I'll never forget A Cop and a Half. When my local cinema closed down in the 90s, that was the last film they showed. The building sat empty for years but nobody ever took down the board on the wall outside, so for pretty much the rest of the 90s the poster for this film was prominantly displayed right in the centre of town.
Siskel & Ebert’s disagreement over Cop and a Half is timeless and classic. It makes me laugh every time. Also, Diane Ladd was in a worse dinosaur movie than her daughter.
I started watching them in 1981 at the age of 11. I still love watching them decades later. My fondest memory is when Ebert gave 'Full Metal Jacket' a thumbs down and 'Benji the Hunted' a thumbs up. Siskel thought he was nuts.
@@kevins4222 haha probably, ‘83 crew! I used to take the bus to the theatre all summer when I was 10 years old. Wouldn’t let my own children do that nowadays though.
Bit of trivia about the Coneheads movie. It's writers, Bonnie & Terry Turner envisioned a TV comedy series based on the aliens living among humans while writing the script. They specifically had John Lithgow in mind as the lead character for this proposed TV series. Of course, this ended up being the successful award winning comedy show "Third Rock from the Sun" which ran from the mid-90s until the early 2000s. So in a weird way, the failed Coneheads movie ended up turning into the successful show Third Rock from the Sun.
The observation about how comedy was changing and pacing past Mel Brooks was spot on, though. It just so happens that the "dated" Mel Brooks schtick never really lost its luster (not counting the Dracula dud, which still has its moments thanks to Nielsen and the guy from Ghostbuster 2/Ally McBeal who played Renfield)
Finally, a contemporary perspective on Hocus Pocus, instead of the mass delusion we currently live in which regards it as some kind of Halloween "classic."
I didn't know it was a thing until someone about 20 years younger than me recommended the movie saying it was one of her favorites. My college buddy and I both remember it as some shit neither of us wanted to see that quickly disappeared as soon as it came never to be heard from again. It's like stepping into some weird alternate universe where it had really set the world on fire. But not really. Disney just brainwashed a bunch of children in the 2000s and now they're all coming of age.
@@MiguelCruz-oz7km People tend to like it if they saw it as a kid, which is the case with a lot of movies and TV shows. I have my own nostalgic pleasures. I’m sure you do too. I was too old for Hocus Pocus in particular, but I promise, it’s ok for people to like dumb things from their childhood. It won’t hurt you.
Thanks very much for sharing these recordings. Siskel and Ebert played a huge part in my adolescence and fuelled my passion for movies. It's good to see them again. Like old friends.
Most music stars are hit or miss, evwn Cher has made her share of horrible movies. Madonna has made some really good, critically acclaimed, box office hit movies too
@@steveprice2718 yeah really. Madonna has had about six hit films including Evita which won her the Best Actress Golden Globe. She also produced movies through her production company that you probably don't know about and she's directed two films and is in the process of directing another.
Not having Siskel & Ebert, or any worthy successor since Ebert & Roper (despite many attempts), has been a severe cultural disadvantage in America for the last couple of decades.
So true! Werner Herzog said similar things in a recent interview. Whatever happened to Roeper? He was okay, and I was expecting him to carry on the TV review tradition. There will never be another Siskel & Ebert, though, that's for sure.
It's the way they don't dumb down or try to be accessible or anything. They are these almost borderline elitists. These aren't like hot takes, these are like genuinely smart critiques!!!
I think that's partially because Siskel And Ebert always had a contemporaries/co-workers dynamic while Ebert and Roeper always felt more like a boss/elder and employee dynamic. Roeper is fine, but Siskel And Ebert's chemistry would never be topped.
I agree that Siskel and Ebert worked like contemporaries of equal stature. No disrespect to Roeper but Gene Siskel was also a wittier and more incisive critic.
There's a hilarious behind the scenes clip where they talk non-stop sh*t about each other and then at the end agree that the Catholics and the Jews should overthrow the country. It comes out of nowhere and it's so funny.
There are 2 things that Hocus Pocus and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have in common: 1.) Both films are made under the same distribution company. 2.) They have a cult following where one made a sequel in 2022 and the other has a animated feature in 2023. *Also worth noting:* Almost Unreal performed by Roxette, was originally made to be the ending song for Hocus Pocus, but got transferred to The Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack instead. 😑
Gaming Historian did a really good documentary on the '93 super mario brothers movie. Turns out that not only was gene 100% correct about pretty much everything he said about it, but the real reason it was such a complete and utter disaster had to do with the husband and wife who co-directed it having orson wells sized egos despite having precisely zero talent behind the camera.
What's unfortunate about the film was, at a certain point during production, they actually had a good script. Executive meddling is what ultimately killed the movie.
Cop and a Half (1993): The movie from Henry Winkler that nearly destroyed Siskel and Ebert's partnership and friendship on their show at the same time.
I agree with you that Ebert is witty, though in this case I think he was trying to make up for the fact that Siskel surpassed him in the witticism department. Siskel and Ebert were always on the same page about the Jurassic Park dinosaurs being better. The real question was whether Carnosaur was better than Cop and a Half. In my view, I reckon that they were both pretty dull (I was not as enamored by Carnosaur as Siskel was) and, what is more, watching these two people debate over both films is far more entertaining than the films themselves.
