In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Heaven’s Gate, Modern Romance, Napoleon (1927), Excalibur and Nighthawks.
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@jorel67452 жыл бұрын
I love revisiting Excalibur. I was fascinated, as a kid, getting to watch this
@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 Жыл бұрын
would have liked to have seen it on a big screen...
@geoffroy1970 Жыл бұрын
I hear ya
@doddsino2 жыл бұрын
Modern Romance is one of my favorite comedies. Honestly, I think Albert Brooks is better than Woody Allen in the same type of role.
@JorgeTorres-tl7vo Жыл бұрын
Hard agree. I’ll take “Defending Your Life” over most of Allen’s stuff.
@krisj827 Жыл бұрын
So true.
@djdon60 Жыл бұрын
doddsino: I could not agree, more! (I'm not, particularly, a Woody Allen fan, also. I don't, really, get him.)
@ricardocantoral7672 Жыл бұрын
I agree. I always thought Brooks was way more palatable. I can only take Woody Allen in small doses.
@philiphatfield56667 ай бұрын
He is also not a pervert.
@reneedennis20113 жыл бұрын
My oldest sister was in college when Excalibur was released. One of her friends was an Excalibur enthusiast, and he wrote a long letter to Siskel and Ebert calling them out after their negative reviews of Excalibur.
@hungwilliam443 жыл бұрын
ebert probably got chocolate all over it
@andrewk29962 жыл бұрын
Good for her, it's a great movie and their criticism is very harsh
@adamgottschalk54232 жыл бұрын
They were two of my first real teachers but they got it wrong plenty of times - I've come to believe the primary value of a critic is to help you develop your own taste and worldview rather than tell you whether a particular film is any good or not
@oobrocks2 жыл бұрын
Concur
@littlekingtrashmouth92192 жыл бұрын
The directors cut made more sense
@stevenwatchorn98162 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to be able to see Napoleon in that way. I was not able to make those journies myself until a few years later :)
@d.a.thorndike87729 ай бұрын
Excalibur is NOT supposed to make literal sense. ThaT is why it is called a FANTASY! But it is breathtaking in every sense. The music, the scenery, the epic battle scenes, the spot on English accents, the horse riding, the weapons- it is all so perfect and well done like no other Arthur film has ever done before or since.
@donshults7772Ай бұрын
Come, father. Let us embrace at last!
@Emulous79Күн бұрын
Rutger Hauer played some of most insane and chilling characters. Like Richard Lynch. R.I.P to both.
@jackscratch785 Жыл бұрын
Brooks reminds me of George Costanza.
@kkampy4052 Жыл бұрын
I love Excalibur. A very young Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart. Plus a great Wagner soundtrack.
@moviola12 Жыл бұрын
16:92 . Ebert says the movie is unpleasant to look at. I wonder what he would think of the criterion version which was restored to remove the sepia tone look.
@oobrocks2 жыл бұрын
MR 6:55 HG 12:15 Excalibur 17:28 A great film Napoleon 22:20 a great, must c film, if u think u love movies
@johnwhite1721 Жыл бұрын
I would love to see their original review of Brooks' Real Life. It's one of my favorite comedies of all time. It totally predicted the reality TV age. I love Modern Romance, but I love Real Life even more.
@patrickshields52519 ай бұрын
Gene liked it, but Roger hated it.
@jonathanharris6307Ай бұрын
Just watched heaven's gate what a beautiful film and Excalibur is a great film. Let them continue to watch nighthawks I say
@pandaeyes422 жыл бұрын
Heaven's Gate? In the immortal words of Monty Python, GET ON WITH IT!!!
@freemangriffin49532 жыл бұрын
Watch the fully restored director's cut - it is one of the greatest films of all time.
@littlekingtrashmouth92192 жыл бұрын
I’ve seen all the versions of Heaven’s Gate. I get why people like it. I get why people don’t. I really wish Cimino had time to properly cut it down to under three hours because there are some really great scenes. Excalibur also had a good directors cut. It is a good movie, but I couldn’t help but quote lines from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
@adamgrimsley29002 жыл бұрын
Wow the underground was a pretty dangerous place, Pelham 123, Death Wish etc etc lots of violence
@Bacalao29292 жыл бұрын
Joe Spinell and Rutger Hauer in the same movie thats crazy
@adamgottschalk54232 жыл бұрын
Still is!
@KRhetor5 ай бұрын
Mac Davis could have had a decent acting career after North Dallas Forty but Cheaper to Keep Her pretty much killed it!
@marcofalzone64692 жыл бұрын
I used to watch Sneak Previews with my pop in the early 80s. Even with Lyons/Medved wasn't bad a good companion to At the Movies with S&E towards the mid 80s.
