Siskel & Ebert Schindler's List (1993) At Those Movies
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- If you see just ONE Siskel & Ebert review this is where they both shine their brightest. Gene is especially grateful to Spielberg for showing the Nazi's at their despicable worst. Roger notes how horrible it must have been day after day for years with extreme violence and humiliation..with very little hope. It took me forever(8 years) to finally watch this movie in it's entirety. I'm very thankful that one day (in my grungy northern Italy apartment) I sat for 3 hours and watched one of the most important movies ever. This is Spielberg's triumphant moment above all others.
Fiennes should have won an Academy Award for his performance.
The nominees were:
Ralph Fiennes, Schindler's List
Pete Postlethwaite, In the Name of the Father
Leonardo DiCaprio, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive (winner)
John Malkovich, In the Line of Fire
@@joebarr725 A very tough list for sure, but the weakest one won. I'm convinced Fiennes lost because of who he portrayed.
It was a great performance but I don't think anyone should win an award for playing a killer such as he portrayed. Cannot give an award to that. He can get other awards for other films and other parts and that would be appropriate but not here. Liam Neeson should have won the award and Ben Kingsley
@@heatherninneman558 It's not real. It's a movie. The fact you found it so realistic is a reason he should have won the award.
Great film of course, but how I miss these two reviewers!
theirs so movies i wish they had seen i would love to know what siskel thought of inception and i wish ebert had intersteller
I remember when I was just 17 and I went with a group of students from other schools to a screening of this film. So many were saying it going to be depressing and so sad and I remember sitting in spellbound silence the whole time. Afterwards I was so speechless I didn’t feel depressed I felt so full of joy to be alive! I think that’s what Spielberg was trying to show is more than a film about The Holocaust but a film about the triumph of the human spirit. A film about how this one guy in the face of all this evil did this amazing thing and how generations of life will spring from it. And how the greatest thing we can do is to remember them remember what they went through and the sacrifices made to survive. I still watch the film to remind me of how beautiful life is and how good can and will triumph over the most devastating of evil.
Top 5, and hands down best historical movie ever made. Liam’s best performance.
I think its on par with Lawrence Of Arabia
Absolutely one of favorite performances by Liam. His interactions with Ben Kingsley and his now friend Ralph Fiennes represent extraordinary work.
Neeson was once asked if there were any performances he would like to redo, and he said, "I would like another crack at it" about his role as Schindler.
The truth is uncomfortable that’s why it’s mandatory to learn in order to learn from mistakes
This movie made me tear up. I don't do that easily
If a film depicting what people did to other people made u tear up...then imagine what effect it had on the Ones who witnessed All that. Especially the survivors who lived with memories for decades and couldn't get it out of their minds, Not to mention the Guilt they had to endure because they survived while their loved ones and millions of others were Murdered!
5:24 - I love that he highlights that moment.
It’s might well be the most tense moment ever captured on film.
And if it’s number 2, then Spielberg did the OTHER one which was the knife scene in Saving Private Ryan.
This is one of 2 movies that were so powerful that I could only see it once. The other was The Passion of the Christ.
Did you like how Gibson blamed the Jews
Passion of the Christ was kind of weird. Why was it so sadistic, what was the point it tried to make?
@@PixelNotesMusic Gibson tried to show what Christ went through which by Biblical accounts even Gibson's vision was tame by comparison. Jesus was beaten so badly even His own mother couldn't recognize Him. He went through that for us. You should recognize that.
@@Rockhound6165 Not sure what it tried to accomplish. I don't know how this movie differs from say the "Saw" movies?
@@Rockhound6165 He didn't go through for me and you might want to look up Gibson's anti-semitism.
No movie Is going to convince haters not to hate. Flat-Earthers will deny the Earth is round even if they’re in the space station and can see it for themselves.
Nah, people change their minds all the time, but can rarely admit it immediately to save face.
Well deserving of the Best Picture Oscar. It's the first time Spielberg made a film that carries a significant social message.
Well he did do the colour purple
@@adamgrimsley2900 I would've said Poltergeist but what do I know. 🤔
@@rockhero2274 your opinion is as good as any other
One of the most profound film going experiences ever and I have seen nearly thousands of films.
Don't know how anyone could eat in the theater during this movie.
Its Not a movie. Movies are average and everywhere. This is a Film and Films are special.
Was the original video from the web site like this? Their heads are cut off at the top so it looks like the original image must've gotten cropped. Compared to the full episode video that's out there, it looks like this image was cropped into a widescreen ratio and then squished back into a 4:3 shape.
yes, I double-checked and unfortunately the original has this bad crop dammit.
