Ebert & Roeper - Worst of 2005 

It’s sad that he left summer of 2006. At the Movies tremendously changed when Michael Phillips, AO Scott and the two Bens filled in.

@@stefantomasi4036 I thought that Michael Phillips and AO Scott actually were a good fit, but the two Bens were terrible.

@@Xayjohns I agree with you. The two Bens had no faith to the previous segments

Poor dear man

It’s heart breaking to watch knowing the final result :(

Here’s the Siskel and Ebert review of The Mask original; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VwgKCnI2hh4.html

Yeah being a movie critic sounds like all fun and games until you realize you have to watch movies like Son of the Mask or Deuce Bigalow

@Sans Deity Darn right. I never even finished watching Son of the Mask. I pity anyone who had no choice.

and it wasn't even at the bottom of their lists

It was horrifying how bad the usually really good Alan Cumming and Bob Hoskins were.

Especially given how we have a worse fantastic four version that being fan4stic

How about Best and Worst of 2006 and Best and Worst of 2007

​@@stefantomasi4036 Ebert was gone from television by that point so I don't much care. Best of 2006 has Roeper and A.O. Scott and it's available on another site but the post-Ebert era of the show isn't very good and doesn't interest me.

@@flaccidusminimus2170 I understand. I feel the same way as you. I mostly enjoy the August 2006-Summer 2007 episodes with the various guest critics like Kevin Smith, Harold Ramis and Aisha Tyler etc. Those episodes stood out to me 💯 But my most favourite episodes of Ebert and Roeper are the ones with the red and blue theatre from September 2005 - June 2006.

Haha i have sadly seen most of these.

@@mesicek7 the worst movies displayed in this segment I’ve seen are Bewitched, Son of the Mask, Monster-in-Law, Fantastic Four, The Man and The Longest Yard. The movies from this segment to avoid are Doom, Deuce Bigalow European Gigolo, Elektra, Stealth and The Legend of Zorro. I like Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Jamie Foxx and Rob Schneider but they did poor effort in the movies that I listed. I am a big fan of their other underrated flicks

I was thinking the same thing!

Look who's talking. Man if Ebert can't even hear himself. Ebert may be a bit jag lagged.

DEUCE BIGALOW: EUROPEAN GIGOLO was ever worse.

lmaoo son of the mask!

I saw stealth lol. It wasn’t atrocious. Just totally boring.

2006 was almost a better year of movies

No but for me it was the dawn of a great video game era and I spent more time with that.

​@@Shorty_Lickenstrue ps3 and xbox 360 were starting out good times

Oh wow

I believe it. I worked at Blockbuster around the same time. I couldn't bring myself to suggest some of these movies when people would ask me what to rent. The guilt still plagues me to this day.

I mean, in any year the vast majority of rentals were horrible, dumb, over the top silly movies. Seems to be more of a trend with the renting crowd. The theater visiting crowd is usually more cautious as they are spending a bit more money. Not just the ticket but the drive, the parking, the food and drink, and the dry cleaning bill after sitting in a theater seat.

Yes agreed...Constantine has a very solid fan following

That’s kind of him

Yeah, I believe the card read "from your least favorite actor, Rob Schneider." It was a classy thing to do.

@@Xayjohns a wonderful gesture

Yes, about a year after Schneider publicly insulted Ebert and spread false gossip about his personal etiquette. Schneider was very upset about Ebert trashing European Gigolo...but so did pretty much everyone else who saw it!

Did you hear about that story because Rob Schneider was bragging about being classy for having done it or because Ebert mentioned being grateful for it? The former would be a lot less impressive...

@Weener Schnitzel Grown Ups 2 is a disappointment in my eyes

The Longest Yard is hilarious what are you ashamed of? U make it sound like u loved Jack and Jill or Grown Ups 2. The film is not even close to one of Sandlers worst films

I thought it was absolutely hilarious when I saw it, but it has been a while.

