Well said

Are you fucking kidding me?

Red Letter Media is a worthy successor

Bullshit there are a lot more great reviewers than ever and here on you tube

@@Rickyroo1980 I would probably agree with you on that point. But no movie reviewers since S&E have had sustained national reach. This includes Roger's later shows and the many attempts by others.

WHAAAAAAT???!!!!! Please explain!!!

@@tomjones8610 Arnold put it out there that he wanted to star in the movie to bait Stallone. When Stallone was asked to do the movie, he jumped on it so Arnold wouldn't get it lol

Arnie's commentary on Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot?? Omg best idea ever. He would explain the trick in the first 10 minutes, and then rip off Sly for the remaining 80. Amazing.

Stop or my mom will shoot is better than a lot of Arnold movies though. (Jingle all the way and Batman and Robin are way cornier)

best prank ever

Yup I love these videos 😂!

Rest in peace 😓😓

Why? The bald one was garbage. He tried to doxx the actress who played Mrs Voorhees in Friday the 13th. He tried to put her life in danger because he didn't like the movie. Absolutely pathetic.

@@oliverclothesoff8604: Seriously… WTF are you talking about? Is this actress a relative of yours or something?

@@dakritic Siskel doxxed the actress who played Mrs Voorhees because he hated Friday the 13th. You support doxxing people over trivial shit?

Tommy Wiseau was presumably taking notes when he first watched it...

Well, I don't think so.

@@markelijio6012 Oh, it was memorable, and not in a good way.

If the movie had been about the strudel it might've been good. I love a good strudel film, and there aren't enough of those being made. Movies about strudel are _sehr gut._

What day of the week and time was the show on?

@@scattau41 There I know from watching their Holiday Video Gift Guide that it was on Saturday nights at 6:30. In NY it varied a bit over the years and moved to several different stations.

@@sha11235 thanks!

Haha, at least he was cool about it!

I'd love to tell him also that Rocky is such a funny movie when it's not supposed to be. I think the accents make it funnier when the characters get mad at times in it.

@@Skank_and_Gutterboy Yeah, he should be.

Just saw that speech for the first time, and wondered, "Why the baby talk, Melanie? Still scratching my head.

It stopped me right in my tracks. Really astonishing. 😂

I think it's funny, too. That's why I'm watching this video again 🤣!

@@reneedennis2011 Same here... I have got to see "Shining Through."

@@billscannell93 It's really silly 😜 🤪 🤣!

That clip of Melanie Griffith talking passionately about strudel was one of the worst/best monologues I've seen.

@@birch5757 she's always been a one note hack. Baby doll voice. Ugh

Cocaine is an expensive habit. You don't have much of an opportunity waiting for the perfect role, you need the cash.

He was so talented and appeared in many great films, but he could also turn in an unbearable performance (Patch Adams, Jakob the Liar, Jack).

He also won an Oscar for Good Will Hunting and starred in Mrs. Doubtfire and Aladdin in the same time frame.

@@crixxxxxxxxx You're right. Also The Birdcage.

He did so many movies!

What were the agents smoking? Dollar bills maybe?

Frozen Assets is truly a uniquely abysmal movie: there is just nothing good in it. It is bad on a deity-like scale- bad beyond comprehension.

To be fair to actors who came up in the old networks-only/Nielsen-driven/September of one year to May of the next structure, they also had to pick projects based on what was available in an inelastic timeframe, and TV actors were very rarely big enough draws on their own to even have the chance to choose prestigious projects during their hiatus times (Bill Cosby was an outlier here because he was seen as a major draw for filmgoers, at least in the 1980s). Part of the draw of the current streaming-cable-network/etc. galaxy and shorter seasons approach is that people on TV shows can do them and make movies during most of the year, so they have more choices.

