Siskel & Ebert The At The Movies The Stinkers of 1982 (Full Show)

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • Inchon, If You Could See What I Hear, Yes Giorgio, Porkey's, Amityvill II: The Possession, Six Weeks, Halloween III, Grease 2, Partners, I Ought To Be In Pictures

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  • @BULL.173
    @BULL.173 3 года назад +116

    "Isn't that inspirational. A blind man overcomes his handicap and somehow finds the inner strength to become a drunk driver."
    Lol, Roger could really be a gold dispenser.

  • @bijibadness
    @bijibadness 4 года назад +126

    man. it sure is depressing to think that Roger Ebert was absolutely dead-set annoyed and tired of the glut of slasher movies . . . in _1982._ the '80s must have been a very, _very_ long decade for him.

    • @thiscorrosion900
      @thiscorrosion900 2 года назад +30

      Well most of them blow so I cannot blame him. Takes no imagination to write shit like that and I'm a massive horror fanatic for the past 45 years.

    • @Reborn8303
      @Reborn8303 2 года назад +9

      To be fair Amityville 2 is pretty bad.

    • @Wellch
      @Wellch Год назад +4

      @@thiscorrosion900 I agree with Roger.

    • @fenderjazzbrian
      @fenderjazzbrian Год назад +12

      The 80s were a terrible time for Hollywood, in general. I always hated the glut of slasher movies too, but there were plenty of other stinkers of other genres.

    • @thelostone6981
      @thelostone6981 Год назад +5

      @@fenderjazzbrian Unless you enjoy really bad movies like the Canon film! I can watch Breakin’, Over the Top and others over and over again because they’re just so unintentionally bad. One of my favorites, if you are into that type of things, is Strike Commander starring Reb Brown. It’s a rip of of Rambo II and I laugh at as if it were a comedy.

  • @dannydinosaur73
    @dannydinosaur73 4 года назад +75

    And the very next year, the director of Porky's would give us the classic....A Christmas Story!

    • @waynechapman9823
      @waynechapman9823 3 года назад +20

      And what might be the first real slasher "Black Christmas" in 1974. And "Deathdream" is something of an underrated classic.

    • @jessecoffey4737
      @jessecoffey4737 2 года назад +13

      And sixteen years after that, he gave us . . . BABY GENIUSES. That film would be Roger's pick for the Worst Film of 1999.

    • @mikekrause3671
      @mikekrause3671 Год назад +4

      @@waynechapman9823 great director. did a wide variety or work.

    • @monte68x
      @monte68x Год назад +6

      And right after 'A Christmas Story' he crapped out 'Rhinestone'

    • @rubenreyna2198
      @rubenreyna2198 Год назад +1

      Ain't that something?!

  • @PetersPianoShoppe
    @PetersPianoShoppe Год назад +26

    “This movie is an insult to opera, to Pavarotti, and to us.”
    Loved Gene…. He never minced words, period.

  • @eltravo2112
    @eltravo2112 4 года назад +92

    I like how Gene Siskel opens his briefcase and the soda 🥤 and popcorn 🍿 are still in place 😂

    • @geoffelder2236
      @geoffelder2236 3 года назад +13

      @Trav D. Watching S&E as a kid, I was always surprised they didn't give that briefcase to Ebert instead, I just couldn't imagine why, especially with Roger getting a notepad from a FOOD vending machine!
      (Not trying to be mean here, but Gene himself would often make fun of Ebert's, uh, let's just say, physique and Roger, to his credit, would just roll with it!)

    • @waynechapman9823
      @waynechapman9823 3 года назад +6

      @@geoffelder2236 They were the Sonny and Cher of film critics.

    • @geoffelder2236
      @geoffelder2236 3 года назад +4

      @@waynechapman9823 Which was which? (Ha-ha, just kidding!)
      I think I can see what you mean (if I'm wrong, please feel free to tell me):
      - Both duos worked together despite their arguments and differences of opinion, but they realized that they worked better together than apart.*
      - To be the most successful, they would have to put aside their personal egos to focus on what would help them produce the best work possible.*
      - Simply because you can't help but think of one name without the other, we automatically put their names together by habit!*
      (*Until Cher's later career, anyway.)
      Also, just for fun on a silly side-note, how bizarre/cool would it be to see them back in the early 70's if their vocations were switched in a parallel universe?
      We would have: "At The Movies: Sonny Insulted By Cher" and especially,
      Siskel & Ebert's short-lived weird Country-Latin-Polka-Funk fusion hybrid supergroup with Xavier (Cugat): "The S.E.X. Factory"!

    • @reneedennis2011
      @reneedennis2011 3 года назад +3

      @@geoffelder2236 😂😂😂😂

    • @cartoongameshowman
      @cartoongameshowman 2 года назад +2

      Yeah, me too. You know when I use to watch this show when I was a little kid, I thought the soda and popcorn came out from a sort of trap door on the counter.

  • @DonatoDamiano-r2g
    @DonatoDamiano-r2g 5 месяцев назад +17

    It was more fun watching these terrific guys than it was going to the movies!! Sure miss Gene and Roger these days......RIP, my popcorn pals! 🍿🎞️🎥

  • @kevinbirge2130
    @kevinbirge2130 3 года назад +32

    I watched the show religiously. I saw so many great films thanks to the boys.

