Siskel & Ebert Review - Red Sonja, Silverado, Back to the Future, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Red Sonja, Silverado, Back to the Future and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

[@kimberelydavis379]

Back to the Future is one of the greats! What an awesome week for movies! 🍿🥤

[@kas1755]

It's wonderful to watch these again. Thanks That Old TV.

[@TheSamdroidOnline]

I've never seen Gene and Roger laugh so much at a movie before. I loved Red Sonja when I was a kid.

[@queenglamazona8789]

Me too. I Still love It.

[@flywheelshyster]

Same.

[@egggnome6266]

After all these years, the line from Red Sonya that still makes me smile: Little Prince Tarn says sadly, "My army ran away."

[@queenglamazona8789]

Prince Tarn was played by Ernie Reyes Jr., He was also in the Last Dragon, Surf Ninjas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2-The Secret of the Ooze, and the Rundown.

[@deeboy4378]

What an iconic lineup of movies to review. . The 80s were awesome. . The best decade in history to be a kid. Hands down. . . Sonja! . Sonja!

[@thelostone6981]

All great (and so bad, it’s good with Red Sonja) films in one episode!! I loved Siskel struggling to say Buddha was taking a dump!! Can you imagine the conversation when the cameras weren’t running and they didn’t have to worry about keeping it clean for tv? 😂😂

[@nicktaylor2657]

Red Sonya is one of the great comedy of all time Don't think I seen Siskel and Ebert laugh so much at a review

[@queenglamazona8789]

I think they Secretly liked Red Sonja.

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@queenglamazona8789 Are you kidding? This is their favourite movie! My respect for both has just soared.

[@d-d-i]

@@queenglamazona8789 We all have those guilty pleasure movies that are bad, but they entertain us immensely and we laugh our asses off with them.

[@xdmaster7888]

I love how much fun S&E had parsing the most idiotic and goofy elements in RED SONJA. I've seen Good Bad Movies and enjoyed them quite a lot; sometimes the best comedies are unintentionally funny (and I agree with Gene that the people who made RS did not set out to make the material funny, but it's good that it at least worked on that zany level).

[@johnguedel7119]

There is nothing better than the two of them bonding over a bad film.

[@parkerpshebnisky1051]

Back to the future is one of the best movies ever made!

[@dmp04]

I ordered a flux capacitor on Amazon last week.

[@tobyhart]

​@@dmp04great Scott

[@Wallyworld30]

Roger Ebert said he want's to see a 4th movie in Mad Max universe. So sad he passed away almost exactly 2 years before Mad Max Fury Road came out. He would have gone bananas over that one. Probably the best of all 4 films. I am surprised they loved Beyond Thunderdome more than Mad Max Road Warrior though. Here is how I rank all Mad Max films. 1. Fury Road (IMDB 8.1) 2. Road Warrior (IMDB 7.6) 3. Beyond Thunderdome (IMDB 6.2) 4. Mad Max (IMDB 6.8) I recall around 1985 my father renting Road Warrior on Betamax and it was a family favorite forever after that. I actually went to the theater with my father to see Fury Road when it came out and both of us loved it. It was very similar to Road Warrior with 10x everything. Special Effects and action is among the best of any film to ever come out.

[@thelostone6981]

It would be interesting to have had them see Fury Road. I agree with your ranking with one little caveat; I would move Mad Max II into the number one slot, with Thunderdome in the number 2 spot, if you account for sentimentality. Seeing MMII was mind blowing for me as a kid and I absolutely loved Thunderdome when it came out. Fury Road is just 100% awesome and I’ve watched it more than the other ones. But the others have a special place in my heart.

[@mooseyman74]

Mel Gibson is Mad Max

[@pmafterdark]

@@mooseyman74 Agree!

[@Maniac1607]

"Fury Road" is the best of the series?! No. Just no.

[@an3ony]

RE; Red Sonja, I never realized Sandahl Bergman was the evil queen in this, she played Valeria from Conan the Barbarian

[@MrBoyYankee]

Back to the Future Certified Classic 4Life!! 💯 Silverado Certified Classic 💯 Mad Max:3 Beyond Thunderdome Certified Classic 💯 3 outta 4 ain't bad in 1985.

