"Isn't that inspirational. A blind man overcomes his handicap and somehow finds the inner strength to become a drunk driver." Lol, Roger could really be a gold dispenser.
Same here. I even saw "My Dinner with Andre" when it finally came to Sacramento a year later. Just two guys talking while spending time at a nice restaurant. Basically doing what Siskel & Ebert do on television, except without the dinner. I'm pretty sure "Diva" was another one I went to see because of those two. But I was also eager to see films that they both panned like "Reservoir Dogs" and "Brazil," and I can't say I agreed with them on those two.
man. it sure is depressing to think that Roger Ebert was absolutely dead-set annoyed and tired of the glut of slasher movies . . . in _1982._ the '80s must have been a very, _very_ long decade for him.
The 80s were a terrible time for Hollywood, in general. I always hated the glut of slasher movies too, but there were plenty of other stinkers of other genres.
@@fenderjazzbrian Unless you enjoy really bad movies like the Canon film! I can watch Breakin’, Over the Top and others over and over again because they’re just so unintentionally bad. One of my favorites, if you are into that type of things, is Strike Commander starring Reb Brown. It’s a rip of of Rambo II and I laugh at as if it were a comedy.
@Trav D. Watching S&E as a kid, I was always surprised they didn't give that briefcase to Ebert instead, I just couldn't imagine why, especially with Roger getting a notepad from a FOOD vending machine! (Not trying to be mean here, but Gene himself would often make fun of Ebert's, uh, let's just say, physique and Roger, to his credit, would just roll with it!)
@@waynechapman9823 Which was which? (Ha-ha, just kidding!) I think I can see what you mean (if I'm wrong, please feel free to tell me): - Both duos worked together despite their arguments and differences of opinion, but they realized that they worked better together than apart.* - To be the most successful, they would have to put aside their personal egos to focus on what would help them produce the best work possible.* - Simply because you can't help but think of one name without the other, we automatically put their names together by habit!* (*Until Cher's later career, anyway.) Also, just for fun on a silly side-note, how bizarre/cool would it be to see them back in the early 70's if their vocations were switched in a parallel universe? We would have: "At The Movies: Sonny Insulted By Cher" and especially, Siskel & Ebert's short-lived weird Country-Latin-Polka-Funk fusion hybrid supergroup with Xavier (Cugat): "The S.E.X. Factory"!
Yeah, me too. You know when I use to watch this show when I was a little kid, I thought the soda and popcorn came out from a sort of trap door on the counter.
1982 with Gene and Roger “At The Movies” was their best era. They were relatively new on the scene and it was the guys at their best. The early to late 80’s was the golden era for “At The Movies.”
I thought I was the only one who caught that! The shows from the late 70s and early 80s were more real and their opinions and the arguments that ensued were organic and passionate. In the 90s, everything started looking kinda rehearsed or even staged. And Siskel, dear Gene Siskel, became annoying, dismissive and very narrow-minded.
They had been doing another show for several years, sneak preview, before at the movies. they started at the movies in 82 because they changed production companies so they even by 1982 you can't really say they were new
@@zt1053 They moved to commercial syndication with At the Movies at Tribune, which offered them a better syndication deal at the time than PBS, which wanted to move them there to begin with. Roger's book Life Itself talks about this.
"One thing we probably oughtta make clear about this show right at the start is that it's not going to be devoted to run-of-the-mill Stinkers Of The Week with low budgets." "Good." i love how Siskel responds to that line as if he's hearing that information for the first time and is genuinely appreciative.
He was The Beastmaster, too. He's had good roles but this wasn't one of them. I actually thought he was alright in this movie, it's not his fault the plot sucked. He was hired to show up and act and he did that.
@@Skank_and_Gutterboy great way of looking at that. Actors often don't like the work they're given. It isn't their job to like the work. It's their job to DO the work.
I was 16 in 1982, and me and my friends went to see Porky's 3 times at the theater, and laughed our heads off the whole picture. Now 58, I would agree with Siskel and Ebert. Shows how immature you really are at 16.
Fun Fact: Inchon was such a legendary failures that after it slunk out of theaters it was broadcast once on television later that year and has never been released on home video or streaming.
. Agreed.......and for me, I think the most memorable moments on these shows were when either Ebert, or Siskel, would surprisingly go 'against the grain' by announcing that they liked (or hated) a film that most people seemed to hate (or like)......which, more often than not, usually ended up being a moment that one or the other of them would, at some point later, remind everybody of !! 😄 .
No other critics could capture their particular chemistry and none were nearly as successful on television, which is why we don't have a show like that today. Lots of people have their own UA-cam channel for reviews, though.
Hahaha! I was waiting for Inchon, nice to see it up first for the boot! 🤣 I love how the S's in Amityville 2: The Possession title font have little devil tails, it's so corny I love it!
The way Gene says “guess what” in referring to liking Six Weeks, that’s such a film nerd vibe when you feel really self assured about loving something that probably sucks.
As a movie fan who grew up in the Chicago area Thank You for these videos! Miss these treasures of film reviewers. I did NOT agree with half the time. But always loved their take on films.
I remember seeing "Six Weeks" many years ago on cable, and I couldn't believe or understand why this film was made, or why Mary Tyler Moore or Dudley Moore would appear in it; maybe the Producers thought it would be cute to cast two actors with the same last nane. The scenes were incredibly contrived, the little girl was beyond Yoda-like in her acceptance of her impending death, and the movie felt like it was written by a Hallmark card writer who created a card called "So You're Dying...." I'm glad there aren't cards out there like that, but if there were, it would be like this film. When the girl finally Does die at the end, the emotions were so forced and contrived it was painful and embarrassing to watch. I'm surprised they didn't make a sequel where they shock her back to life and then unsuccessfully give her chemotherapy, and call the movie "Another Six Weeks".....
