@@encycl07pedia- They were pretty unique. Had a real sense of movies and explanations of why they were worth seeing or not (the genesis of the thumb up or down.) They were also particularly wonderful when the movies were bad, as you can see here.
Fact: when I was working at Staples in San Diego in 2006, Roger Ebert came into my store and asked my associate where to find the red gel ink pens. My head turned the second I heard his voice. It was absolutely him. He then checked out and walked out to a cab. I then went to the cashier and asked if she recognized him. I was like “that was Roger Ebert!” And she was like “who?” I was so disappointed I was the only one who knew who he was in my entire store.
@Nelson Robert Willis I think he's joking because it's a pretty bland story of simply seeing a famous person. It was just weird seeing him at my work in a random neighborhood in San Diego.
So true about the unlikely premise of Cocktail. If I were ever in a bar, and some guy was just dancing around twirling the bottle, I'd shout, "Hey, Nancy Boy! Quit dancing and pour me a fuckin' drink!"
I had a funny reply but it apparently made the censors sad, even though it said nothing offensive. Unless... you're a scientologist. Oh. Okay. Now I get it. Sorry, yt censors. And please tell L.Ron I said "Sorry" too!
Funny thing in 1988 I was out every Fri, Sat, Sun night and some weekday nights on the island of St. Thomas in the USVI when it was a real party town. Cocktail is a joke.
One thing that I really admire about this pair is that in their heyday, they could make or break a film with a single review. So far as I know, they never abused that power.
Yeah they did - Silent Night, Deadly Night is a good example. They hated slasher movies and didn't seem to think people shouldeven be allowed to watch them.
@@sisterdoublehappiness9714 At any rate, no matter how horrible I think a film is - I'd never try to interfere in your right to watch it. Because I'm not an absolute bastard, like these two were. For the record, these two even shat on otherwise critically acclaimed horror films, because they were unable to see past their own prejudices. In terms of film critics, they're literally barely a step up from Armond White or maybe lesser Nostalgia Critic.
@@TheLokiBiz You're angry because I don't like the kind of movies that you like? And you don't even know what kinds of films I like, but you're certain that I have bad taste? Actually, I like sci fi, horror and fantasy. But I'd never accuse you of bad taste because you like something different.
Fun Fact: The club scenes in Cocktail were filmed in the annex of the then recently decommissioned Don Jail in Toronto which had been the site of the last two hangings carried out in canada 25 years before.
Fun Fact: if you slow down the movie at the 56:49 mark, you can see Xenu's face reflected in a shot glass. The Book of Mark, verse 56 chapter 49 says "I beheld a pale horse with a rider, the name of the rider was Death, and but can you move out of the frame, I can only fit one of you in the shot."
My ex mother-in-law gave me Stealing Home as a gift for Christmas because I loved baseball. It made me hate baseball. I wonder if she was aware of this review 🤔
Punchline is a really, really fun bad film to watch with friends. There's this scene where Tom Hanks has a complete meltdown on stage where Hanks kills it as an actor, but tonally it's so out of place that it's unintentionally one of my favorite scenes of all time.
I can remember watching these shows and movies when they were new, crisp, and clear. Now they’re degraded. What even weirder is what’s recorded now will stay crisp forever
I know the critics didn't like the movie 'Punchline' back in the day, but I still think it was a pretty good movie. Tom Hanks was very entertaining and believable as the struggling but, very talented and some what emotionally tortured stand-up comic and the chemistry between him and Sally Field came across as very real and sincere. John Goodman was really good too as the devoted husband of Sally Field who struggles to hold their family together while his wife tries to find her own voice in the realm of stand-up.
Funny, they didn't mention that the two-headed dragon in "Willow" (Eborsisk) was named after them. Perhaps Sisbert would've made it just that more obvious.
In the clip of Punchline right at the beginning of the show (after the opening) an interesting thing: David Pumpkins is talking to a real stand up comic-George Wallace (the black guy with the arm in the cast).
@Nelson Robert Willis Great point Nelson. It was a Dramedy, and I remember they advertised it as a comedy, which REALLY confused people. Everyone thought, Tom Hanks = Comedy. NOPE. I still remember my girlfriend at the time was mad at me for taking me to it. Not kidding.
