Siskel & Ebert - Best of 1992 

Leaving in the commercials just makes these old episodes even better. 👌🏼

One False Move, is an example of what goes on 90% of the time in Hollywood and in the music industry! 90% of the great pictures and great songs are never seen or heard by a wide audience. Cheating us out of them.

4:20 "I think I liked you better five months ago. I liked your mind better five months ago." Siskel. What a legend.

find two people who can talk about ANYTHING the way they talked about movies. They were one of a kind. From a whole different age.

Malcolm X is fantastic, best Biopic of all time.

"video rentals" man, times have changed.

Just saying “you might want to have a pencil ready” dates this so much

Siskel and Ebert not only critique but they also teach what makes a good film. They were a great team.

Carl Franklin's One False Move is for me one of the best films of 90s, let alone 92. I just watched it, in January, 2024, and I didn't even know the African American director also directed another favourite of mine Out of Time, with Denziel Washington.

Malcolm X is a great film. My fav scenes is when Malcolm X goes to Mecca. Was laterally blown away how Spike Lee shot those scenes

I was a so young when this was on, my parents watched it, it is my childhood the world has changed

Two masterpiece Westerns came out in 1992. One classic with Unforgiven. And one modern with One False Move.

Wayne’s World was a movie that spoke for my generation. It perfectly captures the entire zeitgeist of that time perfectly.

Wow, it had never occurred to me until now that six of my all-time favorite films came out in the same year: Howards End, The Player, One False Move, Flirting, Damage and Unforgiven. All absolute classics in my world. Quite a year!

Siskel putting Under Siege and Wayne's World over Unforgiven is insane but also very admirable and a massive flex

Seeing that Beauty & The Beast videocassette commercial gave me this sudden memory of the plasticky smell of the VHS tape and the casing. I used to get tapes free from the library all the time as a kid in the 90s. Including this one. Don't ask me why I smelled them, lol.

Wayne’s World being on Gene’s list makes me happy

Howard's End and Unforgiven are both truly excellent.

Unforgiven is an all time great movie.

My top ten of 1992: 10 Lorenzo’s Oil 9 Singles 8 Damage 7 Bad Lieutenant 6 The Player 5 Glengarry Glen Ross 4 Howard’s End 3 Husbands and Wives 2 Unforgiven 1 The Crying Game

My Best Flim of the Year 1992 Home Alone 2, Malcolm X, The Mambo Kings, Aladdin, A League of their Own, Dracula, Patriots Games and Wayne's World

Looking back, 90s was a great decade for movies - once the internet age and the superhero obsession dawned after 9/11 everything just went downhill.

Unforgiven is one of the greatest westerns ever made.

My favorite films of 1992: 1. Husbands and Wives 2. Malcolm X 3. Bram Stoker's Dracula 4. Glengarry Glen Ross 5. The Player 6. Batman Returns 7. Shadows and Fog 8. Kafka 9. Final Analysis 10. Naked Lunch So there.

The irony of watching this on RU-vid is indeed this show is a predacessor of review channels, etc. all over the place. They were all we had and Siskel says get out your pencil to write the movies down, because you will never see this show again. These two should not be entertaining, but they fricking were! Sheesh, thank you for sharing this. I don’t know what the future holds, but I will always miss the past.

The 90s were truly a golden era of cinema

Flirting -- a small film with a great cast/story. One of my favs.

This is perhaps the first time the best movie of the year wasn't included in either of my boy's lists. Reservoir Dogs is the best movie of 1992. Best story, best screenplay ( by far), best direction and maybe, just maybe the single greatest ensamble cast I've ever seen on a a movie screen

I remember seeing Under Siege at the theater. It seems almost unbelievable that there was a time that Steven Segal wasn't just making movies that were parodies of his previous movies. I'm surprised Siskel panned The Unforgiven.

So many great movies I never thought to watch. Thank you S&E. The best.

This year was the beginning of an amazing streak of terrific films, lasting through 1994. Unlike 1993 or 1994, it was hard to pick a single favorite; ultimately I'd go with Unforgiven, but with Glengarry Glen Ross, One False Move (Siskel's top pick) and The Crying Game very close behind it.

Under Siege? Seriously? Loved that Gene put Wayne's World on his list though.

Siskel is wrong ‘Unforgiven’ is a masterpiece.

