"I go to a thriller to be thrilled, not to have all my sensibilities respected." --RIP Roger Ebert
@chamboyette853 Жыл бұрын
That is all the more applicable today.
@AmericasComic6 жыл бұрын
"20 years and I'd still be here sitting across from you? Amazing." :*(
@sha112356 жыл бұрын
Sadly, the only part that was true was he was still with us.
@futuremovieactor5 жыл бұрын
I miss them so much.
@danielstack41582 жыл бұрын
@@futuremovieactor I do too, but thanks so much to war guild and others for uploading all these classic reviews.
@michaelj.r4575 жыл бұрын
12:08 : Give Gene credit for recognizing Julianne Moore's talent that early.
@cuivre20043 жыл бұрын
Yes....but I was still glad to see her get it! LOL!
@lerm28662 жыл бұрын
Death by greenhouse
@robbone42 жыл бұрын
I truthfully forgot she was on it. It's been years since I've watched it.
@Shorty_Lickens2 жыл бұрын
he also recognized a lot of others, like Quentin Tarantino.
@matthewschwartz6607 Жыл бұрын
This was probably her only movie where she WASN’T naked!
@likeherod27x94 жыл бұрын
"why don't they make a futuristic movie where everything is good?" Oh Gene...poor poor Gene...you have no idea how bad it'll get
@jimmym33523 жыл бұрын
Things are better today than they ever have been. Yeah real bad. LOL. And despite the gripes about inequality we are basically giving out indefinite unemployment benefits right now, preventing people from being evicted, etc.
@ForceMaximus845 ай бұрын
The whole point of these movies is to see the problems and encourage society to fix them now before they get worse. Unfortunately, fixing those problems typically leads to more problems.
@guitarofdestiny4 жыл бұрын
Juice was and still is a great movie
@daveruda8 жыл бұрын
"I have a problem with Children in danger" Well that rules out any bedtime story in history.
@suzycreamcheesez43717 жыл бұрын
nope. They lived happily ever after.
@tc988263 жыл бұрын
Its such a dumb criticism
@jimmym33523 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing he didn't like Cape Fear remake then.
@cuivre20043 жыл бұрын
Part of the start of the pussification of America. Kids had a tough life throughout history- that is a fact that hiding your head in the sand will not change.
@randywhite394728 күн бұрын
@@jimmym3352he gave it a 3 out of 4
@PatrickTK217 жыл бұрын
The shittiness of "Freejack" brought Siskel and Ebert together in an unprecedented amount of agreement.
@avisco013 жыл бұрын
Check out their review of She’s Out of Control and North 👍
@alitlweird4 жыл бұрын
Free Jack got so many things right about what 2009 would look like... from the cars we’d be driving and the clothes we’d be wearing to the uncleverly written one-liners! 🤯
@horrorfan4life9897 жыл бұрын
juice and hand that rocks the cradle are great
@Xayjohns7 жыл бұрын
Tim Treakle Juice is underrated
@Kruppt8084 жыл бұрын
Juice is an all time great urban coming of age movie
@ricardocantoral767210 ай бұрын
Both are decent entertainments.
@heathernks83 жыл бұрын
I knew/hoped Moore would be famous after watching her as Marlene, as well. Fast forward to 1998 and she blew up in "Boogie Nights", thankfully!! :)
@terrywright82894 жыл бұрын
The Hand who rocks the Cradle was so originated it just can't be touched.
@ftl064 жыл бұрын
😂
@lorddrayvon14264 жыл бұрын
I think the major strength Siskel and Ebert had was simple yet effective. Many people say "it is easier to say what is wrong with a machine rather than what makes it work" or in other words "it's easier to insult someone than compliment a thing." Siskel and Ebert had the strength of doing both and at the same time putting a new spin on things so thier reviews didn't become stale and repetitive due to being the same things regurgitated. They embody the phrase "it's okay to be critical of the things you like."
@geoffkelly2624 жыл бұрын
"Why don't they go into a futuristic exercise where the future is better." It's called star trek the next generation.
@openskies113 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking.
@DavianSinner3 жыл бұрын
Yep. Gene likes the Star Trek pictures too. I'm surprised it didn't occur to him.
@MC-bh8ph3 жыл бұрын
Demolition man. Be careful what you ask for
@markelijio60122 жыл бұрын
@@MC-bh8ph It only took two years later.