@@xdmaster7888 Well, prestigious is one thing. Bad-beyond-belief is something else, you get what I'm saying? I can't believe _anyone_ looked at the script for _Sour Grapes_ and said "This is good! This is funny and original and it'll help my career!" It may not be the case with all of them, but there's no bigger dream for a TV actor than to branch out into movies and become a movie star, a dream that _looks_ so easy to attain (a lot of actors have done it; many more have failed). So I'm not saying those guys should look for the next _Citizen Kane_ to star in, but they could at least have the wherewithal to know a good (or at least OK) script from a terrible one. George Peppard said, "Don't anybody criticize me because I was in a lot of crap. Sometimes you're lucky to just get crap!" And that may have been true, for him. Both Corbin and Shelly are very gifted comic actors. They were both hot and bankable (I'm not saying George wasn't). It's tough for me to believe they were so desperate they couldn't do better that that piece of junk.

@@hmdwgf I've never saw "Frozen Assets" on TV such as Lifetime and WE because RKO Radio Pictures made this long-awaited troubled production and it wasn't profitable at all. But for some others, nobody didn't want to see it either.

You and me both

@@decimatorentertainmentstud8523 And me.

@@sha11235 dang

My Best and Worst List of 1994 is, Best Movies to Watch repeatedly. 1. 3 Ninjas Kick Back. 2. Ace Ventura Pet Detective. (You Gotta Love Jim Carey). 3. Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. Animated. 4. Andre. 5. Angels in the Outfield. (Christopher Loydd a National Treasure, a Living Legend, He has a long Legacy of Roles that he's been in that could Gag a Horse with). 6. Baby's Day Out. 7. Black Beauty. 8. BLANKMAN. 9. Blank Check. 10. Blue Chips. (you Gotta Love Nick Nolte's Character walking in and out of the locker room). 11. Camp Nowhere. 12. City Slickers 2 The Legend of Curly's Gold. 13. The Lion King. Animated. 14. D2 The Mighty Ducks. 15. The Flintstones. 16. Forrest Gump. 17. Immortal Beloved. 18. Interview with the Vampire. 19. The Jungle Book. (Best Acting by Jason Scott Lee, Carey Elwes, and Sam Neil). 20. The Land Before Time 2 The Great Valley Adventure. Animated. 21. Lassie. 22. Little Giants. 23. Little Women. 24. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 25. Miracle on 34th Street. 26. My Girl 2. 27. The Next Karate Kid. 28. North. 29. The PAGEMASTER. 30. Richie Rich. 31. The River Wild. 32. The Santa Clause. 33. The Shadow. 34. Squanto a Warrior's Tale. 35. The Swan Princess. Animated. (R.I.P Jack Palance). 36. THUMBELINA. Animated. 37. A Troll in Central Park. Animated. Worst Movies that's not even worth watching. 1. The Client. (Best Acting by Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones). 2. Cobb. 3. The Crow. (Best Acting by Brandon Lee (R.I.P) and Ernie Hudson). 4. Disclosure. 5. Dumb and Dumber. 6. Getting Even with Dad. (Best Acting by Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson). 7. House Party 3. 8. I'll Do Anything. 9. I.Q. 10. Junior. 11. Legends of the Fall. 12. The Little Rascals. 13. Nell. 14. The NEVERENDING Story 3 Escape from Fantasia. 15. Quiz Show. 16. Serial Mom. 17. Speed. 18. The Stand. 19. Star Trek Generations. 20. Stargate. 21. TIMECOP.

yeah that was very hard to listen to.... wtf were they thinking going with that take?

I think Micheal Douglas was annoyed listening to it.

Taste my strudel?

@@captaincaveman2040 For a second I thought it was a double entendre, but nope. Just some bad dialogue and even worse delivery 🤮

@@Hellraiser0601 No, it's food. People don't know that?

Lmao yes. His face just screams "Will you shut up already?" 😂

I agree

It was bad when Robin Williams tried to be maudlin.

There were no neutral Robin Williams movies. His performances were always "best thing ever" or "gods, that was terrible." No in-between at all.

@@bigjohn08865 Bingo...

I can argue that he was no.genius. I can't think of anything comedic he did that was funny ever.

I love Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Seems almost revolutionary considering the era. Another reason to cherish Siskel & Ebert.

Betas

@@BarberJ95 That was a more enlightened era, in many ways, than this one. Maybe there have been some gains against misogyny, I don't know, seems much the same to me in that regard.

Enough with the virtue signaling!

@@billscannell93 Seeing the various amounts of movies that movie critics have to see every year can perhaps enlighten people’s sense of consciousness, especially a man’s.

