Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Spice World/Hard Rain/Fallen/The Gingerbread Man/Phantoms/Star Kid (1998)

Roger Ebert: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Roger Ebert - Host : [reviewing "Star Kid"]  The movie is good-hearted, goofy fun for kids of a certain age. I don't know, I'm guessing, maybe, from six or seven up to about junior high school. And it's not as needlessly violent as a lot of films that are pitched at them these days.

  Gene Siskel - Host : You liked it?

  Roger Ebert - Host : Yeah.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Okay, uh, I didn't care...

  Roger Ebert - Host : In those terms. I think, uh...

  Gene Siskel - Host : But YOU? What about YOU? Did you actually sit there and, were you enjoying it, or are you doing the thing about the audience? I mean, really, seriously, because... DID you enjoy it?

  Roger Ebert - Host : Yes.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Okay, I didn't. I thought the whole picture was kinda directed at this level: There's an early sequence when the kid's, unconfident, not confident, and the bully comes over, and you see a pie, and then you see the bully push the pie in his face. I mean, it's that's schematic. There's nothing wrong with the kid, as an actor, but gee, I just felt...

  Roger Ebert - Host : He gets his revenge, and he gets to do all this...

  Gene Siskel - Host : Of course he does.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...Neat stuff.

  Gene Siskel - Host : What kind of a movie would it be if he didn't?

  Roger Ebert - Host : The movie was not made for you and me. I think it was made for young boys, and I think young boys would like it, because I know that I would've liked it as a young boy.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Yeah, but you liked it now, and I'm saying...

  Roger Ebert - Host : I liked it in that sense.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Okay, but I didn't like...

  Roger Ebert - Host : In that spirit, yes.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Okay, but I think that's a little switch from what we normally do, and what we SAY we do, which is, describe things about how WE feel, and if others like it, let 'em like it. "Close Encounters"...

  Roger Ebert - Host : I was able to get in touch with the child inside.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Okay, well I- I- always am in touch with the child inside.

  [Roger chuckles] 

  Gene Siskel - Host : And that child wasn't entertained.

• Roger Ebert - Host : Two thumbs incredibly way down for "Spice World", a movie that asks and answers the question, "Do you need any talent to be in a movie?" The answer? No.

• Roger Ebert - Host : [Reviewing 'Spice World']  I would like to announce that I have already seen the worst film of 1998. It stinks, it is an entertainment-free dead zone.