Siskel & Ebert - Best of 1998

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  • @paulpascoe663
    @paulpascoe663 6 місяців тому +28

    So sad to hear Gene’s voice struggling knowing he’s so close to the end. Appreciate him and Ebert so much, their old vids are my go to comfort viewing ❤

  • @trevnoceslaf7394
    @trevnoceslaf7394 Рік тому +40

    In hindsight, Gene was weeks away from death, and you can see with his slurred speech and manicured look that he was deteriorating in health. His mind remained sharp, though. Sad.

    • @EGOS42
      @EGOS42 10 місяців тому +7

      It's hard for me to watch these episodes near the end of his life. I can only focus on his struggle. It's a shame.

    • @peainapodtube
      @peainapodtube 8 місяців тому +7

      @@EGOS42 he was still doing the work he loved right up to the end

  • @gargenfluckgosphenspiels4849
    @gargenfluckgosphenspiels4849 4 місяці тому +12

    That'll do, Gene. That'll do.

  • @joshuamartiancartoons
    @joshuamartiancartoons 4 місяці тому +6

    14:55 Hearing Gene talk about what's important in life, so close to his won passing (whether he knew it or not) is a poignant moment.

  • @townsjim
    @townsjim 4 місяці тому +7

    I'm from the UK so I didn't grow up watching Siskel and Ebert (unfortunately no TV network here broadcast their shows), but I've been watching clips and episodes of their shows online for about 15 years now, and I'll be rewatching them for many years to come. I hope their families take comfort from the legacy they left.

    • @paulienuti8031
      @paulienuti8031 4 місяці тому +1

      I didn’t grow up with Siskel & Ebert I was born in 1996 I been watching these old clips since 2015

  • @rebeccahopkins9522
    @rebeccahopkins9522 2 роки тому +15

    The fact that Ebert put a, no pun intended, very dark sci fi film tipping into horror sci fi, Dark City, on his best of the year list as number 1 even, speaks to the appreciation he had, and chance he would give, for and to all genres of film. And let me tell you, he was spot on when he called it a masterwork. It truly is. That film is incredible in premise, vision, writing, performances, twist at the end and is, even in our modern age of spectacular digital effects, a feast of wonder for the eyes. Brilliant work of sci fi, doesn’t get nearly enough recognition.

    • @Umo2000
      @Umo2000 11 місяців тому +1

      So true. I never hear anyone talking about this movie anymore, it’s a shame, it’s so good!

    • @steverogers8163
      @steverogers8163 5 місяців тому +3

      @@Umo2000 He was right about it destined to be a classic. Just that its a cult classic instead.

    • @nahnonameyet7382
      @nahnonameyet7382 4 місяці тому

      But he did kinda spoil the shi!t out of the movie lol

  • @Sleepingsparklegirl
    @Sleepingsparklegirl 4 місяці тому +4

    I agree with Genes number 1 of Babe pig in the city being the best I could watch it again and again.

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 4 місяці тому

      It was my second favorite film of that year, behind Saving Private Ryan.

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 8 місяців тому +8

    A Simple Plan -- what a film. It's in my video collection in the same DVD book as Bill Paxton's Frailty.

  • @malichitte
    @malichitte Рік тому +2

    Many, many formative movies from 1998. Thanks S&E for the highlights.

  • @jakethesnakeofficial
    @jakethesnakeofficial Рік тому +7

    My top 10 from 1998:
    1. Saving Private Ryan
    2. American History X
    3. Shakespeare In Love
    4. The Big Lebowski
    5. The Prince of Egypt
    6. Dark City
    7. Pleasantville
    8. The Parent Trap
    9. Ever After
    10. The Thin Red Line

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +1

      Everyone has their own "things" re: movies, but I have never understood the appeal of Lebowski. I don't think that seeing it again is going to change my mind. I found it dull and dumb. Saving Private Ryan is a classic. American History X is often overlooked, but is really good. Ed Norton is A-one.

  • @mixedmattaphors
    @mixedmattaphors 11 місяців тому +1

    What a year.