    • @waynechapman9823
      @waynechapman9823 3 года назад +5

      Same here. I even saw "My Dinner with Andre" when it finally came to Sacramento a year later. Just two guys talking while spending time at a nice restaurant. Basically doing what Siskel & Ebert do on television, except without the dinner. I'm pretty sure "Diva" was another one I went to see because of those two. But I was also eager to see films that they both panned like "Reservoir Dogs" and "Brazil," and I can't say I agreed with them on those two.

    • @kevinpaul180
      @kevinpaul180 7 месяцев назад

      Me too

  • @stevekenna
    @stevekenna Год назад +10

    Siskel and Ebert respected women so much that they'd be called "Too Woke" in 2023. It's kinda sad.
    I like the other opening with the Thumbs up Taxi Driver better.

    • @F40PH-2CAT
      @F40PH-2CAT Год назад +1

      Yawn.

    • @GiggingwithTheGoon
      @GiggingwithTheGoon 3 месяца назад +2

      Definitely. Roger, specifically, was waaaaaaay ahead of his time.

  • @maskedmarvyl4774
    @maskedmarvyl4774 4 года назад +51

    I remember seeing "Six Weeks" many years ago on cable, and I couldn't believe or understand why this film was made, or why Mary Tyler Moore or Dudley Moore would appear in it; maybe the Producers thought it would be cute to cast two actors with the same last nane.
    The scenes were incredibly contrived, the little girl was beyond Yoda-like in her acceptance of her impending death, and the movie felt like it was written by a Hallmark card writer who created a card called "So You're Dying...."
    I'm glad there aren't cards out there like that, but if there were, it would be like this film.
    When the girl finally Does die at the end, the emotions were so forced and contrived it was painful and embarrassing to watch. I'm surprised they didn't make a sequel where they shock her back to life and then unsuccessfully give her chemotherapy, and call the movie "Another Six Weeks".....

    • @Hellraiser0601
      @Hellraiser0601 3 года назад +10

      That Hallmark comment made me laugh out loud 😂

    • @reneedennis2011
      @reneedennis2011 2 года назад +2

      I agree!

    • @markelijio6012
      @markelijio6012 Год назад

      To be fair and square, there's no sequel to the 1982 family fare classic, according
      to Frank Price of Columbia with Delphi Film Associates, who distributed the long awaited troubled production
      both in the US and Canada.
      If that's not enough for you, "Six Weeks" was presented by Polygram Filmed
      Entertainment and produced by Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Rob Cohen for the
      Guber-Peters Company with Helen Bartlett Bill for Barnstorm Films.

    • @maskedmarvyl4774
      @maskedmarvyl4774 Год назад

      @@markelijio6012 , Sounds like the "Too Many Cooks" syndrome. I'm surprised they didn't make it into a musical.

    • @larrydalesowell1016
      @larrydalesowell1016 Год назад

      “So You’re Dying” 😂

  • @jeremymullins1294
    @jeremymullins1294 2 года назад +34

    Halloween III is awesome!

    • @ronaldh8446
      @ronaldh8446 11 месяцев назад +1

      Siskel actually gave it a positive review.

  • @connorbrennan4233
    @connorbrennan4233 3 года назад +11

    Porky's seemed to be part of a disturbing trend of films in the '80s that featured male characters who got away with treating women horribly. Films like Revenge of the Nerds were unfortunately successful for some reason and some of that mentality even creeped into other '80s films like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Horror films of that decade actually were more empowering for women than some mainstream opinions gave them credit for. The protagonists in films like Revenge of the Nerds would've been highlighted as villains and heroines in those horror films would've pounded the crap out of those guys.

  • @peterokeeffe4849
    @peterokeeffe4849 4 года назад +32

    I miss these guys.

  • @thekingofmovies193
    @thekingofmovies193 Год назад +6

    Who else loves seeing Aroma the skunk in the director's chair wearing that cute beret? He and spot the wonder dog are mascots for the boycotting of awful movies. I wish they were on the other worst of the year episodes.

  • @Hammerhead547
    @Hammerhead547 8 месяцев назад +9

    Fun Fact:
    Inchon was such a legendary failures that after it slunk out of theaters it was broadcast once on television later that year and has never been released on home video or streaming.

  • @lars7282
    @lars7282 2 года назад +7

    Rogers glasses.
    God I love the 80s

  • @tod3msn
    @tod3msn 3 года назад +45

    1982 with Gene and Roger “At The Movies” was their best era. They were relatively new on the scene and it was the guys at their best. The early to late 80’s was the golden era for “At The Movies.”

    • @Hellraiser0601
      @Hellraiser0601 3 года назад +7

      I thought I was the only one who caught that!
      The shows from the late 70s and early 80s were more real and their opinions and the arguments that ensued were organic and passionate.
      In the 90s, everything started looking kinda rehearsed or even staged.
      And Siskel, dear Gene Siskel, became annoying, dismissive and very narrow-minded.

    • @zt1053
      @zt1053 3 года назад +10

      They had been doing another show for several years, sneak preview, before at the movies. they started at the movies in 82 because they changed production companies so they even by 1982 you can't really say they were new

    • @CaptainSpalding72
      @CaptainSpalding72 2 года назад +11

      Bullshit. They were great up Genes death.

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 Год назад +2

      @@zt1053 They moved to commercial syndication with At the Movies at Tribune, which offered them a better syndication deal at the time than PBS, which wanted to move them there to begin with. Roger's book Life Itself talks about this.

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 Год назад +3

      No, they had been around on PBS for several years.

  • @kencoakley3959
    @kencoakley3959 4 года назад +20

    I did hate "Halloween III : Season Of The Witch" when I first saw it in 1982 but it has grown on me. I also liked "Amityville II : The Possession". I am a Horror fanboy. But one movie that I hated that I think came out in 1982 was "Rich And Famous" starring Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen.

