Siskel & Ebert (1983) - The Man with Two Brains, Superman III, Trading Places, Psycho II

[@mediamonarchyplus]

The most entertaining part of Superman III is the 2600 Pac-Man sample

[@stu9856]

Actually it's the Singapore Sling scene

[@johnwhite1721]

I know I'm late to the party, but I just want to say thanks for uploading these. It takes me back to when I was 8 or 9 and just starting to discover movies as an art form. This is a real cultural treasure trove.

[@HugoSoup57]

Trading Places was awesome, one of my favorite comedies from the 80’s

[@stephencraft2618]

What a fun movie.

[@skaetur1]

I am Helga. I am from SVEEEEDEN.

[@mattjazzfan2288]

They make an excellent point about psycho 2, it would have been way more interesting to see Norman adjusting to a different city for most of the movie. Then maybe he could have eventually revisited his old house, and the build up would have made it much creepier

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

I quite liked the idea of returning to the same house but the ghost he is tortured by is the niece of the woman he killed.

[@craigwilson3532]

I kind of like Psycho 2. So original... I like watching again n trying to figure what was in Norman's head n what was part of the trick

[@heyyoitsmebrian]

Psycho 2 is good stuff mang

[@aliali-ce3yf]

Trading Places is a holiday tradition for me

[@peterglen8396]

Welcome back! I was like, 'where the heck did this channel go?!?'

[@ThatOldTV]

KZbin wouldn't elaborate on why the deleted the channel originally. They cited some policy about imitating a celebrity? I was like... How? Siskel and Ebert are long since gone? Do I give up or start again. I decided to start again. Thank you for returning.

[@oldschoolgnrfan6035]

Trading Places is a terrific movie. Eddie Murphy once said it was his most favorite film to be a part of.

[@Orcl1100]

Vera Miles was underrated as an actress. For Lila to go from the heroine to the villain in psycho II was a 180 degree turn.

[@MiguelCruz-oz7km]

Fun fact: Robert Paynter was the cinematographer on both Superman III and Trading Places.

[@Wallyworld30]

Superman III was bad Superman IV killed movie production company Cannon Films

[@sandal_thong]

@@Wallyworld30 The Cannon Group were already bleeding cash. They killed itself by choosing a bad script for _Superman IV_ and then slashing the budget from $36 million to $17 million so it had no chance.

[@joeharris3878]

The Man with 2 Brains, an old favorite

[@oppyh]

Thank goodness you are back

[@e11aguru]

Atari 2600 Pac-Man sound effects at 5:12.

[@sandal_thong]

Warner Bros. owned Atari and I think hired them for the computer graphics too. I hear that theme a lot, which is so inferior to even the arcade version as to make me cringe. I just heard it today in a clip from _Lost_ where Walt is playing a hand-held video game (using the Atari Pac-Man sounds) in the airport and needs new batteries, so may have overheard his dad tell his grandmother that he didn't want to take care of Walt. The story goes that someone at WB told the head of Atari to license Space Invaders, which hardly anyone at the company was aware of or interested in, except the programmer which had fiddled with it but shelved it. They didn't normally license arcade games, but just stole them and hoped the courts wouldn't rule in favor of the owners if they sued them. But this game was a "must-have game," and made the Atari VCS (a.k.a. 2600) dominate the market in 1980. If Mattel had licensed it for Intellivison, that would have been the console to sell millions and would have required Atari to rethink and do their next system sooner, maybe in 1980-1. Instead it gave a second life to the system, following up with Asteroids and Missile Command in 1981, though their programmers left them for Activision and other pursuits. Then Atari licensed and made the "must-have game" Pac-Man for it in 1982. It sold 8 million, but was horrible, and they might have manufactured 2 million more carts that didn't sell! And this sabotaged the roll-out of the 5200, and may have even undermined sales of the Atari computers which had similar tech-level for its games as the 5200. There were many reasons, but Atari Pac-Man was the first game that led to the Video Game Crash of 1983.

[@landlordsandfoodstamps.8771]

I don't like retro stuff. In my case i believe movies are not retro it's kind of history. And thank you for keeping this great part of movie history.

[@AmerIndianWarrior]

Psycho II was a good sequel!

[@Wallyworld30]

One of the most underrated sequels of all time. I can't believe these blokes put in same bucket as Superman III. I watched Siskel and Ebert since the 80's and rarely agreed with their takes on Movies. We still watched it though because it was the ONLY show on TV giving sneak previews and reviews on films. If they came along during the KZbin Era they would have had a harder time blowing up like they did. They were the highest rated weekly program on PBS of all time!