@@erichaynes7502 Ah that's too bad. I know a lot of the videos posted on TH-cam from the official Ebert account have cropping issues. I didn't realize the Disney site had problems with that too.
@@jedijones I don't mind too much but does it have to be Schindler's List that's messed up?
@@erichaynes7502 I wonder if they messed up all the reviews from that episode. Also Wayne's World 2, Sister Act 2, Geronimo and Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, I mean Separation.
@@jedijones I bet they had several young folks at Disney cut the shows and convert them to .flv files. Every once in awhile somebody didn't pay close enough attention and that's why some are screwed up.
Spielberg told a great & powerful tale ... but was not beyond the cheap emotional payoff with his ending - something he latter repeated in Saving Private Ryan.
For me, anyways - it detracted from the overall movie ... rather than adding to it.
When you watch this show you see how many movies are TRYING to be as moving as Schindler’s List……. and they all fail.
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Terry Gilliam hated the ending of Schindler's List. Thought is did a disservice to the story and felt it missed the point to have a happy ending. Spielberg took note and realized Gilliam was right.
the story was centered around Schindler and his relationships with the prisoners, so it wouldn't make a great film for it just to fade to black after the Russians arrived. The book/movie wouldn't have existed if one of the prisoners hadn't fought hard for the story to be told. Spielberg could have told a different story of the Holocaust, because so many of them were far more depressing.
What "happy" ending is being referred to? Was it cut?
Terry Gilliam was incorrect. And if Steven was somehow convinced of this, he was incorrect too
Schindler's public breakdown at the end is the one thing in this masterpiece that's doesn't ring quite true for me. It's easy to imagine he might have questioned how he could have saved more people. But he was not the kind of man who would have made a public production of his doubts.
Steven Spielberg made 99.9% great choices in this film. If Schindler had taken the gift of the ring and sat in the car as he does, as the faces of "his" Jews flowed by in the window, it would have been 100%.
The ending left me with mixed feelings. It deeply moved me. Yet to some degree, I thought couldn't Spielberg take on the Holocaust and even THAT he had to give a happy ending to.
A fictional book based on history what’s next trying to make us believe Star Wars was history too
Look up the term historical fiction. North and south, gone with the wind, etc.
It's a well made drama film, and it deserved the Oscar, but there's a difference between a very good film and a masterpiece - and this film is not a masterpiece.
Hang on.
There was a movie made, that these two didn’t hate??
Lmfao!!
They actually liked many many movies...but Yes, they got it wrong many many times as well !
@@highwaystar3780 no such thing as wrong. its subjective.
@@DannyCosmos if I liked a Movie and You Didn't,..to Me You got it Wrong. and Vice-versa!
@@highwaystar3780 thats not how it works but okay sure...
We always hear how the big bad “no no” party was. But they never say exactly why they named the hebrews for the country’s suffering
Sorry. I NEVER liked this movie because it's in black and white. I appreciate tragic historical dramas, but making it in black and white was totally unnecessary. I am suspicious of Spielberg's motives in making it in black and white. Unfortunately, it is a fact that people like Spielberg have also exploited the tragic genocidal acts of WW2 for his own politics. There are many tragedies around the world that have NOT gotten the same amount of Hollywood attention, such the Holodomoor, the Nakba, the Communist genocidal massacres, the black death, the Armenian genocide, and the list goes on. Schindler's List also completely ignores the genocidal massacres suffered by the Romani duerng WW2. Finally, I cannot get into the narrative of Schindler's List. The film is too stoic. Sorry. FOR these three reasons, I actually give Schindler's List THUMBS DOWN. Anyone here feel the same??????
If you want to watch another, more naturally acted, uplifting film, yet still showing the tragedies suffered by European Jewery during WW2, I would recommend the Pianist. That one is much better film than Schindler's List. It IS NOT in black and white like this pathetic film. It's NOT reeking of personal political motives, and it's NOT as stoic as this one.
we see you Polanski
@@altec3600 I am not Polanski, the director of The Pianist. I am an American of Maltese descent. I don't like how Spielberg injects politics into some of his films. I also believe Schindler's List is too unnecessarily morose and unnecessarily made in black and white. It is too LONG. I can NEVER get into the narrative. I fall asleep after 45 minutes. The Pianist is a very uplifting film with some beautiful, interspersed piano pieces. It never gets boring, and you are always cheering for the protagonist, excellently played by Adrian Brody. It is more character-driven. Schindler's List feels more like a political docudrama with an obvious political agenda. Why?? If you are going to make a movie about the genocidal massacres suffered by European Jewery in the death camps of WWII, it should also be humanly done, with an uplifting message if possible. The Pianist achieves this and more. Schindler's List is a morose spectacle of three hours with unnecessary and undesirable characteristics.