Gene Siskel: Self - Host
Getting Away with Murder/James and the Giant Peach/Jane Eyre/Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy/Ghost in the Shell
At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper
Gene Siskel credited as playing...
Self - Host
- Gene Siskel - Himself: [reviewing "Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy"] I think this is very funny stuff. "Brain Candy" will appeal to young moviegoers who are fans of "Kids in the Hall". I've seen them a couple of times on late night TV, and I often thought they only seem good by comparison with the recent "Saturday Night Live" troupes. But in "Brain Candy", they're funnier than they've ever been on TV. And I recommend this picture as kind of a midnight show cult picture, which I suspect it's destined to become.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Boy, are we apart on THIS one. I did not laugh ONCE.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Oh... y'know...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: I thought this movie was AWFUL!
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Oh no, Roger...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Dreadful! Terrible!
- Gene Siskel - Himself: No.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Stupid! Idiotic! Unfunny! Labored! Forced!
- Gene Siskel - Himself: [concerned tone] Oh, Roger! Roger!
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Painful!
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Roger, this is...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Bad!
- Gene Siskel - Himself: What happened to your sense of humor?
- Roger Ebert - Himself: I GOT my sense of humor!
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Oh.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: That was what- my sense of humor was STARVING for a laugh as I looked at this movie.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Oh no, Roger, first of all, you, the drag stuff was funny.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: So what?
- Gene Siskel - Himself: What do you mean, so what? If it's funny...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: They're in drag. Why is it funny?
- Gene Siskel - Himself: No no...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Why is it funny that they're in drag?
- Gene Siskel - Himself: It's not funny that they're IN drag...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: No no no, they're not...
- Gene Siskel - Himself: ...I've knocked knocked pictures where people have been in drag when they're not funny...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: No no no, they're in drag, and they're not funny.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: ...I'm saying, obviously, they're laughing- you didn't get the stuff about the drug and product...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Oh, I caught on. I caught on.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: What happened, Roger?
- Roger Ebert - Himself: It's just, we're in different universes, here. Can't talk about it. Can't talk about it. It's not funny, I didn't laugh once.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: We get PAID to talk about it, Roger.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Okay.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Let's talk about it.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Tell me one funny moment in the movie.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: There are DOZENS of funny moments. Every time...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Mm-hmm. Just choose one.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Every single time... I laughed throughout the picture. I laughed throughout the picture.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Okay. Well, I'm happy for you.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: No no no, but... well, that's, at least that's a start. Roger... will you look at this picture again?
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Sure I will! I'd be happy to. Sometime, maybe, in the 21st century.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: "Ghost in the Shell" is unusually intelligent and challenging science fiction aimed at smart audiences.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Well, there is certainly something to think about, and that's a refreshing thing from a lot of science fiction pictures, which are just purely doom and gloom. This is a film dealing with artificial intelligence. Um, I like the look of the film, I like how simply moving the shadows, just little movements on the characters, they do it all the time, it always grabbed me. I was always staring at this film. A couple of other thoughts. One, um... I think this also, this whole genre is obviously a peek into the psyche of Japan. Because clearly, there are people who are afraid of being robotized...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: Yes.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: And also, this business of using women. Uh, they have not gotten politically correct, because the woman is constantly showing nude, and her body is dissected, and it's a way of subverting, of allowing...
- Roger Ebert - Himself: And yet, she is the heroine.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: I understand that.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: So there are two key things in these movies, you put your finger on both of them: One, the robotize thing, and second, women are very frequently the protagonists, even though they are seen as sex objects.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: No question.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: [after the recap] "Brain Candy", Roger. "Brain Candy".
- Roger Ebert - Himself: I wish some...
- Gene Siskel - Himself: Check it out. Check it out.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: ...For you, Gene.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: No no no.
- Roger Ebert - Himself: I think you've been taking too much of it.
- Gene Siskel - Himself: No, I tell you what: I'm gonna see this picture again, I'm gonna laugh just as hard.
