Siskel & Ebert Classics - 9/24/93 - The Good Son, A Bronx Tale, Dazed & Confused 

I really miss Roger and Gene. They were so intelligent and had a lot to say about movies

The Good Son was entertaining and the ending was surprising.

"Macauley Cawkin" lmao

Dazed and confused is legendary! One of my favorite movies ever. I finally got around to watching it years ago. My dad was in high school in that era. He’s loves that movie. It’s my comfort movie. I could watch it over and over.

A Bronx Tale is a wonderful film

I appreciate the acting by Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son. It’s a movie that can always give me the creeps. It’s kind of a gender-flipped twist on the 1956 movie The Bad Seed.

Even though I disagree with them, I still love hearing these opinions. I love this movie because of the psychological aspect and the struggle of dealing with a son who has no sense of empathy or moral contionce. This is a real thing that children can experience for many different reasons and I think Macaulay represents it quite well.

Dazed and Confused is the closest to high school as any film I’ve ever seem

"This is a great year for films!" Fast forward 30 years . . . 😞

I loved the ending to The good son!!

The biggest problem I have with Football Movies is that they never focus on the Game, how it's played, the strategy involved, how defensive schemes and offensive formations work against each other . It's always about the drama around the people playing the game, rather than the game itself. I want to see a football movie where the drama focuses on that aspect, rather than locker room drama.

'good son' proved that culkin was an all around actor

Miss these guys

You learn so much from them. I had no idea that Robert Deniro wrote the script AND directed this excellent movie. Should have known....smile

Damn i hadnt seen that ziplock commercial since forever lol

A Bronx tale was a great film

Ugh I loved the good son, some of you'll take movies way to seriously ⭐⭐⭐⭐📼💯

The good son was bad ass man. Being a kid and having mac as a villain, hell yea

Dazed and Confused is a masterpiece. The Good son was also good. I think they dropped the ball on it. Very good horror movie.

I want those lok n logs homes

Thirty years ago.

90s look so fun

Strange how they hated The Good Son so thoroughly and yet it DIDN'T actually make either one's worst list. Haha.

Siskel is so often concerned with whether or not a movie is en vogue, "on the cutting edge," etc. He's a great critic but these things that are immaterial to a movie's quality are what held him behind Roger, just a little more snobby.

Siskel is taking the paddling scenes in Dazed and Confused WAY too seriously here. No, I didn't get the idea that these kids' lives were "sad" because of some ritual hazings that went on for freshmen, lol. He was showing his stodginess here.

Poor Mr. Highway…thinking about the end.

Siskel saw Rudy!

What about The Bad Seed ?

I liked The Good Son mostly because it’s so weird and unsettling. If it’s not an effective thriller on the whole I still had a lot of fun watching it. Elijah Wood had the better acting role in it but Macaulay still did give it his best. And I know it seems obvious and cliche that Ebert says the movie is rated R and kids couldn’t see it but I see why he made the point. If the movie weren’t about a kid doing horrible acts this movie would have easily been PG-13. In reality as far as content goes this movie is an easy PG-13 but it got an R so kids wouldn’t see The Home Alone kid as a psychopath. But if this were a thriller with adults this would have been PG-13 tops.

7:24 rudy?

They used to tell the whole plot in their reviews?

What was that Oprah commercial?!

The first time I watched Dazed and Confused I also thought it seemed pretty mean.

