Siskel & Ebert (1993) - The Good Son, The Program, A Bronx Tale, Bopha, Dazed and Confused
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In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: The Good Son, The Program, A Bronx Tale, Bopha and Dazed & Confused.
Dazed and Confused is one of the many films I can watch over and over again and never be bored by it.
I was once a manager at an electronics store...and I looped it 24/7 on all the TV's. Love that movie...
Check you later, lol
Affleck , is either uncredited or using another name in Dazed i think.
yup. there's only a few movies that once started, I won't pause. Goodfellas is one. And, surprisingly or not, Dazed and Confused is another. :)
To me it’s the opposite of a guilty pleasure. There should be no reason why I shouldn’t like that movie, but I didn’t really care for some of the mean spirited humor, the soundtrack was great. It certainly is quotable, but I think I’ll be quoting Goodfellas or the big Lebowski instead
Dazed and Confused is so damn good.
You cool man?
The best!
We get older and Dazed and Confused stays the same age. Yes it does
I saw it in the fall of 1993 in the discount theatres with my brother and his rocker friend home from college break in Utah. And he had me sneak two 40oz's into the theatre in the front pouch of my starter jacket. I was 9 years old. Suck an awesome movie.
@varsity athlete you're going to go to jail one of these days.
Man, those guys were spot on about a Bronx tale. That movie is fantastic and is completely held up over the test of time. It could be better today than it was when it was released in my opinion.
It's underrated for sure.
I'd love to go back to 93.
I was Class of 76 in Memphis. Dazed and Confused looked and sounded EXACTLY like my high school days. The hair and clothes and music. Hell, it even SMELLED like my high school days.
@Snide Remarks 300 milk cartons.
I used to get so excited as a kid when this came on tv
They're so worried about the kids -- I saw both The Good Son and My Girl as a little kid, I was 100% more traumatized by My Girl... ("he can't see without his glasses!!")
Good point. My girl made me feel a lot of things that a 6 year old didn’t know how to feel about lol
@@ilovebrandnewcarpets 18:25 _My Girl:_ Macaulay had to tell kids that he wasn't really dead, it was just a movie! I think this was a movie that was originally rated PG-13, but they got it reclassified to PG. I think the censors don't want kids to see movies about themselves or kids their age, as they rated _Are You There God? It's Me Margaret,_ PG-13 this year, so under-13s would be less likely to see a movie about 11-year-old girls going through puberty and thinking about religion. Once you're 13 you're likely past it.
But there's an argument going around that putting kids in danger is a cheap way for movies to get an emotional reaction from audiences; this includes _Jurassic Park._
The opening was pure 100% Grade A nostalgia and I also love Dazed and Confused and I loved The Good Son as a kid but it has serious plot holes 🤣
A pleasant throwback that I didn't know I needed.
Dazed and Confused is one of the greatest movies of all time! It’s a time travel back to the 70s that I remember as a kid. I went to a high school in a small town with hazing. It was a rite of passage!
if you ever feel nostalgic i'll paddle you
Golden era of movie reviews. If a program of this quality existed today, I'd DVR every single episode. Two giants of film criticism and both missed dearly
Dazed and confused is an absolute classic!
I was 7 when “the good son” came out and absolutely loved it 😂
I could listen to these guys do movie reviews all day. Actually I have been lately, thx to YT, lol.
Dazed and Confused is the best high school movie ever made, especially if you grew up white and middle class, you could really relate.
Dazed and confused and A Bronx Tale are two my favorite movies
Bronx Tale is a classic 👌
Thanks for posting.
Me and my sister watched The Good Son as kids. Lol 😂
@I Coroa We did too! I still like it better than Home Alone.
You're going to Siberia
My parent's didn't GAF about me watching inappropriate things. lol I was staying up at 11 years old and watching Real Sex on HBO.
@@DustinHawke We used to talk about what Emmanuel movies we saw on Cinemax when I was in 7th grade at lunch.
The soundtrack to Dazed and Confused alone is a classic. "I get older, they stay the same age"
Love Ebert, but his moralizing gets hilariously pearl clutching sometimes.
Completely, shouting at parents not to bring the kids to Jurassic Park, my god if they listened to him back then id have never experienced such a classic movie
Democrats don't have morals like this anymore.
I'm glad Vincent Gallo put a curse on him.
Ebert may have moralized here, but it was Siskel who was the moral conservative. Remember, Ebert wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Everyone has a line that, when crossed, completely them you off. Ebert’s line was unconscionable sadism. Check his review of Blue Velvet.
