Siskel & Ebert (1987) - The Living Daylights, Maid to Order, The Lost Boys, Stakeout

[@matthewlawrence708]

Lost Boys was amazing especially the ending. Critics are never right.

[@jakemetzgar]

The Lost Boys is a bloody great time!

[@CHEERSMEOW]

It'd be great living here except for these damn vampires. :)

[@hodun8]

S&E didn't really endorse any good 80s genre movies

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

Pardon the pun.

[@bustergoldenrod]

Gene wanted Pierce for Bond over Dalton then when he saw Goldeneye he hated the movie and Pierce as Bond also. Go figure.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

He wasn't very BRIGHT

[@81garbur]

Love seeing how tv was when i was a kid. I was 6 years old when this episode aired.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

I really wish Dalton started in 1981 beginning with For Your Eyes Only and then wrapped up his tenure with Goldeneye. He is still closest anyone has come to portraying Fleming's Bond in terms of personality and looks.

[@jasoncinema]

I concur. Yeah, I really feel like he was quite underrated in the role. The Living Daylights is pretty damn good, Licence To Kill, not *as* good, but I feel like if Dalton had continued in the role we’d have seen another film before GoldenEye.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

@@jasoncinema He was scheduled to do another film after Licence To Kill, and before Goldeneye, but the series was caught up in legal issues.

[@jasoncinema]

@@ricardocantoral7672 Yeah, and there was that 1988 Writers Guild of America strike so that also put the brakes on any Bond development.

[@44excalibur]

Nah, I prefer Moore in For Your Eyes Only. That was supposed to be his next Bond after The Spy Who Loved Me before the studio chose to go with Moonraker instead. Dalton would have been good in Octopussy when the studio was ready to replace Moore until they chose to convince Moore to return when Never Say Never Again went into production.

[@blaxican77]

Timothy Dalton was serviceable as Bond. Sean Connery and Daniel Craig were the best in my opinion. Yes I have read the novels and believe that Craig played Bond the way Ian Fleming wrote him-cold, brutal but always able to keep his cool.

[@gspendlove]

SPOILER ALERT! The best thing about The Lost Boys was the reveal at the end. Edward Herrmann was the ultimate nice guy actor. He was the last person you'd suspect of being an evil mastermind. He just didn't play in this kind of movie; I'd remembered him from The North Avenue Irregulars and Harry's War, where he played the hero. So that reveal caught me totally by surprise back then. What a brilliant bit of casting that was! And then to find out the grandpa knew all along....ingenious.

[@redadamearth]

Totally disagree that the third act loses sight of the relationships in "The Lost Boys". The two brothers have tons of tension in the finale, the grandfather, the mother, all of their relationships literally come to a head in the finale. Not sure what he was talking about there.

[@justinbergmans36]

It’s ironic that gene would mention how brosnan would have made a better choice, as 007. Years later, he ripped all of his performances as James Bond. Lol.

[@horrorfan24]

I know this is controversial but I honestly think that Dalton is a better bond than Connery and TLD is a phenomenal Bond film because it really is dark and has a genuine sense of menace. Like in the near beginning when the Russian agent infiltrates the house and kills all the other agents. That was an edge that we simply hadn't seen in previous Bond films. We didn't get that kind of dark, brooding menace until Craig took over. Also, they totally got it wrong on The Lost Boys. It is a fantastic film and the ending works brilliantly.

[@CHEERSMEOW]

The Living Daylights has the best Bond Song and beginning to a Bond film. Licence To Kill is still the best Bond film and has the only R-rated cut on blue-ray, some dvds and digital. Dalton deserved one more film but because of the 6 year delay he gave Brosnan the job for Goldeneye. Dalton i wished he had taken the roll like he was offered before Moore who was, well beyond crap. lol 🍺😸

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Dalton said he would have done Goldeneye had Cubby agreed to let him go after that film. Going by the first draft, Dalton would have more like he was in The Living Daylights.

[@stanswitek]

I always thought The Living Daylights had the most compelling and fun to follow plot of any Bond film

[@rynehall9990]

I saw it in Atlanta GA with a friend who is no longer with us; we saw both Daltons before he passed at the grizzled old age of 38.

