Siskel & Ebert Classics - 9/24/93 - The Good Son, A Bronx Tale, Dazed & Confused

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Another solid September '93 show with the kind of diverse "Fall Movie Fare" we don't see anymore: Mac Culkin's "change of pace" thriller THE GOOD SON, THE PROGRAM, A BRONX TALE, BOPHA and DAZED AND CONFUSED. Another "college years" show for me, taped with ads off WBNG Binghamton NY.

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@jonathanaldecoa1099 2 жыл бұрын

I really miss Roger and Gene. They were so intelligent and had a lot to say about movies

@hodun8 Жыл бұрын

You on a first name basis?

@jonathanaldecoa1099 Жыл бұрын

@@hodun8 indeed good sir🕺😎

@reneedennis2011 Ай бұрын

Same here.

@tonymontana4284 4 ай бұрын

The Good Son was entertaining and the ending was surprising.

@jasoncinema 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was twelve when it came out, had the novelization, and thought it was a nice change of pace, acting-wise, seeing him play such an evil character, after years of playing the traditional “precocious” kid.

@hawks7775 3 ай бұрын

Yes ,and it's a true thriller from the standpoint of what we assume should be pure innocent....and the evolution of a true bully to a potential serial killer...it's definitely a hard subject matter but psychotic killers were kids once too

@frankieboy8414 8 ай бұрын

"Macauley Cawkin" lmao

@danglesnipecelly13 Жыл бұрын

Dazed and confused is legendary! One of my favorite movies ever. I finally got around to watching it years ago. My dad was in high school in that era. He’s loves that movie. It’s my comfort movie. I could watch it over and over.

@johnnyquest140 5 ай бұрын

I was in Junior High and that is the way it was with the long hair. Today it all stupid music and hate.

@VidMaster6000 6 ай бұрын

A Bronx Tale is a wonderful film

@nivbri 7 ай бұрын

I loved the ending to The good son!!

@owen769 Жыл бұрын

Even though I disagree with them, I still love hearing these opinions. I love this movie because of the psychological aspect and the struggle of dealing with a son who has no sense of empathy or moral contionce. This is a real thing that children can experience for many different reasons and I think Macaulay represents it quite well.

@brgreg8725 2 жыл бұрын

Dazed and Confused is the closest to high school as any film I’ve ever seem

@tracieday8661 Жыл бұрын

It really is. It was very close to my days in high school. Damn I miss them!

@AdamTondowsky 3 ай бұрын

@@tracieday8661 Check out a documentary from 1968 called High School.

@nickperkins8477 11 ай бұрын

I appreciate the acting by Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son. It’s a movie that can always give me the creeps. It’s kind of a gender-flipped twist on the 1956 movie The Bad Seed.

@sm5574 8 ай бұрын

"This is a great year for films!" Fast forward 30 years . . . 😞

@tonymontana4284 4 ай бұрын

No one movie worth watching.

@michaelbozas Ай бұрын

@tonymontana4284 You guys must be delusional if you think that nothing good comes out nowadays. You just have to look a tad bit deeper than the surface level Hollywood blockbuster.

@sm5574 Ай бұрын

@@michaelbozas, first, I never said there weren't any good movies at all these days. Second, they were specifically saying that _because_ the mainstream films were so good that people didn't have to go to the art house theaters to find something worth seeing.

@user-sh3wi7mv2d Ай бұрын

'good son' proved that culkin was an all around actor

@MafiaKingfishNOLA 22 күн бұрын

No, it didn't. The movie just sucked.

@user-sh3wi7mv2d 22 күн бұрын

@MafiaKingfishNOLA the script was different. I do not love the story, but it was not a repetitious plot. Culkin was credible and certainly the role was different from Kevin McAlister. Not many 13 year old actors could portray that.

@crystalshaw8744 11 ай бұрын

You learn so much from them. I had no idea that Robert Deniro wrote the script AND directed this excellent movie. Should have known....smile

@BookClubDisaster 11 ай бұрын

Chaz Palmentieri wrote it.

