What a week at the movies! Tootsie, Sophie's choice, and The Verdict have some of the best performances of all-time in my view. When the worst movie shown is Airplane 2, which is still pretty funny, I mean wow. I miss these line ups.
@@redadamearth There are always going to be great movies, some years better than others. But the great slide into corporate dreck was already well underway by '82.
Yeah, they should have a 7 or 8-hour compilation of Siskel and Ebert episodes from the 70s, 80s, and 90s with those old commercials (personally, I find those a whole lot better than what they got on TV today).
I heard that Jessica Lang received an award for her part in Tootsie. ?????? Why? She was fine in it but Hoffman was the talent and extremely funny as Dorothy Michaels. Great as himself (Michael Dorsey) too. Sidney Pollak, Dabney Coleman and Charles Durning was wonderful! Hoffman should have gotten an award for playing Tootsie.🌸
Gene Siskel without a combover. Airplane 2 was too late but Police Squad! sequel Naked Gun, out years later wasn't? Nah. Airplane 2 wasn't late....it just wasn't nearly as good as Airplane! or Naked Gun.
Airplane really didn't need a sequel. Airplane II did what the Airport sequels eventually did: went totally overboard with the gags and really stretched for a frame to put them in. ZAZ were smart to drop THAT cold poisoned potato.
That was a good week for the movies especially for acting. Hoffman, Newman , and Streep gave the performance of their careers and for those three that’s really saying something. Klein, Warden and Mason are great in supporting roles too. Streep won the best actress Oscar for Sophie’s Choice and Newman and Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor for Tootsie and the Verdict. Martin Short’s spoof of the scene shown on SCtV is beyond hilarious.
What makes Tootsies work is that they actually make Dustin Hoffman look passable as a woman Too often they make men dressed up as women look obviously like men 😏
I heard that " rumor" as well, but I am referring to her in this movie - that we believe that really is Dorothy Michaels, not because of external , but internal
You should read the book if you haven't yet. It blows the movie right out of the water (as most books do) -- SO good. I remember being disappointed when I finally watched Sophie's Choice (years after it was released), as the book was one of my favorites ever and the movie just didn't really do it justice, believe it or not.
I heard _The Dark Crystal_ came out the same week as _Tootsie_ but don't see it here. Next week's show doesn't seem to have it either. Did they even review it?
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You know- Jessica Lange nearly won both acting Oscars- in the same year. She won the Supporting Actress Oscar for Tootsie- and imagine if she had won the Best Actress Oscar she was nominated for Frances that ended up going to Streep for Sophie’s Choice… that would have been one of the greatest feats in movie history.
She was very deserving in Frances, but I'm still baffled by her winning for Tootsie First off, she was the Lead, but she never did anything I saw deserving of an Oscar Terri Garr was fabulous and was a deserving nominee That's a supporting role, but I still don't get her nomination and win in a movie I consider one of the Greatest
The main issue, as Dustin Hoffman himself (who won) has always said, is that the entire IDEA of pitting movies or performances against each other, when they're often all great, but in totally different genres and styles, is ridiculous. For example, putting "Dances With Wolves" against "GoodFellas" - both movies are great in their own way, but couldn't be more different. All of the performances that year were great. Watch Hoffman's acceptance speech sometime - he basically says he refuses to believe he was "better" than anyone else nominated, included Newman.
@@redadamearth Yes I’ve heard it, on and on but competition is the American way, even our Indian tribes determined their greatness by how powerful their enemies were. Only communist want everyone to get a trophy making all accomplishments worthless. I totally disagree with Dustin Hoffman as did Frank Sinatra only for different reasons. Paul Newman should have won it because he was much better, in my opinion.
Gene's wrong... The Verdict is in the class of Anatomy of a Murder and all the best courtroom dramas ever filmed. I think what may even elevate it above others is Newman's performance and what I think for me is the character study and the subtle redemption of a broken man. The film works on both levels equally well.
