How the hell did Siskel and Ebert get so popular? They're terrible reviewers

[pete clemenza]

Disgusting thread.. How you gonna hate on the gawds of this movie review sh*t

 

[jilla82]

Im pretty sure they were the first to do movie reviews on TV.
The show started on PBS and then eventually went to regular Tv.

So they pretty much became the face of movie reviews.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Lol I enjoyed watching their show but they were both always Danny Tanner status. I remember thinking they were softies when I was like 12 with how they hated horror, violence, "monsters" and anything else they thought to be "distasteful."

Watching these old reviews, you can see how their conservative mindsets were the source of most of their criticisms of classic films. Silence of the Lambs is too brutal. Aliens is too upsetting. Jurassic Park is too intense and lacks scenes of childish wonder

 

[Boolean]

If it wasn't for Ebert banging Oprah, her career wouldn't exist.

Fun fact.

You got a link to an article or something b?

 

[Mowgli]

Just 2 queens, as film reviewers always are.

 

[pickles]

Shut up boy.

I actually agree with the Jurassic park review. They said the human characters were underdeveloped.

They were from a time when studios didn't pay critics to give their movies "thumbs up" "10/10" etc.
They really put thought into their movie review.

Yeah Ebert was dating Oprah, he was the one who told her about syndication and doing that with her show.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

They had a hardcore rivalry in Chiraq, while working for different papers, if I remember, so seeing them together on the old local show was cool. If they agreed on a movie, it was dope.

Good thing the women withheld the p*ssy from them so they could come together for those reviews

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

They nailed Goodfellas. The best picture ever made.

 

[FlyRy]

Shut up boy.

I actually agree with the Jurassic park review. They said the human characters were underdeveloped.

They were from a time when studios didn't pay critics to give their movies "thumbs up" "10/10" etc.
They really put thought into their movie review.

Yeah Ebert was dating Oprah, he was the one who told her about syndication and doing that with her show.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

i used to watch their show when i was a kid and only had like 5 channels. shyt used to really put me to sleep

 

[HHR]

Ebert >

 

[re'up]

"I didn't feel like a viewer during "Frozen Assets." I felt like an eyewitness at a disaster. If I were more of a hero, I would spend the next couple of weeks breaking into theaters where this movie is being shown, and lead the audience to safety."

This thread should be just posting up hilarious Ebert quotes....

 

[SouthSac916]

Hit or miss with these guys

 

[SouthSac916]

Did one pound Oprahs cakes in?

 

[TheGodling]