Siskel & Ebert (1982) - Airplane II: The Sequel, Tootsie, Sophie's Choice, The Verdict

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Жыл бұрын

In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Airplane II: The Sequel, Tootsie, Sophie's Choice and The Verdict.

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@BeSensiblePlayThePercentages 11 ай бұрын

"YOU WERE A TOMATO! A tomato doesn't have logic!" The best lines in the movie!

@007Julie 9 ай бұрын

Yes!! I always use that line, he was trying to get the psychology of a tomato which is so absurd and brilliant at the same time 😂

@abcun17 Жыл бұрын

Imagine a show where you review "Tootsie", "Sophie's Choice" and " The Verdict"! Those were the days...

@Hexon66 2 ай бұрын

These are the days as well. Just look past your local cineplex.

@ProletarianTakeover 8 ай бұрын

Sophie's Choice & Airplane 2. What an insane pairing.

@sleuthentertainment5872 6 ай бұрын

Even more insane if you add Inseminoid at the end😂😂😂😂

@RodericSpode Жыл бұрын

I'll never get over Macho Grande.

@branagain Жыл бұрын

Tootsie and The Verdict were released the same week? What a week!

@gheller2261 2 ай бұрын

AND Sophie's Choice. Yes, quite a week. Great year for films, also included E.T., Poltergeist, Tron, An Officer and a Gentleman, and Rocky III.

@yournamehere6002 26 күн бұрын

And I went to see both in the theater. TOOTSIE more than once!

@Comictalent Жыл бұрын

What a week at the movies! Tootsie, Sophie's choice, and The Verdict have some of the best performances of all-time in my view. When the worst movie shown is Airplane 2, which is still pretty funny, I mean wow. I miss these line ups.

@redadamearth 10 ай бұрын

1982 was just an astonishing year for great movies. Basically the entire early-to-mid 80's.

@Hexon66 2 ай бұрын

@@redadamearth There are always going to be great movies, some years better than others. But the great slide into corporate dreck was already well underway by '82.

@javiermori1710 11 ай бұрын

This show was great sunday afternoon after coming home playing outside all day on west coast. Ahhh to be a kid again in the 80s😂

@SpongeBobfan3646 Жыл бұрын

Sophie's Choice was so sad. Tootsie was hilarious!

@RebeccaStropoli 2 ай бұрын

You should read the book if you haven't yet. It blows the movie right out of the water (as most books do) -- SO good. I remember being disappointed when I finally watched Sophie's Choice (years after it was released), as the book was one of my favorites ever and the movie just didn't really do it justice, believe it or not.

@BoneCK15 Жыл бұрын

I've fallen asleep to this channel so many times. Find it so soothing. Thanks for all the work you do and fingers crossed it survives.

@eric60025 Жыл бұрын

Same!

@sonnyblack0870 Жыл бұрын

Hah this is also part of my bedtime routine, wonder why that is…

@Kay-kg6ny Жыл бұрын

@@sonnyblack0870 me too.

@thekingofmovies193 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they should have a 7 or 8-hour compilation of Siskel and Ebert episodes from the 70s, 80s, and 90s with those old commercials (personally, I find those a whole lot better than what they got on TV today).

@edreid7872 Жыл бұрын

They always played extended clips of the movies, and it works..

@carlosyamara Жыл бұрын

Oh, how I miss this show! I remember waiting till late in the night to watch it, I started watching at about 9 y/o and kept at it till the end. RIP guys. Subscribed

@michaelsims1160 Жыл бұрын

That was a good week for the movies especially for acting. Hoffman, Newman , and Streep gave the performance of their careers and for those three that’s really saying something. Klein, Warden and Mason are great in supporting roles too. Streep won the best actress Oscar for Sophie’s Choice and Newman and Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor for Tootsie and the Verdict. Martin Short’s spoof of the scene shown on SCtV is beyond hilarious.

@edwardmetzger8118 Жыл бұрын

He blowed up real good!

