Watching 90s Siskel and Ebert’s worst films list really highlights the terrible films everyone forgot from that era and how many cult classics they hated
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Watching 90s Siskel and Ebert’s worst films list really highlights the terrible films everyone forgot from that era and how many cult classics they hated
by apple_kicks
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There is only one good “cult classic” here and it is The Cable Guy. All the rest are horrible movies.
Don’t get me wrong I love S&E and have been going on a binge watch of their reviews the past week or so funnily enough, but you have to understand that films didn’t become “cult classics” right out of the gate, they became that over time. These were contemporary first review/reactions of the films that them and other critics of that era could view a film as a stinker, but over time people and critics themselves reassessed and came to appreciate those films that were initially viewed as not good films.
If you want to know if a film is any good it’s best to avoid anything ‘film critics’ have to say about it.
“What’s next, Demi goes to the gynecologist?”
What the FUCK, Gene
Which is why listening to reviews is ridiculous.
Jingle All the Way
Jack
Striptease
Cable Guy
Black Sheep
High School High (which let’s face it is precursor to the “Not Another…” and Scary Movie franchises)
Happy Gilmore
Getting Away with Murder
The Ghost and the Darkness
Last Man Standing
Daylight – this is one of my favorite disaster movies from the 90s
Fled
Kazzam
Larger than Life
Joe’s Apartment
House Arrest
Mad Dog Time (never heard of this one before, but I think I need to see).
Little Indian Big City
This was 1996… If these were their misses, what did the rest of the year look like?!?
All of those movies are in fact very bad
They were terrible movie critics.
They bashed on some of the best movies ever made, harming careers with their arrogance and elitist tastes.
No… don’t speak bad my Ghosts in the Darkness… that one of my favs.
Most critics dislike cult classics when they come out… that’s generally one of the components of a movie eventually becoming a cult classic.
Ebert gave a thumbs down to My Cousin Vinny because he felt it didn’t focus enough on Ralph Macchio. I think about that a lot.
Simple-ass Jack… Robin really swung for the fences on that one
They put out a show every week. I’m old enough to have watched the show regularly when it was it on. I even watched after Siskel kicked the bucket, and Richard Roper took over, and he sucked.
I’d like to see them talk about everything they’ve been wrong about
I always see comments from people saying “They got that wrong”. It’s not their job to guess what film is going to be a hit or flop, or well liked or universally hated. It is their job to give an opinion and to explain why they think that way. You can take it or leave it.
Ebert one said “If you play fair with your reader, you can give a movie a bad review, and someone will still be able to read that review and know that they would like to see that movie.
Ive been watching these on YouTube as well lately. I didnt grow up in the US so its interesting to hear their takes for the first time.
Yes, they succeeded in finding a bunch of stinkers, and they did so by bravely trawling screwball comedies and punching down on children’s movies. Bravo. Outside of Striptease, pretty much all of these movies achieved what they set out to do. How dare they.
It’s common now to hate critics because of their alleged ideological/political bias, but many haven’t experienced or have forgotten how terribly snobby critics were before the internet era (since the 2000s).
RT:
Armageddon – 37%
Ace Ventura – 48%
Hudson Hawk – 33%
Mortal Kombat – 45%
Wild Wild West – 16%
The Specialist – 10%
The 13th Warrior – 33%
Cobra – 18%
Godzilla (1998) – 16%
Judge Dredd (1995) – 22%
Last Action Hero – 38%
Mars Attacks – 56%
Natural Born Killers – 48%
It’s also important to note that many, and sometimes most, of these reviews on RT – modern ones, more precisely, 10-15 years after the film’s release and further, who generally evaluate these films more positively, so at the time of release the ratings were even lower.
Cult classics or one of the random VHS tapes your family happened to own?
I’ve never seen Siskel and Ebert laugh as much in any other episode!
I mean some of these are really bad movies.
Ebert gave Tomb Raider (2001) 3 out of 4, goat.
Revoke my cinephile card if you want, but I think Jingle All the Way is over hated. It’s a perfectly fine family movie.