Siskel & Ebert Review - The Brinks Job, Hardcore, The Warriors, Quintet, The Great Train Robbery

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  • @smithb0134
    @smithb0134 Рік тому +17

    When Gene and Roger find a consensus on a film, I usually agree about 90% of the time, however "The Warriors" would be one of the films that fall in the 10%. It’s basically a stylized contemporary Spaghetti Western full of flawed antiheros but you can't help but cheer them on, hoping they make it to their home turf. In short, it's a good film that has been given CLASSIC status.
    "Siskel and Ebert come out to play, Siskel and Ebert come out to play."

  • @Tolstoy111
    @Tolstoy111 Рік тому +14

    Ebert admitted a few years later that he underrated The Warriors.

  • @lowbridge7070
    @lowbridge7070 2 роки тому +18

    Saw The Warriors when it originally came out in the movie theaters in 1979. I was 10 years old.
    Saw it with my then best friend (same age as me). The one thing we truly shared was our love for the movies. We were both fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies. And we went to the movies together once a week for a lot of years from the 1970s-1980s. He always chose the movie we would go to see. I didn't mind. I loved the movie theater going experience in itself. When we weren't going to the movies, we were watching more movies on his tv at his apartment (and yes, we religiously watched Siskel and Ebert on his tv every week).
    There was no particular reason my friend chose The Warriors to see that week. We tried to see every brand new movie that came out as best we could regardless of the genre (he loved horror films, I preferred comedy), the plot and storyline, who starred in it, etc. And The Warriors just happened to be one of the new movies that just came out.
    My friend LOVED The Warriors. On the other hand, while I could see it was a good movie and a crowd pleaser, I didn't like it because I was a young coward and I was put off by all the violence (though I never admitted that to my friend. For all he knew, I liked and was entertained by the movie too).
    Going to the movies every week with my then best friend in the 1970s-1980s is among my most fondest, happiest memories of not only my childhood, but also of my entire life

  • @xdmaster7888
    @xdmaster7888 2 роки тому +45

    2 things about THE WARRIORS: they got a simple fact wrong about Mercy, she wasn't kidnapped at all but wanted to help the Warriors and spend more time with the charismatic Swan (who actually spent most of the movie trying to drive her away by being mean to her). The other thing is that I never disagreed more with S&E on a review than with this movie. THE WARRIORS is one of the best action films ever made.

    • @nicktaylor2657
      @nicktaylor2657 2 роки тому +2

      Who cares 🤨

    • @jennifersman7990
      @jennifersman7990 2 роки тому +7

      Very much so, S&E used to do an occasional show where they revisited a film they’d reviewed before. I’ll bet if they’d revisited Warriors they’d have a much different opinion

    • @monsieurdel
      @monsieurdel Рік тому +3

      No it's not... it is terrible!!! They both got it right. The most overrated "cult film" of all time!!!

    • @trump-totalwar6509
      @trump-totalwar6509 Рік тому +1

      @@monsieurdel based on the story March of the ten thousand by xenophon its OK. Some of the gangs were silly though.

    • @imcallingjapan2178
      @imcallingjapan2178 Рік тому +3

      "THE WARRIORS is one of the best action films ever made." Lol, you're high as a kite. I like it for what it was, and as Ebert pointed out it had something fascinating about the weird world it showed briefly but it was so stylized and outlandish, it was like how a 12 year old living anywhere except NY might imagine Noo Yawk streetgangs used to be in the late 70s, early 80s. It was basically a fantasy

  • @philster1883
    @philster1883 Рік тому +9

    The Warriors is an update of the Ancient Greek tale by Xenophon titled The Anabasis, about 10,000 Greek mercenaries who find themselves trapped inside Persia after their Persian ally dies during a battle that they won. Surrounded by 100,000 Persian soldiers, they are forced to fight their way back home. Xenophon was the general who fought the rear guard action. It's a true story and an excellent read.

  • @kennethfranconero4844
    @kennethfranconero4844 2 роки тому +10

    Do NOT hate on The Warriors.

  • @colonelkilling2425
    @colonelkilling2425 2 роки тому +8

    Maybe because they're from Chicago, they didn't get The Warriors, the only movie still remembered today. If they only rode the NYC subway a few times.

