Siskel & Ebert Review - So Fine, Gallipoli, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, True Confessions
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2021
- In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Rich and Famous, Gallipoli, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, True Confessions and So Fine.
Gallipoli is a masterpiece. The two were way off the mark.
Agree, but what do you expect from Americans....they cant be expected to be in tune with a very culturally specific film like Gallipoli
@@fabianpatrizio2865 That's a dumb comment. Look at Roger's Great Movies list. There is a great deal of foreign cinema on that list that he loved.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Yeah but don't let logic and facts get in the way of someone desperately inflating their likely bankrupt self esteem through bashing Americans on the internet!
It was the first movie that made me cry.
@@fabianpatrizio2865 The movie is much more than a retelling of a specific historical event. At its core, it is about friendship, and the idealism of youth, and how they are crushed by the absurdity and ruthlessness of certain aspects of existence (eg war). It is also, in a way, an ode to Australia - it gives us a slice of the various social and economic groups that made it up - and that made it what it was, a different world - at the time.
Gallipoli it's more of an adventure/friendship movie that culminates in the war in the third act. Anyone watching this review would get a totally different idea of what the film was like. Two young elite sprinters who, in any other year, would've been in the Olympics. The tragedy is deeper than failed military strategies. The scale is reinforced at the tail end from the very beginning of the movie accordingly.
@10:48 The review of Gallipoli. Great movie. Featuring Mel Gibson the same year he did The Road Warrior, also Bill Hunter an iconic Aussie actor.
ps - Gallipoli 10:50 you're welcome
Gallipoli is slowly paced but powerful: thumbs up
Until this very moment I had never ever heard of "Cattle Annie and Little Britches". And I can't say that about many movies made after 1980.
How in the hell do you give a thumbs down to "Gallipoli"? Come on, guys.
I like So Fine (even though it's silly), Gallipoli, and True Confessions.
"Gallipoli was predictable," Yep, It was a disaster in real life too, History is like that. I wonder if they are disappointed the Germans lose at the end of the every WW1 and WW2 movie?
I can hear when Cattle Annie speaks is Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction.
Someone should have told Roger that Kill & Kill Again was filmed in South Africa!
I thought so...
Siskel and Ebert misled a lot of people about two early 1980s masterpieces. They hated Excalibur. They totally miss the point about Gallipoli. It's not just about how "generals are stupid." It's about the friendship between two young men, and about the destruction of youth and innocence.
It's probably the way Siskel and Ebert represented the viewpoint of the middle-brow American upper middle class in the early Reagan era. They were always praising "serious" talky movies about upper-class, middle-aged urbanites. They loved films about 50 year old millionaires going through midlife crises or 40 something divorced women on the upper West Side of Manhattan. They were clueless about the two working class youths Gallipoli dramatizes being destroyed by the British exploitation of their Australian colonials in a botched campaign drawn up by the idiot Churchill.
Gallipoli is very Australia-centric, and culturally specific.....an American audience just isnt in tune with it. To me, it's a masterpiece
It was the first movie that made me cry.
I didn’t see it until 1989 as a 20 year old college student in my Art of the Film class. As a viewer I cared about both main characters. It was their story told before and within the battle that made the film great. I never would have described it as a film about dumb generals.
should be the pinned comment.
So how it was Reagan's fault . . .
Siskel didn't like Peter Weir's early films.
And posterity has proven Gene quite wrong. Weir is one of not only Australia's best filmmakers, but near the top of the filmmaking list, period.
So Fine - The most painful dialog ever. It a shame that they didn't hire two actresses for this scene.
Not surprised Americans don't get it
18:27 Acting aside, what a corny, old-timey, Perry Mason type of scene. How did the director and editor sign-off with that? Right out of a ZAZ movie. Even the steering wheel work. Cheese!