@rmjmoviereviews68767 жыл бұрын
I literally saw Freejack one time when it first hit video and never saw it again. Hand that Rocks I saw in theaters and watching it now as an adult, its pretty distasteful but still sleazy fun! Juice is a classic! Great early 90's music, an intense performance by tupac shakur, and a bleak ending!
@lerm28662 жыл бұрын
Rewatched Juice the other night….the movie doesn’t stop for a second!!! and I forgot how much humor was in it. That film introduced me to Eric B and Rakim
@gridlo5 жыл бұрын
Siskel's defense of JFK is pretty epic.
@djtforever14144 жыл бұрын
I saw Freejack at the cinema back in '92. I knew S & E wouldn't like it when I started playing this video.
@geraldparks16215 жыл бұрын
I miss these critics.
@mikebryant31102 жыл бұрын
Rebecca deserved an Oscar nod for this
@reneperez79036 жыл бұрын
I was surprised Siskel gave Juice a thumbs down it was a great movie also the greatest 2pac film made
@Pingaheimer5 жыл бұрын
yeah cause 2 poc was in a lot of good movies lmao
@Swoll826 Жыл бұрын
Gang Related with Jim Belushi us a good thriller
@reneperez7903 Жыл бұрын
@@Swoll826 that was a good picture, the only Pac movie that wasn’t that great was Bullet that was a straight to DVD film.
@robertbeckerbecker13547 жыл бұрын
I came here for Juice
@markelijio60122 жыл бұрын
"Juice" is an excellent film with an rousing cast. Released in 1992 by Paramount and Universal.
@parapoliticos529 ай бұрын
remember how good was it to read those giant Sunday editions? it was a book thick
@The3rdGunman5 жыл бұрын
Really miss these guys!
@felicity47115 жыл бұрын
This movie, plus “Back to the Future Part II,” establish that when you time-travel, and then go back to your house, it will be inhabited by black people who are confused and/or annoyed that you tried to break in
@hamupinhere4 жыл бұрын
Haha I know right. In all seriousness, it's definitely supposed to be a commentary on "white flight". At least that's how I always interpreted it.
@jedijones4 ай бұрын
It's odd that it happened twice.
@PaulSmith-qs1es4 жыл бұрын
When I was a child and saw this on TV, I particularly liked how the children were handled in it. I could really identify with them and I liked that it was up to them to save the mother in the end. That the children were so capable and clever is what made feel like i could handle such a situation if I had a bad babysitter. In most films with children they are incapable of anything are just put in peril and are completely reliant upon the adults, but here that was not the case, and that made it more empowering to me watching it as a child. And it was much better on that note than a lot of films meant for children. So I think Gene is off base again in this one.
@Urlocallordandsavior2 жыл бұрын
Gonna have to disagree just by the premise of the film. Hand that Rocks the Cradle is only one genre label away from being a sadomasochist film.
@DragonSpikeXIII6 жыл бұрын
3:50 And we all got just that with Demolition Man the very next year
@Angyali5 жыл бұрын
"The waking up would be interesting for you." You have no idea how much, Gene. :(
@Xayjohns7 жыл бұрын
How does someone have manners before robbing people, lol? "Pardon me, I'm 'bout to rob this place."
@yaywhewclips2425 жыл бұрын
Gotta give it to THTRTC, it has an excellent villian in Rebecca D. and a good death scene, WHAM!! impaled by a white picket fence!
@lawnmowerman77 жыл бұрын
that's jonathon banks from breaking bad in free jack
@herniebadlautner.73407 жыл бұрын
Juice the hand that rocks the cradle.
@jedijones4 ай бұрын
Rebecca can rock me for juice any time.
@danielwilliamson6180 Жыл бұрын
Freejack is a classic.
@rasalghul93313 жыл бұрын
Rebecca DeMornay was so beautiful
@funnyguy75749 жыл бұрын
Freejack looks crazy!
@jedijones7 жыл бұрын
Looks like one of the few Back to the Future rip-offs.
@gc3k6 жыл бұрын
It's nonsense that only cyberpunk fans would really like
@teejaye62263 жыл бұрын
12:50....I knew Siskel would rant about the f'ing freaking kids. Like there's never been a kid in jeopardy...I'm glad Ebert called him out on it
@futuremovieactor5 жыл бұрын
I'm so bummed the website is down now.