  • @newwavepop
    @newwavepop 3 роки тому +11

    i think "Hardcore" is a very good gritty movie that should be remembered more than it is. and "The Warriors" is literally my favorite film of all time, i guess neither of them get it. just as i dont get it when they rave and gush over some French film or something.

    • @ryanjacobson2508
      @ryanjacobson2508 2 роки тому +3

      You have to watch the Warriors as a young lad to really get it. It's a tribute to young dude bravado. It's a very primal movie, nothing really deep or cerebral in it so if you try to think too much about the movie you're missing the point.

  • @brgreg8725
    @brgreg8725 2 роки тому +19

    The funny thing is only The Warriors is remembered now.

    • @rdoyle29
      @rdoyle29 2 роки тому +3

      Tell all the people posting the George C. Scott meme that they don't remember "Hardcore".

    • @brgreg8725
      @brgreg8725 2 роки тому +1

      @@rdoyle29 nah, you can. Idgas

    • @kali3665
      @kali3665 Рік тому +2

      @@brgreg8725 We remember both films because of the memes. And MST3K always riffing "TURN IT OFF!!" whenever appropriate.

  • @doloreswallin4381
    @doloreswallin4381 2 роки тому +24

    The Warriors was terrific.

    • @dreamquesttv
      @dreamquesttv 2 роки тому +2

      They just didn't dig it.

    • @monsieurdel
      @monsieurdel Рік тому +1

      No it's not... it was messy trash.

  • @giantELF
    @giantELF Рік тому +4

    For those shocked at their review of The Warriors -- it was critically panned by most mainstream critics at the time. And Roger didn't say it was a bad film but an unsuccessful one and unrealistic. (Not sure why that was such an issue.) Roger later took back some of his criticisms of it.

  • @anthonyv1719
    @anthonyv1719 2 роки тому +7

    They missed the boat on WARRIORS.

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens Рік тому +3

    Im surprised they watched North Avenue Irregulars. It was such a minor flick in the Disney library. I liked it, didnt know anyone else had even seen it.

  • @TTM9691
    @TTM9691 3 роки тому +7

    "The Great Train Robbery" is a great movie, a real forgotten gem, I highly recommend anyone out there to check it out. Ebert liked it, Siskel didn't love it.....I think it's aged very well. Connery's second best 1970s performance after "The Man Who Would Be King", and Donald Sutherland is very funny. It came out the same month as "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers", so he had quite a month in 1978! The look of the film is great, and the action is great. Connery clearly does his own stunts, running on the top of the train and hanging off it, really great. "The Brinks Job" is also a really good forgotten gem which finds Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield and Gena Rowlands all acting their asses off. Two great caper movies from the 70s. PS: Siskel comparing "Great Train Robbery" to "Seven Per Cent Solution"....."Great Train Robbery" has aged much better. As far as "The Warriors" is concerned, people shouldn't be all butt-hurt about it; it's a cult movie. It's a so-bad-it's-entertaining movie. We watched it because it was on late at night on cable, not because it was a great movie. I understand it's cult status, but why you are shocked it got thumbs' down is beyond me. That's why it's a cult movie, duh. It's had a life despite being a critical and commercial bomb.

    • @ernestolombardo5811
      @ernestolombardo5811 2 роки тому +1

      _Connery's second best 1970s performance after "The Man Who Would Be King"_
      "Robin & Marion" is up there, way up there, too.

    • @ryanjacobson2508
      @ryanjacobson2508 2 роки тому +2

      The Warriors is not a bad movie. It's a (deliberately) exaggerated portrayal of youth machismo that at times feels like a rock music video, which in 1979 was quite innovative and the movie still feels a lot more vibrant and exciting than a lot of other 70s movies. "cult classic"? It was a major hit upon initial release but charged up teenagers kept getting into fights and raising hell to the point that Paramount was forced to stop advertising the movie and some theaters stopped showing the movie. I don't think any action movie before or since was so associated with real life violence.

