Siskel & Ebert - Best of 1982 (At The Movies)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Siskel's list:
1. Moonlighting
2. Tootsie
3. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial
4. Diva
5. Mephisto
6. Lola
7. Personal Best
8. Three Brothers
9. Das Boot
10. An Officer and a Gentleman
Ebert's List:
1. Sophie's Choice
2. Diva
3. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial
4. Fitzcarraldo and Burden of Dreams (tie)
5. Personal Best
6. Das Boot
7. Mephisto
8. Moonlighting
9. The Verdict
10. The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time!
I love it when you leave the old commercial breaks in there too 👍
I was shocked to see RCA video disk player. I thought that came out in the late 80's
@@josephscottadams39 Too bad it didn't catch on; we had to wait until DVDs and wide TVs. Funny about the VCR tape that can keep a good image after 100 recordings. Who would record over their TV shows more than once or twice? Maybe for soaps or game shows you watched once and were done with?
@@josephscottadams39 a friend of mine just sold me this exact player, along with about 80 movies. Sadly, the rubber band or whatever inside is broken, so I can't load any movies. I plan on fixing it, but have no experience. For now though, it's a neat novelty to show in my media area
TOOTSIE- I love that film so much!
The Verdict, one of the best films of 1982. Superb writing and performances
Lots of good movies from '82 but I think The Verdict was #1 on my list.
@onequickthing8950 The Paul Newman character had alcohol induced ADHD!
One of my all time favorite Paul Newman performances
Only complaint is it misrepresented both medical and legal procedure. New man’s redemptive arch was not compelling. Nor believable. Too many tropes and cliches to drive the plot.
Best Paul Newman Performance ever! Should have beaten Gandhi.
I was 14 when this aired. I saw most these films at that time. We still had a sense of wonder going to the movies then, at least I did. Wonderful to see this again as a much older and more jaded adult.
Me too I can't believe ET was made 42 years ago.
I am surprised Ghandi was not on either list despite both of them regarding it highly.
This was 42 years ago. 42 years earlier was 1940. Tech has changed much in life but not nearly as much as the ways life was transformed between '40 and '82.
Forty years ago, when I was a young man, I usually agreed with Ebert. But in my old age I find myself agreeing with Siskel. Funny how life goes.
Those two are the best i miss them
My list, based on North American release dates:
1. E.T: The Extra Terrestrial
2. Mephisto
3. The Long Good Friday
4. Fitzcarraldo
5. Moonlighting
6. Circle of Deceit
7. Gandhi
8. Das Boot
9 .The World According to Garp
10. The Verdict
This may be my favorite year in film history. I could come up with at least 10 more great films that I admire almost as much.
@@kdohertygizbur It didn't reach theatres in the United States until April 1982. S&E reviewed it on their show along with "Pink Floyd: The Wall" in the summer of '82 which was the first time "The Long Good Friday" even reached Chicago. If you live in England, it would make sense to count it as a 1981 film. It only appeared at film festivals in 1980.
"Mephisto", "Das Boot", and "Circle Of Deceit" would also be 1981 films if all we care about is the first time they were screened anywhere, but no one in North America got to see those until the theatrical releases in 1982 (hence the Academy Award nominations for films released in 1982). Likewise for Gene's picks "Lola" and "Three Brothers". I don't think it helps to rely on how IMDb assigns years to individual titles.
My 10 best of 1982:
1. ET
2. Tootsie
3. Personal Best
4. An Officer And A Gentleman
5. Rocky III
6. Diva
7. The Verdict
8. Das Boot
9. Moonlighting
10. Mephisto
Damn great year for movies, there's like 10-15 more that i could have put in the 10 spots...but I thought I'd include some that really deserve much more attention, so some audience favourites and some personal favourites for me...👍🏿😎
My list goes by premiere year, so there are some films here that didn't open in North America until after '82.
1. The Night of the Shooting Stars
2. Diner
3. Shoot the Moon
4. Losing Ground
5. Fanny and Alexander
6. The King of Comedy
7. Identification of a Woman
8. One from the Heart
9. Tempest
10. Blade Runner
11. Tootsie
12. That Championship Season
13. Le Beau mariage
14. Evil Under the Sun
15. Author! Author!
16. Cat People
17. Hammett
18. E.T.
19. The Thing
20. An Officer and a Gentleman
@onequickthing8950 It's divisive, I know, but I find it life-affirming and profoundly humanistic. And so far ahead of its time with its angle on some social issues that it would probably play like a modern satire if I watched it today. Although, having been a teenager when I last saw it, it isn't fresh in my memory.