@TheAnthonyMarlowe 7 күн бұрын

He’s a sicko like you

@jtown1022 29 күн бұрын

The biggest problem I have with Football Movies is that they never focus on the Game, how it's played, the strategy involved, how defensive schemes and offensive formations work against each other . It's always about the drama around the people playing the game, rather than the game itself. I want to see a football movie where the drama focuses on that aspect, rather than locker room drama.

@ericbambergerphilly 2 жыл бұрын

Miss these guys

@TalibanHatesme13 Жыл бұрын

Damn i hadnt seen that ziplock commercial since forever lol

@briantom2051 Жыл бұрын

Agree commercials are a trip down memory lane

@nicklengyel356 8 ай бұрын

A Bronx tale was a great film

@dltguitar6532 7 ай бұрын

not great it has a few good scenes and a lot of BS in it too

@MafiaKingfishNOLA 22 күн бұрын

Bronx Tale was a good movie. Not your typical mob movie.

@rillihi697 7 ай бұрын

The good son was bad ass man. Being a kid and having mac as a villain, hell yea

@thenewctc 10 ай бұрын

Ugh I loved the good son, some of you'll take movies way to seriously ⭐⭐⭐⭐📼💯

@hawks7775 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely....my perspective is that all psychotic killers were kids once....and the fact that initially parents can be blind to their own kids illness and the perfect hypothetical ending if you had to choose between your own young child or a innocent child could you make such a painful choice.....even the choice or that scenario is true horror for a loving parent

@thenewctc 3 ай бұрын

@@hawks7775 💯💯💯💯💯

@redrumikuh3911 9 ай бұрын

I want those lok n logs homes

@matthewlawrence708 8 ай бұрын

Dazed and Confused is a masterpiece. The Good son was also good. I think they dropped the ball on it. Very good horror movie.

@GABETHEFILMBOY 10 ай бұрын

90s look so fun

@nickperkins8477 11 ай бұрын

Thirty years ago.

@futuremovieactor Жыл бұрын

Strange how they hated The Good Son so thoroughly and yet it DIDN'T actually make either one's worst list. Haha.

@martykeaton182 Жыл бұрын

It may've slipped their minds.

@spencer10182 Ай бұрын

I think they wanted to have some sympathy for child actors and the they mostly panned just about everything that Culkin and Wood were in at the time though they did like My Girl with Culkin and enjoyed Wood in The Adventures of Huck Finn. But they were less than kind to a lot of the kids other movies at the time and probably just didn’t want to overdo it on the panning. They didn’t want to pan the kids performances just the movies they were in. For instance at the end of this clip Siskel and Ebert both say Wood and Culkin were good actors and later in his review for North Ebert said I think Elijah Wood is a fine young actor even though he trashed the film. I think they were protective of the kids as actors because they were kids and didn’t want to hurt their self esteem. So putting this on their worst list would have only made that more painful for Culkin and Wood.

@futuremovieactor Ай бұрын

@@spencer10182 I think criticizing the movie itself is fine, just don't judge the child actors too harshly while doing so certainly.

@spencer10182 Ай бұрын

@@futuremovieactorI think Gene and Roger did very well doing that. They still praised Culkin and Wood as actors despite not liking a majority of their films.

@alexanderdickens2517 Жыл бұрын

Siskel is so often concerned with whether or not a movie is en vogue, "on the cutting edge," etc. He's a great critic but these things that are immaterial to a movie's quality are what held him behind Roger, just a little more snobby.

@RebeccaStropoli Жыл бұрын

Siskel is taking the paddling scenes in Dazed and Confused WAY too seriously here. No, I didn't get the idea that these kids' lives were "sad" because of some ritual hazings that went on for freshmen, lol. He was showing his stodginess here.

@michaelloparco2173 5 ай бұрын

Poor Mr. Highway…thinking about the end.

@Robotron2084psn 3 күн бұрын

Siskel saw Rudy!

