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  • @AmericasComic
    @AmericasComic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Ebert's dead pause at 3:41 after Siskel gave Armageddon a positive review made me laugh.

    • @hobbes4583
      @hobbes4583 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sometimes one of 'em gets it wrong. Siskel is very wrong here.

    • @adamseidel9780
      @adamseidel9780 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Funny thing is he doesn't even disagree that it's bad, he just seems to think it falls into the right spot of completely ridiculous bad that he funds it funny in its ridiculousness.

    • @SwordfishSpike50
      @SwordfishSpike50 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can tell that he really hated it, but he also went easy on Gene because he didn't want to dogpile on him while he was ailing

  • @Jetset906
    @Jetset906 8 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Poor Gene, he looked so tired. I know he was dying and that makes all the more sad. ;(

    • @heavysystemsinc.
      @heavysystemsinc. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah, and specifically you can tell he's having a bit of a hard time speaking and there's a bit of sluring since I imagine without looking it up, he'd had a minor stroke by this point. But even still, he seems so happy to just enjoy some movies, even bad ones.

    • @jedijones
      @jedijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@heavysystemsinc. He had brain surgery for a tumor about two months prior to this. He did the show by phone for several episodes after that. This was his third episode in studio after the surgery.

    • @hobbes4583
      @hobbes4583 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you implicating Michael bay in the death of Gene siskel? If so, I'm available to testify to that effect.

  • @stephenhuntsucker3766
    @stephenhuntsucker3766 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Armageddon is a movie that you laugh at more than anything. So melodramatic and over the top. But it’s definitely a guilty pleasure.

  • @williamnoonan7380
    @williamnoonan7380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    It's rough watching these episodes when Siskel was sick. I miss these guys. They used to air at 7:30 PM on Saturday in our local Boston ABC affiliate. I used to stay home and watch them. My friends thought I was weird. Armageddon is admittedly a terrible guilty pleasure :).

  • @tippersdad5152
    @tippersdad5152 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Armageddon was an insult to my intelligence. Corny & lame. I had to stop watching it when the shuttle was dodging the asteroid. This film makes Space Cowboys look like an Oscar contender.

    • @flmbyz
      @flmbyz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Space Cowboys was actually an Oscar contender for Sound Design.

    • @collegeman1988
      @collegeman1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Armageddon was just plain dumb. What an awful movie.

  • @theadamblock
    @theadamblock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    If only they knew how loud Michael bay would get

  • @NemeanLion-
    @NemeanLion- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I felt like it was a 2 hour beer commercial.

  • @sha11235
    @sha11235 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Notice they shook hands at the end?

  • @jstarr7506
    @jstarr7506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sad that Gene never saw the year 2000

  • @Zatzzo
    @Zatzzo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The fact that Siskel gave Armageddon a thumbs up is everything you need to know about him as a "critic".

  • @cliffordshafran9250
    @cliffordshafran9250 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This was when Gene's health started to deteriorate. Really a shame that he left us so soon. Once again, he gives an odd thumbs up to a movie Roger voted as worst of the year. But, this was missing the loud, acrimonious arguing with Gene's poor health.

  • @titusmccarthy
    @titusmccarthy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This had to be one of the WORST popular movies ever made.

  • @PaulSmith-qs1es
    @PaulSmith-qs1es 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ebert tried to talk about the propaganda elements in Gone With the Wind and Siskel immediately changed the topic of conversation to something far less interesting.

  • @JB-su6gv
    @JB-su6gv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    1:26 I love Ebert's snickering

    • @jmcusack
      @jmcusack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      'This could have been the movie that was shown to Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange to make him sick of violence.'

  • @Jbaxter85
    @Jbaxter85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    GONE WITH THE WIND - CLASSIC ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Nights of cabiri - outstanding ⭐⭐⭐
    BUFFALO 66 - GREAT ⭐⭐⭐

  • @daytripperhd
    @daytripperhd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Buffalo 66 is a great movie. Compelling from beginning to end.

  • @DakotaBeerDrinker74
    @DakotaBeerDrinker74 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That movie sucked so bad! Basically a three hour Aerosmith video for there song i hate the most!