But you can take comfort in knowing that Goodman turned out to be a great actor in all genres

It was a financial success at the box office for Universal, but sometimes it had lots of negative reviews too.

TODAYS MOVIES ARE REMAKES LIKE FAST AND FURIOUS KRAP STOP OR MY MOMMY SHOOTS

That's true

No doubt, maybe there's some Robin Williams purists out there that see something I don't. I sat through an hour of this turkey and took a walk, what a horrible movie. It's not just because it was unfunny, I'm all good with a funny guy doing a serious movie--but he's gotta pull it off! This movie was just bad, real bad, by just about anybody's standard.

I was in college too, but I recall these films. Christopher Columbus came out in August 1992 and the other was in October.

The one they talk about on here was also produced by the Salkinds, who did the Christopher Reeve Superman films. This was the last one Ilya did with his dad Alexander, who died a few years later.

In addition the Salkind family has also served as consulting executive producers on the Emmy nominated Superboy from 1988 to 1992 for Viacom. Ran for four successful seasons on syndication.

It was the first time Robin Williams ever seemed like he didn't want to be there. I saw the regret on his face.

I think it could be mine aswell. I was so hyped after the trailer somehow, and then infinitely bored while watching it. I think it might've been the first movie that I walked off from in my life.

Toys got a HUGE amount of hype--it's a movie where the trailer is more famous than the film itself. People who were around then certainly remember Robin Williams talking to us in the open field and telling us he's actually in a studio, it was so ubiquitous that The Simpsons parodied it. But there's just no substance to the movie itself. As Gene said in his original review, "Does this movie have anything to say besides, 'War is bad and toys are good'? I don't think so."

Boxing Helena was a big disappointment.

Well, he can't put every damn film on the show. They do the best they can.

@@sha11235 I think it was more added information, not a slam on them for not putting every bad movie on the show. I appreciated the extra information.

Besides the film's financial success was lots of overlapping dialogue, effects and music were all done together. It was both mixed at Todd-AO Studios and edited at SoundStorm nearby the Katharine Hepburn stage at Sony Pictures Studios. "The Babe" was a co-production of Waterhorse Productions & Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions in association with Barwood Films and released by Universal-International on June 5, 1992.

I like Sean Connery and Lorrain Bracco, and I saw it more than once on TV in the mid 90s, I wouldn't say it was great but definitely not bottom 10 of the year for sure.

Brando got bored of acting roughly around the 1970's.

@@ricardocantoral7672 yeah maybe that's it

For the record, he won both Oscars in 1955 and 1973.

Man, Michael Douglas' face while listening to her. He looks like he wants to shoot himself.

😂😂😂 Michael Douglas with the “I’m going to absolutely kill my agent for getting me into this crap” look. This was one of the best “Worst of” shows. Both guys in rare form, torching everything in their path.

500th anniversary

The two of them that we've mentioned were: Christopher Columbus-The Discovery & 1492.

After watching old videos of Arnold f***king with Lou Ferigno during their body building days....I 100% believe it.

@@Biggiiful Don't make Lou Ferigno angry. You wouldn't like him while he's angry.

Well, you should see Malcolm X. That was a great film from that year.

Basic Instinct, Dracula were great. You missed out!

@@steveconn Basic Instinct was fantastic, and Sharon Stone's vulva should've won Best Supporting Actress. Not Stone herself. Her lady bits.

@@steveconn Both box-office hits were great.

Felt the same way! Too bad the movie SUCKED.

@@davidl570 It didn't do well at the box office nor the executives at Paramount/Viacom.

@@markelijio6012 Not surprised, somehow! That movie was crap.

While Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct was Lionsgate/StudioCanal's highest grossing thriller with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone in the summer of 1992 - June 12, fans were very excited about this, despite its controversy and legacy. The film was nominated for 2 Oscars for both Jerry Goldsmith's "all-stops-out" original score and Frank J. Urioste's excellent editing in 1993... but Whispers in the Dark didn't have any big names in this box office flop which it didn't do well, a year later, according to the executives at Paramount/Viacom.

@@markelijio6012 Yep, star power is key if you want a movie to be a success!

Yeah, keep in mind, Ebert hated "Dead Poet's Society", which many consider to be one of Williams's best.