[@trikkerman1]

Silverado sucked ass.

[@jonstiffer4994]

This was just that weeks show.

[@RobMacKendrick]

I'd argue that Red Sonja was also a classic, just not in the conventional sense.

[@kali3665]

I'm glad they eventually realized that muting the movies in the background while Gene and Roger did their summing up was a great idea because often I just can't hear what they say!

[@RobinDale50]

What a summer for movies! BTTF, Silverado, Beyond Thunderdome, Spies Like Us, Real Genius, Legend, A View to a Kill, Last Dragon, American Ninja, Commando, Enemy Mine, St Elmos Fire, Legend of Billie Jean, Pale Rider, Day of the Dead, Goonies, Fright Night, Weird Science, Clue, Return of the Living Dead, Ladyhawke, Lifeforce, The Bride, Remo Williams, Brewsters Millions, Better off Dead, Pee Wee's Big Adventure and many more!

[@aretnap3653]

The End of 'Back to TheFuture' Had Us ElementarySchool Kids Talking about 'Back to TheFuture II', Until It Finally Came Out!

[@Locadel2003]

Silverado actually launched Kevin costner career, also with Fandango

[@chinabluewho]

I watched Fandango at a 5$ a carload Tuesday night special drive in theatre, seems like an eternity since then, I had a root beer float and a chili cheese dawg from the A&W root beer place from across the road, such different laid back times.

[@ForlornFreddy]

Fandango is one of those great movies that no one talks about.

[@newwavepop]

Silverado is a good film and a welcomed Western at the time. and i absolutely LOVE Fandango.

[@plissken2156]

6:55 - Always wondered how Doc Brown got into the Delorean while it was in the back of that truck. There would not have been enough room in it for the gull-wing doors to open vertically.

[@RobinDale50]

Car hauling trucks like this have a side door for exactly this reason.

[@plissken2156]

But how did the gull-wing doors open vertically while in the back of the truck? There seems to be no room for this to happen.

[@queenglamazona8789]

I loved Red Sonja. Nothing Wrong With A Female Version Of Conan The Barbarian.

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

Red Sonja was directed by Richard Fleisher who also directed Soylent Green, Tora! Tora! Tora! and The Vikings. It was written, partly, by George McDonald Fraser, known for his frequently comedic writing. IF he wrote those lines it was intentional comedy. OK maybe he didn't write those but he was hired to work on the script.

[@aretnap3653]

"Getren, Where Are You!" (As an 80's Kid, I Watched RedSonja EveryTime it was on 80's & 90's Cable TV!)

[@8584zender]

They really got it right with Back to the Future. Iconic. Gene missed on a few things over the years (some of which he later recanted) but not this time!

[@k-trashradio5163]

Ebert; I wanna see the fourth one (mad max) And yet he never lived to see fury road 🙁

[@ericfelds6291]

Im sure they screened it for him in the afterlife if there is one

[@ganglabesh]

he would have absolutely adored fury road

[@BookClubDisaster]

Good thing. Just a two hour car chase!

[@kcthesledgestoryteller]

Interesting watching them talk about Kevin Costner before his career took off.

[@nongthip]

Back to the Future was the mid-80s equivalent to 1939's The Wizard of Oz, and has yet to be equaled, and the sequels IMHO were not required. Peggy Sue Got Married was a nice attempt at time/reality travel, but fell a bit short. Do you agree?

[@mooseyman74]

I like the sequels but the ending with Doc and his family on the time travelling train craps all over everything that was the driving force for the trilogy, don't mess with time

[@rodrigosebastianpagano8198]

Gene and Roger would have loved Mad Max: Fury Road.

[@linkbiff1054]

I don't think Gene would have liked it. He would have found it too tiresome and underwritten.

[@ganglabesh]

absolutely

[@brianthompson4717]

Life isn't fair. Siskel and Ebert never got to review Mad Max Fury Road.

[@garveychi7585]

So true!

[@davidkirinic9463]

All mad max movies suck

[@captainunload]

I'll do it for them. Two thumbs down.

[@etme1000]

Life isn't fair. Fury Road would have been truly great, with Mel Gibson as Mad Max.

[@happy_jcg]

This makes me sad. I would love to have heard their critiques on so many current films. These guys were taken way too soon.

