Siskel & Ebert Classics 12/8/88 - Twins, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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- Two well-remembered comedies plus MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN and TEQUILA SUNRISE in a memorable December 1988 show.
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RIP Kelly Preston. So beautiful, gone too soon
Gene was spot on with his analysis of DRS, and yet I give it a thumbs up because Martin and Caine are just that good.
saw it at age 14 and it was funny to a kid from a small town
I saw it in theaters as a 12-year old and I agree with the masters here but skew more towards Roger. The first two-thirds of the movie is golden but kind of falls flat the rest of the way. I was 12 and didn't quite see that final twist coming.
I love how they get their final digs in on each other in the end.
It never ceases to amaze me that no one ever mentions that Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on another movie (Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando and David Niven). The plot and scenes (except the end) are identical.
I remember seeing that it was a remake. It was either in a written review by Ebert or possibly Leonard Maltin. For some reason Bedtime Story is in that movies that time forgot category, in that despite having 2 big stars was never in heavy tv rotation.
Some critics did accurately note that the film is a *remake* of Bedtime Story (1964). But some critics apparently were not aware, because the original had not been a major hit. The original, however, has better performances than the remake. Brando is a better actor than Steve Martin and plays a sleazy two-bit conman better. David Niven and Michael Caine are both great, but Niven slightly outdoes Caine
@@commanderkeen3787 Steve Martin was a better comic actor than Marlon Brando.
Amazing he number of decent to classic movies they reviewed weekly and today we are lucky if we get one good or classic movie per year.
Thank you for this bit of Nostalgia (I remember these from when I was like 5-6, and for years had the theme song in my head and forgot where it was from until seeing these films on youtube a couple years ago during COVID)
They couldn't have been more wrong on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a wonderful comedy.
gene thought my step mother is an alien was better than dirty rotten scoundrels and twins.
IKR?? Love Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. They missed the mark on that one.
Can't believe how many films these reviews keep throwing up that are still popular decades later, as opposed to the drought we have now of variety and big name actors
I just noticed that in the show’s opening, Gene and Roger are using typewriters.
@Nick Perkins - my ... how observant of you! Typewriters were a thing back in the day ... do you want a congressional medal for noticing?!?
Gene was using a computer
Twins is such a funny movie
It;s not often I have the patience to sit and watch an older movie but I recently did with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and I enjoyed it. I laughed aloud several times, especially at the wheel chair bit. Gene should have given it a pass.
The wheelchair scene is hilarious 😂
quintessential episode - each gets hacked off that their respective criteria are not applied equally to successive reviews
Both Scoundrels and Twins classics (Arnie and Danny do their white suit walk out in a way overcrowded Santa Fe Plaza).
Twins, Tequila Sunrise, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels are all worth a watch. Wiseguys is a bad film, but I challenge anyone to watch it. Who knows you may like it.
I know critics pretty much universally panned it, but I actually kind of like Wiseguys. It’s not very good, even by 80s caper comedy standards, but it has moments.
my bitch of a step mom loves Dirty Rotten Scoudrels and we watched it many times. I do like it, Steve Martin as the young arrogant con man vs the experienced veteran classy Michael Caine. The whipping part was probably the best and the ending was a nice twist.
I thought Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was great, but thought Twins was awful.
I love Wiseguys. Watch it all the time. Always think of it when I'm in Atlantic City. Stepmother is godawful. Tequila Sunrise is bland. Twins is nice. Scoundrels has grown on me over the years.
Arnie looks hilarious in the thumbnail
Some Spit votes
I think Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a good example of when Gene gets it wrong because he's losing sight of the purpose of recommending a film as opposed to not recommending it. Too often Gene is operating under the assumption that if he recommends a film that isn't "great" he's doing the public a disservice and that's just not so. It's hard for me to imagine anyone coming out of that movie thinking it was the greatest comedy they ever saw. But it's also hard to imagine anyone being angry that someone recommended it. There's a big difference between a really enthusiastic endorsement and a "yeah, it's okay." lol. Roger understood that perfectly.
"HhEyY...dICKhEdT"
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Twins are two of the best comedies from the 1980s. But any film in which Dan Aykroyd was the biggest name was never good.
Trading Places, it could be argued he and Eddie Murphy were equally the protagonist and it's a great film.
@@Mr.Goodkat Trading Places was great!!
@@suzycreamcheesez4371 I know.
@@Mr.Goodkat At the time he was bigger than Murphy
The Great Outdoors, Dragnet, & Spies Like Us were all good.
Ebert was uncharacteristically wrong about Wiseguys. It had some funny scenes, but overall was a very bad film.
You can't be wrong about giving opinions on art.
@@zxbc1 Well, firstly, whether "Wiseguys" is "art" is highly questionable. Secondly, when "artists" and their economic allies want to sell as much product as possible, they always say the same thing "it is whatever you want it to be". Because if they admitted that the product can be clearly defined, then they would not be able to sell nearly as much product.
@@notsure1277 are you ok?
Wiseguys was a bad film. De Palma can't do comedy. He can do action, suspense, thriller. But he can't do comedy. And for some reason he was never good at picking comedy scripts