  • @catfather420
    @catfather420 8 місяців тому +3

    My spliff nearly flew out of my mouth when I saw what Gene had picked for his number 1

    • @Joe-l5w3i
      @Joe-l5w3i 6 місяців тому

      You my friend is a genius I forgot about splifs lol the weed up here is to harsh lol

  • @CR055FIRE
    @CR055FIRE 2 місяці тому +1

    bro's rated dark city and babe pig in the city higher than SPR

  • @Jim_Wolf
    @Jim_Wolf 3 роки тому +2

    My Top 10 of 1998:
    1-Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    2-The Truman Show (1998)
    3-Dark City (1998)
    4-The Thin Red Line (1998)
    5-Central Station (1998)
    6-Ringu (1998)
    7-After Life (1998)
    8-A Simple Plan (1998)
    9-Hilary and Jackie (1998)
    10-Pi (1998)

    • @rebeccahopkins9522
      @rebeccahopkins9522 2 роки тому +1

      This is a great list. I LOVE HILARY AND JACKIE! Hills and Jacks ❤️ No one ever mentions this film, EVER, and it was very under the radar when it came out even. It’s an incredible picture with two incredible performances, based on real life sisters and their promising, gifted, at times tragedy filled, lives and their ultra unique relationship with one another. I’ve owned it for a long time but haven’t watched it in years. Think I’m going to watch it tonight. Thanks for reminding me about this excellent piece of filmmaking.

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +1

      There are holes to be poked in A Simple Plan, but it is one of those movies that is so entertaining and good that it doesn't matter. (Perhaps the best example of that of all time is Back to the Future.)

  • @sonnyblack0870
    @sonnyblack0870 9 місяців тому +4

    Interesting number 1 choices. Gene really loved him some Babe, and weird that Roger thought so highly of Dark City, but didn’t think much of The Matrix.

    • @steverogers8163
      @steverogers8163 5 місяців тому +5

      Might be because Dark City came first so some of the style of The Matrix feels less original. Also unlike Dark City, The Matrix relies heavily on its action set pieces. Dark City is a more cerebral movie in comparison.

  • @saymynameice-zen-berg511
    @saymynameice-zen-berg511 2 місяці тому

    My top 10 of 1998:
    1) Saving Private Ryan
    2) Dark City
    3) Life Is Beautiful
    4) Affliction
    5) The Big Lebowski
    6) The Wedding Singer
    7) You Got Mail
    8) Deep Impact
    9) Dirty Work
    10) Soldier
    Some other mentions
    : Patch Adams
    : Armageddon
    : X-Files-Fight The Future
    : Waterboy
    : A Bugs Life

  • @kennethzinke9168
    @kennethzinke9168 3 роки тому +1

    The whole world wanted Gene Siskel to be around in 2017, 2018 and 2019 being mentioned by Ricky Khamis from AmeriFirst Financial at the end of the Home Hunter show on June 4, 2017.

  • @scottmccurdy6493
    @scottmccurdy6493 10 місяців тому +4

    One chose a family film, the other picked a sci-fi film, as the best film of that year. Shame critics these days can't be so open-minded (an a bigger shame the Oscars never were).

    • @schmeltingaccident
      @schmeltingaccident 6 місяців тому +1

      But the biggest of all shames, gotta say, is that films like these from the 80s and 90s simply aren’t really made anymore. There are exceptions of course, but in general, least in America, this has been true at least the past 10 years. Every time I read a comment from somebody that is similar to what I am making now, there is always somebody trying to point out that good movies are still being made, gotta look for them harder, and to stop crying that “back in the day” stuff. But it’s true, most movies now are assembly manufactured and must include “the message” and always, ALWAYS turn into political drab.

    • @steverogers8163
      @steverogers8163 5 місяців тому +1

      @@schmeltingaccident eh movies are exactly the same. They were always factory assembled, they always had heavy handed messages in them. They always jammed no talent actors down the audiences throat. You're just remember the goods ones that have survived the test of time and forgetting about the 99% that didn't.

  • @uyeda
    @uyeda 3 роки тому +15

    Sadly Gene wouldn't be around in 1999.