    • @TTM9691
      @TTM9691 2 роки тому +1

      @@ryanjacobson2508 I've seen the movie a bunch of times (usually out of boredom), it was never a great movie, and I'll take LOTS of other 70s movies over "The Warriors", give me a break. I'm not a thumbsucker who is under the hilariously dopey impression that movies didn't get good until the silly 80s, when accountants and lawyers took over the entertainment business. If you want real action, you watch silent movies, not crap from the 80s-present. I require more than just fast cutting and generic movie music. As far as The Warriors, I'll repeat: it should be a shock to no one other than abject morons that Siskel and Ebert didn't celebrate the movie. It's not that great. Not that they couldn't pan a great movie, or celebrate a good one, but if you're talking greatest movies of the 70s, "The Warriors" doesn't even make the top twenty.

    • @trump-totalwar6509
      @trump-totalwar6509 Рік тому

      @@TTM9691 warriors not a great movie but entertaining. Would have made more money if it had not inspired so much real life violence.

  • @RobertPaulGass
    @RobertPaulGass Рік тому +4

    The Warriors is awesome. You just can't take it too seriously.

  • @timothylewis2527
    @timothylewis2527 Рік тому +2

    This series shows off so many movies I never even knew existed--but I'm definitely going to go out of my way to find!

  • @TheNameisPlissken1981
    @TheNameisPlissken1981 3 роки тому +8

    The Brinks Job is a comedy gem. No one talks about this film any more. One of Billy Friedkin's best. Hardcore and Warriors are great films too

    • @mandolindleyroadshow706
      @mandolindleyroadshow706 3 роки тому +2

      William Friedkin's third best film after The French Connection, Sorcerer and The Exorcist. Sad it is unknown and unloved. Even Friedkin doesn't acknowledge it.

    • @TheNameisPlissken1981
      @TheNameisPlissken1981 3 роки тому +2

      @@mandolindleyroadshow706 Also, Sorcerer and To Live & Die in LA. Two more great Billy Friedkin films.

    • @mandolindleyroadshow706
      @mandolindleyroadshow706 3 роки тому +1

      @@TheNameisPlissken1981 Yep. Great movies. I own just about all of his work. Including The Birthday Party.

    • @YouTube-tied
      @YouTube-tied Рік тому

      The Brink's Job is a good film but it isn't a comedy. It has a couple of amusing moments and the preview(and scene shown here with the gumballs) promoted it as a comedy but it's actually a pretty dark and depressing crime flick.

    • @YouTube-tied
      @YouTube-tied Рік тому

      @@mandolindleyroadshow706 The Brink's Job is a good film but it isn't a comedy. It has a couple of amusing moments and the preview(and scene shown here with the gumballs) promoted it as a comedy but it's actually a pretty dark and depressing crime flick.

  • @distinguishedflyer
    @distinguishedflyer Рік тому +3

    A pretty impressive lineup that week: The Brinks Job, The Great Train Robbery, Hardcore & The Warriors are all quite good (and the first two not nearly as well-remembered now as they should be).

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens Рік тому +3

    The Great Train Robbery was so good it didnt get much appreciation when it was new. Its aged much better than most films. For one thing the females are not props, they have brains and hearts and arent wimps.

  • @robcop993
    @robcop993 Рік тому +3

    Two down thumbs for The Warriors? Siskel and Ebert were not always right, and this edition of their show was a perfect example of that notion. They panned both the Warriors and The Wanderers from that year. Gene, however, did change his opinion on The Wanderers. Pauline Kael gave The Warriors a rave review in the New Yorker magazine. I remember that the producers of the film paid for a complete reprint of her three-page review in a full page ad in the New York Times. Almost unheard of at the time. The Warriors is in my top-five favorite films of all time, tied (appropriately) with The Wanderers for fith place.

  • @joesimon2029
    @joesimon2029 2 роки тому +4

    Hardcore would make a great double feature with Cruising ! Well made, sleazy , Hollywood budget BOMBS with followings & fans even today.

  • @WEK-kh8gd
    @WEK-kh8gd Рік тому +2

    Just watched The Great Train Robbery and found it excellent.

  • @wotdoesthisbuttondo
    @wotdoesthisbuttondo Рік тому +2

    Interesting that Scorsese threw in unsubtle direction of the viewer not to watch Johnny Carson, did the Tonight Show think he was too creepy for the audience or something?

