Siskel & Ebert Classics - Guilty Pleasures (1987)
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- Special "Guilty Pleasures" show, recorded sometime during spring/summer '87. Titles include PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, THE LAST STARFIGHTER, TARZAN THE APEMAN, SUMMER LOVERS, THE ENTITY, THE LAST DRAGON, THE FUNHOUSE and INFRA-MAN.
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PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Blu-Ray & DVD)
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THE LAST STARFIGHTER (Blu-Ray & DVD)
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TARZAN THE APEMAN (DVD)
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SUMMER LOVERS (Blu-Ray & DVD)
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THE ENTITY (Blu-Ray & DVD)
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THE LAST DRAGON (Blu-Ray & DVD)
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THE FUNHOUSE (4K UHD, Blu-Ray & DVD)
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INFRA-MAN (Blu-Ray & DVD)
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I feel no guilt at all for loving Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
Feeling guilty for loving a great film would be silly.
love it!
Large Marge agrees!
I love it too but in fairness to Roger and Gene, this was before Tim Burton became the Tim Burton we know.
@@ethanedwards7557 yep , when he was still making creative movies .. not just the cookie cutter Tim Burton commercial branding we've had the past two decades. 😂
Pee Wee's Big Adventure is one of the greatest comedy films ever made.
"Do you have dreams, Pee Wee?"
"Yeah, I'm all alone, rolling a donut, and there's this snake wearing a vest--"
"No, not those kind of dreams!"
"See? We're not totally perverted ... we like nature too!"
10:06
I genuinely think Danny Elfman should've been nominated for an Oscar for his score of Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
"When they stop making movies like Infra-man, a little light will go out in the world." --Roger Ebert
I guess Roger was taking acid with that quote. I know he was being funny.
I love that ending. They've reviewed all these so-called duds of movies, then they're like, "And next week, we'll be reviewing Ishtar!"
Yeah, I was thinking "Now 'Ishtar' would be a bunch of people's guilty pleasure!"
@@waynechapman9823 I really doubt anyone would call Ishtar a guilty pleasure. But you never know.
They misspelled the title it shoul've been "SHITAR"!
These men are pawns!
@@hikikomoron I have put a price of 20,000 Dirham on their heads
I have never felt any guilt at all for loving THE LAST STARFIGHTER
I saw it at the theater when it came out.
I saw it at the theater when it came out.
I still love the early CGI effects of the spaceships etc .. just a step up from what they accomplished with Tron .. moving towards more realism with the geometry and lighting.... It's still crude, but beautiful in that way. Love seeing innovations like that .... It's more interesting than the stuff we're getting now where they can do everything. It's almost like the box forces film makers to think more creatively ... Now it's just, 'been there, done that' .. who cares really?
Same here. I love this movie !
I've never felt guilty about enjoying any movie.
"Pee Wee's Big Adventure" is amazing. A true classic. I still recall scenes from that movie this many years later.
@@christophersayrs907 I went to the Alamo. It does not in fact have a basement. It was much smaller than I had expected. I don't know how much tour guides get asked that since I was not on a tour.
He literally compares it to Wizard of OZ! Is that a "guilty pleasure" too? Pee Wee's Big Adventure is amazing, there's nothing to be "guilty" about laughing at a fun movie with a legendary character. I watched Siskel & Ebert religiously from their early days on, but sometimes their theme shows like this were all over the place and made no sense; they'd kind of reveal how out of touch they could be. Pee's Wee's entire shtick completely fit into (and was kind of a high poit of) the eighties' 1950s revisionist redux in underground art, and its obvious Siskel & Ebert had no concept of that whole movement. And through this whole episode they barely explain what makes them feel guilty about these films they say they like, except for some of the cringey talk of enjoying watching naked girls.
8:07 I love how Gene groans when Roger brings up the Tarzan movie.
" They're painting me!" 🤣
I took my 3 nephews and niece to see Pee Week’s Big Adventure in the theater when it first came out. They adored it, as did I.
Yeah that movie is hilarious! Not sure why it’s a “guilty pleasure”.
What i really love is how some of their opinions of these films have now been borne out. Films like Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Last Starfighter, The Last Dragon, The Entity, and The Funhouse have been re-assessed by modern audiences are now considered 80's classics. Other films like Summer Lovers and Tarzan are not thought of quite so fondly but i think Roger and Gene liked those films more because they appealed to their lubidos than their quality as actual films.
The Last Dragon 🐉 Certified Classic.
I regret nothinggggg!!!
As kids in early/mid 90’s, this came on all the time where I lived and I loved it. My friend and I would re-enact the end where Leroy catches the bullet in his teeth. One of us would shoot the other, the other would fall on stomach and would put some ridiculous item in mouth like a toy, a Cheeto, a sandwich slice, maybe underwear lol to surprise the other when being flipped over. We laughed so hard, never got old.
