Siskel and Ebert's second review of Star Wars when it was released again in late 1977 for the Holidays.
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@cherylwoodward6 ай бұрын
Saw this movie three times with my younger brother who died from leukemia in 78. It was his favorite movie and I am so glad we enjoyed it together.
@tishtashtishtash2 жыл бұрын
Ebert: “This movie will last for years.” Oh Roger, if you only knew….
@dsscam2 жыл бұрын
And Gene was so wrong when he said, "I hope Hollywood doesn't forget there are some people who like to see serious pictures too..." Of course- those are the Oscar nominees every year that nobody ever goes to see with their $3 million total box office numbers or garbage streaming views and are why nobody cares about the pathetic Oscars anymore.
@mania4270 Жыл бұрын
@@dsscam yeah because the Oscars rather nominate movies based on quality rather than box office gross? Yeah I'm down with that. I don't want movies nominated because ppl went to see them. Movies should be nominated based on quality
@adamcraig919 Жыл бұрын
@@dsscam Are you saying this like it’s a good thing? you like that people would rather Consoom corporate slop content instead of watching intellectual art films?
@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Жыл бұрын
@@dsscam You say so much about yourself with this ignorant comment.
@squamish4244 Жыл бұрын
@@adamcraig919 A lot of pretentious crap wins Oscars, and also a lot of good films. They do have a bad history with science fiction and fantasy films, snubbing them countless ties and only awarding them when it's painfully obvious, like with LOTR. Star Wars lost to...Annie Hall? Wtf? How many people outside of a certain age group have seen that movie? I haven't. Woody Allen beat George Lucas, who is not a great director but really went above and beyond for Star Wars. And I'm not trashing intellectual art films either, Amadeus is one of my favourite films, the Thin Red Line, The Remains of the Day, Howard's End... But time is the ultimate test of whether a film is good or not, and people forget about awards. Dune lost to...Nomadland? Denis Villeneuve wasn't even nominated? Rarely do films win both the technical awards and Best Picture and Best Director. Ok, rant over.
@pdoll963 жыл бұрын
Seeing this on the big screen for the first time in 1977 was a life changing experience.
@SquirrelTheater3 жыл бұрын
Yes it was!!!
@brettthebassist3 жыл бұрын
Yep
@brianjay98116 ай бұрын
I remember Siskel & Ebert's show being so new and cutting edge! It's so strange to see it now as a very old video clip. Folks, the years do go by fast...
@michaelb.421123 жыл бұрын
John Williams is the unsung hero of all blockbuster films ; Imagine JAWS, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.t. , and all the others. When we think of those movies, if you're like me, the first thing my brain recalls is the music.
@OrdenJust6 ай бұрын
How true! I had such a high opinion of John Williams, that for years I took it for granted that the classical guitarist of the same name was also the famous composer. Imagine how stupid I felt when I discovered they were two different people!
@EdwardStanley6 ай бұрын
um holst that thought.
@derekmiyahara15243 жыл бұрын
They didn't give nearly enough credit to the MUSIC. I could listen to the music from that scene they used OVER and OVER again. Williams is a genius.
@SnowDaulphin3 жыл бұрын
The music is the only thing Lucas said he was completely satisfied with after making the movies in their initial release.
@RichWeigel3 жыл бұрын
I always thought the music for this and Superman is what made the movie even more than the actual acting or action. You had a full orchestra doing the opening and closing theme songs.
@frocat51632 жыл бұрын
Williams _was_ a genius. After _Return of the Jedi,_ most of his scores sound like rehashes of his previous work.
@mania4270 Жыл бұрын
@@frocat5163 Jurassic park score is one of his best, same with the Harry Potter score
@AlkisenSuper Жыл бұрын
@@mania4270 Home Alone and Schindler's List as well.
@MerkinMuffly3 жыл бұрын
I was 6 years old and I remember crying because my brother wouldn't take me to see The Island of Doctor Moreau because he wanted to see something called Star Wars, we sat through it three times. it was a life changing moment as a kid. I can't tell you what a great time it was to be a kid growing up in late 70s to mid 80s because of the movies, music (MTV) and Saturday morning cartoons.
@jimbojumbo58053 жыл бұрын
Completely agree...I was 9 years old at the time, and my friends and I rode our bikes to the local theater, and stood in the lines that wrapped around the building to see the movie 6 times over a single weekend. Used the money I earned from doing chores to buy the tickets. Man...I consider myself very lucky to have experienced that in the theater during the original release. I wouldn't trade the memories of growing up in the late 70's through the mid 80's for anything. What a time to be a kid and a teenager!
@capmidnite3 жыл бұрын
@@jimbojumbo5805 Were you into R/C cars at all? Tamiya has been on a tear the past 10 years re-releasing their 1980s catalog.
@Scoutersforlife3 жыл бұрын
It was the only Star Wars movie that my dad took me to. He hasn't any other Star Wars since then. For me, I have seen all of them in the theaters.
@jacobjones52693 жыл бұрын
The Island of Dr Moreau?!.. At 6 years old?..
@ugaais3 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1970 I agree great time to be a kid
@Tusitala19677 ай бұрын
I was 9 when Star Wars came out. It blew my mind wide open. We went to pick apples later that evening, and as I looked up at the stars coming out, something was different. Some new curiosity was awakened in me. I saw it 36 times that Summer, because my mom was working at the theater. 🙂
@walterhaight53822 жыл бұрын
You can tell from this review that even then these guys knew that their industry was never going to be the same.
@ninjabearpress25743 жыл бұрын
What makes the space battle scene so thrilling is the magical music of John Williams.
@strumdynasty30503 жыл бұрын
Wrong! You mean *PINBALL*
@jasonblalock44293 жыл бұрын
Yeah, especially the buildup. The sequence of shots of them getting ready for the fight would be borderline boring, if not for Williams ramping up the tension the whole time.
@GK1976A3 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Williams is a genius.
@Music--ng8cd3 жыл бұрын
And the models, cinematography and editing.
@Hjerte_Verke3 жыл бұрын
@@StephenKershaw1 Opinions vary, and there's lots of lunatics in the world today, like yourself...lol
@robertvonfeldt78823 жыл бұрын
My dad worked for a large Japanese electronics manufacturer back in the mid 70s. One of his accounts gave him a black market copy of SW while it was still in the theaters, probably what we call a “screener” today. Friends would come over and I would say “wanna watch Star Wars?” And they would reply “yeah right”. Then I would show them the video and their jaw would drop and of course we watched it!
@thiscorrosion9002 жыл бұрын
We had friends of my familly in 77-78 who had a huge movie library in their upstairs TV/game room, with a pinball machine, and we were visiting one night for whatever reason, and their dad said I've got a surprise for ya and somehow whipped out a black market Betamax copy of Star Wars and let me watch most of it on their large console TV. It was a trip seeing it back then on a home VHS or Beta setup.
@Soniti13246 ай бұрын
The only BetaMax I've ever seen was The Empire Strikes Back, and this was in summer of 2000, right as DVD was ascending the throne of home video; I was STUNNED by the quality of BetaMax; it was widescreen, and it felt like it was DVD quality already. It blew my mind that the format failed, but when I learned that the tapes could only hold an hour of video at maximum, it started to make sense to me that the cheaper and longer duration format ultimately won out. That, and the fact that VHS was "chosen" by the porn industry.@@thiscorrosion900
@MrGoo5146 ай бұрын
A screener in 1977? What format did you see it on?