@funnyguy75749 жыл бұрын
Costner spoke the hard truth here
@PatrickTK217 жыл бұрын
Right? I'm not used to Hollywood actors responding reasonably to political questions. These were different times, I suppose.
@sha112356 жыл бұрын
Roger's line about still being here after twenty years was partially true. He just wasn't across from Gene, nor on TV anymore.
@borednow58389 жыл бұрын
Had heard that Freejack was bad, and boy does it look awful! Such a shame that De Morney hasn't gone on to be in more films I think she's really good.
@patrickmichaellangan5768 жыл бұрын
Yep. I think Freejack would've made a better video for the Scorpions 1990 song "Hit Between The Eyes" (which plays during the end credits of Freejack by the way) than the overblown mess of a movie it is.
@hamupinhere4 жыл бұрын
'Freejack' is one of those movies that's worth watching just because of how bad it is.
@jedijones7 жыл бұрын
Rebecca DeHornay...the hand that rocks the cradle is gonna be rockin' something else!
@aaronjohnson46815 жыл бұрын
hand that rocks the cradle is a fun suspense film that goes quite well with the film,decieved with goldie hawn both films have different points of view in terms of suspense plot
@uyeda9 жыл бұрын
Freejack and The Hand that Rocks the Cradle were seen again. When Siskel and Ebert did a special episode called Hollywood's Fear of Love in 1993.
@sha112359 жыл бұрын
***** Yeah, because they fit into the theme of the show. What's wrong with that?
@eriqqusbrowun10845 жыл бұрын
Honorable mentions: End Game, Shadowzone, Star Crystal, Solaris, Deep Space, Warlords Of Atlantis.
@sufifan62gestalt304 жыл бұрын
Siskel was very much chagrined by dystopian fiction.
@chiconube16936 жыл бұрын
Twenty O’nine
@007beck96 жыл бұрын
I've just read I had no idea that the Hand That Rocks the Cradle is a Disney movie
@arikkatzenberg44983 жыл бұрын
Hollywood Pictures, a division of the Walt Disney Company, which also owned Touchstone, Walt Disney Productions, Miramax, and Division Films. Every weekend Disney had at least one new film in theatres
@fromthehaven9426 күн бұрын
@@arikkatzenberg4498Sometime after 2008-10, Disney basically operated under the philosophy of "go big or go home". Thanks to Marvel, Star Wars, lots of animation, and lots of Pirates.
@schmeltingaccident5 жыл бұрын
Close your eyes when Emilio Estavez talks and he sounds exactly like Ralph Machio.
@eriqqusbrowun10845 жыл бұрын
Top best sci-fi movies of the 1990s ever made should be: Free-jack, The Intruders, Terminator 2 Judgment Day, Total Recall, Contact, Dark Forces, & The X-Files Fight The Future.
@kevinmcdonald64774 жыл бұрын
T2 is incredibly superior to any of the other films that you mentioned. Freejack by far the worst although Mick should have won an Oscar.... NOT!!
@ricardocantoral76724 жыл бұрын
Dark City trumps them all.
@kevinmcdonald64774 жыл бұрын
@@ricardocantoral7672 I totally agree! Underrated and not seen by many. Totally original, peculiar and brilliant all together. I don't think the studio had much confidence promoting it. Notably it was Roger Ebert's choice as best film of that year. It deserves to be seen by any Sci-fi fan. Same director as The Crow, another dark, intriguing film.
@g.mitchell71105 ай бұрын
Roger listing the source material for Freejack sent me to check if it were available on Kindle, and BAM, not only is it available, it's on sale for two bucks. I like Sheckley -- he was one of the best short story writers of golden age SF -- but I haven't read Immortality Inc. Also, part of what makes The Hand that Rocks the Cradle interesting is that it's very influential in its genre, enough so that it created an entire subgenre of thriller, mostly in the form of Lifetime movies, and some of them follow the plot beat for beat. The nanny/babysitter who shows up as a couple is looking for help, wasn't referred by the service, and proceeds to try to seduce the husband and kill the wife. Or, one variation, seduce the wife and kill the husband. Or seduce both. It's such a common plot that it works as setup for something different: In The Uninvited, the plot starts with the implication that Dad's new girlfriend is a killer hospice nurse who killed the mom so she could marry the rich dad, and the two daughters play Nancy Drew to discover the truth. Also also, Gene has this complaint a lot, that SF movies set in the future show a decayed society or post apocalyptic world, but never one where things are better. And I keep thinking, "Um, Gene, have you heard of Star Trek? That's the core premise of the Star Trek universe. It's post-scarcity, where Earth is so properous and peaceful that people have to fly off in starships to find adventure.
