@@scottvincent184What was also so funny was when they had the number of people being killed in it coming up on screen taking the mick out of the massive body counts in the Rambo films well mainly 2 and 3 but the 4th one piled em up even more and even more gruesome too also when he used the chicken as an arrow 🤣🤣
They (sort of) liked RAMBO III??????? Color me amazed. I used to watch these two religiously and I don't remember that one at all. I would have expected them to hate it. Whadayaknow?
My favourite joke in Funny Farm was when their dog runs off, and they keep seeing him constantly running through the meadows. I guess I'm easily pleased, but I thought it was a great "running" (literally!) gag. I miss Jeff Boam's scripts - he could take on any genre and make it work.
I love, love, love Big. It’s my favorite Hanks film. But what I love about this episode aside from their positive review of Big is that both liked Funny Farm so much. I agree with them both. Big May be my favorite Hanks film but let’s not forget Funny Farm an underrated gem which featured Chevy Chase at his best. He proved he could act very well aside from Fletch or Clark Griswold. June 3, 1988 was an amazing day out of that found my favorite Tom Hanks film and out of it proved Chevy Chase was one of our greatest comedic actors! I wasn’t alive but June 3, 1988 was one of the best days ever for both of those reasons!
I can see why you think that. S&E were not Chevy Chase fans. Even on Johnny Carson they appeared once with him and panned Three Amigos right to his face, although Siskel said he liked Fletch and Vacation while Ebert said Chase was good in Foul Play. But they admitted neither were Chase fans but they both loved this movie. And I agree this was Chase’s best acting because he tried something different and did well with it. Great underrated film. I think it stinks it opened the very same day Big did though because I actually love both comedies equally but Big was a smash and Funny Farm did only mildly well. Still most people I ask about it now do seem to love it even my friend who isn’t a Chase fan said he thought Chase did a good job in Funny Farm. But June 3, 1988. If I were alive then would have been a day of infamy for me as a movie critic because Big and Funny Farm opened on the exact same day and it would be hard for me to convince people that both are comedy masterpieces. I would say to see both back to back on the same weekend if I were Siskel or Ebert. But Funny Farm was sadly unloved at the time, Big was more popular. Still it’s great that Funny Farm has gotten a cult following because I have yet to meet someone who said they dislike it all these years later.
George Roy Hill has directed some of my favourite movies. Penny Marshall has directed some of my favourite movies. Funny Farm is a good movie...but it sure as hell wasn’t Big...they should’ve mentioned her name at least.
Between 1956 and 1988, not only Oscar winner George Roy Hill has produced and directed some of the best movies were put on his stamp: A Night to Remember, Period of Adjustment, Toys in the Attic, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (AAN, 1970), Slaughterhouse Five, The Sting (AA, 1974), The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, A Little Romance, The World According to Garp, The Little Drummer Girl and finally, Funny Farm...under the Pan Arts banner, George Roy Hill has also developed or financed a few more projects for various filmmakers such as Irvin Kershner, John Badham, Wes Craven, Peter Weir, Harry Hook and finally, Gillian Armstrong. Sadly, he died of Parkinson's disease at his home in New York City in 2002 .
I remember watching Funny Farm as a kid and thought it was boring and the jokes felt really strained. I was comparing it to Chase's Vacation and Fletch which I loved. Maybe I'd appreciate it more as an adult.
You’ll like it more. It isn’t as good as Vacation, tho. It is a little dry, but it’s well done and worth the watch. I will say that it’s kinda funny listening to Siskel call Funny Farm the best summer comedy that year in the same episode where they review Big, which is one of the all time great family comedies ever made
No they didn't. Either you've always lived in a small town or a big city. Trust me if you are raised in a big city and move to the country Funny Farm will make you laugh... a lot.
@@cclark3905 They did give away a lot of the best jokes and I did enjoy the movie - I watched it came out in the cinemas- I never criticized the film - All I said was that a lot of the jokes that I laughed out at, was shown here
I really liked Funny Farm, I thought the supporting cast (the town's people) made the film what it was. The biggest laugh I got was when they pull up to an old man on a rocking chair on his porch & ask for directions, at one point he says "turn left right where the old Miller barn USED to be.." lmao.
“Guess your way to Redbud” 🤣! The drunk mailman, and then the cranky fishing guy he punched that started to strangle Chevy at the fake Christmas celebration 🤣🤣🤣!
Last Blood was total shite all the rest are great but a bad way to end it with that well allegedly it was supposed to end with that but of course they are doing at least one more prob just as well need to end it with a better film or maybe should have left it after Rambo 4 really
The other thing that is odd about this episode is that Big and Funny Farm are two of my favorite comedies ever! If you asked me which I like better i would say I love both equally! It’s great S&E loved both!
Best early scene in Funny Farm: Chevy: Hey mac, how do I get to Rosebud? Mac: How did you know my name was Mac? Chevy: (chuckle) ...just guessed... Mac: Well, why don't you guess your way to Rosebud?
it is absolutely adorable to think a movie made its whole _plot_ about the fact that she had no way to know who was calling her. there was just no way to tell the number!
