Ebert seems like a total dick.

Iplaybass: Ebert seems like a total dick.

Yup and in the very first one too.

Well at least I've had my suspicions confirmed.

Again.

Beerguy: What I learned from watching that.....

Be a condescended prick and God will take away your lower jaw so you can't berate people anymore.

*checks lower jaw*

Nope, still there.

hack, hack, cough, cough, fark, fark, aagghhaaaggghhh. I can't believe they lived to 70..
/ the killed themselves

Siskel had to be a little buzzed up on that last bit.
/all good stuff though

the mcdonalds part had me rollin

And that was from promos. Imagine what the farking *shows* were like.

What I took from that is that Ebert was the brains in that group.. Siskle wasn't too sharp.. he tried.. but Ebert was just cutting them out one after another..  man I miss them... I used to watch their show every week.. couldn't go to the movies, but just enjoyed their comments.

marius2: They didn't hate each other, that was the best type of friendship...where you could rip into each other; great stuff!

Actually they did kinda 'hate each other'.

They weren't fond of each other and were very competitive.

While in the end they may have been closer it was more a marriage of convenience especially after all the money started rolling in.

I still remember the headline from The Onion when Gene Siskel died: "Ebert victorious".

Beerguy: What I learned from watching that.....

Be a condescended prick and God will take away your lower jaw so you can't berate people anymore.

God's sense of timing is pretty shiatty.

Siskel: Why don't you read both of them.

Ebert: I'd like to.

Siskel: I know!

Mugato: What a couple of miserable bastards  You make a living ripping on people who actually produce things, get over yourselves. Oh, who am I talking to, they're both dead. Nevermind.


they're both at that giant movie theater in the sky.  complete with surround sound too!

I didn't watch the video because I've seen it at least 25 times before. It surprises me still that I can go into a fast food place and say "I'll have the following..." and the otherwise unemployed person behind the counter doesn't get the reference.

Watching that reminds me of how great those two were together.   That they both were condescending jerks didn't bother me in the slightest, I figured that they were both from Chicago and that seems to be a required trait for celebrities from that city.  Every week we got the tight assed snarky jew boy and the fat assed snarky catholic boy giving us their honest opinions---and when they both gave a thumbs up it was probably going to be worth seeing and if they both disliked the movie it was almost always a waste of time to see.  Since there was no IMDB and internet back then, and most of the other movie reviewers were owned by the movie PR people, they got a good reputation and it stuck.  I watched them every week that I was home in the wintertime back in the early to mid 80's.

Y'all mock them now, but back then they were pretty much the main guys for movie reviews---because they were very, very good at what they did.

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym. And those who can't teach gym become critics.

Optimal_Illusion: Mugato: What a couple of miserable bastards  You make a living ripping on people who actually produce things, get over yourselves. Oh, who am I talking to, they're both dead. Nevermind.

The rest of us just go on Fark.

scalpod: Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym. And those who can't teach gym become critics.

See above comment.

See your own, pal.

Worked on several taped shows in the 90s and we usually did promos last.

By that time your talent is tired and ready to hit the door.  Gotta admit that was taking a hell of a lot of time. Would not have wanted to be a producer on that show...

First time I noticed Siskel's last line in this:

"I already shot my wad on the Protestants."