Just Cause/Billy Madison/The Brady Bunch Movie/Mr. Payback
- Folge lief am 18. Feb. 1995
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuIn addition to reviewing four new movies, Siskel and Ebert react to the year's Oscar nominations.In addition to reviewing four new movies, Siskel and Ebert react to the year's Oscar nominations.In addition to reviewing four new movies, Siskel and Ebert react to the year's Oscar nominations.
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Season 9, Episode 24
The Sean Connery thriller JUST CAUSE, the Adam Sandler "comedy" BILLY MADISON and the interactive MR. PAYBACK are the film's reviwed on this episode of Siskel and Ebert. There are only three films reviewed but each of them make for some entertainment and especially the comments made about Sandler. Of course, he would end up having a very long career that is still going rather strong as I'm writing this. This episode also covers an interactive movie, which was a trial thing but of course it never took off. This episode also takes a look at the Oscar nominations that were announced including the overlooked HOOP DREAMS whose director would be overlooked yet again decades later when he did the Roger Ebert documentary LIFE ITSELF.
Season 9, Episode 24
This episode takes a look at the Sean Connery thriller JUST CAUSE, the Adam Sandler comedy BILLY MADISON and the interactive MR. PAYBACK. Only three films are actually reviewed during this episode but all three lead to some high entertainment and especially the comments made about Sandler whose career was just starting to take off during this era. It's funny to think that as of my writing this he's still out there doing the same type of film. The interactive MR. PAYBACK obviously never took off so it's easy to call it a failure. The two also take a look at the Oscar-nominations including HOOP DREAMS being overlooked. Of course, its director would be overlooked yet again decades later when he did LIFE ITSELF, a film based on Roger Ebert's book.
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Roger Ebert - Host: [discussing the omission of "Hoop Dreams" from the 1995 Academy Awards nominations] Y'know, Gene, I was talking to Barbara Kopple, who won two Academy Awards...
Gene Siskel - Host: A great documentary filmmaker.
Roger Ebert - Host: And she said, "This committee is in love with talking heads and stock footage." And that's exactly what they are. These old-fashioned television-oriented films, with battleships bombing the beaches of Normandy while some deep voice says how many troops went ashore. They are not interested in living, breathing documentaries, and there's another problem, and that is: The committee that picks these documentaries is volunteers, mostly retired people, not most of them documentarians at all. But, they have four hours free, two nights a week, for eleven weeks, to see 64 documentaries, almost 100 hours of documentaries. So they go night after night, and they get to know each other, and they chat, and they arrive, and they leave. And until this year, they had a chairman. This year, the woman who was the chairman stepped aside for the year because she had a film that was in the running, and what do you know? They nominated it. It's the Stockholm Syndrome. They're so friendly, that of course they wanted to do her a favor. And every year, if you go back year after year and look at the nominees, you'll find one or two nominees that are FISHY, because the people that manipulate the committee are trying to get their pictures nominated. This situation stinks, it's rotten, and until the Academy reforms it, they have shame on their name.
Gene Siskel - Host: But Roger, let me just throw some of their objections back, 'cause I know that they're gonna...
Roger Ebert - Host: Okay.
Gene Siskel - Host: ...be listening and taking notes and everything. Number one, they're gonna say, uh, every branch gets to vote for its own work.
Roger Ebert - Host: Yeah, but this branch doesn't. The documentarians don't have a documentary branch.
Gene Siskel - Host: Okay. The next thing they're gonna say is, you Roger, and you, Gene, have not seen the 64 we voted on.
Roger Ebert - Host: Well, I've seen ONE of them that they nominated, and nobody smart enough to ties his shoes would feel that that film is better than "Hoop Dreams".
Gene Siskel - Host: And that was a pretty good film, by the way.
Roger Ebert - Host: And it was a pretty good film.
Gene Siskel - Host: It's predictable: They resent success.
- VerbindungenFeatures The Wild Bunch - Sie kannten kein Gesetz (1969)