By request: Gene and Roger's first appearance on Late Night.
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@TofuEatingZombie6 жыл бұрын
"I laughed a lot, but they were not comedies." -Roger Ebert That's a pretty savage critique lol
@IlluminatiLand6 жыл бұрын
Siskel & Ebert were so great together,, I miss their show, never be critics like them again
@redfield10075 жыл бұрын
Yes I enjoy watching them here on KZfaq but i get oddly bummed out knowing their both gone now and have been replaced by a bunch of cuckolds.
@mrnocal5 жыл бұрын
They had such a chemistry together. I really miss them and their show.
@jumpyg12583 жыл бұрын
The guys over at RedLetterMedia give me a lot of the same vibes as Siskel and Ebert with their Half in the Bag show.
@encinobalboa5 жыл бұрын
Siskel dissing Disney live action films. He was spot on 37 years ago.
@chonconnor61443 жыл бұрын
Rings true today as well
@sandal_thong8631 Жыл бұрын
Maybe you heard of some of these Disney live action films: _The Black Hole (1979), Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), Popeye (1980), The Devil and Max Devlin (1981), Dragonslayer (1981),_ and _Condorman (1981)?_ They had others in the three years before this interview that I never heard of. _Tron (1982)_ may have broken even on a $17 million budget by making $33 million. What did they have in the 1970s? A couple Herbie movies, a couple Witch Mountain movies, _Freaky Friday_ and stuff I never heard of.
@ralphus447 жыл бұрын
This is great stuff. Siskel and Ebert's first-ever appearance with Letterman, and only the 17th episode ever of Late Night. Quite a time capsule find, thank you!
@MrSean038396 жыл бұрын
M1ster Mov1eBuff He use to joke about his hair looking like a comma in the front. LoL!
@bloboshitful6 жыл бұрын
Two hideously ugly and untalented jerks. Ebert wrote failed porn like "Vixens". But talking about old movies shoots lonely fanboys wads
@jokerswildio6 жыл бұрын
Kyle Wilson I disagree, criticism is an art unto itself
@redfield10075 жыл бұрын
Fuck you bitch.
@johnfitzpatrick30945 жыл бұрын
Kyle, what I find ugly and untalented is you.
@Strimbles4 жыл бұрын
I like at the end of the interview the look Siskel & Ebert give each other, like "that went well, exciting to be on the show"
@youbetcha6880 Жыл бұрын
I can remember watching Siskel and Ebert when I was in high school in the early `90s, and they taught me a lot. I remember one episode where they explored European art movies that didn`t cut every three seconds. They introduced one movie that opened with a scene of a man lying in a bed for over two minutes. They reflected on the power of a sustained shot.
@charleswinokoor60234 жыл бұрын
Fantastic segment. The first two or three years of the Letterman show were my favorites.
@bryansarracino86233 жыл бұрын
Dave is actually pretty quiet here and let’s the guests talk. And he seems genuinely interested.
@Alexander-me9zu4 жыл бұрын
This discussion is interesting in its own right, but what's even more fascinating for me is that they are in fact having an extended serious discussion about the examination of art. This is in stark contrast to what Letterman's shows later became; anecdotes, jokes, and plugs, but no time for serious discussion. I'm not criticizing Letterman's later shows; they're entertaining, and valid. I'm just observing how much his shows had evolved.
@user-bc7mb6cl7n3 жыл бұрын
Our attention span seems shorter too. Nowadays people would complain about a 15 min interview on a talk show.
@xennial80sxberner6 жыл бұрын
Gene was only 36 here, damn! Even if you can overlook the balding he seemed 45-50 at least. It's fascinating and strange how much older people looked in the 80s! Roger was still only 39 turning 40 later that year!
@mrnocal5 жыл бұрын
My Dad was balding in his 20s and greying with what he had left in his early 30s. Men weren't as vain back then. My Dad died in 1978 at the age of 36, BTW.
@jonathanbirch20222 жыл бұрын
They were born middle-aged
@zymaymyn5 жыл бұрын
9:39 They didn't actually use 'thumbs up, thumbs down' until "At the Movies" later in 1982. On "Sneak Previews", it was yes or no.
@judiroth78554 жыл бұрын
Miss these guys so so much. Why has no one tried to duplicate it. Their charisma, brilliance and rapport can never be duplicated but some smart, knowledgeable person should try. RIP..
@perrymickle29466 жыл бұрын
I loved Sickel and Ebert my love for movies as art came from them
@redfield10075 жыл бұрын
Cool.
@johnfitzpatrick30945 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@TheJPSouza2 жыл бұрын
*Siskel
@crs2905 жыл бұрын
Watching this just confirms my belief that Siskel was the better critic of the two.
@NovaJake3605 жыл бұрын
They had the best jobs in the world.
@joecalahan40683 жыл бұрын
Siskel and Ebert were the best. I love there show and it allowed me to become a film critic or film blogger. I love sharing my opinion on movies.
@tobinhays6526 жыл бұрын
Very inciteful. Thanks for posting.
