Siskel & Ebert Review - This is Elvis, Bustin’ Loose, Atlantic City, The Four Seasons

[@PhilMoskowitz]

"Bustin Loose" was the last real Richard Pryor film. Burt Lancaster. I can't think of another actor, with a long distinguished, who finished said career with astonishingly good performances in a row.

[@Frederick-t8t]

I've seen This is Elvis dozens of times.

[@pam0626]

I loved The Four Seasons and I always feel validated when Siskel & Ebert like it too.

[@billriddle9215]

They crap on too many films to validate any thing,grew up watching them hate the films most people love...good riddence to them both.

[@pam0626]

@@billriddle9215 I think you’re only 50% right. Siskel & Ebert disagreed plenty of times, so I’m sure at least one of them saw the “specialness” of the films most people loved as well. I always found Ebert to be more closely aligned with my tastes.

[@stephenmcdonald8474]

Not big on "remakes" but would love a good writer/director to have a go at this.

[@pam0626]

@@stephenmcdonald8474 Yes!

[@jamesc.lockwood3810]

The classic of this group was "Atlantic City".

[@findlesplurb]

What a wonderful movie that is.

[@eargasm1072]

Great movie, and one of Lancaster's best roles and performances

[@Dr_C_Smith]

It’s very good… but Bustin’ Loose still holds a place in my heart. Pryor is still a Mt Rushmore comedian.

[@davec484]

Fantastic movie. But "bittersweet comedy" according to Ebert ?

[@willard2729]

I watched Atlantic City twice recently. It had been 15+ years since I’d seen it and I loved it all over again. Al Waxman’s performance as the guy running the card game was brief but brilliant. There were so many memorable performances

[@ExVoto63]

Siskel sounds like an Elvis fan. Too cool.

[@thekingofmovies193]

If I was Siskel, I'd respond with "Thank you, Thank you very much!"

[@RaulHernandez-j8b]

Bustin Loose is my favorite Richard Pryor movie. Loved it since I was a kid.

[@ronaldh8446]

Pryor hadn't made a great movie up until that point, Roger??? I guess he had forgotten his 4 Star rave review for his performance in Paul Schrader's 1978 movie "Blue Collar."

[@5andup]

Louis Malle's highly-acclaimed Atlantic City was nominated for five top Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress. It lost in all categories though. It is a classic that critics fondly remember. 👍👍👍

[@reneedennis2011]

I like This is Elvis and Bustin' Loose.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

THIS IS ELVIS is amazing in all the footage it amassed. The recreated moments are weak.

[@ShmuckOnWheels]

My Dad dragged me to see The Four Seasons with his girlfriend at the time when I was about 15. Friday the 13th Part 2 was playing on another screen and I think I made some comment about wanting to see it and was told no. I made it through about 20 minutes of the movie before saying I had to use the bathroom. Snuck right into Friday The 13th and was in there for about 15 minutes before my Dad showed up and almost literally dragged me out. He made me sit in the car til their movie was over. Still havent watched all The Four Seasons. Not my cup of tea.

[@mlongpre100]

you were a 15 year old with class !

[@billriddle9215]

I had to see rated R films at the drive in with no sound,lol,saw the Exorcist that way when I wasn't even a teenager yet...good times.

[@ShmuckOnWheels]

@@billriddle9215 I saw The Exorcist at the drive in in 1976 when I was 10 or 11. It had been re-released and one of my older brothers had seen it the night before and took me and my sibs to see it. Told my parents we were going to a Disney movie haha...and btw it was with sound.😳 But we also would park near the theater and watch movies without sound if we didnt have money to get in. I did that up until about 15 years ago when we lost our last drive in where I live. We could still get the sound on the car radio.

[@patrickprendergast9589]

tell me more please

[@Frederick-t8t]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@freddyfurrah3789]

No, Roger. Dave Hebbler said, "How can you protect a man from himself?

[@zt1053]

I didn’t think The Four Seasons was slapstick at the end

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Elvis has the best voice. This was elvis 3rd appearance on the Sullivan show.

[@finnsterling6514]

16:26 This is awesome. 16:51 This is even awesomer.

[@MrFairfax40]

8/10/12 Yes Votes!

[@craigblack7076]

He's funny in one of the better Partridge Family episodes.

[@OhSankYouDoktor]

I think Alan Alda is a very underrated writer-director but I really disliked "The Four Seasons." How could they compare it to "Ordinary People" or "Kramer vs. Kramer?" Alda's "Sweet Liberty" is a gem and his "Betsy's Wedding" is also very good - and they hated those. AC is indeed a great film.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Adult films about adult problems.