@@jjmalaprop9968 Moral conservative? lol, they were both famous liberals. They just didn't like Hollywood trash.
I loved the Good Son. Great movie. Disturbing, yes, but entertaining nonetheless.
I used to joke that after being left home alone (twice!) he went bad.
Damn. A lot of good movies that held up
Subbed. Thank you.
Looking back at this nearly 30 years later, Gene Siskel nailed these movies to a "T." The movies he gave a thumbs up to, A Bronx Tale and Dazed and Confused, are the only movies that are still in regular rotation on cable and streaming services. The Program gets occasional play, but as Gene said, they just gave Superficial glimpses into the characters, which is why it's not a classic.
I liked The Program but it was just a shallow peek into a team, no actual storylines that played out. He was dead on, I may have to go binge some of his old opinions on movies.
What was the other football movie Gene was referencing?
@@caza728 Probably Rudy, which they reviewed a couple of episodes later.
Dazed and confused is amazing
“What possible audience is there for a film starring Macaulay Culkin as a sadistic and hateful little monster and murderer?” As it turns out, Ebert grossly underestimated Culkin’s drawing power at the time (as did Siskel) lol
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but Macauley's manager at the time was his father Kit, wasn't he? And from what I've heard, Kit Culkin really wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer and was more than a little batshit to boot. Of course, at that point in his career, Mac could pretty much do whatever roles he wanted. I think Mac decided to play Henry in The Good Son because he saw it as a chance to get away from his "adorable little boy" image. Boy did that backfire on him. It really hurt his career.
I don't think so. It was more oversaturation and apathy. This movie was a god choice if he saw the writing on the wall. Change it up and stretch his legs a bit. I liked the movie. No expects a child to be that sociopathic and evil but they do exist.
Yes to Kit issues. Yes for role which didn't push Mac career forward. Elijah Wood was more memorable to me. The writing etc was bad. Now My Girl was great movie. All actors were also great.
It certainly didn’t hurt Frodo’s career.
Maybe It would have been a better movie if Culkin wasn't in it. Culkin is a good actor, but he wasn't the first choice for this role. Kit used his power to have the original lead child-actor replaced. Compelling performances aren't always the salvation of an insipid movie, but perhaps it would have helped a tiny fraction.
Kit demanded Fox give this role to Mac even though Jesse Bradford had already been cast and filming was to begin in New England. After Kit threatened to pull his son out of _Home Alone 2,_ Fox caved. The original director also departed because of this
Have all of your uploads been in 60fps or am I just noticing it with this one. It looks cool.
Not all have been 60 fps. It actually takes a lot of time to do 60 fps because parts of the video become warped. So, I have to cover up warping with segments at 30fps. I also look for super clean episodes as candidates for 60 fps. I'd say I've post 10 episodes with this update.
@@ThatOldTV Nice work.
The Program's players are nearly as old as the Necessary Roughness players. QB is like 30
Dazed And Confused is a classic
Wow but the Good Son was so good lol
And why don't they even make the obvious _Bad Seed_ comparison? The boys are reviewing this like that film never existed 🤨
Even though I agree with them on Good Son I thought it had potential ever since i was a kid at release.
Should've been like We Need To Talk About Kevin (not Mccallister) . I wouldn't have made Elijah Wood terrorized but he still could've grown a great friend to the kid but ultimately been the 1 to bring him down. Hell why not throw in a showdown with no escape that ripoffs the ending to Cape Fear
This movie was ahead of its time, given the popularity of "Desperate Housewives" and "Succession"
@@laurabeane8862 yeah it hurt having those 80-90s suspense vibes that a lot went for after success of films like Fatal Attraction. It could've been more Stephen King or have those self aware elements not be a kids Basic Instinct
@@darrinfromvault801 Having Tilda Swinton as the Mother immediately turned me off from the "We Need To Talk About Kevin" movie. js😐
It’s a loose remake of the film The Bad Seed. There were no ratings back then so I’m sure plenty of kids were traumatized by the little girl beating, drowning and burning up a man alive. Wonder how they felt about The Omen
Yeah The Good Son is stupid until you actually meet that kid...yeah stay the f away from that kid. It should be required viewing for pre-teens.
I loved the good son,and man do i miss the 90s
I don’t think people where taking the kids to see The Good Son.
Nice video quality. How did you do it?
