0:00 intro 0:58 She-Devil - Siskel 👎 & Ebert 👍 5:13 Driving Miss Daisy - 👍👍 9:13 The War of The Roses - 👍👍 12:50 Glory - 👍👍 16:41 Enemies: A Love Story - 👍👍 20:07 The reviews
Loved The War of the Roses. Still one of my favorite black comedies to this day. I remember quite a lot of audiences hating it at the time because how it depicts contempt in a marriage that is in a state of dissolution. It was bleak, brutal and deliciously dark. It had a mean streak running through its comedy veins.
First time I saw it, wasn't in a great mood and didn't laugh much. But the ending stayed with me and when I caught it again, loved it. They should show this film to couples getting divorced to teach them to gel along better.
I love Driving miss daisy, best movie of the 80s, fill with love, patience, caring & warmth with wonderful performances by Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy & Dan Aykroyd. 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@@oldfashionedguy1368 It won 9 academy award nominations Best picture Best actor - Morgan Freeman Best actress - Jessica Tandy Best supporting actor - Dan Aykroyd Best screenplay Best art direction Best costume design, film editing & makeup It was best picture winner since 1932 Grand hotel
These are great. We used to try and guess 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' before they reviewed the movies. It was great fun! Thanks for posting these. Siskel and Ebert were the best.
I know that was so much fun when Siskel and Ebert and even Ebert and Roeper aired. Waiting every weekend to predict whether or not they would like certain movies and then to be surprised or not what they voted. We dont have that anymore since Ebert died and I miss that.
I just finished watching She Devil. I think it could have done with a few less characters and Streep's and Begley's lacked nuance but aside from those rough spots, it's actually a surprisingly sharp comedy with a terrific ending.
My reviews: out of 5 1 " She-Devil " 2 out of 5 👎 2 " Driving Miss Daisy " 3 out of 5 👍 3 " The War of the Roses " 3.5 out of 5 👍 4 " Glory " 5 out of 5 👍
If driving miss daisy were released today it would be on lifetime channel it wouldnt have even got nominated for best picture let alone win. Do The Right Thing should have won best picture that year
Driving Miss Daisy was touching and moving on many levels, to compare it to the trash on Lifetime is a monumental miscarriage of justice. Not taking anything away from Do the Right Thing, maybe it should have been nominated.
@@scottlombardi4603 True enough; I wasn't expecting it to get better right away, and it certainly hasn't. But I think the tide is finally starting to turn. It's always darkest before the dawn.
Heard and seen bits and pieces of Miss Daisy, saw both Roses and Glory, thought they were okay, though War of the Roses seemed very sadistic. I did not see Enemies.
True. The story is from his letters to his mother, compiled in a book called "One Gallant Rush", which I have read. The scriptwriter fleshed out the soldiers so much more than the book did to make the story about them rather than the Colonel. I agree that "Biko" needed less of Kevin Kline's character but I felt this movie balanced it out well. Shaw was less a "white savior" than an ordinary trained soldier put in a situation he was unprepared for but earned simply because he was the right color and came from an abolitionist family.
I'm not sure exactly what Roger was advocating for. Shaw wasn't a fictional character clumsily inserted to fill some quota or part of an attempt to entice a certain demographic to the theater. He's an integral part of the story, given an appropriate amount of presence.
@@behindthescenesphotos5133 My best guess is that he felt Shaw's part should have been smaller and the parts of the men should have been bigger. Not sure that could have been done. I think it was done this way to maintain some historical integrity since the movie was based on Shaw's actual letters home.
It's an ensemble, and Col. Shaw's story was already reduced (they never mention his wartime marriage) so he wouldn't seem more important than the men he commanded. The soldiers under him were fleshed out by the screenwriter and aren't necessarily true to history (there was no Sergeant Major Rawlins). The CO of the 54th Massachusetts is necessary when making a movie about the 54th Massachusetts, and naturally the movie follows the leader of the regiment through its development. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw
Don't agree with war of the roses thumbs up. Married couple..come on. The whole of America is therapeutic dysfunctionality. You don't have any control of your kids..
Are they supposed to pretend that the black regiments weren't led by white officers? Glory is a movie about history and the cooperation of blacks and whites, not about Ebert's political correctness. The 54th were massacred in their first battle, so if you make this a movie about the blacks exclusively, it's a depressing mess. Although I revised my remembered opinion of Ebert through watching these videos (I find it's often Siskel who is the snobbish wet blanket on entertaining movies), Ebert still comes across as the one who sees movies first and foremost through the lens of his own political dogma. I mean... he actually liked the Star Wars prequels because he saw them as commentary on the Republican administrations that he despised.
Ebert was critical of the film having Broderick as the central part, not the fact that he was in it to begin with. He didn't even come close to suggesting that the film should pretend that the black regiments weren't lead by white officers, nor suggesting that the film shouldn't have any white actors in it. Not sure where "political correctness" comes into it either, he's not voicing an opinion to appease an audience, he's bringing up a valid point that a film exploring the history of a black regiment yet being clearly centred around a white guy was an odd choice. And political dogma? Dude.