[@billriddle9215]

He was never....under-rated,why you people over-use that word is beyond me,nothing is...UNDER-RATED.

[@OhSankYouDoktor]

@@billriddle9215 You're over-something. He was acclaimed for his TV work but I am saying he was underrated for his film work, particularly as a director.

[@danorthsidemang3834]

24:22

[@freemangriffin4953]

I love The Four Seasons. Atlantic City is very good. I am just not a fan of Richard Pryor nor Elvis Presley. Sandy Dennis gives the best - and shortest - performance in The Four Seasons, as the castoff wife. Lancaster gives his best performance and Susan Sarandon got her first really great reviews for it.

[@citygirl5705]

I liked the Four Seasons, but I would NOT want to spend time with any of those characters.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Bustin Loose..... that poster could never be used today. Has Pryor being chased by the Klan. Ha

[@gheller2261]

Looking at the concept of Four Seasons, it really is a silly, unrealistic premise. First, it assumes that everyone gets that much vacation time. Second, it assumes they never include their children in their vacations. Third, who in the hell wants to include friends, the same friends, in every vacation. Contrived nonsense.

[@teejaye6226]

Unfortunately, Bustin Loose was probably one of his better films for the rest of Pryor's career.

[@hevyonez97]

Nothing unfortunate about that, just about everyone loves Bustin' Loose these days and says it's one of Pryor's funniest films, period...

[@bobspence5322]

the big letdown was that he wrote produced directed and starred in jojo dancer and well..

[@ronaldh8446]

Paul Schrader's Blue Collar. Not a comedy but by far Pryor's best role.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

​@@ronaldh8446I loved Pryor in it but Yaphet Kotto basically walked away with the entire film.

[@ronaldh8446]

@@ricardocantoral7672 yeah, Kotto is fantastic in the movie.

[@ShmuckOnWheels]

That was a pretty sweet tv for the time (1981?) that Pryor tried to steal in Bustin' Loose.

[@bobspence5322]

IKR i think time travel? did it not look like a modern led? if you look closely i think it had a front projection system. to think sth that close to modern laser UST projection tv in 1981.🕰✈

[@mowm88]

19:05 ......'his Brilliant Manager' TOM PARKER?! FFS Gene. No. He was a DOLT.

[@mowm88]

How to screw up Hollywood, his music career, ignore his one client's drug use, push him til he drops to fund gambling debts, etc etc etc. No thanks.

[@kevinmcdonald6477]

Colonel Parker exploited Elvis. Elvis was such a talent any agent could have made him a success.

[@kevinmcdonald6477]

How can Roger call Atlantic city "a bittersweet comedy"!!?? It may have some amusing moments but I would hardly call it a comedy. Not even a dramedy. It is an excellent drama with violence and dishonesty and sad people grasping to stay afloat in their lives.

[@MrFairfax40]

8/10/12SeeIts!

[@bobspence5322]

roger: [richard pryor] hasnt made a fictional motion picture as of yet thats up to his talents.. gene: probly not.. .... .... lmao well. i was thinking though. could that movie maybe have been blazing saddles and we missed it? i dont know. but ill end with quotes "richard pryor aint ever gonna do what you want him to" and also "F*** charlie chaplin he's dead" -richard pryor.

[@ricogomez4020]

THIS IS ELVIS is shocking when Elvis talks about sex with women.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Considering he was the most desired male on the planet.... no.

[@mlongpre100]

he said he was buried in a beaver

[@jimmyl324]

Polyester is a cult classic.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Comic actors make great dramatic actors such as Carol Burnett... never a fan of Alan Alda. Too whiny....

[@MrFairfax40]

We’e Like 8 Thumbs Up 10 Thumbs Up And 12 Thumbs Up!

[@movieman9100]

The Four Seasons was a terrible movie.

[@bobspence5322]

agree. i think they would often lead "their viewers" to some really boring movies. it had to be that way. if you go to their website and watch the clip "rated R". in a hilarious caught offscreen rant they said lmao their own viewers were "boring wasp's (white anglo saxon protestants) that would call readers digest a holy book." lmao also gained a new like for them after seeing them face off with a much more dour critic on nightline.

[@ronaldh8446]

I don't think it's terrible but it isn't as good as they make it sound. Gene was onto something when he refers to it as plus TV or whatever. It's slightly above made-for-tv but not even close to being up to the standards of big screen cinema.

[@kevinmcdonald6477]

It really was just a t.v. style melodrama. If it came out today it would be a made for Lifetime TV movie.

[@Ajax-0137]

I don't understand the love for Atlantic City. So overrated 6/10