Sneak Previews "Not Star Wars" compilation (1978-1982) - with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- This is a compilation of segments from Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, all featuring films (from 1978 to 1982) that came out after (and arguably in reaction to) Star Wars.
This is cut in the original structure and spirit of the show. It is not perfect. Enjoy.
Films featured are:
Star Trek (1979)
Alien (1979)
Battlestar Galactica (1979)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
The Black Hole (1979)
Message From Space (1978)
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Moonraker (1979)
Outland (1981)
Saturn 3 (1980) - Розваги
it's pretty unbelievable to me that _The Black Hole_ came out AFTER _Star Wars._
the style, music, acting, even special effects look like they were made _twenty years_ before the Star Wars movies.
I had seen 2001 (re-released on the heels of Star Wars) by this time, and so I was fine with both The Black Hole and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I was starting to read adult science fiction (age 10 or so) so I was perfectly onboard with a slow, cerebral story. I'd also read a lot of Jules Verne, and so the fact that The Black Hole is a remake of Disney's excellent Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea also didn't offend me. Of course I was way too young to see Alien in the theater the same year.
Gene was had seen enough movies and was smart enough to IMMEDIATELY notice Disney SFX for The Black Hole was really gel going down a bathtub drain.
Dude-THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You’ve done a huge favor to all cineastes out There by uploading these! And a further favor by your curating them into themed episodes-GREAT!! Kudos man! If I can quote Gaff in BLADE RUNNER, “You’ve done a man’s job, sir!” 💯💯💯💯
Love John Barry's score for "The Black Hole".
I knew that was Barry.
Had an LP of it, prized.
Love Battle Beyond the Stars!
“Can Disney make a good picture anymore?”
Tron (mic drop)
Brings back so many memories if seeing the reviews then going out seeing the movies. Haven't seen black hole in years.
Eric, thank you so much for posting these. I had never seen "Sneak Previews" with Siskel and Ebert -- they had moved onto "At The Movies" by the time I discovered them. "Sneak Previews" for me was Jeffrey Lyons and Michael Medved. These clips are great, thanks again!
I recall Jeffrey Lyons and he was excellent. Neal Gabler was his opposite initially.
Ebert called the xenomorph "bug eyed."
ALWAYS glad to see uploads from you.
I loved battle beyond the stars as a kid!
Loved the show! These edits are great! Thx!
I will have to disagree on that one - I found it very well done and edited. When just listening or not looking too closely during the reviews it felt like one actual episode. Bravo.
This was so much fun to watch. Bravo to the editing, and thanks!
I want to echo the praise other commenters have given for your editing here, which is both sharp and artfully executed. You've basically made an episode of "Sneak Previews" that never existed, and it would have been a damn fine "clip show" episode they could have aired on a week Gene or Roger was on vacation. Eight-year-old me would have eagerly tuned in, even if my parents would have probably rolled their eyes and said, "You know, we've seen all these reviews before on previous episodes."
Nice job. Thanks!
I don't mean to get technical but this really only goes to 1980. But thank you! I love this compilation!
In Canada "Battlestar Galatica" was released to theatres a few months *before* the tv series premiered, and as I was watching it I remember thinking that the star fields behind the pilots in their colonial vipers looked especially fake.
It was in the states too.
Yeah, like another commenter above, I saw it in the theater in Louisville, Kentucky. I remember being annoyed as hell when the TV series premiere was pre-empted by Jimmy Carter announcing the signing of the Camp David Accords.
Beyond the Battle of the Stars was the best Star Wars RIP OFF.
you can leave a house you cant leave a spaceship
Not anymore...
Here's the thing about Star Wars: it shouldn't have worked. Every studio turned George Lucas down. They said you've got the wrong title; the American public is sick to death of war after the disaster that was Vietnam and they won't go to see a movie with the word "war" in the title. They told him that the story being told through the experiences of these two robots was a mistake; our market research says that people are turned off by robots, so get rid of them. They said the tall guy in the hairy suit with the dog face has gotta go; no way are moviegoers going to embrace that character. And what are you thinking of, setting it in another galaxy? If the movie's not about Earthlings, why should Earthlings care about these aliens and what they're fighting about? And they were right! War, robots, ape-dogs and weird aliens had never been parts of the formula for a successful movie. Moviegoers had never flocked to theaters to see that kind of stuff. So that's why everyone in Hollywood was flabbergasted by the picture's success. And that's why everyone in Hollywood wanted to be first to be second. But while lightning may strike the same place twice, it never strikes twice in the same way. For forty-five years Hollywood's been trying to catch that first picture's feel, and they haven't been able to do it. Other movies have had their own particular brand of success, but I think people like me who were lucky enough to literally be in the front row of the theater at a showing of Star Wars would tell you: there's never been another movie quite like it since. We instantly took a liking to C-3PO and R2-D2. We wanted to hug Chewbacca. And we rooted so hard for the rebels against the Empire we might as well have been in the thick of the fight ourselves. The craziest thing is, we can scarcely explain why. We just loved it, the whole thing, and that's that. There's probably only one person who can tell us the secret to the film's success: George Lucas. But he's not talking, and if you ask him, he'll just grin and look away. Even _he_ couldn't catch that lightning in a bottle twice!
