I watched this as a 12 year old excited to see where Return of the Jedi, which I thought about every day for the previous three years, would rank. I was so upset it wasn't chosen. Nearing 50, I agree with Siskel & Ebert.

@kellymiller1891

6 ай бұрын

My Top Ten Favorite Movies of 1983 are. 10. The Black Stallion Returns. 9. Return of the Jedi. (R.I.P Carrie Fisher). 8. National Lampoon's Vacation. 7. Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island. Animated. 6. Cujo. 5. The Smurfs and the Magic Flute. Animated. 4. Two of a Kind. 3. The Man who Loved Women. 2. Silkwood. 1. Sudden Impact.

@scottmccurdy6493

4 ай бұрын

Return of the Jedi is good (certainly better than any Star Wars film since), it's just not as great as the first two.

@joeshoe6184

11 күн бұрын

I grew up in the 80s and lived and breathed Star Wars, but in hindsight, Jedi is really corny and over the top.

El Norte is a great film, and still relevant.

@ronniebannister6746

3 жыл бұрын

P 00

@fede018

Жыл бұрын

I never heard of it. I'll check it out

@pattimaeda6097

7 ай бұрын

No sympathy for pro illegal alien movies

The Right Stuff and Terms of Endearment are the standouts of '83 for me.

Great time capsule. Miss those two

That scene in The Right Stuff...towards the end all the astronauts were in the Astrodome listening to Debussy’s Clair de Lune ...no words necessary

@MontagZoso

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

They really should put all the Siskel and Ebert shows on Netflix or one of the other streaming services.

@SIDEKICKDUSTY

9 ай бұрын

It's probably the movie clips that have kept that from happening, they likely only had permission to show them for a limited time. Some of the original distributors don't exist anymore so it might be a lot of work just to figure out who you need to talk to, let alone getting permissions

Blue Thunder was my number 1 best flim of the year 1983

My favorite films of 1983: 1. The King of Comedy 2. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 3. Zelig 4. The Big Chill 5. Silkwood 6. Return of the Jedi 7. Berlin Alexanderplatz 8. Star Eighty 9. The Year of living dangerously 10. The Dresser So there.

Fanny and Alexander, the big masterpiece of Ingmar Bergman that is a peak of a great career

Local Hero is an absolute gem of a film.

Not seen Pauline at the beach, Betrayed, or The Return of Martin Guerre.....But beyond that ALL these movies are GREAT! (Especially The Right Stuff, The Year of Living Dangerously, and the magical El Norte)

I remember watching Siskel & Ebert’s At The Movies every week on Chicago’s Superstation WGN and on WKYT TV-27 in Lexington.

STAR 80, the first time I seen was so chilling. Eric Roberts as the psychotic Paul Snider was robbed at the Oscar's, as he also wasn't nominated. Only a Golden Globe nomination. R.I.P. Dorothy Stratten. I, as my own critic gave the film ***½.

@KaejaeDoherty

10 ай бұрын

I give it a perfect 4 star rating and YET it is the only Great Movie , aside from Mother from 2017 , another perfect film, that I cannot see again Star 80 is just so depressing and I had to shower after seeing it because I felt drained watching it , same thing with Mother It just takes you emotionally that it is hard to watch again

Some of my favourite movies of 1983 includes: -Return Of The Jedi -Vacation -Trading Places -Cujo -Risky Business -Sixteen Candles -John Carpenter’s Christine -Psycho II -Silkwood -Right Stuff -Terms Of Endearment -The Big Chill -Testament -The House On Sorority Row

@ezequielgomez7083

8 ай бұрын

Is called National Lampoon's Vacation

@thekingofmovies193

8 ай бұрын

What about A Christmas Story? Also, Sixteen Candles came out in 1984.

I want to see Say Amen Somebody so bad thanks to Ebert. I hope Criterion or something releases it-release it, somebody! :)

@johnfitzpatrick3094

3 жыл бұрын

I saw it at Ebertfest several years ago. Great film. See it if you can.

@zacharysiple629

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnfitzpatrick3094 I did today(6/19/21), TCM played it. It was fantastic, and very worthy his 4/4 rating! :)

I didn't always agree with these guys but I definitely enjoyed their show. I probably watched every episode in the 80s.

All those years I didn't realize that Siskel and Ebert are being seen during the closing credits as the last ones leaving the theater. You can see them at 22:26.

