@@tomdalton4293 Yeah, Tom Hanks' acting from Big onward is very different from his sitcom-like performances before. That's why everyone was surprised by what he did in Big.
In1985 these two movie critics sent corporate Hollywood a message, no more clichéd, mindless summer movies, and ever since then we have had nothing but original, thoughtful, and engaging movies in the summer season. Thanks guys
At my local corner store around 1985 or so, they used to sell six-packs of movie trading cards for $1.00. I spent a lot of money on those, and in practically all of those I bought was a pack of Return to Oz stickers. So I collected almost all of them.
I remember at that time I thought the same thing before I heard Gene say it ...he's doing kind of a Bill Murray impersonation in one of his movies ...I forgot which one now
I heard the director of The Bride said in his commentary "Don't shoot your ending last. Especially went you run out of money." That might explain why the conclusion was anti-climatic.
15:29 famously my older brother was 5 years old when my parents took him to see Return to Oz and he flipped his shit so hard when the decapitated heads were coming to life and talking that they had to leave the theatre!
Romero wanted to film Day of the Dead in different locations, but the budget didn't allow it, that's why he set the movie in the underground bunker. I think it has aged rather well, and despite the overacting, that movie contained some of Tom Savini's greatest practical special effects.
I love how the summer of Back to the Future, Goonies, Rambo, Fletch, The Stuff, Pale Rider, Fright Night, Weird Science and Real Genius is "one of the most bland and homogenized" summers. Christ, dude. You were in Paradise and didn't even know it.
I was 16 that summer, Rambo was the first film I walked out of, Reagan propaganda, the Goonies and Weird Science sucked even Day of The Dead was a disappointment. The highlights that summer were Return of The Living Dead and Lifeforce.
All eight of those movies were ranged between mediocre to plain awful. And I must agree with Siskel and Ebert none of the films had any pay-offs whatsoever. The screenwriters clearly had no sense of inspiration around that time, which meant their films were bound for negative criticism, despite moviegoers paying $5 to root for lead and some supporting stars. I guess one generation after another were all about copying and pasting ideas to this day.
keep in mind that Ebert also slagged Night of the Living Dead pretty badly. He famously had a vendetta against horror films in general - although he enjoyed Dawn of the Dead.
@@sha11235 i think he would have like Casino Royale and likely defended the sequel with Bardem as the villain. Gene liked performers and performances most.
Day of the dead? No way! Return to oz is a very good movie that even mick Martin and Marsha porter of video guide gave it four and a half out of five stars
St. Elmo's Fire was nauseating, awful trash that actually angered me. This movie glorifies shockingly irresponsible behavior to such a point that is totally acceptable in this movie's world. I hated all the characters in that movie.
You're definitely not. Return to Oz is much more true to the books, which were scary and dark (at a kid's level). And yeah, Siskel is right that it's not 100% faithful to the book, but the scenery, feeling, story, and characters definitely are. Ebert doesn't give kids enough credit here either.
I have to wonder what gene would've thought of the fact that sean connery's final performance was reprising his role as james bond in the 2005 video game remake of From Russia With Love.
I hated Return to Oz and only saw it on TV / video. I left my bedroom and fell down the stairs and cut my leg wide open. I was so fortunate because, this was during the 80s before cellphones and my mother was out and my sister was there. She placed a kitchen towel on my gushing leg and my mother pulled up and we went to the hospital (feeling dizzy while I am writing this just thinking of this scary stuff). I never will watch that movie ever again. Ugh.
Whhhaaa?? Brewster’s Millions was hella fun. And there were restrictions on what he could buy. Pryor had great energy in the film. Just flowed really well with all of the chaotic spending he had to do. With a great ending as well.
Wow! It's interesting hearing Roger Ebert say he's tired of James Bond, especially considering that he was all for Bond by the time Goldeneye came out. What really changed? It was still the same old formula.
The Man With One Red Shoe is uneven and flawed (how on earth does he afford that apartment?!) yet I’ve always enjoyed the films energy and Thomas Newmans dynamic score
Gene Siskel talking about legacy sequels and passionless reboots in 1985 is so jarring, but not surprising. The only reason why they keep doing it is because people keep watching them.
