'Christine', the novel, rode on a horror-thriller frame, but the story was really about early friendship, and the way it dissolves along with our youth. It is heartbreaking in its own gruesome way, thanks to Stephen King.
SILKWOOD is flawless! Such display of character and precise acting! Shocked it didn't get much Oscar attention, that's as good as Streep has ever been without a foreign accent.
I remember watching this episode like it was yesterday . I was 4yrs old and was excited to watch Christine in the theater. I saw this film with D.C Cab double feature in west L.A
True story. When I was seven, I went to a friend's birthday party where the Highlight was gathering everyone around to pop in a videocassette of Thriller. While Siskel and Ebert have reasonable criticisms in terms of how derivative the work is Michael Jackson's and John Landis's earlier work, it's still just great fun and less reminiscent of earlier horror movies than it is of the experience of staying up late at night to watch a Creature Feature with a good host introducing the work.
I’m no fan of Michael Jackson the person, and the things he was accused of. However, “Thriller” is a great short film. I was 13 when the video premiered, and it was the scariest thing I’d seen since the Salem’s Lot TV movie. Exceptionally well done.
Thank God both of them like Christine. It was not very good with The Thing And Sudden Impact was the best return of Callahan we could have. Darker, more violent, more DePalma style, the best after the original
Silkwood is not normally the kind of movie I like but it was haunting and so well acted. Thumbs up for Cher ; lesbians do that hands in the pocket walk as she did in that scene !
I'm still kinda wondering why Keith Gordon didn't really do much more. He was a good/likeable actor. I think I only saw him in one other movie, playing Rodney Dangerfield's son in "Back to school." I don't remember seeing him, ever again after that.
Directed A Midnight Clear, a film which deserves more attention. He did create some intriguing sympathetic characters-Dressed to Kill is his best work, he and Nancy Allen have some great scenes together. I even liked him in the mediocre Legend of Bille Jean!
Sudden Impact is underrated; my favourite Eastwood flick in that decade. Thriller is the best music video ever made. These guys know their movies, not their music videos
@@linkbiff1054 Sudden Impact. Up until last year, I had only seen Dirty Harry, and my dad loved the series, so I bought the box set on the cheap and watched them all in order. They got progressively worse. None of them came close to Dirty Harry. As for Siskel saying the first one had no humour, he had a terrible memory, because I remember several funny moments in Dirty Harry, such as the first time he talks to the mayor, the first time he meets his new partner, the way he talks to fatso, and the moment he meets the gay guy.
@@Revelian1982 I do agree that the best Dirty Harry film is the first entry but I don't agree that they got "progressively worse". Sudden Impact was the fourth entry and it was better than the previous two films. The worst was The Enforcer, the third film.
Boy did they get Thriller wrong! It was INTENDED to be a parody of the old-style Universal horror movies, and I thought it was fantastic. You can't condemn the video for being what it is, guys!
@@wowview2 Gene, particularly lightened up once he became part time for the Tribune. Starting in 1987 he only did short capsule reviews. He wasn’t as tough starting then
@@Vs35796 Gene's Flicks Picks actually began on August 8th, 1986...yeah, the reviews were shortened, but Gene always got to the point...but there were times when Gene could still be hard and vicious on certain films when he wanted to be...
It's wild to me that Siskel & Ebert could love a mediocre John Carpenter movie like _Christine_ and hate or give a marginal thumbs down to masterpieces like _The Thing_ and _Escape From New York_ . Carpenter deserves props for taking an assignment like this or _Starman_ and delivering what audiences and critics wanted but none of those pictures have really stood the test of time, in my opinion.
I see Escape From New York as a solid entertainment. Not brilliant but hardly bad. The Thing however is a brilliant combo of horror and a paranoia thriller with a pitch perfect conclusion. Gene Siskel enjoyed both but Roger gave thumbs down to both of them.
a Disco is just a generis term for a dance club. used by a lot of people well after Disco "the music" went out of style. really its no different to me than in the 90s when i would hear people call music on the top 40 radio station "Alternative music" . or when people 10 years ago would say they like Indie bands, but they are talking about a bunch of bands that are signed to major labels or just small labels that are really just subsidiaries of major labels.
