Sneak Previews with Siskel & Ebert: S1 E8 (1978) - Grease, Jaws 2, Animal House, Heaven Can Wait
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- In this episode, Siskel and Ebert talk about the best films of 1978. These films include: Grease, Jaws 2, Animal House, Heaven Can Wait, An Unmarried Woman, Straight Time, Days of Heaven and Autumn Sonata.
These were arguably my favorite Siskel & Ebert years, when they were on PBS as "Sneak Previews" c. 1978-1982; no commercials, longer clips, a relaxed pace, and the Dog of the Week! They continued to be great when they moved into syndication, but I have a soft spot for these early years on public television. Thanks again!
Speaking of Dog of the Week, an overwhelming majority I have not seen but I must say that I was shocked to see Ms. 45 called a dog. That was one of the best revenge thrillers of all time.
@@ricardocantoral7672 "Ms. 45"? I'm unfamiliar with that film -- please advise.
I've made the same comment on this channel. This is my favorite period too. I was just a little kid but even then I loved the show. Maybe partly the sneak peek at grownup movies, but also just loved these guys talking. The intro is charming too.
@@NateButlerFresnoCA A mild mannered girl living in New York gets raped by two men consecutively then goes on a killing spree. The film was directed by Abel Ferrera. I believe critics generally considered it a trash film but these days, it's become a cult classic.
Agree
At the time Grease came out in the theaters in 1978, I was 9 years old and being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional household.
As a result, I turned towards watching LOTS of TV and went to the movies as a way of providing myself with escape and comfort from my misery.
Back then I was going to the movies with my then best friend. We were a couple of fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies. And we went to the movies together once a week, every week for a lot of years from the 1970s-1980s (and yes we watched Siskel and Ebert every week on his living room tv). We saw literally hundreds upon hundreds of movies over the years.
We tried to see every new movie that came out regardless of plot, genre (he loved horror films, I preferred comedy), critics reviews, who was starring in it, etc. So there was no particular reason we went to see Grease. It just happened to be a new movie that was just released.
As much as I loved the moviegoing experience in itself, you wouldnt think a movie musical such as Grease would appeal to a 9 year old boy. But as an abused, neglected child, there were a small handful of movies that hit me in the very right places at the very right time. Grease was one of those movies. Right from my very first viewing, it quickly became one of my all time favorite movies and remains that to this day. After seeing the movie, later on I would buy the Grease soundrack lp record album, the Grease bubble gum trading cards, and the Grease fotonovel (remember those movie fotonovels?).
In the following years, whenever Grease popped up on tv, I'd drop everything to watch it. Today I own the movie on DVD.
So, I say to the cast and crew of Grease, from the bottom of the heart of a young, abused boy, thank you. Thank you all so very, very much
I am just like you. Born in 1964 I had a very abusive family. From the age of 8 my Parents every Saturday night would drop me off at the movies from 6pm to after Midnight so they could go drink in the Bars. Many times I was picked up and dropped off at home by friends of theirs, they would roll in around 3 or 4am. Escaping to the movies was the only hope I had. When I saw Star Wars I could not believe Han Solo came back and saved Luke in the end. I could not believe a grown man could care about anyone. It was a shock to me. From that moment on I wanted Harrison Ford to be my Dad. Thank god the 70s and 80s had the best movies. I loved Grease too!! Big time! I saw it a few times in the theatre. I was 14 and Olivia Newton John made my puberty go into over drive! I had her poster on my wall next to Farrah.
Ive read your similar comments elsewhere on S&E movie review videos. I’ll try and pay better attention to your username next time, lowbridge
Amazing transfer, the whole program looks and sounds fantastic, some 43 years later.a thanks for all you are doing 👏👏👏
Seriously!
RIP Olivia Newton John , Ebert and Siskel .
RIP Olivia Newton John, Roy Scheider, and John Belushi. Great times at the movies.
I love how Roger inadvertently said 'I love Grease 2' years before the sequel was released 😆
4 years to be exact, from that point. It wasn't a worthy sequel, since it didn't have the same structure, nor most of the same stars, nor memorable hits (save for "Back to School Again", "Prowlin'", "We're Gonna Score (Tonight), "Cool Rider", and We'll Be Together (Always Together)) as the first one. People pretty much prefer John and Olivia, a WHOLE lot more than Maxwell and Michelle- though it was her first movie, so I won't quite say that her performance wasn't good, but still did a fine job with it.
Heaven Can Wait is one of my favorite films & I was 9 years old when I saw it at the theatre.
John Belushi on the stairs...priceless.
Amazing. This is how it looked when it aired.
It's funny how they were talking about the same concerns people are talking about now in 1979. That big budget movies (then Star Wars, now Marvel movies) will push out smaller, lower budget movies. Yet after this we got The Breakfast Club, My Dinner With Andre, Blue Velvet, Hannah and Her Sisters, When Harry Met Sally, etc etc etc. Ultimately everything happens the way it's supposed to.
I remember watching them on ch.11 and had a fun time watching them
I LUVED Wild Geese!
Grease and Animal House, both made in 1978, really took us back to High School life in the 50s, and College life in the 60s. Both legendary Johns, John Travolta and John Belushi, knew how to make their characters act cool and humorous in ways, and both their films shall go on forever, as some of the most remembered films of the 70s and in the 20th century.
Straight Time is an absolutely phenomenal film. I don't think Dustin Hoffman ever did better.
What an episode! I’ve actually seen most of these. An ex of mine thoughts days of heaven was the best thing since sliced bread.
I think Terrence Malick's films are beautiful to look at though I question the construction of his films.
