# Siskel & Ebert & Roeper- Oh My! Classic Reviews Online **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570 "2007-08-06T03:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/1 "2007-08-06T03:20:44Z")
Disney has recently put the entire archive of _At The Movies With Siskel & Ebert_ and _Ebert & Roeper At The Movies_ [online](http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/). It’s interesting to go through and see what Ebert and his cohort(s) thought about various films. And sometimes even the crappiest film has a comment attached to it that is intriguing- such as the one that is now my sig. Who would have thought that Gene Siskel offhandedly predicted Disney and Pixar’s success while commenting on a Disney-produced film that its own star recently [referred to](http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2140160,00.html) as “a fuckin’ nightmare?” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/2 "2007-08-06T05:22:41Z")
Their review of _Patch Adams_ is hilarious, yet poignant since a short time later, Siskel’s brain tumor would send him into terminal care. I hope his doctors were all serious and respectful and none of them tap-danced with bedpans on their feet. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/3 "2007-08-06T05:40:41Z")
They’re way off on _Death to Smoochy_, though. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/4 "2007-08-06T13:55:44Z")
Damn…Cop and a 1/2 is nowhere to be found. Roger gave it a positive review while Gene (and everyone else in the known universe) put it on their worst of the year (or decade) list. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/5 "2007-08-06T15:42:25Z")
[QUOTE=fiddlesticks] Damn…Cop and a 1/2 is nowhere to be found. [/QUOTE] It’s _Cop and ½_ (use alt+0189 for the ½). ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/6 "2007-08-06T15:59:29Z")
I just watched the review for Pulp Fiction, from Oct. 1994, and it might be my imagination, but it seemed as if Siskel was slurring his speech just a bit, especially compared with his crisp delivery 10 months earlier in the Schindler’s List review. But he didn’t have the operation for the brain tumor until 1999. Was he showing symptoms, or indeed aware of his condition, that early on? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/7 "2007-08-06T16:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=Koxinga] I just watched the review for Pulp Fiction, from Oct. 1994, and it might be my imagination, but it seemed as if Siskel was slurring his speech just a bit, especially compared with his crisp delivery 10 months earlier in the Schindler’s List review. But he didn’t have the operation for the brain tumor until 1999. Was he showing symptoms, or indeed aware of his condition, that early on? [/QUOTE] He was looking pretty horrible for a long time before his death. I can remember watching an episode from the mid-90s and my parents wondering if he had AIDS. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/8 "2007-08-06T16:45:30Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] It’s _Cop and ½_ (use alt+0189 for the ½). [/QUOTE] Ah! Thanks. Classic. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/9 "2007-08-06T19:09:41Z")
“Where’s the big red suit and beard, Santa? You just gave them a great gift!” ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/10 "2007-08-06T20:01:19Z")
Thanks for ruining my afternoon, mobo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siskel-ebert-roeper-oh-my-classic-reviews-online/414570/11 "2007-08-07T04:54:36Z")
The classic review of _North_ [http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=1&subsec=1163](http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=1&subsec=1163)