Siskel & Ebert - Best of 1995
Вставка
- Опубліковано 9 чер 2021
- The opening 90 seconds is missing, I can't do anything about that.
Siskel's list:
1. Crumb
2. Toy Story
3. Nixon
4. Babe
5. Dead Man Walking
6. Leaving Las Vegas
7. The American President
8. Exotica
9. Apollo 13
10. Les Misérables
Ebert's list:
1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Crumb
3. Dead Man Walking
4. Nixon
5. Casino
6. Apollo 13
7. Exotica
8. My Family
9. Carrington
10. A Walk in the Clouds - Фільми й анімація
Crazy how Babe is one of the most universally acclaimed movies of all time.
Not that crazy, it kicks so much ass
i like Cobb better
Why is that crazy... it's a great little movie
Babe owns
It deserves it.
Leaving Las Vegas is one of my favorite movies since I first saw it in 2022
Cant believe neither one mentioned "Heat" by Michael Mann.
Ridiculous omission. One of the best American crime sagas ever made and maybe Mann’s best.
I've never considered it a great movie. I'm not saying it isn't. It just doesn't hit the right beats for me. I feel it drags in places. And the characters aren't, for me, all that compelling. I enjoy it moderately, for some of the iconic elements: Deniro is always good. Pacino too. Their acting is good, but the characters sketched out by the script aren't fascinating to me. The action scenes have an intensity. The diner scene between cop and criminal is good. But as a story, it didn't make me care enough. And I do like these kind of movies, and michael mann as well. I thought the insider was superb. Collateral and miami vice movie also very good. I'm so conflicted about heat. Some of it is so very very good! Now I wanna rewatch it lol. Okay, that's it, I'm watching heat tomorrow!
Arguably Apollo 13 was the best movie ever about the US space program and the best US movie of 1995. Heat was one of the best crime thrillers ever and second best movie of 1995.
I like how “the internet” was so insignificant in 1995, it had to be sold in a commercial break alongside products dealing with bad breath.
Yeah! “Get 10 free hours on online.” Ohhhhhh how times have changed. I spent 10 hours just TODAY watching old Siskel & Eberts!!!
I was just researching internet adaptation. 1995, 0.4 percent of ppl used the internet. 1996 it jumped to 0.9. And obviously went up from there. I started dabbling in 1994 but didn’t even have computers in high school. We learned to type on an actual typewriter. That was around 1993. AOL seemed awesome at the time, even with the awful speed. I probably still have a few dozen “free” access cds. Lol
@@timhornswaggle1243 i used the internet in 1997 and still didn’t understand broadband until web 2.0. In bitcoin terms of technology adaption I understand we are still in the 1990s.
@@timhornswaggle1243 I remember this as well... man how time flies...
@@timhornswaggle1243 Interesting. Yeah I think I started using it in 1997. Mostly just looking up guitar tabs and.........not proud.......nude still photography. Not enough bandwidth for porn videos. It's why even though the 90's was the decade the Internet was born, it was more of a transitional decade which actually had more in common with the 80's than the 2000's. It wasn't until the turn of the millennium when the Internet as we know became this all encompassing thing that took over our lives.
A lot of great movies on these 2 lists. Kudos to Gene Siskel for including Toy Story!
The only other animated film to rank that high on Gene’s list is Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988.
Apollo 13 1 of my favorites: i cry at the end every time!
Gene Siskel, the ultimate Babe stan
He was not wrong. It's close to a perfect movie.
Happy to see they loved Exotica. As a fan of strange, artsy mystery movies, it ticked all the boxes
Me too, I feel it was revolutionary (in retrospect especially) with more movies coming out in the years and decades after with similar narrative structures and themes. It really used it's technical reorganization to amplify the emotional punch at the end.
I have not gone back to leaving Las Vegas since I first saw it on vhs after it’s release. It is a very tough rewatch.
"Exotica" is such a beautiful, heartbreaking film.
Revolutionary and top ten of all time imo.
Egoyan’s best (and only good) film. The editing is a puzzle-you have to watch the entire movie to find out what’s going on
I remember back in January of 1996, I missed this special show on the best of 1995. Thanks for posting!!
I can barely remember what I was watching in 96... You must’ve been a real Siskel & Ebert fan.
@@sonnyblack0870 LOL, yeah. Life is funny. I can remember when I was 16 and what I was doing and so many moments. But ask me about when I was 36, and I’ll draw a blank.
@@FruityGangster I hear ya, I was 7 in 96 so I don’t remember it well, but no doubt I remember the teenage years much better as well. Everything is so new and fresh then it sticks with you more, you get older and each year just runs into the next.
1995 was an absolute amazing year for cinema. I can’t believe neither Basketball Diaries, Kids, The Usual Suspects, 12 Monkeys, Dead Presidents, Clockers, Seven, Heat, or Get Shorty made either of their lists. Those are some Seriously solid films for very different reasons of course. Siskel and Ebert have a keen eye for films but sometimes they overlook absolute gems!
