Siskel and Ebert: The Postman, Mr. Magoo, Jackie Brown, An American Werewolf in Paris, Afterglow

Siskel and Ebert discuss these movies from 1997.

[@sahej6939]

Pam Grier & Robert Forester are the BEST part of this movie!!!

[@stevekenna]

Sam Jackson, DeNiro and Bridget Fonda were great, too. "Who's that?" "That's Beaumont." "Who was Beaumont?" "An employee I had to let go." And I totally forgot about Michael Keaton's Cock Shorts Detective. Awesome.

[@BULL.173]

I always appreciated the very subtle joy Siskel and Ebert took in making each other laugh.

[@casonkade9316]

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[@kasonpierce6148]

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[@donorkat1]

My five year old son walked out on Mr Magoo.

[@BULL.173]

Lol, a 5 year old with discerning taste! I bought a ticket to Mr. Magoo so I could sneak into Boogie Nights.

[@Paul8820]

@@BULL.173 well Boogie Nights is the better movie by far of the two.

[@BULL.173]

@@Paul8820 I'll have to take your word on that one lol. I've never gotten around to seeing Mr. Magoo. But I would still put all my chips on Boogie Nights being the better movie.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Never had the masochistic streak to see that pile of MAGOO piss.

[@danwroy]

He was doing a bit

[@themcadamsminute8494]

I’m so glad these two got to review Jackie Brown. In my opinion, it’s Tarantino’s best.

[@danmseattle975]

I also think it's his best. I liked it much better than Pulp Fiction.

[@adrianstevens165]

Me too it's my fav

[@johnholmeswebb8162]

If you like jackie brown, check out "Get Shorty", it's written by the same writer that wrote the book jackie brown was based on, "Rum Punch", written by James Elmore Lenerd.

[@jackedkerouac4414]

Hands down his best although I'm biased being from LA and loving soul oldies

[@JohnsThead]

I'm sorry but JB is such a strong movie from the beginning until the final scene with Ordell and Jackie. The ending felt stuck and he just went with utter fantasy to close this movie out. It really was an insult to the audience. Their is no way Samuel Jacksons character, Ordell, would not have let his guard down after 3 mins of meeting Jackie in the P.O.s office. He is all street from jump in this film. He wouldn't even had met her there.

[@matthewdamschroder4944]

Ebert: That apology at the end of Mr Magoo, just throws a wet blanket over a movie that was already a wet blanket to begin with lol

[@sahej6939]

Now it has a warning before for being stupidly racist as well

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

I think Kevin Costner should have made "The Pizza Delivery Man" instead.

[@dnasty312]

3:50 Dances with Myself 6:25 I'm as nearsighted as they come! ...2500... Classics 😄

[@sha11235]

If he was nearsighted, how come after 2006 we see photos of him not wearing his glasses?

[@evilsWa]

@@sha11235 lasik eye surgery? Contacts? There are all sorts of reasons why he wouldn’t be wearing glasses… Are you implying that all the years he did wear glasses he didn’t need them? Because they just made him look so cool? I don’t know who told you that every single thing in your life had to be a conspiracy theory but you should kick that dude in the balls.

[@The22ndDoctor]

20/500 It's the vision measurement scale. You see at 20 feet / What the average person sees at 500 feet.

[@jedijones]

@@evilsWa "You think everything's a conspiracy." "Everything is."

[@stevekenna]

I find Siskel and Ebert reruns from 30 years ago, just as entertaining as movies. What is wrong with me?😆😆

[@thejman8734]

Your a mope

[@BookClubDisaster]

Nothing. Often their reviews are MORE entertaining than the movie they are reviewing.

[@ertznay3142]

This was before Siskel's brain tumor was diagnosed, but it is really apparent he was already very ill.

[@gwenwachsman3739]

Thought I would be the one to mention that first. He's very gaunt.

