I mean, this is sorta like calling the sky blue, but dammit, these two guys are good at what they do. Siskel and Ebert are sophisticated and intelligent with their film analysis while also being accessible and entertaining to viewers. Their patches of humility and humor are also welcome. When growing up (I’m 31), I caught the tail end of the series’ run, experiencing five or six years of Ebert & Roeper. But holy cow, Siskel is on a whole other level than Roeper. I’m stunned how well these two work together. The world simply doesn’t have this kind of broadcasted film criticism anymore.
Yup, I'm in my 40s and sadly you missed a whole other level of cinema criticism. I grew up as a kid in the 80s and 90s watching these fellas and I was spoiled rotten thinking that was just how critics were. Once Gene died and after Roger got sick and I started watching other critics boy did I see how wrong I was and how special these guys were.
I was born in '91 and it's been so cool to watch these two react to movies in real time as they were fresh - they've just always been classics in my mind.
Whats great about these guys is that they are teaching us how to watch,and look at,and appreciate movies.Its not like today.They can also talk about how the studio system works without getting trouble for it.
You are doing God's work no really I appreciate you and salute you...please keep uploading more Siskel & Ebert episodes from 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and or 1998 if you can
Believe it or not I taped every show, every week, from the time I was in middle school through college. I had stacks of VHS tapes, and then at some point was like, why am I recording all of these...so about half of them I stupidly lost or taped over. Good news is roughly half of them survived so I have "batches" of shows from different years, and I will be uploading them all over time :) I'm glad you are watching and many others are enjoying as well
Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot is the best individual performance I have ever seen; certainly one of the best performances ever. DDL is the only three-time Best Oscar winner; greatest actor ever (in my opinion)
Batman 1989 is my personal favorite movie of that year, and I think it should've gotten more nominations. The set design (which won the Oscar) looks incredible and is some of the best set designs that I've seen in many movies. But I think that Batman definitely could've benefited for more nominations, particularly in Makeup, Costumes and Sound.
Many action flicks did get nominated for Oscars, such as Romancing the Stone for best editing, Rambo 2 for best sound editing and the list goes on and on.
By and large the academy has historically not given due recognition to action films. Or really any genre films. Horror and sci fi fall into this category as well. If they did get a nod it was usually for one of the technical awards like editing or sound design. The big awards such as best film or best actor/actress were reserved almost entirely for artsy dramas and period pieces. So called 'Oscar bait' films. This has begun to change in the last decade or so with many genre films getting nominated in the bigger categories but it's still an uphill battle. They'elre still widely looked down upon by the older academy voting pool.
I go for Magnolia as his best but BOTFJ just as solid imo. Both work for the different genres and types of movies. He was the best one in that field in 1999; 1989 Lewis gave a great performance but in 1999 Tom was the best one by far. As much as I like Caine no way did he out do Tom.
Years later in 2006, his only Oscar nomination for best actor in a supporting role was "Crash." It's the only one he has ever received for a long time.
Yes, I agreed. Do The Right Thing should've won best picture 1990. Let alone at least a nomination. Dead Poets, Born on the 4th, and Field of Dreams were better than Award-winner Driving Miss Daisy. That was okay but not the best film IMO. Miss you both, S & E. Godfathers of film review.
I'm not a big Spike Lee fan, he became a major prick as the years went by. BUT Do the Right Thing was the best film of 1989 and Spike was the year's best director. He got robbed.
Gene was surprised that a relative unknown named Andre Braugher wasn't nominated in place of Denzel Washington who had already won the Golden Globe by the time the nominations were announced. Uh huh...
“The big picture that shows corporations matter more than people” - now we are at the point where this statement is restated 50 times a day in every possible way, and not by films, or commentary, but by reality
It is interesting to me to listen to hear them talk about the “Academy”. A good case study is how Shakespeare In Love won over Saving Private Ryan. I’m not bashing Shakespeare In Love and maybe it is better...though I can’t even remember it even though I know I watched...but we know how Weinstein influenced the Academy members for his movie. It’s a corrupt organization. It should be objective in a subjective industry. Members allowed to vote their favorite films instead of being bribed or pressured into voting for a film. Yes, I don’t know what the result would be if rewound and ran the experience again. But I’m having a hard time think it was a better film than Saving Private Ryan. Oh well...I guess I’ll go rent Shakespeare In Love it see if I like it better than Saving Private Ryan.