I'm so glad to hear Gene's opinion on Roger Moore as Bond. I didn't like him either. He didn't come across as athletic enough to pull off the stunts and the writing was way too campy.
This is the first time ive seen one of these 'worst of' videos from them where almost all of the films they hated are now complete classics that get mountains of praise and are still watched and loved by fans around the world. Almost all of these movies have solod ratings with other critics and even higher from audiences. I think this may be the most out of touch 'worst of' i have seen from them. They are so incorrect about over half of the movies. Crazy to look back on this and see how much they hated on movies that would become beloved classic movies still watched to this day, over 30 years later. They are bonafide classics with that stating power.
I thought it was great also,. Some people just hate Roger Moore,.. Chis Walken was a great Bad Guy also~ And it's a great Theme Song,., sUPER HoTT Tanya Roberts as a Bond Girl,. What's to HATE?
As dumb (and forgettable) as the "A" story with Sting and Beals was, the "B" story with Clancy Brown and David Rappaport got to me. I always liked David, a very good actor who didn't play stereotypical "dwarf" roles. And everyone by now knows how talented Clancy is. He was pretty good as the Monster.
Neither Ebert or Siskel understood the obvious: THE BRIDE is of course not a remake of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, it is a loosely held sequel to Whale's classic. They are far from alone, but the misunderstanding remains unbelievably stupid.
They went from trashing Day of the Dead, a movie I only ever see gaining more appreciation as a horror classic as the years go on, straight into calling Return to Oz "boring". What the actual hell, boys?
SISKEL THIS IS NOT A REMAKE BUT A SEQUEL THAT IS BASED OFF THE THE SEQUEL BOOK AND ITS JUST A LITTLE DARK FOR A FAMILY FILM BUT ITS ALSO STILL BEAUTIFUL IN ITS WAY.
It's never easy to make a good decent movie for everyone to like, watch & see, if it was everybody would do it. U have to have great screen write story, right people for the roles & great crew, producers & right director to not only make picture look good also execute it well or the whole project will be completely a flop failure not only to review critics & audience but sometimes the box office.
"More true to the original spirit. Sure, we really hated that first one." Great for Siskel to just real openly admit he doesn't like remaking (or sequel-izing) classics, yeah that is a bad idea and will get rejected.
But John Badham really kicked his habits for good. As an veteran filmmaker, he made an healthy comeback with 1986's "Short Circuit" at Columbia with Steve Guttenberg, Ally Sheedy and G.W. Bailey. The movie was an major box-office success.
@@morgan8757 We all do. And that's why Columbia's Short Circuit was one of the studio's highest grossing hits of the 1986-1987 year. It made a whole lot of money.
Since 1954, when legendary actress, author, writer and producer Dame Jackie Collins of the Hollywood Wives fame finally came to America to write novels. By now, she gave lots of wonderful praise for "American Flyers" (1985-1986), the first movie was co-produced by Cruise-Wagner Productions and Spring Creek Enterprises and is distributed by Warner Bros., a Time Warner Company under John Badham's superior direction. This was a follow-up to Disney's Oscar winning "Breaking Away" (1979-1980). It features an all-star cast: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Alexandra Paul, Robert Townsend and Janice Rule in her final film role. It was great fun to watch and enjoy "American Flyers" - but today, you can see it on syndication in the early 1990's and beyond.
While I agree that the Roger Moore Bond's are virtually unwatchable , I felt , "A View To A Kill" was the best of that bad bunch - also , while I agree that it lacked depth , I personally enjoyed , "Brewster's Millions" - Other than that , I agree that the rest were pure garbage
The saxophone on the score of St. Elmo's Fire is so oppressive. I mean, that is reason #174 why that movie blows but it's like nails on a blackboard to me.
I think _Return to Oz_ is one of those movies that's WAY over-valued because of how weird and dark it is for a kid's movie. this, coupled with nostalgia from those who saw it as kids. I wonder how it plays these days to young people. it didn't work for me.