These two are so missed. it's interesting that are asking for original material and that hollywood only do formulas and it's what they are gonna get two years later with the breakout of independant films starting with Sex, Lies and Videotape in 1990.
I started watching these 2 when they were on PBS. What I loved about them was, they loved movies. I didn't always agree with them, but I respected their opinions.
From what I understand, critics were burned out on fantasy films by 1988, so that probably contributed to them viewing the two films in a harsher light than they might otherwise have.
There were a lot of movies in the late 80s that were objectively bad cinema in the sense of "critics are gonna hate this" that were just a ton of fun for the actual audience. But then again, I was in middle school from 1988 to 1990. I was kind of the demographic for the dumb movies critics hated.
And Burglecut! And holy shit, let's not forget Joanne Walley Kilmer, who was SO GORGEOUS. I've also rarely ever seen love portrayed so convincingly as that between Willow, his wife and their children. Fuck Siskel and Ebert on this one! And Scrooged was brilliant too!
I'm surprised that Siskel & Ebert didn't realize that Willow was also ripping off The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I know it wouldn't be made into a movie until 12 years later, but they had to know about the books.
Was really hoping to see Mac And Me on this list, though I think that one might be too awful for these guys to even have reviewed it in the first place.
Someone on Rotten Tomatoes commented, "Quite possibly one of the worst movies of the past 453 years" to which someone replied, "What was so bad 436 years ago?" hehehehe.
'Mac and Me' was so bad that it didn't rate nor qualify for a review. 'Mac said Me' is a special kind of terrible. I was 9 when I rented the VHS and even knew back then it was bad and I was disappointed in it.
I grew up working in a video store and my coworkers and I had a general rule of thumb that if Siskel & Ebert hated it, it was probably awesome, and if they gave it 2 thumbs up, it was probably a snooze fest. This video was a perfect example. They slandered Scrooged, Cocktail, Willow, Hellraiser II, and Arthur - all great 80s movies.
Hellraiser 2 was awesome when I saw it in the theater. S&E usually pan Horror movies. They are usually biased when reviewing them, which is fine, but to call it one of the worst is a stretch. They seem to always need to relate with one of the main characters to enjoy a movie.
Hellraiser II was actually decent, up until that atrocious scene where what's her name shows Pinhead a picture of himself when he was an officer in the British Army. I recently re-watched it after years of remembering how great of a follow-up that movie as a whole was; then that part came up and I was repulsed at how bad it became all of a sudden.
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@@hamupinhere When this was originally reviewed on the show, Ebert said you could program the scenes in any order like you program songs on a CD player and it wouldn't have made any difference. Totally agree with this assessment!
Willow is good! Maybe not great but definitely not bad. Lead character goes on a heroes journey, recruits allies and escapes his enemies who underestimate him while learning new skills and eventually saving the day. Formulaic sure, but almost none of the set pieces are, and Mad Martigan is awesome!
Just because they're movie critics doesn't mean they're always right. As a matter of fact, there are lots of movies that critics love that audiences hate and vice-versa. Hail, Caesar! was the worst movie I'd ever seen (the parts I was awake for) and it got good reviews.
encycl07pedia “ Just because they’re movie critics doesn’t mean they’re always right.” Well, I don’t think anybody was arguing that. 😛 I think these two get a lot of things wrong when it came to films, but I still love hearing their opinions even when I don’t agree with them. 🙂
“Artoo-Detoo and STEE-threepio.”? Geez Gene, if you’re going to insult a movie, at least get the names right. Willow is still a favorite of mine. It even has a creature called an ‘Ebersisk’, a definite jab at these two.
@@sha11235 Also, it's a b-movie and they tend to only have Hollywood releases on their worst list. Every year could just be awful B-movies, but they have no budgets unlike the films that make their lists.
I dont know..While I was working at a video store in 1989 I use to put Heartbreak Hotel all the time..Havent thought about it in a while now but I would consider this a hidden gem..
