I don't think I've ever seen Gene more surprised by Roger's reaction than when Roger called "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" a turkey and Gene stuck out his hand for Roger to shake. It really shows they didn't know what the other person was going to say. It's shows how quick witted each one had to be to discuss a film and try to either support or refute an argument in such limited time with no rehearsal. Miss them both.

I miss Siskel & Ebert. They were truly one of a kind

I'm hooked on these re-runs. They're helping me discover old classics.

Roger made a great point about how when you re-watch certain movies when you’re older you see different things and it makes you Realize you’re a different person than you used to be

I miss these guys. I don’t think they will ever be topped. Ebert taught me more appreciation of cinema. I wonder what they would think of today’s films, especially when I saw “Oppenheimer” & “Killers of the Flower Moon” & “Napoleon”. Rest in peace.

Yes watching these old S and E is addictive. They were so smart and articulate. Reminds me of when I was young and the world made sense.

That moment when Gene puts out his hand and Roger shakes it....that is just priceless. I tried to shut this video off 3 times but every time they talked about what was on the other side of the break I just had to hear it. God bless them both!

This was a great episode. I miss these guys.

Weren't these two the absolute best

I never missed an episode of these guys as a kid and now as a Generation X adult, I sure do miss them and those times. My generation was truly blessed to grow up in those times!

Watching these as an adult, I’ve noticed how great they were at television. These two didn’t waste a second, and I usually agree with them, but I don’t mind when I don’t. That’s why I loved this show even when I was a kid and hadn’t seen any of the movies they talked about. Now, I think I’ve seen them all, and it’s even better! May they rest.

I loved these two men. I'm forever grateful that I got to see their shows when they were current. Gave me an education on the appreciation and critique of the movies. Always classy and forever remembered.❤

Ya know I do disagree with both of them about Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid but the way Gene smiled & shook his hand when he found out Roger agreed with him put a big grin on my face too!

Man, watching these shows again after so many years really reminds me of how great Roger and Gene were, and also how much I've loved films over the years. I still love them just as much, the difference is the movies have changed for the worse. What sticks with me is when Gene talks about movie character being cookie cutter and similar to "made for TV" films and characters.

I miss these guys more than some family members, they had such an impact on my life as a kid. I remember waking up early on Sundays(that's when it came on in my area) just to catch the newest episode of S&E. I grew up like many who thought Gene was more stuck up and loved Roger, but it wasn't till I was grown that I truly see how awesome he was, how funny and quick witted. Gene would be high on movies that Roger didn't like and I also liked for his same reasons. While also laughing when they both got it wrong and praising when they got it right and couldn't wait to see the movie the hailed as one of the best of the years. They truly loved movies as much as me.

Gene name-dropping Song Of The South is the most fascinating thing for me. Would’ve loved to have seen Gene and Roger review THAT movie...

Omg Dumbo had a HUGE, profound effect on me growing up lol even when I was a little older I broke down crying watching that part of the movie! 😭

How I missed this wonderful episode in the original airing I don't know, thanks so much!

'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' is one of the greatest westerns ever made. Its screenplay was voted by WGA as the 11th greatest American screenplay of all time. It's crazy that both hated it, and so thoroughly too. It wasn't unusual for one of them to discount a masterpiece from time to time, but it was rare when both did.

Andy, thank you so much for sharing this; watching this felt like listening to the late Siskel and Ebert give a great college lecture.

Sigh. I miss Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert so much. They didn't merely tell me, as a teenager, where my limited dollars should go. They taught me how to think about movies individually and about Cinema as an art form. Like many TV programs that began on Public Television, they taught us critical thinking skills. Gene and Roger deserved much happier endings to their stories. I would love, love, Love to see a biopic of their lives, including some of their nastier arguments. It would take a Stanley Kubrick or an Orson Welles to properly integrate them into the story of the Cinema. Perhaps Guillermo Del Toro could do them justice, while reminding us why Cinema was so important in our lives.

Love you Gene Love you Roger but I also Loved Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

G-d, I loved these guys! They could surprise themselves and each other, even decades after seeing a given movie, and I find this delightful. Siskel & Ebert, beginning in the mid-70s on PBS, taught me how to think about cinema, rather than what to think about any particular film.

