Siskel & Ebert Review - Arthur, Blow Out, Endless Love, Zorro the Gay Blade

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  • @davidnelson6874
    @davidnelson6874 Рік тому +9

    “Blow Out” was much, much more enjoyable than I expected.

  • @lowbridge7070
    @lowbridge7070 2 роки тому +18

    Back then in 1981 I went to the movies once a week with my then best friend. We were both a couple of fanatics about the movies and went to the movies together once a week from the 1970s-1980s (and yes, we religiously watched Siskel and Ebert every week on his living room tv).
    Arthur is just one of many movies we saw. We were 12 years old. I can't recall my friends reaction, but we stayed to watch it a second time, so I imagine he liked it. I fell in love with the movie from my very first viewing. It quickly became one of my all time favorite movies right then and there and remains that to this day. In the following years, whenever Arthur popped up on tv, I would drop everything to watch it.

  • @fringelilyfringelily391
    @fringelilyfringelily391 Рік тому +12

    "Normally, one would have to go to a bowling-alley to meet a person of your stature" ... now that's a great British burn from the great Gielgud..

    • @gheller2261
      @gheller2261 4 місяці тому

      Arthur is one of my favorite comedies ever. One small thing everyone ignores - Arthur is the only English person in his family.

  • @gheller2261
    @gheller2261 Рік тому +15

    Arthur is a classic. What movie was Siskel watching? Hilarious throughout. A dozen classic lines that my wife and I use today. A week does not go by when at least one of us doesn't say "I'll alert the media."

    • @PoofOfLogic
      @PoofOfLogic Рік тому +3

      Arthur is one of my all time favorite comedies. I consider Dudley Moore's performance to be pitch perfect and absolutely hilarious....

  • @rickbrenner6079
    @rickbrenner6079 Рік тому +13

    Love Gene, but he missed the boat on Arthur. Arthur us one of my favorite films of all time! It’s so funny, I root for the Arthur and Liza to get together, and it ends so heartwarming. Not to mention Arthur’s Theme is such a beautiful song. Big miss by Gene,
    but every one has their own view😊,
    I guess.

    • @dmp04
      @dmp04 Рік тому +4

      I loved Arthur. I think that Sir John Gielgud was really funny.

    • @yournamehere6002
      @yournamehere6002 3 місяці тому

      Agreed!

  • @broncobilly4029
    @broncobilly4029 Рік тому +8

    Blowout may have been Travolta's best acting performance.

  • @OhSankYouDoktor
    @OhSankYouDoktor 3 роки тому +22

    Wow, Gene really blew this one! "Arthur" is one of my favorite films since I first saw it as a child. Moore's work is up there with Gene Wilder in "Young Frankenstein" and Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie" as one of the great comic performances.

  • @tommyboy6267
    @tommyboy6267 Рік тому +3

    Holy Crap!!! They finally got it right! Blow Out is one of the best movies of all time. And yes...24:20...that scene...and what Travolta says...will break your heart.

  • @matthewschwartz6607
    @matthewschwartz6607 2 роки тому +21

    Blow Out still holds up today. Lithgow was REALLY creepy!

    • @darrenhood4033
      @darrenhood4033 2 роки тому +1

      and it bombed because of its ending. Audiences who saw it couldn't accept the bleak ending and a film projected to do 60 million total box office sunk to about 30 million.

    • @matthewschwartz6607
      @matthewschwartz6607 2 роки тому

      @@darrenhood4033 - Oh, wow. I thought that it did okay . Lithgow did work with Depalma again for that Raising Cain movie (Which was ,um, well, NOT as good!).

    • @darrenhood4033
      @darrenhood4033 2 роки тому

      @@matthewschwartz6607 It did ok, but this was supposed to be a huge moneymaker based off of three consecutive box office successes. Conservative audiences of the day expected a happy ending because of John Travolta being a featured star and felt blindsided by the final act.

    • @KahlessTheUnforgettable
      @KahlessTheUnforgettable Рік тому

      Blow up, the original; is even better!

