Siskel & Ebert review (1995): GoldenEye, It Takes Two, Toy Story, The Crossing Guard & Theremin
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- Опубликовано: 17 фев 2021
- 0:00 Intro
0:52 GoldenEye: Siskel 👎 & Ebert 👍
4:25 It Takes Two: 👎👎
6:50 Commercials
8:51 Toy Story: 👍👍
12:52 Commercials
14:25 The Crossing Guard: 👎👎
17:54 Commercials
18:54 Theremin: 👍👍
21:57 Commercials
24:09 When Night is Falling: 👎👎
26:18 The reviews
Not just vintage 90's commercials, but also LOCAL ones. Love it!
I think GoldenEye aged quite well - I think it's probably Brosnan's best Bond film. At least it doesn't have a freaking invisible car.....
Easily his best one, his 2nd was decent, but his 3rd and 4th were trash.
My first bond film was The Living Daylights (I was six when I watched it with my dad on tv in 1989) so I have a real soft spot for the dalton movies, golden eye was my first time seeing bond in theaters with my dad.
@@BishopWalters12 I hated TND
GoldenEye was the first Bond movie ever watched and I LOVED it. Still one of my favourites
Typical of Siskel to not like Goldeneye 007 when we know damn well that Pierce Brosnan is one of the three best James Bonds ever after Roger Moore and Sean Connery. He’s certainly better than Lazenby, Dalton, and Craig.
@@timothymorris157 WHAT Dalton was the best Bond. He really understood the character and was the close one to the Bond in the books.
@@mrdth1987 Sean Connery always has been and will continue to be the best James Bond ever even with the fact that he’s been dead since last Halloween.
@@timothymorris157 There's no denying Connery was fantastic but do you not think people call him the best because he was the first? If Dalton came first, people be saying he was the best Bond.
@@mrdth1987 Except Dalton wasn’t Bond until 1987 so between that and his lack of machismo and physical prowess he’ll never be considered as the best so get used to it.
Siskel is so wrong about Goldeneye....
Siskel says if you like James Bond you wont like this. lol. Most JB fans have Goldeneye in their top 10 at least.
12:22 I wish there was still room for hand drawn animation. By the way Gene had this #2 on his list of the best films of 1995 just behind Crumb. The only other animated movie film ranked highest on Gene's list is Roger Rabbit in 1988.
Was just saying this yesterday. I miss hand drawn cartoons. How are they just...gone? It's unfortunate.
@@VanishedPNW I like the old-fashioned hand-drawn animation, too.
I miss it, too. Some of the best computer animation has its charm, but there is just something more purely artistic to me about the hand-drawn classics. Sometimes computer animation falls into what Ebert would have called, "Uncanny Valley." The characters can look TOO 3-D and realistic to be cartoons.
Even cell animation is computerized these days.
It did make somewhat of a comeback in Disney's Once Upon A Studio.
I have to say... GoldenEye was my favorite. I mean, I know there was only one Sean Connery. But I liked how meta it was. It was so self-aware and they sort of humanize Bond here.
Agreed. Goldeneye was my first Bond movie, and even though there are *better* Bond movies, it’s still my favorite
"Theremin: an Electronic Odyssey" is well worth seeing, especially for the interview with Brian Wilson, which is hilarious.
Brian Wilson is a god amongst men
Goldeneye was sold pretty short here. Is it a masterpiece, no? But it is one of the better Bond films. And it actually had an interesting sub text with being the first post - Cold War bond film, and addressing what the role of a spy is during more peaceful times.
I disagree it was a masterpiece shame the rest of Brosnan Bond films didn't live upto it
@@mrbee4life182 Very true, they just got worse with each one, I thought his 2nd Bond movie was decent, but his 3rd and 4th were dog s@@@.
What made goldeneye so special was that it was originally written to be timothy dalton's 3'rd bond film but because a bunch of legal shit got in the way of making it he left the role.
They intended for it to be more serious in the vein of the living daylights/license to kill and that's why brosnan's first turn as the character is so strong, once they had the chance to write a 90's version of bond they went full 90's overblown action flick and the next 3 suffered because of it.
It's funny watching reactions from the time. Goldeneye has gone on to be one of the most loved Bond movies ever!
Siskel hated everything.
Lol I don't love Goldeneye
No it hasn't? The video game yes, but the movie is quite forgettable, IMHO.