11:48 so very true on Ebert’s part, except now it’s even worse. Modern Hollywood isn’t concerned with paltry things like “narrative” or “chemistry” anymore like they were in the 90s. Now it’s all about the most marketable IPs, special effects, and whatever cheap gimmicks they can throw on screen.

I love S & E. I watched them every week. As for Dumbo....it is a classic for so many reasons. And if you aren't in tears with "Baby mine" scene you might consider checking with your doctor about your heart.

I watched their program in the 80s and 90s, but I never caught this one. Thanks for uploading it. And I shut off Blue Velvet because it made me uncomfortable.

The Turner comment is savage xD

I love the shot at Ted Turner 😂

For me as a kid I loved Batman (1989), the Star Wars Trilogy, The Wizard of Oz, Indiana Jones all the big Disney films, the Jungle Book, Robin Hood, , Aladdin, Peter Pan, Snow White, When I was about 11 though I watched Predator, The Blair Witch Project and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which blew me away with how good and how adult they were.

What a terrific episode!! It was so fascinating & literally exciting to see what film was up next & listen to the discussion of the cinema which impacted them most. I always find it enthralling to hear my favorite people talk about their favorite, and least favorite, movies. Unfortunately, I missed this particular episode first time ‘round. I was only nine when it aired.

These episodes they had to come up with when the studios weren’t releasing films were often the best. I remember one from the 80s when they focused on cliches. One was car chases. They were in every movie whether it made sense or not, they were always crashing into street vendors, and they illustrated their complaint by finding one movie where a NIGHT chase scene still crashed into a fruit stand. 😂

La Dolce Vita is enormously entertaining and interesting. I started on Fellini recently and I regret not doing that earlier. La Strada and Nights of Cabiria are my favourites so far, just amazing movies.

Tracking! Im old. Im loving these S & E episodes. These guys are great.

Last Tango -- What they didn't know was that Maria Schneider was indeed showing real emotion because she was sexually assaulted on screen. Brando and Bertolucci decided to have Brando do that to get a big emotional response. Schneider's niece has spoken and written about what Schneider went through and how it affected her over time. The tears and begging for Brando to stop was her genuine reaction to the assault. While this was particularly extreme, I've heard way too many stories about actors and directors doing things to women without their permission to provoke a response. Dustin Hoffman did that to Meryl Streep in Kramer vs Kramer when he smashed a glass against a wall, not warning her in advance. He got a reaction all right, scaring her and getting broken glass shards in her hair. Another is Brooke Shields having a director painfully twist her big toe without warning or permission to get her to look like she was having an orgasm in Endless Love. It's all so gross, with Maria Schneider's experience being absolutely horrifying.

I MISS THESE TWO!!! 😢😭

Great episode!

When I saw Bonnie and Clyde with my girlfriend in college, we were laughing at it. We got the DVD from the library. We stopped about 3/4 of the way through because it was getting too late. I was the only one who saw the last 20 minutes the following day, which turned the movie from a B movie into a masterpiece. I told her she should’ve watched the ending. Why didn’t she? Good question.

Siskel's written reviews were always more populist in nature -- the everyman point of view, whereas Ebert was a gifted essayist and a bit more intellectual... I love reading his "Great Movies" posts

What they don't seem to miss as experts, and they are experts, is that most of us aren't. We like what we like for a variety of reasons. Many times great acting and great directors and producers create great art, that everyday Joe's just can't appreciate it. Meanwhile, other more shallow entertainment hits us right in the heart. And that's what makes these shows fun. Both then and now.

Love this show

something wonderful about watching two intelligent grown men talking about their passion and what got them there. seeing them light up talking about these movies is special to be recorded

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid was a goofy adventure like Raiders of the Lost Ark more than a Western with something to say like The Searchers or Unforgiven. I think they viewed it too hard through a critic's lens, when it's basically a high budget cartoon. It's also an obvious comedy. Sometimes movies are just made to be fun.

My UNpopular opinion movie is (gasp!) "Back to the Future". I hate hate hate that movie. It reminds me of a made-for Sci-Fi channel movie with a little bit bigger budget. I know people that WORSHIP it !