Some of it was good…Tom Hanks actually studied with a real comedian and wrote some proper stand-up material. I liked the “Table Man! He solves crimes at dinner for four!” joke. Plus they did cast some actual comics, like Barry Sobel and Max Alexander
I wish you two were firestarter forever 21 years old or 11 and with me cool future today on Earth you definitely defend my free will guys thanks to your parents in trusting you to be what u wanted
It’s ironic they complain about the studios using the same formula over and over. They had 3 versions of their own show sneak previews, at the movies with Siskel and Ebert, and at the movies.
It's Not really the same thing now. Having a review show that has different titles under different production companies and/or networks is not really a recycling a formula the way they do in movies. It's no different then a newcaster having different nightly news shows with different titles over the years. The concept of Siskel and Ebert is pretty basic so changing the title isn't really "recycling" the way making multipack movies about a erupting volcanoes and asteroids threwatening to hit the earth is. In their case, they change the title of their shows when they went from PBS to syndication because of rights issues partly and for marketing purposes.
I personally think that's a damn good reason to have a problem about a movie that glorifies alcoholism... I personally lost my two best friends to drinking, and I can't stand the shit or anybody who indulges in it excessively... I also found cocktail to be completely stupid and an absolute waste of time...go figure, LOL
I would like to see what JON TAFFER of BAR RESCUE fame says about COCKTAIL and ROADHOUSE. I've seen BR plenty of times but no mention of these improbable movies.
I did see Scrooged a lot as a kid, and seeing it as an adult, it could be better (Murray admits, and I agree, that the film kind of ran out of comedy steam by the end). That being said, I think it's still an excellent adaption of A Christmas Carol, and it has a lot of heart to go with the dark humor. The Ghost of Christmas Past scene with young Murray and young Allen opening presents is so warm and heartfelt that I don't know how you can't feel all warm and happy inside about it. So, yeah, it's not perfect but it's FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR from the worst of the year.
Scrooged was good, Willow was passable, and Vibes had enough funny parts that they should not have been on this list. There were many far worse movies with big name stars (mostly comedies) that year.
1. Punch Line 2. Cock tale 3. Stealing home 4. Far north 5. Vibes 6. Last rites 7. Heartbreak hotel 8. Willow Betrayed Hellraiser II Scrooged Arthur 2 on the rocks Hot to trot Rent-a-cop Tiger warsaw
I sincerely miss these guys on Saturday afternoons
I do, too.
I never got to experience them at the time being a 90s kid. I remember Siskel and Ebert thumbs, but never knew they had a show.
They were on Sunday mornings, where I come from.
@@Ian16545 Me, too. Sundays at 11:30 a.m. on WXYZ Detroit.
@@encycl07pedia- They were pretty unique. Had a real sense of movies and explanations of why they were worth seeing or not (the genesis of the thumb up or down.) They were also particularly wonderful when the movies were bad, as you can see here.
These guys had such magical chemistry. Both taken much too soon. We'll never have a duo quite like this ever again.
70 is not that young.
If u watch espn kornheiser and wilbon from pardon the interruption are the sports version of Siskel and Ebert
@@sha11235 Siskel was only 53 when he died.
Two whiners.
@@prezidenttrump5171 Oh, boo-hoo, they didn't like your favorite movie?
Fact: when I was working at Staples in San Diego in 2006, Roger Ebert came into my store and asked my associate where to find the red gel ink pens. My head turned the second I heard his voice. It was absolutely him. He then checked out and walked out to a cab.
I then went to the cashier and asked if she recognized him. I was like “that was Roger Ebert!” And she was like “who?” I was so disappointed I was the only one who knew who he was in my entire store.
No way! Roger would never walk into your store. Not in a 1000 years! You made that up!
@Nelson Robert Willis I think he's joking because it's a pretty bland story of simply seeing a famous person. It was just weird seeing him at my work in a random neighborhood in San Diego.
When in 2006 did this happen? I ask because 2006 is when he was battling cancer for the second time and had several major surgeries to his jaw.
This had to have been before June 2006, because he ended up losing his voice in July due to jaw cancer.
@ Film festival? Maybe that's why he was there.
This was recorded on a dirty 1988 JC Penney toaster.
