Absolutely. I saw it in theaters with my parents when it came out and the whole theater was howling with laughter. You never have those experiences these days. It was something great to experience.
Serial Mom was ahead of it’s time. The satire in that movie is amazing. Especially when you know that it was produced BEFORE Court TV/The OJ Murder Trial went mainstream in the US. Don’t believe me, look at the timeline of events.
you want to know what's ironic? the actor that played Paul McCartney in Backbeat apparently did so well in the role that he was cast as Paul AGAIN for the Linda McCartney Story, he was even engaged to Elizabeth Mitchell for while but they didn't make it to the altar
We watch movies for the pure entertainment factor. These guys watch a movie to critique it. Serial Mom is a unique dark comedy that really hasn’t been attempted. I loved it.
They're implying that Divine took her roles VERY seriously. There are interviews with her on the set of Pink Flamingos were she sees the movie and her acting as an artsy creation. She tried her best because she had NOTHING. Kathleen is a mega star who is aware that it's fluff and really has nothing to lose, John is already an established director making bigger budget films. NOTHING is really on the line. All John Waters's actors weren't professional actors but took their roles very seriously back then because they felt that they were doing something special.
They still wield power. The difference is that there's so many critics online and on UA-cam, folks simply gravitate to the critic that sounds and feels exactly like they do. Just an exercise in confirmation bias
I think Backbeat was really a quickly made tv movie made for teens in the 90s with a little Beatles element. I mean that is smart in many ways where you use a little of the excitement of the group, you make the music as modern and fast-pasted as possible with a modern band(there's no way these guys played like animals like that). You use one of the rising young stars of the moment Steven Dorff in a role too cool for school(the lost Beatle) who falls for a hot chick and who's also best friend with the Lennon. It is attractive and entertaining, the movie looks great, it is the quintessential teenage/young male fantasy. It works but it is very light on content.
I understand the qualms Siskel and Ebert have with Turner's realistic performance in Serial Mom and it's tempting to compare her negatively against Divine, but they failed to recognize that Turner's realism is precisely what makes Waters's satire so distinctly biting in the picture. Despite is superficial thematic similarity to Waters's prior work, it's actually a very different sort of beast to anything else he's done. While I personally am more enticed by his earlier and more overtly transgressive films, Serial Mom is the most refined thing he's made, technically and thematically, and I can see why he sees it as his best movie.
I liked Serial Mom but I can understand why it would turn some people off. I saw it in a theater. Unfortunately, I also saw Cops and Robbersons in a theater too.
`Yeah compared to his OLDER movies, like Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living and Polyester, .. . if you've seen THOSE you'll know WHAT they're talking about. Serial Mom was still pretty edgy by NORMAL MAINSTREAM Hollywood standards AT THE TIME though.
Serial Mom is hilarious. Turned out that Serial Mom is arguably the best John Waters film. It's the one I watch the most. "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow ..."
I haven’t seen Backbeat since 1994. I remember liking it and having a major crush on Sheryl Lee at the time...but I wonder if Ebert was right. I’m curious if the movie holds up
Stuart Sutcliffe did not miss the Beatles both he passed away tragically from a brain hemorrhage very young. I think 21 years old. That's not missing the boat. And he was never a musician he could not play bass he was preforming with his back to the audience because he could not play. John Lennon's lover
I didn't like the scene when Scotty (played by Justin Whalin) was being ordered to be quiet by Chip (played by Matthew Lillard). So I imagine that Scotty will say, "No" that he is not going to be quiet until Chip gives him a pointed look that he makes on his face. Again, Scotty refused to be quiet because he was serious from his comments that he made as he orders Chip not to give him a pointed look because it was extremely annoying. Chip refused to stop giving him that look because he doesn't like his comments that he made as he makes the pointed look on his face again. I might be worried that he was going to order his sister Misty (played by Ricki Lake) and his dad (played by Sam Waterston) to be quiet too and to mind their business. So why did Chip had to tell him that for? I think this scene was not very funny when that happen. As for the movie, It was terrible to watch.
