In 86 and 87 I was so content in life I feel I had some spiritual experience that was meant for a much older person. I was only 15. I felt safe All my basic needs were met and I had a sense of peace within me but I suppose I was also a bit idealistic and young but I am glad it happened. Later life would become a struggle. Where my next meal was coming from, family locked in petty arguments ect. I have one last shot to make it in life and I am trying my best not to throw this chance away.
I've fallen down the S&E rabbit hole for 4 days now. So cool to see these on RUclips. I think that the Ebert film site is the only other place that ever had so many. Thanks
There was a website that had the full shows which is where this comes from. It recently was taken down due to the guy running it not being able to afford it.
Okay this is a 4 year old post, but still glad to see other people falling in here. There's something so fascinating watching these old reviews from a world with almost a completely different set of celebrities and current events. Still the people are the same as today, just in a different setting. Makes me wonder how similar to today the world was hundreds of years ago.
These guys can still influence a viewer to watch a film in 2020!! I’ve heard of Ran, and Trip to Bountiful, now I want to see them!! Before the internet, this was really the only place you could see scenes from films, other than maybe late night talk shows during actor interviews, or during television commercials!! I used to love watching this on an early Saturday afternoon. And Dreamchild? I thought this was going to be a Freddy Krueger sequel!! Ha!! It looks fascinating too!! See?? They’re still showing me stuff!! Love the old Jersey commercials here too!! Right on!!
Clue is an entertaining movie ..RAN is easily one of the best movies ever made...each composition is like a great painting. Just pause every new scene and enjoy the beauty
well they quite rightly state the VHS release is how the film should have come out, but I understand they were trying to use a gimmick to sell more tickets.
I absolutely loved watching these two when I was a kid. They knew so much about movies and they both became very powerful; their "Two Thumbs Up" on a movie poster could literally add tens of millions of dollars to a movie's box office.
War Guild... Thank you so much for posting these. Looks likke you were like me and taped them every week and more importantly, you SAVED them. Keep 'em comin'!
Little did they know "Clue" would become the most watched of this group. "Ran" is as great as they say, didn't see "Trip," and good luck finding "Dream Child."
@Marty Keaton: Yeah, that's exactly what they did later when it was released to home video (VHS video cassette tape). I saw it again on VHS after seeing it in the theatre. I think I saw the "b" ending at the theatre, but in any case I liked _Clue_ [1985] more than Siskel & Ebert did hehehehehe
Clue was done in the a similar style of the sherlock holmes t.v and radio franchise.Clue was clever and written well and the acting was pretty good............
I liked the flashbacks between past and present in the Dreamchild. The way the Alice in her 80s is losing her memory, they could have done even more than that. She knows some really important things happened in her childhood but she's now struggling to recall the memories. I wanted them to get more into the great depression 1930s America but I guess they didn't have the budget, every seen in the US is short indoors in hotel rooms or something. The film doesn't spell everything out but hints at conflict between Lewis Caroll and Alice's mother, the exact reason and Caroll's motives though are never spelled out. It's not clear who treated who wrongly. There's one disturbing scene for instance where it almost seems like Caroll tries to ask Alice to Mary him. Superb acting though from the actress who played Alice.
So glad that Geraldine Page finally won the Oscar on her 7th try. One of the greatest actresses of the 20th century. Never better than in Interiors, IMHO.
Just a little correction -- the title of the Kurosawa film is "RAN" and it is not pronounced like the verb ("I ran to the store"). Instead it is pronounced like the man's name which is short of Ronald ("Ron"). It is spelled "Ran" but is pronounced like the name "Ron."
Which Clue ending was A and which was C? Are they in the order that they appear on the VHS? Also great call by Ebert about them putting all 3 endings on the VHS, and that helped the movie gain a 2nd life on VHS and cable.
