Siskel & Ebert Classics - 8/22/89 - The Package, Little Monsters 

Thanks for the uploads. Siskel & Ebert is both entertaining and insightful.

This is the first Siskel and Ebert episode on RU-vid with the commercials intact. It was kind of fun seeing the corny dialogue grainy analog video of commercials from Tropicana and the Suburu dealer.

R.I.P. John Heard, Johnny Lee Davenport, and Ray Sharkey..

I've seen The Package. It's a good movie.

Never a pair like them again❤

Cookie was OK but damn did I have a crush on Emily Lloyd back then. Remember seeing her in Wish You Were Here and she melted my heart. Never became the big star she should have been here in the states.

I'm amazed that neither Siskel or Ebert didn't mention the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal regarding The Package. By the time I finished watching The Package, I realized the whole thing is just a re-skin of Jackal, with a French Connection car chase thrown in. No doubt the film is well made, has a great cast, and Tommy Lee is the best part but he ain't in it much. Ebert saying the plot is so well constructed, the strongest parts of the plot are what is lifted from Day of the Jackal, the rest is some Cold War tropes and logic gaps. An ok movie though. I miss Siskel and Ebert regardless.

The Package is a very entertaining movie. I'm trying to watch more Tommy Lee Jones movies. He's a very great actor

They got so enthusiastic about what was appropriate for kids. And, they were wrong about that issue more often than not.

I have never seen Wired but it looks terrible and I am sure Bob Fosse, as Gene suggested, would have done wonders with the film. Star 80 is possibly the best film about the dark side of fame ever shot.

Just wondering if you could possible host these on some link like a google doc that I could save as I’m worried these full episodes will be taken down, please get back to me as I do not want these episodes to disappear

I liked The Package

Do you happen to have Sex, Lies, and Videotape from 89? I've been searching a long time for it

man when i watch classic movies, and want to hear a review i go to siskel and ebert, who made me like movie critics, i saw package for the first time thanks to the top top show podcast on youtube and audio, i can understand where siskel and ebert is coming from, but it just felt kind of cliche for me, and the writing is okay but you can see the reading of the script through the actor, its not bad but cliche to me, maybe we have seen this type of movie, before the long goodbye ending like ending, and the action felt like you can hear the director say cutt so the editing was to still and sometimes editied to much

Always love it when they get so fired up about Little Monsters being completely inappropriate for kids. I've never seen the film but I have seen the Nostalgia Critic's review and he makes a good point.

My reviews The Package (two thumbs up) Wired (two thumbs down) Cookie (two thumbs down) Little Monsters (two thumbs down, way down)

My reviews: out of 5 1 " The Package " 2.5 out of 5 👎 2 " Wired " 2 out of 5 👎 3 " Cookie " 2 out of 5 👎 4 " Little Monsters " 1 out of 5 👎