@RestorationObsession3 жыл бұрын
The first day Star Wars hit theaters my best friend and I hid out in the theater and watched it four times. The second day I went back by myself and watched it three more times. I was 10 years old at the time and the movie literally changed the course of my life. Thank you, George Lucas!
@Skinhound6 ай бұрын
So… you committed fraud
@fillfreakin22456 ай бұрын
How did it change the course of your life?
@HeathWatts6 ай бұрын
Imagine watching a movie four times the same day now. You'd pay >$80 without treats. A long time ago indeed.
@markmurphy5583 жыл бұрын
I was sold in the opening scene when that battle cruiser came onscreen from seemingly right over your head. Set the standard for special effects for 20 years.
@kenhernandez81283 жыл бұрын
Best opening of a movie ever.
@thesadwolf3 жыл бұрын
@@kenhernandez8128 Agreed. SO. GOOD.
@therealtampadude91753 жыл бұрын
Memorial Day weekend 1977. That opening. Jawdropping.
@forrestmilder50113 жыл бұрын
I remember watching the Princess's ship and being wowed. But wait, there's another ship firing on her ship, and it is big, bigger, it's still coming, holy XXX, that thing is GIGANTIC! It was a truly incredible start to the movie!
@Captain-Cardboard3 жыл бұрын
Exactly the same for me. As an eight-year-old it was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen! Pretty much still is!
@christianyoung52453 жыл бұрын
I was 8 years old in 1976. We went to the drive in with my parents to see "The Outlaw Josie Whales" and the second feature for that night was "Bite the Bullet" Well, between the two movies they showed the previews of upcoming movies, as they usually do. All of a sudden, this movie preview came on with robots, a man with a light sword of some kind, lasers shooting and a man in a scary black mask with an ominous voice. At the end, they showed a girl kissing the man on the cheek, wished him good luck, and they swung across a cavern while these guys with laser guns and white masks shot at them. My jaw dropped. I couldn't believe what I had just seen. Star Wars? Oh man I want to see THAT!! Little did I know how that moment right there was going to change my life. My friends parents owned a store in the mall right next to the Cine Capri, which was the only place in town that had Star wars. We saw Star Wars maybe 22 times that summer. We were lucky because everyone worked during the day and stood in line for the movie at night so we were able to see it without the lines and such. What a fun time that was.
@dbc1dc3 жыл бұрын
Outlaw Josey Wales is still a great movie too;)
@mikeyoung98103 жыл бұрын
I was 21 and all I knew about the movie SW was an ad in the newspaper (no tv ads or internet in those days). It turned out to be nothing like I expected as there wasn't anything like Star Wars at the time. It was amazing. Seeing in on a tv doesn't give any movie justice but for SW you just have to see it that way. I love Josie and Bite the Bullet (I have both movies but saw both movies at the theater).
@stonefree19113 жыл бұрын
I was 11 at the time and I have never had an experience like that again. Seen a lot of great movies, but Star Wars was literally a life altering experience.
@tomtagliente14643 жыл бұрын
It came out in 1977. Not 1976.
@ReginaRibaudo3 жыл бұрын
Seems like a lifetime ago. I liked all the movies, nostalgia
@Sheboobellach3 жыл бұрын
"I hope Hollywood doesn't forget that there are people who like to see serious pictures too" what a line from Siskel. This was a time of huge change in Hollywood and that's exactly what happened...
@AmyASpaceOdyssey Жыл бұрын
That stuff still exists. Unfortunately it just isn’t really being made by major studios anymore. But independent companies like A24 and foreign countries supply some genuinely great films.
@Kylopod Жыл бұрын
Another thing I found fascinating was that Siskel compared the film's action scenes to a pinball machine. Nowadays people would compare it to a video game--except in 1977 video games basically didn't exist yet (I think Pong had been invented already, but certainly the age of arcades and video game machines were still to come, and the average American didn't know what they were), so the closest analogue was pinball, in many ways the biggest precursor to video games.
@solomonshurge Жыл бұрын
"I hope Hollywood doesn't forget that there are people who like to see serious pictures too" Narrator voice: "They did."
@importon Жыл бұрын
@@AmyASpaceOdyssey They make serious streaming series now, just not theatrical releases
@faisalmemon285 Жыл бұрын
This was just a condescending line. Oh they made a fun movie, now all of us who like serious(?) pictures are not gonna get serious pictures. I remember Siskel or Elbert gave a a bad review to Aliens. A movie does not get more serious than Aliens.
@wreckanchor2 жыл бұрын
I saw this in the spring of 1977 with my old man at the UPTOWN Theater in Washington DC. I was 11 years old and was working with my dad who was an electrical contractor working on a big job at the National Zoo which was right across the street. We took a long lunch and went to see the movie. When it was over and we were walking back to the Zoo my dad said "that was actually pretty good huh?" Little did we know. Wonderful memory.
@brianfitzgerald68336 ай бұрын
The Uptown is where I saw it as well, though as a Junior at Georgetown. Life would never be the same.
@SpotkickProductions6 ай бұрын
I saw the rerelease of this at the Uptown Theater. In 1977 I saw it in Imperial Nebraska all 3 nights it was there.
@maguffintop25966 ай бұрын
Great comment! Same age as you- I saw it Saturday, June 7, 1977 at the Oakbrook theater Oak Brook, Illinois. I was sleeping over at my friends house afterward and had my pillow in pajamas in the trunk of the car. I will never forget that day or that movie!!
@regould2216 ай бұрын
I ventured to the Uptown too. Because it was the only theater in the area playing the movie at first. Not many theaters wanted to show it because they thought is was going to be another ''2001 space bore".
@Hendtrane6 ай бұрын
I saw it at Loews Astor Plaza in NYC a few days after my 12th birthday. My late uncle took me past the line that went around the block - straight to the box office - and we went right in.
@anaccount84743 жыл бұрын
“It’s a movie that will last for years” - he got that right.
@jamesanthony84383 жыл бұрын
Well, it lasted until Di$ney bought it.
@DeWin1573 жыл бұрын
Little did they, or the rest of us, know...
@FD2003Abc3 жыл бұрын
Who would have thought such a wonderful start would end from terminal wokeness. PC destroys everything it touches.
@insideoutsideupsidedown22183 жыл бұрын
I would suggest, watching Rogue One, then STAR WARS...then nothing else and you will basically have the story.
@restlessbohemian263 жыл бұрын
His closing line hits home as well.
@dalaweez3 жыл бұрын
I was just 12 years old when Star Wars came out and I'll never forget how it blew my mind. This truly was a game changer!
@scottmoore16143 жыл бұрын
It was indeed. I was 7 and still remember seeing it with my dad for the first time.
@cptkettch3 жыл бұрын
I was 9 when I saw Star Wars, my aunt had to leave the theater during the Death Star attack because of motion sickness.
@BolofromAvlis3 жыл бұрын
I was thirteen that summer. People today just can't understand what we mean when we say it changed everything. It really did.
@lizsmith98733 жыл бұрын
@@BolofromAvlis I was working in the Baton Rouge theatre when it opened. My sister had just given birth to my niece and it was a difficult birth. I was working 12 hours a day because the movie was sold out for every showing and going to the hospital afterwards, so I didn't get a chance to see it for the first 3 weeks of it's run, but even then I loved it. I never worked so hard in my life but it remains a happy memory.
