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I'm on the floor right now after having seen the recently uploaded Siskel and Ebert 1987 Holiday Gift Guide. http://siskelandebert.org/video/XWK43WB6OA73/1987-Holiday-Gift-Guide Some of the highlights: -Gene makes a video in which he pretends to be Roger and insults the poo poo out of him. -Roger making his own movie which is essentially just stealing footage from Citizen Kane and then changing the punchline of the movie. -Gene doing an awful job at drawing on the screen for the program Winky Dinks. -Gene placing his photo in those cheesy your-photo-here video tapes and then getting really pissed off about not being able to interact more with Lady Lovelylocks (I laughed a full two minutes at this).
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Nov 10, 2014 19:22
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How the hell have none of you posted this yet? http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/deuce-bigalow-european-gigolo-2005 quote:But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" while passing on the opportunity to participate in "Million Dollar Baby," "Ray," "The Aviator," "Sideways" and "Finding Neverland." As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.
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Nov 10, 2014 19:44
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FrostedButts posted:-Gene placing his photo in those cheesy your-photo-here video tapes and then getting really pissed off about not being able to interact more with Lady Lovelylocks (I laughed a full two minutes at this). This was so good
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Nov 11, 2014 11:28
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FrostedButts posted:I'm on the floor right now after having seen the recently uploaded Siskel and Ebert 1987 Holiday Gift Guide. 
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Nov 11, 2014 20:29
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It probably goes without saying, but I really really miss reading Ebert's reviews for new films. I usually hate Nostalgia Critic stuff but his retrospective on Siskel & Ebert a few years back was great.
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Nov 12, 2014 00:31
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I really miss the reviews of really bad movies. Like if a movie that you just know is a stinking piece of poo poo is released, I occasionally wonder how Siskel & Ebert would have torn it apart and then I get depressed. I'm just going to go and lie down now.
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Nov 12, 2014 03:15
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Vagabundo posted:I really miss the reviews of really bad movies. Like if a movie that you just know is a stinking piece of poo poo is released, I occasionally wonder how Siskel & Ebert would have torn it apart and then I get depressed. I'm just going to go and lie down now. Thanks to modern technology, we can complete reviews of new movies for Siskel & Ebert without them using previously shot footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_zCh3oa9q0
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Nov 12, 2014 04:04
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Wow, what is the film where they couldn't show the clip it was so bad?
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Nov 12, 2014 05:07
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LordPants posted:Wow, what is the film where they couldn't show the clip it was so bad? They do show clips from the trailer, though.
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Nov 12, 2014 05:09
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FrostedButts posted:Thanks to modern technology, we can complete reviews of new movies for Siskel & Ebert without them using previously shot footage. It's just not the same 
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Nov 12, 2014 05:37
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Last Chance posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5bWkv0eV3M There was another instance, I think with King Kong Lives, where they revealed that they couldn't show the clip because the studio didn't want them to talk it for their Worst of the Year or something like that. The one thing I miss more than ever was when Ebert would give the Wagging Finger of Shame to movies that were refused critic screenings. Ebert introduced the concept in 2005, but critic banning films had been going on for decades before that I'm surprised he didn't introduce it sooner.
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Nov 12, 2014 19:44
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Siskel being challenged by Bob Costas about the flavor of Dots while blindfolded with Ebert getting way to defensive contending Siskel cheated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EklON5139B8
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Nov 20, 2014 19:45
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FrostedButts posted:Siskel being challenged by Bob Costas about the flavor of Dots while blindfolded with Ebert getting way to defensive contending Siskel cheated. Truly Gene was a connoisseur of only the finest movie theater candy. Dots are the best.  Also holy poo poo that was a tiny box.
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Nov 21, 2014 06:10
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Meaty Ore posted:Truly Gene was a connoisseur of only the finest movie theater candy. Dots are the best. Earlier in the interview, Ebert showed off his not-so-impressive ability to identify the factory order of Chuckles. After displaying his talent, he comments that there should be a 1/4 pound version of Chuckles. Siskel laughs as the fat joke doesn't even have to be made.
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Nov 21, 2014 06:59
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Just found this funny anecdote about Ebert, written by the guy who wrote North. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/roger-and-me
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Nov 22, 2014 06:14
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Ebert: Maybe you should push the god-drat tape into the VCR before you start using the voice controls, you technologically illiterate boob! Siskel: Shut up and go watch your potty training video again, tub-o-no-fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngP2Z_3jvM0
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Nov 24, 2014 21:54
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FrostedButts posted:Ebert: Maybe you should push the god-drat tape into the VCR before you start using the voice controls, you technologically illiterate boob! These gift guides are really fun to watch. You can sorta tell they're trying hard not to go at each other too hard, what with the holidays and everything.