I feel the same way. It’s sucky when certain movies are hit and miss

Hell i saw the dvd for racing strips i was so scared by it didn’t even watch it

"Are we there yet" was painful!

Boy I can’t believe all those came out that year. 2005 is when pop culture nosedived and never came back

Super good 👍

Truly was lmaooo

@@Blodia1990 😂 I would’ve loved to see Richard do more celebrity impersonations

@@stefantomasi4036 Yeah I bet he would be good at them. His Reeves was spot on lmaooo

@@Blodia1990 i can picture him doing Owen Wilson or someone lol

I’m in the same boat as you. I want to watch more Ebert and Roeper videos that I haven’t seen in a long time

Yes it was. A bit more funny and charming than My Boss’ Daughter and Just Married

No

I agree, I loved the first movie but Legend was dog s@@@.

Had the worst villain ever in my opinion, with his demise featured the most hilarious scream in a motion picture XD

Thank you

In their original review of it on this program, Roeper said it was the closest he had ever come to walking out of a movie in a theatre. That suggests it was a far more painful experience for him than anything else he discussed on this episode.

What does that tell you about America?

If you limited yourself to American movies and mainly watched blockbusters, that would be a reasonable conclusion.

I would say the late 2000s was a major drop off for American movies.

Indeed, he said during their initial review that it was the closest he had ever come to walking out of a movie! Although, because it was a February release, perhaps he either forgot about it or the passage of time diminished his animosity. I think these shows made much more sense in earlier years when the hosts didn't waste time *ranking* the year's worst (who really cares?) and instead divided the year's greatest offences into trends and categories, only singling out their individual choices for #1 Worst.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--iZ9suJXJTk.html scroll to 1:20 on the link attached to see the bits of the actual review of Son of the Mask. I apologize if it’s brief

We waited 11 years... For that?!

I think they try to not overlap too much so they can have 20 films in total, so they likely agree on a few but share the “glory” for the TV show.

Shutup

I just watched the worst movies of 2002 segment and that one had a lot of awful movies whereas this segment, the 2004 one and the one from 2006 had underrated flicks

Of course, but the best of the 90s for example was far superior compared to the 2000s or especially the 2010s.

Fair point. I find it strange that Ebert wasted time singling out "D.E.B.S." and "Undead". Fast-faders that were barely released, died quickly at the box-office, and that few people had heard of even in 2005. This appears to violate his longstanding rule with Gene Siskel that it wasn't fair to use this annual special to pick on small, obscure movies, only big budget affairs or big star vehicles. "The Amityville Horror" was a major studio movie and (apparently) godawful, with a 1.5 star review from Ebert. It would have been a more appropriate choice for this program.

@@flaccidusminimus2170 in another segment of worst movies, Roger Ebert was going to list Thunderbirds but chose not to as he thought it wasn’t perfect for his worst films list

@Morse Team America World Police came out in 2004

Nah, it was at least better than Amityville 3D. Least Ryan Reynolds didn't scream like a girl compared to that guy who got his face fried in 3D.

Sorry, I meant the same taste in television.

@@brianforbes8325 there were a couple of bad movies based on TV shows and the worst one IMO is The Brady Bunch Movie

@@stefantomasi4036 I agree that The Brady Bunch Movie was a stinker, and so were some others based on TV shows. I would make an exception for the 1993 film version of "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. That was well done, and Tommy Lee Jones' performance in particular was brilliant, as his character (the Federal Marshal pursuing Ford, the fugitive) changed subtly during the story in regard to his attitude towards the fugitive. But I would still say that the concept of adapting a classic TV show to the big screen is usually a losing proposition. It is as bad as remaking a classic film that shouldn't be remade, and we have regrettably seen a lot of that through the years! Shame on Hollywood for most remakes -- I say most, not all.

@@brianforbes8325 The Fugitive is a great one indeed! Spot on about everything you said

@@brianforbes8325 and of course the addams family movies

I’m here after hearing Poitier’s passing

It’s an instant classic. So awesome!