@robd74553 жыл бұрын
Agreed.... this & Superman the Movie where my introduction to movies... at 4..5 years old. Man did these movies set a hardline tone in my life. Never quit.. always fight against oppression.. be willing to defend those who can’t defend themselves.. and probably the most important.. even evil starts with a wholesome idea. For those of us who remember.... what a fantastic time to be alive !!!
@mickeyberry49036 ай бұрын
I miss Siskle and Ebert. Loved watching them
@johnnoel31713 жыл бұрын
When storyline, character chemistry and special effects came together. It was magical. Very rare nowadays
@MrAndroidData3 жыл бұрын
yep sadly nowadays its - political influence > gender equality > character chemistry > special effects > storyline, the storylines get rewritten to provide the pointless previous "must have or it wont be made" influences, but the story lines shold be kept as is written by the writer, ignoring all that, again sadly, doesnt happen
@jamescarter31966 ай бұрын
It was rare then too, but people always forget or never knew about the huge amount of drivel and crap which was also available to see, just like today
@scottireland62923 жыл бұрын
I was 10 when Star Wars came out. I went and watched it. Changed my life forever. The opening scene blew my mind. And Darth Vader WOW.
@benjiarehart28789 ай бұрын
Im so glad that I was 13 years old when I saw this at the theater when it came out. There's nothing like being a kid a seeing Star Wars for the first time.
@atrain1326 ай бұрын
Especially during that time. Nobody had ever seen anything like that.
@essaywitty6 ай бұрын
George Lucas: “I wasn't supposed to say it then, but this is a film for 12-year-olds.” Missed you by a year. 😉
@rodrigosebastianpagano819810 ай бұрын
Ebert was 35 and Siskel was 31 in this review. Mind blowing.
@divekatdreaming6 ай бұрын
Whoa!
@richardthenryvideos3 жыл бұрын
" a movie that would last for years" boy that's the understatement of the century
@colinmacarthur52493 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I heard this movie was watched by literally hundreds of people as well!
@aaronm.35813 жыл бұрын
@@colinmacarthur5249 I'd say it was accurate.
@fourlightsorchestra3 жыл бұрын
Seriously. Now it's morphed into Frankenstein's monster.
@razorraysolarsavings703 жыл бұрын
Lol “ years “ More like many decades!
@andrewburgemeister6684 Жыл бұрын
@@colinmacarthur5249 it was played continuously in theatres up until the early 80’s, that’s how popular it was!
@manofmanyinterests3 жыл бұрын
I saw all three of the films during their initial theatrical releases. That six year span, 1977-1983, gave us more deserved hype than I've ever seen. I loved every second.
@DrFoofyMan3 жыл бұрын
I saw the first one at least ten times. Waited around the block in Times Square to do so. Ten fucking times I did that. All the while knowing that a parsec was a unit of distance, not time. That was the most painful part...
@MaximumCarne3 жыл бұрын
@@DrFoofyMan Solo fixed it for you
@frocat51632 жыл бұрын
@@MaximumCarne _Soylo_ bastardized the explanation that was provided in the Expanded Universe decades before that travesty of a film was even conceived.
@monty4336 Жыл бұрын
And all the great extras like toys, play sets and Burger King coke drinking glasses. Oh how I wanted those drinking glasses so much but my parents insisted they "cost too much". Fast forward forty years, I finally have them all on display in my living room. 😆
@drstrangelove9851 Жыл бұрын
I remember that there was so much demand for the second one, Empire Strikes Back. My friends and I waited three hours in line to see it, and it was worth it.
@basswars70603 жыл бұрын
My mother I had the opportunity to meet Mark Hamill at Toronto Fan Expo. I told him that my mother took me to see him in Star Wars seven times. It was a big deal because she had to drive me into the city. He stood up, and gave her a big hug.
@JinzoCrash3 жыл бұрын
And now, Mark Hamill's a scary old man that, along with his wife and son, tried to threaten and harass his son's girlfriend into aborting his grand-daughter. The girlfriend tricked them though and the kid was born just fine. X D
@chasejackson72482 жыл бұрын
To bad mark is a crazy douche
@uppercutgrandma44252 жыл бұрын
@@JinzoCrash I forgot about that story
@MrJeparo3 жыл бұрын
Watching Siskel and Ebert brought me back memories. They were magnificent in their show and I miss them deeply. Rest in peace both of them! Two very high thumbs up!
@allendracabal08197 ай бұрын
Each person only has one voting thumb.
@Telephonebill517 ай бұрын
Ebert was an overinflated bag of hot air.
@justinsane39093 жыл бұрын
This episode of S&E must have been exhilarating for the viewers back then. After watching a movie in the 70's, there wasn't the option to rent it a few months later (unless you were ultra rich I suppose) so waiting for it to appear on TV could take a year if not longer. I'm surprised that S&E were allowed to show this length of a scene. People at home were likely thrilled to see this again.
@kevinnelson667 ай бұрын
Took five years for the original Star Wars film to be released on home video in 1982. Another two years before it premiered on CBS in 1984. I remember watching the network TV premiere broadcast with my brother and our parents gathered in the living room. I was 17 and my brother was 19 at the time. Mom made popcorn and dad picked up maple bars and soda at the store. Good times.
@pmsfar-outgrooviness80257 ай бұрын
Sneak Previews
@marvinjones44156 ай бұрын
The market was nowhere what it was in the mid-80s/late 90s. Star Wars wasn't for rent till sometime early in 1982. It didn't even make its cable debut till the Summer of 82 with ON Tv. I didn't show on Showtime till March of '83.
@Dadofer19706 ай бұрын
It was even more than that for Star Wars. Most movies came out on HBO or Cinemax in 6 months to a year after their theater runs. Star Wars didn't make it to HBO until 1983. The VHS was released in 1982. We didn't have much money and I was still pretty young so my first time watching Star Wars was actually on HBO in '83
@sdfried48776 ай бұрын
Star Wars wasn’t even available on HBO until January 1, 1980 at 12:00 am. I came home high as a kite, turned on my tv and was like holy shit, STAR WARS!
@johnp12773 жыл бұрын
I saw Star Wars on it's first opening weekend ( May 28th, 1977 ) , with seven other friends, in Westwood, CA , and none of us were remotely prepared for the spectacle that we were about to see and experience. I will never forget that day, and nor will my friends.
@dwaynecoy18713 жыл бұрын
You're extremely lucky to have been in Westwood, CA to see the opening weekend of Star Wars. I lived in Westwood in the early 90's and it's a great place to live - the movie theatres, the night life with excellent restaurants, the college town vibe, and close enough to Hollywood to see the occasional movie star on a regular basis. I will never forget the night my wife and walked from our little bungalow and through the neighborhood one glorious summer night to see "Fields of Dreams". It was a fantastic movie made all the more memorable having spent the night strolling through Westwood. Made the movie experience a little more special.
@barlofski3 жыл бұрын
Hey John P, similar, saw it at the Avco theater on Wilshire that weekend in 1977, what a great time it was!