Sting gets a bad rap for being a musician turned actor. People forget Bowie and Jagger made a few stinkers in from the early 70's to the 90's. Brimstone & Treacle is a fair film and a nice departure from typical 'possession' genre. His performance in Dune(especially in light of the 'lead' actors we see in horrible movies/series now, looks like Olivier or Brando by comparison. St. Elmo's Fire is a great example is a mostly bad film, carried by a passably good soundtrack. Return To Oz and Day Of The Dead are buoyed today by strong cult followings, with supremely lowered baselines of expectations. Also, Ebert and Siskel are treating "RTO" as a 'sequel', when it really isn't. It's more of an adaption of another LFB story, and Dorothy is much closer to the age Baum wrote her as in the original novels.
1:09 Come on Gene.... 85 was a blockbuster summer ‼️with Rambo ,The color purple ,back to the Future witness ,Goonies, Jewel of the Nile ,real genius breakfast club
"American Flyers" was an so-so success, not great nor terrible. Sequel to "Breaking Away." "The Man with One Red Shoe" was a minor disappointment. "The Bride" was a critical bomb. "Return to Oz" was a major flop.
According to Time Warner board member Janis Paige who wrote "John Badham's American Flyers was an sleeper hit of the 1985-1986 year with Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Janice Rule (in her final role in a movie), Alexandra Paul, Robert Townsend and others - were providing lots of the film's action sequences. Also having lots of magic moments that can take your breath away. Sequel to Disney's Breaking Away. I'm very proud of what makes American Flyers so special for families and friends as an true American classic."
I agree with Siskel entirely. Roger Moore was never anything but a first-rate second-rate TV actor, with all the charisma and sex appeal of a bowl of jellied eels. Don Adams could have done a better job.
Also, hearing Siskel call Tom Hanks a "second rate Bill Murray" is freaking hilarious.
Well, this was 1985 and Hanks had not gotten into serious stuff yet that would change our image of his ass.
@@sha11235 I know, the 20/20 hindsight is what makes it funny to me. Little did they know then...
I'm one of those who liked return to oz. Fairuza Balk was great in it
"Tom Hanks, a second rate Bill Murray..." Well that aged well
LOL, THAT was the first thing that I thought. As good as they were, history has shown Siskel & Ebert to be wrong sometimes.
Tom Hanks was great, and then someone told him he was an actor.
@@Laceykat66 They were right at the time
@@tomdalton4293 Yeah, Tom Hanks' acting from Big onward is very different from his sitcom-like performances before. That's why everyone was surprised by what he did in Big.
he is a second rate bill murray, he's a first rate tom hanks. that's not what he meant.
In1985 these two movie critics sent corporate Hollywood a message, no more clichéd, mindless summer movies, and ever since then we have had nothing but original, thoughtful, and engaging movies in the summer season. Thanks guys
They provided the same admonition every damn year, too 😂
"Tom Hanks will not play a simpleton (unless it wins him an Oscar)." FORREST GUMP 😅
Or that there, the simpleton was lovable and the movie was better.
I love Return to Oz when I was a kid. I even had the coloring book.
Me too
At my local corner store around 1985 or so, they used to sell six-packs of movie trading cards for $1.00. I spent a lot of money on those, and in practically all of those I bought was a pack of Return to Oz stickers. So I collected almost all of them.
Return to Oz is a fantastic movie and was one of my favorites growing up. Shame they didn't like it.
Tom Hanks, a second rate Bill Murray - Gene Siskel.
He wasn't wrong then
I remember at that time I thought the same thing before I heard Gene say it ...he's doing kind of a Bill Murray impersonation in one of his movies ...I forgot which one now
@@smileybubbles9894 Oh, I agree. Tom Hanks certainly wasn't TOM HANKS when Gene made that comment. It just hasn't aged well.
I had to check the comment section after he said that too lol.
I loved Bachelors Party...and Nothing in Common.and liked Volunteers...but I didn`t laugh once in "Red Shoe" ....Hanks worst movie
“St. Elmos Fire - a movie about spoiled yuppie brats.”
Accurate
Though at the time that was what everyone thought about "Yuppies." They were the butt of jokes in every media.
Funny how Young Urbam Professionals became an object of ridicule...almost like our betters wanted to raise a generation of shiftless wage slaves...
I heard the director of The Bride said in his commentary "Don't shoot your ending last. Especially went you run out of money." That might explain why the conclusion was anti-climatic.
BELUSHI: I'm not thirsty.
SISKEL: And I'm not laughing.