Word, that poncy Jonathan Price movie was nothing compared to 12 Monkeys! I'm glad Casino made it tho.
@@JohnAntonucciNooch Casinomis by all means a great movie but to be honest I didn’t care for it all that much. I mean Goodfellas was so great it overshadows casino for me. The violence in Casino was awesome!
Friday.
@@Shorty_Lickens Higher Learning
It's so hard when it's a good movie year-there's only 10 slots! I'll bet a lot of what you mention are on their top 20.
Casino and Leaving Las Vegas are two of my favorite films of all time. Coincidentally Both and neither are really about Las Vegas, but about what happens to two very different sets of people and the relationships they’ve formed. Both encompass art imitating life and are loosely based on true stories with tragic endings. Both have incredible dialogue and even better performances. And the soundtrack of Leaving is absolutely incredible. Sting singing Angel Eyes and My One And Only Love are exquisite.
Nice observations!
The soundtrack for "Leaving Las Vegas" is actually my least favorite thing about it. Great movie otherwise. I think it calls for Chet Baker. Sting makes great standards sound middlebrow, the guy just isn't a jazz singer. Too mezzo-forte with songs that require a softer touch.
I got to watch Leaving Las Vegas in a theater by myself only a couple of months ago, and it was genuinely incredible to see something so raw and well-made when i’m used to seeing crap in the theaters
I think we can assume from his films, Casino, Goodfellas, Wolf of Wall Street, that Scorsese has had a coke problem and trended toward unstable women, since it's a recurring theme in his work.
So i felt the last half hour of Casino was self indulgent, like he was trying to settle a score with one of his x's. This is a weird analogy since he's unquestionable one of the greatest filmmakers in American history, but it reminded me of Tommy Wiseau's The Room.
Tommy just stood there going, You See! You See! Amiright?
Also this is the film where he started putting spotlights over everybody's head. It drove me nuts in Bringing Out the Dead.
@@onequickthing8950 The Sharon Stone material in "Casino" was mostly based on fact, particularly the details in the final half hour. I know from having read Pileggi's book. Although in the novel, Ginger (Geri) is more sympathetic - a drug addict and alcoholic who needed help and wasn't given any by a controlling and occasionally abusive husband. The guy DeNiro played - Lefty Rosenthal - was a cold amoral snake in reality, not someone whose losses are worth lamenting.
I don't think it's fair to say that Scorsese was magnetized to unstable women in the past. Through the 70s and early 80s, he was a hophead powder fiend who used professional commitments (and movie-watching) as excuses to shirk on personal responsibilities. *He* was the source of instability in the lives of various women who dumped him over and over. Scorsese began to suffer from severe depression in the early 80s after Isabella Rossellini left him, and lost the will to live for a while, as his string of failed relationships made him feel worthless. In the documentary "Life Itself", Scorsese says that Siskel & Ebert deserve much of the credit for rejuvenating his self-esteem and interest in life when they made him the center of attention at the 1982 Toronto Film Festival.
@@flaccidusminimus2170for me Martin Scorsese is da best American director ever. He made the greatest films of two of the most important decades in film history the 90s and 70s. Yes i truly think that taxi driver is the best movie of the 70s and goodfellas and also casino are two greatest movies of 90s . And also if we take the 80s he also made the best film of the 80s according to me raging bull.
I love the Vegas representation in 1995. Showgirls, Casino and the best out of all of them, Leaving Las Vegas.
Going between these Best of and Worst of lists is giving me whiplash 🥴
Leaving Los vegas, very sad. Loved it.
My list, based on North American release dates:
1. Nixon
2. Dead Man Walking
3. Casino
4. To Die For
5. A Little Princess
6. Leaving Las Vegas
7. Crumb
8. Lamerica
9. The Bridges of Madison County
10. Les Miserables
Crumb is brilliant, and funny as hell
I am a conservative I and liked Nixon too I think he was honest and fair in his portrayal of Nixon not the hatchet job I had expected from Oliver stone
I had to blur the "Casino" clip to override the copyright restrictions and allow this to be posted. Sorry, but you'll just have to live with that! I didn't want to just cut it out because Roger asks you to listen to the dialogue, and he also talks through part of it himself.
Thanks for uploading it man.
Understood..
Understood! I might suggest adding some “blurred for copyright” text on the screen? Either way, awesome work getting these on UA-cam!
Sean Penn was at his best in the 1995 Golden Globe and Oscar nominated best picture movie called Dead Man Walking.
I recommend "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" from 2004. Not seen by many, but his work there is revelatory.
No Braveheart? That’s easily my top movie of 1995.
i loved exotica and showgirls! i enjoy these old S&E clips, i've probably seen them all 5 times.
