This would be Gene and Roger's last review show for Sneak Previews. In September the show would be taken over by critics Jeffrey Lyons and Neal Gabler while the iconic duo would host a new syndicate show called At the Movies.
I switched to At the Movies and very rarely ever watched Sneak Previews once Lyons and Gabler took it over. Even though I disagreed with Gene often these two had great chemistry.
Oh wow. I hadn't realized this was their last one together. To me, it really didn't matter where they ended up, but now I want to know what episode was their very first At the Movies.
Well that explains why Roger closed with "...we'll see you at the movies" instead of "...the balcony is closed." He was giving a secret plug to their new show!
Yes, I remember."At the Movies" was syndicated by Tribune Entertainment.They did the show for five years and after a contract dispute with Tribe, they signed a deal with Disney and renamed the show Siskel &Ebert and the Movies until Siskel's death in 1999 after which the show went through several title changes.
Back when in any given year we would get a wide variety of movies to choose from. Something for everyone you might say. When I was a kid it was so cool to watch these guys and see clips and reviews for movies that my parents would never allow me to see.
Back in the day I looked forward to the new movies releases. Now I look back to find something good to watch. Loved the Road Warrior and need to watch Barbarosa.
I’ve been the same way for the past few years….only one or two new releases a year interest me. The digital world has given movie lovers mostly CGI comic book monstrosities that run 3 hours or ultra cheap genre garbage that come across as home movies
Indeed. Movie going lost its magic. Not just cause modern movies are ridiculous and more interested in politics, but the aura and the magic of going to the movies is gone. Most kid wont ever know even the anticipation for a weekend movie on the Tv, the family gathering around the (single)Tv for a special film, or even watching an afternoon show.
The Road Warrior is not only a movie, is an experience beyond imagination. Miller created a world where a mythological past cross with a sadistic comic style future. Powerful dreamy atmosphere, strong action, frenzy pacing, outstanding music of Brian May, great performances and the most epic intro of all time. I discovered the trilogy with 15 years old and the 2nd is the movie I have watched more times in my life.
Saw Road Warrior at 12 years old. My life would be forever influenced. I bought a 1976 AMC Hornet as my first car in 1988 because it kind of looked like Max’s car…
Love how they treated the Road Warrior as a standalone film... never mentioning Mad Max or the fact it's a sequel to it. I thought I was having an out-of-body experience for a second
Most Americans didn't know that "The Road Warrior" was just the U.S. title of the film and that it was actually "Mad Max 2" in the rest of the world. But you're right, being critics, they should have known that, even if most Americans didn't at the time. But it is true that as a kid in 1982, I had no idea there was a first "Mad Max". Most people in the U.S. only saw the first film *after*" The Road Warrior" and learned it was a sequel.
My brother and I first watched Mad Max when It came on cable for the first time. Our dad took us to see the Road Warrior. That is when I found out that it was Mad Max Sequel. I was 12 I believe at the time.
After "The Road Warrior" in 1982, Australian filmmaker George Miller is coming to America and co-directed "Twilight Zone: The Movie" for Warner Bros. in Fall 1983, two years later.
Just rewatched BLWIT with my wife and kids…it was a childhood favorite…my family liked it. i think It holds up. it’s an old fashioned 80s middle america crowd pleaser. I love the songs, dancing and cast. it’s better than they thought. Road warrior of course is genius.
It's such a TRIP to look back on a time when _The Road Warrior_ wasn't a *gigantic* bed of concrete for our pop cultural image as a whole. like, the whole IMAGE of the Post-Apocalypse has been shaped by that movie. here's Siskel calling it so strange, when today we'd call it quaint and classic. it's a fascinating time capsule.
Quite right about that. I'm not sure if the Road Warrior image was 100% original, but it definitely shaped every post apocalyptic film, comic, and video game for the last 40 years.
@@kmetcalfe it most definitely was. The whole "techno barbarian" vibe of the costumes coupled with the aesthetics of the repurposed scrap cars etc. didn't really have any kind of predecessors that I would know of.
Oh wow, how I've wanted to see this episode again, even though three parts have been embedded in my memory for forty years! I loved the fact they admired "The Road Warrior", which seemed like the type of film they weren't supposed to like, and remembered the line about being too drained to push the elevator button. (And it took just over a year before the film premiered on HBO (with "The Ultimate Warrior"), and I finally got to see it. Then there was the part about Siskel looking for a Dog of the Week, but instead finding a film he really enjoyed, "The Challenge", which I also really loved. (Steven Segall was the fight coordinator on the film, six years before his first film.) And of course, my brother and I laughed endlessly at how bad the Frankenstein Island film sounded, and would refer to it as 'that balloon movie' as one we expected to eventually see.