Serial mom was hilarious. They are so off the mark here. Turner was brilliant. They were tooo old to understand or enjoy it. They make me sad not the movie.
Huge Beatles fan since day 1.... but Backbeat was just meh for me. I was all stoked about it when it came out... haven't really had the desire to watch it again since then.
@10:26 Oh, come on, Gene! I burst out laughing twice from those preview clips alone; the only one that isn’t funny is the Taxi Driver imitation, a horse which has been flogged long past dead in dumb comedies. As for White Fang 2, I burst out *groaning* when I heard that the natives mistake a white man for a god. That gimmick would have been “problematic” by 1994 standards, to say nothing of cliché and tiresome. What book are these writers all sourcing from to get these awful tropes budget after budget, in front of audience after audience?
After rewatching serial mom, I understand what Ebert was saying it’s mean spirited. In water’s other films there’s a sense of love for the characters and for the film. Serial Mom just comes across as mean, and angry, the tone is off because it feels as though no heart was put into the picture just anger and resentment.
It’s a satire. What’s even funnier is that movie was made BEFORE the OJ Trial. Which it not only predicted, but parodied very well if you know about that trial & so many others during that period of time.
Thankfully, Chevy Chase has completely fallen into obscurity. Ebert is wrong here: Chase was never funny, even during his "Saturday Night Live" days. And he's never made a single film that's enjoyable.
Serial Mom is one of the most underrated comedies of the 1990's. Very funny movie.
Lololololololololololololololololol
I will say that the clips from the show make me want to check it out.
I saw Serial Mom on USA several years ago as a kid. I just turned 30 so I have no idea what year that was.
Absolutely. I saw it in theaters with my parents when it came out and the whole theater was howling with laughter. You never have those experiences these days. It was something great to experience.
Serial Mom is gold, ahead of its time tbh.
They should remake it lol
Lololololololololololololololololol
it is ahead of it's time- they even take a shot at Bill Cosby...
dont forget to turn your volume back down before you watch another video
you the real mvp
Hahaha
Thank you
Public service announcement right here
Serial Mom is one of my favorite movies ever. Two thumbs way up.
Lololololololololololololololololol
the clips from serial mom had me lol -- never saw the movie but will now. john waters is a legend.
You won't be disappointed.
A national treasure
Love that man!
I’ll get “P*$$! Face” 😂
One you know you’ll never forget 😂
Serial Mom was awesome.
Lololololololololololololololololol
Serial Mom was ahead of it’s time. The satire in that movie is amazing. Especially when you know that it was produced BEFORE Court TV/The OJ Murder Trial went mainstream in the US. Don’t believe me, look at the timeline of events.
you want to know what's ironic? the actor that played Paul McCartney in Backbeat apparently did so well in the role that he was cast as Paul AGAIN for the Linda McCartney Story, he was even engaged to Elizabeth Mitchell for while but they didn't make it to the altar
Serial mom was freaking funny.
Lololololololololololololololololol
4:54 "John Waters ought to get back to making pictures for $100,000..." Wow - you talk about condescension. WOW!!!
Serial mom was 1 one of the best dark comedy s of the early 90s 1994 I loved this movie 🎥 Joe Michael givargidze age 43 1979.
When Siskel and Ebert were wrong it was most often with comedies.
They were divided on Dumb and Dumber, by far the funniest comedy in the decade.
@@fridaysmith2567 No way.
And with horror movies.
They agreed on There's Something About Mary, from the guys behind Dumb and Dumber. Two Thumbs Up from S&E.
We watch movies for the pure entertainment factor. These guys watch a movie to critique it. Serial Mom is a unique dark comedy that really hasn’t been attempted. I loved it.
Was Siskel implying that Divine wasn't in on the jokes in those early Waters films?
They're implying that Divine took her roles VERY seriously. There are interviews with her on the set of Pink Flamingos were she sees the movie and her acting as an artsy creation. She tried her best because she had NOTHING. Kathleen is a mega star who is aware that it's fluff and really has nothing to lose, John is already an established director making bigger budget films. NOTHING is really on the line. All John Waters's actors weren't professional actors but took their roles very seriously back then because they felt that they were doing something special.
