i was a loyal sneak previews fan and kinda bummed when it changed to "at the movies" and jumped channels to 9. but always loved siskel and ebert together. RIP my cinefile friends.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I sure miss these guys - such childhood memories coming back. It's interesting Ebert didn't care for The Brood, as it was a big cult movie.
At 15:50 in this video, Gene Siskel is making a similar comment about movie-making in 1979 that Martin Scorsese is making about Super-Hero Movies today. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
What a time, when Alien (1979) was brand new. I do recall the opening credit sequence to this show and seeing it here for the first time in decades gave me pause. Of what use are memories like these?
They allow you to remember that you were there? That there are moments locked away in your mind that these cues can tease out for your enjoyment once again.
@@ronj9448 I can't recall what I might have been musing over when I wrote that comment. Typically I'm a big proponent of memories, nostalgia and that sort of thing. I'll just leave that comment up there to remind myself. I'm going to watch this video again too.
@wmfivethree The noise dropins were something they did in the original show. The 80s svensurround I remember was to some live action Japanese kids movie and he's literally filling time in the show but it goes on for a few minutes. He's in the bottom right corner of the screen while he's commenting on it, do uncanny how he nailed the concept.
For some reason, my mom took us to see BG in the theater. I was 7 at the time. The alien nightclub singer with the double face gave me nightmares for weeks.
I was pretty surprised with this. I didn't know that Siskel and Ebert hosted Sneak Previews before they got their own show At The Movies. I just knew them from the latter show. Plus, I also didn't know that the film version of Battlestar Galactica was rereleased after the show was canceled by ABC. I kind of figured they would both recommend Alien because it was quickly becoming a classic about the time this show aired. I was about five and my family was still living in Hawaii at the time.
Re: Prisoner of Zenda Here we find on display the curse of the connoisseur, that of boredom and the thirst for novelty. The beer connoisseur ends up unable to enjoy beer unless it has chocolate, maple, rosemary, or some other oddball note in it. The food connoisseur has problems with traditional dishes. They're too boring, unless jazzed up with ingredients nobody's grandmother would bother trying to impress them with, or inflict on them. The connoisseur theatre-goer wants to see Hamlet set in a prison or convent so he can find it 'fresh'. Woe to the connoisseur of sex, or of the opposite sex, and to his or her partner, too, for pretty obvious reasons, unless they're a connoisseur as well. Boredom, though only sometimes the problem of the expert or dedicated enthusiast, is a widespread cause of unhappiness and surely a lot of other awful things, too, like adultery, drug addiction, suicide, and wars. Anyway, Siskel and Ebert here fail to find much new in this adaptation of an old book and thus both declare it "bad". I feel "bad" for them, for novelty is an overvalued merit and is in fact just as often a demerit. It's a very American obsession (Paul Fussell called Americans "childish" for it) which Americans might be surprised to learn is much less often the concern of people elsewhere. They wouldn't care, though, and be glad of the distinction.
i was a loyal sneak previews fan and kinda bummed when it changed to "at the movies" and jumped channels to 9. but always loved siskel and ebert together. RIP my cinefile friends.
Loved this show as a Kid!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I sure miss these guys - such childhood memories coming back. It's interesting Ebert didn't care for The Brood, as it was a big cult movie.
Bless you & Thank you for this. Watched the show with my dad. Then we talked for hours. One of my cherished memories... *before the dark times* 😔
I'm so sorry.
At 15:50 in this video, Gene Siskel is making a similar comment about movie-making in 1979 that Martin Scorsese is making about Super-Hero Movies today. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Love Siskel and Ebert. Hope you have more of them!
@Jason Thompson Thanks. Will check that out. :)
What a time, when Alien (1979) was brand new. I do recall the opening credit sequence to this show and seeing it here for the first time in decades gave me pause. Of what use are memories like these?
They allow you to remember that you were there? That there are moments locked away in your mind that these cues can tease out for your enjoyment once again.