Golden eye sucked
@@ilovebrandnewcarpets Both were amazing actually
You must be kidding. Goldeneye easily one of the best Bond movies EVER. I don't understand how they reviewed it so poorly.
Ebert liked it 👍
No matter how good they were gene hated pretty much every bond film dating from the mid 70's until he died in 1998.
He heaped praise on the off brand bond film come thunderball ashcan knockoff Never Say Never Again simply for existing and defended it every chance he got, during his review of the living daylights he actually said that NSNA was a "superior film" and that they'd "never be able to top it".
Ebert hated most classic films too.
Funny how they were so dazzled by the new thch og Toy Story they didn't really drill down into how great the movie itself is.
It's shame we didn't have Siskel & Ebert here in the UK. We just Film 95,96 and so on which was fine but having two critics was a much better idea than one guy sitting in front of a camera.
Fun story: There's a board game Balderdash, which gives the players obscure words for which they can give definitions. The goal is to give the best-sounding fake definition than the other players. Unless you can give the REAL definition, for which you automatically win. Some time after watching this episode I got the word Theremin.
I won.
Cool 😎 !
I used to play that a lot. Great game. My fake definitions got picked a lot.
@@jedijones I picked some good definitions but I had the worst poker face in history. Obviously with Theremin I didn't word it exactly how the card did, and the dasher didn't want to give it to me because I didn't remember the guy's FIRST name. When both were compared it was unanimous w everyone else. It's a rare musical instrument that makes otherworldly noises, nobody cares about the first name, lmao.
Thank you for leaving in the commercials. That's the best.
YES! I was coming on to say it was great to see these old commercials.
No ads for auto insurance or useless medications!
Loving the commercials!
Depends on your generation, I love Goldeneye, but I was a 90s kid and it was the first Bond that I saw in theaters.
Ditto- there was also the game
Goldeneye is probably my favorite Bond movie of all time
Oh nice! This is KMGH in Denver, which would’ve been CBS at the time, but soon after switched to ABC
I remember really liking The Crossing Guard. I didn't think that Nicholson was over-the-top at all.
In a 1987 Review, Siskel said that Dalton didn't has a Bond's presence and he suggested Brosnan for the role... In 1995 he said Brosnan has no presence... Come on Gene!!!
He just like to hate on everything for petty reasons. Ebert often called him out on his inconsistencies.
Funnily enough, Brosnan had been asked about playing Bond before Dalton, but scheduling conflicts stopped that from happening.
Thanks for these S & E uploads. A stroll down memory lane.
These guys were good and made you want to actually go out to the movies and see it in the theater.
Even if you dislike GoldenEye or Pierce, to say Roger Moore had a more commanding physical presence is pretty ridiculous. Halfway through his tenure, Moore looked too old for the action sequences. And I would argue the fight between Bond and Trevelyan was the most 'physical' Bond had been up until that point.
The Trevelyan fight was intense but it was definitely not the "most physical" Bond had been. Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service exhibited a great deal of physical intensity.
I think by presence he meant how he looked standing still. Pierce was too skinny in Goldeneye.
@@caza728 And yet Pierce was still in way better shape than Moore in any of his Bond films. Moore's fight scenes are laughable, he actually looks like how a grandpa would move in a fight even as early as TSWLM.
@@caza728 I'll the skinny guy in good shape over Moore looking 40 pounds overweight in his last few Bond movies.
I like James Bond, and Goldeneye is very high on my list.
So 2 thumbs up?
I like GoldenEye (I have only seen it once years ago), and I have seen parts of The Crossing Guard (what I saw was good).
I remember crying at the end of The Crossing Guard. Very powerful film. Jack Nicholson's performance is very good
Underrated review on "It Takes Two" that was Hilarious.
How the hell did Gene not know both Olsen twins were working together? Lol
I've seen every Bond movie since For Your Eyes Only in the theater. I was sad when Roger Moore stopped playing him, a little skeptical when Prince Barin started playing him. I enjoyed his two, but not as much as Roger's. I was so excited when I heard Pierce Brosnan was going to take over the role. I thought it was a long time coming, he deserved it, and he did not disappoint. GoldenEye blew me away. I thought, Now that's more like it! Gene is just wrong here.
I love Dalton but he simply didn't get the scripts he deserved.
This Olson twin bullshit was going to get worse.
Loved both GoldenEye and Toy Story.