I love the relationship in The Last Starfighter - its not them falling in love or falling out, its them working on their relationship and growing as people. I love it.
I miss those two film critics
Tim Burton's debut with a Danny Elfman soundtrack
Pee Wee is amazing and he's the third best thing about that movie
No one should feel "guilty" about liking it
💯
I'd say its Burtons best film by far, and it's mainly because of Pee Wee and the set design.
We are not totally perverted. I loved Siskel.
I really enjoy listening to these guys
How perfect is it, that they are reviewing Ishtar the very next week.
I saw "The Entity" at a friend's house when I was 11 years old. That's still the scariest film experience I've ever had.
Martin Scorsese loves The Entity. It's a great movie.
Large Marge will live forever in everyone's memory who saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
think she shudda been the one to show up in The Brady Bunch Movie.
I remember watching this episode when it first aired.
I love the part where they're talking about the sex movies set in beaches and jungles and Siskel goes "We're not totally perverted. We're nature lovers, too!"
I thought that was funny, too. 😆
You always have to justify your love of nudity. That is why they call it "art."
Just paused to comment on that😂 Ebert laughed pretty hard at it.
Infra Man is the perfect movie where you take your brain out of your head, set it aside and once the movie is over, put your brain back in your head.
Roger had courage admitting he liked “Infra Man” !!!
Pee Wee's Big Adventure and The Last Dragon are both AWESOME.
"There's no basement at the Alamo!"
The Last Dragon on Siskel and Ebert? I never knew. The Last Dragon is one of those movies I have watched once or twice a year for 30 years, it's so damn entertaining, highly recommended.
Pee Wees Big Adventure is one of the greatest films of all time.
Something they never understand. The most hardest thing is to make you scared or to make you laugh. Two most underrated forms of cinema, and always will be, horror and comedy.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure shouldn't be a guilty pleasure, it's not deep or anything, but it's a solid film.
Siskel had put it on his list of the ten worst films of the year, but Ebert hadn't seen it yet. So I'm thinking that when Ebert finally saw it, he thought to himself "It's no 'Dr. Strangelove,' but I like it more than Gene did" and was probably pleasantly surprised he liked it at all after Siskel had raked it over the coals. That might be why he considered it to be a guilty pleasure.
@@waynechapman9823 They should've done another one of their special shows where they go back to their biggest disagreements and put it in there.
Saw Pee Wee at a sneak preview. More laughter at Large Marge than anything I’ve ever heard.
Love these guys, especially when they're having a blast about movies.
I loved "The Last Starfighter", and still do. It is the basis for many books and films.
great that he compared Pee Wee's Big Adventure to Lord of the Rings and the Wizard of Oz.
in case anyone does not understand the reference: At this point we already had an animated Hobbit, and an animated Lord Of the Rings. Thats what Ebert was talking about.
i think there were some books already, too.
The Last Starfighter and The Last Dragon. Two of my all-time faves.
The Last two films I've seen
The Last
Absolutely EVERYTHING about Pee Wee's bug adventure is fantastic!
I love how much ebert loves inframan. He talked about it on tv twice in two different cult episodes. And siskel is right Inframan is a Hong Kong amalgamation of Ultraman and Kamen Rider. I remember seeing this on VHS in the early 90s from a local video store.
I used to watch ultra man and johnny sokko as a kid in the 1970s
@@stevejohnson1577 I loved spectreman but not as many people have seen that.
@@philipcohen7192 ive never heard of it. I lived in windsor, by detroit, and we used to get those uhf stations and they had all kinds of japanese tv and movies because they were low budget and perfect for no money uhf stations in the 70s
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, a story about a rebel and his bike.
A rebel without a clue.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure is a great movie.
The Entity was an unpleasant movie to watch. The woman is brutally assaulted over and over again, can't fight back, and has nowhere to turn. At the end of the movie, they imply her abuse will continue. Great. Feel-good movie of the year.
Some of these are genuinely good movies, not guilty pleasures. The Entity, The Last Starfighter and Pee Wee's Big Adventure are well worth seeing. Summer Lovers - now that's a guilty pleasure!
For me, films like Batman Forever and Joss Whedon’s Justice League are kind of like guilty pleasures. I know they aren’t very good but I can’t help it but love watching them.
Tommy Lee Jones is great in Batman Forever
I unironically love Batman Forever. Somehow, it hits the sweet spot of camp and genuinely fun 90s adventure.
I managed to see an R rated stage show by Pee Wee and crew. Watched the 📺 show. Loved this movie.
Ebert never reviewed Pee-Wee's Big Adventure in print or on the show, so this is his only review of it that I'm aware of.
Not sure about print, but he did on the show. Search here Ebert Pee Wee to see it.
