Watching these old Siskel and Ebert shows is like looking at a time capsule. It makes me nostalgic and yearning for the simpler times in the country.

This sure does bring back nice memories. In 1979 i was 10 years old and i was going to the movies with my then best friend at least once a week, every week, from the 1970s-1980s. We were both a couple of fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies (and yes, we religiously watched siskel and ebert together every week on his living room tv). We tried to see every new movie that came out regardless of plot, genre (he loved horror movies, I preferred comedy), critics reviews, or who starred in it. And Going In Style just happened to be one of the many new movies we saw that year because it just came out. There certainly was something magical about the movie theatergoing experience in itself in those years. Going to the movies every week in the 1970s-1980s with my best friend is among my most fondest, happiest memories of my entire life.

Siskel nailed it on his review of the incredibly creative and painfully self-critical movie "All that Jazz". While I'm surprised to hear that the same movie seemed to go over Ebert's head, who usually has a very intelligent understanding of what a movie is trying to accomplish.

That's kind of a brilliant take on All That Jazz that Siskel makes. Fosse loves the dancing in the film but hates the story. Which is his own story.

I saw Going in Style when I was 7 or 8 years old. I loved it then and I love it now. Written & Directed by the great Martin Brest when he was only 27 years old. Brest went on to direct Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman and Meet Joe Black. Sadly, after writing and directing the huge disappointment that was Gigli in 2003, Martin Brest has yet to make another film and that is the biggest travesty of them all.

Things are so relative. The fact that Ebert was saying that people ask, "Why don't they make movies like they used to", in the '70's, arguably the greatest decade of movies of the 20th century (as said, arguably), shows just how generational movies are. They just didn't know how good they had it.

Going in Style starts out as a lightweight caper film but it ends up being surprisingly dark and profound.

From this episode: "All That Jazz" and "Going In Style" have stood the test of time. "All That Jazz" is dazzling and "Going In Style" is the definition of bittersweet. Both are special and one-of-a-kind.

Going In Style is a great film… I’ve never forgotten it… George Burns is extraordinary….

Hell of a week for movies if you ask me

"'The Black Hole' is being billed as Disney's answer to 'Star Wars.'" Turns out that Disney's actual answer to "Star Wars" was buying "Star Wars."

They were really committed to having a direct transition between film conversations for each of these movies no matter what lmao. "Well a film Disney might have made..." "Well a film I thought was actually a good holiday movie..."

For me All That Jazz was the best picture of 1979. Just love it! Going In Style was fun, didn't like The Electric Horseman, didn't see the other two movies.

Black Hole, great movie. Definitely made more for an older audience

Crazy to hear “Disney’s answer to Star Wars” and then go onto see them cannibalize it

Going in Style 1979, great movie- funny and sad. George Burns and the others have great chemistry. Original better than the remake.

I've always enjoyed "Scavenger Hunt". Not high art by any means but a lot of mindless fun and quite a few laughs.

Ebert said it looked like a salt shaker...giggle

"Romance is going to be big in the 80s" :thinks of the great romantic comedies we got that decade: Good job Ebert

To think The Black Hole and Stars Wars came out at the same time is hard to believe--Star Wars is (light) years ahead in every way.

I have only seen Going in Style and All that Jazz. Liked Going in Style. George Burns was wonderful in it. All that Jazz was inventive and clever to a point but was just so weird it sort of lost my interest.

I have never heard of The Black Hole?

i watched Cuba for the first time today, i mean im watchin all of connery movies, so this was in my list for a long time, i agree with siskel, that its intelligent and similar to whats happening now in afghanistan, but i can also agree with ebert that it can just be violence for violence sake, but its intelligent enough to get a point across maybe not so in others, i didnt watch the other movies, i might, the only ones i watched were the black hole, and the old people robbery movie, all that jazz, i watched all of roy snider work, and he is an amazing actor, he is not just the guy from jaws, i think people should watch his stuff. i also think bautista the actor, and wrestler should play buatista the cuban dictator in a movie at some point. my review of cuba is in my CinemaEscape page in Letterboxd.

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Personally, I really liked the 1979 movie, "Cuba," and it had a somewhat impressive plot as well. The cast was even also somewhat good although the casting of three actors, who are Caucasians, by the way, Brooke Adams, Chris Sarandon, and Martin Balsam, as Cuban characters were total mistakes in the end.

I’ll take either one of the “dogs” over The Electric Horseman

I remember being bored stiff by The Electric Horseman in the theater.

Disney answer to Star Wars Obvious didn't work so the ended up buying Star Wars years later 😁

This was the first of 2 Linda Blair movies Ebert saved for Dog of the Week: "Hell Night" made it two years later (and when Ebert says "starring Linda Blair" Siskel is heard to make a disgusted sound). Kind of tacky imo.

I just watched All That Jazz for the first time and wanted to hear what the boys thought of it. I guess I’m siding with Roger, though I didn’t even like the dancing/music. Roy Scheider’s performance was interesting to watch but everything going on around him was cringeworthy. And Roger is right about how much it rips off 8 1/2. Based on the comments here, it looks like I’m in the minority.

Well, if George Lucas can turn to Japanese theatre for HIS opus; Disney can turn to Shakespeare. You can't condemn the film for being unoriginal, guys. It's not exactly something Disney is known for. But I have to admit - the movie bored me to tears. Admittedly, they got Roddy McDowell and Slim Pickens to voice the obligatory cute robots, so it was fun in spots, and that's still Yvette Mimieux there. I think I appreciate it now more than I did then, but it's still a boring piece of work with much outdated special effects. And, you cast your space adventure film with Ernest Borgnine and Anthony Perkins? Ernest (Marty) Borgnine as an intellectual? Not even in science fiction, people. Didn't buy it in Airwolf either. And who could have known in 1980 that Disney would one day OWN Lucasfilm and make REAL Star Wars films. Real being a technical term since there IS no Star Wars without Lucas, Disney told Lucas to get stuffed when he proposed a frame for the sequel films, and I can't STAND the sequels anyway.

I saw the Black Hole in 1979 and I was eager to see it because I loved Disney. Ugh! What a BORING film! And I saw this at age 7!

I've never been able to watch the black hole all the way to the end. So boring.

This is a boring movie. There isn't even a love scene between the two. Nothing really happens. Electric Horseman isn't worth anyone's time.

DIdn't like ELECTRIC HORSEMAN... .The rest are good... ALL THAT JAZZ is bizarre and great.. GOING IN STYLE , THE BLACK HOLE are fantastic.