Such a pleasure❤

I counted over 40 movies worth seeing once (not counting S&E's picks that I haven't seen). But I counted only a few I thought worth seeing twice (or more): _Aladdin, The Cutting Edge, A League of Their Own, Sister Act, Under Siege, Unforgiven_ and _Wayne's World._ It's been 30 years so it might be worth revisiting _Malcolm X_ and _Shining Through._

Every time I think of Howard’s End I think of that SNL weekend update skit where Jan Brady reviews Leprechaun and puts it above Howard’s End lol

I love "Under Siege" -- glad to see it get some love here. It is a really, really good movie.

there are some great films on here and some pretty popular films that many people like. but i have to give props to Roger fr having "Flirting" which is one of my all time favorite films.

i watched one false move today and it was one of the best, raw film ive seen

Nice to see the guys giving it to the MPAA - it's so true!

I agreed with Roger that the best film of the year was Malcolm X.

Thanks for sharing this video!

Unforgivin was a great movie Gene Siskel must of slept through it 😂

Cool, cool, cool! Keep 'em coming!! Love me some Siskel & Ebert. We got three great S&E channels, let's hope your's is the 4th!!

These guys ripped apart some classics! Still love the show

My Best of 1992 10. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino) 9. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley) 8. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen) 7. Damage (Louis Malle) 6. Hard Boiled (John Woo) 5. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan) 4. The Player (Robert Altman) 3. Malcolm X (Spike Lee) 2. One False Move (Carl Franklin) 1. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou) Runners-up 15. Passion Fish (John Sayles) 14. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood), (I greatly enjoyed the film but I take Siskel's point that the Richard Harris character, English Bob, was absolutely extraneous, but still I can't deny the film's overall strengths. That being said, I would give Eastwood's previous western, Pale Rider, a slight advantage over Unforgiven.) 13. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara) 12. Howards End (James Ivory) 11. Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)

My Top 10 1. Malcolm X 2. Reservoir Dogs 3. A Few Good Men 4. Mississippi Masala 5. One False Move 6. Bad Lieutenant 7. Gas, Food, Lodging 8 Unforgiven 9. Deep Cover 10. Juice

Unforgiven.. Needs a couple of watches to appreciate.

Gene's other favorite films of 1992 were "Prelude to a Kiss", "Diggstown", "Mr. Saturday Night", "A River Runs Through It", "Light Sleeper", "Flirting", "Zentropa" and "Falling From Grace." Gene in his column noted that many of the most notable films of the year were dominated by racial themes, a trend he thought was very good to see. (SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, December 20, 1992)

weird coincidence - I see 'one false move' for the first time about 2 hours ago, then I find this video purely by chance through another search. damn good film though, I saw it because of Patton Oswalt's recommendation on his criterion closet visit.

i'm surprised nobody has mentioned a few good men. definitely in my top 5 of '92

Hmmm ..Gene wasn't crazy about "Unforgiven"🤔...so I wonder what his first response was when the film went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars!😱 If I could've only been a fly on the wall when that happened! Hehehe🤣

Wayne's World also features an interracial love story.

Considering that Andrew Davis directed The Fugitive, I now have retroactive faith that Under Siege might be the *one* good Steven Segal movie, even if the plot sounds nonsensical.

What a year. Need to do a top 25 for 92 to include all the great movies.

Some of my favourites include: Bram Stoker's Dracula. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Unforgiven. The Player.

Clint Eastwood was the greatest of all time whether he did dirty Harry or westerns he was always spot on hard to believe he’s gonna be 94 in 24

Unforgiven was only number 9!

1992 wasn't ths best year, however, it had some great films. Sad to see, though, none of my favorite films, Scent of a Woman, Diggstown and Glengary Glen Ross, was on either one of their lists, but they did pick One False Move which was a film that I loved. Surprisingly, Gene had Under Siege on his top 10 list.

1. Howards End 2. Unforgiven 3. Bad Lieutenant 4. The Player 5. One False Move 6. The Story of Qiu Ju (Yimou Zhang, 1992) 7. The Crying Game 8. Urga (Close to Eden) (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1992) 9. Passion Fish (John Sayles) 10. Damage

Under siege on siskels Tip 10 is easily my biggest mark out moment watching this show

Bad Lieutenant is a must-watch monthly. Under Siege was Steven Seagal 's magnum opus.

You're great ,go ahead please

There's an obvious error in this episode that I'm surprised no one spotted during production. As Gene discusses "Damage", he declares it to be the #5 movie on his list. Yet during the full list recap at the end of the show, "Damage" is clearly #7. Unless he revised his list in the middle of the taping...