@scottwendt95753 жыл бұрын
WOW! Gene’s warning (fear) about Hollywood replacing good writing and acting with mindless special effects just for the sake of special effects and quick editing designed to distract was truly prophetic! Did he just timestamp the trigger point in the demise of Hollywood?
@Fool3SufferingFools3 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Star Wars was at once the culmination and the endpoint of the Hollywood Renaissance. The brainchild of a passionate young independent filmmaker became the new template that still dominates corporate movie groupthink today.
@tbx593 жыл бұрын
Special Effects were the rage before Star Wars and we would be where we are with or without Star Wars
@tolumnia3 жыл бұрын
There are plenty of good movies out there, it's just that people's patience to watch a complex plot develop in a two hour movie is no longer there.
@DanK1233 жыл бұрын
@@Fool3SufferingFools This is a ridiculous take. Ridiculous. Every good filmmaker knows STORY is key. Characters are key. FX are extra to make the story work. Of course there will always be SOME mindless movies with poor character development but to characterize the whole business as going down the tubes because of this? It's truly stupid and embarrassing. It's very "get off my lawn"
@thewizzard31503 жыл бұрын
He did!
@douglasskaalrud68653 жыл бұрын
"Will somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?!" "No reward is worth this." Best dialogue exchange in the entire series.
@markdaniels7174 Жыл бұрын
The Han/Leia dynamic in the first movie is awesome. He’s a sarcastic wiseass but so’s she, so when they meet and interact it becomes a comedic battle of wills. It occurs to me that a bitchy and powerful character like Leia would probably be hated by audiences in most movies, but somehow Carrie Fisher and Lucas made it work; we loved her!
@philster18836 ай бұрын
Come on! "I love you!" "I know."
@nosuchthing86 ай бұрын
My girlfriend refers to me as a walking carpet
@blappozapdis60843 жыл бұрын
Seeing it in it’s original grit really highlights how ahead of it’s time this movie was
@jedijones3 жыл бұрын
44 years later we're seeing a review that's been lost to time for way too long. Their observations were really good both on what inspired the movie and what it would itself inspire later. The pinball comparison was amusing considering how much the whole video game industry was later inspired by Star Wars.
@primal20203 жыл бұрын
gene in this clip pretty much predicted the appeal of modern video games.
@lifeasafanpodcast95293 жыл бұрын
You outta watch the siskel Ebert defend starwars that interview was pure gold
@foiledbyb3 жыл бұрын
SW was so innovative, Ebert missed half of what made it so great: the sound! The music and especially the sound effects were just as remarkable as the visual effects.
@stevenmaginnis19653 жыл бұрын
And yet death WAS handled seriously in at least one scene - the burned corpses of Luke's aunt and uncle in front of their destroyed homestead. Luke's horrified expression was one of the best moments in the film.
@roberthoffhines54193 жыл бұрын
@@primal2020 exactly what I thought when the red grid populated on the guncamera screen
@Captain-Cosmo3 жыл бұрын
"... it will be around for years." An atypical observation for a film review that turned out to be spot on.
@jedijones3 жыл бұрын
Technically though back then before wide use of home video it was common for movies to play in theaters for years. Even Saturday Night Fever was recut to get a PG rating in its second year and kept playing.
@jamesnewcomer49393 жыл бұрын
This was actually after it was a big success: it's said so at the very beginning.
@tolkienjr96093 жыл бұрын
@@StephenKershaw1 in what is universe did people stop watching star wars in the late 80s?
@NostalgiNorden3 жыл бұрын
A very typical observation for a movie that has just broken the all time box office record....
@paladinsix92853 жыл бұрын
@@StephenKershaw1 there are No Sequels for Gone With Wind, Wizard of Oz, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, etc. They are remembered.
@daviddufresne3433 жыл бұрын
The light saber was key, especially to the first episode. It was like an old civilization far more advanced than ours with some archaic weapons still extent, yet far past anything we could develop. And it brings to mind dueling which wasn't that far in humanity's past.
@jj808082 жыл бұрын
I think you'll find jar-jar was the key to all of this
@allendracabal08197 ай бұрын
@@jj80808Jar-jar: undercover Sith lord.
@ParentsNightIn3 жыл бұрын
Ebert and Siskel were both quite forward thinking in their analysis. “It’s a movie that will last for years.” “It’s so successful I hope Hollywood doesn’t forget about making serious movies too.”
@jblack93713 жыл бұрын
And sadly it came true....
@michaedove35623 жыл бұрын
Prophetic to be honest. These guys really knew their stuff.
@danward87203 жыл бұрын
What this movie did wasn't so much a fun escape from reality movie as it was about the battle between good and evil. It also brought hope back to a nation that was still reeling from Vietnam and protests. We needed a reason to feel good about ourselves and Star Wars brought that.
@Cuuniyevo3 жыл бұрын
@@jblack9371 Only the first part is true. Hollywood (and even moreso Indie studios) have still been making "serious" movies every year since, and shower them with awards. They rarely are as popular or receive billions in ticket sales, but they are absolutely still being made.
@troyc42503 жыл бұрын
That theatre in Brooklyn was transformed into an amazing stage of adventure in a nine year old’s mind. On our way back home, I still remember trying to make Chewbacca sounds as dad pressed the gas pedal on Atlantic Ave. as he yelled out that we were going into hyperspace. Mom and my sister just laughed and enjoyed our silliness. Great memories.
@troyc48413 жыл бұрын
"Get us outta here chewy"....."raaaar". I use that one at work a lot.
@troyc42502 жыл бұрын
@@troyc4841 great name btw!! Yeah that's a good one.
@CHEERSMEOW3 жыл бұрын
I use to watch movies with these guys between 1994-1996 when I lived in Chicago. They became good friends of mine. I miss them. Thanks for posting this review.
@alanrogs39903 жыл бұрын
That's interesting. Tell us more, please.
@jedijones3 жыл бұрын
Were you their age or younger/older? How did you meet them? What did they really think of each other?
@folgore13 жыл бұрын
My best friend from High School got me to start watching them in the late 70's. I remained a viewer of their program whether it was on PBS or in syndication up until the end. I can't think of any movie critic nowadays that's adequately filling their shoes.
@markythelarky69483 жыл бұрын
What a coincidence, I used to watch movies with these guys too. I would bring the popcorn and they brought the beer. Sometimes Scorsese would come by and bring some candy. We would have sleep overs and watch Baby's Day Out which was Roger's favorite film.
@chasbodaniels17443 жыл бұрын
Did they ever spring for popcorn and Twizzlers?
@CinemaDemocratica3 жыл бұрын
Watching Roger Ebert struggle to say "R2D2 and C3PO" gives me *all* the feels.
@JP54662 жыл бұрын
I was 12 when Star Wars came out. I was absolutely mesmerized by it. Saw it 50x, not counting all the times we stayed in the theater and sat through it again. I would cut grade school with my friend, take the bus to the end of the line, then we had to walk another mile to the theater... we didn't care, it was STAR WARS! The ushers who worked in the theater got to know us and let us sit through the movie 2-3x, we were in the theater all day long eating popcorn, hots dogs and candy. Kids will never have this type of movie experience today. The 70's were certainly a great time to be a kid.
@HughJass-jv2lt7 ай бұрын
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@potato98326 ай бұрын
" Kids will never have this type of movie experience today." They call it ensh!tification. Everything goes to crap at some point.