  • @grudgerun
    @grudgerun 2 роки тому +4

    Ebert going full lumberjack

  • @kali3665
    @kali3665 Рік тому +1

    Funny thing about Hardcore and Warriors is I mostly remember them these days from MST3K using certain lines as riffs. From Hardcore, we get George C Scott's "Turn it off! Turn it OFF! TURN IT OFF!" frequently, and, from Warriors, we of course get the famed "Warriors! Come out and plaaaay!!" And I don't think I've seen either film.

  • @lanagorgeous9485
    @lanagorgeous9485 Рік тому +4

    It's funny how middle age people view movies. I saw this when it came out and I must have been like 17 and I loved it and so did my friends. We esp loved the ending 😊😊. But we did hate it when the leader of the warriors got killed in the beginning.

  • @emanuellawton7942
    @emanuellawton7942 Рік тому +1

    How did "The Great Train Robbery" and "The Warriors" get reviewed on the same show they were released in 1978 and 1979 respectively?

    • @lowbridge7070
      @lowbridge7070 Рік тому

      They were released pretty close to each other. The great train robbery was released on December 14 1978 and Warriors was released on Feb. 9 1979.

  • @frankpalancio8471
    @frankpalancio8471 Рік тому +3

    Warriors: cult classic, and very entertaining in a campy way.

  • @stanterrell3632
    @stanterrell3632 2 роки тому +17

    The Warriors is a classic they missed the mark on this one.

    • @seanberry2652
      @seanberry2652 2 роки тому +4

      Agreed a classic. But their review rang true on the notes a critic rates a movie on. But fans rule, our opinions matter most. I love The Warriors.

    • @jorel6745
      @jorel6745 2 роки тому +2

      @@seanberry2652 I don't consider it a classic but I'll watch it time and time again. They both got it right though.

    • @monsieurdel
      @monsieurdel Рік тому +1

      No it's not a classic, it's terrible.

    • @Shadowman4710
      @Shadowman4710 Рік тому

      @@monsieurdel Says you.

  • @ryanjacobson2508
    @ryanjacobson2508 2 роки тому +7

    Notice how the Warriors is the movie that does the best at avoiding the notorious yellow/brown 70's look. It's a great looking movie.

    • @vjspectron
      @vjspectron Рік тому

      Interesting point, looking back at a lot of the movies they review you really see how visually unappealing most were back then. As a typical example: the clip they use from "Quintet" begins with a shot so slow, plodding and "yellow/brown" that it's almost unwatchable. B&W is at least an interesting contrast, but this is like sun-dried mud; like the visual equivalent of the smell of a chain-smoker's old Oldsmobile.

    • @monsieurdel
      @monsieurdel Рік тому

      No, it's not.

    • @Shadowman4710
      @Shadowman4710 Рік тому

      @@monsieurdel Yes it is,

  • @mkrake2429
    @mkrake2429 Рік тому

    I just watched The Brink's Job today. It's a fun and entertaining crime film. I would liken it in tone to something like the original The Lady Killers and The Lavender Hill Mob. Definitely an underrated film from the 1970s and one of Friedkin's best.

  • @geoycs
    @geoycs Рік тому +1

    Warriors was totally fun!!!

  • @luke9648
    @luke9648 Рік тому +2

    I like Gene Siskel well enough, but sometimes he's a real punk. The Warriors is an amazing film.

  • @towerman123
    @towerman123 2 роки тому

    "The Great Train Robbery" and "Hardcore" both came out in 1978.So how did they get to be reviewed on the same show as "The Warriors"which came out in 1979?

  • @lanagorgeous9485
    @lanagorgeous9485 9 місяців тому

    What I find is kids like kids movies and adults have a hard time and vice versa. For instance when I was young I saw the movie 10 and thought it was stupid, but they both gave it thumbs up. Now I plan on watching it again as a 60 plus year old and I bet I'll like it this time. Too bad there were no kid movie critics back in the day

  • @johnmiller5679
    @johnmiller5679 2 роки тому +5

    The Warriors is adult classic and maybe if these guys realized that is what it was going for they could have been more understanding. The films that got thumbs up on this list I doubt anyone remembers but The Warriors we all remember💔

    • @monsieurdel
      @monsieurdel Рік тому +1

      No, the movie was awful and they got it right...