They asked how no one died in _Road Warrior_ but I think the scene where the guy flips in the air -he got hurt by missing the catch-pad but said they could use it.
I like the theory that the 4 Mad Max movies are just the same story being told over and over, but they become more elaborate and exaggerated on each retelling.
Interesting how they never mentioned The Road Warrior as being a follow up film to Mad Max. They were right on with their reviews though. I almost like the 2nd more than the first film.
Road Warrior is awesome. They would've loved Fury Road too. How can anyone not like Best Little Whorehouse?? Those songs aren't memorable?!? They are ear worms! It is also somewhat ironically a very sweet movie too. Durning should've been nominated for a supporting Oscar.
I 100% agree about best little whorehouse. A Lil' Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place, Texas Has a Whorehouse in It, Hard Candy Christmas,I Will Always Love You? Not memorable??? I love that movie!
I can think of several good songs from the movie, including the one we saw, that one that goes "ooh I love to dance a little sidestep," and the sad one "Hard-candy Christmas."
@@kmetcalfe Exactly. That's the whole reason it was marketed as "The Road Warrior" in the US. Because nobody expected the audience to have knowledge of the first one. Also, it isn't really necessary viewing to "get" the full experience. It's as much a stand alone movie as most Bond movies were up until the late 80s.
0:00 Intro 2:02 The Road Warrior 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟 6:54 Sisters 👍🌟🌟🌟 12:55 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 👎🌟🌟 18:13 Barbarosa 👍🌟🌟🌟 The wonder dog of the week 24:17 (1982) The Challenge 26:05 (1981) Frankenstein Island 27:03 The reviews
They were disappointed in the use of foul language, brief nudity...LOL!!! Did they forget the name of the movie?!! LOL...What a couple of maroons. The film was giddy, bright colored, sassy, romantic, heartbreaking and in the end- absolute fun. Dolly & Burt had incredible chemistry. Charles Durning gave a spirited performance as the governor. The music was absolutely brilliant. To this day, the version of "I Will Always Love You" in the film remains my favorite song of all time and favorite version period. ❤️
"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" was Universal's fourth highest grossing picture of the 1981-1982 summer season. Sadly to say, this was Colin Higgins' third and final American theatrical picture. He died in 1989.
What a minute... Siskel and Ebert were escaped slaves fighting a guerrilla war against their former captors? Huh. I guess the sport jacket and tasteful sweater threw me off.
I suspect movie critics have seen so many movies that they don't like derivative movies that the public likes, but then sometimes enjoy a movie that's unlike what they've seen before. Fortunately, _Road Warrior_ is both different and good.
I do believe Siskel and Ebert gave MAD MAX the Dog of the Week designation. May have reconsidered their views on that one. Also wanting to know Mad Max's full name. It is Officer Max Rockatansky. Also I should say that of course The Road Warrior is comic booky but you have to admit the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas looks like a Penthouse.
Saw The Road Warrior in the Summer of 1982. Afterwards as we drove home via the highway I was craving the opportunity to drive really fast and jump out the window on top of someone else's car, kick out the driver and hijack the bastard, then repeat until satisfied.
Forgettable songs? One of the most famous songs came from that film: I Will Always Love You. I prefer Dolly over Whitney Houston. Also, Charles Durning’s Sidestep is very memorable.
@@citygirl5705 That is Hard Candy Christmas- Dolly wrote that about 5-or-so years before that movie even premiered! She is truly one of a kind- LOVE her!
This would be Gene and Roger's last review show for Sneak Previews. In September the show would be taken over by critics Jeffrey Lyons and Neal Gabler while the iconic duo would host a new syndicate show called At the Movies.
Thanks for this. That perhaps explains the handshake at the end. So, they didn’t review teen trends as teased?
I switched to At the Movies and very rarely ever watched Sneak Previews once Lyons and Gabler took it over. Even though I disagreed with Gene often these two had great chemistry.
Oh wow. I hadn't realized this was their last one together. To me, it really didn't matter where they ended up, but now I want to know what episode was their very first At the Movies.
Well that explains why Roger closed with "...we'll see you at the movies" instead of "...the balcony is closed." He was giving a secret plug to their new show!
Yes, I remember."At the Movies" was syndicated by Tribune Entertainment.They did the show for five years and after a contract dispute with Tribe, they signed a deal with Disney and renamed the show Siskel &Ebert and the Movies until Siskel's death in 1999 after which the show went through several title changes.
Back when in any given year we would get a wide variety of movies to choose from.
