"Jackie Brown" was out around that time to, I remember cause me and a couple black people were the only ones in the auditorium, TITANIC was right next door to us and we could hear a packed room of women moaning and groaning.
I think Robert Duvall should've won the Oscar that year for THE APOSTLE. What a great performance. I watched it recently and boy - does it stand up in 2023.
Between the four films here you have 24 Oscar nominations, including 2 Best Picture, 2 best director, 2 best actor, 2 best supporting actor, best actress, 2 best supporting actress, and best original screenplay. Wow.
A quarter century ago but it only seems like a few years. Its amazing to think so many high quality films came out over one holiday season. We're now lucky if we get one decent film and hopefully it isn't based on a comic book.
97 is the year i went from a boy to a man as far as liking films as a 10 yr old!!!! LA Confidential , The Edge , One Eight Seven , Donnie Brosco , Titanic , Good Will Hunting , Amastad , Starship Troopers , Boogie Nights , As Good As It Gets , The Apostle.... & even lesser films that aren't amazing masterpieces but are still really good films like Nothing To Lose , Alien Ressurection , Speed 2 : Cruise Control , James Bond 007 : Tomorrow Never Dies , The Devils Advocate , Con Air , Set It Off , Jurassic Park 2 : The Lost World & even The Wishmaster!!!! Seriously 1997 was pumping out straight hits back to back from of every single type of genre of film!!!!
1997 is my birth year and for what the year was it had some solid films!! My two favourites from the year would be Boogie Nights and Good Will Hunting, both terrific films!
@@andrewburgemeister6684 those are both amazing films but when u get my age u'll change ur mind...trust me on that !!!! I'm only 36 & grew up through all these films , I actually get sad that young folks didn't get to experience the 90's in the actual 90's like for real....I feel bad because I want everyone to know how good that felt to live back then before smart phones & Internet!!!! It was actually amazing & something the every single person my age would literally sell there soul for to live like that again!!!! ❤️
I didn't see Titanic at the theatre until it came out in 3D. I remember many critics panning Titanic, saying with the almost 300 million budget the movie would sink faster than the ship. I am so glad Gene and Roger set the record straight because then Titanic went on to gross 1.8 Billion, 2.2 Billion with the 3D release totals, and make those other critics look like idiots.
Siskel confirms what we all knew: DiCaprio should have received a Best Actor Oscar nomination, but sadly he was overlooked. Also, this may have been the only time all four movies got two thumbs up.
I very distinctly remember the day the Oscar noms came out and DiCaprio was not on the list for Best Actor. My friend and I were outraged. I can still remember the phone conversation we had, that’s how passionate about it we were LOL
Should/could have won it here, or WOWS or CMIYC or Django….but instead they give him a token Oscar for fighting a bear…the academy is mostly terrible 🙄
@@ilovebrandnewcarpets Don't forget about What's Eating Gilbert. I might have given him a win for his first nomination. He should have two or three Oscars by now and that's not including The Revenent
1997 was quite the year in movies. I think this is the first time watching there show in over 2 decades at the time that every movie they reviewed on a single show were thumb's up for both of them 😊
These 4 movies, all released within a few days of each other in 1997, are probably better than the the best 4 movies released in theaters over the entire year of 2023.
I still remember how Titanic was absolutely ridiculed during its lengthy and costly production and that it was regarded as a massive flop in the making that would ruin 20th Century Fox and obliterate James Cameron's career, who was only known for his action movies by then. I also still remember how it suddenly became the seminal blockbuster when it finally came out and that you couldn't escape the movie and "My heart will go on" for half a year and that some girl at my school went to see it 14 times in the cinema. Crazy times.
"We'll also look at Titanic". Nothing against Amistad but you can tell nobody predicted the box office and awards season explosion Titanic was about to have. A Spielberg movie was seen as the big movie of the week
Nobody predicted the success of the film, I agree, but sometimes they would save the biggest movie for after the first break. Jurassic Park, for example.
In fact, many had predicted a colossal flop, because the film went overbudget and its premiere was postponed by several months. Originally, it was supposed to have opened in the summer. Not to mention that it was a 3-hour period piece about a well-known tragedy.
@Chapin-pc2kz There was a TV Guide article shortly before the 1998 Oscars about how "Titanic" had joined the club occupied by movies like "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Dances with Wolves," movies that were supposed to be disasters but ended up huge hits and Oscar winners.