@joergzabbee392128 күн бұрын
Guy of Gisborne 🤘👍
@eargasm10722 жыл бұрын
I like me some John Boorman...Deliverance, Emerald Forest, Zardoz and this medieval 80s classic. I also really like Heaven's Gate before and after restoration, one of the last artsy Western epics. Nighthawks was pretty good, watched it a number of times on cable when I was a kid, a solid teaming of Stallone and Billy Dee = 👍👍👍 for me
@adamgrimsley29002 жыл бұрын
You like Zardoz? Wow
@shombie27372 жыл бұрын
@@adamgrimsley2900 I liked Zardoz when I was a kid
@adamgrimsley29002 жыл бұрын
@@shombie2737 wow I am surprised but good
@ricardocantoral76722 жыл бұрын
Never seen Point Blank or Hell in The Pacific ?
@widowrumstrypze97052 жыл бұрын
"Hope and Glory" was a masterpiece!
@drumtum2 жыл бұрын
Nighthawks was great!!
@johnfitzpatrick30942 жыл бұрын
They were on the money with Heaven's Gate.
@freemangriffin49532 жыл бұрын
Have you seen the fully restored director's cut? It is amazing, one of the greatest films of all time. The version from 1981 only had glimmers of the real greatness of it.
@johnfitzpatrick30942 жыл бұрын
@@freemangriffin4953 The version I saw was the long version. Also, Siskel and Ebert both saw the long version, and basically were thinking what I was thinking.
@branagain Жыл бұрын
I turned off Heaven’s Gate after 20 minutes. Terribly boring.
@bigneon_glitter Жыл бұрын
The restored Criterion version of _Heaven's Gate_ is among the greatest Westerns ever made. And S&E are correct about the lackluster casting in _Excalibur_ but it's still the definitive King Arthur movie.
@davidthieroff9452 Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I thought I was the only one who liked it.
@danorthsidemang38343 жыл бұрын
27:13
@Bacalao29292 жыл бұрын
are you Orson Wells Ghost ?
@MilesBellas2 ай бұрын
Heaven's Gate precipitated the demise of United Artists started by Chaplin, Pickford etc..... The end of the auteur?!😢
@oobrocks2 жыл бұрын
Too bad this channel doesn’t give release dates
@stevejohnson15772 жыл бұрын
Gene was right about Nighthawks
@freemangriffin49532 жыл бұрын
The fully restored director's cut of Heaven's Gate is one of the greatest films ever made. The version we saw in the movie theater in 1981 had that ugly sepia tones and was much shorter and only had glimmers of its actual brilliance. Isabelle Huppert is particularly superb. Excalibur is a wonderful fantasy. In a later episode Roger Ebert compares it to another film and fails to get that Excalibur is a FANTASY and does not need to be realistic.
@Nathan-gd7xq Жыл бұрын
Doesn't matter how many times you post this, it is not one of the greatest films of all time.
@andrewk29962 жыл бұрын
Their criticisms of Excalibur are absurd. Not every character in a movie has to burst out on the screen with ham acting.
@gregscott43223 жыл бұрын
Too bad neither Ebert nor Siskel ever saw the Director's Cut of Heaven's Gate, released at Cannes 20 years later to a rapturous standing ovation. It shows how the studios butchered a beautiful, powerful masterwork directed by a visionnary genius.
@drumtum2 жыл бұрын
Well i have seen it. It sure is better, but It´s still a mediocre movie. No way a masterwork. Less dust and fog for sure.
@eargasm10722 жыл бұрын
and probably the best, most ambitious Western until "Dances With Wolves" & "Unforgiven"
@zoperxplex2 жыл бұрын
Both saw the original, unedited version and both came away with a negative opinion of the film.
@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet77292 жыл бұрын
The end sequence they show is absolutely incomprehensible....
@johnfitzpatrick30942 жыл бұрын
Yes, they did see that version. It was the original release version. They hated it, too.
@hoover2501 Жыл бұрын
Excalibur can be hard to follow if you're not paying attention. It does the greatest Justice to the story of King Arthur. Not an easy task to tell a life story in such a grand way. I do not agree with them on this movie as it is truly one of my favorites. Long live the sword of power
@alonealien1474 Жыл бұрын
Ugh "Modern Romance" is such a bore! I have come to realize that I really dislike "romantic" movies centered around neurotic, selfish, and whiny man-child. Woody Allen was the 'king' of those. I blame him for their proliferation and that's one more reason to dislike that guy!
@ricardocantoral76729 ай бұрын
Same. I never understood the Woody Allen obsession. He always struck me as a narcissistic creep.
@darrellludlow8 күн бұрын
But Kathryn Harrold was gorgeous in it!
@EricBarbman11 ай бұрын
Surprised by Siskel on Nighthawks, which was a very bad movie, idiotic on so many levels.
@MafiaKingfishNOLA2 ай бұрын
Nighthawks was a typical 80s police/drama. It was not Oscar worthy but it was entertaining and had good characters.