    • @kolst8406
      @kolst8406 Рік тому

      I rarely cry; I've seen Blow Out twice and cried both times. Siskel and Ebert's reviews are spot on. I would only add the platonic friendship between Travolta and Nancy Allen - and her naivete - makes the ending all the more devastating.

  • @johnbogg7395
    @johnbogg7395 2 роки тому +7

    Blow Out is great. I own the disc.

  • @joesimon2029
    @joesimon2029 2 роки тому +4

    Endless Love had one REALLY good plot twist ! Brooke's father chases her boyfriend thru a city in broad daylight . The father , not looking carefully, then gets hit by a car and dies! Totally not expected in a movie like this .

  • @newwavepop
    @newwavepop 3 роки тому +8

    i LOVED Zorro The Gay Blade when i was a kid, i watched it ALL the time. now having not seen it in 30 something years watching the little clips they showed i was laughing my ass off.
    what i think Dudley Moore does so well in Arthur is he really does make you feel for him, behind all his jokes and laughter you really can see and sense the loneliness.
    re watched Blow Out just a few years ago, good film.

  • @TheNameisPlissken1981
    @TheNameisPlissken1981 3 роки тому +10

    Two actors that play a drunk fantastically are Dudley Moore in both 10 & Arthur and John Ritter in Skin Deep. Funny how 10 and Skin Deep were both written & directed by Blake Edwards. Some might argue that Moore in 10 is not a drunk, but watch the film again. He is drinking in almost every scene.
    As for the films on S&E, Arthur is a classic comedy and Blow Out is one of DePalma's greatest films.

    • @eargasm1072
      @eargasm1072 3 роки тому

      He was also one in real life lol I met him when I was like 10 yrs old and can recall he reeked of booze! A very funny man and actor just the same

    • @TheJameslehr
      @TheJameslehr 2 місяці тому

      and let's not forget Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend.

  • @mccallosone4903
    @mccallosone4903 2 роки тому +7

    I loved zorro as a kid. Watched it a lot on HBO

  • @WilAdams
    @WilAdams 3 роки тому +7

    Endless Love is yet another film that was only so-so, but which used a hit Pop song "Endless Love' Lionel Ritchie to advance it's ticket sales. As for Zorro, I will never understand why that film did not catch on the way that Love at First Bite did, my one theory is that in Love at First Bite included the monster Disco hit 'I Love the Night Life', while Zorro did not. Judging from other films (like the already mentioned Endless Love) that have achieved big box office because of the inclusion of hit songs (Meatballs, American Gigolo, Foxes, Grease, and of course Saturday Night Fever) I can surmise that Zorro should have included a popular song. Blowout did not blow my hair back. I wanted to like it, but I think I was coming off having seen Travolta and Allen in Carrie, and I just could not get their image from that film out of my mind.

    • @natepeace1737
      @natepeace1737 2 роки тому +1

      It has! “Here’s to being free! La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La Zorro’s back!” Lol!

  • @mowm88
    @mowm88 Рік тому +3

    Blowout was really good.

  • @MegaMagicdog
    @MegaMagicdog Рік тому +2

    Seeing that scene in Blow Out with the Jeep driving thru the parade, made me think of the Waukasha massacre!

  • @robertkoelle8910
    @robertkoelle8910 Рік тому +3

    Interesting that in their review of Blow-Out, they don't reference Antonioni's Blow-Up.

  • @madahad9
    @madahad9 2 роки тому +11

    I probably enjoyed Arthur when I first saw it but now find it obnoxious. I like Dudley Moore, especially in 10 and Bedazzled with Peter Cook. The only likeable character is John Gielgud as Hobson. He deserved his Oscar.
    Blow Out is John Travolta's best performance. The ending is hearbreaking and unforgettable. It's also among Brian DePalma's best films.

  • @09rja
    @09rja 3 роки тому +5

    I loved Zorro!

  • @kristinschermann6581
    @kristinschermann6581 Рік тому +2

    I Loved Blow Out- my sister & I used to watch it every time it came on HBO....funny that Roger's pick for the worst of the week was so very close to the titles of John Travolta's character from Blow Out supposedly worked on!