@bijibadness Жыл бұрын

what's most insane about _The Good Son_ is how hard it goes on the "Crazy Kid" thing. it takes the "playing against type sadistic kid" shtick far, then too far, then ridiculous, then right into outer space. subtlety is not this movie's strong suit. the bad kid actually does try and murder his own mom, who is actually, factually tossed off a cliff, climbs up and is then reduced to a no-shit 1:1 good kid / bad kid moral dilemma where she can either save her good nephew and doom her evil son or save the evil son and doom the good nephew. the story doesn't end in some psychiatric facility or juvenile detention unit, it ends on an actual cliffside with people dangling from it. no shiny dime prize for guessing which kid she chooses, either. that's right -- she lets her dear, sweet nephew fall horribly to his death, saves the evil son who then pitches her right off afterwards. both bodies are shown in excruciating detail and extreme gore. McCaulley then winks at the camera and breaks the fourth wall by saying "Guess she chose wrong. Dad's gonna reduce my allowance! for I am the BAD son!" and the film cuts to black as _Sympathy for the Devil_ blares on the soundtrack and a title card comes up with "This film is lovingly dedicated to child welfare officers everywhere." yeah, I think I remembered everything from the ending, anyway. it was a while ago. might have been the seldom-discussed Director's Cut, I'm not sure if all that made it to the theatrical version. not Mr. Culkin's finest work, in my opinion. it pales heartily to _Getting Even with Dad,_ and probably most of _Ri¢hie Ri¢h._

@crystalshaw8744 11 ай бұрын

What about The Bad Seed ?

@spencerhensley5495 3 ай бұрын

I liked The Good Son mostly because it’s so weird and unsettling. If it’s not an effective thriller on the whole I still had a lot of fun watching it. Elijah Wood had the better acting role in it but Macaulay still did give it his best. And I know it seems obvious and cliche that Ebert says the movie is rated R and kids couldn’t see it but I see why he made the point. If the movie weren’t about a kid doing horrible acts this movie would have easily been PG-13. In reality as far as content goes this movie is an easy PG-13 but it got an R so kids wouldn’t see The Home Alone kid as a psychopath. But if this were a thriller with adults this would have been PG-13 tops.

@user-sh3wi7mv2d 22 күн бұрын

@@spencerhensley5495 you liked Elijah better than Culkin, there?

@tanujthakur3930 10 ай бұрын

They used to tell the whole plot in their reviews?

@josephlosinno2456 Жыл бұрын

The first time I watched Dazed and Confused I also thought it seemed pretty mean.

@thekingofmovies193 10 ай бұрын

I did too. Although, I was 16 back when I first saw it, and the movie was my first insight into what teenagers had to go through in the 1970s. But today, I think that it's nothing short of one of the best teen movies of all time.

@hothotmeat 2 жыл бұрын

7:24 rudy?

@BongicusMaximus 6 ай бұрын

Lol!

@gorrow1990 2 жыл бұрын

I hated The Good Son too. The movie required too much suspension of disbelief to work as entertainment and the mom was absolutely clueless for far too long. Plus it felt like the movie only existed bc someone had the idea to make the “Home Alone” kid evil.

@thekingofmovies193 2 жыл бұрын

Which is definitely not what we wanted. (I think anyways). If I we're gonna try to make Macaulay Culkin a villain back in 1993, when he was still technically a child at 13, I would give him like a bully type role, so that way he is a "necessary evil". I definitely would not have given him a role like this, especially considering how big Macaulay Culkin was back then for mainly playing in movies made for the family, this role in The Good Son should've required an actor who was familiar with dark roles like Christopher Walken. I Hate The Good Son as well, yes Macaulay Culkin does play a convincing villain, but he's way too young for that kinda role.

@user-sh3wi7mv2d 22 күн бұрын

@gorrow1990 Culkin's dad wanted to prove that Macaulay was a complete actor. That was a good way of proving his point, I guess

@user-sh3wi7mv2d 22 күн бұрын

@@thekingofmovies193 but Culkin's dad wanted to prove that his son was a complete actor. Nobody thinks the script is beautiful. Not even the writer.

@thekingofmovies193 22 күн бұрын

@user-sh3wi7mv2d there you go. Macaulay did as well as he could, it was the screenplay that was to blame.