That ranked number one in most idiotic best picture award. I watched it that year, and couldn't believe it. SPR is STILL talked about. SIL, no one remembers.
I think he was saying he prefers a more subtle performance to a showier one. I can see where he’s coming from (even if I disagree with him in Glory’s case). I think of Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) vs Allison Janney (I, Tonya). Janney won the Oscar, but Metcalf’s performance was far more subtle, and in my opinion, better.
fair enough. but for many of us, brokeback just wasn't that good as a love story. and it really wasn't that interesting to watch. it's all perspective and opinion.
@@suzycreamcheesez4371 Crash was unexceptional at best. Capote and A History Of Violence were good, V for Vendetta was inventive, but it was a not great year for movies. :)
Roger Ebert REALLY getting upset over them denying what he felt were the best documentaries of their respective years. REALLY upset. happily, he never again disagreed with the Oscar's picks for Best Documentary. especially not with any documentaries about basketball. cough.
Roger and Gene were pretty naive. The Academy doesn't like movies _about_ Black people, The Academy likes movies about white people being NICE to Black people! D'uh!
@@bono9814 I disagree with Spike Lee on a variety of issues, but there's no denying his ability to do a great film and talk about subjects that the vast majority of pictures have no interest talking about. DTRT is an iconic picture from that late 80's early 90's era and should've been nominated for Best Picture...over Field of Dreams, and I love Field of Dreams, certainly over Dead Poets Society (trite and predictable), and I think Driving MIss Daisy was all kinds of overblown by the Academy... I watched it maybe once or twice, but I've seen Born on the 4th of July and My Left Foot about 10 times each.
I didnt like do the right thing. i feel like ebert always overrates black filmmakers movies. I think most of spike lee's films are overrated. clockers is okay, i really dont like crooklyn.
Personally I think Crooklyn broke Spike lee's chain of artistic development Malcolm X was better but it was a biopic. Summer of Sam and 25th Hour recaptured some more of his essence.
@@marcofalzone6469 Summer of Sam is the Adrien Brody led film right? If so i didnt know that was spike lee. i actually liked that movie although, i felt the main cast were all a little too old for their parts. like actors playing 15-25 year olds were 30+. I did like Malcolm X but its not something id say i love. the movie he made called black klansman was pretty good too. and im not saying crooklyn is a bad movie i just dont like it. but im also not a fan of those film makers who obsess over NYC and he is one of the worst at that, along with woody allen.
@@jacquiew.9165 Motherless Brooklyn might have been decent if he didnt make his character have that really annoying stutter along with having tourettes syndrome. Norton also had that movie about a drug dealer that was living out his last week before going to prison but i cant think of many more NYC films from him? Is that one he made with ben stiller about a rabbi and priest both liking the same girl based in NYC?
Al Pacino should have been nominated in the best acting category for The Godfather, and should have won it. Jason Miller should have been in the best acting category for The Exorcist, and probably should have won it, although Steve McQueen gave a great performance in the movie Papillon, but they are rightthey put lead actors in a supporting role. It really pisses me off.
I mean, this is sorta like calling the sky blue, but dammit, these two guys are good at what they do. Siskel and Ebert are sophisticated and intelligent with their film analysis while also being accessible and entertaining to viewers. Their patches of humility and humor are also welcome.
When growing up (I’m 31), I caught the tail end of the series’ run, experiencing five or six years of Ebert & Roeper. But holy cow, Siskel is on a whole other level than Roeper. I’m stunned how well these two work together. The world simply doesn’t have this kind of broadcasted film criticism anymore.