  • @dougwylie1906
    @dougwylie1906 Рік тому +2

    Gene Siskel is occasionally way off and that was certainly the case with his assessment of Arthur. One of my favorite movies, and one of the rare really funny movies with a genuine heart.

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral7672 3 роки тому +7

    My top five De Palma films:
    1. Carlito's Way
    2. Femme Fatale
    3. Blow Out
    4. Carrie
    5. Sisters

    • @bOmBAsTiK
      @bOmBAsTiK 2 роки тому +2

      For me, it'd be:
      1. Carlito's Way
      2. Scarface
      3. Untouchables
      4. Blowout
      5. Casualties of War

    • @iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729
      @iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 2 роки тому +3

      1) Body Double 2) Dressed to Kill 3) Blow Out 4) Scarface 5) Carlito`s Way

    • @jusme164
      @jusme164 2 роки тому +1

      Dressed to kill !!!

  • @kali3665
    @kali3665 3 роки тому +8

    John Travolta always amazes me. He appears in some of the crappiest films ever, and then we see him in these incredible films (Blow Out, Pulp Fiction) and manages to pull it off. He DOES have talent, but I guess it takes a great director (or Quentin Tarantino - joke, people) to really bring out that talent.
    I did like Arthur at the time, but I find it very hard to watch now - changing times, I guess. The remake with Russell Brand is terrible, IMO.
    Zorro the Gay Blade has many of the same issues as Arthur - it has NOT aged well, but I think George Hamilton really pulls off these kinds of over the top characters. I still think Love at First Bite is one of his best performances, and Zorro is in the same, um, vein. Yes, I remain bothered that yet again Zorro is not played by a Hispanic actor, the accent is atrocious, and the gay jokes are pathetic, but Hamilton always gets the comic aspect. The action scenes are pretty good too.

    • @laustcawz2089
      @laustcawz2089 3 роки тому +1

      Check out Travolta in "Face/Off"
      & "White Man's Burden".
      The "Arthur" remake was
      indeed terrible, except for
      Russell Brand, who was terrific
      & deserved a much better remake
      in which to star.

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 3 роки тому +2

      Travolta is a good actor who has appeared in a lot of bad films.

    • @marcofalzone6469
      @marcofalzone6469 2 роки тому

      @@ricardocantoral7672 yes.

    • @matthewschwartz6607
      @matthewschwartz6607 2 роки тому +1

      There was a REMAKE of Arthur?

    • @kali3665
      @kali3665 2 роки тому

      @@matthewschwartz6607 Yep. With Russell Brand -- and Helen Mirren as the butler character. Pathetic!

  • @michaelorick2065
    @michaelorick2065 3 роки тому +8

    I love Zorro the Gay Blade it's great

  • @rdoyle29
    @rdoyle29 3 роки тому +18

    They kind of give away the entire plot of "Blow Out"

    • @johnbogg7395
      @johnbogg7395 2 роки тому +3

      Way to ruin the movie.

    • @200wattstudio8
      @200wattstudio8 Рік тому +1

      They are notorious for that

    • @KahlessTheUnforgettable
      @KahlessTheUnforgettable Рік тому +2

      Oh boy, what a travesty!

    • @citygirl5705
      @citygirl5705 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, disclosing that Nancy Allen meets John Lithgow at the end, as he poses as a reporter?
      They should have had more respect for their audience than to do that.

    • @hodun8
      @hodun8 Рік тому +1

      You mean they ruined a 42 year old movie for you? Ok.

  • @freemangriffin4953
    @freemangriffin4953 2 роки тому +3

    I don't like Arthur and I will never understand how John Gielgud won an Oscar for it - I love Gielgud but it was ridiculous Oscar win.
    Blow Out is by far the best of these films, truly inventive and fascinating!

    • @gheller2261
      @gheller2261 4 місяці тому

      You just announced to the world that you have no sense of humor and would not know funny if it hit you in the face.

  • @WildFungus
    @WildFungus Рік тому +1

    I watched Zorro the Gay Blade recently, and it was so funny, I dunno the whole Zorro tv / movie persona kinda is camp as hell so just making it a gay joke was super funny I dunno. George Hamilton nailed it. Blowout is an excellent thriller as well. Arthur holds up but it's crazy to think you'd call it a summer blockbuster once upon a time.

