Over the last few days I've been watching episodes of Siskel and Eberts movie reviews. I watched the movie The Last Detail, and I really liked it. They reviewed movies from the early 70's and called it ' The Last Golden Era of American films'. Do you all agree?
Siskel and Ebert.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 17, 2023 7:54 AM |
I think a lot of great films came out in the 90s.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 17, 2023 4:05 AM |
Like what R1?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 17, 2023 4:12 AM |
Despite how obnoxious Nicholson's character was The Last Detail is a surprisingly good film. You also get to see Carol Kane nude.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 17, 2023 4:17 AM |
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!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 17, 2023 4:24 AM |
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?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 17, 2023 4:27 AM |
John Cazale played Fredo. I didn’t see The Conversation.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 17, 2023 4:35 AM |
The Conversation of one of my favorite Coppola movies
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 17, 2023 4:37 AM |
[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.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 17, 2023 4:40 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 17, 2023 4:42 AM |
Wasn't Meryl Streep and John Cazale together at that time. Somebody told me that.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 17, 2023 4:44 AM |
Weren't ^^. I have to work on my Grammer.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 17, 2023 4:49 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 17, 2023 5:24 AM |
Co**
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 17, 2023 5:25 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 17, 2023 5:39 AM |
They loved Woody Allen who described them as the Chicago morons
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 17, 2023 7:47 AM |
Yes. I've often thought about the amazing movies I saw in college and graduate school, ca. 1970-73.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 17, 2023 7:54 AM |