15:29 famously my older brother was 5 years old when my parents took him to see Return to Oz and he flipped his shit so hard when the decapitated heads were coming to life and talking that they had to leave the theatre!
I was 8. I don’t remember it well, but I think it scares me a bit and there certainly wasn’t anything especially fun or memorable about it.
Romero wanted to film Day of the Dead in different locations, but the budget didn't allow it, that's why he set the movie in the underground bunker. I think it has aged rather well, and despite the overacting, that movie contained some of Tom Savini's greatest practical special effects.
An under rated classic
The over acting is the best part
The character of Tiktok the Mechanical Man is more than 100 years old. Nothing to do with R2D2 has nothing to do with it.
To them, it reminded them of R2D2 from Star Wars. Maybe they hadn't read the book it was based on.
Roger Moore in Moonraker was awesome‼️ and funny ‼️ and lois chiles was so breathtaking☺️🛸
Yes he was. Siskel was being an asshole
I love how the summer of Back to the Future, Goonies, Rambo, Fletch, The Stuff, Pale Rider, Fright Night, Weird Science and Real Genius is "one of the most bland and homogenized" summers. Christ, dude. You were in Paradise and didn't even know it.
If you loved the Eighties, you probably weren't there.
@@KRhetor Oh, I was there - at least, as a teen. If you didn’t have AIDS, it was a pretty great decade.
@@KRhetor I was there,and @WholsJohnCleland is correct!
I was 16 that summer, Rambo was the first film I walked out of, Reagan propaganda, the Goonies and Weird Science sucked even Day of The Dead was a disappointment. The highlights that summer were Return of The Living Dead and Lifeforce.
All eight of those movies were ranged between mediocre to plain awful. And I must agree with Siskel and Ebert none of the films had any pay-offs whatsoever. The screenwriters clearly had no sense of inspiration around that time, which meant their films were bound for negative criticism, despite moviegoers paying $5 to root for lead and some supporting stars. I guess one generation after another were all about copying and pasting ideas to this day.
"Tom Hanks is a second rate Bill Murray".- Siskel Cold as hell.
Hanks overrated.
Hanks was only seen as a light, comedic actor back then. Philadelphia was when he was finally taken seriously.
@@ricardocantoral7672 That's true.
Day of the Dead is my favourite movie of all time. I'm a major fanboy. Hard to imagine this harsh take, it's as if they watched a different film.
keep in mind that Ebert also slagged Night of the Living Dead pretty badly. He famously had a vendetta against horror films in general - although he enjoyed Dawn of the Dead.
Anything with John Candy is ok in my book
That comment is nothing but trouble.
@@chonconnor6144 I saw what you did there
@@chonconnor6144 Adam is armed and dangerous with his comment.
Gene got his wish. _A View to Kill_ did in fact end up being Roger Moore's last go around being James Bond. 😄
Wonder how he would have felt about the current JB films?
@@sha11235 i think he would have like Casino Royale and likely defended the sequel with Bardem as the villain. Gene liked performers and performances most.
Roger Moore was pure class and his tenure as Bond was the most entertaining of all of them.
Even Roger Moore hated A View to a Kill when he said "That was not Bond"
@@sha11235 Moore was a huge fan of Skyfall. Pretty easy to find his reaction to it online
Day of the dead? No way!
Return to oz is a very good movie that even mick Martin and Marsha porter of video guide gave it four and a half out of five stars
I remember that. Their glowing review of Return To Oz was the reason I wanted to see it.
St. Elmo's Fire was nauseating, awful trash that actually angered me. This movie glorifies shockingly irresponsible behavior to such a point that is totally acceptable in this movie's world. I hated all the characters in that movie.
I can’t be the only one who likes “Return to Oz” more than “The Wizard of Oz”.
Yes. Yes, you can.
You're not. I always hated "Wizard" and loved "Return".
Balk was good but Garland was excellent.
You're definitely not. Return to Oz is much more true to the books, which were scary and dark (at a kid's level).
And yeah, Siskel is right that it's not 100% faithful to the book, but the scenery, feeling, story, and characters definitely are. Ebert doesn't give kids enough credit here either.
You gotta be a dummy then.
Return to Oz is worth watching once and no more.
