What Gene said about disaster movies is exactly what is happening with comic book movies today.

"Fresh air and volleyball," LOL! Siskel & Ebert were so much fun to watch back in the day, way better than the movies they reviewed! Thumbs Up!

I love that Gene and Roger could alternately make each other laugh and then drive each other crazy. Once they found their chemistry, it was for the ages. Two smart guys with well informed opinions…sadly missing these days.

thanks to the uploader for putting these on KZfaq.one of my favorite shows on early cable.

Of note is that this was their first "Worst of the Year" show; previously the "Dogs of the Year" segment was confined to their year-end "Best of the Year" shows (see their 1978 and 1979 "Best of the Year" installments). Other films Gene Siskel hated in 1980 were "The Boogey Man", "New Year's Evil", "Silent Scream", "Friday the 13th", "Why Would I Lie?", "MAD Magazine Presents Up the Academy" (the magazine's staff was in agreement with a lot of the critics-including Gene-regarding that picture, even going as far as mocking it in the October 1980 issue), "Loving Couples", "Guyana: Cult of the Damned", "The Bermuda Triangle", "Wholly Moses!", "The Baltimore Bullet", "The Gong Show Movie", "The Runner Stumbles", "The Nude Bomb", and "Little Miss Marker". (SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, December 29, 1980)

For me, The Final Countdown is an entertaining, and re-watchable movie. It is also fairly original.

Caligula and I Spit On Your Grave are both in the Top 10 most disturbing movies of all time

I can't believe Siskel and Ebert even reviewed I Spit On Your Grave! LOL.

Spot's "MGM" is just amazing! Thanks so much for uploading these!

This was their best musical and visual introduction.

I saw all these movies as a kid on cable. I saw The Final Countdown around 10x loved it!

24:25 - Spot steals the show! Look at him peeking around Roger!

"Can't Stop the Music" was the first movie I saw in the theater as a boy in which I thought to myself "now this is a really lousy movie"!

“The Final Countdown” was good

"Blue Lagoon" and "Can't Stop the Music", two of the biggest all-time turkeys

9:54 Gene gets a dig in at Rex Reed

The Final Countdown was a good movie. Maybe not original, but highly entertaining.

BOY,Do I miss these two guys.I love it when they give good reviews of movies I love and bad reviews of movies that I REALLY hate.unfortunitly, they sometimes give bad reviews of movies that I like.although to be ho nest, it's always fun to watch these two tear apart a really, REALLY bad movie.R.I.P to both GENE SISKEL and ROGER EBERT.

Geez, the production values on "When Time Ran Out" makes it look like an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" or something.

Gene's description of Roger Moore playing an espionage agent in WW2 fighting Nazis on a ship in "ffolkes" is an indication he didn't even see the movie as none of that is true. It's a contemporary adventure, they're on an oil rig, the villains are terrorists, and Moore's character is the leader of a counter-terrorism unit.

One thing I vividly remember is how cool movie advertisements looked in newspapers in the late 70s and eighties. Studios were using artists to draw up action films and horror movie posters.

boy. that one scene with the arm being continuously slammed with the door is fucking _hilarious._ 16:16

1980 did mark the end or close to the end of a few movie trends: -Disaster Movies: While "Airplane!" was a terrific parody, the bad box office receipts of the latter day disaster flicks killed that genre. The public realized that these movies were all the same, with only difference being the disasters themselves. -The International Thriller: These movies had ad posters with the bottom filled with international stars. While Gene may've forgotten what Ffolks was all about, he was right when he said that they cared more about the financing than the script. -The "Saturday Night Fever" ripoffs-The poor box office receipts of "Can't Stop the Music" and "Xanadu" helped end that trend, though the worst ripoff IMO (The sequel Staying Alive) did pretty well. Of course, the popularity of Disco music also ended in late 1979. -Low-grade Kung Fu Bruce Lee ripoffs also nearly ran their course. Only Chuck Norris managed to continue his career awhile longer. -Slasher movies had a long way to go before that genre faded away, and it really didn't fade out all that much.

thanks for uploading ... grew up on these shows!

Loved that theme song!.I knew when I heard it I was going to see new movies(before the days of VCR's) on my TV set..Sure, it was in 25 second clips but I always got excited for it!

Can you turn up the volume on this one please--I turned up my volumes on my computer, but still low.. Thanks for finding these.

There’s a lot of classic stars in these dogs.

Along with XANADU, one of the movies listed here caused one John J.B. Wilson to form the Golden Raspberry Awards in early 1981. HINT: Roger Ebert starts discussing it at 13:25.