@@martinsorenson1055 with good reason too

@@aldobarovero1714 You mean Roger hating it, or many people considering to be one of Williams' best?

Same. My grandparents loved that movie.,

My mind wandered after a bit. I felt like Michael Douglas looked

I don't know if Meryl Streep or Helen Mirren could have made chicken salad out of that material but Melanie sure didn't help.

I don't agree. Projects are in development hell for all sorts of reasons.

@@ricardocantoral7672 I'll take your word, Ricardo. Projects are in development hell for all sorts of reasons.

Cool 😎 !

TOYS was a unique and great looking film. IT needed a total rewrite. Shame on Williams and especially Barry Levinson, who directed it.

If that's true, that's a hell of a practical joke Arnold played on Stallone then.

@@nicksoapdish157 that is the inside Hollywood story I have heard multiple times

@@jewsco Nice

Yeah so

@@massimocasella4201 people bitching about the quality of the video. Probably don’t know that.

@@TheWinstonSlip I haven't seen a single comment criticising the quality here

@@alwaysOPEN4business well I’ve seen it written under many S&E videos.

What else? There weren't DVD's then.

She was WAAAAAAY past regretting leaving Cheers by this time. She had had a couple of hits ("Outrageous Fortune" and "The Money Pit") but those didn't rely on her charm. Then came the two that really made her re-think things: Hello Again and Troop Beverly Hills. I think Frozen Assets was a need to do anything because she wasn't being offered much.

She made a comeback of sorts with The Brady Bunch movie in 1996 but not before a failed TV comeback.

@@tomjones8610 After a series of TV and feature flops, Emmy winner Shelley Long of the Walt Disney Company has made such a remarkable comeback when she appeared two successful "Brady Bunch" features from 1995 to 1996 for Paramount Pictures, Mandalay Entertainment and the Ladd Company along with a few TV movies of the week and dozens of TV mini-series of the week. Now she really made re-think many things: joining Icon Productions under the guidance of Mel Gibson, Stephen McEveety, Bruce Davey & Mark Gooder from 1990 thru present for help overseeing every frame of TV and feature, such as "Hacksaw Ridge." Also, they re-acquired PSO, MDP, Vision International and Delphi libraries from Lionsgate. And in 1993, she made her final appearance in the 11th and final season on "Cheers" on NBC.

Yup.

Lol

Exactly!

Obviously, the film's art direction was outstanding and was nominated for an Oscar in 1993.

early to mid 90's had some awful movies for sure. One thing I'm glad is done is scores that tell us how to feel

Can't agree, there were some excellent thrillers made during these years, and some fun action-scifi flicks. In fact, the first half of the 90s is one of my favorite periods in cinema, it was the bridge between CGI and the old techiques and so many movies looked great because of this. Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Batman Returns, and many more, they all look amazing.

Roger inadvertently predicted the "MST3K Party", where you have friends over, watch a dreadful movie, and make fun of it throughout. My favorite one of those from my own youth involved renting "Showgirls" and someone busting out "I'm so excited! I'm so...scared" during the _rape scene._ You know a movie is atrocious when even what's supposed to be a sexual assault is funny.

it was a pretty insignificant part not worth mentoning

He was also in Mr. Baseball, which they gave a split vote on.

@@thekingofmovies193 That was just as bad.

@@davidl570 Was it?

@@thekingofmovies193 I thought it was.....................I was hoping for at least a couple of laughs, but I didn't laugh once. It's just not funny---and I love Tom Selleck, but I'd avoid this one.

It derailed Barry Levinson's career, though. Except for "Wag The Dog" and some well-received HBO movies, he was never the same afterward.

@@zombiedodge1426 Homicide: Life on the Street. Easily Levinson's best work imo, and it's TV.

@@n0tk0sher Thank you very much.

I saw it at the 2.00 cinema..so I didn`t like it...but only 2 dollars

The CC film was by the same people who did the Christopher Reeve Superman films.

Loved toys

@@sha11235 This is the last film that was done by the people who gave us the "Superman" franchise and one hit TV show, "Superboy."

Wow. You are totally insane

Wait you helped create Home Movies? Holy shit dude that's dope af

@@mr.froglegs yes. I actually did.