[@bijibadness]

hahahah i LOVE how the trailer for _Jackie Brown_ make it look like some sort of hip, fun buddy heist movie with Jackie Brown on the same side as Samuel L. Jackson's character. that's hilarious.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

I truly miss the movies. I remember an awesome day where me and my entire family went shopping then my dad took us to a double feature of American werewolf In Paris and then Jackie Brown right after. It was so awesome being in a dark theater with them, watching a pretty cool film and then the awesome new QT film. Very happy day.

[@ericwilkinson1899]

I recall vividly going to Jackie brown when my dad was wanting more I think to see postman and we saw that the next day and then Jackie brown that same holiday weekend again

[@wiseauserious8750]

Amen. It's just not the same anymore is it

[@callumknight6082]

When I was in high school me and my friends had to decide to see Titanic or Mr.Magoo at the theaters... we chose Mr.Magoo....

[@davidnelson6874]

How does Mr. McGoo even get made? How did they think they could turn a very simple premised short cartoon into a feature length movie?

[@drumtum]

I saw the Postman on a giant screen, and i did it alone.

[@regdwight235]

I am genuinely impressed Did you though at all during the screening nip to the loo ? With trailers that’s nearing four hours You deserve a medal I’m a fan of The Postman

[@freetrailer4poor]

Great movie in a sea of shit.

[@originalgameronline3457]

A movie only "Newman" would enjoy!

[@SoleaGalilei]

Funny you say that, in that clip they showed the actor who played Mr. Kruger!

[@sha11235]

Did you get all of these from the website?

[@kali3665]

I *HATED* Mr Magoo. Jim Backus WAS Mr Magoo, and when he passed, they should have let it go. But they didn't, and they cast Leslie Nielsen. Who was TERRIBLE! Seriously, the big problem was that when Nielsen did Police Squad! and Airplane!, he knew to keep himself in check - you play the show like you were doing Shakespeare: treat it as serious as possible, and let the humor of the situation and the seriousness of the character pull the comedy. That was a lesson we learned from Buster Keaton as the Great Stone Face. But somewhere along the route, Nielsen began playing his roles as if he KNEW he was in a comedy not the Stone Face at the center of the hurricane, and Nielsen lost whatever appeal he had. This is why Dracula Dead and Loving It failed, and this is why Mr Magoo failed. Mr. Magoo was NOT just a blind old bat. He was a blind old bat and a snob whose mind had closed years ago. THAT's where the comedy originally came from - it wasn't enough that he mistakes a bowling alley for his country club; he had to complain that someone had changed the interior without consulting the members! THAT was funny! But it wasn't "I'm blind" comedy - it's class comedy, pure and simple. And sometimes, that works! But soon the fact that Mr. Magoo was blind became the ONLY joke. The "comedy" was now directed at the lowest common denominator. And Mr Magoo manages to insult blind people AND sighted people! Only the comic style of Jim Backus kept us coming back for more, and Leslie Nielsen can't manage that style. It was simply not his thing.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

that's bullshit... but it was an awful film simple as that.

[@kali3665]

@@CaptainSpalding72 What are you calling bullshit?

[@drumtum]

Mr Magoo never was an interesting or funny cartoon, thats the main problem. Certainly not material for a motion picture.

[@marcomacias3960]

what is that grey bar at 1:22

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

Jackie Brown was the evidence that Tarantino didn't need to be old to make a mature and wise movie

[@canuck_gamer3359]

Sadly they were right about the films Education of Little Tree and Mr. Magoo.

[@Cold-Duck]

5:54 the subtle rage... Haha

[@arkady714]

American Werewolf was extremely low budget. Almost none of it was filmed in Paris. The park, street scenes and dungeon sequences were filmed in Luxembourg where, during that time, the government was offering tax credits to companies that made films there. Other outdoor scenes were filmed in Holland. A marketing ploy for European audiences was that at a big French name at the time, Thierry Lhermite, was in the film. He had only seconds of screen time and no dialogue. Locals with no acting experience were hired as extras.

[@sahej6939]

It’s terrible except for Julie Delpy, who is always enchanting. Wow I didn’t know they reviewed Jackie Brown! Costner is predictably slow.