The original Dundee movie was great, then it just kept getting worse and worse. Much like the First Blood movies (Rambo) and some other notable 80's franchise movies. Romancing the Stone, Indiana Jones, etc. All of these were great original scripts intended for a one-and-done type movie, but once they made a huge splash at the box office, they were pressured into sequels. That type of thing almost never works unless the writers are brilliant or had sequels in mind, to begin with.
@@maxxxmodelz4061 correct. The best sequels aside from the James Bond-Jason Bourne or Superhero storylines were Godfather 2 and Terminator 2. I would also add 22 Jump Street which surprised me.
@@maxxxmodelz4061All the first 4 Rambo films were great until last blood should have stopped at 4 and how can you say the Indiana Jones films weren't great apart from Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull they have been awesome and the new one is supposed to be great yeah Jewel Of The Nile wasn't as good as Romancing The Stone which probably didn't need a sequel and the only good thing about it was the awesome Billy Ocean theme to it When The Going Gets Tough
She's got it and so does everyone who needs to provide it. Today, Elizabeth Perkins has now lived in Vermont with her second husband, cinematographer Julio Macat and their children.
Funny Farm is still worth seeing, and most folks still haven't. It kind of slipped under the radar when it came out. I saw it back when it first hit VHS. Coincidentally, we had just moved from the suburbs to the country, and there were a lot of parallels with the events in the film (e.g., the caricatures of weird country folk were spot-on). Chevy Chase cites it as one of his best, and for once he's right.
He’s right because as S&E said he tried to act different and it worked. Sadly audiences at the time didn’t appreciate it but I think it’s got a cult following now because I ask a lot of people who liked the Vacation movies if they had seen Funny Farm and their response is oh yeah that’s a classic! Like fine wine, it has been more appreciated with age.
@Jbramson12 the first one has some merit, yes the ex Vietnam vet who's returned home and is now a ticking time was a bit overdone at the time, but it's a fairly restrained movie actually, Rambo doesn't kill a single person in the first one, it's mostly him agaisnt 6 guys for most of it not 600. He's vulnerable in the first movie, and spends a lot of it being chased. He's not an indestructible killing machine but a real human in that first one, he doesn't even pick up a gun until the end.
@@lw3646Yeah and he wasn't even trying to kill Gault he threw the rock but was just trying to get them to stop shooting so he could get away and everything about the film screams injustice towards the main character he hadn't committed any crime he had fought for his country in the war and that was how he was treated by the so called law especially and as he rightly said they drew first blood not me even in the second one he had a purpose rescuing POWs and the third his rescuing his commanding officer while also helping the Afghans and the fourth the missionaries but also if you remember he was trying to get away from it everytime but was drawn back in so he never wanted to come back and kill but he had no choice but it wasn't mindless killing they really underrated the second and third films and maybe even the fourth but the fifth is shit anyway so who cares what they think about it
Glad they enjoyed Big so they should it's an awesome film one of Hanks best imho I liked Forrest Gump but wouldn't go overboard about it! Splash is also superb Bachelor Party Joe Versus The Volcano Dragnet The Girl With The One Red Shoe Turner And Hooch The Burbs pretty much all his 80s films are amazing Sleepless In Seattle good Saving Private Ryan Awesome Love Captain Phillips didn't think much of Castaway or Philadelphia Bonfire Of The Vanities but another fine film he did was That Thing You Do mainly a lot of his films are amazing and he can do no wrong he is a true legend! I have never seen Funny Farm but i definitely have to now it looks so funny but they were saying it's one of Chevy Chase best films they can't of seen Fletch Three Amigos Summer Vacation European Vacation Caddyshack Foul Play all before this which he was very funny in and they were superb! I actually thought Rambo 3 was fantastic and did have have some humour more than 2 had and the 4th Rambo had no humour at all the 3rd one did have heart about the Afghan resistance force losing their loved ones nearly every day and the connection between Rambo and the young boy who is a resistance fighter also that was heartwarming John Rambo getting a bit softer didn't get these two at times what they were watching! I did agree about Croc Of Shit Dundee 2 it wasn't as great as the first although it was always going to be better than the 3rd one but that's not difficult!
Whew! I clicked on this video with some trepidation, fearful that Gene and Roger would trash Funny Farm, which I love. But not to worry, for they loved it too. 👍😃
I think it’s one of those movies you have to let go for a while and revisit later on. As a ten year old I admit I didn’t think it was all that funny. Now it’s some of Chase’s best work ever to me. Try it again in a few years would be my advice.
They didn’t hate it, but they did give it a negative review. They also acknowledged that it was a huge hit and captured the imagination of the country. The review here correctly noted that viewers wouldn’t find it as fun to do the same journey in reverse this time around. They were right
@@monkeyballs512 maybe I was a dumb kid, but I remember liking Croc Dundee 2 when I was little. Probably shouldn't watch it again to ruin that illusion.
@@andrewcutler1380 I won’t say you were dumb of course, but you were a kid. I liked it too back then. I would suggest you don’t watch it again. Watch the original. It was fun. Don’t watch the sequel. It was a steaming turd. And, for God’s sake, never watch the third one
Your memory is failing you badly. I just watched that review. They both loved it. They were gushing over how charming Paul Hogan is and how the movie perfectly mixes societal issues and wholesome values.
