Siskel & Ebert Classics 12/8/88 - Twins, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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3 жыл бұрын

Two well-remembered comedies plus MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN and TEQUILA SUNRISE in a memorable December 1988 show.
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@ppmnox 3 жыл бұрын

RIP Kelly Preston. So beautiful, gone too soon

@ilovebrandnewcarpets 2 жыл бұрын

Gene was spot on with his analysis of DRS, and yet I give it a thumbs up because Martin and Caine are just that good.

@trump-totalwar6509 2 жыл бұрын

saw it at age 14 and it was funny to a kid from a small town

@Redfoot138 8 ай бұрын

I saw it in theaters as a 12-year old and I agree with the masters here but skew more towards Roger. The first two-thirds of the movie is golden but kind of falls flat the rest of the way. I was 12 and didn't quite see that final twist coming.

@mandolindleyroadshow706 2 жыл бұрын

It never ceases to amaze me that no one ever mentions that Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on another movie (Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando and David Niven). The plot and scenes (except the end) are identical.

@75aces97 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing that it was a remake. It was either in a written review by Ebert or possibly Leonard Maltin. For some reason Bedtime Story is in that movies that time forgot category, in that despite having 2 big stars was never in heavy tv rotation.

@commanderkeen3787 Жыл бұрын

Some critics did accurately note that the film is a *remake* of Bedtime Story (1964). But some critics apparently were not aware, because the original had not been a major hit. The original, however, has better performances than the remake. Brando is a better actor than Steve Martin and plays a sleazy two-bit conman better. David Niven and Michael Caine are both great, but Niven slightly outdoes Caine

@user-rh2io7gm1l 9 ай бұрын

@@commanderkeen3787 Steve Martin was a better comic actor than Marlon Brando.

@giantELF Жыл бұрын

I love how they get their final digs in on each other in the end.

@MediaBuster Жыл бұрын

Amazing he number of decent to classic movies they reviewed weekly and today we are lucky if we get one good or classic movie per year.

@jacobdehaan4114 4 ай бұрын

Twins is such a funny movie

@ThomasTVP 2 жыл бұрын

They couldn't have been more wrong on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a wonderful comedy.

@trump-totalwar6509 2 жыл бұрын

gene thought my step mother is an alien was better than dirty rotten scoundrels and twins.

@patrickc3419 10 ай бұрын

IKR?? Love Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. They missed the mark on that one.

@ct0760 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this bit of Nostalgia (I remember these from when I was like 5-6, and for years had the theme song in my head and forgot where it was from until seeing these films on youtube a couple years ago during COVID)

@jeepthing98 2 жыл бұрын

It;s not often I have the patience to sit and watch an older movie but I recently did with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and I enjoyed it. I laughed aloud several times, especially at the wheel chair bit. Gene should have given it a pass.

@mooseyman74 2 жыл бұрын

The wheelchair scene is hilarious 😂

@mooseyman74 2 жыл бұрын

Can't believe how many films these reviews keep throwing up that are still popular decades later, as opposed to the drought we have now of variety and big name actors

@nickperkins8477 3 жыл бұрын

I just noticed that in the show’s opening, Gene and Roger are using typewriters.

@warriormanmaxx8991 Жыл бұрын

@Nick Perkins - my ... how observant of you! Typewriters were a thing back in the day ... do you want a congressional medal for noticing?!?

@rhyancoleman6462 Жыл бұрын

Gene was using a computer

@Kruppt808 2 жыл бұрын

my bitch of a step mom loves Dirty Rotten Scoudrels and we watched it many times. I do like it, Steve Martin as the young arrogant con man vs the experienced veteran classy Michael Caine. The whipping part was probably the best and the ending was a nice twist.

@leonarddobens6070 Жыл бұрын

quintessential episode - each gets hacked off that their respective criteria are not applied equally to successive reviews

@steveconn 2 жыл бұрын

Both Scoundrels and Twins classics (Arnie and Danny do their white suit walk out in a way overcrowded Santa Fe Plaza).

@mjanderson4 2 жыл бұрын

Twins, Tequila Sunrise, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels are all worth a watch. Wiseguys is a bad film, but I challenge anyone to watch it. Who knows you may like it.

@75aces97 Жыл бұрын

I know critics pretty much universally panned it, but I actually kind of like Wiseguys. It’s not very good, even by 80s caper comedy standards, but it has moments.

@patrickc3419 2 жыл бұрын

I thought Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was great, but thought Twins was awful.

@davidthieroff9452 Жыл бұрын

I love Wiseguys. Watch it all the time. Always think of it when I'm in Atlantic City. Stepmother is godawful. Tequila Sunrise is bland. Twins is nice. Scoundrels has grown on me over the years.

@silm2165 10 ай бұрын

Arnie looks hilarious in the thumbnail

@Dim4323 6 ай бұрын

Some Spit votes

@danorthsidemang3834 3 жыл бұрын

"HhEyY...dICKhEdT"

@canuck_gamer3359 3 жыл бұрын

I think Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a good example of when Gene gets it wrong because he's losing sight of the purpose of recommending a film as opposed to not recommending it. Too often Gene is operating under the assumption that if he recommends a film that isn't "great" he's doing the public a disservice and that's just not so. It's hard for me to imagine anyone coming out of that movie thinking it was the greatest comedy they ever saw. But it's also hard to imagine anyone being angry that someone recommended it. There's a big difference between a really enthusiastic endorsement and a "yeah, it's okay." lol. Roger understood that perfectly.

@notsure1277 3 жыл бұрын

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Twins are two of the best comedies from the 1980s. But any film in which Dan Aykroyd was the biggest name was never good.

@Mr.Goodkat 3 жыл бұрын

Trading Places, it could be argued he and Eddie Murphy were equally the protagonist and it's a great film.

@suzycreamcheesez4371 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Goodkat Trading Places was great!!

@Mr.Goodkat 3 жыл бұрын

@@suzycreamcheesez4371 I know.

@zt1053 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Goodkat At the time he was bigger than Murphy

@patrickc3419 2 жыл бұрын

The Great Outdoors, Dragnet, & Spies Like Us were all good.

@notsure1277 3 жыл бұрын

Ebert was uncharacteristically wrong about Wiseguys. It had some funny scenes, but overall was a very bad film.

@zxbc1 3 жыл бұрын

You can't be wrong about giving opinions on art.

@notsure1277 3 жыл бұрын

@@zxbc1 Well, firstly, whether "Wiseguys" is "art" is highly questionable. Secondly, when "artists" and their economic allies want to sell as much product as possible, they always say the same thing "it is whatever you want it to be". Because if they admitted that the product can be clearly defined, then they would not be able to sell nearly as much product.

@TobeyStarburst 3 жыл бұрын

@@notsure1277 are you ok?

@commanderkeen3787 Жыл бұрын

Wiseguys was a bad film. De Palma can't do comedy. He can do action, suspense, thriller. But he can't do comedy. And for some reason he was never good at picking comedy scripts