Here's the baby born in the 2000s
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This is 4K! Amazing! Lol. I actually watched the whole thing.
Recorded in 6 hour mode 📼
It looks like a copy of a copy of a tape. The loss of quality , when doing that in VHS, was brutal
So true about the unlikely premise of Cocktail. If I were ever in a bar, and some guy was just dancing around twirling the bottle, I'd shout, "Hey, Nancy Boy! Quit dancing and pour me a fuckin' drink!"
If I was in that bar, I’d leave.
I had a funny reply but it apparently made the censors sad, even though it said nothing offensive. Unless... you're a scientologist.
Oh. Okay. Now I get it. Sorry, yt censors. And please tell L.Ron I said "Sorry" too!
Funny thing in 1988 I was out every Fri, Sat, Sun night and some weekday nights on the island of St. Thomas in the USVI when it was a real party town. Cocktail is a joke.
I’m with you on that.
"Please yourself first"
Now that's some good advice, Siskel.
this was the year I was born, it is always strangely magical to me to watch things from 1988
i love gene's combover and roger's lego haircut
lego haircut, that's a good one
@@blaisevillaume2225 Yup.
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Of these movies, I've only seen Hot to Trot & Scrooged. Both have Bobcat. I've always liked Scrooged, What About Bob?, and Groundhog's Day.
"Bargain basement Eugene O'Neill". Best line ever! Gene Siskel 1988
I'm surprised Poltergeist III didn't make it, judging by how harsh they were in their review.
I miss these guys, I watched them every weekend
One thing that I really admire about this pair is that in their heyday, they could make or break a film with a single review. So far as I know, they never abused that power.
Yeah they did - Silent Night, Deadly Night is a good example. They hated slasher movies and didn't seem to think people shouldeven be allowed to watch them.
@@TheLokiBiz They appreciated cinematic art. Slasher films are the antithesis of that.
@@sisterdoublehappiness9714 You have bad taste and you should feel bad.
@@sisterdoublehappiness9714 At any rate, no matter how horrible I think a film is - I'd never try to interfere in your right to watch it. Because I'm not an absolute bastard, like these two were. For the record, these two even shat on otherwise critically acclaimed horror films, because they were unable to see past their own prejudices. In terms of film critics, they're literally barely a step up from Armond White or maybe lesser Nostalgia Critic.
@@TheLokiBiz You're angry because I don't like the kind of movies that you like? And you don't even know what kinds of films I like, but you're certain that I have bad taste?
Actually, I like sci fi, horror and fantasy. But I'd never accuse you of bad taste because you like something different.
Forrest Gump and his mother as comedians in a different life.
😂😂😂😂
Horribly unfunny too
Excellent.
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Funny how their complaints about hollywood is so relatable today. No chances taken and only rehashed blockbusters.
People complain about a lot of things "these days" ignorant of the fact that it was the same "back in the day."
@@godmagnus Give me a break, at least 'back in the day' there was something that is completely absent today, originality.
Look bellow the surface instead of just complaining about the good old days. Plenty of fantastic film makers doing great things out there
@@sjdrifter72 Originality never existed. Only your nostalgia does.
@@neilyringworm, name some.
Hollywood would never allow anyone talking trash on their movies on primetime television nowadays. That's why you don't see it.
Thank goodness for print reviews and UA-cam.
You are probably right.
Ah yes, Cocktail: the piercing exposé of the glamorous world of celebrity bartenders.
Fun Fact:
The club scenes in Cocktail were filmed in the annex of the then recently decommissioned Don Jail in Toronto which had been the site of the last two hangings carried out in canada 25 years before.
Ha- cursed movie
Interesting!
Fun Fact: if you slow down the movie at the 56:49 mark, you can see Xenu's face reflected in a shot glass. The Book of Mark, verse 56 chapter 49 says "I beheld a pale horse with a rider, the name of the rider was Death, and but can you move out of the frame, I can only fit one of you in the shot."
@@jayazathoth8530 Interesting.
@@jayazathoth8530 PREACH!
My ex mother-in-law gave me Stealing Home as a gift for Christmas because I loved baseball. It made me hate baseball. I wonder if she was aware of this review 🤔
Probably not, a friend was gifted a copy of Slap Shot 2.