@@sha11235 I remember that order, and I remember the title cards in between the endings. First it was the Scarlett ending, and then: "That's how it could have happened. But how about this?" Then the Peacock ending, and: "But here's what _really_ happened." Then the Everybody ending. I remember watching it a lot, studying it carefully, and coming to the conclusion that the Scarlett ending was the only one that made sense, given where they all were inside the mansion when Yvette and the Singing Telegram Girl got theirs. I was weird like that.
Ebert totally called it with CLUE, even though he didn't like it. I've only seen the VHS and DVD versions, and so maybe it was more fun than sitting in the theater watching it. Oh, and by the way...SVIMVEAR!!
People talking about the Clue movie review and the Wendy's commercial and don't realise or don't care about Siskel and Eberts huge respect , giant accolades and the historical importance for Kurosawa and his film "Ran". An extraordinary director who was near the end of his careeer and life at this time. Truly a one of a kind talent very rarely repeated. Oh well....said it before.....simple entertainment always attracts the simple people.
I will never understand the critics at the time, including these two, who I love, just not getting Clue. At the end of the day I just chalk it up to a generational divide. I'm a generation x-er and every single person I've ever met loves clue who is more or less around my age. But critics overwhelmingly panned it at the time.
Idk why but the bit with the reporter's notes in the vending machine in the show's intro Is just hilarious to me. What if movie theaters today had vending machines like those that provide critics and reviewers the tools they need when critiquing a movie. It's like concessions for critics.
@@sha11235 It was a gimmick to keep the ending from being spoiled. Different endings ran in different theaters so you didn't know which one you were going to see.
Grandpa Orville Reddenbacher's Popping Fresh Hot Freshly Popped Fancy Gourmet Microwaveable Microwave Popping Corn with Movie Theatre Butter ...O.R. was a trendsetter with those thick rims on his glasses...
Clue's a fuckin' awesome movie and the ending is fantastic! I didn't have it spoiled by adverts when I watched it - maybe it was different in England, or I just missed them as a kid - and I only watched it on VHS, so maybe that's why. I showed it to my son a few years back and he loved (and wasn't expecting) the ending. I can only recommend people watch it, hopefully avoiding spoilers.
So this set of ideas by conceived by this sheltered young man while lounging in his successful father’s mansion could never be un-workable or evil? Every other form of government has the issues, inconsistencies, and contradictions….how many more millions have to die before you even *begin* to entertain the notion that communism might be the worst of all possible governments?
They asked what movies stood the test of time 30 years from 1990. Well, it’s about 30 years and movies that stand the test of time from back then has been do the right thing, good fellas, and field of dreams. I’d say the movie that really has legs from 1990 is Home Alone.
Well both did give some good comments, even though they did give it thumbs down I grew up watching it and loved it, especially Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn and Tim Curry It's so quotable
I completely get that Clue is one of those movies that kind of makes more sense as a rainy day movie at home and that just really needed the benefit of hindsight to see all the quotes that survived and the hilarious performances. As a piece of filmmaking, it's totally average, slightly better than TV movie quality, the whole thing feels pretty cheap and the endings would have seemed hacky when they were a marketing gimmick and you only got one, vs at home when you get to delight in the absurdity of all three of them in a row and you realize none of them make that much sense lol. The expectations for it shifted in its favor once it was just pure silliness you could watch at home, rather than trying to figure out if you were actually gonna get a good mystery, which it's really not at all. I could see it being kind of irritating watching as a big Christmas release in a theater, like "Am I supposed to actually be following any of this or is it all just a total goof?" because the tone is so weird, sometimes it feels like it's playing the mystery straight and other times not. Even if you laughed, you might have felt like you wasted your time and money, it bombed at the box office. Later its reputation became way more obvious that the mystery is just dumb and irrelevant and it's the quirky ensemble chemistry that makes it memorable above all.
They talked about how much they love a bunch of movies that no one remembers and the one that is still beloved, Clue, they hated. How extremely pointless...
