We did way before that picture came out in the 1969s we played knock out. We’d hold our breath and someone would hug us from behind and knock us out briefly.
Yeah, they really believed in what they said about films and issues about films, like on here with the ratings problem. Valenti was a hypocrite jackass.
Same here. I loved moments when they attacked the movie system, like the whole thing with the ratings system. You see the passionate in what Roger says about that dummy Jack Valenti, who probably didn't open his mail.
This is the trippiest S&E review ever. Siskel attacks, Ebert defends, Ebert attacks brilliantly, and Siskel defends. I'm not to the end yet & have no idea what the thumbs are.
Ebert "died" when he had surgery and lost his speech, and was resuscitated with the electric pads (he wrote about it in this blog). It is eerie to hear him speak about something that would happen for real to him decades later.
I agree! It should have not been remade, Jacob s ladder was better, dealing with life after death. Ghost was way better lol .I can't believe they ended up remaking Jacobs ladder too smh!
Roger mentioned that he was always fascinated by stories about the afterlife. According to Chaz, Roger's widow, Roger told her that he saw the afterlife shortly before he died. He said that it was a world that was so vast, past, present, and future occur simultaneously.
No, what happened was the X rating was changed to NC-17 that very fall (1990) to erase the stain of the X. Now, that was a step in the correct direction, the problem was that everyone ran away from it. If newspapers had allowed to advertise NC-17 films, theaters been allowed by their leases to show NC-17 films, and big studios allowed directors to make NC-17 films, it would've been okay. But they didn't do that.
sha11235 Because I could be confusing Young Guns and Young Guns II, as to which I saw in the theatre. I was going to the movies nearly every week back then, and it WAS 30 years ago.
Not gonna happen, sadly. The closest they came was the NC-17 rating that fall, though. The problem is you have to enforce it and everyone has to work together. Who's gonna do that?
It's weird but Siskel and Ebert liked it while many others didn't. And it did not do business that summer. Amazing they didn't put it on a Buried Treasures show years later. They did mention it when it went to video and did it as a video pick.
personally i dont care about ratings, when i was growing up in the 70s and 80s my father literally let me watch anything i wanted i still sort of marvel at the idea that watching some make believe film can cause harm in some way or other to children of certain ages. that said i completely agree with that idea of an A rating, to be able to make a film that is rated adults only but without having some stigma hanging over its head that its going to be lurid or perverse.
Always felt Flatliners lacked imagination. Like the part where they are doing the "experiment" was cool, so were the performances but their idea that it brought your darkess moments and that dark spirits would want revenge was disappointing.
Spot on!! I thought exactly the same thing the first time I saw it. To take a truly imaginative concept and turn it into a simple morality tale was disappointing to say the least. But the setting, with that huge Mercury head in the middle of the room, definitely added to the creep factor. I didn't know Loyola University was such a scary place.
@@edfelstein3891 Literally everytime one of their dark echo of past actions would appear, it pissed me off so much. lol I was like alright already, I hope the whole movie is not gonna be about that. It was.
+TV6469 It might be the speed of this video. I remember originally there was time. And maybe he meant you don't have to sit thru this if you don't want to.
Teenagers do the same things at the same time all over the country. I remember in high school I couldn’t wait to go somewhere else where kids didn’t just drag the streets, so I went to my aunts in Las Vegas, and she let me drive her car and guess what the kids were doing in downtown Vegas. DRAGGING THE DAMN STREET LOL 😅
It's funny that 'Young Guns II' ended up taking a bunch of liberties, while the first one was praised for being the most (believed to be) accurate depiction of the legend of Billy The Kid in film, at the time.
She did have a great sex appeal. Those big, beautiful lips. But now she looks like 10 miles of bad road. And her mouth became the size of the universe.