[@arkady714]

@@sahej6939 Nothing was going to save American Werewolf in Paris. Julie Delpy might've been cute but it's not like hers was an Oscar worthy performance anyway. But you actually saw the film? I did because I was an extra in it. The Luxembourg audience cracked up because the "Paris" street scenes were all filmed in their capital city...which is pretty tiny. We all had fun pointing out shops buildings that we knew and even kind of searched for people we might have known in the background.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

I saw it once in my life, in theaters, right before we saw Jackie Brown the same day. I don't remember Werewolf In Paris near as much as Jackie Brown 😊

[@ericwilkinson1899]

I've been going back week by week Anni ersary wise and looking at s&e eps and applicable films as available... this month decided to start with 1997 and work through the whole month because i mostly couldnt wait to work through some of these (also have been looking at 87 anf 92 this year)...hadn't seen Mr magoo before which was astonishing in its ineptitude... I recall being severely let down by the postman which I've been putting off a revisit of as long as I can... I hated American werewolf... Jackie brown is a classic

[@elliottbronstein1214]

Here's hoping horizon won't be another postman.

[@PaulJackson729]

As a little kid, I thought the education of Little Tree was absolutely boring and that Mr. Magoo was hilarious. Now that I'm so much older, I still think Little Tree is boring, but Mr. Magoo was absolutely stupid and terrible. Jackie Brown may be better than Pulp Fiction.

[@morzansreddragon]

Is it a coincidence that 2013 would be the year Ebert would pass away, rather than him reviewing a terrible futuristic film back from 1997.

[@sha11235]

It is a coincidence.

[@franksmith613]

Roger Ebert died in the same year when The Postman took place.

[@jedijones]

It should've been about a film critic who inspires the world with his thumbs instead of a mailman.

[@BULL.173]

@@jedijones Roger would've given that thumbs down too lol

[@nicktaylor2657]

The one thing I remember in Jackie Brown was how hot Bridget Fonda looked This Fonda definitely has a motor in the back of her Honda 😁

[@rickbrenner6079]

Bridget was a cutie in Jackie Brown for sure.

[@CR055FIRE]

The Postman = bad Jackie Brown = good

[@fawkkyutuu8851]

Idc I'll always like The Postman , It was enjoyably overblown but Immersive and well cast , with a creative post-apocalyptic setting and ideas.

[@CR41489]

Agree 100%. I’ve never understood the hate it gets. Kevin Costner is a terrific director as “Dances with Wolves” and “Open Range” also show.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

No, that's the problem as it's awful.

[@seanvogt221]

I laugh at Siskel’s response to The Postman. STIFF.

[@sahej6939]

Yikes. Do u also like mark wahlberg

[@fawkkyutuu8851]

@@sahej6939 No never liked Mark Wahlberg.

[@alexnorman1432]

Did you say two thumbs up & two thumbs down on siskel & ebert?

[@slaugmromni6743]

Unpopular opinion, (and yet completely true): _Jackie Brown_ is Tarantino's only great film. And I don't think it's a coincidence that Tarantino's best film is based on the work of another, superior writer. Another unpopular opinion (and, yet again, completely true): Tarantino's writing is incredibly overrated. It's overly verbose, pretentious, and self-congratulatory. Tarantino seems more interested in showing his audiences how clever he is, how many words he can fit into a dialogue, than he is writing compelling characters and narratives. Ultimately Tarantino is a stylist (a highly skilled one, no doubt) who has very little to say about his subjects. He substitutes verbiage for insight, floridity for discernment.

[@angelabolton4478]

Best description I have yet encountered.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

The dressing down that Tarantino oh so richly deserved. Thank you so much.

[@kdohertygizbur]

I disagree with your assessment on Tarantino, His Pulp Fiction did alter Movie Cinema, but I do agree that Jackie Brown is still his greatest film

[@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729]

I liked "Pulp Fiction" best and enjoy his films but I kind of agree Tarantino is kind of enamored with himself..he has a lot power a lot of directors don`t and his films are about 30 to 40 minutes too long.......