+Brent Petersen I don't think it's fair to say that no one remembers Ran. Kurosawa's films are remembered by many cinema lovers. Don't get me wrong, Clue is remembered, but it isn't the only memorable one here.
+Brent Petersen Um, your head has clearly been buried in sand. Ran is one of the most famous Kurosawa films ever made and The Trip To Bountiful is a Horton Foote Classic. I'll bet you don't know who Whitman and Kafka are either but have heard of Dan Brown. Good job.
Here is Gene Siskel He has no hair At the Movies It's Roger Ebert He's over there At the Movies At the concession stand The vending machine We're with Roger and Gene At the Movies We're At the Movies They're sneaking up the stairs Sneaking up the stairs Look how stealthy they go Slipping into the show At the Movies At the Movies Sit right down Don't have a cow We're At the Movies nooooooow (c) 1984 by Steve Watchorn :)
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Geraldine Page. R.I.P. 💛💛💛
I absolutely love The Trip to Bountiful!
"Your mother lives with
you, doesn't she?"
"She sure does."
🙄
I miss these gentlemen and I definitely miss this time.
In 86 and 87 I was so content in life I feel I had some spiritual experience that was meant for a much older person. I was only 15. I felt safe All my basic needs were met and I had a sense of peace within me but I suppose I was also a bit idealistic and young but I am glad it happened. Later life would become a struggle. Where my next meal was coming from, family locked in petty arguments ect. I have one last shot to make it in life and I am trying my best not to throw this chance away.
I've fallen down the S&E rabbit hole for 4 days now. So cool to see these on RUclips. I think that the Ebert film site is the only other place that ever had so many. Thanks
There was a website that had the full shows which is where this comes from. It recently was taken down due to the guy running it not being able to afford it.
Ikr!! I'm still up @ 3:00a.m. in the morning watching & enjoying!👍👍👌08-20-18😉
Yeah, it's an easy hole to fall into, isn't it?
Good news, it is back up.
Okay this is a 4 year old post, but still glad to see other people falling in here. There's something so fascinating watching these old reviews from a world with almost a completely different set of celebrities and current events. Still the people are the same as today, just in a different setting. Makes me wonder how similar to today the world was hundreds of years ago.
Kurosawa directed Ran while blind,totally amazing because of the beautiful of the images on the screen
Trip to bountiful is amazing!
Yes sir. It's a great film.
The opening scenev is beautiful!
These guys can still influence a viewer to watch a film in 2020!! I’ve heard of Ran, and Trip to Bountiful, now I want to see them!! Before the internet, this was really the only place you could see scenes from films, other than maybe late night talk shows during actor interviews, or during television commercials!! I used to love watching this on an early Saturday afternoon. And Dreamchild? I thought this was going to be a Freddy Krueger sequel!! Ha!! It looks fascinating too!! See?? They’re still showing me stuff!! Love the old Jersey commercials here too!! Right on!!
Ah, Trip To Bountiful and Ran.
Two very great movies.
Clue is a classic. Underrated gem.
I agree
Agreed, but what they said is true.
Same
I just watched it free on RUclips, and it showed all three endings. I don't know which one I like.
It’s a gem but how is it Underrated? How? It’s famous and literally everyone I know has seen it before
Dream Child. I need to find this. I miss these men and this era of the show.
Clue is an entertaining movie ..RAN is easily one of the best movies ever made...each composition is like a great painting. Just pause every new scene and enjoy the beauty
I'm lovin' the old commercials, as well as, S&E.....😍
Love the 80s adverts.
It took decades for CLUE to be recognized for the masterpiece that it is
Weeeeeeelll .....let's just say it was ok
@rubenreyna2198 you can say that. Most of us wouldn't. Clue is amazing.
well they quite rightly state the VHS release is how the film should have come out, but I understand they were trying to use a gimmick to sell more tickets.
I absolutely loved watching these two when I was a kid. They knew so much about movies and they both became very powerful; their "Two Thumbs Up" on a movie poster could literally add tens of millions of dollars to a movie's box office.
