Siskel & Ebert Review - Under the Rainbow, Condorman, Lulu, Victory

[@reneedennis2011]

I like Victory. The true that it's based on, sadly, does not have a happy ending. 😕

[@bijibadness]

Oh. I hate trues with sad endings.

[@ennesshay5040]

6:00 - Roger got his chronology wrong. That's AFTER the game against the German's is planned, so extra sports gear as already been provided !

[@verraque]

some pretty simple and basic research shows the “original” story was a myth and has been disproven. your trivia knowledge from 1985 isn’t exactly relevant after a couple years

[@wtfaiwpodcast]

@@verraque Yeah, the more accurate statement would be that the 1961 Hungarian film it's based on, sadly, does not have a happy ending.

[@vincentwilliams5271]

RIP Pele 🙏

[@jaredjdigirolamo7686]

i have both under the rainbow and victory on dvd

[@stevezisk3415]

Zee Pearl is in Zee River

[@bijibadness]

oh. ohhh. I am so, _so_ sorry.

[@3373-g8z]

Man, I miss the afternoons of this coming on after Matinee at the bijou, which showed old black and white movies. These episodes were right before the tidal wave of "Horny teenager movies", that these guys would consistently lampoon, circa 1982 and onward.

[@citygirl5705]

I could not find "Terror House" --- Ebert's Dog of the Week --- ANYWHERE!!! It's not listed on IMDB.

[@ThatOldTV]

There's a lot of films they've mentioned/reviewed, throughout their episodes, that seemed to have disappeared off the planet. They've mentioned several, that peaked my interest, that I can't find.

[@Kevon420]

Yeah, this show should be used a source to enter the films into databases though. Though databases require some sources themselves a bit of hard info.

[@eddiedutra3359]

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[@citygirl5705]

@@eddiedutra3359 So this film was originally called "Terror at Red Wolf Inn" and then re-released years later under the name "Terror House?" Ebert mentioned these kind of re-packaging scams before.

[@talkingthetalk3640]

If anyone is still curious you can find the movie under the title "Terror at Red Wolf Inn." What Ebert fails to mention is that the movie is already 10 years old (1971/72) at the time of this episode's airing. Trust me this is the movie he is describing.

[@vloghog1]

Firecracker sounds awesome!!!

[@vhs8669]

Firecracker is great and has one of the best opening scenes ever. Jillian Kessler is amazing.

[@vhs8669]

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[@BentWookiee]

How dare you, Gene!!! I LOVE Firecracker! It's awesome! Although he's absolutely right, even though I think the gentleman sounds more like he's asking about a "porpoise."

[@chrisgreulich]

I remember watching siskel and ebert when I was growing up. I disagree with them on a lot of things. They never gave respect to most Live Action Disney films. They hated Cannon films and they hate the comedy films that were kind of stupid comedy films. I love Condorman. To me, it was the last great live action Disney films made. After that, it all changed for thew worse. Under the Rainbow is one of the most underrated films of all time. It gets bashed by everyone. I own the DVD and hope to see a blu ray someday. The clip they played of Carrie Fisher losing her dress was always a favorite of mine when I was a kid. I still love the scene. She was my first crush and who would not want to see her in her underwear!

[@danorthsidemang3834]

She looked good between '79 and '83--the beginning of her Colombian breakfast diet

[@chrisgreulich]

@@danorthsidemang3834 Drugs, drinking and smoking did end up destroying her. She aged horribly. It's too bad, I really liked her early work. I could not watch her in later years. It's like she was a totally different person.

[@centrevezgaming4862]

All films from cannon wasn’t bad as everyone said ones like Breakin and the ninja films was great and they criticized supergirl that I loved .

[@rickjr37]

I had to join the Disney Movie Club to get Condorman on DVD.

[@gridlo]

It's not on Disney +?

[@rickjr37]

@@gridlo nope.