[@Robodebt1010]

Yep. Great sequel.

[@justinstokes8025]

Very underrated. Scared the shit out of me and my brothers watching it on prism movie channel.

[@Wallyworld30]

@@justinstokes8025 I first saw this on Betamax my father was a massive Alfred Hitchcock fan and he loved this movie too. We rented all the sequels as well but Psycho II was the last great movie in the franchise.

[@AmerIndianWarrior]

@@Wallyworld30 The first sequel was better than III and IV to me.

[@oobrocks]

I'm so happy Cleavon Little was in Blazing Saddles...Prior can only do comedy whereas Little was great in all his scenes

[@lowbridge7070]

I actually saw Psycho II before I saw the first, original Psycho. I was 14 years old and a fanatic about the movies. I went to the movies once a week for a lot of years from the 1970s-1980s with my then best friend, a fellow movie fanatic. Psycho II was one of the many movies we saw together when it originally came out in the theaters in 1983. At that time, certainly I heard of the movie Psycho, but I never saw it before. As a result, I had a hard time trying to follow and understand this movie because I was in the dark about the background of Norman Bates. Psycho II somewhat sailed over my head until years later when I finally saw the original Psycho.

[@oldschoolgnrfan6035]

Same for me. Psycho II isn’t a bad movie at all, but once you see the original, you quickly realize the sequel isn’t in the same league.

[@gspendlove]

"His life is cars and girls, girls and cars. More cars. More girls." ---_Jamie Lee Curtis, on Eddie Murphy_ "Robotic, the way he handles people." ---_Eddie Murphy, on Dan Aykroyd_

[@reneedennis2011]

Welcome back!

[@lowbridge7070]

I was 14 years old and had seen psycho II in the theater when it first came out, years before I saw the first Psycho. As a consequence, I really didn't know who this Norman bates character was, what his background was. As a result, psycho II pretty much sailed over my head because I just couldn't follow it. It wasn't until when I finally saw the first psycho did the sequel make sense to me.

[@Orcl1100]

Universal wanted Jamie Lee Curtis to play Vera Miles’s daughter in psycho II. That would have been great. But she wouldn’t have been able to do trading places

[@rnw2739]

She would have ruined it. Curtis is no way near as good an actress as Meg Tilly. The only reason she was considered was because Janet Leigh is her mum. Thank gawd she wasn't cast as Mary.

[@broncobilly4029]

I agree with Siskel and Ebert. I think that Steve Martin has a future in show business. :)

[@sandal_thong]

One of my favorite films stars Steve Martin and Sarah Jessica Parker: _L.A. Story (1991)_ not mentioned in this video.

[@RobMacKendrick]

They say he plays the banjo, too.

[@kkampy4052]

Coming to America is one of my all-time favorite movies. I watch it every year because it's just so darn funny

[@craigwilson3532]

Psycho 2, watching it again when she hands Norman the knife you know that was part of her plan to try n make him crazy

[@johnrife7134]

Meg Tilly is so great. I think she was way more talented than her sister.

[@rnw2739]

Without a doubt. Meg is fantastic in every film I've ever seen her in, particularly 'Psycho II'. Thank God she was cast as director Richard Franklin's initial choice was Jamie Lee Curtis (simply because of the Janet Leigh connection) and she would have been absolutely terrible.

[@edwardmitchell7639]

Psycho 2 is really good film up to the last few minutes that was a let down for me. Still give it *** stars .

[@lerm2866]

Did they review Superman 4? If you have it please post!!

[@acholl980]

No they didn't. Warners didn't screen it for critics. So they just did old vintage videos for their Home Video segment.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Martim, Murphy and Pryor all in the same episode

[@bijibadness]

I can only imagine sadly what it must have felt like to be a hardcore Superman fan, watching that stupid Atari graphics with the missiles, or the STUPID Rube Goldberg Machine opening "comedy" routine ... or the stupid, _stupid_ bit where the two static stoplight symbols begin fighting each other [???????] because of ... computers or something. I forget. what a hideous movie. those horrible Salkinds Producers, man. as _if_ the only people who cared about the first _Superman_ movie by Dick Donner were children. YOUNG children. really young children. sigh. it's a broken world sometimes, but only sometimes. we'll get there.

[@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729]

it plays a lot worse now then when I saw it when I was a kid....the end battle scene is lame....

