Siskel & Ebert - Best of 1992
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Siskel's list:
1. One False Move
2. The Player
3. Howards End
4. The Crying Game
5. Malcolm X
6. The Hairdresser's Husband
7. Damage
8. Wayne's World
9. Mississippi Masala
10. Under Siege
Ebert's list:
1. Malcolm X
2. One False Move
3. Howards End
4. Flirting
5. The Crying Game
6. Damage
7. The Hairdresser's Husband
8. The Player
9. Unforgiven
10. Bad Lieutenant
Leaving in the commercials just makes these old episodes even better. 👌🏼
My Top 10
1. Malcolm X
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. A Few Good Men
4. Mississippi Masala
5. One False Move
6. Bad Lieutenant
7. Gas, Food, Lodging
8 Unforgiven
9. Deep Cover
10. Juice
Great list!
10. My Cousin Vinny
9. The Bodyguard
8. Scent of a Woman
7. White Men Can't Jump
6. A River Runs Through It
5. Aladdin
4. A Few Good Men
3. Malcolm X
2. Basic Instinct
1. Glengarry Glen Ross
i watched one false move today and it was one of the best, raw film ive seen
there are some great films on here and some pretty popular films that many people like. but i have to give props to Roger fr having "Flirting" which is one of my all time favorite films.
Unforgivin was a great movie Gene Siskel must of slept through it 😂
Considering that Andrew Davis directed The Fugitive, I now have retroactive faith that Under Siege might be the *one* good Steven Segal movie, even if the plot sounds nonsensical.
I don't buy that reasoning. Andrew Davis has also directed several films that are unpardonable shyte.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 yeah Chain Reaction is patently stupid
Above the Law is a good movie.
10. My Cousin Vinny
9. The Bodyguard
8. Scent of a Woman
7. White Men Can't Jump
6. A River Runs Through It
5. Aladdin
4. A Few Good Men
3. Malcolm X
2. Basic Instinct
1. Glengarry Glen Ross
@@timetheory84 Agreed. I believe both loved the film and gave it rave reviews. Curious they left Glengarry off their top 10 list
Unforgiven was only number 9!
I had the same experience with Unforgiven as Ebert. My 1st viewing was very 'meh' but I absolutely loved it on the 2nd watch.
4:20 "I think I liked you better five months ago. I liked your mind better five months ago." Siskel. What a legend.
They used to really go after each other in the 80s, with Gene making fat jokes about Roger and Rober making bald jokes about Gene. They could get very personal. It was almost like the internet now, LOL, but between people who actually knew what they were talking about.
@@fredloeper8579 He was arrogant at times and wrong about Unforgiven. I usually agree more with Siskel than Ebert but not about Unforgiven. I'm glad Ebert reevaluated on Unforgiven, I think one of Eastwood's best pictures maybe the best.
"video rentals" man, times have changed.
Well, when people said, "I'll wait for it to come out on video," they might have had months to wait. Now, people say "I'll wait for it on streaming," and 7 weeks after _The Super Mario Bros. Movie_ came out, it's available on streaming (or paid digital download?).
@@sandal_thong8631 yeah but going to Blockbuster was a different experience.
@@sethrabin833 I never liked Blockbuster; we did Erol's or mom-and-pop stores.
@@sandal_thong8631 That's an age thing I think: '80s kids we remember with love the little privately owned video stores / '90s kids fondly remember Blockbuster.
(not being aware that this was the giant corporation that destroyed the earlier generation VHS stores with their huge economies of scale)
Business. It is what it is.
(it's the privately owned cinemas that I miss most - the out of town giant multiplex sheds lack all the romance of '30s through '80s movie watching)
@@sandal_thong8631 Man, I loved the mom-&-pop video stores. I rented movies there like Peter Jackson's Bad Taste & Meet the Feebles, J.R. Bookwalter's The Dead Next Door, Leif Jonker's Darkness -- stuff you couldn't get at the big chains, stuff I'd read about in Fangoria. Nine times out of ten those movies turned out to be direct-to-video crap (or direct-to-video crap about which there was just something special), but I've got a fondness for direct-to-video crap horror films of the '90s.
Ahh, the good old days....
One False Move, is an example of what goes on 90% of the time in Hollywood and in the music industry! 90% of the great pictures and great songs are never seen or heard by a wide audience. Cheating us out of them.
