In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Body Heat, Continental Divide, Mommie Dearest, Only When I Laugh and First Monday in October.
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@matthewschwartz66072 жыл бұрын
I loved Ted Danson and Mickey Rourke in Body Heat, too.
@jackal59 Жыл бұрын
I once saw _Mommy Dearest_ at a party where (to our host's great irritation) everyone quickly began treating it like _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_ , laughing, commenting, and chanting the lines along with the actors. " _Tina! Bring_ me the _axe!_ "
@Wilson.katie8156 ай бұрын
Body Heat was so good. Just a great story with a great ending.
@bigneon_glitter Жыл бұрын
Larry Kasdan had a good week.
@johnnash2972 жыл бұрын
Went to a gay dance club in 81 It was no more wire hanger night what a blast!
@pam06262 жыл бұрын
Continental Divide is such a gem of a movie. John Belushi would have gone on to play many more leading man roles.
@chrisfinch8637 Жыл бұрын
His role in that movie wouldn't quite top Bluto or Joliet Jake, since those roles of his were some of his iconic ones, before his passing in 1982.
@richardcourchene74774 ай бұрын
He would have eventually turned to drama and won an Oscar
@pam06264 ай бұрын
@@chrisfinch8637 Bluto & Jake were purely comedic; Continental Divide showed his range and allowed him to pivot. He carried the entire film.
@marktosh37392 жыл бұрын
Belushi's character in "Continental Divide" was loosely based on the "Chicago Daily News", the 'Chicago Sun-Times," and the "Chicago Tribune" columnist Mike Royko.
@TheLolapuff2 жыл бұрын
His book “Boss” is imo, the best American political non-fiction of all time. I miss columnists like him and Breslin.
@lowbridge70702 жыл бұрын
Coming from an abusive, dysfunctional home myself, I take issue with Gene's complaint that the movie doesn't explain why Joan is acting towards her children the way she does. Seeing as how this movie (and the book) is told from the abused child's (Christina Crawford) point of view, being an abused child myself, I can explain why the movie (and the book) doesn't explain why Joan acted the way she did. Because as children we really don't know. We can't explain it. We were children. Not psychologists. Even in our adult years, we are still unable to explain why our abusive parents acted the way they did to us kids. It's no wonder Christina didn't include the reasoning behind Joan's abuses in her book. Because she obviously didn't know the reasons why. For what its worth, Christina Crawford also hated the movie for various reasons. While the movie was based on her book, she had no creative control over how they made the movie. Anyways, here is the REAL christmas radio interview that is portrayed in the movie and shown here in the Siskel and Ebert review: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5uuc2uaYsmGsKs
@patricias5122 Жыл бұрын
It seems hard to believe now, but when this film was made, child abuse was still only beginning to be understood. I'm not excusing SISKEL and EBERT -- by the way, EBERT is the one who is dismissive, not SISKEL so much in my opinion. I"m sorry for the pain you experienced. I thought the book by Christina Crawford was far better than the movie. She and her younger brother, Chris, definitely suffered.
@nitaweitzel8222 ай бұрын
As adults we can parent ourselves. And learn the reasons and knowledge sets us free. Understanding sets us free from blaming ourselves.
@alanwright88192 жыл бұрын
"I will always beat you!" Talk about foreshadowing! Wait till the wire hanger comes out!
@YouTube-tied Жыл бұрын
I wish they would have continued with the Dog of The Week segment, or something similar, on their subsequent review shows. God knows there is never a shortage of lousy movies.
@gheller2261 Жыл бұрын
Watching these films from 70s reminds me of how smoking was so normal at the time. Ugh. And I look at Kathleen Turner and wonder how differently she would have aged had she not been a smoker.
@adamt5164 Жыл бұрын
The actor who played Louis B. Mayer in Mommie Dearest also played Benjamin Franklin in the film version of the musical 1776.
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
Howard Da Silva and won an Emmy Award in 1978
@ricardocantoral767210 ай бұрын
@@KaejaeDoherty Sadly, he didn't work for several years at one point due to being blacklisted during the Communist witch hunt.
@malichitte Жыл бұрын
Here for Body Heat
@brgreg87252 жыл бұрын
Makes you wonder where Belushi could’ve gone had he lived.
@scottfranco92092 жыл бұрын
Loved loved Continental Divide. Big crush on Miss Brown as.a 16 yr old for me.
@kkampy4052 Жыл бұрын
Saw Body Heat, Continental Divide and Mommie Dearest. All good.