In addition to the films listed above, Gene also had "Look Who's Talking Now" on his list of the worst films of 1993. In Gene's "You Liked It, I Didn't" category for 1993 were "Sleepless in Seattle", "Falling Down", "Cliffhanger", "Carlito's Way", and Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing". (SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, December 19, 1993) For all five of these, the "You" could also refer to Roger, who gave "Carlito's Way" three-and-a-half stars, and the rest three stars.
The worst films are always the most fun reviews, when the knives come out 😆 what a treasured time in my life, watching these two in real time! Irreplaceable
All these terrible movies used to be on constant rotation in the TV schedules back in the 1990s. As a result, I'll bet more people have seen 'The Beverly Hillbillies' and 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' than anything on Siskel or Ebert's Top Ten lists from 1993. What a world.
Unfortunately, I think many people don't like smart movies. They feel threatened by them, or something. For that matter, I think many people don't like smart people.
It's true. While people may have seen "Schindler's List." "Menace to Society" and "The Fugitive" on TV, it's not likely they saw much else of Siskel or Ebert's Top 10 from 1993.
On a side note also I went to sleep watching this and ended up having the wildest dream of me being lost in a huge 80s style Chicago movie theater type library with them talking over a pa.
That reminds me of a dream I had after falling asleep listening to a Shelly Kagan lecture. I dreamed I was talking to him in a classroom, but then we left the classroom and walked together and he still talked.
@Nelson Robert Willis The sketches were one-note, once you got the joke it was all the same after that. All I can remember now about the sketches is "We're from France," and calling beer "consumables." The movie filled out the characters and had other characters and situations that made it enjoyable, and it was well-directed.
Ebert broke his own rule, to only consider major movies for the worst films list, by picking the cheapo exploitation film Carnosaur. I assume this was so he could pick something Siskel had liked.
I don't know if Carnosaur fits in the right category to be excluded. Keep in mind, they've also included movies like Amityville Horror. And they may not have known each others' picks for worst of their year. Most years, it seems like they don't, but at least one year, it seems like they did. Don't know how it generally worked, but there is a chance they had no idea until they taped.
While it is a B picture to its atoms, from the house of Corman, I believe it actually did pretty good business (in the wake of Spielbergs saurians, I suppose) It's a fun piece of lizard-schlock for me.
Coneheads is bad, but I bet there were several worse comedies that year. At least Coneheads has appearances by like every great SNL actor from the 90s, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, David Spade, Adam Sandler. Also several Seinfeld alum. They should have had Weekend at Bernies II on the list, that is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Roger Ebert: “You said Steven Spielberg’s dinosaurs would be more convincing, and they were.” Indeed, they were so convincing that they became the dominant conception of dinosaurs in the public consciousness for decades after, even though we have since learned, for example, that real velociraptors were only the size of house cats, and had feathers.
Not as scary. However, cockroaches the size of house cats would scare the beejesus out of me. Don't know what era this was, but at one point, the atmosphere was so oxygen rich, roaches were the size of your foot. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and walking into the kitchen, facing down a roach the size of your foot.
The general public didn't know what a velociraptor was back then so Crichton and the movie makers took advantage of that. Even at the time, people wrote articles explaining this, not that anyone cared.
Velociraptors as depicted in JP did in fact exist, but their proper genus name was Deinonychus or something of the kind. Michael Crichton deliberately altered the name of the species for his novel because Velociraptor is more formidable sounding, whereas Dieononychus sounds like a hybrid of Dinosaur and Dionysus…imagine a bunch of 3 meter long lizards gorging themselves on wine or engaging in other types of decadent behavior.
I don't remember much from when I was 5 years old, but I do remember my parents dragging my brother and I to that piece of shit Beverly Hillbillies movie, being bored out of my mind, and falling asleep in the theater. The "remake old TV shows as movies" trend from the 90's yielded some of the absolute dirt worst movies ever made.
NOW the big stupid Hollywood trend is big-budget remakes of MOVIES. In fact, I even think THAT trend was devised and started to take the place of that big-budget movie version of old tv shows trend of the 90s after IT had run its course and died.
@Chad Gold The Great Outdoors just struck me as a feature length TV sitcom. Speaking of Candy, he could never really pick a good script. He was good in The Blues Brothers, hilarious in Planes Trains and Automobiles, but that was it. His best work was on SCTV.
Ricardo Cantoral He’s funny in Splash and Summer Rental. Who’s Harry Crumb? 😄
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@@ricardocantoral7672 Check out one of his last films, Only The Lonely. Easily one of his best--and it's proof that he could do drama when he wanted. (And he and Ally Sheedy had really good chemistry).
I love it when these two take the piss out of each other! Carnosaur vs Cop & A Half? I've seen both and neither is great, BUT I would choose Carnosaur.
I couldn't agree more with Roger with regards to the ending of the American remake of The Vanishing. I saw the original first and the ending, though great, is still pretty disturbing. But of course the Americans don't like being upset, so their movies have to have a hero. Even towards the end of the remake, when it was obvious what was going to happen, I still remember being annoyed about it. I've said this in the comments section of other channels, but I don't get why people feel the need to remake what are already decent movies, especially when they end up worse? Why not remake movies that had potential, but were let down by maybe a bad script, bad acting or just characters who had no on screen chemistry. Of course it's easy money for lazy filmmakers or those who've run out of original ideas.
@@michaelmcdonald8452 he watched it when he was young or it was one of the few movies he had constant access to.. liking something simply because "it's the only thing on" isn't a difficult concept to grasp
@@TheMightofDab Watching it because it's the only thing on and liking it for that reason are two different things so no, I don't "grasp" that and frankly, the condescension was unnecessary. Save it for greater offenses, douche canoe....