what's most insane about _The Good Son_ is how hard it goes on the "Crazy Kid" thing. it takes the "playing against type sadistic kid" shtick far, then too far, then ridiculous, then right into outer space. subtlety is not this movie's strong suit. the bad kid actually does try and murder his own mom, who is actually, factually tossed off a cliff, climbs up and is then reduced to a no-shit 1:1 good kid / bad kid moral dilemma where she can either save her good nephew and doom her evil son or save the evil son and doom the good nephew. the story doesn't end in some psychiatric facility or juvenile detention unit, it ends on an actual cliffside with people dangling from it. no shiny dime prize for guessing which kid she chooses, either. that's right -- she lets her dear, sweet nephew fall horribly to his death, saves the evil son who then pitches her right off afterwards. both bodies are shown in excruciating detail and extreme gore. McCaulley then winks at the camera and breaks the fourth wall by saying "Guess she chose wrong. Dad's gonna reduce my allowance! for I am the BAD son!" and the film cuts to black as _Sympathy for the Devil_ blares on the soundtrack and a title card comes up with "This film is lovingly dedicated to child welfare officers everywhere." yeah, I think I remembered everything from the ending, anyway. it was a while ago. might have been the seldom-discussed Director's Cut, I'm not sure if all that made it to the theatrical version. not Mr. Culkin's finest work, in my opinion. it pales heartily to _Getting Even with Dad,_ and probably most of _Ri¢hie Ri¢h._

Lol!

I hated The Good Son too. The movie required too much suspension of disbelief to work as entertainment and the mom was absolutely clueless for far too long. Plus it felt like the movie only existed bc someone had the idea to make the “Home Alone” kid evil.

The good son pretty much killed Culkin´s career as a young actor. Bad move by his agent. It wasn´t a flop but it was a really depressing movie for most people. They blew it. No Shirley Temple there. You have to understand your market.

My reviews The Good Son (2 stars) The Program (3 stars) A Bronx Tale (4 stars) Bopha (2.5 stars) Dazed and Confused (4 stars)

The Good Son is actually a Disney movie.

Yes Ebert - that's what the R rated means - it means kids shouldn't see it.

The Good Son isn't shocking, it's just in bad taste and the drama is laughable.

"An irresponsability by everyone connected to the project". Although mr. Ebert was a modern film critic he couln't get rid of his american conservative way of thinking. The Good Son has the style of a 70s thriller; he obviously didn't know about "What the Peeper Saw"

4:36 - :48 is worth comparing to 4:37 - :50 on Siskel & Ebert (1989) - Casualties of War, The Abyss, Uncle Buck, A Chorus of Disapproval

lol, does ebert get in any trouble for revealing most of the plot to the good son. I know he didnt like the movie but still.

As tasteless as the Goodson is Roger and Gene thought it’s actually not nearly as bad as they reviewed.

The Good Son, meh. I hated it. Disturbed first time I saw an image of Macaulay’s character Henry on Villains Wiki.👎👎

FACT: there would be no Home Alone 2 if Mac wasn't in The Good Son as Henry, to answer Roger's question

I know they're almost 30 years old....but f*ck commercials FOREVER AND ALWAYS.

The "Meet Mr. Highway" segment from "The Good Son" was... horrible, and at the same time funny (cos it's just a movie, right?) and borderline realistic. Some of my little-turd friends way back decades ago used to drop stuff off a cliff overlooking a road on passing cars. Usually just mud balls or raw eggs, but imagine dropping a human-sized effigy? That's just fucked-up, but still somehow hilarious.

The Good Son 👎🌟 A Bronx Tale👍🌟🌟🌟 The Program 👍🌟🌟🌟 Bopha 👎🌟🌟 Daze & Confused 👍🌟🌟🌟

“A little bit of the black love story” 6:28 Gene was the man

L take that he macaulay culkin shouldn't have been in that movie. nothing wrong with trying to avoid typecasting early. being disturbed by just a kid in a film because he's like this is so lame. it's rated R. like holy crap. who cares.

Yes, we had American Graffiti reflecting the 50's, Dazed and Confused reflecting the 70's. Make a movie today about 20 years ago... there's no difference in much of today as then. Cars, clothing fashion, music... it's basically all the same. Not good.

I find "A Bronx Tale" kind of predictable and mediocre. You know exactly where it's going right from the start.

You notice how Siskel and Ebert are becoming less in touch with current movie making trends and audience tastes. They have become curmudgeonly and out of touch. I thought the movie The Good Son was a good watch.

Ebert was a terrible reviewer.

you know, I bet the marketing manager who came up with _Chips-Ahoy: The Only Cookie With !* [*"Wow"!]_ made over 200,000 dollars that year. and I just think that's a little strange.