I gotta admit, I found that clip they showed from I Spit On Your Grave kind of FUNNY, .. . albeit, in a SICK kind of way.

that thing they said about _Airplane!_ effectively killing of the "Disaster" genre actually turned out to be incredibly true.

"Ffolkes," Caligula," and "I Spit On Your Grave" are masterpieces, in my opinion.

1980 was 40 years ago Holy Smokes

The Blue Lagoon made a ton of money that year.. The Final Countdown was one of my favorites that year.

Spot is so cute.

I LOVED "The Final Countdown"! Ok, it WAS dumb, but I did love it.

If you were 13 years old like I was in 1980 The Blue Lagoon was a very good movie. The Final Countdown was also fun to watch. Like others have said I’ve seen it several times. Still miss the great report between Siskel and Ebert. Two great personas of the 20th Century. Some of their moralizing does seem a bit stodgy and conservative looking back on it, but who doesn’t have faults. Terrific human beings nonetheless.

On the ones I saw... When time ran out was a wash out, Irwin Allen had success with 1972 The Poseidon Adventure and 1974 The Towering Inferno, should have left it at that. Can't stop the Music, aside from The Village People music, a sheer waste of Panavision filming . The Blue Lagoon, in my opinion was OK ,simple story line,but the breathtaking cinematography and the beautiful soundtrack for me made the film. The only thing I can say about Caligula-- REPULSIVE !!!

The Linda Ronstadt song was a nice touch.

" Laughing and scratching in the wilderness "...lmbo. I love these guys.

Blue Lagoon was one of the movies of all time.

I absolutely love the intro to this show! The best one they ever had :)

I'm surprised Friday the 13th wasn't listed.

Great transfer! Audio’s a lil’ soft, but looks good!

My husband went to a bachelor party back in the day and one of the guys bought the movie Caligula.

yeah, BLUE LAGOON is bad...but it's such a fu**ing guilty pleasure movie for me.

I liked the final countdown it's a great what-if.

four of these films had staying power. i loved the final countdown and blue lagoon was hot if a little boring

The clips were as long as the movie...smile

The fact that someone saw fit to re-make “I Spit on Your Grave” is a sad commentary on humanity.

I can't believe this was 39 years ago.

Sad this was one of if not the last william holden film

I'm a big fan of The Blue Lagoon, I think it would of been great if the special addition of the movie on DVD would of included this review, that would of been funny.

When the Budget Ran Out.

Roger Moore has called “ffolkes” (aka “North Sea Hijack”) his favorite role. He has a lot of fun in it. Also, the film had nothing to do with Nazis or World War 2.

Every year has terrible movies, but these were so surreally bad, it's interesting to watch this. How many directors and studio heads would have been sober for 3 consecutive hours in a day in 1980?

Brook shields was gorgeous....14.....but gorgeous

How many of these do you remember? I remember some from Roger's reviews in his Companions.

Also like in a 1950's movie, Charlton Heston was still a complete ham of an actor.

You forgot to include the movie “Windows” on your description list

It's interesting to realize that the "international thriller" is now extinct. Or what Ebert later referred to with the Box Rule: Box Rule: Useful rule-of-thumb about movie advertisements that have a row of little boxes across the bottom, each one showing the face of a different international star and the name of a character (e.g., “Curt Jurgens as the Commandant”). The rule is: Automatically avoid such films.

8:49 Oops, probably should've chosen a different clip lol.

For me, The Blue Lagoon is an entertaining and watchable movie. It is also fairly original.

Siskel and Ebert obviously didn't see The Apple, did they?

There was a movie from 1980 I always loved. Was worried that it would be here. It wasn't. Yay.

Caligula is one of my all time favorite movies. There's a good movie there in between the porn and Malcolm McDowell was awesome.

Sadly I disagree with their comments about audiences being disappointed about getting the same old film over and over again. For a lot of the audience it's what they want, they know what they're getting, studios are less likely to take risks when they can just play it safe. Audiences though often know when they've seem something special.

I think the main problem with Caligula is that the screenplay is diametrically opposed to the purposes of the film. The film makes a big point about showing all the pornography, but the screenplay is focused up on how such prurience is evil. So, how can you enjoy the pornography while being told that you are wicked for enjoying it? They should have maybe adapted a specific classical work with erotic elements like the Golden Ass, or Satyricon, or Daphnis and Chloe instead. (though I suppose Daphnis and Chloe is a bit close to the material in Blue Lagoon, so the critics wouldn't have like that either.)

1980 must have been a pretty bad year when their worst of lists don't include Friday the 13th and Heaven's Gate.