@onequickthing8950 Could be. It's been a while, but I'll give it another look some day and reassess.
RCA Video Disc player: The Future!
That ad is gorgeous. Take me back!
1982 was one of the great movie years - "Tootsie," E.T.," "The Verdict," "Victor/Victoria," "The World According to Garp," "My Favorite Year," Shoot the Moon." And so many more.
GARP is awful.
@@CaptainSpalding72 garp is amazing!!!
@@CaptainSpalding72 i'm with you
First blood also
The summer releases alone. My God!! amazing year. I remember it well.
Gene had 20 runners-up for the top 10 list for 1982: "The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time!" (#10 on Roger's list, as aforementioned), Barry Levinson's "Diner", "My Favorite Year", "Barbarosa", "Chan Is Missing", "Lili Marleen", "TRON" (a PG-rated Disney film), "Looking to Get Out", "Burden of Dreams", "The Long Good Friday" (a 1980 British gangster film), "Tex" (another PG rated Disney film), "Pixote", "The Road Warrior" (AKA "Mad Max 2"), "The Aviator's Wife", "Circle of Deceit", "Taxi Zum Ho", "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip", "Veronika Voss", the remake of "Cat People", and the 1981 German film "Christian F."
Gene also enjoyed "The Challenge", "One From the Heart", and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (one of Roger's picks for the Stinkers of 1982).
Locally, the Fine Arts Twin opened at South Michigan Avenue, Gene lauding it as "a bold experiment in quality film booking by the enterprising M&R Theater chain of Skokie."
(SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, January 3, 1983)
I remember seeing the episode where Siskel said he liked ‘Halloween 3’. Ebert mocked him for it and would occasionally bring it up as a dig towards Siskel, lol
@@jimpatterson1111 My Top Ten Movies of 1982 are.
10. Swamp Thing.
9. Annie.
8. Poltergeist.
7. E.T the Extra-Terrestrial.
6. The Secret of NIMH. Animated.
5. Tron.
4. An Officer and a Gentleman.
3. The Man from Snowy River.
2. Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie 1001 Rabbit Tales. Animated.
1. The Last Unicorn. Animated.
Here's my Honorable Mentions.
1. 48 Hrs.
2. The Dark Crystal.
@@jimpatterson1111 Halloween lll Season of the Witch is a great B movie. It's a classic. It's also more interesting than The Michael Myers stuff. Those movies are so freakin overrated.
First Blood should be on this list
@@Kingof69ner Great movie.
My favourite through back in these clips is the classic unedited 80's ads :)
With no woke or PC messages. So refreshing !
I didn’t watch Sophie’s Choice until just recently, and part of me wishes I hadn’t. The “choice” scene is in some ways the most brutal thing I’ve seen on film.
So glad Ebert chose Sophie's Choice as 1982's best film. It's my favorite movie of all time and so much more than Streep's EXTRAORDINARY performance.
My 10 best list of 1982:
1. Tootsie
2. Blade Runner
3. The Verdict
4. Poltergeist
5. Diner
6. Night Shift
7. Koyaanisqatsi
8. 48 Hrs
9. World According to Garp
And that’s it. I can only think of 9 films worthy to be on this list.
Can't believe Tootsie failed to make Roger's top ten.
Tootsie is amazing. The ONLY man in drag movie that's actually funny.
Didnt make mine either.
@@BookClubDisaster Mrs. Doubtfire was funny too.
@@BookClubDisasterSome Like It Hot
Maybe I need to watch Tootsie again I didn't like it
Greatest movie summer of all time... E T., Poltergeist,Blade Runner,The Thing,Tron,Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan. Firefox,Rocky 3,The Road Warrior,Diner,The World According to Garp Fast Times at Ridgemont High. An Officer and a Gentleman. I'm not even listing the fall and Christmas releases.
because Siskel & Ebert were DUMBASSES
The Thing, The Road Warrior, Blade Runner, Tron …. Best Science Fiction Summer ever.
Miss the Chicago boys! My favorite of that year would probably be Blade Runner, but so many fine films in 82
The original cut of Blade Runner didn't inspire many rave reviews, as you may know. The only version S&E had seen at the time is quite different from the version(s) most people are familiar with today.
For what it's worth, Roger eventually included "The Final Cut" of Blade Runner in his Great Movies essay collection.
Frankie Faizon in a toothpaste ad!?