For Me My Best and Favorite Flim of the year 1995 in my opinion
1. Casper
2. Toy Story
3. Now and Then
4. Apollo 13
5. Gold Diggers
6. A Goofy Movie
7. Pocahontas
8. Goldeneye
9 Annie A Royal Adventure
10. Casino
Crumb is one of my favorite movies.
These guys were the best.
Mi Familia is my favorite from this year. ❤❤❤
My top 10 from 1995:
1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Crumb
3. Heat
4. Toy Story
5. The American President
6. Apollo 13
7. Nixon
8. Dead Man Walking
9. Dolores Claiborne
10. Se7en
I like your list better.
My eleven in no particular order because I would really have to think long and hard about this is Apollo 13, Toy Story, Casino, The American President, Se7en, Babe, Dolores Claiborne, Dead Man Walking, Nixon, The Usual Suspects, and Braveheart.
Excellent list. Disagree with the order, but it has the right movies.
Exotica was great but not enough people saw it. Which means not enough people know how wonderful Mia Kirshner is.
my top ten list for 1995
1 nixon
2 apollo 13
3 braveheart
4 the american president
5 while you were sleeping
6 forget paris
7 heat
8 get shorty
9 the bridges of madison county
10 mr hollands opus
Heat AND bridges of madison county. You are a renaissance man, my good fellow.
My Top 10 Films of 1995:
1. "Crumb"
2. "Casino"
3. "Leaving Las Vegas"
4. "Nixon"
5. "Get Shorty"
6. "Toy Story"
7. "The Usual Suspects"
8. "Heat"
9. "Dead Man Walking"
10. "Before Sunrise"
Great List
Casino ,I would take off that list , it's a good movie, but for me, definitely no where near the top of the Best
Babe would be my Number One, yes I Love Babe and I have no shame , it's a Wonder
The Usual Suspects....it's too clever for its own good, a lot to admire, but the movie falls apart when you get to the end
Nixon, Crumb, are Excellent choices
Dolores Claiborne should've been on at least one of their top 10 lists. Kathy Bates gave a bravura, topnotch performance in that film.
She's always top notch.
Heat.
Wow 10 free hours of AOL? I'm in like Flynn on that one!
1. Babe (Oscar winner, Best Visual Effects)
2. Badkonake sefid (The White Balloon) (Jafar Panahi) (Iran) (Golden Camera for Best First Film, 48th Cannes Film Festival)
3. Leaving Las Vegas (Oscar winner, Best Actor)
4. La ceremonie (A Judgment in Stone) (Claude Chabrol) (France) (Best Actress - tied, 52nd Venice Film Festival)
5. Toy Story
6. Sana Maulit Muli (Olivia Lamasan) (Philippines)
7. Dead Man Walking (Oscar winner, Best Actress)
8. Sense and Sensibility (Oscar winner, Best Adapted Screenplay)
9. Underground (Emir Kusturica) (Yugoslavia-France) (Golden Palm for Best Film, 48th Cannes Film Festival)
10. Antonia's Line (Marleen Gorris) (The Netherlands) (Oscar winner, Best Foreign Language Film)
Bold list. It's not often you see "Babe" and "Sense and Sensibility" in the same company with Jafar Panahi and Kusturica!
I have noted a few times that usually you have a very similar taste in films as myself . That said I will say that Underground has not stood the test of time albeit that it certainly was unique at that time.
94 & 95 had so many excellent films. Off the top of my head pulp fiction, shawshank, nixon are my top 3. The 70s & 90s imo after the fall of the studio system fell has such great films. The 80s were ok but was mostly the slasher sequels & the john Hughes teen movies that got sorta redundant imo.
Hughes's Plains, Trains and Automobiles is amazing.
There's a serious lack of _Heat_ on Gene & Roger's lists.
Heat sucks ... It looks nice and has one really epic shootout scene but man, I just watched it recently and just couldn't get into it. Good set pieces, but that's about all.
Heat was pretty underrated at the time.
14:43 "The 4th documentary in just 10 years to take my top spot"
Those films are:
Shoah- 1985
Hearts of Darkness-1991
Hoop Dreams-1994
Crumb-1995
I've seen Shoah and Hoop Dreams- both 10/10s in my book! My gratitude goes to both Siskel and Ebert for their high recommendations of them! :)
@@davedavies8968 I've heard about it and I certainly would check it out when I have the chance! :) (I have Apocalypse Now on Blu-ray.)
I am a big doc fan. I actually feel that while Crumb was good it was not great but I am writing to you to recommend a doc from the nineties - The Act of Killing - which would defiintely make my Top 1-10 docs of all time. I am also a bigh hoops guy ( Raptor supporter) so while it is a totally different from Hoop Dreams I will say that i think it is a more powerful . i cannot compare its impact to Shoah because I am the son of a Holocaust survivor so it has a different dimension for me .
