but movie seminal (*nearly die from coughing fit*) to my childhood: SPECIES!!!! Pretty sure every young kid who grew up with cable and didn't understand girls but just knew they liked them remembers it today.

Erik Sheedlo

Yes, Jay the perve, Breakdown is a metaphor for sex.

Ryan Freedman

JAY! - have you seen The Worm Eaters? 1977

Zan Ferguson

So good.

andrew

Is that Tom from LOST?

Methos

I'm gonna guess you guys use it to archive your VHS collection.

Zan Ferguson

I don’t know that any of these suggestions are forgotten really…But Judgment Night, The Shadow, Copland, The Cable Guy, and True Lies!

nick w

I finally got my best of the worst coffee mug I ordered from your online merch store. Keep up the the great work guys

Methos

Their distain for Bruckheimer extends to Stargate, unfortunately.

Methos

There are so many forgotten 90s films from just '97. How about Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson and Patrick Stewart.

Methos

Excellent choice. Saw that in the theater. One of the first of the shot in real time movies I can remember.

Amanda B.

Re:visit Stargate or Toys(92)!

Tommy McMaster

Another great forgotten 90’s movie - “Nick of Time” w/ Johnny Depp & Christopher Walken.

andrew

Mike: Is the movie theatre gig in 1997 why you recall the original marketing material for Titanic?

THE_GnomeChomskee

Breakdown was filmed in the town I grew up in (Victorville, CA). I remember my older brother and his friends knocked on Kurt Russell’s trailer and saw him peek out all annoyed.

Tim Bronkhurst

Gotta do a Goonies re:Visit at some point

Preston Petersen

“Yuppie Nightmare” was coined by Paul Rust on the podcast With Gourley and Rust.

Banta

Hah, this definitely is a forgotten movie because i went from “I’ve never heard of this” to, as they showed more of it and starting talking about the plot, “wait, I think I watched this!”

Andrea McAllister

Haven't watched it since it was out on VHS but I remember Toy Soldiers being a pretty good thriller. (Not to be confused with Small Soldiers).

Nick Kerr

Revisit "Radio Flyer" That's a god damn weird movie.

Nicholas

I have THE PERFECT lost 90's movie sci fi epic: 1992's Mom and Dad Save the World. You can also bring up one of the best character actors of the 80's and 90's: Teri Garr ... And I guess you can talk about Jeffrey Jones too

Manuel Johnen

Also, the "flaw" for me, that this movie has, is, that it's set up as a mystery, but the resolution is very believable and down to earth, which feels slightly disappointing... while you're watching, you're think about possible explanations for the disappearence of the wife and you expect a big, surprising revelation at the end, but nope, just a bunch of redneck kidnappers... If it had been aliens, you'd remember this better...

Jeff Kleist

so here's a real question, have you ever made an effort to get Kurt Russell on the show. Because he might do it. Since his spouse Goldie Hawn has her classic movie death becomes her hitting Broadway, what better time to have him on for a review and the best of the worst

Jeff Kleist

Jay is getting Reed Richards temples. I guess half of the bag will have to be in costume. But which is the thing rich or Mike?

GirouxFan

We don't get many movies like this anymore these days. A simple movie that doesn't rely on boxticking, cheap looking CGI or looks like it's written by AI. Never thought I'd be nostalgic for the 90's, but here I am.

Nathan Tipton

If you ever want to top Mike with the most least watched RLM video, you know what to do...

Manuel Johnen

Ah, yeah, the times back in the day when there still were well made, reasonably budgeted b-movies with plenty of action and a noticable cast, that had no robots in them and weren't stupid as fuck... <3 And I don't even think "Breakdown" is the best example of this kind, but I also rewatched it about a year ago or so and was very impressed...

Isaac Diaz

Man, I only saw the title in my email and I thought this was a breakdown of the financial expenses for us Patreon peoples. Imagine my disappointment.

PowerCage01

I'm always quoting the "trucker's license" line.

PowerCage01

The initial scene with Billy always makes me laugh.

AshesBoomstick

Love "Breakdown". It's a smart, taut thriller. Watched it again for the first time in 20+ years six months ago or so, and it held up well. LOVE this movie.