@JarlGrimmToys3 жыл бұрын
“I think I figured it out...that looks like what happens at a pinball game, that kids love...we’re seeing things blow up” Not sure he’s ever played pinball.
@geerstyresoil31363 жыл бұрын
siskel was an idiot imho.
@drinkthekoolaidkids3 жыл бұрын
🤣😂🤣 I think you might be on to something.
@crazedvole3 жыл бұрын
Remember this was before video games. Pinball with the sounds and lights was the only thing he had to compare it with
@briancastora7693 жыл бұрын
My pinball machine gives you the opportunity to blow up a character in a fighter jet. I can totally get the reference. Even though my pinball machine is a 1986 Williams, F-14 Tomcat and this is from 1977/78
@themonkster3333 жыл бұрын
They made lots of money talking out of their butts.
@goosubucks903 жыл бұрын
I was nine years old when Star Wars came out. Walked out of the theater gobsmacked. Saw it 12 more times. Mind BLOWN. Never experienced anything like it since.
@athenassigil58203 жыл бұрын
I was 11 in 77 and yeah, wasn't it the most incredible thing in a cinema? People today just can't understand what a game changer Star Wars really was! It was in theatres for over a year and I saw it 20 times....every time, I plotted and planned to see it again.....and again!
@chrispafrieddreams91183 жыл бұрын
It was such a cultural thing. Back when they had large theatres, I had waited a few weeks. I got there for the Matinee, the line went all the way around the building! I drove all the way around. Decided for another day..
@ngdguitar50813 жыл бұрын
@@athenassigil5820 Agreed. I was the same age. Unless you were there, people just don't get how incredibly special it was.
@Kaddywompous3 жыл бұрын
First movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 4.
@hullahopbob3 жыл бұрын
I wish i I saw this I the cinema back in 77. “Unfortunately” I’m born in 86. But I saw the 3 movies at home on VHS as a 7 year old, and every time I was blown back over the action. To day I watch it with my 2 boys and tell them all about the characters, planets and space ships. I can safely say that Star Wars is a big part of my life
@lisaheisey61683 жыл бұрын
When I was 11 years old, there was something handed out to us in our classroom to read, sort of like a newsletter or something. In it, it had an article about a new movie about to come out, called Star Wars. When it hit theaters, I asked my mom & dad to take me to see it. We saw it together, at a drive-in theater. I instantly loved it and was in love with Luke Skywalker. Soon I had a big Chewbacca doll on my dresser, I had necklaces of Darth Vader, C3PO, & R2D2, etc. It was really special being one of the original Star Wars fans.
@Stogie2112 Жыл бұрын
Prophetic words from Siskel. Today’s theaters are waist deep in mindless entertainment and blockbuster action films. Thankfully, there are just enough serious films to please others.
@thenoodler3 жыл бұрын
“Take a look at this battle scene in outer space” ..., proceeds to show the entire film.
@SuperScarface833 жыл бұрын
I had the same thought, but they did mention that this review was for the re-release at Christmas 1977. So maybe they figured that most of the viewers had already seen the movie, anyway, or at the very least, there wasn't much left to spoil.
@kevinbergin99713 жыл бұрын
That was a loooooonnnnngggg clip.
@PlainsPup3 жыл бұрын
People had longer attention spans back then.
@lovetheblue66593 жыл бұрын
Johnny Carson had Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher on to promote the re-release; and he stated that there were probably only “two amoebas living in China somewhere” who had not seen the movie by then. 🤣. They showed that same clip (which is pan & scanned from the 2.35:1 aspect ratio) on his show as well.
@dmk9413 жыл бұрын
@@PlainsPup It wasn't that they had longer attention spans, it was that this was the only way for people to see bits of the film without going to a movie theater again. The home video cassette didn't come out until 1982. As Stephen Kershaw said in his comment, people would have tuned into the TV show just to see clips of the movie they loved.
@wavecentral3 жыл бұрын
Not just a great movie, but the start of a dream run of great movies. Empire, ROTJ, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, Back to the Future, ET, Alien/s, Beverly Hills Cop, Terminator 1&2, Karate Kid, Top Gun, Blade Runner, Escape from New York, Highlander, Big Trouble in Little China, Mad Max series, Tron, Crocodile Dundee, Wargames, and so many others. It was and always will be an awesome time to be growing up.
@insideoutsideupsidedown22183 жыл бұрын
Did you really list TRON?! Seriously.....
@shooter77343 жыл бұрын
Conan The Barbarian, Dawn Of The Dead, Return Of The Living Dead, Goonies, Stand By Me, Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation series......glad I was born in that generation
@ddmercantile3 жыл бұрын
The 80s were magic, I swear.
@ddmercantile3 жыл бұрын
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 what I remember about Tron was seeing it at a drive-in theater outside Chicago, eating Planter's cheese balls in the back of our AMC Pacer.
@wayneaiello3 жыл бұрын
With exception of Highlander, I made my kids watch all of those with me, and my youngest (now 20) said he thinks the 80s was a great time for films. My oldest son went to Emerson film school and now works in Hollywood.
@maxinenall99506 ай бұрын
I'm in my 70's and I never listen to people telling what I should or shouldn't watch or where to eat or not eat at 😠 I can decide for myself 🤦 I absolutely love Star Wars🥰
@deanmcmillen59886 ай бұрын
I was 6 when this came out. I hounded my parents to take me to see it again and again and again. My mom told me, years later, that we saw it every weekend for the first 6 weeks lol
@jeremyrfritz3 жыл бұрын
"What's the meaning of it all? Who knows and who cares?!" needs to be the tagline on every Star Wars movie from now on.
@Danbo229873 жыл бұрын
For real though. Star Wars is a campy Space Opera first and foremost
@Music--ng8cd3 жыл бұрын
@@Danbo22987 Actually its mostly taken from Dune and Joseph Campbell's ideas about mythology. But a campy Space Opera second.
@Music--ng8cd3 жыл бұрын
Or the inscription on What's her name Kennedy's tombstone.
@MrZackavelli3 жыл бұрын
@@Music--ng8cd That's such a reductionist delegation of intellectual property. I've heard people say that Star Wars ripped off Star Trek. When I ask them their reason, they say "It's because it's in space"
@citylights86783 жыл бұрын
The scenes shown in this clip and the others like them are what really made the first 3 movies The sometimes witty sometimes dramatic interaction of the 7 (later 6) original cast members especially during the scenes on the Falcon were the heart of the OG Star Wars I kind of feel like someone or maybe multiple someones forgot that somewhere along the way
@camcoulter59933 жыл бұрын
I was 31 when this film made its debut. The opening scene of the huge Imperial ship going overhead and the rumbling of the whole theater was one of the greatest movie experiences to be had. No matter that sound doesn't travel through space, this was entertainment. That is what most of us go to the movies for. My kids still remember it. I loved watching Siskel and Ebert on PBS. Great reviewers who occasionally forgot about the fun of movies.
@k.e.anderson3485 Жыл бұрын
You are actually a 16 year old aren't you
@dm00657 ай бұрын
I remember that moment in the theater too. When that giant ship went over, shooting at the small one. It was breathtaking. Nobody had ever seen anything like that. Just that instant changed everything.l, as far as what a movie could be. I dont think younger people will ever get as thrilled as we were by that, theyre used to that kind of movie magic.