@WEK-kh8gd Жыл бұрын

Very well said, Sir. Three great films... and... Airplane 2. Lol

@ReneJustice-mb7hu 10 ай бұрын

Tootsie is hilarious! Hoffman is a very hood actor.

@hmdwgf Жыл бұрын

You know- Jessica Lange nearly won both acting Oscars- in the same year. She won the Supporting Actress Oscar for Tootsie- and imagine if she had won the Best Actress Oscar she was nominated for Frances that ended up going to Streep for Sophie’s Choice… that would have been one of the greatest feats in movie history.

@KaejaeDoherty Жыл бұрын

She was very deserving in Frances, but I'm still baffled by her winning for Tootsie First off, she was the Lead, but she never did anything I saw deserving of an Oscar Terri Garr was fabulous and was a deserving nominee That's a supporting role, but I still don't get her nomination and win in a movie I consider one of the Greatest

@DS8379 Жыл бұрын

Great episode! Tootsie is one of my favorite films!

@ronniebishop2496 Жыл бұрын

Paul Newman should have won the Oscar. It was one of his best performances ever. Shame on Hollywood!!!

@redadamearth 10 ай бұрын

The main issue, as Dustin Hoffman himself (who won) has always said, is that the entire IDEA of pitting movies or performances against each other, when they're often all great, but in totally different genres and styles, is ridiculous. For example, putting "Dances With Wolves" against "GoodFellas" - both movies are great in their own way, but couldn't be more different. All of the performances that year were great. Watch Hoffman's acceptance speech sometime - he basically says he refuses to believe he was "better" than anyone else nominated, included Newman.

@ronniebishop2496 10 ай бұрын

@@redadamearth Yes I’ve heard it, on and on but competition is the American way, even our Indian tribes determined their greatness by how powerful their enemies were. Only communist want everyone to get a trophy making all accomplishments worthless. I totally disagree with Dustin Hoffman as did Frank Sinatra only for different reasons. Paul Newman should have won it because he was much better, in my opinion.

@gheller2261 2 ай бұрын

That was an impossible year - Newman, Hoffman, Ben Kingsley.

@gheller2261 2 ай бұрын

@redadamearth Hoffman did not win the Oscar for 1982. It went to Ben Kingsley for Ghandi.

@ronniebishop2496 2 ай бұрын

@@gheller2261 Yes I don’t think he knew that. But I definitely didn’t think Ben should have received it.

@erwinrogers9470 2 ай бұрын

Classic show👍

@ac9559 Жыл бұрын

The Verdict and Tootsie are two of my all-time favorites. I watch them at least once a year and I never get tired of them. Thanks again for posting these it brings back a lot of great memories.

@gheller2261 2 ай бұрын

The Verdict is wonderful for its performances. However, as a lawyer, they got soooo much stuff wrong that it drives me to distraction.

@ac9559 2 ай бұрын

@@gheller2261 I understand. It is a visceral not a logical experience. Hollywood is the last place I go for reality which is why I have no interest in anything historical they do.

@ReneJustice-mb7hu 10 ай бұрын

I heard that Jessica Lang received an award for her part in Tootsie. ?????? Why? She was fine in it but Hoffman was the talent and extremely funny as Dorothy Michaels. Great as himself (Michael Dorsey) too. Sidney Pollak, Dabney Coleman and Charles Durning was wonderful! Hoffman should have gotten an award for playing Tootsie.🌸

@KaejaeDoherty Жыл бұрын

I don't care, i don't own a theater 😂😂Gene breaking the law

@GavinusMaximusMaster Жыл бұрын

Tootsie, Sophie's Choice, The Verdict, and Airplane 2 were holiday movies? We get such crap most of the time these days

@annamariaisland1960 Жыл бұрын

One of their better episodes - what few disagreements they had were well explained and make sense. If they had manaaged to live into the current time, the weekly shows would have to have 5 stinkers and a single good film to mention briefly

@jayjayjigsbys Жыл бұрын

I actually agree with Siskel here, which is rare for me. Sophie's Choice, the novel, is one of the greatest books I've read. It's a masterpiece. The movie rushed it and would have benefitted from a longer running time. An epic, like Siskel says. It could have run 31/2 hours and could have been one of the greatest films ever made. But they rushed the last half. It's a shame.