[@sandal_thong]

There's interviews with Richard Lester about _Superman III_ but last I look I didn't see anything where he talks about taking over _Superman II._

[@teejaye6226]

17:35 ..Siskel absolutely hated horror films.....He's making a review of Psycho II and making comparisons to Godfather II. Intellectually baseless, infintitely superior casts, superior script and budget and production. Siskel should have been better than this.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

He once compared Fright Night unfavorably to, of all things, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu !

[@citygirl5705]

Siskel would automatically give a thumbs down to a horror film if a child was in danger. And almost always when they were excessively violent. Which means he gave thumbs down to classics like "The Shining." He shouldn't have even reviewed them if he was so biased.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

@@citygirl5705 Many critics rejected The Shining upon it's initial release, including Roger Ebert.

[@redadamearth]

He wasn't comparing it literally, in terms of the QUALITY, he was talking about sequels where the main character expands in experience and saying Psycho 2 was a sequel where the character doesn't grow. And Ebert agreed with him.

[@johnbogg7395]

I like Psycho 2. I own that and the original.

[@CapnSlappypants]

What's with the lack of content on here?

[@ThatOldTV]

To make a long story short. I originally had hundreds of Siskel and Ebert episodes. KZbin deleted the channel. They claim I was imitating a celebrity. I don't know why? When KZbin takes action against a channel, they don't explain themselves. So, I have to start the channel all over.

[@AmerIndianWarrior]

KZbin sucks

[@movieman104]

superman 3 is more of a pryor film than a superman film still amost a masterpiece compared to 4 psycho 2 i liked a bit more than 3

[@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729]

4 is bad but I liked it better than Superman Returns

[@sandal_thong]

I forget which reviewer said Superman isn't the star of his own movie, Richard Pryor is. But he was spot-on.

[@branagain]

Superman 3 is awful. Almost as bad as Batman and Robin.

[@tnawcwvictoria]

Robert Vaughn was certainly no Gene Hackman, in fact, Hackman didn't take part in Part III because he didn't like the way the Salkinds treated Richard Donner, Christopher Reeve even Margot Kidder were upset as well Vaughn, Pamela Stephenson and Annie Ross characters were a poor imitation of Lex Luthor, Miss Tessmacher and Brainiac and Richard Pryor was wasted on here, plus he wasn't funny on this film

[@saucers79]

Imagine someone eating a Bit-O-Honey.

[@sandal_thong]

19:08 "Enjoy another favorite from the makers of Raisinets, Goobers and Snowcaps." This week someone asked me about Goobers, and another person mentioned Snowcaps! A comedian once had a routine where he started telling a story and would pick a candy out of a bag (randomly) to use the name to add to the story. Naturally the talk show host asked his staff to find the most obscure-sounding candy name to put in his bag and mess the guy up if he hadn't heard of it.

[@Wallyworld30]

2 Thumbs down for Psycho II is a travesty! That is one of the best underrated sequels in movie history. It sits alongside Robocop II and 2010 a Space Odyssey in that regard. All 3 are very good movies but since they aren't quite as good as their all time originals get quickly dismissed when they shouldn't!

[@Jbaxter85]

Trading Places: Ambition well-made comedy 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟 Superman 3: Picture much better than story & too much comedy 👎🌟🌟

[@comicbookreviewer4856]

5:09 After rewatching superman 3 and seeing the main villain play a style arcade game to take down superman i do have a theory this part was done to promote a superman 3 game that might've been in the works and used as a way to get people to play or buy the possible game

[@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729]

I remember Superman 3 as being ok but it hasn`t aged well and is really bad...actually would rather watch 4....

[@sandal_thong]

I'll never be bored enough to watch _Superman IV_ again.

[@cooleydbt]

If only siskel knew some of the awful movies Eddie Murphy would make in the not so distant future!

[@freddyfurrah3789]

THUMBS DOWN. I LIKED PSYCHO 2.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

theres plenty of documentaries on why Superman 3 failed but the big one is they cut the budget at the last minute and also made changes to the script. Like Richard Pryor was going to be the evil madman Brainiac but instead he was just a cute little computer programmer.

[@sandal_thong]

One reviewer said Superman wasn't even the star of his own movie.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

@@sandal_thong Nope, the final cut makes it a Richard Pryor showcase but he's not especially funny here cuz he isnt the focus. So you just have a hot mess.

[@rnw2739]

Psycho II is superb and has proven to have exactly the same longevity as the original.