How about being able to wait a week to see the review on "Siskel and Ebert" knowing the movie would still be in the theatres. Do movies even play that long today?

Agreed. It's a great film.

Oldman was only in the film for five minutes, but very memorable.

Definitely a great film. I wonder if they reviewed it today what they would have thought?

Jim Smith wrong

@@Jb991-q9x I think maybe you haven't "aged well"

john flanigan classic

He didn't like Predator either.

Cult Classic or not, if someone or Gene didn't like the movie, it didn't matter, i'm pretty sure if Gene still alive and knowing that he didn't give a shit.

@david gallagher You're FRIED!!

@david gallagher I liked parts of it but it's probably a case where the Script was better than the film. The same could be said for A Long Kiss Goodnight.

Siskel begins watching a movie wanting to hate it; Ebert wants to like it.

@@papigringo5692 Unless it's the holiest of holies "Woody Allen" ... Siskel was a pretentious douche.

whatho85 the Christopher Walken & Dennis Hopper scene Damn Quentin Tarantino was a fuckin genius back then and now.

Devon Lott What up? Never know where you'll see someone on the tubes. I always loved True Romance. Just always wondered what it would've been if Tarantino had directed as well. But Tony Scott had some style with this one.

The whole movie is awesome.

And the Pitt' stoner scene as well.

CorbCorbin This is what Tarantino said he would of done if he would of directed it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbl5jKZh1dvHdIU.html

I always tell people how underrated it is. One of my top 5, all time. Directers cut 👍

"Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse!"

J.E.M. Hull I prefer the porno version

@@jamesmack3314 Is your mom in it?

@@blinksstayfresh2524 no but seeing yours made it special

It's even better in the original cut, following the chronology of Tarantino's script. Tony Scott butchered it in re-editing because he thought it would be too confusing to general audiences. There is a fan edit floating around that restores it as much as possible to its original state, and it's almost like watching a whole new movie. The scene where it transitions from flashback to their arrival in California gives so much more meaningful impact to the events before and after.

***** Greatest love story ever told.

+jobless205 n it really isn't.. it's just a fun movie.. dumb at times like all tarantino films

One of, certainly.

He was good in True Romance too. Brad Pitts best when he can do character roles, I think. He can really disappear. Nobody saw that Jesse James movie, but Pitt was fantastic in that as well.

@@Ken_Scaletta I think he would have done much better as Calvin Candie than Leo did.

@@Nominay No way, Leo Killed that role

I thought his character was called Easy...

blinkzone1 please

That only you Siskel & Ebert watched.

Overrated

Such an underrated performance.

My favorite moment: his critiquing Michelle Forbes' porno-artsy photos. "Boring... boring... boring... DAWWGSHIT!... boring... boring..."

CLASSIC...

A wonderful movie! Siskel is nuts.

He must've thought it was whiteboy day.

Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt both could have been nominated for Oscars. It's awesome. Classic. It went over Siskel's head. He should have watched it again.

@@softbatch1 It ain't whiteboy day, is it?

Don't know why no one ever mentions Kalifornia. it's fantastic.

+3rd Gunman Right? It's so underrated. Saw it when I was 11 and have loved it since.

@@winterlynn9012 That's a little young to see a hard-R film. Your parents should have known better than that.

thoughts become things....

😂

Ebert was a dick about excessive violence, especially toward women, often too. He made a point of comically loathing slasher films in general. They both could be thick as shit, man....

@@babymammoth34 I often think this is why Ebert has such a distaste for David Lynch. He got visibly angry about Rossellini's part in "Blue Velvet". It's hard not to see what a great film that is.

Ebert just didn't like exploitation movies much and usually wanted the violence to serve a purpose in the story.

We're u named after him?

Kalifornia has nothing similar to True Romance. It is similar to NBK though

Not much like True Romance except the road trip to California part. And having Brad Pitt in it. Juliet Lewis played the same role in like 5 movies in that span of years, including NBK and this one. Kalifornia hasn't been in TV rotation so much, but was kind of big deal when it came out.

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 It's better than True Romance and Natural Born Killers imo. True Romance to me feels like Pulp Fiction lite, and Natural Born Killers is just too slick and Oliver Stone-y for my taste... too dripping with irony. Kalifornia is just a straight up movie, not full of that ironic self-awareness that was characteristic of so many 90's films.

@@xxcrysad3000xx Exactly. Kalifornia is far more sincere regarding it's use of violence. I saw the film for the first time last night and it made my skin crawl for all the right reasons.

NO SHIT that's when they filmed 'em. You think this was filmed yesterday that seemed to look like late 80's early 90's?

The movie is trash.

@@acrovader Honestly - You don't know what you are talking about.

Too soon!

Well, they're both dead!

Oh yeah ... One False Move

Why ? I don't see why he should have been pressured into liking a film.

He plays an evil man, exceptionally well.

_Kalifornia_ was released on September 3, 1993 _Natural Born Killers_ was released on August 26, 1994

Agreed and thumbs up here too. That one went pretty far up over their thick heads. Absolutely.

"The Real McCoy" is a remake of "Bellman and True" which has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating while the "The Real McCoy" has a 23% rating

Tarantino did too many lines.

Kalifornia is truly fantastic. Brad Pitt's finest performance. You rarely see such brutal and unglamorous depictions of violence in Hollywood movies. It's pretty much the polar opposite to what Tarantino does, though. It's aimed at adults.