To be fair and square, there's no sequel to the 1982 family fare classic, according to Frank Price of Columbia with Delphi Film Associates, who distributed the long awaited troubled production both in the US and Canada. If that's not enough for you, "Six Weeks" was presented by Polygram Filmed Entertainment and produced by Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Rob Cohen for the Guber-Peters Company with Helen Bartlett Bill for Barnstorm Films.
Thanks for sharing. All these years later, as soon as I saw Six Weeks pop up, I recalled that they had a MAJOR disagreement on that one. So when Gene had that smug look on his face, I knew what was coming.
(Explosion is clearly audible) Child: They’ve blown up the bridge! Woman: What?! (Honks car horn) What in blazes did that character think honking the horn was going to accomplish!? Honking the horn isn’t going to make the bridge not blown up! Speaking of Inchon, I love the quote from Sir Laurence Olivier about why he agreed to do the movie. “People ask me why I’m playing in this picture. The answer is simple. Money, dear boy. I’m like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. I’m almost used up now and can feel the end coming. That’s why I’m taking money now. I’ve got nothing to leave my family but the money I can make from films. Nothing is beneath me if it pays well. I’ve earned the right to [darn] well grab whatever I can in the time I’ve got left.” Instead of making some spiel claiming the film was some great work, he was honest enough to admit he knew he didn’t have much time left and wanted to make as much money to leave to his loved ones as possible. Sure enough, his health had been in decline for years when Inchon was made, and he passed away in 1989.
Thanks for the info. Betsy Palmer appeared in Friday the 13th so she could buy a car, and Michael Caine appeared in Jaws 4: The Revenge because his house in England 🇬🇧 flooded and he needed the money to buy a new house.
Siskel and Ebert respected women so much that they'd be called "Too Woke" in 2023. It's kinda sad. I like the other opening with the Thumbs up Taxi Driver better.
I did hate "Halloween III : Season Of The Witch" when I first saw it in 1982 but it has grown on me. I also liked "Amityville II : The Possession". I am a Horror fanboy. But one movie that I hated that I think came out in 1982 was "Rich And Famous" starring Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen.
I like the cut of these kids' jib. I think this young new critic, Gene Siskel and the other kid, Roger Ebert are real up and comers in the world of film criticism.
I was watching them in 1980 when they really were up-and-comers. I just thought it was great that you had two guys talking about movies on television like that. You could disagree with them, of course, and you can see now they were sometimes on the wrong side of history, but I still thought it was great to be able to watch these guys talk about something they and we loved so much.
"White Dog" was a 1982 cult classic thriller was finally released in 11/12/1982. It didn't no business and needless to say that Samuel Fuller moved to France and never made another American film as an filmmaker. He died in 1998. Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg were departed from Paramount and moved to Disney from the fall of 1984-present with brands like 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Pictures, Touchstone/Walt Disney/Hollywood/Cinergi/Buena Vista Pictures, SLM Entertainment Group, ABC Studios, Disney Media Distribution and more. Sherry Lansing and Michelle Manning were joining Paramount/Viacom in 3/15/1985 under Ned Tanen, Ann Morales and Roger M. Rothstein with brands like Miramax, CBS, BET, MTV, VH1 among others. Laurence Mark has formed his own company, Laurence Mark Productions in 3/22/1986 and in the spring of 1990, he made an deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment under Frank Price, John Calley, Amy Pascal, Mario Kassar and more.
@@errolbourgeois8230 "Partners" was the only picture co-produced and directed by Emmy winner James Burrows, whose more focusing on television directing since 1974.
Porky's seemed to be part of a disturbing trend of films in the '80s that featured male characters who got away with treating women horribly. Films like Revenge of the Nerds were unfortunately successful for some reason and some of that mentality even creeped into other '80s films like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Horror films of that decade actually were more empowering for women than some mainstream opinions gave them credit for. The protagonists in films like Revenge of the Nerds would've been highlighted as villains and heroines in those horror films would've pounded the crap out of those guys.
"Inchon" was actually funded by the Korean "Unification Church". (Also known as the "Moonies" cult). The story at the time was that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was feeling depressed one day. He took a walk, and was suddenly inspired by the thought, that he would feel better if he could make a BIG movie. And the rest is history.
Who else loves seeing Aroma the skunk in the director's chair wearing that cute beret? He and spot the wonder dog are mascots for the boycotting of awful movies. I wish they were on the other worst of the year episodes.
My dad got tickets to the premier of *Six Weeks,* and he said he, his dad, and his siblings were all cracking up laughing the whole time because it was that awful.
I remember that old opening, lots of fun. Never saw "Six Weeks" (didn't want to), but I recall Mary Tyler Moore looking kind of foolish with that "halo" (sacrificing saint of a mother?) of flowers in her hair. Just plain silly.
I’ve heard what happens sometimes is someone who has success in one field thinks they’ll have success in another field (and enough people agree that they support them). That’s how you have singers, TV actors, and athletes attempting to become movie stars, actors and athletes attempting to become rappers or singers, singers trying to become novelists, etc. Sometimes it works and sometimes it’s a mess.
Hideo Nakata has said that "Amityville 2: The Possession" was a big influence on his film "Ringu," which is a seminal classic in Japanese horror. You really gotta be careful what you pick out as trash, cause it just might end up being someone else's treasure.
Being inspired by a bad movie doesn't make the bad movie good, really. Sometimes it's the concept that's executed poorly that is inspirational and nothing more. There's plenty of films I've run across where I'm like, 'You know, this would've been a great movie if it was handled differently, but everything else stayed the same'. Peace.