Dream child: an unknown masterpiece!
I just watched this on Amazon Prime - it's a marvelous film - I'm so glad I got a chance to see a review of it by Siskel and Ebert
Which one
@@kdohertygizbur Trip to bountiful
I did the play version of Trip to Bountiful, by the way.
I'm glad to see both of them agree with me about one of my favorite films: DREAMCHILD
Watching these retro commercials is just as enjoyable as the reviews
War Guild...
Thank you so much for posting these. Looks likke you were like me and taped them every week and more importantly, you SAVED them. Keep 'em comin'!
+purpletoe101 I wonder how many other people did that, especially with At the Movies.
Little did they know "Clue" would become the most watched of this group. "Ran" is as great as they say, didn't see "Trip," and good luck finding "Dream Child."
I highly recommend both Trip to Bountiful and Dreamchild.
I have done the play it is based on and it is very good.
The Trip to Bountiful was an absolute joy! Geraldine Page earned that Academy Award for her performance.
Thanks for this. I remember them reviewing Clue but haven't seen it in years. Keep putting these up.
Gonna have to see me some Dreamchild, that's a cool flick I've never ever heard of before.
That castle siege scene in Ran is the greatest piece of Cinema.
18:49 - :54 Roger really nailed it there.
@Marty Keaton:
Yeah, that's exactly what they did later when it was released to home video (VHS video cassette tape). I saw it again on VHS after seeing it in the theatre. I think I saw the "b" ending at the theatre, but in any case I liked _Clue_ [1985] more than Siskel & Ebert did hehehehehe
I actually managed to memorize the entire sequence of Wadsworth taking everyone through the house, going over the events of the night. Yes, all of it.
Childhood memories!!
Dreamchild is the best of this bunch.
Somehow Brim slipped through the cracks of my memory.
bountiful is a nice movie.
Clue was done in the a similar style of the sherlock holmes t.v and radio franchise.Clue was clever and written well and the acting was pretty good............
came for S&E, stayed for the 80's commercials
Whenever I hear Tim Currys voice I immediately see Dr. Frankenfurter in my head.
I liked the flashbacks between past and present in the Dreamchild. The way the Alice in her 80s is losing her memory, they could have done even more than that. She knows some really important things happened in her childhood but she's now struggling to recall the memories. I wanted them to get more into the great depression 1930s America but I guess they didn't have the budget, every seen in the US is short indoors in hotel rooms or something.
The film doesn't spell everything out but hints at conflict between Lewis Caroll and Alice's mother, the exact reason and Caroll's motives though are never spelled out. It's not clear who treated who wrongly. There's one disturbing scene for instance where it almost seems like Caroll tries to ask Alice to Mary him. Superb acting though from the actress who played Alice.
Well, out of all the commercials you had to put on here, loved the Wendy's.
I miss Wendy's old fries. They were my favorite. The day Wendy's changed their fries to their current ones was one of the saddest days of my life.
C is the best ending as I remember!
So glad that Geraldine Page finally won the Oscar on her 7th try. One of the greatest actresses of the 20th century. Never better than in Interiors, IMHO.
Out Of Africa
No, she had lost 7 times; she won on her 8th nomination.
@@xidiamond6851 she wasn't in that movie
dammit...now I want nachos...
PS: Ran is a known masterpiece!
Thumbs up for the Mexican velveeta jingle
Its funny seeing these commercials before i was even born like so this is how it was in the 80s lol
There’s a few channels on RUclips that do nothing but upload 80s commercials. If you haven’t already, you should check them out. Enjoy.
I love the older show the best in 85 that when they got that fake blue screen theater look they went fancy then
Just a little correction -- the title of the Kurosawa film is "RAN" and it is not pronounced like the verb ("I ran to the store"). Instead it is pronounced like the man's name which is short of Ronald ("Ron"). It is spelled "Ran" but is pronounced like the name "Ron."