    • @babybird871
      @babybird871 4 года назад +7

      actually Siskel liked Halloween 3....Ebert listed it but didn`t talk about it....

    • @chiefscheider
      @chiefscheider 3 года назад +3

      Rich and Famous was released in '81. I looked it up on the interweb so I wouldn't have to say "I think you're right."

    • @ricogomez4020
      @ricogomez4020 2 года назад +3

      HALLOWEEN 3 4k looks & sounds great. I liked AMITYVILLE 2 also when I saw it in 1982 Diane Franklin is hot.

  • @bijibadness
    @bijibadness 4 года назад +22

    "One thing we probably oughtta make clear about this show right at the start is that it's not going to be devoted to run-of-the-mill Stinkers Of The Week with low budgets."
    "Good."
    i love how Siskel responds to that line as if he's hearing that information for the first time and is genuinely appreciative.

  • @scottaznavourian5791
    @scottaznavourian5791 4 года назад +20

    Pavaroti must have been broke or something

    • @angelcitygirl
      @angelcitygirl 3 года назад +3

      I think that's how a lot of has beens do these sub par movies. Money.

    • @riatorex8722
      @riatorex8722 3 года назад +1

      I mean, those $200 million must've been earned somehow

    • @genki2genki
      @genki2genki Месяц назад +1

      Nobody said no to the big P back then.

    • @karaoconnoraliasraidra
      @karaoconnoraliasraidra 29 дней назад

      I’ve heard what happens sometimes is someone who has success in one field thinks they’ll have success in another field (and enough people agree that they support them). That’s how you have singers, TV actors, and athletes attempting to become movie stars, actors and athletes attempting to become rappers or singers, singers trying to become novelists, etc. Sometimes it works and sometimes it’s a mess.

  • @jusbaize
    @jusbaize 4 года назад +26

    Wow I remember watching this episode. I was 9. It was the first time i heard the word "prequel" and I was offended they didn't like Grease 2

    • @reneperez7903
      @reneperez7903 4 года назад +11

      Grease 2 was no good what so ever

    • @CorbCorbin
      @CorbCorbin 4 года назад +2

      You must be a cool rider...
      Do it for America...

    • @CaptainSpalding72
      @CaptainSpalding72 2 года назад +1

      They were right. Its lame.

    • @auntiechercher4266
      @auntiechercher4266 2 года назад

      I love Grease 2 (I liked it better than the first movie)!

    • @jusbaize
      @jusbaize 2 года назад +1

      No way it was better. The songs, the chemistry between the leads- just doesn't compare.

  • @tod3msn
    @tod3msn 4 года назад +33

    The great movie reviewers of all time. I do recall some of these movies and they deserve to be panned.

  • @BionicRasta
    @BionicRasta 3 года назад +6

    Amityvill II was better than the original in that it was a retelling of the Defeo murders (albeit with alot of artistic licence) & merged with the demonic backstory made up by Lutz to cash in. It only went downhill in its further sequels. While Porkys was great teenage fun set in the 1950s & was never meant to be taken seriously. In the UK the Carry On films are similarly misogynistic with its slapstick comedy of its time but are a British institution.

  • @zetetick395
    @zetetick395 5 месяцев назад +6

    Hahaha!
    I was waiting for Inchon, nice to see it up first for the boot! 🤣
    I love how the S's in Amityville 2: The Possession title font have little devil tails, it's so corny I love it!

  • @curtisebear1568
    @curtisebear1568 3 года назад +15

    The way Gene says “guess what” in referring to liking Six Weeks, that’s such a film nerd vibe when you feel really self assured about loving something that probably sucks.

    • @kristiantoimil
      @kristiantoimil 2 года назад +5

      I literally went down to the comments hoping someone else picked-up on that!

  • @pmafterdark
    @pmafterdark Год назад +8

    I can't say I always agreed with Gene's and Roger's reviews, but I loved watching these 2 guys back in the day and always looked forward to the show.

  • @sha11235
    @sha11235 3 года назад +13

    I didn't realize until I saw the original review for If You Could See What I Hear that the main character was played by V's Marc Singer.

    • @Skank_and_Gutterboy
      @Skank_and_Gutterboy 6 месяцев назад +1

      He was The Beastmaster, too. He's had good roles but this wasn't one of them. I actually thought he was alright in this movie, it's not his fault the plot sucked. He was hired to show up and act and he did that.

    • @GiggingwithTheGoon
      @GiggingwithTheGoon 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@Skank_and_Gutterboy great way of looking at that. Actors often don't like the work they're given. It isn't their job to like the work. It's their job to DO the work.

  • @johnfitzpatrick3094
    @johnfitzpatrick3094 2 года назад +8

    I remember my mom dragging me to see Six Weeks. I hated it. Watching this episode, I knew I was right.

  • @lerm2866
    @lerm2866 4 года назад +20

    These days Fini would have all kinds of fetish sites to enjoy.

    • @mjgyrosdude484
      @mjgyrosdude484 3 года назад +4

      Fini probably would be getting Bill Cosby type accusations too!

    • @lerm2866
      @lerm2866 3 года назад +4

      @@mjgyrosdude484 many protagonists from that era of films would

    • @Goofball032
      @Goofball032 8 месяцев назад

      ​@lerm2866 well if the protagonists would be getting those type of accusations, imagine what the antagonists would get! 😮

  • @CaptainSpalding72
    @CaptainSpalding72 2 года назад +9

    I watched PORKYS recently again, and its awful still. Creepy, gross and sporadically, aside from the Principles Office, is unfunny.

