Siskel&Ebert Lethal Weapon 2, Karate Kid III, Great Balls of Fire 1989

[@Shorty_Lickens]

I'm old. I remember that Tropicana ad. It ran on many networks for years. And variations of it too, I think.

[@r_jd279]

Gene is a sensitive and insightful dude. I wish I could have told him how good of a job he has done over the years.

[@MattSingh1]

Thirty years later, we actually have the Karate Adult in the Cobra Kai show.

[@TheNameisPlissken1981]

Summer of 1989 was a good one. I was 15 and between Sunday afternoon trips to the movies with my older sister and Friday night at the movies with my friends, I saw just about everything. Lethal Weapon 2 was the best film of 1989, in my book. And next to Empire Strikes Back & Godfather 2, it was one of the greatest sequels ever made. I saw that opening weekend with my sister, we also saw KK3 & Great Balls of Fire while my friends and I enjoyed Indy & Last Crusade, Ghostbusters 2 and Batman. Man, going to the movies use to be so much fun. I saw a lot of films now deemed "classics" and a lot of films quickly forgotten.

[@slb6932]

I bring up 1989 all the time! I was 14 and at the movie theater damn near every week. There was always something coming out. Besides the movies you mentioned there was Halloween 5, Elm St 5, F13TH Jason Takes Manhattan, Back to the Future 2, Christmas Vacation! I could go on.

[@PalmTreesInMoscow]

Lethal weapon 2: ebert hit the nail on the head

[@dzanier]

Lethal Weapon 2 was one of the best sequels I've ever seen.

[@slyjokerg]

It's up there.

[@Xayjohns]

The best sequel in the series.

[@MattSingh1]

Mel Gibson is a Catholic fascist, a stinking Nazi.

[@dzanier]

@@MattSingh1 does that have anything to do with what I wrote?

[@PalmTreesInMoscow]

I’d take it over the first one any day. Which I also love

[@LannieLord]

I miss Tropicana orange juice in the carton with the little cartoon Tropicana girl on the front .

[@DomoniqueStewart3936]

I REMEMBER WATCHIN' "LETHAL WEAPON TRILOGY" WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID BECAUSE THEY HAVE 3 DIRECTOR'S CUT, BY THE WAY.🙂👍✌️❤️🌞🇺🇲🌎🎥📀📼🎬🎞️🍿 IT'S BEAUTIFUL!.😁😊

[@markbarthel9835]

Weekend at Bernie's is a lost masterpiece.

[@edwickham3633]

Somebody tried to smoke it past the wrong guy!

[@Scribe13013]

I like the commercials

[@sinicalypse]

Like you have a choice! #lulz

[@notyou8716]

Simpler times.

[@painter194]

I love your channel. Thank you for posting. I'm glad to see there people out there that still enjoy these guys. It's a great show and I love watching every episode you post. Please keep up the great work.

[@aurorauplinks]

nostalgia from watching or hearing it as a kid, plus i really like redletter medias films re:view show and thier other stuff so i started watching old nostalgia reviewis etc

[@ilovebrandnewcarpets]

Big miss from Gene on Lethal Weapon 2. Very entertaining sequel. Excellent buddy cop movie.

[@TobeyStarburst]

Hated it.

[@martinmcdonough9523]

Wrong.

[@irishtexan899]

It's funny...Nowadays I cannot wait to skip the commercials. But I am drawn to them in KZbin videos like this

[@monicawism]

I love these old skool commercial!! Long live the 80's!

[@RandyHawkeye]

I hated them at the time, of course, partly because you'd see them over and over again. (And you couldn't skip or fast forward through them like today.) But seeing them again after so long triggers some nostalgic feelings.

[@elanham5764]

All the movies in this episode are great!

[@lard_lad_AU]

Damn I miss these guys

[@christianhafer9819]

How can Siskel not like Lethal Weapon 2? It's the best one. And Weekend at Bernie's is hysterical.

[@shaneoshaughnessy8231]

I loved "Siskel & Ebert", but Gene was one of the worst critics in film history, IMO. So many clueless reviews.

[@christianhafer9819]

Shane O'Shaughnessy Well, Ebert hasn't liked some great movies either. Its not all Siskel. Ebert didn't like Mrs Doubtfire, Batman, Batman Returns, Die Hard, I don't think. So, they've both had some head scratchers.

[@shaneoshaughnessy8231]

True, but I thought Siskel had a lot more, and many times his justification for the negative review was just idiotic. Ebert's reviews were always smart and well-articulated.