I wouldn't inflict this movie on anyone
Still better than all the crappy movies we have today
Sending a message to corporate Hollywood to make better movies? Imagine what they would have to say to todays Hollywood!
I have to wonder what gene would've thought of the fact that sean connery's final performance was reprising his role as james bond in the 2005 video game remake of From Russia With Love.
I hated Return to Oz and only saw it on TV / video. I left my bedroom and fell down the stairs and cut my leg wide open. I was so fortunate because, this was during the 80s before cellphones and my mother was out and my sister was there. She placed a kitchen towel on my gushing leg and my mother pulled up and we went to the hospital (feeling dizzy while I am writing this just thinking of this scary stuff). I never will watch that movie ever again. Ugh.
St. Elmo's Fire. Liked the song hated the movie.
I like Brian Eno's St. Elmo's Fire. Much better. 😊
At least Fairuza Balk would have a great career after Return To Oz.
She became the stock, weird 90's chick.
@@ricardocantoral7672 She's good at playing those roles, just like Christina Ricci.
Then New Line Cinema ruined her with that awful experience on the set of Dr. Moreau.
@@whenfatkillsfat803 Like Loring Mandel who wrote this in 2002, "Of all those projects,
everybody has terrible fights."
We'd only have the same problem years & years later with the remakes that Gene's talking about.
Day Of The Dead is a masterpiece. Mr. Ebert was also wrong about both Blade Runner and The Thing in 1982.
There was actually a critic from Boston who thought return to oz was better than the original. HOW MUCH MONEY DID HE GET FOR LYING?
5:46 "Tom Hanks, a second rate Bill Murray"
"The zombies don't do anything new"... uh, they shoot guns and talk?
Spot on with St Elmo's Fire. Couldn't stand any of them except Emilio's character
The Bride walked so Poor Things could run 😂
Boy we miss these guys❗️
boy do we miss these guys‼️®™️☑️☑️
I know, right?! Am I weird kind of having a sort of 'crush' on Gene?... and Roger is just like a cute Teddy Bear!
Return to Oz really grew on me.
“American Flyers” was really not that bad. Ebert even gave it 2 1/2 stars in his printed review of the film.
A year later, Emmy nominee John Badham finally hit it big with Short Circuit, one of 1986-1987's
box office hits for Sony/Icon.
Whhhaaa?? Brewster’s Millions was hella fun. And there were restrictions on what he could buy. Pryor had great energy in the film. Just flowed really well with all of the chaotic spending he had to do. With a great ending as well.
Day of the Dead had everything you want in a horror... a memorable villain and lots of gore. It wasn't Romero's best but still very watchable.
Wow! It's interesting hearing Roger Ebert say he's tired of James Bond, especially considering that he was all for Bond by the time Goldeneye came out. What really changed? It was still the same old formula.
GoldenEye was a lot more energetic and exciting. By comparison, A View To A Kill was dull and plodding.
The Man With One Red Shoe is uneven and flawed (how on earth does he afford that apartment?!) yet I’ve always enjoyed the films energy and Thomas Newmans dynamic score
Gene Siskel talking about legacy sequels and passionless reboots in 1985 is so jarring, but not surprising. The only reason why they keep doing it is because people keep watching them.
Well I enjoy watching fantasy thriller flim Return to Oz in my opinion
So funny hearing them talk about remakes..Wonder how they'd feel about the slew of reboots now..
"tom hanks, a second rate bill murray" man, that did not age well.
I liked St. Elmo's Fire! Judd Nelson & Rob Lowe.... too hot for words!
I hated Rob Lowe in this film.
Return to Oz is a great movie, and Day of the Dead is my favorite in the franchise.
Oh, c'mon -- what's not to love about a new version of Dr. Frankenstein with surfer-dude hair?
I'm so glad to hear Gene's opinion on Roger Moore as Bond. I didn't like him either. He didn't come across as athletic enough to pull off the stunts and the writing was way too campy.
part of the 70's malaise that moore played bond.
@@dont-want-no-wrench 👍🏽
Roger Moore is the best OO7
@@treystephens6166 Stop the cap!
@@midasapprentice8670 the cap ???