@jeffwagner16497 ай бұрын
This former 4 and a half year old totally agrees. That opening scene was breathtaking. And quickly turned me from being upset because I couldn't read the words fast enough, to in awe!
@nerdrage97397 ай бұрын
@@k.e.anderson3485 Nah, only someone who actually saw it in 1977 would note the rumbling of the spaceship "overhead." That kind of thing is too common to bother with now, but back then, it was entirely novel.
@MrTruckerf6 ай бұрын
I was 30 years old when this came out. It was OK if you like that sort of movie.@@k.e.anderson3485
@yourthaiguy3 жыл бұрын
Growing up a movie lover in Chicago was a TREAT watching these two bring their perspectives every week on what was coming to the theatre and such a loss when we ended up losing both.
@jgregorygraves57923 жыл бұрын
Yeah, they were excellent. Gene used to frequent the Jewel food store where I was employed over at Division and Clark; he was tall.
@Rockhound61653 жыл бұрын
"That's the one thing Star Wars has in common with Close Encounters. Real magic..." I believe this is what modern movies are missing. Practical effects are far superior to CGI.
@Caseytify6 ай бұрын
CGI lets you do things not possible with practical FX. On the other hand some movies use CGI to the exclusion of practical FX. The Star Wars prequels showed that.
@jamescarter31966 ай бұрын
That is not in the least what he was talking about. I agree about practical effects but his quote has nothing to do with CGI.
@HarroldStarFish3 жыл бұрын
Man, that looks like a great film.
@kevting45123 жыл бұрын
Hope it became successful that they expanded the story more.
@isaachaze13 жыл бұрын
@@kevting4512 it's a here today gone tomorrow movie that no one will remember in a month. i've been watching these vids of this kid Michael Jordan too and he's a flashy young kid with no real skills that won't last long in the NBA for sure.
@EpictasticJoshuaYT3 жыл бұрын
It is a great film.
@Laceykat663 жыл бұрын
I've heard of it. Can you still find it out there? I think I saw it in the dollar bin at WallMart.
@scottmoore16143 жыл бұрын
No way they’ll do a sequel. What else can possibly be done??
@jedijones3 жыл бұрын
After seeing my first Star Wars movie, Return of the Jedi in 1983, I would stare up at the stars at night and wonder if those adventures were really going on somewhere out there. I somehow believed the movies were real even if I knew they couldn't be.
@eargasm10723 жыл бұрын
So many of us felt that same exact way. Samuel Jackson said of watching it the first time "it wasn't just a movie, it felt real. I was living it along with the characters on that screen"
@87dramarama3 жыл бұрын
2 trillion galaxies out there so maybe
@stephendevore3 жыл бұрын
But they could...
@Rockin_Ross6 ай бұрын
I was 7 when this came out and my dad took me. It was a great night and he & I shared that story until he passed.
@tedparkinson29706 ай бұрын
I miss these two guys loved watching their show.
@dford1453 жыл бұрын
Haven’t heard of this one but if Ebert says it’s great then I guess I gotta check it out
@strumdynasty30503 жыл бұрын
Okay but if you do see it, just make sure you don’t forget the art of *SERIOUS* pictures.
@JiisTube3 жыл бұрын
Lolol
@johnblack86553 жыл бұрын
Start with the FAR superior soft re-boot, from 2015. It has everything this one has, but without all the woke prooaganda, identity politics and crappy Mary Sue protagonist... 🥴
@shooter77343 жыл бұрын
I don't know about it I heard it was just a remake of a Japanese film They've done that before with westerns ....some movie with Yul Brenner with some nobody actors ....I think named McQueen, Coburn and Bronson Oh yeah they also made that other Japanese film into some foreign western with some TV actor named....I think his name was .......Eastwood? I wonder if any of them became big name stars? Same with this Star Wars They've got some actor named Harrison Ford Can't imagine this film will help his career.......😉 I
@87dramarama3 жыл бұрын
Ebert hated An American Werewolf in London
@Andrew-ep4kw3 жыл бұрын
one of the reasons the effect shot footage of the battles felt real is they were based on actual gun camera footage from fighters and bombers that flew in WW2.
@mosespray45103 жыл бұрын
I thought that was what Siskel was going to say, that the scene was right out of "Flying Leathernecks," with tailgunners shooting down Zeroes over Guadalcanal. Instead he comes up with exploding pinball.
@brucetucker48473 жыл бұрын
They were also based on movies about WW1 and WW2 air combat. The Death Star attack sequence is almost entirely copied from the Dam Busters and 633 Squadron. Of course the idea that spaceships flying in a vacuum would fly and maneuver like fixed-wing prop planes is pretty ludicrous, but that's the beauty of these films, they look and sound so damned fantastic you completely forget about any concept of realism or plausibility.
@kordellcabe62 жыл бұрын
Wow...this is brilliant for the time. “A movie that will last a long time.” That quote has aged like a fine wine. But... “I hope Hollywood doesn’t forget that people like serious movies too” is equally as great of a quote. As good as Star Wars is it inspired a lot of mindless movies many people are sick of even to this day. (Even Star Wars started to become that). The fact that these two could see the outcome of the the movie into the future at the time of its release is astounding.
@dwaynecope19143 жыл бұрын
My Dad was a movie projectionist for Jaws and Star Wars . I saw them so many times as a teen that I could recite them the way a minister recites a sermon .
@hanc373 жыл бұрын
I was 5 in 1977. It's one of my most vivid childhood memories. 1980 was even better.
@eargasm10723 жыл бұрын
I was 5 yrs old when I went to see this in '77...my senses were blown to smithereens when that main title blasted on screen with that heroic & powerful John Williams score, then the story scrolling up to the stars and the shot of that Star Destroyer chasing that tiny Rebel fighter ship. It was the boyhood equivalent of a first orgasm....captured the imagination of every little Luke Skywalker in the world!
@brucetucker48473 жыл бұрын
That opening chord, really an opening musical BLAST followed by a glorious fanfare, was the most powerful chord written or recorded since the Tristan Chord over 100 years earlier.
@jackkraken38883 жыл бұрын
"It's so successful and so mindless fun that I hope Hollywood doesn't forget that there are people who like to watch serious pictures too. " Micheal Bay: "Haha nice one" Marvel: "I know right?"
@aldowilliams47653 жыл бұрын
But Star Wars is serious
@the_gilded_age_phoenix87173 жыл бұрын
Siskel's comment highlights how disconnected professional movie critics are from the general movie going public.
@bondrafabaond3 жыл бұрын
@@aldowilliams4765 No. "Taxi driver", "Raging bull" and "The Godfather" are serious "Star Wars is a rollercoaster ride, a movie made forvthe sake if escapismo and fun. And theres us not Amy problem about It.
@davidsawyer55412 жыл бұрын
Martin Scorsese was right. The Marvel/Disney/Transformers movies aren't terrible, but they've taken over and sucked the wind out of the great dramas and action films that we used to have.
@dennisv89343 жыл бұрын
I miss Siskel and Ebert. I remember watching their show Sneak Previews on PBS in the 70s and I never missed the different iterations of their show through the 90s.
@RickFriedmanNYC3 жыл бұрын
Siskel's remark about "serious movies" reminds me of what Martin Scorsese said about the Marvel franchise: "It isn't cinema."