Did not realize Goodwill hunting came out when the titanic did. Lot of kids talked about titanic. Wasn’t until I was older we heard a bout good will hunting
Di Caprio "captivating" and Winslet "flat"??? Um, no. To say Leo was better than Kate is utter nonsense, not to mention the fact that it was the character of Rose who undergoes the biggest maturation during the course of the movie, while Jack remained pretty much the same. Conveying that kind of transformation required an actress of considerable talent, and Kate was more than up to the challenge.
And remember that Rose is supposed to be 17 years old. She doesn't even know who she is, only who she is supposed to be and Winslet captures that perfectly.
Absolutely agree. Kate winslet out acts di caprio through out the whole movie. Her role is much tougher as she has to make a privileged rich girl sympathetic and she smashes it out the park
I enjoy it and still will stop and watch it if I'm channel surfing but it's typical blockbuster entertainment with not a lot of depth to it (pun not intended). The best scenes were with Kathy Bates.
My favorite of these 4 was The Apostle, hands down. I am in my early 40s, and have, to this day, never seen Titanic! Nor have ever really had a desire to. Amistad’s story was good, but the movie itself was so sad. Good Will Hunting also had a good story and writing, but the accents got on my nerves. Robin Williams was terrific in it.
I'm still baffled Dicaprio wasn't even nominated for Titanic and Winslet didn't win best actress. Completely disagree with Siskel that she was flat, I think it's still Winslets' best performance. Helen Hunt was good in As Good as It Gets but not better than Kate in Titanic to me.
Kate has become my favorite actress over the past couple of years but I have to disagree with you on Titanic being her best film. She was good in the role but I don't think it was Oscar worthy. She has matured so much as an actress since Titanic. If you didn't see her performance in Mare of Easttown do yourself a favor and watch it. It was absolutely amazing.
I have to disagree with you. First off that is a series, you can't compare series to movies, at least I keep them separate. I've seen her career since I was a boy, saw her in The Reader which she won an Oscar for. She was good in that but still to me her performance as Rose tops them all. I definitely think she was not just Oscar worthy that year but the best. Helen Hunt had a solid part with As Good As It Gets as I mentioned before but no way was that better than Rose in Titanic. @@JG-vq6rd
A week full of highly praised films. the Jack character kind of ruined Titanic for me, i could not stand the way that one minute they would have him as some streetwise con man. then the nest minute he was some Awww shucks golly born in a barn rube, back and forth.
@@Tolstoy111 No, it's a 3 hour film with about 90 minutes of actual story. In other words, it's way too long and drags. It's typical Hollywood: movies that should be shorter are lengthened to show off all of the money they spent on special effects. About 2 hours in your telling yourself, "c'mon ship, sink already, will you?"
@@brianstacey2679 The first half meticulously builds up a world of elegance and order and the second half systematically takes it apart. Not a single shot that was mishandled. I wouldn't take a out a thing (but I would revise the script so the two central characters wouldn't keep referring to each other by name)
Definitely better than the Titanic but not sure I'd grade it better than Amistad. I liked Titanic as well but it's an epic blockbuster and should be judged separately. If I could only own one it would be GWH.
Went to see The Titanic and walked out mid-way. What a bore! Winslet and DiCaprio are two of the most boring actors on the face of the Earth. To me, there was not one spark between these two actors. I liked the 1950s film, A Night to Remember.
Correct on Minnie Driver. As for Amistad, it's very good but not the kind of film that's goong to be watched over and over or transcend generations. Nobody watches JFK or Broadcast News in 2022-2023 either, but they're still great films. Though Amistad is not quite as good as those.
In 1997 serious films stood a chance against comic book movies. We've been dumbed down a lot in the past 25 years. Not sure why Amistad isn't in the cable rotation. I'd watch it again if it were. GWH is getting heavy rotation on HBO this month.
@@brianstacey2679 For years, people mocked the the survivors' remembrance that Titanic split in two as it went down, saying, that's not how that works. Then we finally discovered the wreckage -- and found it was exactly as the survivors remembered: the ship DID split down the middle.
So. Don't watch it. But I can tell you this, my 18 and 20 year old kids, who almost always reject watching "old" movies because this generation thinks the world began when they were born, have both have watched it multiple times when shown on TBS. It still has mass appeal.
One of the all-time film lineups for a Siskel and Ebert episode.
Saw it when it originally aired!
Dang, that was quite a week for movies. Wall-to-wall classics.