    • @kennethzinke9168
      @kennethzinke9168 3 роки тому +1

      If Gene Siskel is alive in 2021 he will get infected with COVID-19 and watch Tiffany Hunter, Christine Jackson Brackman from People's Mortgage, Joe Conner from Homeowners Financial Group and Renee Sacco from Union Home Mortgage review Blood Simple, Muriel's Wedding, Mystery, Alaska, High Fidelity, Corky Romano, Out Cold, The Last Castle, Signs, Sorority Boys, One Hour Photo, Calendar Girls, Shanghai Knights, The Ladykillers, I Heart Huckabees, Stay Alive, Deja Vu, Annapolis, The Prestige, Miracle at St. Anna, Burn After Reading, Jobs, Nocturnal Animals, La La Land, Tully, Down a Dark Hall, Hellboy and Her Smell on the Home Hunter show on October 3, 2021 on his laptop computer.

    • @quarantinebored1427
      @quarantinebored1427 5 місяців тому +4

      It was a great year for film. It’s a shame Gene wasn’t around :(

  • @dunkirknolan7018
    @dunkirknolan7018 9 місяців тому +3

    1. The Truman Show
    2. The Big Lebowski
    3. Rushmore
    4. American History X
    5. Pleasantville
    6. Saving Private Ryan
    7. The Thin Red Line
    8. Happiness
    9. After Life
    10. Mulan

  • @kevinlang9792
    @kevinlang9792 6 місяців тому +4

    1. The Thin Red Line
    2. Dark City
    3. The Truman Show
    4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    5. The Big Lebowski
    6. A Simple Plan
    7. High Art
    8. Wild Things
    9. The Faculty
    10.Saving Private Ryan

  • @AJARyan-yn2uv
    @AJARyan-yn2uv 3 роки тому +10

    I think these two would’ve loved Hacksaw Ridge.

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +1

      Hacksaw Ridge was/is highly overrated. It is just another finite event that serves as an excuse to make yet another WW2 movie. Plus, the glorifying of SDAs is gross and inexcusable, but what should we expect from Mel Gibson but the promotion of ridiculous religious ideologies?

    • @AJARyan-yn2uv
      @AJARyan-yn2uv 3 місяці тому

      @@slyjokerg So you don’t like it because you’re an atheist.

  • @BookClubDisaster
    @BookClubDisaster Місяць тому

    Gene's illness made them both kinder and gentler.
    But Roger's comment on The Thin Red Line is interesting. Didn't think it was realistic that soldiers were talking like poets and philosophers. But in the same episode they praise Shakespeare In Love. That's how Shakespeare's plays work. Characters are always speaking in poetic and philosophical ways and they aren't all scholars like Hamlet. Many of them are themselves soldiers. It's a type of storytelling. Heightened realism. And Malick was going for the same thing.

  • @BrizzyBrake
    @BrizzyBrake 17 днів тому

    Did they do the faculty reviews can someone send me a link comment on this thanks

  • @somegamer7958
    @somegamer7958 5 місяців тому

    That sax intro sounds like someone is murdering it

  • @Jbaxter85
    @Jbaxter85  3 роки тому +1

    My Best of 1998
    Shakespeare in love
    A Bug's Life
    A Simple Plan
    Babe: Pig in the City
    Happiness
    Elizabeth
    The Truman Show
    The Thin Red Line
    Saving Private Ryan
    Antz
    Out of Sight
    The Big Lebowski
    There's something about Mary
    Dark City
    Wild Things
    Pleasantville
    Fireworks

    • @bligamerplayer3299
      @bligamerplayer3299 3 роки тому +1

      What did they gave
      “The Thin Red Line” and
      “Saving Private Ryan”
      back then???
      Two have my favorites!!!

    • @Jbaxter85
      @Jbaxter85  3 роки тому +1

      @@bligamerplayer3299 both thumbs up 👍

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +1

      Wild Things is an interesting one. Much like another Neve Campbell movie, the first Scream, I have a problem with the implausibility of the viewer figuring out what happened/who did it, before it is revealed and spoon fed to the audience. But, it is still a pretty fun ride, and the mood/feel/look of it works well.

  • @philipcohen7192
    @philipcohen7192 8 місяців тому +1

    I can’t believe Alex proyas went on to be such a hack after making the crow and dark city

    • @Paulafan5
      @Paulafan5 5 місяців тому +2

      How do you go from Dark City to Gods of Egypt?