I updated the frame rate to 60 fps.
@@ThatOldTV Great work, as always!
whoa this was an actual show??
Culkin was a little too good in The Good Son. Played a child sociopath extremely well. Hannibal Lecter as a kid. Still, the movie devolved into a cliche suspense thriller down to the last scene.
What made Culkin worked as Henry in the film good son it showed he can do villain roles and not the home alone stuff he was only remembered for as sometimes you want to me notice for something else and break away from the iconic role people saw you in much like Ben stiller making the film cable guy or the actor who played iron man when he did dolittle
I didn't see his performance as genuine at all. He seemed rather wooden and unconvincing.
I liked the kid in _A Haunting in Venice,_ actor Jude Hill.
Siskel is such a kill joy.
They're both dummies.
Was the football film Gene was talking about that was a better shot football film than The Program supposed to be Rudy?
Ebert is such a moral hysteric, but then is quickly down for a gangster film depicting horrific male violence.
Make sure to watch the poor man’s Dazed and Confused: The Stoned Ages
It’s good too
Thats true it was funny
i wish these guys would get back together
Zombie siskel and ebert? That's what it would have to be. I'd watch that. Lol.
Well maybe they could do some kind of weekend at Bernie set up lol. 🤔😄
The Good Son 👎⭐️
The Program 👎⭐️⭐️
A Bronx Tale 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dazed & Confused 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️ & a half out of 4
Agree
decent flicks...i saw The Peogram the day it came out with the scene with them laying on the yellow line still in...The Good Son is a remake of The Bad Seed and Sophie's Choice...and though its awful its not this bad.
I love they didnt appreciate the good son, when it is in the same vein as The Good Seed, even the title seems referential.
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age"
Loved them as a team simply the best . But man siskel was hard ass but that’s what made them great together . Rip siskel and ebert . Oh and by the way a small tidbit ebert was married to a black women yol his passing.
If you could put up the episode where they reviewed "Howard the Duck". As a kid I always watched this show. They hated Howard and I almost didn't see it because it's their review. I ended up going with friends and loved it. From then on I still watched but took their reviews with a grain of salt. Still good stuff though.
how stars came out of dazed and confused?
Are you asking what stars? Because the answer is Matthew Mcconaughey and Ben Afleck. Also Joey Lauren Adams had a solid career after the film. Same for Adam Goldberg and Milla Jovovich. Jovovich is the star of a very successful film franchise.
Problem Child > The Good Son
The Good Son was a good suspenseful movie. They are off on that one.
Way off
I threw every dvd away that had de niro in it.
I happened to like THE GOOD SON.
They didn't call out the Good Son's director. Hmm.
What other football movie is siskel referencing?
Rudy, I think
I love dazed and confused
I do remember as a kid at blockbusters one time asking my dad let's rent the good son because it had macualay culkin on the movie cover. It was an R rated movie so that was denied.
And I remember in my high school years we finally rented the good son and I don't think it's as bad as siskel and ebert make it out to be. I thought it was scary and depressing especially the scene of elijah woods character losing his mother.
It’s definitely not bad. They made it out to be the worst movie ever, and it’s not. If they could only see the movies of today lol
Until his passing
Anyone of these movies is the Godfather compared to the garbage released today.
You're seeing the wrong movies then. There are plenty of movies released in the recent past that are better than the Program and the Good Son. Not being as good as Bronx Tale and Dazed and Confused is no sin.
Thanks Siskel for recommending my girl to children wtf I was traumatized by that shit lol
So am I the only one that thinks it's weird that they didn't name Taryl Hicks?
If the title was “Stephen King’s The Good Son” it would probably would have been a different review
I generally like Rodger’s takes, even when I disagree with them, but I get the distinct impression that he grades films about or starring minorities on an easier curve.
4:07 - :10 Certainly worth comparing to 2:22.
It was called "rat week"
What a great job. Just watch movies, talk about ‘em, write about ‘em and……that’s it. That’s the job. So good.
Not always bullseye tho. For one, they both gave Home Alone thumbs down.
Black love story!🤣
roger thinks culkin should of ben kept out of this wonder if he is his dad said he would pull culkin out of home alone 2 if he wasenr cAST IN THE LEAD
poor Elijah Wood, man.
1993, the young squire's movie _The Good Son_ is VICIOUSLY TRASHED on Siskel & Ebert.