@Krpfan2 жыл бұрын
Continental Divide...Produced by a young up and comer named Steven Spielberg...
@stevenwatchorn98162 жыл бұрын
As a producer, yes; he was already there as a director by this point :)
@stevenwatchorn98162 жыл бұрын
6:40 Holy moley! Another Kevin Bacon sighting! :D
@matthewschwartz66072 жыл бұрын
There should be some sort of 6 Degrees with him .
@raymondm.99542 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the ID. Saved me having to look it up to confirm it.
@gspendlove2 ай бұрын
My brother had to remind me recently that the very first movie we ever watched on premium cable was Chu Chu and the Philly Flash. IIRC, it was a channel called Spotlight. One of the minor ones, now long gone, which was competing with HBO and Showtime. I literally remember nothing about that movie except Carol and Alan walking down the street arguing with each other.
@MrWitchman19673 жыл бұрын
Great post...
@freemangriffin49532 жыл бұрын
Faye Dunaway gave the performance of her career in Mommie Dearest, a favorite movie of mine. Body Heat had two of the Nola's from The Doctors: Kathleen Turner and Kim Zimmer! I loved Only When I Laugh so much back then, would love to see it again!
@gheller2261 Жыл бұрын
I rewatched Mommie Dearest a few years ago and it was just as icky as I remembered it to be when I saw it as a kid. "No wire hangers EVER!!" became a popular phrase amongst us kids when it was out.
@paulvoorhies8821 Жыл бұрын
Reva Shayne Lewis 4ever!!
@paulvoorhies8821 Жыл бұрын
It’s a very entertaining movie for sure, but Dunaway’s best performance? Hardly. Network, Chinatown, and Bonnie And Clyde were certainly better. It’s an interesting performance, to be sure, but is just so much over the top camp.
@EricVoegelin4 ай бұрын
Depressing was a criticism of Mommie Dearest for Siskel & Ebert. That was the point of the film. Siskel is a little better, but neither he nor Ebert seriously treat child abuse.
@Ken_Scaletta11 ай бұрын
Mommy Dearest is a great comedy.
@WilAdams3 жыл бұрын
The plot of Body Heat is so tightly written, and the acting so on point. The script is written with fire in every word, and when the end comes and you realize that from the very first moment that he sees her she already knew he was there, already knew everything about him, and that she could USE him. This makes Maddie Walker one of the best Strong Female Characters in film history. She becomes that not because she fist-fights men and beats them up (as you see in the films of today) no. She uses the fact that she is a beautiful woman, she know this and she uses it to her own advantage. I imagine that the real-life French spy in WW1, Mata Hari must have worked the same way that Maddie Walker works in this film. She is played by Kathleen Turner so well that it kicked off a career for her. As for Mommie Dearest, I do not understand why people bad mouth this film. It was bases--we know--a a book written by a woman who was cut out of the will and thus had an axe to grind. Tearing down the legacy of Joan Crawford was her only chance for revenge. Yes, she is just that petty. Faye did such a great job channeling Joan. Even IF, and I am not saying that she did, she did punish the kids, we know from today's society that punishing kids produces well mannered adults. Let's not forget that Joan was a movie star and not an actress, so naturally she would want her kids to PROJECT according to her script. First Monday in October was another film that suffered from miscasting. Jill is just not right for this role. Sigourney Weaver would have been better. She could have infused real emotion into the role, whereas Jill just says words. We see this same thing in today's music. Singers (and I use that term loosely) today merely say the words, whereas when you listen to artists like Tanya Tucker (Blood Red and Goin' Down is a great example, and she was only 14 when she sang that song), or Elvis (In the Ghetto) you can hear the emotion they feel as they sing.
@nattyps3160 Жыл бұрын
Mattie is also brilliant in she pulled the Hans gruber way b4 die hard blew up the boat house so she was thought to be dead. Only she actually did it " sitting on a beach earning 20%" I have no sympathy for hurts character. He's still a murderer & was too stupid every step of the way that he was being played just for some hot piece of tail ! Rourke 's character ( who was great in this even warned him this girl was trouble & told him not to do it. )
@LilannB Жыл бұрын
@@nattyps3160 Body Heat is one of my all time favorite films. I saw it in theaters several times back in 1981. I agree it is hard to feel sorry for Ned. He was willing to be the paramour of an adulteress. Then he murdered her husband out of greed for sex and money. His problem was he ran into someone worse then him. Interesting how all his friends could see right through her. In the scene where Pete and Oscar talk to Ned about Matty after the meeting about the will. They both warn him that she is trouble and to stay away from her. But Ned was so consumed with lust he wouldn't listen. He should have known what she was when she betrayed him by altering the will after she promised him she would not do that. Her actions exposed him and put him on law enforcement's radar.