Something for everyone you might say.
When I was a kid it was so cool to watch these guys and see clips and reviews for movies that my parents would never allow me to see.
Back in the day I looked forward to the new movies releases. Now I look back to find something good to watch. Loved the Road Warrior and need to watch Barbarosa.
I’ve been the same way for the past few years….only one or two new releases a year interest me. The digital world has given movie lovers mostly CGI comic book monstrosities that run 3 hours or ultra cheap genre garbage that come across as home movies
That's growing old for you! But Fury Road in recent years would surely delight any Mad Max fan?
Indeed. Movie going lost its magic. Not just cause modern movies are ridiculous and more interested in politics, but the aura and the magic of going to the movies is gone. Most kid wont ever know even the anticipation for a weekend movie on the Tv, the family gathering around the (single)Tv for a special film, or even watching an afternoon show.
Mainstream US cinema is largely pc, juvenile and formulaic, but at least there's A24
Well said. I’ve been on a kick recently of doing the same thing.
1982 was so full of incredible movies, it was almost insane.
The Road Warrior is not only a movie, is an experience beyond imagination. Miller created a world where a mythological past cross with a sadistic comic style future. Powerful dreamy atmosphere, strong action, frenzy pacing, outstanding music of Brian May, great performances and the most epic intro of all time.
I discovered the trilogy with 15 years old and the 2nd is the movie I have watched more times in my life.
Saw Road Warrior at 12 years old. My life would be forever influenced. I bought a 1976 AMC Hornet as my first car in 1988 because it kind of looked like Max’s car…
Love how they treated the Road Warrior as a standalone film... never mentioning Mad Max or the fact it's a sequel to it.
I thought I was having an out-of-body experience for a second
Most Americans didn't know that "The Road Warrior" was just the U.S. title of the film and that it was actually "Mad Max 2" in the rest of the world. But you're right, being critics, they should have known that, even if most Americans didn't at the time. But it is true that as a kid in 1982, I had no idea there was a first "Mad Max". Most people in the U.S. only saw the first film *after*" The Road Warrior" and learned it was a sequel.
The road warrior hell yeah
My brother and I first watched Mad Max when It came on cable for the first time. Our dad took us to see the Road Warrior. That is when I found out that it was Mad Max Sequel. I was 12 I believe at the time.
Roger's description of The Island of Frankenstein actually made me want to see the film.
After "The Road Warrior" in 1982, Australian filmmaker George Miller is coming to America and co-directed "Twilight Zone: The Movie" for
Warner Bros. in Fall 1983, two years later.
Just rewatched BLWIT with my wife and kids…it was a childhood favorite…my family liked it. i think It holds up. it’s an old fashioned 80s middle america crowd pleaser. I love the songs, dancing and cast. it’s better than they thought. Road warrior of course is genius.
It's such a TRIP to look back on a time when _The Road Warrior_ wasn't a *gigantic* bed of concrete for our pop cultural image as a whole.
like, the whole IMAGE of the Post-Apocalypse has been shaped by that movie. here's Siskel calling it so strange, when today we'd call it quaint and classic.
it's a fascinating time capsule.
Quite right about that. I'm not sure if the Road Warrior image was 100% original, but it definitely shaped every post apocalyptic film, comic, and video game for the last 40 years.
@@kmetcalfe it most definitely was. The whole "techno barbarian" vibe of the costumes coupled with the aesthetics of the repurposed scrap cars etc. didn't really have any kind of predecessors that I would know of.
Would love to see next week's episode they promoted at the end.
Oh wow, how I've wanted to see this episode again, even though three parts have been embedded in my memory for forty years! I loved the fact they admired "The Road Warrior", which seemed like the type of film they weren't supposed to like, and remembered the line about being too drained to push the elevator button. (And it took just over a year before the film premiered on HBO (with "The Ultimate Warrior"), and I finally got to see it.
Then there was the part about Siskel looking for a Dog of the Week, but instead finding a film he really enjoyed, "The Challenge", which I also really loved. (Steven Segall was the fight coordinator on the film, six years before his first film.) And of course, my brother and I laughed endlessly at how bad the Frankenstein Island film sounded, and would refer to it as 'that balloon movie' as one we expected to eventually see.
They asked how no one died in _Road Warrior_ but I think the scene where the guy flips in the air -he got hurt by missing the catch-pad but said they could use it.
Sneakin around with you song is memorable Gene n Rodge
I like the theory that the 4 Mad Max movies are just the same story being told over and over, but they become more elaborate and exaggerated on each retelling.
Yup.