10. My Cousin Vinny 9. The Bodyguard 8. Scent of a Woman 7. White Men Can't Jump 6. A River Runs Through It 5. Aladdin 4. A Few Good Men 3. Malcolm X 2. Basic Instinct 1. Glengarry Glen Ross

Gene usually abhorred violence in cinema and his taste in action films was consistently bizarre. He makes it clear in his introduction that he was devoting special attention this year to films that dared to be original, and then he immediately begins talking about "Under Siege". I know that when you are required for your job to see every major release that comes out (often more than 1 movie a day), that you're likely to forget most of them and your ability to enjoy some will vary depending on your state of mind on a given day. But what could possibly possess anyone to think that "Under Siege" was a bold or fresh piece of work? It's structure could almost be considered formulaic by 1992 standards, it's an obvious knock-off of Die Hard among others, and even the ads promoted it as "Die Hard On A Boat!". It doesn't exactly move at a breakneck pace either, or convince you that anything dire is ever at risk of occurring. I mean, it's quite fair if you happen to like it. Its production values and the supporting cast were far more respectable than anything Seagal made before or has made since (unless you count "Executive Decision"). But it's nowhere near as fun or surprising as Siskel is claiming, particularly in relation to its predecessors. I could probably list 5-10 action films released that year in the U.S. alone that were more daring in their approach or better choreographed and edited than "Under Siege". "Wayne's World", on the other hand, is a bold choice for an annual Top 10 list that I can really get behind! It ain’t just an artifact of early 90’s pop culture, and I think it holds up quite well today. I still laugh throughout. The most important thing that distinguishes it from other SNL adaptations that followed in its wake is that Wayne and Garth are smart, genuinely sweet guys, rather than obnoxious assholes. The filmmakers provide them with a fully dimensional diegetic world to play around in where the characters have enough space to closely approximate real human beings (as close to them as we get in mainstream comedies). The sequel is pretty good too.

I started this video thinking "Man... I can't even think of many movies from 1992. It can't have been a very good year for movies." I finished this video thinking, "Yep... 1992 was not a very good year for movies. Siskel had to resort to putting a Steven Seagal movie on his list."

The time the Academy got it right and S $ E got it wrong. Although, Unforgiven is now on Ebert's Great Movies list.

Under Siege?? A Steven Seagall movie?? Trashing Unforgiven for being "shapeless"?? In the year of classics like A Few Good Men?? That's crazy.

It’s was on KABC Los Angeles

That ad for Beauty and the Beast!!! Remember when Disney's films took time to be released on home video? Beauty and the Beast hit theaters Thanksgiving of 1991 and came out on home video during the holiday season of 1992. 25 years later, the live-action remake came out in theaters on March 17, 2017. It hit DVD and Blu-Ray just 3 months later on June 6. And can we all agree and say how terrible the MPAA is?

20:37 - Gosh Gene, I'm so glad you picked up on the fact that those movies were about something.

I really liked "Howard's End" mainly because it helped me with my insomnia.

Love Clint Eastwood and believe Gene Hackman is one of the all-time greats but did not enjoy Unforgiven

I have watched the player, malcom x, waynes world, under siege, one false move, i know i watched every paxton movie, cause of his death, but i think i remember that one, unforgiven, but i do want to watch the others I havent watched, those are actually good films the ones i watched, i actually enjoyed it, even denzel hes a great actor, when a romance film can get it, that tells you somethin, The Distinguished Gentleman I watched for the first time, and its great to see eddie murphy since we dont get that much, and in a way, i miss him in cinema, but i watched this cause of Joe Don baker, watching his films, So hes great as a corrupted politician and the whole cast, does a great job, to be honest I watched it on youtube they have 3 videos of the full movie as of now, might change later, and I will post this review there, but I like the movie, its comedic and serious in times, i did watch it in 2 x speed rate, so maybe when siskel and ebert talked about the slowness, maybe if it was slow, then maybe i can hate it, but havin watchd it speed fast, i liked it , i thought it would be one of those political movies, like chris rock president movies, or other politican comedy movies, but this one wasnt that, they took it serious for the most part, there are some comedic elements spread throughout but overall, its a great story about a con man becoming president, but i like the idea of it doesnt matter if your a con man trying to president, when people in politics are the real cons, ( talk about real life lol), but its great, i enjoyed it, but maybe if i saw is slow, and in that time, maybe i wouldnt like it either, and also why did Eddie shift his eyes alot, in this at times he was looking at the camera, i was like what, I still would have liked to seen a sequel, since they were setting one up, but they never did one, he runs for congress, next is president, i think they can still do it, i know eddie is older, now, but they can CGI him and make him look young, and then someone interviews him in his age now about him being the president in the 90s, so maybe we would get that the distinguised gentleman 2, i mean since we got a black president its funny how there wasnt a real black president in media movies and shows before obama, they were mostly played for laughs like in back to the future, this and many more, i think the tv show that got it right was 24, out of all things, i might have missed some, if you know let me know, the guy who plays in 24 is the all state guy, and he played it serious and a great depiciton of what a president should be. But eddie does play it when serious well, so whatever, its a great one, i liked it, siskel had no other issues, other than it being slow, i thought it was great 4/5 stars.