I agree, he’s definitely wrong. The Verdict is a superior courtroom drama by any metric. But in the same league as Anatomy of a Murder? Oof. I don’t know about that.
Frankly, I think the courtroom scenes are the film's biggest weakness. In fact, when it comes to the actual practice of law and procedure, the script reads as if nobody ever spoke to a lawyer. That it is so sloppy on the law brings the film down a level for me. It was saved by Newman's brilliance and James Mason was always fun to watch.
One of their better episodes - what few disagreements they had were well explained and make sense. If they had manaaged to live into the current time, the weekly shows would have to have 5 stinkers and a single good film to mention briefly
I actually agree with Siskel here, which is rare for me. Sophie's Choice, the novel, is one of the greatest books I've read. It's a masterpiece. The movie rushed it and would have benefitted from a longer running time. An epic, like Siskel says. It could have run 31/2 hours and could have been one of the greatest films ever made. But they rushed the last half. It's a shame.
I agree about the movie. Except for the one scene explaining Sophie’s choice, the movie is forgettable. There’s an episode of Friends where Rachel calls Sophie Choice “okay.” That is exactly how I feel.
The Verdict and Tootsie are two of my all-time favorites. I watch them at least once a year and I never get tired of them. Thanks again for posting these it brings back a lot of great memories.
@@gheller2261 I understand. It is a visceral not a logical experience. Hollywood is the last place I go for reality which is why I have no interest in anything historical they do.
ive snuck to movies tons in the early 2000s. it was so easy if the ticket taker was busy or they didnt have one. you could walk right past everyone go right into a theater, and then even skip to other films after. lol like gene said "i dont care i dont own a theater"
What about Tootsie? Last week we all watched Tootsie on HBO . Isn't HBO scrambled? But what? Seeing as we don't pay for HBO, isn't what we're doing illegal? IMMORAL?!?
Airplane II: The Sequel would've been a remembered movie, if they actually didn't make the first one back in 1980. I will admit I laughed at a few jokes and gags throughout (especially when they run out of coffee), but there were some bad edits and grim jokes I counted, in which I didn't find fascinating. And what's worse, it was very much like the original, but taken to another level, in which made me think most of the movie has lost it's flavor to make people laugh. If you want laughs, fly with Otto and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (or Roger Murdoch), in the original.
Roger was wrong, because only a few years later, TOP SECRET!, THE NAKED GUN and HOT SHOTS! would be released. So there was still movies like AIRPLANE coming out, not to mention JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY, AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOOD, MAFIA!, HIGH SCHOOL HIGH, FATAL INSTINCT. LOADED WEAPON ONE....
At the 15:00 mark, THE VERDICT is a great movie. Paul Newman was so great as a failure trying to redeem himself. My take on these films: AIRPLANE II rates 5/10; TOOTSIE rates 8/10; SOPHIE'S CHOICE rates 9/10; THE VERDICT rates 10/10. Paul Newman deserved to get or at least share the Oscar that went to Dustin Hoffman that year.
Tootsie, Sophie's Choice, The Verdict, and Airplane 2 were holiday movies? We get such crap most of the time these days
Imagine a show where you review "Tootsie", "Sophie's Choice" and " The Verdict"! Those were the days...
These are the days as well. Just look past your local cineplex.
"YOU WERE A TOMATO! A tomato doesn't have logic!" The best lines in the movie!
Yes!! I always use that line, he was trying to get the psychology of a tomato which is so absurd and brilliant at the same time 😂
Tootsie and The Verdict were released the same week? What a week!
AND Sophie's Choice. Yes, quite a week. Great year for films, also included E.T., Poltergeist, Tron, An Officer and a Gentleman, and Rocky III.
And I went to see both in the theater. TOOTSIE more than once!
