Siskel & Ebert Review - Chariots of Fire, Stevie, Southern Comfort, All the Marbles

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In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Chariots of Fire, Stevie, Southern Comfort and All the Marbles.

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@mjgyrosdude484 Жыл бұрын

No mention of Ry Cooder's outstanding score for Southern Comfort. Should have been nominated for a Best Score Oscar IMHO

@geronimus-prime 4 ай бұрын

When it comes to music, for some reason they're consistently ambivalent and tone-deaf. At Oscar time, they champion bland, middle-of-the-road, easy-listening fare for Best Original Song. And in 1967, Ebert famously called the Simon & Garfunkle songs used in _The Graduate_ « instantly forgettable ».

@reneedennis2011 Ай бұрын

Yup.

@freemangriffin4953 2 жыл бұрын

I love Steve - it was actually released in 1978 but not released everywhere until 1981. Glenda Jackson and Mona Washbourne were wonderful recreating their West End theater roles. Chariots of Fire was wonderful too. Haven't seen the other films though.

@carsinruin6102 Жыл бұрын

I watch these old reviews to pick something to watch. I love it, it’s a great resource so thanks for publishing them:

@reneedennis2011 Ай бұрын

Yup. I agree.

@trikkerman1 2 жыл бұрын

You can watch Southern Comfort free on youtube.

@ogami1972 Жыл бұрын

It is absolutely crazy that you have so much content and so few subscribers. Excellent stuff, have been making playlists of the oldest ones, it's a real time trip.

@paulvoorhies8821 11 ай бұрын

Do we really think, in retrospect, that Chariots Of Fire deserved the Oscar for Best Pic.

@JozeeWalz 8 ай бұрын

Southern Comfort: great movie held down only by the Walter Hill testosteronal dialogue found in his other movies, like Streets of Fire

@reneedennis2011 3 жыл бұрын

I like Southern Comfort.

@dennisbalon8532 3 жыл бұрын

I liked it too

@dennisbalon8532 3 жыл бұрын

Your last name is my first

@reneedennis2011 3 жыл бұрын

@@dennisbalon8532 Cool 😎!

@dennisbalon8532 3 жыл бұрын

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@gwenwachsman3739 2 жыл бұрын

@@dennisbalon8532 what a novel way of communicating. How original.

@crazyclimber80 Жыл бұрын

I love that the creepy PBS jingle is intact at the end.

@hetmanjz Жыл бұрын

Creepy?? Nah, just awesome.

@vincentwilliams5271 Жыл бұрын

You should put the year that these shows aired

@sandal_thong8631 Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I find I keep looking up at least one movie on IMDb just to check. (1981)

@paulvoorhies8821 11 ай бұрын

It has been my experience that Ebert loves Louisiana, and especially New Orleans. He seems partial to movies set there in his reviews, even going as far as to name The Big Easy the 2nd best film of 1987, and Eve’s Bayou the #1 film of 1997. I mean--really??

@warriorv9359 Жыл бұрын

Southern confort was baaadass seen it as a kid

@gregpolutanovich1774 Ай бұрын

Hell Night is a very good under rated horror movie!! These guys really don’t know what they are talking about,,,but Southern Comfort was awesome!

@zeitgeistyreport Жыл бұрын

Saw Chariots of Fire as a kid when it came out...what a crashing bore

@Enriqueguiones Жыл бұрын

The movie was as bad and stupid back then as it is today.

@sandal_thong8631 Жыл бұрын

I really liked a similar sports movie, _The First Olympics: Athens 1896_ with David Ogden Stiers (played Winchester on M*A*S*H), and Matt Frewer (played Max Headroom). However, I did like the music to _Chariots of Fire_ by Vangelis, whose music was also in Carl Sagan's _Cosmos._

@reneedennis2011 Ай бұрын

@@sandal_thong8631 I remember that TV movie. It was good.

@terrygracy8345 Жыл бұрын

Glenda Jackson is an actress most movie goers today have no clue of. Ands they are the worse for it. She is a powerhouse

@nuschlerclark895 Жыл бұрын

I am SICK of people such as you who see yourself as the ONLY person on earth who can recognize talent! Get over yourself!