Gene comes up with three great ideas for The Beverly hillbillies in one sentence maybe he should have been writing screenplays! They're wrong fatal instinct is hilarious
I'm surprised Siskel or Ebert didn't mentioned Body of Evidence which was released in early 1993. I actually admired the picture despite every major critics hating the film at the time of it's release.
Cop & a 1/2 was cute. It wasn't belly laughs hilarious, but a charming funny film that relied on a kid acting like a grown up. Carnosaur was also a black comedy satire from Roger. Corman ouvre of Creatures & gore. Diane Ladd weird Scientist performance was indeed the highlight of the film.
I liked the Coneheads. It was amusing to me that the neighbors just accepting them for who they were and called it a day. And David Spade was such a great kiss-ass!
The European version of The Vanishing was one of the best thrillers I’ve ever seen. When I read the review of the American version I never bothered to see it, for pretty much the reasons S&E give here.
Honestly, I think the remake works right up to the third act, then it completely falls apart. The performances are compelling, and Sluzier translates the story well...until he's forced to deliver a happy ending. Then it goes straight off the rails and becomes ludicrous.
it’s July 2024. I am listening to this as i mull around my house. I find a bluray to watch. It is the new VinegarSyndrome edition of Dangerous Game. I open it as Siskel begins to name this film one of the worst of 93. The most ominous coincidence i can think of in recent memory 😬
A good writer could play a scene like that for comedy. Sleazy producer, Ellie Mae not quite getting what he's hinting at, she finally gets it and smacks him, etc.
Case in point? That's Erika Eleniak of the "Baywatch" and "Under Siege" fame who plays in the 1993 film adaptation which was based upon the 1962-1981 Primetime Emmy nominated TV series on CBS. The film was released by 20th Century Fox in collaboration with SLM Entertainment, Ltd. in Fall 1993 with mixed results for kids alike.
I saw the Hollywood version of The Vanishing shortly after it first came out, and I really liked it. I don't believe my young brain would've accepted the Euro version ending.
I loved Robin Hood: Men In Tights...enough that it doesn't belong in any worst list... I know I saw it in the theaters over 100 times...only second to Spaceballs...
I understand the point that Men in Tights wasn't as packed with jokes as Airplane or Naked Gun, but those two are the best parody films of all-time. It's like saying a film isn't quite as good as The Godfather so you put in on the worst list. It was good but not great.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Gene was right about "Men in Tights" and I found myself nodding. So many jokes landed flat because of the lack of springy comic timing.
@@cherylhulting1301 Mel Brooks could have had a much better film career if he took more chances and stopped dumbing down his material. Instead, he limited himself to Hollywood parodies and his jokes moved at the speed of running molasses.
they're children. they're really witty, intelligent, Pulitzer-Prize-Winning children. I love it. they really did love each other. they're brothers. and _because_ they were brothers, they didn't hang out, they didn't pal around, and they could REALLY get angry at each other ... because they were brothers. real brothers, I feel, don't have to constantly needle the fact they're brothers. they just know it. they don't have to hang out because they already are anyway. the best screen combo of all time, because they were so funny so frequently _on the fly._ even Abbot & Costello had pre-written jokes, right? best screen duo ever. I stand by that. or my _favorite,_ anyway. I don't know about qualifying "best", and I don't think anybody does.
How I miss these guys and the 90s when movies were truly special. In the era of streaming, nothing seems special anymore and movies are no longer events. Most movies are throw away anyways (remakes and sequels). This is why there is no Siskel and Ebert shows now, you don’t have to get off your couch so if you watch a bad film it’s no big deal as you haven’t wasted your money; just your time.
16:00 Best movie argument in history i swear they go for throat you can see Roger physically pissed at Gene and thats why he hit back i swear i miss these two *Gene synical look lol hilarioud*
_Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ may be one of the worst comedy movies ever made. it's just _unbelievably_ corny. and for that, i sort of love it. it's the exact sort of absolutely-unessential garbage dump nonsense to throw on a screen if you're feeling blue. i mean "Check please?" even in 1993, that phrase was embarrassingly dated. and the fact that a KING says it as his own banquet! ho ho ho! i mean . . . the KING wouldn't be charged at his OWN BANQUET, surely! pft! lafffff. SO bad. and that makes it great. . . . . . . in the right mindset, of course. when viewed with the WRONG lenses, it can probably be as obnoxious as it's possible for a movie to be.
Sometimes I wonder about actors who are not Big Stars, who just want and need to work, to make a living, so they have to take whatever piece of crap movie or tv show they can get, it's $$ for food & rent. But then they become the face of the bad movie or show, not the screenwriter and/or director, where the blame usually lies.
There’s an interviews with Tom Sizemore where they run through his IMDb film by film. He doesn’t remember being in half of them and a good portion of the others he only remembers the amount of his paycheck and what debt he needed to pay off at the time.
Gotta love two sophisticated gentlemen having a heated debate over Cop And A Half.
My Grandma took me and my brother to see "Cop And A Half" when I was 10. I remember trying to pee ten feet after the movie and getting in trouble.
sophisticated?
😆😆😆😆😆 It could really be fun to watch them get into it sometimes.
Followed by a heated discussion over "Carnosaur" (>‿◠)✌
I'll never forget A Cop and a Half. When my local cinema closed down in the 90s, that was the last film they showed. The building sat empty for years but nobody ever took down the board on the wall outside, so for pretty much the rest of the 90s the poster for this film was prominantly displayed right in the centre of town.