Thank U, I tried to upload this video before & kept blocking 🚫 me. 1:36 Christine was strange but entertaining thriller, special effects & the cast were good. I wish there were more scenes where Christine goes on a rampage throughout the town & killing everyone whose in her way also there should've been investigation of the car by the police other than that I enjoy the film. 👍🌟🌟🌟 6:26 Silkwood is emotional moving melodrama film raises lot of hackles you have to face. 👍🌟🌟🌟 16:58 Thriller was 15 min short movie, I agree the music & dance were little too long like 10 minutes but I enjoy the song & it was Michael Jackson's best ever. 👍🌟🌟🌟 11:47 I seen & like all Dirty Harry sequels, I agree with Siskel, the villains in Sudden Impact could've been better but I liked it anyway 👍🌟🌟🌟. 19:03 The reviews
Dirty Harry removed from urban environment and taken to a small town setting and recalls the visuals of vintage noir. Sondra Locke killed it as the female Paul Kersey avenging herself upon low level sleaze bags. The construction of the film needed tightening but it's still one of the best DH films, right below the first film.
I really liked the first half....but not a great climax...they talk about Sandra Locke being the villain but she really isn`t the main villain in the movie
@@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 I think the film would have been more interesting if she was the villain. I wish that was the case instead of making the dull character Mick the villain who was obviously derivative of Scorpio.
@@ricardocantoral7672 I'm on the fence with "Sudden Impact". I really love the first half. But the second half gets bogged down with the "Rape revenge" concept. I feel Harry letting her go betrays his character's moral compass.
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 The problem with lettering her go was it wasn't made out to be a big deal. Had they built up to that moment properly, it would have been a great conclusion to the series. I think the way it could have worked is Harry stealing the revolver and then, in a final scene, we see him throwing it into the river. That would have drove home the point that it wasn't about saving the love interest, it was Harry giving up on law for good.
As I remember it, there was originally a disclaimer at the beginning of the video saying that Micheal Jackson didn't believe in the occult. That might be the controversy they're talking about.
1983 is prime Siskel & Ebert and they had great movies to review.
'Christine', the novel, rode on a horror-thriller frame, but the story was really about early friendship, and the way it dissolves along with our youth. It is heartbreaking in its own gruesome way, thanks to Stephen King.
SILKWOOD is flawless! Such display of character and precise acting! Shocked it didn't get much Oscar attention, that's as good as Streep has ever been without a foreign accent.
I thought Silkwood got a few major Oscar nominations.
Maybe not Best Picture, but still...
I remember watching this episode like it was yesterday . I was 4yrs old and was excited to watch Christine in the theater. I saw this film with D.C Cab double feature in west L.A
Nice combo
True story. When I was seven, I went to a friend's birthday party where the Highlight was gathering everyone around to pop in a videocassette of Thriller. While Siskel and Ebert have reasonable criticisms in terms of how derivative the work is Michael Jackson's and John Landis's earlier work, it's still just great fun and less reminiscent of earlier horror movies than it is of the experience of staying up late at night to watch a Creature Feature with a good host introducing the work.
Yup.
True
Kieth Gordon’s performance in Christine is one of my favorite acting performances of all time, from any genre.
Christine is a classic!!
I LOVE CHRISTINE!
I’m confused about the review of Thriller. It seems they are giving it a thumbs down for not being more than what it is: a long music video.
I’m no fan of Michael Jackson the person, and the things he was accused of. However, “Thriller” is a great short film. I was 13 when the video premiered, and it was the scariest thing I’d seen since the Salem’s Lot TV movie. Exceptionally well done.
This one reminds me of 'Sneakin' into the Movies' from _Hollywood Shuffle_ - "We both gave _Dirty Larry_ the finger!"
😂😂
"I guess that's going to be his catchphrase now" hehehehehehehe
Thank God both of them like Christine. It was not very good with The Thing
And Sudden Impact was the best return of Callahan we could have. Darker, more violent, more DePalma style, the best after the original
1 time President Reagan said publicly “go ahead; make my day!” I believe he was talking to Congress discussing raising taxes
Silkwood is not normally the kind of movie I like but it was haunting and so well acted. Thumbs up for Cher ; lesbians do that hands in the pocket walk as she did in that scene !