  • @nospam3327
    @nospam3327 Год назад +6

    Amityvile II is amazing. I just watched it on blu ray a few weeks ago. It isn't a pleasant movie to watch, but in my book that's not a reason not to watch it. Italian directors in the 1970s were good at making dark films.

    • @tomy.1846
      @tomy.1846 2 месяца назад

      The father (Burt Young) scared the living hell out of me! He was so scary and mean! Good acting!

  • @CaptainSpalding72
    @CaptainSpalding72 2 года назад +4

    I love AMITYVILLE II. Very effective amd better than the first one. The boys just hated horror films that weren't classy. Didnt like B movie trash.

  • @jaydude79a
    @jaydude79a 3 года назад +12

    As a movie fan who grew up in the Chicago area Thank You for these videos! Miss these treasures of film reviewers. I did NOT agree with half the time. But always loved their take on films.

  • @michellelekas211
    @michellelekas211 3 года назад +7

    I love that they quote SCTV's "Farm Film Report"! "Blows up Real Good"

  • @bukowski20
    @bukowski20 4 года назад +20

    Kathryn Harrold was one of cinema's underrated beauties.

    • @bobrew461
      @bobrew461 4 года назад

      Yeah...I would love her to water on me! :-0
      Unfortunately, she stopped acting.

    • @errolbourgeois8230
      @errolbourgeois8230 3 года назад +3

      I agree with you 💯👍. You should check out her performance in a movie called The Sender - a guilty pleasure 😉

  • @trfesok
    @trfesok 3 года назад +4

    "Six Weeks" looks more barfable than "Amityville II".

    • @SanFran51
      @SanFran51 2 года назад +1

      "Fini can water you."

  • @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663
    @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663 4 года назад +14

    I've NEVER seen ANY of those movies...
    ...so I guess it looks like I've DODGED quite a lot of BULLETS!!! 😕

    • @lionelraoul
      @lionelraoul 4 года назад

      I almost got away unscathed but I saw Grease 2, and it's hateful.

    • @peterkrug4124
      @peterkrug4124 4 года назад +3

      I actually enjoyed "Porkys" and "Halloween III: Season Of The Witch"

    • @bijibadness
      @bijibadness 4 года назад

      you've dodged a couple dogs, yeah.

  • @karaoconnoraliasraidra
    @karaoconnoraliasraidra 2 года назад +10

    (Explosion is clearly audible)
    Child: They’ve blown up the bridge!
    Woman: What?! (Honks car horn)
    What in blazes did that character think honking the horn was going to accomplish!? Honking the horn isn’t going to make the bridge not blown up!
    Speaking of Inchon, I love the quote from Sir Laurence Olivier about why he agreed to do the movie. “People ask me why I’m playing in this picture. The answer is simple. Money, dear boy. I’m like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. I’m almost used up now and can feel the end coming. That’s why I’m taking money now. I’ve got nothing to leave my family but the money I can make from films. Nothing is beneath me if it pays well. I’ve earned the right to [darn] well grab whatever I can in the time I’ve got left.” Instead of making some spiel claiming the film was some great work, he was honest enough to admit he knew he didn’t have much time left and wanted to make as much money to leave to his loved ones as possible. Sure enough, his health had been in decline for years when Inchon was made, and he passed away in 1989.

    • @reneedennis2011
      @reneedennis2011 2 года назад +4

      Thanks for the info. Betsy Palmer appeared in Friday the 13th so she could buy a car, and Michael Caine appeared in Jaws 4: The Revenge because his house in England 🇬🇧 flooded and he needed the money to buy a new house.

    • @karaoconnoraliasraidra
      @karaoconnoraliasraidra 2 месяца назад

      @@miguelservetus9534 Sir Laurence Olivier wasn’t in Star Wars. Were you thinking of Sir Alec Guinness?

    • @miguelservetus9534
      @miguelservetus9534 2 месяца назад +1

      @@karaoconnoraliasraidra thanks. I’m an idiot.

    • @karaoconnoraliasraidra
      @karaoconnoraliasraidra 2 месяца назад

      @@miguelservetus9534 No worries! We all get mixed up sometimes. :-)

  • @shadowpresident4203
    @shadowpresident4203 4 года назад +14

    I like the cut of these kids' jib. I think this young new critic, Gene Siskel and the other kid, Roger Ebert are real up and comers in the world of film criticism.

    • @waynechapman9823
      @waynechapman9823 3 года назад +1

      I was watching them in 1980 when they really were up-and-comers. I just thought it was great that you had two guys talking about movies on television like that. You could disagree with them, of course, and you can see now they were sometimes on the wrong side of history, but I still thought it was great to be able to watch these guys talk about something they and we loved so much.

    • @Wellch
      @Wellch Год назад +1

      They were on PBS first….Sneak Preview.

  • @delavalmilker
    @delavalmilker Год назад +12

    "Inchon" was actually funded by the Korean "Unification Church". (Also known as the "Moonies" cult). The story at the time was that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was feeling depressed one day. He took a walk, and was suddenly inspired by the thought, that he would feel better if he could make a BIG movie. And the rest is history.

  • @hmdwgf
    @hmdwgf Год назад +2

    18:49 "It makes you want to throw pies at the screen" Why waste apparently edible pies on that TERRIBLE movie? (Hopefully they're chocolate pies!)