@@heavysystemsinc. I hear ya. Inspiration can come from the strangest places. The Ramones were inspired by the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night" when they wrote "Blitzkrieg Bop." They liked bubblegum pop and wanted a song with a chant like that one. A lot of Ramones fans wouldn't have anything to do with the Bay City Rollers.
@@waynechapman9823 Precisely. The Deftones are known to love The Cure and Joy Division, but one cannot really play those band's music right next to your average Deftones song and say they fit together.
It probably looked no different to them than the first two, so they figured it'd be boring to criticize it. Or else, there really were too many bad ones in '82 that they couldn't fit it in.
Inchon's director, Terrence Young, was amazed by Laurence Olivier's fortitude. The heat of the location was too much for his frail body but when the cameras rolled, Larry shrugged off the pain like it was nothing.
Not a advocate for the late Rev. Moon, but calling it a “Moonie” production begs whether the its ok to call Hollywood movies “Jewie” productions. Don’t mock someone else’s faith, lest yours be held to similar scrutiny..
Damn I used to watch this show all the time starting in 1978 and I forgot that they had an actual skunk for the Stinkers segments. I bet there are some salty outtakes in which Gene and Roger each blame the skunk for each other's farts and vice versa. :)
Porky's was doing well at the box office while some others such as Inchon, Halloween 3, Partners, Six Weeks, Grease 2, Amityville 2, Yes Giorgio among others were all been bombed at the box office.
Amityvile II is amazing. I just watched it on blu ray a few weeks ago. It isn't a pleasant movie to watch, but in my book that's not a reason not to watch it. Italian directors in the 1970s were good at making dark films.
Amityvill II was better than the original in that it was a retelling of the Defeo murders (albeit with alot of artistic licence) & merged with the demonic backstory made up by Lutz to cash in. It only went downhill in its further sequels. While Porkys was great teenage fun set in the 1950s & was never meant to be taken seriously. In the UK the Carry On films are similarly misogynistic with its slapstick comedy of its time but are a British institution.
I watched S&E devotedly on all their shows but I still prefer the PBS Sneak Previews because it played longer clips of the movies under review. The syndicated shows had to make room for advert breaks.
My thoughts exactly. WTF are they doing? Also, even if they didn't care about the civilians, you think they'd get themselves off the bridge before they blew it up!
It wasn't a bad movie by anymeans and Patti Lupone gave a emotional and powerful performance as the wife and should have been Oscar nominated for best supporting actress!
There were a number of comedies in the 80s featuring guys peering at unknowing naked women. Revenge of the Nerds had them doing it with cameras and that one got _good_ reviews. Times have changed.
Didn’t Revenge of the Nerds also have a scene with one of the so-called heroes tricking a girl into having sex with him by disguising himself and pretending to be somebody else? That’s messed up.
It's amazing how we forget little things, like the original name of the show (1982-86) was "At the movies". (No "Siskel & Ebert" in the title.) And it also had 2 other names when it was originally broadcast by PBS. "Opening Soon at a Theatre Near You" (1975-1977) and "Sneak Previews" (1977-1982).
Porky's was funny, which is why it made so much money. Sure, it had some gratuitous nudity, but it had good humor and some really good performances. How Nancy Parsons was able to keep a straight face as Beulah Balbricker in that scene they showed with her talking to the principal is beyond me. Many other of the teen "sex" movies of the time weren't really funny and had bad performances.
I found it funny at the time (I was 20) especially in this scene. I remember someone telling me he'd been to see Chariots of Fire in a cinema where Porky's was playing next door - the laughter was so loud it came through the wall! But even at the time it occurred to me that in a few years the boys would end up just like the sad, sleazy types who make up Porky's clientele.
I watched when i was maybe 10 years old with my best friend. His parents had us always go out with his sister and her boyfeiend as " chaperones" and they would go see a different movie and then pick us up after we spent some time in arcade after movie. We werent much chaperones lol..
The toughest part of their job must've been to sit through these turds. Those war movies where big actors have bit parts or cameos like in Inchon are still made today. Midway looks like that.
@Justin I can honestly say that no critic has ever matched my personal taste as closely as Roger Ebert did. I really appreciated the fact that he was willing to see past the hype surrounding certain films and examine them more honestly than the vast bulk of reviewers. Sure I had disagreements with him just as Gene did, but I could pretty much always see his point. And really most "cult classics" are actually terrible movies that people have now merely come to see through the lens of nostalgia. He was often even right on contemporary "good" movies that really didn't stand up under the light of critical scrutiny. I particularly appreciated his often scathing analysis of Oscar choices more driven by Hollywood politics than any real measure of quality.
Calling it "Hallowe'en 3" when Michael Myers never appears in the movie was one of the worst marketing decisions in film history. However, "Season Of The Witch" is actually a neat little movie that is more appreciated now than it was at the time of it's release. A cult favourite.
@@gallery7596 I agree. I think that's why it was so looked down upon when it was first released. It's like releasing a Friday the 13th movie without Jason or a Nightmare on Elm Street movie without Freddie Krueger. Fans of the franchise were just disappointed.
Internet Tough Guy they didn't really watch any clips on that 4:3 screen. It was an optical effect. Plus no 1:85 or 2:35 aspect ratio were considered to be displayed until the late 80's.
The clips provided by the studios for television reviewers were in 4:3. its just a cute effect to simulate they are in a theater, when in reality, it's just a set.
The scene from "Six Weeks" which Siskel and Ebert used for this show was also the scene that the filmmakers used to advertise the movie on TV, and this scene alone convinced me to never, ever watch this movie. "You may now kiss the child" 🤮
“This movie is an insult to opera, to Pavarotti, and to us.”
Loved Gene…. He never minced words, period.
"Isn't that inspirational. A blind man overcomes his handicap and somehow finds the inner strength to become a drunk driver."