I don't care, i don't own a theater
😂😂Gene breaking the law
What a week at the movies! Tootsie, Sophie's choice, and The Verdict have some of the best performances of all-time in my view. When the worst movie shown is Airplane 2, which is still pretty funny, I mean wow. I miss these line ups.
1982 was just an astonishing year for great movies. Basically the entire early-to-mid 80's.
@@redadamearth There are always going to be great movies, some years better than others. But the great slide into corporate dreck was already well underway by '82.
I've fallen asleep to this channel so many times. Find it so soothing. Thanks for all the work you do and fingers crossed it survives.
Same!
Hah this is also part of my bedtime routine, wonder why that is…
@@sonnyblack0870 me too.
Yeah, they should have a 7 or 8-hour compilation of Siskel and Ebert episodes from the 70s, 80s, and 90s with those old commercials (personally, I find those a whole lot better than what they got on TV today).
I'll never get over Macho Grande.
Sophie's Choice & Airplane 2. What an insane pairing.
Even more insane if you add Inseminoid at the end😂😂😂😂
I heard that Jessica Lang received an award for her part in Tootsie. ?????? Why? She was fine in it but Hoffman was the talent and extremely funny as Dorothy Michaels. Great as himself (Michael Dorsey) too. Sidney Pollak, Dabney Coleman and Charles Durning was wonderful! Hoffman should have gotten an award for playing Tootsie.🌸
Gene Siskel without a combover. Airplane 2 was too late but Police Squad! sequel Naked Gun, out years later wasn't? Nah. Airplane 2 wasn't late....it just wasn't nearly as good as Airplane! or Naked Gun.
Great episode! Tootsie is one of my favorite films!
Airplane really didn't need a sequel. Airplane II did what the Airport sequels eventually did: went totally overboard with the gags and really stretched for a frame to put them in. ZAZ were smart to drop THAT cold poisoned potato.
That was a good week for the movies especially for acting. Hoffman, Newman , and Streep gave the performance of their careers and for those three that’s really saying something. Klein, Warden and Mason are great in supporting roles too. Streep won the best actress Oscar for Sophie’s Choice and Newman and Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor for Tootsie and the Verdict. Martin Short’s spoof of the scene shown on SCtV is beyond hilarious.
He blowed up real good!
Very well said, Sir. Three great films... and... Airplane 2. Lol
Tootsie is hilarious! Hoffman is a very hood actor.
What makes Tootsies work is that they actually make Dustin Hoffman look passable as a woman Too often they make men dressed up as women look obviously like men 😏
Hmm...
I know what you mean; like that ridiculous sitcom 'Bosom Buddies'.
Passable, but it was because Hoffman plays her as an actual character and if you didn't buy Dorothy Michaels, the movie would fall apart
@@kd17BurgerHoffman went out dressed as Dorothy to test if he’d pass as a woman and it was a success.
I heard that " rumor" as well, but I am referring to her in this movie - that we believe that really is Dorothy Michaels, not because of external , but internal
Sophie's Choice was so sad. Tootsie was hilarious!
You should read the book if you haven't yet. It blows the movie right out of the water (as most books do) -- SO good. I remember being disappointed when I finally watched Sophie's Choice (years after it was released), as the book was one of my favorites ever and the movie just didn't really do it justice, believe it or not.
I heard _The Dark Crystal_ came out the same week as _Tootsie_ but don't see it here. Next week's show doesn't seem to have it either. Did they even review it?
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They always played extended clips of the movies, and it works..
They did on sneak previews
You know- Jessica Lange nearly won both acting Oscars- in the same year. She won the Supporting Actress Oscar for Tootsie- and imagine if she had won the Best Actress Oscar she was nominated for Frances that ended up going to Streep for Sophie’s Choice… that would have been one of the greatest feats in movie history.