❤❤❤
Bill Murray a second rated Tom Hanks 😁
I loved "A View to a Kill"~
This is the first time ive seen one of these 'worst of' videos from them where almost all of the films they hated are now complete classics that get mountains of praise and are still watched and loved by fans around the world. Almost all of these movies have solod ratings with other critics and even higher from audiences. I think this may be the most out of touch 'worst of' i have seen from them. They are so incorrect about over half of the movies. Crazy to look back on this and see how much they hated on movies that would become beloved classic movies still watched to this day, over 30 years later. They are bonafide classics with that stating power.
Wow, we were just kinda dumb back then. Like fk, so dumb.
The older I get, the more I agree with their review of "Day." Tom Savini was the real star of the film.
Imagine thinking The Wiz is better than Return to Oz! 😂
Tik-Tok predates R2-D2 by several decades.
St. Elmos fire is a classic
I liked the man with one red shoe
View to kill was the best Bond film ever!
Tell me you haven't seen any of the Connery Bonds without telling us you haven't seen any of them.
I thought it was great also,.
Some people just hate Roger Moore,..
Chis Walken was a great Bad Guy also~
And it's a great Theme Song,.,
sUPER HoTT Tanya Roberts as a Bond Girl,.
What's to HATE?
As dumb (and forgettable) as the "A" story with Sting and Beals was, the "B" story with Clancy Brown and David Rappaport got to me. I always liked David, a very good actor who didn't play stereotypical "dwarf" roles. And everyone by now knows how talented Clancy is. He was pretty good as the Monster.
Yeah, let's not forget Shawshank Redemption. But he'd been around a long time before.
I wont't. I promise.@@sha11235
@@sha11235 That's Clancy Brown.
@@markelijio6012 I know. I didn't even realize he was the Monster until I looked up the description of the film and saw his name in the credits.
Neither Ebert or Siskel understood the obvious: THE BRIDE is of course not a remake of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, it is a loosely held sequel to Whale's classic. They are far from alone, but the misunderstanding remains unbelievably stupid.
Not half as stupid as defending a yawnfest like The Bride.
They went from trashing Day of the Dead, a movie I only ever see gaining more appreciation as a horror classic as the years go on, straight into calling Return to Oz "boring". What the actual hell, boys?
SISKEL THIS IS NOT A REMAKE BUT A SEQUEL THAT IS BASED OFF THE THE SEQUEL BOOK AND ITS JUST A LITTLE DARK FOR A FAMILY FILM BUT ITS ALSO STILL BEAUTIFUL IN ITS WAY.
"Tom Hanks, a second rate Bill Murray in my opinion..." OUCH 😅
It's never easy to make a good decent movie for everyone to like, watch & see, if it was everybody would do it. U have to have great screen write story, right people for the roles & great crew, producers & right director to not only make picture look good also execute it well or the whole project will be completely a flop failure not only to review critics & audience but sometimes the box office.
True. And I couldn't agree with you more!
@@markelijio6012
Thank you 👍
Wow, Siskel referring to Tom Hanks as a "second-rate Bill Murray" hurts. I wonder if he ever recanted!
"Tom Hanks, a second rate Bill Murray."
Wow...
It's kind of cool watching these about movies that were out when I was in high school.
Return to Oz was some creepy MK Ultra sh1t.
"More true to the original spirit. Sure, we really hated that first one."
Great for Siskel to just real openly admit he doesn't like remaking (or sequel-izing) classics, yeah that is a bad idea and will get rejected.
american flyers was a terrible ripoff of breaking away
But John Badham really kicked his habits for good. As an veteran filmmaker, he made an healthy
comeback with 1986's "Short Circuit" at Columbia with Steve Guttenberg, Ally Sheedy and
G.W. Bailey. The movie was an major box-office success.
@@markelijio6012 i liked short circuit
@@morgan8757 We all do. And that's why Columbia's Short Circuit was one of the studio's
highest grossing hits of the 1986-1987 year. It made a whole lot of money.
Hope Tom Hanks got the opportunity to tell Siskel to fuck off after winning 2 Oscars.
Maybe this review had an affect on Hanks ~
I don’t know anyone who dislikes American Flyers. Great movie.