We need these kinds of checks and balances back in modern cinema.
Siskel & Ebert’s disagreement over Cop and a Half is timeless and classic. It makes me laugh every time. Also, Diane Ladd was in a worse dinosaur movie than her daughter.
The end of Henry Winkler’s career as a feature film director.
The only bad Dinosaur movie her daughter was in was Jurassic Park III in a very small role
@@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL All but the 1st
Well, Roger did take Cop and a Half out of his Video Companion in 1996.
My guess is Roger got drawn in by a cute kid and didn't have the heart to pan the movie.
“Maybe you just got up on the wrong side of the bed.”
“As did the rest of America.” 😂
I love these archived Siskel and Ebert episodes, especially the “worst of” series, because they’re like little time capsules from my childhood.
I started watching them in 1981 at the age of 11. I still love watching them decades later. My fondest memory is when Ebert gave 'Full Metal Jacket' a thumbs down and 'Benji the Hunted' a thumbs up. Siskel thought he was nuts.
Lol we must be the same age. Hocus Pocus, Super Mario Bros...I saw ALL these movies at the theatre as a kid
@@kevins4222 haha probably, ‘83 crew! I used to take the bus to the theatre all summer when I was 10 years old. Wouldn’t let my own children do that nowadays though.
Bit of trivia about the Coneheads movie. It's writers, Bonnie & Terry Turner envisioned a TV comedy series based on the aliens living among humans while writing the script. They specifically had John Lithgow in mind as the lead character for this proposed TV series. Of course, this ended up being the successful award winning comedy show "Third Rock from the Sun" which ran from the mid-90s until the early 2000s. So in a weird way, the failed Coneheads movie ended up turning into the successful show Third Rock from the Sun.
From Conehead to Big Giant Head.
@@justincoleman3805 LOL- True!
That makes a lot of sense.
God, that movie was awful.
Actually think Coneheads is a pretty good movie. It's obviously riffing on the American dream but it's well intended
Men In Tights is gold and I'll hear no dissent
The observation about how comedy was changing and pacing past Mel Brooks was spot on, though. It just so happens that the "dated" Mel Brooks schtick never really lost its luster (not counting the Dracula dud, which still has its moments thanks to Nielsen and the guy from Ghostbuster 2/Ally McBeal who played Renfield)
Finally, a contemporary perspective on Hocus Pocus, instead of the mass delusion we currently live in which regards it as some kind of Halloween "classic."
I didn't know it was a thing until someone about 20 years younger than me recommended the movie saying it was one of her favorites. My college buddy and I both remember it as some shit neither of us wanted to see that quickly disappeared as soon as it came never to be heard from again. It's like stepping into some weird alternate universe where it had really set the world on fire. But not really. Disney just brainwashed a bunch of children in the 2000s and now they're all coming of age.
@Just Passing Through how old were you when you first watched it?
@Just Passing Through How many people do you know who watched the movie for the first time as an adult are into it?
bruh relax
@@MiguelCruz-oz7km People tend to like it if they saw it as a kid, which is the case with a lot of movies and TV shows. I have my own nostalgic pleasures. I’m sure you do too. I was too old for Hocus Pocus in particular, but I promise, it’s ok for people to like dumb things from their childhood. It won’t hurt you.
Thanks very much for sharing these recordings. Siskel and Ebert played a huge part in my adolescence and fuelled my passion for movies. It's good to see them again. Like old friends.
There is a website where you can see many old shows, even before they went to Disney. It is siskelandebert.org.
Same for me!! They were
Legends, and classy, funny, brilliant men.
Madonna? A bad movie? I'm shocked and stunned...
We’re all are, she’s such a classical trained actor, I don’t don’t why they hate her, Meryl Streep has nothing on her! 🤣
Don't cry for me Argentina 🤣
Most music stars are hit or miss, evwn Cher has made her share of horrible movies. Madonna has made some really good, critically acclaimed, box office hit movies too
@@samosler4009 Not really
@@steveprice2718 yeah really. Madonna has had about six hit films including Evita which won her the Best Actress Golden Globe. She also produced movies through her production company that you probably don't know about and she's directed two films and is in the process of directing another.
Not having Siskel & Ebert, or any worthy successor since Ebert & Roper (despite many attempts), has been a severe cultural disadvantage in America for the last couple of decades.
I agree. It was classy and well put together!
So true! Werner Herzog said similar things in a recent interview. Whatever happened to Roeper? He was okay, and I was expecting him to carry on the TV review tradition. There will never be another Siskel & Ebert, though, that's for sure.
I agree and to the world as one of the greatest film critics
Like everything the proliferation of the internet has made everyone a critic.
It's the way they don't dumb down or try to be accessible or anything. They are these almost borderline elitists. These aren't like hot takes, these are like genuinely smart critiques!!!
I love the opening production, the music, the graphics..it’s takes me back to the 90’s!! I miss those days so much
Their fights are the best part, Ebert and Roper never quite pulled off this dynamic
I think that's partially because Siskel And Ebert always had a contemporaries/co-workers dynamic while Ebert and Roeper always felt more like a boss/elder and employee dynamic. Roeper is fine, but Siskel And Ebert's chemistry would never be topped.
I agree that Siskel and Ebert worked like contemporaries of equal stature. No disrespect to Roeper but Gene Siskel was also a wittier and more incisive critic.