Siskel putting Under Siege and Wayne's World over Unforgiven is insane but also very admirable and a massive flex
I disagree, unforgiven was a good movie, but wildly overrated, I have to admit I never saw Under Siege, but did watch Wayne's world several times and it's no masterpiece, but I'd rather watch that than Unforgiven which is very ponderous and goes the long way around to get to a point that I never believed or cared about
Wayne's world is a better film than Unforgiven which was good but ultimately aged into an average film. It was more a goodbye to the western genre from Eastwood praised more by generations gone.
@@keithdoherty3178 You got to see under siege, one day, it's really good for an over the top action movie. unforgiven is a better movie. Though under siege is a classic.
I must respectfully disagree. I’m on Siskel’s side here. Left it off his list altogether. IMO, Unforgiven is at present one of the most overrated films OAT. And a total BORE FEST. And I love Eastwood and almost everything he’s ever been in or made. Even all his spaghetti westerns. Good, Bad, Ugly is one of my favorite films of all time. But I hate this movie with a passion. It’s completely idiotic. Some whore gets her face cut. But hey, SHE IS ALIVE A HOLES. So for me, the whole revenge plot and drastic measures to get “justice” (which actually would have been cutting the guys face not killing him) made no sense and is absolutely idiotic. Now if it had been his sister, or mother, or etc. that got hurt, I could understand. But those kinds of ties didn’t exist. Also it was wayyyy to archetypical and unoriginal, characters that had about as much personality as styrofoam and extremely one dimensional. And it just goes on and on and on. For me, it’s one of the worst films I’ve ever seen and the only film I ever fell asleep to in the theater…to this day. 😂🤣
No it just shows how dumb these guys really were. And I'd like to remind everyone that Eberts first review of Star Wars was very poor. He went back later and rewatched it and gave it a glowing review.
Siskel is wrong ‘Unforgiven’ is a masterpiece.
True. He once felt the same about Apocalypse Now till he changed his mind. He may well have on this one too if he had lived long enough.
I felt it had something to say about right and wrong. An Eastwood movie that had something to say about the death penalty, was _Hang 'Em High,_ although my uncle didn't like that it ended with things unresolved.
Siskel put Under Siege on his list of best films... And he hated Silence of the Lambs. Guy was a dolt about quite a few movies
Frankly, Sickel's Critics Card is in jeopardy.
boring
Wow, it had never occurred to me until now that six of my all-time favorite films came out in the same year: Howards End, The Player, One False Move, Flirting, Damage and Unforgiven. All absolute classics in my world. Quite a year!
Yes, and they weren't all piled-up for December release.
What about Malcolm X?
@@sha11235what about it 😂
1992 was great, but (for me) 1993 is the best year for movies.
@Kanezilla66 it's a great movie.
Siskel and Ebert not only critique but they also teach what makes a good film. They were a great team.
Yup.
Wayne’s World being on Gene’s list makes me happy
One of the great movie theater experiences in my life!
It's a shame that movie has aged like milk.
It's the only movie in the top-10 box office at number 10.
It was okay. I'm surprised by Gene.
Wayne’s World 2 is so much better though
Seeing that Beauty & The Beast videocassette commercial gave me this sudden memory of the plasticky smell of the VHS tape and the casing. I used to get tapes free from the library all the time as a kid in the 90s. Including this one. Don't ask me why I smelled them, lol.
I always did as well! It was also the first movie I saw in a theatre, when I was not yet 3 years old. Saw it 3 times that Winter with my mom. I can remember feeling enraptured by the majesty of the visuals, overwhelmed and stupefied by the intensity of the sound projection, and frantically kicking the chair in front of me out of fear when the wolves appeared.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Pretty great time to be a kid! Disney films just aren't the same.
Unforgiven is one of the greatest westerns ever made.
Just saying “you might want to have a pencil ready” dates this so much
Looking back, 90s was a great decade for movies - once the internet age and the superhero obsession dawned after 9/11 everything just went downhill.
I think it took a little longer than that. At least for American cinema, I mark the popularity of The Dark Knight as the beginning of the end. Nothing felt the same to me beginning around 2008. By 2012, the rot was visible.
There's still GREAT movies being made, you just have to seek them out...
..But yeah, the stuff that frontline industry marketing is throwing at us now is all one note.
find two people who can talk about ANYTHING the way they talked about movies. They were one of a kind. From a whole different age.
Howard's End and Unforgiven are both truly excellent.