My Top 10 1. The King of Comedy 2. A Christmas Story 3. Return of the Jedi 4. National Lampoon's Vacation 5. Rumble Fish 6.. Evil Dead 7. Scarface 8. The Right Stuff 9. Trading Places 10. Risky Business

They overlooked a HELL of a lot of great films from '83, but a decent list.

My list (based on North American release dates): 1. Fanny and Alexander 2. El Norte 3. Terms of Endearment 4. Koyaanisqatsi 5. Scarface 6. Local Hero 7. The Right Stuff 8. Boat People 9. Tender Mercies 10. Danton

Terms of Endearment was a good movie and also very sad. But there are some notable films missing from their lists like Return of the Jedi, Scarface, and Trading Places. All of those three were great films and some of the best of the 80’s. I re-watched Trading Places a while ago and it still holds up very well, especially compared to a lot of other 80’s comedies. Movies that came out in the past were overall better than a lot of today’s blockbuster films.

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

Return of the Jedi, true. Gene didn't like Scarface. I think your choices were runners up. Remember, they can't put every film on that list that they liked.

@chicovoylez3216

3 жыл бұрын

Octopussy

@thekingofmovies193

8 ай бұрын

And what about A Christmas Story?

I'm glad Siskel & Ebert both liked Risky Business. That's such a fun and emotional movie.

@eliminatorjr

4 жыл бұрын

Ocean Sage shut the fuck up

@CA-qv2cz

4 жыл бұрын

eliminator jr. you are one pissed off person

@eliminatorjr

4 жыл бұрын

C A damn straight

My list of best of 1983 Risky Business The Outsiders Trading Places Christine Scarface The Right Stuff Silkwood Valley Girl The Big Chill Local Hero Fanny & Alexander Testament The Year of Living Dangerously Terms or Endearment Say Amen, Somebody

@kdohertygizbur

2 жыл бұрын

Aside from Scarface, you have Damn Good List

Glad to see Silkwood and the soul crushing Testament. These two had me scratching my head for a minute but they pulled it out at the end. Remember seeing this in December of '83, and it's been a long time since I've seen this. Ahh, memories of youth

@kdohertygizbur

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call Testament"soul crushing"

@kristiantoimil

2 жыл бұрын

@@kdohertygizbur How about "soul pulverizing"?

I saw Star 80 on cable when I was a little kid, and it messed me up. I was probably too young for it.

@chiefscheider

3 жыл бұрын

"Okay, kid...you watch TV while mommy and daddy go play cards. Don't come upstairs until the movie's over." -- Harmonica's dad 😁

@206Vin

3 жыл бұрын

@@chiefscheider Pretty close. Dad was out of the house by that time, so I was up late watching cable hoping to see some boobs and hoping my mom wouldn't catch me. I got more than I bargained for--- Star 80 isn't exactly The Last American Virgin or Porky's.

@iadorenewyork1

2 жыл бұрын

Me, too! ... And I was 16!

@rainman4494

2 жыл бұрын

Such a good movie tho. Eric Roberts was great

@jeremysimmonds6284

Жыл бұрын

@@rainman4494 he should have got Oscar nominated for it

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Dead Zone, Hunger, Videodrome, Scarface, Terms of Endearment, Thriller. Havent seen Silkwood yet but want to.

Revenge of the Ninja? One of 1983's finest.

Thanks for posting these. They are a throwback to a more innocent time.

IIRC 13 years later, Gene got that Terms of Endearment sequel!

Terms of Endearment oh gawd..😭😭 I can't watch it anymore, it makes me too sad

@johnfitzpatrick3094

3 жыл бұрын

I can't stand Terms of Endearment.

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

John Fitzpatrick Let me guess, you hate the movie because it makes you feel sad, right? Terms of Endearment is depressing to watch, but it’s a good and well-acted film.

@johnfitzpatrick3094

3 жыл бұрын

@@HugoSoup57 I thought it was boring and predictable.

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

John Fitzpatrick To each his own then, however I can’t agree with you, I really like that movie.

@johnfitzpatrick3094

3 жыл бұрын

@@HugoSoup57 I think The Right Stuff is a far better film.

Terms / Endearment: a good but not great soap opera, won best picture. For me, Right Stuff was the best picture (thank u, Roger & Gene!)

I'm shocked they didn't include "Tender Mercies" or "Local Hero" or "Never Cry Wolf", etc.