  • @peterkrug4124
    @peterkrug4124 4 года назад +9

    Considering how these two HATED the "Friday The 13th" series, I'm really surprised Part 3 (which came out that year) didn't make the list.

    • @connorbrennan4233
      @connorbrennan4233 3 года назад +11

      It probably looked no different to them than the first two, so they figured it'd be boring to criticize it. Or else, there really were too many bad ones in '82 that they couldn't fit it in.

  • @manofmeans190
    @manofmeans190 Год назад +8

    Forgot how much I loved this show. Thank you for posting!

  • @bareknuckles2u
    @bareknuckles2u 4 года назад +4

    Inchon should have been the title of a porn movie!

  • @charleswinokoor6023
    @charleswinokoor6023 4 года назад +11

    Comments for the most part are worthless.
    The skunk was okay, but I preferred the “dog of the week” with Spot the Wonder Dog.

    • @tod3msn
      @tod3msn 4 года назад +1

      Say what?? What are you talkin bout due?

    • @johnfitzpatrick3094
      @johnfitzpatrick3094 4 года назад +1

      I don't think they were allowed to take the dog because of copyrights.

  • @j.p.pelzman7481
    @j.p.pelzman7481 3 года назад +8

    Thanks for sharing. All these years later, as soon as I saw Six Weeks pop up, I recalled that they had a MAJOR disagreement on that one. So when Gene had that smug look on his face, I knew what was coming.

  • @dovegrey1
    @dovegrey1 4 года назад +7

    I remember that old opening, lots of fun. Never saw "Six Weeks" (didn't want to), but I recall Mary Tyler Moore looking kind of foolish with that "halo" (sacrificing saint of a mother?) of flowers in her hair. Just plain silly.

  • @ShamrockParticle
    @ShamrockParticle 4 года назад +8

    The real Tom Sullivan is in an episode of Mork & Mindy and is not related to the character in the movie that Siskel and Ebert rightly critique

    • @dovegrey1
      @dovegrey1 4 года назад +3

      He was also on an episode of M*A*S*H (Hawkeye is temporarily blinded).

    • @visaman
      @visaman 4 года назад +1

      Also WKRP in Cincinnati.

    • @theshawnmurphyjournal2946
      @theshawnmurphyjournal2946 4 года назад +1

      And in the drama tv series Fame

  • @markelijio6012
    @markelijio6012 2 года назад +4

    "White Dog" was a 1982 cult classic thriller was finally released in 11/12/1982. It didn't no business and needless to say that Samuel Fuller
    moved to France and never made another American film as an filmmaker. He died in 1998.
    Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg were departed from Paramount and moved to Disney from the fall of 1984-present
    with brands like 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Pictures, Touchstone/Walt Disney/Hollywood/Cinergi/Buena Vista Pictures,
    SLM Entertainment Group, ABC Studios, Disney Media Distribution and more.
    Sherry Lansing and Michelle Manning were joining Paramount/Viacom in 3/15/1985 under Ned Tanen, Ann Morales and
    Roger M. Rothstein with brands like Miramax, CBS, BET, MTV, VH1 among others.
    Laurence Mark has formed his own company, Laurence Mark Productions in 3/22/1986 and in the spring of 1990, he made an deal with
    Sony Pictures Entertainment under Frank Price, John Calley, Amy Pascal, Mario Kassar and more.

  • @Portugal2025
    @Portugal2025 3 года назад +5

    Pavarotti was my favorite opera singer and I can’t blame him for trying but this was a major swing and a miss

  • @talan123
    @talan123 4 года назад +24

    Siskel & Ebert watched Partners and thought it sucked. Redlettermedia saw Partners and thought it sucked. My life is complete.

  • @Blaqjaqshellaq
    @Blaqjaqshellaq 4 года назад +27

    INCHON was a Moonie production, right?
    "They're blowing up the bridge!" is an example of "illustrated radio" dialogue.

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 4 года назад +3

      Inchon's director, Terrence Young, was amazed by Laurence Olivier's fortitude. The heat of the location was too much for his frail body but when the cameras rolled, Larry shrugged off the pain like it was nothing.

    • @abcbatman1966
      @abcbatman1966 4 года назад +1

      Not a advocate for the late Rev. Moon, but calling it a “Moonie” production begs whether the its ok to call Hollywood movies “Jewie” productions. Don’t mock someone else’s faith, lest yours be held to similar scrutiny..

    • @drm147
      @drm147 3 года назад

      @shotonshitteo You're not making a point, dummy

    • @Jacksonrox13
      @Jacksonrox13 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@abcbatman1966It's a cult, not a faith. Just like Mormonism and Scientology.

    • @abcbatman1966
      @abcbatman1966 10 месяцев назад

      @@Jacksonrox13 someone Else’s beliefs are a cult, never our own..

  • @tellemstevedave5559
    @tellemstevedave5559 4 года назад +6

    "Here's the basic scene from all of those movies".
    King.

  • @lilyofthevalley2048
    @lilyofthevalley2048 Год назад +5

    My dad got tickets to the premier of *Six Weeks,* and he said he, his dad, and his siblings were all cracking up laughing the whole time because it was that awful.

    • @molsongrrrl
      @molsongrrrl Год назад +1

      It was extremely terrible. I actually cheered when the little girl finally died ... she was so obnoxious!

  • @andymassingham
    @andymassingham 3 года назад +2

    “Now, I picked that throwing up scene not to gross anybody out...” Coffee out nose.