This was such a great show and these guys were so terrific together. I learned so much about movies from them. (Although who would believe they didn't think much of Butch!!)Sad to think both of them are gone now. Won't see their like again.

"Arm around a girl" sheeeiiit Roger. Mista Big.

These guys were great. Well informed, intelligent and educated in the field they comment on, and always honest. But that was the old days. Now, with the internet, it is so much better. We have adults who play dress up and make 7 hour podcasts about how the latest Star Wars remake was or was not similar to the original. That’s progress.

Great video by two great film critics gone too soon. However, both Siskel and Ebert were so, so wrong about the greatness of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" -- my favorite movie as a little boy in the years before 1977's "Star Wars."

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I miss the days when we had REAL Film Critics like Siskel & Ebert. I didn’t always agree with them, but they knew and loved film more than any so-called Rotten Tomatoes meter or review! FYI - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid is one of my all time favorites, and even though neither of them liked it, that’s okay. Really sad that they are gone as are the days of new and original films.

"A Day at the Races" - also my first Marx Bros flick at age 8. I laughed for a week. I was from a large family, but my mother and I were the only movie fanatics. I used to take her to the big theaters downtown (now there are no such things.) We went to "The Egyptian" when I was 7. Still remember it. I came home from college 10+ years later and took her to "Those Magnificent men..." My mom loved the movies. My brother and I used to go to the creature feature every week at the Tower Theater. 40 cents for 4 bus tickets. 70 cents for two movie seats, 70 cents for 2 hots dogs and 2 orange sodas: Kiddie double feature in the morning, adult double feature in the afternoon. Leave at 9am, be home by 6pm. A great life for 10 year olds. College years, the film that drew me in mentally, emotionally, changed my attitude toward movies: Blow Up

I remember my first impression of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid being mixed. I like the chemistry between Redford and Newman and some of the goofiness, but the NYC montage really took me out of it. But the biggest issue for me was, what some people seem to love, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head. I get there's a value to creating incongruity in a period piece, but I just didn't care for it. Same for other films of that era like Kelly's Heroes, which used awkwardly contemporary music for a WWII setting. Funnily enough I think it worked much later on for Tarantino in Inglourious Basterds with the Bowie song. But that was very much integral to the character and situation.

I love Roger's point that there were no visionaries in Hollywood at that moment. Talk about a great time for Tarantino to come on the scene 3 years later.

I remember seeing the Marx Brothers in Go West on TV when I was 6 and the finale on the train blew my mind.

Interesting Ebert didn't have a problem with Last Tango In Paris but criticized Blue Velvet for (among other things) feeling that Rossellini was probably forced to do things in it that she didn't really want to do.

The first movie I remember seeing is not only the first movie I saw in a theater, but the first movie that made a big impression on me. It was Fantasia during it’s rerelease in October 1990. It sparked in me a fascination with orchestral music and big spectacles. The dinosaurs were great of course, but the part that I particularly remember was the Night on Bald Mountain sequence which was a whirlwind of scary imagery that warped my 4 year old mind.

La Dolce Vida, the moment Ebert turned into a horndog.

That Ted Turner burn! Wow!

thanks for fixing the tracking :)

If they did this show about 8 years later, the negative review that was least popular would have been the Usual Suspects.

What a heartwarming ending.

"So many movies today are bland and safe!" Ohhhhh buddy. Wait til you see Bad Lieutenant.

Critics look at movies differently than the average movie goer, they look for the complex messages and symbolism, most people just want to escape the world for a just a while.

"..Ted Turner owns MGM now. If he had the Monolith, he'd probably colorize it pink and use it as a desk.." Colorize...hahaaa!

I loved Butch Cassidy and Sundance the first time or two I saw it. But I noticed that I couldn't watch it anymore after that. A few minutes in and I find myself switching to something else.

Fascinated by the Butch Cassidy discourse between these two, and here in the comments. I saw it as a teenager (in the 90s) and hated every minute (i can remember) of it. Maybe it was dated by then? Maybe movies like Josey Wales or the wild bunch are more my speed? After seeing their review, I really can't think of a reason to give it another shot.