Dude, most people with pockets will walk like dat at some point in their lives
I'm here for Silkwood. Great movie indeed.
Sudden Impact makes a great double feature with Tight Rope
...and to think one of these two gave "The Silence of The Lambs" a thumbs down...
Siskel did
Christine 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sudden Impact 👍⭐️⭐️ & a half out of 4
Very strange to watch a Christine review with absolutely no mention of Stephen King (the author) or John Carpenter (the director).
Yeah, it is so weird to not have their names mentioned.
Apparently in the book the car was haunted by the ghost of the previous owner. I thought it was creepier the car had its own malevolent spirit.
Christine heeeell yeah
I'm still kinda wondering why Keith Gordon didn't really do much more. He was a good/likeable actor. I think I only saw him in one other movie, playing Rodney Dangerfield's son in "Back to school." I don't remember seeing him, ever again after that.
He´s become a very busy director
Directed A Midnight Clear, a film which deserves more attention. He did create some intriguing sympathetic characters-Dressed to Kill is his best work, he and Nancy Allen have some great scenes together. I even liked him in the mediocre Legend of Bille Jean!
He transitioned from acting to directing.
He actually was in quite a few movies in the 80s and he was so good in all of them. Check out Dressed to Kill! ❤
Sudden Impact is underrated; my favourite Eastwood flick in that decade.
Thriller is the best music video ever made. These guys know their movies, not their music videos
I thought it was shite.
@@Revelian1982 Sudden Impact or Thriller?
Sudden Impact was enjoyable but it was nothing compared to Tightrope.
@@linkbiff1054 Sudden Impact. Up until last year, I had only seen Dirty Harry, and my dad loved the series, so I bought the box set on the cheap and watched them all in order. They got progressively worse. None of them came close to Dirty Harry.
As for Siskel saying the first one had no humour, he had a terrible memory, because I remember several funny moments in Dirty Harry, such as the first time he talks to the mayor, the first time he meets his new partner, the way he talks to fatso, and the moment he meets the gay guy.
@@Revelian1982 I do agree that the best Dirty Harry film is the first entry but I don't agree that they got "progressively worse". Sudden Impact was the fourth entry and it was better than the previous two films. The worst was The Enforcer, the third film.
They reviewed a music video? wtf
Short film
Thriller is a classic! Even prisoners in China dance to it!
They really blew it on Thriller. The film is a homage to vintage horror movies and it went right over their heads.
Not really. As a music video it is one of the classic eighties event music video but they are judging as a short which is a total different beast.
@@stephennootens916 They still blew it because they didn't comprehend what they were watching.
really strong week...I saw every movie in the cinema
Boy did they get Thriller wrong! It was INTENDED to be a parody of the old-style Universal horror movies, and I thought it was fantastic. You can't condemn the video for being what it is, guys!
As beloved as they are now they were the original Pretentious Hipsters
@@adagiobreeze8493 " WRRUHNNG." -Arnie
I always loved S&E’s passion, but they were wrong or misinterpreted a lot. However, they’d lighten up later on. IMO a little too much at times.
@@wowview2 Gene, particularly lightened up once he became part time for the Tribune. Starting in 1987 he only did short capsule reviews. He wasn’t as tough starting then
@@Vs35796 Gene's Flicks Picks actually began on August 8th, 1986...yeah, the reviews were shortened, but Gene always got to the point...but there were times when Gene could still be hard and vicious on certain films when he wanted to be...
👎👎 for their review of Thriller! Proof Siskel & Ebert get it wrong now and then!
R.I.P Sondra Locke.
They were too old for Thriller I guess. At this time on another episode they had one of their biggest fights reviewing Scarface
BINGO.
Check out their fight on Blue Velvet! Roger makes himself look like an idiot.
Cher was fantastic in Silkwood.
Absolutely. She's a tremendous talent.
It's wild to me that Siskel & Ebert could love a mediocre John Carpenter movie like _Christine_ and hate or give a marginal thumbs down to masterpieces like _The Thing_ and _Escape From New York_ . Carpenter deserves props for taking an assignment like this or _Starman_ and delivering what audiences and critics wanted but none of those pictures have really stood the test of time, in my opinion.
