Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Getting Away with Murder/James and the Giant Peach/Jane Eyre/Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy/Ghost in the Shell (1996)

Roger Ebert: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Gene Siskel - Himself : [reviewing "Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy"]  I think this is very funny stuff. "Brain Candy" will appeal to young moviegoers who are fans of "Kids in the Hall". I've seen them a couple of times on late night TV, and I often thought they only seem good by comparison with the recent "Saturday Night Live" troupes. But in "Brain Candy", they're funnier than they've ever been on TV. And I recommend this picture as kind of a midnight show cult picture, which I suspect it's destined to become.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Boy, are we apart on THIS one. I did not laugh ONCE.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Oh... y'know...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : I thought this movie was AWFUL!

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Oh no, Roger...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Dreadful! Terrible!

  Gene Siskel - Himself : No.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Stupid! Idiotic! Unfunny! Labored! Forced!

  Gene Siskel - Himself : [concerned tone]  Oh, Roger! Roger!

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Painful!

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Roger, this is...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Bad!

  Gene Siskel - Himself : What happened to your sense of humor?

  Roger Ebert - Himself : I GOT my sense of humor!

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Oh.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : That was what- my sense of humor was STARVING for a laugh as I looked at this movie.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Oh no, Roger, first of all, you, the drag stuff was funny.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : So what?

  Gene Siskel - Himself : What do you mean, so what? If it's funny...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : They're in drag. Why is it funny?

  Gene Siskel - Himself : No no...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Why is it funny that they're in drag?

  Gene Siskel - Himself : It's not funny that they're IN drag...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : No no no, they're not...

  Gene Siskel - Himself : ...I've knocked knocked pictures where people have been in drag when they're not funny...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : No no no, they're in drag, and they're not funny.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : ...I'm saying, obviously, they're laughing- you didn't get the stuff about the drug and product...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Oh, I caught on. I caught on.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : What happened, Roger?

  Roger Ebert - Himself : It's just, we're in different universes, here. Can't talk about it. Can't talk about it. It's not funny, I didn't laugh once.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : We get PAID to talk about it, Roger.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Okay.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Let's talk about it.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Tell me one funny moment in the movie.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : There are DOZENS of funny moments. Every time...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Mm-hmm. Just choose one.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Every single time... I laughed throughout the picture. I laughed throughout the picture.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Okay. Well, I'm happy for you.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : No no no, but... well, that's, at least that's a start. Roger... will you look at this picture again?

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Sure I will! I'd be happy to. Sometime, maybe, in the 21st century.

• Roger Ebert - Himself : "Ghost in the Shell" is unusually intelligent and challenging science fiction aimed at smart audiences.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Well, there is certainly something to think about, and that's a refreshing thing from a lot of science fiction pictures, which are just purely doom and gloom. This is a film dealing with artificial intelligence. Um, I like the look of the film, I like how simply moving the shadows, just little movements on the characters, they do it all the time, it always grabbed me. I was always staring at this film. A couple of other thoughts. One, um... I think this also, this whole genre is obviously a peek into the psyche of Japan. Because clearly, there are people who are afraid of being robotized...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : Yes.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : And also, this business of using women. Uh, they have not gotten politically correct, because the woman is constantly showing nude, and her body is dissected, and it's a way of subverting, of allowing...

  Roger Ebert - Himself : And yet, she is the heroine.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : I understand that.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : So there are two key things in these movies, you put your finger on both of them: One, the robotize thing, and second, women are very frequently the protagonists, even though they are seen as sex objects.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : No question.

• Gene Siskel - Himself : [after the recap]  "Brain Candy", Roger. "Brain Candy".

  Roger Ebert - Himself : I wish some...

  Gene Siskel - Himself : Check it out. Check it out.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : ...For you, Gene.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : No no no.

  Roger Ebert - Himself : I think you've been taking too much of it.

  Gene Siskel - Himself : No, I tell you what: I'm gonna see this picture again, I'm gonna laugh just as hard.