@smithb0134 Жыл бұрын
"Mommy Dearest" was based on a book written by a bitter adopted daughter who was pissed because mommy dearest left her out of her will when Joan Crawford died. That's why we don't know the origin of Crawford's fury because there was no fury. Most people don't even know Crawford had 4 children, not 2, and her other kids, including Christopher, have said the book was a pack of lies. The film is an exercise in inexperienced directing. The director was too intimated by Dunaway's stardom to tell her she's over acting the part. Thus, the movie is campy because we're laughing for the wrong reasons.
@daughterofolaf10 ай бұрын
Great post. I completely agree with you.
@reneedennis20113 жыл бұрын
I like Body Heat and Momniw Dearest.
@suzycreamcheesez43713 жыл бұрын
Mommie
@BullToTheShit2 жыл бұрын
I too liked Mommie Dearest. Ebert says it's pointless. I thought it was gripping to see what Christina had to endure. In public having to pretend everything was wonderful, while having to deal with a drunken monster behind closed doors.
@EricVoegelin4 ай бұрын
Mathau worked so much over the couse of his career that his performances tend toward blandness. What surprised me was that Clayburgh was so bad in the First Monday in October review.
@josephrocha14224 күн бұрын
Body Heat is great!
@brgreg87252 жыл бұрын
If Mommie Dearest makes you cringe; doesn’t it do it’s job? Faye Dunaway is always great
@asgardpictures2 жыл бұрын
To answer their question, Joan Crawford’s motivation for being miserable can’t be explored as the story was written by the adopted daughters point of view. How would she know? She only knew the misery, not the real woman behind it.
@patricias5122 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if SISKEL and Ebert would revise their opinions today? (I had to capitalize SISKEL because of my auto editor.)
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
@@patricias5122they never have, the movie was 1980 , if they changed their minds, it wouldn't take 15 years
@ricardocantoral767210 ай бұрын
The film was ridiculous, total trash.
@nitaweitzel8222 ай бұрын
Body heat. Good movie, awesome ending.
@o.c.kiddkidd51632 жыл бұрын
Except for Mommie Dearest, which I found depressingly dark, I loved each of these films when they first came out. But First Monday In October and Continental Divide were tied for my favorites. Kathleen Turner made me into a man! And Body Heat was the best film noir I'd seen in years.
@harrellr12149 ай бұрын
Am I the only person that liked Only When I Laugh?
@samweisberg36738 ай бұрын
Whoa yet another small young Kevin bacon role (in “only when I laugh”)
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
Just because James Coco was gay in the movie doesn't mean he has a boyfriend Lol and Marsha Mason was never raped in it
@citygirl570510 ай бұрын
Yeah, why did Ebert say she was raped? She was beaten up but nobody said she was raped.
@TobeyStarburst11 ай бұрын
Mommy Dearest so sad
@natalieps23873 жыл бұрын
I have to see body heat , I've heard so many good things & they love it. Mommie dearest is the best bad movie to love. So over the top & crazy. " no wire hangers eveerer!!"
@MoreMedication Жыл бұрын
Natalie: Body Heat is available for free on UTube. (Although to be honest, it’s a bit dark and fuzzy.) It’s also available as a rental, and hopefully the resolution is better. It is a fantastic movie. Enjoy!
@carrieheffernan16852 жыл бұрын
Young Kevin Bacon.
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
He has to have the best body of the actors of the 80s
@johnbogg7395 Жыл бұрын
Only When I Laugh is abysmal.
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
Totally disagree
@kristinschermann6581 Жыл бұрын
Kevin Bacon at 6:28 !!
@paulvoorhies8821 Жыл бұрын
Come on. You can’t say that Mommie Dearest isn’t enjoyable. It surely is. It is surely serious camp, but it’s interesting camp.
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
Faye Dunaway was runner up to 3 of the biggest Critics awards so people who harp that it was critically ridiculed, or at least she , are sadly mistaken
@paulvoorhies882111 ай бұрын
@@KaejaeDoherty Which awards?
