I always sided with Roger. My taste and his goes hand in hand. 🙏🏻RIP

Did these guys come in before AFV?

I've been searching for this clip for a few weeks now and it's as funny as ever. Hilarious.

He is right, she should watch it at least 5 more times.

I’m with her. This was people I don’t care about… and then random frogs 🐸 🐸 🐸 The whole thing seemed pointless to me. But apparently the pointlessness was point? Yes, real life often seems pointless-I don’t need to also watch a pointless movie.

My absolute favorite movie.

Every performance in this is great

its a bad film

Magic

To me, this film was always about the safety and comfort of family. The people in this film are rejected by everyone else outside of their insular little world every time they try to interact with the wider world. So they return to the only world they know, the only family that accepts them and is supportive. The exception might be Don Cheadle's character and his wife, and in that case, they've formed their own separate family, totally understanding the world that they once inhabited. Just my thoughts.

He held out on selling because he didn't have exact change

his usual brain dead comedies? man that must have been insulting to Sandler.

Roger is so in the defense of the film. PTA is the man

Jim looks like a different person every 5-10 years

The homeless newspaper, Streetwise, still exists...homeless people buy the paper for a quarter apiece and then sell them on the streets for a buck or two.

Half of that review hasn't aged well. The left half.

Hey thats the adidas jacket he wears on the Stephen Merchant episode of NML

In retrospective, the purpose of the film was to conceal the sordid nature and terminus of this industry, and thereby prepare the way for the mass acceptance of porn into mainstream culture.

oh my god this woman will never read your youtube comments, you don't have to defend a 20 year old movie from her opinion.

whenever i feel like watching this again, i always return to this 2:12 all because of the actors' look of amusement.

Me when I'm making a skit.

"ah, the Bundy tract, the last great, undeveloped field of Little Boston" - a milkshake salesman, probably

Too long

Siskel's take is obviously weak here, almost incoherent. To be charitable, if he explained his opinion (a lot) better, the movie is all over the place tonally and in how it portrays the characters. At different times, the audience is encouraged to laugh at them, pity them, root for them, judge and scorn them, glamorize/have fun with them, worry for them, and sympathize with them. It's almost postmodern in refusing to endorse a single dominant narrative about these people. Hence Siskel's point about the movie not having a "message." (He's still fundamentally wrong. Ambiguity, subtext, complexity, and narrative discord don't equal meaningless. And there's even deeper meaning in how the movie reflects on the role and complicity of the audience -- both of the porn industry and the film itself.)

They are sort of both right. Lol. But Ebert more so in this case.

AMOS POE LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!

Mr Plainview, what you iust said is one of the most insanely genius things I have ever heard. At no point in your cogent aphorisms did you come close to anything resembling an incoherent thought. Everyone in this room is now smarter for having heard it. I award you all points, and may God bless your soul.

01:09 Ah, Landa, das sind Sie ja!

Hard Eight is a great film!😊

Gene was such a snob

Burt got robbed in Striptease and this one.

I really love this interview because it has the vibe of friends in a classroom and everyone is just enjoying the funny friend and anticipating his jokes. "Oh boy, here it comes..." when they're waiting for his line is so funny

I bet this woman absolutely LOVES Quentin Tarantino's movies especially Pulp Fiction and I'm sure she REALLY ADORED Christopher Nolan's movies like Inception and Interstellar LOL oh yeah don't forget The Fountain, Donnie Darko, Butterfly Effect, lol i also wonder what she thought of: Matrix, Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor?!?!

this movie captured the seedy 70s so well

“Stop trying to warn him, Al”

Dont be thick in front of me Al. What a bold line .

Siskel was on the money. The times have changed and the audience now accepts good looking things as a substitute for substantive films. At the time, people recognized that film had a a lot of talent and was entertaining but in the end the film was cold and arbitrary.

how bad does siskel want a do-over on this one

Here after Ripley, same cinematographer, both incredibly beautiful. Hard eight has stuck with me all this time mostly due to all the stylish shots.

Siskel gatekeeping porn for no reason

A big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson, this is definitely one of his best.

I think this movie’s large theme is JOY and how we block it yet maybe stumble into it This film 🎥 was the calling card of a new Scorsese level talent, yet not a Scorsese, an artist, auteur with his own unique and one of a kind voice: P.T. Anderson. Everyone’s a critic 😅

ITT Siskel hates porn and Ebert loves porn

This women is a moron

Magnolia is a tumultuous and emotional film, where you are shown various characters dealing with sad circumstances in their lives. In the end, the message should be clear, that life is unpredictable. However, if you are looking for a film that allows an escape from every-day worries, this film will not deliver that relief but rather exemplify those worries. It’s a very good film in what it does and just know that it’s not an escape, but a nose-dive into the sadness of various character circumstances.

This is the exact moment when Joyce lost the job

I miss Roger Ebert.

What an ass that woman is. I saw Magnolia at 17 and was blown away. I still love it. The raw, ragged emotions on display are more honest- more "my heart lays open at 3am on a lonely Saturday night"- than any movie I've ever seen since. This is the real deal: irony and hip detachment be goddamned. And that little smile that Melora Walters gives in the final frames has haunted me to this very day. Ebert was right.

For once Siskel & Ebert got it right. They usually have no idea what they were talking about, and just a random observation, they had THE easiest job on the planet ! They became millionaires for watching movies and giving their opinions. Basically, the first KZbin type of show, LOL.

Is this Joyce Kulhawik?