Siskel & Ebert Classics - 4/7/89 - "They'll Do It Every Time" 

When Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel talk about the continuity error in the Untouchables, they button and then unbutton their own shirt collars! I just noticed that. How brilliant!😅

This aired about a week before I got sober. Omg. Almost 34 years ago.

20:30 they recreated the unbuttoned collar

I have never seen this episode! Thank you for uploading this!

The one horror movie cliche I absolutely hate is the fakeout jumpsacre. When used correctly a jump scare can be very effective (like when freddy finally crosses over into "reality" in wes craven's new bightmare) but most of the time it's simple shorthand for: "we didn't know how too effectively create tension here so here's a pa throwing a cat at the actor/actress".

Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven must have seen this episode. Scream practically quotes from this.

ya know Wes Craven watched this back in the day and said, "someone should make a movie based on horror movie cliches!" and SCREAM was born!

Opening of the living daylights has a great fruit cart!

I love when I binge a few of these, and they have the intro music in a slightly different speed/key. When's someone gonna make a vaporwave thing with S&E?

6:24 Roger Ebert predicting Scream half a decade early.

"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." I like how The Good, The Bad and The Ugly already roasted that cliche in the 60s.

14:24 As a Bond fan I immediately thought of Moonraker.

Gene inadvertently gave a product placement to Tide.

Good Episode

Delta Force, "a fruit cart classic" hahaha

One of the biggest continuity goofs: in HER ALIBI Tom Selleck's country house gets blown up in the action climax, then gets magically restored for the romantic denouement!

3:24 and now here's a variation on the theme, missed it in the first go

The gun shop owner ALWAYS gets killed!

Siskel & Ebert riffing on memes.

No one in the horror films has ever seen a horror movie? Now I gotta go see one. I’LL BE RIGHT BACK.

I don't think the presence of continuity errors counts as a cliché. I understand it's a pet peeve, but it's not an intentional inclusion by the filmmakers.

Siskel Ebert dot org's copy has a tease for the 9/24/1988 Gorillas in the Mist episode at the end, so this originally must've aired right before that one. IMDB records its air date as 4/8/1989, so both andyfilm and IMDB must've had copies from a rerun date of this episode.

Buttons, buttons, whose got the buttons

Product placements bug me, too.

You got me monologuing...

nothing wrong with slow motion melon, Gene

They forgot the "stay right here"

15:10 "Product interruptus" LOL. What does it tell you when people would rather watch S & E clips from _thirty years ago_ than what's on Netflix right now?

RIP

Siskel hates ads in the movies the most - then we get ads for Sinutab etc...

A kin to the talking killer is the person alone with the killer (usually a female) confronts them unarmed and taunts them.

His shirt is dry!

Funny how they mimicked the French Connection Coke placement exactly, but didn't use that clip. But color me shocked that Dirty Harry has lame tropes.

why couldnt they brought up Mac & Me for the product placement gig. that film even have the said product to chip in their two cents.

8:38 As good as the movie is, Corey right here could've gotten his father to take his mind off anger by rushing to his mom's aid. 15:52 - :58 Talk about missing the point.

But Friday the 13th Part 6 Woman says I seen a lot of horror movies that a guy with a ski mask is not friendly

Fruit cart films

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Scene that I would have liked to see in a Rocky film. His opponent is overwhelmingly favored, and betting on Rocky has a high payoff. In the big fight, Rocky hits him once, and then his opponent does a ridiculous act of trying to stay standing, and then collapses. Maybe he pretends to be unconscious and gets carried out of the ring. Cut to the next scene in which the opponent, his trainers, and his backers are collecting the big money. That is real boxing.

20:16!

I love Ebert, but his complaint about the Friday the 13th movies is just stupid. No, the characters in Friday the 13th Part 6 haven't seen Parts 1-5 because THEY ARE CHARACTERS LIVING IN THE WORLD OF THOSE MOVIES.

Good episode, and amazing how many of these have persisted for the last 30+ years, but I have my own take on a few: - I don’t mind the stupid parents in kid/teen movies; I can rationalize that the movie is focused on an idealized perspective of kids who think, or at least wish, that parents are dumb enough to allow the plot that ensues; - I agree that something other than a miraculous win would be nice in sports movies (though Dodgeball’s focus group testing suggests that most audiences definitely like the win), but I am more put off by convenient narration by PA announcers and newscasters who offer perspectives that no such person in real life would actually say; - regardless of talking killers, jump scares, etc., I find that brilliant psychopaths who are always a step ahead and evil make for really boring villains; I would much rather have someone with completely plausible, even sympathetic, motives causing the protagonist problems so that I’m not even completely certain how I want the story to end.

Mmm.... Sybil Danning!!!

The person backing up into danger is a tiresome one.

Who cares about such trivial things that must be pointed out to us

These "special" shows were bullshit, because that meant we missed their real reviews for that week. They should have done both.

I loved The Exorcist when I first came out, but it did have continuity errors.