If you think of it it really maked sense. Ok it worked of course. But some of these movies with Cruise are cringe in 2024. Days of thunder and Cocktail are ridiculous silly movies. Cocktail is easily his worst ever.
On a whim, I watched Ghost Dad recently... I was shocked on how BAD it was. I didn't laugh, I didn't chuckle, I didn't smile, I didn't smirk... I was just appalled with what I was seeing.
@@djluvsdi2029 Naw. Ghost Dad is just a horrible movie and there’s no need to pull the horrific things Cosby did into the discussion. Siskel and Ebert’s review speaks to this. In fact, I don’t remember them saying once “oh, and Cosby raped women after drugging them”.
"A great directing job from Renny Harlin." Not something you hear very often from the director of Cutthroat Island.... 🤣 What's amazing about Ghost Dad is that it was directed by ... SIDNEY POITIER!
Cosby's tax write offs. This and Leonard Part 6 he went out and bad-mouthed leading up to their release dates. He practically was begging audiences to stay away hoping they would fail.
@@ricardocantoral7672 yes, true. This movie came out at the peak of the Cosby show era where advertising money was coming at his show in droves. His production company shared that with the network. During that period he had Ghost Dad and Leonard Part 6 in two separate years and both were awful projects from the start. He bad mouthed both films prior to their release dates. He wanted them to fail.
I never saw Ghost Dad the title was enough to scare me away. Days of Thunder was surprisingly good but then again Robert Duval does not do many bad films so maybe I should not have been surprised. This may be my favorite TV show of all time, I can watch these episodes endlessly!
I always thought it was weird that Roger panned the first Die Hard solely because he hated the Paul Gleason jerky authority figure but he loved this one where Dennis Franz was that character ramped up to 100. Maybe he just didn't like Paul Gleason in general. And how could 2 be superior to the original? William Sadler (who is a great character actor) wasn't a patch on Alan Rickman in the original.
I like Die Hard 2 well enough but I think the original is superior. Roger gave a thumbs down to the first Die Hard a rare lapse in judgement on his part.
I agree. Maybe the scale of the second film is what Siskel and Ebert enjoyed and the stakes of the airplanes being in peril? It's inferior to the original, but it is enjoyable in a looser/broader way than the original. I think Ebert also gave thumbs down to 'The Untouchables', while Siskel recommended both 'Die Hard' and that film.
@@knownpleasures Nah. Die Hard 2 is a well done action film but it's not nearly as effective as the first film. Die Hard 1 had a fantastic villain, a sense of claustrophobia that drove up the tension, and all parties involved were trapped within the same space so there's a fantastic sense of intimacy.
Ghost Dad earned five nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and winning Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay.
A few major turds in this review.... Sometimes I have to wonder if the studios were putting large amounts of cash in their pockets to convince them to thumbs up turds like Die Hard 2 and Days of Thunder.
I totally disagree with Die Hard 2. Part 1 was way better. I didn't care for 2, because they turned John Mclaine into James Bond or Rambo, when in part 1, he was just a normal guy...much more realistic.
It's very bizarre to have DIE HARD 2 and GHOST DAD on the same show.... I'm surprised the universe didn't crack open. I tend to find fans, I do too, that DH2 is the second weakest behind A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD.