Early 80s Siskel and Ebert were questionable at times, especially when it came to horror. But 90s Siskel and Ebert were firing on all cylinders by comparison
1. Heat
2. Apollo 13
3. Toy Story
4. Braveheart
5. Seven
9:09 it’s funny, Siskel makes the argument for the existence of a film not too unlike The Wolf of Wall Street here, and indeed I think that film’s purpose in Scorcese’s larger catalogue is what Siskel indicates: that the locus of coercive violent greed in America depicted in Goodfellas and Casino is now to be found in the corporate world
If you consider lobbying to be basically paying off politicians to rig the playing field in your favour, and thus a form a corruption, then tell me the difference!
My favorite films of 1995:
1. Shanghai Triad
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Dead Man Walking
4. Toy Story
5. Strange Days
6. Twelve Monkeys
7. Outbreak
8. Heat
9. A Walk In the Clouds
10. Apollo 13
You had me at Shanghai Triad. It likely would not make my Top 10 Chinese films but it is hands down better than any of the fims selected by Gene and Roger for the year. Such a great film . Great story , Great Acting , Great direction .... and Gong Li
My best of 1995 list
10. Kids (Larry Clark) (this is a film I can only watch once in a while because it’s soooo brutal, and I’ll never forget it)
9. Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
8. Babe (Chris Noonan)
7. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
6. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
5. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
4. A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuaron)
3. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
2. Heat (Michael Mann)
1. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Runners-up:
15. To Die For (Gus Van Sant)
14. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
13. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
12. Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
11. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
I like a lot of your list. I am a Canadian , have met Atom Eogyan a few times through a mutual friend but not as in love with Exotica as others ( prefer The Sweet Hereafter , Ararat ) . You comment on Kids is dead on. Even today an uncomfortable yet compelling watch- whenever I see Leo Fitzpatrick in any role I immediately flash to Kids.
Boom! ‘Heat’ and ‘Before Sunrise’ are two of my top 10 all time favorite films, and you have them at 1 & 2. Respect!
@@gtf5392 the main reason they’re in my top 2 spots is their dialogue. It’s exhilarating listening to the characters in both pictures talk. The term “action” doesn’t just mean gunplay and pyrotechnics. Heat is exciting even when the people are eating at a diner or surveilling a potential crime. The dialogue makes you care about the people. Before Sunrise had nothing but dialogue and I was never not enthralled. I would follow Jesse and Celine to the ends of the world.
@@robertriteman3227 Kids really messed me up. The director Larry Clark made another film called Bully that is equally shocking. My viewings are very far in between
Yes! For Before Sunset!
Crazy to think Babe is the biggest film remember from that year but it didn't make Ebert's list.
Everything else beside Casino and Toy Story was forgotten.
Maybe by you. But that's definitely not the case broadly speaking. And no disrespect to "Babe", but it hasn't had much of a cultural legacy into the 21st century. "Leaving Las Vegas", "Dead Man Walking", "Apollo 13", and "Crumb" all have solid reputations as great films among moviegoers and critics. The latter is broadly regarded among the best non-fiction films ever made. But frankly, it doesn't matter. Most people are morons who watch garbage. The quality of a film has nothing to do with its popularity.
My personal favorites:
1. My Family
2. Toy Story
3. Whisper of the Heart
4. Babe
5. Braveheart
6. Clueless
7. A Little Princess
8. Sense and Sensibility
9. Kids
(I still need to watch Se7en and Exotica)
So hilarious that you tube blurred out scene from "Casino".
Best all-around film of 1995: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX. Jackie and company DELIVER the ad like a steel trap laced with electricity! 👊 👊 👊 💥
Such a good movie! I need to watch it again right now lol. It's been too long.
The American President was written by Aaron Sorkin, a man who would go on to create several excellent TV shows, most of which were not appreciated in their time.
Neither of them had The Usual Suspects, my #1 movie of 1995. Also no Se7en, Copycat, Strange Days, or Goldeneye.
They never even reviewed The Usual Suspects on their show, and I'm not sure why. Roger hated it, as his print review demonstrates, and I don't think Gene ever spoke of it on the air.
I love Carrington. Had a friendship (not romance) like that.
I've been watching a lot of siskel and ebert and I've come to the conclusion gene siskel was a real romantic. He loves a good love story.
He's real big on family dramas too, it's kinda sweet - old school boomer family man
10.Die hard with a vengeance
9.heat
8.Gwt Shorty
7.Nixon
6.12 monkeys
5.Toy Story
4.Leaving Las Vegas
3.Apollo 13
2. casino
1.Braveheart
I watched all their shows and do clearly remember this year and the selections . Looking back it was a mediocre year and I do appreciate those posts below that mention great films such as Shanghai Triad, Fallien Angels, Heat , Antonia's Line . I actually would consider Toy Story and Babe worthy but while I liked Crumb I do consider it overrated and if I was making a list of Best Documentaries i doubt it would make by Top 25 or perhaps not even my Top 50 documentaries . I feel they high ranking they both gave it speaks more to the quality of the English Language films that year.