[@christianhafer9819]

+Shane O'Shaughnessy. You're not wrong, particularly. Eh, you like what you like.

[@mmmfloorpie]

Gene and Roger were two different types of critics. Gene reviewed a movie based on his own personal reaction to it. Roger I think liked to review the audience more. He was more of a "man of the people" and wanted to be liked. He did also like to go against the crowd every once in a while though. For example, he gave thumbs down to Batman and the original Lethal Weapon. Gene gave both thumbs up if you are keeping score.

[@nonplayerzealot4]

I saw LW2 at the movies. To this day, it was the loudest movie I've ever seen in a theater. It even started loud from the 1st second. The beginning was an action scene with no opening credits.

[@jamesanderson6373]

You're right. I remember that.

[@slyjokerg]

I saw it at the theater, as well. I don't remember it being especially loud, which might mean it depended on where you saw it, but I do remember the opening sequence, which was very well done. They just dumped the audience right into some chaos, and it got your attention. It was fun. A very good sequel.

[@willrussell01]

I wish they were both here today to watch and review Cobra Kai. I know they would give it both thumbs up 👍

[@Kruppt808]

Woody Allen really liked Great Balls of Fire, something about the love interest intrigued him........

[@JoeBobTarheel]

Keep Siskel & Ebert's Legacy Alive! Don't Fuck With History, KZbin!

[@crystalshaw8744]

I knew Gene Siskel wouldn't like Lethal Weapon 2...smile

[@theadamblock]

I love how defensive ebert would get when Siskel disagreed with him

[@ganglabesh]

just passionate about his beliefs

[@joshphillips1526]

Lol karate kid 3 is my favorite actually just for Terry Silver so glad to hear Siskel praise Thomas Ian Griffins performance

[@sinicalypse]

Hillary Swank in 1989 could get it, if you know what I mean! (Obviously I mean a golden globe nomination, duh.)

[@Azwel]

looking forward to season 3 of cobra kai for this reason..

[@nicktaylor2657]

I still can't believe they made a Weekend at Bernie's 2😏

[@RocStarr913]

Ebert’s Great Balls Of Fire review could definitely have likely been his take on the movie Bohemian Rhapsody.

[@kv5904]

What was with our love for synthetic jazz in the mid to late 80's???

[@bobthebear1246]

K V Two words: Spyro Gyra

[@EricJMontoya]

Simplicity

[@pts5217]

And beige/tan walls and carpeting

[@ricardocantoral7672]

That should have been the last Lethal Weapon film ! Tis a shame Hollywood never leaves well enough alone.

[@michaeltischuk7972]

Lethal Weapon 2 was so fun, Joe did his best being the little tough guy, ranked up there with My Cousin Vinny

[@80sNewWaveGeek]

A great summer for films (1989)

[@michaelperkowski641]

Gene was wrong on Lethal Weapon 2. Liked the tv ads from the 80s a lot fun.

[@Abr022575]

It's a cut below the original but still quite good.

[@WTFer420]

LOL Ebert couldn't get Mr. Miyagi's name right twice.

[@slyjokerg]

Gene would blame it on all of the candy and popcorn that is in Roger's mouth.

[@-dash]

That was the strangest ketchup commercial that I've ever seen

[@Buddygrooveknight]

Yes it was, but still more entertaining than most commercials nowadays.

[@-dash]

No doubt about that

[@CorbCorbin]

Trippy

[@speroskoufis7505]

It was her time of the month

[@DeanStrickson]

Sex sells.

[@kv5904]

That Pepsi commercial around 10:30 is too much...love it

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

Karate Kid III & Weekend at Bernie's? Must watch TV!

[@owenfitzgerald8944]

The Karate Kid is a solid trilogy.

[@ilovebrandnewcarpets]

I really like the Pepsi ad around the 10:30 mark. Culturally inclusive and pretty cute without being political or preachy.

[@rxtsec1]

damn to think joe pesci a year later would win a oscar for goodfellas. great actor to play both parts

[@MrGabehall3]

Then Home Alone

[@sinicalypse]

@@MrGabehall3 yeah but in the 80s JP was the goods!

[@MrGabehall3]

Now JP is in The Irishman and i really wanna see it in the theatre

[@slyjokerg]

Vincent Gambini... David Ferrie...

[@slyjokerg]

@@MrGabehall3 I watched it last night on Netflix. I don't concur with the rave reviews. It isn't bad, but I don't see how anyone could find it to be the masterpiece it is purported to be. I was disappointed.