Hahah. Stupid flick
Punchline is a really, really fun bad film to watch with friends. There's this scene where Tom Hanks has a complete meltdown on stage where Hanks kills it as an actor, but tonally it's so out of place that it's unintentionally one of my favorite scenes of all time.
Punchline, the touching story of Forrest Gump teaching his mother how to become a standup comedian.
Where's Caddyshack 2?
'Caddyshack 2' is out in the cold with 'Mac and Me.'
Willow being on their list hurts my heart.
Omg!! Me too!! That was such an amazing movie !! I distrust anyone who doesn’t agree!! Lol
@@lsimon343 then you have trust issues
As does Scrooged. Loved it then and still watch it yearly.
I can remember watching these shows and movies when they were new, crisp, and clear. Now they’re degraded. What even weirder is what’s recorded now will stay crisp forever
What’s recorded today may be downsampled, taken offline and never seen again. Nothing is permanent.
Any Elisabeth Shue movie in the 80's good or bad , I had to watch!!
Same.
Me too. With one hand ✋
@@ABQSkywatcher that is TMI but I understand that completely LOL!
@@bakedbeansgangstajones3937
Back in my day we didn't have no fancy internet.
@@ABQSkywatcher was born in 1970 so I know what you mean!
Amazing. 6 years later Hanks and Field would go on to make one of the greatest films in their generation.
Forrest Gump
Thanks for putting this up.
I know the critics didn't like the movie 'Punchline' back in the day, but I still think it was a pretty good movie. Tom Hanks was very entertaining and believable as the struggling but, very talented and some what emotionally tortured stand-up comic and the chemistry between him and Sally Field came across as very real and sincere. John Goodman was really good too as the devoted husband of Sally Field who struggles to hold their family together while his wife tries to find her own voice in the realm of stand-up.
Nah, its not. It's not funny nor informative.
S and E are getting me through the pandemic!
Funny, they didn't mention that the two-headed dragon in "Willow" (Eborsisk) was named after them. Perhaps Sisbert would've made it just that more obvious.
Was its name mentioned in the film? I don't recall it.
@@sha11235 And General Kael being named after Pauline Kael, another film critic.
If they thought Scrooged was bad they should see any movie made now days.
Remember these guys liked speed 2
Spoken like a man who tells people to get off his lawn a lot.
@@godmagnus it's not your lawn. Get off of it! What's so hard about understanding that?
In the clip of Punchline right at the beginning of the show (after the opening) an interesting thing: David Pumpkins is talking to a real stand up comic-George Wallace (the black guy with the arm in the cast).
There are several actual comedians in the movie: Barry Sobel and Rita Rutner, who coached the actors...
@Nelson Robert Willis Great point Nelson. It was a Dramedy, and I remember they advertised it as a comedy, which REALLY confused people. Everyone thought, Tom Hanks = Comedy. NOPE. I still remember my girlfriend at the time was mad at me for taking me to it. Not kidding.
Someone needs to do an HD release of the full siskel and ebert series.
These two are so missed. it's interesting that are asking for original material and that hollywood only do formulas and it's what they are gonna get two years later with the breakout of independant films starting with Sex, Lies and Videotape in 1990.
SL&V came out September, 1989.
I loved Scroodged and Willow when I was a kid.
I still do.
Scrooged was awful.
Thanks for reminding me of some of my favorites.
That Hippy Shake Shake (which is the song playing) bar scene shown from Cocktail is the only scene I truly liked about that movie.
More than seeing the gorgeous Elizabeth Shue topless in the water scene?
That's optional.
To say this movie sucked would be an understatement.
I really liked "Don`t Worry Be Happy"..though it was only on a few seconds..
I started watching these 2 when they were on PBS. What I loved about them was, they loved movies. I didn't always agree with them, but I respected their opinions.
"And what's worse, a talking man. Bobcat Goldwaith." Oh that is so true. The most migraine inducing comedian of all-time!!
Damn good director though.
Disagree on Willow. Saw this in the theatre when I was six years old and it was the greatest movie on the planet.
