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Siskel + Ebert Fought This One Out

posted 18 years ago by LCShackley
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I went to see this film in its original release because Gene Siskel in the Chicago Tribune gave it four stars. I was very unimpressed with it and felt Siskel had let me down. AFTER that, I watched Siskel & Ebert review it on their TV show. Ebert was absolutely flabbergasted that Siskel was so high on this picture. He hated it. It was definitely a "thumbs up/thumbs down" moment. I think that was the moment I decided I was definitely an Ebert man, not a Siskel man.

[–] Akzidenz_Grotesk 17 years ago

I have always been an Ebert man ever since my teen years. Siskel was cool as a host and as Ebert's foil but a bit too tolerant of a lot of weak, bad etc. films. Ebert always explained why he thought a film lacked while Siskel's views on same such films didn't satisfy my trust-meter.

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[–] JoeLoebner 16 years ago

Siskel gave this movie four stars???. He had to be high...big time.

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[–] kinnyhova 15 years ago

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE DVD RELEASE!

[–] ReelFilmster 15 years ago

I'll definitely agree with that- Bound for Glory and The Last Detail clearly show him to be a master- had only he lived a little longer to solidify that. But he spent a lot of time at the Oscar's thats for sure.

The Last Detail has some of THE best rude humour ever on screen (the expression 'swears like a sailor' is fully realized in this one)- nothing funnier than Jack Nicholson sneering out: "I knew a whore once. She had a glass eye. She'd take it out and wink people off for a dollar."

RF

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