@JunebugPresents10 ай бұрын
Interesting. They're reviewing Juice but didn't mention it in the beginning...
@patrickmichaellangan5766 жыл бұрын
Thanks, war guild!
@dr.roberts45083 жыл бұрын
Mick Jogger
@felicity47115 жыл бұрын
3:47 They did. It’s called “Star Trek.”
@TheReviewingNetwork Жыл бұрын
"Freejack assumes in less than 20 years, the earth will be so polluted that all living human beings will be fatally flawed in one way or another" I mean.....they weren't completely wrong.....
@nolagospeltracts8264 Жыл бұрын
Th Nanny - no way a married woman is going to hire a live in nanny hotter than herself.
@ZorbaTheDutch3 жыл бұрын
The Campbell movie trailer looks interesting.
@Kruppt8084 жыл бұрын
Out of all the movies Mick Jagger could have picked..........wow
@garyhunt80673 жыл бұрын
I still watch JFK.
@FredGSanford.4 жыл бұрын
Did they make it close to another 20 years sitting across from each other? I'm too lazy to Google or read comments now.
@charliecoccia88754 жыл бұрын
No they are both dead.
@commonwealthedison26408 ай бұрын
They only made it 6 more years together.
@hungwilliam443 жыл бұрын
nice little jabs at each other after freejack.
@bluedragon43 жыл бұрын
Siskel was so wrong about The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. His explanation makes me doubt all his reviews and what Ebert said to him was right on.
@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet77292 жыл бұрын
it was really really silly...
@geronimus-prime10 ай бұрын
Siskel rants that he yearns for some film to present a positive vision of the future. Yet he panned Back To The Future 2. Ebert often complains about the straightjacket that is the three-act American screenplay, complete with car chase. And yet he calls films that depart from that formula "undisciplined" and "formless". Their palates have become quite refined. Like that bit Eddie Izzard used to do: _There's a whole 360 degrees on the shower knob, but we're only interested in that one infinitesimal millimetre between too cold and too hot._
@AlexUSAF Жыл бұрын
The problem with Gene's criticism of "Freejack" is he stated he grew tired over Sci-Fi that indicts the present world. However sometimes that is a major point of Science Fiction, show the flaws or errors of the modern world and hold a mirror to it that blends in with the adventure plot, with the point of bringing attention to a major issue in the present to make the world of tomorrow a little better. If Gene wanted a utopian nice future world then just watch Star Trek. Sure it may sound preachy, and yes during the time period this movie came out in 1990's America things were not that bad, but one cannot say the same for society today in the 2020's which is almost as dystopic as the fantasy word depicted in "Freejack". I had really liked that movie as a kid.
@christiansoldier773 жыл бұрын
They didnt understand Juice at all . It wasnt about guns it was about power. The gun just embodied that power
@ricardocantoral76723 жыл бұрын
There was definitely an anti-gun agenda in the film.
@christiansoldier773 жыл бұрын
@@ricardocantoral7672 It wasnt an antigun movie
@Adam-qv2bd2 жыл бұрын
2009?
@drtroyturner74643 жыл бұрын
"A muscular racecar driver played by Emelio Estevez" Was that really necessary? Also was the skinny guy always a little snarky toward the big guy? He also seemed dismissive in times when his cohost was extending the olive branch or being especially sweet.
@notcardlinsytaccount13552 жыл бұрын
You’re new around here, aren’t you?
@scottaznavourian37202 жыл бұрын
I'd argue Jim garrison was his best role and he hasn't come close to that since. Ridiculous that he didn't get an Oscar nomination even though the movie did for best picture inspiite of all this supposed hate for it...
@Protoman859 жыл бұрын
I guess Oliver Stone is a conpiracy theorist then
@michaeldiaz54733 жыл бұрын
Emilio esters.....total babe.
