In the review of “A Few Good Men” at about 2:56 a gash opens up on Eberts lower left check (his left, our right). It continues and gets bloody until about 3:12 when it goes back to normal. But then at about 3:20 something starts happening on his forehead, first a red letter “S” appears and then it’s like it’s bleeding too. The rest of his face also looks gross and distorted, and a couple of things happen to Siskels face as well. All in all it’s kind of creepy.
Looks like run-of-the-mill video compression artifacts to me. Once these appear they can move around along with the image.
Yes, it’s definitely compression artifacts. Or, of course, his reptiloid disguise slipping.
Roger Ebert did, of course, have something wrong with his face later in life, due to cancer. When I saw the thread title, I thought this was going to be about that.
You weren’t suppoded to see that.
“This isn’t the superhero you’re looking for.”
Which is why when I saw the bloody slash I thought maybe somebody was doing a very grotesque, distasteful joke.