Carl Franklin's One False Move is for me one of the best films of 90s, let alone 92. I just watched it, in January, 2024, and I didn't even know the African American director also directed another favourite of mine Out of Time, with Denziel Washington.
My favorite films of 1992:
1. Husbands and Wives
2. Malcolm X
3. Bram Stoker's Dracula
4. Glengarry Glen Ross
5. The Player
6. Batman Returns
7. Shadows and Fog
8. Kafka
9. Final Analysis
10. Naked Lunch
So there.
10. My Cousin Vinny
9. The Bodyguard
8. Scent of a Woman
7. White Men Can't Jump
6. A River Runs Through It
5. Aladdin
4. A Few Good Men
3. Malcolm X
2. Basic Instinct
1. Glengarry Glen Ross
Actually hard to find Kafka now, never saw it back then.
- With Naked Lunch I'm afraid I'm one of those annoying 'the book was better' people - I thought Cronenbergs previous film _Dead Ringers_ was FAR more true to the spirit of Burroughs for my six-pence.
(although Roy Scheider as Doc Benway was inspired, perfect casting!)
Thumbs up to you for including "Final Analysis"...underrated. I would have included "White Men Can't Jump." Stanley Kubrick loved that movie, too!
In no particular order, but films from 1992 that I have in my collection. So obviously I like them. Seems like 92 is a light year for me.
1. Army of Darkness
2. Wayne's World
3. My Cousin Vinny
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Captain Ron (I said Guerillas, not Gorillas)
6. Batman Returns
7. The Guyver
8. Aladdin
Wayne's World also features an interracial love story.
Oh yeah!
well there you go must've been in the water that year.
This is perhaps the first time the best movie of the year wasn't included in either of my boy's lists. Reservoir Dogs is the best movie of 1992. Best story, best screenplay ( by far), best direction and maybe, just maybe the single greatest ensamble cast I've ever seen on a a movie screen
I think it's clearly a rookie effort on Tarantino's behalf. It's all surface and very little depth, an exercise in style and macho posturing. Siskel & Ebert gave it Two Thumbs Down, and while I think it's a little better than they do, it isn't nearly as substantial or multilayered as movies like "The Player", "Unforgiven", or "The Crying Game". More of a shallow entertainment.
Dunno why every wannabe critic is so dismissive of RD as a "rookie effort" while praising Tarantino's mediocre post Pulp Fiction outputs as "the real shit". Tarantino was a two movie wonder, just like Wells and Singer are one movie wonders.. And so on. RD is Tarantino's best movie. Something so new and alien that you might as well call It sci-fi. The guy peaked early like Tyson. What you wanna do about It?
@@flaccidusminimus2170 I disagree. While Tarantino’s masterpieces are definitely Pulp Fiction and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, RD is right up there. There’s so much going on there in his deconstruction of crime cinema. Sure, Reservoir Dogs can be a bit overrated by some random guys who haven’t seen Godard’s films or something, but still much better than his dumbed down action movies in the 2000s like Kill Bill.
To me his only truly great movies since the 1990s are the comedy Inglorious Basterds and the slice of life film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Fabio Bonetta: I never thought about RD until I read your post, and I agree, it's the best of '92.
@@Kevon420 Reservoir Dogs is a good movie, but it's not more than that, you can see how this movie was a jumping point to Pulp Fiction, this movie, as stated by another post, was all surface, but there is no point to it, some nice dialogue and performances but that's all
You want to see a superior crime move
Check out One False Move
Now THAT Is a Brilliant movie and Kudos to Siskel and Ebert for acknowledging that
And in my opinion, Jackie Brown is still Tarantino's Best Film with Django and Pulp Fiction in the top 2 and 3
Hmmm ..Gene wasn't crazy about "Unforgiven"🤔...so I wonder what his first response was when the film went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars!😱 If I could've only been a fly on the wall when that happened! Hehehe🤣
This certainly wasn't the first time Siskel disliked the winner. He didn't like "The Silence of the Lambs" or "Out of Africa" either.
Sometimes they feel an actor is "due" for an Oscar, even if he's not in that great of a show. _Unforgiven_ is borderline between "good" and "great" (worth seeing twice) with "Hang 'Em High" being an all-around better Clint Eastwood Western.
@@sandal_thong8631 Also Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter
Cool, cool, cool! Keep 'em coming!! Love me some Siskel & Ebert. We got three great S&E channels, let's hope your's is the 4th!!
