Siskel & Ebert (1998) - Dark City, Kissing a Fool, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2022
- In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Dark City, Kissing a Fool, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, Krippendorf’s Tribe, The Real Blonde and The Long Way Home.
Ebert liked Dark City so much he chose it as his favorite film of that year and even did a DVD commentary track.
Dark City is a sci-fi classic.
Dark City was such a cool film. How anyone can come up with something like that is amazing.
And I think the Alan Smithee film might have worked if a) someone else produced it, b) someone else directed it, c) another studio released it, and d) Eric Idle actually WROTE it! Idle just seemed totally lost in the film, and the film itself was lost by its very concept. No one had a clue where to take the film, and no one acts like a normal human being does.
More disturbing by today's standard, having a major part in Alan Smithee is Harvey Weinstein doing his "best" Jack Webb impersonation. It's insane that people actually PRAISED his "performance" at the time.
And I think I read somewhere that Krippendorf's Tribe was sorta based on the story of a "real" anthropologist who investigated a hidden stone age tribe in South America that was later revealed to be comprised of actors thoroughly trained to act like a tribe that never heard of modern technologies. Supposedly, he acted with the full knowledge and cooperation of Manuel Noriega before his downfall.
Dark City > The Matrix
Exactly.
I whole-heartedly agree. Sure, both movies are philosophical, but Dark City resonates to me on more of a spiritual/personal level. Just take the love story, for example. The moment John breaks the glass to kiss his wife because he loves her regardless of what the past is or what he remembers is PROFOUND (especially, within the context of the film's themes). On the other hand, the moment Trinity realizes she loves Neo is just weird and kind of jarring. That's just 1 of like 20 things that Dark City does better.
Blasphemous!!! 😂
Dark City: highly underrated! Very engrossing science fiction.
We get Ebert's pick for the best film of the year as well as the winner of the Razzie for worst picture of the year in this episode. Should be good.
15:27 Holy shit, imagine if instead of Batman and Robin we got Allex Proyas' Batman, with Poison Ivy, Victor Zsasz and/or Clayface
I would love to see Adam Driver as Preston Payne aka Clayface. I am sick and tired of Joker. Also, speaking of Zsasz, never understood the big deal about him. He just comes off as a run-of-the-mill serial killer.
Imagine if Ebert saw the ultra low budget Following, which was released the same year, and was told that the director would be the one to direct the next Batman movie.
“Mr. Murdoch, yesss?”
Dark City 12:23
Kissing a Fool 2.5/10
Burn Hollywood Burn 1/10
Krippendorf's Tribe 1.5/10
The Real Blonde 5/10
Dark City 10/10
I would actually compare Alan Smithee to SOB from 1981, more so than the Player or Barton Fink
I was shocked with to see the black face when I first saw 'Krippendorf's Tribe " when it came out in 1998. I didn't find it funny then and I don't find it funny now.
Is there a new name Hollywood uses instead of Alan Smithee or no?
They retired the name after this film
@@PowerGlove79 I know, I was just wondering if they secretly have another name they use now
@@bobbya9722 I don't think so
Joe Eszterhas was one of the most overrated hack writers in Hollywood! How in the world was he able to have his scripts made into movies?
Because he wrote entertaining trash. Showgirls is terrifically entertainingly bad and Basic instinct was sleazy fun
Unfortunately, in Hollywood nobody cares about quality. As long as you have a history of selling scripts of movies that get produced, you make a living.
It is funny that now Showgirls is a cult classic.
Jagged Edge trumps both of those terrible movies
Alan Smithee was unwatchable. I couldn’t last 10 minutes before I quit watching.