"Jackie Brown" was out around that time to, I remember cause me and a couple black people were the only ones in the auditorium, TITANIC was right next door to us and we could hear a packed room of women moaning and groaning.
Two decades later and still no youtubers have created movie review shows that are as good as S&E.
Literally any and all people that review films on TH-cam try to emulate Gene and Roger. We all fail miserably
I think Robert Duvall should've won the Oscar that year for THE APOSTLE. What a great performance. I watched it recently and boy - does it stand up in 2023.
Between the four films here you have 24 Oscar nominations, including 2 Best Picture, 2 best director, 2 best actor, 2 best supporting actor, best actress, 2 best supporting actress, and best original screenplay. Wow.
Also just noticed two of them had Stellen Skarsgård in the cast (Amistad and Good Will Hunting)!
A quarter century ago but it only seems like a few years. Its amazing to think so many high quality films came out over one holiday season. We're now lucky if we get one decent film and hopefully it isn't based on a comic book.
97 is the year i went from a boy to a man as far as liking films as a 10 yr old!!!!
LA Confidential , The Edge , One Eight Seven , Donnie Brosco , Titanic , Good Will Hunting , Amastad , Starship Troopers , Boogie Nights , As Good As It Gets , The Apostle....
& even lesser films that aren't amazing masterpieces but are still really good films like Nothing To Lose , Alien Ressurection , Speed 2 : Cruise Control , James Bond 007 : Tomorrow Never Dies , The Devils Advocate , Con Air , Set It Off , Jurassic Park 2 : The Lost World & even The Wishmaster!!!!
Seriously 1997 was pumping out straight hits back to back from of every single type of genre of film!!!!
1997 is my birth year and for what the year was it had some solid films!!
My two favourites from the year would be Boogie Nights and Good Will Hunting, both terrific films!
@@andrewburgemeister6684 those are both amazing films but when u get my age u'll change ur mind...trust me on that !!!! I'm only 36 & grew up through all these films , I actually get sad that young folks didn't get to experience the 90's in the actual 90's like for real....I feel bad because I want everyone to know how good that felt to live back then before smart phones & Internet!!!! It was actually amazing & something the every single person my age would literally sell there soul for to live like that again!!!! ❤️
I didn't see Titanic at the theatre until it came out in 3D. I remember many critics panning Titanic, saying with the almost 300 million budget the movie would sink faster than the ship. I am so glad Gene and Roger set the record straight because then Titanic went on to gross 1.8 Billion, 2.2 Billion with the 3D release totals, and make those other critics look like idiots.
Siskel confirms what we all knew: DiCaprio should have received a Best Actor Oscar nomination, but sadly he was overlooked.
Also, this may have been the only time all four movies got two thumbs up.
I very distinctly remember the day the Oscar noms came out and DiCaprio was not on the list for Best Actor. My friend and I were outraged. I can still remember the phone conversation we had, that’s how passionate about it we were LOL
Should/could have won it here, or WOWS or CMIYC or Django….but instead they give him a token Oscar for fighting a bear…the academy is mostly terrible 🙄
@@ilovebrandnewcarpets Don't forget about What's Eating Gilbert. I might have given him a win for his first nomination. He should have two or three Oscars by now and that's not including The Revenent
@@ilovebrandnewcarpetsAnd for "The Wolf of Wall Street."
They Didn't catch even ONE Movie mistake from Tons of them ! Corny Movie as well !!
1997 was quite the year in movies. I think this is the first time watching there show in over 2 decades at the time that every movie they reviewed on a single show were thumb's up for both of them 😊
Dang the movie Titanic is 25 years old. Seems just like yesterday.
Man, movies back then. Like, even if you didn't like all of these, you had to admit they really swung for the fences.
These 4 movies, all released within a few days of each other in 1997, are probably better than the the best 4 movies released in theaters over the entire year of 2023.
Or the entire 2020s so far..lsad
These days we don’t even have this many good movies in a whole year.
Well, this was a good week for movies...
19:20 - All the films were given👍👍
I am from 30 years in the furure. Good will hunting is a classic. The others are forgotten.
That music takes me back to better times.
So often the lead movie--the one everyone thinks will be the biggest hit--comes before a classic. In this case, two.
This episode jam packed with great movies & I'm glad & suprise they liked them both. I mostly recommended Titanic & Good Will Hunting.
I still remember how Titanic was absolutely ridiculed during its lengthy and costly production and that it was regarded as a massive flop in the making that would ruin 20th Century Fox and obliterate James Cameron's career, who was only known for his action movies by then.