When you say you love them. What is it that you love? They both really bug me.
@@cleftturnip7774 I grew up watching S & E. I was 8 years old when I saw them review Swamp Thing and until Gene's death in 1999, I watched the show every weekend. I liked their chemistry together and I found that I valued their opinions.
A few people had asked me, growing up, why I watched or why I enjoyed Siskel & Ebert so much. I always use to tell them, some people have sports, I have Siskel & Ebert!
@@TheNameisPlissken1981 i hope you didn't take their opinions seriously. You would have missed out on a lot of good movies that they didn't like.
@@cleftturnip7774 I didn't. Trust me. Some of my favorite films got two thumbs down or a split vote. Films like Seems Like Old Times, Hot Stuff, The Warriors all got two thumbs down. Escape from NY, Over The Edge and Flash Gordon got split votes.
@@TheNameisPlissken1981 fair enough. They are entertaining for sure. But having a criteria for what makes a good movie seems like a pointless thing to do. Doesn't seem very open minded.
Unforgiven is an all time great movie.
There's an obvious error in this episode that I'm surprised no one spotted during production. As Gene discusses "Damage", he declares it to be the #5 movie on his list. Yet during the full list recap at the end of the show, "Damage" is clearly #7. Unless he revised his list in the middle of the taping...
Also: Elena Eleniak
Also the video doesn’t actually have “Mississippi Masala”, I’m moving all around the timeline but the video skips from Unforgiven etc onward without Mississippi Masala. We’ve seen that movie and we want to see Siskel and Ebert talk about it…but it’s not here!
@@AquaticMammalOnBicycle They only discuss selected titles in these videos. The full lists are recapped at the end.
Wayne’s World was a movie that spoke for my generation. It perfectly captures the entire zeitgeist of that time perfectly.
Agreed
I rewatched it just last week for the first time in a long long time.
It really did capture the look/feel of youth culture at that time. For being a mainstream movie that was shot in the summer of 1991 it included Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog which is pretty insane.
I was a so young when this was on, my parents watched it, it is my childhood the world has changed
This year was the beginning of an amazing streak of terrific films, lasting through 1994.
Unlike 1993 or 1994, it was hard to pick a single favorite; ultimately I'd go with Unforgiven, but with Glengarry Glen Ross, One False Move (Siskel's top pick) and The Crying Game very close behind it.
I remember seeing Under Siege at the theater. It seems almost unbelievable that there was a time that Steven Segal wasn't just making movies that were parodies of his previous movies.
I'm surprised Siskel panned The Unforgiven.
He gave it 2.5/4 stars, which is a marginal thumbs down. Panning it would be like 1 star or less
The time the Academy got it right and S $ E got it wrong. Although, Unforgiven is now on Ebert's Great Movies list.
Gene's other favorite films of 1992 were "Prelude to a Kiss", "Diggstown", "Mr. Saturday Night", "A River Runs Through It", "Light Sleeper", "Flirting", "Zentropa" and "Falling From Grace." Gene in his column noted that many of the most notable films of the year were dominated by racial themes, a trend he thought was very good to see. (SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, December 20, 1992)
Forgot about A River Runs Through It. Also, excellent and none of my friends or family ever care about seeing it.
Love Clint Eastwood and believe Gene Hackman is one of the all-time greats but did not enjoy Unforgiven
I worked in the theater in 1992 and remember people walking out after the woman got cut in the face. So "enjoy" might not be the word for it, just like the line "deserves got nothing to do with it."
Two masterpiece Westerns came out in 1992.
One classic with Unforgiven.
And one modern with One False Move.
Flirting -- a small film with a great cast/story. One of my favs.
Yup. Same here.
They talk about interracial relationships. And Ebert talks about his wedding that year which was to an African-American woman.
My Best Flim of the Year 1992 Home Alone 2, Malcolm X, The Mambo Kings, Aladdin, A League of their Own, Dracula, Patriots Games and Wayne's World
1992 wasn't ths best year, however, it had some great films. Sad to see, though, none of my favorite films, Scent of a Woman, Diggstown and Glengary Glen Ross, was on either one of their lists, but they did pick One False Move which was a film that I loved.
Surprisingly, Gene had Under Siege on his top 10 list.
Diggstown only Gene liked.