@terrygracy8345 Жыл бұрын

@@nuschlerclark895 uhh, Glenda Jackson is a highly respected actress. She’s an actors actor I was just saying she’s prob been lost on the more recent generations because she hasn’t done much lately. Hope that helps

@andreiiliepopescu6393 Жыл бұрын

True, and she is just so amazing, orobably the best actress of the 70s along with Jane Fonda. ❤

@ianrosen1815 Жыл бұрын

Southern Comfort is a wonderfully made action film, but I'm surprised that neither critic points out the completely overscaled reaction of the cajuns to the soldiers original offense. It's so completely exaggerated it doesn't make sense unless the cajuns are complete psychotics. Also, their disagreements over the film Chariots Of Fire are never really followed through. It just the lazy old thing of "well, I disagree, but it's all completely subjective. You have your opinion and I have mine". Really? Is that all you have to say? It's a total cop out that they just leave it at that.

@YouTube-tied Жыл бұрын

I was 15 or 16 when Chariots of Fire came out. Not exactly the target demo (American teenage guy) and to this day I've still never seen it. I'm glad that I sought out certain movies to watch as I got older, ones that I skipped when I was young, so I could appreciate them, but this one just never interested me. I have fairly varied taste when it comes to genres though. Funny how some films to this day have never and probably will never be seen by me. Classics and blockbusters among them.

@sandal_thong8631 Жыл бұрын

I may have been taken to it when I was a kid, and may have seen it again as an adult, but I don't remember it. I did like the similar-themed _The First Olympics: Athens 1896._

@Ken_Scaletta 9 ай бұрын

I was around the same age. I watched Chariots of Fire on an airplane in 1982 when I was 16. It was not my choice of movie and it is one of the most boring movies I can ever remember sitting through. The only thing I can remember is that theme song because they played it endlessly in the movie.

@Zaft_K Жыл бұрын

I saw "Chariots of Fire" when it came out, and was absolutely bored to tears. I don't remember a thing about it except the slo-mo run on the beach with that stupid theme song (which was being played *everywhere* ). No interest in seeing it again, and I never understood all the praise it received.

@Enriqueguiones Жыл бұрын

You are just right, sir.

@Jim_Wolf 3 жыл бұрын

...All the Marbles (1981) was good.

@citygirl5705 3 жыл бұрын

I saw it in the theater when I was a kid and loved it. The final match was as exciting as a Rocky fight.

@dennisbalon8532 3 жыл бұрын

@@citygirl5705 I love watching siskel and Ebert

@magicman1433 Жыл бұрын

I agree!

@AndrewNewZealand 3 сағат бұрын

For a long time I only knew Chariots of Fire for the music and clips of slow-motion running, I finally saw it on DVD in 2012 during the London Summer Olympics, partly because I liked the idea of a Jewish runner and a Christian runner, running against and alongside each other, but I found the film to be more concerned with Eric Liddell and presenting him as some sort of warrior for Christ. To me, refusing to run on "the Lord's day", means nothing except that you're superstitious and holding onto childish, primitive beliefs.

@tdirgins Жыл бұрын

Siskel once again getting it wrong. This time on COF.

@sandal_thong8631 Жыл бұрын

I like what Ebert had to say about "technology and training began to replace determination and willpower." I think that was exactly what was wrong with Rocky IV. Ivan Drago got top-notch high-tech training to improve his skills. Rocky, should have done the same and gone to M.I.T. or Stanford to get bright minds to help him improve his game. Each previous movie he learned something new to become a better fighter, but here it's just a matter of "old school" workout and willpower. He should have lost.

@maskedmarvyl4774 Жыл бұрын

Stevie: "she was drowning in the suburbs". She chose to drown in the suburbs, to not venture out, or to allow anyone into her life. It's very difficult to empathize with someone who resolutely chooses their own thoughts as company, and not other people. I've learned the best thing to do is stay the hell away from people like that. They don't have room for other people in their minds, which are always obsessing.

@carsinruin6102 Жыл бұрын

Misinformation until it isn’t 😅

@hetmanjz Жыл бұрын

This comment needs wayyyy more context.

@carsinruin6102 Жыл бұрын

@@hetmanjz man I wrote it and I can’t remember the context.

@hetmanjz Жыл бұрын

@@carsinruin6102 hahaha

@YouTube-tied Жыл бұрын

Calling a movie a "picture" is jargon that is used among those in the film industry. Siskel and Ebert had a more tangential relationship with the medium than most critics so they can get away with using the term. Ever heard someone in your regular life call a movie a picture? Only if they are pretentious.