Siskel & Ebert: Best Of 1998 - Antz, Dark City, Elizabeth, Happiness, Pleasantville, The Truman Show

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  • In this episode, Siskel and Ebert talk about the best films of 1998. These films include: A Simple Plan, Antz, Babe: Pig in the City, Dark City, Elizabeth, Happiness, Life Is Beautiful, Pleasantville, Primary Colors, Saving Private Ryan, Shakespeare in Love, Simon Birch, The Thin Red Line, The Truman Show, There's Something About Mary and Waking Ned Devine.

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  • @Antonio_Ortiz
    @Antonio_Ortiz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I only just realized how smart Pleasantville was. Haven't watched it in ages.

  • @sonnyblack0870
    @sonnyblack0870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    “Ben Stiller and his good looks” is a sentence I never thought I’d hear spoken.

    • @cavior44
      @cavior44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      two words
      blue steel

    • @sonnyblack0870
      @sonnyblack0870 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cavior44 Two words
      Derek Zoolander. (Completely different person)

    • @cavior44
      @cavior44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@sonnyblack0870 Yeah i must've forgot that De Niro played Derek. Also you used 5 words.

  • @goldentaco4970
    @goldentaco4970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    1. The year's top ten are always my favorite Siskel and Ebert episodes.
    2. Ahhhh. 1998. The year I finished high school.
    3. Saving Private Ryan is my all time favorite film. Roger is totally wrong about the ending. When the old Ryan looks at his wife and says tell me I'm a good man, that used to get me choked up.
    4. It's hard to watch Gene in his last year or so. You can tell the difference between this and the Gene of the late 80s/early 90s.

    • @stevegeorge6880
      @stevegeorge6880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It was his last year. He died February 20th 1999.

  • @BloodMonkeysUnited
    @BloodMonkeysUnited 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I feel like I've been trumpeting for years that babe pig in the city is an underated masterpiece. I feel so liberated.

    • @Antonio_Ortiz
      @Antonio_Ortiz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, I'm sold.

    • @CR055FIRE
      @CR055FIRE 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the first Babe is good
      the second Babe sucked

  • @bigjohn08865
    @bigjohn08865 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    10:55 - Siskel says the country is at a long period of protracted peace and He says maybe Spielberg (by making Saving Private Ryan) is advocating to keep it that way. 2 1/2 years later 9/11 happened and the 20 year war in Afghanistan began.

  • @HanzSygnal
    @HanzSygnal ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ebert always amazed me in how he saw Dark City as an all-timer; Matrix with more soul and depth. 98' was the best year in film I can think of.

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    A little nugget tucked away on Roger's list is A Simple Plan. I can't find enough good things to say about that movie. It's one of Sam Raimi's best, with amazing performances by Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda and Gary Cole.

  • @brianmccormick3837
    @brianmccormick3837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Poor Gene...😢

    • @gradeahonky
      @gradeahonky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, you can hear that his speech is a lot more labored during the last few years of his life.

    • @bigjohn08865
      @bigjohn08865 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This aired January 2, 1999. He died on February 20, 1999 - a few weeks later. Very sad.

    • @freedone.
      @freedone. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, it's hard to see. He's so mellow with no bite and fight left in him. We loved these two

    • @freedone.
      @freedone. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      See the tribute - th-cam.com/video/t_WfOkTcQyA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ThatOldT.V.

  • @clydesalley
    @clydesalley ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pleasantville is one of the most underrated great movies of all time. Ebert had it at number 2 that year, Siskel at Number 3. On my personal list, it's in the top five.

  • @vanillabadboy4469
    @vanillabadboy4469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Damn this year had some of my favorites

  • @caligulapontifex5759
    @caligulapontifex5759 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I believe this is Gene's last "Best of". They both knew and it shows.

  • @branagain
    @branagain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    1998 was a great year in film.

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:10 the main is a genius, or psychic. He was right, it did change the course of comedy.

  • @woodenturkey
    @woodenturkey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You can see Gene slowing down. 😞

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Please tell me you have their "worst of" episode from 1998. There were sooooo many terrible movies that year....or, at least, so many that both these guys thought of as terrible. Sour Grapes, Armageddon, Godzilla, Holy Man, etc.

    • @ThatOldTV
      @ThatOldTV  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I do. I'll try and post it next week; possibly Monday. Just a heads up, the quality isn't that great.

    • @RossAllaire
      @RossAllaire 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/a4jf2aM-iTE/w-d-xo.html 😎👍

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Primary Colors was good. Even if you didnt know the specific references to Clintons family you still enjoy the mildly sardonic political intrigue. Its just funny enough and real enough to be solid entertainment.

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral7672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Dark City is ten times the film Matrix is.

    • @paulzenco6182
      @paulzenco6182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paulzenco6182 Yarp

    • @woodenturkey
      @woodenturkey 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ricardocantoral7672 yes yes yes

    • @Campbellzilla
      @Campbellzilla 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It goes Dark City, then eXistenZ, then tied for third The Thirteenth Floor and The Matrix

    • @johnnyboy7144
      @johnnyboy7144 ปีที่แล้ว

      It sure is

  • @Madstsone
    @Madstsone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Siskel was right - The Thin Red Line is better than Saving Private Ryan.

    • @sonnyblack0870
      @sonnyblack0870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LMAO! 😂 Good one man 👌

    • @Madstsone
      @Madstsone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sonnyblack0870 Thomas Sowell can't be wrong!

    • @sonnyblack0870
      @sonnyblack0870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Madstsone Hah well as long as you recognize. 👌👍