@@sha11235 yeah, not enough to put it on his top 10, though. I remember seeing an advanced screening of it in the summer of '92. It was the first time I ever experienced the entire audience applaud a twist at the end of a movie. I will never forget it. The whole theater shook.
It does have truly immaculate pacing, and is also BANANAS
(with Busey in a dress, and Tommy Lee being hilariously demented)
A Steven Sagal movie listed as a best movie, Gene must have drunk 🥴
Maybe he was overwhelmed by the sight of Gary Busey in a dress
idk, Damage seems like its just full of horrible destructive selfish people. i guess that's the point, that obsession is terrible? nothing sophisticated about an adult who can't control his/her urges
I agreed with Roger that the best film of the year was Malcolm X.
I counted over 40 movies worth seeing once (not counting S&E's picks that I haven't seen). But I counted only a few I thought worth seeing twice (or more):
_Aladdin, The Cutting Edge, A League of Their Own, Sister Act, Under Siege, Unforgiven_ and _Wayne's World._
It's been 30 years so it might be worth revisiting _Malcolm X_ and _Shining Through._
nice list. personally, i would add a few good men, patriot games, dracula, school ties, noises off and stop! or my mom will shoot haha kidding on the stallone rubbish 😜
@@planetmayhem2012 Yesterday I found out Ebert gave 👎to _The Cutting Edge_ because he wasn't interested in ice skating. But they gave two enthusiastic 👍👍for _White Men Can't Jump_ which I thought was worth seeing once. _A Few Good Men_ was worth seeing once, though I watch clips of Jack Nicholson on the stand multiple times.
Under Siege?? A Steven Seagall movie?? Trashing Unforgiven for being "shapeless"?? In the year of classics like A Few Good Men?? That's crazy.
Under Siege? Seriously? Loved that Gene put Wayne's World on his list though.
Under Siege is the kind of movie you expect to be horrible and when it’s simply not horrendous it somehow looks better than it is.
The irony of watching this on RUclips is indeed this show is a predacessor of review channels, etc. all over the place. They were all we had and Siskel says get out your pencil to write the movies down, because you will never see this show again. These two should not be entertaining, but they fricking were! Sheesh, thank you for sharing this. I don’t know what the future holds, but I will always miss the past.
My top ten of 1992:
10 Lorenzo’s Oil
9 Singles
8 Damage
7 Bad Lieutenant
6 The Player
5 Glengarry Glen Ross
4 Howard’s End
3 Husbands and Wives
2 Unforgiven
1 The Crying Game
10. My Cousin Vinny
9. The Bodyguard
8. Scent of a Woman
7. White Men Can't Jump
6. A River Runs Through It
5. Aladdin
4. A Few Good Men
3. Malcolm X
2. Basic Instinct
1. Glengarry Glen Ross
Also _Dogfight_ is just wonderful from around then, big hearted sweet movie
(with River Phoenix and lilly Taylor)
It’s virtually unbelievable that a Steven Seagal movie would be in their top 10 best of year list! 🤷🏿♂️
Under Siege is a very good movie, though. It's not only in my top 10 of '92, it's in my top 5.
So many great movies I never thought to watch. Thank you S&E. The best.
weird coincidence - I see 'one false move' for the first time about 2 hours ago, then I find this video purely by chance through another search. damn good film though, I saw it because of Patton Oswalt's recommendation on his criterion closet visit.
The algorithms are watching us.......All the time.
Gene usually abhorred violence in cinema and his taste in action films was consistently bizarre. He makes it clear in his introduction that he was devoting special attention this year to films that dared to be original, and then he immediately begins talking about "Under Siege".
I know that when you are required for your job to see every major release that comes out (often more than 1 movie a day), that you're likely to forget most of them and your ability to enjoy some will vary depending on your state of mind on a given day. But what could possibly possess anyone to think that "Under Siege" was a bold or fresh piece of work? It's structure could almost be considered formulaic by 1992 standards, it's an obvious knock-off of Die Hard among others, and even the ads promoted it as "Die Hard On A Boat!". It doesn't exactly move at a breakneck pace either, or convince you that anything dire is ever at risk of occurring. I mean, it's quite fair if you happen to like it. Its production values and the supporting cast were far more respectable than anything Seagal made before or has made since (unless you count "Executive Decision"). But it's nowhere near as fun or surprising as Siskel is claiming, particularly in relation to its predecessors. I could probably list 5-10 action films released that year in the U.S. alone that were more daring in their approach or better choreographed and edited than "Under Siege".