[@natalieps2387]

I remember the summer of 89 had a lot of big movies & sequels. Lethal weapon karate kid 3 Indiana jones 3 & batman which I loved Ghostbusters 2 & star trek. It was kinda weird that daniel & the girl in the movie decide to just be friends. I guess they wanted it to be different. The best part of the movie is terry silver. Crazy terry in real life was younger than macchio. The cobra kai series is fantastic. I'm really happy for billy zabka who played the dickhead bully in a bunch of 80s movies so it's really refreshing to see cobra kai from Johnny's point of view. Man when I saw the other cobra kai guys I didnt recognize them they aged so much but zabka & macchio look amazing for their ages. Great balls of fire was awful & creepy he married his 13 year old cousin. I know it's a movie but wouldnt Bernie be stiff. Literally & start to decay ? I guess in a weekend they wouldnt . But theyd be stiff with rigor Mortis. I know I know it's a movie.

[@patrickkavanagh7371]

Ebert wants The Talking Kid. Daniel talks things out with the villains. They hug. The end.

[@crystalshaw8744]

Lmbo.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

I think Roger was absolutely correct about the cartoonishly sanitized Jerry Lee Lewis film, and that Gene was out to lunch. It was his first cousin, once removed, Gene, not his "second cousin, twice removed". I think Gene was twice removed from the darker implications of this film. By the way, this film was loosely based on the autobiography of Myra Brown, the 13 year old girl who married Jerry Lee Lewis, who was unhappy how her publisher changed the focus from her to Jerry Lee Lewis, and who was also unhappy with this film adaptation, because she was promised to be involved in the script and casting, and then was cut out of both of them. No wonder this film was so sanitized and misleading. The producers didn't want the ugly truth of Lewis to come out. Jerry Lee Lewis is also believed by some to have murdered one of his wives, and to have covered it up with the help of police who arrived on the scene.

[@natedoggcata]

8:02 Roger Ebert literally describing Cobra Kai lol

[@crystalshaw8744]

😊😊. Facts

[@Statuskuo75]

michael kamen, eric clapton and david sanborn...the sounds of the 90's action movie.

[@peterglen8396]

I like lysol as well. I like to sit down with a cup of coffee and note pad, jotting down my insights to lysol. It's not an easy concept to grasp. Why aren't we implementing lysol in our every day lives? Does lysol have a transcendent form? Is lysol the prime mover? The world deserves a sound conclusion to these questions. But our minds cannot truly embrace the mind of lysol. I said I liked lysol? I love lysol.

[@crystalshaw8744]

Thanks Brick...lmbo

[@EvaSlayAllDay334]

But if you watch the movie, Mr. Miyagi clearly states he does not want to train Daniel for the tournament. He doesn’t want him to be involved in more violence, but he has no choice, but to train him when he sees that he is being threatened, harassed, and physically assaulted by these people.

[@nickperkins8477]

I agree with Roger, here about Lethal Weapon 2.

[@raymondsinclair4]

that ketcup looked tasty

[@reneedennis2011]

I love that Pepsi commercial!

[@TruthnautBegins]

How did Dennis Quaid ever get movie roles?

[@MrDLOC11]

Great balls of fire had no balls and very little fire ...

[@crystalshaw8744]

Roger? ...lmbo

[@sha11235]

Weekend at Bernie's was stupid shit.

[@CheefChaos]

19:09 the most rapey ketchup commercial ever?

[@imcallingjapan2178]

I'm surprised to find out Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive, 20/08/22

[@Patrick19833]

Damn you jinxed it!

[@tfronauer]

I feel lobotomized after listening to that Lysol commercial

[@cbalan777]

That ketchup ad.....lol. Who got the okay on that one?

[@sinicalypse]

Weekend At Bernie's didn't make the title/headline? #WhatInTheActualFuck??!!?

[@ALT_RIGHT]

I liked karate kid 3. Just a little

[@JoeBobTarheel]

10:19 Kid looks like he's 12-13 years old

[@citygirl5705]

World's Dumbest Review: Gene Siskel for "Lethal Weapon 2." And "Point Break."

[@tomservo5007]

after Siskel & Ebert stop doing reviews, movies took a turn for the worse or was that after hollywood sold out to china?

[@75aces97]

Watched Weekend at Bernie's recently. If the party scene were the whole movie, it could have been a brilliant short film lampoon of NY high society too drunk/phony/self-absorbed to care whether the host is dead. Instead it beats a premise to death and drags the corpse around. If that was the point, bravo.

[@Abr022575]

One-joke movie but still fun.

