Jimmy Hollywood is a very underrated movie..ive always enjoyed it..pesci and slater play well off each other ...funny stuff ..and its got some drama as well!!
Jimmy Hollywood is a hilarious movie. Critics always seem to brag about their own ideals as if it is some kind of law of science. It's a perfectly fine movie. Reviews tell more about the reviewer than what they are reviewing.
@@tennysontableau that's 100% true especially for Gene Siskel. he does have good insights obviously but there are lots of times he's reviewing things as if his kids are watching.
I was just watching another one from around this time period where everything got a thumbs down, minus one movie that got a thumbs down and a marginal thumbs up. There were more shit movies in the 90's than I care to remember.
Calm down, it's not like either Major League or Mighty Ducks were MASTERPIECES that were destined to attain classic status in the first place. THOSE were both just dumb bland commercial flavor of the month movies of their immediate time that are NOW outdated and insignificant.
Problems with _Major League II:_ 1. The original is a funny edgy *R* and the sequel is PG (not even PG-13 😬) 2. Recasting Wesley Snipes, you can't 😒 3. Broader and goofier, not funnier 🙄
On the one hand i wanna agree with you that the first one is funnier BUT this movie came out when i was in sixth grade and i was able to see it in theaters because of its PG rating and i absolutely loved it at the time---and honestly there's plenty of sexual content thats in there, its just not as blatant....I was glad I got to see it tho, if it had been rated R i wouldn't have been able to see it until it hit cable a year or two later.
@@jmjfanss It was good enough, but it was still a pretty predictable sports movie. The only thing that made it any bit really distinguishable was the vulgarity.
Why do I have the feeling Gene would've said this, "Okay, I have to make this statement. Five years ago I walked out on a film called Black Sheep in a movie theater, first time I did that in 26 years. Well, it didn't take me another 26 years to do that! I did it with this one too!"
I used to hate the scene where Jake tells Willy that he doesn't care that his leg hurts as he orders him to pinch-run for Rube Baker. And that's where he walks away very angrily at the 8:06-8:07 minute mark.
There were several problems why Major League II was a bad film. 1). Downgrading the film to PG instead of keeping the movie to rated R. 2). Relocating the film to Baltimore instead of keeping the film in Milwaukee. 3). Replacing Wesley Snipes with Omar Epps.
Very well said I hated how Major League 2 was PG & not R, I agree Camden Yards was not a good place to play the Indians lol & Omar Epps wasn’t that bad but at that time Snipes was expensive & couldn’t afford him but he made the right choice by not returning.
The production company or the studio probably felt that the sequel would be more successful at the box office if it could get a PG rating rather than R. Turns out the R-rated content was a big part of what made the original Major League any bit stand out at the time.
The biggest problem with the Mighty Ducks sequels is that the storyline from the original film is repeated over and over. Just with different styles of hockey.
The biggest difference between with the third film , the MightDicks get a new head coach as Gordon Bombay loves on to a job with the Junior Goodwill games. And plus there is a death of a character not seen in either of the first 2 novices.
Funny what Siskal said about Iceland, when I was six and saw this movie I thought Iceland was a "bad" country, and not safe to travel too. I guess my vision of Iceland would be that of a evel dictatorship country, because of this movie. Lol.
@@josephsarto689 It's probably what Averman said to Bombay when Bombay asked him about training during the off-season, and Averman replies with, "I knew we forgot something."
You know, I got to meet Jodi Benson herself at a con once (sweet lady) and brought up how these men gave two thumbs up to Little Mermaid but gave two thumbs down to Thumbelina. Her response to the latter… “That’s okay.”
Even as a kid, I was underwhelmed by Thumbelina and it just reeked of lazy writing that all the villains she encountered were romantically interested in her and two of them actively tried to force a marriage.
I loved Siskel, but I have so many problems with the way he rated child actors in movies and horror movie actors as well. He always rated movies poorly if they had kids in troubling situations, or if they were horror movies. It did not matter if the script was well written, the movie was well acted, or the production value was right on. Movies like IT and IT: Chapter 2 would be given an automatic thumbs down by him because of that even though they are Rated R. Good Boys, which was one of the funniest films of last year, would be the same way. He did not like Horror Movies either. Movies like Ready or Not, which I felt was a great horror film, would be given an automatic thumbs down too. Those were the only issues I had with him.
If you ever wonder how out of touch these geezers were even at the top look no further than them calling 1975s Stranglehold by Ted Nugent “heavy metal”
