Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

The Worst Films of 1990 (1991)

Gene Siskel: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Gene Siskel - Host : [discussing "Ghost Dad"]  The mystery continues to be Bill Cosby. Um, I can't understand... what happens to him when he goes on the big screen. I don't know, I'll never understand that.

  Roger Ebert - Host : You know what he should do? He should stop trying to find projects that he thinks he should do, and he should allow himself to be HIRED by a director he respects, sight unseen somewhere, because he obviously doesn't know what to do.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Give up control.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Yeah.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Don't tr- You can't do it. You have, people will follow you, y'know, like a Jimmy Stewart character, let somebody else make the decision.

• Gene Siskel - Host : And then there was "Short Time", starring Dabney Coleman playing a cop who mistakenly believes he only has a short time to live, so he wants to get killed in action so his family can get his life insurance benefits. Ho ho ho, that's just the kind of picture I want to see!

• Gene Siskel - Host : I wanna just tell people the story of what happened during the screening of "The Nutcracker Prince". We watched this picture together, and y'know, we're very careful, if the sound is off while we're watching a movie, we always correct the projectionist and all that. You remember what happened in "Nutcracker Prince"?

  Roger Ebert - Host : You're gonna tell me.

  Gene Siskel - Host : The picture went out for a while, remember?

  Roger Ebert - Host : Yeah, uh-huh?

  Gene Siskel - Host : And neither one of us made a move to tell the projectionist to...

  [chuckles] 

  Roger Ebert - Host : It was just as good that way.

  Gene Siskel - Host : It was BETTER that way!

• Gene Siskel - Host : [discussing "The Guardian"]  Yes, you know you have a special job when your little children ask you, "What did you do today, daddy?" And you tell them, "Oh honey, I saw a movie about a killer tree."