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  • People were way to hard on this movie. It is such a under rated film and one of my favorite films of my childhood

  • Awesome movie! One of my favorites from my childhood

  • THE FIRST IRON MAN OF ITS TIME!!!!

  • So glad Nostalgia Critic gave this a mention. This was a movie of my childhood, always will be, and I wish more people knew about it.

  • Why the fuck isnt this movie popular?

  • The Gee bee in this scene is now owned by Kermit weeks in FLA (Fantasy of flight) I read he solved the problem of it sheeding wings due to wing/aleron flutter (common in 30's high performance aircraft) and projects it can now go over 300 mph

  • HEY !  watch this peevee !

  • I like Jenny Blake's Rocket Titties.

  • Oooh thanks for posting!

  • great movie, I've seen it many times.

  • he should not have taken off the chewing gum. Thats what gave him bad luck and he crashed.

  • When you are at Condor Flats at Disneys California Adventure outside the entrance to the Soarin hanggliding simulator this is the music you hear!!

  • Great and underrated movie.

  • paul demeo + danny bilson wrote this. they also wrote the flash tv show.

    (also danny bilson is rachel bilson off teh oc's father)

  • To bad the American public could not appreciate what a gem this movie is...morons!

  • this guy has the neverending story, the rocketeer, the last starfighter, the time machine, flight of the navigator.. what is this the youtube historical archive of the best movies ever?

  • I watched this as a kid back in '91 and always wondered how the exhaust ports from the rocket pack never burned his ass.

  • that flyboy angle on my kisser and you let him waltz! the neouve

  • i first saw this movie at the now-gone General Cinema Route 46 twin in Totowa...i even had the 3D comic book when i was young...didn't know that the movie bombed at the box office. I've seen all of joe johnston's movies, including captain america!!! Great director...what's his next movie?

  • This movie and the Phantom were probably released at the wrong time or not marketed right. Both are great, but didn't do well in the theatres, a cryin' shame.

  • omg jennifer connelly in labyrinth...I would eat her 'til the cows come home...

  • Anyone else get goosebumps with the opening piano?

    This movie woke me up as a kid to what fantasy/sci fi could be!

  • what are the rocketeers abilities without the rocket on his back ?

  • @vincentcapuano He can fly planes, chew gum, kiss girls, punch bad guys, take your pick.

  • @TheLeftHand88 i mean specially like what type of fighting style?

  • @vincentcapuano idk, 1930s style brawling?

  • The Wild Wild West movie also suffered from doing an origin.

  • Dude, if you love origin stories y ou are the only one. Film was a floperoo.

  • I saw this in theaters with my Father. This makes me miss him so much... I Love this film.

  • Great film, unfairly overlooked with a fantastic score.

    It's also special to me as I saw it just a few days after my Grandad died in August 91 and it cheered me up hugely.

  • This movie suffered from the Hollywood tendency to do origin stories. Origin stories are boring. Dribble out enough info to get a real story going. Rocketeer, Lone Ranger, ST The Motion Picture are classic examples of ruining a lot of potential. I go to the movie, I want to see Rocketeer not some guy trying to be the Rocketeer for much of the movie.

  • @RovingCounter

    I love Origin stories..

  • I get chills up my spine and for a moment im young again. This is what film is all about, i close my eyes and i can smell the popcorn and the seats of the theater, which isnt even open anymore. This and home alone bring me back to a time when anything was possible and your imagination took you anywhere.

  • Why is the guys dick hanging out at 0:43

  • @SidewaysBurnouts It's his belt.

  • @SidewaysBurnouts GODDAMIT! CANNOT UNSEE!

  • better than Captain America, but same director

  • Some movies just get better over time. This is one of them. And the best first five minutes of any movie I've ever seen.

  • Twenty years in my heart ... no rock, no rockets, this is simply Rocketeer

  • Wow, Bill Campbell has a nice ass...

  • Happy 20th Anniversary Rocketeer.

    6-21-91 to 6-21-11

  • @mkc92ingc Hear! Hear!

  • @mkc92ingc really, 20 years? Hard to believe it has been that long. I remember my parents dropping my sister and i off at the old Parkway theatre to watch this one. I think it may have been the first flick my parents let us go see without supervision :P

    Great childhood memories of this one. This is the reason i have faith in Captain America.

  • @Stigmatainmypants YEAH! Say it loud! True is on the march! On the defense! On the attack! When the enemy advances, we retreat. When he retreats, we harass. Set out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder and crush hiw. Sun Tzu/Tzi, 500 B. C./ B. C. E. Ancient Chinese General who wrote a book called the Art of War. And his first command as a general was a group of female concubines!