Lol, Roger could really be a gold dispenser.
And the very next year, the director of Porky's would give us the classic....A Christmas Story!
And what might be the first real slasher "Black Christmas" in 1974. And "Deathdream" is something of an underrated classic.
And sixteen years after that, he gave us . . . BABY GENIUSES. That film would be Roger's pick for the Worst Film of 1999.
@@waynechapman9823 great director. did a wide variety or work.
And right after 'A Christmas Story' he crapped out 'Rhinestone'
Ain't that something?!
I watched the show religiously. I saw so many great films thanks to the boys.
Same here. I even saw "My Dinner with Andre" when it finally came to Sacramento a year later. Just two guys talking while spending time at a nice restaurant. Basically doing what Siskel & Ebert do on television, except without the dinner. I'm pretty sure "Diva" was another one I went to see because of those two. But I was also eager to see films that they both panned like "Reservoir Dogs" and "Brazil," and I can't say I agreed with them on those two.
Me too
It was more fun watching these terrific guys than it was going to the movies!! Sure miss Gene and Roger these days......RIP, my popcorn pals! 🍿🎞️🎥
Not really. The only good reason to watch these two pretentious snobs was to see what movies were coming out.
man. it sure is depressing to think that Roger Ebert was absolutely dead-set annoyed and tired of the glut of slasher movies . . . in _1982._ the '80s must have been a very, _very_ long decade for him.
Well most of them blow so I cannot blame him. Takes no imagination to write shit like that and I'm a massive horror fanatic for the past 45 years.
To be fair Amityville 2 is pretty bad.
@@thiscorrosion900 I agree with Roger.
The 80s were a terrible time for Hollywood, in general. I always hated the glut of slasher movies too, but there were plenty of other stinkers of other genres.
@@fenderjazzbrian Unless you enjoy really bad movies like the Canon film! I can watch Breakin’, Over the Top and others over and over again because they’re just so unintentionally bad. One of my favorites, if you are into that type of things, is Strike Commander starring Reb Brown. It’s a rip of of Rambo II and I laugh at as if it were a comedy.
I like how Gene Siskel opens his briefcase and the soda 🥤 and popcorn 🍿 are still in place 😂
@Trav D. Watching S&E as a kid, I was always surprised they didn't give that briefcase to Ebert instead, I just couldn't imagine why, especially with Roger getting a notepad from a FOOD vending machine!
(Not trying to be mean here, but Gene himself would often make fun of Ebert's, uh, let's just say, physique and Roger, to his credit, would just roll with it!)
@@geoffelder2236 They were the Sonny and Cher of film critics.
@@waynechapman9823 Which was which? (Ha-ha, just kidding!)
I think I can see what you mean (if I'm wrong, please feel free to tell me):
- Both duos worked together despite their arguments and differences of opinion, but they realized that they worked better together than apart.*
- To be the most successful, they would have to put aside their personal egos to focus on what would help them produce the best work possible.*
- Simply because you can't help but think of one name without the other, we automatically put their names together by habit!*
(*Until Cher's later career, anyway.)
Also, just for fun on a silly side-note, how bizarre/cool would it be to see them back in the early 70's if their vocations were switched in a parallel universe?
We would have: "At The Movies: Sonny Insulted By Cher" and especially,
Siskel & Ebert's short-lived weird Country-Latin-Polka-Funk fusion hybrid supergroup with Xavier (Cugat): "The S.E.X. Factory"!
@@geoffelder2236 😂😂😂😂
Yeah, me too. You know when I use to watch this show when I was a little kid, I thought the soda and popcorn came out from a sort of trap door on the counter.
1982 with Gene and Roger “At The Movies” was their best era. They were relatively new on the scene and it was the guys at their best. The early to late 80’s was the golden era for “At The Movies.”
I thought I was the only one who caught that!
The shows from the late 70s and early 80s were more real and their opinions and the arguments that ensued were organic and passionate.
In the 90s, everything started looking kinda rehearsed or even staged.
And Siskel, dear Gene Siskel, became annoying, dismissive and very narrow-minded.
They had been doing another show for several years, sneak preview, before at the movies. they started at the movies in 82 because they changed production companies so they even by 1982 you can't really say they were new
Bullshit. They were great up Genes death.
@@zt1053 They moved to commercial syndication with At the Movies at Tribune, which offered them a better syndication deal at the time than PBS, which wanted to move them there to begin with. Roger's book Life Itself talks about this.
No, they had been around on PBS for several years.
Forgot how much I loved this show. Thank you for posting!
I miss these guys.
So do I.
The great movie reviewers of all time. I do recall some of these movies and they deserve to be panned.
"One thing we probably oughtta make clear about this show right at the start is that it's not going to be devoted to run-of-the-mill Stinkers Of The Week with low budgets."
"Good."
i love how Siskel responds to that line as if he's hearing that information for the first time and is genuinely appreciative.
I didn't realize until I saw the original review for If You Could See What I Hear that the main character was played by V's Marc Singer.
He was The Beastmaster, too. He's had good roles but this wasn't one of them. I actually thought he was alright in this movie, it's not his fault the plot sucked. He was hired to show up and act and he did that.
@@Skank_and_Gutterboy great way of looking at that. Actors often don't like the work they're given. It isn't their job to like the work. It's their job to DO the work.
I was 16 in 1982, and me and my friends went to see Porky's 3 times at the theater, and laughed our heads off the whole picture. Now 58, I would agree with Siskel and Ebert. Shows how immature you really are at 16.
Fun Fact:
Inchon was such a legendary failures that after it slunk out of theaters it was broadcast once on television later that year and has never been released on home video or streaming.
