.. so film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel decide to talk about general categories of bad films using the many examples from 1989. Among the categories are stars who cannot direct (Eddie Murphy in Harlem Nights, William Shatner in Star Trek 5), movies that play like TV shows ( Troop Beverly Hills with Shelley Long, Her Alibi with Tom Selleck), big stars who cash in on substandard products (Hulk Hogan in "No Holds Barred" and Fred Savage in Little Monsters), and bad sequels ("Star Trek 5" and "Ghostbusters 2"). Other than the sequel films mentioned you may have never heard of their other examples they gave because the films were really that bad.
Gene makes an oddly prescient remark about Woody Allen, and both Roger and Gene bemoan all of the teen movies that began to glut the market in the 80s in general. They'd be happy to know that tide turns in the 90s. They would be unhappy to know that a third Ghostbusters film appears in 2016 that is worse than Ghostbusters Two could ever have imagined to be. At least the second Ghostbusters was true to the characters and the general history of the original.
Not mentioned in this show, Gene Siskel wrote in his column in the Chicago Tribune that "UHF" (the "Weird Al" picture that became a long-lasting cult classic on video after numbering itself among the films that helped to fuel bankruptcy for Orion Pictures) was also a worst picture of the year. Well, nobody ever said he was Carnac The Magnificent.
Gene makes an oddly prescient remark about Woody Allen, and both Roger and Gene bemoan all of the teen movies that began to glut the market in the 80s in general. They'd be happy to know that tide turns in the 90s. They would be unhappy to know that a third Ghostbusters film appears in 2016 that is worse than Ghostbusters Two could ever have imagined to be. At least the second Ghostbusters was true to the characters and the general history of the original.
Not mentioned in this show, Gene Siskel wrote in his column in the Chicago Tribune that "UHF" (the "Weird Al" picture that became a long-lasting cult classic on video after numbering itself among the films that helped to fuel bankruptcy for Orion Pictures) was also a worst picture of the year. Well, nobody ever said he was Carnac The Magnificent.