[@Tolstoy111]

Pretentious isn't really a meaningful criticism. Tarantino takes crime fiction and makes it something more. Elmore Leonard was a formula writer.

[@danielmcgovern5986]

Thumbs down for Mr. Magoo, but thumbs up for Air Bud?

[@sha11235]

Air Bud was better than Mr. Magoo.

[@Liggie55821]

IIRC, “Air Bud” got fairly good reviews, and then Disney drove the concept into franchise overkill.

[@PaulJackson729]

The original Air Bud was better than Mr. Magoo. It's not even close

[@crystalshaw8744]

Is that how everything went down in 2023?!...lmbo

[@freetrailer4poor]

This why movie reviewers suck. The Postman is a great movie . I wanted more. . Glad I rented it. These critics are dead, but I want to give a big fu up above. Otherwise hope you’re smiling down.

[@kdohertygizbur]

I don't recall An American Werewolf in London being one of the most popular Horror Films of the 80's, but ok

[@sahej6939]

It is!

[@cl759]

Omg l was just about to make a comment about kevin costner when ebert said it in his first sentence, so now l don't have to

[@sha11235]

Roger's shirt is so white, isn't it?

[@sahej6939]

Le Samorai is perfect 👍 Alain Deloin noir

[@henrymockingbird9645]

4:27

[@funnyguy7574]

I hope Horizon isn’t a huge flop like this or Water World 🌎in June it’s up against a lot

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Why is skiing seen in a lot of comedies and why would it be funny?

[@demm9000]

DUDE! They full spoiler the ending of THE POSTMAN! That should be the worst sin of a movie critic!

[@Blodia1990]

True but in the postman's case, it's a public service.

[@ericwilkinson1899]

Nothing could spoil postman but the film itself

[@mrceleb2006]

20:00 - 'The Postman': 👎👎, 'Mr. Magoo': 👎👎, 'Jackie Brown': 👍👍, 'An American Werewolf in Paris': 👎👎, 'Afterglow': 👎(S)👍(E), 'The Education of Little Tree': 👍👍

[@brendanparedes6646]

Postman was the best

[@kdohertygizbur]

Yes..For putting people into comas...

[@fawkkyutuu8851]

The Postman was a good oldschool epic 90's movie. I always liked It but I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic flicks especially 80's and 90's.

[@babybird871]

I went to see it just to see how bad it was....wasn`t dissappointed

[@drumtum]

A friend of mine saw it by himself in a theater and fell asleep. Truth.

[@Harkness78]

@@fawkkyutuu8851 it's total garbage, there are like 30+ better 80s/90s post apocalyptic flicks, a ton of bad B-pictures have better ideas and are more rewatchable then Postman. Do you like anything as long as it is in a genre you enjoy?

[@farbekrieg355]

mr magoo gross $21,437,192 education of littletree 343k or 66:1

[@nicksoapdish157]

It's a damn shame Gene Siskel was right than.

[@jedijones]

Magoo outgrossed Postman.

[@hurgenflerg2133]

It's for the best. Education of Little Tree is complete garbage.

[@Paul8820]

@@hurgenflerg2133 I'm sure Mr Magoo was a much better movie.

[@hurgenflerg2133]

@@Paul8820 Couldn't be much worse.

[@bakedbeansgangstajones3937]

I liked Mr Magoo. I liked Leslie Nielsen. It wasn't a masterpiece but still enough going on to make it decent entertainment

[@mijreed]

Horrible movie

[@cl759]

I personally think Jennifer garner killed it, it's hard to make a bad slapstick with leslie nielsen in it but this was bad and boring

[@sahej6939]

Worst movie 🎥 of all time. But a Young Jennifer Garner

[@Dim4323]

Mr magoo is never funny

[@crystalshaw8744]

Nick Nolte must have co -wrote the script for this God awful movie.

[@evilsWa]

Damn these old zombies had NO chill for spoilers.