Best line in this review: "peekaboo with sex"

Were these at movie theaters!?

8:33 This Scene Was Probably Made For Television

Hey, Blue Lagoon was Great! ;-)

One of the guys in "Can't Stop The Music" looks like Caitlin Jenner.

I liked ffolkes. It was a good thriller. Also, I think Gene was wrong when he said it took place during WWII. IIRC, it took place during the present day of 1979/1980.

Im surprised HBO didnt reboot CALIGULA...oh wait...GAME OF THRONES??

Noooo! I actually really liked Ffolks.

Now my love our only memory will be of me gently slamming that intruders hand in the door. Ahh memories.

Both Siskel and Ebert have separately stated that "I Spit on your Grave" was the most depressing experience they had as movie critics. I haven't seen the film, but have read reviews about it, All of which call it a celebration of sadism against a helpless victim, who then gets revenge on her attackers, one by one; and then the film ends. That's the entire plot. Shame on everyone who appeared in that film, especially the actors. It proves the very depressing point that actors will take any job, no matter how personally degrading or humiliating it is. Every actor who turns down a role like this preserves their own dignity and the dignity of actors in general.

24:30 You thought that was bad? They made TWO sequels!!!

I first saw "The Blue Lagoon" on cable in 1981 while I was still in JH, and instantly had a crush on Brooke Shields. So, needless to say I was a big fan of the movie at the time. But, then I re-watched it 12-years later and was laughing at how bad the writing and acting was, especially from Chris Atkins. Plus, Brooke Shields was only 15 at the time, and she's half-naked the entire movie. Which makes the film not only bad, but bad in a creepy kind of way. Something I didn't understand when I was still in JH.

Watching this in 2021 and still fascinated by their critique of such garbage :)

First off, Sisk & Eb found 1980 to be a truly horrible year the movies. Hell, several films that one or both of them gave ZERO STARS to didn't make the worst-of list: MOTHER'S DAY, THE EXTERMINATOR, and GUYANA: CULT OF THE DAMNED. Also, they only left FRIDAY THE 13TH off the list because they had other horror films to focus on, and hated Charlton Heston's THE AWAKENING as much as THE MOUNTAIN MEN (again, they didn't want to overdo the horror/slasher film coverage).Second...the look on Roger's face as he finishes watching that horrible clip from I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is genuinely unsettling in how sickened and shocked he is. And the line where he says "The people who made this film should really be ashamed of themselves, and so should the people who booked it and the people who went to see it. It's really an inhuman, sick film", highlights all the ways that he's the GOAT film critic.

The blue lagoon was my first porno 👍🏼

Very little seems to have changed in Hollywood since 1980.

Can't stop the music was so bad it's epic.

Well I enjoy When Time Ran Out and The Blue Lagoon is not a bad flim on my opinion

Didn't Siskel & Ebert realize that by giving these films any publicity audiences would be rushing out to see it? This is why I Spit on Your Grave found an audience.

Krusty the Klown in "The Blue Haired Goon" is better than the Blue Lagoon.

He's hoping this is the end of disaster movies poor poor man has no idea what's coming over the next 40 years.

Woof!

The Apple didn't make it on this list? Must have been a really bad year.

Roger Moore was So Set as James Bond. It hurt his chances at other work.

I Spit On Your Grave is probably the most despicable film I've ever seen. And I haven't seen The Human Centipede films or A Serbian Film.

Ffolkes was a good movie.

i know they didnt like "The Final Countdown" i have actually seen their review of it not too long ago, but seriously the worst of the year. its no masterpiece but ive always liked it and found the concept really interesting.

It seems like they disregarded any film that had any sort of “exploitation” in it without acknowledging the redeeming elements they had. The film Caligula may not have had a great script, but the acting, set design, and overall directing was honestly top notch. It has a lot of graphic sex and gore, but the whole theme of the film was about the perversion of the Roman Empire, so it’s not really out of place.

Oh wow. Roger Moore attempting a Scottish accent. They mustn't have been able to get the James Bond they wanted.

When the Money Ran Out, lol

4:34 Gene Siskel clearly explains the reason why I am starting to wean off of Marvel films. The Marvel Cinematic Universe that has its share of great movies, but after TWENTY FOUR FILMS I shouldn’t be the only one to notice a basic plot formula these movies follow. You might know what I’m talking about.

Irwin Allen was a cartoon caricature of a producer. His behavior was so obnoxious and off-putting, that he wound up ruining his own productions, which were already pretty schlocky (Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space). These three series were successful in spite of Irwin, not because of him, and he wound up getting all three series canceled within six months of each other and getting kicked off the studio lot because of his behavior.