Yup, I'm in my 40s and sadly you missed a whole other level of cinema criticism. I grew up as a kid in the 80s and 90s watching these fellas and I was spoiled rotten thinking that was just how critics were. Once Gene died and after Roger got sick and I started watching other critics boy did I see how wrong I was and how special these guys were.
broadcast not broadcasted no such word
Man, this aged really well in myriad ways.
Correct usage of myriad! Seldom seen.
I was born in '91 and it's been so cool to watch these two react to movies in real time as they were fresh - they've just always been classics in my mind.
Oh, the things you missed. Elvis, The Beatles, Vietnam, JFK, the first man moon landing, Woodstock, forget the 70s and 80s they sucked.
damn, i miss these two.
I'm always surprised how much I like to listen to these guys
Me Too 😂
Thank you so much for your work in uploading these shows. Being a movie nut, this was one of the shows I watched without fail. Thank you again!
you got it Ryan, I appreciate your kind words!
Whats great about these guys is that they are teaching us how to watch,and look at,and appreciate movies.Its not like today.They can also talk about how the studio system works without getting trouble for it.
You are doing God's work no really I appreciate you and salute you...please keep uploading more Siskel & Ebert episodes from 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and or 1998 if you can
As fun as it is to see them passionately disagree, I think it's even more fun to see them passionately agree like they do here.
How on earth do you source these videos? Thank you so much for doing this. I watch them almost every day!
Believe it or not I taped every show, every week, from the time I was in middle school through college. I had stacks of VHS tapes, and then at some point was like, why am I recording all of these...so about half of them I stupidly lost or taped over. Good news is roughly half of them survived so I have "batches" of shows from different years, and I will be uploading them all over time :) I'm glad you are watching and many others are enjoying as well
@@andyfilm5785 You are doing God's work.
@@andyfilm5785 You can’t see it, but I stood and did a 80’s slow clap for you!
@@losttribe3001 thank you! :) I could hear it!
@@andyfilm5785 wow. THAT is dedication
after i discovered them watching at least 2 their vids and enjoying r.i.p. both of them
Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot is the best individual performance I have ever seen; certainly one of the best performances ever.
DDL is the only three-time Best Oscar winner; greatest actor ever (in my opinion)
Damn they’re talking about a lot of the same Academy issues that we still talk about today.
Yup.
It's interesting remembering how SERIOUSLY people took the Oscars in the 80's and 90's.
They are movie critics, why wouldn't they be passionate on the Oscars
These guys are a National Treasure
Batman 1989 is my personal favorite movie of that year, and I think it should've gotten more nominations. The set design (which won the Oscar) looks incredible and is some of the best set designs that I've seen in many movies. But I think that Batman definitely could've benefited for more nominations, particularly in Makeup, Costumes and Sound.
These guys would throw up their hands in disgust at the tripe that passes for movies nowadays
Action doesn't get nominated for Oscars
30 years later, Fury Road comes out: hold my beer
Many action flicks did get nominated for Oscars, such as Romancing the Stone for best editing, Rambo 2 for best sound editing and the list goes on and on.
By and large the academy has historically not given due recognition to action films. Or really any genre films. Horror and sci fi fall into this category as well. If they did get a nod it was usually for one of the technical awards like editing or sound design. The big awards such as best film or best actor/actress were reserved almost entirely for artsy dramas and period pieces. So called 'Oscar bait' films.
This has begun to change in the last decade or so with many genre films getting nominated in the bigger categories but it's still an uphill battle. They'elre still widely looked down upon by the older academy voting pool.
Roger "it's too late to help batman" Ebert
I fell asleep during Batman when I saw it in 1989 and I fell asleep when I tried to watch it again 30 years later.
Born on the Fourth of July was amazing. Tom Cruise’s best performance
not as good as Do the right thing
I go for Magnolia as his best but BOTFJ just as solid imo. Both work for the different genres and types of movies. He was the best one in that field in 1999; 1989 Lewis gave a great performance but in 1999 Tom was the best one by far. As much as I like Caine no way did he out do Tom.
@@efan2012 The film and its star, Tom Cruise earned Oscar nominations in 1990.