I'd say they both gave "Christine" a marginal thumbs up. They both pretty much said it was silly, but "it worked for them".
I see Escape From New York as a solid entertainment. Not brilliant but hardly bad. The Thing however is a brilliant combo of horror and a paranoia thriller with a pitch perfect conclusion. Gene Siskel enjoyed both but Roger gave thumbs down to both of them.
Did Ebert really say Thriller was being heard in a disco? In 1983?
a Disco is just a generis term for a dance club. used by a lot of people well after Disco "the music" went out of style. really its no different to me than in the 90s when i would hear people call music on the top 40 radio station "Alternative music" . or when people 10 years ago would say they like Indie bands, but they are talking about a bunch of bands that are signed to major labels or just small labels that are really just subsidiaries of major labels.
Thank U, I tried to upload this video before & kept blocking 🚫 me.
1:36 Christine was strange but entertaining thriller, special effects & the cast were good. I wish there were more scenes where Christine goes on a rampage throughout the town & killing everyone whose in her way also there should've been investigation of the car by the police other than that I enjoy the film. 👍🌟🌟🌟
6:26 Silkwood is emotional moving melodrama film raises lot of hackles you have to face. 👍🌟🌟🌟
16:58 Thriller was 15 min short movie, I agree the music & dance were little too long like 10 minutes but I enjoy the song & it was Michael Jackson's best ever. 👍🌟🌟🌟
11:47 I seen & like all Dirty Harry sequels, I agree with Siskel, the villains in Sudden Impact could've been better but I liked it anyway 👍🌟🌟🌟.
19:03 The reviews
Did they ever review Eastwood’s first movie as a director (Play Misty For Me.)?
That's still one of Eastwood's best.
In their newspaper reviews...they weren't on TV until 1975...
@@hevyonez97 - Ah, Thank You. I'll have to check it out, but did they like it?
@@matthewschwartz6607 they both loved it....
Remember folks...two thumbs down for THRILLER...aka the most revered music video of all time.
"Sudden Impact" is half kick ass Dirty Harry movie, half T.V movie of the week.
Dirty Harry removed from urban environment and taken to a small town setting and recalls the visuals of vintage noir. Sondra Locke killed it as the female Paul Kersey avenging herself upon low level sleaze bags. The construction of the film needed tightening but it's still one of the best DH films, right below the first film.
I really liked the first half....but not a great climax...they talk about Sandra Locke being the villain but she really isn`t the main villain in the movie
@@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 I think the film would have been more interesting if she was the villain. I wish that was the case instead of making the dull character Mick the villain who was obviously derivative of Scorpio.
@@ricardocantoral7672 I'm on the fence with "Sudden Impact". I really love the first half. But the second half gets bogged down with the "Rape revenge" concept. I feel Harry letting her go betrays his character's moral compass.
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 The problem with lettering her go was it wasn't made out to be a big deal. Had they built up to that moment properly, it would have been a great conclusion to the series.
I think the way it could have worked is Harry stealing the revolver and then, in a final scene, we see him throwing it into the river. That would have drove home the point that it wasn't about saving the love interest, it was Harry giving up on law for good.
Sudden Impact was one of the better Dirty Harry movies,,!
Thriller????? "Controversial????? What?????
I think they meant because it was a big budget studio production put into award competition against what are usually tiny budget independent works.
As I remember it, there was originally a disclaimer at the beginning of the video saying that Micheal Jackson didn't believe in the occult. That might be the controversy they're talking about.
John Carpenter is the master. Period.
Nah. He is a good director who made some great films.
Two thumbs down for Thriller! Sacrilege!!
He was a paedophile and you wanted them to give him a thumbs-up lol
What ?!!.
The guys that everyone slobbers all over getting it wrong on damn near every classic once again.
Christine was NOT SCARY .
Yeah I've always seen it more as a dark teen sex comedy
Check out a movie called the Car.
Much better killer car movie.
@@joerogers9413 The Car was a COMEDY ?
@@joesimon2029 No, it's a 70s horror movie. An underrated horror movie in my opinion.
@@joerogers9413 1980s .