1994, the young squire's movie _North_ is _EVISCERATED by NAPALM_ on Siskel & Ebert, quickly becoming what I'd say is the most famous negative movie review of all _time._
at his age I do doubt he's making many career moves on his own.
"Hey, the new McCauley Culkin movie? how could Elijah loose!"
"Hey, the new Rob Reiner movie? how could Elijah loose!"
and then, a few short years later I bet
"Hey, who the HELL is Peter Jackson? What's a Hobbit? I say HARD PASS, Elijah."
we just never know what's going to be good. we think we do, but we don't. in 1993 there were very few directors with more goodwill, more JUICE than Rob Reiner. and I bet _The Lord of the Rings_ trilogy [!!?] seemed like a ridiculous risk.
"The Good Son" was cinematic McDonald's.
"Dazed & Confused" is wildly overrated.
Those Two are SOOO wrong about The Good Son. Granted it’s no masterpieces but it’s a well made thriller
The movie reminded me of "Foxes" starring Jodie Foster. You mean preteen BOYS could have Bad Instincts, as well!?
@@laurabeane8862 Foxes is so good. Totally underrated.
I loved the good son as a kid. But I also thought Mac was creepy af in Home Alone and thought this was a more fitting role for him lol
19:20 - 'The Good Son': 👎👎, 'The Program': 👎(S)👍(E), 'A Bronx Tale': 👍👍, 'Bopha!': 👎(S)👍(E), 'Dazed and Confused': 👍👍
_Bopha_ coming out in 1993, when Apartheid ended seems a bit... late.
I loved the good son. Great movie. Plot, acting,
"I didn't say it was bad, it just wasn't good."
"High powered criticism."
I love how they are just shitting all over "the Good son" lol ---- but then again how do you get behind a film like that anyway! priceless
I'm sorry, but this is not the first time that a child has played a sadistic killer, I would remind you of the Classic film The Bad Seed. In that film, a young girl--Rhoda--kills those around her, including a schoolmate who was given an award she felt should have gone to her, her neighbor and others---but all the critics of the day said was, DON'T Give Away the ending. Was the film as violent as The Good Son? Sure, but in the Bad Seed, most of Rhoda's violence is implied. For example, in one graphic scene the building--where Rhoda and her mother live--has a handyman, and the handyman begins to suspect that Rhoda had something to do with the death of a schoolmate. In the scene he hears Rhoda walking across a tile floor and notes that she has metal taps on her shoes. He then accuses Rhoda of using those shoes to pound the tiny hands of her classmate who was trying to climb out of the pond using the wooden dock. He suggests that Rhoda was there and kept hitting his hands with those metal taps. "They can look at his hands, and they will when I tell them to do it, and they will see those little half-moon marks, and when I show them your shoes, those metal taps, they'll know it was you. They'll know that he was trying to climb out and save himself and you were there hitting him, forcing him to drown.' He sees in her eyes that Rhoda is disturbed by this, and scares him. He suspects that he might have said too much, but now he knows he must get the shoes and go to the police. That kind of implied violence is every bit as suspenseful as anything you SEE in the Good Son. I think this weakness on the part of these two critics is a sign of the rot that was even then creeping into our society. A rot aimed at attacking White boys and what would later be known as 'toxic masculinity'. To support this idea, notice that they NEVER criticize the fact that the boy comes from a single parent home headed up by a woman. Where is the father's influence?
The Good Son is far better than Home Alone and My Girl as a story put to film. If they thought that was terrible in 1993 I wonder what they would say about parents teaching their sons that they are daughters today? 🙄
I don't much care for The Good Son **nor** A Bromx Tale.....but it is interesting how both of these two critics metaphorically crucify The Good Son over the exact same elements that they both praise in "A Bronx Tale." A Bronx Tale is just so stereotypical; unbelievable too (not just in how the protagonist is invited into the mob, but also, how the girl just forgets in 5 minutes how he had used the "N word" in her presence. Perhaps most hilarious of all is this notion that any soldier in La Costa Nostra would encourage (let alone **accept**) his young protégé/friend to romance an African-American. Pffft. The Italian mafia is one of the most racist organizations and entities in history. DeNiro deserves an Oscar for this film just for managing to keep a straight face, LOL.
dumb comment
I mean, it was written by Chaz Palmienteri and based on his experiences in his younger days. I don't know how much of it is really true, but I'm gonna assume he has a better grasp on the reality of it than any of us.
A Bronx Tale...mobsters somehow beat up bikers.