    P. S. As far as we know.

  • What a Brilliant Film ! ... 5 stars

  • we will be lucky if Captain America The First Avengers is half good that this movie

  • "How do I look?"

    "Like a hood ornament."

    Love this movie.

  • The opening music literally makes me want to cry. Where did the fun of adventure and b movie serials go? Hollywood is all but defunct now. Sure Pirates captures so of it, but this is has the charm and heart of old serials that inspired star wars and indiana. This makes me love movies, and without it, I fear for kids as new and crappy movies are continually pumped out. Nothing can compare to this feeling. No matter how cheesy this is.

  • @zacuh17 : Exactly...! You said the truth.

  • @zacuh17 oh how right you are i miss watching fun movies and actually bieng entertained

  • @zacuh17,

    James Horner, man.The man is a god.

  • @zacuh17 and natural beauties like Jennifer Connolly

  • @zacuh17 Through the 90s, I would get up early of a Saturday to watch the old Flash Gordon serials before I kitted up and went Bowling. I agree with you here. Hollywood is dying rapidly.

  • To answer any confusion about the plane Cliff is flying.. It is a Gee Bee Z.

    Notice how he is zig-zaging down the runway? He is doing that for visability reasons :)

    You can't see for shit taxing that thing down the runway!

  • Seeing a working Howard Ike in the opening is quite awe-inspiring....

  • I'm sold and it's just the credits...

  • Were the cars ok?

  • Pity they didn't make a Rocket Ranger movie as well.

    For those who are wondering what I'm talking about, look it up here under "Rocket Ranger Amiga".

  • Peavey shouldn't have taken the gum off at 2:25

  • OMG! i'm too OLD.

  • Steve Hinton was the pilot of the replica GeeBee "Z" for this movie.

    The replica was built in 1975 by Bill Turner. It is now on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight.

    Scale models were built for the runway crash scenes.

  • shows you how unappreciated this movie is its been up for 2 years and Disney hasn't taken it down yet, knock on wood because i love this movie, childhood favorite hands down.

  • @Dhessproductions you mean youtube hasn't taken it down.

  • The first movie I ended up seeing in theaters as a kid. Loved it back then, and still love it to this day.

  • @Friskey Same ehre. actully I was still a baby when this came out in theters but sa it as a kid, and loved it to this day. the comics better,but still Wish they make a sequal.

  • I hope Joe brings the same feel to the Captain America movie

  • @opencurtin why it should be different

  • Back when gangsters were gangsters

  • @cvdqr back when they were gentlemen to be feared rather than manchildren obsessed with their image

  • man watching this movie back then shi i always wanted to fly.

  • Jennifer Connelly was and is still white hot.

  • Cliff's plane, GeeBee R1? It looks too small to be the R2

  • @OneEyeWonderWeasil it's the Model Z

  • @TheLostOtter thanks mate :)

  • One of my favorite films of all time!

  • I actually loved this movie. I dont give a crap what the critics thought of it

  • Omigosh, thanks so very much for uploading this. Great, underappreciated little film. It really does need a Blu-Ray release!!!

  • joe johnston did a wonderful job with THIS movie but failed miserably with jurassic park 3

  • @pyramidhead138 I totally agree with you there! This movie puts JP3 to bloody shame. I wish we were still living in the early 90s! Everything has gone to worthless shit nowadays!

  • @starpilot1983 Oh please enough of the my era was better than yours, just because you don't like the media nowadays does not mean its all bad, sure there are horrible movies today but there are also good ones which was also the case in the early 90s

  • ahh... this bring back memories, it was such an awesome movie

    wonder why it wasn't a box office hit..

  • Im a sucker for a good soundtrack to a movie, and this had one! I catch myself humming this song alot!

  • John Locke was Howard Hughes incarnite in this movie. Pity no oscar.

  • dark void :D

  • that mafioso shoots cliff whilst he's in his plane for just flying buy (wtf?). what a dumbass.

  • One of my all time favorites.

  • This movie needs a new DVD/Blu-ray release ASAP!!!

    Great film, but the DVD is crud.

  • The song Rocketeer by Far East Movement should be the theme song of this movie if Disney ever remake's it :)

  • jennifer connelly is soooo hotttt

  • @roydied15 Your spellll check is not workingggg. She does look pretty good.

  • @roydied15 I think she was one of the first women I had a crush on.. when I was 7 :P

  • @SnIkLeeT shes like a more sexy, more intelligent looking megan fox.

  • @roydied15 Yes she was. Until she turned into Skeletor Connely

  • @cromwellian13 l agree. She is still a good looking woman, but for somewhere along the way she thought she needed to lose weight. Twenty years ago, looking at her was like staring at the sun. 