OK this just totally side-swiped me 🤣
I did a double take myself, yes that's Barney for Crest toothpaste
Those ads are such a nostalgia rush!
Yup.
At the 8:27 mark, cool seeing the full 1982 ad for the RCA VideoDisc player. A commenter below said that at the MSRP of $299 it would be close to $1,000 today. Movies on those giant discs were $25 which would be close to $100 today. I rented one for a day back in the day for $20 and it included 3 movies. I think I picked Swiss Family Robinson, Old Yeller and a third film.
The lady in the commercial for Memorex video tape looks like the actress Cynthia Sikes. I had a crush on her when I was a kid. At that time she was a regular on NBC's medical drama St. Elsewhere.
Tootsie and The Verdict!
1982 was just insane. Go to a list sometime of all the films released in '82 and it's almost hard to believe the amount of classics that were being released that year. A lot of films that ended up becoming classics were just swallowed up in the tidal wave of films coming out.
Diva is an excellent film.
Yup.
8:49 "Players start at $299"...that would be over $900 in today's dollars.
For me my best and favorite flims of 1982 was Annie, Poltergeist and especially E.T.
My '82 choices
Star Trek II
E.T.
The Secret of NIMH
Rocky III
Tron
Mad Max 2
Poltergeist
48 Hours
First Blood
Pink Floyd The Wall
It's funny you could hear the intro to Styx's "Too Much Time On My Hands" sounding strikingly similar in that RCA disc ad.
Tron, Tron and Tron.
My favorite films of 1982:
1. The Long Good Friday
2. Blade Runner
3. Gandhi
4. E.T. The Extraterrestrial
5. An Officer and a Gentleman
6. Sophie's Choice
7. Tootsie
8. The World According to Garp
9. The Verdict
10. One from the Heart
So there.
"The long good friday" was filmed in 1979 and released the following year.
I saw it in 1982 so as far as I am concerned it is a 1982 movie. That's when it got a major release in the United States. I know that Bob Hoskins was nominated for best actor at the British awards for the year 1981 but he lost to Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City.
Conan the Barbarian also came out in 1982. Set the bar for sword and sorcery genre.
Just about every other fantasy/sword-and-sorcery movie lost money at the box office. They said video purchases really did it for Conan, and probably others. I imagine studios only got one purchase for each VHS tape on a rental store's shelf?
The clips from Tootsie and Diva have been cut out due to copyright restrictions. The video would have been blocked if I hadn't done that.
Also, please spare me the "How dare they not include my favorite movie, I can't believe other people have different taste!" comments. Don't be a dullard.
I've been waiting for this particular episode to be uploaded just do I could hear their actual thoughts on their picks...I've had their 10 best lists for years, but here is where I get to enjoy hearing their enthusiasm for each movie...
Diva was a 1981 movie in the UK but probably 1982 in the USA.
TRON and Blade Runner were so good the average movie watcher didnt even understand how good they were.
1982 was an awesome year. Some overlooked and even initially disliked films would go on to be classics from that year, including Blue Thunder, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, Night Shift, Zapped.
Blue Thunder was in '83.
Never understood why Night Shift wasn't more popular. Keaton and Winkler were brilliant together in that film.
Zapped with Scott Baio, you lost me there with your list
'82 - One of the best ever years for great movies. Too bad they suck now days.
Sophie's Choice, World According to Garp, Rocky III, Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner my fav 5.
fast times at rigdemont high and no ghandi best picture 1982
That Memorex commercial totally hoodwinked me three times, even though I'd seen it back in the day.
I'm surprised they both thought highly of Personal Best considering it's not a very popular movie.
no connection to popularity
thats not a reason to dislike a movie. They liked it because of the lesbian love story.
I agree that 1982 was the absolute peak in movie history, never to be repeated again.
The Thing
Das Boot
Road Warrior
The Verdict
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
48 Hours
Poltergeist
Sophie's Choice
Blade Runner
There have been better years. This wouldn't even make the top 10 of years. Peak is pushing it.
@@LumpyAdams Too many people have been brainwashed into thinking nothing meaningful was made before the 80s.
@@KRhetor I think it's more so these nostalgic 80s kids that want to put that decade on a pedestal. They're worse than 90s kids. Everything from that decade is tHe bEsT eVer. While the 80s did have classics, there's so much garbage.
Personal Best:
Who else watched the sauna scene over and over again ❓🤔😆
I liked the arm wrestle scene or right after it...
