Siskel & Ebert Classics - 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Gene and Roger slug it out with SNES tennis in this classic, hour-long syndicated special. Includes Gene using a camcorder with a steadicam attachment, a Danny DeVito interview, plenty of classic home video recommendations, and original commercials. (Re-upping my earlier version which I had to edit).
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"Nice sized screen... you know, 25 inches." I still remember the 21 inch Sony TV that my family watched for 15 years. It's such nostalgia listening to Danny Devito.
I will stop complaining about my 43", my 55", and my 65" T.V.s forthwith.
55:59 - Siskel and Ebert play Super Nintendo
Interesting watching this interview of Danny DeVito knowing that in the coming decades DVDs would take over VHS.
Wow. Thirty years ago. Doesn’t seem like it, and I feel old for saying that, and I don’t feel old normally. I would’ve been a freshman at university at this time. Love S&E, but I don’t remember these holiday episodes, and now I think I know why. I was in college and hardly watched any tv that whole time.
VCR Plus?! I need to look into this exciting new technology.
Pretty damn good. You rent tapes to play in it.
11:18 watching those olds ads I really realized something that I never thought about -- ads used to _talk_ to us. they used to actually _say_ things. whole sentences, ideas, relatively complicated concepts like a United States Marines [?] Gift Drive. the whole ad's a spiel.
not a GOOD spiel, and I'd say 98% of all those old talky ads are either filled with lies or ridiculous corniness, but still IDEAS.
at the time this was taped I guess it was still 1991. and I'd say by about 1995 ads had settled into either marketing slogans or screaming things at you.
ads -- with _Attitude._
I 'member the '90s. I 'member.
48:42 Siskel and Ebert talk about Barney the Dinosaur
Barney is so fucking weird
I wonder if they reviewed "Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie".
LOVE THIS! Thank you so much!
Siskel and Ebert are the ones who turned me on to "widescreen" viewing, and after their special on the topic (not this one) every one of my next movie purchases were widescreen... its a HUGE difference that I was ingnorant of... now that TV is mostly shot in widescreen, TVs are manufactured for widescreen, the issue is no longer really relevant -- I haven't seen a pan/scan butchery in quite some time
Nobody really used laserdiscs. Born in 78'. I never saw any
Michael Caine seems heavily sedated
This is a nice piece of laserdisc 📀 history on this show 🎬 but when Danny DeVito was talking about getting a nice size TV screen I would think he would have said at least 32-in screen not 25 in 📼
Man I feel like an old piece of shit
Don't discredit yourself. Just be glad that you got to be around during all of those fine decades when times were still good (or ar least better than they were).
Aww look at little 28 year old Jodie Foster.
ohhhh wow. that's awesome.
Gene Siskel _shaming_ Roger Ebert for being adept and enthusiastic about computers.
what a world we live in.
there was a time, kids (not TOO long ago), when being at all interested in computers was hopelessly shameful for kids growing up. or video games. if you weren't into sports, you were a loser.
maybe it's not so different these days - how would I know? - but you're not going to find many Gen Z babies making fun of anyone for spending too much time on their computer.
I think we've all sort of become remotely bionic people. we live on our computers. sad? I dunno. maybe.
48:42 I wonder if anyone has a copy of Siskel and Ebert's review of "Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie".
Laserdisc setups cost a lot ofomey back then though.
I remember when my dad bought our first D.V.D. for $39.99 plus tax. Blu-ray was expensive at first as well. I never bought a LaserDisc, but they were $50 or so, right?
16:42 Can anyone understand on what Snaps just said?!?
No color negative is "pristine". Color negatives begin to deteriorate the second they are developed, even in perfect storage, which is why many old films look bad in remasters. Black & white film is often pristine and will usually not deteriorate if stored correctly. If you watch a remastered black & white film, often it will look as sharp as if it was filmed yesterday
wtf film did michael caine say was his favourite movie?
The Third Man
thanks I had trouble understanding him. @@sebastianquevedoramirez2984
laserdisc paid these dudes a tonne of money clearly
Yes, but laserdisc really was ahead of it's time. It had tons of features that the consumer market wouldn't see in video tech until dvd.
@@kyloren3693 fair
Laserdisc wasn't a company that could pay anyone off, it was a format, and a much superior one to the alternative VHS. Maybe being film critics and all they just preferred the higher quality.