@@Hack_The_Planet_ I could believe that. Malick's films typically feature stunning imagery. Fun fact about Days of Heaven, the scenes in the field in the day time were shot only during twilight hours.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Though set in the Texas Panhandle, the film was shot on location in Alberta, Canada. Even then Canada was being used to stand in for U.S. settings.
Those PBS Siskel and Ebert episodes from 1975 to 1982 were first hand coverage of Hollywood's shift from director driven films to the rise of the blockbusters after Jaws and Star Wars. I think this is one of the first times they demonstrated their frustrations with the rise of the blockbusters.
R.I.P. Olivia Newton John
I was young back then, i mean in 78 i was only 6 but i used to watch Siskel and Ebert just to get a better look at the films coming out and decide what i was interested in seeing, THEIR reviews or opinions never really mattered much for me but they have a nice look at the movies so you could form a better opinion than the short trailer would give you. and there were always so many things i wanted to see. today i find myself instead watching old clips of Siskel and Ebert because i have no interest in anything new that is out. modern entertainment really has died, whether its film or music or television. i was never into sports i wonder if they are dying as well.
Wow!!!! Is this 4K HD????!!!! It looks amazing!!!!
Also I should add this episode being digitally remastered, yes. Looks clear as a bell! Definitely Two Thumbs up here! Thx, TOT.V.!
Thank you so much for posting these. It'll feel like Christmas to me when the Lost World review is found and posted
A lot of these written movie reviews by Ebert and Siskel need to be compiled in several volumes of The American Library. I should have to add that the Ebert review books put out annually were massive and unwieldy, so I see how the TAL could make this all handily convenient.
10:44 That's all we get now. We get crap. Now we so rarely get movies with thoughts directors want to explore, and lessons they want to teach. Those films don't hit the big screen.
That was always the BugaBoo about that new form of Communication called The Internet in the 1990's. People will just GIVE MONEY to their favorite bands without Promoters! People will GIVE MONEY to Directors and Producers without Distributors! What Sweet Fresh Hell is This!?😃😃😃
I disagree, there have been many Great Movies the last 10 years in film
Interesting how they were saying they were afraid on the blockbuster films crowding out the little pictures or serious ones. Wow that happened was on the money 4 today.
Roger was wrong: the Best Actress Oscar that year went to Jane Fonda in COMING HOME.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't think much of AUTUMN SONATA: they arranged a special screening for him, but he left in the middle, saying "I'm going to the movies!"
What a _week._ Most of those films are either classics or masterpieces. Weird that once upon a time, they were just "new movies". _Straight Time_ is crazy underrated & might be Hoffman's greatest non-Dorothy Michaels performance.
It was not a review from a week. It was looking back at the top money makers of 1978.
The same story as the original, the same island, the same Stupid Mayor, same Police Chief, the same script
LMAO
I sent them my self-addressed envelope. When do I get their top 10?
The year was actually 1978 that these movies came out so this probably aired early in 1979.
The title says 79 for the year, the description lists it as a retrospective of (or best films of) films of 78
Um, it says all that in the description.
The copyright date at the end is 1979. They were looking back at the previous year's screen offerings.
THANK YOU!!!
Oh dear! "An Unhappy Woman" and a blubbering man!
Woulda been "Best Picture" in 2023!
Straight time s a gem badass
Sooo Great, M Emmet Walsh was Brilliant in it
Jaws 2 was far from trash in my opinion. Of course it was nowhere near as good as number 1 no sequel ever would be but it’s still a well made decent enough sequel. I really wish Spielberg would have returned and Richard Dreyfuss but without them it still was good. One of the better sequels slightly inferior to its predecessor but still ok.
--- we should all send letters to that address and see if anyone will send us their list from 1979 --- 15SEP22
Weirdly, the Deer Hunter would go on to be cultural phenomenon.
Jaws 2 had some good moments,but got very silly.
They say Animal House was the first "gross out comedy". Yes; but I think Blazing Saddles opened that genre.
Still funny movie. RIP: John Belushi.
People want to be entertained at the movies. If a small film gets big word of mouth it could become very popular.
So very many movies today are geared to be blockbusters. Superhero movies with big CGI effects. But no real drama and no real soul.
12:20 sorry it happen
I thought the Wild Geese was good......
I am BAFFLED by Heaven can wait. It was fine, but felt like a made-for-tv movie. Somehow it was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay?!?! It was a glorified episode of Quantum Leap with the quality of Love Boat.
It was a blockbuster hit -- the #5 film of the year!
@@user-rh2io7gm1l Right. It was entertaining, but so cheesy.
There was:
No internet.
I saw it in the theatre in really liked it. I watched it last year and realized it is stupid as F----! He pops into of body of a murdered Husband and lets the 2 killers walk around free without watching his back, and doesn't even care that his Wife and friend are murders. So stupid!
I like Warren Beatty, but as long and famous as career was, he starred in mostly garbage films. And a few mediocre successes, and a couple of big hits.
WEIRD.
Jill Clayburgh was robbed!!
Movies for entertainment and escapism.... 🤔 Tell that to Hollywood today😄
Your comments are so confusing. Maybe you're employing sarcasm?
I am in the minority that really hated Jaws 2
I didn't hate it but I never rewatch it. It's pretty forgettable.
It's hard to follow up a masterpiece like Jaws.
Yea. Not so good.
It’s a terrible movie. If you can pretend the original never existed, it’s fine as mindless, passable entertainment.
jaws 2 is good whats wrong with these guys lol stop comparing it to the first one!! Just accept it as a shark carnage movie and its marvellous!
Jaws 2 is only good if you pretend (somehow) that the original does not exist. lol
Most of those sure didn't age well.
sure do hate this theme 🎶