18:51 This was absolutely a priceless moment between Siskel and Ebert
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Agreed.......and for me, I think the most memorable moments on these shows were when either Ebert, or Siskel, would surprisingly go 'against the grain' by announcing that they liked (or hated) a film that most people seemed to hate (or like)......which, more often than not, usually ended up being a moment that one or the other of them would, at some point later, remind everybody of !! 😄
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I can't say I always agreed with Gene's and Roger's reviews, but I loved watching these 2 guys back in the day and always looked forward to the show.
No other critics could capture their particular chemistry and none were nearly as successful on television, which is why we don't have a show like that today. Lots of people have their own UA-cam channel for reviews, though.
Hahaha!
I was waiting for Inchon, nice to see it up first for the boot! 🤣
I love how the S's in Amityville 2: The Possession title font have little devil tails, it's so corny I love it!
The way Gene says “guess what” in referring to liking Six Weeks, that’s such a film nerd vibe when you feel really self assured about loving something that probably sucks.
I literally went down to the comments hoping someone else picked-up on that!
Halloween III is awesome!
Siskel actually gave it a positive review.
Silver Shamrock!!!
@ronaldh8446 that's a shock considering he is very much against violence and children
Hey, I LIKED "I outta be in pictures." Great to see these shows again.
I watched some of these episodes when they aired. Thanks for putting them out.
As a movie fan who grew up in the Chicago area Thank You for these videos! Miss these treasures of film reviewers. I did NOT agree with half the time. But always loved their take on films.
I love that they quote SCTV's "Farm Film Report"! "Blows up Real Good"
I remember seeing "Six Weeks" many years ago on cable, and I couldn't believe or understand why this film was made, or why Mary Tyler Moore or Dudley Moore would appear in it; maybe the Producers thought it would be cute to cast two actors with the same last nane.
The scenes were incredibly contrived, the little girl was beyond Yoda-like in her acceptance of her impending death, and the movie felt like it was written by a Hallmark card writer who created a card called "So You're Dying...."
I'm glad there aren't cards out there like that, but if there were, it would be like this film.
When the girl finally Does die at the end, the emotions were so forced and contrived it was painful and embarrassing to watch. I'm surprised they didn't make a sequel where they shock her back to life and then unsuccessfully give her chemotherapy, and call the movie "Another Six Weeks".....
That Hallmark comment made me laugh out loud 😂
I agree!
To be fair and square, there's no sequel to the 1982 family fare classic, according
to Frank Price of Columbia with Delphi Film Associates, who distributed the long awaited troubled production
both in the US and Canada.
If that's not enough for you, "Six Weeks" was presented by Polygram Filmed
Entertainment and produced by Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Rob Cohen for the
Guber-Peters Company with Helen Bartlett Bill for Barnstorm Films.
@@markelijio6012 , Sounds like the "Too Many Cooks" syndrome. I'm surprised they didn't make it into a musical.
😁😁😁😁 great review! You nailed it.
[ Six Weeks - 1982 ] _"A little 'piece' of tear-jerking dreck"_ 🤣 Soo brutal. 🤣
Thanks for sharing. All these years later, as soon as I saw Six Weeks pop up, I recalled that they had a MAJOR disagreement on that one. So when Gene had that smug look on his face, I knew what was coming.
I remember my mom dragging me to see Six Weeks. I hated it. Watching this episode, I knew I was right.
Your mom sucks
Wow I remember watching this episode. I was 9. It was the first time i heard the word "prequel" and I was offended they didn't like Grease 2
Grease 2 was no good what so ever
You must be a cool rider...
Do it for America...
They were right. Its lame.
I love Grease 2 (I liked it better than the first movie)!
No way it was better. The songs, the chemistry between the leads- just doesn't compare.
Siskel & Ebert watched Partners and thought it sucked. Redlettermedia saw Partners and thought it sucked. My life is complete.
It’s like poetry
It’s stylistically designed to be that way
I put the Siskel & Ebert theme song on my phone and let it play as I’m walking to my seat in a theatre before a movie. 😂
Kathryn Harrold was one of cinema's underrated beauties.
Yeah...I would love her to water on me! :-0
Unfortunately, she stopped acting.
I agree with you 💯👍. You should check out her performance in a movie called The Sender - a guilty pleasure 😉
(Explosion is clearly audible)
Child: They’ve blown up the bridge!
Woman: What?! (Honks car horn)
What in blazes did that character think honking the horn was going to accomplish!? Honking the horn isn’t going to make the bridge not blown up!
Speaking of Inchon, I love the quote from Sir Laurence Olivier about why he agreed to do the movie. “People ask me why I’m playing in this picture. The answer is simple. Money, dear boy. I’m like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. I’m almost used up now and can feel the end coming. That’s why I’m taking money now. I’ve got nothing to leave my family but the money I can make from films. Nothing is beneath me if it pays well. I’ve earned the right to [darn] well grab whatever I can in the time I’ve got left.” Instead of making some spiel claiming the film was some great work, he was honest enough to admit he knew he didn’t have much time left and wanted to make as much money to leave to his loved ones as possible. Sure enough, his health had been in decline for years when Inchon was made, and he passed away in 1989.
Thanks for the info. Betsy Palmer appeared in Friday the 13th so she could buy a car, and Michael Caine appeared in Jaws 4: The Revenge because his house in England 🇬🇧 flooded and he needed the money to buy a new house.
@@miguelservetus9534 Sir Laurence Olivier wasn’t in Star Wars. Were you thinking of Sir Alec Guinness?
@@karaoconnoraliasraidra thanks. I’m an idiot.
@@miguelservetus9534 No worries! We all get mixed up sometimes. :-)
Rogers glasses.
God I love the 80s
Siskel and Ebert respected women so much that they'd be called "Too Woke" in 2023. It's kinda sad.
