Swamp Thing (1982) movie review - Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2019
- This is the original review of Swamp Thing by Siskel & Ebert on "Sneak Previews" in 1982. All of the segments pertaining to the movie have been included.
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I’m pleasantly surprised they like it and spend so much time on it. I think it’s pretty good for the kind of movie it is, and I’m glad Roger mentions the unusual mix of genres.
Man, that was an incredible year for movies and an even funner one for my 16 year old self and my buddies at the drive ins all summer long. Literally 5 nights a week at least and by the second movie we'd had friended the cars next to us especially the trucks in the farther-back rows. Rowdy times with lawn chairs and kiddie pools in the beds of trucks and plenty of "measured" drunkenness and weed-smoking so as not to get in trouble.
This was the first film ever I saw reviewed on tv. I was hooked.
Another fantastic film from the early 80s. The sequence where Arcane drinks the formula and transforms was awesome and disgusting at the same time. :-)
"Ah will always be, yo' Swamp Thang....."
Mmm.... Adrienne Barbeau!!!
I miss them.
Love this flick!!!! "Only when I laugh!"
I'm glad they got the point. It's a very silly movie but it is no accident. It is proud to be silly
These two rated the movie on the merits of its sociological message. The original Swamp Thing comic was dark, noire like, artistic in every frame, and this film is shot like a B-movie, looks like a B-movie, sounds like a B-movie and just fails as a faithful artistic rendering of the comic to the big screen. Such is life, I suppose.
It’s definitely not the same concoction as the original comic, but as a Wes Craven fan I enjoyed it. Definitely one of his better pre-Freddy Krueger movies. An entertaining B-movie.
Sneak preview??? Jesus they gave away a plot twist!!! Hadn't they heard of spoilers back then?
shocked n glad they both liked this.
Great film! Just saw it recently and its sequel which is just as good
Looks like the local high school made this movie. But Siskel / Ebert loved it.
Critics like to see stuff that's new and/or different from what they've seen before.
"Swamp Thing" is meant to be campy, and it does it pretty well. The movie was also one of the reason the PG-13 rating was created a couple of years later, it had a topless scene and some gruesome stuff for the PG rating. Wes Craven directed it by the way.
PS, will you ever put up their review of Jean-Jacques Beinex's "Diva"? Maybe my favorite foreign films of the 80's along with Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo".
Swamp Thing really only works as a comic book.
That said, shut off your brain and this is entertaining enough.
I can't believe one of the clips is the climax of the movie! They practically show the last 5 minutes!
-I don't believe they devoted 7 and a half minutes to this movie on their show. I think the RUclipsr must have included that long scene for whatever reason.-
@@sandal_thong8631 I'm certain they did really play that clip on the show. This was back during Siskel and Ebert's public television days where they could discuss the movies for longer because there were no commercials. Additionally, they could play whatever clips they wanted because they had access to the actual film prints via the theater where they watched all the movies. If there was a specific clip they wanted, one of their producers would borrow the print and scan that scene onto video so they could play it on their show.
@@DoncoEntAgainI saw their review was really 7 minutes on another channel. I don't know if they created their own clip, since they're supposed to get permission. There was at least one movie where the studio wouldn't give them permission to use clips unless they gave it a favorable review, so I think they didn't play any clips!
I liked the movie better then the failed dc show that got cancelled by dc comics.
Watched Swamp Thing for free on RUclips
Turns 40 today!
This was surprisingly the only comic book movie directed by the late Wes Craven
Ray Wise and Adrienne Barbeau
Louis Jourdan is in it too,same actor who also played the villain in Octopussy
It's unabashedly campy which is both good and bad
But entertaining and silly enough for a first attempt to bring this comic to life
Fun action, a deliciously wicked villain, and I like Adrienne Barbeau being a very proactive love interest
Hey Ebert, why don’t you just tell everybody all about it! Talk about a spoiler... Why did he have to spill the beans about what happens to the villain when he drinks the formula? Geesh! LOL! Ebert seems to take tremendous joy in ruining everything ... LOL!
This movie has two big things going for it, and they both belong to Adrienne Barbeau.
Mmmm Adrian Barbeau...In a swamp!
😎great movie
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always liked this film.
Surprised they enjoyed Swamp Thing I really hated this movie it deserves a polished remake
I hear some Friday the 13th music in the movie.
I’m surprised that Gene and Roger liked this. I thought it was pretty bad and very amateurish.
You would be wrong
Those were some cheesy costumes. Swamp Thing's rubber suit.
how can Roger Ebert literally sit up there and say he liked The Last House On The Left and dog Friday The 13th when it was Last House that helped the trend in the women in danger films and both movies had the same producer and it also had Wes Craven as director of that film as well as this? in which i liked this movie and own it to where Friday The 13th should have been his guilty pleasure also especially since Friday The 13th made alot of money and people liked it like i did and people were disgusted by Last House On The Left even though i thought it was okay myself
Because Friday The 13th sucked and still does, as do all the movies in it's series. I was in the target demo for the movie when it came out (15-18 year olds) and I knew it was terrible even as a fan of the genre. Go ahead, try to watch the first one while baked and you'll see just how bad it is. Yeah the series got gorier and I appreciate Savini getting a chance to hone his gnarly craft, but those movies are total shit. So are the Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street and Chucky movies. Halloween 1 and the first Nightmare on Elm Street are ok but sequelmania ruined stuff.
@@RUclips-tied Eh No
Scary movie.