+Ian Robinson True Romance lives on only because of the success of Pulp Fiction

I think these two critics would lament exactly the phenomenon you are describing: that very good movies are forgotten and mediocre ones are remembered (based on their perspectives of what's good and bad, I mean).

Who's "they"? Ebert gave TR a favorable review.

Tight movie. I should watch that again.

NO. Enemy of the state came out after True Romance.

Frank Davis sorry I did not make my position clearer,I was asking if tony Scott took the ending of true romance and used it for enemy of the state

It's a funny question - No, is the short answer. True Romance came out in 1993 and Enemy of the State came out in 1998. Both films were directed by Tony Scott. So perhaps he borrowed a little from True Romance. It's hard to say but some times stories need to resolve themselves in a big shootout.

Kalifornia was always, Meh and is now utterly forgotten. True Romance on the other hand has become a classic.

@@DrRiddlez2015 I'd say "True Romance" has established itself as an audience favorite among men. That doesn't make it a "classic".

@@flaccidusminimus2170 Actually, that's exactly what it means.

@@DrRiddlez2015 "Classic" is not synonymous with "popular among men", and popularity has no necessary correlation with quality.

@@flaccidusminimus2170 I'd definitely put in the the "Cult Classic" category...This movie came and went in 1993 and over the many years it has gained a strong following, whether it's by men or not is irrelevant. "Kalifornia" on the other hand never really found an audience. The point is that this film apparently isn't for everyone but it has a strong fan base considering that it's a gritty Tony Scott film penned by a fledgling Quentin Tarantino released over two decades ago that wasn't a huge box office success.

I love that. I've heard variations on it for years but only just tracked down where it was from

​@@Bladerunner-yd5lk Yeah I don't know. It's a bit of ass to me; very hokey and lovey-dovey ( I get that that's the point, though). In spite of that, I'll say something positive about it: it's a signature soundtrack, which Hans Zimmer is usually really hit-or-miss on. Sometimes he writes these memorable movements, and other times it seems like he just shits one out for a paycheck. Like I think he did great with the OST for 'Broken Arrow', for ex., which was very distinct; you hear that clean, country-Western baritone guitar riff once and it sticks with you; you always remember it as "the music from 'Broken Arrow'" (and also 'Scream 2' for some reason). But then there's like, say, the 'Black Hawk Down' OST, which sounds like every single generic score ever produced for films taking place in Africa: Brian Eno-like ambient keyboard + operatic North/East African vocals. All in all, nothing mentioned here--or anything else, for that matter--will ever truly top his finest work of all: the theme song from 'The Critic'.

How dare you.

@Hambone Jones my favourite score by him is still The Lion king so I might like the Black Hawk Down score

He plays the elvis character.

@@stevedecker91 In what part of the movie? Don't remember seeing him.

@@captaincaveman2040 throughout the movie he has conversations with him. He looks like elvis. He's in the siskel & ebert review. He's the character that says " killings the hard part, getting away with it is easy " it's hard to tell it's kilmer.

@@stevedecker91 Gotcha!! Thanks again!!!!!

@@captaincaveman2040 no problem.

You could until broadcasting got more prudish in the 2000's because of right-wing reactionaries.

@@75aces97 And now it's the left wing that are offended by everything. saying "whore" in that context nowadays would be considered "slut shaming"

@@DrRiddlez2015 nope. The Hayes Code, the MPAA, and Michael Powell's FCC crackdown under Bush II were all right wing initiatives. This isn't a "both sides do it" thing.

@@75aces97 It is now... absolutely driven by the insane left, Idk what planet you're living on.

@@DrRiddlez2015 I'm on the planet where people like you don't provide counter examples to the ones that I mentioned.

No

Honestly - You don't know what you are talking about.

Tarantino drank coffee ... couldnt afford cocaine when he wrote True Romance ...

What the heck is R? Can you use complete words possibly?

Sorry I left out the T by accident. So "TR" True Romance"

Has anyone noticed The Town is a complete ripoff of Heat?

Really? True Romance is just a vehicle for Tarantino dialogue and Tony Scott's slick filming style.

If TR copied Badlands, then Badlands copied Bonnie & Clyde.

Natural born killers is even worse.

Kalifornia was riveting and disturbing for the right reasons. True Romance is vapid.

@@ricardocantoral7672 Life has become disturbing enough. I'd rather take a ride in the Pink Cadillac.

Honestly - You don't know what you are talking about.

@@williamcoate9491 Coming from a person that idolizes a serial rapist and a pedophile, that doesn't mean anything.

​@@parapoliticos52 What are you talking about? Who are the serial rapist and a pedophile? Is there a criminal in the film? Please explain.

@@parapoliticos52 Growing up in the 80's and 90's True Romance was one of those films that really surprised me. It made an impression. At the heart of it was this growing love between two lost souls who didn't know where they would end up, and when they found each other something sparked, something was electric and no matter the odds they weren't going to let it go. I don't know if it was the actors, the writer or the director but everything meshed in the right way. It was a love letter to movies and what movies can accomplish. This film along with Big Trouble in Little China will always be my all time favorites. Now I don't know or really understand your previous comment but like with all people stuck in a pandemic crisis resulting from our current administration's bungled response I will say peace and good luck to you.

They often were and really preachy. Especially that rodge ebert.

Stay with it. It's terrific 👍 👍 for me

You’re terrible

Thank you

For various reasons Joy Luck Club reminds me of a female Bridge Over The River Kwai. I think the sweep of history and intertwined story lines are perfectly executed.