I like the other opening with the Thumbs up Taxi Driver better.
Yawn.
Definitely. Roger, specifically, was waaaaaaay ahead of his time.
Six Weeks was played constantly over the holidays on tv in the '80s. The little girl dying suddenly at the end was always heartbreaking.
I did hate "Halloween III : Season Of The Witch" when I first saw it in 1982 but it has grown on me. I also liked "Amityville II : The Possession". I am a Horror fanboy. But one movie that I hated that I think came out in 1982 was "Rich And Famous" starring Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen.
actually Siskel liked Halloween 3....Ebert listed it but didn`t talk about it....
Rich and Famous was released in '81. I looked it up on the interweb so I wouldn't have to say "I think you're right."
HALLOWEEN 3 4k looks & sounds great. I liked AMITYVILLE 2 also when I saw it in 1982 Diane Franklin is hot.
I like the cut of these kids' jib. I think this young new critic, Gene Siskel and the other kid, Roger Ebert are real up and comers in the world of film criticism.
I was watching them in 1980 when they really were up-and-comers. I just thought it was great that you had two guys talking about movies on television like that. You could disagree with them, of course, and you can see now they were sometimes on the wrong side of history, but I still thought it was great to be able to watch these guys talk about something they and we loved so much.
They were on PBS first….Sneak Preview.
"White Dog" was a 1982 cult classic thriller was finally released in 11/12/1982. It didn't no business and needless to say that Samuel Fuller
moved to France and never made another American film as an filmmaker. He died in 1998.
Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg were departed from Paramount and moved to Disney from the fall of 1984-present
with brands like 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Pictures, Touchstone/Walt Disney/Hollywood/Cinergi/Buena Vista Pictures,
SLM Entertainment Group, ABC Studios, Disney Media Distribution and more.
Sherry Lansing and Michelle Manning were joining Paramount/Viacom in 3/15/1985 under Ned Tanen, Ann Morales and
Roger M. Rothstein with brands like Miramax, CBS, BET, MTV, VH1 among others.
Laurence Mark has formed his own company, Laurence Mark Productions in 3/22/1986 and in the spring of 1990, he made an deal with
Sony Pictures Entertainment under Frank Price, John Calley, Amy Pascal, Mario Kassar and more.
Wow. Finally found someone who agreed with me on Porky’s.
"Here's the basic scene from all of those movies".
King.
I was 11 in 1982. I want to go back lol.
I loved I Ought to be in Pictures. Such a warm and wonderful film. Halloween 3 and Partners are guilty pleasures.
Partners could not be made today.
@@errolbourgeois8230 "Partners" was the only picture co-produced and directed by Emmy winner James Burrows,
whose more focusing on television directing since 1974.
I like Partners, too.
Porky's seemed to be part of a disturbing trend of films in the '80s that featured male characters who got away with treating women horribly. Films like Revenge of the Nerds were unfortunately successful for some reason and some of that mentality even creeped into other '80s films like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Horror films of that decade actually were more empowering for women than some mainstream opinions gave them credit for. The protagonists in films like Revenge of the Nerds would've been highlighted as villains and heroines in those horror films would've pounded the crap out of those guys.
"Inchon" was actually funded by the Korean "Unification Church". (Also known as the "Moonies" cult). The story at the time was that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was feeling depressed one day. He took a walk, and was suddenly inspired by the thought, that he would feel better if he could make a BIG movie. And the rest is history.
To date, the film has never been officially released on any home video format.
they had to sell a lot of damn flowers for that project...
My sister was one of the managers at the theater where they filmed that opening. I saw dozens and dozens of free movies there.
Who else loves seeing Aroma the skunk in the director's chair wearing that cute beret? He and spot the wonder dog are mascots for the boycotting of awful movies. I wish they were on the other worst of the year episodes.
SUBBED and many thanks! Great channel name!
"At the Movies", TV's long-running syndicated program has been nominated for several Emmy Awards. It was an major success.
I was 14 in 1982 and seeing Porky's was a big deal. As long as we got to see some bush we were happy. And Porky's delivered.
Porky's is a classic!
My dad got tickets to the premier of *Six Weeks,* and he said he, his dad, and his siblings were all cracking up laughing the whole time because it was that awful.
It was extremely terrible. I actually cheered when the little girl finally died ... she was so obnoxious!
I Like amityville the Possession Thumbs up
I remember that old opening, lots of fun. Never saw "Six Weeks" (didn't want to), but I recall Mary Tyler Moore looking kind of foolish with that "halo" (sacrificing saint of a mother?) of flowers in her hair. Just plain silly.
11:00 - a more-than-obvious observation but this would NEVER be made today...!!
Pavaroti must have been broke or something
I think that's how a lot of has beens do these sub par movies. Money.
I mean, those $200 million must've been earned somehow
Nobody said no to the big P back then.
I’ve heard what happens sometimes is someone who has success in one field thinks they’ll have success in another field (and enough people agree that they support them). That’s how you have singers, TV actors, and athletes attempting to become movie stars, actors and athletes attempting to become rappers or singers, singers trying to become novelists, etc. Sometimes it works and sometimes it’s a mess.
Hideo Nakata has said that "Amityville 2: The Possession" was a big influence on his film "Ringu," which is a seminal classic in Japanese horror. You really gotta be careful what you pick out as trash, cause it just might end up being someone else's treasure.
Being inspired by a bad movie doesn't make the bad movie good, really. Sometimes it's the concept that's executed poorly that is inspirational and nothing more. There's plenty of films I've run across where I'm like, 'You know, this would've been a great movie if it was handled differently, but everything else stayed the same'. Peace.
