Makes me laugh the way these two old farts have been deified by the screen-watching fraternity of the good ol' US of thingy. The two from the Muppets had far more intertesting things to apply to a performance. The fact that the gimp is constantly referring to Sellers rather than the actual character highlights his lack of value.

Popeye is not a Popeye film. Its an Altman film with Thimble Theater characters in it.

They couldn't make there own movies

I rented _Apocalypse Now_ from Blockbuster Video back in 1988, and I still think it is one of the greatest, most brilliant films ever made. Not everything about it has to make sense. As Francis Ford Coppola himself said about it, "This film isn't _about_ Vietnam. This film _IS_ Vietnam." Perfectly well-said. *P.S.:* What if I told you that _Apocalypse Now_ was the film debut of Laurence Fishburne, then billed as Larry Fishburne? He was 15 years old when this film was made. Let that sink into your heads a bit.

I thought _The China Syndrome_ was rated PG. 🤔

I can see both their points here but I will definitely disagree with Gene Siskel here about Ricky Schroeder. Forget about the blinking, I think that was an amazingly mature and emotional acting performance on his part at such a young age (he was 9 years old).

I'm pretty shocked here. I thought for sure they would have both given two enthusiastic YES votes for _Norma Rae._ Of course, Sally Field DESERVEDLY won the Oscar® for Best Actress for it. She was amazing.

Roger Ebert got it.

The writing missed a very big opportunity with the argument of theirs from 3:10 - 3:25. Up till then their roles are reversed with Barbra acting like a typical male chauvinist manager of a female model or ingenue and Ryan O'Neal in the put-upon female role. Ryan O'Neal calls her out for it by saying, "What do you think I am? A piece of meat? What do you think I am, a girl?!" At that moment, Barbra should have stopped him with a finger to the chest and responded back with, "EXACTLY. Now you know how we women feel." That would have been perfect. Unfortunately, the writer, for whatever stupid reason, completely missed-out on that opportunity to make a profound social point. 👎🏻

That stupid fucking laugh at 1:03 and Kristy McNichol's even stupider face at 1:05 - 1:07, though. 🤣🤣🤣

Montalban really made the movie

awesome movie, 2:00 is a great example...

Yeah that was really weird that Gene wanted a raunchier picture. First of all, it was PG not R; secondly, that just wasn't the kind of movie they were making here. For Bill Murray's feature film starring debut, it was a good effort. Not a great film, but definitely a good one. And it's so cool to see Chris Makepeace as a little kid playing Rudy Gerner, a full 2 years before he would star in _My Bodyguard_ in 1981.

The oddest thing about this is how Faye Dunaway seems to have perpetuated some obsessive-compulsive and socially coldhearted traits in her real life that seem right in line with her performance as Joan Crawford.

"Fingers" was adapted by the great Jacques Audiard in 2004 as "The Beat That My Heart Skipped". A great film.

So good to listen the reviews of this bad movies today considered cult classics when they were just released

The Passage is a non-stop action movie, I don't get why they used only this scenes. And Anthony Quinn didn't play a french guy, but spanish. Siskel didn't watch the movie.

The whole POINT is that there's NOTHING AT THE END OF OUR JOURNEY; that's the *entire point* - that war, life, struggle, all of it is *meaningless* but for what we may have learned about *ourselves* during the journey "up the river". The POINT of Brando having no great revelation is that at the end of our journey, there is nothing but SICKNESS AND DEATH - which is exactly what Willard finds at the end of the river. There's no "answer" at the end of the river. "The Horror", which Kurtz says, is what mankind does to itself in order to blind ourselves to the fact that there is no "meaning" in the end, which is what Conrad's point was, too. To criticize the end of the film for there being "no great revelation" misses the point, entirely; that *is* the point. "Apocalypse Now" is the biggest-budgeted work of nihilism and existentialism in history. Anyone looking for Kurtz to give some sort of answer to Willard in the end about "what it all means" has missed the whole message of the movie. This is what makes "Apocalypse Now" the most courageous film about the futility and meaninglessness of war made since "All Quiet on the Western Front"; it knows there's no answer or meaning - and it has the courage to not pretend to offer one.

Had this Captain Kirk figure as a kid, but the range of pyjamas could have been epic

I got to see this for the first time in theatres last summer, it was fuckn amazing! The theatre had the AC on full blast so it helped add to the cold windy atmosphere the movie has.

This and Rocy 3 were the two best movies of 1982. 1982 was the last year i had my father whole. Dad had a brain tumor removed in 83 and hung on for two years. He was my ROCK.

Then few people remember this film and every time Jay Leno did jaywalking and he said finish the movie title, kramer vs... and everyone goes Seinfeld?

I miss the latest movies being promoted on cereal boxes, making an origami Captain Kirks chair or getting Jaws 3D specs or a Back to the Future comic

Idiots, this is a great film with a really decent soundtrack rivalling Halloween.

"I'm sure your mom is listening this program thinking "And my son went to college to learn anylize this?" ". Great Siskel line

I really like this old shows where Ebert talked about kung fu movies

I found the lyrics to the Sneak Previews theme: "My Pet Monster On him I can depend My Pet Monster A monster of a friend"

sensurround 2:18 headache upset tummy

Finally saw this movie on a whim after hearing about what a disaster it was ever since I first got interested in movies. I didn’t love it, but I could name hundreds of worse movies.

How did they both like this movie? I think EVERY sitcom in the 60s and 70s had an episode where the star of the show gets drafted.

"Raging Bull" The story of a really mean boxer that is such a jerk he alienates everybody in his life because nobody can stand being around him and in the ring he beats lots of people up. Not much of a story but De Niro was terrific.

One of the most overrated films of all time.

KZbin IS STILL BLOCKING MY COMMENTS.

I was one of those adolescent kids who saw "Grease" twelve times and knew every lyric of the songs from the soundtrack! So I was delighted when Gene & Roger admitted that they both saw it three times themselves.

Another example of why I hate critics

Siskel is right about this one. It would have been a mistake to bring in something supernatural. (I don't know if it is quite as good as "Rosemary's Baby," but it is still a classic. Far, far better than "The Beaver," about Mel Gibson being controlled by a puppet.)

18:42 This movie would not fly now, I know it should have been made then either. A white man playing a Chinese character, with the stereotypical Chinese accent, with have use of the letter r? Oof! Big Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's vibes on this one. Big stinker!

Surprisingly, they had Jimmy Page compose the soundtrack to this flop. A few halfway interesting tracks, nowhere near Zeppelin

Gene Called it !!!

they forgot going ape

9:59 Wow! This is practically the story of what happened to the Batgirl movie, this year!

1:45 A film that is loved by the late great Patrice O'Neal and Jim Norton

0:47 Charlton Heston in a racist movie? That must have been a huge stretch for him. 🤦‍♀️

Gene was always so horny lol

I understand Roger's take now that I am older and not the 11 year that first saw this one in the theatre. It's a favorite, not so much because it's all that great if a movie, but it was the one in which the audience I was with was invested enough to cheer with every allied goal scored. Sometimes it isn't about the quality of the film, but the experience of watching it for the first time.

0:17 Wow! $1.40 for two movie tickets!!

Ms.45 is one of my favorite movies of all time

Definitely the worst horror movie people try to insist is a "classic." The script is terrible, the dialogue is unintentionally funny, the acting is mostly bad and worst of all, it's BORING and completely unscary.

Rare and I mean Rare Roger L

Ebert could be such a humorless snob at times.