Siskel & Ebert Review Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick

Siskel and Ebert Reviews by Jason Bagherian

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A wonderful review by Gene Siskel who comes across as really loving Kubrick's Spartacus. Spartacus is the best of the old school epics and here are the reasons why I love the film so much.
I saw Spartacus in 1979 or 1980 when I was 2 or 3 years old. As a child how could I forget the wonderful images in this film. Kirk Douglas's face (I found his dimple fascinating) and the ending.
The themes in Spartacus still resonate today. Just because we are now paid a wage doesn't mean we are still not slaves. We all still serve the master.
It's one of the few films that I remember where the villains win.
The acting is first class from all involved. The films dialogue scenes are just as entertaining as the battle scenes.
The sets, locations and special effects are better than any of the computer-generated crap made today.
The score by Alex North is amazing and I believe it to be his best work.
It was directed by my favourite film maker Stanley Kubrick.
The ending makes me cry like no other film that I have seen. The critics claim that Kubrick was cold and didn't have a heart but they are wrong.

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10 июн 2023

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@DoctorWu23 7 месяцев назад

Spartacus is a masterpiece, in my opinion. Kubrick may have hated it but his touch absolutely lifted it into a different territory than a lot of the old epics.

@Photonface 8 месяцев назад

The ending crucifiction scene is beautiful.

@tiffsaver 3 месяца назад

I really got me, that's for sure. You can't get a more powerful mixture of sadness and sorrow, combined with an enduring sense of hope.

@katyalacrua6793 3 месяца назад

Larry brilliant as Crassus 👏👏 Should won an Oscar as supporting actor.

@2msvalkyrie529 3 месяца назад

Yes.....he was hypnotic here. ! He COULD be a dreadful old Ham at times but at his best he was untouchable.!

@peace-yv4qd 4 месяца назад

It's true that Hollywood could not make this film today. There are no adult actors in Hollywood, just superhero types.

@marinakaye8284 3 месяца назад

Used the love theme at my Greek father's funeral. (Although the tape stopped playing halfway!!) Love this movie. So poignant that Varinia and Spartacus' baby ride off into the sunset with Batiatus, endowed with Graccus' money, owner of the Gladiator school, to start a new life.

@1ouncebird 3 месяца назад

Spartacus may not be as good as Lawrence of Arabia (I agree with this) but that is really nitpicking. Spartacus is an absolutely brilliant film. Fantastic! It stands way up there among epics and beats most of them in my opinion. Just an amazing achievement by all who created it.

@DiogenesOfDelaware 7 месяцев назад

I am Spartacus

@vitorafmonteiro 2 месяца назад

No! I'm Spartacus!

@geoffroymazeau5661 2 месяца назад

@@vitorafmonteiro No! I'm Spartacus!

@Acrocanthosaurus 3 месяца назад

My favorite Kubrick movie.

@tombriggs5348 3 месяца назад

I’ve tried to watch it several times but it is the antithesis of SK’s revolutionary approach to film. The diagetic score, in particular, Mickey Mouses every plot point, telling the audience how to feel. Much of the photography looks like studio bound technicolor. It has its moments, but it feels like SK was directing with one hand tied behind his back.

@vitorafmonteiro 2 месяца назад

Muhammad Ali with one hand behind his back still could beat most competitors though.

@geoffroymazeau5661 2 месяца назад

Wonderful score by Alex North, wonderful photography by Russell Metty, Kubrick should have directed his following films with two hands tied behind his back, they could have been better.

@Bozlee22 2 месяца назад

Why did Anthony Hopkins have to put the dialogue in that scene? wasn’t the original audio not available?

@hossesarse 3 месяца назад

S'not bad, but the whole movie was produced because Kirk Douglas was pissed off that Charlton Heston (not Jewish) had the starring role in Ben Hur, which was a better film IMO.

@1ouncebird 2 месяца назад

Ben Hur is a wonderful epic once it gets going. But it is marred by that lengthy opening sequence blathering on about a religious myth and that myth later being brought up again in the film. If it just stuck to the main story of Ben Hur it would stand higher in my opinion. Not containing religious nonsense makes Spartacus so much better than Ben Hur.

@geoffroymazeau5661 2 месяца назад

@@1ouncebird It sure does.

@mcd3379 2 месяца назад

Siskel and Ebert don't know shit. I've seen the movie at least 100 times - and it is an absolute masterpiece. I love "Lawrence of Arabia" as well - but for dramatic impact, "Spartacus" does far more in less time. Kubrick and Douglas were at their best, the cast was excellent and the score by Alex North is just brilliant. The movie is arguably one of the best set during the time of Ancient Rome.

@JohnnyCardinale 2 месяца назад

Peter Ustinov stole movie.

@tiffsaver 3 месяца назад

Many of Roger Ebert's critiques were so blatantly WRONG that I can't even understand how they gave him his own TV show! For example, him not calling "Spartacus" an epic is the one of the most idiotic statements I've ever heard about films, and I'm 76-years old. Don't believe me? Take a look at the ending battle scene, a scene so huge that it could have never even been made today with the use of actual extras, only CGI. And take another good look at the huge CAST, consisting of the greatest film and stage actors who ever lived. By ANY use of the term, the sheer scope and size of this monumental film qualifies it as a bona fide epic for all time, including "Ben Hur."