Willow and Scrooged??!! ....ok, so sometimes even legends like S&E get it wrong sometimes.
From what I understand, critics were burned out on fantasy films by 1988, so that probably contributed to them viewing the two films in a harsher light than they might otherwise have.
There were a lot of movies in the late 80s that were objectively bad cinema in the sense of "critics are gonna hate this" that were just a ton of fun for the actual audience.
But then again, I was in middle school from 1988 to 1990. I was kind of the demographic for the dumb movies critics hated.
Roeper gave Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring a thumbs down
@@jkadoodle Guess that's why he spends his time in obscurity these days.
Willow stinks. SCROOGED is inspired
They gave Willow and Scrooged a thumbs down?!? That's the worst mistake I've ever seen them make in the entire history of Siskel and Ebert.
You sound like a moron.
Scrooged is a lot of fun and Willow is worth watching just for Warwick Davis.
I liked Bill Murray's final speech in SCROOGED.
MrKaywyn I didn’t know the leprechaun was in Willow!! Mind blown, i’m watching it tonight
I didn't see Scrooged anywhere in this video! [
And Burglecut! And holy shit, let's not forget Joanne Walley Kilmer, who was SO GORGEOUS. I've also rarely ever seen love portrayed so convincingly as that between Willow, his wife and their children. Fuck Siskel and Ebert on this one! And Scrooged was brilliant too!
@@Blaqjaqshellaq wow, I thought I was the only person who really liked this!
I'm surprised that Siskel & Ebert didn't realize that Willow was also ripping off The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I know it wouldn't be made into a movie until 12 years later, but they had to know about the books.
I love that they said the movie was ripping off Romancing The Stone, when that itself was an Indiana Jones rip-off lol
but it sucked... that;s the problem, skippy.
Oh man. I loved Willow when I was a kid
I love Willow! OUT OF THE WAY PECK!
peck peck peck peck peck peck.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug
@@jayazathoth8530 Or maybe the film is just good.
Help! Somebody! There's....there's a peck with an acorn pointed at me!
Was really hoping to see Mac And Me on this list, though I think that one might be too awful for these guys to even have reviewed it in the first place.
Someone on Rotten Tomatoes commented, "Quite possibly one of the worst movies of the past 453 years" to which someone replied, "What was so bad 436 years ago?" hehehehe.
I don't think they did. Hot to Trot wasn't reviewed on the show either, but Gene must've seen it separately and decided to put it on there.
'Mac and Me' was so bad that it didn't rate nor qualify for a review. 'Mac said Me' is a special kind of terrible. I was 9 when I rented the VHS and even knew back then it was bad and I was disappointed in it.
3:01 Cocktail! As soon as I saw the title that film popped into my mind.
I grew up working in a video store and my coworkers and I had a general rule of thumb that if Siskel & Ebert hated it, it was probably awesome, and if they gave it 2 thumbs up, it was probably a snooze fest. This video was a perfect example. They slandered Scrooged, Cocktail, Willow, Hellraiser II, and Arthur - all great 80s movies.
Ive been to a lot of bars in a lot of places but, ive never been to one where every single woman there was beautiful with out exception.
One person did have a brand new VCR
Tf, Scrooged is my favorite Christmas movie
Hellraiser 2 was awesome when I saw it in the theater. S&E usually pan Horror movies. They are usually biased when reviewing them, which is fine, but to call it one of the worst is a stretch. They seem to always need to relate with one of the main characters to enjoy a movie.
Hellraiser II was actually decent, up until that atrocious scene where what's her name shows Pinhead a picture of himself when he was an officer in the British Army. I recently re-watched it after years of remembering how great of a follow-up that movie as a whole was; then that part came up and I was repulsed at how bad it became all of a sudden.
@@hamupinhere When this was originally reviewed on the show, Ebert said you could program the scenes in any order like you program songs on a CD player and it wouldn't have made any difference. Totally agree with this assessment!
And no one has come forth to carry on the power that was Siskel & Ebert. Wow! That speaks volumes! 😱
I don't know who owns the rights to the show, but why haven't they released any sort of DVD compilation of these two? I'd buy it in a heartbeat 🥺
Willow is good! Maybe not great but definitely not bad.