@paxwallacejazz5 жыл бұрын
I was 22 just getting off skid row in Seattle 1982 and had just found a job at pike place market and didn't yet have a tv. No wonder I never saw "One from the Heart"
@RollingOrmond4 жыл бұрын
I like the little picture you created, truly.
@abcun174 жыл бұрын
"Disney live-action films...", boy, where they ever right!
@NovaFeedback19795 жыл бұрын
“Too much of film criticism is simply thumbs up or thumbs down.” Ha. Which they later adopted and trademarked.
@sandal_thong8631 Жыл бұрын
They can change their minds or give movies a second look, like when they find audiences love a movie they gave thumbs down to months ago.
@markelijio60122 жыл бұрын
"At the Movies" were now introduced to syndication for the first time in the spring of 1982.
@cattathat4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@MrSean038396 жыл бұрын
I remember this episode! God I feel old now!
@johnfitzpatrick30946 жыл бұрын
I remember it, too!!
@redfield10075 жыл бұрын
Man I was a month old. I'm guessing you late 40s early 50s.
@johnfitzpatrick30945 жыл бұрын
45.
@shusterandy Жыл бұрын
It's funny that they say the way they talk about movies is the way a lot of people do, which may be true. But I think these guys are more articulate than most about films. It's funny because me and my dad kinda act like Siskel and Ebert when we talk about movies. Because we get so passionate about it sometimes whether we a agree or disagree and it gets a little heated sometimes haha.
@rockhero22746 жыл бұрын
I miss these guys!
@bananapilaf3 жыл бұрын
Just found you looking for some siskel and ebert. Man you got a dave letterman gold mine. You have drastically reduced my productivity.
@bookwoman535 жыл бұрын
$5.00 for a movie ticket. Those were the days. Today it’s $20.00. If you want to go to the theatre with your spouse and your kids it’s so expensive.
@stephenmccollum13914 жыл бұрын
Chariots of Fire, one of my favorite movies.
@pronkb0002 жыл бұрын
This is a little before my time but IIRC Chariots winning the Best Picture was a huge upset. S&E say that the winner would come down to Reds vs. On Golden Pond and neither won.
@chrisw61642 жыл бұрын
The good old days when Letterman was hilarious. Siskel & Ebert always played up how much they “disliked” each other on the Letterman show and it was hysterical (this was in subsequent appearances. They didn’t do it here).
@sandal_thong8631 Жыл бұрын
I seem to recall them making an appearance on _The Critic_ where they had dressed up as Bert and Ernie but had had a falling out.
@zt10532 жыл бұрын
So interesting talking about the advantage of being on pbs when it was their last year on sneak previews
@redfield10075 жыл бұрын
God I was only a month old when this was aired. Insignificant to everyone but a bit mental for me : o
@justinbrockshus84834 жыл бұрын
I would've been a little over 6-1/2 years old myself, and in 1st grade. :-P
@justinbrockshus84834 жыл бұрын
@John Nichols Gen-X
@johe643 жыл бұрын
Yeah and this was my last semester of my senior year of high school... whipper snapper! lol
@sasfunc61707 жыл бұрын
Holy Mackerel! What a gift.
@TexasWildheartsFan4 жыл бұрын
Roger calling out Sunn Pictures @6:02 -- LOVE it!
@Rcalanis374 жыл бұрын
These two are the last of great film critics. I use to see Gene a lot all around the city when I worked down town as a young adult. I would see him frequently at the OTB ,off track betting. Now every Nerd on you tube thinks he's a film critic because they dont have jobs and watch a lot of movies. Please know the craft and research everything that goes into making a great film before you think you're a good critic.
@unuseddraft6 жыл бұрын
Master of the Flying Guillotine is a fantastic flick!
@NovaFeedback19795 жыл бұрын
Abe They always picked martial arts movies for their “Dog of the Week” back then.
@pronkb0002 жыл бұрын
My mom and a friend of hers went to see Heaven's Gate in Columbus, Ohio. I don't believe they would have gone to see it in the first place if they'd read advanced reviews. Anyway, they got to the theater and everyone--EVERYONE--coming out was complaining about how terrible it was. The reaction was so strident and so universal among exiting theatergoers that my mom and her friend turned right around and left and ordered a movie on pay-per-view instead (which turned out to be American Gigolo with Richard Gere, which was almost as bad). Those theatergoers couldn't ALL have been influenced by advance reviews.
@abcun174 жыл бұрын
Dave's set look like the backlot of "Sesame Street"...
@tedkier32646 жыл бұрын
"interruption of flow" taken into account...there've been hell of lot of great tv movies.
@Wridde234 жыл бұрын
RIP to S and E.
@lcf0097 жыл бұрын
@13:02 I have to side with Dave on “Time Bandits” - Siskel and Ebert were flat out wrong on that one.
@redfield10075 жыл бұрын
Yeah but it was usually hit and miss for them but even when they were bang wrong it was interesting to hear what made them think what they did. I think siskel didn't like Rocky.
@nl30645 жыл бұрын
@@redfield1007 In regards to Rocky, I recognize the cultural impact and importance of that one, but personally I didn't like it either. I don't care for sports movies, which are a pretty un-creative genre (why would you make a movie out of an everyday event you can watch live or on tv?) and I know it's, more than that, a character study, but it's awfully similar to the 1955 movie 'Marty', which one best screenplay and actor.