There's a hilarious behind the scenes clip where they talk non-stop sh*t about each other and then at the end agree that the Catholics and the Jews should overthrow the country. It comes out of nowhere and it's so funny.
28 years later and "Carnosaur" is disliked slightly more than "Cop and a Half" by IMDb voters, if that means anything.
There are 2 things that Hocus Pocus and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have in common:
1.) Both films are made under the same distribution company.
2.) They have a cult following where one made a sequel in 2022 and the other has a animated feature in 2023.
*Also worth noting:*
Almost Unreal performed by Roxette, was originally made to be the ending song for Hocus Pocus, but got transferred to The Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack instead. 😑
Almost Unreal being a song originally made for Hocus Pocus makes so much goddamn sense lol
I don't know anybody who watches Super Mario Bros willingly. Not even in a so bad its good sense.
Hocus Pocus 2 is a sequel.
The animated Super Mario Bros movie is unrelated to the live action movie. They only share source material.
@@maximusprime3459 yep. I'm a huge gamer and will never sit through SMB again unless I'm held at gun point.
So they’re two pieces of evidence for the theory that “cult” really means “shit”?
Gaming Historian did a really good documentary on the '93 super mario brothers movie.
Turns out that not only was gene 100% correct about pretty much everything he said about it, but the real reason it was such a complete and utter disaster had to do with the husband and wife who co-directed it having orson wells sized egos despite having precisely zero talent behind the camera.
What's unfortunate about the film was, at a certain point during production, they actually had a good script. Executive meddling is what ultimately killed the movie.
SMB '93 is a great comedy--if you're watching the Rifftrax version of it.
Cop and a Half (1993): The movie from Henry Winkler that nearly destroyed Siskel and Ebert's partnership and friendship on their show at the same time.
Wow. I didn't know that
@@crystalshaw8744 You do now. This movie will always mainly be remembered for Siskel and Ebert's review of this movie on their show.
@@crystalshaw8744 that’s because it’s absolutely not true, one crappy movie isn’t going to destroy their friendship or their show.
A Worst movies episode requires a full day today
Honestly, no. There used to be so, so, so many more terrible movies back then than now. Today's movies and TV are light years ahead.
@@rushmoresociety2577i don’t think so. There utterly forgettable
"All the major critics in America would agree with you." Haha... I miss Ebert's dry wit
I agree with you that Ebert is witty, though in this case I think he was trying to make up for the fact that Siskel surpassed him in the witticism department. Siskel and Ebert were always on the same page about the Jurassic Park dinosaurs being better. The real question was whether Carnosaur was better than Cop and a Half. In my view, I reckon that they were both pretty dull (I was not as enamored by Carnosaur as Siskel was) and, what is more, watching these two people debate over both films is far more entertaining than the films themselves.
Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo knew Super Mario Bros was a piece of crap while filming it so they used to just get drunk on set 😆
Hopefully they fired their respective agents after that!
Guys like this aren't around anymore. They were great. So sad about the early deaths of them both.
Arguing at the end, reminded me of Homer Simpson once saying: "I love watching the bald guy argue with the fat tub of lard."
i’ll get David Holmes and Carson Daly to argue for you next time, you can stargaze at their pretty faces
In addition to the films listed above, Gene also had "Look Who's Talking Now" on his list of the worst films of 1993. In Gene's "You Liked It, I Didn't" category for 1993 were "Sleepless in Seattle", "Falling Down", "Cliffhanger", "Carlito's Way", and Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing". (SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, December 19, 1993) For all five of these, the "You" could also refer to Roger, who gave "Carlito's Way" three-and-a-half stars, and the rest three stars.
Wow. He didn’t like Carlitos way! Ebert must have!
@@sahej6939 Ebert indeed more than liked _Carlito's Way,_ which he gave three-and-a-half stars.
Gene was right about Branagh's "Much Ado," though. It was a bit disappointing.
What kind of asshole doesn't like Falling Down? OK the Koreans hated but nobody else has an excuse.
Wow Falling Down and Sleepless in Seattle were considered instant classics and Carlito's Way got lots of love too.
The worst films are always the most fun reviews, when the knives come out 😆 what a treasured time in my life, watching these two in real time! Irreplaceable
I agree!
It’s also when they laughed with each other the most.
All these terrible movies used to be on constant rotation in the TV schedules back in the 1990s. As a result, I'll bet more people have seen 'The Beverly Hillbillies' and 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' than anything on Siskel or Ebert's Top Ten lists from 1993. What a world.
I've unfortunately seen the former. I still wish I could get 90 min. of my life back.
Terrible movies are far cheaper for media companies to buy the rights to air them.
Unfortunately, I think many people don't like smart movies. They feel threatened by them, or something. For that matter, I think many people don't like smart people.
I'll bet that The Fugitive, in a back to back with US Marshals on TV last week, was one of the top ten of 1993.
It's true. While people may have seen "Schindler's List." "Menace to Society" and "The Fugitive" on TV, it's not likely they saw much else of Siskel or Ebert's Top 10 from 1993.
These would never envision us critiquing their critique 30 years later.
On a side note also I went to sleep watching this and ended up having the wildest dream of me being lost in a huge 80s style Chicago movie theater type library with them talking over a pa.
nice
Sounds like a great one! 👍👍
That reminds me of a dream I had after falling asleep listening to a Shelly Kagan lecture. I dreamed I was talking to him in a classroom, but then we left the classroom and walked together and he still talked.