@uhdudewhy7980

3 ай бұрын

me too

A great year for blockbuster sequals 1983.

Thanks for uploading this! Loved and miss these guys. Most of my favorite films are from the 1970s and 1980s. Great films by great filmmakers, nothing like the junk we have now. "Terms of Endearment" is my favorite film, period.

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

OhSankYouDoktor Terms of Endearment is indeed better than most films made today. I grown up in the 2000’s and I still prefer movies from the past over today’s Hollywood films. I like some comic book movies, but come on guys, the Dark Knight is not the 3rd best film ever made.

@MontagZoso

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, the 70’s and 80’s had the BEST movies. 👍

i was 11 in 83, my Father never censored me and Star 80 was on cable constantly for awhile. my Father and his friends would often watch while they were hanging out, presumably because of the nudity and i of course as an 11 year old was watching it all the time on my own for the same reason. but even then i really did understand what a heartbreaking and tragic true story it is. a story of a really vile self absorbed person trying to use a fairly sheltered and sweet young women for his own attention and then trying to suffocate her as she grows, basically literally later on as he stopped getting his way. i lived in Oklahoma and Silkwood was also a standard on cable for awhile and all the more jarring for me as a kid because it took place here. there are still not satisfactory answers in that case. Terms Of Endearment and The Right Stuff are of course classics and wonderful films. some of these others i do not even remember, i may have to look them up. and of course some of my favorite films did not even make either list. but mostly i just look around at the shallow fare we have being released these days, really miss films with some humanity and heartbreak and joy.

I'm sure these are all great films. Although if somebody stopped me on the street and said, "quick, name something that happened in 1983", I'd probably say the release of Return of the Jedi.

Both "Star 80" and "Risky Business" are terribly underrated.

@KRhetor

4 жыл бұрын

Risky Business still seems to pretty loved; it did after all make Tom Cruise a star which is why people still seek it out. STAR 80 is a brilliant, powerful film but it's also one of the saddest ever made. A lot of people won't watch it because they think it will be so discomforting and depressing, and they're right...but it still merits attention.

@amaxamon

4 жыл бұрын

Risky Business = one of the worst movies ever made.

@ricardocantoral7672

3 жыл бұрын

Risky Business is underrated ? You must be joking.

@ricardocantoral7672

3 жыл бұрын

@@KRhetor Star 80 is a work of genius. When you contemplate that story, it makes you question the nature of life.

@johnfitzpatrick3094

3 жыл бұрын

@@KRhetor STAR 80 has a powerful performance by Eric Roberts.

thank you for posting this.

My right ear enjoyed

Eric Roberts is such an underrated actor!

8:16 Star 80 review.

My favorite of 1983 has to be Gerald Kargl's "Angst"

Scarface, Return of the Jedi, The Right Stuff, Vacation, The Dead Zone, Rumble Fish, The Meaning of Life, A Christmas Story, Videodrome and The Boxers Omen

I need to set this theme song for my mobile phone to wake up on Sunday mornings.

Testament was amazing and sad.

what no Trading Places? that was one of the best movies of 1983 too

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

damian latimer Yeah, Trading Places is a classic, I rewatched it again a year ago after not seeing that movie for a really long time. Still a very good comedy with relevant social commentary that holds up really well today. I was also shocked it wasn’t included on here.

@damianlatimer6472

3 жыл бұрын

@@HugoSoup57 what about Ten To Midnight?

@damianlatimer6472

3 жыл бұрын

@@HugoSoup57 yep about Trading Places

@damianlatimer6472

3 жыл бұрын

@A.A. V what? Ten To Midnight was good and popular

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

Well, they didn't put Return of the Jedi there either. WarGames was another that I thought was one of the year's best. I think Trading Places wasn't bad, but not one of the year's best.

83 was a good year for movies. Tom cruise movie trajectory in the 80s must be the blue print for a rising star. I wonder if winger would have rather been in a supporting rather than share the lead with shirley in the Oscars. She def would have won for supporting. Star 80 , I saw many years after as I was born after , I never heard of dorothy but it really freaked me out. I did not expect it.

He dropped the charges! Jesus dropped the charges! 🎶 😄

How did Return of the Jedi and WarGames miss this list???

@KRhetor

4 жыл бұрын

This was an outstanding year for English-language movies, and there just wasn't room for either of them. I am surprised neither of them chose Local Hero as one of the ten best.