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Nov 28, 2014 06:46
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Last Chance posted:These gift guides are really fun to watch. You can sorta tell they're trying hard not to go at each other too hard, what with the holidays and everything. Yeah, but they also knew that their rivalry and bickering is part of what attracted people to them. Helps that they hated each other and it took decades for them to really become friends.
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Nov 28, 2014 17:53
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Stumbled on this gem: Siskel and Ebert appear on Howard Stern's TV show and attempt to review a five-minute parody he showed them of the film "Awakenings." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTRRkgOlzzE
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Nov 28, 2014 21:30
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B-Hard posted:Stumbled on this gem: Siskel and Ebert appear on Howard Stern's TV show and attempt to review a five-minute parody he showed them of the film "Awakenings." You can really tell how fiercely progressive Gene is trying to be when talking to Robin. In their other appearances on Stern, Gene once tried to get Stern to shut up for five minutes so that Robin could take control of the show. He seems really uncomfortable and brutally defensive at anything that doesn't agree with him on the show. Meanwhile, Roger sits there collectively calm even when thrown the most offensive material in his face. That moment when he gets the supermodel on his lap was pure class.
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Dec 1, 2014 02:10
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HP Hovercraft posted:Nobody has posted this yet? I loving died laughing at the protestant jokes. Ebert is hilarious.
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Dec 1, 2014 07:33
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FAT SLAMPIG posted:I loving died laughing at the protestant jokes. Ebert is hilarious. His jabs are far better. Ebert: Think about it for a minute, Gene. What are we shooting here? The promos. What do the promos have to match? Nothing. Welcome to the incredible world of television; an entirely new field for you to learn in.
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Dec 2, 2014 17:18
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Hey, kids! Try your hand at the Siskel & Ebert karaoke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_5G6tcJmas
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Dec 12, 2014 16:31
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FrostedButts posted:Hey, kids! Try your hand at the Siskel & Ebert karaoke. I like the fat joke right out of the gate.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:27
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Are you ready for the ultimate crossover? Siskel & Ebert & Bill Nye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3jxQUYd_fY
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Dec 17, 2014 19:25
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Anyone see that Ebert bio pic "Life Itself"? I think its on CNN Sunday Jan 4.
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Jan 2, 2015 19:36
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PowerBuilder3 posted:Anyone see that Ebert bio pic "Life Itself"? I think its on CNN Sunday Jan 4. Yea, I was thinking about watching it although I'm not sure as a ton of films on cable channels are still cut and cropped for no good reason. I might wait for it to be available through Netflix next month.
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Jan 3, 2015 05:48
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PowerBuilder3 posted:Anyone see that Ebert bio pic "Life Itself"? I think its on CNN Sunday Jan 4. It's really good.
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Jan 3, 2015 17:23
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It is a great film. The way Steve James parallels and contrasts Ebert's rise to prominence as a film critic against his declining health in his final days is loving sad as poo poo. I got VERY teary-eyed watching it.
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Jan 4, 2015 19:23
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Life Itself was one of the top movies I saw last year, if you haven't seen it tune in, it made me a little misty eyed. I've been going through that fan site with the videos a lot lately and I am bummed that I went through all of the "If We Picked the Oscars" shows. 1990 's show was a hoot, both picked the same winners for every one and the audience keeps play booing.
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Jan 4, 2015 23:41
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Siskel reviews Return of the Jedi for CBS: http://siskelandebert.org/video/1R1HKAS23AM1/Gene-Siskel-reviews-Return-of-the-Jedi-1983 He speaks in the second part about how excited he is that Lucas said he'll return to Star Wars in 2000. He never lived to see the prequels, dying just a few months before The Phantom Menace opened.  For what it's worth, Gene seemed genuinely excited when reviewing the trailer on the show. Anybody think he would've favored the film?
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I can't find any information on it but I remember Ebert saying he would take Gene's son to see Episode 1 out of respect for Gene. And really, who knows what Siskel would've thought. Ebert praised the vision, imagination and visuals in TPM as well as breaking new ground in effects and digital cinema. He also acknowledged the dialogue was flat, the acting a bit off, and the plot being laborious.
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