It's eerie to hear Gene talk about relating to Michael Keaton's character with cancer in My Life and wondering what he would do in his situation, as, of course, Gene would find himself in that situation just a few years later.
The craziest thing about Siskel’s illness is that he got the brain surgery only three days after discovering the tumor. From unknowing to permanently altered in the timespan between two S&E episodes. Dead within a year.
Carlito's Way is a very underrated film. Great chemistry between Penn and Pacino - and great direction from De Palma. It's just a shame that it bombed at the box office.
It didn't bomb. Even if you account for marketing, the film made a decent profit. As for the film itself, I do wonder if people fully grasp the message beyond crime not paying.
The Carlito's Way review illustrates why I preferred Gene over Roger. Gene is completely open and honest about why he doesn't like the film; he believes it takes a moral stand that prevents him from getting involved in the story, and he flat-out says so. Roger would feel the same way about a movie, but he would find excuses as to why the film is objectively bad, rather than saying it simply didn't work for him. Personally, I liked Carlito's Way, and Gene's honesty allowed me to see through the thumbs-down and focus more on the deeper aspects of the review.
Carlitos Way is a good film, not great. The story is somewhat predictable, but the ending helps. Penn's performance is good if not uncomfortable, which I'm sure was intentional. My Life is a marginally good film, Keaton is good in the film, but Roger's points are spot on about the light-heartedness moments being out of place. Have never cared for a Three Musketeers film ever and this one is no exception.
The Three Musketeers is a great film - I vehemently disagree with Ebert on that one. The cast was great, the story was engaging, and the action kept me interested without being too repetitive.
I had never read it when I first saw the movie, but I enjoyed the film so much that I immediately went out and bought the book. It isn't a great film by any means, but I completely agree with Gene: it's a lot of fun. What more can you ask of The Three Musketeers?
@@sm5574 Oh that's totally what I'm getting at as well and I think it's also worth weighing that there's been very few good adaptations of a lot of book to screen stories and the Three musketeers is one of them Sometimes you just have to not take a movie quite as seriously and have fun with it. For example if you've ever watched Star Trek The next generation there's episodes where they basically do a play type story involving the holodeck and some of them will even be Sherlock Holmes stories and you just have to suspend your disbelief a little bit and recognize that it's a moment for the cast to have fun with something and that you should do the same
The Piano got eight Oscar nominations and won three. They would have been idiots to ignore it. Also, there's a lot of great art from overseas because they aren't so concerned with pandering in the interest of profits.
@@BookClubDisaster Yes, *Gene Siskel* was a film critic for the *Chicago Tribune,* and *Roger Ebert* for the *Chicago Sun-Times.* They did this show on the side.
It's eerie to hear Gene talk about relating to Michael Keaton's character with cancer in My Life and wondering what he would do in his situation, as, of course, Gene would find himself in that situation just a few years later.
And Roger just 4 years later.
The craziest thing about Siskel’s illness is that he got the brain surgery only three days after discovering the tumor. From unknowing to permanently altered in the timespan between two S&E episodes. Dead within a year.
considering 1/2 of us will get cancer at some point, pretty much all of us will
Pacino and Penn's performances are both superb. Penn disappears into the role so well, quite a versatile actor
Carlitos way is a mind blowing crime drama. Highly entertaining and recommended
I used to enjoy listening to these two when I actually watched movies.
Gene liked Three Musketeers, and disliked Carlito´s way? Hilarious!
If you saw The Three Musketeers you probably saw that AMAZING Teaser Trailer for The Lion King!
Carlito's Way is a very underrated film. Great chemistry between Penn and Pacino - and great direction from De Palma. It's just a shame that it bombed at the box office.
It didn't bomb. Even if you account for marketing, the film made a decent profit. As for the film itself, I do wonder if people fully grasp the message beyond crime not paying.
The three musketeers was a great film
Some of Gene's elitist tendencies came out in this episode. Thanks for this upload.
LOL that commercial ;its a great day for a drive; and they end up buying a car
The Carlito's Way review illustrates why I preferred Gene over Roger. Gene is completely open and honest about why he doesn't like the film; he believes it takes a moral stand that prevents him from getting involved in the story, and he flat-out says so. Roger would feel the same way about a movie, but he would find excuses as to why the film is objectively bad, rather than saying it simply didn't work for him. Personally, I liked Carlito's Way, and Gene's honesty allowed me to see through the thumbs-down and focus more on the deeper aspects of the review.
Didn't recognize Sean Penn?? Pretty unmistakable
My Life is a great, moving film, especially if you've dealt with cancer
Carlito's Way is Brian De Palma's best film.
But is there a split screen segment??
Why is Joe Pesci in every mob movie?
But The Untouchables is more fun.
I’d put it right under Blow Out then Scarface
Always liked Carlitos way over scarface.
not me but depalma made two good films there
Sikel got it WRONG A LOT😮😮😂😂
Not on the 3 Musketeers!
Carlito's Way-Sean Penn making tremendous fun of Alan Dershowitz.
He's supposedly based on Dershowitz. I believe he tried to initiate legal action?
From what I read, Dershowitz assumed that Klinefeld was based on him.
Gene missed the boat on Carlitos way
Carlitos Way is a good film, not great. The story is somewhat predictable, but the ending helps. Penn's performance is good if not uncomfortable, which I'm sure was intentional.
My Life is a marginally good film, Keaton is good in the film, but Roger's points are spot on about the light-heartedness moments being out of place.
Have never cared for a Three Musketeers film ever and this one is no exception.
The Three Musketeers is a great film - I vehemently disagree with Ebert on that one. The cast was great, the story was engaging, and the action kept me interested without being too repetitive.
So great nobody remembers it.
I almost never disagree with Ebert. But I feel like he must not have read or experienced the Three musketeers as a young boy
I had never read it when I first saw the movie, but I enjoyed the film so much that I immediately went out and bought the book. It isn't a great film by any means, but I completely agree with Gene: it's a lot of fun. What more can you ask of The Three Musketeers?
@@sm5574 Oh that's totally what I'm getting at as well and I think it's also worth weighing that there's been very few good adaptations of a lot of book to screen stories and the Three musketeers is one of them
Sometimes you just have to not take a movie quite as seriously and have fun with it. For example if you've ever watched Star Trek The next generation there's episodes where they basically do a play type story involving the holodeck and some of them will even be Sherlock Holmes stories and you just have to suspend your disbelief a little bit and recognize that it's a moment for the cast to have fun with something and that you should do the same
A rare case when Ebert gets it exactly right and Siskel exactly wrong.
How can they talk about The Piano and not mention Anna Paquin's amazing movie debut? She stoled the film IMHO!
enuf with the foreign films guys
The Piano got eight Oscar nominations and won three. They would have been idiots to ignore it. Also, there's a lot of great art from overseas because they aren't so concerned with pandering in the interest of profits.
Sometimes I think he went contrary to Ebert just for the show.
nah he was also writing movie reviews in the paper.
@@BookClubDisaster Yes, *Gene Siskel* was a film critic for the *Chicago Tribune,* and *Roger Ebert* for the *Chicago Sun-Times.* They did this show on the side.
They also appeared on local Chicago TV shows.
Gene would have never considered Roger important enough to consider his opinion when writing his own review.
Siskel sucked. Lol.
The Piano is a very overrated film.
Although I liked the movie, I must agree. It is very overrated.