@@heavysystemsinc. I hear ya. Inspiration can come from the strangest places. The Ramones were inspired by the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night" when they wrote "Blitzkrieg Bop." They liked bubblegum pop and wanted a song with a chant like that one. A lot of Ramones fans wouldn't have anything to do with the Bay City Rollers.
@@waynechapman9823 Precisely. The Deftones are known to love The Cure and Joy Division, but one cannot really play those band's music right next to your average Deftones song and say they fit together.
Goes both ways - The Room was basrd on Tennessee Williams's wsrk , and Talented Mr. Ripley.
@0:15 Wait a minute, I thought people weren't supposed to sneak outside food into movie theaters?
Considering how these two HATED the "Friday The 13th" series, I'm really surprised Part 3 (which came out that year) didn't make the list.
It probably looked no different to them than the first two, so they figured it'd be boring to criticize it. Or else, there really were too many bad ones in '82 that they couldn't fit it in.
Pavarotti's acting reminds me of a giant-size Herve Villechaize.
At least Pavarotti had a day job. I'd love to see Herve take a crack at "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Met.
INCHON is impossible to find. Not that I'm actively searching for it...
Remember when thirty million dollars was a lot of money?
Good comment. Super sad.
From what I know, Inchon will never see the light of day on home video.
It’s on UA-cam m.ua-cam.com/video/O3FC5CPt9C0/v-deo.html
@@johnfitzpatrick3094Probably for the better. Check out its rating on IMDb.
INCHON was a Moonie production, right?
"They're blowing up the bridge!" is an example of "illustrated radio" dialogue.
Inchon's director, Terrence Young, was amazed by Laurence Olivier's fortitude. The heat of the location was too much for his frail body but when the cameras rolled, Larry shrugged off the pain like it was nothing.
Not a advocate for the late Rev. Moon, but calling it a “Moonie” production begs whether the its ok to call Hollywood movies “Jewie” productions. Don’t mock someone else’s faith, lest yours be held to similar scrutiny..
@shotonshitteo You're not making a point, dummy
@@abcbatman1966It's a cult, not a faith. Just like Mormonism and Scientology.
@@Jacksonrox13 someone Else’s beliefs are a cult, never our own..
I've NEVER seen ANY of those movies...
...so I guess it looks like I've DODGED quite a lot of BULLETS!!! 😕
I almost got away unscathed but I saw Grease 2, and it's hateful.
I actually enjoyed "Porkys" and "Halloween III: Season Of The Witch"
you've dodged a couple dogs, yeah.
I would have given it a thumbs up if I could hear it.
Damn I used to watch this show all the time starting in 1978 and I forgot that they had an actual skunk for the Stinkers segments. I bet there are some salty outtakes in which Gene and Roger each blame the skunk for each other's farts and vice versa. :)
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18:49 "It makes you want to throw pies at the screen" Why waste apparently edible pies on that TERRIBLE movie? (Hopefully they're chocolate pies!)
Porky's was doing well at the box office while some others such as Inchon, Halloween 3, Partners, Six Weeks, Grease 2, Amityville 2, Yes Giorgio among others were all been bombed at the box office.
Amityville 2 made money..
@@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 Okay, we'll take it.
Orion did better with both Amityville 2 and the first Rambo movie that first started it all was First Blood. Produced by Carolco/StudioCanal.
These days Fini would have all kinds of fetish sites to enjoy.
Fini probably would be getting Bill Cosby type accusations too!
@@mjgyrosdude484 many protagonists from that era of films would
@lerm2866 well if the protagonists would be getting those type of accusations, imagine what the antagonists would get! 😮
Amityvile II is amazing. I just watched it on blu ray a few weeks ago. It isn't a pleasant movie to watch, but in my book that's not a reason not to watch it. Italian directors in the 1970s were good at making dark films.
The father (Burt Young) scared the living hell out of me! He was so scary and mean! Good acting!
Amityvill II was better than the original in that it was a retelling of the Defeo murders (albeit with alot of artistic licence) & merged with the demonic backstory made up by Lutz to cash in. It only went downhill in its further sequels. While Porkys was great teenage fun set in the 1950s & was never meant to be taken seriously. In the UK the Carry On films are similarly misogynistic with its slapstick comedy of its time but are a British institution.
The real Tom Sullivan is in an episode of Mork & Mindy and is not related to the character in the movie that Siskel and Ebert rightly critique
He was also on an episode of M*A*S*H (Hawkeye is temporarily blinded).
Also WKRP in Cincinnati.
And in the drama tv series Fame
Porky's is a comedic classic gem. Laughed all the way through the movie
I loved in 82 when I was 13..less so now..
Still love this film
I pissed myself laughing at Porky’s a great movie.
“Now, I picked that throwing up scene not to gross anybody out...” Coffee out nose.
The year I was born!
Wow you're OLD :)
Not as old as me though (1979) :(
SUCKED!
I watched S&E devotedly on all their shows but I still prefer the PBS Sneak Previews because it played longer clips of the movies under review. The syndicated shows had to make room for advert breaks.
3:25 wow did the allies just blow up a bridge full of civilians? Why? It looked like the enemy were miles away? What on earth?
My thoughts exactly. WTF are they doing? Also, even if they didn't care about the civilians, you think they'd get themselves off the bridge before they blew it up!
Comments for the most part are worthless.
The skunk was okay, but I preferred the “dog of the week” with Spot the Wonder Dog.
Say what?? What are you talkin bout due?
I don't think they were allowed to take the dog because of copyrights.
did he review Fighting Back 1982 film?
it was a dog of the week..I think Roger
It wasn't a bad movie by anymeans and Patti Lupone gave a emotional and powerful performance as the wife and should have been Oscar nominated for best supporting actress!