@@ronj9448 I can't recall what I might have been musing over when I wrote that comment. Typically I'm a big proponent of memories, nostalgia and that sort of thing. I'll just leave that comment up there to remind myself. I'm going to watch this video again too.
WTTW had a big presence in the 70s. So much good TV. I remember Battlestar Gallactica in the theaters. They had sensaround and it was not pleasant.
525Lines what’s Sesaround?
@@AmericasComic Sensurround is the correct spelling. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensurround
@wmfivethree I'd say it's an MST3K ripoff but he did something similar in the mid 80s. (and according to someone else, he did it before then, even).
@wmfivethree The noise dropins were something they did in the original show. The 80s svensurround I remember was to some live action Japanese kids movie and he's literally filling time in the show but it goes on for a few minutes. He's in the bottom right corner of the screen while he's commenting on it, do uncanny how he nailed the concept.
For some reason, my mom took us to see BG in the theater. I was 7 at the time. The alien nightclub singer with the double face gave me nightmares for weeks.
Give us more Siskel & Ebert, please!!!
I was pretty surprised with this. I didn't know that Siskel and Ebert hosted Sneak Previews before they got their own show At The Movies. I just knew them from the latter show. Plus, I also didn't know that the film version of Battlestar Galactica was rereleased after the show was canceled by ABC. I kind of figured they would both recommend Alien because it was quickly becoming a classic about the time this show aired. I was about five and my family was still living in Hawaii at the time.
If you're looking for more, IMDB site has many of them, direct source.
Thank you for uploading this!
Such thoughtful reviews. I should watch more of these and catch up on the movies I missed because I was too young at the time to see.
Re: Prisoner of Zenda Here we find on display the curse of the connoisseur, that of boredom and the thirst for novelty. The beer connoisseur ends up unable to enjoy beer unless it has chocolate, maple, rosemary, or some other oddball note in it. The food connoisseur has problems with traditional dishes. They're too boring, unless jazzed up with ingredients nobody's grandmother would bother trying to impress them with, or inflict on them. The connoisseur theatre-goer wants to see Hamlet set in a prison or convent so he can find it 'fresh'. Woe to the connoisseur of sex, or of the opposite sex, and to his or her partner, too, for pretty obvious reasons, unless they're a connoisseur as well.
Boredom, though only sometimes the problem of the expert or dedicated enthusiast, is a widespread cause of unhappiness and surely a lot of other awful things, too, like adultery, drug addiction, suicide, and wars.
Anyway, Siskel and Ebert here fail to find much new in this adaptation of an old book and thus both declare it "bad". I feel "bad" for them, for novelty is an overvalued merit and is in fact just as often a demerit. It's a very American obsession (Paul Fussell called Americans "childish" for it) which Americans might be surprised to learn is much less often the concern of people elsewhere. They wouldn't care, though, and be glad of the distinction.
Alien is pure art, the Citizen Kane of horror-scifi.The Brood is a great horror film.
I remember when this aired.
The Brood is awesome!
Before Siskel and Ebert transitioned to commercial television nationwide with At the Movies and simply Siskel & Ebert
SNEAK PREVIEWS WITH GENE SISKEL & ROGER EBERT. SATURDAY NIGHT AT 7 PM ON WGBH TV BOSTON.
Kenneth Huang. 2/26/24.
PS: JUST IN TIME FOR THE OSCARS.
Back in the day when I trusted movie reviewers. Not in 2019🤔
Ha Back in the day you had Gene Shalit - what a goof. That is why Siskel and Ebert had so much clout. Everyone else was a hack.
26:53; Before the Thumbs.
Wasn't this when the opening or the whole show was filmed at the Pickwick in Park Ridge?
That was for "At The Movies", 1982-1986...
What Take 2 episodes do you have?
She told him. Then she get in her AMC Pacer Wagon and speed’s away?? But wait, he is about to jump in his Bug and speed away??
Love this
I also think Gene has had a few 💜 🍻