Interesting how they never mentioned The Road Warrior as being a follow up film to Mad Max. They were right on with their reviews though. I almost like the 2nd more than the first film.
The Road Warrior is a great film.
Road Warrior is awesome. They would've loved Fury Road too. How can anyone not like Best Little Whorehouse?? Those songs aren't memorable?!? They are ear worms! It is also somewhat ironically a very sweet movie too. Durning should've been nominated for a supporting Oscar.
Durning actually was nominated for Supporting Actor.
I 100% agree about best little whorehouse. A Lil' Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place, Texas Has a Whorehouse in It, Hard Candy Christmas,I Will Always Love You? Not memorable???
I love that movie!
I totally agree with you, it is a classic good-time movie!!! And btw, Charles Durning WAS nominated for an Oscar for this film
@@kristinschermann6581 Oh wow. I guess I should've checked first. One of those rare occasions where someone got nominated for only one scene or two.
I can think of several good songs from the movie, including the one we saw, that one that goes "ooh I love to dance a little sidestep," and the sad one "Hard-candy Christmas."
Funny how Siskel would see a comic book style in Road Warrior as Miller made some prequel Mad Max comics many years later.
im actually surprised they both liked Road Warrior, im also surprised there wasnt even a mention of Mad Max.
They likely never saw "Mad Max" as it's release was limited, and if pushed as a 'B movie', it might not be the type they'd rush to review.
@@kmetcalfe Exactly. That's the whole reason it was marketed as "The Road Warrior" in the US. Because nobody expected the audience to have knowledge of the first one. Also, it isn't really necessary viewing to "get" the full experience. It's as much a stand alone movie as most Bond movies were up until the late 80s.
0:00 Intro
2:02 The Road Warrior 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟
6:54 Sisters 👍🌟🌟🌟
12:55 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 👎🌟🌟
18:13 Barbarosa 👍🌟🌟🌟
The wonder dog of the week
24:17 (1982) The Challenge
26:05 (1981) Frankenstein Island
27:03 The reviews
They were disappointed in the use of foul language, brief nudity...LOL!!! Did they forget the name of the movie?!! LOL...What a couple of maroons. The film was giddy, bright colored, sassy, romantic, heartbreaking and in the end- absolute fun. Dolly & Burt had incredible chemistry. Charles Durning gave a spirited performance as the governor. The music was absolutely brilliant. To this day, the version of "I Will Always Love You" in the film remains my favorite song of all time and favorite version period. ❤️
"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" was Universal's fourth highest grossing picture of the 1981-1982 summer season.
Sadly to say, this was Colin Higgins' third and final American theatrical picture. He died in 1989.
What a minute... Siskel and Ebert were escaped slaves fighting a guerrilla war against their former captors? Huh. I guess the sport jacket and tasteful sweater threw me off.
@@RobMacKendrick It’s easy to miss cause they were speaking English instead of their native Creole language. 😂
Sisters was a riot!
I'm surprised Gene liked the Road Warrior. He's often such a stick in the mud.
I suspect movie critics have seen so many movies that they don't like derivative movies that the public likes, but then sometimes enjoy a movie that's unlike what they've seen before. Fortunately, _Road Warrior_ is both different and good.
What I loved about Whorehouse was Charles Durning's song and dance about his noncommittal political style.
Rifftrax deservedly trashed Frankenstein Island - turned out to be the infamous Jerry Warren's last film. Absolutely terrible.
I do believe Siskel and Ebert gave MAD MAX the Dog of the Week designation. May have reconsidered their views on that one. Also wanting to know Mad Max's full name. It is Officer Max Rockatansky. Also I should say that of course The Road Warrior is comic booky but you have to admit the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas looks like a Penthouse.
A new Cameron Mitchel film? Does Roger know what he found?
Saw The Road Warrior in the Summer of 1982. Afterwards as we drove home via the highway I was craving the opportunity to drive really fast and jump out the window on top of someone else's car, kick out the driver and hijack the bastard, then repeat until satisfied.
U forgot the date :(
Thank u!
Did Gene call Mad Max "Mack"?
Forgettable songs? One of the most famous songs came from that film: I Will Always Love You. I prefer Dolly over Whitney Houston. Also, Charles Durning’s Sidestep is very memorable.
I totally agree with you, I think Dolly Parton is the ONLY person who should sing that song, I mean, she did write it after all....
Yeah, and I really liked that "Fine and Dandy" song.
@@citygirl5705 That is Hard Candy Christmas- Dolly wrote that about 5-or-so years before that movie even premiered! She is truly one of a kind- LOVE her!
I think they said they changed some of the songs from the play to bring in Dolly's songs.
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BLWT 12:55