  • @fromthehaven94
    @fromthehaven94 2 года назад +3

    @0:15 Wait a minute, I thought people weren't supposed to sneak outside food into movie theaters?

  • @tonys9102
    @tonys9102 2 года назад +5

    I watched some of these episodes when they aired. Thanks for putting them out.

  • @FeverDog420
    @FeverDog420 4 года назад +5

    INCHON is impossible to find. Not that I'm actively searching for it...
    Remember when thirty million dollars was a lot of money?

    • @michellelekas211
      @michellelekas211 3 года назад +1

      Good comment. Super sad.

    • @johnfitzpatrick3094
      @johnfitzpatrick3094 2 года назад +1

      From what I know, Inchon will never see the light of day on home video.

    • @sdot5389
      @sdot5389 7 месяцев назад

      It’s on RUclips m.ruclips.net/video/O3FC5CPt9C0/видео.html

    • @hmdwgf
      @hmdwgf Месяц назад

      @@johnfitzpatrick3094Probably for the better. Check out its rating on IMDb.

  • @deckofcards87
    @deckofcards87 3 года назад +4

    Forever grateful that these guys sat through decades of trash so we didn't have to Lol all of these movies i'll gladly avoid

  • @Portugal2025
    @Portugal2025 3 года назад +5

    I knew 6 Weeks was awful when during the previews the audience groaned

  • @steveleeart
    @steveleeart 4 месяца назад +11

    I put the Siskel & Ebert theme song on my phone and let it play as I’m walking to my seat in a theatre before a movie. 😂

  • @mrnocal
    @mrnocal 4 года назад +14

    Porky's was funny, which is why it made so much money. Sure, it had some gratuitous nudity, but it had good humor and some really good performances. How Nancy Parsons was able to keep a straight face as Beulah Balbricker in that scene they showed with her talking to the principal is beyond me. Many other of the teen "sex" movies of the time weren't really funny and had bad performances.

    • @RumourdProd
      @RumourdProd 2 года назад +3

      No. It's horrible. Says a lot about you as a person

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 Год назад +2

      I found it funny at the time (I was 20) especially in this scene. I remember someone telling me he'd been to see Chariots of Fire in a cinema where Porky's was playing next door - the laughter was so loud it came through the wall! But even at the time it occurred to me that in a few years the boys would end up just like the sad, sleazy types who make up Porky's clientele.

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 Год назад

      There is some funny stuff in it, but I didn't really care about the part where they take revenge on Porky.

    • @javiermori1710
      @javiermori1710 Год назад

      I watched when i was maybe 10 years old with my best friend. His parents had us always go out with his sister and her boyfeiend as " chaperones" and they would go see a different movie and then pick us up after we spent some time in arcade after movie. We werent much chaperones lol..

  • @michaelorick2197
    @michaelorick2197 3 года назад +4

    I Like amityville the Possession Thumbs up

  • @miguelservetus9534
    @miguelservetus9534 2 месяца назад

    Wow. Finally found someone who agreed with me on Porky’s.

  • @YouTube-tied
    @YouTube-tied 3 года назад +5

    Damn I used to watch this show all the time starting in 1978 and I forgot that they had an actual skunk for the Stinkers segments. I bet there are some salty outtakes in which Gene and Roger each blame the skunk for each other's farts and vice versa. :)

  • @SoleaGalilei
    @SoleaGalilei 4 года назад +2

    The year I was born!

  • @waynechapman9823
    @waynechapman9823 4 года назад +26

    Hideo Nakata has said that "Amityville 2: The Possession" was a big influence on his film "Ringu," which is a seminal classic in Japanese horror. You really gotta be careful what you pick out as trash, cause it just might end up being someone else's treasure.

    • @heavysystemsinc.
      @heavysystemsinc. 3 года назад +16

      Being inspired by a bad movie doesn't make the bad movie good, really. Sometimes it's the concept that's executed poorly that is inspirational and nothing more. There's plenty of films I've run across where I'm like, 'You know, this would've been a great movie if it was handled differently, but everything else stayed the same'. Peace.

    • @waynechapman9823
      @waynechapman9823 3 года назад +6

      @@heavysystemsinc. I hear ya. Inspiration can come from the strangest places. The Ramones were inspired by the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night" when they wrote "Blitzkrieg Bop." They liked bubblegum pop and wanted a song with a chant like that one. A lot of Ramones fans wouldn't have anything to do with the Bay City Rollers.

    • @heavysystemsinc.
      @heavysystemsinc. 3 года назад +4

      @@waynechapman9823 Precisely. The Deftones are known to love The Cure and Joy Division, but one cannot really play those band's music right next to your average Deftones song and say they fit together.

    • @cassia3363
      @cassia3363 5 месяцев назад +1

      Goes both ways - The Room was basrd on Tennessee Williams's wsrk , and Talented Mr. Ripley.

  • @jeremyusreevu237
    @jeremyusreevu237 Год назад +2

    I love you Roger, but you have to be high to think that Season Of The Witch is boring.

  • @bizzzzzzle
    @bizzzzzzle 4 года назад +21

    Ebert looks like his mom cut his hair lol.

    • @Mr22thou
      @Mr22thou 4 года назад +2

      It's a Beatles cut! But it's about 20 years after the era. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

    • @MrBoyYankee
      @MrBoyYankee 4 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @atarirastafari2160
      @atarirastafari2160 4 года назад

      Mike was flowby available in 1982?