    • @hamupinhere
      @hamupinhere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That Aerosmith song. I remember that being the official death knell for that band. Having previously reemerged with that massive career comeback and lengthy string of wildly-successful records ('Permanent Vacation', 'Pump', 'Get A Grip', 'Nine Lives'), they were pretty much a tour de force, in an era of music that would've normally bulldozed any "dad" band into oblivion. They consistently proved they still had it; that they could still rock.
      So what do they do? Well, they get into the studio with the songwriting powerhouse behind Celine Dion and LeAnn Rimes, of course. Nothing says "Rock n' roll" more than that. You heard it everywhere--everywhere--around the time it was released, tirelessly chipping away at our psyches as it promoted its big-budgeted garbage ass Michael Bay explosion-fest movie companion. Bludgeoning us with heavy rotation on MTV, all day, everyday. You put on the radio: it was playing. The song debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts--their highest charting single of all time--yet you somehow never knew of or met an Aerosmith fan who liked it.
      It was a nauseatingly sappy ballad of horseshit that made itself even worse by hopping on that trend of "hard-rock-meets-orchestra" that couldn't go away fast enough. A few years later, 'Just Push Play' dropped, and while it sold well, the consensus was in: Aerosmith fucking sucked now (again).

    • @flmbyz
      @flmbyz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hambone Jones Basically, the song was an encapsulation of Armageddon as a whole: overhyped, overproduced, overly sappy, and was the favorite for people who didn’t understand the medium whatsoever.

  • @OuterGalaxyLounge
    @OuterGalaxyLounge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    At least Buffalo 66 and Henry Fool were halfway interesting. There were a lot of cool indie movies like that in the '90s.

  • @PaulSmith-qs1es
    @PaulSmith-qs1es 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All of the films in this episode are worth talking about. Even if just because of how ridiculous they are like Armageddon and Passion in the Desert.

  • @stevemarethyu3003
    @stevemarethyu3003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They couldn't have known that Bay would make Armageddon seem like a silent film when he made the Transformer movies. I actually went to another movie opening night of one of those movies (I think #3) and the audio bleed into our theater was ridiculous! I could hear Transformers better than the movie I was actually watching!

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 ปีที่แล้ว

      What were you watching?

  • @beksinski
    @beksinski 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    No crazy astronaut stuff?

  • @PotSmokeGuy
    @PotSmokeGuy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Siskel has no consistency to his reviews. I can't believe he gave this thumbs up!

    • @kendallandrews8691
      @kendallandrews8691 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sometimes movies are like that. For example I generally hate Adam Sandler movies yet I enjoyed Grown Ups 2. It was just a dumb comedy, but it made me laugh. Some would say it makes no sense that you couldn't pay me to watch most of his crap, but If enjoy Grown Ups2.

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He gave each film the benefit of the doubt. There were films he liked that you might think, WTF?
      There isn't any consistency in film reviews.

    • @kendallandrews8691
      @kendallandrews8691 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sha11235 yep at the end of the day we like what we like and our tastes dont line up. There is a smug film critic I like named Alonso duralde. He rips everything yet somehow loved movie 43. People are never fully consistent.

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In Siskel's defense, he really isn't praising the film. He found it to be hilariously stupid.

    • @jedijones
      @jedijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ricardocantoral7672 When he says things like a "strange" thumbs up, I'm afraid we're seeing the effects of the tumor and brain surgery. He would never have given such an oblique rationale for liking a movie before. On many of Siskel's last episodes Ebert really seems baffled by Gene's arguments.

  • @PaulSmith-qs1es
    @PaulSmith-qs1es 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ebert's always right when they disagree.

    • @jedijones
      @jedijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably, but people will challenge you on that with Die Hard, Batman, Cop and a Half, Home Alone 3, Spaceballs, Vacation and Fatal Attraction.

  • @heathen2487
    @heathen2487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Armageddon is as atrocious as Bay's other blockbuster, Pearl Harbour.

    • @patrickc3419
      @patrickc3419 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember seeing Armageddon in the theater as a teenager in the summer of 1998; agree with you; it is awful.

  • @PaulSmith-qs1es
    @PaulSmith-qs1es 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Was it Ebert's comment about Henry Fool seeing the world at an oblique angle that inspired the director to film the sequel entirely in Dutch angles?

    • @PaulSmith-qs1es
      @PaulSmith-qs1es 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Incidentally, I found Henry Fool far more entertaining than Buffalo 66

    • @jedijones
      @jedijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good thing he didn't say he saw the world in black and white terms.

  • @ThePoreproductions
    @ThePoreproductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    (4:33) I bet that advice, can still be applied today. Especially if you go to a theater that has thing like say IMAX, or Dolby Cinema (if you go to a AMC) or something.

  • @patrickc3419
    @patrickc3419 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember seeing Armageddon in the theater in the summer of 1998. Gotta agree with Ebert. It’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.

  • @billscannell93
    @billscannell93 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would have liked it if their program had lasted a full hour. It sometimes seems like they rush through their reviews.

  • @armandoenriquez1104
    @armandoenriquez1104 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now, today's program schedule.

  • @sha11235
    @sha11235 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I didn't see Armageddon in the theaters, but was what Gene's advice true?