"Ellie May on the casting couch" rings a bit different now
Make it a movie starring Bill Cosby, directed by Roman Polanski and produced by Harvey Weinstein
Being that now that sort of thing is frowned upon.
Yes it does.
I loved Siskel and Ebert. I love old television shows. Much, much better than what we have now.
They took pride in their product and resembled human beings, rather than robots.
I didn't like the Coneheads sketches on SNL but I enjoyed the Coneheads movie -- go figure.
Coneheads was cool.
I feel the same way about the Wayne's World films and The Ladies Man.
@Nelson Robert Willis The sketches were one-note, once you got the joke it was all the same after that. All I can remember now about the sketches is "We're from France," and calling beer "consumables." The movie filled out the characters and had other characters and situations that made it enjoyable, and it was well-directed.
I like the Coneheads movie too. Showing the home world was interesting
a ten minute vs a ninety minute movie..I`d choose the 10 minute skit...
I saw "Cop and a Half" at the drive-in when it came out. I was 17. Sorry, Ebert, but it was a terrible flick.
Its kinda cute on Vhs!
Ebert broke his own rule, to only consider major movies for the worst films list, by picking the cheapo exploitation film Carnosaur. I assume this was so he could pick something Siskel had liked.
I don't know if Carnosaur fits in the right category to be excluded. Keep in mind, they've also included movies like Amityville Horror. And they may not have known each others' picks for worst of their year. Most years, it seems like they don't, but at least one year, it seems like they did. Don't know how it generally worked, but there is a chance they had no idea until they taped.
Maybe it did fit in as a big film to Roger.
Carnosaur was a b-film and they are suppose to be exempt from the worst list.
@@sha11235 And it seemed to be big in terms of marketing based on Ebert's description of it.
While it is a B picture to its atoms, from the house of Corman,
I believe it actually did pretty good business (in the wake of Spielbergs saurians, I suppose)
It's a fun piece of lizard-schlock for me.
Coneheads is bad, but I bet there were several worse comedies that year. At least Coneheads has appearances by like every great SNL actor from the 90s, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, David Spade, Adam Sandler. Also several Seinfeld alum.
They should have had Weekend at Bernies II on the list, that is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
I liked CONEHEADS
HE'S DEAD!! (Weekend At Bernie's.)
Roger Ebert: “You said Steven Spielberg’s dinosaurs would be more convincing, and they were.”
Indeed, they were so convincing that they became the dominant conception of dinosaurs in the public consciousness for decades after, even though we have since learned, for example, that real velociraptors were only the size of house cats, and had feathers.
Not as scary. However, cockroaches the size of house cats would scare the beejesus out of me. Don't know what era this was, but at one point, the atmosphere was so oxygen rich, roaches were the size of your foot. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and walking into the kitchen, facing down a roach the size of your foot.
Sexy either way.
The general public didn't know what a velociraptor was back then so Crichton and the movie makers took advantage of that. Even at the time, people wrote articles explaining this, not that anyone cared.
Velociraptors as depicted in JP did in fact exist, but their proper genus name was Deinonychus or something of the kind.
Michael Crichton deliberately altered the name of the species for his novel because Velociraptor is more formidable sounding, whereas Dieononychus sounds like a hybrid of Dinosaur and Dionysus…imagine a bunch of 3 meter long lizards gorging themselves on wine or engaging in other types of decadent behavior.
One of the greatest episodes ever.
I could never get through Dangerous Game. Ferarra and Keitel working together again was such a promising idea, but this movie is awful.
I love the review Todd in the shadows did. By the way, “I need these things” needs to be a meme
@@littlekingtrashmouth9219 I'll have to look for it!
Hocus Pocus was considered one of the worst films of ‘93? Damn, it didn’t deserve to be on this list
I saw it in the theaters when I was nine and like many kids movies, it’s a lot worse in retrospect.
I don't remember much from when I was 5 years old, but I do remember my parents dragging my brother and I to that piece of shit Beverly Hillbillies movie, being bored out of my mind, and falling asleep in the theater. The "remake old TV shows as movies" trend from the 90's yielded some of the absolute dirt worst movies ever made.
NOW the big stupid Hollywood trend is big-budget remakes of MOVIES. In fact, I even think THAT trend was devised and started to take the place of that big-budget movie version of old tv shows trend of the 90s after IT had run its course and died.
@Chad Gold I struggle to think of a post-ghostbusters film featuring Dan Ackroyd that is worth a damn. Yeesh.
@Chad Gold The Great Outdoors just struck me as a feature length TV sitcom. Speaking of Candy, he could never really pick a good script. He was good in The Blues Brothers, hilarious in Planes Trains and Automobiles, but that was it. His best work was on SCTV.
Ricardo Cantoral
He’s funny in Splash and Summer Rental. Who’s Harry Crumb? 😄
@@ricardocantoral7672 Check out one of his last films, Only The Lonely. Easily one of his best--and it's proof that he could do drama when he wanted. (And he and Ally Sheedy had really good chemistry).
I used to get so excited finding this show on at like 2am in the morning!
I used to set my VCR for them
"And those are the dinosaurs, Gene, that you gave thumbs-up to". Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I love it when these two take the piss out of each other!
Carnosaur vs Cop & A Half? I've seen both and neither is great, BUT I would choose Carnosaur.
"billy and the clonosaurus" was a much better title.
Yeah SNL made some real stinkers based on a skit. It's Pat, Superstar and Night at the Roxbury are some others
Now they arent even relevant enough to make shitty movies based on their shitty characters.