She was very deserving in Frances, but I'm still baffled by her winning for Tootsie
First off, she was the Lead, but she never did anything I saw deserving of an Oscar
Terri Garr was fabulous and was a deserving nominee
That's a supporting role, but I still don't get her nomination and win in a movie I consider one of the Greatest
Paul Newman should have won the Oscar. It was one of his best performances ever. Shame on Hollywood!!!
The main issue, as Dustin Hoffman himself (who won) has always said, is that the entire IDEA of pitting movies or performances against each other, when they're often all great, but in totally different genres and styles, is ridiculous. For example, putting "Dances With Wolves" against "GoodFellas" - both movies are great in their own way, but couldn't be more different. All of the performances that year were great. Watch Hoffman's acceptance speech sometime - he basically says he refuses to believe he was "better" than anyone else nominated, included Newman.
@@redadamearth Yes I’ve heard it, on and on but competition is the American way, even our Indian tribes determined their greatness by how powerful their enemies were. Only communist want everyone to get a trophy making all accomplishments worthless. I totally disagree with Dustin Hoffman as did Frank Sinatra only for different reasons. Paul Newman should have won it because he was much better, in my opinion.
That was an impossible year - Newman, Hoffman, Ben Kingsley.
@redadamearth Hoffman did not win the Oscar for 1982. It went to Ben Kingsley for Ghandi.
@@gheller2261 Yes I don’t think he knew that. But I definitely didn’t think Ben should have received it.
Gene's wrong... The Verdict is in the class of Anatomy of a Murder and all the best courtroom dramas ever filmed. I think what may even elevate it above others is Newman's performance and what I think for me is the character study and the subtle redemption of a broken man. The film works on both levels equally well.
I agree, he’s definitely wrong. The Verdict is a superior courtroom drama by any metric. But in the same league as Anatomy of a Murder? Oof. I don’t know about that.
Newman's summation argument is one of the best-written and most well-acted moments in movie history, IMO.
Frankly, I think the courtroom scenes are the film's biggest weakness. In fact, when it comes to the actual practice of law and procedure, the script reads as if nobody ever spoke to a lawyer. That it is so sloppy on the law brings the film down a level for me. It was saved by Newman's brilliance and James Mason was always fun to watch.
Tootsie 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Airplane 2 👎🌟🌟
Sophie's Choice 👍🌟🌟🌟
The Verdict 👍🌟🌟🌟
One of their better episodes - what few disagreements they had were well explained and make sense. If they had manaaged to live into the current time, the weekly shows would have to have 5 stinkers and a single good film to mention briefly
I actually agree with Siskel here, which is rare for me. Sophie's Choice, the novel, is one of the greatest books I've read. It's a masterpiece. The movie rushed it and would have benefitted from a longer running time. An epic, like Siskel says. It could have run 31/2 hours and could have been one of the greatest films ever made. But they rushed the last half. It's a shame.
I agree about the movie. Except for the one scene explaining Sophie’s choice, the movie is forgettable. There’s an episode of Friends where Rachel calls Sophie Choice “okay.” That is exactly how I feel.
@@branagain I might as well add my other hot take about it: Meryl Streep is miscast 🫤.
@@jayjayjigsbys However, she's so good with accents 😍!
The Verdict and Tootsie are two of my all-time favorites. I watch them at least once a year and I never get tired of them. Thanks again for posting these it brings back a lot of great memories.
The Verdict is wonderful for its performances. However, as a lawyer, they got soooo much stuff wrong that it drives me to distraction.
@@gheller2261 I understand. It is a visceral not a logical experience. Hollywood is the last place I go for reality which is why I have no interest in anything historical they do.
@@ac9559 "a visceral not a logical experience" Very well put.
ive snuck to movies tons in the early 2000s. it was so easy if the ticket taker was busy or they didnt have one. you could walk right past everyone go right into a theater, and then even skip to other films after. lol like gene said "i dont care i dont own a theater"
Gene was so real sometimes lol
@@Kay-kg6ny miss him. Didn't even see the year 2000
Roger mentioned Jekyll and Hyde Together Again! Woohoo! LOL@Gene telling people to sneak into other theaters.