Gene is only person in history to call Stuart Sutcliffe "the 5th Beatle!" Roger is insane on this btw
Love serial mom
Lololololololololololololololololol
"Give her a happy face" lol
Serial Mom wasn’t for them - they didn’t get it
Serial Mom was laugh out loud funny. Thank goodness movie critics don't wield as much power as they used to do
Why are you wasting your time watching this if you feel that way?
They still wield power. The difference is that there's so many critics online and on UA-cam, folks simply gravitate to the critic that sounds and feels exactly like they do. Just an exercise in confirmation bias
Great, more up here, thanks.
Stu Stucliffe actually died shortly after he left the Beatles at 21 of a brain aneurysm So he didn't exactly "miss the boat" 😏
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is one of the Canadian movies ever.
I think Backbeat was really a quickly made tv movie made for teens in the 90s with a little Beatles element. I mean that is smart in many ways where you use a little of the excitement of the group, you make the music as modern and fast-pasted as possible with a modern band(there's no way these guys played like animals like that). You use one of the rising young stars of the moment Steven Dorff in a role too cool for school(the lost Beatle) who falls for a hot chick and who's also best friend with the Lennon. It is attractive and entertaining, the movie looks great, it is the quintessential teenage/young male fantasy. It works but it is very light on content.
Wow. I never knew they made a movie based on Gould. I'll definitely have to watch that one
What?? Ebert gave thumbs down on Backbeat?! I thought it was a great film!
bashbrannigan toomuch Stutcliff not enough Lennon
My no.1 unknown great film: Backbeat!
This is the first in video ad I've seen w Siskel and Ebert :(
I understand the qualms Siskel and Ebert have with Turner's realistic performance in Serial Mom and it's tempting to compare her negatively against Divine, but they failed to recognize that Turner's realism is precisely what makes Waters's satire so distinctly biting in the picture. Despite is superficial thematic similarity to Waters's prior work, it's actually a very different sort of beast to anything else he's done. While I personally am more enticed by his earlier and more overtly transgressive films, Serial Mom is the most refined thing he's made, technically and thematically, and I can see why he sees it as his best movie.
I liked Serial Mom but I can understand why it would turn some people off. I saw it in a theater. Unfortunately, I also saw Cops and Robbersons in a theater too.
Siskel and Ebert are/were WRONG about Serial Mom, it's a brilliant movie
Because a woman is starring and it was directed by a gay guy - they can’t relate
Woah....John Waters lost all edge?! Damn Ya'll
`Yeah compared to his OLDER movies, like Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living and Polyester, .. . if you've seen THOSE you'll know WHAT they're talking about. Serial Mom was still pretty edgy by NORMAL MAINSTREAM Hollywood standards AT THE TIME though.
Hitch hiked across the country at the age of 66...
Dropped acid after 50 yrs at 70
He's still got acres of edge
Why didn't Ricki Lake do more movies? She was a good actress? Just mainly John Waters films.
Very true with the first movie. That feels like a mistake when u watch it
I had no issues laughing at Kathleen Turner so they're wrong
bklynkat23 Its called a opinion.
@@pdottie212fu If you don't like them then why are you here? Seems like an odd choice on how to use your time.
Serial Mom is hilarious. Turned out that Serial Mom is arguably the best John Waters film. It's the one I watch the most. "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow ..."
REWIND!
Mad to think they’re suggesting Devineshould have been in serial mom. That would have been an amazing film!
I haven’t seen Backbeat since 1994. I remember liking it and having a major crush on Sheryl Lee at the time...but I wonder if Ebert was right. I’m curious if the movie holds up
I'm with Siskel on Backbeat and Anti-Siskel and Ebert on Serial Mom.
Stuart Sutcliffe did not miss the Beatles both he passed away tragically from a brain hemorrhage very young. I think 21 years old. That's not missing the boat. And he was never a musician he could not play bass he was preforming with his back to the audience because he could not play. John Lennon's lover
He and Lennon were not lovers.