I couldn't agree more with Roger with regards to the ending of the American remake of The Vanishing. I saw the original first and the ending, though great, is still pretty disturbing. But of course the Americans don't like being upset, so their movies have to have a hero. Even towards the end of the remake, when it was obvious what was going to happen, I still remember being annoyed about it. I've said this in the comments section of other channels, but I don't get why people feel the need to remake what are already decent movies, especially when they end up worse? Why not remake movies that had potential, but were let down by maybe a bad script, bad acting or just characters who had no on screen chemistry. Of course it's easy money for lazy filmmakers or those who've run out of original ideas.
I just realized that what they accused The Beverly Hillbillies of NOT doing, Coneheads did, and they still hated it lol
I happened to like Coneheads. Maybe because it was always on HBO pre internet.
@@monotech20.14 why would that be cause to like it?
I can't tell what you think your point is?
@@michaelmcdonald8452 he watched it when he was young or it was one of the few movies he had constant access to.. liking something simply because "it's the only thing on" isn't a difficult concept to grasp
@@TheMightofDab Watching it because it's the only thing on and liking it for that reason are two different things so no, I don't "grasp" that and frankly, the condescension was unnecessary. Save it for greater offenses, douche canoe....
I happened to like Coneheads. Maybe because it was always on HBO pre internet.
Every time I see these two I get a warm feeling of nostalgia, and want to watch a bunch of movies in their honor 👌
I agree 👍🏾.
Man, that whole exchange about their worst movie pics was so funny. “All the critics of America would agree with you” 😂
Coneheads wasn't all that bad. It was just a big SNL skit.
Most bad movies are forgettable. But, some of them are memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Tragic how a few seasons later Ebert killed Siskel with his bare hands. Always had to have the last word.
Gene comes up with three great ideas for The Beverly hillbillies in one sentence maybe he should have been writing screenplays!
They're wrong
fatal instinct is hilarious
Bring back Bigfoot pizza! It used to come with a free month of HBO and I think you could stack up to 3 months of service
My first date was going to the movie Coneheads , I was 11.. my god what a nightmare
Your date.. or the movie?
Stay until the very end to relive the legendary Bigfoot Pizza from Little Caesars!
Wrong. Bigfoot was at Pizza Hut. Little Caesars had the Big! Big! Cheese (which came standard w/ Pepperoni).
Siskel and Ebert were wrong about "Coneheads" and "Robin Hood: Men In Tights". Plus, the latter was FAR better and funnier than "Fatal Instinct".
I agree.
I really miss these guys 😢😭
Why
@@nonamewillbegiven2412 Good question - Miles Mathis says they were Operation Mockingbird
I love how petty these two are. I miss them. RIP.
Petty is part of them charm. 🤣
I would like to see Carnosaur and a half.
Wow, they were sure wrong about Hocus Pocus. Its considered a classic Halloween movie now.
Its funny to hear them say these movies would go nowhere when two of these movies are cult hits
That Carnosaur debate is priceless 😆
How the FUCK did _Robocop 3_ NOT make this list?!?!?!?!?!?? 🤔🤯
Or The Good Son? Or Body of Evidence?
"They try to become a typical American family living in New Jersey."
Oh, I wish them luck with that...
i love my boys trashing hocus pocus. I would have loved to see their reaction to all the glorifying that movie gets today.
That got pretty heated at the end, love it
I'm surprised Siskel or Ebert didn't mentioned Body of Evidence which was released in early 1993. I actually admired the picture despite every major critics hating the film at the time of it's release.
Madonna was Razzie-worthy in that piece of crap! The critics knew what they were talking about when it came to that one.
Amazing Dafoe and Julianne Moore were both in it.]
@@steveconn Surely one of the low points of his career (of course, the other one being Speed 2: Cruise Control).
I would've put that on the list and take Hocus Pocus out.
Gotta admit I loved Cop and a Half....... But I was also 5 when it came out
Cop & a 1/2 was cute. It wasn't belly laughs hilarious, but a charming funny film that relied on a kid acting like a grown up. Carnosaur was also a black comedy satire from Roger. Corman ouvre of Creatures & gore. Diane Ladd weird Scientist performance was indeed the highlight of the film.
I liked the Coneheads. It was amusing to me that the neighbors just accepting them for who they were and called it a day. And David Spade was such a great kiss-ass!
How did John Leguizamo get casted as an Italian in so many movies?
cast
Notice how many bad movies have loud music scores and everyone goes non stop nuts?
Thank you so much for this.
The European version of The Vanishing was one of the best thrillers I’ve ever seen. When I read the review of the American version I never bothered to see it, for pretty much the reasons S&E give here.
Saw both and the European version haunts me to this day and makes me uneasy…while the US bored me.
Honestly, I think the remake works right up to the third act, then it completely falls apart. The performances are compelling, and Sluzier translates the story well...until he's forced to deliver a happy ending. Then it goes straight off the rails and becomes ludicrous.
This was when they started to do the worst films by categories. Cute idea.
it’s July 2024. I am listening to this as i mull around my house. I find a bluray to watch. It is the new VinegarSyndrome edition of Dangerous Game. I open it as Siskel begins to name this film one of the worst of 93. The most ominous coincidence i can think of in recent memory 😬
Ah yes the historic Cop and a Half debate continues.
Ellie Mae on the casting couch?? Interesting idea...