  • @williamblake2962
    @williamblake2962 3 роки тому +1

    Wow.
    Dark City?
    I think Babe "Pig in the City" held up much better.
    And yes George Miller's "Mad Max Fury Road" directed Babe.

  • @kaiserrino8774
    @kaiserrino8774 4 місяці тому

    1. The Big Lebowski
    2. After Life
    3. Festen (The Celebration)
    4. Thin Red Line
    5. American History X
    6. The Truman Show
    7. The Hole
    8. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    9. Rushmore
    10. Ringu

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +1

      The Big Lebowski having the following it has is still a mystery to me. It isn't terrible, but it is nothing more than "meh" to me. Rather dull.

  • @Frederick-t8t
    @Frederick-t8t 3 місяці тому

    Sad to see Gene so sick.

  • @buns7136
    @buns7136 5 місяців тому

    1. Big Lebowski
    2. Rounders
    3. Half Baked
    4. Baseketball
    5. Mafia
    6. Chairman of the Board
    7. Wrongfully accused
    8. The Waterboy
    9. There's something about Mary
    10. The Truman show.

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +1

      Rounders... now we're talkin'! I have been a poker player for many, many years, so I suppose I may have a bias, but that is a fantastic film.

  • @ezequielgomez7083
    @ezequielgomez7083 6 місяців тому +2

    My Favorite and Best Flim of the Year 1998 on my opinion
    6. Armageddon
    5. Saving Pravite Ryan
    4. Deep Impact
    3. Madeline
    2. A Bug's Life
    1. Dance with Me

  • @Frederick-t8t
    @Frederick-t8t 3 місяці тому +1

    Roger you only gave eight movies four stars, but a four star movie didn't make your top ten. Roger, THUMBS DOWN.

  • @drumfulofsoul
    @drumfulofsoul 11 місяців тому

    Australia has a great film industry. Never discount female filmmakers like Genevieve Clay. Forget greta gerwig and Kathryn Bigelow. Ms Clay directed, among others, a short film called The Interviewer.

  • @lobodip
    @lobodip 6 місяців тому

    For a change, both Chicagoeans pick cult classics and dark horses and avoided the cliche'd picks.

  • @ryangettig274
    @ryangettig274 3 роки тому +5

    The Thin Red Line>Saving Private Ryan

    • @ryangettig274
      @ryangettig274 3 роки тому +4

      Anyone that likes A Simple Plan should watch One False Move,also with Bill Paxton&Billy Bob Thornton.

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +2

      @@ryangettig274 Nice call. Sadly, that movie got no props at all.

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +2

      No way. TtRL is a solid movie, but it isn't in the class of SPR.

  • @fatcat8033
    @fatcat8033 2 роки тому

    Sid Vicious

  • @campbellsoup93
    @campbellsoup93 2 роки тому +1

    Shakespeare in love made the list but the Truman show didn't? Terrible judgement.

  • @frankiecal3186
    @frankiecal3186 10 місяців тому +2

    Truman Show and Dark City are the redpill movies 🎬 of the century.

  • @michaelskibitiansky8773
    @michaelskibitiansky8773 5 місяців тому +1

    Babe and Dark City better than Saving Private Ryan?
    Bullcrap movie critics produce.

    • @Paulafan5
      @Paulafan5 5 місяців тому

      Dark City is certainly better.

    • @plaidchuck
      @plaidchuck 4 місяці тому

      EH think about Saving Private Ryan again. Outside of the incredible Normandy sequence the rest is a pretty boring and ridiculous story.

    • @CheefChaos
      @CheefChaos 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@plaidchuckcrazy talk that knife fight alone

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +1

      @@plaidchuck How you can say that the bulk of SPR is ridiculous, and especially to say it is boring, is baffling to me.

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 3 місяці тому +1

      @@CheefChaos Right there with you. I don't know wtf Chuck is talking about.

  • @ЕвгенийРязанов-н5я
    @ЕвгенийРязанов-н5я 5 місяців тому

    50s maybe not so fabulous, but 90's was pure shit.

  • @freddyfurrah3789
    @freddyfurrah3789 10 місяців тому

    Siskel is obviously very sick here.