"Wayne's World", on the other hand, is a bold choice for an annual Top 10 list that I can really get behind! It ain’t just an artifact of early 90’s pop culture, and I think it holds up quite well today. I still laugh throughout. The most important thing that distinguishes it from other SNL adaptations that followed in its wake is that Wayne and Garth are smart, genuinely sweet guys, rather than obnoxious assholes. The filmmakers provide them with a fully dimensional diegetic world to play around in where the characters have enough space to closely approximate real human beings (as close to them as we get in mainstream comedies). The sequel is pretty good too.
I agree with your claim on Under Siege. Gene should have just said he was heavily entertained. That’s really all the movie has going for it.
While the bulk of your comment is very well-written and reasoned, Siskel closed his remarks on Under Siege by noting simply that it was very well-made, not that it was especially bright or creative or original. He also appreciated the humor.
I’ve revisited Under Siege numerous times over the years and I’ve come to think that its execution is essentially perfect. I share Gene’s enthusiasm for movies like that. It’s well performed, the action is brilliantly choreographed and there isn’t a single wasted or superfluous scene. Its only aim is to entertain, and you can sense everyone involved working overtime to make that happen.
Oh cmon Under Siege is still after so many years a very good action flick and brings a lot of new action movies to shame.
@@mesicek7 I think it's a major snooze, almost bereft of suspense or tension. It doesn't even have the saving grace of being unintentionally funny like most of Seagal's movies from 1988-95.
I have watched the player, malcom x, waynes world, under siege, one false move, i know i watched every paxton movie, cause of his death, but i think i remember that one, unforgiven, but i do want to watch the others I havent watched, those are actually good films the ones i watched, i actually enjoyed it, even denzel hes a great actor, when a romance film can get it, that tells you somethin, The Distinguished Gentleman I watched for the first time, and its great to see eddie murphy since we dont get that much, and in a way, i miss him in cinema, but i watched this cause of Joe Don baker, watching his films, So hes great as a corrupted politician and the whole cast, does a great job, to be honest I watched it on youtube they have 3 videos of the full movie as of now, might change later, and I will post this review there, but I like the movie, its comedic and serious in times, i did watch it in 2 x speed rate, so maybe when siskel and ebert talked about the slowness, maybe if it was slow, then maybe i can hate it, but havin watchd it speed fast, i liked it , i thought it would be one of those political movies, like chris rock president movies, or other politican comedy movies, but this one wasnt that, they took it serious for the most part, there are some comedic elements spread throughout but overall, its a great story about a con man becoming president, but i like the idea of it doesnt matter if your a con man trying to president, when people in politics are the real cons, ( talk about real life lol), but its great, i enjoyed it, but maybe if i saw is slow, and in that time, maybe i wouldnt like it either, and also why did Eddie shift his eyes alot, in this at times he was looking at the camera, i was like what, I still would have liked to seen a sequel, since they were setting one up, but they never did one, he runs for congress, next is president, i think they can still do it, i know eddie is older, now, but they can CGI him and make him look young, and then someone interviews him in his age now about him being the president in the 90s, so maybe we would get that the distinguised gentleman 2, i mean since we got a black president its funny how there wasnt a real black president in media movies and shows before obama, they were mostly played for laughs like in back to the future, this and many more, i think the tv show that got it right was 24, out of all things, i might have missed some, if you know let me know, the guy who plays in 24 is the all state guy, and he played it serious and a great depiciton of what a president should be. But eddie does play it when serious well, so whatever, its a great one, i liked it, siskel had no other issues, other than it being slow, i thought it was great 4/5 stars.
Malcolm X is Great, buy Malcolm XI was disappointing
American History X was also a _really_ unexpected sequel.
Every time I think of Howard’s End I think of that SNL weekend update skit where Jan Brady reviews Leprechaun and puts it above Howard’s End lol
I started this video thinking "Man... I can't even think of many movies from 1992. It can't have been a very good year for movies."
I finished this video thinking, "Yep... 1992 was not a very good year for movies. Siskel had to resort to putting a Steven Seagal movie on his list."
It was NOT a good year for movies.
my own personal Crying Game is listening to these two Lesbians rate Crying Game higher than Unforgiven??? fax!!!
You might get a surprise
when these lesbians take off their pants
In 2002, grey-haired lesbian explained why his initial thoughts on Unforgiven were wrong and how it grew on him.