I like GoldenEye, and I liked Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Yet again Gene slates a movie I like and Ebert likes it also. It's a fun film and I think it's worthy of the franchise.
What S&E failed to anticipate is that CGI is far more flexible than hand-drawn animation. Once you've designed the characters, you can change their movements relatively easily, for instance, if the script changes. Traditional animation would have to be completely redrawn from scratch. That's a big reason hand-drawn 2D animation has all but died out. (Modern 2D animation is either 3D in disguise, or uses automated animation techniques, such as keyframes.)
Gene Siskel always had an unfair bias towards anyone playing James Bond who wasn't Sean Connery, and that bias is on full display here. An early example of toxic fanboyism perhaps?
Not toxic but he should be up front and honest that he really doesn't want to watch Bond without Connery.
100% if you watch his reviews of Moore and Dalton films his grievance was exactly the same: they weren't Connery
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If you watch their review of Never Say Never Again gene is literally tripping over himself to praise it simply for existing despite it being the diet mr, pibb of bond movies.
@@sasquatchjj Someone else said, when Dalton got Bond, Gene said they should have picked Brosnan and when Brosnan finally got Bond he was unhappy with him too.
Gene's right. Connery was so good that all the rest pale in comparison.
IT TAKES TWO was a de facto remake of The Parent Trap that came out 3 years before the actual remake.
Imagine if they saw the new pixar movies.
TOY STORY is terrific dazzling movie, the picture is well-drawn with computer-generated, the toys all bright & colorful & great voice casts. 👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐
Siskel and Ebert wrong about GoldenEye. It's one of the best Bond films, so popular in fact that it helped launch one of the best games.
When Night Is Falling is one gay film I've never heard of until now and it doesn't sound that good. I've also been coming to realize how most films about lesbians in the 90s were more openly visible about same-sex love than the male sex which was more alluded to or depicted in snippets in more renowned films. That clip they showed demonstrates a lot of the passion that was being featured in films on the subject which gay male romantic stories had a lot of catching up to do with since then and has become more visible in the last decade.
Because nobody wants to see that sh!T.
I have no idea what siskel looks for in movies after binging a couple of their reviews
Siskel always wants a human, down-to-Earth story and real characters, even in big, silly action movies and comedies. If you watch his reviews, you'll always see that.
@@redadamearth Its interesting that he liked Batman and Die Hard and Ebert didn't.
Gene got grumpy with watching so many blockbusters for his job.
Goldeneye 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️ & a half out of 4
Toy Story 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
David Morse turned out to be a fantastic actor
Golden Eye is a pretty good Bond movie. Siskel seems to be stuck in the past with Bond films, Roger Moore was an equally good Bond compared to Connery. Like Ebert said, if you like James Bond, you will like this movie.
I believe Siskel was correct when he stated that Connery was the best Bond but I am always willing to see a new face in the role.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Agreed, he was the best. This was Pierce Brosnan's first Bond movie, and the last few before this one were not as good. Pierce I would say is who helped make the franchise a little less cheese, it still had those moments too, but it also had some great stunts, and the plot was heavily focused around technology that was becoming more common in the mid 90's. It isn't the best Bond, but I would put it in the top 25% of Bond films.
I thought they were all decent. I really liked Lazenby's film as well. He was probably the most believable as a gov't employ. Timothy Dalton also good.
@@austinlawler3739 I honestly feel that Tomorrow Never Dies, despite it's emulation of Michael Bay spectacle, was a better film than Goldeneye. Elliot Carver's plan to start a war for ratings is a whip smart satire of the media's unholy alliance with big government and their desire force feed the public a false narrative.
@@VanishedPNW Dalton is my favorite after Connery !
I don’t know what was the bigger trip: the show or the commercials…
I just never bought Brosnan as Bond. Too pretty and a lightweight.
They wrong about it takes two and goldeneye
lol he called Kirstie alley blowsy! Had no idea what was coming. RIP both. Sad
Siskel never got over Sean Connery not playing James Bond.
@ 13:11 hahahahaha I did not see that coming 🤣
“I liked the people . . .”
Speaking about the animated movie with the creepiest looking kid to ever grace the silver screen.
Gene Siskel never gave any Bond movie after Sean Connery left a thumbs up. It's a shame because Pierce Brosnan is a terrific James Bond.