    • @eltravo2112
      @eltravo2112 4 года назад +1

      Look like his mom cut his hair while she was mad at his dad 😂

  • @markelijio6012
    @markelijio6012 2 года назад +4

    Porky's was doing well at the box office while some others such as Inchon, Halloween 3, Partners, Six Weeks, Grease 2, Amityville 2, Yes Giorgio among others were all been bombed at the box office.

    • @iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729
      @iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 Год назад

      Amityville 2 made money..

    • @markelijio6012
      @markelijio6012 Год назад

      @@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 Okay, we'll take it.

    • @markelijio6012
      @markelijio6012 Год назад

      Orion did better with both Amityville 2 and the first Rambo movie that first started it all was First Blood. Produced by Carolco/StudioCanal.

  • @l.salisbury1253
    @l.salisbury1253 Месяц назад +1

    11:00 - a more-than-obvious observation but this would NEVER be made today...!!

  • @darwinblinks
    @darwinblinks Год назад +7

    My sister was one of the managers at the theater where they filmed that opening. I saw dozens and dozens of free movies there.

  • @ihateapplebeeswa
    @ihateapplebeeswa Год назад +4

    Halloween 3 Season of the Witch is easily the best one by far. Although it should've been it's own thing. Hindsight is always 20/20 though.

    • @ronaldh8446
      @ronaldh8446 11 месяцев назад

      Gene gave it a Thumb's Up

    • @Wellch
      @Wellch 2 месяца назад

      But not its own thing.

  • @steveconn
    @steveconn 4 года назад +10

    Six Weeks was played constantly over the holidays on tv in the '80s. The little girl dying suddenly at the end was always heartbreaking.

  • @Al_NERi
    @Al_NERi Год назад +2

    I watched S&E devotedly on all their shows but I still prefer the PBS Sneak Previews because it played longer clips of the movies under review. The syndicated shows had to make room for advert breaks.

  • @yaywhewclips242
    @yaywhewclips242 4 года назад +4

    They've been showing Amityville II ad nauseum on COMET TV channel, lately.

    • @Wildcock23
      @Wildcock23 4 года назад

      notgrillo collector/ gamer Nice!

    • @markelijio6012
      @markelijio6012 7 месяцев назад +1

      It did some good business despite some mixed reviews.

  • @Laceykat66
    @Laceykat66 10 месяцев назад +3

    Hey, I LIKED "I outta be in pictures." Great to see these shows again.

  • @stantheman9072
    @stantheman9072 Месяц назад +1

    Yeah, I’m just missing that awful haircut and bangs on Roger… not.

  • @ericnelson6725
    @ericnelson6725 4 года назад +7

    Man, the 80s were downright cruel to Mary Tyler Moore.

    • @danielhayes7967
      @danielhayes7967 4 года назад +5

      Her only highlight was her performance in "Ordinary People".

    • @brianshoman1723
      @brianshoman1723 4 года назад +2

      @@danielhayes7967 That performance was the best of her career.

    • @danielhayes7967
      @danielhayes7967 4 года назад +2

      @@brianshoman1723 I agree. It proved she could do drama skillfully.

    • @cliffordshafran9250
      @cliffordshafran9250 4 года назад +1

      She actually performed well in Six Weeks. But once that sappy dying girl story took center stage, it was hard to notice. No doubt Ordinary People was MTM's tour-de-force performance.

    • @markelijio6012
      @markelijio6012 2 года назад +1

      @@cliffordshafran9250 Yeah!

  • @cliffordshafran9250
    @cliffordshafran9250 4 года назад +5

    Fini can water you! Did Luciano think that could've gotten him an Oscar?

  • @s.ormgamalson6489
    @s.ormgamalson6489 4 года назад +21

    I love halloween iii season of the witch

    • @mrnocal
      @mrnocal 4 года назад

      It wasn't so bad. The only thing that really disappointed me was that it had NOTHING to do with the rest of the Halloween franchise.

    • @rochcity7917
      @rochcity7917 4 года назад

      Yeah it wasn’t that bad. Far from worst of the year. And I like the idea of departing from Michael Myers

    • @gallery7596
      @gallery7596 4 года назад

      Calling it "Hallowe'en 3" when Michael Myers never appears in the movie was one of the worst marketing decisions in film history. However, "Season Of The Witch" is actually a neat little movie that is more appreciated now than it was at the time of it's release. A cult favourite.

    • @mrnocal
      @mrnocal 4 года назад +1

      @@gallery7596 I agree. I think that's why it was so looked down upon when it was first released. It's like releasing a Friday the 13th movie without Jason or a Nightmare on Elm Street movie without Freddie Krueger. Fans of the franchise were just disappointed.

    • @angryagain3801
      @angryagain3801 4 года назад +4

      I like "H 3"
      Fantastic original story.
      Much better than any of the other Halloween sequels

  • @bmljenny
    @bmljenny 3 года назад +3

    Pavarotti's acting reminds me of a giant-size Herve Villechaize.

    • @waynechapman9823
      @waynechapman9823 3 года назад

      At least Pavarotti had a day job. I'd love to see Herve take a crack at "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Met.

  • @rbswords2353
    @rbswords2353 3 года назад +4

    I like Halloween 3,good idea.

  • @markelijio6012
    @markelijio6012 2 года назад +8

    "At the Movies", TV's long-running syndicated program has been nominated for several Emmy Awards. It was an major success.

  • @zetetick395
    @zetetick395 3 месяца назад +1

    [ Six Weeks - 1982 ] _"A little 'piece' of tear-jerking dreck"_ 🤣 Soo brutal. 🤣

  • @lw3646
    @lw3646 3 года назад +3

    3:25 wow did the allies just blow up a bridge full of civilians? Why? It looked like the enemy were miles away? What on earth?