I still can't believe, really hard to believe, that Gene Siskel put "Under Siege" on his Top 10 list but not "Unforgiven"...no, no, no
Malcolm X is fantastic, best Biopic of all time.
Yup.
(Right after talking about how the movie features a Playboy model)
Siskel: Under Siege was a great time at the movies. Big action, big laughs, big--
Producer: Gene!
Siskel: FINE. ...and plenty of twisted bag guys.
1. Unforgiven
2. Husbands and Wives
3. Howard's End
4. A River Runs Through It
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Night on Earth
7. Bad Lieutenant
8. One False Move
9. Bram Stoker's Dracula
10.Candyman
Love it when they trash The Man. Lol
My #1 choice would be a tie between "Unforgiven" and "Glengarry Glen Ross." There is no way that I could choose one over the other; I love them equally.
Is Elena Eleniak related to Erika?!
What's really great about watching these is watching Siskel and Ebert respectfully disagree with each other. While they certainly don't always agree with each other's picks, they defend their picks without getting nasty toward each other.
Today, when movie critics disagree, they take to twitter or reddit and call each other every "ist" in the book.
One False Move is my favourite of 1992 also. Gene's analysis was dead-on.
I saw Wayne's World before they mutilated the guitar scene because Paramount didn't want to pay a ransom to Led Zeppelin.
I like the typewriter in the opening sequence even though every print media business was using computers by the 1970s lol
The theme of Howards End is not so different from Boyz 'N' the Hood, with characters reacting to roles society has locked them into.
The 90s were truly a golden era of cinema
Under siege made Siskel's top 10, but not unforgiven? Ok...🤷♀️
Each guy had a top 10, but each guy got to see 200 or so movies in theaters. Now we are luck to get 10 new releases in a 5 month period in theaters. instead new releases are released in a cheaper version on streaming sites, all of which are destroying the theater experience.
I work at a theater and I've seen 22 new movies since January 1st (including titles released around Christmas). I haven't seen everything that came out, and some titles only lasted 1 week, which I missed. I'm off today so will be seeing _Fast X._ June will have a dozen movies including potential blockbusters: _The Little Mermaid_ (out in May), _Through the Spider-Verse, Transformers, The Flash,_ and _Indiana Jones._ As well as obscure movies you might not have heard of, like _Asteroid City_ and _The Blackening._
@@sandal_thong8631 so 22 new movies since 1/1. That does not seem good. I worked at a theater from 94 to 2001 and seems there were a lot more. and u are right, i noticed what does come out doesnt last long. maybe its just me but the theater experience which is awesome is being forced out.
Malcolm X is a great film. My fav scenes is when Malcolm X goes to Mecca. Was laterally blown away how Spike Lee shot those scenes
Yup. Same here.
I also love the small informal movie he followed it up with in '93 - Crooklyn.
Such a love letter to 1970s Brooklyn! - (warts n all of course)
It definitely is a funny moment in retrospect to see Gene Siskel trying to feel all superior about the movie Unforgiven after he just swooned over a Steven Segal movie lol
In all fairness, you don't judge different genres the same way, Under Siege is pretty damn perfect as an action blockbuster movie. Unforgiven being the anti-western didn't work for everyone at that time. I think Gene completely missed the mark and even Roger didn't give it enough credit. Unforgiven is a classic at this point and there's a reason why that has become probably the most iconic movie from that year and most of those other movies have been forgotten.
1. Howards End
2. Unforgiven
3. Bad Lieutenant
4. The Player
5. One False Move
6. The Story of Qiu Ju (Yimou Zhang, 1992)
7. The Crying Game
8. Urga (Close to Eden) (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1992)
9. Passion Fish (John Sayles)
10. Damage
One false move was really good. Michael Beach was the best in that movie. Should’ve had a bigger career
Under siege on siskels Tip 10 is easily my biggest mark out moment watching this show
I do like how it dares to be BONKERS as well as a paint-by-numbers action vehicle.
Immaculate pacing in that flick!
Some of my favourites include:
Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Unforgiven.
The Player.
The Crying Game….at 17 years old, and even as a cis male, I remember thinking “why he fuss???”.
And Unforgiven is in my top 5 favorite films of all time.
I remember seeing The Crying Game and thinking it was good, yet also knowing that I would never watch it again and that it would face into obscurity. I was right. It's also laughable how shocked everyone was by the reveal that would never get past people now.