So better than Fant4stic

Not at all. I like both of the 2000s F4 movies.

The reference at 4:37?

@@stefantomasi4036 no when Richard Roeper said: “Or at number 437 if you’re going the other way.” That was when they recapped their Top 10.

@@CJmovie92 Presumably the 437th 'best' movie, if he'd watched 447 movies that year - going the other way as he said.

Love that chuckle 🤭

Maybe in its opening weeks, but overall it only earned a modest profit. Seems to be one of his least hated comedies though.

​@@flaccidusminimus2170 don't know about theatre return but that has to be one of his biggest successes from the rental game. Must have sold so many tapes and dvds

Also, The Love Guru is an underrated movie with Jessica Alba

Yes that’s right. He left the show summer of 2006. Jay Leno came in late July 2006 and other guest show critics kept on filling in. Beginning of Fall 2007 til the end of the Ebert and Roeper series portion of At the Movies, Michael Phillips and AO Scott started doing more episodes with Roeper

He probably meant that they should have cast superior actors who could convince you of being Carrey/Daniels antecedents, but it didn't quite come out that way.

@@flaccidusminimus2170 I get what you mean.

No one said they had to do a prequel with younger versions though, I'm sure it had to do with Carrey and Daniels being too busy probably.

Fantastic 4 is indeed a great movie

@@stefantomasi4036 no

I hate Legend of Zorro how it was too cheesy like Batman and Robin, his son being annoying, the villain being too dumb, and the writers who would go on to write the 2017 Mummy reboot 🤢

@@unholyperiodza5442 another messy reboot that came out that year was Jumanji. Jumanji 1995 is way better. Why can’t these originals be left alone as originals?!

@@stefantomasi4036 Don't know but at least the writers of the Mummy reboot didn't write the Jumanji reboot, they wrote the Michael Bay Transformers sequels and the Amazing Spiderman 1 and 2.

He did right, that movie was pathetic , PATHETIC, the director punishing his audience for seeing his film, ill say it again: PATHEEEEEETIIIICCCC

@@marcelineetyvan3665 It may be the worst movie ever made.

@@williamhowe1 funny thing that The virgin spring, a Bergman film, used that story before, elevating the material and making it a fantastic film, this movie had no fucking excuse to be made and i hope it stays dead and buried in a cement coffin in another planet where that shit BELONGS.

@@williamhowe1 which Chaos movie from 2005 are you referring to? The horror thriller one or the action thriller one with Jason Statham, Ryan Philippe and Wesley Snipes

@@stefantomasi4036 The horror movie.

I agree.

I agree with you about the Fantastic Four (2005) version. However, I hate the 2015 reboot.

I actually like both of the Tim Story Fantastic Four movies.

@@Xayjohns 👍

One of his quotes from that review probably would have been a book title

​@@stefantomasi4036m0r0n

You say that like Ebert and Siskel wasn't smug themselves

If you want better Ashton romcoms, I recommend Just Married and My Boss’ Daughter

How so?

@@stefantomasi4036 your question is kinda vague. Im gonna guess you meant "how so did it have too much competition" and my answer is all the others are REALLY bad. Like loud, epic, in your face bad. DEBS, son of the mask, doom, Elektra, Fantastic Four, Monster in law, Miss Congeniality 2, The Legend of Zorro. All horrible rotten movies in terms of plot, acting, and even minor stuff like the camera angles and sounds. Be Cool was just lazy, like it was full of self referential meta humor before it became popular, but thats boring and not inspired, and in some cases groan worthy. But its not big loud epic bad, like Battlefield Earth.

@@Shorty_Lickens I think Battlefield Earth is the worst. As for recommendations involving John Travolta or other crime comedies that are underrated, I recommend Swordfish with Hugh Jackman and as for crime comedies, I recommend Made with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau and a music one by the name of In the Mix. It’s with Usher and Emmanuelle Chriqui, it’s got a vibe of The Bodyguard

Definitely one of the worst movies of the year