Siskel & Ebert (1986–2010)

Gene Siskel: Self - Host

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• Gene Siskel : [reviewing "Stargate"]  Do you know that the budget, supposedly, of this picture was fifty-five million dollars?

  Roger Ebert : Boy, they must've had some great lunches.

• Roger Ebert : [reviewing "Poltergeist III"]  You always wonder how the tennis committee likes it where the building they own a condo is trashed in a movie like this. I hope they got free tickets.

  Gene Siskel : I hope they didn't.

  Roger Ebert : Now, I said you couldn't sit through this movie if you had any common sense. Why not? Well, because the following things take place inside the Hancock building: Whole apartments become filled with snow and ice, corridors are filled with steam, the parking garage and the swimming pool freeze over, several cars explode and turn the garage into a roaring inferno, you saw the bottomless pit, the sprinkler system floods the place, the elevators raise up and down like yo-yo's, windows are broken and yet at no point do any policemen or any firemen ever turn up, nor does any of this ever make the papers. Amazing. In fact, nobody seems to notice this.

  Gene Siskel : How bout repairs?

  Roger Ebert : Exactly. The screenplay for this movie is also amazing because it makes a serious tactical error. It uses too many scenes where the characters incessantly cry out for one another. Carol-Ann! Carol-Ann! Bruce! Bruce! Patricia! Patricia! Carol-Ann! Bruce! Finally, the night I saw it, even the audience was joining in! Carol-Ann! Carol-Ann! Bruce! I must have heard the name Carol-Ann about a thousand times!

• Gene Siskel : [reviewing "Highlander 2: The Quickening"]  I read about this picture and do you know that it cost 34 million dollars to make?

  Roger Ebert : You're kidding me!

  Gene Siskel : Shot in Argentina... where did the money go?

  Roger Ebert : 34 million, they must have had a limousine every time they went to the john.

• [reviewing "Clifford"] 

  Roger Ebert : [surprised]  You took... kids to see this? This is the kind of movie where after kids see this, they should see "The Good Son" to cheer themselves up!

  Gene Siskel : Okay. That was about a killer, wasn't it?

• Gene Siskel : [referring to "North"]  Well, I think you've got to hold Rob Reiner's feet to the fire here: he's the guy in charge, he's saying this is entertainment - it's deplorable. There isn't a gag that works. You couldn't write worse jokes if I told you to write worse jokes. The ethnic stereotyping is appalling, it's embarrassing, you feel unclean as you're sitting there; it's junk - first-class junk.

• Gene Siskel : [criticising Roger's thumbs up for "Gorilla's in the Mist"]  You're only saying you like the film because apes and a woman are there, and they look pretty.

• Gene Siskel : that does astound me roger are you ok?

• Gene Siskel : wow whres yout suit and beard you are giving a cop an a half such a gift,

• Gene Siskel : I LIKed THE CABLE GUY I THOUGHT IT WAS jim carreys bEST since the mask.

• Gene Siskel : two tumbs up on terminator 2 judment day they spent alot of money on this movie they are going to get it back.

• Gene Siskel : now its timw for my pick of the worst film of 1994 i thought about making it mixed nuts because that movie was awful but then i thought of a movie that is even worse than mixed nuts and its north.

• Gene Siskel : now giving thumbs down on meet the deedles is not a movie review its a public service.

• Gene Siskel : a modest thumb up for me on beavis and butthead do america.

• Gene Siskel : no im not giving thumbs up to maltida roger because it had a flaw

• Gene Siskel : new nihtmare did not provock a single thought in roger it hss freddy who i have never enjoyed as a villian and i did not enjoy him here either.

• Gene Siskel : back in January i said i doubted i was going to movie that was better than crumb this year and i dident

• Gene Siskel : roger and i both said hoop dreams is the best film of 1994 and its not often we agree on what the best film of the best film of the year is.

• Gene Siskel : i love doing this show roger the worst films of the year. we should call it the critics revenge because we wasted time watching these movies that were never going to get back

• Gene Siskel : a marginal thumbs down thumbs down for me on home alone 2 lost in new York and i know every ten year in America is going to hate me for it

• Gene Siskel : ive never seen a movie that looks like a nightmare before xhristmas before so i applaud everyone who had something to do with the look of this movie.

• Gene Siskel : raging bull is one of the best films of the year robert de niro is a sure choice to win best actor this year

• Gene Siskel : our nexy movie is dumb and dumber and i have to admit jim carrey is growing on me i hated ace ventura but i liked the mask and now theres dumb anf dumber whick i liked