@beingsshepherd3 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I just said to myself.
@flmbyz3 жыл бұрын
He also put it on his ten best of 1977 list, so, yeah, he enjoyed it. It was more of his statement that there is still an audience for serious movies and hopes that the box office success of escapism wouldn’t overshadow that. Apparently, he was right.
@Dacre10003 жыл бұрын
Both very idiotic. Shame, as Scorsese is certainly not an idiot, but nobody is perfect. He, of course, being a friend of Lucas, made also certain to clarify that his comments were not reflective of Star Wars or of Spielberg movies.
@87dramarama3 жыл бұрын
@@Dacre1000 ur the idiot
@nitewing983 жыл бұрын
No matter how you slice it, moviemaking is just storytelling. Scorsese is just jealous that he can’t come up with stories that are as interesting to the majority of people as Marvel can. That’s it. Marvel tells better stories.
@traviswclarkin3 жыл бұрын
Not a lot of people realize how smart, thoughtful, gracious and humble Roger Ebert was as well as a great writer. RIP
@steviesevieria18683 жыл бұрын
He was the dumb one. Siskel had the brains.
@jeffreym.89573 жыл бұрын
@@steviesevieria1868 Screw Gene Siskel - he was the reason Aliens didn't have a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Not everyone wants to watch "The Autumn of my Discontent".
@traviswclarkin3 жыл бұрын
@anim8trix Thanks it was obviously a typo.
@nebula19242 жыл бұрын
I was five. What a year. Kindergarten, broken leg- (skiing accident), & Star Wars. Would gladly break my leg again to go back.
@paktype4 ай бұрын
I was 12 when I saw Star Wars with my dad on August 12, 1977. I will never forget that day - my dad didn’t like sci-fi but he knew how much I wanted to see this movie so he took me.
@patrickvalentino6003 жыл бұрын
1977: Star Wars succeeds because it's mindless fun. 2007: Star Wars succeeded because it is the ur-myth, the hero's journey, the tale as old as time, etc, etc, etc,... When my movie turned 40, I was amazed at how profound it became.
@ThomasPH1233 жыл бұрын
I saw Star Wars as a kid and had all the toys. At 54 I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the original. I have teenage kids now and I’ve seen it probably dozens of times with them, at least 5 times in 2020-21 alone.
@brandipadilla98443 жыл бұрын
I saw this the first time in Plattsburgh NY at a drive in. I was almost 5 and we watched it from the roof of the RV in sleeping bags. This movie blew my little mind. The music, the story and the characters. My favorite of all the Star Wars movies.
@JasonNation723 жыл бұрын
Seeing the gritty specks and dust on the Star Wars clip is so nostalgic for me. It's like listening to your favorite all time song on a vinyl record, I love it!
@THOMMGB3 жыл бұрын
What surprised me was that Gene said he'd seen Star Wars three times already. It was so different from any movie ever done before and must've really wowed him and captured his imagination.
@jeffblanks5292 жыл бұрын
At the same time, it's got "throwback" written all over it. It's like, "What if they made a 1940s SF B-movie with an A-movie budget and an A-movie sensibility and A-movie quality tailored to the people of 1977, who were rather different people, what with the '60s and all?"
@szulewsk6 ай бұрын
He paid to watch movies! With everyone and their mother going multiple times its his job.
@jpsned3 жыл бұрын
I'll always remember seeing it in the theater and what a big laugh the "Don't get cocky!" line got.
@leejunior24403 жыл бұрын
Peter Griffin "dont get penisy"
@souloftheage3 жыл бұрын
Never noticed how many cuts it took to make this fight scene look "lively". Well done, Editor.
@MerkinMuffly3 жыл бұрын
3:53 It's funny to hear Siskel compare the space battle scene to a pinball machine, "that kids love", I do remember playing a couple video games back then at the skating rink, but there was no Space Invaders yet which would be to video games what Star Wars would be to the movies.
@henryj.85283 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Those scene were taken directly from WWII movies like 12 O'Clock High. I wish their original review was posted somewhere. I'll bet they weren't so generous before they knew it would be a smash.
@thomasglynn22823 жыл бұрын
Were I grew up we had a roller rink to! And the pinball area had my favorite video game "asteroids", the late 70s were fun. We still played outside, bicycles, skateboards, playing war in the woods and as teenagers we got our first dirt bikes. As a teenage boy if I had the choice of video games or blasting through the woods on my beat up old DT175, you can bet I was reaching for my helmet.
@kruks3 жыл бұрын
@@henryj.8528 - Knowing both of their review tastes, I'd be very surprised if they didn't both enjoy it from the get go. Even for people that aren't into action or sci-fi or fantasy, it's a hard movie to insult.
@henryj.85283 жыл бұрын
@@kruks You are probably right. I just remember reading the first reviews of various now-classic films (and even the Beatles) and many early reviews were critical. So I think it would be instructive to see what they said before the movie became an all-time classic smash.
@boristhespider48792 жыл бұрын
And Asteroids! I could never get good at asteroids. My favorites were: Donkey Kong, Tempest and my all time favorite- GALAGA! I laugh at the very end when Siskel says "I hope Hollywood remembers that we like to see serious movies too". What a snob.
@mrcat34933 жыл бұрын
I love Siskel throwing out the “serious movies” line. Lol
@stuartkinzel81953 жыл бұрын
I always thought that often Siskel took himself too seriously. But darned if he wasn't on to something. All these years later and the box office (USA at least) is dominated by movies that are more about dazzling you with visuals than the writing and characters.
@ronniefarnsworth64653 жыл бұрын
They weren't fans of Sci-Fi or Horror !! Chicago Elites !!!!
@stevenmaginnis19653 жыл бұрын
'Star Wars," whatever its effect on Hollywood, was still an intelligent movie with a story and characters worth caring about. 'The Empire Strikes Back' was more so.
@commandercaptain46643 жыл бұрын
*laughs in Blockbuster Age*
@christopherpdearing3 жыл бұрын
If anything it was scarily prescient.
@rex-racer3 жыл бұрын
Great clip. Gene Siskel came to our high school once to talk. Kids asked him what his favorite movie was. He turned the tables and asked us what movie we liked. One kid said _Risky Business,_ which had recently come out and was shot in the area. Siskel agreed and went on to talk about why that movie was good. Basically, he said it was about teenagers, but had a more serious adult storyline with a good antagonist (I guess Guido, “a mad killer pimp?”). I think we might have asked him about _Star Wars_ too, but by then (early 80s), he knew better than to mention the pinball analogy. Star Wars changed the movie landscape forever and definitely changed these guys’ work on _Sneak Previews._ Interesting to see them come to terms with its significance here. If they only knew how long.
@HariSeldon9133 жыл бұрын
I remember at one point they did a "guilty pleasures" episode of movies they knew were bad, but enjoyed watching. One of Siskel's was the 1981 Tarzan because...Bo Derek.
@Nancoman6 ай бұрын
10 years old, and my Dad took me to see Star Wars. First Dolby Sound movie I'd ever seen, also. I loved it, and I'm so glad my Dad was cool enough to takee to it. He was also a Star Trek Fan. What a great moment in my life!
@AbandonedMines116 ай бұрын
My late uncle took me to see “Star Wars“ when it first came out in the theaters. I was nine years old back then. Him taking me to that movie is probably one of the fondest memories I have from my childhood. I’ve seen it hundreds of times since. What a great era for Hollywood film-making that was!