Which Clue ending was A and which was C? Are they in the order that they appear on the VHS? Also great call by Ebert about them putting all 3 endings on the VHS, and that helped the movie gain a 2nd life on VHS and cable.
A was Miss Scarlett, B was Mrs. Peacock, and C was where everyone did something.
sha11235 no A was everyone did something....I remember the theatre I saw it and the marquee
I just figured it was that, since that is the order on the VHS/TV version.
@@sha11235 I remember that order, and I remember the title cards in between the endings. First it was the Scarlett ending, and then: "That's how it could have happened. But how about this?" Then the Peacock ending, and: "But here's what _really_ happened." Then the Everybody ending. I remember watching it a lot, studying it carefully, and coming to the conclusion that the Scarlett ending was the only one that made sense, given where they all were inside the mansion when Yvette and the Singing Telegram Girl got theirs. I was weird like that.
Oh my Gosh all great movies. Well Clue was sorta entertaining. I like the cast more than the film
Ebert totally called it with CLUE, even though he didn't like it. I've only seen the VHS and DVD versions, and so maybe it was more fun than sitting in the theater watching it.
Oh, and by the way...SVIMVEAR!!
I saw it on tv and I loved it !
The highlight here is Wendy’s communist Russia beauty contest commercial.
Two thumbs up.
Fill it to the rim with Brim.
Also available in hearty dark roast!
4 out of 5 new age quacks recommend Brim to your rim for coffee enemas.
People talking about the Clue movie review and the Wendy's commercial and don't realise or don't care about Siskel and Eberts huge respect , giant accolades and the historical importance for Kurosawa and his film "Ran". An extraordinary director who was near the end of his careeer and life at this time. Truly a one of a kind talent very rarely repeated.
Oh well....said it before.....simple entertainment always attracts the simple people.
"Ran" is a masterpiece.
I will never understand the critics at the time, including these two, who I love, just not getting Clue. At the end of the day I just chalk it up to a generational divide. I'm a generation x-er and every single person I've ever met loves clue who is more or less around my age. But critics overwhelmingly panned it at the time.
Idk why but the bit with the reporter's notes in the vending machine in the show's intro Is just hilarious to me. What if movie theaters today had vending machines like those that provide critics and reviewers the tools they need when critiquing a movie. It's like concessions for critics.
I saw version A of clue.
Completely wrong on the best ending for Clue. C is by far the best ending and keeps with the spirit of the board game.
And most of all it was a giant middle finger to two hacks.
C was the one where they mostly all did something, if I'm mistaken. Actually, I think they should've just had one ending and that would be it.
@@sha11235 It was a gimmick to keep the ending from being spoiled. Different endings ran in different theaters so you didn't know which one you were going to see.
Madeline Kahn was adorable.
Grandpa Orville Reddenbacher's Popping Fresh Hot Freshly Popped Fancy Gourmet Microwaveable Microwave Popping Corn with Movie Theatre Butter
...O.R. was a trendsetter with those thick rims on his glasses...
Their commercials were so memorable
I miss the old style ads. Warm and charming. No woke garbage.
The Cold War era Wendy's ad is great!
This was after the famed Where's the Beef? ads.
Clue's a fuckin' awesome movie and the ending is fantastic! I didn't have it spoiled by adverts when I watched it - maybe it was different in England, or I just missed them as a kid - and I only watched it on VHS, so maybe that's why. I showed it to my son a few years back and he loved (and wasn't expecting) the ending.
I can only recommend people watch it, hopefully avoiding spoilers.
This all references the great Sidney Lumet film.
Don't miss Easy Pickins at 15:00 . 😂
I remembered the jingle from childhood and now I know the product. Can't wait to see their new store in Newark.
8:14 Jesus, the anti-Soviet Russia propaganda in the '80s, lol. I'm not a fan of Soviet Russia of course, but this was the year Rocky IV came out too.