@@mr.froglegs I even wrote the screenplay for and produced and directed the, the home movies movie based on the animated TV show Home movies, distributed by paramount pictures (90th anniversary), Tom Snyder productions and soup2nuts, which also has the voices of Robert de Niro and Lily Tomlin as the bad, Al Pacino John Goodman and Jimmy Smits as some funny cops and also featuring the voices of my Frasier co-stars Kelsey Grammer John Mahoney and David Hyde Pierce, and Meryl Streep as Jack's great aunt, Janet McGuire.

Which one?

What was the other movie ?

Jack, Flubber, Patch Adams, Jacob the Liar, RV, The Survivors? Sadly, a lot to choose from.

"Bicentennial Man" was one of the worst experiences I ever had in the theater. I was 10 and my dad took me. We both spent most of it sitting there and mocking the damn thing. I remember my dad kept repeating out loud "End it already! End it already!".

Patch Adams is DREADFUL. So condescending and sappy... Ugh, unbearable.

that little half-hearted chuckle is the highlight of the entire ep

Remember that, as they explained earlier in previous Worst of shows, they aren’t really choosing the VERY worst shows of the year, more like the biggest disappointments instead. If someone told me the basic premise of Shining Through and that Michael Douglas was the leading man, I might have been tempted to see it too in 1992. If you look at others on this show- Toys, the Babe Ruth film etc. they could have all potentially been great but in the majority of cases were let down by very poor scripts and/or certain actors.

@@scottyunitedboy2925 Well, the other films he gave less than 2 stars to. Frozen Assets (zero), The Babe (1), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1), and Medicine Man (1.5).

I actually enjoyed the movie up until Alda's later scenes. The story was building up to Sciorra or Leguizamo as the killer and then they just dump Alda without any viable clues and you're just like, what? Why'd they do that?

I recall OPRAH hyped it up like it was sooo enlightened. Smh.

@@marcofalzone6469 oh yeah you watched Oprah did you?

Say what you will, Toys didn't work for me. At least the filmmakers owe me lots of money back in the bank a few years later in 2002. They gave $20.00 extra dollars for something else on the go which was very nice to help out. All I can say is to the filmmakers: "Thank you."

It's a love it or hate it movie. Most people lean towards the latter, I lean towards the former

I liked it, mainly for nostalgic reasons. The soundtrack is good and Robin Williams is always fun to watch, mostly.

I think a lot of people are not sure what to think about it. Myself included. Great production however

It's really bad, you might be able to argue it is Robin Williams worst film ever, which definitely would get it in the top 100 worst overall. But yeah if that is the worst movie your friend has ever seen they haven't seen too many movies. At least it has some interesting visuals.

Toys was totally stupid. It was developed at Fox after 13 years in the making between 1979 and 1992.

Should have stayed there. Makes no sense.

What I thought too. Christopher Columbus got 1 star. How is THAT not the worst?

That's because that wasn't actually his choice for the year's worst film. It;s actually Frozen Assets. They had a coin flip on who would talk about the movie on the show and Gene won.

That's what I was surprised about.

@@patrickshields5251 Then still, why pick a film he gave 2 stars to as the worst? Stars are relative yes, but if you give it 2 stars, you can't say it is the worst.

@@sha11235 Good question.

Go to Siskelebert.org

Nah she is fine in it.

@@Harkness78 Really? I remember her being simply awful - like, irredeemably awful. Flat line readings. She was like a concrete slab on the screen. With nice hair.

I think there`s so many movies released....streaming,,,,,we can`t count all the bad movies,,,

@@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 Yeah, I've watched plenty of them and then 1/2 an hour into it said, "This turkey of a movie is going nowhere!", clicked out, and selected the option to make it not appear on any recommended lists (you can do that on Amazon Prime). It's a harder decision at the theater, it feels like you're throwing away money on a movie that might turn around (they never do, go with your gut). At home while streaming, who cares? "This thing sucks, I'm out!"

100%. In statistical terms, the variance today is lower.

Couldn't ave been I am sure there had to been plenty they liked,, plus that was the year Disney released the animated Aladdin which also has the voice of Robin Williams

No, there were good films. I remember all of these.