Some of Gene's critiques have aged as well as Harvey Weinstein's career lmao
when he said that i was just like Wow, is that what you really want to see in the Beverly Hillbillies movie?
A good writer could play a scene like that for comedy. Sleazy producer, Ellie Mae not quite getting what he's hinting at, she finally gets it and smacks him, etc.
He has also made criticism in some erotic films like "I didn't think the sex scenes were that hot"
Case in point? That's Erika Eleniak of the "Baywatch" and "Under Siege" fame who plays in the 1993 film
adaptation which was based upon the 1962-1981 Primetime Emmy nominated TV series on CBS.
The film was released by 20th Century Fox in collaboration with SLM Entertainment, Ltd. in Fall 1993
with mixed results for kids alike.
I saw the Hollywood version of The Vanishing shortly after it first came out, and I really liked it. I don't believe my young brain would've accepted the Euro version ending.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who didn't like "Hocus Pocus"!
I have no problem with Hocus Pocus I love Hocus Pocus
I’m in my 30s and rewatched Cop And A Half a few months ago. I’m sure I was aided by nostalgia, but I legitimately laughed several times.
I loved Robin Hood: Men In Tights...enough that it doesn't belong in any worst list... I know I saw it in the theaters over 100 times...only second to Spaceballs...
These two are at their best when they disagree with each other.
I understand the point that Men in Tights wasn't as packed with jokes as Airplane or Naked Gun, but those two are the best parody films of all-time. It's like saying a film isn't quite as good as The Godfather so you put in on the worst list. It was good but not great.
It's the pacing that Gene complained about and he was right. The problem with Brooks' later films is you see every gag coming a mile away.
I stopped watching that after the rapping sequence. That was enough for me.
Men in Tights was god-awful. Mel Brooks had lost it by this point..if he ever had it. I was never a fan.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Gene was right about "Men in Tights" and I found myself nodding. So many jokes landed flat because of the lack of springy comic timing.
@@cherylhulting1301 Mel Brooks could have had a much better film career if he took more chances and stopped dumbing down his material. Instead, he limited himself to Hollywood parodies and his jokes moved at the speed of running molasses.
Old television is so fascinating, I didn't know people were green.
It was a 90s thing.
It’s the quality of the VHS recording.
they're children. they're really witty, intelligent, Pulitzer-Prize-Winning children.
I love it. they really did love each other. they're brothers. and _because_ they were brothers, they didn't hang out, they didn't pal around, and they could REALLY get angry at each other ... because they were brothers.
real brothers, I feel, don't have to constantly needle the fact they're brothers. they just know it. they don't have to hang out because they already are anyway.
the best screen combo of all time, because they were so funny so frequently _on the fly._
even Abbot & Costello had pre-written jokes, right?
best screen duo ever. I stand by that.
or my _favorite,_ anyway. I don't know about qualifying "best", and I don't think anybody does.
It's really no coincidence that the older I get, I find myself agreeing more and more with them, but they do miss sometimes.
Dude, the Vanishing is a great film! That ending gave me nightmares for months.
Watch Coneheads today, the social commentary on immigration in the movie is very relatable for that particular issue in America
It's pretty hard to argue against this list of bad movies.
How I miss these guys and the 90s when movies were truly special.
In the era of streaming, nothing seems special anymore and movies are no longer events. Most movies are throw away anyways (remakes and sequels).
This is why there is no Siskel and Ebert shows now, you don’t have to get off your couch so if you watch a bad film it’s no big deal as you haven’t wasted your money; just your time.
The argument of this two about what film is worse, Carnosaur or Cop and a Half is just epic😂
16:00
Best movie argument in history i swear they go for throat you can see Roger physically pissed at Gene and thats why he hit back i swear i miss these two *Gene synical look lol hilarioud*
_Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ may be one of the worst comedy movies ever made.
it's just _unbelievably_ corny.
and for that, i sort of love it. it's the exact sort of absolutely-unessential garbage dump nonsense to throw on a screen if you're feeling blue.
i mean "Check please?" even in 1993, that phrase was embarrassingly dated. and the fact that a KING says it as his own banquet! ho ho ho! i mean . . . the KING wouldn't be charged at his OWN BANQUET, surely!
pft! lafffff. SO bad. and that makes it great.
. . . . . . in the right mindset, of course. when viewed with the WRONG lenses, it can probably be as obnoxious as it's possible for a movie to be.
I could never imagine being in the right mood for Men In Tights or much of Brooks' comedies post Spaceballs.
I said hey...
I Said Hey!
I thought Brooks "Life Stinks" was worse..kind of dreary.....
@@babybird871 Yeah, it was worse.
Sometimes I wonder about actors who are not Big Stars, who just want and need to work, to make a living, so they have to take whatever piece of crap movie or tv show they can get, it's $$ for food & rent. But then they become the face of the bad movie or show, not the screenwriter and/or director, where the blame usually lies.
There’s an interviews with Tom Sizemore where they run through his IMDb film by film. He doesn’t remember being in half of them and a good portion of the others he only remembers the amount of his paycheck and what debt he needed to pay off at the time.
A throwback to potato quality.
Watch the mentioned original The Vanishing!
I've seen it! It's eerie!
I actually like both versions. The American one isn't that bad, it's mostly good until the end.
Dangerous Games looks terrible.
Funny thing about Vanishing: Sandra Bullock was the missing girlfriend.
How is that funny?
I don't follow.
Did I hear correctly that he said Hocus Pocus was hard to follow?! Or did I just imagine that?