I think maybe you are seeing it through the rose coloured glasses of today's world. Back in 1995, it WAS a very good movie and superb and a new kind of documentary. It is BECAUSE of docs like this that documentary filmmaking gradually exited obscurity and became more mainstream and profitable, so that more and more docs could be made. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, was watching documentaries back in those days. It was almost a joke, maybe if you were a super nerd with absolutely nothing to do, you might watch a doc (of the few that existed). And certainly the docs that were made hardly were diverse. They didn't deal with anything close to the subjects mentioned in this documentary. Nevermind the fact that mental health was addressed in this movie, which was a non existent, even taboo, subject in those days. The older I get, the more I see how things are easy to misjudge if you don't have the correct context.
My Top Ten Movies of 1995 (and the studios that made them) is,
10. Houseguest. (Hollywood Pictures/Caravan Pictures)>
9. Far from home the adventures of yellow dog. (20th Century Fox).
8. The Brady Bunch Movie. (Paramount Pictures/The Ladd Company).
7. Man of the house. (Walt Disney Pictures).
6. Losing Isaiah. (Paramount Pictures).
5. Major Payne. (Universal Pictures).
4. Tall Tale. (Walt Disney Pictures/Caravan Pictures).
3. Born to be wild. (Warner Bros Pictures).
2. A Goofy Movie. (Walt Disney Pictures). animated movie.
1. The Pebble and the Penguin. (Metro-Goldwyn-Myer/Don Bluth Entertainment). animated movie.
17:11 - I dunno about that. "She's Out Of Control" and "Black Sheep" sure changed Gene's mood. It's pretty safe to say this is also something that bad movies can do.
Great lists by Siskel and Ebert, but where was Braveheart?
It was on Gene's top 20 (according to his article in the Tribune). Roger gave it 3.5 stars out 4 and liked it very much, but preferred "Rob Roy".
It disappeared over a heathery hilltop somewhere, wearing inappropriate facial wode
What’s interesting to me is everyone remembers Showgirls! For better or worse that film is stuck in our lexicon of American made movies. I dare most of you to remember all the rest of the films on this list.
That's an easy challenge for me because I can remember parts of every movie I have ever seen (or so I think), but I have never seen "Showgirls"!
Given the satirical bent of several other of the directors films
I still can't make my mind up about Showgirls
(is it like Spetters (1980) but for America? I do not know. )
My Top Ten Movies of 1995 (and the Movie Companies) is,
10. Houseguest. (Hollywood Pictures/Caravan Pictures).
9. Far From Home the Adventures of Yellow Dog. (20th Century Fox).
8. Tales from the Crypt presents Demon Knight. (Universal Pictures).
7. Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken. (Buena Vista Home Video/Walt Disney Television Animation). Animated Movie. F.Y.I Two stars from a certain Sci-Fiction Series "Coughs STTNG", Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis is in this movie.
6.The Brady Bunch Movie. (Paramount Pictures/The Ladd Company).
5. Heavyweights. (Walt Disney Pictures/Caravan Entertainment).
4. Man of the House. (Walt Disney Pictures).
3. 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up. (TriStar Pictures).
2. Outbreak. (Warner Bros Pictures).
1. Losing Isaiah. (Paramount Pictures).
Here's my Honorable Mentions.