  • @malichitte
    @malichitte Рік тому +1

    Has anyone heard back from De Palma? Or is he still out to lunch? Just kidding, love that guy.

  • @pam0626
    @pam0626 2 роки тому +5

    Endless Love was a fantastic novel. Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt were miscast. Beautiful, but miscast. In the novel, Jade was unsympathetic and self-absorbed and Jade and David had a maturity beyond their years.

    • @pam0626
      @pam0626 Рік тому +1

      @@deckard97 Yes!!

    • @donpinkston5263
      @donpinkston5263 Рік тому +1

      Couldn’t agree more! Would have loved to have seen a decent adaptation of that book!

    • @pam0626
      @pam0626 Рік тому +1

      @@donpinkston5263 I also would have loved having the Ann & David conversation play out onscreen, where he visits her NYC apartment after her divorce. Her feelings for him were so central to the book and Shirley Knight was a powerhouse actress. It’s a shame we didn’t get a chance to see her deliver that dialogue.

    • @donpinkston5263
      @donpinkston5263 Рік тому +1

      @@pam0626 I haven’t seen the film in a while but I do seem to remember that scene. It sticks out in my mind only because I thought Ann’s NYC apartment was great.
      Also, I remember reading somewhere that Shirley Knight fought to get Jodie Foster cast as Jade. I can totally see Foster at that age in the part since Jade was described in the book as a tomboy.

    • @pam0626
      @pam0626 Рік тому

      @@donpinkston5263 Foster would have been amazing as Jade. Wow.

  • @citygirl5705
    @citygirl5705 Рік тому +1

    And yet "Blow Out" didn't make either of their Top Ten lists for the year.

  • @Charliecomet82
    @Charliecomet82 Рік тому +1

    "Zorro, the Gay Blade" is just good dumb fun-how can you not like a movie that has a character who introduces himself as, "Don Luis Obispo, from Bakersfield!"

  • @justinbergmans36
    @justinbergmans36 Рік тому +1

    There seems to be an Indication that without the Calvin Klein s influence, Ms. Shields wouldn’t have had much of an acting career. She wasn’t well regarded in most of her early work. But, I think she did the best she could.

    • @grannyweatherwax8005
      @grannyweatherwax8005 7 місяців тому

      No way some middle aged male movie reviewer could get away with referring to a teen girl now as "her whole career she's used her body as bait." I gasped.

  • @cariganpintalba9498
    @cariganpintalba9498 Рік тому +3

    One of the things I liked about Blow Out was the bad guy who assassinated the politician was not the cog in some omnipotent conspiracy. He was an unhinged sociopath his bosses could not control. It was indicative of the risks with running this kind of illicit activities. You run the risk of hiring sociopaths because stable people don’t do jobs like that.

  • @demondsims5411
    @demondsims5411 12 днів тому

    Arthur is a classic. Nuff Said.

  • @stevegeorge6880
    @stevegeorge6880 2 роки тому +2

    It's kind of amusing that they discuss whether or not it would be appropriate for a 15 or 16 year old girl to refuse to do a nude scene for a movie role. I'm pretty sure that sort of thing is now looked at quite universally as a crime.

    • @Hack_The_Planet_
      @Hack_The_Planet_ 2 роки тому

      Times were certainly different, and to be fair I think they were arguing more from a professionalism standpoint. It’s definitely weird though lol

  • @digitalsixx
    @digitalsixx 3 роки тому +3

    Any chance you have their Dressed To Kill review?

    • @ThatOldTV
      @ThatOldTV  3 роки тому +3

      Dressed to Kill came out in July of 1980. I looked at reviews in that time period and didn't see it listed. Do you know if they actually reviewed that film on their show?