[@threat2015]

I knew one of them would comment on patsy kensit and he said erotic

[@slyjokerg]

I think it was on SNL... someone parodied this show, and for every movie they reviewed, they would mock how S & E would talk about how sexy, beautiful, and sensual the females in the movie were, always throwing in shit like "... and the sex was hot!"

[@joefelice5062]

It’s alway Gene who makes these comments.

[@slyjokerg]

@@joefelice5062 Not always Gene, but he did it more, yes.

[@aakhtar6685]

Wow, I'm surprised they took it so easy on Karate Kid 3. The villains were over-the-top cartoonish, the dialogue was awful, and Siskel & Ebert didn't mention any of that??

[@MrBoyYankee]

Awakfina would be perfect for the remake for a taxing woman.

[@snakeenjoyingacanofbeans5219]

Siskel would of loved Cobra Kai

[@oobrocks]

When i think about joy, GBF is at the top! (Second cousin!)

[@hungwilliam44]

What would they say about modern movies? They'd tear every Marvel movie to shreds hahaha.

[@RocStarr913]

They wouldn’t necessarily hate most of the Marvel movies, but I’m sure they would be growing bored by them. They would likely feel they’ve progressively grown too routine.

[@Jbaxter85]

A Taxing Woman's Return 👍🌟🌟🌟 Lethal Weapon 2 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟 The Karate Kid 3 👎🌟🌟 Weekend at Bernie's 👎🌟🌟

[@markblum5059]

A non-violent Karate Kid? LOL. Yeah and a peaceful Rocky sequel where they just sit down and talk.

[@RocStarr913]

The Karate Kid clearly had nowhere else to go by the third movie.

[@r_jd279]

Heinz ketchup with LSD.

[@brianstjohn]

While I feel the need to admit I like Great Balls of Fire, I find the over-the-top acting *exhausting* (maybe that was the idea?).

[@slyjokerg]

I hate Dennis Quaid. He is fucking terrible.

[@RyansChannel0203]

11:32 Does anyone know who that extra is?

[@mspannarbor]

The actress' name is Bonnie Beutler. She was only credited as "Rebel Room Dancer" in the film.

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

They liked Karate Kid 3? That’s not usual for them. The villain was a coked up business man that wanted to ruin the life of a teenager via a karate tournament. What’s not to like.

[@sinicalypse]

Oh shit, Lethal Weapon 2 is the one with Joe Pesci? I thought it was 3 (and he's definitely in it) but evidently that's the one with Chris Rock.

[@hamupinhere]

4 is the one with Chris Rock, along with Joe Pesci. Pesci is in all of em except the first.

[@slyjokerg]

@@hamupinhere They were adding pieces to try to keep subsequent movies in the string. fresh. They brought in Pesci for Part 2, which was genius. Then for Part 3, they brought in Rene Russo. Part 4 added Chris Rock... and Jet Li.

[@youbetcha6880]

Mel Gibson used to have great hair. What happened???

[@gregoryfrancis3422]

Youbetcha everyone gets old, you too if you’re lucky 🍀

[@WaitingtoHit]

Ha, Ralph Macchio playing a seventeen-year-old at twenty-seven . . .

[@horrorfan4life989]

great balls of fire, lethal weapon 2,are fantastic. karate kid3 was good.weekend at Bernie's is OK and the last film not even worth mentioning

[@bobthebear1246]

Tim Treakle Clearly because you didn't understand it

[@goldentaco4970]

Of course they have to throw a foreign film in at the end. 🙄

[@flexibleatheist]

I never could see Quaid as JLL. Just didn't work for me. It seemed comical.

[@slyjokerg]

As I said to someone else, I have always hated Dennis Quaid. I think he is a horrifically bad actor.

[@Abr022575]

@@slyjokerg he's very good in the right role. Breaking Away, InnerSpace, and The Alamo come to mind.

[@slyjokerg]

​@@Abr022575 To be fair, it has been so long since I have seen Breaking Away, I really can't address that reference, but I didn't like Innerspace or his performance, and I can't believe that you brought up The Alamo with which to defend him. That movie was awful, and he was a big part of it being awful. He is so bad in so many movies... Wyatt Earp, The Day After Tomorrow, Smart People... the list goes on and on. But if you wanted to defend him, you should have used The Big Easy or D.O.A, or even Enemy Mine.