I also still remember how it suddenly became the seminal blockbuster when it finally came out and that you couldn't escape the movie and "My heart will go on" for half a year and that some girl at my school went to see it 14 times in the cinema.
Crazy times.
The same things were said about Apocalypse now when it first came out
"We'll also look at Titanic". Nothing against Amistad but you can tell nobody predicted the box office and awards season explosion Titanic was about to have. A Spielberg movie was seen as the big movie of the week
Nobody predicted the success of the film, I agree, but sometimes they would save the biggest movie for after the first break. Jurassic Park, for example.
In fact, many had predicted a colossal flop, because the film went overbudget and its premiere was postponed by several months. Originally, it was supposed to have opened in the summer. Not to mention that it was a 3-hour period piece about a well-known tragedy.
@Chapin-pc2kz There was a TV Guide article shortly before the 1998 Oscars about how "Titanic" had joined the club occupied by movies like "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Dances with Wolves," movies that were supposed to be disasters but ended up huge hits and Oscar winners.
Well, I guess they had to get on a sub then.
Titanic 6:09
GWH 10:52
Apostle 14:30
Babes / Toyland 18:15
Thank you.
1997 was a spectacular year for movies!
It's fun to see them get along
This episode is stacked! I know it was Oscar season but goodness!
THAT WAS AN EPIC WEEK AT THE MOVIES!!!
Also, for those of you NOT paying attention, they gave TWO THUMBS UP to George of the Jungle & Speed 2 Cruise Control!
so what
that's what I was thinking too
Don't group George of the Jungle with Speed 2.
At least George is intentionally funny.
yeah, both actually have highly inconsistent taste in movies. extremely biased which should not define their roles as professional critics
They had to be on the take for Speed 2. Even Sandra Bullock acknowledges it as a horrible film.
I rewatched these movies recently and I thought Amistad aged a lot better than Titanic or Good Will Hunting.
Awesome!
Did not realize Goodwill hunting came out when the titanic did. Lot of kids talked about titanic. Wasn’t until I was older we heard a bout good will hunting
They should've taken the mickey out of Kate Winslet sprawling on that big door and leaving Decaprio in the water to freeze.
Maybe they didn't like spoilers.
The Apostle is an underrated movie.
A show where every movie got two thumbs up. Was there ever a show where every movie got two thumbs down?
Did anyone else catch the 2 thumbs up for Speed 2?
I did. It almost ruined the credibility of the whole episode.
How can you not like TITANIC.
It's too long and many other better films.
The cheesy love story is cringe. When the boat starts sinking its a great movie.
2 thumbs up for Speed 2! 😂😂😂
Di Caprio "captivating" and Winslet "flat"???
Um, no. To say Leo was better than Kate is utter nonsense, not to mention the fact that it was the character of Rose who undergoes the biggest maturation during the course of the movie, while Jack remained pretty much the same. Conveying that kind of transformation required an actress of considerable talent, and Kate was more than up to the challenge.
And remember that Rose is supposed to be 17 years old. She doesn't even know who she is, only who she is supposed to be and Winslet captures that perfectly.
Absolutely agree. Kate winslet out acts di caprio through out the whole movie. Her role is much tougher as she has to make a privileged rich girl sympathetic and she smashes it out the park
It was a great introduction for Winslet but this role was nothing compared to what she took on later in life.
Just out of curiosity I looked up the website...It is now a pron site 😂😂
Holy ghost keys
Titanic gets better each time I watch it
I thought it got worse and disintegrated faster the more people went down there to see it.
I enjoy it and still will stop and watch it if I'm channel surfing but it's typical blockbuster entertainment with not a lot of depth to it (pun not intended). The best scenes were with Kathy Bates.
The got Alien Resurrection wrong.
My favorite of these 4 was The Apostle, hands down.
I am in my early 40s, and have, to this day, never seen Titanic! Nor have ever really had a desire to.
Amistad’s story was good, but the movie itself was so sad.
Good Will Hunting also had a good story and writing, but the accents got on my nerves. Robin Williams was terrific in it.
Titanic is 5 stars.
Not a movie fan
@@oobrocks You’re not missing much, these days.
The Apostle is my favorite too..I still to.this day cry towards the end...
Titanic is wonderful
Who buys their VCR a Christmas gift?
Sorry, Speed 2: Cruise Control.... two thumbs up???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I'm more shocked about George of the Jungle
@@jasondouglas152as someone else already said, George of the Jungle was intentionally funny and as a light hearted comedy it was successful.