@user-sh3wi7mv2d 22 күн бұрын

@thekingofmovies193 it was a weird ugly script but Kidd Culkin wanted to prove that Macaulay was credible portraying the psycho nightmare

@trevordunn3728 3 ай бұрын

What was that Oprah commercial?!

@drumtum 10 ай бұрын

The good son pretty much killed Culkin´s career as a young actor. Bad move by his agent. It wasn´t a flop but it was a really depressing movie for most people. They blew it. No Shirley Temple there. You have to understand your market.

@jlobiafra 7 ай бұрын

I liked Party monster, I thought he was good in that movie

@nivbri 7 ай бұрын

Do you believe all 3 of his 1994 flops are from distaste from this

@user-sh3wi7mv2d 22 күн бұрын

@@drumtum He was trying to do something very different from Uncle Buck and Home Alone

@terrygyimah1956 2 жыл бұрын

My reviews The Good Son (2 stars) The Program (3 stars) A Bronx Tale (4 stars) Bopha (2.5 stars) Dazed and Confused (4 stars)

@JustinChristopher-ov7gw 11 ай бұрын

Yes Ebert - that's what the R rated means - it means kids shouldn't see it.

@thekingofmovies193 10 ай бұрын

The reason he said it was because in spite of a lot of movies being given the R rating back then, kids still managed to go see them, and parents still took them to see them despite the rating. But I think that with a movie like The Good Son, which starred a children's icon back then, it should be especially noted, and on television that no child (at least no one under 14 or 15) should watch this movie.

@user-sh3wi7mv2d 22 күн бұрын

@@JustinChristopher-ov7gw I saw this film back then, all alone when I was 10. I admired Culkin's work. Super credible

@ricardocantoral7672 2 жыл бұрын

The Good Son isn't shocking, it's just in bad taste and the drama is laughable.

@MafiaKingfishNOLA 22 күн бұрын

The Good Son was trash just like every Macauley Culkin movie.

@sleuthentertainment5872 Ай бұрын

"An irresponsability by everyone connected to the project". Although mr. Ebert was a modern film critic he couln't get rid of his american conservative way of thinking. The Good Son has the style of a 70s thriller; he obviously didn't know about "What the Peeper Saw"

@martykeaton182 Жыл бұрын

4:36 - :48 is worth comparing to 4:37 - :50 on Siskel & Ebert (1989) - Casualties of War, The Abyss, Uncle Buck, A Chorus of Disapproval

@martykeaton182 Жыл бұрын

Plus, My Girl is not as suitable as Home Alone for kids.

@nickperkins8477 11 ай бұрын

The Good Son is actually a Disney movie.

@jonathanaldecoa1099 2 жыл бұрын

As tasteless as the Goodson is Roger and Gene thought it’s actually not nearly as bad as they reviewed.

@JohnAntonucciNooch Жыл бұрын

I know they're almost 30 years old....but f*ck commercials FOREVER AND ALWAYS.

@thekingofmovies193 Жыл бұрын

At least the commercials back then were much more entertaining than what we got today. You know why? Because, Today they're more concerned with entertaining the viewers than actually selling stuff.

@nongthip 2 жыл бұрын

The "Meet Mr. Highway" segment from "The Good Son" was... horrible, and at the same time funny (cos it's just a movie, right?) and borderline realistic. Some of my little-turd friends way back decades ago used to drop stuff off a cliff overlooking a road on passing cars. Usually just mud balls or raw eggs, but imagine dropping a human-sized effigy? That's just fucked-up, but still somehow hilarious.

@zxbc1 2 жыл бұрын

It's not hilarious it's just dumb and in poor taste. It's like one of those stupid viral challenges today like ingesting dangerous chemicals or pranking innocent bystanders in the most spectacularly cruel and condescending ways. They're sad and depressing display of depravity and are only really entertaining or amusing to stupid or sadistic people.

@johnbowman1076 Жыл бұрын

I think it goes on more than we even care to think about. Drunk teenagers, highway overpasses, and big rocks.... lethal combination makes for serious jail time and ruined lives.

@Azwel Жыл бұрын

lol, does ebert get in any trouble for revealing most of the plot to the good son. I know he didnt like the movie but still.