Since 1954, when legendary actress, author,
writer and producer Dame Jackie Collins of
the Hollywood Wives fame finally came to
America to write novels. By now, she gave
lots of wonderful praise for "American Flyers"
(1985-1986), the first movie was co-produced
by Cruise-Wagner Productions and
Spring Creek Enterprises and is distributed by
Warner Bros., a Time Warner Company under
John Badham's superior direction. This was a
follow-up to Disney's Oscar winning "Breaking
Away" (1979-1980). It features an all-star cast:
Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant,
Alexandra Paul, Robert Townsend and
Janice Rule in her final film role. It was great fun
to watch and enjoy "American Flyers" - but today,
you can see it on syndication in the early 1990's
and beyond.
Tom Hanks has been acting for so long year after year that he eventually got the hang of it.
He got better over the years in films.
While I agree that the Roger Moore Bond's are virtually unwatchable , I felt , "A View To A Kill" was the best of that bad bunch - also , while I agree that it lacked depth , I personally enjoyed , "Brewster's Millions"
- Other than that , I agree that the rest were pure garbage
He thought *A View to Kill* was a lousy movie?????
Guess they don't always get it right.
1000%~
did Gene Siskel just call Tom Hanks a "second-rate Bill Murray"???
what a weird world this is, when spliced in with hindsight.
The saxophone on the score of St. Elmo's Fire is so oppressive. I mean, that is reason #174 why that movie blows but it's like nails on a blackboard to me.
Lol a lot of these movies did great at the box office
I think _Return to Oz_ is one of those movies that's WAY over-valued because of how weird and dark it is for a kid's movie.
this, coupled with nostalgia from those who saw it as kids. I wonder how it plays these days to young people. it didn't work for me.
It does seem a lot of people either love it or hate it based on the darkness (I thought it was average-OK).
Sting gets a bad rap for being a musician turned actor. People forget Bowie and Jagger made a few stinkers in from the early 70's to the 90's. Brimstone & Treacle is a fair film and a nice departure from typical 'possession' genre. His performance in Dune(especially in light of the 'lead' actors we see in horrible movies/series now, looks like Olivier or Brando by comparison. St. Elmo's Fire is a great example is a mostly bad film, carried by a passably good soundtrack. Return To Oz and Day Of The Dead are buoyed today by strong cult followings, with supremely lowered baselines of expectations. Also, Ebert and Siskel are treating "RTO" as a 'sequel', when it really isn't. It's more of an adaption of another LFB story, and Dorothy is much closer to the age Baum wrote her as in the original novels.
Wow, Tom Hanks a second rate Bill Murray? My, how times have changed.
1:09
Come on Gene.... 85 was a blockbuster summer ‼️with Rambo ,The color purple ,back to the Future witness ,Goonies, Jewel of the Nile ,real genius breakfast club
BC was in Feb.
@@sha11235 well I was in the Air Force we didn't get first run movies till 6 months later at the base theater
Mostly I also dislike Moore as Bond However I do think the Spy who loved me, is brilliant
Fairuza Balk's mouth is the size of Belize
😂😂😂
Tom Hanks...a second rate Bill Murray. Critics eh?
Return to Oz was good.
"American Flyers" was an so-so success, not great nor terrible. Sequel to "Breaking Away."
"The Man with One Red Shoe" was a minor disappointment.
"The Bride" was a critical bomb.
"Return to Oz" was a major flop.
According to Time Warner board member Janis Paige who wrote "John Badham's American Flyers was
an sleeper hit of the 1985-1986 year with Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Janice Rule (in her final
role in a movie), Alexandra Paul, Robert Townsend and others - were providing lots of the film's action
sequences. Also having lots of magic moments that can take your breath away. Sequel to Disney's
Breaking Away. I'm very proud of what makes American Flyers so special for families and friends as
an true American classic."
I agree with Siskel entirely. Roger Moore was never anything but a first-rate second-rate TV actor, with all the charisma and sex appeal of a bowl of jellied eels. Don Adams could have done a better job.
Whatever… Some of these wound up as cult classics…
i gotta defend day of the dead and return to oz.
Return to oz was great tho 😢
The zombies tried y'all...lmbo
Sorry, return to oz is a great movie.
No more of this junk, please! was the title of this show.
To siskels defense...perhaps... Im sure Hanks became a much better actor after this film ..I havent seen it though..