Some more Ebert love: Siskel & Ebert archive, post 1986

[Small Town Guy]

Ebert's getting a lot of attention for his writing, and rightfully so, but how many people would have found those words over the years without the exposure he got from the TV show? A few years ago the archive of At the Movies went online, with all the reviews since 1986. Ebert explained that the tapes between 1975 and 1985 were apparently destroyed.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070731/COMMENTARY/70731002

You can search it by year or movie. Some memorable ones:

Black Sheep. The first movie Siskel walked out on.
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=black+sheep

Ebert gets Siskel to change his review of Broken Arrow.
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=broken+arrow

Cop and a Half. Ebert bizarrely enjoys it. Siskel mocks him.
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=cop+and

The Tony Danza classic She's out of Control. They, um, did not enjoy it.
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=she%27s+out+of+control

North. The written review was the one that they read at the roast of Rob Reiner.
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=north

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Ebert is on Oprah right now, and she just showed a photo of the layout of Jones' Esquire piece and called the story "amazing." Nice!

 

[qtlaw]

Always enjoyed Ebert. I wish him the best with his rehab; great story how he's kept up his writing.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Add another to the Ebert canon. He brilliantly destroys Kick-Ass: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100414/REVIEWS/100419986

 

[ucacm]

Siskel is hilarious in the Black Sheep review. "I've never seen Chris Farley be funny. He just screams and runs around like a fat man."

 

[Twoback]

It's easy to forget how wonderful these shows were.
They were so eloquent and their passion for movies comes through whether they're praising a good one or blasting a bad one.
Such a shame that health robbed each of his gift to share that passion with us through this TV show.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

North. The written review was the one that they read at the roast of Rob Reiner.
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=north

That review is awesome.

 

[Double J]

Add another to the Ebert canon. He brilliantly destroys Kick-Ass: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100414/REVIEWS/100419986

He does?

Giving it one star and lamenting how "dark" it is does not a brilliant destruction make.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Add another to the Ebert canon. He brilliantly destroys Kick-Ass: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100414/REVIEWS/100419986

This (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001) is a brilliant destruction.

The all-timer. The Babe Ruth of Ebert reviews.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Add another to the Ebert canon. He brilliantly destroys Kick-Ass: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100414/REVIEWS/100419986

This (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001) is a brilliant destruction.

The all-timer. The Babe Ruth of Ebert reviews.

As much joy and giggles as that review has given me over the years, one nice thing happened if you skip ahead a few years later when Ebert was sick. After one of his nasty surgeries, he got a bouquet of flowers with a note signed "From your least favorite actor, Rob Schneider." Ebert wrote about it and said that it was "a reminder, if I needed one, that although Rob Schneider might (in my opinion) have made a bad movie, he is not a bad man, and no doubt tried to make a wonderful movie, and hopes to again. I hope so, too."

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070507/COMMENTARY/70507001

Ebert is a really smart guy, an excellent writer and has a great dry wit that rolls from those typewriter keys of his. He also, apparently, is a great guy, who is worthy of the respect he's been getting lately.

 

[Bob Cook]

Add another to the Ebert canon. He brilliantly destroys Kick-Ass: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100414/REVIEWS/100419986

He does?

Giving it one star and lamenting how "dark" it is does not a brilliant destruction make.

I think his point is that the use of the 11-year-old is so reprehensible and distracting, the movie becomes less about the movie, and the more about the morality of using an 11-year-old to swear and kill, and worse yet, take physical abuse.

I haven't seen the movie, but I suspect if you can't get comfortable with that, the rest of the movie doesn't matter.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

That movie just makes no sense to me. When I initially saw a trailer for it, it looked like a little preteen empowerment superhero tale. But then it turns out to be rated R? I can't imagine any adult other than fans of the comic going to see it, and then on DVD it's going to end up being seen by a bunch of kids who the content isn't appropriate for.

 

[Double J]

Add another to the Ebert canon. He brilliantly destroys Kick-Ass: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100414/REVIEWS/100419986

He does?

Giving it one star and lamenting how "dark" it is does not a brilliant destruction make.

I think his point is that the use of the 11-year-old is so reprehensible and distracting, the movie becomes less about the movie, and the more about the morality of using an 11-year-old to swear and kill, and worse yet, take physical abuse.

I haven't seen the movie, but I suspect if you can't get comfortable with that, the rest of the movie doesn't matter.

Oh, I understand the point. And it's a good point. I just don't find the review to be the brilliant destruction that TSP thinks it is.