Siskel & Ebert Review Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick
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A wonderful review by Gene Siskel who comes across as really loving Kubrick's Spartacus. Spartacus is the best of the old school epics and here are the reasons why I love the film so much.
I saw Spartacus in 1979 or 1980 when I was 2 or 3 years old. As a child how could I forget the wonderful images in this film. Kirk Douglas's face (I found his dimple fascinating) and the ending.
The themes in Spartacus still resonate today. Just because we are now paid a wage doesn't mean we are still not slaves. We all still serve the master.
It's one of the few films that I remember where the villains win.
The acting is first class from all involved. The films dialogue scenes are just as entertaining as the battle scenes.
The sets, locations and special effects are better than any of the computer-generated crap made today.
The score by Alex North is amazing and I believe it to be his best work.
It was directed by my favourite film maker Stanley Kubrick.
The ending makes me cry like no other film that I have seen. The critics claim that Kubrick was cold and didn't have a heart but they are wrong.
Spartacus is a masterpiece, in my opinion. Kubrick may have hated it but his touch absolutely lifted it into a different territory than a lot of the old epics.
Larry brilliant as Crassus 👏👏 Should won an Oscar as supporting actor.
Yes.....he was hypnotic here. !
He COULD be a dreadful old Ham
at times but at his best he was
untouchable.!
The ending crucifiction scene is beautiful.
I really got me, that's for sure. You can't get a more powerful mixture of sadness and sorrow, combined with an enduring sense of hope.
It's true that Hollywood could not make this film today. There are no adult actors in Hollywood, just superhero types.
Spartacus may not be as good as Lawrence of Arabia (I agree with this) but that is really nitpicking. Spartacus is an absolutely brilliant film. Fantastic! It stands way up there among epics and beats most of them in my opinion. Just an amazing achievement by all who created it.
Used the love theme at my Greek father's funeral. (Although the tape stopped playing halfway!!) Love this movie. So poignant that Varinia and Spartacus' baby ride off into the sunset with Batiatus, endowed with Graccus' money, owner of the Gladiator school, to start a new life.
I am Spartacus
No! I'm Spartacus!
@@vitorafmonteiro No! I'm Spartacus!
My favorite Kubrick movie.
I’ve tried to watch it several times but it is the antithesis of SK’s revolutionary approach to film. The diagetic score, in particular, Mickey Mouses every plot point, telling the audience how to feel. Much of the photography looks like studio bound technicolor. It has its moments, but it feels like SK was directing with one hand tied behind his back.
Muhammad Ali with one hand behind his back still could beat most competitors though.
Wonderful score by Alex North, wonderful photography by Russell Metty, Kubrick should have directed his following films with two hands tied behind his back, they could have been better.
Why did Anthony Hopkins have to put the dialogue in that scene? wasn’t the original audio not available?
S'not bad, but the whole movie was produced because Kirk Douglas was pissed off that Charlton Heston (not Jewish) had the starring role in Ben Hur, which was a better film IMO.
Ben Hur is a wonderful epic once it gets going. But it is marred by that lengthy opening sequence blathering on about a religious myth and that myth later being brought up again in the film. If it just stuck to the main story of Ben Hur it would stand higher in my opinion. Not containing religious nonsense makes Spartacus so much better than Ben Hur.
@@1ouncebird It sure does.
Siskel and Ebert don't know shit. I've seen the movie at least 100 times - and it is an absolute masterpiece. I love "Lawrence of Arabia" as well - but for dramatic impact, "Spartacus" does far more in less time. Kubrick and Douglas were at their best, the cast was excellent and the score by Alex North is just brilliant. The movie is arguably one of the best set during the time of Ancient Rome.
Peter Ustinov stole movie.
Spoiler alert
Many of Roger Ebert's critiques were so blatantly WRONG that I can't even understand how they gave him his own TV show! For example, him not calling "Spartacus" an epic is the one of the most idiotic statements I've ever heard about films, and I'm 76-years old. Don't believe me? Take a look at the ending battle scene, a scene so huge that it could have never even been made today with the use of actual extras, only CGI. And take another good look at the huge CAST, consisting of the greatest film and stage actors who ever lived. By ANY use of the term, the sheer scope and size of this monumental film qualifies it as a bona fide epic for all time, including "Ben Hur."
2:51 He calls it "a good epic". He just doesn't consider it to be as "great" in quality as "Lawrence of Arabia", which Siskel seems to agree with.
@@JacobDragyn
That's HIS opinion, certainly not MINE.
@@JacobDragyn Exactly, and not as epic as Lawrence of Arabia. It was something of a formula epic of the era, which was probably why Kubrick hated it.
If I had to choose between the two, I think Spartacus is better than Lawrence of Arabia - though both are excellent of course.