    • @digitalsixx
      @digitalsixx 3 роки тому

      @@ThatOldTV i just had a look at the episode guide from Sneaks Previews that year and it looks like it may have been released between seasons.. so I’m guessing that they didn’t review it after all. I’d been on the look out for it for years.. guess it wasn’t meant to be.
      Thanks for all these uploads though.. terrific stuff 👍

    • @ThatOldTV
      @ThatOldTV  3 роки тому +1

      @@digitalsixx I read up on it and I saw they'd written individual reviews for Dressed to Kill. I'm guessing the same thing, it was likely released in between seasons. I couldn't find anything that indicated they'd review it on their show. Sorry about that.

    • @eargasm1072
      @eargasm1072 3 роки тому +1

      I also looked for that this weekend after watching it again lol S&E were on summer vacation, that's why they didn't do any "at the movies" reviews of Empire, the Shining or Dressed

    • @iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729
      @iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 2 роки тому

      How about the episode with Halloween 3`s review?? Siskel gives it a thumb up.....missed the review on the original broad cast...

  • @geoycs
    @geoycs Рік тому +2

    How does anyone not like Arthur!!! There is NOTHING not to like about the movie, and everything to love. Very strange.

    • @gheller2261
      @gheller2261 4 місяці тому

      In my book, one of the top five film comedies of all time.

  • @stephenosullivan9016
    @stephenosullivan9016 9 місяців тому

    After watching a large number of these videos from past Siskel & Ebert shows, it’s obvious that I agree much more with Roger Ebert then I do with Gene. So many times Gene over thinks a film, as in this case Arthur, and gives a ridiculously bad review. Arthur is one of the best comedies EVER! And though I don’t expect critics to love a film like I do, Roger seems to have a better understanding of what the film maker is going for. Gene is a sour pill a great many times. May they both rest in peace.

  • @timothylewis2527
    @timothylewis2527 Рік тому +1

    These guys talking about movies from the ’30s is like if I was talking about movies from the '70s.
    Getting old sucks...

  • @mykal.7424
    @mykal.7424 Рік тому +1

    Endless Love is Tom Cruise's first movie role in a bit part

  • @MADWORLD1427
    @MADWORLD1427 2 роки тому +4

    Gene was kind of a pretentious jerk in his taste, and I rarely agreed with him, I have been watching these videos and he disliked Rocky, 9 to 5, Poltergeist, Seems Like Old Times and now Arthur!

    • @littlekingtrashmouth9219
      @littlekingtrashmouth9219 2 роки тому

      Don’t forget Apocalypse Now

    • @joesimon2029
      @joesimon2029 2 роки тому +1

      @@littlekingtrashmouth9219 They liked "Dawn of the Dead" so ...............

    • @littlekingtrashmouth9219
      @littlekingtrashmouth9219 2 роки тому

      @@joesimon2029 I feel like the only one who likes night of the living dead but not dawn of the dead

    • @efan2012
      @efan2012 2 роки тому

      He also: hated At Close Range because it was "too violent," for the story it was trying to tell (despite the fact violence was all around the real life story," to begin with. He also didn't comprehend the plot to the original Terminator and thought they were coming from outer space and not time traveling. He really hated Roger Moore and Farrah Fawcett despite being making quality work (he just had it out for them.) Every once in a while he could be right but damn if it he wasn't a goof a lot of the time.

    • @joesimon2029
      @joesimon2029 2 роки тому +1

      @@littlekingtrashmouth9219 I feel like they are 2 different movies - like WAY different. I hate DAY of the Dead. I'm the ONLY one on THAT !!

  • @patcrites5274
    @patcrites5274 Рік тому

    I loved the movie Aruthur

  • @tuffs4it
    @tuffs4it Рік тому

    "Ahhhhh haaaaaaa! I know you."

  • @crystalshaw8744
    @crystalshaw8744 Рік тому

    I know that scene...smile

  • @mateusrosito3436
    @mateusrosito3436 4 місяці тому

    Zorro the gay Blade IS amazing

  • @joemadden4160
    @joemadden4160 2 місяці тому

    Saw Endless Love when I was 15. Hated it. Badly acted.
    Didn't like Arthur except for John Gielgud.
    Zorro The Gay Blade - Blah. Probably chuckled a few times.
    Blow Out I loved as a kid, but the ending gutted me. I loved Nancy Allen. I appreciate the film even more now that I'm in my 50's.