Incredible caliber of movies back then. Now all we have is superhero and CGI monstrosities.
Matt Dillon not getting a nomination was a huge disappointment. Drugstore Cowboy is a masterpiece.
Years later in 2006, his only Oscar nomination for best actor in a supporting role was "Crash."
It's the only one he has ever received for a long time.
thanks!
Yes, I agreed. Do The Right Thing should've won best picture 1990. Let alone at least a nomination. Dead Poets, Born on the 4th, and Field of Dreams were better than Award-winner Driving Miss Daisy. That was okay but not the best film IMO. Miss you both, S & E. Godfathers of film review.
Pauline Collins was briefly a companion to Patrick Traughton's Dr. Who.
I'm not a big Spike Lee fan, he became a major prick as the years went by. BUT Do the Right Thing was the best film of 1989 and Spike was the year's best director. He got robbed.
He was Oscar nominated for best Oscar screenplay in 1990.
@@markelijio6012 Yes but the film was shut out of other categories. It was snubbed.
@@jacquiew.9165 Well, thanks for telling me that, Jacquie.
He was robbed of several nominations
It’s probably because Spike is a racist
Gene was surprised that a relative unknown named Andre Braugher wasn't nominated in place of Denzel Washington who had already won the Golden Globe by the time the nominations were announced. Uh huh...
“The big picture that shows corporations matter more than people” - now we are at the point where this statement is restated 50 times a day in every possible way, and not by films, or commentary, but by reality
It is interesting to me to listen to hear them talk about the “Academy”. A good case study is how Shakespeare In Love won over Saving Private Ryan. I’m not bashing Shakespeare In Love and maybe it is better...though I can’t even remember it even though I know I watched...but we know how Weinstein influenced the Academy members for his movie. It’s a corrupt organization. It should be objective in a subjective industry. Members allowed to vote their favorite films instead of being bribed or pressured into voting for a film. Yes, I don’t know what the result would be if rewound and ran the experience again. But I’m having a hard time think it was a better film than Saving Private Ryan.
Oh well...I guess I’ll go rent Shakespeare In Love it see if I like it better than Saving Private Ryan.
It’s not near as good as Saving Private Ryan. Ebert thought it was better but it certainly wasn’t. Shakespeare In Love has been seemingly forgotten.
That ranked number one in most idiotic best picture award. I watched it that year, and couldn't believe it. SPR is STILL talked about. SIL, no one remembers.
So Denzel wasn’t even the best supporting actor in Glory? Loved Gene but I can’t even begin to understand his thinking on that point.
I think he was saying he prefers a more subtle performance to a showier one. I can see where he’s coming from (even if I disagree with him in Glory’s case). I think of Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) vs Allison Janney (I, Tonya). Janney won the Oscar, but Metcalf’s performance was far more subtle, and in my opinion, better.
Actually, Oscar Surprises 1990
got it, I was getting mixed up with the tape I'm transferring versus what I'm uploading lol
@@andyfilm5785 it's the 1990 oscars but reviewing films mostly from 1989 just to add to the confusion. 😕
Kenneth Brena was pretty good though
After being nominated many times, Kenneth Branagh finally won for best
original screenplay for "Belfast" in 2022.
@@markelijio6012 but that one was not deserved
gave up on the Oscars when Crash beat Brokeback
fair enough. but for many of us, brokeback just wasn't that good as a love story. and it really wasn't that interesting to watch. it's all perspective and opinion.
@@ppmnox so you really liked Crash!! as Metallica says nothing else matters! aloha nui loa!
@@suzycreamcheesez4371 Crash was unexceptional at best. Capote and A History Of Violence were good, V for Vendetta was inventive, but it was a not great year for movies. :)
@@ppmnox except for Brokeback As Metallica says nothing else matters!!
Crash was garbage; BM was a snooze. Remember this: Race trumps Gay. Want to win an Oscar? Write about race AND gay (a la the overrated “Moonlight”).