That isn’t very nice. We ALL change with age. I loved Mel Gibson when he was in his 30’s and 40’s. But we ALL age. There is a saying…..”you need to get comfortable with your UGLINESS.” That does not mean that a person is ugly. It just means that you embrace the aging process and don’t give a damn what others think and are comfortable with yourself. So, be kind 🌸
Not that hard. Keitel's Jake killed his partner to get his end of gas rights on their subdivision property, and his wife was the younger sister from Chinatown. The end.
I watched The Two Jakes many, many years ago and don't really remember anything about it which means the movie is incredibly average. I remember the bad and good movies I watch.
Honestly, I don't think the difference between R and X/NC-17 should be a thing, let alone an A rating in between. Because NC-17 pretty much means "hard R" and at this point is about as useful as the appendix.
I love Gene but he really does serve as an avatar for delivering a bad opinion for Roger to shred to pieces. Flatliners is a sufficiently intelligent, fun film that’s well directed and the screenplay is wildly creative and unique
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My brother billy shoemaker was in young guns 2 as the black smith! All the crue would go out and shoot pool drink beer! Except Lou dimond Philip s
When I go to a theatre to see a picture, I don’t want a big challenge, I want to be entertained, oh I like a little cat and mouse like I’d play with a beautiful lady, but I don’t want it hard as nails or pulling teeth.
Young Guns II didn't tell you about Billy The Kid because it wasn't supposed to be a documentary. Metropolitan. They are a very self absorbed group of kids and quite unpleasant. I must watch China Town and The Two Jake's again.
Whit Stillman is a good director; Barcelona was a better follow-up to Metropolitan. The Two Jakes was okay but not great. Too gassy with several scenes that should have been cut to pick up the pace.
Again they didn't quite get the movies they reviewed Flatliners was and still is an amazing film forget the sequel/remake whatever it is it's a mess but the original was amazing still at least Roger got it more than Gene but what else was he expecting with the Kiefer Sutherland story with him feeling guilty for killing Billy Mahoney and trying to right his wrong as Billy was kicking the crap out of him anyway so he needed to do something and what did he want from the ending i mean if the recent remake/sequel couldn't produce an amazing life enlightening ending this certainly couldn't but i thought all the story's were good with all the characters getting to right their wrongs also Young Guns 2 while not as good as the first was still decent and The Two Jakes was also incredible
Lots of people didn't like it. Amazing that Siskel and Ebert praised it. They also did it as a video pick when it came to video months later. I could see what they were talking about. Too bad they never put this on a Buried Treasures show.
Hollywood made a remake of flatliners. I don't know why I'm remake was made of that movie that movie was not all that great yet they made a remake of it start raining that Ellie girl I don't know why she's really not that great of an actress either
'It's very nice for Roger Ebert to decide what are acceptable standards to write about when it comes to the hereafter. Write your own version of Flatliners if you think you can do better, Roger.
@@davidmitchell6873 , LOL! What sad part of the world are you trolling from, my sad simple little troll doll? An old Siskel and Ebert review clip is a very strange place to be trolling on, my simple friend. Are you really that drunk, or that simple? Or is it both? My sympathies to your mother, poor woman.
Maybe that's why it sank like a damn rock at the box office. I remember when it came out and Gene and Roger praised it, yet I saw many other critics didn't and the public rejected it on opening weekend.
Talk about overrated. Not a thing they said about The Two Jakes ever held water. Not even in the era the film was released, and certainly not today. That movie was a failure for multiple reasons.
I've always heard it was bad so I just wrote it off. I liked the original so much that I didn't want to tarnish it by watching a botched sequel. I'm tempted now that I've seen this review... I don't know what to do, ha ha.
TheWholeYearInn It really has nothing to do with Chinatown, other than the same character. At least I can't remember it ruining the character. It wasn't worth me remembering obviously, so I'm going to check it out again. It's far from a Chinatown level picture though, I remember that.
Teenagers do the same things at the same time all over the country. I remember in high school I couldn’t wait to go somewhere else where kids didn’t just drag the streets, so I went to my aunts in Las Vegas, and she let me drive her car and guess what the kids were doing in downtown Vegas. DRAGGING THE DAMN STREET LOL 😅