I'm still baffled Dicaprio wasn't even nominated for Titanic and Winslet didn't win best actress. Completely disagree with Siskel that she was flat, I think it's still Winslets' best performance. Helen Hunt was good in As Good as It Gets but not better than Kate in Titanic to me.
Kate has become my favorite actress over the past couple of years but I have to disagree with you on Titanic being her best film. She was good in the role but I don't think it was Oscar worthy. She has matured so much as an actress since Titanic. If you didn't see her performance in Mare of Easttown do yourself a favor and watch it. It was absolutely amazing.
I have to disagree with you. First off that is a series, you can't compare series to movies, at least I keep them separate. I've seen her career since I was a boy, saw her in The Reader which she won an Oscar for. She was good in that but still to me her performance as Rose tops them all. I definitely think she was not just Oscar worthy that year but the best. Helen Hunt had a solid part with As Good As It Gets as I mentioned before but no way was that better than Rose in Titanic. @@JG-vq6rd
A week full of highly praised films. the Jack character kind of ruined Titanic for me, i could not stand the way that one minute they would have him as some streetwise con man. then the nest minute he was some Awww shucks golly born in a barn rube, back and forth.
Wtf they gave Speed part 2 thumbs up. Its garbage.
gene was a sick in these years (
I never cared for Titanic until the trash that Hollywood has put out in the last 10 or more years
Their love for Titanic has always made me scratch my head.
Why? It's a great film.
@@Tolstoy111 No, it's a 3 hour film with about 90 minutes of actual story. In other words, it's way too long and drags. It's typical Hollywood: movies that should be shorter are lengthened to show off all of the money they spent on special effects. About 2 hours in your telling yourself, "c'mon ship, sink already, will you?"
@@brianstacey2679 The first half meticulously builds up a world of elegance and order and the second half systematically takes it apart. Not a single shot that was mishandled. I wouldn't take a out a thing (but I would revise the script so the two central characters wouldn't keep referring to each other by name)
I disagree .. Titanic is riveting still .. TgT
dicaprio seems like a school boy wet behind the ears and not some tough worldly wise knockabout who lives by his wits.
What a week at the movies. No pun intended. "Titanic" is just a remake of "A Night To Remember" with Jack and Rose thrown in the mix.
no
Good Will Hunting is the best of the lot and it cost practically nothing to make. Meanwhile $$$$$$$$$$$🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
Definitely better than the Titanic but not sure I'd grade it better than Amistad. I liked Titanic as well but it's an epic blockbuster and should be judged separately. If I could only own one it would be GWH.
Went to see The Titanic and walked out mid-way. What a bore! Winslet and DiCaprio are two of the most boring actors on the face of the Earth. To me, there was not one spark between these two actors. I liked the 1950s film, A Night to Remember.
Amistad SUCKED. That's why nobody watches this in 2022. Also Minnie Driver was a HARVARD student, not MIT.
Correct on Minnie Driver. As for Amistad, it's very good but not the kind of film that's goong to be watched over and over or transcend generations. Nobody watches JFK or Broadcast News in 2022-2023 either, but they're still great films. Though Amistad is not quite as good as those.
In 1997 serious films stood a chance against comic book movies. We've been dumbed down a lot in the past 25 years. Not sure why Amistad isn't in the cable rotation. I'd watch it again if it were. GWH is getting heavy rotation on HBO this month.
You must be a white supremacist
A math nerd, a Jesus freak, and two boat movies. Yawn!! Pretty slow week at the theaters.
Wow.
Ladies and gentlemen, the next Roger Every right here.
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Titanic has aged SO poorly. I don't think I could watch it these days.
It holds up wonderfully. A beautifully crafted film with fantastic building suspense and action sequences.
I wouldn't go that far, but we do know now that the actual sinking occurred in a slightly different way than they believed in 1997.
@@brianstacey2679 For years, people mocked the the survivors' remembrance that Titanic split in two as it went down, saying, that's not how that works.
Then we finally discovered the wreckage -- and found it was exactly as the survivors remembered: the ship DID split down the middle.
@@kali3665 Yes, but it didn't plunge at a 90 degree angle as it is shown in the film. It's slightly different.
So. Don't watch it. But I can tell you this, my 18 and 20 year old kids, who almost always reject watching "old" movies because this generation thinks the world began when they were born, have both have watched it multiple times when shown on TBS. It still has mass appeal.