    • @calessel3139
      @calessel3139 Год назад

      My thoughts exactly. WTF are they doing? Also, even if they didn't care about the civilians, you think they'd get themselves off the bridge before they blew it up!

  • @GarretGrayCamera
    @GarretGrayCamera 4 года назад +9

    The toughest part of their job must've been to sit through these turds. Those war movies where big actors have bit parts or cameos like in Inchon are still made today. Midway looks like that.

    • @blupunk01
      @blupunk01 4 года назад +2

      Personally I'm always thankful for the movie critics that sit through awful films so I don't have to.

    • @barbarakirk3064
      @barbarakirk3064 4 года назад +1

      Thoughts of A Bridge Too Far!

    • @GarretGrayCamera
      @GarretGrayCamera 4 года назад +4

      @@blupunk01 And the reviews of the bad films are often the most entertaining!

    • @blupunk01
      @blupunk01 4 года назад +3

      @Justin I can honestly say that no critic has ever matched my personal taste as closely as Roger Ebert did. I really appreciated the fact that he was willing to see past the hype surrounding certain films and examine them more honestly than the vast bulk of reviewers. Sure I had disagreements with him just as Gene did, but I could pretty much always see his point. And really most "cult classics" are actually terrible movies that people have now merely come to see through the lens of nostalgia. He was often even right on contemporary "good" movies that really didn't stand up under the light of critical scrutiny. I particularly appreciated his often scathing analysis of Oscar choices more driven by Hollywood politics than any real measure of quality.

    • @AllenFreemanMediaGuru
      @AllenFreemanMediaGuru 4 года назад +2

      Garret Gray Yes, I saw midway and Gene and Rodger would have loved to have mentioned the dialog in that one being a bit corny!

  • @oneeyedman99
    @oneeyedman99 Месяц назад +1

    There were a number of comedies in the 80s featuring guys peering at unknowing naked women. Revenge of the Nerds had them doing it with cameras and that one got _good_ reviews. Times have changed.

    • @karaoconnoraliasraidra
      @karaoconnoraliasraidra 29 дней назад +1

      Didn’t Revenge of the Nerds also have a scene with one of the so-called heroes tricking a girl into having sex with him by disguising himself and pretending to be somebody else? That’s messed up.

  • @jessecoffey4737
    @jessecoffey4737 3 года назад +4

    Other films Gene hated, or found disappointing, in 1982 were "Poltergeist," "Creepshow", "Montenegro", "The Pirate Movie", "Visiting Hours", "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", and the 1981 Brazilian film "I Love You". (SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, January 2, 1983)

  • @eckesg2
    @eckesg2 2 года назад +1

    I have to side with Roger on Six Weeks. That looked creepy and bad

  • @13579lazlo
    @13579lazlo 4 года назад +9

    I like porkys but I love Halloween lll.

    • @greyeyed123
      @greyeyed123 3 года назад

      Halloween III was one of two (possibly three) movies that made me physically ill as a child. lol

  • @75YBA
    @75YBA 4 года назад +4

    SUBBED and many thanks! Great channel name!

  • @consman22
    @consman22 2 года назад +6

    Porky is hilarious and it a classic

    • @gerardhiggins4827
      @gerardhiggins4827 2 года назад +1

      Yea it is a classic and paved way for movies like American Pie and others like that.

  • @DarthVader1977
    @DarthVader1977 7 месяцев назад +1

    It's amazing how we forget little things, like the original name of the show (1982-86) was "At the movies". (No "Siskel & Ebert" in the title.)
    And it also had 2 other names when it was originally broadcast by PBS.
    "Opening Soon at a Theatre Near You" (1975-1977) and "Sneak Previews" (1977-1982).

  • @mst3kanita
    @mst3kanita 4 года назад +3

    ha, they had a different pet every year.

  • @barbaratozzano6364
    @barbaratozzano6364 Год назад +2

    I would have given it a thumbs up if I could hear it.

  • @willturner153
    @willturner153 3 года назад +2

    Siskel first two choices I'm gonna have to agree with just based in the scores on ImdB but Ebert not so much

  • @dc7370
    @dc7370 Год назад +1

    Porky's was creepy and made 155 million dollars

  • @mikekrause3671
    @mikekrause3671 Год назад +2

    ive grown to like Halloween 3. cult classic now

  • @gheller2261
    @gheller2261 2 месяца назад +2

    I was 14 in 1982 and seeing Porky's was a big deal. As long as we got to see some bush we were happy. And Porky's delivered.

    • @tomy.1846
      @tomy.1846 2 месяца назад

      Porky's is a classic!

  • @BILLYMORGAN1971
    @BILLYMORGAN1971 6 месяцев назад

    These guys didn't like too many horror films. They acted like they were going to get an A cast, A director, A budget. None of that was the case. Decades later film studios spend hundreds of gazillions and THOSE movies are the ones to mock not the ones that are no different than the sci-fi/horror films from the 50's. Cheap thrills and jump scares for dumb teens. It's funny most people hated Halloween III with a passion because they wanted to see the clown I mean the Captain. I liked H3, it was it's own movie. It had great atmosphere. It was better than the "Michael, i'm your niece" sequels and all the post modern lesbian Activia sequels. Porkies was hilarious. These are just cheap flicks. ET was the highest grossing film in '82. It was twice the budget but also set up for fake success with all the merchandising. Although an ET slasher film might be good....