[@darrenhemann6645]

To say that Kevin Costner’s character didn’t need to be in the film is a little harsh. It was his character that brought together Scott Glenn and Kevin Kline. I can’t completely disagree that it could have been leaner. But that was a character that I would say was more essential than some others.

[@christopherfoote4643]

His character was cut out nearly entirely from the Big Chill. Without radically compromising it. Lawrence Kasdan directed both films. F. W.I.W.

[@philipcalderon3208]

“Back to the Future” (1985) Review: 5:40 Recap: 20:50

[@freemangriffin4953]

I saw Silverado but don't remember it at all! Back to the Future was fun - I wonder what it would have been like with Eric Stoltz?

[@AUTOPSY666]

Gloomy

[@newwavepop]

i remember me and my friends being excited for Red Sonja and honestly being sort of confused at the time whether it had something to do with Conan or not. now i do not even remember the film at all i just remember being very underwhelmed. where as i literally just watched both Conan films again about a month ago on Netflix. i did not like Westerns back then, in fact i sort of hated Westerns back then. they were the old boring films that my father who controlled the TV was always watching. i dont think it was until about the mid 2000s that i started to take another look at Westerns, which was mainly from watching "Open Range" which starred Costner and then going back and watching "Tombstone" and " Unforgiven" again. and then going back and rediscovering all the old great Westerns with "High Noon" and "Rio Bravo" being a couple personal favorites. and i love "Silverado" but i actually never realized it was an actual theatrical release, seriously all these years i thought it was a made for TV film. there are two films from when i was growing up that EVERBODY loved and are still hailed as among the greatest films ever by A LOT of people, and that is "Back To The Future" and "Ghostbusters". when i was a kid a liked them as much as anyone else, but honestly neither one has ever held up that much for me, not saying they are not good just saying neither one of them have held my interest nearly as much as several other films from back then that i love and no one else seems to care about. i like "Back To The Future" i just do not find it the life changing masterpiece other people seem to. Thunderdome is another, ALL of us kids loved it back then and we would eve go out in the yard and play some version of Mad Max where we are living in that post apocalyptic world. and i can still watch Thunderdome or Road Warrior or Fury Road, but im just not as interested in the Mad Max world as i was back then. and even back then i found the original Mad Max just boring, same as i did the original Rocky film. i dont know it is weird what stays with us as nostalgia and what doesnt, because for me it has always seemed to be the huge mega fils everyone loved and still love that dont hold up for me. while other films that ere not as successful or as well remembered by others are the ones that meant more to me personally back then and thus have held up more for me and my nostalgia.

[@staxmantim]

Who’s Bridget Nelson?

[@amjoshuaf]

They were having a grand old time in this one. Lol

[@jjstraka1982]

They desperately wanted to recommend Red Sonja just based on pure inept absurdity but couldn't quite cross the line.

[@sm5574]

Especially with the binary thumbs-up/down trademark, they couldn't have a movie like that boasting two thumbs up. It would have diluted the meaning.

[@dragondaveltd1992]

2:33 Watch Out Sonja!

[@benjamindavidson4033]

How did all of those movies come out on the same week? Life was better in the 80s... I mean even Red Sonja, the worst of the bunch, is kind of a classic in its own way.

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

I like The Black Shield of Falworth. And not just because it is silly. Which it is.

[@thebookwasbetter3650]

If you study script writing, eventually you will see Back to the Future as an example of how to write a perfect one.

[@gridlo]

After dozens of rewrites. In the original draft, the time machine was in the floor of Doc's apartment (he lived in the clock tower) and it was powered by Coca Cola.

[@DannyCosmos]

set up and pay off at its best. its not perfect...the incest stuff still bothers me but story telling wise its amazing.

[@ganglabesh]

minus incest

[@DannyCosmos]

@@ganglabesh some people like that stuff

[@thebookwasbetter3650]

@@ganglabesh there was no incest. George just saw Marty as a friend.

[@garylobo348]

1.21 Gigawats!!

[@Busrayne]

There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?

[@Slightlybent]

Silverado is a classic.

[@RobMacKendrick]

D'oh! I've been trying to be a great swordsman with a SO-SO SWORD! Dammit guys, why didn't you tell me???