@nl30644 жыл бұрын
@ John Nichols I don't know what that has to do with anything; you can easily look it up yourself; and it beat a bunch of nothings nobody's ever heard of.
@abcun174 жыл бұрын
Dave was pulling for "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" to win the Oscar! Yay Dave!👍👍
@ernestolombardo58116 жыл бұрын
I wonder what these guys would make of the fact that Heaven's Gate has been reappraised in many critics' circles as one of the last great classics of the "New Hollywood" age of cinema that brought us Bonnie And Clyde, The Godfather, McCabe And Mrs Miller, Chinatown, etc.
@LiveINtheGood534 жыл бұрын
Wow, the movie prices in 1982, also the theater prices as well, haha, so cheap! 10:07
@patriot60676 жыл бұрын
One thumbs down ? It was you , wasn't it Roeper 👹
@Tolstoy1114 жыл бұрын
Later that year, they left PBS for a commercial driven broadcast.
@ballowax92526 жыл бұрын
oh so it's a recording of it on vhs via the SP speed?
@dongiller6 жыл бұрын
It's a dub from a 3/4" master copy.
@mr.balloffur6 жыл бұрын
FIVE DOLLARS A TICKET!!!!
@christopherramon-reid9841 Жыл бұрын
“Jealous of Christopher Reeve…” yes, sometimes I think critics were.
@myronsanders45633 жыл бұрын
The Best jobs Ever!
@halfwaydowntheroad5 жыл бұрын
Three legends. Reds should've won.
@ballowax92526 жыл бұрын
you mean this is from an actual reel?
@dongiller6 жыл бұрын
As I answered, a dub from a 3/4" master copy.
@sergiolobato17985 жыл бұрын
That's a sad ugly story! David is priceless!...
@kevinrhea73325 жыл бұрын
Master of the flying guillotine rules
@StandUpVHS7 жыл бұрын
Do you happen to have the Siskel & Ebert appearance where Dave calls a phone booth, invites the man who answers onto the show, and I think it was Ebert who slaps him? That happened to a friend of a friend in college. I know she'd love to see it again. No rush, I'm sure you're inundated with requests, and I'm still somehow not through the wealth of great entertainment you've already shared!
@dongiller7 жыл бұрын
Found it -- June 30, 1994. Your friend's names are Megan and Tim. One of the few Late Shows that are accessible, so I'll put it in the To Do box. Won't happen tonight, though.
@StandUpVHS7 жыл бұрын
Don Giller Incredible!! Thanks, Don. I don't know the people who were on the show, my friend Brenda just described to me drifting off to sleep one night, and suddenly hearing her friend Tim on television. It'll blow her mind to see that again.
@dongiller7 жыл бұрын
It's now up -- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oN2HaLWHtaionYU.html
@StandUpVHS7 жыл бұрын
Don Giller Incredible, thanks, Don! This makes our day.
@dongiller7 жыл бұрын
My pleasure! Are Tim and Megan still together?
@brewer9217 жыл бұрын
Gene Siskel uses the phrase think piece. We think of that as a modern invention.
@kfrerix97775 жыл бұрын
Who are these "We" , and how on Earth did they think "think piece" was a new term? Depressing.
@davemustang8173 Жыл бұрын
The only critics that people cared about
@carsonpeterson7582 жыл бұрын
Was this really 1982 it looks kind of like 1992
@dongiller2 жыл бұрын
The date is correct.
@Tolstoy1112 ай бұрын
One from the heart came out in 82
@fredjhenzel5 жыл бұрын
How did they see Venom? That just came out!!!
@dongiller5 жыл бұрын
Advance screening.
@TheHoopyscoopy5 жыл бұрын
Did anybody actually like 'On Golden Pond?'
@nl30644 жыл бұрын
I didn't, but a fair amount of other people did, I guess.
@RollingOrmond4 жыл бұрын
13:10 - Wow, they name-checked Time Bandits. Classic film, worth far more than Star Wars with a fraction of the publicity.
@randycunningham731811 ай бұрын
What's wrong with Neil Simon...
@cattathat4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@nutmilk3 жыл бұрын
Man, Siskel loves interrupting
@ballowax92526 жыл бұрын
Oh, a laserdisc capture
@dongiller6 жыл бұрын
Nope. There are no laserdisc of Late Night.
@ballowax92526 жыл бұрын
does that explain why the quality's so great?
@ryangettig2747 жыл бұрын
Heaven's Gate remains a Masterpiece!
@redfield10075 жыл бұрын
Didn't they all commit suicide?
@bulafritz3 жыл бұрын
This is too serious. They got alot funnier as time went along.
@collegeman19883 жыл бұрын
Siskel hasn’t missed anything. Disney live action films still suck.
@flassk76 жыл бұрын
Why the fuck was I born in '85. All movies are shit now.
@ballowax92526 жыл бұрын
ok
@ballowax92526 жыл бұрын
all right bye
@JimCampbell777 Жыл бұрын
I laughed a lot, but they were not comedies. Mr. E