@openskies113 жыл бұрын
"An ambitious but misguided science fiction film that assumes that in less than 20 years time the Earth will be so polluted that all living human beings will be fatally flawed in one way or another." That was a gd prophecy.
@jamespuffer7270 Жыл бұрын
Oh Roger, which newspapers do you read?
@WaitingtoHit5 күн бұрын
The Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune!
@lorddrayvon14264 жыл бұрын
Anyone care to tell me how these two originally met? They both worked for Chicago news outlets but there has to be some kind of history.
@kentclark64204 жыл бұрын
It might say on Wikipedia.
@williamblake29624 жыл бұрын
I miss this non political correction of these guys.. God I miss these two
@twstf89053 жыл бұрын
Haha It's believable until you're asked to suspend your disbelief enough to accept Mick Jagger would still be alive. 🤣
@heathen24873 жыл бұрын
Rebecca De Mornay could've played young Hillary Clinton in a movie
@bigjohn088652 жыл бұрын
4:49 - Ebert making a crack about waking up 20 years in the future and still doing reviews sitting across from Siskel. Ebert's joke becomes harsher in hindsight since Siskel would die in 1999 and by 2012 Ebert had retired from appearing on screen due to his health problems.
@lmrbeerbellyl4 жыл бұрын
if I woke up in 2009 the first thing Id do is buy Amazon stock
@aramfingal51806 жыл бұрын
"I find it unrealistic that she hired a nanny who wasn't an illegal immigrant."
@jameswestley56434 жыл бұрын
It should've been Ebert and Siskel.
@WaitingtoHit5 күн бұрын
There are multiple reviews here where Gene's bemoaning the fact that movies aren't depicting an ideal world. Of course, an ideal world would be the least realistic (since humans are imperfect) and boring (since great stories have a strong central conflict) premise of all.
@acrovader7 жыл бұрын
Freejack is a terrible movie.
@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet77292 жыл бұрын
I saw it at the second run 2 dollar cinema and paid too much....my friends and I laughed at its ineptness
@exiles_dot_tv Жыл бұрын
4:47 Roger barely made it through that 20 years, Gene didn't.
@redvine1105 Жыл бұрын
10:13 Freudian slip
@mgloco885 жыл бұрын
Holy shit they watched JUICE?
@ricardocantoral76723 жыл бұрын
Why wouldn't they ?
@fromthehaven9426 күн бұрын
They were usually able to cover the most widely released movies.
@natejaxson76124 жыл бұрын
80085
@Shorty_Lickens2 жыл бұрын
0:06 that guy fucked up every pronunciation he could.
@lorddrayvon14264 жыл бұрын
Anyone else think that "Free Jack" is a very low budget movie? Because the cinematography is God awful. It looks exactly like Who Killed Captain Alex composition wise but at least that film has the excuse that it was made by a tribe leader for only his tribe members using a shitty camera for less than $200 in Ethiopia of all places. What excuse does this film have?
@davidfrederick60036 жыл бұрын
Its unrealistic people would hire nannys off the street...yes shouldnt happen BUT "craigslist". The argument of premise a killer vengeful nanny. The motive of the premise is completely igored Her husband a doctor barehanded touched/felt up a pregnant woman. so when the pregnant woman sues for molestation the doctor kills himself. leaving "his" distraught pregnant to be alone and lose her child....So she ignores her husband cheated on her and wants to take the husband of the woman her husband was technically cheating with.
@mrceleb20062 жыл бұрын
20:35 - 'Freejack': 👎👎, 'Until the End of the World': 👎👎, 'Juice': 👎(S)👍(E), 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle': 👎(S)👍(E)
@robbone42 жыл бұрын
10:12 He almost said BJ. Yes I'm immature.
@kyle1m4 жыл бұрын
Freejack is some kind of mishmash of of total recall and blade runner that toally failed
@pauldzim4 жыл бұрын
Geez, Gene was a real snowflake wasn't he?
@Xayjohns7 жыл бұрын
How does someone have manners before robbing people, lol. "Pardon me, I'm 'bout to rob this place."
@neworleansguy104 жыл бұрын
XRJ92 It happens.
@RogueBoyScout4 жыл бұрын
It happens more than you would think. Some robbers don't go all aggro when robbing people. Some are even apologetic.