Funny how to 2 movies they said had great scripts, the crying game and Howard’s end, went on to win the screenwriting Oscars.

1 The Player 2 Unforgiven 3 One False Move 4 Glengarry Glenn Ross 5 The Bad Lieutenant

Each guy had a top 10, but each guy got to see 200 or so movies in theaters. Now we are luck to get 10 new releases in a 5 month period in theaters. instead new releases are released in a cheaper version on streaming sites, all of which are destroying the theater experience.

My top 10 from 1992: 1. Howards End 2. Of Mice & Men 3. Malcolm X 4. White Men Can't Jump 5. Under Siege 6. One False Move 7. The Player 8. Flirting 9. Aladdin 10. Wayne's World

I had the same experience with Unforgiven as Ebert. My 1st viewing was very 'meh' but I absolutely loved it on the 2nd watch.

It definitely is a funny moment in retrospect to see Gene Siskel trying to feel all superior about the movie Unforgiven after he just swooned over a Steven Segal movie lol

My Top Ten Favorite Movies of 1992 (and the movie companies) is, 10. Kuffs. (Universal Pictures). 9. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. (Hollywood Pictures). One of Many Great Horror Movies. 8. Medicine Man. (Hollywood Pictures). R.I.P Sean Connery - 2020. 7. Wayne's World. (Paramount Pictures). 6. Radio Flyer. (Columbia Pictures/Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions). Tom Hanks a National Treasure, the roles that He's been in is Memorable. 5. Stop! or my Mom Will Shoot!. (Universal Pictures/Northern Lights Entertainment). Sylvester Stallone and Jobeth Williams National Treasures, Living Legends, the roles that they respectively were in is memorable, it's such a shame that another National Treasure and a Living Legend Estelle Getty is still gone, R.I.P Estelle Getty - 2008. 4. Blame It on the Bellboy. (Hollywood Pictures). 3. The Lawnmower Man. Peirce Bronson a National Treasure, a Living Legend, the roles that He's been in is Memorable. 2. My Cousin Vinny. (20th Century Fox. 1. Basic Instinct. (TriStar Pictures/Carolco Pictures). Sharon Stone a National Treasure, the roles that she's been in is memorable. Here's my Honorable Mentions. 1. The Cutting Edge. (Metro-Goldwyn-Meyers). 2. White Men Can't Jump. (20th Century Fox). 3. Beethoven. (Universal Pictures/Northern Lights Entertainment). R.I.P Charles Grodin - 2021. 4. Straight Talk. (Hollywood Pictures). 5. Thunderheart. (TriStar Pictures). Val Kilmer a National Treasure, the roles that he's been in is memorable. 6. Rock-A-Doodle. (The Samuel Goldwyn Company/Sullivan Bluth Studios). R.I.P Glem Campbell - 2017. Animated Movie. 7. FernGully the last rainforest. (20th Century Fox). Animated Movie. 8. Newsies. (Walt Disney Pictures). 9. Sleepwalkers. (Columbia Pictures/Ion Pictures). 10. Boris and Natasha the movie. (Showtime Networks). 11. City of Joy. (TriStar Pictures). 12. Big Girls Don't Cry They get Even. (New Line Cinema). 13. Lethal Weapon 3. (Warner Bros Pictures/Silver Pictures). 14. Encino Man. (Hollywood Pictures). 15. Sister Act. (TriStar Pictures). 16. Housesitter. (Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment). 17. Batman Returns. (Warner Bros Pictures). 18. Bommerang. (Paramount Pictures/Imagine Entertainment). 19. A League of their Own. (Paramount Pictures). 20. Cool World. (Paramount Pictures). 21. Honey I Blew Up the Kid. (Walt Disney Pictures). 22. Mo' Money. (Columbia Pictures). 23. Mom and Dad save the world. (Warner Bros Pictures). 24. Bebe's Kids. (Paramount Pictures). Animated Movie. 25. Death Becomes Her. (Universal Pictures). 36. 3 Ninjas. (Touchstone Pictures). 37. Unforgiving. (Warner Bros Pictures). 38. Single White Female. (Columbia Pictures). 39. Stay Tuned. (Warner Bros Pictures/Morgan Creek Productions). 40. Little Nemo adventures in Slumberland. (Hemdale Film Corporation). Animated Movie. 41. Freddie as F.R.O.7. (Miramax Films/J&M Entertainment). 42. Captain Ron. (Touchstone Pictures). 43. Innocent Blood. (Warner Bros Pictures). 44. The Last of the Mohicans. (20th Century Fox/Morgan Creek Productions). 45. The Mighty Ducks. (Walt Disney Pictures). 46. 1492 Conquest of Paradise. (Paramount Pictures). 47. A River Runs Through It. (Columbia Pictures). 48. Under Siege. (Warner Bros Pictures). 49. The Publix Eye. (Universal Pictures). 50. Pure Country. (Universal Pictures). 51. Passenger 57. (Warner Bros Pictures). 52. Bram Stoker's Dracula. (Columbia Pictures/American Zoetrope). 53. Home Alone 2 Lost in New York. (20th Century Fox/Hughes Entertainment). 54. Aladdin. (Walt Disney Pictures). Animated Movie. 55. The Bodyguard. (Warner Bros Pictures/Tig Productions). 56. The Distinguished Gentleman. (Hollywood Pictures). 57. A Few Good Men. (Columbia Pictures/Castle Rock Entertainment). 58. Forever Young. (Warner Bros Pictures/Icon Productions). 59. The Muppet Christmas Carol. (Walt Disney Pictures/The Jim Henson Company). 60. Leap of Faith. (Paramount Pictures). 61. Toys. (20th Century Fox). 62. Chaplin. (TriStar Pictures/Carolco Pictures). 63. Hoffa. (20th Century Fox).