    • @Shadowman4710
      @Shadowman4710 Рік тому

      @@monsieurdel Did you spam every thread on here?

  • @philipcohen7192
    @philipcohen7192 2 роки тому +4

    I’m so disappointed that they both didn’t like the warriors. One of my favorite movies.

  • @wolfwilliams
    @wolfwilliams 2 роки тому +4

    Some of you commenting here can't possibly think 'Warriors' is good movie-making. You might enjoy it, for whatever reasons, but you can't argue that it's a well-made film.

    • @ryanjacobson2508
      @ryanjacobson2508 2 роки тому +4

      It is well made, though. Walter Hill knew exactly what he was doing, a stylized tribute to macho young bravado. You my friend have not seen enough lame brained, barely in focus, monotone acted B movies to understand what a bad movie movie really is.

    • @artsyvideo
      @artsyvideo Рік тому +1

      It has some very unique stylish things which apparently is enough to make some people fall in love with it. Yes a lot of the acting is bland, and the emptiness of the subways and the action scenes with the cops screamed "ametuer filmmaking" to me, but in other ways was reminiscent of classics like West- Side-Story and Duel and even Gangs of New York. It totally falls in the category of "you'll have to watch it for yourself and see if it does it for you"

  • @crystalshaw8744
    @crystalshaw8744 Рік тому

    Should've had Siskel and Ebert " come out and play "...smile

  • @sharkusvelarde
    @sharkusvelarde Рік тому +2

    Well, they got The Warriors wrong!

    • @Shadowman4710
      @Shadowman4710 Рік тому

      They got a lot of stuff wrong. Siskel hated "Bladerunner."

  • @williamhicks7736
    @williamhicks7736 11 місяців тому

    Man, did they miss the boat on The Warriors!
    That movie is still being analyzed…. Rob Ager over at Collative Learning has done a couple nice videos on it…. I’ve seen others…

  • @wetwilly01
    @wetwilly01 Рік тому

    They respected each other in this intro.

  • @WilliamHerlihy-p4g
    @WilliamHerlihy-p4g 7 місяців тому

    I am continually amused when viewers are upset that critics dont like every film they like. Both Siskel and Ebert explained what they didnt like about The Warriors. I havent read a single comment here that explains why some of you do like it...just varying levels of outrage that they dont agree with you. Thats what separates the pros from the amateurs.

  • @TheJameslehr
    @TheJameslehr 2 місяці тому

    The Warriors inspired by The Anabasis (aka The Greek Expedition, The Retreat, etc.) written by XENOPHON 2400 years ago. The far past meets the recent present. The author Sol Yurick perhaps getting a hint of an idea from James Joyce's Ulysses goes on to write The Warriors in 1966. He has a gang dead center of Brooklyn having to desperately seek their Trebizon, in this case Coney Island, but they're going to have to deal with every gang that stands in their way. Can you dig it?!? ....Caaan you dig it?!? .....CAAAAAN YOOOOOOU DIGGGG ITT?!? Well apparently Gene coudn't. *** Also some disclosure from me: I've read everything by Xenophon. Not easy to get thru at times but glad I stayed the course.

  • @hmdwgf
    @hmdwgf Рік тому +2

    TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF!!!

  • @timmyp34
    @timmyp34 11 місяців тому +1

    I remember liking The Warriors at the time. Bt now Gene was right, terrible acting and where are the other people in NYC? Oh, look out, that gangster has a revolver, oh no!

  • @sockchoy
    @sockchoy Рік тому

    Hardcore 7:33

  • @crystalshaw8744
    @crystalshaw8744 Рік тому

    People paid to see some of these movies!?

  • @GizmoFromPizmo
    @GizmoFromPizmo Рік тому +1

    I liked Peter Faulk movies and shows but his speech impediment was very distracting.

  • @spencerrode215
    @spencerrode215 11 місяців тому

    Warriors was just one of those movies that was so bad, it somehow was good

  • @freddyfurrah3789
    @freddyfurrah3789 Рік тому

    Siskle should have gone into another business.