    • @bobthebear1246
      @bobthebear1246 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      sha11235 No, it wasn't. ARMAGEDDON sucked ass. And not the good kind.

    • @franksmith613
      @franksmith613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It wasn't true or false. It was his opinion. So, opinion can't be true or false.

    • @heavysystemsinc.
      @heavysystemsinc. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, there were several big action movies of that time that in some theaters, the sound would shake the walls at in opportune times if you were watching almost literally any other movie. A slow dialogue scene? Oh, man, you couldn't pay attention from the rumbling going on through the walls. Very annoying. I think modern theaters do better to dampen and contain the soundtracks to the theater it's intended to be heard in, but back then when there was upgrading of sound systems and these new big epic movies were taking advantage of digital sound, the old theaters really couldn't contain it.

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@franksmith613 I'm talking about him saying that if you go to a multiplex and you see Armageddon is playing there, don't see a film playing next door to it because there will be tremendous audio bleed.

  • @DocNintendo
    @DocNintendo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @armageddon Why didnt they train astronauts to drill rather than drillers all the space stuff. One would think drilling would be much easier

    • @kevinjohnson3119
      @kevinjohnson3119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is explained in the film.

    • @jedijones
      @jedijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Drilling is especially easy with Kim Basinger.

  • @brucewayne1662
    @brucewayne1662 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Man, Siskel gave Armageddon a thumbs up but gave Highlander a thumbs down? Gene, RIP - we lost you way too early - but I dont get that.

    • @flmbyz
      @flmbyz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wonder what he would have thought about Pearl Harbor.

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Highlander was hot garbage. Armageddon was slightly less offensive.

  • @slaugmromni6743
    @slaugmromni6743 ปีที่แล้ว

    _Nights of Cabiria_ is a gorgeous film!

  • @ryangettig274
    @ryangettig274 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Siskel&Ebert.org-the Siskel&Ebert Archives.,

  • @nickperkins8477
    @nickperkins8477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Siskel was pretty sweet in his Armageddon review. I think he nailed it. It’s noisy and absurd, but there is also a beating heart that insists it all works.

    • @curly_wyn
      @curly_wyn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No there isn’t. Michael Bay is a nihilistic filmmaker who hates everyone and everything in his movies. Don’t think for one second that ANY emotions in his films are genuine in any way, because they’re not.

    • @curly_wyn
      @curly_wyn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, there isn’t. Michael Bay is a nihilistic filmmaker who hates everyone and everything in his movies. Don’t think for one second that ANY emotions in his films are genuine in any way, because they’re not.

  • @johndyslin798
    @johndyslin798 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    and about a year after this Siskel was dead.

    • @branagain
      @branagain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He died about seven months after this.

  • @JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL
    @JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Henry Fool! 🖤

    • @MrBoyYankee
      @MrBoyYankee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great character study.

  • @dannydaniel6017
    @dannydaniel6017 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd rather watch Armageddon again than that depressing and overwrought mess that was Deep Impact which is pretty much the same story including the kamazike sacrifice scene by the space shuttle in that film! And...Siskel liked that one too. Ebert didn't and Ebert did have a great point which was that if the writers Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin who are great writers were just let loose pretty much like the hundred writers on Armageddon (J.J. Abrams included) that would've been the better of the two comet disaster films. As such, Armageddon, with it's noise and MTV style editing is still the best of the two films.

  • @felipesigne901
    @felipesigne901 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    you could had buffalo 66 to the titel maybe

  • @omargonzalez2641
    @omargonzalez2641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Michael Bay is like a Hollywood freak To be fair "The Rock" was a good film.

  • @simonrandall5471
    @simonrandall5471 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Roger thinks he is looking at death. Death is looking right back at him.

  • @blakejohnson7148
    @blakejohnson7148 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Unfortunately, I think Siskel's judgement was impaired by his medical condition...he actually gave Armageddon a thumbs up!....lol And Ebert, in kindness to his friend, did not call him out on it.

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don't think that is true.

    • @cliffordshafran9250
      @cliffordshafran9250 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He voted "Patch Adams" for worst movie and "Babe: Pig in the City" for best movie. Take it for what it's worth.

    • @jedijones
      @jedijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sha11235 There is a transcript of their review of Mulan on IMDB from the first episode Siskel came back to after surgery. Siskel pans it for confusing reasons. His reviews were often shaky and not well explained after the surgery.

    • @SkankHunt3000
      @SkankHunt3000 ปีที่แล้ว

      Insensitive comment

  • @iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729
    @iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    first half of Armageddon is fun...second half is obnoxiously, loud and inept like most Bay`s films.....Bay looooovvvvvessss slow motion shots

  • @Locadel2003
    @Locadel2003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh come on, this movie is so much fun and emotional sometimes. It was the highest grossing movie of 1998

    • @langdonalger9219
      @langdonalger9219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That doesn’t make it good

    • @sha11235
      @sha11235 ปีที่แล้ว

      That didn't make it the best film of the year. I thought the best film of that year was Saving Private Ryan.