@@DeanStrickson No, Ebert said he didn't see it.
@@jedijones I thought it was Siskel who didn't see it.
@@WTFer420 Siskel originally panned it.
Rog. was on vacation and the season was over so he never saw it.
“Catching bullets with his teeth”😂😂👏👏👏 Last Dragon was a great kung fu flick.
The Last Starfighter is genuinely good but felt shallow compared to other recent space adventures of the time. It needs a sequel today. Or a reboot or something.
I saw the entity…you see a lot of Barbara Hershey too
My two favs of these:
The Last Starfighter:
Alex Rogan: Hold it! There's no fleet? No Starfighters, no plan? One ship, you, me, and that's it?
Grig: Exactly! Xur thinks you're still on Earth. Classic military strategy, surprise attack.
Alex Rogan: It'll be a slaughter!
Grig: That's the spirit!
The Last Dragon:
Laura Charles: I thought that maybe it would be a great idea if I got myself a bodyguard. You know, like someone to guard my body? What girl could do worse that to have her own real life kung fu master?
Leroy Green: I am no master.
Laura Charles: You sure look like a master to me.
It’s strange that Gene’s opinion of The Entity is somewhat positive. His one-star 1983 newspaper review was a lot harsher. Perhaps he re-watched the film to prepare for this show.
Haven't you ever seen a film that you instantly hated but grew on you?
EBERT: My next guilty pleasure Is Tarzan The Ape Man.
SISKEL (painfully): Oh....
😂
Some of the movies don't belong in this category at all. Pee Wee and the Last Starfighter are both wonderful movies that are really well done.
RIP Large Marge
Imagine thinking Pee Wee's Big Adventure is a guilty pleasure?
Aw shit, Large Marge is one of the scariest scenes in movies. Rog is right though, you have to be in a certain state of mind to enjoy Peewee and it usually involves THC.
Infra-Man(1975). Called "Zhong Guo Chen Ren" in Mandarin Chinese. Top Score by Anthony W. Mawer was featured in the Hong Kong version. Danny Lee played Infra Man. He played an amoral police officer in John Woo's action-drama The Killer(1989).
Randal Kleiser, director of Summer Lovers, would go on to direct the Pee Wee sequel.
One thing I learned from this was that all a film needed was 80’s Darryl Hannah looking sexy.
Or Bo Derrick? "Or how about my wife, Morgan Fairchild? That's the ticket."
My own biggest guilty pleasure is "Force 10 from Navarone." It's got a paper-thin plot with plenty of cheesy dialogue and as a WWII movie, it is riddled with historical inaccuracies. On the other hand, it has a phenomenal cast, some of the best miniature special effects I've ever seen, and a really enjoyable score. At the end of the day, the faults don't matter because the movie is just so enjoyable!
I don't believe in "guilty pleasures." Like what movies you enjoy. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks, only you.
Yeah, I think that term is a lazy way to say you know a movie is not good by canonical standards but you like it anyway and probably a lot of other people do, too.
It's a cop out. I use it only to refer to films other people should feel guilty for watching, most of them starring Ryan Reynolds
@@postmodernrecycler No, and Why should I ponder what anyone else's "standards" are for a good movie ? If I like a movie, and others don't, who fucking cares ? Nobody else pays my bills.
As seen on WLNE-TV6 in New Bedford, Mass.
The last star fighter and the last dragon are really good B - movies
The great Julius Carrey III as The Shogun of Harlem!
Gold, baby , gold!
But Tarzan with Bo? Sweet lord is that awful. So bad.
When I worked at Blockbuster, I would not have looked down on anyone renting these movies. I normally looked down on people renting mainstream hits that had been in every theater just a few months before.
Inframan IS a masterpiece (!)-a silly and wacko one at that. If you like nonstop action with bizarro, Tojo bros logic and flair, it’s a must-see.
It's nice to see the human fallibility in their love of these imperfect films. Never saw this ep when it originally aired. Would have balanced things out nicely for me. I always felt Gene and Roger needed to occasionally humble themselves. They really went after John Carpenter, on a regular basis. And they were wrong every time they did it.
Inframan is AWESOME! It's such a goofy, fun, outrageous movie! So happy Ebert likes it.
I've never heard of inframan before... Thank god!
Watch it as a preteen and it’s awesome.
It was horrible. Me and buddies went to the show . It was the second movie . We walked out on it in thirty minutes
Thanks!
That was a fun show.
I have last star fighter on DVD love it
When 2 intellectual grown up guys in the 80s talk about a Japanese flick - that’s fantastic. They seem so unhinged here
Definitely a slight on their ostensible intellectuality.