They are right that Do The Right Thing is the best film of 1989. It isn't as good on 2nd viewing though.
It’s one of my favorite movies.
I agree it's the best movie of 1989. However, I disagree as it's good to watch various times through it doesn't get easier to watch.
I've watched it multiple times
Sex, Lies and Videotape is also a great movie. Very intimate and a reminder that seduction is as much mental as physical ...
@@brianwolf6166 The only indie hit movie was Oscar nominated for its original
screenplay in 1990, this was the first of many for Steven Soderbergh.
Wow the beginning even now stay the same in race issues in Oscar's
Right Thing bored me; Glory was the best movie!
I think Do The Right Ring was excellent and very fascinating, I don’t know how anyone can call that movie boring.
@@HugoSoup57 Innovative storytelling, important subject, great performances, terrific art direction. Amazing film.
@@FloraWest Also humor.
Roger Ebert REALLY getting upset over them denying what he felt were the best documentaries of their respective years.
REALLY upset.
happily, he never again disagreed with the Oscar's picks for Best Documentary. especially not with any documentaries about basketball. cough.
Roger and Gene were pretty naive.
The Academy doesn't like movies _about_ Black people, The Academy likes movies about white people being NICE to Black people! D'uh!
Yes, my favorite of those is 12 Years a Slave.
Wow they were off point badly on this one with most memorable
Roger and Me, Do the Right Thing - two movies nobody talks about. They were assigning way too much importance to those films
Do the right thing is a classic and only gone up in estimations since it's release
@@bono9814 I disagree with Spike Lee on a variety of issues, but there's no denying his ability to do a great film and talk about subjects that the vast majority of pictures have no interest talking about. DTRT is an iconic picture from that late 80's early 90's era and should've been nominated for Best Picture...over Field of Dreams, and I love Field of Dreams, certainly over Dead Poets Society (trite and predictable), and I think Driving MIss Daisy was all kinds of overblown by the Academy... I watched it maybe once or twice, but I've seen Born on the 4th of July and My Left Foot about 10 times each.
what you on about do the right thing is iconic and still very relevant , it was by miles the best movie way better than driving miss daisy
I didnt like do the right thing. i feel like ebert always overrates black filmmakers movies. I think most of spike lee's films are overrated. clockers is okay, i really dont like crooklyn.
Personally I think Crooklyn broke Spike lee's chain of artistic development
Malcolm X was better but it was a biopic. Summer of Sam and 25th Hour recaptured some more of his essence.
@@marcofalzone6469 Summer of Sam is the Adrien Brody led film right? If so i didnt know that was spike lee. i actually liked that movie although, i felt the main cast were all a little too old for their parts. like actors playing 15-25 year olds were 30+. I did like Malcolm X but its not something id say i love. the movie he made called black klansman was pretty good too. and im not saying crooklyn is a bad movie i just dont like it. but im also not a fan of those film makers who obsess over NYC and he is one of the worst at that, along with woody allen.
@@pat442389 Edward Norton
@@jacquiew.9165 Motherless Brooklyn might have been decent if he didnt make his character have that really annoying stutter along with having tourettes syndrome. Norton also had that movie about a drug dealer that was living out his last week before going to prison but i cant think of many more NYC films from him? Is that one he made with ben stiller about a rabbi and priest both liking the same girl based in NYC?
Batman stunk! Sorry guys.
Oh come on, I thought Batman was a good film
Batman took home an Oscar for its massive art direction.
Roger Ebert never saw a Black movie he did not love. He was married to a Black woman. This blatant bias was a major flaw in his criticism.
Blah blah blah
You are incorrect in that comment
lol wut? So being married to someone of a certain race means every movie with cast of that race you’ll love?
Al Pacino should have been nominated in the best acting category for The Godfather, and should have won it. Jason Miller should have been in the best acting category for The Exorcist, and probably should have won it, although Steve McQueen gave a great performance in the movie Papillon, but they are rightthey put lead actors in a supporting role. It really pisses me off.
Uh-oh. Now I know what this is all about: head to head stuff. That's all.