@@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 I have a song called lovebirds and a video
go to panpiper Pete
Gotta love the ads. $300 VCR. Frankie Faison hocking toothpaste
That's not a vcr that's an early version of Laserdisc
What's up with the thumbnail?? That is freaky. This week on Siskel & Ebert & Demon
Pazuzu
@@kicka11Lilu
@@kicka11 No, Captain Howdy.
Ok, full disclosure, my favorite part of this video is the Memorex ad. That was such an iconic advertising campaign. So meta! :) 19:52
The Dark Crystal is one of the best films of 1982 in my opinion. If I were Gene or Roger I would've put it on my list.
Did they even review it? I don't see it when searching for their shows. I think they said it came out alongside _Tootsie_ and _The Toy_ so I'll check those.
Look at a young Frankie Faison, and the late Leo O' Brien doin a toothpaste ad. Vintage old school. And what the hell is a stereodisc player?
"That's Meryl Streep as Sophie..." It's funny to see this review and remember a time when Streep wasn't a living legend. She wasn't even that well-known when that movie came out. And I guess their prediction that "Moonlighting" was going to stand the test of time was a little off.
Well, yes, she was already an Oscar-winner and had starred in back-to-back Best Picture winners. She became pretty well known in the late 70s but this movie solidified her reputation as an A-list *lead* actress.
You're right.
Moonlighting is practically unknown.
I saw it the other day.
I gave it 6/10.
It was OK but not particularly interesting.
I think this episode aired the same day that Sneak Previews (Geoffrey Lyons and Mike Medved) aired their episode about the worst of 1982. Lo and behold someone on that show (I can't remember which one) picked "Personal Best" as one of the worst. Make what you will of that.
I had a RCA vdp: piece of crap. I threw it out 😆
What happened on ET? I didn’t see a darn thing,guys!!!
1. The Thing
2. Creepshow
3. Friday the 13th Part 3
4. Basket Case
5. The Slumber Party Massacre
6. The Beast Within
7. Amityville II: The Possession
8. Midnight
9. Xtro
10. Pieces
Big rom-com fan eh?
Ya forgot poltergeist 👻
LOL. Your tastes are horrible.
Hell yeah
WHY IS THERE A PIC OF PAZUZU'S FACE IN THE THUMBNAIL???
You must be imagining things.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Quit Bullshiting. When I say I see evil, I see evil. So you'd better explain yourself, cuz I doubt that pic got there by accident.
How do you do, very stable person?
Blade Runner, TRON, Tootsie, First Blood, Poltergeist & Koyaanisqatsi.
The original sit around and talk about movies.
Sometimes it’s a movie’s ending that leaves the lasting image. Have to say that about Mephisto.
My list of 1982
E.T.
Tootsie
Diner
Sophie's Choice
The Verdict
A officer & A Gentleman
Tron
Blade Runner
48 Hrs.
Das Boot
First Blood
The King of Comedy
Poltergeist
Annie
Come Back to the 5 & Dimen Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
19:34 44 De Vere Gardens, Kensington.
I wonder if Siskel ever visited it.
The commercial break confused me! I was wondering what movie sounded that way...
Needs more feedback
Did Siskel and Ebert give the dark crystal two thumbs up or two thumbs down?
Neither one liked it.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 maximum clarification please!
The toothpaste dad is Frankie Faison, played Burrell from The Wire
4:05 - Lol Did he just jump out his seat in excitement like a little kid? His smile says it all.lol
What a year?
Das Boot
The Verdict
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Ghandi was relased Dec 82. Was it too late to be included in these lists?
Timely distribution in Chicago was apparently iffy back then. Roger had it on his list for 1983, so it probably wasn't screened for them until January.
I miss the eighties. Oh well.....
Nothing against these choices, but how was Gandhi on neither list?
It hadn't played in Chicago yet. Made Roger's list for 1983.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Doesn’t appear so: ruclips.net/video/a_Q1DAcxOf4/видео.html
@@jamesasali9233 I stand corrected. In any case, I'm pretty sure they didn't get to see it in time for the cut-off date of this list.
That neither of them chose Gandhi just shows how astute they were. They just saw right through the BS and recognized it was a propaganda film produced by the then Nehru-Gandhi Congress dispensation in complicity with the UK government.
As an Indian, I applaud the wisdom that the legendary Siskel and Ebert showed there
But...they both liked it a great deal. Ebert gave it 4 stars! It just didn't make their lists in what both thought was an extraordinary year.