I have Siskel’s review of Under Siege in a scrapbook somewhere.
@4:56 I'm pretty sure every home with kids owned that VHS tape.
I’m glad the intro is included. It sets the mood!
siskel makes SO MANY MISTAKES. He literally thinks Under Siege is a better movie than Unforgiven?! Unforgiven is a masterpiece of a western! Didn't Unforgiven win BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR THTA YEAR!?! This is from the same mind who thought Die Hard 2 was better than Die Hard 1
Sure it's a lame opinion, but personal preferences are not "mistakes". Just Gene being weird and idiosyncratic, which he was proud to be.
i wondering if these men were still alive, they be saying about today movies
Hackman character i a racist who when he isn't whipping people to death is beating men he already disarmed. He also allows a brothel in his town but will not protect or give justice for them from being maimed.. yeah he's pretty damn bad in my book.
Every character in Unforgiven is a bad person. Everyone. Clint, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Skinny the pimp, the Whores, English Bob, the pop novelist, the Schofield Kid. Maybe the only decent human being is the young kid who gives away his best horse to the whore who got cut. And he tried to stop it to begin with. He’s a good guy. But gets killed anyway.
@@kevinfinnerty8414 thanks for adding the pop novelist...what a sniveling twerp
One guy offered her a horse or two, but her lady friends didn't take it or negotiate for more; they wanted vengeance. He's the closest to a good guy in this film, since he didn't cut her. All around, it's a pretty bad scene.
Bad Lieutenant is a must-watch monthly. Under Siege was Steven Seagal 's magnum opus.
Very true.
Roger talked over all the clips of The Player, notice?
No scent of a woman?
Hoo-yah!
To this day, I HATE the unforgiving. And I love Eastwood. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is BRILLIANT. Mystic River, Grand Torino, Mule, Million Dollar Baby, Bridges Of Madison County. Love them. But unforgiving is a complete bore, and the plot is so trite and flimsy, stupid and melodramatic. HORRIBLE film. Only film I ever fell asleep too in a theater 😂 fact that it won the Oscar best picture that year was a travesty. Should have been The Crying Game or Malcolm X. But alas, too controversial for the stuffy, stuck up academy of the 90’s.
What a year. Need to do a top 25 for 92 to include all the great movies.
I counted over 40 "good" movies worth seeing at least once, but only 6 "great" movies worth seeing more than once. Although it's been 30 years so I might want to see _Malcolm X_ and _Shining Through_ again.
Gene likes Under Siege but not Unforgiven?
Alas guys, the positive vibes in '92 indicated by interracial relationships have turned sour because of identity politics.
That's an interesting assessment. What movies would you cite to support that? I don't see a great many popular movies anymore, but my general impression is that interracial relationships are far more commonly depicted now than in the 1990s, an honest reflection of reality.
Funny how to 2 movies they said had great scripts, the crying game and Howard’s end, went on to win the screenwriting Oscars.
Where's the humor? Is it funny because movies with great writing don't win Oscars anymore?
i'm surprised nobody has mentioned a few good men. definitely in my top 5 of '92
That's because Roger gave it thumbs down, calling it a safe, conventional formula movie and Gene agreeing but mildly enjoying it anyway.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 and that's why i question the production knowledge of these 2 guys at times. as a long-time commercial director who comes from a family with film pedigree, i'd have to say that a few good men has an outstanding story and script, with great acting, treatment, pacing and over-all production. flawed, yes. but generally, a film worthy of note in any given year. sadly, many tend to join the bandwagon led by these 2 so-called "authorities".
What happened to Miranda Richardson. She has a busy 5 years in the early to mid-90s and then she disappeared.
Whenever that happens with an actor
they've usually 'disappeared' somewhere behind the camera.
(she's in this years 'Chicken Run' sequel - the stop motion movie with Mel Gibson as a heroic hen)
Gene didn’t like Unforgiven?? Good gravy!!!
Or "The Silence of the Lambs" for that matter. He went his own way, no question. Truly didn't care about popular opinion.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 I think Gene’s most egregious error is Apocalypse Now
@@rosario508 He acknowledged that one. There are a few video sources, including their 500th episode special, where he concedes that he should have voted Thumbs Up despite his reservations.
I think Aliens..his reason was inept ('the little girl)
Gene disliked Unforgiven, Casino and the Big Lebowski. 3 of the greatest movies of the 90’s.