Siskel and Ebert.

I think a lot of great films came out in the 90s.

Like what R1?

Despite how obnoxious Nicholson's character was The Last Detail is a surprisingly good film. You also get to see Carol Kane nude.

Yes, I loved her character. I cracked up when she told Bud, " well you got off to a shaky start, but then took to it like a duck to water'. Imagine JN, getting off to a shaky start with a whore!

I think I'm going to watch The Conversation, with Gene Hackman and it looks like the actor who played Fredo in The Godfather ( can't remember his name). Has anyone ever watched that?

John Cazale played Fredo. I didn’t see The Conversation.

The Conversation of one of my favorite Coppola movies

[quote]They reviewed movies from the early 70's and called it ' The Last Golden Era of American films'. Do you all agree?

OP, you have to keep in mind that the late '60s and the entire '70s was the exciting New Hollywood era, when Ebert and Siskel were both in their twenties and thirties, so of course they're going to be nostalgic for that period.

I did think of that, but there is something gritty about the movies in that period. I guess it is nostalgia, though. I like watching the dynamic between the two of them.

Wasn't Meryl Streep and John Cazale together at that time. Somebody told me that.

Weren't ^^. I have to work on my Grammer.

She nursed him as he died.

He co-started in 5 films from ‘72 until his death…all of them were nominated for Best Picture.

Co**

John Cazale had a look and an intensity about him. I always think of him as Fredo, but then I think of him in Dog Day Afternoon, which was one of my dad's favorite movies. I don't think I've watched him in anything else. I was going to watch The Conversation, but I can't get it. When my son wakes up I'll ask him to get it for me. Right now I'm watching Young Guns ll. I'm a little drunk so I think I can take it, lmao.

They loved Woody Allen who described them as the Chicago morons

Yes. I've often thought about the amazing movies I saw in college and graduate school, ca. 1970-73.

this supercut of them fighting while off-air is pretty funny. i did some reading into their relationship, and i had no idea how much they hated each other at first. ebert sounds like a prissy datalounger mocking gene's constant speech errors.

True story..I was in a play directed by Jack's co-star Otis Young. He was the most violent, verbally abusive person I'v worked with. He threw a chair at us. I finished my monologue, walked out the door and never went back. He sent me a ten minute vm diatribe that started off with 'fucking faggot' and I just deleted it. A truly miserable man.

Cazale played to type in The Deerhunter.

I saw The Conversation when it came out and loved it. Still like it a lot, but is could use some editing.

Are you kidding r17? Their riffing starts at the 5:30 mark when they off on WASPs running the country. Siskel might’ve been a teensy bit drunk.

R21 Kidding about what? Maybe you're reading something into my comment that I didn't intend? That's my favorite bit - Ebert coming in with 'international bankers' is stone cold lol.

Movies were better in the past for sure. Check out Dog Day Afternoon

60-70's was the best time for movies. Then 90s when independent cinema came into its own.

The 1960s was a TERRIBLE decade for movies. The only good ones were foreign made.

The 60s were great from WSS to The Graduate to True Grit. You must have been sleeping for 10 years straight.

Oh and I Left out Lawrence and 2001. No films from subsequent decades came close to those films. So you were not sleeping you were in a coma.

R26, those were LATE 60s. Anything before '68 was shit with two exceptions, Bonnie & Clyde and The Graduate.

West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music were all stage musicals brought to the screen and don’t count as originals in the 60s.