@boneseyyl1060

4 жыл бұрын

@@KRhetor Local Hero is one of my favorites of all time. And fairly unknown I think. It's a quirky little movie with plenty of subtlety. Ebert gave it a fairly glowing review and 4 stars. I would certainly place it in a top ten list.

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

Trav D. Return of the Jedi should’ve definitely made the list. I didn’t think War Games was that great.

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

Runners up. I was thinking the same thing.

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

Also, Roger had Testament on his list, which like WG, was about nuclear war. So maybe he felt that was the better one.

1. Terms of Endearment 2. Narayama bushiko (The Ballad of Narayama) 3. Fanny och Alexander 4. Le retour de Martin Guerre 5. The Dresser 6. El norte 7. The Year of Living Dangerously 8. Silkwood 9. Entre nous 10. Cross Creek

My list: 1. Fanny and Alexander (long version) 2. The Right Stuff 3. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 4. Scarface 5. Tender Mercies 6. Bad Boys 7. El Norte 8. The King of Comedy 9. Strange Brew 10. Sudden Impact

@matthewschwartz6607

3 жыл бұрын

Bad Boys, that was the one with Sean Penn in prison?

@linkbiff1054

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewschwartz6607 That’s the one

@danalong1237

3 жыл бұрын

My Top 10 Films of 1983: 10. Scarface 9. The Right Stuff 8. The Big Chill 7. Fanny & Alexander 6. Risky Business 5. Terms of Endearment 4. Superman III 3. Octopussy 2. WarGames 1. Return of the Jedi What are YOUR Top 10 films of 1983?

@chicovoylez3216

3 жыл бұрын

No James Bond? STAR 80?

@linkbiff1054

3 жыл бұрын

@@chicovoylez3216 Never Say Never Again is honourable mention. I didn't care for Star 80

My personal Top 10 films of 1983, plus some honorable mentions; and I don't include Fanny & Alexander because its original release date is 1982, even though it wasn't released in the US until 1983: 1) A Christmas Story (1983) 2) Return of the Jedi (1983) 3) The Right Stuff (1983) 4) Krull (1983) - Critics, especially Siskel and Ebert, hated it, but I loved it. 5) El Sur (1983) 6) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) 7) Tender Mercies (1983) 8) The Ballad of Narayama (1983) 9) Danton (1983) 10) Pauline at the Beach (1983) ----------------------------------- 11) The Dead Zone (1983) 12) Terms of Endearment (1983) 13) The 4th Man (1983) 14) Never Cry Wolf (1983) 15) El Norte (1983) 16) Betrayal (1983) 17) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Savannah smiles was the years best family film

@gspendlove

2 жыл бұрын

Great movie! I remember my mom cried when the truck stopped for him at the end.

I love science fiction like --- -The right stuff 😆😆

Does anyone know how accurate The Right Stuff is? Or what Glenn and the rest of them thought of the movie? I believe that I have the Tom Wolfe book , but never read it.

@sdot5389

4 ай бұрын

Try reading it.

She told me we could make more money in one night than I could in a year. She told me she'd be my girlfriend. She told me a lot of things. I believed them all.

did he review the star chamber?

So they used the same music here as they did for Worst of the Year show, but they would add the sound effect for Worst at the end of it.

Risky Business featured one of cinema's most instantly recognizable scores, most famous dance numbers in film history, most iconic images of a hero with TC in Raybans, became a symbol of its materialistic age that now is revisited as a portrayal of innocence, and yet it is a blueprint for coming of age dramas that has survived 40 years. Whether you like Cruise or not, it isnt really debatable if its a great film.

No Flashdance ?:))

Well, Gene got his sequel, The Evening Star.

@369284ab

Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking that.......many, many years later.

First time director James l Brooks. No mention of his bro though.

@chiefscheider

3 жыл бұрын

That's because he doesn't have one. Nice try, Noel 👌

In future your videos need more volume

Gene Siskel: “I want a sequel to Terms of Endearment!”…oops!

They were on the money with The Right Stuff. The best film of the 80's, in my opinion.

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

John Fitzpatrick Solid choice, I’d say Raging Bull is another good candidate

@johnfitzpatrick3094

3 жыл бұрын

@@HugoSoup57 I think Raging Bull is a great movie, but I don't like it as much as Siskel and Ebert do. It would be on my 10 best of the 80's, just not #1.

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

And it would do well on video the next year.