Sources online say Siskel gave Tomorrow Never Dies a thumbs up. Video of the review appears to be gone from the internet at this time. Siskel died before World is Not Enough debuted. Going further back, Siskel also thumbed up For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy (videos are out there). He liked The Spy Who Loved Me also, going by his 3-star print review. He did thumb up Connery's return in Never Say Never Again (video is out there) but he didn't like the last "official" Connery Bond Diamonds are Forever. Every other review since the first 5 Connery flicks appears to be negative, except I cannot find a review by him of Live and Let Die. So of the 13 Bond films plus NSNA released after Connery's original five films and before Siskel's death, Siskel didn't review one, liked 5 and didn't like 8. Connery and Brosnan got 1 good review each, Moore got 3 and Dalton and Lazenby got none.
He loved Never Say Never Again and it was crap. He has a man crush on Connery. Never Say Never Again is not a James Bond Movie, Its not mad my the Eon boys. I would love see Siskel and Ebert face reviewing Casino Royale the best James Bond movie ever made. He just might give it a thumbs down and say he is no Sean Connery.
@@wcs494 Well, the real James Bond nerds think Lazenby's film is great and NSNA is terrible. Those are two mainstream opinions of Bond fans that are at odds with the general public.
Pierce Brosnan, ewww.
@@jedijones Figures. TND is one of the worst.
Well Siskel got Golden eye wrong
"Forget about the theory that computer animation is cheaper than the traditional kind."
Siskel only liking Connery. I wonder what he would have thought of Daniel Craig.
Mistake: he refers to Toy Story as being a different kind of Disney animated feature. Toy Story was made by Pixar which had no relationship to Disney (at the time).
They did distribute Pixar movies I was gonna say the same thing that It’s Pixar’s first movie.
They called it with Toy Story.
It Takes Two was actually one of there better movies fun like The Parent Trap
I believe this aired on November 18, 1995.
If Buzz didn't believe he was a toy why didn't he talk to Andy?
If Pierce Brosnan had hit the gym, he could have ridden Bond out to the end of his career. He had absolutely every other attribute.
Goldeneye is a good Bond pastiche but there's no way it approaches the genius of the 60's classics.
@@hamburgareable I wouldn't say I hate if but I feel that it doesn't deserve a place among the elite Bond films.
@@ricardocantoral7672 But i just cant stand Pierce's Bond. Hes too soft at times. Hes meh compared to Connery. But youre right, i shouldnt hate Goldeneye. Its passable, good, energetic and solid when it needs to be. And the score by Eric Serra, what do you think of it, Ricardo?
Tomorrow Never Dies was better!
@@hamburgareable He was better in Die Another Day where he was more misogynistic.
@@caza728 Hm.. I for one think DAD is worse than Goldeneye.
Did Gene take a taxi to the news stand?
Poor Gene.
10 cents a minute to talk on the phone? 😱
Sean Connery is my favorite Bond, but man Siskel is insufferable when it comes to fanboying about Connery, he whines about every Bond film just because it doesn’t have Connery in it.
5:44 - XD lol
Toy Story did revolutionize animation, but their review is surface level analysis.
Ebert did say later on that the visuals in 'Toy Story' can only go so far. Maybe it was a couple weeks later, but, he said it was a great story and that is why it was so good.
@@Fakeaorta Did he say this in his reviews of other Pixar films?
@@patrickshields5251 I am not totally sure. I just remember watching him say it on his show. It might have been for 'Bug's Life' or something. But he did praise the storytelling is what made the films good because great visuals will only get you so far.
@@Fakeaorta Although I respect Ebert, I think he clearly has a pro Disney bias.
Read their reviews, they go into much more detail.
That old guy in that commercial definitely wasn't feeling that frozen shit smear in a tortilla.
Dang, Siskel saying Kirstey Alley looks "blousy". From the Cambridge Dictionary: "A blowsy woman is rather fat and looks untidy, often with badly fitting clothes. Not attractive to look at." Not cool, Gene!
Did Gene say kristy allie is getting fat ? Lol oh gene you don’t even know
Fat shaming Kirstie Alley, totally fine but offending child molesters is wrong. Siskel really was a true idiot.
GoldenEye is the best of the Brosnan Bond films. And I like Pierce Brosnan in general, but as far as Bonds go, he's the 2nd worst next to Lazenby.