@paulvoorhies882111 ай бұрын
@@KaejaeDoherty I just checked. National Board Of Critics and NYCFC. But then, she won about 50 Razzie type award. I don’t think it’s a bad performance. Over the top, yes. Campy, yes. But outright bad-no.
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
@@paulvoorhies8821 I never cared about the Razzies
@davidstevenson4043 ай бұрын
I think Ebert came out being "the longer careered" critic because Siskel must have chosen a different life--Ebert IS OVERATED!
@bertmustin Жыл бұрын
Did Siskel get certain characters in Body Heat completely wrong or was he was just throwing people off?
@nattyps31602 жыл бұрын
" no wire hangers everrrrrrr" Lawrence kasden wrote so many great screenplays but lost his talent i.e Co writing the horrid Disney star wars films
@robzilla730 Жыл бұрын
He's old now. Went for the easy paycheck. Don't blame him
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
@@robzilla730he never wrote the screenplay
@markelijio601210 ай бұрын
@@KaejaeDoherty He wrote screenplays as a Oscar nominated filmmaker: The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist and Grand Canyon.
@KaejaeDoherty10 ай бұрын
@@markelijio6012 I know who he is. You obviously didn't understand what I wrote
@markelijio60128 ай бұрын
"The Empire Strikes Back" (his first screenplay) followed by "Return of the Jedi" as a Disney legend
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
Here is my comment...they both loved Star 80 , which is a Brilliant film but also the most depressing film I ever saw and watched it twice, from 14 yrs to 44 and still felt the same, but Mommie Dearest has some of the same depressing feelings, but a Brilliant performance by Faye Dunaway and they are against the child abuse So why is that movie, which is so depraved , but its so well acted and Mommie Dearest is just as depraved but well acted but they give it a low rating
@ricardocantoral767210 ай бұрын
I enjoyed Star 80, a great film about the dark side of fame. I don't agree it was depraved, it told the truth about a grisly murder and a destructive love triangle. That was Fosse's exploration of why fame has a tendency to destroy people, it had a meaning. Mommie Dearest was just ugly, exploitative garbage. As for Fay Dunaway, holy hell. She made the average silent film actor look subtle by comparison.
@gheller2261 Жыл бұрын
Did Roger not understand that Mommie Dearest was based on the book written by her daughter? And that the book was a huge best seller?
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
So what , Everyone knew it was , doesn't make it true
@angelthman1659 Жыл бұрын
The giant TV graphic takes up over half of the image. That's silly and necessary.
@ThatOldTV Жыл бұрын
The TV is wallpaper basically. These videos were being presented in their original resolution, 480. I didn't want to blow them up because it makes them blurry. However, I had a lot of complaints. I've since changed things.
@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole5 ай бұрын
I admire Rodger Ebert's often brilliant observations of films, but for him to say out loud: "Who who would wanna--I can't IMAGINE who would want to see this film."--that statement reduces me to a base, morbid, sicko filmmaker. How dare I watch repeated viewings of this debased, sensationalistic pseudo-sadistic drivel. The point both guys missed here is the same mark they miss about David Lynch films or films that deal with Spirituality. These litter white nerds even made fun of Poltergeist for having ghosts in it! Siskel and Ebert simply do not understand the Freudian element within film or literature itself. They would HATE Salmande Rushdie novels, if they would even even bother to explore metaphysical literature at all. I was a victim of severe child abuse from a MEXICAN Narcisistic mother and whimpy, closeted, enabling father. (And this is what actually led me to become a film-maker). True victims of such abuses know very well that this film required NO explanation for Joan Crawford's motives for abuse. They already know exactly what she was: a woman unchained, unfettered and unchecked. A Narccisistic predator who obsessively mirrored herself in grandeur only to hide the self-loathing emptyness within. Priviledged, sheltered Siskel & Ebert would have no clue. Yeah, Mr. Rodger Ebert, maybe I was getting-off on the explicit horror scenes that made up this film. But did it ever occur to you that I might have actually been taking notes? You see, it helps me hide the tears, Mr. Ebert. Sincerely, Your, _Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
@shawnmcewen6210 Жыл бұрын
Spot must have died.
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
No, his owner wanted more money so they replaced him with another
@suicidality2744 Жыл бұрын
The only film Kathleen Turner looked good in. She immediately hit the wall after Body Heat
@gailwebb9619 Жыл бұрын
She looked beautiful in Romancing the Stone.
@KaejaeDoherty11 ай бұрын
If that's your opinion, then fine, but she was beautiful in many 80s films