It's funny how Roger can say so much without moving his lips
ET, the verdict,,tootsie,gandhi,an officer and a gentelman,48 hours,sophies choice ,
My ex and I sat stone-faced throughout 'Tootsie' while everyone else kept exploding with laughter. The only time we laughed, when Bill Murray said, 'That is one zany hospital' the theater was quiet. I guess we just didn't get this movie.
I'm amazed that Moonlighting would be anyone's film of the year.
It's OK but nothing more.
It's pretty dull, I don't see how the words 'spectacular' and 'adventure' can be applied to it.
Anyone know the original broadcast date of this show?
January 8th, 1983. Part of their first season on the Tribune-syndicated "At The Movies" program. Probably recorded several days earlier.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Thanks.
Funny how- if ET was that great - Ghandi won Best Picture Oscar that year. ET is the better film but I still think the same way about it now when I saw it 40 years ago: overrated!
7:42 Gene cant even say that with a straight face. 😃
They both wisely didn't choose Oscar-bait "Gandhi". A great performance by Ben Kingsley. Not a great film. It was a sentimental favorite ar the Oscars.
Is that Danhausen?
Whatever is happening to the audio is both awful AND psychedelic
Sophie's Choice is not a good movie.
OMG Personal Best is such a shit movie 😂 They skipped over Tootsie and chose that crapfesg instead ?? Oh vey !!
Ummm...Tootsie was #2 on Gene's list!
Author!Author! , Airplane II!, HonkyTonk Man, An Officer and a Gentleman, First Blood!!! Ha ha ha!
I can't for the life of me see what makes ET so special...I think it's Speilberg's most overrated film. He has plenty of MUCH better films.
I saw ET in a movie theater full of kids. To say they were spellbound is an understatement. I thought the movie was highly entertaining as all of Spielberg’s are, but I’ll always remember that afternoon at the movies.
@@michaelbirke6050 Yeah...I mean I saw it in theaters when I was 7 back in the day but I've watched it at least 2 or 3 times as an adult, including with my own kids and I don't get it.
@@The3rdGunmanWhat’s not to get? It’s not a “get it” movie. It’s a sit back and munch on popcorn movie.😊😊
@@michaelbirke6050 Withb all due respect I think that's about as lazy of a reply as I could think...Frankly it makes my point. What's so entertaining about it? Why is it held in such high regard. Very little is explained. There's no real reason given for Elliot and ET's connection, ET getting sick then magically recovering is not explined nb the least, and other than cute child actor performances-not much happens. It's slow paced and I don't see much of any character arc.
A sit back and eat popcorn movie would a Marvel, F&F, Transformers or Gerad BUtler movie. Beut even then I could name plenty of high action, popcorn movies that have plots, story, character arcs, etc. Hell no one shuts off their brain for T2, Jurassic Park, or even something more modern like John Wick...
@@The3rdGunman Gee. If the movie upset you that much send me your address and I’ll refund your ticket.
It's funny they're well known for mocking cheesy movies but they use the cheesiest theme song and gravitate towards aliens and transvestites ha!
I am amazed how Siskel and Ebert thinks it is ok with female athletes shown totally nude in the shower in a movie about sports. How does this contribute to the movie? And on the other hand they always were against slashers where nude women were killed.
I don't recall them ever objecting to nudity in general. Both were big fans of it, wishing for more of it and less violence. Skin exposure in slasher films was never among their principal objections to that genre.
I remember seeing e.t. as a very young kid (must have been the '85 re-release) and i just remember being bored to tears and thinking the whole thing was stupid. Mom insisted we stay for the whole movie, but realized that she was gonna have an incorrigible hipster on her hands.
Is there any legacy for this movie, besides being referenced & lampooned? I never hear even the sappiest nostalgia victims speak of it at all, let alone wistfully.
There is no way Tootsie could be made today.
I think the main reason for that is people have had their fill of crossdressing movies in the years since (most of which have been bad) and the concept is no longer intriguing, novel, or funny.
Gene Siskel needs therapy.
I don't care what anyone says E.T. was kinda boring. I enjoyed Mac and Me even more. Yeah I have issues!
definitely have issues..Mac was a 90 minute McDonalds commercial
ET was a marketing ploy to sell candy. Agreed, it was not good film.
@@garys1266 wow an actual braindead person using the internet. You realize it was based on a book right?
@@mildred714 Oh wow, based on a book? That changes everything. Many movies based on books have been bad including The Golden Compass, Ender's Game and Battlefield Earth. Your point being?