Oh, no.@@Goofball032
There were a number of comedies in the 80s featuring guys peering at unknowing naked women. Revenge of the Nerds had them doing it with cameras and that one got _good_ reviews. Times have changed.
Didn’t Revenge of the Nerds also have a scene with one of the so-called heroes tricking a girl into having sex with him by disguising himself and pretending to be somebody else? That’s messed up.
Ebert looks like his mom cut his hair lol.
It's a Beatles cut! But it's about 20 years after the era. Yeah, yeah, yeah!
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Mike was flowby available in 1982?
Look like his mom cut his hair while she was mad at his dad 😂
It's amazing how we forget little things, like the original name of the show (1982-86) was "At the movies". (No "Siskel & Ebert" in the title.)
And it also had 2 other names when it was originally broadcast by PBS.
"Opening Soon at a Theatre Near You" (1975-1977) and "Sneak Previews" (1977-1982).
Is there any way to increase the sound? VHS I know but this is just impossible to hear.
Turn up your hearing aid, Gramps. I can hear it fine.
Now films are already on Netflix or some other site before they reach the theatres
Going to the 11:27 mark, you know the comedy is bad when you have to laugh at your own "jokes" for effect.
They've been showing Amityville II ad nauseum on COMET TV channel, lately.
notgrillo collector/ gamer Nice!
It did some good business despite some mixed reviews.
Porky's was funny, which is why it made so much money. Sure, it had some gratuitous nudity, but it had good humor and some really good performances. How Nancy Parsons was able to keep a straight face as Beulah Balbricker in that scene they showed with her talking to the principal is beyond me. Many other of the teen "sex" movies of the time weren't really funny and had bad performances.
No. It's horrible. Says a lot about you as a person
I found it funny at the time (I was 20) especially in this scene. I remember someone telling me he'd been to see Chariots of Fire in a cinema where Porky's was playing next door - the laughter was so loud it came through the wall! But even at the time it occurred to me that in a few years the boys would end up just like the sad, sleazy types who make up Porky's clientele.
There is some funny stuff in it, but I didn't really care about the part where they take revenge on Porky.
I watched when i was maybe 10 years old with my best friend. His parents had us always go out with his sister and her boyfeiend as " chaperones" and they would go see a different movie and then pick us up after we spent some time in arcade after movie. We werent much chaperones lol..
The toughest part of their job must've been to sit through these turds. Those war movies where big actors have bit parts or cameos like in Inchon are still made today. Midway looks like that.
Personally I'm always thankful for the movie critics that sit through awful films so I don't have to.
Thoughts of A Bridge Too Far!
@@blupunk01 And the reviews of the bad films are often the most entertaining!
@Justin I can honestly say that no critic has ever matched my personal taste as closely as Roger Ebert did. I really appreciated the fact that he was willing to see past the hype surrounding certain films and examine them more honestly than the vast bulk of reviewers. Sure I had disagreements with him just as Gene did, but I could pretty much always see his point. And really most "cult classics" are actually terrible movies that people have now merely come to see through the lens of nostalgia. He was often even right on contemporary "good" movies that really didn't stand up under the light of critical scrutiny. I particularly appreciated his often scathing analysis of Oscar choices more driven by Hollywood politics than any real measure of quality.
Garret Gray Yes, I saw midway and Gene and Rodger would have loved to have mentioned the dialog in that one being a bit corny!
I love halloween iii season of the witch
It wasn't so bad. The only thing that really disappointed me was that it had NOTHING to do with the rest of the Halloween franchise.
Yeah it wasn’t that bad. Far from worst of the year. And I like the idea of departing from Michael Myers
Calling it "Hallowe'en 3" when Michael Myers never appears in the movie was one of the worst marketing decisions in film history. However, "Season Of The Witch" is actually a neat little movie that is more appreciated now than it was at the time of it's release. A cult favourite.
@@gallery7596 I agree. I think that's why it was so looked down upon when it was first released. It's like releasing a Friday the 13th movie without Jason or a Nightmare on Elm Street movie without Freddie Krueger. Fans of the franchise were just disappointed.
I like "H 3"
Fantastic original story.
Much better than any of the other Halloween sequels
I like Halloween 3,good idea.
Do you have more episodes?
More Forthcoming
@@magnetictapehead3025 Thanks. I hope we get more of these missing 1982-1983 episodes.
The channel Eric Stran has almost all of the Sneak Previews episodes in good quality
Did they ever review the movies Creepshow or Prom Night? I can’t find anything when I search .
Roger liked Creepshow while Gene hated it. And they hated Prom Night.
@14:25 “Hey good lookin, we’ll be back to pick you up later!” (Mr Microphone)
0:27 So what, their movie theater has a 4:3 screen?
Internet Tough Guy they didn't really watch any clips on that 4:3 screen. It was an optical effect. Plus no 1:85 or 2:35 aspect ratio were considered to be displayed until the late 80's.
The clips provided by the studios for television reviewers were in 4:3. its just a cute effect to simulate they are in a theater, when in reality, it's just a set.
I love AMITYVILLE II. Very effective amd better than the first one. The boys just hated horror films that weren't classy. Didnt like B movie trash.
What was Pavarotti hard up for cash or something?
My guess is he wanted to attract a new generation of fans.
The scene from "Six Weeks" which Siskel and Ebert used for this show was also the scene that the filmmakers used to advertise the movie on TV, and this scene alone convinced me to never, ever watch this movie. "You may now kiss the child" 🤮
Fini can water you! Did Luciano think that could've gotten him an Oscar?
Blame the writers for that moment.
In Joely Fisher's words were "Say What?" (March 28, 1986-present).
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The first year of "At the Movies"? 🎥
Yes
Inchon should have been the title of a porn movie!
No audio, unfortunately
Inchon has never been on cable. Never see it.