Perfectly said.
I liked "Battle Beyond The Stars". It was good cheesy fun, and didn't pretend it was anything more than that.
Lighten up, guys.
2:05 Then they ended up buying it.
can you imagine going to a movie _hoping_ the special effects would be good?
i can't even remember the last time i even THOUGHT about amazing special effects.
i think maybe back when _The Phantom Menace_ came out. or maybe _Avatar._
Can you do a compilation of 80s thrillers
1:09 that is SOME get-up, doctor.
15:42 Spock cosplay Darth Vader.
Without helmet.
"I had a professor who predicted that eventually black holes would devour the entire universe."
"Why not? When you can see giant suns sucked in and disappear without a trace."
why are they referring to black holes as some sort of malevolent, evil force out to conquer everything? are black holes portrayed in this movie to be intelligent and evil or something??
actually, that'd make a pretty badass movie. NOBODY STEAL THAT IDEA I'M WRITING THE SCRIPT AS OF NOW.
Dr Becky has some good thoughts on that: It turns out not to be so easy to fall into a black hole, so yes, they could devour the Universe, but it will take a very, very long time (hundreds of trillions of years or better).
Well, if it wasn't clear from all the references to hell and the devil in that clip, the movie is chock full of pseudo-Christian allegory, going so far as to literally depict heaven and hell at the climax of the movie. So in that context it somehow made sense to be talking about a "simple" natural phenomenon in such a way.
*mental note. Steal his idea
“It’s mission: to discover habitable life in outer space” wtf does that even mean
Disney's answer to star wars... 🙄😒
The Black Hole and Battle Beyond The Stars were great films geez these guys demanded too much from films didn't they and i thought of them as the early version of Barry Norman yeah i know you can't just knock out any old thing there has to be some storyline good script acting etc and they would always scrutinize these things but they would dump on perfectly decent films just because it didn't match their ideals they even slightly took a snipe at Alien arguebly one of the greatest sci fi films ever by saying it's just a haunted house film in space and not one of the best sci fi films ever made which Gene said talk about dumb they just wanted to be controversial i reckon and they certainly achieved it
And here it is, 35 years later, and Disney gives us "The Last Jedi". So no, it would appear Disney cannot give us a good movie.
Yes they did. Shut your lying shithole.
Frankly, I find it idiotic and annoying how EVERY sci-fi movie gets negatively compared to fucking Star Wars!
Looks like zombie Phil kessel
ALIEN is a horror film only. Take out the sci fi stuff and u still have a horror film, replace it with a bear, shark, etc... take out the horror element and you have nothing.
Isn't that what made Alien unique? It is a horror movie set in n space. So what? If you take the root identity of any movie out of the movie, then you will have nothing. Alien was magnificent and the fact that it's been 40 years and we are still discussing it says all you need to know about the film.
Wow. Take the scI fi elements out of a science fiction story and it’s no longer science fiction. Brilliant observation.
@@buckaroobanzai7063 read that again... the sci fi stuff is irrelevant.
I love Battlestar Galactica… they missed the point....
Have to agree with Gene on Star Trek: The (Slow) Motion Picture. It was really more of a ripoff of 2001 than Star Wars; boring with no compelling villain. Thank goodness for The Wrath of Khan!
The Black Hole is great. It's aged a lot better than most original space operas after Star Wars. Not a lot of those around.
Exactly, it ain't Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, by a mile.
Yeah why were they comparing everything to Star Wars anyway? I don't think these other films were trying to copy Star Wars at all they were trying to be there own thing after all i did and still do love The Black Hole and actually thought the effects were decent Siskel and Ebert were the original grumpy film critics that spawned the ultimate grump in Barry Norman R.I.P to all of them but you all tried to think too much into these films and ended up slagging off actually very good films in their own right!
21:37 Star wars was way More a Rip Off of Buck Rogers considering the Comics of His were way back in 1929 , I Just googled it. Plus Buck Rogers had a Mostly different Storyline and Storylines to it all too.
@NotSnarl As Well , Agreed.
Nope. Flash Gordon.
Star Trek TMP is a crushing bore.