1. Major Payne. (Universal Pictures).
2. Tall Tale the unbelievable adventures of Pacos Bill. (Walt Disney Pictures/Caravan Pictures).
3. Born to be Wild. (Warner Bros Pictures).
4. A Goofy Movie. (Walt Disney Pictures). Animated Movie.
5. Rob Roy. (United Artists).
6. The Pebble and The Penguin. (Metro-Goldwyn-Meyers/Don Bluth Entertainment).
7. Village of the Damned. (Universal Pictures).
8. Gordy. (Miramax Films).
9. A Little Princess. (Warner Bros Pictures).
10. Braveheart. (Paramount Pictures/20th Century Fox/Icon Productions/The Ladd Company).
11. Casper. (Universal Pictures/The Harvey Entertainment Company/Amblin Entertainment).
12. Johnny Mnemonic. (TriStar Pictures).
13. Fluke. (Metro-Goldwyn-Meyers).
14. Congo. (Paramount Pictures/The Kennedy/Marshall Company).
15. Batman Forever. (Warner Bros Pictures).
16. Pocahontas. (Walt Disney Pictures). Animated Movie.
17. Leprechaun 3. (Trimark Pictures/Vidmark Entertainment/Blue Rider Productions).
18. Apollo 13. (Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment).
19. Judge Dredd. (Hollywood Pictures/Cinergi Productions).
20. Mighty Morphing Power Rangers the Movie. (20th Century Fox). R.I.P Jason David Frank - 2022.
21. First Knight. (Columbia Pictures/Zucker Brothers Productions).
22. Species. (Metro-Goldwyn-Meyers).
23. Darkman 2 The Return of Durant. (MCA Universal Home Video/Renaissance Pictures).
24. Nine Months. (20th Century Fox/1492 Pictures).
25. The Indian in the Cupboard. (Columbia Pictures/Paramount Pictures/The Kennedy/Marshall Company).
26. Under Siege 2 Dark Territory. (Warner Bros Pictures/Regency Company).
27. Clueless. Paramount.
28. Free Willy 2 the adventure Home. (Warner Bros Pictures/Regency Company).
29. The Net. (Columbia Pictures).
30. Operation Dumbo Drop. (Walt Disney Pictures/Interscope Communications).
31. Waterworld. (Universal Pictures).
32. Babe. (Universal Pictures).
33. Bushwhacked. (20th Century Fox).
34. Something to talk about. (Warner Bros Pictures).
35. Virtuosity. (Paramount Pictures).
36. Dangerous Minds. (Hollywood Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films).
37. A Kid in King Arthur's Court. (Walt Disney Pictures/Tapestry Films/Trimark Pictures).
38. The Babysitter's Club. (Columbia Pictures/Beacon Pictures).
39. Mortal Kombat. (New Line Cinema).
40. The Amazing Panda Adventure. (Warner Bros Pictures).
41. Lord of illusions. (United Artists).
42. The Thief and the Cobbler. (Miramax Films).
43. Magic in the Water. (TriStar Pictures).
44. Clockers. (Universal Pictures/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks).
45. Angus. (New Line Cinema/Turner Pictures).
46. Seven. (New Line Cinema).
47. Showgirls. (United Artists/Carolco Pictures).
48. The Big Green. (Walt Disney Pictures/Caravan Pictures).
49. Dead Presidents. (Hollywood Pictures/Caravan Pictures).
50. Jade. (Paramount Pictures).
51. Mallrats. (Universal Pictures/Alphaville Films).
52. Now and Then. (New Line Cinema/Moving Pictures).
53. Powder. (Hollywood Pictures/Caravan Pictures).
54. Three Wishes. (Savoy Pictures).
55. Vampire in Brooklyn. (Paramount Pictures).
56. Gold Diggers the Secret of Bear Mountain. (Universal Pictures/Walt Disney Pictures).
57. Ace Ventura when Nature Calls. (Warner Bros Pictures/Morgan Creek Pictures).
58. It Takes Two. (Warner Bros Pictures/Rysher Entertainment).
59. Casino. (Universal Pictures).
60. Nick of Time. (Paramount Pictures.
61. Toy Story. (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios). CGI Animated Movie.
62. Father of the Bride Part 2. (Touchstone Pictures).
63. Jumanji. (TriStar Pictures).
64. Nixon. (Hollywood Pictures/Cinergi Pictures/illusion Entertainment Group).
65. Balto. (Universal Pictures/AMBLIMATION). Animated Movie.
66. Dracula Dead and Loving It. (Columbia Pictures/Castle Rock Entertainment).
67. Grumpier Old Men. (Warner Bros Pictures).
68. Sudden Death. (Universal Pictures).
69. Tom and Huck. (Walt Disney Pictures).
70. 12 Monkeys. (Universal Pictures).
71. Mr. Holland's Opus. (Hollywood Pictures).
72. Dead Man Walking. (Gramercy Pictures).
I like how you have Pocahontas and Leprechaun 3 right next to each other on the list.
@@gtf5392 Thank You.
what were there thoughts on Friday (1995)?!
I can't recall if it was ever reviewed on their show, but Gene gave it a tepid 1 star review in the Chicago Tribune. I don't think Roger covered it for his paper.
Like most critics, they relied too much on using the word "stereotypes" in their negative reviews.
I never found Leaving Las Vegas to be that great, but Cage and Shue were terrific.
I agree with you .
It is a depressing movie, that's for sure.
'Shue and Cage'
Sounds like a modern art exhibit.
"Kids" should have been on this
Pocahontas too
In a way, there is a Casino 2 about old vs new Vegas. It was The Cooler.
I think of "The Wolf Of Wall Street" as a thematic successor to "Goodfellas" and "Casino". Even though it isn't about Vegas or NYC mobsters, it covers some of the same territory that Gene expressed interest in. Wall Street stockbrokers were the prominent gangsters of the 80s and 90s.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 same frenetic pace, too
“Try America Online”. I did. It’s how I met the woman I’m married to now.
Casino is better than Goodfellas but it came out only 5 years later and felt too similar. Whereas Goodfellas came out 10 full years after Raging Bull, and felt different.
These guys are probably rolling in their graves to the movies thar come out today. They would have hated reviewing fast and the furious 100 and all the marvel franchise movies. They came and left at the right time
I’ve literally never heard of the movie Crumb 🤷🏻♂️
It's great ... check it out. Robert Crumb is a genius, and his brothers are mesmerizing while also tragic.