I always had difficulty judging Brosnan as Bond. As I am a Bond fan and I like Brosnan as an actor and he seems to have all the requirements to be Bond but something was always off somehow. Maybe he just wasn't in a good time period for good Bond movies. I still like him better than Daniel Craig overall except maybe for Casino Royale. Was watching Remington Steele the other day and Brosnan was pretty good in that.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 Yes, exactly. I think my issue is that he tried to play it like a tough guy...and it just didn't play well for him. Or maybe it's because we were already familiar with him from other things. Maybe I would have viewed him differently if he came into Bond as an unknown. (like Dalton and Craig for US audiences). Also, I didn't care for some of the stories and co-stars. Denise Richards, Halle Berry, Jonathan Pryce...I didn't like those characters.
@@bossfan49 Yea his tough act was hard to buy and yea it's as if they surrounded him with a who's who of the "hot actor of the moment" to fill these roles instead of finding unknown gems that could have fit the parts better. The only one I liked was Sophie Marceau who brought a real heart and sensuality to her part.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 oh yeah, she was great!
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 Its all Pierce is good for anyway. Remington Steele, hes so out of place for James Bond.
Have agree with Gene, Brosnan was a terrible Bond. Neither he nor Dalton had the right stuff for the role.
Gene hated goldeneye but heaped praise on never say never again just for existing despite it being a spectacularly awful ashcan release that was made by a bitter clown (Kevin McLorey) who was trying to preserve his rights to certain story elements of thunderball by farting out an off brand bond film.
The ulitmate irony is that after mclorey corked it his family sold back those rights too the broccoli's for pennies on the dollar because they saw no value in them and had no interest in retaining them.
One of Siskel's all-time worst reviews. Goldeneye is now widely regarded as one of the best-ever Bond films. Siskel's assertion that Connery was the only good Bond is completely off-base, and I'm glad that time has proven him wrong.
And it was a huge success from the start compared with Daltons efforts. Siskel pretty mutch hated all Bond movies after Connery left. He obviously loved Never say never again of course.
I agree with them in regards to jack nickolson ,his performance in this film didn't match the point of the character.
SISKEL: I think there will always be a room for traditional animation.
ME: Yeah............about that. :(
siskel didn't get it whatever it is
The more and more I watch Siskel and Ebert, I realize these two were just a pair of dopes!
👎🏻👎🏻
Goldeneye- mediocre movie, but ALL TIME video game for Nintendo 64. If you're a guy between say 35-40 you played about a million hours of it!
Mediocre? No way. It's easily one of the best Bond movies
These are the worst commercials I've ever seen.
I enjoy thier rapport, but Genre Siskel was a total movie snob.
I saw Goldeneye in the theater in 1995 and hated it. These clips remind me why. Overblown, bloated action scenes that aren't crisp or tight. Extremely cheesy dialogue. Campy, unconvincing performances. Uninteresting, cliched plot. Brosnan has no screen presence. He acts like a cartoon character, not a real person who believes the events around him are really happening.
Brosnan was very stiff in this movie. I think he was intimidated by the role. He improved over the course of his tenure but I still find him to be the weakest Bond. Generally speaking, he is just isn't much of leading man. I think he functions better in a good supporting role and that was definitely the case in The Ghost Writer.
@@ricardocantoral7672 I haven't seen any of the Brosnan films beyond this film which is entertaining enough with Sean Bean and Famke Janssen as the villains and Brosnan is charismatic enough to keep me focused. I haven't seen all the Bond films to really make comparisons on Bond but that shows how little Bond interests me. I've only seen the films that were ranked as classics like Goldfinger and Dr. No and the Daniel Craig films but I'm tired with Bond and wish it would just end because enough has been done about the character.
@@codyhoskins1319 I think the film series should end. I would love to see a Bond TV show featuring the character doing traditional spy work.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Exactly, hes too weak as Bond. Remington Steele will be the only character hes remembered for.
Too pc as well. He says, “Point taken” after having his balls ripped off by the new female M. He spoke up more to Bernard Lee’s M in Goldfinger and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. He is constantly being bossed around by Natalya and is ultimately saved by her distraction in the helicopter at the end when fighting Alec. He also struggles fighting against a taller than average but still thin Famke Janssen.
Ah seriously, Siskel was the worst movie critic I've ever seen. He doesn't even come off as intelligent.
He was so whiny and petty, I only watch for Ebert!
LOL!!! 12:58 might be one of the funniest commercials ive ever seen. ever.
omg im rewatching it and dying laughing. the grunt he makes is absolutely brilliant
8:51 And now they're making Toy Story 5.