The Crying Game….at 17 years old, and even as a cis male, I remember thinking “why he fuss???”. And Unforgiven is in my top 5 favorite films of all time.

Love it when they trash The Man. Lol

One False Move has sadly been mostly forgotten but it's a great movie. No, My Cousin Vinny? I think it's one of the best comedies of all time. I'm pretty shocked that A Few Good Men didn't make the list.

I am doing the stroll down memory lane of the year end lists and looking at others posts and googling to see other releases of the specific year. It would seem that this was really not that good of a year for films. I do remember almost of the films that are the subject of the posts very well. Some I really liked ( One False Move, Howards End, Flirting The Crying Game) . I also really liked some of the films in posts ( The Story of Qiu Ju) . Some films I view as overrated and would not make my Top 10 in any year ( Malcom X) . By far that still resonates with me was " Damage" if only because of the incredible scene where Miranda Richardson confronts Jeremy Irons . There was a time when Richardson was arguably the best actress ( Dance with a Stranger, Damage, Enchanted April, The Crying Game) in stage and film.

Roger talked over all the clips of The Player, notice?

Is Elena Eleniak related to Erika?!

A Steven Sagal movie listed as a best movie, Gene must have drunk 🥴

Boy George's only US solo top 40 "The Crying Game".

4:19 OUCH!

my own personal Crying Game is listening to these two Lesbians rate Crying Game higher than Unforgiven??? fax!!!

The Crying Game received so many nominations but just didnt get the nod very much at the Oscars and other award shows.

Unforgiven is a great movie, but i can't help but think it inspired the current obsession with deconstruction. It works in unforgiven because the western is such an established genre, But now it's just a gimmick for hacks. We're going to deconstruct Scoobie Do! Zippity do da, what an achievement!

Bob Roberts. Where is it?

What happened to Miranda Richardson. She has a busy 5 years in the early to mid-90s and then she disappeared.

@3.53 "were the bad guy is bad" huh ?

Under Siege for me.

Weird that they put the actual best movie of 1992 at number 8.

One false move was really good. Michael Beach was the best in that movie. Should’ve had a bigger career