  • @bakedbeansgangstajones3937
    @bakedbeansgangstajones3937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Armageddon wasn't a masterpiece but eons better than Cop and a Half!

  • @branagain
    @branagain 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Armageddon is still one of the worst movies ever made. It represents everything wrong with Hollywood. I hate Michael Bay.

    • @ferox965
      @ferox965 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      correct...Armageddon was a piece of shit...There were 3 movies about the end of the world at the time, this, Deep Impact and Last Night...Last Night was by far the best.

    • @crazymaner2003
      @crazymaner2003 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      brunswickphoto It’s not even one of the worst Michael Bay movies ever made.

    • @Ryhan_Beard
      @Ryhan_Beard 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Reading this in the voice of Zapp Brannigan makes me laugh a lot.

    • @dzanier
      @dzanier 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i hate him too, and a lot of it has to do with the fact his movies are nothing but noise fests. he is the perfect director for the new generation of moviegoer: the one with a short attention span who hates dialogue.

    • @ilovebrandnewcarpets
      @ilovebrandnewcarpets 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@crazymaner2003 Isn't that a scary thought

  • @MrBoyYankee
    @MrBoyYankee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Teen Christina Ricci =Forbidden Fruit.

  • @sleuthentertainment5872
    @sleuthentertainment5872 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Siskel hated The Rock and Ebert liked
    Siskel liked Armageddon and Ebert hated
    They looked like a marriage. Always saying and thinking the opposite

  • @twstf8905
    @twstf8905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The asteroid in Armageddon that just HAPPENED to know exactly which series of selected man-made cultural monuments and historical landmarks to hit and destroy around the World lol it's true, it's so absurd and ridiculous, it's almost a comedy or disaster movie parody that's just pretending to be an action/adventure flick. 🤣
    It's an exercise in manic shaky-cam and cringe dialogue tolerance, and has never ONCE inspired me to give it a re-watch since that one very first, (and last,) time I ever had.
    👎 👎 from me.

  • @nathanslay6342
    @nathanslay6342 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I agree with Gene here. Armageddon is very fun.

  • @blakedavis1852
    @blakedavis1852 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think Siskel's been in combat. lol
    (Yeah with cancer, RIP).

  • @charleswinokoor6023
    @charleswinokoor6023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Willis = unctuous
    unwatchable

  • @davidscott7626
    @davidscott7626 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Armageddon is ridiculous, but it is kinda fun.

  • @oobrocks
    @oobrocks 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mental combat 😆

  • @lw3646
    @lw3646 ปีที่แล้ว

    An extremely dumb movie, maybe you can enjoy it though if you are in the right mood....

  • @bakedbeansgangstajones3937
    @bakedbeansgangstajones3937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fellini was pretentious nonsense!

  • @langdonalger9219
    @langdonalger9219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Armageddon was a stupid movie.

  • @coljdwilx
    @coljdwilx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ...Back when liberals were sophisticated enough to contextualize history and approve of art made in the days of “Gone with the Wind” and its period subject.

    • @SkankHunt3000
      @SkankHunt3000 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those days are over and we are stuck with libs who want to erase history because it offends their fragile feelings

  • @leighfoulkes7297
    @leighfoulkes7297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey, I wasn't the only who despised Armageddon. Oil riggers saving the earth but yet, their product (oil) is killing the earth anyway! At least the comet would be quick.

    • @jedijones
      @jedijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oil's not killing the earth. That's just a lot of mass hysteria and propaganda from politicians who want to frighten you so you give them more and more money and power.

  • @farbekrieg355
    @farbekrieg355 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always found the foreign film section on S & E was pretentious.

    • @jedijones
      @jedijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I always fantasized that being a critic on their show would be a great job until they got to the foreign films and I'd imagine having to sit through them and trying to form an opinion on them.

  • @patrickandrews1692
    @patrickandrews1692 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    meryl streep is severely overrated

    • @FruityGangster
      @FruityGangster 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just like your momma.

    • @OuterGalaxyLounge
      @OuterGalaxyLounge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're unrated.

    • @citygirl5705
      @citygirl5705 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Meryl Streep is not overrated. She's a brilliant actress. Unfortunately in real life, she's just another idiot liberal hypocrite.

    • @chipmichaels5197
      @chipmichaels5197 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Trump is a piece of trash.

    • @citygirl5705
      @citygirl5705 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      All I care about is that he's a great president. And so far, he is.