Lead character goes on a heroes journey, recruits allies and escapes his enemies who underestimate him while learning new skills and eventually saving the day. Formulaic sure, but almost none of the set pieces are, and Mad Martigan is awesome!
Harkness78 I agree completely. Couldn’t believe how much they hated it.
I still miss these two though. 😛
Just because they're movie critics doesn't mean they're always right. As a matter of fact, there are lots of movies that critics love that audiences hate and vice-versa.
Hail, Caesar! was the worst movie I'd ever seen (the parts I was awake for) and it got good reviews.
encycl07pedia “ Just because they’re movie critics doesn’t mean they’re always right.”
Well, I don’t think anybody was arguing that. 😛
I think these two get a lot of things wrong when it came to films, but I still love hearing their opinions even when I don’t agree with them. 🙂
Willow was very poorly reviewed and was a box office flop on its release. It wasn’t just these 2.
Awful
“Artoo-Detoo and STEE-threepio.”?
Geez Gene, if you’re going to insult a movie, at least get the names right.
Willow is still a favorite of mine. It even has a creature called an ‘Ebersisk’, a definite jab at these two.
Imagine back to a simpler time, when a film about a priest breaking his vows of chastity with an adult woman was considered offensive.
1988 was weird as a kid, I was watching Willow and Hellraiser 2, I don't even think I was in Kindergarten yet!
NO MAC & ME?!!!!
They didn't see it.
lucky.....
@@sha11235 Also, it's a b-movie and they tend to only have Hollywood releases on their worst list. Every year could just be awful B-movies, but they have no budgets unlike the films that make their lists.
@@Paulafan5 I think they wanted the show to get ratings and figured audiences would be too bored if they only reviewed obscure films that no one saw.
I dont know..While I was working at a video store in 1989 I use to put Heartbreak Hotel all the time..Havent thought about it in a while now but I would consider this a hidden gem..
If you say so
The stand-up comedy in Punch Line is painfully unfunny.
@ Not as bad as Bonfire of the Vanities.
@ A prime example of how not to cast a movie. Tom Hanks was completely wrong for Sherman McCoy.
@ At least Tom made *Big* that year!
Some of it was good…Tom Hanks actually studied with a real comedian and wrote some proper stand-up material. I liked the “Table Man! He solves crimes at dinner for four!” joke. Plus they did cast some actual comics, like Barry Sobel and Max Alexander
Cocktail is fun to watch. But their criticism is more than fair...
Brillemeister - it’s a strange movie for me. I don’t really like it, but got some reason find it entertaining.
"A movie based on Mark Harmon staring off into space..."
He was actually imagining one day being worth $100 million. Which he is.
Oh My God!
I'd love to see the Best of 1988
Well, I'm glad you uploaded it, but I feel like I'm seeing this through Ebert's glasses. Why does 88 look worse than 87?
Vhs copies
More like seeing it without eberts glasses
This video may actually have reached the half pixel frontier Lol. Still great to watch these guys.
Can't believe you put scrooged on the list
And you put cocktail 🍸 on the list damn you siskel and Ebert
no Poltergeist III?
Well, they pick on big films. Maybe that one wasn't worth it.
Their complaints about people saying *Carol Anne* in that movie was stupid
@@dnasty312 Sadly to say, that's Heather O'Rourke's final film role.
I have always liked cocktail and bevily hills cop 2. Not even close to bad movies.
daveruda You're definitely in the minority there.
omg but tom hanks and sally fields make a great mother and son duo
As a former kid I confirm, I loved Willow and hadn't seen Star Wars yet
scrooged and willow were fantastic
Well, not that bad anyway.
I loved them too...🙂
I wish you two were firestarter forever 21 years old or 11 and with me cool future today on Earth you definitely defend my free will guys thanks to your parents in trusting you to be what u wanted
5:26 - and there'd be even MORE of them in the NEXT year (89) - Major League and Field Of Dreams).
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"Willow" does NOT belong on the worst movies list!
I couldn’t agree more! I still enjoy that movie! 😃
Willow is Wicket the ewok, as Luke Skywalker.