@raymondm.9954

2 жыл бұрын

It was the only one on either of their lists which I have seen, and I saw it only on video, not in a theater.

No “Return of The Jedi”?

I miss analysis like this. The US no longer cares about the arts. High art to us is a Taylor Swift concert and movie theatres are flooded with Marvel movies.

C. O

Did anyone notice that one of the executive producers is named Sheldon Cooper, just like the character from "The Big Bang Theory."

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

Coincidence.

“Thousands of Illegal aliens trying to enter the country” the good old days 😡

No Scarface?

@johnfitzpatrick3094

4 жыл бұрын

Siskel didn't like Scarface.

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

Jason Smith I remember Siskel gave Scarface a thumbs down, so that’s probably it didn’t make the list. It is a very good film though, but he probably thought it was too violent.

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

Well, Gene didn't like that one. With Roger, probably in the runners up, along with WarGames and Return of the Jedi.

Now I feel bad that I've never seen any of these movies.

@Wildcock23

2 жыл бұрын

You should! 😂

@kdohertygizbur

2 жыл бұрын

Good Lord, how Old are you

Where is the cord on the phone Shirley is holding?

Executive Producer Sheldon Cooper?

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

So?

@sha11235

3 жыл бұрын

Never mind, someone else made the connection for me. Well, I didn't watch Big Bang Theory, okay?

Gene got his sequel to terms of endearment....unfortunately it was horrible

Terms of the Endearment is such a revelation. Burt Reynolds was offered the part of Breedlove the Astronaught, Nicholson's part, but he turned it down for fucking STROKER ACE.

Where is WarGames? It has now become a cult classic for my Generation, I was 10 when I caught this....Sudden Impact was a great police thriller too. The Right Stuff just glorified a period in US space exploration history....it was boring and too long.

@natureandphysics403

3 жыл бұрын

What is "US avionics history"? Space exploration is not aviation.

I grew up in the shadow of Mission Control among NASA and astronaut families. No one could stand The Right Stuff. It was an atrocious bore that was has been forgotten.

@rabidfollower

3 жыл бұрын

Disney made The Right Stuff TV series last year. Not forgotten at all.

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

You're joking, right? The Right Stuff is considered a classic movie today, it’s a great film. It's one of the most timeless and best films of the 80's. You're just flat out wrong. It's not an atrocious bore at all and it hasn't been forgotten.

I can't believe how positive this comment section is. These two are insufferable. The way they look at movies is crazy.

@kdohertygizbur

2 жыл бұрын

Well then stop watching

@cleftturnip7774

2 жыл бұрын

@@kdohertygizbur i still find it entertaining. I just don't respect critics like some of you seem to

@sdot5389

4 ай бұрын

lol. This is a Hall of Fame “Dumb Take”.

@cleftturnip7774

4 ай бұрын

@@sdot5389 hall of fames are stupid

I don't recommend the FOUR hr Fanny / Alexander

@kingamoeboid3887

3 жыл бұрын

5 hours and 11 minutes.

@kdohertygizbur

2 жыл бұрын

I HIGHLY Recommend it

If you post your own top 10 you qualify as being just as pretentious as most Hollywood actors.

RIGHT STUFF was so boring and long.

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

I completely disagree, it’s one of the best films of the 80’s. It's a great movie. Go back and watch your Michael Bay films.

The Right Stuff is merely watchable. It has a Hollywood Cheesiness quality to it. Any scene with Barbara Hershey I found to be completely forgettable causing the movie to be way too long (3 hours 13 min). Ways to edit this movie & make it better: (1) Remove any scene with Barbara Hershey. (2) Remove all the Australian Aboriginal scenes (that was pure torture). (3) Remove the cheesy attempt at humor with Harry Shearer (great in Spinal Tap, unnecessary here).

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

No, The Right Stuff is a great film, one of the best movies of the 80's. It is a timeless classic, it's not just "merely watchable".

Tom Cruise 👎🏼

@HugoSoup57

2 жыл бұрын

Tom Cruise is a good actor though.

@SuV33358

2 жыл бұрын

@@HugoSoup57 I'll give him that

1982 was a perfect year but 1983 sucked for movies

@HugoSoup57

3 жыл бұрын

I disagree. The Right Stuff, The King of Comedy, Scarface, Terms of Endearment, Return of the Jedi, Dead Zone, Videodrome, Trading Places, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Wargames, Risky Business are classics from that year