"...and introducing Ron Silver as Himself" "You were the bad guy in 'Timecop'"
"Heat Vision and Jack"
1987 had so many great movies 🍿 Hello Again , Nadine
"This Ron Silver"? This was years before Reversal of Fortune, but a couple of years after he was on "Rhoada."
I liked "Pee Wee's" as a kid. As an adult, it's even better. Oh, and "Jay & Silent Bo" copied almost note-by-note this movie.
The Last Dragon was the shit. The 3 fortune cookie guys “sooky ak socky soo, you sock it to me, I sock it to you”
Man, I'd completely forgotten Summer Lovers. But it was some of the first nudity I ever saw in a film.
The first nudity I remembering seeing in movies was the boobs in Airplane on HBO and Nicole Kidman's butt in Dead Calm on VHS.
I remember "Dressed to Kill" I was 12 or 13..and the theater owner told my mother "it was racy"..she said I could handle it..but did try to cover my eyes at the beginning...but an overall great movie
"Go to the refrigerator every 5 minutes" Haha! Siskel was so funny.
Calling Pee Wee a guilty pleasure in 1987 is like calling Google stock a guilty pleasure in 2004 when it first went public. People didn't get it at the time, but oh lordy they do now.
I love these shows
R.I.P. PeeWee 😢
I wonder what they would've thought of Tommy Wiseau's "The Room".
I think they might have liked "The Disaster Artist" as it was more of a real story than" The Room." I know that modern critics have ripped apart The Disaster Artist but really The Room is definitely not a movie to sit home and watch but like The Rocky Horror Picture show." The idea behind "Snakes on a Plane" was a movie that was so bad it was good, yet Tommy came out and beat Hollywood with his own version of what became a classic bad movie for the midnight crowd.
reviews for the "Disaster Artist " were pretty good....I always thought "Snakes on a plane" ads looked better than the film....
i.e. "Ed Wood"
I saw the Funhouse in the theater classic
American pie movies are probably my guilty pleasures
They both overlook the fact that Barbara Hershey first showed her greatness in The Stunt Man.
I love the fact that they dig the last dragon
The Entity scared the cr ap out of me especially because it was described as "a true story"
The entity completely surprised me...great performance
I was probably a tad too young to see The Entity in the theater, but it certainly kicked off my appreciation of Barbara Hershey.
Never realized that Power Rangers is just a remake of Infra Man
It’s not a remake at all. It’s all apart of the same kind of series in Japan called “Sentai”. The original Power Rangers seasons literally used footage from their Japanese counterparts. Saban (the producer) made a deal with the Sentai producers in Japan to be able to use the concept and footage in the US for Power Rangers. They filmed footage of the American actors and recorded a lot of English dialogue, but almost every battle scene is borrowed from the Japanese sentai show already produced - it was just overdubbed.
It wasn’t “just” overdubbed, they did add some footage, especially in the later seasons, but yes, 90% was Super Sentai.
No, the original Power Rangers in Japan were called the Five Rangers.
I wonder if it is true that they dubbed Carol Burnett's legendary Tarzan call into Tarzan the Ape-Man.
My biggest guilty pleasure wasn't around when they made this list - Showgirls.
The Last Starfighter is completely underrared. It does a good job by not being Star Wars.
But it uses the _Star Wars_ ending of letting one of the villains escape (same with _Flash Gordon)._ Too bad Lucas didn't study his own movie's success before writing _The Phantom Menace._
Of all criticisms to levy against Menace--and they are manifold--I fail to understand this one... you'll have to elaborate on your point there.
Vincent Canby called Bo Derek's Tarzan remake "the kind of movie you could only enjoy after a few cocktails."
The Funhouse!
No shame in liking The Entity one of the best horror films
Reminds me of a movie coming out soon and was just advertised on TV: _Women Talking._ These illiterate women in a religious colony have discovered men hit them with animal tranquilizers and raped them and are now having to talk out what happened and what they intend to do next.
Don't know if you're taking the piss or not
@@walkerstark4564 It's a real movie, in case you're suggesting it's not. The women were told they were imagining things, dreaming or having a supernatural encounter with a poltergeist (as men have told women for centuries). Then they caught a man in the act or got one to confess or something. Now they have to decide whether to leave their colony.
@@sandal_thong8631 No wasn't doubting that it's a real movie and now I see the connection to The Entity more clearly
Guilty pleeassure my ass! Infra Man it's an amazing movie and everyone should watch It!
Just One of the Guys and Howard the Duck would be my top two.
I think this last movie from Ebert is where they got might morphen power rangers.
This is the OG Best of The Worst
Pee wees big adventure is basically a stoner comedy just with no weed
Funhouse was a better pinball game.
Screenwriter of Russ Meyer's Beyond The Valley of The Dolls and Beneath The Valley of The Ultra-Vixens is a little bit embarrassed to say he enjoyed Pee Wee's Big Adventure