  • The opening credits said this film was directed by Joe Johnston right? Well that guy is also the one who's directing the upcoming movie, "Captain America: The First Avenger", which helps lead up into the 2012 movie, "The Avengers".

  • Release the blu-ray for gods sake!

  • Now this is a movie Walt Disney would be proud of.

    R.I.P. Disney.

  • I saw this in the theater with my dad and sister when I was seven. Until I watched Star Wars on video, this was my favorite movie, though it's still in my Top 10 after about twenty years.  Thanks for the memories!!

  • Oh man the mafia is like a american dream!

  • Never watched this movie, but I know one thing for sure now that I finished, it is absolutely AMAZING.

  • What kind of idiot gangster/bank robber would waste his bullets on an innocent random passerby plane? did he really think the plane was working with the police?

  • @rbain007 A lot of criminals are not exactly Mensa material.So yeah,he might have thought that Cliff & Peevy's plane was working with the FBI.

  • The Gee Bees are beautiful up close.

  • Best first minutes of any movie, PERIOD. And I've seen a lot of them. Great score, great lead-in, Gee-Bee and Alan Arkin. Who could have imagined that this was a Disney production?

  • I fuckin Love !! how the music matches with avery scene, every second ! ! !! !!!!

  • Wonder when they'll be making Rocket Ranger.

  • this is by far a classic!!!! i remember when i was younger i would always hope this movie would play on hbo and the movie channels back in like 94, 95 or 96 cant remember ..... this movie, the phantom, and dick tracy i loved back in the day when i was kid growin up to this

  • Love the comments! 1. Hey stupid it's a fing movie!!!! Don't like it make your own, 2, ALL media is now PC and politicial! The VIEW is owned by7 DFisney so when Wawa Walters trashes Palin she is doing what she's told. Tyra said the media is owned by gays, lesbo's, blacks (who she siad is better than whites), Jews and she thinks Transexuals who seduce boys are hot! Opra has 80 to 90% blacks and women! Bend over and smile.

  • Excelente!!!!

  • So long, or as the rocketeer would say "time to fly, OH YEA"

  • @ulyssess702 its not about the fact that the good guys win most of the time. What matters is HOW they create the story DETAILS, how it plays out. Cuz face it pal, fat chance you'll find many movies that have the bad guy win. and for good reason

  • Who needs imagination when there's intelligence, this is a ride that sadly I was exposed to many times as a kid and simply don't feel like taking again. To sit through something like this would be a waste of time =) I'd rather learn something half-way worthwhile, did you know that it takes about two minutes of watching t.v or propaganda like this to enter into hypnotic trance state? Idk about you but I find conversation more rewarding than any simple amateur film could ever be

  • one of the best musical scores ever...

  • Waa Waa. Yes partly because of the played out hollywierd formula gasp and what a surprise, another hokey disney film. Sorry to be the neighsayer here but how can anyone enjoy a predictive film like this? Sorry I don't smoke weed so I probably can't get excited about a film which I already know the ending to p.s I only saw part 1. Again sorry =) but enjoy

  • @ulyssess702 So you're one of those people who can't use their imagination unless they are stoned out of their mind eh? Pity...

  • @ulyssess702 how exactly? Just cuz its disney and that some of the hero stuff is cheesy? grow up u 10 year old!

  • I watched this movie for the first time today, it saddens me that I didn't get to see it as a kid back in the 90s. Fantastic movie!

  • Kemit Weeks owns this aircraft and has figured out that one of the problems was the "wing flutter" the Gee bee had, he tested it, and fixed the problem, it is now airworthy (although rumor has it nobody will fly it) and for sale! he has another one for sale also I believe, both are replicas.. The Gee bee was built to a very high standard, by engineers who knew what they were doing and the A/c was stressed to 9 g's . Fast.. mean...dangerous...KOOOOLLL

  • good old times !!1

  • Sorry, I forgot... the Gee- Bee

  • I remember I seen this movie in theatres when I was about 6

  • the director of this is directing captain america match made in heaven?

  • great score to this movie.... very underrated film

  • BAD GUYS ROCKS,

  • This movie might say something about the tone of the upcoming Captain America movie.

  • Joe johnston will do good in captain america.

  • Warning, rockets are easily made and taken to the enemies nightmare.

  • beautiful movie.

  • Great Movie!!

  • Saw this when I was younger enjoyed it then and still enjoy it. Mr. Johnston gives me hope he won't ruin Captain America the First Avenger.

