Siskel & Ebert Classics - 12/22/89 - Tango & Cash, Always, Born on the Fourth of July 

To take nothing away from Siskel and Ebert (I worshipped them beginning in the 90's), but it's the vintage commercials that really raised my eyebrows here. It's a time capsule to the 80's and my childhood. The Kodak commercial with Bill Cosby...simply eerie and compelling at the same time.

Born on the Fourth of July was one of the best movies of the 1980s

I love their banter especially when they argue about the very manner in which they agree.

Most critics didn't like Tango & Cash . I saw it opening night in a large packed house in 70mm blow up and people were loving it . I had a blast . You can't take these movies seriously . It's a fun and entertaining. I remember the movie never reached #1 at the box office , but it played in theaters for months into spring of '90 hanging around #2 or #3 at the box office with good word of mouth earning a slow burn $63m and was huge on video and cable . Fun times

Frederick Forrest was totally different in Music Box than he was in Falling Down 4 years later!! Lol. Great you kept the advertisements including Bill Cosby and Kodak

Tango and Cash hidden gem.

Thank you for leaving the commercials. Beautiful.

Thanks for uploading these. These two are never duplicated or imitated Awesome Show and memories

It's amazing how, i watched tango and cash today in 2023, and still luv it, timeless movie.

Thanks for uploading these. I’m snowed in and have been binge watching all the S&E I can!

Both were spot on about "Born on the 4th of July." Tom Cruise really should have won the oscar for this. Siskel put it best when he says "it shows the true aftereffect of getting hit with a bullet and what these guys have to go through daily." That bullet is a symbol for all kinds of life changing trauma. Oliver Stone is one of the best filmmakers in history. This one made me sad and made me reevaluate what's reallly important in life. True classic and especially effective that it's a true story.

Tango and Cash is one of my favorite Sylvester Stallone movies

I have never been much of a Tom Cruise fan but I think he did great job in Born on the Fourth of July. I also loved him in Collateral.

The latter half of 1989 (age 9 for me) was the beginning of the BEST years of my childhood and probably of my life that lasted until 1994. I also grew up in Chicago so the S&E from these years are particularly nostalgic for me. If I could somehow reverse time and go back to 12/22/1989 and relive my life all over again from that point......I would do it in a heartbeat.

Tango and Cash is classic!

9:59 I didn't think I'd ever see a Bill Cosby endorsement again

Always is not Spielberg‘s best film but it’s three times better than the average film.

I remember seeing this episode… I did try to watch Music Box as a kid but I couldn’t get it. I did Love Tango & Cash as a kid though!!! Interesting the father plays the same role in Eastern Promises. Camille Claudel 🎉should be more well known

Tango and cash is a good background movie for testing video equipment

Tango and Cash was awsome!!

9:58.... cover your drinks, ladies.

11:00 I literally came in my pants when I saw this beauty...these commercials encapsulate the 80's better than anything I've ever seen.

I like the Kodak commercial at 9:57. I wonder why we don't see Bill Cosby in commercials anymore?

Listen to what they say about Music Box (about the father having lived to completely different lives and how everyone perceived him) and it immediately goes to a commercial with Bill Cosby...weird

Did anyone else notice the book on the tray of Tom Cruise's character in the hospital? Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, which if you know this book then you'll understand the reference and why it was included in that scene. A hint; Metallica's ONE song and video use the story of JGHG exclusively.

Nothing against Daniel-Day Lewis' performance in My left foot, but Tom Cruise should've gotten the Oscar that year. It was a brilliant and mesmerizing work that he put out.

20:20 in the next few weeks Ebert gets Downtown and Loose Cannons😂

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ok when i was doing some work with the VA hospital there years back, a retired air force pilot was talking about doing 10 years after his service as a firefighter, flying in dumps on large brush fires in california, which was met with the chagrin of every army vet there, who had fought on the ground in some major war, with taunts like "fly boy". so iRL terms i see where ebert was going. however, fire fighters do give their lives quite often and i think backdraft hammered that one home later. not to "misrepresent" anyone. also foo fighters.

21:13 is that Jimmy Stewart's voice I hear? I need to find out if it is, wow.

What are you going like this for? LMFAO!

Always 👎⭐️⭐️ out of 4 Born on the 4th of July 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️ & a half out of 4 Tango & Cash 👎⭐️ & a half out of 4

Sorry, guys. "Always" was awesome, especially all these years later.

Is there anything better than Roger trashing a movie like Tango and Cash? That answer is no lol

born on thee 4th was hard to watch in fact i was a teen when it came out.. i almost passed out watching the hospital scenes siskel mentions. its great as a second act to platoon but dont expect the same movie. very diff for tom cruise and back then not what we expected really..

Kudos to the uploader. Thanks a lot! Do you have any episodes from 1992 like Basic Instinct or White Men Can’t Jump or The Player?

lmao the review for the music box then bill cosby commercial at 9:58.. maybe that said more than their review.

I agree with Siskel on Always. That movie really does have some annoying dialogue and performances by the leads.

Born on 4th of July 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟 Camille Claudel 👍🌟🌟🌟 Tango & Cash 👎🌟🌟

5:36 The Music Box was the best film of the year; lost on the idiots Gene and Roger

I liked Always... I know exactly what Siskel is talking about, too. The dialog seems kind of flippant and too facile. But it's charming in its own way, and in the whole, kind of grounds the relationship. The dialog between the two could have been smarmy and melodramatic, but we've all seen that too many times. Wouldn't have worked with these two anyway. In the end it was just part of the quirky charm of the film.

I agree with Gene, but I think "Coming Back Home" was far more realistic in its depiction of wounded veterans and how they deal with coming back home.

sly all career has a onlly 1 goood film its rocky

The boys how old is Stallone in this Kurt was like 38 in this and Stallone was 44 very old boys lol.

Siskel really came to Ebert's rescue. That's a novelty. But I agree, Ebert's comment about "forest fires not being worthy of dying" was sorta off-color... I'd much rather die protecting the forest than in any brainless war.

Not one of Steven Spielberg's best films.

Richard Dreyfuss is winey and nasali( a squeeking ,honking speaking through the nose sound) .kind of the way The lead for the band Rascal Flatts who sings through his nose(squeeze nostrils together and sing life is a highway.......

Рад что им не понравились Танго и Кэш и Всегда. Мусор, а не фильмы.

Born was just too looooong! And overdone. Oliver did it better with Platoon.

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