Malcolm X/Bram Stoker's Dracula/Traces of Red/Love Potion #9

Gene Siskel - Host: [reviewing "Bram Stoker's Dracula"] Coppolla is a master of the visual, but I thought it was a pretty empty picture.

Roger Ebert - Host: Well, the important thing with a movie of this length and complexity is to have a storyline that is clear enough...

Gene Siskel - Host: Driven through.

Roger Ebert - Host: ...So that people know at every moment who is who and why...

Gene Siskel - Host: Yeah.

Roger Ebert - Host: ...And why we care about them and what's going to happen to them.

Gene Siskel - Host: Yeah.

Roger Ebert - Host: And here you have, as I said before, set pieces in which everything spins around in beautiful pictures, but there's no real emotion to it.

Gene Siskel - Host: So then why do you give it thumbs up?

Roger Ebert - Host: I love the way it looked.

Gene Siskel - Host: Well, I like the way it looked.

Roger Ebert - Host: There has to be, uh, y'know, thumbs up, thumbs down is such an arbitrary thing anyway.

Gene Siskel - Host: Not arbitrary.

Roger Ebert - Host: This movie does things with the visuals of vampirism and the Dracula legend...

Gene Siskel - Host: Yeah.

Roger Ebert - Host: ...That you have not seen done before. I mean, the sets, the costumes, the atmosphere, the music, the special effects...

Gene Siskel - Host: But you were b- I know you were bored during it, and I was bored, too. I really was. Coming up next...

Roger Ebert - Host: Well, I'm glad you're a mind reader. Maybe you can get a job in the next picture doing your act, or something.

Gene Siskel - Host: Thank you.