Turns out the anti communism propaganda wasn't strong enough.
So this set of ideas by conceived by this sheltered young man while lounging in his successful father’s mansion could never be un-workable or evil? Every other form of government has the issues, inconsistencies, and contradictions….how many more millions have to die before you even *begin* to entertain the notion that communism might be the worst of all possible governments?
I was 10 when I first saw Clue on video, and it was when I first heard of gay people.
Didn't you *really* come here for 15:08?
*attempts to go about life*
Brain: Easy pickins
Damn it.
easy pickens
They asked what movies stood the test of time 30 years from 1990. Well, it’s about 30 years and movies that stand the test of time from back then has been do the right thing, good fellas, and field of dreams. I’d say the movie that really has legs from 1990 is Home Alone.
How could they not like Clue? What the fuck?!🤷♂️
Well both did give some good comments, even though they did give it thumbs down
I grew up watching it and loved it, especially Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn and Tim Curry
It's so quotable
I completely get that Clue is one of those movies that kind of makes more sense as a rainy day movie at home and that just really needed the benefit of hindsight to see all the quotes that survived and the hilarious performances. As a piece of filmmaking, it's totally average, slightly better than TV movie quality, the whole thing feels pretty cheap and the endings would have seemed hacky when they were a marketing gimmick and you only got one, vs at home when you get to delight in the absurdity of all three of them in a row and you realize none of them make that much sense lol. The expectations for it shifted in its favor once it was just pure silliness you could watch at home, rather than trying to figure out if you were actually gonna get a good mystery, which it's really not at all. I could see it being kind of irritating watching as a big Christmas release in a theater, like "Am I supposed to actually be following any of this or is it all just a total goof?" because the tone is so weird, sometimes it feels like it's playing the mystery straight and other times not. Even if you laughed, you might have felt like you wasted your time and money, it bombed at the box office. Later its reputation became way more obvious that the mystery is just dumb and irrelevant and it's the quirky ensemble chemistry that makes it memorable above all.
They forget to mention that RAN is also nihilistic in tone. But I guess nobody would flock to see it if they mentioned that.
MAKE YOUR ENCHILADA A LITTLE BIT HOTTA
MEXICAN VELVEETA PROCESSED CHEESE
Mmmmmm... 6:44
Clue is classic. They're way off on that one. One of the funniest movies ever.
I think they were right on. They said the movie would do better on video if it combined all three endings, and it did.
@@parallaxnick637 But, the negative review was not right on. This movie is great.
They talked about how much they love a bunch of movies that no one remembers and the one that is still beloved, Clue, they hated. How extremely pointless...
+Brent Petersen I don't think it's fair to say that no one remembers Ran. Kurosawa's films are remembered by many cinema lovers. Don't get me wrong, Clue is remembered, but it isn't the only memorable one here.
+Brent Petersen Um, your head has clearly been buried in sand. Ran is one of the most famous Kurosawa films ever made and The Trip To Bountiful is a Horton Foote Classic. I'll bet you don't know who Whitman and Kafka are either but have heard of Dan Brown. Good job.
that original post was pretty fucking stupid
Not really, Dream child was the classic one there, even though Tim Curry was brilliant in Clue.
CLUE is your idea of an eternal classic? Talk about being extremely pointless...
Here is Gene Siskel
He has no hair
At the Movies
It's Roger Ebert
He's over there
At the Movies
At the concession stand
The vending machine
We're with Roger and Gene
At the Movies
We're At the Movies
They're sneaking up the stairs
Sneaking up the stairs
Look how stealthy they go
Slipping into the show
At the Movies
At the Movies
Sit right down
Don't have a cow
We're At the Movies nooooooow
(c) 1984 by Steve Watchorn :)
Jerks hating on Clue. It’s not perfect, I know that but it’s still enjoyable
Gene even said his skin had goosebumps just talking about RAN. SEE it...forget average junk like Clue!
I didn't like Dreamchild because it made up things about real people.