[@Abr022575]

@@slyjokerg I thought he was better in Wyatt Earp than Kilmer was in Tombstone (and I'm not alone)

[@slyjokerg]

@@Abr022575 You have to be kidding me. Kilmer's Holliday is one of the greatest over the top performances of all time... right up there with Hannibal Lecter and Tony Montana. In my experience, you ARE alone. LOL

[@Harkness78]

They are crazy, Weekend at Bernies is hilarious! The sequel is like the worst movie ever made, but that first one is great.

[@divine.feline]

I never liked lethal weapon 2

[@pandaeyes42]

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!

[@ThomasTVP]

Of course, Weekend at Bernie's has since become a cult film.

[@RocStarr913]

That doesn’t make it good.

[@JohnMais]

The Pepsi commercial at 10:45 is hilarious. "A generation of color, black, white, yellow, red" with images of a black kid, a white kid, an Asian kid and (confusingly) a latino kid? Do you think they had a native american kid and thought "nah, too racist." Also, the song is just terrible.

[@JohnMais]

Or maybe it is supposed to be a native american kid? Unclear.

[@ilovebrandnewcarpets]

The third karate kid was absolute trash. Gene was way off this episode.

[@babybird871]

Yes, the opening montage almost looks like the bad karate teacher is going to change..almost invites sympathy for him..instead they get a Stephen Seagal look alike to help him...

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

He said it sucked. just that he liked the villain

[@MattSingh1]

ilovebrandnewcarpets - you're utterly wrong, part 3 was/is a good film, and better than part 2.

[@StevenAsadi]

Part 2 was trash! Long and Boring! Go eat an egg roll! Part 3 has a lot of fans.

[@maxlaser2597]

Lethal Weapon movies have aged badly. Karate Kid 2 & 3 sucked! Dennis Quaid was trying to be a real actor and embarrassed himself. He wasn't even on Jonathan Frakes level but was somehow getting parts in movies.

[@66kprdwd]

Great Balls of Fire was terrible. Even though Jerry Lee Lewis agreed to dub Dennis Quaid's singing scenes, he had no other input and disowned the movie.

[@davidfrederick1971]

Roger Ebert argues asking why, isnt there more to this man NO...In a HBO documentary "I am what I am", YOU GET WHAT YOU GET.. His music answered those questions of exactly who what he is

[@christopjerfoote5747]

It wasn't that bad it had a great score and decent actors.

[@hamupinhere]

@@christopjerfoote5747 'Great Balls Of Fire' was a good film; it was just inaccurate as shit. Despite that, I might go out on a limb and say that it's probably the best music biopic, or at the very least my favorite music biopic. Music biopics are always way too serious for their own good (especially nowadays), and at times, nauseatingly schmaltzy, with the melodrama dialed way up. They try way too hard to appeal to audiences as emotionally-moving and epic. Musicians always have to be tragic characters in all their movies with stereotypical sex, drugs, and rock n' roll story arcs (I suppose it'd be boring otherwise, but at least it wouldn't be predictable). They're always getting high, fucking, crying, and then having lamely depicted epiphanies about halfway through the film that leads to the writing of their "big hit" or something (usually unironically similar to that one scene in 'Forrest Gump' where, in comedic fashion, he inspires John Lennon's 'Imagine' on The Dick Cavett Show). 'Great Balls Of Fire' is/was not one of those kinds of films. Many might disagree with me, but I also thought Dennis Quaid made for a good Jerry Lee Lewis. Other than that, I've always maintained that music has no business being made into a Hollywood film. If you want a story about musicians or rock stars, ask a roadie to tell you one.

[@Clay3613]

Ghostbusters II wasn't bad at all.

[@bobthebear1246]

Clay3613 It sucked, dude. And not in the good way.

[@elheadkickio]

If Ghostbusters 1 didn't exist, sure, but by comparison it's not so great. The plot is a beat-by-beat retread of the first, Bill Murray wasn't happy so you barely get any ad-libs, most of the scripted jokes are clangers, and the stuff like "We be fast and they be slow" feels like they were trying way too hard. Oh, and that painting of them in the end made zero sense.

[@paulft272]

Lethal weapon 2 was not as good as the first one.

[@Userius1]

It was.

[@tempolost]

It was my least favorite of the series

[@Userius1]

It has the most iconic moments along with the first one.

[@patrickriley674]

Ahhh Drums How come? 🤔

[@75aces97]

Really? This was a rare one where I liked the second one better.

[@kippaseo8027]

I wonder what Cisco and E Burt would have thought of the sequel to "weekend at Bernie's" weekend at Bernie's to the Joe Biden administration? Lol

[@freddyfurrah3789]

GENE THOUGHT. THAT WAS A MAJOR PROBLEM 😂 FOR HIM.