@branagain Жыл бұрын

I agree about the movie. Except for the one scene explaining Sophie’s choice, the movie is forgettable. There’s an episode of Friends where Rachel calls Sophie Choice “okay.” That is exactly how I feel.

@jayjayjigsbys Жыл бұрын

@@branagain I might as well add my other hot take about it: Meryl Streep is miscast 🫤.

@reneedennis2011 Жыл бұрын

@@jayjayjigsbys However, she's so good with accents 😍!

@ganglabesh Жыл бұрын

ive snuck to movies tons in the early 2000s. it was so easy if the ticket taker was busy or they didnt have one. you could walk right past everyone go right into a theater, and then even skip to other films after. lol like gene said "i dont care i dont own a theater"

@Kay-kg6ny Жыл бұрын

Gene was so real sometimes lol

@ganglabesh Жыл бұрын

@@Kay-kg6ny miss him. Didn't even see the year 2000

@WEK-kh8gd Жыл бұрын

Gene's wrong... The Verdict is in the class of Anatomy of a Murder and all the best courtroom dramas ever filmed. I think what may even elevate it above others is Newman's performance and what I think for me is the character study and the subtle redemption of a broken man. The film works on both levels equally well.

@BULL.173 11 ай бұрын

I agree, he’s definitely wrong. The Verdict is a superior courtroom drama by any metric. But in the same league as Anatomy of a Murder? Oof. I don’t know about that.

@redadamearth 10 ай бұрын

Newman's summation argument is one of the best-written and most well-acted moments in movie history, IMO.

@gheller2261 2 ай бұрын

Frankly, I think the courtroom scenes are the film's biggest weakness. In fact, when it comes to the actual practice of law and procedure, the script reads as if nobody ever spoke to a lawyer. That it is so sloppy on the law brings the film down a level for me. It was saved by Newman's brilliance and James Mason was always fun to watch.

@kali3665 Жыл бұрын

Airplane really didn't need a sequel. Airplane II did what the Airport sequels eventually did: went totally overboard with the gags and really stretched for a frame to put them in. ZAZ were smart to drop THAT cold poisoned potato.

@nicktaylor2657 Жыл бұрын

What makes Tootsies work is that they actually make Dustin Hoffman look passable as a woman Too often they make men dressed up as women look obviously like men 😏

@adamgrimsley2900 Жыл бұрын

Hmm...

@JanetStarChild Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean; like that ridiculous sitcom 'Bosom Buddies'.

@kd17Burger Жыл бұрын

Passable, but it was because Hoffman plays her as an actual character and if you didn't buy Dorothy Michaels, the movie would fall apart

@007Julie 9 ай бұрын

@@kd17BurgerHoffman went out dressed as Dorothy to test if he’d pass as a woman and it was a success.

@kd17Burger 9 ай бұрын

I heard that " rumor" as well, but I am referring to her in this movie - that we believe that really is Dorothy Michaels, not because of external , but internal

@hungwilliam44 Жыл бұрын

Roger mentioned Jekyll and Hyde Together Again! Woohoo! LOL@Gene telling people to sneak into other theaters.

@ganglabesh Жыл бұрын

Guilty of his advice

@johndalton3180 Жыл бұрын

Sophie's - an A+ performance from Streep in a Bish movie.

@leewitten4758 Жыл бұрын

What about Tootsie? Last week we all watched Tootsie on HBO . Isn't HBO scrambled? But what? Seeing as we don't pay for HBO, isn't what we're doing illegal? IMMORAL?!?

@sandal_thong8631 Жыл бұрын

I heard _The Dark Crystal_ came out the same week as _Tootsie_ but don't see it here. Next week's show doesn't seem to have it either. Did they even review it?