@DyenamicFilms3 жыл бұрын
I was 10 years old when Star Wars came out. The first thing I ever saw regarding Star Wars, not knowing anything about it, was a small black and white picture of the Stormtrooper on the giant lizard in Scholastic News magazine. I was already a sci fi/fantasy fan and all I remember thinking when I first saw that picture was "Cool. Looks like Planet of the Apes. I'll have to see that" and I did.
@funkster0073 жыл бұрын
lol, I think I read that same article in my classroom. I remember it got me amped up to see the movie.
@RideAcrossTheRiver3 жыл бұрын
Lucas in the editing room, with pot of glue: "Hear me, baby? Hold together."
@kainenable3 жыл бұрын
Watching this with my 5 year old nephew yesterday and him reacting the same way I did when I was five. Not many movies can do that.
@troy94773 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize Siskel and Ebert went that far back. Watched them all through the 80's. Was almost 5 when Star Wars came out. I remember it, but i remember Empire and Jedi more clearly. I was quite nervous at the title The Empire Strikes Back as the film was starting. Had to wait in line awhile to get tickets for Jedi at the local mall in '83. First time that ever happened. Great trilogy. The originals are sti the best. Visionary special effects.
@bloqk166 ай бұрын
Back in the 1970s Siskel & Ebert's TV show was "Sneak Previews" that was aired on the [US] PBS stations at the time. Being on PBS, it was a commercial-free show, which meant they could show longer film clips; and their review segments were long, too, when compared to the commercial TV production of a similar show. When the duo went to commercial TV, it took a bit to get used to, as the commercial breaks meant shorter film clips/reviews of the movies.
@John-ct9zs3 жыл бұрын
I miss these guys. I grew up watching Siskel & Ebert film reviews in the 80s and 90s. The modern KZbin critics that just yell stuff out like "whoa bruh that movie was so awesome!!!" and only review blockbuster movies have nothing on these guys. Siskel & Ebert were excellent film teachers and gave you nuanced reasons for their positions instead of "Hey it wasn't for me, I didn't like it".
@ireneuszpyc66843 жыл бұрын
you deserve what you can find; KZbin grifters [that just yell stuff out like "whoa bruh that movie was so awesome!!!"] are not modern critics; looks like you don't even know where to find modern critics
@Thumper7703 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget they both gave E.T. a thumbs down. We all know how THAT turned out.
@Miketar24243 жыл бұрын
And yet , they were criticized in their time for introducing the thumb rating, which was said to oversimplify a review. With cinema in terminal decline , it's nice to go back to these old reviews.
@agentcodybanks13 жыл бұрын
Do you watch RLM reviews
@patrickadams71203 жыл бұрын
Chris Stuckman is a great movie critic,if you're not already subscribed then check him out
@joepah513 жыл бұрын
I really miss those guys.. May they rest in peace.... And a great POV.. Before anyone knew it would take over Hollywood.
@lazurusredd86823 жыл бұрын
I truly believe if we had more like them such crappy movies wouldn't be made
@Xfile19476 ай бұрын
Watching Star Wars at 9 yrs old in 1977 was life!
@robwebnoid57633 жыл бұрын
I watched Siskel & Ebert a lot back in those days. I'm sure I probably saw this one but I don't really remember. I saw this first trilogy at the time they released in the theatre. My lasting personal recollection of 1977 was getting into the backseat of our car as a kid after the movie to go home, holding my hands up like I was driving an X-wing through the Deathstar equatorial trench. That of course was the exciting final battle of the movie so I remembered it well. I was so hyped. I became a big fan after that, getting some of the figures, toys, comics & books for the next 10 years. Too bad Siskel & Ebert both died due to disease (Ebert of cancer & Siskel of surgical complications).
@redredred13 жыл бұрын
That scene. It's just like pinball where things blow up. Got it, Gene.
@gregorymatthews18813 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that gave me a laugh. Video games were starting to take off, but they were still too new for Gene to catch up with the terminology. I guess he could only express it based on the arcades of his youth...hence "pinball."
@davidf19853 жыл бұрын
Gene put a stick of dynamite on his pinball machines. POW! Blew the hair off his head. It's illegal now. We had more fun back then.
@travtotheworld3 жыл бұрын
@@davidf1985 Pinball was ruined when they replaced the explosive deterrents with a tilt alarm.
@stancartmankenny3 жыл бұрын
Pinball was a lot more dangerous in Gene's neighborhood
@jonnyq6803 жыл бұрын
@@davidf1985 Almost as much as driving a burning car off a cliff
@KAS65583 жыл бұрын
in 1977 seeing this for the first time, I have only one thing to say: MIND BLOWN!
@williamjones71633 жыл бұрын
I graduated from high school in 1978. This movie may have been released in 1977 but it didn't show in my town until 1978. I also went off to college in 1978. In the time between graduation and college I saw the picture 5 times. It might not of changed my life but it made me realize what good cinema could be.
@NoName-zi9qs6 ай бұрын
Great movie. It's too bad they didn't make a sequel.
@brucetucker48473 жыл бұрын
The funny thing is them talking about the fast-paced editing: by 1977 standards the cuts were dizzying, today it seems glacial for an action sequence.
@Samuel00433 жыл бұрын
Some directors, including big name ones (read: big box office) just dont seem to know how to choreograph an action sequence without everything being ultra quick shots. Especially fight sequences. And they need the shaky-cam. Seems more cluttered than dizzying.
@dougshelton693 жыл бұрын
This came out when I was 10. I'm 54 and still rewatch it...May the force be with you...Always
@DarrenHughes-Hybrid3 жыл бұрын
Brothers in time... I was 17 went it came out and I'm now 60 and still watching it! May the force be with you always too!
@BudSchnelker6 ай бұрын
One Saturday, right around my 7th birthday, my dad told me he and I would go to a matinee show at the movie theater. I had no idea what "Star Wars" was but it sounded like a nice way to spend a winter afternoon. I remember him quietly reading the opening scroll and then it was lights out for my brain. I walked out of there a changed person. Every stick on the ground became a light sabre or a laser gun. Someone can watch the movie for the first time today and appreciate it, but they'll never, ever be able to understand how it felt to young kids of that era.
@wcatholic13 жыл бұрын
Saw it when I was 14 now 59. Then saw comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell talk about the universal themes in all good storytelling in an interview with Bill Moyers many years later. He articulated what I had understood instinctively.
@ricardocastillo54853 жыл бұрын
They're actually relating the action to "pinball games" because in 1977 there were just the first inklings of video games and they were not a big thing yet!
@brucetucker48473 жыл бұрын
The biggest video game in 1977 was... Pong. Space Invaders came out a year later and really got the video arcade business going.
@garylivingston90523 жыл бұрын
I use to love watching these guys review movies,they will never be replaced.
@89CrazyAl6 ай бұрын
I used to hate watching these guys because they were always putting down movies I enjoyed. 😁
@yarsmythe6 ай бұрын
I must have seen Star Wars in the movie theaters at least 25 times as a kid. Perfect time to be alive and see it when it changed the world.
@phenomeninja18556 ай бұрын
It’s amazing how old Star Wars 4(one) looks futuristic as much as it appears ancient .