@thekingofmovies193 10 ай бұрын

Him revealing the plot is just a symbol showing us that he really hated the movie.

@brianmccormick3837 10 ай бұрын

The Good Son, meh. I hated it. Disturbed first time I saw an image of Macaulay’s character Henry on Villains Wiki.👎👎

@fromthehaven94 2 жыл бұрын

FACT: there would be no Home Alone 2 if Mac wasn't in The Good Son as Henry, to answer Roger's question

@Jbaxter85 Жыл бұрын

The Good Son 👎🌟 A Bronx Tale👍🌟🌟🌟 The Program 👍🌟🌟🌟 Bopha 👎🌟🌟 Daze & Confused 👍🌟🌟🌟

@user-sh3wi7mv2d 22 күн бұрын

@@Jbaxter85 Bronx Tale is garbage, compared to GOODFELLAS

@themetapod 2 ай бұрын

L take that he macaulay culkin shouldn't have been in that movie. nothing wrong with trying to avoid typecasting early. being disturbed by just a kid in a film because he's like this is so lame. it's rated R. like holy crap. who cares.

@ronaldh8446 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, we had American Graffiti reflecting the 50's, Dazed and Confused reflecting the 70's. Make a movie today about 20 years ago... there's no difference in much of today as then. Cars, clothing fashion, music... it's basically all the same. Not good.

@NinjaKurosai 2 жыл бұрын

You seriously don't see a difference in the cars, fashion and music between 2002 and today?

@greyeyed123 2 жыл бұрын

@@NinjaKurosai Old people don't pay attention to much, and after a couple of decades it all blurs together for us, then we mistakenly think nothing has changed and it was all bad anyway. My grandparents saw no basic difference among the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. My great grandparents just watched (reruns of) westerns from the '50s throughout the '80s, and had no interest in any popular movies, music, etc. My great grandfather thought I loved The Lone Ranger (in the 1980s) because my dad and all his friends loved it 30 years before that (in the 1950s). I had no idea how to explain to him that westerns were not popular with children...or, really, with anyone under 70, in the 1980s, lol. That all being said, the last two decades didn't have much of a distinctive feel to me, and never really even got names. Some people say "the 2000's", others say "the aughts", for 2000-2009, but neither name really caught on as a cultural marker as an actual time period the way the previous 8 decades had clear cultural markers. 2010-2019 are occasionally called "the teens", but otherwise they get no name either. At least the '20s will have a name, but the decade didn't start out very well, so who the hell knows if people will care to even start CALLING it the '20s. So far I don't see it catching on. But I'm old, so...

@macgarnagal 2 жыл бұрын

“A little bit of the black love story” 6:28 Gene was the man

@JoeyArmstrong2800 10 ай бұрын

I find "A Bronx Tale" kind of predictable and mediocre. You know exactly where it's going right from the start.

@vincentleeadams Жыл бұрын

You notice how Siskel and Ebert are becoming less in touch with current movie making trends and audience tastes. They have become curmudgeonly and out of touch. I thought the movie The Good Son was a good watch.

@kdohertygizbur Жыл бұрын

Simply because they gave thumbs down to a bad movie you liked...Ok

@chadstewart5610 Жыл бұрын

I disagree. They stayed pretty consistent through the decades in their tastes, with occasional surprises from each of them. They both gave high marks to "Titanic," "Babe," "Apollo 13," "Saving Private Ryan." Siskel surprisingly liked the first three Batman movies, including "Batman Forever." Ebert called "Minority Report" the best movie of 2002. Siskel loved "Brain Candy" by Kids in the Hall. They both liked "Dazed and Confused," a great movie about teenagers in the 1970s.

@BookClubDisaster 11 ай бұрын

If that were true they wouldn't have given thumbs up to Dazed and Confused.

@johnkrull7323 Ай бұрын

Ebert was a terrible reviewer.

@bijibadness Жыл бұрын

you know, I bet the marketing manager who came up with _Chips-Ahoy: The Only Cookie With !* [*"Wow"!]_ made over 200,000 dollars that year. and I just think that's a little strange.