The great thing about posting SISKEL AND EBERT videos is the picture quality doesn't have to be perfect and you can still enjoy it. If those guys were still around I'd still be going to the theater.
_Crocodile Dundee_ was top at the box office for 7 weeks, but _increased_ its box office through word of mouth! I don't think that's happened for years, if not decades. Movies now go to premium pay streaming (used to be called pay-per-view) long before 7 weeks. Some movies I want to see the first week or two to avoid spoilers, but aren't there some movies worth seeing later in the theater?
These days they talked about what was coming out on Video, whether or not they liked the damn thing. This was the beginning of their new show, before they changed that format.
I looked at their best of the year shows 1985-1990 and hear about movies I haven't seen and am not particularly interested in seeing. Sometimes they just completely miss what appeals to the public in the top 10 box office receipts, as well as those movies I consider worth watching more than once, like _Crocodile Dundee._
"I was waiting for her to show some concern"---Hahahah what about the scene we just watched where she's screaming her head off? The whole review shows that Roger did not really pay attention to the movie.
That's not what he said. He said "I kept waiting for her to be more concerned _about her children_." And he's right---in the movie, she shows precious little concern for both their mental and physical well-being.
There comes a time when someone needs to just leave. But when you're raised on female subservience to men, particularly to the father and husband, that goes against her indoctrination.
It is fascinating that both Ebert and Siskel decry the hypocrisy and exploitative nature of pornography and then one minute later promote and praise the work of a director that was convicted of heinous crimes perpetrated on a child.
I don't think they liked each other very much. Funny how the "new" intro I liked shows them waiting for their respective papers, opening them and arguing.
Gene Siskel was far too kind to Harrison Ford's deranged character in Mosquito Coast; so much so that it if I was Gene's kid, I'd think twice before going on a long voyage with him....
I think the point of watching the movie is to figure out when he goes off the deep end, and when his family should abandon him. There was a story I saw about some mountain gorillas where the head male, who's growing old, takes his family or troop up to the heights where it's too cold for the babies, and just sits. Finally, a younger big male, his son I think, leads the females and supporters back down to the warm jungle, splitting the group and taking leadership. The message I got was the old leader wanted to transfer leadership without violent conflict, which is likely the norm. So he would live out his life with his remaining supporters in a group of bachelor males.
