Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Lost in Yonkers/Carnosaur/American Heart/Posse/The Story of Qiu Ju (1993)

Roger Ebert: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Roger Ebert - Host : I'm Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times.

  Gene Siskel - Host : And I'm Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune. Got a sore throat, obviously, but I'm gonna try and muddle through.

  Roger Ebert - Host : That's the great old show business tradition. I'm looking forward to be able to shout you down during every argument this program.

• Gene Siskel - Host : Our next film is called "Carnosaur", about a mad scientist who hatches a plan to wipe out the human race while genetically engineering the dinosaur to its place as king of the planet. And right away, I liked this movie for the sheer goofiness of that idea. Diane Ladd plays the crazed geneticist, and here she watches a tape of her dinosaur creation in action.

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  Gene Siskel - Host : I'm sure this is really gonna please Diane Ladd: She's the best thing in the movie, more interesting than the dinosaurs. Just what an actress wants to hear. Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" is coming out next month, and it's gonna feature high tech dinosaurs. It's gonna be interesting to see, however, whether he has any humans as enjoyable as Diane Ladd's character in "Carnosaur". So, a marginal thumbs up for me.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Well, a thumbs down for me, Gene, although I DID enjoy Diane Ladd's kind of mad intensity. She has that sort of way of zeroing in on her lines as if everything in the entire future of mankind...

  Gene Siskel - Host : I, I think...

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...Depends upon what she's doing.

  Gene Siskel - Host : I, I think she's one of the craziest characters that we've ever seen in a movie.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Uh-huh.

  Gene Siskel - Host : This woman is,

  [Roger chuckles] 

  Gene Siskel - Host : I mean, she's REALLY way out there.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Yeah.

  Gene Siskel - Host : The easiest thing would be, we always get, the villain is always someone who wants to destroy the world.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Yeah.

  Gene Siskel - Host : This, she's got a very specific plan: She hates people, and she loves dinosaurs and thinks they should be in charge.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Uh-huh.

  Gene Siskel - Host : I mean, that's fabulously loony.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Well, I liked all of that. I agree with you the dinosaurs aren't too good, and it doesn't help that they shoot them all at night, which I think is a technique to cover up the fact that they're not very high tech. I think Spielberg's gonna have higher tech dinosaurs.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Yeah.

  Roger Ebert - Host : I also felt that the plot got a little murky when all the women started to give birth to dinosaurs, and everybody broke out in a fever and so forth. I was not quite sure what the master plan was.

  Gene Siskel - Host : No, the master plan is- she's thought this very- through very carefully. She wants to impregnate all the women with dinosaur eggs and destroy the women so they'll die in childbirth, thus eliminating the ability of the human to keep conceiving.

  Roger Ebert - Host : That explains one of the key lines in the movie, which is half the species will be exterminated. And then I'm thinking quickly, and thinking: In another generation, the OTHER half will go, because there won't be anybody to give birth to them.

  Gene Siskel - Host : The movie makes real good sense.