Having recently watched No Country for old Men, i really enjoyed it. Ebert liked it. I think Gene would have liked it too, even though Gene seems more "anti - violence"

I guess I shouldn’t feel bad for never seeing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I never did because I know how it ends

Ebert states that 20th century Fox heads walked out of the "Butch Cassidy" screening in silence muttering they didn't understand how this film would make money lol seems the public then felt differently...my take is that a light-hearted, serio-comic Western with the music and lens of its era just went over their heads! It was unlike any Western made then or since

It's nice to know that the movie that had the biggest impact on me was the same as Gene's: 2001.

I remember watching this episode when it first aired.

They both took Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid way too seriously. I never failed to see a movie they both liked. However, I loved Butch Cassidy.

Just amazing. I miss those guys

I love how they didn't pull their punches on a classic at the end there. I just wish they had more time with each of these brief essays and analyses. There's so much to say about these interesting moments and movies. It was just the hurried format of the show that had to hurdle them along through so many quick stops, I suppose. Most movies don't require that long to make good points. But I'd have loved to have heard more from them on Butch Cassidy and La Dolce Vita, for instance.

These guys were complaining how much films had devolved by 1989. 2022 could not hope to match 1989 films.

Am I the only one who sees the irony of junk food, a microwave, tums, and hair-loss-prevention products being what's advertised following a Siskel and Ebert episode?

That jab at Twd Turner😂

The destruction of props and models from 2001 was deliberate. Private ownership of 2001 models would have been awful for the producers. The goal was to create mystery.

I don’t care for Butch Cassidy either for the same reasons as Gene.

Neither Siskel or Ebert liked BUTCH CASSIDY? And I'm just finding this out now? Why the hell did I watch these guys every week for 20 years? Say it ain't so.

I miss the guys, but their bashing of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Way off, fellas. One of the most quotable movies ever - (plus).

First of all, I love movies, and everything about them. I also respect other peoples opinions and tastes, but for the life of me, I could never understand the appeal of Butch Cassidy. It's just one of those movies that I never warmed up to. It looks like I'm in good company.

I disagree with them on Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid but I still enjoy hearing their opinion. Maybe that's what makes a good or great critic.

Blue Velvet is an amazing film. I'm sorry, but Ebert totally dropped the ball on that review.

Great episode......and, as usual, I'm yelling at both of these guys: "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" is great!

If someone is from Chicago during the rise of Siskel and Ebert at their respective papers, how were they viewed by their reading audience prior to becoming or on their way to becoming famous?

RIP both of them…but they were sooooo wrong about “Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid”

Gene's parents died within the same year and he was raised by his aunt and uncle. Interesting he did not mention this.

Podcast before podcasts.

I always thought Butch Cassidy was an overrated movie, not bad just overrated. The Sting is the Newman Redford collab to go see.

I really like the posse chase section of "Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid," which lasts around 20-25 minutes, from the moment the posse leaves the train to the moment Butch and Kid jump off the cliff into the river. That's some great adventure. Without that section, however, I find the film not so entertaining.

The ape scenes in 2001 make me feel embarrassed I’m their ancestor.

imdb评分8.6绝对的经典节目

Dumbo? Wow. Surprised Ebert didn't balk at the Black caricatures with the Crows.

Raisinets: Use as directed.

Gene was always way better than Roger. I used to love watching them growing up. Thanks for the video!

IMDB says the original air date of this is 11/12/1988. I'm going to guess it was rerun in 1989 too.

I don't think Roger had a funny bone but I do like watching Siskel and Ebert.

Superman the Movie(1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer(1979) were the first movies I saw on our TV set in 1982. Li Ching's Sexy Playgirls(1974) was a lousy movie I saw on VCD. It was rock-hard fecal matter from the 1970's! The Creeping Terror(1964) went so WRONG!

Use that tracking button! Lol. Vhs/Vrc tech as legit as it gets!

Neither liked Butch and Sundance?!? REALLY?!? It was one of the pictures in my college film lecture class. Every joke hit and was appreciated where it was supposed to be, the action was good, the drama was not spectacular, but serviceable, and we liked the two main characters.