[@rustybarrel516]

I actually saw it at the theater. I was 12. I was entertained as long as Barbara Carrera was on the screen. 😍

[@edmund184]

2:48 Huston: can we bloody tone it down a bit, Michael?

[@CogensFamilyTV]

Didn't Stallone break his hand in one of the scenes where he is tending goal.

[@centrevezgaming4862]

As an person who did soccer at school been the goalkeeper is the worst if you don’t know the coordination between left and right and often got hit but was great on the defensive as the captain .

[@bryana.williams4310]

Love it when Gene's into horny movies which, as they say, was more Gene's personality than you might think! And "Loulou" really is an interesting one!

[@MilesBellas]

Pele, Stallone and Michael Cain vs the 3rd Reich ?

[@stevenwatchorn9816]

9:19 The Phaaaaaantom of the Opera is heeeeeeere iiiiiiiiin this film! :D

[@lerm2866]

Well you certainly don’t see any wires in Disney comic book movies these days! no goofy charm or a sense of fun either

[@an3ony]

all those 911's in Condorman

[@jacobambos3885]

Siskel & Ebert would be boring nowadays. "Once again, we both agreed 'No' on everything."

[@middleagenerd]

No kidding. If they had lived, they would be doing podcasts once a week for two hours, no commercials talking about the movies. And today's lot would make them depressed.

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Escape to Victory....is a classic. A shouty performance by Caine, idiotic show by Stallone and wooden by everyone olse.

[@3373-g8z]

It was one of the first to jump right to HBO...

[@MayorMcCheeseStalker]

Sorry, S&E --- midgets make me laugh.

[@naysayer1238]

Even if they weren't dead I'm sure they would not give a rat's.

[@keithdoherty3178]

Under the Rainbow - One of the WORST UNFUNNY MOVIES I have ever seen

[@xdmaster7888]

I read a comment under another S&E video that covered Under the Rainbow (maybe it was for their "Worst of 1981" episode) where a poster said that he was working in 1981 as a booking manager for a cinema chain and went to an event where half of the distributors were shown UTR and the other half shown another film planned for release that summer. After the screenings, which happened at the same time, the folks who saw UTR met up with the other group and told them how awful their movie was, while the other group raved about what a fantastic film they'd seen and how they were excited to have it at their theatres. That movie was "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

[@keithdoherty3178]

@@xdmaster7888 That sounds about right lol

[@gspendlove]

Under the Rainbow is a little like Ace Ventura: it helps to have been a little kid when you first saw it. If you watch it as an adult, it really doesn't work. And knowing what I now know about Chevy Chase (according to many of his co-stars, an insufferable egotistical bastard who wouldn't accept any ideas other than his own about what was funny), I can't watch most of his work. I just imagine him bickering behind the scenes with his director, saying "I'm not gonna do it that way!"

[@kd17Burger]

@@gspendlove I watched it as a little kid and I thought it sucked then too - lol - There are a few Chevy Chase movies I enjoy - Fletch - Foul Play - Original National Lampoon and I'm one of the few people that still likes him in Seems Like Old Times but he's not the problem in this Mess of a Movie = the Script and the Directing are Abysmal

[@stevenwatchorn9816]

I watched it a lot by default when I was about 11, since it played endlessly on HBO during the first summer we had it, and the very idea of having any recent features playing at home was fascinating.

[@bijibadness]

_Under the Rainbow_ really is an amazing movie. it's one of those movies like _Soul Man,_ the movie about the white rich kid who gets a University scholarship by posing as an African-American kid, then putting on blackface and going to school. what were these people THINKING of? how did this get made??? the plot for _Under the Rainbow_ really does boil down to "A bunch of Little people Munchkin extras for _The Wizard of Oz_ are subhuman monsters and wreck up a hotel for no reason at all. That's the story. Little people destroy a hotel because they either can't or won't control their animalistic nature."

[@yournamehere6002]

SOUL MAN is actually a movie about racism. It's a good movie.

[@middleagenerd]

I remember CONDORMAN having some terrible visual effects.