[@rdoyle29]

Siskel swipes at the director of "Red Sonja" ... it's Richard Fleischer, man. "Red Sonja" may be far from his best film, but Fleischer directed dozens and dozens of great films including "10 Rillington Place", "Fantastic Voyage" and "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"

[@ricardocantoral7672]

I enjoyed Fleischer's best work but there's no denying that he had a highly uneven film career.

[@reneedennis2011]

I've seen 10 Rillington Place. It's an excellent movie.

[@rhyancoleman6462]

And the son of Max Fleischer from Betty Boop and Popeye fame

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@rhyancoleman6462 hmmm , I thought I recognized that name ... I know him from the Superman cartoons ... Those hold up phenomenally today. Great animation. Supposedly influenced the modern DC animation, especially when they were conceptualizing Batman the Animated series back in the early 90s

[@queenglamazona8789]

You forgot to mention the Vikings. Richard Fleischer was Overqualified to Direct Red Sonja.

[@tommy1138]

Gene and Roger were way off on Beyond Thunderdome. It flopped at the time and was considered the worst of the three Mad Max films (up to that point). Time has been kind to Beyond Thunderdome and it's now considered a minor classic. It's still the worst of the (now 5) Mad Max films but it has some cool moments.

[@quietearthMT78]

So it was two thumbs UP for Red Sonja then? 🤣🤣

[@jamesmitchell8922]

No its thumbs down but they were tempted to due so due to the amount of laughs they had.

[@staxmantim]

I guess Christopher Lloyd was pretty good like Michael Jordan was at basketball

[@oobrocks]

I wanted to like Red Sonja but when i saw the Ed Wood quality of the monster, i gave up. Only good if u want to laugh AT it. (How such terrible movies get released?)

[@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729]

"Watch out Sonja" ....

[@kurtboyer299]

By far the weakest of the 3 S&E opening scores.

[@TruthnautBegins]

Mad Max 3 was more like Happy Max. It was a very bad movie.

[@highwaystar3780]

👍

[@RobertLewis85]

I wonder how much they got paid to say they liked Mad Max 3

[@Jbaxter85]

BTTF 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟. Mad Max 3 👍🌟🌟🌟 Silverado 👍🌟🌟🌟 Red Sonya 👎🌟🌟

[@MrBoyYankee]

Ayeee JWBAXTER!!!

[@Jbaxter85]

@@MrBoyYankee Ok 👌

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

Not only is it the worse film in the series it's title isn't even grammatically correct. Shouldn't it be "Beyond The Thunderdome"?

[@footofjuniper8212]

"Save it for the Semantics Dome, E.B. White." -- Rick Sanchez ;)

[@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729]

loved the movie but they`re Australian......gotta expect some quirks

[@pandaeyes42]

Beyond Thunderdome was good until the kids showed up and it turned into a freaking Ewok Adventure!

[@bustergoldenrod]

Agreed, the entire film set in Bartertown would have been epic.

[@123rockfan]

@@bustergoldenrod funny, I actually hated the part in Bartertown. Felt really muddled and a bit meaningless

[@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729]

I liked it when the kids told their story....well acted and written..funny

[@queenglamazona8789]

"Missis Walker !!!"

[@James-o7k]

so, that theme music is very horrible. it should be removed from the annals of history.

[@bradwarfield]

Back when you could see movies without "The Rock" in them. The 70's and 80's were the golden era of movies, before America got taken over by corporations and corrupt politicians and everything just became lame.

[@traceahlers455]

I gotta wonder if Siskel was drunk or if the brain cancer was creeping in.

[@warriormanmaxx8991]

@Trace Ahlers - re: "I gotta wonder....." 1. Do you go through life "wondering" about other's being drunk; or 2. medical conditions?!?

[@traceahlers455]

@@warriormanmaxx8991 Probably about as often as you sift through comments to find something to be offended by.

[@cl759]

Well , I really really don't like Back to the Future.

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

8:44 --- 35 years later, Millennials and Zs would clutch their pearls at the notion that provided such good comedy for those of us lucky enough to have been born before the Internet..........

[@mattjohn4731]

Hollywood sucks. But New Mexico is a more chill place for filmmaking 🏜🌞