@@ML-ul2zq that's what's being implied in the movie anyway John yelling at McCartney Sayin----you think I'm a bloody f*got?
It was a great funny film imo. Had no issues laughing at all lol
Honestly, I think Siskel and Ebert raised an excellent point by saying that SERIAL MOM would’ve been better with Divine.
Serial Mom is a great cult movie.
I didn't like the scene when Scotty (played by Justin Whalin) was being ordered to be quiet by Chip (played by Matthew Lillard). So I imagine that Scotty will say, "No" that he is not going to be quiet until Chip gives him a pointed look that he makes on his face. Again, Scotty refused to be quiet because he was serious from his comments that he made as he orders Chip not to give him a pointed look because it was extremely annoying. Chip refused to stop giving him that look because he doesn't like his comments that he made as he makes the pointed look on his face again. I might be worried that he was going to order his sister Misty (played by Ricki Lake) and his dad (played by Sam Waterston) to be quiet too and to mind their business. So why did Chip had to tell him that for? I think this scene was not very funny when that happen. As for the movie, It was terrible to watch.
Serial mom was hilarious. They are so off the mark here. Turner was brilliant. They were tooo old to understand or enjoy it. They make me sad not the movie.
Huge Beatles fan since day 1.... but Backbeat was just meh for me. I was all stoked about it when it came out... haven't really had the desire to watch it again since then.
I saw the film when i was 13 and for some reason it rubbed me the wrong way, probably because of all the swearing
Yep,I'm with Ebert !!! Qwigley down under.
No, dump on Chevy Chase. He's trying to act like he did on SNL and it's worn out.
they are so wrong about Serial Mom
Ebert is right about Chevy.
Siskel and Ebert are outdone by this unreal reality. These guys aut to go to hell.
How did Chevy Chase manage to keep making movies? The mediocre ones were in the early 80s, the later ones were terrible.
Btw: for u kids having a critics video: play it straight and stop being silly or trying to be comedians
@10:26 Oh, come on, Gene! I burst out laughing twice from those preview clips alone; the only one that isn’t funny is the Taxi Driver imitation, a horse which has been flogged long past dead in dumb comedies.
As for White Fang 2, I burst out *groaning* when I heard that the natives mistake a white man for a god. That gimmick would have been “problematic” by 1994 standards, to say nothing of cliché and tiresome. What book are these writers all sourcing from to get these awful tropes budget after budget, in front of audience after audience?
After rewatching serial mom, I understand what Ebert was saying it’s mean spirited. In water’s other films there’s a sense of love for the characters and for the film. Serial Mom just comes across as mean, and angry, the tone is off because it feels as though no heart was put into the picture just anger and resentment.
That Cops movie looks HORRIBLE
I grew up with it so nostalgia
It kinda is.
Thanks!
In the year 1994, with loads of good to great movies, Cops and Robbersons was neither.
I had high hopes for Serial Mom when I finally got around to seeing it maybe 15 years. I just don't get it - that movie was horrible and very unfunny.
It’s a satire. What’s even funnier is that movie was made BEFORE the OJ Trial. Which it not only predicted, but parodied very well if you know about that trial & so many others during that period of time.
Thank you. Serial Mom is criminally unfunny and overrated. The first of many bad John Waters movies.
Serial Mon was rubbish.
Never even heard of Serial Mom. Looks terrible.
It's not. It's one of John Waters's best films. The humor is very subversive
WRONG.
The king of good/bad taste
"Terrible" is subjective
If you are into True Crime, it’s worth a watch because of how well it parodies that genre.
Thumbs down serial mom
Thankfully, Chevy Chase has completely fallen into obscurity. Ebert is wrong here: Chase was never funny, even during his "Saturday Night Live" days. And he's never made a single film that's enjoyable.
Spies Like Us
Caddyshack, Vacation 1 and 3, Three Amigos
Chase was funny on Community
his role on Foul Play with Goldie Hawn was good
and Seems Like Old Times
racism 0:34
Cosmic Lino Ebert was married to a black woman until his death. Know what you're talking before you make those type of accusations.