Did they review devil in a blue dress
Deniro is playing Lefty Rosenthal hes real -the name in the movie is Ace Rothstein-but the characters are mirrored thru the movie-the wife his daughter her affair with pescis character-the jobs he held as casino exec then the tv show host and his attempted car bombing
My best 1995 films
Before Sunrise
Casino
Heat
Nixon
Crumb
Crimson Tide
Under Siege 2
Apollo 13
Higher Learning
Losing Isaiah
Waiting to Exhale
While You Were Sleeping
Dead Man Walking
Clueless
Balto
Toy Story
Pocahontas
A Goofy Movie
Leaving Las Vegas is still my fave movie of all time. An absolute masterpiece.
They shift around in their chairs too much. They did this for years every time they’d begin to talk.
Very cool to put literally the biggest spoiler of all time into your comments on Exotica.
I won't ask you to spell that out, but I haven't seen the picture and nothing about their commentary on it cried "spoiler" to me or even made the plot clear.
i hated leaving las vegas. it seemed pretty pointless... can someone explain why its so good?
I suggest reading Roger's review.
The author of the novel that was the source material committed suicide in real life.
I didn't see what was exceptional in Dead Man Walking, Apollo 13 or Casino.
Or The American President.
Dead man walking is a PHENOMENAL movie with amazing acting performances, incredible script, great shots(especially when Sean Penn is in the Death House and Robbins shoots through the door and you can see them both in one shot), it doesn't have the typical Hollywood ending, the score was great. Nothing at all wrong with Dead Man Walking
I do on all of them, Casino was probably the weakest of the 4 you named, but the other 3 we're Excellent Films
But they aren't for everybody
gene was wrong about casino. the relationship between ginger and de niro's character was a highlight of the film.
12:03
🥹🥹🥹
At this time, Siskel and Ebert didn't know that one day there'd be a free online video service that would allow viewers to watch a number of their videos consecutively and reach the conclusion that their shows suffered from the same defects as the movies they deplored.
When Siskel gets it wrong, I want to FEEL Ebert's anger without Ebert saying I'm angry. (Poor Acting)
Why not have the Director and Producers on to rebut this criticism? I bet you know why. (Stick to the Formula)
Where is a true outsider's view. (No Diversity)
Making the same complaints week after week after week about actors not caring, who green-lit this monstrosity, or bad special effects. Let me tell you, my friends, Spot the Wonder Dog is a ... (Bad Special Effect).
Signed,
Burt Reynolds
Ebert's tumor is visible, and it reminds me to live like there's no tomorrow. I wonder if he already suspected it was cancer at the time this was filmed.
He wasn't ill AT ALL during this time. And wasn't until 2002, long after Gene died. Nothing in this video is atypical for Ebert's appearance.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 i noticed that slight bulge near his jaw, but i could be wrong about its ostensible pathology;)
@@peter5.056 He was a chubby-cheeked man. Maybe he had a tooth problem at the time, who knows. But cancer wasn't an issue for him until years after Gene died.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 i suppose so;)
“I’ve never seen a movie like Babe.” Wasn’t there another talking pig movie from 1995 called Gordy?
A lot of talking animal movies b4 Babe and NONE of them are anything like Babe, so he's absolutely correct
@@kdohertygizbur what sets Babe apart is the wonderful script.
Nixon...Hollywood biopics are worthless as history. They are more about the director's perspective than the subject they claim to be about. I recommend the book Being Nixon.
I think the mistake is approaching these films for the wrong reasons. Feature filmmaking is an emotional, artistic medium, not a factual or historical one. Even documentaries are subjective and they lie.
I think Siskel was jealous of Ebert's popularity
The have different accolades to be proud of. Every definitely was around the Hollywood crowd more than Siskel, but Siskel was quite popular around sports team. The Chicago bulls literally brought him to the lockers to celebrate their championship wins. They both have a lot to be proud of.
That's a pretty random comment to make...why would you think that based on this episode
And how more popular was Ebert than Siskel, you have no way of even proving that
@@kdohertygizbur I think it based on the few episodes of the show I have seen and the David Letterman appearance compilation. Sisskel cant help having either a combative attitude or a sly pop here and there.
First of all, Siskel was wrong about Casino which stood the test of time. Also, Heat , The Usual Suspect, and Se7en should have made it to the top 10 list.
Put them on your list if you like them so much and quit being a whiny dullard about other people's tastes not aligning with yours. Critics don't speak for a consensus, they speak for themselves.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Seems like you skipped your pill today! Also, 'dullard'? Did we time-travel to a 1920s insult contest? If opinions are your kryptonite, maybe just turn off the comments!