I find it hilarious that he gives Jeffrey Boam all the credit for this… When it’s literally based off of a novel… It only says it in the first two minutes of the film when the credits are rolling… You would think that these professional critics would be able to get those minor details right.
I think Funny Farm did badly at the box office because it was released the same exact day as Big and the other movies on this show came out a couple weeks prior and were all huge hits. Funny Farm should have been released in either spring or fall. I think it would have done much better, now it's a hidden comedy gem that only so many people know about. The fact it came out the same day as Big means that was a great time for comedies. I would have loved to have seen both of them as a double feature on opening weekend if I were alive in 88.
. Did I miss something, or did Siskel and Ebert REALLY go through this whole show without mentioning the PHENOMENAL job done by Penny Marshall as the director of the movie, "Big" ?? SHAME ON THEM !! YES, both writers, which do BOTH get a mention by name, and Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins (and Robert Loggia) get their proper due from both reviewers........but Penny Marshall gets BUPKIS ?? Not that they needed to go on and on about Marshall's work, but to not even MENTION the job she did as the film's director, somehow just seems wrong..... .
Big was o.k. I guess Tom Hanks played the part pretty well but I think hes a little too dramatic to his approach. I think he would do a lot better playing ot loosey goosey. He took what was supposed to be a comedic turn and played it straight. It wasn't supposed to be a dramedy. It should have been played full tilt comedy. Elizabeth Perkins also too dramatic for my taste.
i cant help but think that that lamb fries joke in another film they would have went on about how tasteless it was or its gross out humor or some other snooty thing.
Easy to see why because neither were Chevy Chase fans. But I see where they are coming from. Funny Farm in my opinion is Chase’s best performance. He’s still sarcastic at times but proves he can still act with the right material.
I thought it was funny actually there had to be some punchline to it because he thought why are they making this out to be so tough what's the deal when he found it so easy 🤔🤨
Nah... respectfully disagree, Rambo III has aged very well and is the most underrated film of the series. The movie is pure mythical hero's journey at its finest.
@@DashManNashCam I do see your point, but a lot of people use the Taliban angle to judge the film, I don't. I mean come on, who could've predicted what the Afghani rebels would've become back in 1988. But as I stated, I do see your point. Take care and stay safe.
@@coreyc5982 "Who could've predicted what the Afghani rebels would've become back in 1988"? Literally everyone in the intelligence community. Because these rebels were mostly recruits from the hardline Islamist world, sponsored by hardline religious groups and individuals. By the time US ramped up support for the Mujahideen, Iran already got run over by Islamist hardliners and already posed a threat to the western world. Saudi Arabia also had been supporting a lot of different groups of Islamist groups to fight proxy wars for them against other nationalist movements, and these groups posed threat not only to their local governments, but other countries as well. The gaslighting about how "no one could have predicted it" was just to make the CIA and US/UK governments look less guilty than they really are. The fact was, they used whoever they could get as long as they fought the Russians, they didn't care. Besides the Islamists, the US had no problem supporting thugs and killers and drug cartels in South America to fight left leaning governments and nationalist movements. When CIA dealt with and trained these groups, they were fully aware of the kinds of people they were. The cables obtained by Wikileaks so many years later proved it. Not only did they know who these people were, they actively supported them while fully knowing the ongoing atrocities they were committing, too. And the same happened with the Suharto regime in Indonesia as well in their ethnic cleansing of East Timor. Why are these facts important, you ask? Well, the west is veering towards the same thing again in this new cold war environment. We're again talking about arming potentially extreme and vicious people in the name of fighting Russia. I fully condemn what Putin has done in terms of his atrocities and support efforts to undermine him, but it's important to look at history with clear eyes instead of this "we were so innocent" white washing.
@@woodenturkey One can be wrong about Hellraiser and still be right about Funny Farm not being very funny. Let's face it, Chevy Chase just isn't as funny as his reputation. He's very good at pantomime and over-acting though, the kind that impresses children. He'd be a great guest to a children's party but once you grow up he's just kind of creepy and annoying.
Rambo 3 and Crockodile Dundee 2 were very average movies that played off the success of their predecessors. Rambo 3 only grossed $53 million domestically back when $125-150 was blockbuster status. CD 2 did twice that here in the States with $110 million and made another $130 million internationally for a $240 million haul. For a movie that was made for just $14 million that's a return on your investment.
What is that? A review or rather some advertising?! The film is mediocre at best and they're talking about the movie dropping names and the titles of much more better films connected to the director, editor or screenwriter. Did Jeffrey Boam was blackmailing Siskel and Ebert. Did Boam had them at the sight of his rifle? There's something genuinely strange about this "review"🤔
pretty wild they're all about Funny Farm... a movie that's basically been forgotten. I vaguely remember it. Chevy Chase might go down as the most overrated actor/comedian of all time. He's good in the Lampoon stuff, but very much of the zeitgeist of the 80's and early 90's. He's no Steve Martin. (and I hear he's a pretty arrogant asshole).