Guilty of his advice
Just hear me out folks.. Tootsie's Choice.
😀😀😀
😂
Winner!
But he has to chose between two tomatoes 🍅
This show was great sunday afternoon after coming home playing outside all day on west coast. Ahhh to be a kid again in the 80s😂
Classic show👍
I’m still waiting for Sophie’s Choice 2: The Revenge of Jan
What about Tootsie?
Last week we all watched Tootsie on HBO .
Isn't HBO scrambled?
But what? Seeing as we don't pay for HBO, isn't what we're doing illegal? IMMORAL?!?
Airplane 2 has shanter GOING BLEEP AND BLOOPERING A FLASING AND FLASHING
Airplane II: The Sequel would've been a remembered movie, if they actually didn't make the first one back in 1980. I will admit I laughed at a few jokes and gags throughout (especially when they run out of coffee), but there were some bad edits and grim jokes I counted, in which I didn't find fascinating. And what's worse, it was very much like the original, but taken to another level, in which made me think most of the movie has lost it's flavor to make people laugh. If you want laughs, fly with Otto and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (or Roger Murdoch), in the original.
7:41 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm 55 and still haven't watched Tootsie, Sophie's Choice & The Verdict. Airplane II was good in my opinon.
Roger was wrong, because only a few years later, TOP SECRET!, THE NAKED GUN and HOT SHOTS! would be released. So there was still movies like AIRPLANE coming out, not to mention JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY, AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOOD, MAFIA!, HIGH SCHOOL HIGH, FATAL INSTINCT. LOADED WEAPON ONE....
Wow🔥
Sophie's - an A+ performance from Streep in a Bish movie.
The first 15min of Airplane II was so funny I thought I might not be able to take it for 2 hours. Then it just died.
All masterpieces.
I am again reminded of how much I absolutely cannot stand Kevin Kline. Few actors always look like they are acting the way that Kline does.
Tootsie is a very good movie, I agree on Airplane II did not like it like Airplane I, I appreciate you uploading this That Old T.V.
ACTORS SHOULD KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT...MERYL STREEP.
Love Tootsie, but it is the epitome of a dated film. Still fun to watch though.
One per day please.
I liked airplane 2
can it be that movies in then past were better than now( mainstream that is)?
Nah. There were plenty of stinkers back in the day too. It's just easy to forget those through the filter of time and nostalgia.
@@Kay-kg6ny yeah youre not wrong
7:04 who you gonna call? 😂
15:15
I want to see Horror Planet!
Can you find worst of 2001, 2002, and 2003 with ebert and roeper
I’m pretty sure I posted the worst for those years already. Try a search on my channel using the key word “worst”.
@@ThatOldTV I don't see it
Those episodes are still lost as of this point at least from what I’m aware of.
Everything aside here....Hoffmann will be 90' in less than 4yrs !
@@ThatOldTV i have searched everywhere for those clips. Have you seen them?
Horror Planet was kind of fun.
At the 15:00 mark, THE VERDICT is a great movie. Paul Newman was so great as a failure trying to redeem himself. My take on these films: AIRPLANE II rates 5/10; TOOTSIE rates 8/10; SOPHIE'S CHOICE rates 9/10; THE VERDICT rates 10/10. Paul Newman deserved to get or at least share the Oscar that went to Dustin Hoffman that year.
I liked Airplane II. Tootsie was a famfastic flick!
The first one better
@@Dim4323 I agree.
In one week's releases: TOOTSIE, THE VERDICT and SOPHIE'S CHOICE? Gee, couldn't they find at least one good film? ha
If I wanted to watch this on an old TV, I would watch it on an old TV. 🙄
Oh god, these bastards have no idea Naked Gun is just a couple years away!!
Hoffman made one UGLY BROAD.
ABSOLUTELY