  • i was a kid when i 1st saw this...

    i guess i still am one 'cause i'm only 15

    haha, it's been along time since i've watched this

    i love this movie :D

  • tks x upload

  • wow im watching this again after like 20 years T_T

  • What a brilliant opening for a movie. A car chase, a dozen beautiful, historical planes (pity one got destroyed), some good piloting, a fist fight, an explosion and a nice representation of Mr. Hughes' hangar, complete with Spruce Goose scale model and Hughes Racer. Damn.

  • That particular Gee Bee is currently displayed at the Museum Of Flight in Seattle. They didn't completely wreck it.

  • @avi8r1 Fantasy of Flight here in Florida has 3 Gee Bees. But I'd love to see this one up close!

  • @flyboyII Don't forget John Locke!

  • @flyboyII Not to mention a beautiful score by James Horner. "Begin the Beguine" as a featured number is superb. Jennifer Connelly never looked better and Timothy Dalton does a great "evil" Errol Flynn. Alan Arkin is his usual deadpan best. A very good movie, reminding us of Hollywood's Golden Age, and, they don't make them like that anymore.

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  • @kramnrublaw Don't feel too bad. You're not alone.

  • @flyboyII Back in the heyday of American aerospace, G-Men, spies, gangsters, Nazis, heroes, damsels in distress, pure and simple action and adventure without the fancy special effects, language, nudity, gore...the perfect adventure movie for any age.

  • @flyboyII Best first ten minutes of any movie I have ever seen. It's a really good film in total, but, how do you live up to that first ten minutes? You can't. Too much, too soon. Only Alan Arkin's comment brings us back down to movie level - "Well, that's the end of that".

  • @flyboyII Ya I always loved the opening. The music, the planes.. they set the tone really well for the mid thirties. This was one of my favorite movies growing up. Thnx for the post :D

  • @flyboyII Yes, much thought and care were put into the details of this film. It was really nicely and artfully done, to be so quickly dismissed and forgotten by critics and viewers alike. Several have said how much more they liked it the second time around, seeing it again after some years had passed. I'm one of them. :)

  • @flyboyII Don't forget the gyrocopter! Although i dont think he was the first to build one

  • The Rocketeer's the greatest, I'm gonna see if I can order the old Rocketeer comics online.

    The best back-to-back movie combo is The Rocketeer & Dick Tracy

  • Terry? O.o

  • Havent seen this in so long! Thanks for the upload!

  • OMG the Rocketeer was my favorite super hero because he didn't have super powers!

    Dark Void is coming out tomorrow and its kinda like the rocketeer. Only replace nazis with space aliens.

  • I forgot late Airshow Legend Jimmy Franklin flew planes for this movie.

  • Thanks for posting these, I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed this movie.

    I can't get my head around the fact it's nearly twenty years old.

  • what year was this again?

  • @12ock The movie was set in the late thirties. But it was made in 1991.

  • @matt484991 Because it's not obvious at all that this wasn't made in the 30's.

  • I wish the feds today would let you get in a free shot before arresting you.

  • i loved this movie as a kid.... actually, i still do

  • @shizlegizmgar yeah me too man. the action figures were hard to find. at least for me. i hope they remake it someday

  • @shizlegizmgar Me too. Gotta love the days in which they used the real stuntmen as opposed to CGI and the other substitutes for real people, the token of late 80s/early 90s films.

  • @shizlegizmgar Ye know what? I JUST remembered this obscure '90s movie. And I remember really liking it.

  • @shizlegizmgar

    same here i remeber when this movie came out.

  • Fantastic movie.

  • thank you so much. i'm pretty sure that my family rented this movie at least twice a month when i was younger. so many memories.

  • @strwberryfields4 shit we bought it ! we mustve watched it at least 12 times a year !!

  • The GeeBee really does look like a 'fun' aeroplane to fly!

  • They should have made the movie about the Gee Bee Z instead

  • Is it just me or is the framerate in the video unstable? It almost lags.

  • its not you, its the video for sure.

  • wow this brings back sooo many memories when I was a kid. :)

  • Wow, thanks a lot man for the upload

    this is one of my fav movies, I seen years ago!

    FLY FOR LIFE!

  • is this movie any good is it worth 2 buy

  • Yes, I watched it last week TWICE in the same day, and was enthralled. It is a beautiful film, and you can probably get it easily.

    Best wishes

    -BTTFSpencer

  • I loveed this movie when i was a kid and still so because I've always loved old planes like the gee bee

  • i remember seeing this movie when i was like 6 now im 16 it was seriously my first favorite movie

    brings back memories :)

  • 1st saw this movie wen i was 11. i'm 30 now