  • @warriorv9359
    @warriorv9359 2 роки тому +1

    Arthur one of my favorite movies of all time reminded me of my life Rogers badass and right on target

  • @CaptainSpalding72
    @CaptainSpalding72 2 роки тому +3

    Endless Love- fantastic book! Choppy, bullshit film with a cop out ending.

  • @yournamehere6002
    @yournamehere6002 3 місяці тому

    Well, Gene was wrong about ARTHUR, a stone classic

  • @smoothwill
    @smoothwill Рік тому +1

    Shit if my daughter ever had told me her puppy love boyfriend was staying after I told her he can’t stay they snuck and had sex . Shit let’s just leave it at that .

  • @peternighswander9629
    @peternighswander9629 25 днів тому

    Arthur was funny at the time but it wears very thin over time and I think Gene was correct in his assessment. In retrospect, it was ok- very 80s like, but does not wear well over time. The character is rather despicable if you think about, but I do have affection for Dudley Moore so it gets a little pass with me
    Gielgud was the best part for me
    Why they decided to make a sequel with the terminally unfunny and grotesque Russel Brand, I’ll never know

  • @aliali-ce3yf
    @aliali-ce3yf 2 місяці тому

    11:26 - that's a disturbing take by Ebert

  • @mikec6111
    @mikec6111 2 роки тому +1

    What a terrible week at the movies. Love Siskel and Ebert though.

  • @QBAN2010
    @QBAN2010 2 роки тому +1

    No empathy for Arthur

  • @gridlo
    @gridlo Рік тому

    Idk is aurthur really that "screwbal"? And wtf Gene??

  • @dathorndike4908
    @dathorndike4908 День тому

    Why is Zorro's blade "gay" in this movie?? Is the word "blade" supposed to be a sexual reference?

  • @dmp04
    @dmp04 Рік тому +2

    Zorro didn't make a Zee. He wasn't in the US. It was a Zed.

    • @grannyweatherwax8005
      @grannyweatherwax8005 7 місяців тому

      Movie takes place in California, my guy

    • @dmp04
      @dmp04 7 місяців тому

      @@grannyweatherwax8005 That is Old California. It was still part of Mexico during Zorro's time.

  • @pandaeyes42
    @pandaeyes42 3 роки тому +1

    9:13.
    WHAT OVERACTING?!?

  • @jusme164
    @jusme164 2 роки тому

    6

  • @crystalshaw8744
    @crystalshaw8744 Рік тому

    Endless Love is horrible. They all deserve Razzies.

  • @CR055FIRE
    @CR055FIRE Рік тому

    blow out is so boring

  • @mikec6111
    @mikec6111 2 роки тому +1

    Dudley Moore is more of a dud.

    • @chrisfinch8637
      @chrisfinch8637 2 роки тому +1

      Certainly not hen it comes to “10”, “Arthur”, and “Six Weeks”.

  • @CaptainSpalding72
    @CaptainSpalding72 2 роки тому +2

    Zorro is deliciously politically incorrect. ...

    • @musicman76enator
      @musicman76enator 2 роки тому

      Movies like that would not be allowed, even produced, today.

    • @JanetStarChild
      @JanetStarChild 2 роки тому

      "Politically incorrect" because the gay Zorro is a flamboyant dandy? It's stereotypical, sure, but I wouldn't say it was offensive; especially since the character is portrayed as strong and charismatic and not as a pathetic, prejudice joke.
      The fact that you revel in political incorrectness has me a little concerned...

  • @eargasm1072
    @eargasm1072 3 роки тому +5

    Oh that brats in love classic "Endless Misery"!!

  • @oobrocks
    @oobrocks 3 роки тому +2

    1 of mine and QT's films is Blowout. It's simply a must c for movie fans! 18:22

  • @theessentials450
    @theessentials450 25 днів тому

    Gene is wrong ln Arthur. Not sure why he missed that.

  • @theessentials450
    @theessentials450 10 місяців тому

    Endless Love was such a slash-up story. Made next to zero sense. I love the book.