He is also in the movie Ray. He gets Ray high before his 1st gig.
It’s ironic they complain about the studios using the same formula over and over. They had 3 versions of their own show sneak previews, at the movies with Siskel and Ebert, and at the movies.
It's Not really the same thing now. Having a review show that has different titles under different production companies and/or networks is not really a recycling a formula the way they do in movies. It's no different then a newcaster having different nightly news shows with different titles over the years. The concept of Siskel and Ebert is pretty basic so changing the title isn't really "recycling" the way making multipack movies about a erupting volcanoes and asteroids threwatening to hit the earth is. In their case, they change the title of their shows when they went from PBS to syndication because of rights issues partly and for marketing purposes.
Can you post the Worst Of 1989?
Ebert disliked Cocktail in part because he had a huge problem with alcohol in the seventies, which he got treatment for.
No, he has liked films about drunks. He just didn't like this film.
I personally think that's a damn good reason to have a problem about a movie that glorifies alcoholism... I personally lost my two best friends to drinking, and I can't stand the shit or anybody who indulges in it excessively... I also found cocktail to be completely stupid and an absolute waste of time...go figure, LOL
He said that Cruise and Brown would get fired for taking too long to mix drinks and that patrons would get tired of their showboating.
@@williamshaw9047 Damn!
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I would like to see what JON TAFFER of BAR RESCUE fame says about COCKTAIL and ROADHOUSE. I've seen BR plenty of times but no mention of these improbable movies.
I love Vibes, Scrooged and Willow.
Poltergeist III & Short Circuit 2 should have been on their lists.
I love willow :(
with their absolute disdain for mindless slasher movies I was really expecting child's play to be on here
Ebert liked Child's Play.
Yeah, Roger liked Child's Play a little. Gene had a complete distaste for children in danger, so he disliked all the Child's Play movies.
Roger missed BAD DREAMS as one of worst movies of 1988. That movie really pissed him off.
Stealing Home was an underrated movie.
Underrated like Gotti starring Travolta was underrated right
Maybe it's a miracle my phone is self charging not even plugged in cool
Even gang money they told me build their businesses
In the tax paying communities how long hiding the truth families gotta survive
Ok Scrooged wasn't great but one of the worst of 1988? I think that's a bit of a stretch.
I know, I loved Scrooged.
Oh yeah...one of the worst...
You are right, kids cannot comprehend how bad it is and I know a lot of movies I saw as a kid and I could not even sit through it now
Really? I rather enjoyed that film.
I did see Scrooged a lot as a kid, and seeing it as an adult, it could be better (Murray admits, and I agree, that the film kind of ran out of comedy steam by the end). That being said, I think it's still an excellent adaption of A Christmas Carol, and it has a lot of heart to go with the dark humor. The Ghost of Christmas Past scene with young Murray and young Allen opening presents is so warm and heartfelt that I don't know how you can't feel all warm and happy inside about it. So, yeah, it's not perfect but it's FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR from the worst of the year.
Scrooged was good, Willow was passable, and Vibes had enough funny parts that they should not have been on this list.
There were many far worse movies with big name stars (mostly comedies) that year.
LOL, brutal but mostly accurate. Never did watch Punchline, I must have sensed it was awful. Think I saw Cocktail in the theater though.
You sensed right--Punchline WAS awful. AVOID.
1. Punch Line
2. Cock tale
3. Stealing home
4. Far north
5. Vibes
6. Last rites
7. Heartbreak hotel
8. Willow
Betrayed
Hellraiser II
Scrooged
Arthur 2 on the rocks
Hot to trot
Rent-a-cop
Tiger warsaw
.... and now they are rebooting Spiderman for the hundredth time... Hollywood is DEAD....
7 films in 18 years?!
Spider-man movies make a ton of money. He's one of the most popular superheroes and doesn't need an entire cinematic universe to do massive business.
At 20:38 my phone’s tracking went haywire.
This is what 46 and 42 year-olds looked like in 1988 FYI
Hi War Guild, I dropped the "and" in the link above, as you probably know.
An new phenomenon
Brian from Family Guy (the dog) actually liked this movie!!
sorry he liked COCKTAIL