[@destinycaptain247]

Wish we had the episode without the theatre cut out.

[@kibagami74]

Maryam D'abo was drop dead gorgeous in Living Daylights, probably my favorite Bond Girl. Sometimes, Siskel and Ebert had hearts of stone.

[@mooseyman74]

I like Living Daylights, Lost Boys and Stakeout, these guys are hard to please!

[@jons.105]

Joel Schumacher had absolutely nothing to do with "The Possession of Joel Delaney". Maybe Roger had his Joels crossed?

[@kibagami74]

When Siskel & Ebert could give thumbs down to The Living Daylights and The Lost Boys, they just had no idea how good we had it in those days. Cinema and movies have been on a 30 year slide.

[@nicktaylor2657]

Siskel says he prefered to see Pierce Bronson to be Bond He must of been thrilled when he was in Goldeneye in 1995

[@ganglabesh]

i know right!? what a good call on his part

[@bustergoldenrod]

Only he wasn’t, check out the Goldeneye review. Siskel hated the movie and PB as Bond.

[@rosemaryfarell5264]

Er wrong. Siskel gave a thumbs down to Goldeneye and Brosnan.

[@christhornycroft3686]

Goldfinger was the movie that defined the Bond series, sadly. Not From Russia With Love. So of course Ebert thought that the movies had to be ridiculous and silly. Even TLD had its silly moments, but they weren’t overdone.

[@hodun8]

The Lost Boys was top level 80s horror entertainment!

[@kali3665]

It really took a long time to get used to Timothy Dalton as Bond after so many years of the buffoon Roger Moore's Bond had become. But now, I think many of us see him not only as a great Bond, but also as a precursor to what Daniel Craig brought to the role. I think Dalton's second film is better than his first (and Olivia D'abo was CRINGING!), but I can appreciate both of them better for what they were trying to accomplish. I think now both succeeded better than we could have appreciated then.

[@mooseyman74]

I thought he looked comfortable in anything except a tux, good actor though

[@MrBoyYankee]

How can they miss the mark on one of the most influential and Lauded vampire movie of all time.

[@thebadgamer1967]

Lost boys 2 thumbs down? I give their review one middle finger up

[@ryanbates9668]

14:02 did Siskel actually call Richard Dreyfuss "sexy"?

[@Goldenwhatever]

He’d have to be to get Madeline Stowe.

[@cmleidi]

I've seen Maid to Order so many times because my sister and mom adore the film. I think they're hard on the film. It's not the greatest, but it's still fun.

[@ScreamqueenarmyBlogspot666]

I Give Siskel & Ebert's review of The Lost Boys TWO thumbs down

[@Fiveash-Art]

Absolutely ... It's such a classic. These guys were fools.

[@christophergrote1749]

Lost Boys is a classic and that’s a fact.

[@mattfulmer4243]

Their review of The Lost Boys has not aged well.

[@lerm2866]

Did they review Near Dark?

[@mowm88]

Wow. Looking back, some of the comments on D'abo and Sheedy come off as being fairly sexist-not something I would have noticed then. I disagree on their take on both Stakeout and Lost Boys, hell even Living Daylights. All three were pretty decent. I didn't see 'Daylights' until a few years back and it was Better than I thought it would be....Siskel was being a knob here.

[@leonardpriestley6822]

Dalton's the slasher. Of prices!

[@mmmmatchstick]

Hot Fuzz 😎

[@bobspence5322]

"i wouldve rather seen the movie be about them than ally sheedy".. i mean ouch.

[@reneedennis2011]

The Fringe Dwellers sounds like a good movie.

[@kibagami74]

The plot of The Living Daylights is hilarious because nobody smuggles Opium from Afghanistan like the CIA does. And those heroic Mujahadeen fighters they show became Al Qaeda. oops. Anyway, blame the Ruskies. That's said, The Living Daylights is my personal favorite Bond film.

[@matthewlawrence708]

Dalton was the worste Bond. I have the entire blu ray collection and when i benge then i skip all of his.

[@Fiveash-Art]

Siskel and Ebert WRONG again ... surprise surprise. 😂