@garyrossetti2443 10 ай бұрын

Tootsie is a very good movie, I agree on Airplane II did not like it like Airplane I, I appreciate you uploading this That Old T.V.

@malvavisco10 6 ай бұрын

I’m still waiting for Sophie’s Choice 2: The Revenge of Jan

@erwinrogers9470 2 ай бұрын

Wow🔥

@trikkerman1 2 ай бұрын

I'm 55 and still haven't watched Tootsie, Sophie's Choice & The Verdict. Airplane II was good in my opinon.

@chrisfinch8637 Жыл бұрын

Airplane II: The Sequel would've been a remembered movie, if they actually didn't make the first one back in 1980. I will admit I laughed at a few jokes and gags throughout (especially when they run out of coffee), but there were some bad edits and grim jokes I counted, in which I didn't find fascinating. And what's worse, it was very much like the original, but taken to another level, in which made me think most of the movie has lost it's flavor to make people laugh. If you want laughs, fly with Otto and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (or Roger Murdoch), in the original.

@cl759 Жыл бұрын

7:41 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@johndalton3180 Жыл бұрын

Just hear me out folks.. Tootsie's Choice.

@crystalshaw8744 11 ай бұрын

😀😀😀

@HeatherLikesArt 9 ай бұрын

😂 Winner!

@jaybirdcanadian Ай бұрын

But he has to chose between two tomatoes 🍅

@RichM3000 Жыл бұрын

Gene Siskel without a combover. Airplane 2 was too late but Police Squad! sequel Naked Gun, out years later wasn't? Nah. Airplane 2 wasn't late....it just wasn't nearly as good as Airplane! or Naked Gun.

@Dim4323 Жыл бұрын

Airplane 2 has shanter GOING BLEEP AND BLOOPERING A FLASING AND FLASHING

@yournamehere6002 26 күн бұрын

Roger was wrong, because only a few years later, TOP SECRET!, THE NAKED GUN and HOT SHOTS! would be released. So there was still movies like AIRPLANE coming out, not to mention JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY, AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOOD, MAFIA!, HIGH SCHOOL HIGH, FATAL INSTINCT. LOADED WEAPON ONE....

@classicalperformances8777 Жыл бұрын

can it be that movies in then past were better than now( mainstream that is)?

@Kay-kg6ny Жыл бұрын

Nah. There were plenty of stinkers back in the day too. It's just easy to forget those through the filter of time and nostalgia.

@classicalperformances8777 Жыл бұрын

@@Kay-kg6ny yeah youre not wrong

@Mondomeyer Жыл бұрын

I want to see Horror Planet!

@hungwilliam44 Жыл бұрын

One per day please.

@johnbogg7395 Жыл бұрын

Horror Planet was kind of fun.

@ShamrockParticle 11 ай бұрын

7:04 who you gonna call? 😂

@GamerNate30 Жыл бұрын

Can you find worst of 2001, 2002, and 2003 with ebert and roeper

@ThatOldTV Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure I posted the worst for those years already. Try a search on my channel using the key word “worst”.

@GamerNate30 Жыл бұрын

@@ThatOldTV I don't see it

@AnimationNation2004 Жыл бұрын

Those episodes are still lost as of this point at least from what I’m aware of.

@highwaystar3780 Жыл бұрын

Everything aside here....Hoffmann will be 90' in less than 4yrs !

@GamerNate30 Жыл бұрын

@@ThatOldTV i have searched everywhere for those clips. Have you seen them?

@dondee5439 9 ай бұрын

At the 15:00 mark, THE VERDICT is a great movie. Paul Newman was so great as a failure trying to redeem himself. My take on these films: AIRPLANE II rates 5/10; TOOTSIE rates 8/10; SOPHIE'S CHOICE rates 9/10; THE VERDICT rates 10/10. Paul Newman deserved to get or at least share the Oscar that went to Dustin Hoffman that year.