@@samb1355 It's the most accurate description of the attitude driving comments like yours, which customarily result in either instant deletion or a block but I occasionally leave them up for posterity as instructive examples of how to make commentary on the arts as vapid as possible. Whining about other people's preferences differing from yours and/or not reflecting some consensus (imaginary or real) is the refuge of boring simpletons and only serves to degrade discourse on movies. Siskel & Ebert had specific reasons for liking and disliking films, and creating their annual lists. Sometimes flawed reasons, but that's the nature of being human. Yet those reasons were their own and needn't be yours, as criticism of the arts is purely an individual exercise. Failing to understand that, a person understands nothing about the value of film criticism.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Oh, the charm of playing gatekeeper in the comment section! It might feel like directing your own screenplay. Your lengthy response seems more like a solo monologue than a critique. Remember, film criticism is a personal art, even if we can't all be Siskel & Ebert. It's downright pitiful to censor comments just because they hurt your feelings. Blocking or deleting comments only isolates you further, why not grow a thicker skin and learn something from the different perspectives?
@@samb1355 Learning from others and accepting alternative views is precisely what your original comment expressed hostility towards, and I reprimanded you for it, as is warranted by such nonsense. You haven't offered a "perspective", merely an insecure childish reaction in response to the reality of human diversity. That's the entire point. Nothing can be learned from your approach because it only advances bigotry and stupidity. I prefer to maintain standards with my videos. Comment moderation is vital lest shitposters run amok.
A person is entitled to an opinion in the epistemic sense (and this key) only when they have valid reasons for holding it: evidence, sound arguments, thoughtful reasoning, and so on. It's what Siskel & Ebert did for a living, and you seem to have little interest in. Commenters who degrade discourse and pollute cyberspace needn't and shouldn't be tolerated. Please grow up a little and develop some self-awareness.
I always thought Dead Man Walking was a better film that Shawshank Redemption. Shawshank is more popular because it's more fun, but should a prison movie about a bunch of murders be fun?
If you are going to make a movie about a social issue like prisoner rights, it completely undermines your point when you put in a deux ex machina that fixes everything and leads to a happy ending.
Hey wrongfully convicted prisoner, why don't you just escape. What are you, stupid?
I wholeheartedly agree. Shawshank is one of those things I dislike but never bother to argue about. It's unreservedly beloved by almost everyone and you just won't get anywhere expressing skepticism.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 I don't dislike it. It's just not very deep. It's feel good.
I dislike the green mile.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 I'm genuinely curious what you dislike about it. No criticism or anything, I just like hearing different perspectives.
@@JohnSmith-to5ow Predictability was my principal objection the first time I saw it. Secondarily, I don't like sentimentalized depictions of brutal environments. It's treatment of the criminal justice system, and prisoners, is superficial. "Starred Up" is my kind of prison movie.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 I'm not sure repeated sexual assault is sentimentalized. Or the institutionalization that old guy experiences. Or that new guy getting beaten to death by a guard for crying.
Are you saying it had a predictable storyline? That surprises me. I didn't think it was conventional in any way. Are you saying you could predict what was going to happen?
My goodness, Sister had 'American President' in his top ten. Absolute tripe, utter garbage.
Remember when Nixon used to be the standard for a "bad President?" Compared to Trump he was George Washington.
That's laughable. Trump was certainly less qualified for the job and less competent, but Nixon was responsible for far more global destruction and death. It's not even remotely comparable.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Trump killed how many thousands of people with his COVID denial?
@@Ken_Scaletta The pandemic death toll was bleak even by the White House's own metric, although even in a mitigated pandemic there still would have been an American death toll in the hundreds of thousands. I don't think it's particularly logical to blame the Head of State for the failure of pandemic lockdowns (state governments are responsible for quarantine measures, mask-wearing rules, and business restrictions) or for the failure of individuals to take responsibility for their own behavior and minimize their exposure. Assessing the number of people who might have died had the federal government acted differently can lead us somewhere, but certainty on that point is impossible and inherently speculative.
Yet the combined efforts of the Johnson and Nixon administrations *directly* led to the deaths of millions in Southeast Asia, no ambiguity. The Khmer Rouge were also born out of the inferno that Nixon caused. Even Bush's policies in the Middle East caused destruction and deprivation many multitudes worse than anything Trump accomplished or even attempted.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 You;re obviously in some seroious denial about Trump/ Trump murdered hundreds of thousands of people INTENTIONALLY because he thought it would help him politically. The death toll would have been much lower if Trump had accepted the sceience, stopped lying to pepople and everybody had followed the CDC recommendations from the beginning.
Nixon also didn't literally try to violently overthrow the country and destroy democracy itself.
@@Ken_Scaletta It is likely true that the death toll would have been lower had Trump heeded the proper expertise, which is precisely what I tried to say. But there's no objective evidentiary standard to determine the death toll in an alternate history scenario like this, only projections and speculation. Untangling who is responsible for deaths caused by an infectious disease and how many is a multifaceted question, complex, and ultimately unanswerable (at least if you can separate your emotions from this analysis and try to look at it objectively). Also, none of the actions of any branch of the government could qualify as "murder" by any legal standard in this context. Abhorrent, negligent, and exploitative? Yes, unquestionably.
I like it when they agree..